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Symbol & other font in Windows
by Arnout Standaert 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Hi all, I'd just like to signal that the 0606051800 build isn't showing some fonts over here (WinXP SP2). Mainly Symbol, Webdings and Wingdings and some others. They're regular TTF fonts, like the rest, but simply do not show up in the list. Any ideas? Thanks, Arnout

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image scaling
by none none 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Is it a bug or a feature that inkscape can't upsample an embedded raster image? also if an image is rotated it doesn't get done very well (do the same rotation in the gimp and it will be nice and smooth) FYI batik handles upsampling and rotation nicely, although the build I'm using doesn't seem to antialias the edges of images :( Any idea when this will be implemented in inkscape? should i file a bug? Thanks, Alex

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milestone 11
by Benjamin Huot 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

I was looking at the Roadmap, sepecifically Milestone 11/Inkscape.45 and it listed PDF export as an option, but I have already been able to export directly to PDF from the Inkscape export dialog from at least .43 onwards. Does this mean that it will have a PDF export that will be handled by Inkscape itself rather than by Ghostscript or there will be more features or what? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap

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Exporting objects as SVG?
by Christopher B. Wright 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I get the feeling this question was asked on the list sometime back, but I can't honestly remember if it was or not. Currently it's possible to draw a complex image in Inkscape, and export a portion of that image as a bitmap by selecting the "selection" tab on the Export Bitmap panel. What I'm wondering is, is it possible to do something similar with SVG? If I've drawn a complicated object in Inkscape and I want to save parts of that object separately, what do I do? For example: I draw a webcomic and I've been using Inkscape for it for at least three releases so far. It works pretty well, but I have to keep all the characters saved in a single template file for re-use. The more characters I add the larger the file gets, and if the comic gets too complicated pretty soon the hard drive is thrashing just because there are so many unnecessary elements in the file. It would be great if I could save each character as an individual svg file that I could import into a document as needed, but I can't seem to find any option in the menu that does that. Is this possible? Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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autopackage upgrade
by Benjamin Huot 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

I have installed the autopackage distribution of Inkscape .44pre2 on Ubuntu 6.06. It works great - I enjoy the new icons, cloning, and the export to .xcf with layers and there looks like there is much more I could use with some more exploration. After the summer of code comes back with their projects for Gimp, I should be able to do more advanced design on Linux than on my Mac. And not long after that we will have Xara 1.0. I will have a hard time deciding whether to do more with Xara or Inkscape. Excellent progress. Anyway, how do I upgrade the autopackage when the final .44 comes out? Do I need to uninstall the old one and then reinstall the new one or do I just install the new package?

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universal mac binary
by Benjamin Huot 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

When will Inkscape be a Universal (PowerPC/Intel) Mac binary?

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0.44pre2 on OS X: no more icon for SVG file type?
by Artemiy Pavlov 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello all! I am using Inkscape on Mac OS 10.4.6 / Intel. Just installed 0.44pre2 over 0.44pre0 and saw that the SVG file icon is now set to the blank one, but Inkscape is still set as a default application for the SVG files. With all Inkscape versions it displayed Inkscape logo on the icon. I tried re-assigning Inkscape as a default application for SVG files, but that didn't help. Reverted to pre0, no luck, then to pre2, all the same. I tried assigning GIMP as a default app for SVG - now all SVG files have the GIMP logo. But reverting to Inkscape as a default app makes the icon blank again. Perhaps some icon is missing in the .app bundle. I also filed it in Bugs: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1500596&group_id=93438&atid=604306 Thanks, Artemiy.

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Connector: Arrow outside
by Bernhard Walle 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello, is it possible to draw diagrams with the connector tool where the arrow is not centered but outside the rectangle. Following picture should explain what I mean: http://www.bwalle.de/temp/connector.svg Regards, Bernhard -- Unser Zeitalter ist stolz auf Maschinen die denken und mißtrauisch gegen Menschen, die es versuchen. -- (unbekannt)

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Can't get autpackage of .44
by Abrolag 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

When I try to download the latest autopackage build, instead of starting up the download manager it tries to load into the browser window. This happens with both FireFox 1.5 and Opera 8.54. What am I doing wrong? -- No Sig

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crappy image scaling
by none none 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Is it a bug or a feature that inkscape can't upsample an embedded raster image? also if an image is rotated it doesn't get done very well (do the same rotation in the gimp and it will be nice and smooth) FYI batik handles upsampling and rotation nicely, although the build I'm using doesn't seem to antialias the edges of images :( Any idea when this will be implemented in inkscape? should i file a bug? Thanks, Alex

