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[Fwd: Fwd: Call for screenshots]
by Aaron Spike 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Call for screenshots Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:43:36 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> To: Aaron Spike <aaron@...476...> References: <3c78ff030606151411x6334770dp2e1a0a26c4d8a216@...156...> Aaron, I sent this to devel and user lists, but gmail is spamblocked again so it bounced. Can you please forward it to both lists on my behalf? Thanks! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> Date: Jun 15, 2006 6:11 PM Subject: Call for screenshots To: Inkscape ML <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, Bob Jamison <rjamison@...192...> We need more screenshots of 0.44 release for our gallery: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php. So far we only have 6. One feature I would especially like to get more screen space is the docked palette with the new default color set. For a user, screenshots are perhaps the most important resource at inkscape.org. It's what most people look at first. New users don't like to read descriptions; they want pretty pictures. Existing users considering upgrade don't like to read release notes; they want pretty pictures. Besides, our screenshots are borrowed by a lot of other sites and thus end up all over the web. All this means that screenshots must be as good as Inkscape itself, if not better. The lack or poor quality of screenshots means the entire project's bad health. What makes a good screenshot? * The best "feature screenshots" are made by the author of the corresponding feature. Nobody knows the feature better than him/her. In fact, if you contribute a major feature, you are pretty much supposed to submit a screenshot of it in action, much as you are supposed to describe it in release notes. [Note to Bob: Can you please make a good screenshot with several different examples of SIOX at work?] * However, we also need high quality "work screenshots" showing professional Inkscape work. If you are doing something complex and/or artistic and it turns out well, please take a moment to shoot the Inkscape window with your work. * Use PNG format (not JPG or GIF). * The screenshot should be dense and informative. 1280x1024 (the preferred screenshot size) is a lot of space, so don't waste it on just one or two bits. When doing a feature screenshot, combine the various aspects of the feature, add captions and descriptions, demonstrate all relevant tricks and nontrivial things that you can think of. When doing a work screenshot, find the best zoom/view of the document, and consider doing a double view of the same or different documents (as here: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-davinci.png). In both cases, open the relevant dialogs, switch to relevant tools, and do a selection so that the statusbar message adds more useful info to the picture. * When submitting a screenshot, please also submit a blurb (one-paragraph description) that will accompany it in the gallery. Briefly describe the feature you are demonstrating and the most nontrivial aspects of the screenshot. Try to be witty but comprehensive. * Also indicate what the usage terms are for the screenshot (in case magazine writers wish to use the screenshot in their articles). We recommend that you place your screenshots in public domain, as it saves a lot of hassle in asking for and obtaining permissions. To submit, please mail a link to your file to the devel list, or directly to buliabyak at gmail dot com. All this is quoted from a wiki page I wrote some time ago: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingScreenshots -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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default directories
by Gary 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

WinXP. I can't figure out how to change the default directories for "save as" and "import" (etc). I've tried to change the "Start in" property of the shortcut, and I've tried writing a small script that starts with "cd ...". I've looked in preferences.xml, and didn't find anything that looks likely. I also don't see any likely command line options. So ... how can I change the defaults for these directories? Is it any different in Linux? Thanks, gary

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Styles
by Bill Bedford 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I see from the feature requests that there have been a couple of people asking for a styles panel. Is there any possibility that this will be implemented in the forseeable future? I like the idea of Inkscape, but because I use a restricted pallet I really need the ability to reuse standardised lines and fills. -- Bill Bedford "Nothing is as important as model railways and even that isn't very important" -some wiseguy somewhere

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Strange --query-height problem
by Lorenz Haas 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hi, I need to know the geometry of several words, so I write a litle php-prog to get all informations, and write it in a file. But the some returned heights could not be true, why? I use folowing template for each word (%_?_% is replaced with valid parameters): <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg width="100%" height="100%" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <text style="font-size: %fontsize%;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1;font-family: %fontname%" x="%x%" y="%y%" id="testWort">%text%</text> </svg> Then I save the generated svg to disc: svg_temp.svg. And quering witdth and height with: inkscape svg_temp.svg --query-width --query-id testWort inkscape svg_temp.svg --query-height --query-id testWort The returned values are saved in following file, which shows %text% :: %fontname% :: %fontsize% :: WIDTH :: HEIGHT bis 180m::URW Palladio L::48::189.29175::69.696 bis 915m::URW Palladio L::48::189.29175::52.224 bis 2745m::URW Palladio L::48::213.29175::51.072 So, why is 'bis 180m' 69.696pt tall, where 'bis 915m' and 'bis 2745m' are both about 51pt? Same strange behaviour also occurs with other words. E.g.: Gerastos::URW Palladio L::72::310.86675::91.368 Aulis::URW Palladio L::72::187.33612::62.784 Theben::URW Palladio L::72::241.34963::60.696 Thanks for help Lorenz

