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problem with PUA characters
by Daniel Hulme 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

I'm having a bizarre problem in 0.44 with text objects containing characters from the PUA -- specifically, Klingon glyphs -- and I thought I'd check here to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid before submitting a bug report. I have a sequence of Klingon characters, in the range f8d0 to f8ff, and they aren't displaying. The font I'm using (clearlyU; it is in Debian) has glyphs for these characters. I know this because they show up in Vim with guifont set appropriately, and also in gucharmap. I know that Inkscape has the right characters in the text object, because when I look at the 'text' tab of the 'text and font' dialogue box, it shows the right numbers. I know the object should be visible, because when I type normal characters in they show up. Despite all this, the Klingon characters don't show up in the font preview area in the 'text and font' dialogue box, nor in the document itself. Any hints? Has this been seen before? If it is a bug, what information (beyond the usual) would you like to see on the report? -- Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the King's horses and all the King's men | http://surreal.istic.org/ Couldn't put Humpty together again. | powered by cat and ^d Perhaps they shouldn't have given the horses the first go.

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Missing german tutorials?
by Thomas Zastrow 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hi there, I compiled and installed Inkscape 0.44 from source. The User-interface is perfect in german-language, but under Help/Tutorials there are some files missing: /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-shapes.de.svg /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-advanced.svg (is present, but not in a german version) /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-calligraphy.de.svg /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-elements.de.svg /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-tips.de.svg Am I right that there are no translations of that files into german? If so: 1.) Should I translate them? 2.) In the meantime, wouldn't it a good idea to link to the english ones instead of producing an error? Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de ----------------------------

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Is there a way to build an Inkscape "sandbox" environment?
by Christopher B. Wright 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Is there a way to set up the latest version of Inkscape with all the libraries it needs on a distribution that doesn't yet support Cairo without upgrading to Cairo system-wide? Xandros 4 doesn't support Cairo, and you can't install Cairo without nuking all the Xandros-specific stuff. I'm running Inkscape just fine on my Kubuntu machine but would like to run it on my Xandros machine as well... ... so does anyone know if it's possible to set up an environment *with* Cairo that Inkscape can use without nuking the standard environment that doesn't know what to do with it? Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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Inkscape performance issues
by Hans Nieser 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hello, I am trying to use Inkscape 0.44 to design basic graphics for websites (think content boxes, buttons, titles and so on) and to get highlight and shadow borders around them I make use of linked offsets, which I find very useful especially when I need to adjust the basic shape (from which the linked offsets are made) later on. Unfortunately, using linked offsets seems to have a very detrimental effect on performance, in my example file [1], I have just a few content boxes and a single button with a small icon on it, yet certain basic actions like creating a new shape, hiding/unhiding/moving layers or shape adjustments are starting to take a lot of time. On my desktop machine, which has an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, hiding the "Buttons" layer causes Inkscape to use 100% CPU and become unresponsive for a good 8 seconds. Considering that I need many more buttons and boxes and thus vastly increasing the amount of linked offsets, I am wondering wether there are other ways of creating buttons and boxes like these without linked offsets while retaining the same kind of flexibility or if there is some other way I can work like this but with better performance. Any suggestions (even alternatives to Inkscape that may be better suited for this) are welcome. [1] http://www.aphax.nl/images/inkscape/webdev.svg

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inkscape "binary" /or/ executable for LINUX ?
by stuseven 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

+ I use debian Sarge... it comes with Inkscape .41... .44 wont load with what I have, and most of the new dependencies aren't on my CD set... so... how to proceed ? Is there, for instance, a way to get all the required libraries together for an Inkscape .44 upgrade ? I guess it would be easy enough to just download all the separate dependency files... the debian site has links to all of them... but, can I just install these newer packages side by side with the older ones I have ? Thought I'd ask before I broke something :) Thanks to debian users who have done this already maybe ! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/inkscape-%22binary%22--or--executable-for-LINUX---tf1… Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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Possible Forum Setup.
by Cory Pollard 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

Hi everyone. I've had a thought that others may be interested in. I would like to start a forum dedicated to inkscape. A place where we can have different headings/subheadings, tutorials, screenshots, WIP, and general discussions. I wanted to see if others would be interested in making use of such a site. I would probably register under inkscapeforums.com or simmilar. I can pay for domain registration and some hosting too. But, does anyone know the overall cost for running forums per annum? Also, I don't want to tread on the feet of the Devs and everyone who started inkscape, would you guys be cool with the idea? So, give some feedback and see if we can get this thing started. Cory -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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Printing Conondrum
by Rick Spillane 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

I want to print my work out now that I've finished working on it. However it seems as though every portable file format that I can take to the poster-printing place is broken with respect to something Inkscape uses in SVG, the export to bitmap seems to ignore transparencies in certain spots for some reason, the pdf export leaves out whole shapes, and cuts off other shapes, as well as distorting them too, and I don't really think post script will do better than pdf, but I haven't honestly tried that yet. Is there some way to export my SVG drawing to a portable and printable format that I can take to kinko's? -- Rick necro351@...155...

