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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.09 Announcement :: http://www.openclipart.org
by Jon Phillips 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

*PLEASE FORWARD* Open Clip Art Library Release 0.09 Announcement http://www.openclipart.org Release 0.09 of the Open Clip Art Library is now available for download on the site as an individual package: http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/openclipart-0.09.tar.gz http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/openclipart-0.09.zip This new package is 20MB and contains 3104 unique user-submitted files, an increase from previous releases. The Open Clip Art Library is also browsable at www.openclipart.org where one might find specific clip art by searching through categories such as animals, education, transportation, or geography. Thank you to everyone who sent encouraging e-mails while the Open Clip Art Library's hosting project, freedesktop.org, underwent necessary maintenance due to a server break-in. freedesktop.org now has a much stronger server management system in place and our services are now completely back on-line from the incident. This intermittent downtime caused our developers to consider mirroring strategies. If you have any server space available and would like to host a mirror, please e-mail our mailing list. In the end, these events bolster an open source project and make it much stronger. To start the new year right, we decided to restart our montly release cycle, and begin to focus our attention to the project roadmap (http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap). For the upcoming 0.10 release, we encourage submission of Valentine's Day themed artwork, to help users with their love life. Behind the scenes, we will be integrating Bryce Harrington's Document Management System (DMS) to mediate the submissions we receive. DMS is a real breakthrough in document management, which is akin to source code management (CVS, SVN, etc), but for everyday practical group projects, versioning, and collaboration using various file formats. Our core developers have also been discussing a few different sub-projects such as adding support to our services for Font submissions (http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Open_Font_Library) and also a way to auto-generate greeting cards (http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Greeting_Cards). Please add your comments to the aforementioned wiki pages and help us realize these ideas in the coming year! If you are interested in this project, please join our mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart), check out the roadmap (http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap), and continue to submit your clip art! As the new year starts we are hoping to attract new developers and artists to work on the project. Happy New Year! Visit the Library at http://www.openclipart.org/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] proposed change to icons (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:39:50 -0800 From: Kees Cook <inkscape@...334...> To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] proposed change to icons On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:40:13AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > all the remaining pixmaps replaced. Here's the current list that I know > of for pixmaps that are still in use: Correction, that was the list of those still getting _loaded_, but most were not in use. Here, I think is the current list. I've removed all the unused ones from the build. The fill* ones confuse me since the buttons in the dialog appear to be from the SVG doc, but they're still getting loaded in code. Weird. add_xml_element_node.xpm \ add_xml_text_node.xpm \ arrows_hor.xpm \ arrows_ver.xpm \ cap_butt.xpm \ cap_round.xpm \ cap_square.xpm \ delete_xml_attribute.xpm \ delete_xml_node.xpm \ dimension_hor.xpm \ duplicate_xml_node.xpm \ fill_fractal.xpm \ fill_gradient.xpm \ fill_none.xpm \ fill_pattern.xpm \ fill_radial.xpm \ fill_solid.xpm \ join_bevel.xpm \ join_miter.xpm \ join_round.xpm \ properties_fill.xpm \ properties_layout.xpm \ properties_stroke.xpm \ rotate_left.xpm \ scale_hor.xpm \ scale_ver.xpm \ set.xpm \ writing_mode_lr.xpm \ writing_mode_tb.xpm \ -- Kees Cook @outflux.net ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] proposed change to icons (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:40:13 -0800 From: Kees Cook <inkscape@...334...> To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] proposed change to icons On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 03:14:35PM +0000, Ben Crowell wrote: > I've committed changes to eight of the icons (rotate, flip, raise, > and lower), and that's all the changes I want to make. Before we get to far replacing icons, I think we should focus on getting all the remaining pixmaps replaced. Here's the current list that I know of for pixmaps that are still in use: join_miter.xpm join_round.xpm join_bevel.xpm cap_butt.xpm cap_round.xpm cap_square.xpm marker_none_start.xpm marker_triangle_start.xpm marker_arrow_start.xpm marker_none_start.xpm marker_triangle_end.xpm marker_arrow_end.xpm marker_none_end.xpm marker_triangle_end.xpm marker_arrow_end.xpm rotate_left.xpm scale_hor.xpm scale_ver.xpm arrows_hor.xpm arrows_ver.xpm dimension_hor.xpm writing_mode_lr.xpm writing_mode_tb.xpm add_xml_element_node.xpm add_xml_text_node.xpm duplicate_xml_node.xpm delete_xml_node.xpm delete_xml_attribute.xpm set.xpm fill_none.xpm fill_solid.xpm fill_gradient.xpm fill_radial.xpm fill_pattern.xpm fill_fractal.xpm toolbox_file.xpm toolbox_edit.xpm toolbox_object.xpm toolbox_select.xpm toolbox_draw.xpm toolbox_zoom.xpm toolbox_node.xpm edit_duplicate.xpm selection_top.xpm selection_bot.xpm selection_up.xpm selection_down.xpm selection_group.xpm selection_ungroup.xpm selection_combine.xpm selection_break.xpm object_rotate.xpm object_reset.xpm object_tocurve.xpm draw_select.xpm draw_node.xpm draw_rect.xpm draw_arc.xpm draw_star.xpm draw_spiral.xpm draw_freehand.xpm draw_pen.xpm draw_dynahand.xpm draw_text.xpm draw_zoom.xpm zoom_in.xpm zoom_out.xpm zoom_page.xpm zoom_draw.xpm zoom_select.xpm object_layout.xpm object_trans.xpm object_align.xpm -- Kees Cook @outflux.net ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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RE: Inkscape UI interface
by Jiaxiang 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Sorry about that. Here's the image: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/Inkscape-mockup-inteface.png __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

