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NEW: faster blur
by bulia byak 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I committed the patch by Jasper which implements a faster blur algorithm, so now the Gaussian blur must be noticeably faster in the SVN trunk. Everyone using gaussian blur, please test the new code with regard to: - any especially bad artefacts? (as before, lowering quality in Preferences > Filters introduces some artefacts, but they look reasonable, I think even nicer than with the old algorithm) - how much faster it is on your images? (test on different zooms and with export; we need some estimates to put into the release notes) - is the range of quality/speed settings adequate? or would you like to have a still faster/lower quality step? - any other problems? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Help with the
by Michael Grosberg 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I'm currently using this great extension (yes, it does work fine for me on both the development and stable versions, on a Windows XP machine). It's great for exporting a large amount of icons from a single file - I used to have to export from inkscape to photoshop to break a single file into slices, but now I can skip that, which is a great help. Now the way I work with it, is like this: I'm creating a grid of icons on a single file. So, I open a new layer and name it "slices". On it I draw 16x16 pixel rectangles and give them appropriate icon names. now on the layers dialog I lock this layer and change its opacity to 0%, and I'm free to draw anything I want on a layer above that. Just before export I group all the stuff on the top layer, so when I run the extension I get PNG files for all my icons plus one large file with all of them at once, which I can delete. So it's all well but I was wondering if there was any way I could edit the python script so it would only look for objects on a single layer named "slices". I'm not looking into any fancy change in dialog, I was just wondering if a quick hack of the python script could do that. I'm not a programmer, but I do have some background in scripting, so I tried to look a the script and the correct place seems to be the for loop at the end, but I'll be damned if I know what to put in there to make it do what I want. So, if anyone can help me and it's not too much of a bother, I'd be really hankful!

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Baffling UI
by Olivier Lefevre 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I've been trying to use Inkscape but its UI seems designed to foil attempts. Specifically when I select the rectangle drawing tool and create a shape by dragging I get one width a dashed contour that vanishes as soon as I click anywhere on the pane. There does not seem to be any way to make it stick and thus to actually get a rectangle. How dumb is that? If you need assistance just to draw a rectangle, never mind more advanced operation, something's really wrong with the UI. Likewise the need to use a CTRL modifier for the arrow keys to work runs counter to th expectations developed in users by every other software I can think of and is inconvenient to boot. -- O.L.

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the vertical ruler starts from below!?
by Dennis Heuer 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

I wanted to switch the vertical ruler to show the lowest number at top but there was no such option. For things like layouting a business letter this is the better way because the definition of a business letter begins at the top of the page. Dennis

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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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