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Customized border?
by Matt Jordan 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hi all, Is it possible to customize the border in Inkscape? I see that I can set it so that it's always on top of the drawing, but is there anyway to add in some stuff - like a TV safe area, for instance? Right now I'm doing a work-around by having the extra stuff I need (like the TV safe area) in its own layer, but I always have to go in and make that layer invisible before outputting anything. If I could customize the border instead, it would obviously save me some steps. Thanks, Matt Jordan Inkscape on Ubuntu 6.06

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Call for screenshots
by bulia byak 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

We need more screenshots of 0.44 release for our gallery: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php. So far we only have 6. One feature I would especially like to get more screen space is the docked palette with the new default color set. For a user, screenshots are perhaps the most important resource at inkscape.org. It's what most people look at first. New users don't like to read descriptions; they want pretty pictures. Existing users considering upgrade don't like to read release notes; they want pretty pictures. Besides, our screenshots are borrowed by a lot of other sites and thus end up all over the web. All this means that screenshots must be as good as Inkscape itself, if not better. The lack or poor quality of screenshots means the entire project's bad health. What makes a good screenshot? * The best "feature screenshots" are made by the author of the corresponding feature. Nobody knows the feature better than him/her. In fact, if you contribute a major feature, you are pretty much supposed to submit a screenshot of it in action, much as you are supposed to describe it in release notes. [Note to Bob: Can you please make a good screenshot with several different examples of SIOX at work?] * However, we also need high quality "work screenshots" showing professional Inkscape work. If you are doing something complex and/or artistic and it turns out well, please take a moment to shoot the Inkscape window with your work. * Use PNG format (not JPG or GIF). * The screenshot should be dense and informative. 1280x1024 (the preferred screenshot size) is a lot of space, so don't waste it on just one or two bits. When doing a feature screenshot, combine the various aspects of the feature, add captions and descriptions, demonstrate all relevant tricks and nontrivial things that you can think of. When doing a work screenshot, find the best zoom/view of the document, and consider doing a double view of the same or different documents (as here: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-davinci.png). In both cases, open the relevant dialogs, switch to relevant tools, and do a selection so that the statusbar message adds more useful info to the picture. * When submitting a screenshot, please also submit a blurb (one-paragraph description) that will accompany it in the gallery. Briefly describe the feature you are demonstrating and the most nontrivial aspects of the screenshot. Try to be witty but comprehensive. * Also indicate what the usage terms are for the screenshot (in case magazine writers wish to use the screenshot in their articles). We recommend that you place your screenshots in public domain, as it saves a lot of hassle in asking for and obtaining permissions. To submit, please mail a link to your file to the devel list, or directly to buliabyak at gmail dot com. All this is quoted from a wiki page I wrote some time ago: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingScreenshots -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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0.44 bugs?
by Karol Krenski 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi list, Just installed http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/inkscape200606080302.package 1. Compressed Inkscape SVG appears twice in 'Save as' menu 2. Effects -> Render -> Function Plotter doesn't render anything, but takes a few second on doing something. No error or warning returned. 3. I may be using some wrong inkscape version, but the sculpture thing (alt drag nodes) doesn't work :( regards, Karol

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Inkscape animation test
by Matt Jordan 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi again, It's the guy who wants to use Inkscape to do animation again... I just did a simple ball-bounce test animation. I used layers for onion-skinning and output a series of pngs, which were then assembled into an avi in a separate program called Monkey Jam. The curious can see the animation at my sketch blog: http://www.sketch.mattjordan.com/2006/06/05/inkscape-animation-test/ I'm actually pretty excited about the possibility of using Inkscape to do more-or-less traditional, cel style animation. One tedious bit, though, is the outputting of the individual png frames. Would it be possible to write a script or a plug-in that would do that as a batch? So, you'd have background layer plus layer 1 output as 000000.png, background plus layer 2 as 000001.png, and so on? If so, where would I go to learn how to write such a script or plug-in? Oh, and I'm still on Windows XP for now, in case that affects your answer. Thanks, Matt Jordan

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Re: [Inkscape-user] 0.44 bugs?
by unknown＠example.com 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

