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red spiral
by Gijsbert Stoet 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi there, I am extremely curious to know how to resolve a challenge posted in Tavjongs Inkscape book: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ch19s01.html I really love his book, it is my (the?) ultimate guide to Inkscape. I still don't know how to recreate the spiral, though, and I can't wait anymore, I *have* to know it *now*, right now :) BTW, there is an inkscape unrelated issue with this list, namely that there is a lot of spam in the inkscape-user list. I am sure I am not the first one commenting on this, so forgive me. What is the best way of dealing with it? Thanks. Gilberto

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easy way to transform svg to ps and to pdf
by Gijsbert Stoet 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

We all know that you currently cannot "save" a pdf or ps file with transparency/gradients, but we know that you can 'print' transparency/gradients by selecting the print as bitmap. The resulting PS/PDF is obviously not vector oriented anymore, but from a pragmatic point of view that doesn't matter. I use this 'trick' from the command line inkscape options to quickly transform multiple svg files into pdf files. Just take the following lines and put them in a file. Make them executable (chmod 755, at least for linux/unix platforms). And then call it svg2pdf . It works fine and I find it very useful. If you use one argument, it will create a file tmp.ps, which you can easily transform in a pdf file using ps2pdf. If you use 2 arguments, the first one is DPI and the second the svg file. Maybe somebody finds this useful, that is why I post it here: #!/bin/bash DPI=90 if [ $# == 0 ] then echo "Need svg file!" exit fi if [ $# == 1 ] then FILE=$1 fi if [ $# == 2 ] then DPI=$1 FILE=$2 fi inkscape -d $DPI -e tmp.png $FILE > /dev/null 2>&1 WIDTH=`grep "width=" $FILE |head -n1` HEIGHT=`grep "height=" $FILE |head -n1` echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>' > tmp.svg echo '' >> tmp.svg echo '<svg' >> tmp.svg echo ' xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"' >> tmp.svg echo ' xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"' >> tmp.svg echo ' xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"' >> tmp.svg echo ' version="1.0"' >> tmp.svg echo $WIDTH >> tmp.svg echo $HEIGHT >> tmp.svg echo ' id="svg1343">' >> tmp.svg echo ' <defs' >> tmp.svg echo ' id="defs1345" />' >> tmp.svg echo ' <g' >> tmp.svg echo ' id="layer1">' >> tmp.svg echo ' <image' >> tmp.svg echo ' xlink:href="tmp.png"' >> tmp.svg echo ' x="0"' >> tmp.svg echo ' y="0"' >> tmp.svg echo $WIDTH >> tmp.svg echo $HEIGHT >> tmp.svg echo ' id="image1371" />' >> tmp.svg echo ' </g>' >> tmp.svg echo '</svg>' >> tmp.svg inkscape --print='>tmp.ps' tmp.svg rm -f tmp.svg

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stem
by Maggie Hutchins 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

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behave preclude
by Clement Hebert 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

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individual
by Mercy Shannon 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

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hi
by unknown＠example.com 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

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when drunk
by Gloria Thomas 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

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excel document
by unknown＠example.com 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

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How to translate Inkscape
by ＠ntoine 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Hi, i'm an adobe illustrator user but interessed in inkscape for months. I'd like to update inkscape's french translation to make it a little bit more professionnal (some expressions are quite childish in my opinion). Is there any easy way, i'm an illustrator not a developper ;) , to modify/create inkscape.mo efficiently ? Thanks. Nice week end for all. Yudeo

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Re: PHAkpkRMACY
by Abner Castiglia 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

S u O r M t A u M f E t R k I i D i I c A q X f A v N b A t X n V j A s L o I k U g M p $1 , 21 A q M o B l I w E a N h V h I k A o G p R i A z $3 , 33 C r I t A g L j I d S r $3 , 75 and many other ... <http://www.geocities.com/RaymuNatCopechar/> _____ problem he didnt have yesterday. Whats he going to do? I asked him not to do anything for a couple of days and thats what he gave me. Forty-eight hours, to be precise, and then hes going to confront DeSole. He cant do that, said Bourne firmly. Whatever these people are

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Re: Re: improved
by unknown＠example.com 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

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general election
by Agatha Weston 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

