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connecting flowtext to further shapes?
by Dennis Heuer 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

I have found out how to link shapes for flowtext. However, it seems that I have to re-connect all shapes if I want to include or append another one. Is there an easier way except the XML-editor (if that's easier at all)? Dennis

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Can't do 2 simple things
by Dave M G 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Inkscape Users, I've climbed up and down the interface, help files, and the web, and I can't find out how to do these two simple tasks: 1. Unhide objects. When one selects "Object->Properties", one can select a check box to "hide" the object. But, once hidden, the object is no longer selectable, and nowhere is there a general "unhide all" option, or any other option to get access to hidden objects. It's almost like I've deleted them, except I can't even get them visible again with "undo". How do I unhide objects? 2. Put text along a Path. Sure, I know I can go to "Text-> Put On Path", but nothing happens when I do. I select the text first, then the path. I select the path first, then the text. I put the text below the path, above the path, I group them, I ungroup them... how does one actually get the text onto the path? Thanks for any help or advice. -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2

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troublesome flowtext
by Dennis Heuer 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hello I read in the docs that flowtext boxes can be linked so that text flows from one box into another. However, the docs do not show how that works and I couldn't find out. Could please somebody tell me how to do that? If I create an empty second text box for the text to be flowed in from the first text box, after clicking into the first text box, the second text box is gone. How can I create text boxes that stay even if the are empty. This is also important for creating templates. There seems to be no option for defining pages. A page could be just a layer that blends out all layers below it and all layers above the next page (including it). This would be a nice feature because switching from page to page wouldn't mean turning off visibility for one text layer and turning on visibility for the next layer to work with. Fiddling with the text boxes is quite annoying. One has to click exactly on the letters to get the box. Also, if there are empty lines below the text--possibly to copy in some part from somewhere else-- there is no way to directly get back to there after having clicked into another text box. Selecting some text is annoying too. The tool doesn't behave well --especially when selecting from the end upwards. However, the last line seems to be hardly recognized when selecting text. A select tool only for text (an arrow with an A at the right) would be nice to help using inkscape like a text layout tool or a word processor. This tool should always highlight all textboxes for the quick overview of the page layout and allow the user to click into a text box anywhere where text or free spaces are given. If one clicks outside the given text in the box, the cursor should find the nearest position at the text automatically. When two boxes overlap, the highest is chosen. When the text selection tool is used, inkscape interprets a text box as opaque because overlayed text boxes are of no use in text layout mode and transparent boxes would have to pass clicks through instead of the behaviour written above. Hope you can make use of this Dennis Heuer

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Fwd: Error string " º " = " ° " in all .po
by ValessioBrito 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ValessioBrito <valessio@...155...> Date: 01/02/2007 14:19 Subject: Error string " º " = " ° " in all .po To: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net ( I'm not subscribe? ) No render simbol " º " = 90º in: 90° #: ../src/verbs.cpp:2170 msgid "Rotate 9_0° CCW" msgstr "Girar 9_0° graus" #: ../src/verbs.cpp:2171 msgid "Rotate selection 90° counter-clockwise" msgstr "Girar a seleção 90° graus no sentido anti-horário" I believe that all the languages. view attach. -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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PDF -> pstoedit -> SVG -> Inkscape scaling problem
by Phil Rhoades 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

People, I quite frequently need to convert PDFs into something convenient to edit and SVG + Inkscape is the obvious choice. I use pstoedit with either the plot-svg output or the shareware svg output but in either case the output of converting a US letter file seems to be scaled down to 80% when opened in Inkscape. Of course the page can be dragged up to the correct size again but it would be better not to have to do this. >From the pstoedit developer: "I did some investigations and it looks like this scaling issue is caused by different interpretations of the numbers in the SVG file. Somewhere I read that Inkscape has an internal factor of 0.8 "Inkscape pixels" per "Point". I have not found out yet, what pstoedit could generate so inkscape interpretes the numbers as Points (except maybe adding a pt to every coordinate - but that would blow up the SVG file a lot). Is there anyone who can shed some light on this? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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cna gradient transparency be applied to a bitmap?
by momo 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hello, I have a small question about the gradient tool in Inkscape: can transpency gradients be applied to bitmaps imported into Inkscape? It seems that I cannot apply gradient transparency to bitmaps. Alpha transparensy woks fine, blur too. I there such a feature in Inkcape? Thanks! Molumen

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Installing Inkscape on new Macbook
by Melissa Madison 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

Hello, I just purchased a new Macbook and have installed the Universal platform version but when I open the application I get an error message saying that I need X11 to run Inkscape. When I installed X 11 from the Apple website, I get another message saying my computer has a more recent version of this software already installed. I used Inkscape on my Dell PC and I hate to give it up now that I've switched to Mac! I'm desparate to get my Inkscape back! Any advice? Thanks!!

