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Tracing comics
by Aaron Digulla 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

Hello, I have an image with relatively few colors (32) but only about eight of them are really used. It's a comic-style drawing, so there are many, large color areas. The rest of the colors is used to antialias between these 8 colors. When I try to trace this image with multi-scan/color, I get paths with a large number of nodes (roughly 6000 per color). These cannot be reduced because the colors immediately start to leak. One of the problems is a red blob at the bottom of the image. Without stacking, the result is not very good. With stacking, I get an insane red path behind all the rest of the image! Therefore, I'd like to discuss these optimizations: 1. First find out which color is used how often. Then for tracing, sort the colors from least to most used. This way, seldom used colors will only need small paths. Even better, if colors don't overlap (just do a simple bounding box check), handle them as one layer. 2. First, create one path which contains all the black parts of the image. Then, while looking for other colors, ignore the black pixels. Instead, while searching, simply go on as if the black pixel had the same color as the non-black pixel you just came from. Only remember the position of the last non-black pixel. When you hit the next non-black pixel, compare it with the last one. If they are equal, connect the two (as if there was no black between). If they are not, use the stored position as the border. Finally, after all colors have been traces, overlay the group with the black trace. This should give much better results for comics because the black lines cut the other colors into very many small areas. Maybe the "foreground" color should be configurable to allow to do the same with images which use white lines, etc. Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://www.philmann-dark.de/

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Patches
by kittster 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Greetings, I have a HPphotosmart 1315 printer with XP. I only get the 115 meg print file no matter what way I save it.... Is there a patch yet or a work around.... this is a great program, but this large print spool bug is stopping this in it's tracks for me. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Patches-tf2117914.html#a5840935 Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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Putting a bitmap into a shape?
by Thomas Zastrow 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Hi there! Is it possible to put a bitmap into a shape? What I try to do is, that I have a text. I transformed it into a shape and now I want to fill it with a bitmap. Is this possible (Inkscape 0,44)? Thank you very much for every hint! Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de ----------------------------

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ELER published using inkscape
by Alan Horkan 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/hearing-aid "This ELER is brought to you not only with the power of The Gimp, but also the power of Inkscape. It makes working with the text and bubbles SO much easier. Also, I can put bubbles outside the edges of the panes now: did you notice that?" - from the "Everybody loves Eric Raymond" comic strip If anyone else knows any other collage style comic strips made using Inkscape please do tell. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org

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[Q] Inklscape on WinXP with Wacom Intuos 3 - slow!
by Ingo Hohmann 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Hi, I have a Wacom Intuos 3 Graphic Tablet, and I'm trying to use this with Inkscape on WindowsXp. And it is slow!I Movement of the cursor, without even moving anything, lags behind about 1 second. I noticed that I have the same problems with .43 and .44, and I'm sure it worked before on .43. I have once done an update of the wacom driver, but I'm not sure when my problems started related to the update time. Sadly I haven't used inkscape quite some time (it woas so painfully slow ;-) . BTW, my current driver version is 4.96-7. Does anyone know about these problem. And, preferably, what to do about it? Thinks, Ingo

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Printing to different paper sizes (Win32, Inkscape .44)
by Ephrim Khong 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hiho, what is the best way to print a drawing to different paper sizes (A4, A1)? Say one has a drawing that was made for page size A4 (using the borders that inkscape draws when setting that pagesize in the document settings), and wants to print it on A1/A0 (or a .ps file with that size). Simply selecting a larger paper on the printer options doesn't work as expected - inkscape will not use the whole paper, but only a part of it that has the size A4. I could resize the whole drawing to match the new paper size, but re-doing so for every new print (or whenever the papersize changes) is a bit annoying, and sometimes inkscape messes it up. So is there some print-option that allows to "resize drawing to match paper size" or similiar? The question already came up some months ago on this list, but it seemed like noone knew a solution. The used version is 0.44 on Win32. Thanks a lot eph (sorry if this mailing shows up twice)

