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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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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 2, Issue 25
by sunil joshi 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

> From: Ludi Maciel <iludi@...668...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inksamples > To: Inkscape User Community > <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <200607191808.28333.iludi@...668...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Em Qua 19 Jul 2006 17:38, Ludi Maciel escreveu: > > Hi guys. > > > > I have some draws that I would like to 'give > away". > > You can use them as template or just draw samples > (GPL > > 2.0 only). The main idea is learning, of course. > > > > Sure I have others but I'm not allowed to publish > them (legal issues), > > sadly... > > > > Would you be interested in it (them)? > > > Oops. Wrong path. > http://rapidshare.de/files/26338515/InkSamples.tar.bz2.html > > > > > Salute! > > -- > Ludi. Ludi, this is wonderful stuff. You should put some tutorials together for some of us inkscape naive people! Sunil

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Fwd: [inkscape] Re: Help required with "put on path" - text orientation within a circle
by Jean-Maurice Le Clech 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Sorry the names were too bad http://perso.orange.fr/jmleclech/tuto-inkscape/tuto-cercle.pdf http://perso.orange.fr/jmleclech/tuto-inkscape/tuto-cercle.odt and there for the svg file. http://perso.orange.fr/jmleclech/tuto-inkscape/tuto-texte-cercle.svg Début du message réexpédié : > > http://perso.orange.fr/jmleclech/tuto-inkscape/tuto cercle.pdf > > http://perso.orange.fr/jmleclech/tuto-inkscape/tuto cercle.odt > > and there for the svg file. > > http://perso.orange.fr/jmleclech/tuto-inkscape/tuto texte cercle.svg -- Jean-Maurice http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jmleclech/

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Help required with "put on path" - text orientation within a circle
by Kerr, Bill 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

After sending the email, went back and played again, I at least figured it out how to get the text orientated for what I required. Regards

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Fwd: Agave release 0.4.0
by Ted Gould 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

This is a GNOME application to find matching color schemes. I thought it might of interest to Inkscape folks. If nothing else, it is fun to play with :) --Ted -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon.jongsma@...155...> To: colorscheme-devel@...1963... Cc: gnome-announce-list@...348... Subject: Agave release 0.4.0 now available (formerly GNOME Colorscheme) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:21:17 -0500 A new Agave release 0.4.0 is now available. Agave is the application formerly known as GNOME Colorscheme. What is it? =========== Agave is a very simple application for the GNOME desktop that allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color. It is aimed primarily toward web designers for creating pleasing color combinations for websites. More information can be found at http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ Where to get it? ================ This release is available as a source package in tar.gz or tar.bz2 format and can be downloaded from: http://download.gna.org/colorscheme/releases/agave-0.4.0.tar.gz which can be verified with: http://download.gna.org/colorscheme/releases/agave-0.4.0.tar.gz.sig or: http://download.gna.org/colorscheme/releases/agave-0.4.0.tar.bz2 which can be verified with: http://download.gna.org/colorscheme/releases/agave-0.4.0.tar.bz2.sig What's Changed? =============== * Renamed application to Agave * Colors in favorites list can now be renamed * Added Catalan translation (thanks Xisco) * Make the rgb(...) and hsv(...) color descriptions lowercase Bugfixes * Bump gtkmm requirement to 2.8.0 (bug # 5665) * Display triads scheme at startup (fixed #5699) * Set sensitivity of 'remove' and 'clear favorites' buttons at startup Build * Added a configure switch to enable more compiler warnings (including werror) * Add a debug mode switch to configure.in (no optimizations)

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Help required with "put on path" - text orientation within a circle
by Kerr, Bill 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

I am trying to put text into a circle with the "put on path" command Problem I am having, is the orientation of the text. I have two areas of text, one text line I want to put on the top of the circle but inside of the circle, with the text orientated upwards. The second line is to go on the lower portion of the circle (again inside), again with text orientated upwards. I created both lines separately. When I put the first line on, it aligns to the outside of the circle, is there any way of selection so that it will align to the inside of the circle, which just saves the step of resizing the text to fit the inner portion of the circle. My real problem is with the 2nd line. It also will align itself to the outside of the circle. When I rotate the text to the bottom of the circle, it ends up upside down (or facing downwards) rather then upwards which I require. I tried inverting the text horizontally before using put on path command, but it looks like the that formatting is eliminated when the line is fitted to the circle as the result is the same. Any assistance you can provide this novice with Inkscape would be appreciated. Regards Bill Kerr