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Re: [Inkscape-user] extensions still don't work
by Aaron Spike 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Arthur Bueno wrote: > Thanks for your efforts Aaron. If something is really wrong I better > wait untill hopefully a working win-installer arrives. > I' don't have enough insight to be troubleshooting myself. I think you missed the important part of my reply. I've already done the troubleshooting for you. >> But I find that if I call with "c:\\" INCLUDING DOUBLE QUOTES, I am able >> to successfully export pngs to c:\. >> >> With quotes and double backslashes you might be able to work around the >> issue for now. But please file a bug in the tracker and copy in the >> relevant information from this thread. Place double quotes around the text you enter into the directory field in the groups to pngs dialog. Also where ever you would normally type a single backslash "\" type two instead "\\". This should work around the problem until a fix works its way to a release. Of course if you don't file a bug for the problem it may get overlooked. Please file a bug in Inkscape's bug tracker on SourceForge. It helps A LOT when users file bugs for problems they experience and it will make it easier for us to notify you when a fix happens. You also seem to be holding on to the idea that this problem is somehow related to the fact that you downloaded a zip archive rather than an installer. This is completely unrelated. The installer exe available on sf.net will have the same problem. Aaron Spike

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Boolean-Operation Difference
by Jeffrey Brent McBeth 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

I have an SVG from Wikipedia that I am trying to simplify down to a single path. Everything has gone well until I get to the last step. The symbol is the ancient symbol of Maurya, and on the base of the statue there are some cutouts in the shape of a horse and elephant. The artist decided to model this by drawing a horse and elephant in a light color rather than cutting a hole in the base. No problem, I thought. Just select the two paths and take the difference. Unfortunately, the cutouts are relying on a black stroke of 3. So when I take the difference, it doesn't look much like what it did before. If someone can help me figure out how to take a difference so I end up with a single path that looks as good as it currently does (I'm pretty sure it was autotraced from somewhere), it would be appreciated. http://broggs.org/~mcbeth/MauryaPath.svg Jeff -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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extensions still don't work
by Arthur Bueno 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

I installed 0.45 (just unpacked the .zip file) and was hoping to be able to use the 'groups to pngs' script now, but always get an error when running it. (the error message ends with: File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\_xmlplus\sax\xmlreader.py", line 121, in parse buffer = file.read(self._bufsize) IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor I understand the effects are is dependent on python installation or something, but I can't get it working. In the readme file there is something about extension-dependencies, but it's way over my head, I really don't see what I need to do from that text. Is there any way for a simple non-technical graphics-program-user to just install inscape and get the extensions working on a windows-machine? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.411 / Virus Database: 268.17.29/673 - Release Date: 06-Feb-07

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Re: [Inkscape-user] extensions still don't work
by Arthur Bueno 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.411 / Virus Database: 268.17.29/673 - Release Date: 06-Feb-07

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Copying a few nodes from an object
by marc0047 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Is it possible to copy nodes from an object with the 'Edit Node' tool and paste them? I've tried copying just a few nodes from an object, hit copy, and then paste. Nothing happens. Duplicating the whole object and altering the duplicate works fine, but it would save me some time if I can copy and paste nodes if it's possilble. Any hints would be helpful! Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Copying-a-few-nodes-from-an-object-tf3176536.html#a88… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Line smoothing
by Dave M G 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Inkscape users, I'm currently trying to find the best Linux/Open Source application for the task of "digital inking". For those not familiar with the term, digital inking is simply tracing over scanned images of pencil art to create a clean image for printing, and possibly colouring. The make or break issue seems to be one of line smoothing. At first I thought that drawing smooth freehand lines was an issue with the Wacom tablet drivers (Linuxwacom), but it seems after some reading it is an application issue. GIMP does not support line smoothing (so far as I can tell). On the LinuxWacom mailing list, someone suggested that Inkscape might have some line smoothing functions. I've actually been using Inkscape for a while now on other tasks, so I'm not unfamiliar with the interface. However, I can't find any line smoothing options. Do they exist? If so, where? Using a vector graphic program for this task, in place of a raster graphics program like GIMP, would not be my first choice, but if I could draw smooth lines in Inkscape, I would happily go with it. Any advice would be much appreciated. -- Dave M G Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Kernel 2.6.17.7 Pentium D Dual Core Processor PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2

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Inkscape version 0.45
by Nick Tolentino 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

To All, I would like to congratulate members of the Inkscape community for the release of the new version. Mabuhay! Reading the press release, it makes feel like reading a press release of a new Formula 1 race car: evolutionary not revolutionary. It has lots of improvements which makes other programs seem old. They may have all the tools but Inkscape provides the speed and better UI. I am actually more productive with Inkscape! Again congratulations! Nick Tolentino --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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Rope tutorial trouble
by Silvana Marques 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

I'm trying this tutorial (http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-3D-rope.png) with Inkscape 0.45 for Windows and I can't do the step 5: the clone's color doesn't changes although the clone is turned off - so the color clone cant'be edited by the original. Did I miss any library? Silvana Blog da Silvana: http://silmq.blogspot.com