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inkscape and version control/document management
by Alan Horkan 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Anyone using Inkscape with CVS or any other version control or document (CVS/Subversion) management system (WebDAV) on a regular basis? To rephrase I am wondering if anyone is checking their SVG documents into a version control system (VCS) of some kind? The reason I ask is I have noticed a trend of requests asking for various advanced Save and Undo features. The task seems like it would be better served by using a document manage system of some kind, and I suspect it may there may be users doing something similar already. I know Adobe includes WebDAV support to provide some basic document management. I also vaguely recall Gnome VFS can be built to include support for various file systems including ones like WebDAV but I do not know if anyone is secrectly using Inkscape with Gnome VFS and WebDAV enabled. I am hoping that if people are already using document management systems or more complicated options such as checking all their files into CVS then we might be able to discuss it here. Afterwards summarising it in the Wiki might help users make the most of the features Inkscape already has rather than attempting more awkward approaches involving undo histories or autosave features. Sincerely Alan Horkan Glossary of Jargon: Version Control System (VCS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control_system Document Management System (DMS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system WebDAV, Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV

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python scripting API docs...
by Terry Brown 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

I have looked, but I haven't been able to find these (or whatever source should be used). Any pointers? Thanks much.

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How to fix/align a text to a circle
by thomas Armstrong 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hi. I'd like to fix a text to a circle shape. I mean, I'd like to create letters like "FC BAYERN" and "MUNCHEN" in this logo: http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/af/Fc_bayern_munchen.gif or "1.FSV" and "MAINZ 05" in this another one: http://encyclopedia.quickseek.com/images/FSV_Mainz_05.png Letters following a rounding shape. Is this possible? Thank you very much.

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Screen capture and deckle edge.
by John R. Culleton 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Two questions: Is there an easy way to create a deckle edge border around a graphic? Is there a built in screen capture function? - John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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NEW: interruptible display for better interactivity
by bulia byak 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Just committed: * Interruptible display: Previously, Inkscape could not do anything until it finishes the current screen redraw. Now the redraw is made interruptible, so that Inkscape responds to mouse and keyboard input and can abort the current redraw and start over if you do some screen-changing operation. As a result, Inkscape now feels much snappier and more interactive. So, while redraw is not really any faster now, it _feels_ much faster, especially for things like zooming, scrolling, etc. Enjoy. I fixed a couple bugs that were exposed by this change, but there may be more. In particular I suspect there might be a crash when you quit Inkscape while it's redrawing. I got this crash a couple times but it's very hard to nail it down. If you can cause it reproducibly please let me know. Other than that, it's working perfectly for me in the last few days. Thanks to Mental who suggested this change :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape Forums
by corstar 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hello everyone, I have set up a dedicated inkscape forum site at inkscapeforums.com Feel free to join and enter our first contest "Paradise" There are plenty of issues to cover with Inkscape, let us know what you love or hate about it (there is nothing to hate in my opinion) Anyway, hope to see more discussion over there soon. Cory www.inkscapeforums.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inkscape-Forums-tf2051528.html#a5651505 Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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Special characters and other issues
by Nick Tolentino 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Greetings! I'm extensively using Inkscape - Windows version 0.44 by arranging scanned sections map back together. I find the program much better than MS Visio Professional 2003 that I was using before. It a faster screen rendering than Visio using the same hardware. Thank you for making Inkscape! I hope that with this comment I could help make Inkscape much better. I notice the following quirks that I hope anybody can answer: 1. Whenever I resize the bitmap figure (the scanned section of a map I am trying to recreate), while pressing the Ctrl<key> and moving the corner section of the figure to resize it properly, it keeps going in all directions making an imperfect resizing. Any thoughts on why this is happening and the fix for this? By the way, the figures are all in jpg format and normally about 1 MB or less. There are times that the inkscape svg file I am assembling can have about 21 figures, meaning a total of 21 MB. 2. When using the text tool, I would like to add special character such as "ñ" using the Alt <key> -164, it won't show the said character. Why could this be and how can I go about it? That's all for now. Again, thanks for making Inkscape! 8-) --------------------------------- See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out.