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CFV: Update Inkscape FAQ
by Bryce Harrington 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

Here's another Call for Volunteers... The Inkscape FAQ is pretty good, but it's been a long time since someone did a thorough review of it and brought it up to date. We need someone who is reasonably knowledgeable about Inkscape to go through it and bring it a little more up to date. I think it probably also ought to have a table of contents with links to the Q's... 1. Save this webpage to your disk: http://inkscape.org/faq.php 2. Open it in a text editor 3. Review/revise each question 4. Add new questions you think are worth putting in 5. Remove any questions that are obsolete 6. Post your results here for a web guy to put on the site If you already have access for updating the Inkscape site, feel free to commit and update directly. Bryce

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CFV: Inkscape Examples Webpages
by Bryce Harrington 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

Hi all, Felix made a good suggestion to start posting some 'Call For Volunteers' on tasks that new folks would find straightforward to work on. Here's the first. A while back I started an 'Inkscape Examples' section on our website. We've got a couple things posted, but it's been largely neglected. We need a volunteer to take charge of beefing this section of the website up. This task requires good HTML skills (PHP helps too). No Inkscape development knowledge is needed. Art/design talents will also be pretty important. The purpose of the Inkscape Examples site is to show off different _ways_ Inkscape is used. It's needs to go beyond just showing off new features (we use the Screenshots page for that), but must be complete works. It's not intended to be simply a place for users to post their work (we have a Gallery section, plus OCAL and Deviant art for that), but rather to provide _one_ example of different _type_ of use. It's not intended to teach people how to use Inkscape (we have the Tutorials for that), but more to inspire and entice people into using Inkscape in new ways. Ideally, the site should have a listing of different types of things that can be made with Inkscape, with each having a link to a set of pages describing that thing. (Sort of like a woodworking magazine article showing how to build a cabinet.) For example: * Web site design * CD booklet * Portrait * Presentation * Cross-stitch pattern * Icon set * Landscape design * Org chart * Company logo * etc. Also, there could be examples of different art "styles". For instance, creating 'distressed' art like Brisgeek is into right now, or using the Trace Bitmap feature to artify a photo, or creating three dimensional effects via spherical gradients. "Presentations" could have a link to a page containing an example presentation that someone made, a set of steps for how the user created their presentation, problems/solutions encountered, and the source files for review. Sort of like an article in a woodworking magazine explaining how the author built a table. I think this effort could be done by just collecting examples of work other users have done and posted, interviewing the creator, and writing it up into a decent example, and putting it onto the website. I'd bet, if done well, you could also get it published in an online magazine like OS News. If you want to work on this, your first step will be to go ahead and put together an example of something, and post it here. We will also need someone to take care of editing/reviewing examples and posting them into the website, so if you're interested in doing that, send me your SourceForge ID. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-user] proposed change to icons
by Ben Crowell 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