2. you need to draw a rectangle, select it and then execute the effect 3. make sure you have some nodes selected first ------------------------------------------------------------- Hi list, Just installed http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/inkscape200606080302.package 1. Compressed Inkscape SVG appears twice in 'Save as' menu 2. Effects -> Render -> Function Plotter doesn't render anything, but takes a few second on doing something. No error or warning returned. 3. I may be using some wrong inkscape version, but the sculpture thing (alt drag nodes) doesn't work :( regards, Karol _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Stroke extraction from outline font
by Jan 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hello, I'm working on comparison of printed letters and handwritten ones. I'm using Inkscape for various tasks however I coudn't find a way how to accomplish "Stroke extraction from outline font". Is there a way how to tackle down this task using Inkscape ? It doesn't have to be automatical sofisticated way ... Any advice appriciated. Thanks! Jan

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pattern problems
by Hago Ziegler 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi, I have some difficulties with a pattern. It should look like this: http://www.hagoschaos.de/test/test.html image 1. Inkscape and Opera9 are showing it like this. IE6 and Opera8.54 with the Adobe plugin are showing it like image 2. Firefox shows nothing. Batik won't run here - a Java-window tells me: connection refused ...? Here is the svg-file: http://www.hagoschaos.de/test/svg3a-aa.svg It's 2 patterns: green stripe with transparent background. I didn't know, how to do it with just one pattern. Further, I dont understand, why one of the patterns have this strange edges (image 3). I made the pattern with a copy of the same green stripe. Can you give me some help? Regards, Hago

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Manga not found
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi list, The manga inspiration does not work now. Could someone do anything ? The link is in: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/BenutzerGalerien -- 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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l-system effects samples
by Benjamin Huot 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

trying out various parameters on L-system effects http://benjamin-newton.net/ministries/personal/blank/fatherday

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question about moving a selection of multiple clones
by Gijsbert Stoet 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

I have a question about handling clones (an example file is on http://volition.wustl.edu/test.svg Imagine this: 1) I create an object (the top left one in the file) 2) I make multiple clones of this object and spread them around (the others, not the original of the clones) 3) Then I decide that I want to move the clones a little to the right 4) I select them all (make a selection box with the mouse around all the clones, but do not include the original). 5) I move the selection area to the right (or to any position). 6) I release the mouse button AND THEN THE STRANGE THING HAPPENS: all the clones seem to move to some RANDOM positions. To resolve this 'problem', I can group the selection, move the group and then ungroup. That works. I have the clone option to stay unmoved when the original moves. If I select the move according to transform option in the inkcape preferences, the problem does not occur anymore, that is, the selected clones move as I intend. -------- My questions: 1) What is going on? Why the random moves of some of the clones? 2) Why does it work as I want if I select the option 'move according to transform'. I thought this inkscape pref is ONLY about what happens when you move the original, but not when you move the cloned selection. I wonder whether I am missing something, or whether this is an unintended side effect? ---- BTW: I use Ubuntu Linux Dapper. It happens on the official ubuntu 0.43 inkscape version as well on the latest Linux version I downloaded using the autopackage.

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Release Notes push
by bulia byak 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

I have finished filling in blanks and pruning loose ends in the Release Notes, and now this document needs attention from as many eyes as possible. Please proofread it, copyedit it, complete it or rewrite it, or just report if you see something missing or wrong: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes In particular, translators, please fill in the Translations section with an overview of current status and progress. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Weird scaling behavior
by Terry Hancock 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Hi all, This is probably an SVG question rather than an Inkscape question, but... I started working on an SVG that I downloaded (which apparently came from Adobe Illustrator, as I have discovered via text editor). The original document had an inconvenient canvas size, since I had expanded on the drawing considerably. So I went into document preferences and changed it to 800x600 points (the default units were points, and I think 1 pt = 1 pixel for the designed size, although of course, I know that Inkscape also has 'px' for pixels), since I was planning to lay it out for convenient export to a full-screen PNG. But -- whoops -- the drawing jumped up in scale. It seems like the scale of the drawing is somehow tied to the Y dimension of the canvas. What's up with that?! 1) How do you even do that? 2) How can I make it stop? Thanks! Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock (hancock@...1625...) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com

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testing effects
by Benjamin Huot 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

I have tested out some of the effects in .44pre2. Overall the usability is quite good and no crashes. One of the filters did cause a lock up but it became usable after that so I quit without saving that last bit and it worked as normal when I started up again. Is there anyway you can use graphical terms instead of mathematical ones. Like the L something makes a tree - if you labeled that tree-maker or something to that effect instead of L something, it would make much more sense. Great work as always. The logo at the top of the link was done with Inkscape .44pre2 on Ubuntu 6.06, installed with the autopackage installer. http://benjamin-newton.com/

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more .44 pre-testing
by Benjamin Huot 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

extrude effect works well too in .44pre3 on Ubuntu 6.06 - autopackage install. http://benjamin-newton.com/

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inkscape-20060607-0100
by j michaelson 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

hi, i've just compiled inkscape-20060607-0100 and i'm starting to explore it. i was using 4.3 before so it's a bit of a leap. the first thing i noticed was the pallette along the bottom, what an absolutely fantastic idea. the new icons look great and there are loads of little tweaks in the menus. i've only just started playing with it, but it's pretty amazing so far. massive thanks to all the developers who work on inkscape. john.