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[OT] SVG in MS Office 2003
by Wolfgang 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi, first I want to apologise for this off topic post! Does anybody know if there is a svg-plugin for MS Office 2003 available? Thanks Wolfgang

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"Fit page to selection", maintaining grid?
by Eric Jonas 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hello! Is it possible to have the new "Fit Page To Selection" feature maintain the relative grid placement of the objects? I use inkscape exclusively for technical illustration and proper grid placement is really important for my diagrams. At the moment (0.44) the grid seems to be anchored in the lower-left-hand corner of the page, and "fit page to selection" appears to move the bounding box of the selected items such that the bounding-box lower right corner is coincident with the page lower-right-corner, and then crop the excess page. If there's some simple way of getting around this, I'd love to hear it. I've now made over 300 diagrams in inkscape, and it's just been a wonderful experience. Thanks! ...Eric

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Display problems in Firefox and conversion problems in Acrobat
by Wolfgang 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hi, I've some problems with a inkscape graphics. I've running 0.44 on winXP. Inkscape displays the graphic as I want. Firefox crashes on the svg completely ("The memory could not be read"). I've also exported that graphic as pdf but but Acrobat reader 7.0 crashes as well ( a number value is out of range). Here are both files: https://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0049353/svg/map.svg https://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0049353/svg/map.pdf I hope anyone can me to find out whats going wrong! Thanks Wolfgang

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inkscape .44 paths problems
by stuseven 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

+ several new features in the Inkscape .44 seem not to be working for me ? The two I was experimenting with were in the new paths submenu... ...one of these "flatten bezier"... the other one was "add nodes"... both of these seem to be asking for an object converted to a path. So, I used Object to Path for a bezier curve, and a straight line... now, supposedly, I have two paths to work with... but I cannot flatten the bezier... and cannot add nodes to the straight line... not by clicking on them... not by selecting them, and clicking the function... after a while, I gave up :-) How does one work with these new functions ? Possibly, they are just on the menu, but not working yet ? Thanks to anyone who has used these... first time with .44 for me. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/inkscape-.44--paths-problems-tf1977909.html#a5426759 Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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autopackage - libcairo again
by Abrolag 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

I just tried inkscape200607170320.package but still get the message : error while loading shared libraries: libcairo.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. This has so far made it impossible for me to look at V.44 which is most frustrating :( -- W J G

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Style attributes instead of presentation attributes?
by Dennis Benzinger 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

Hi! Why does Inkscape use style attributes (CSS) instead of presentation attributes (SVG)? Is there a way to use the presentation attributes with Inkscape? Bye, Dennis

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Can't ungroup traced image
by unknown＠example.com 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

I want to edit picture that I just traced, but I can't because everithing is together. I tried to ungroup, but it says that there is nothing grouped :-(. What can I do to select/edit parts of traced image, not just scale/rotate whole picture? Thanx in advance Mitakataka ----------------------------- Спортни залагания! bg.sportingbet.com

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Is this where I send wishes?
by Mark Healey 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

I installed Inkscape and have been playing with it for a while and love it but I have some wishes. Where do I send them? Or better yet where do I look to see if they have already been suggested and rejected, added to the things to do in future versions list, or have been implemented and I'm too boneheaded to find them? -- Mark Healey marklist@...1969...

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[News] Etching created using inkscape
by Alan Horkan 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Short article about an etching for a laptop case created using Inkscape http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-6089449.html I get sent regular google news alerts. Out more than 20 or so messages I had queued up this was probably the most interesting Inkscape related article I found from the past few months. -- Alan H.

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Getting good fill for extracted paths
by Brendan Quigley 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hi - first time poster here. I'm relatively new to SVG and I'm having a little trouble. :) I'm multi-selecting and copying paths from the world map I've downloaded from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BlankMap-World.svg . Each path seems to be separate, hence the multi-select. Then I paste the selected paths (say for Spain) and try to combine them. They appear to be combined, but I'm unable to get a proper interior fill on the resulting object. That is it seems the fill is still acting on individual paths. I've tried joining selected segments, grouping, everything I can think of, but to no avail. If you look at the small attached example, you'll see what I mean! I'm sure from that you'll see what I'm trying to do. Maybe it's something simple, but I'm baffled. Any help would be gratefully received. Cheers, Brendan Quigley

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resolution issues
by Sebastian Winkler 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hi Inkscapers! I am fairly new to Inkskape and experiencing some difficulties with the way it handles units and resolution. I use IS to create graphics for web sites, so I have "Default export resolution" in Inkskape Preferences set to 72px. At first I always set my document units to pixels, but then I noticed that the exported bitmaps turned out to be smaller — pixel-wise that is. So I took to using points as document units after discovering that this resulted in the expected export sizes. Problem is, when I import a bitmap it turns out to be smaller in Inkskape… What is one to do? Is there a way to set the document resolution? Thanks in advance! Sebastian

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inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net
by blackfire_x 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

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