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Batch trace of bitmaps
by Antonio Roberts 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hi Inkscape list, Is it possible for inkscape, or some other command line utility, to do batch tracing of bitmap to svg files? I've seen that through Inkscape verbs you can use "SelectionTrace", but that still requires manual input. I've tried potrace, but that only works on black and white images, and I've tried autotrace but that only produces jigsaw-like svgs and I want ones where the different colours are stacked on top of each other Thanks for any help that you can give Antonio -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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Alternative to Inkscape for Windows 7
by Dennis Melling 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

I have a recent laptop with Windows 7, 64 bit and 8GB of RAM. If I use any kind of effects on inkscape I can forget using inkscape for the day because the speed is so slow it takes a day for any movement to appear on the screen. Again trying to export to bitmap is impossible. If I don't use any effects then the speed is reasonable. I like what Inkscape is intended to do but does anyone know of a similar open source program that will work on Windows 7?? Dennis

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Shortcuts not working
by Eneko Gotzon Ares 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Good night :) I find that some keyboard shortcuts don't work, for example the # (Grid) and | (Guides) ones. May be it is because I'm using a Spanish- ISO keyboard on an English system? * I'm using Inkscape v0.48.2 on an iMac iSight —last and most powerful PowerPC iMac— running Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard). Thanks :) -- Eneko Gotzon Ares I'm a beginner and my first impression about Inkscape is very good. Thank you very much to its developers :)

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by Michael Hudson 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

take me off your lists

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Google Summer of Code 2012 Results
by Josh Andler 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Hello Inkscapers! The Google Summer of Code 2012 program is now officially over. We’ve managed to have 3 out of 5 projects successfully completed by our awesome students. * Jan Pulmann created Python bindings for lib2Geom, the computational geometry library we use in Inkscape. * Samuel Chase made a lot of internal improvements to handling guides and to the coordinates system, making it easier to switch away from Cartesian system. * Veronika Irvine created a new tool for on-canvas tessellation. The code for 2geom library was written in the main development branch and hence is immediately available to all 3rd party developers. The changes to Inkscape have to be finalized before they can enter the main source code repository. Currently we don’t expect both of the new Inkscape features to be used in upcoming v0.49. We are sorry that 2 students didn’t make it, and we are going to take steps to avoid this kind of failure in the future, should we be accepted for the next runs of the program. Cheers, Josh (on behalf of the Inkscape team)

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inkex.py not found for extensions in user's directory
by Patrick 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Thanks to ~suv I now have a copy of the inksyntax plug-in I am having trouble installing it but I think it's outside of inksyntax. At the interactive terminal I tried to import all the dependencies that inksyntax has. I could not import: inkex.py and simplestyle.py It looks like this may be a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/551433 I am on xubuntu 11.10 I have installed a few plug-ins through synaptic Does anyone know how to export variables so that python will be able to find these two .py files or some other solution? Thanks

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code syntax highlighting in svg image
by Patrick 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hi Everyone I've been away from inkscape for a few years but I am looking forward to doing another project with it. I am trying to create a little book/pamphlet that has coloured syntax highlighting of code. It looks like there was a plug-in that would have been perfect, inksyntax, but it seems abandoned. Here is the dead link: http://xico.freeshell.org/ The project seems to have been built on highlight and pygments. The highlight command works great for me and now I have a svg of the code sample with syntax highlighting. The problem is the svg utilizes an external css sheet and inkscape and scribus cannot handle it. I am wondering if there is some tool to reintegrate the external css sheet back to inline or if if anyone has any suggestions on how I can accomplish my goal? Thanks for reading-Patrick

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Custom Font Issues
by Ryan Hodson 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

Hello! I'm new to Inkscape, and I'm having some problems finding custom fonts. In the Style selector of the Text and Font Dialog, it only displays normal, italic, bold, and bold-italic. I'm using a custom font whose weight is "light" and another that's "black," but these two are not options in the Style selector. It seems like Inkscape is guessing at which matches best, but it's guessing in the wrong direction. Is there a way to explicitly specify the font to use, or to add new items to the Style selector list? Thanks for your help! Ryan