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Inkscape window too big under Linux
by Fibonacci Prower 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Hello, I've been using Inkscape on Windows for some time, and everything worked fine. Now that I've switched to Linux, I've noticed that the Inkscape window is bigger than my screen! Resizing doesn't help - it lets me expand the window all I want, but not compress it beyond the default size. Maximising doesn't help either - the window remains at exactly the same size. I'm working at an 800×600 resolution, both in Windows and in Linux. When switching to 1024×768 the problem vanishes. But I can't always work at that resolution - my poor little screen was not designed for such abuse, so I can't distinguish any details at 1024×768. What can I do about this problem? Thanks in advance, -Fibo -- Eye halve a spelling chequer, it came with my pea see It plane lee marques four my revue miss steaks aye can knot sea Eye ran this poem threw it - your shore reel glad two no Its vary polished in it's weigh, my chequer tolled me sew.

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Trace Bitmap
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Hi list, I was testing the trace bitmap and got really impressed. Of course it isn't a Corel Trace, but is the beginning. My congratulations to the dev team. Here is a simple test I did: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=157359067&size=o The first is a gif (and quite small) image. The second is svg. ;-) Sincerely ... -- 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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NEEDED: Win32 User for testing
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Hi all, If you are on Windows and and have a little extra time this week, you can help Inkscape out considerably. There are several _bad_ bugs that are going to afflict Windows users of our new Inkscape release, that we may have a decent chance to eliminate. However, unfortunately our developers don't have access to Win32 machines, so cannot easily test their fixes to make sure they've fixed the issues. If you are on Win32, and are comfortable installing and running extremely cutting edge stuff (including running gdb), you can help. We need someone who for the next week or two can install the latest code and test out a few bugs we're working on. This is a great way to contribute to Inkscape and to directly make it better for Windows users, so if you've wanted to do that but felt that your technical skills were a bit light, this may be a perfect opportunity. Email me if you're interested in helping, or contact Jon Cruz by email or IRC, to get started. Bryce

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trace bitmap problem
by Hago Ziegler 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Hi, I have Inkscape 0.44 and Inkscape 0.43 installed. ( winXP ) With 0.43 Trace Bitmap works very well, as expected. With 0.44 I never was able to trace a bitmap with the settings Multiple Scanning > Color, or > Monochrome. It seems to work, but never brings a result. Regards, Hago

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Re: Inkscape on Ubuntu
by Noah Spurrier 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

> From: Cory Pollard <> > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Inkscape-user] Re: Inkscape on Ubuntu > I recomend using the autopackage if you want an easier installation process. > http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/?M=D and pick the latest autopackage down > the bottom of the page. > Aptitude should automaticly download any required packages needed. > Another meathod is using the force command. > sudo apt-get install (whatever the package is) -f Thanks. The autopackage worked perfectly on Ubuntu Linux. It even put the icon in the Applications menu in GNOME. There's also a shortcut to the latest package: http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/latest.php Yours, Noah

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3d-data plot
by roberto 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

hello, i have to plot some 3d data file and i'd like to know where i can download some data text file to plot and make some test -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux, Debian Sarge

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inkscape forums
by Cory Pollard 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Does anyone know of more inkscape forums out there or is this the only one? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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italic font in eps
by Ling F. Zhang 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

I created some technical figures using inkscape saved in inkscape svgz, but when I save it as .eps file, the italic font turned regular. What gives? Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and animation
by Matt Jordan 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Just yesterday I stumbled across http://www.synfig.com/. It's a bit > rough on the edges, but a very interesting vector animation app with > a resolution independet canvas and a timetrack working with absolute > time, not frames like flash does. So for anyone who wants to do > animation right now, it should be a much better choice. > > Anyone who would like to add animation to Inkscape should have a > look at it. > > (The only other open source animation app I'm aware of right now > is Ktoon, but I havn't checked it out yet) > > > Cheers, > Thorsten Wilms Thanks for the reply. I actually have synfig and have played with it a tad. I haven't gotten my head around how it works yet, so I'm not sure it'll work for me. The demo animation at the site, which I believe was called "Prologue," was nicely done, but very "vector tweeny." I appreciate that synfig takes that route to streamline production for a small, even one-person, staff. I'm just not sure I want to go that route yet. I forgot to mention that I'm on XP for the time being. I'm easing toward switching over to Linux, but there's some inertia there. At any rate, I can't try out Ktoon since it isn't available for Windows yet. One reason why I'm hoping to cobble something together that uses Inkscape is that I've learned how to get a really nice, natural looking ink line in Inkscape. No other software that I've tried, including demos of some of the proprietary stuff, seems to compare. Plus, the workspace in Inkscape, with the appropriate template overlay, looks like an animation board and lends itself well to things like panning a background image - assuming I can solve the precision issue. And for character animation, each stage can obviously be put on its on layer. I just downloaded a program called Monkey Jam to stitch the pngs together into scenes. I'll play with that some next week. Then, of course, I'd assemble the scenes and add sound and so on in a compositor. Anyway, I'm still interested in any ideas and suggestions, and I'll keep you all apprised of my progress in case I do something useful. Thanks again to all who responded. Matt Jordan