After posting on inkscape-user and increasing the sample size, it seems to me that there is a clear consensus in favor of the new style. Bulia wrote: >There's no need to argue. Ben, you can continue working on the new >icon set, and when you are ready we will ship your icons.svg alongside >the old one, so people can choose whichever they like. Trent, the same >for you: you are welcome to develop a set of icons that work best for >your black background, and we'll ship them also. When there's at least >one complete set besides the old one, we can make a preference with a >UI to choose one of them on load. The real issue is whose icons will be the defaults. Since most people seem to like mine better than yours, I think mine should be the defaults. I would like to request a clear decision on this from the core developers before I invest a lot more time on the icons.

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proposed change to icons
by Ben Crowell 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

On inkscape-devel, I've proposed some changes to some of Bulia's icons. Some people seemed to like the new versions better, and some didn't. We didn't seem to have a statistically significant sample of opinions, so I'm reposting now to both inkscape-devel and inkscape-user. I've made some changes to the icons in the copy of Inkscape I have running on my own machine. If other people agree that this is an improvement, I'll do some more work in the same style. Here is a screenshot: http://www.lightandmatter.com/proposal.png The rotation and flip tools are my new versions, and next to them you can see the lower and raise icons in the original style, with the greenish-yellow color. My idea here was to tone down the colors a little, and also use transparency to create more of a visual impression of the object rotating. It's meant to look like the new Gimp 2.0 icons, which IMO are very professional looking. The svg from which the icons were constructed is here: http://www.lightandmatter.com/icons.svg Please give an on-list opinion in binary, 0=don't change, 1=change. (The icons can be tweaked more later, of course, if there is a consensus for it.)

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Newsforge Inkscape article (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:16:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jiaxiang <jwasheville@...12...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> Subject: Newsforge Inkscape article Good day, Bryce. Did you catch this article about Inkscape on Newsforge.com? http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/1638201 -Joshua __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Re: [Inkscape-user] proposed change to icons
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Re [22]
by Enid Kirk 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

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is there any way to put math symbols (symbol font) on a picture?
by Duncan Haldane 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Hi I'm experimenting with inkscape for drawing figures for a scientific paper (physics, where lots of greek letters and math symbols are used to label things) The final desired form is pdf: I'm exporting from inkscape svg to eps, then converting to pdf with the Mac OS X "preview" application. Is there any hack or workaround to get inkscape to use a characters from a math symbol font? (It seems to recognize things line "wingdings", not just roman characters) Thanks for any suggestions.

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Inkscape 0.51
by Bryce Harrington 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

Hi guys, Just fyi, we're thinking of targeting a 0.41 release for the late Jan, early Feb. We're thinking of focusing on making it a bugfix release plus a few new features. We've got several changes in the works that will introduce some instability for a while, so we figure it would be best to get another release out before we get too far into those big changes. Bryce

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numerical skew
by Trent Buck 26 Dec '04

26 Dec '04

The transform dialog offers moving, scaling and rotating. How does one apply a skew of X% (e.g. 25%)? I am using a CVS build from yesterday. -- -trent <foo> Oh fuck, the power just went off. <foo> uh... <foo> Boy does this seem wrong.

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Error to XML Editor
by Valentin Cristescu 25 Dec '04

25 Dec '04

Hi, I can't start the XML Editor. The message is: Inskcape encountered an internal error and will close now. I'm using Fedora Core 3.

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Feature request: Themable icons
by Andrew Conkling 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

It would be nice if the icons in the menus and such were themable; I've been making changes to the global icons.svg, but I'd like to put it in ~/.inkscape/ to affect a user-only change. Any chance on doing something like this as-is, or eventually making it possible? Thanks, Andrew

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Win32 Latest-Exe
by vellum 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

Hi Bob, Any chance of an updated win32 LATEST-EXE.ZIP before christmas? There do not appear to have been any available since the 15th, and I'm suffering withdrawal pangs. Also can I take this opportunity to wish all developers, testers and users the very best of Seasons Greetings and may 2005 bring you all back refreshed and rar'in to go! vellum