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is there a way to save swatch color name into generated svg file?
by Auguste Pop 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

hi, i am not native english speaker, please endure my poor english. i added a custom swatch color with a custom name. i hope the color name can be saved into the svg file. but inkscape actually saves the rgb values. is there a way that i can see the color name in the svg file? best regards,

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weeding lines
by Gary Hawkins 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

HI, Inkscape is great for designing but if you design for use with vinyl you need to have weeding lines. is it possible to add these in inkscape or to have a extension that would add them to a file? Thanks Gaz

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alignment question
by Gergely Buday 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

Hi there, I would like to do the following: --- I would like to align elements: e-mail address and phone number to be equally far from the vertical equator of the card, and their center be on the same vertical line. How can I do that? --- The latter thing, namely, to align the centers of two text objects can be done according to "Align horizontal centers to center of anchor" of http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Align.html but it is not clear how I could do the mirroring of two text objects to the equator of the card. How could I do that? Cheers - Gergely

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Bad cursor movement while dragging
by Carlos Alegría 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi all, I am facing an issue while trying to drag an element to move an object or change an object dimensions. The cursor jumps to a random position after dragging a couple of seconds. This makes the objet to suddenly change its dimensions or its position, preventing me from making my drawing. I am using Arch Linux + XFCE. I have searched on the bug database but could not find anything referring to this behavior. Does anyone facing the same (or a similar) issue that knows a workaround to solve it? Thanks a lot Carlos Alegria

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Is there a way to avoid CSS style attributes?
by unknown＠example.com 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Hi, inkscape usually puts a lot of attributes into a CSS style attribute, for example: <rect x="10" y="10" width="10" height="10" style="fill:red;stroke:blue;stroke-width:2" /> Is there a way to tell inkscape to never use the style attribute but instead use SVG attributes? For example: <rect x="10" y="10" width="10" height="10" fill="red" stroke="blue" stroke-width="2" /> Regards Marco

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Cutter recommendations?
by Terry Brown 07 Jul '12

07 Jul '12

Any recommendations for those paper / card cutters that can be driven by Inkscape / an Ubuntu environment? Cricut and CraftRobo are a couple of brands. We're using Inkscape to design and print buttons, the round mylar coated things you pin to your shirt, it works very well, clones and clones of clones make it easy to control the number of each design printed per sheet. We have a manual circle cutting device but aligning it with the accuracy required is a pain, and it only cuts 1-3 circles at a time (for more than one you stack pages, but that creates alignment issues too). So the immediate use for a cutter would be simply cutting 12 circles in a sheet of regular weight paper, but something more versatile would be good. Thanks, Terry

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Insert nodes via command line
by Antonio Roberts 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Is it possible to insert nodes in an SVG, in the same way that the "Insert new nodes into selected segments", via the command line? Antonio -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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Better DXF support
by || ΣΖΟ || 16 Jun '12

16 Jun '12

Hello everyone. I'm wondering why .dxf export isn't better supported Inkscape is a great tool for drawing plans for lasercutters, but all the companies who do the cutting ony accept .dxf There are a few 'reasonable improvements' available like Better DXF, Better Better DXF and BigBlueSawDXF https://sites.google.com/site/scidiy/inkscape-dxf-output-for-lasercut But none of them are good enough to deliver a cut file without hassle. Most important are the support of layers (and the use of spaces in the layer names) and SPLINE objects that aren't rendered right. A good support for .dxf could draw Inkscape into the maker-world. Makershed/Thingtverse/Instructables websites etc. And I noticed that .dxf is NOT mentioned @ http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FileTypes Is there any particulair reason for this? What is needed to get .DXF up to par?