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Inkscape and animation
by Matt Jordan 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi all, I've been using Inkscape for single-panel cartooning for a few months now and have really come to like the program for vector drawing (with a Wacom tablet). I'm now planning to do some cartoon animation and I was wondering if anybody has used Inkscape for this purpose as part of your workflow. I realize that Inkscape isn't set up to do animation in and of itself, but I could see it working really well in conjunction with a sound editor and a compositing tool, compositing a series of png outputs. But I wonder how to do certain things, like panning across a background for instance. I can certainly move an image across the page in Inkscape and output that as a series of pngs, but how would I make sure each incremental move is at the right speed and in the right direction, so the resulting animation is smooth? Has anybody out there done this sort of thing with Inkscape? Is there any sort of onion skinning plug-in or anything like that? Thanks, Matt Jordan PS - I joined the list officially and resent this to speed things up. My apologies if you end up seeing the original come through later.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and animation
by Benjamin Huot 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:09:35PM -0500, Matt Jordan wrote: > > >> I'm now planning to do some cartoon animation and I was >> wondering if anybody has used Inkscape for this purpose as part of your >> workflow. I realize that Inkscape isn't set up to do animation in and >> of itself, but I could see it working really well in conjunction with a >> sound editor and a compositing tool, compositing a series of png >> outputs. >> > > Just yesterday I stumbled across http://www.synfig.com/. It's a bit > rough on the edges, but a very interesting vector animation app with > a resolution independet canvas and a timetrack working with absolute > time, not frames like flash does. So for anyone who wants to do > animation right now, it should be a much better choice. > > Anyone who would like to add animation to Inkscape should have a > look at it. > > (The only other open source animation app I'm aware of right now > is Ktoon, but I havn't checked it out yet) > > > Cheers, > Thorsten Wilms > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > I've tried both of those and they are not developed well enough to do much work in very comfortably. Ktoon last time I checked doesn't even have an undo feature and synfig didn't have a freehand tool for drawing and the interface was very confusing.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape and animation
by Cory Pollard 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

I've used a bit of both apps. I really like synfig. Robert has given the open source community a massive gift. There is not as much develop on it as I would've first thought. If I knew anything about programming (and I intend to learn as soon as I get home to Aust) I would jump right in and help the guys....and inkscape to. I reakon if there were some full fledged forums for synfig, there would be MUCH more interest and possibly more develpment too. It's a real bitch to compile aswell.. As far as Ktoon is concerned, I found it similar to Toonboom, which I used for a bit back in my windows days. Not quite as advanced and documentation was very rare. Anyway that's my two bob.. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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Inkscape on Ubuntu
by Noah Spurrier 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

I'm trying to install Inkscape 0.43 under Ubuntu using Aptitude. I get an error showing that certain dependencies are UNAVAILABLE: libgc1 (UNAVAILABLE) libglibmm-2.4-1 (>= 2.6.1) (UNAVAILABLE) libgtkmm-2.4-1 (UNAVAILABLE) libsigc++-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.2) (UNAVAILABLE) Any hints? Yours, Noah P.S. I have the following two lines at the beginning of my /etc/apt/source.list deb http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~wolfi/inkscape sarge/ deb-src http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~wolfi/inkscape sarge/ $ uname -a Linux alpha 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Fri Apr 28 13:13:44 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.12-10-386 (buildd@...1923...) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8.1)) #1 Fri Apr 28 13:13:44 UTC 2006

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buggy layers dialog
by Cory Pollard 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

I had 2 layers, both visable then I renamed them both to something different than layer 1. layer 2. Then I clicked the hide/unhide when i was on the opposite of each layer and then the naming convention returned to Layer 1 and Layer 2 I am using the may 27 autopackage build on ubuntu breezy badger. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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cropping
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi list, I need to crop this two elements but I can't do that. Could some good soul do dis for me ? I need to subtract the blank image from the globe image. My 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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