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thanks team
by Malcolm Fitzgerald 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi everyone, This is a big thank you to everyone working on inkscape (and scribus too). I've just started to work with inkscape and scribus and the results are fantastic. I've just gotten better results from them than Illustrator, Photoshop and Imageready produced. I've been using Adobe for a decade and using Inkscape for a few weeks. To experiment I used an .eps that was produced using Adobe Illustrator. It had been sent to me by a designer, I had to generate images for the web. Last week, on my Mac, Illustrator wouldn't open the eps file! I used Cenon to open the eps and saved as SVG. When I opened it in Illustrator the paths were out of whack and the fill colours were gone. (This could be the fault of Cenon but Illustrator should open it's own files.) I coloured the solids and saved as png using "save for web" options. The overall result was better than the versions sent by the designer but the colours are flatter than the original eps and there is an obvious halo on the edges beside the transparent field. The results were OK. I made various copies of the image using Illustrator, Photoshop and Imageready trying to improve them. This took about three hours. Today, on FreeBSD/KDE, Inkscape wouldn't open the eps file. (the web site says it does eps! It wouldn't open .ai either) I used Scribus to open the eps and saved as SVG. When I opened it in Inkscape the fill colours were missing in some places but because the paths were correct re-colouring the solids took very little time. I exported as png. The result is gorgeous. All the colours are exactly the same as the original and the edges beside the transparent field are smooth without haloing. Side by side, in comparison with the others, they look great and the others look awful! This took about half an hour. How much better can it get? thanks to everyone who has put their time and effort into this project, you've made wonderful software. malcolm

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Re: approved
by unknown＠example.com 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

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Re: patched
by unknown＠example.com 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

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inkscape donation
by Benjamin Huot 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Can I donate to Inkscape through this page? http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=93438

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Printing in OSX
by Daniel Culver 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hi everyone, I am using version 0.43 on OSX 10.4 with Xcode 2.2 tools and was happily printing from Inkscape with pipeline " | Canon i860 " when it quit working. I haven't done much to Inkscape, but, did replace my Fink with latest version and I occasionally tweak my X window.app. Can't remember if any thing coincided with the failure of Inkscape to print. I am using preview in this emergency, but, don't care to rely on this path for long, preview won't print transparencies. Thank you for any help Dan Daniel Culver danielculver@...107...

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drew
by Herman Brooks 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

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Re: Re: hi
by unknown＠example.com 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

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Re: Re: hi
by unknown＠example.com 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

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Poor performance browsing remote file systems using save as etc.
by Matthew Swabey 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Hiya guys, this is my first post. I have read the DOCs and tried a google for this info. I am using inkscape on both MacOSX and Win32 for my PhD thesis diagrams. Its excellent, all credit to you guys for producing an excellently usable vector package. My comment is it is extremely slow (up to 15s to display the contents of a directory) when using the save as or open or any file handling through the GUI. In fact its so slow I use the OS finder/explorer as much as possible (1 -- 2s to display) to get about giving inkscape direct paths via cut and paste. Is this a known issue? Is it caused by trying to generate thumbnails for each file? I am using 0.43 at the moment. Cheers, and hope this hasn't been addressed elsewhere. Matthew Swabey

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vis-a-vis
by Brandon Blackmoor 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

> From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] vis-a-vis > > I would be happy to disable attachments for digest users, but there is > no such configuration option available for SourceForge's mail system. > > If this is too annoying, I would encourage you to send a > request to SourceForge to have a way to remove attachments > from digest messages. So you *are* the mailing list admin? I thought that you may be, but I did not want to make assumptions. The problem is not SourceForge. The problem is that this mailing list permits attachments, which is (for a number of reasons) a *very* bad idea. Now that I know for certain that you are the list admin, and that you are aware of the problem, but that you have decided to let it continue, I will unsubscribe. I will also make sure that when I recommend Inkscape in the future (which I do, on a regular basis) that I make sure to warn people NOT to subscribe to the mailing list. Thank you for your time. -- Brandon Blackmoor bblackmoor@...477... 2006-04-17

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vis-a-vis
by Brandon Blackmoor 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

> From: "Judith Harrell" <wti@...1816...> > Subject: [Inkscape-user] vis-a-vis > Reply-To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. I am not going to quote the whole thing: like every attachment to this list, it goes on for pages and pages and pages. Clearly, the administrator for this list does not actually read it. Does anyone know the email address of the list admin? I will email them directly and make them aware of this problem. -- Brandon Blackmoor bblackmoor@...477... 2006-04-17

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vis-a-vis
by Judith Harrell 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

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Function Tile Clones / Paver avec des clones
by ＠ntoine 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hy everybody, i was looking for a function that could help me go faster duplicating and aligning objects in the same time. I thaught the "Tile Clones" was the one, but i don't manage to do what i want. Here is joined an example(question_about_clones.jpg) : i would like to clone the arc from the center in one function. I've still looked here : http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/ch12.html If anybody have understood my question and have the answer too ! please reply me back. Thanks in advance ! Inkscape is a such good soft ! Yudeo

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