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0.44 crashes
by Lars Behrens 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hi there, anybody facing the same problem? As I can't log in to scourceforge (" Logins to SourceForge.net are currently disabled."), I thought that I'd ask if someone has an idea what could be wrong: When I try to start inkscape 0.44 it crashes with the following message (Inkscape 0.43 works ok): ************************************************************************ > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x086143b0 *** > > 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. > ************************************************************************ This happens no matter if I build from scratch, use an autopackage or a binary from linux packages. Here'a gdb backtrace: ************************************************************************ > warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: unknown thread_db error '22 > ' > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x086143b0 *** > > Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. > 0xb6f87847 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > (gdb) bt > #0 0xb6f87847 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #1 0xb6f890d9 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #2 0xb6fbb616 in __libc_message () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #3 0xb6fc1d4f in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #4 0xb6fc20ea in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #5 0xb716c341 in operator delete () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 > #6 0xb714d297 in std::string::_Rep::_M_destroy () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 > #7 0x084a542f in Inkscape::Extension::Dependency::check () > #8 0x084a28f4 in Inkscape::Extension::Extension::check () > #9 0x084abd88 in Inkscape::Extension::Input::check () > #10 0x084a5498 in Inkscape::Extension::check_extensions_internal () > #11 0x084a3afc in Inkscape::Extension::DB::foreach () > #12 0x084a5776 in Inkscape::Extension::init () > #13 0x0817868c in inkscape_application_init () > #14 0x0816c599 in sp_main_gui () > #15 0x0826ff8a in Inkscape::NSApplication::Application::run () > #16 0x0816bf58 in main () ************************************************************************ Version: 0.44 Platform: Slackware Linux 10.2 Kernel 2.6.11.11 glibc 2.3.6 gcc 3.4.4 Language: German TIA! Cheerz Lars

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Problem with gradients
by Leonardo 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hi all, I'm learning to use Inkscape, and have found my first 'real' problem. I made something with inkscape that has a color gradient in it, but when I save it as eps or pdf file, the gradient is not present and I see only a full color. I searched the net for posts and documentation, but I could only find a note on inkscape 0.42 saying that it supports eps gradients. I have 0.43, so where's the problem? Thanks, Leo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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save as pdf: acrobat - a number value is out of range
by Marco A. S. Netto 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello guys, I'm having a problem to save a figure as .pdf. I tried to reduce the number of objects of my original figure to figure out where is the error. So if a simply create a new file and import the object computer/server_olivier_boyer_01.svg from openclipart, after I save this file, when I open my Acrobat 7.0.1 I receive the message "a number value is out of range". Has anybody had this problem? I don't know if there is something special in the "server_oliver_boyer_01.svg" file. Please, any help is very welcome. (I'm using inkscape 0.44.) Thanks in advance, Marco

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Rectangular with rounded corners?
by unknown＠example.com 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello!! Is it possible to create a rectangular with rounded corners in Inkscape? Thank you!!! Best, Tom

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Transparency and printing or pdf export
by Loïc Martin 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

bulia byak a écrit : > On 7/4/06, Loïc Martin <lomartin3@...155...> wrote: >> Ok. I know acroread does "flatten" it - it's quite usefull when the >> printer don't have a big memory. > > So, you may try to export transparent PDF from Inkscape and print it > from Acrobat. Whether this will be any better than printing bitmap I > cannot say. > Thanks to everybody I was able to print my files with transparency (and still have a few hours of sleep ;) ). There's still the problem of text without transparency but that'll have to do for now (and it could be an acroread bug - evince don't even handle transparency in pdf so I can't check) I can't print in bitmap because my printer don't like it (not enough memory), that's another reason to use Inkscape over the Gimp! >> Doesn't postscript level 3 handle >> transparency ? > > No. > The day they'll add it will be a good day - unless cairo comes to help before (if it's possible to use cairo for printing, that is)

