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English tutorials converted
by bulia byak 01 May '05

01 May '05

May 1st, 2005 — Thanks to the active help from the community, all English tutorials that we had in SVG are now converted to DocBook! From within Inkscape, they are still available as fully editable SVG which you can play with, but having the DocBook source makes it easy to produce any other formats or renditions automatically. In particular, all converted tutorials are now availble in HTML, linked from our Documentation page. What's next? We have several of the tutorials translated into several languages. Now we need to convert these to DocBook as well. Here is a page http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TranslationInformation with details on how to translate tutorials or convert existing translations. We already have the Basic in Spanish and several French ones are being worked on; the rest are up for grabs. Pick a tutorial and make it available in your native language! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Project Stats May 1, 2005
by Bryce Harrington 01 May '05

01 May '05

Statistics Feb 15 Mar 15 Apr 15 May 1 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: * * * * * * * * Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: * * * * * * * * Total SF Page Views * * * * Total SF Downloads * * * * Total Freshmeat URL Hits 16,448 17,186 17,930 18,321 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 169 173 177 177 Lines of Code in src/: 333,139 342,852 340,515 342,061 Code lines 234,651 241,177 238,522 239,571 Comment line 58,239 60,354 60,382 60,652 Blank 46,859 47,978 48,152 48,393 Lines of Docs in doc/: 26,848 26,848 26,848 26,848 Lines of content in website: 9,776 10,067 35,937 36,590 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 24,925 25,900 26,363 26,981 Bugs open/total: 155/972 182/1047 194/1126 209/1173 Features open/total: 370/579 397/ 619 429/ 671 437/ 699 Patches open/total: 5/167 7/ 173 5/ 186 8/ 204 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 10,312 10,868 11,368 11,656 Inkscape-devel membership: 151 158 166 170 Inkscape-announce membership: 169 177 189 193 Inkscape-user membership: 193 220 234 235 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.8 45.0 47.5 45.3 * - Statistics unavailable

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simple pattern fill won't print, but it shows up in Inkscape
by charles 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hello all, I'm getting the hang of Inkscape after using it for a few months. All is going well, but I'm hung up on a problem with pattern fills. Here's the situation: I'm running Inkscape .41 on a Debian Linux system (unstable). I have a document with a simple cross-hatch pattern fill. (I actually borrowed it from this helpful tutorial: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/patterns.shtml) The pattern fill shows up properly in Inkscape, but it's not visible when I print. I don't think it's a problem with my printer driver, as I've printed both to the actual printer (Lexmark E210) as well as the generic CUPS-PDF printer, which generates a PDF file. In both cases, the shapes in which the fill should appear are simply white. I've attached the file--it's only a few KB. If anyone is able to help, I'd much appreciate it. Thanks kindly, Charles. n.b.: please do cc me on replies.

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CVS Build fail
by Owen 01 May '05

01 May '05

I am not able to build the cvs. Installed gtkmm-2.6 (plus other latests) but it writes itself into the libraries as gtkmm-2.4 Anyway I get this somewhere through the make and wonder if anyone can tell me where I should be looking TIA Owen ------------------------------------------------------ Hundreds of 'undefined reference to `Atk::Implementor::' snipped, finally /usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm/ustring.h:971: undefined reference to `Atk::Implementor::ref_accessibile_vfunc()' /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so: undefined reference to `Glib::wrap(_GdkPixbufAnimation*, bool)' /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so: undefined reference to `Glib::wrap(_GdkWindowObject*, bool)' Heaps of undefined references snipped /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so: undefined reference to `Pango::TabArray::TabArray(_PangoTabArray*, bool)' /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so: undefined reference to `Glib::wrap(_GdkImage*, bool)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hdc8/downloads/inkscape/src'

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Gradient fills in EPS
by George Reilly 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

bulia writes: > On 4/28/05, George V. Reilly <george@...634...> wrote: > > When I bring up Fill & Stroke with the latest binary, I see a blank > > canvas in the Fill > Linear Gradient dialog. Just Edit, Add, and Repeat > > buttons. No checkerboard, no handles. Ditto when I look at Fill > > > Linear Gradient for other objects. Or Radial Gradient. > > It's all replaced by Gradient tool, see > http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes Ah! I wish I had known about the release notes before. You really ought to link to them from /win32-snap and /download.php I converted the transparent stop to an opaque white stop. The gradient now shows up in Photoshop CS and GSview 4.6/GS 8.14. However, as you noted yesterday, the repeating nature of the gradient is lost, so I just get purple and a lot of white instead of purple, white, purple. The text still fails to show up in Word 2003 and Publisher 2003. Obviously a bug in Office's EPS import. Perhaps it doesn't handle PostScript Level 3. This is annoying, since I need to use the logo in Word and Publisher documents. [Later] I had the bright idea of finding an external tool to convert EPS to WMF (Windows Metafile). ImageMagick can read WMFs, but can't write them. PsToEdit converted the EPS to WMF. A more-or-less correct preview of the WMF shows up in the File Open dialog launched by Word's Insert > Picture > From File, but the entire picture renders as a blank white rectangle. Aaargh! [Later Still] I played further with pstoedit after I discovered the EMF format (Windows Enhanced Metafiles). "pstoedit -f wemfc" kind of works. It generates an image that Publisher can display. Plus, it scales up when you zoom in, unlike imported EPS. However, the gradient is gone, leaving me with a black outlines around white text. Worse still, the colors in the drawing are inverted. Royal blue has become pale green; lavender -> pale blue; pink -> mid blue. Other tools show the EMF exactly the same way, so this is some funkiness of pstoedit. /George

