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Appveyor builds for Windows
by Alvin Penner 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hi, It appears that the Appveyor builds are no longer working, as of about two weeks ago. Anyone in a position to be able to fix this? inkscape - AppVeyor <https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/history> thanks in advance, <https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/history> Alvin

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Any collaboration features built into Inkscape?
by Steve Litt 04 Jul '21

04 Jul '21

Hi all, I'm writing a book, and one chapter compares and contrasts vector drawing programs. This specific section is about several people in several cities getting together via Jitsi or Zoom or GotoMeeting or whatever and working on a diagram together. I'd envision one participant making changes, then another participant, etc. I wouldn't anticipate two doing it simultaneously: That would be a recipe for disaster. So does Inkscape in any way facilitate this kind of collaboration? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

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Funding Inkscape Development
by Landon Blake 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

I've been using Inkscape for many years. I also use it extensively in my small business. I'd like to fully fund development of specific features in Inkscape, but didn't see an easy way to contact developers already familiar with the code base on the Inkscape web-site. Do you folks have any suggestions? Thanks! -- Landon Web: www.landonblake.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/landonblake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScottLandonBlake <https://www.facebook.com/scott.l.blake.3>

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Unexpected behavior in version Inkscape 1.1 (c68e22c387, 2021-05-23)
by Steve Litt 17 Jun '21

17 Jun '21

Hi all, I'm using Inkscape 1.1 (c68e22c387, 2021-05-23), and running into unexpected behavior with text, as explained below: My drawing has a text item with hard newlines and specific spacing between baselines (1.1). I save it as plain SVG, close the file, then reopen it. The text item's baseline to baseline appears to have reverted to 1.0, but the text now appears to be on one line, and if I insert newlines, everything just gets jumbled together on the same line. If I add material, different lines have different baseline to baseline distances. The bottom line is I have to completely recreate the text item from scratch on every edit, which slows things to say the least. This is probably intermittent, because I have another text item that so far, from minimal investigation, appears not to have this problem. I can also tell you that I seem to remember problems like this (rarely) in earlier versions, but I can't remember any details. * Has anybody else encountered this? * Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to do it right? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

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Inkscape 1.1 released
by Marc Jeanmougin 25 May '21

25 May '21

================ = Inkscape 1.1 = ================ Inkscape version 1.1 is now released. ---------------- You can watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/release-video-1-1/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.1 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following one year of development after the 1.0 major release. The highlights of this release are: * A Welcome dialog, where the look of Inkscape can be selected, and some choices for the new document's size or file to open are available * A Command palette that opens when the '?' key is pressed, that allows to search and use many functions without having to use a keyboard shortcut or going through the menus * It is now possible to copy, cut and paste parts of paths with the Node tool * The dialog docking system has been rewritten, which resolves many issues with Inkscape's docked dialogs and allows you to dock dialogs on either side of the screen * New Outline Overlay mode that displays object outlines while also showing their real colors * Preferences options are now easier to find by using the new search field * It is no longer necessary to remember to click on 'Export' in the PNG Export dialog, as the exporting will already happen after the click on 'Save' in the file selection dialog. * Export as JPG, TIFF, optimized PNG and WebP directly from Inkscape * When pasting a copied object, Inkscape now pastes it directly on top of the currently selected object by default * An extension for updating extensions and installing additional extensions, called the Extension Manager (currently in beta stage) We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.1/Inkscape_1.1.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], bug triaging[4], or even outreach[5]! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or freenode/#inkscape-devel) [2] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/bug_migration [5] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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Libre Graphics Meeting schedule is out!
by Maren Hachmann 17 May '21

17 May '21

This year's Libre Graphics Meeting will take place from May 27-30, 2021, online, Paris time (CEST, currently UTC+2). You'll find several Inkscapers presenting once again this year! Check out the program here: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2021/en/program.html Maren