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How to print artworks on inkjet printers?
by Tarsier 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hi all I'm using Inkscape on Linux, specially Tomahawk Desktop ( http://www.tomahawkcomputers.com/ ). How do I print my artworks on an inkjet printer? I use Epson Stylus Photo R800. Is printing possible in first place? How do inkscape users print artworks? The gimp-print ( http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ ) ver. 5.0 is coming soon. Can the gimp-print now known as Gutenprint be used to print Inkscape artworks? I'm really interested printing artworks on Epson Stylus Pro series printers. Best regards Tarsier __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Inksamples
by Ludi Maciel 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hi guys. I have some draws that I would like to 'give away". You can use them as template or just draw samples (GPL 2.0 only). The main idea is learning, of course. Sure I have others but I'm not allowed to publish them (legal issues), sadly... Would you be interested in it (them)? http://rapidshare.de/files/26335206/InkSamples.tar.bz2.html Salute! -- Ludi Maciel

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Inkscape & Graphing with Perl
by Bryce Harrington 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hi all, I've been making a lot of graphs lately, and have found Inkscape quite useful for prettying them up. I stuck a couple screenshots on the website: http://inkscape.osuosl.org/screenshots/svg_tt_graph_bar_before.png http://inkscape.osuosl.org/screenshots/svg_tt_graph_bar_after.png The first is the raw graph produced by the SVG::TT::Graph::Bar module from CPAN. This is a handy module but it doesn't give as much control over appearance as I wished... But in Inkscape I tinkered with it a good bit, and got the latter. I made good use of the grid, paste in place, and layers for this. Took about 20 min total. Bryce

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Major Issue
by Rick Spillane 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

I posted to the list before about this, but I guess I wasn't specific enough. However has anyone else but me noticed that Export to Bitmap doesn't really work? It seems to particularly break when you use gradients with additional interpolation points at arbitrary offsets. I find this particularly amazing since obviously the program is able to rasterize to screen, however it seems incapable of redirecting this same output to a memory buffer than PNGing it. How is Inkscape going to print my drawing correctly if it can't even render it to a bitmap? I only ask this because I am making a poster, and it costs a good amount of money to print one of these suckers, I'd like to make sure that I'm going to get what I expect first. Does anyone have any idea of what is going on? I'd really appreciate any light that can be shed on the matter, thanks! -- Rick necro351@...155...

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How do you unlock objects?
by unknown＠example.com 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Dear friend, newbie here. We have locked some objects (some rectangular shapes) on the page, in order to work on the page without accidentally modifying the objects. How do you unlock them when you need? Thanks in advance. Corrado -- symbulos uk ltd, co. no. 5441973, UK VAT reg no. 865302135 website http://www.symbulos.com

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error with pdf: a resource is missing
by Marco A. S. Netto 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Hello all, I'm using inkscape to create some pdf pictures to include in my latex documents. When I use some figures from openclipart in my documents, for example, people/people_juliane_krug_08c.svg I receive the following message from acroread: "A resource is missing". I've never seen this problem before. Does anybody have any idea? Thanks in advance, Marco On 7/16/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been making a lot of graphs lately, and have found Inkscape quite > useful for prettying them up. I stuck a couple screenshots on the > website: > > http://inkscape.osuosl.org/screenshots/svg_tt_graph_bar_before.png > http://inkscape.osuosl.org/screenshots/svg_tt_graph_bar_after.png > > The first is the raw graph produced by the SVG::TT::Graph::Bar module > from CPAN. This is a handy module but it doesn't give as much control > over appearance as I wished... But in Inkscape I tinkered with it a > good bit, and got the latter. > > I made good use of the grid, paste in place, and layers for this. Took > about 20 min total. > > Bryce > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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Go figure.
by John R. Culleton 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