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NEW: dropper tool option changes
by bulia byak 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Instead of the confusing toggle button, now the Controls bar for the Dropper tool has two checkboxes, "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha", which work as follows. Suppose you have an object selected and, using Dropper, click on an object which has red (#FF0000) fill and 0.5 opacity (half-transparent). - If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is off, the selected object will get the fill color #800000 (i.e. faded-out red) and fill opacity will be at 1.0 (opaque). - If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is on but "Set alpha" is off, the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity will be at 1.0. - If both "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha" are on, the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity will be at 0.5 (half-transparent). If you Shift+click instead of click, the same changes will be made to stroke color and stroke opacity, correspondingly. Note that in no situation can Dropper change the master opacity of the selected object(s), although it can pick it just as it does any other kind of opacity. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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problem compiling inkscape
by j michaelson 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

hello all, i've been compiling inkscape from subversion for a while. i've just updated subversion and tried to compile it but it's not working. ./configure worked ok, but make had some worrying bits at the end.... make[2]: *** [composite-undo-stack-observer.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/john/a/inkscape/subversion-inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/john/a/inkscape/subversion-inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 i tried installing it anyway with make install and got this.... Making install in src make[1]: Entering directory `/home/john/a/inkscape/subversion-inkscape/src' if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I../cxxtest -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -MT composite-undo-stack-observer.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/composite-undo-stack-observer.Tpo" \ -c -o composite-undo-stack-observer.o `test -f 'composite-undo-stack-observer.cpp' || echo './'`composite-undo-stack-observer.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/composite-undo-stack-observer.Tpo" ".deps/composite-undo-stack-observer.Po"; \ else rm -f ".deps/composite-undo-stack-observer.Tpo"; exit 1; \ fi gc-alloc.h: In member function 'void Inkscape::GC::Alloc<T, collect>::construct(T*, const T&) [with T = Inkscape::CompositeUndoStackObserver::UndoStackObserverRecord, Inkscape::GC::CollectionPolicy collect = MANUAL]': /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../include/c++/4.0.3/bits/stl_list.h:441: instantiated from 'std::_List_node<_Tp>* std::list<_Tp, _Alloc>::_M_create_node(const _Tp&) [with _Tp = Inkscape::CompositeUndoStackObserver::UndoStackObserverRecord, _Alloc = Inkscape::GC::Alloc<Inkscape::CompositeUndoStackObserver::UndoStackObserverRecord, MANUAL>]' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../include/c++/4.0.3/bits/stl_list.h:1152: instantiated from 'void std::list<_Tp, _Alloc>::_M_insert(std::_List_iterator<_Tp>, const _Tp&) [with _Tp = Inkscape::CompositeUndoStackObserver::UndoStackObserverRecord, _Alloc = Inkscape::GC::Alloc<Inkscape::CompositeUndoStackObserver::UndoStackObserverRecord, MANUAL>]' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../include/c++/4.0.3/bits/stl_list.h:774: instantiated from 'void std::list<_Tp, _Alloc>::push_back(const _Tp&) [with _Tp = Inkscape::CompositeUndoStackObserver::UndoStackObserverRecord, _Alloc = Inkscape::GC::Alloc<Inkscape::CompositeUndoStackObserver::UndoStackObserverRecord, MANUAL>]' composite-undo-stack-observer.cpp:27: instantiated from here gc-alloc.h:54: error: no matching function for call to 'Inkscape::CompositeUndoStackObserver::UndoStackObserverRecord::operator new(long unsigned int, void*)' gc-managed.h:34: note: candidates are: static void* Inkscape::GC::Managed<default_scan, default_collect>::operator new(size_t, Inkscape::GC::ScanPolicy, Inkscape::GC::CollectionPolicy) [with Inkscape::GC::ScanPolicy default_scan = SCANNED, Inkscape::GC::CollectionPolicy default_collect = AUTO] make[1]: *** [composite-undo-stack-observer.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/john/a/inkscape/subversion-inkscape/src' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 i've got no idea what's happening here. any suggestions? i'm running ubuntu 6.06 amd 64. john m.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Transparency and printing or pdf export
by Loïc Martin 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Bryce Harrington a écrit : > On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 06:33:14PM +0200, Lo?c Martin wrote: > >> Bryce Harrington a ?crit : >> >>> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 06:05:41PM +0200, Lo?c Martin wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I'm trying to print a file created with Incscape (Inkscape 0.43+devel, >>>> built May 31 2006) but I can't get it to take in account the >>>> transparency, either in direct printing, pdf export (or ps either). >>>> >>>> I know I can export in bitmap, but sadly my printer has only 2m of >>>> memory and I can't print big bitmap files. >>>> >>>> Does anyone has a solution (possibly involving another program to print >>>> the svg)? >>>> >>>> >>> Maybe try Scribus? >>> >>> Bryce >>> >>> >>> >> Just tried with Scribus 1.2.4.1 under Ubuntu Dapper. Scribus messes up >> all the text objects and don't even recognise transparency (even when I >> save the file in Inkscape as a compatible svg). >> >> I'm downloading Inkscape 0.44 final (autopackage) but my line is really >> slow this days. I've read on Inkscape release notes that Inkscape now >> support pdf export with transparency - has this been solved between my >> version and the final release (I just spent the whole day on this file >> and I'm really keen to have it printed :) ) ? >> > > Oh, I didn't notice you were running 0.43. Yeah it's likely that'll fix > your problem. If nothing else, you'll be running the latest and > greatest code. :-) > > Bryce > > 0.44 exports in pdf with transparency. Great thanks! However, it seems text areas marked as transparent aren't exported as transparent - acroread 7 doesn't show them with transparency. Is it the expected behavior? Inkscape doesn't print with transparency. Is it also a known bug, or is it a system problem (ubuntu Dapper)? Has anyone been able to print with transparency directly from Inkscape? Thanks, Loïc