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Gradient fills in EPS, fonts rendering as Arial
by George V. Reilly 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

[This bounced twice yesterday. Third time's the charm.] I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, so I suspect the latter.) Some fonts simply don't work in Inkscape. For example, "Modern No. 20" is rendered as Arial. It's a TrueType font and otherwise unexceptionable. I'm running on Windows XP SP2. -- Never let lack of preparation hinder the implementation of a change. (Get Witty Auto-Generated Signatures from http://SmartBee.org) George V. Reilly george@...634... http://george.reilly.org/ Read my blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/george_v_reilly/

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problem with the text tool and the font size after importing a svg document
by gijs 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi, I have a weird problem, which might be a bug actually, but I am not sure. Maybe anybody can help me. The problem: When I load document curves.svg (which you can download from my pc, sorry, but it kind of the only example I have). do a wget to get it: wget http://volition.wustl.edu/curves.svg Then, load it and try to draw some text anywhere. If you use the text tool and type, the letters will be larger than anything on the canvas. As you can see, no matter where you try to type text, the letters will be absurdly big. So I have to scale down these supersize letters into something around .03 pt. That is the size of the letters that I managed to create (the "200 ms") for example. The document curves.svg was made with pstoedit to transform a postscript file into svg. That transformation worked fine! How come that the font size of letters becomes so unusual after I import the file curves.svg? How can I solve this? Is this a bug, or an error in the loaded file curves.svg. Thank you very much. Gijs

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Inkscape and Inkview for presentations
by Richard Kowalczyk 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

I have been thinking about using Inkscape and Inkview as a replacement for powerpoint (one of the few reasons to reboot to Windows). I decided to give it a try recently, and it is great in some respects, and lacking in others. I thought I would describe my process, and some of the issues I am running into, and see if anyone has any suggestions. The process: (1) I create one, or multiple template slides (in Inkscape), that have placeholders for the title, substitle, and content (although this could easily be generalized). (2) I create a text file (called the outline file) which describes the slides, including titles, content, and the template file to use for each slide. (3) I have a python script which uses the template files and the outline file to create svg files for each slide. (3a) The title and subtitle are easy - they are just inserted into the proper placeholder in the template svg. (3b) The content, which includes equations, is more complicated. It is run through LaTex, and converted to svg, then inserted into the template svg. The conversion process is LaTex -> dvips -> pstoedit -> skconvert, which provides an svg file that I can process to get the text part, and insert into the template svg. (4) I can edit each slide svg file in Inkscape to make any changes necessary. (5) View slides with Inkview. My questions: (a) Is there a better way to do this? I could do everything in LaTex, but I then I lose the ability to tweak the result, such as moving pictures around, or changing font sizes, etc., like I have in powerpoint, or Inkscape. (b) Is anyone else using Inkscape for presentations? Interested in using it? (c) Step 3b is pretty poor right now - I am still working on it, but the conversion process basically creates a seperate text element for every letter. I can do some processing to improve on this, but it is very inelegant. Anyone have a better idea? (d) Also in step 3b, I am losing some greek letters (but not all) in the conversion from LaTex to svg. I have not tracked the cause of this down yet.

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make fails on cvs-install
by unknown＠example.com 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