I downloaded the stable tarball to my Slackware system and immediately ran into compile problems. So on a hunch I downloaded Inkscape-current and it compiled like a champ. I had previously downloaded/installed the Freerock gnome package. Slack no longer contains Gnome. BTW it still doesn't work: --------------------------------------- *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0865ebc0 *** Emergency save activated! Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it. ----------------------------------------- I am thinking of adding another partition just to get a working Inkscape. Is there a Linux distro that comes with Inkscape? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Best format for printing.
by John R. Culleton 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

When incorporating an Inkscape drawing in a printable document wihich will be in pdf form, is the best choice to save the drawing also as pdf? When saving an Inkscape drawing in pdf form is the drawing still a vector drawing or does it get translated to bitmap? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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BUG in coordinate system (v0.44)
by Wolfgang 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hi, I'm quite new to Inkscape but I the coordinate system handling is not getting clear to me, and I believe there must be a bug. Basically I'm getting started by transformation of a shapefile to svg the important part is (one point to keep it simple): <g inkscape:label="Ebene 1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer1"> <g id="villages1"> <circle r="0.01009" cy="-20.87945" cx="101.33645" id="villages1_B_Chaloen_Suk" sodipodi:cx="101.33645" sodipodi:cy="-20.87945" sodipodi:rx="0.01009" sodipodi:ry="0.01009" /> </g> </g> The -20.87945 is from conversion, the real coordinate is 20.87945 Degree north and 101.33645 degree east. My full file is (more or less directly after import): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>  <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" width="100" height="100" id="svg2" sodipodi:version="0.32" inkscape:version="0.44" version="1.0" sodipodi:docbase="C:\Documents and Settings\s0167070\Desktop" sodipodi:docname="test.svg"> <defs id="defs4" /> <sodipodi:namedview id="base" pagecolor="#ffffff" bordercolor="#666666" borderopacity="1.0" inkscape:pageopacity="0.0" inkscape:pageshadow="2" inkscape:zoom="14.481547" inkscape:cx="10.67134" inkscape:cy="16.69171" inkscape:document-units="px" inkscape:current-layer="layer1" width="100" height="100" units="px" inkscape:window-width="1280" inkscape:window-height="751" inkscape:window-x="-4" inkscape:window-y="-4" /> <metadata id="metadata7"> <rdf:RDF> <cc:Work rdf:about=""> <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" /> </cc:Work> </rdf:RDF> </metadata> <g inkscape:label="Ebene 1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer1"> <g id="villages1"> <circle r="0.01009" cy="-20.87945" cx="101.33645" id="villages1_B_Chaloen_Suk" sodipodi:cx="101.33645" sodipodi:cy="-20.87945" sodipodi:rx="0.01009" sodipodi:ry="0.01009" /> </g> </g> </svg> But the point is displayed at approx 101,120 so 100 px too high. Changing cy from -20.87945 to +20.... shifts the point to 101,79.1.. (reading from Inkscape properties). I assume the coordinate system starts above paper size?! Next thing is that I want to shift the canvas origin from 0,0 to 0,100. Therefore I've added manually x="0 y="100" to the file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>  <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" x="0" y="100" width="100" height="100" id="svg2" sodipodi:version="0.32" inkscape:version="0.44" version="1.0" sodipodi:docbase="C:\Documents and Settings\s0167070\Desktop" sodipodi:docname="test.svg"> <defs id="defs4" /> <sodipodi:namedview id="base" pagecolor="#ffffff" bordercolor="#666666" borderopacity="1.0" inkscape:pageopacity="0.0" inkscape:pageshadow="2" inkscape:zoom="14.481547" inkscape:cx="10.67134" inkscape:cy="16.69171" inkscape:document-units="px" inkscape:current-layer="layer1" x="0" y="100" width="100" height="100" units="px" inkscape:window-width="1280" inkscape:window-height="751" inkscape:window-x="-4" inkscape:window-y="-4" /> <metadata id="metadata7"> <rdf:RDF> <cc:Work rdf:about=""> <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" /> </cc:Work> </rdf:RDF> </metadata> <g inkscape:label="Ebene 1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer1"> <g id="villages1"> <circle r="0.01009" cy="-20.87945" cx="101.33645" id="villages1_B_Chaloen_Suk" sodipodi:cx="101.33645" sodipodi:cy="-20.87945" sodipodi:rx="0.01009" sodipodi:ry="0.01009" /> </g> </g> </svg> But this doesnt change anything at all!!! The point is still displayed at 101,120. And I assume the x,y statement is valid. It gets even more strange if you put an additional <svg width="100" height="100"> ... </svg> statement around the last example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>  <svg width="100" height="100"> <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" x="0" y="100" width="100" height="100" id="svg2" sodipodi:version="0.32" inkscape:version="0.44" version="1.0" sodipodi:docbase="C:\Documents and Settings\s0167070\Desktop" sodipodi:docname="test.svg"> <defs id="defs4" /> <sodipodi:namedview id="base" pagecolor="#ffffff" bordercolor="#666666" borderopacity="1.0" inkscape:pageopacity="0.0" inkscape:pageshadow="2" inkscape:zoom="14.481547" inkscape:cx="10.67134" inkscape:cy="16.69171" inkscape:document-units="px" inkscape:current-layer="layer1" x="0" y="100" width="100" height="100" units="px" inkscape:window-width="1280" inkscape:window-height="751" inkscape:window-x="-4" inkscape:window-y="-4" /> <metadata id="metadata7"> <rdf:RDF> <cc:Work rdf:about=""> <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" /> </cc:Work> </rdf:RDF> </metadata> <g inkscape:label="Ebene 1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer1"> <g id="villages1"> <circle r="0.01009" cy="-20.87945" cx="101.33645" id="villages1_B_Chaloen_Suk" sodipodi:cx="101.33645" sodipodi:cy="-20.87945" sodipodi:rx="0.01009" sodipodi:ry="0.01009" /> </g> </g> </svg> </svg> Now the point is displayed at 101,-79.1 ! I dont understand why this should be correct! Especially as only the y coordinate is influenced. I really hope that somebody can explain me how I can move my image canvas so that it fits over my local coordinate system. Thanks Wolfgang