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Non-coder tasks
by Bryce Harrington 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Today a question came up regarding how non-coders can help improve Inkscape. This info has been added to the Inkscape FAQ, under 'Are there non-coding ways to help?': http://www.inkscape.org/faq.php Let me know if you have other ideas we could list there. Bryce

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Segmentation fault when ungrouping
by Frankie Y. Liu 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

Hello I am running version .40 of inkscape under SuSE9.1 linux. I got a segmentation fault when trying to do the following: 1) I opened the help page Help/Keys and Mouse 2) I opened another window (letter size): File/New/letter 3) I copied the second column (Canvas) to the new window 4) I tried to ungroup that column with Ctrl+Shift+G 5) I got a segmentation fault -frankie

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Disabling alt+click alt+drag in linux (Selection Under)
by Frankie Y. Liu 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

Hello, I wanted to get Selection Under working, but alt+click seems to be grabbed by my window manager to drag the window. I am running fluxbox under SuSE9.1 linux. I tried to google disabling alt+click and alt+drag under linux, but I haven't found any relevant page that tells me how to do so. Thanks, -frankie

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Inkscape .4 segfault
by Robert Davis 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

Been getting a segfault starting inkscape .4 and also tried a pre .4 that ran fine back in Oct. Using strace I traced it to icons.svg. Rename it and it runs fine. Any idea what might be wrong. Thanks Robert Davis system: Gentoo ~x86 backtrace: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 12092)] 0x0812cf67 in sigc::internal::signal_emit2<void, SPObject*, SPObject*, sigc::nil>::emit (impl=0x84321e8, _A_a1=@0xbfffe89c, _A_a2=@0x8432258) at slot_base.h:263 263 { return (!rep_ || !rep_->call_); } (gdb) bt #0 0x0812cf67 in sigc::internal::signal_emit2<void, SPObject*, SPObject*, sigc::nil>::emit (impl=0x84321e8, _A_a1=@0xbfffe89c, _A_a2=@0x8432258) at slot_base.h:263 #1 0x0812ca63 in Inkscape::URIReference::_setObject (this=0x8432248, obj=0x0) at signal.h:1806 #2 0x0812c7db in Inkscape::URIReference::attach (this=0x8432248, uri=@0x8432254) at uri-references.cpp:78 #3 0x080ec5db in sp_gradient_set (object=0x8432370, key=8, value=0x8420e88 "#linearGradient800") at sp-gradient.cpp:389 #4 0x080eec44 in sp_lineargradient_set (object=0x8432370, key=8, value=0x8420e88 "#linearGradient800") at sp-gradient.cpp:1157 #5 0x081012c4 in sp_object_set (object=0x8432370, key=24, value=0x18 <Address 0x18 out of bounds>) at sp-object.cpp:790 #6 0x081013d8 in sp_object_read_attr (object=0x8432370, key=0x82ab05a "xlink:href") at sp-object.cpp:811 #7 0x080ec39e in sp_gradient_build (object=0x8432370, document=0x83b1b80, repr=0x0) at sp-gradient.cpp:296 #8 0x080eebd3 in sp_lineargradient_build (object=0x8432370, document=0x84321f0, repr=0x8432288) at sp-gradient.cpp:1117 #9 0x08100a52 in sp_object_invoke_build (object=0x8432370, document=0x83b1b80, repr=0x8421780, cloned=0) at sp-object.cpp:642 #10 0x08100909 in sp_object_build (object=0x83aee08, document=0x83b1b80, repr=0x18) at sp-object.cpp:589 #11 0x08100a52 in sp_object_invoke_build (object=0x83aee08, document=0x83b1b80, repr=0x8419880, cloned=0) at sp-object.cpp:642 #12 0x08100909 in sp_object_build (object=0x83a40f0, document=0x83b1b80, repr=0x18) at sp-object.cpp:589 #13 0x080f6e9a in sp_item_build (object=0x83a40f0, document=0x18, repr=0x18) at sp-item.cpp:301 #14 0x080f3b55 in sp_group_build (object=0x83a40f0, document=0x18, repr=0x18) at sp-item-group.cpp:124 #15 0x0810c8a0 in sp_root_build (object=0x83a40f0, document=0x18, repr=0x84198c0) at sp-root.cpp:167 #16 0x08100a52 in sp_object_invoke_build (object=0x83a40f0, document=0x83b1b80, repr=0x84198c0, cloned=0) at sp-object.cpp:642 #17 0x080feefa in sp_object_repr_build_tree (document=0x83b1b80, repr=0x84198c0) at sp-object-repr.cpp:70 #18 0x080ca155 in sp_document_create (rdoc=0x0, uri=0x842c5e8 "/usr/local/share/inkscape/icons/icons.svg", base=0x84359f8 "/usr/local/share/inkscape/icons/", name=0x18 <Address 0x18 out of bounds>, advertize=0, keepalive=0) at document.cpp:289 #19 0x080ca779 in sp_document_new (uri=0x842c5e8 "/usr/local/share/inkscape/icons/icons.svg", advertize=24, keepalive=24, make_new=false) at document.cpp:434 #20 0x081e4e56 in sp_icon_image_load_svg (name=0x18 <Address 0x18 out of bounds>, size=10, scale=10) at icon.cpp:369 #21 0x081e4238 in sp_icon_image_load (name=0x842aca0 "sticky_zoom", size=10, scale=10) at icon.cpp:214 #22 0x081e403e in sp_icon_new_full (size=10, scale=10, name=0x842aca0 "sticky_zoom") at icon.cpp:158 #23 0x081e413c in sp_icon_new (size=24, name=0x8432288 "\uffff!C\b \uffff!C\b\2203C\b") at icon.cpp:185 #24 0x081e0fc1 in sp_button_set_action (button=0x842b688, action=0x841bfc0) at button.cpp:253 #25 0x081e0db1 in sp_button_new (size=10, type=24, action=0x18, doubleclick_action=0x0, tooltips=0x83ba060) at button.cpp:204 #26 0x081e1208 in sp_button_new_from_data (size=24, type=24, view=0x18, name=0x8432288 "\uffff!C\b\uffff!C\b\2203C\b", tip=0x18 <Address 0x18 out of bounds>, tooltips=0x18) at button.cpp:329 #27 0x0813dc94 in sp_desktop_widget_init (dtw=0x83b6bb0) at desktop.cpp:906 #28 0x40aaa025 in g_type_create_instance () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #29 0x000001ac in ?? ()

