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How to copy these features from Adobe Illustrator
by Marco Shaw 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

**First time Inkscape user** I'm trying to create an SVG file for a 3rd party product. They provide instructions on how to properly create an SVG file for their app, but specify the following: "Make sure the Font Subsetting is set to "None (Use System Fonts)", Encoding is set to "ISO 8859-1 (ASCII)" and CSS Property Location is set to "Style Attributes."" I can't seem to find any comparable settings in Inkscape. How can I know if I'm "compatible"? Also, they talk about a "layer palette": "...layers palette allows you to see all grouping levels on your map. This will allow you to make sure all objects are properly grouped before exporting. [...] all dynamic objects must be grouped with a text while all static objects must remain ungrouped." I couldn't find similar functionality in Inkscape to view the layers (or at least I don't think so). Marco

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Dropper not working
by microUgly 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

For some reason, since I upgraded to the second Beta of 0.45 the dropper tool hasn't worked. I'm running the final version 0.45 and the issue is still present. With both "Pick Alpha" and "Set Alpha" set it always picks the RGBA value, 00000000. With "Pick Alpha" disabled I get ffffff. Selecting an average stroke colour works. It's only when attempting to pick a single pixel does it not work. For some reason, if I search long enough, I can find stray pixels that can be sampled. Not often can I get their true colour though. I can sample colours from bitmaps I use in the drawings. Any ideas how I can fix this? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dropper-not-working-tf3361246.html#a9350267 Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Tablet - Panning doesn't work with Pen
by microUgly 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

I have a button on my Wacom Intuos3 tablet assigned to "middle click" with the intention of using it when I need to pan the canvas. When I hold the button and move the pen, nothing happens. If I hold it and move the mouse the panning works fine. Is there something I can do to fix this? I'm running XP SP2 with the latest Wacom driver 6.02-1. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tablet---Panning-doesn%27t-work-with-Pen-tf3361270.ht… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Snap to nodes in groups
by Jochen Deibele 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi! Is there a way to select a node as a snap "target"? What I want to do: I have an irregular (so non rectangular) shaped object, which has points which should snap to the grid, when I move the group (so I can easily lay another object of another shape but same kind next to it and the points meet). These points are not on one of the center-lines and are also not the edges. Is there a way to do this? I tried some combinations of snap options and searched the mailinglist archives and the net but didn't find anything about that. Thank you very much in Advance, Jochen

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unable to export bitmaps
by Sebastian Winkler 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm plain too dumb to check the right prefs: I'm unable to export bitmaps. Here is what I am trying to do. It's actually quite simple — and that's what drives me nuts: I am creating a banner. It has • a background foto • a logo with a blurred drop shadow • a slogan All three parts give me trouble — it's maddening! 1. the slogan: I had to create it in a different program and import into Inkscape because the required font doesn't appear in the font menu (see: [Inkscape-user] fonts on OS X). 2. the drop shadow of the logo doesn't appear blurred anymore after exporting to (Cairo-) PDF. 3. as a work-around for 2. I tried to a) export to PNG instead and b) create a PNG solely from the drop shadow to use instead of the blurred vector logo. Neither the bitmap background nor the blurred shape appear in the output. Making a Bitmap Copy (Alt-B) somewhat worked, but delivered a result which was cropped with the dimensions of the un-blurred shape — bummer! Anyway, I've already spend hours on something that would take me only minutes in Illustrator — if that stupid piece of software only didn't think it had to increase file size and memory usage proportionally to the dimensions of the artwork (the banner is 70cm x 210cm)! How frustrating. Sometimes I think they invented the computer (and the wheel for that matter) only to make our lives more complicated. Well, maybe I'm just too dumb to hit the right switch after all… Somebody throw me a line! Cheers, Sebastian

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Tangofied Inkscape
by Panos Laganakos 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

I'm trying to make inkscape a bit more tango-looking. So far I've only done the vertical toolbar: http://panos.solhost.org/mockups/inkscape-tango-01.png -- Panos Laganakos

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fonts on OS X
by Sebastian Winkler 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