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Inkscape 1.1 release candidate is available !
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi to all Inkscapers! We just launched the Release Candidate of Inkscape 1.1, with a plan to have roughly three weeks of testing for a release around May 24th. You can get it here: ================================= https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1/?latest=1 ================================= (source tarball, linux appimage, windows installers and macOS dmg are available) We encourage you to use it as you would use Inkscape 1.1 stable, in order to find any problems people may encounter with the release. In particular, if you find any regressions, please do submit a bug report as soon as possible on https://inkscape.org/report : if nothing major is reported, the state of that release candidate should be close to the release. If you want to help with the translations to your language, it's still possible to submit those until close to the release date. Thanks to everyone involved in this release ! -- Marc

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Libre Graphics Meeting looking for talks, live demos, lightning talks - Deadline April 19th 2021
by Maren Hachmann 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hi everyone, our friends from Libre Graphics Meeting have asked us to let our community know that submissions are open for talks, live demos and lightning talks for the event, which takes place 27-30 May 2021, mostly online. Whether you're an experienced Inkscape user, a professional using Inkscape, an Inkscape developer or an active community member - or have knowledge around any other free and open source graphics software that you'd like to share with the world, please visit their website at https://libregraphicsmeeting.org and submit one or more proposals for their different talk formats. Submission is still open for a week, so hurry, and make an impact in the free + libre graphics world! Maren

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1.1-beta available
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Hi everyone! We recently released Inkscape 1.1-beta, while planning to release 1.1 next month. You can get the release at https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1beta1/ for all platforms All testers are encouraged to test this version and report bugs at inkscape.org/report == Packagers == The tarball is not expected to differ much to the beta one, if you want to check that everything is all right for your platform :) == Translators == Thanks for your work! Strings have been frozen for a while, and it's not too late to submit translations until shortly before release date. == Developers == We have now branched the code repo. The new branch 1.1.x now only welcomes bugfixes, translations and easy-to-review changes; while features, performance, code improvements, or anything that was left waiting in prevision of 1.1 are free to go to the main branch. == All contributors == Thanks everyone for your contributions! All the work you're doing in various area, such as UX, outreach, docs, testing and bug triaging, and more, is what makes us a better project over the years :) -- Marc _______________________________________________ Inkscape Translators mailing list -- inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Modifying the opacity of objects inside a group
by Frederic Parrenin 26 Mar '21

26 Mar '21

Dear all, I want to modify the opacity of objects inside a group. This is for a theme, so I need to do many such operations. Currently, I ungroup, select the objects, modify the opacity, group again, and rename the group. This is time consuming so I would like to go faster by not ungrouping the objects. So I try to enter the group and select the object. Unfortunately, when I do that, I always see the opacity of the objects at 100%, so it seems this is not the real opacity of the object and I cannot increase it. Do I miss something? What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your help, Frédéric

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Fwd: Welcome to the "Inkscape Users" mailing list
by Elze D. 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

please help i accidentally saved my document to a .svg file, but i need to save it to .png, how do I do it? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <inkscape-user-request(a)lists.inkscape.org> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 11:31 Subject: Welcome to the "Inkscape Users" mailing list To: None <elzedidi(a)gmail.com> Welcome to the "Inkscape Users" mailing list! To post to this list, send your email to: inkscape-user(a)lists.inkscape.org You can unsubscribe or make adjustments to your options via email by sending a message to: inkscape-user-request(a)lists.inkscape.org with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. You will need your password to change your options, but for security purposes, this password is not included here. If you have forgotten your password you will need to reset it via the web UI.

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Wacom tablet question
by Dirk Gently 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

greetings netizens... I have a question regarding the use of a wacom tablet, specifically key presses that are mapped via GNOME settings on the Wacom section or if somehow wacom is the culprit in this case. I'm uncertain if the issue is as a result of mapping the keys in the GNOME settings or if Inkscape needs some time to interpret those mapped keys. So to get into it, I have mapped the three buttons in GNOME settings to use inkscape shortcuts and they work a good 85% of the time. The issue is that crops up is that, sometimes when pressing those keys Inkscape brings up another dialogue box, which I'm guessing is Inkscape interpreting me pressing those shortcuts keys and me getting the wrong resulting command (the dialogue box). Here is the exact scenario. I have a set of multiple images that need to be clipped, duplicated, and converted to a bitmap then continuing along the task of clipping those images from the various areas on the image. How can I avoid this happening? Or is the only way to press the mapped keys at a slower rate?