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Jessyink renumber effects order
by Johnny 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Hi all, Jessyink [1]is really a very nice extension to Inkscape to enable doing dynamic presentations, I can really recommend it! There are two versions, I use the latter, Jessyink 2.0.0-alpha1. However, I usually end up adding effects and manually setting the order and eventually running out of numbers. E.g. I start to number the effects by 10, 20, 30, etc. but soon end up having orders 1, 2, 3, 4, ... and wanting to insert a new efect between e.g. 2 and 3. Therefore I wonder, is there some way to renumber the effects to make some space that I have missed? As the svg-files are just text files, I am considering a script to do this to find and renumber the effects; the finding part can be achieved by e.g. ,---- | cat my_svg_file_with_jessyink.svg|grep "sodipodi:role=\"line\">[0-9]*</tspan></text>"|grep [0-9]* `---- This gives all the lines with effect numbers, maybe sed or awk can be used in a loop to renumber in order and increment by a desired step (e.g. 10). Now, my skills are not really up to the task, so before embarking, the question is is this really the best route to go or are there any better ideas? Thanks and cheers! Footnotes: [1] http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/ -- Johnny

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How to get coordinates of node handles
by unknown＠example.com 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hello everybody out there using Inkscape, Is it possible to get the exact coordinates of a node handle and change their numeric values? One can of course zoom in and look at the coordinates of the mouse cursor, but that's not perfectly precise. I also found this thread in the forum (http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=295) but it doesn't really contain a good answer. Thanks in advance for your help, Julia

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downloaded version in turkish
by Giovanna Di Pietro 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, I just downloaded the official release for mac (for OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard ) and it is in turkish! how can i change it to german or english? thanks, giovanna

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gel effect on type.
by john Culleton 28 May '12

28 May '12

There are various tutorials/howtos on the web about spplying a gel effect to type. Anyone have a favorite (with an url that is currently working) to suggest? Thanks in advance. John Culleton

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Where to put ICC color profiles.
by john Culleton 28 May '12

28 May '12

I have icc profiles avialable in Scribus but not in inkscape 48.2. Where does inkscape look? Slackware Linux. John Culleton

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CommandLine: passing parameters to verbs
by Joscha Feth 24 May '12

24 May '12

Hello, Is there a way to pass parameters to verbs, when using the inkscape commandline? I can't seem to find anything, so my guess is no - but in any case it would be needed for --verb=DialogAlignDistribute Cheers, Joscha

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Failed to convert a pdf file to an eps file via inkscape.
by Hedong Yang 24 May '12

24 May '12

Hi all, I ran the Inkscape, opened the pdf file and then "save a copy" in the eps format. As shown in the attached files, the coordinate information is missed in the converted eps file. The information about the my computer and Inkscape is listed as follows. OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS amd64 Inkscape : 0.48.3.1 r9886 (Installed from the Canonical source) While I tried on another machine with Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819, the conversion is perfectly done as expected. So have I missed something to be installed? Or is there a bug for the newer version of Inkscape? Suggestions are welcome! Regards, Hedong May 23,2012

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editing .svg files
by unknown＠example.com 23 May '12

23 May '12

I have some .svg files that I create with the tools at blockdiag.com (it does a good job of turning progromatic data into a valid graphic), but there are a lot of times when I would like to grab a chunk of the resulting digram and move it around. The problem I have had trying to use Inkscape to do this is that I can select and grab a block, but the lines stay put. I really want to grab the objects and the endpoints of the lines that are within the selection window and move the endpoints along with the objects. Is there an easy way to do this that I have been overlooking? David Lang

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missing element (graticules) after ps/eps/pdf import into inkscape
by rdbriggs 15 May '12

15 May '12

Good day everyone, I'm trying to import a GMT generated map (ps file) into inkscape (so I can add an extra layer and lots of text) but the graticules disappear. The map is attached. It was generated with this command (pscoast -R-180/180/-90/-60 -Js0/-90/1:40000000 -B30g30/g10 -Dc -G200 -P -V > map1.ps). Once imported into inkscape the graticules disappear. They are, however, still visible in the import window. Does anyone have an explanation for this and how I can fix it (I'm guessing it is an inkscape problem because they are visible with the gs, pdf viewers), In fact do others see this behaviour ? regards, Rob Briggs This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php

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