I've mentioned this once before on this list: There is some issue with certain fonts (or variants) not being available in Inkscape on OS X. I think it might be an issue with Apple's dfont format but I'm not sure. Is anybody else seeing this? Anyway, it can render a program quite useless if you happen to not be able to use a requred font… -Sebastian

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0.45 crash on OS X 10.4
by Sebastian Winkler 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

After upgrading to 0.45 Inkscape always crashed on launch. Here is the crash log: Host Name: Cube Date/Time: 2007-03-02 20:27:36.429 +0000 OS Version: 10.4.8 (Build 8L127) Report Version: 4 Command: inkscape-bin Path: /myApps/Image/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape-bin Parent: Inkscape [6968] Version: 0.45 (0.45) PID: 6969 Thread: Unknown Link (dyld) error: Symbol not found: _FT_Load_Sfnt_Table Referenced from: /myApps/Image/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ libfontconfig.1.dylib Expected in: /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib I since downloaded the developer's build (2004-02-25) and it doesn't crash, so maybe the problem is already resolved. Best regards, Sebastian

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Re: [Inkscape-user] EPS Transparency support
by Nava Whiteford 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

On 3/1/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote: > On 3/1/07, Nava Whiteford <nwhiteford@...2131...> wrote: > > The best option appears to be outputing a pdf and using acroread to > > convert it to an eps, this then "flattens" the tranparencies, while > > keeping them in vector format. I was wondering if anyone else had a > > better (and open source) solution to this problem? > > I think the best open source candidate for implementing this > functionality is Ghostscript. Maybe it even already does something > like it - try it out. > > > If I wanted to investigate adding support for transparency flattening to > > inkscape where would I start? Does inkscape export to eps natively or is > > an external tool used? > > We export PS/EPS natively. And we really might benefit from adding a > flattening code for that export. However, please consider that this > code is likely to become quite complex, involving the use of boolean > ops etc. (unless of course you will do the simple approach of > rasterizing everything with transparency). Will you be able to code > this all to a good level of quality, and test and maintain it > afterwards? I've a fair amount of experience with C++ (3 years undergrad + 3 years PhD etc.). Time as always is an issue. > More importantly, is Inkscape the best place for this code? Agreed > We already export PDF with transparency which fully preserves > the intent of the source. I think it is better to use a separate tool > (Ghostscript) that specializes in "downgrading" this PDF into less > capable formats, perhaps implementing various strategies for that. I > think Ghostscript has much more expertise overall than Inkscape in > PS/PDF. I guess there are a number of places it could be implemented. Even perhaps as a standalone svg2flatsvg program? I'll get on to the Ghostscript mailing lists and see if anybody is working on this for pdf files. Thanks for your prompt reply. And if you are, or anybody else reading is, a Inkscape developer thanks for a great program! nw

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EPS Transparency support
by Nava Whiteford 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi, I've been encountering the problems caused by eps's lack of tranparency support quite a lot lately. The problem (and some work arounds) are described here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=38244491 The best option appears to be outputing a pdf and using acroread to convert it to an eps, this then "flattens" the tranparencies, while keeping them in vector format. I was wondering if anyone else had a better (and open source) solution to this problem? If I wanted to investigate adding support for transparency flattening to inkscape where would I start? Does inkscape export to eps natively or is an external tool used? Many Thanks, nw --

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Hiding/showing layers via command line?
by sness 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hi, Is there any way to hide and show layers in a Inkscape document with command line arguments before saving? I have an image that has buttons for a webpage, and on different layers there are the normal, selected and rollover versions of the buttons. I have a nice script to automatically output the buttons with command line options, but right now I have to go into the GUI, select the different layers, and run my script. It's not that much work, but I thought it would be neato if I could do all this from the command line. thank you, sness.