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] 0.45 release: lessons learned
by Aaron Spike 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

bulia byak wrote: > 1. Do not start the release process until the packagers from all major > platforms report that the current SVN builds and works without major > problems. > > 2. Do not cut the final release until the packagers from all major > platforms report that they are ready (as in, ready _right now_) to > build and upload their binaries. Bryce and I were of the opinion that cutting the release early was important to get Inkscape 0.45 into the upcoming linux distros. The packaging problems are a bit frustrating and embarrassing but I think our priorities are in the right place. A few days to wait for packages versus 6 or more months to get into a distro release. You make excellent points. This has been the practice in the past and should be in the future. This entire cycle was week with regard to packaging. I dropped the ball on the autopackages early on. The mac packages stalled for a long time because of difficulties updating the build to sufficiently new libs. And most recently some bad management on my part allowed us to lose touch with Adib at a critical moment. I think we're over most of these hurdles now and we can start looking for ways to prevent such situations in the future. My first suggestion is redundancy among packagers. Packaging teams should help to increase our buss number. Community members, if you have even a remote interest in packaging please step forward. Aaron Spike

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Getting basic fonts to show up correctly
by marc0047 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

A newbie here trying to understand fonts in Inkscape on Mac OS X (10.4.6): Basic fonts like Arial, Georgia, and Verdana are not showing up with their entire families in the Text and Font box. Arial, for example, doesn't show up, but 'Arial Black', 'Arial Hebrew', 'Arial Narrow', and 'Arial Rounded MT Bold' does. In another example, Georgia does show up, but its other family members, such as italic, bold, and bold italic, are not present. Anyone have tips on solving this issue? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-basic-fonts-to-show-up-correctly-tf3162672.ht… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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.45 Release
by D. Jones 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

It appears that the release for has a problem because when I try to download the file it says the file is only 2MB is this the correct version? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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The Export Groups to PNG extension
by Michael Grosberg 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

I'm creating a large number of icons in a single SVG file and I'd like to export them to seperate PNG file. The export to PNg extension is great for that - but I'd like to know if there is a way to limit the export to only part of the groups in the file, say only the selected ones or only on a single layer. cheers, Michael

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non printabl layer?
by Dennis 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Is there a way to make a layer non printable?

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Release announcements
by Bryce Harrington 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi all, Rejon and I have sent out announcements to the various (English) sites we normally notify, but if you know of more places - especially non-English sites - please send them a copy of the announcement too. There are a number of translations of the release announcement available here: http://wiki.inkscape.org:8080/wiki/index.php/ReleaseAnnounce045 Thanks, Bryce

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Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release
by Bryce Harrington 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely. The Inkscape community today announces the newest version of its vector graphic drawing software. Inkscape 0.45 features a new Gaussian Blur SVG filter. Sponsored by Google's Summer of Code program, Gaussian Blur allows you to softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects, including shapes, text, and images. This enables a wide range of photorealistic effects: arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows, glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other objects to achieve the "feathered mask" effect. Numerous other new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug fixes have been included. A history dialog allows you to browse your change history. Many new extension effects are added including Pattern along Path and Color Effects. There have been performance improvements to rendering speed, on the order of 2-3% in general, and up to 5-10% for drawings using heavy transparency and/or radial gradients. Compositing quality is also improved through the removal of banding seen in gradients. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.45: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes045 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape ============== Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.
by Jon Phillips 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Draw Freely: Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release February 5, 2007 - The Inkscape community today announced the newest version of its cross-platform open source vector graphic drawing software, Inkscape. Inkscape 0.45 features a new Gaussian Blur SVG filter. Sponsored by Google's Summer of Code program, Gaussian Blur allows you to softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects, including shapes, text, and images. This enables a wide range of photorealistic effects: arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows, glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other objects to achieve the "feathered mask" effect. Numerous other new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug fixes have been included. A history dialog allows you to browse your change history. Many new extension effects are added including Pattern along Path and Color Effects. There are performance improvements to rendering speed, on the order of 2-3% in general, and up to 5-10% for drawings using heavy transparency and/or radial gradients. Compositing quality is also improved through the removal of banding seen in gradients. The Inkscape community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The project is now working on the upcoming 0.46 release which will focus on the initial stages of adding SVG animation support, increasing the apps PDF functionality, and other refactoring tasks. On a global scale, Inkscape is pushing for version 0.50 to have full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny. Then, the ultimate large goal is to get to Inkscape 1.0 which will be a fully W3C SVG 1.1 compliant application. The more help the project receives, the faster the aforementioned goals will be accomplished. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.45: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes045 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's ([[W3C]]) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, <nowiki>PostScript</nowiki>, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully [[W3C]] compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from <nowiki>C/Gtk</nowiki> to <nowiki>C++/Gtkmm</nowiki>, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process. Press Contact Jon Phillips jon@...87... +1 510.499.0894

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how to install 0.45
by Arthur Bueno 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

How do I install 0.45 on a windows pc? I don't know what to do with a .package file. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.411 / Virus Database: 268.17.25/669 - Release Date: 04-Feb-07

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About Screen in 0.45pre1
by Axiom X11 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

I am running the prerelease from yesterday, and it looks pretty good. One minor thing is the about screen is not quite right. The text "Inkscape 0.45" does not appear in the same font (since I probably don't have the same font as the designer). Turning it into a shape would fix this. Also the glow under the second ball back cuts off where it should fade nicely. (See attachment) Good luck on release. -axiom

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