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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.16 Announcement :: http://www.openclipart.org
by Jon Phillips 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Aug 8, 2005 UTC - Release 0.16 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now available on-line for download as an individual package consisting of 4442 images submitted by over 443 artists from around the world. This releases squishes a major bug that replaced valid keywords in the clip art files with some strange HASH memory location text. Most of the clip art in the library and this release is now repaired. Bryce Harrington and Jon Phillips both presented at the 2005 Desktop Developers Conference in Ottawa. Harrington's presentation promoted Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) while Phillips' presentation introduced the Open Clip Art Library to the freedesktop community. Both presentations were well received and sparked several debates. Also added this month is a new clipart-announce mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart-announce). The Open Clip Art Library encourages everyone to sign up for this list in order to ONLY receive messages about Open Clip Art Library release announcements. This list is especially well-suited for packagers and others that might not want to receive all the developer discussions from the primary project mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart). As always, see what the librarians and artists are working on at http://planet.openclipart.org. Artist and librarians (developer) for the project who would like to be included in this blog should contact (http://openclipart.org/contact.php) the project admins in order to be added. For the month of August the project invites submissions of clip art themed for the coming fall season. The Open Clip Art Library. Drawing Together. Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.tar.bz2 http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.tar.gz http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.zip http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full-win32.exe The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.

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locale
by Karol Kreński 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi, This one should probably go to devel, but since I am not subscribed: I have got English interface in inkscape 0.42 from autopackage. My locale is fine and is used by gimp & friends. The problem seems to be here: fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=111332, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 111332, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 6, 0) = 0x40a11000 close(6) = 0 open("/usr/local/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/inkscape.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/local/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/inkscape.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/proc/self/maps", O_RDONLY) while autopackage puts the ".mo" here: /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/inkscape.mo Is it my distro (PLD Linux) problem, autopackage or inkscape's problem? The problem gets fixed when I put .mo to right directory. Karol

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RE:RE:HELP ! no text in IE6 (Feature Request)
by julio miro 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Thank you Paul, your sugestion works. You ask for a good feature there. Julio -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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clone / dublicate with fixed values
by unknown＠example.com 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

hi, not sure if I am in the right place here ?! Just one question: how is it possible to create a defined number of lines with a defined fixed spacing? e.g. I have one thin line that I want to clone 10 times in horizontal direction and they should have a fiexed spacing of e.g. 1cm from each other. I used clone tile for it, but there are only percent-values possible to clone e.g. horizontaly. Thanks

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a bug...I think
by Elwin Estle 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

I have noticed several times that when I have an object selected and open the fill and stroke dialog (usually with the icon on the toolbar at the top of the screen), that when I use the little arrows to the right of the number box in the stroke style tab to raise/lower the width of the stroke, that BOTH arrows act to raise the value! The only way I can get a lesser value is to just input the number. Even this sometimes does weird things. I will put in a number and then it will change to a higher value by itself. I went to the sourceforge bug tracker thingy to try to put in a report...but could not for the life of me figure out how to do it, so I figured I'd post it here. As a side note, twice now when I have combined two objects into one with the boolean union function, then converted them to a path so as to remove some unwanted details by selecting the unnecessary nodes and clicking the little "minus" icon to remove them; the program locks up. I have also been zoomed quite a bit to distinguish between the nodes. I realize this is not a very in depth report, I am just wondering if anybody else has had anything like this happen. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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HELP ! no text in IE6
by julio miro 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

I am just starting with inkscape 0.42 ... it looks very promissing: but from the 7th or 8th use of it ... I see the text and page backgound color in the Inkscape window, but not when I open the .svg in IE6 (lines and shapes yes, but text no) . Someone can help ? I first use Adobe viewer 3.03, then change to v.6, and then again to v.3.03... can this be related with the problem ? wich version you recomend ? thank you very munch. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Cloned objects and stroke
by Karol Kreński 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hi, I cloned A into B. Now when scaling B the stroke on B scales too - no matter that Scale-stroke-width-button is off. I believe I am doing something wrong. Thanks in advance, Karol

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inkscape:
by Elwin Estle 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

In case anybody is interested...here is a little something I whipped up last night. Took me maybe three hours, plus another hour exporting to Gimp and resizing/converting to JPEG (three times). It isn't the first thing I made, but it is the first I have posted anywhere. Now the whole thing about this is: I can't draw worth a crap, but I am not too bad at sculpting, with Inkscape, I was able to "sculpt" this drawing in two dimensions. This is a very cool program, in some ways more useful than the Gimp. I haven't messed with paths in Gimp too much, because I kept getting results that weren't what I wanted. Paths in Inkscape, to me, seem much easier. http://www.zazzle.com/contributors/products/gallery/browse_results.asp?cid=… ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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moving an object with a gradient
by wayne 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