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Include article on a magazine (some months old)
by Juan Miguel Ramirez 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

I had been very busy and I forgot to say that in the OLD number 19 of Spanish version of Linux Magazine I wrote about Inkscape 0.44. I wrote about the new (on inkscape 0.44) features and some inkscape's examples logotypes made by me and Included an Illustration from Andy Fitzimon at the header of the first page (He gave me permission). There is a PDF online (on spanish only): http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/19/Inkscape.pdf I am sorry about the delay. If someone wants the .svg of all the graphics only have to write me :D

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how to including a form in a clone set
by unknown＠example.com 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

How can i link a form to a clone set? If I want to unlink somethink I just go ctrl+alt+D (windows XP) Can go back from there relinking it? - how can i include a new form in the clone set? (I know i did once but I don't know how did I get there) basically I was modifying a set of clones through the main form, suddenly i decide to make a star on top of the clone master and the star was in all the clones as well and whatever i drew I could get the same in all clones. unfortunately I lost that file and I do not know how I did activate such a function. thanks kirk --------------------------------- L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail

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Un-uninstallation?
by Garth Ogle 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

Inkscape by default saves stuff in the /inkscape dir. When I installed .45 it obliterated (I assumed it would leave whatever files were there) all of my work in the Inkscape Dir when it unistalled .44!! Is there -any- way to undo this? I may have to go into a period of grieving, here. (Lost about 15-20 fairly complex svgs and pngs.) Help is appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Un-uninstallation--tf3276847.html#a9112926

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Re: [Inkscape-user] how to change the Interface language
by jiho 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

Kirk, I forward your answer to the list (beware to reply all rather than reply to sender only when discussing on the list): On 2007-February-24 , at 12:12 , <crono49522-inkscape@...1240...> wrote: > sorry mate, > I'm on win xp with inkscape 0.45! > thanks a lot > kirk in which case I cannot help. windows users? > jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> ha scritto: > On 2007-February-24 , at 08:43 , wrote: > > How can I change the Language of Inkscape interface? > > thanks > > Kirk > > Hi Kirk, > > On what operating system are you using Inkscape (Linux, Windows, > Mac?). Which version of Inkscape do you have? JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Penrose tiling with different-coloured strokes
by Kyungjoon Lee 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

Hello, I'm looking for a way to recreate the following image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Pen0305c.gif Is there an easy way to create Penrose tiles while using coloured strokes? If not, what would be the least painful way to do it? ;) Much thanks in advance, Kyungjoon Lee

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how to change the Interface language
by unknown＠example.com 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

How can I change the Language of Inkscape interface? thanks Kirk --------------------------------- L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail

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NEW: smoother panning and scrolling
by bulia byak 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

Several improvements make canvas panning and scrolling smoother and more interactive in complex slow-rendering documents: * When panning by the middle mouse button, Inkscape no longer attempts to redraw the canvas while your mouse button is pressed. Any redrawing only happens after you release the mouse. As a result, the newly revealed parts of the canvas are somewhat more "dirty" but the panning is smoother than before, with few if any "hiccups". * Previously, if you start panning with middle button while Inkscape is still redrawing screen in a complex drawing, panning sometimes completely failed or moved canvas just a little step. Now it is guaranteed to pan the canvas all the way from mouse-press point to mouse-release point in any case, even if sometimes it fails to show the intermediate positions. * When pressing and holding Ctrl+arrows to scroll canvas, Inkscape normally accelerates scrolling so that each next scrolling step is bigger than the previous. Previously, in complex drawings this acceleration sometimes got interrupted, which made scrolling annoyingly bumpy and slow. Now this is fixed so that scrolling is smoothly accelerated even in a slow-rendering document. * The default starting speed and acceleration of Ctrl+arrows scrolling are slightly increased. (They are both settable in Preferences.) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape on Mac, and WACOM Graphire 4
by Alberto Simões 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Hi I bought a Wacom Graphire 4 classic tablet and I can use it directly on inkscape, as expected, as a normal mouse/pointer. I noticed Inkscape has an 'Input Devices' entry on the File menu, but it says there aren't special input devices available. Is this usual? Cheers Alberto -- Alberto Simões

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Scripting the fill style
by singlecell 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Hi, Not sure if I should be bothering this list with this, but it may also be functionality currently missing from Inkscape (?) I'm using Inkscape to create interactive SVG drawings that allow the viewer colour in the picture, painting by numbers style (I've attached a simple test svg as an example). The (minor) problems encountered so far are: 1 - Inkscape uses the style attribute on each element to set the fill colour, and I have to manually go through each element changing them for my script code to work. Manipulating the style attribute in code would require parsing to preservation all the other style definitions. Is there any way to force inkscape to save style attributes of drawing elements as separate elements (as I have altered in the attached example)? 2 - should Inkscape treat script element as CDATA, as it currently treats it as a text node and replaces " with " etc.