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Updates to my SVG Clickmap Landmines page
by Steve Litt 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

Hi all, As you know, SVG clickmaps inside of HTML are complicated, so I made my "SVG Clickmap Landmines" page in 2017. Yesterday I completed some updates to this page, to clear up some ambiguities, add some needed content, and update which browsers do what. The URL is: http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/svg_clickmaps/landmines.htm Hopefully this will prove useful for some of you. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

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Inkscape 1.1 About Screen Contest: Community Voting until February 28
by Maren Hachmann 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Hi everyone! The community voting for the Inkscape 1.1 About Screen has started! You can learn more about it at https://inkscape.org/news/2021/02/22/your-choice-counts-vote-your-favorite-… and cast your vote at https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-11/ (it's really, really difficult to choose one this time! I have 18 favorites, lol.) Thanks + enjoy all those cool pictures we got from the community artists! Kind Regards Maren

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Inkscape presentation
by Steve Litt 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hi all, Wednesday at 7pm New York time I'm giving a presentation on Linux authoring tools, with an emphasis on Inkscape. Meeting details and URL are available at http://golug.info. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

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Calling German-speaking Inkscape Community members (and those who don't mind to communicate in English with German Linux users)!
by Maren Hachmann 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Hi everyone, the Inkscape project is going to host a virtual booth/stand at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage, on March 13 and 14 this year! We have already gathered a small booth team of 4, possibly 5, but the CLT (Chemnitzer Linuxtage) are all-day events and we could use your help answering user questions about how to work with the program, how to contribute to it and about what is going on in the Inkscape community. We might even do some short, up to 20min topic-focused sessions, if someone would like to organize (one of) them. So, if you're a developer, a forum member, a regular user support provider in our chat channels, an Inkscape translator, or are contributing to the project more or less regularly in any other way, and you have some time available to spend helping the Inkscape project on that weekend in March, please introduce yourself at the GitLab issue report where we're discussing the event organization! We would also be glad to have someone on board from any of the maker labs or similar communities, who are proficient in helping with maker topics, or who can demo something interesting in a short session (or both :) ). Or if you'd like to present the top 10 Inkscape extensions that people must know about, or do a quick drawing session, or want to tell people how to compile Inkscape and get started with development or ... whatever you can think of. ****************** Please get in contact with us as soon as possible and find more info at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/192 Let us know how you can help make the booth an interesting place for visitors to drop by! ****************** We're going to have a meeting with all those interested in about a week, so it would be good to hear from you before that. I'm going to announce the meeting time in a separate message. Hope to see you - and if you are not able to join us at the booth, consider visiting us there! Kind Regards Maren

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Inkscape 1.1 About Screen Contest open for submissions!
by Maren Hachmann 24 Jan '21

24 Jan '21

Calling all Inkscape artists! ----------------------------- You're invited to enter our traditional About Screen Contest to celebrate the upcoming release of Inkscape version 1.1! Find all information about how to join the drawing contest on our website at https://inkscape.org/en/community/about-screen-contests/ . We're looking forward to seeing **your** art! The Inkscape Vectors Team (marketing and outreach)

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Inkscape 1.0.2 and Inkscape 1.1-alpha released
by Marc Jeanmougin 17 Jan '21

17 Jan '21

Inkscape 1.0.2 ============== Inkscape 1.0.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.0.2 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It fixes numerous crashes and several major inconveniences, such as extensions popping up dialogs when interacting with a clipboard manager, or additional options to disable canvas rotation. ---------------- In addition, we are releasing an alpha version of Inkscape 1.1, to facilitate testing of major upcoming features, such as the new dialog system by Valentin Ionita or the command palette by Abhay Raj Singh. If you find any issue with this new version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report You can download it at https://inkscape.org/release/1.1alpha0/ ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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Re: Your registration on inkscape.org
by doctormo＠gmail.com 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