How does one move an object while preserving its gradient fill? Seems like when I move the object, the fill remains stationary while the object moves away. Thanks, Wayne inkscape 0.42

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Complex Shapes, Flowing Text and Justification
by Ralph Bolton 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie to Inkscape, but so far am really impressed. It's one hell of a product, even though it's not v1.0 yet. As with all such projects, it's sometimes hard for us newbies to get to grips with things because of a lack of examples and documentation. Since I've been struggling for a couple of days, I thought I'd write up how to create complex shapes, flow text into shapes and get text to be justified. Clearly, for most users this isn't rocket science, but it might save another new user a bit of time. All the fun is at http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape (including, importantly, an SVG example). If the Inkscape community wants to use my example for anything, then by all means do so. Obviously, correct any mistakes or make improvements along the way! Cheers, ...Ralph Bolton _______________________________________________________________ Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at <a href=http://www.mail2world.com target=new>http://www.mail2world.com</a> Unlimited Email Storage POP3 Calendar SMS Translator Much More!

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justified text
by Michal Žeravík 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi all, I have prepared a poster in Inkscape, amazing work with great editor. But I desperately need to justify text on both sides. Is there any hack how to do that? Thank you very much. Michal

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Gradients and scaling
by Xavier PITEL 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hello, I am new to this forum and to Inkscape, and first I want to thank all the developers and volunteers who make this software (and open source as a whole) possible. Then, I have a question regarding gradients and scaling. I have made a picture using several gradients ( http://www.xp-internet.com/GradientsAndScaling.htm), but when I select all objects and try to scale up or down the whole image, the start and end point of gradients move when I keep the button mouse down, but seem to turn back to where they were before when I release the mouse button. So all the effects are lost and I have to manually adjust all gradients to have the original image back. Am I missing something, is there a way to move the start and end point of gradients while moving or scaling an image, or not? I have tried to make the image a plain svg, but its just the same. But at the same time, scaling it on the above html page with the Adobe viewer works, without damaging the image. ??? Thank you for your help. Xavier

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Getting text to scale down
by M Fitzgerald 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I've just started with inkscape. I have a document that I'm building in scribus which I want to illustrate with several SVGs. I've generated the SVGs and they look fantastic. However, for use in the scribus document they have to be scaled down. This messes up the text, which doesn't seem to want to scale down. What's the practical solution? malcolm ---------------------------------------------------- Catholic Financial Services Send and Receive all online Payments and Donations No Merchant Account Required! https://www.catholicfs.org/

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Re: details
by unknown＠example.com 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

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Export selection
by Brett McCoy 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I know I can do this to export PNGs, but is there a way to export/save selected objects in other formats (like TIFF or EPS). It seems I can only export an entire document... -- Brett ----------- Programmer by day, Guitarist by Night http://www.chapelperilous.net http://www.alhazred.com http://www.revelmoon.com

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[Fwd: [Linuxmovies-general] Special CinePaint Event!]
by Jon Phillips 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

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RE: [Inkscape-user] Node editing
by Hibbs, Phil 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Goshdarnit I never noticed that toolbar! Thanks. __________________________________________________ Phil Hibbs | Capgemini | Rotherham Technical Consultant __________________________________________________ This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Capgemini Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.

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Node editing
by Hibbs, Phil 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

I'd like to know a little more about node editing. Nodes have two handles, which can be dragged around to produce the desired curve. I have used Corel Draw in the past so I am familiar with this concept. What I don't understand is how Inkscape decides whether the handles should be symmetrical or not, and how I make them line up. Sometimes I find that the node handles are already locked to point in opposite directions, and sometimes they are independent. How do I change this? Most of the time I want to make them line up but change the lengths of the handles independently. I think this may be because some paths are created with the "freehand lines" tool, and others with the "Bezier curves and straight lines" tool. That's how I created my example: http://www.hibbs.me.uk/images/handles.svg One of the mid-line nodes has handles that move sunchronously, the other has independent handles (so the node can represent a sharp corner). How do I change one type to the other? I just edited the sodipodi:nodetypes property from cscc to cssc and that did it, it initially rendered as a sharp corner but as soon as I dragged a handle, the other one snapped to be lined up with it. So, all I need to do is count the number of nodes and edit the appropriate character. Additionally, how do I add nodes to the middle of a path? Is there a "reverse simlpify"? :-) __________________________________________________ Phil Hibbs | Capgemini | Rotherham Technical Consultant __________________________________________________ This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Capgemini Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.