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Beginner's question regarding default_mm template/absolute svg sizes
by Klaus Malorny 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Hi, sorry if this is FAQ, but I have searched Google and the archive and did not find a suitable answer. I have a small problem. I need to prepare some SVG files for the use with Apache's FOP. Inkscape seems to be the perfect tool for this, so I installed the latest version 0.45. However, I discovered that FOP measures a pixel as a 1/72 inch, while Inkscape measures a pixel as a 1/90 inch. Then I found out that there are default templates of various sizes, and one of them is "default_mm", which actually announces the image size in the <svg> element in absolute units. Unfortunately, whenever I resize the document size, Inkscape falls back into pixel mode when saving the file. What am I doing wrong? Is it an intended behaviour or is it a bug? I found a workaround, namely scaling the image by 72/90, however, I would prefer a clean solution. Thanks in advance for any answer. Klaus

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how to group layers
by Adam Pearson 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Sorry folks, I am sure this has been explained somewhere but I cannot find the "somewhere": I have an image that I want to scale bigger, how do I group the layers to do this so the full image and all its layers (only 4) are scaled the same? adam

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Re: [Inkscape-user] saving an svg file As jpg
by momo 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Seymour, Unfortunately a paragraph text one exported is not editable, as it is rasterized (it's then just a bunch of pixels as any other object). The best alternative would be exporting the graphics to PNG and then add the text in the Gimp. Best, Molumen ----- Original Message ----- From: Seymour Fine To: momo Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] saving an svg file As jpg Dear Molumen, Exporting a text paragraph as png from Inkscape to Gimp, can the text then be edited in Gimp? Sy On 2/20/07, momo <momo@...1935...> wrote: Hello, Inkscape can export PNG files that you can then import into GIMP for further work. JPG is IMO not needed (I don't even know if JPG export is planned) because PNG is much more superior: it has a lossless compression method and it supports transparency (better quality + more versatile). :) Molumen ----- Original Message ----- From: Seymour Fine To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:51 AM Subject: [Inkscape-user] saving an svg file As jpg In Inkcape, how does one save an svg file as a jpg file for later use in Gimp or elsewhere? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user -- With very best wishes -- Sy Seymour H. Fine, Ph.D. WEB: http://tinyurl.com/y5t4r6 syfine@...155...

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rendering intent
by Dwain Alford 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

what is the rendering intent of inkscape? is it perceptual, relative colorimetric, absolute colorimetric or saturation? thanks, dwain -- dwain alford p.o. box 145 winfield, alabama 35594 u.s.a. tele: 205.487.2570 cell: 205.495.5619

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33-hour Inkscape course.
by Denis Fernandez Cabrera 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Hello, This is the first time I write in this list, so I apologize in advance if this is not the place to make these sort of public announcements. I searched the Inkscape web, but I wasn't able to find a better place to post it, and I think it may be interesting as a showcase of how Inkscape is being introduced in the graphic design community. Starting on April the 11th and until the 3rd of May, the Galizan government[1], through the Multimedia Center of Galiza[2], will be offering 33-hour courses on graphic design with Inkscape, within a series themed around the creation of multimedia content with Free Software[3]. I (Denís Fernández Cabrera, Gatonegro, [4]) will give the courses on Inkscape and GIMP, and Pedro Silva (Pedro Silva Franco, Goretoxo, [5]) will read a course on Blender. Denís. [1] http://www.xunta.es [2] http://www.cmg.xunta.es [3] https://www.cmg.xunta.es/ReservasCursos [4] http://gatonegro.ceibes.org [5] http://demares.blogaliza.org -- ########################### # Denís Fernández Cabrera # # denis@...2126... # # gatonegro.ceibes.org # ###########################

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