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Transparency and printing or pdf export
by Loïc Martin 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, I'm trying to print a file created with Incscape (Inkscape 0.43+devel, built May 31 2006) but I can't get it to take in account the transparency, either in direct printing, pdf export (or ps either). I know I can export in bitmap, but sadly my printer has only 2m of memory and I can't print big bitmap files. Does anyone has a solution (possibly involving another program to print the svg)?

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Those kind of fonts . . .
by RoSourceforge 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi folks ! I noticed that the list of fonts into Inkscape is different that in the other software. I use the font think to manage my fonts. I installed some new fonts and unistalled others. They are usable or not on all software and not into Inkscape. any ideas ? one of them is ZAFCHAB.TTF (the attached file) R.

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New Docking Pallet
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hi list, First thank you for the docking color pallet. Just Perfect ! I would like to know why a right click on a color pallet do not fill the color stroke (the border of an object) ? It would be more productive than the old way. Best Regards -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequiasrocha.blogspot.com msn:ezequias@...9... "the worst of democracies is still better than the best of dictatorship"

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"road" effect
by Brandon Blackmoor 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

> From: James Kilfiger <zeimusu@...660...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] "road" effect > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > Brandon Blackmoor wrote: >> How difficult would it be for a user to create this "road" >> effect in Inkscape? >> http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/26/91783/EvilSun/Gloucester.gif > > Not difficult, but somewhat time consuming. The coastline could be > autotraced, but the roads would be best redrawn. The railway line would > take a little longer (there may be a clever way to make it with > markers), and the drop shadow under the sign would have to be faked with > gradients, or the blur effect. I guess I wasn't clear. I am specifically asking about the roads in the image. The roads are outlined in black, and the outlines do not cross the places where the roads cross. Is it possible to do this in Inkscape? -- Brandon Blackmoor bblackmoor@...477... 2006-07-02

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"road" effect
by Brandon Blackmoor 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

How difficult would it be for a user to create this "road" effect in Inkscape? http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/6/26/91783/EvilSun/Gloucester.gif -- Brandon Blackmoor bblackmoor@...477... 2006-06-30

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0.44 Release tarball
by Aaron Spike 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Packagers start your engines. I've uploaded a tarball for the 0.44 release. Thank you everyone for all of your hard work. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.44.tar.gz?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.44.sig?download Enjoy. Aaron Spike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEm3yF1wsJX4VXgboRAsHXAJsHWoEjWTflTgAowGx8C7fWVq0EOgCfWy2i ohRcp3RZv35BW3tkvhwdm5Q= =ek+L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Problem to run 0.44 version
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Hi list, I installed the .44 version using yum but when I try to run it an error ocurrs, pleas see it: inkscape: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZTIN3Atk11ImplementorE What could be done ? Regards ... -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequiasrocha.blogspot.com msn:ezequias@...9... "the worst of democracies is still better than the best of dictatorship"

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can't find a function
by Hago Ziegler 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Hi, in Inkscape 0.44 I'm missing a function, that I often used in version 0.43: when I'm tracing a bitmap, I get a lot of little 1-node-colorpatches. In 0.43 I selected one of this nodes, deleated it, and all the other 1-node-colorpatches were gone too. See: http://www.hagoschaos.de/test/test.html This was very helpful. In 0.44 this doesn't work anymore. Is this function hidden anywhere else now? Where? Regards, Hago

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Effects/Generate from Path
by frank gaude' 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Surprise, just installed .44, Jun 26 2006 build, using yum on my AMD FC5 box. Question: What does the subject effects do on objects, type, vectors, bit maps? The only thing that happens when I use either Blur or Extrude is overlays over the original. Am I missing something? What's the story here? Thanks. frank

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Help my "fill and stroke" dialog is gone!!!
by Müller Pretorius 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

Please help. I installed the version 0.43, everything worked and then fill and stroke was gone, no matter what. I also installed 0.44 and the same thing. On my other machine it works just fine. What should I do, I really want to use Inkscape... Kind regards, Muller

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