I'm trying to install inkscape from CVS on my debian (sarge) machine. I installed all the necessary packages so that the configure-script doesn't complain anymore. But running make always fails. After a while it makes my computer hang for some minutes and ends with the following lines: mkdir .libs g++ -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -o inkscape --export-dynamic main.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libinkpre.a application/libinkapp.a dialogs/libspdialogs.a trace/libtrace.a svg/libspsvg.a widgets/libspwidgets.a display/libspdisplay.a helper/libspchelp.a libnrtype/libnrtype.a libnr/libnr.a livarot/libvarot.a ui/libui.a ui/dialog/libuidialog.a ui/widget/libuiwidget.a extension/libextension.a extension/implementation/libimplementation.a extension/internal/libinternal.a extension/script/libscript.a xml/libspxml.a util/libinkutil.a io/libio.a inkjar/libinkjar.a libinkpost.a /usr/lib/libxslt.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so -lpthread /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libatkmm-1.6.so /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libpangomm-1.4.so /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so -lm /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so -lpng /usr/lib/libpopt.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libXft.so /usr/lib/libXrender.so -lX11 -lfontconfig /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz /usr/lib/libgc.so collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] make[2]: *** [inkscape] Fehler 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wen/inkscape-cvs/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wen/inkscape-cvs/inkscape' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 Any suggestions? Fehler means Error. Thanks, Wen -- +++ Sparen beginnt mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Tutorial conversion
by jeffrey steve borbon sanabria 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Well, the spanish translation of basic tutorial is made, I already am looking for bugs an mistakes, well, let me ask something, when I want to create the HTML and SVG files, I translate the .XML, Waht tool do you sugeer to me to make this files I a little lost and what I have to do to upload the files in the inkscape CVS, who give me access not like an anonimous user... Thanks "Por la libertad del hombre pensante, usemos software libre" _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com

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[buliabyak@...155...: Re: [Inkscape-user] Gradient fills in EPS, fonts rendering as Arial]
by Bryce Harrington 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

----- Forwarded message from bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> ----- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:42:00 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> Reply-To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Gradient fills in EPS, fonts rendering as Arial On 4/26/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> wrote: > > I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. > > Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill > > is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and > > Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS > > convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, > > so I suspect the latter.) > > It's a limit of Postscript/EPS, or at least, a limit of the version > we're using. It may have been added in later versions of Postscript. This is fixed in CVS some time ago, though the fix is not 100% (in particular gradient only works on fill, not stroke, and does not work on text until you convert it to path). (Bryce, please forward this to the list, because it looks like I can't post, again.) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: Fwd: [Inkscape-user] [Fwd: Units of coordinates]
by Jogchum Reitsma 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

bulia byak schreef: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> >Date: Apr 25, 2005 4:43 PM >Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] [Fwd: Units of coordinates] >To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > >On 4/25/05, Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@...226...> wrote: > > >>In Inkscape 0.41 on Suse 9.2, I always set the rulers and everything I >>can find on measurement to millimeters. Only the cursor coordinates, in >>the bottom left corner of the main window, is shown in some other unit >>(100 mm = 125 units). Is it possible to set this to mm's too? >> >> > >This was a bug, now fixed in CVS > >-- >bulia byak >Inkscape. Draw Freely. >http://www.inkscape.org > > > > Hmm, ldconfig did the trick. Users are not developers, I proved again... greetings, Jogchum Reitsma

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Re: Fwd: [Inkscape-user] [Fwd: Units of coordinates]
by Jogchum Reitsma 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

bulia byak schreef: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> >Date: Apr 25, 2005 4:43 PM >Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] [Fwd: Units of coordinates] >To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > >On 4/25/05, Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@...226...> wrote: > > >>In Inkscape 0.41 on Suse 9.2, I always set the rulers and everything I >>can find on measurement to millimeters. Only the cursor coordinates, in >>the bottom left corner of the main window, is shown in some other unit >>(100 mm = 125 units). Is it possible to set this to mm's too? >> >> > >This was a bug, now fixed in CVS > >-- >bulia byak >Inkscape. Draw Freely. >http://www.inkscape.org > > > > To add to my previous mail, I downloaded the Boehm Conservative Collector) 6.4+, from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc, did a configure, make and make install, after that again ./configure in inkscape, but the complaint stays the same... kind greetings, Jogchum Reitsma

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Re: Fwd: [Inkscape-user] [Fwd: Units of coordinates]
by Jogchum Reitsma 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

bulia byak schreef: >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> >Date: Apr 25, 2005 4:43 PM >Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] [Fwd: Units of coordinates] >To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > >On 4/25/05, Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@...226...> wrote: > > >>In Inkscape 0.41 on Suse 9.2, I always set the rulers and everything I >>can find on measurement to millimeters. Only the cursor coordinates, in >>the bottom left corner of the main window, is shown in some other unit >>(100 mm = 125 units). Is it possible to set this to mm's too? >> >> > >This was a bug, now fixed in CVS > >-- >bulia byak >Inkscape. Draw Freely. >http://www.inkscape.org > > > > Thanks for your answer! I downloaded from CVS, ran autogen and configure. But I'm afraid I´m running into lots of dependancies again.... Autogen compained about missing intltool, but that I could install from Suse CD. After that configure complains about error: libgc (the Boehm Conservative Collector) 6.4+, is needed to compile inkscape but on my Suse 9.2 box /usr/lib/libgc.a /usr/lib/libgc.la /usr/lib/libgc.so /usr/lib/libgc.so.1 /usr/lib/libgc.so.1.0.1 is installed. For someone who is only remotely familiar with these projects quite frustrating, I must say... But I hope someone can help! kind greetings, Jogchum Reitsma