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global unit system and transformation
by Wolfgang 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hi all, I've just started to use inkscape a few days ago to draw a map. But for this I would like to have a user defined coordinate system as my country outline is in "degree". It would be really nice if I could use the geographic grid (ie. for adding point symbols at 19°N, 101°E). But I would need to set somewhere a global transformation to map that system onto the drawing area: 1° equals 3cm on paper, and the origin of the paper =18°N,99E for example. Perhaps something like that is already included and I only couldn't find it? Thanks Wolfgang

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import svg file by reference
by Chris Bare 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

When I import a jpg or png, the svg file contains an external reference to that file. When I import an svg, the file is merged inline. Is there a way to tell inkscape to import the svg by reference instead? I'd like to be able to edit several sub files independent of a master file. -- Chris Bare chris@...1958...

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save as PDF loses jpegs & bitmaps
by Werner van Staden 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

I upgraded to 0.44 (using svn) for the enhanced transparency handling but - altho' I do get vector graphics retaining their transparency when saving to PDF - I am now losing all .png .jpg and bitmaps. They don't show up at all. ldd /bin/inkscape shows that all dependencies are met on my Ubuntu Dapper box running kernel 2.6.15. Am I missing something simple or is this a bug?

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Cropped pdf files as output
by Paul Smith 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Dear All Is there some way of having Inkscape outputting a pdf file already cropped? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Add xml-stylesheet processing instruction
by Dennis Benzinger 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

Hi! Can you add an xml-stylesheet processing instruction to Inkscape SVG files in a way that this processing instruction is preserved if you edit the file in Inkscape? Dennis

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Coordinates all different
by Fred Labrosse 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

All, I just created a document using inkscape to layout objects of which I known the position in real space. Because some of these positions are negative, I specified an offset in the origin of the grid so that the grid point (0,0) is not the bottom left corner of the document. So far so good. Once the whole layout has been created, I now would like to know the position of other objects on there (middle points and such). This position is given by the rulers although at the precision of the reading of the ruler. However, the other ways of getting positions (little box at the bottom right of the application window or boxes in one of the toolbars) give the position in the document's references ((0,0) at bottom left), not in the grid's. Did I miss anything or is that a bug (or a feature that could possibly be configurable to offer alternatives)? Cheers, Fred

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Using Text in Inkscape
by Hyperion 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

when i use the text tool it opens the box where im supposed to type what i want, but i can't type??? anybody know what might be wrong??? thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-Text-in-Inkscape-tf1921824.html#a5261955 Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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