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Project status Aug 1, 2005
by Bryce Harrington 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

The Inkscape 0.42 release garnered a huge amount of interest, and are stats are reflecting it. We rose to the 3rd most active project of the week on SourceForge today. For downloads we reached 16th, for webpage views we were 10th, for project pages we got 21st, and for tracker activity we hit 4th. Counting all hits to *.sourceforge.net we hit 6th, which was up 68 ranks since yesterday. I have a suspicion we may be going up even a bit further over the next couple days. :-) There were a number of serious bugs found post-release, especially in the packaging, so a 0.42.1 patch release will be produced hopefully some time this week, as soon as resolutions to all the issues are found. Statistics Jun 1 Jul 1 Aug 1 ========== ====== ====== ====== Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 38 35 3 Total SF Page Views 1,935,964 3,797,037 4,452,437 Total SF Downloads 254,647 283,789 378,712 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 19,149 19,809 21,261 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 183 189 208 Lines of Code in src/: 374,180 376,319 389,945 Code lines 260,236 261,600 270,423 Comment line 67,136 67,724 70,478 Blank 53,443 53,651 55,698 Lines of Docs in doc/: 27,790 27,792 28,090 Lines of content in website: 42,490 42,700 44,483 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 26,729 28,525 34,890 Bugs open/total: 215/1223 196/1312 215/1445 Features open/total: 453/ 728 471/ 767 440/816 Patches open/total: 11/ 230 10/ 268 8/325 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 12,040 12,372 12,915 Inkscape-devel membership: 179 188 200 Inkscape-announce membership: 202 217 236 Inkscape-user membership: 248 258 276 Num Translations: 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.8 48.6 54.6

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aligning to grid
by wayne 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Objects seem to align to the grid 3 ways: to the center line of the object's outline, to the outer edge of the outline, or to the inner edge of the outline. This leaves some wiggle space which can throw off the manual aligning of several objects. Is there any way to turn off 2 of the 3 and get rid of the wiggle space? Thanks, Wayne Inkscape 0.42

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linux novell 9.2
by les kraut 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

I tried downloading and installing the rpm today but still no go. I am reading where some people are running .42 but I can't get anything to happen. .41 still installs and runs fine. Any word? Thanks ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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psfrag and latex
by Christopher Ellison 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7389029&forum_id=375… There was a post a while back (in May) about about inkscape and exports to EPS for use with latex+psfrag. A response said that this was fixed in the CVS. 1) Exactly what version is this fixed in? In gentoo (unmasked version) I am running .41-r1. 2) Could someone explain a little more about the kerning and how it relates to the drawings? Specifically, what do I need to do (and what should I not do) to get my drawings usable with psfrag. Thanks.

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Rotating objects
by Robert Turner 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

In Inkscape, if you select more then one object and do a rotation transform, it rotates both objects as if they were one. For instance, if you have a horizontal line of squares and rotate them 90 degrees clockwise through the transform dialogue, you get a verticle line of squares. However, I want Inkscape to rotate some objects like it does with the "rotate 90 degrees" button. It is tiresome to select one object after another and rotate it 45 degrees or some other number that isn't a multiple of 90. Is there some way to do this without brute force? if not, I think it should definately go on the to-do list, considering that it's useful and Inkscape almost already does it. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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questions
by Elwin Estle 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

Is there some way to turn off the "smooth" or "symmetrical" (I am thinking it is smooth), default which appears to occur when dragging a second handle out from a bezier shape node? It is exasperating. I just get a curve positioned the way I want, and need to do something on an adjacent curve, but when I drag out a handle..."sproinnnggggg" there goes my carefully positioned first curve, then I have to unlock the handles with "make corner", reposition my first curve (again), and then move on to the second curve. Also, a few times I have mistakenly made a handle where I didn't want one. Is there a way to "return" the handle to the node? I have just positioned it back as close to the node as possible, but it isn't quite the same and then if I want to move the node, I keep grabbing the handle by mistake. Why do things slow down so much when I zoom in on a curve? Up close, it seems to take forever to drag a node to a new position (and my designs aren't all that complex). A couple of times, I have moved something, but for some reason, the mouse doesn't "let go" of the node right a way when I release the mouse button. The next thing I know, the node I just so carefully moved is "sproiiinnngggg" way over where my mouse now is. (I am running on a PIII 800 with 380-something meg of ram, under Slackware Linux 10.1) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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important
by unknown＠example.com 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

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