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Latest Nightly Build Problem
by Christopher Wright 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

--- Mike Hearn <mike@...318...> wrote: > > Hmm, not much to go on there. ;-) > > Right. We need at minimum the actual error message > given. I figured. I mentioned it on the offchance that it had happened to someone else who'd thought to write it down. When I get home from work today I'll try to install it and report the error message verbatim. Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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Latest Nightly Build Problem
by Christopher B. Wright 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Last night I downloaded the latest Autopackage nightly build (Linux). The installation process quit with an error (sorry, I don't have the specific error message onhand) when I tried to install it. I don't know if this was due to a problem on my machine or a result of an error in the process of creating the autopackage build, but I thought I'd mention it on the offchance the package is bad. Or something. Anyway... does anyone know where I can get the build *before* this latest one? :) Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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Re: Exporting as PS
by MoNKi 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

> > > > I am having trouble exporting my SVG as a PostScript file. Basically, > > > > it changes some parts of the image and fills them with black. > Actually this file exhibits several problems, some of which I fixed, > some are unfixable, and some may be fixable but not fixed yet. > 1. The black parts ARE black yet use transparency, but PS does not > support transparency, so they become opaque. Never use transparency if > you are going to export to PS. It"s very easy to fix this however: > select one of the transparent objects on the camel; switch to the > Dropper tool (F7); make sure it"s in the "pick visible color without > alpha" mode; click on that same object. That will pick the visible > color and assign it back to the object, but this time without > transparency. Repeat for all transparent objects. And why not convert automatically the transparent areas to a bitmap when exporting a PS? We can't always does the "Dropper tool trick" with complex transparencies. This is the way Freehand and Illustrator does it.

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CMYK-colors wrong
by Lars Behrens 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Hi there, I have an CMYK eps-file here and when I import it in inkscape the colors are completely wrong (too colorfull, obviously not properly converted to rgb). When I change the CMYK values by hand, the colors are too dull. I always thought that Inkscape would support CMYK? If so how about an option like in Illustrator, to set the actual color format and the one of the imported/exported file? Cheerz Lars -- Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Physikalisches Institut 0721/608-3448 Lars.Behrens@...609...

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Tutorial conversion
by bulia byak 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

We started to convert Inkscape tutorials into DocBook, with SVG and HTML (and potentially other formats) generated automatically by XSLT stylesheets. The Basic tutorial in English was the first to be converted; here it is in HTML: http://inkscape.org/doc/basic/tutorial-basic.html (obviously there's no interactivity in HTML, but at least it's now printable). If you want to help, pick your favorite tutorial (drop a note to the devel list first, to make sure it's not yet taken), check out the doc-docbook module from our CVS and follow the instructions in the file README to convert it into DocBook and extract illustrations as separate SVG files. This is simple work but it will be great help to the project, since it will make much easier to update tutorials, translate them into other languages, and write new ones. Oh, and if you want to edit or translate or tutorial, please wait until it's converted and work with the DocBook version. (Better yet, convert it yourself :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Units of coordinates
by Jogchum Reitsma 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Hi, In Inkscape 0.41 on Suse 9.2, I always set the rulers and everything I can find on measurement to millimeters. Only the cursor coordinates, in the bottom left corner of the main window, is shown in some other unit (100 mm = 125 units). Is it possible to set this to mm's too? Thanks! kind greetings, Jogchum Reitsma

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[Fwd: Units of coordinates]
by Jogchum Reitsma 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: Exporting as PS
by Christopher B. Wright 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss PS files. As far as I know pre-press agencies *still* prefer postscript, since it's possible to edit PS files if necessary. It's incredibly arcane, but it can be done. Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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Moving object to another layer?
by wayne 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

How does one move an object to another layer? I tried the layer menu but it only seems to transfer you to another layer and not move the object in question. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks, Wayne Inkscape .41

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how to import an image, so that it will be embeded in the document.
by Pedro Blom 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Is there a way to import an image so that it will be embeded in the document. I want to be able to send .svg-documents witout having to send the linked images to. I use Mepis Linux and Inkscape 0.41-4 /Pedro

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Importing into Microsoft Publisher
by George V. Reilly 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

I discovered Inkscape yesterday. Nice program! I've created a logo with Inkscape. How do I import it into Microsoft Publisher, which doesn't seem to understand SVG. I tried importing the PNG, but it looked fuzzy. Ditto for MS Word. -- How do I set my Laser Printer to "Stun"? (Get Witty Auto-Generated Signatures from http://SmartBee.org) George V. Reilly george@...634... http://george.reilly.org/ Read my blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/george_v_reilly/

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