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Build errors in CVS
by Trent Buck 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

I just tried to build Inkscape from CVS for the first time in a couple of weeks. I noticed the following Debian-specific problems: - AFAICT, python-dev and libperl-dev are now build dependencies; they should be added to the Build-Depends line in debian/control. - After building, dh_strip attempts to strip an ar archive, causing packaging to fail. From the build log: $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot [...] dh_installmime dh_link dh_strip strip: debian/inkscape/usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/stcstnTn/DynaLoader.a: Invalid operation dh_strip: command returned error code 256 make[2]: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/alt/foo/pkg/cvs/inkscape/WORKING/inkscape' make[1]: *** [buildpackage] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/alt/foo/pkg/cvs/inkscape/WORKING/inkscape' -- -trent Look -- a diversion! It's shiny! -- Daniel Stone

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outputting gradients
by Ben Crowell 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

>Gradients without transparency are doable in PS level 3, but we output >only level 2 so far. Fixing this would require an expert in PS because >level 3 differs significantly from previous levels. However, I don't >think it's worth the trouble, because transparency is not possible >even in level 3. It is however possible in PDF starting from version >1.4, so we better spend the same resources on supporting PDF instead. >For now, the best alternative that I know of is to import Inkscape SVG >into Scribus and save as PDF 1.4. Thanks for the rapid reply! Scribus actually didn't work on the example I tried. It didn't render the gradients correctly, and it also munged the fonts I was using (made Vera into a monospaced font). I guess I can render everything as png instead of pdf. (Pdftex can accept either as input.) Is anybody working actively on direct PDF output? The inability to output gradients to PS or PDF is a serious limitation that will probably be enough to prevent an awful lot of users from using Inkscape. Maybe my perceptions and priorities are different from other people's but it surprises me that people would be working on, e.g., Perl and Python extensions when a really basic feature like this is not yet implemented. Maybe it's just the nature of OSS: developers want to work on stuff that interests them personally, so that determines which features get added.

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Satisfied user
by Alan Horkan 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Thought I'd share this comment from a new satisfied Inkscape user: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=133308&cid=11135973

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