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compiling on ububtu 6.06 amd64 - SUCCESS!
by j michaelson 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

hello, i've been finally got inkscape-20060607-0100 compiled on ubuntu 6.06 amd64. i was using apt-get to sort the dependencies and i've probably installed a load of stuff i don't need. this has been a fairly long and painful process because i'm on dialup. what i'm thinking of doing is getting all the debs from /var/cache/apt/archive and building myself a mini repository. i can then do a fresh install on a different partion and go through the process again and work out which packages are actually needed. from this a single apt-get install command could be worked out that would sort all the dependencies with the minimum of downloading. john.

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compiling on amd64 unbuntu 6.06
by j michaelson 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

hi, i'm trying to build the latest inkscape and i've ground to a halt. i've been running the configure script and sorting out any dependencies i find, but been getting a message about a "sanity check". i don't know what this means and i haven't had much luck finding out. does this mean that a package is missing or that there is something wrong with one of them? i'd be grateful for some advice, i've included the output of the configure script. thanks. john michaelson. john@...1937...:~/a/software/inkscape/inkscape-20060607-0100$ ./configure checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no checking for intltool >= 0.22... 0.35.0 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... ok checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... none checking dependency style of gcc... none checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for g++... no checking for c++... no checking for gpp... no checking for aCC... no checking for CC... no checking for cxx... no checking for cc++... no checking for cl... no checking for FCC... no checking for KCC... no checking for RCC... no checking for xlC_r... no checking for xlC... no checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no checking whether g++ accepts -g... no checking dependency style of g++... none checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) no checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) no checking dependency style of g++... (cached) none checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... no checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details.

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0.44 pre3 tarball
by Aaron Spike 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've just uploaded the tarball for 0.44pre3. It is now available at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.43%2B0.44pre3.tar.gz… http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.43%2B0.44pre3.sig?do… As the become available, binary packages can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… Let's give a round of applause to our prerelease packagers. Thanks for getting these packages up so quickly. We all appreciate your efforts. Aaron Spike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEhlge1wsJX4VXgboRAkVUAKCqvVvjRNVlzyB314A3MmYg6BcLyACgvqyd 94MlkR/+jObv8NnJGET/UP0= =HEQL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Inkscape-user] xfig copying; ctrl+d is THE solution
by Gijsbert Stoet 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Thanks to everybody pointing out the ctrl+d option (duplicate object); that is absolutely the solution I was looking for, and as somebody pointed out, it is true and convenient that that way you don't even need to release the control key during the whole procedure. Thanks a lot! Another reason to dump xfig (after years of good service though!).

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xfig like copying
by Gijsbert Stoet 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

This is a follow up on my earlier post regarding copying object while retaining horizontal or vertical alignment. I just figured that the easiest way to do this is to: 1) Copy object 2) Paste in place (from the edit menu) 3) then move the new object while holding the ctrl key It is quite interesting to compare the xfig and inkscape interface. Although Inkscape is nowadays 100x better than xfig, the original xfig interface has some nice features with which you can do some things really quick (Maybe that is just because I am used to it. But to give just an example). For example, if you have a drawing and there is a whole bunch of objects that need to be copied, each to different place. In Xfig, you can just click the copy icon, and you are in copy mode. Every object you touch with your mouse+click will be copied. In Inkscape, or any other modern drawing program for that matter, you need to perform a couple of operation to each object. I wonder whether I am the only one whole likes these Xfig features.

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question about copying while maintaining perfect alignment
by Gijsbert Stoet 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

There is a way of copying in Xfig that is really handy, and I wonder whether something similar is available in Inkscape. In Xfig, you can click the copy Icon and then copy the original with the middle mouse button clicked to a position that is either perfectly horizontally or vertically aligned. This is handy if you want a copy of the original perfectly next or underneath the original. In Inkscape I have to do this differently. I first copy and paste the object to a new location, and then I have to manually align it to its original using the alignment dialog. Of course that is not too hard, but in Xfig it is easier. Since this is an operation that I use often, I miss the Xfig way of copying. Maybe it is possible in Inkscape, since there are so many handy key shortcuts I am not yet aware of. I looked this up in the Inkscape tutorials, but could not find it yet. Let me know if there is an easy way to do this. Thanks.

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