Dear Kolbjørn, All downloads are the same, the contain all languages. Your computer is asking for Norwegian when it loads Inkscape. But you can override this in the preferences. Best place to ask for help is chat.inkscape.org as I'm just a website administrator. Good luck! Best Regards, Martin Owens Website Administrator Hat On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 09:59 +0100, Kolbjørn Sivertsen wrote: > Thanks, BUT I'm norwegian and how to instal the English version? > (Windows 10 instal the Norwegian version on my laptop - no option to > change!) > > > Mvh > > Kolbjørn Sivertsen > Mob: +47 909 88 095 > > > > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > Fra: webmaster(a)inkscape.org [mailto:webmaster@inkscape.org] > Sendt: mandag 28. desember 2020 17:37 > Til: kosiver(a)online.no > Emne: Your registration on inkscape.org > > Hi, > > This is an automatic email to help you complete your registration > with > inkscape.org. > > Please open the following link in your web browser. If the link is > split > over several lines, you may need to copy it in the address bar. > > http://inkscape.org/user/register/activate/Imtvc2l2ZXIi:1ktvW3:ZxH4oy3TbdOA… > > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL > >

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Intermittent unexpected behavior with text vertical spacing
by Steve Litt 12 Dec '20

12 Dec '20

Hi all, I have version "1.0.1 (unknown)" on Void Linux that's within 2 days of being up to date. I have a text item whose vertical spacing is 0.8 lines. When I re-edit this text item, move somewhere within it, and press the Enter key, instead of splitting into two lines spaced 0.8 lines apart, it writes the second half of the line right on top of the first half. This happens only under certain circumstances which I haven't yet identified. This slows me down tremendously because I can't just dupe a text item and edit into something similar. Because it becomes unreadable, my ability to make it readable again depends on my using enough undos to undo it, rather than deleting the added newline. It REALLY slows me down. I've attached a file whose dark red text has this problem. Has anybody else seen this behavior? What circumstances make it happen? Is there a workaround? Thanks, Steve SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

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text-on-path text-to-path
by Jordan Holberg 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

Hi, everyone! Hoping someone can point me in the right direction, or confirm this isn't possible. Given this SVG (which renders as text-on-path, meaning the text's baseline is the defined path): <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 872.55 872.55"> <path id="signaturePath" fill="none" stroke="none" d="M117,435a318,318 0 1,0 636,0a318,318 0 1,0 -636,0" /> <text style='font-size: 1.25em; opacity: 0.75; font-family: monospace;'> <textPath href="#signaturePath" startOffset='15%'> SOME TEXT HERE </textPath> </text></svg> I'd like to, using the command-line convert the text to paths:inkscape --export-plain-svg=converted.svg --export-text-to-path curveText.svg Unfortunately, while this does convert the text to paths, it does not keep the text placed ON the path; it just outputs paths in a straight line. Is the desired result achievable?

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Copy page as png without exporting
by Adam Johnston 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

Hi folks, I often use Inkscape to generate pngs that I paste into other programs like Google Docs etc. The easiest way is to copy and paste the image as a bit map using Windows clipboard. It would be great if there was a button to quickly copy the page contents as a png to the clipboard without having to save as an exported png. It would be similar to the preview we already get in icon preview, but with the option of copying it directly. Thanks Adam

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Inkscape takes a lot of time to open
by Danny Colin 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Hi folks, I'm experiencing an issue where Inkscape takes way more time than other apps to open on my Linux install. I've done a `strace` and tried to understand the output but I must say it's a bit over my pay grade :). Would it be possible to have some help to find the issue? Here's my system information: OS: Fedora 32 (64bits) WM: bspwm Inkscape version: Inkscape 1.0.1 (3bc2e813f5, 2020-09-07) Pango version: 1.44.7 [installed from the official repo] And the `strace` output: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dannycolin/f20eea26bccdc2f69908b8ffc3bd2… Thank you, -- *Danny Colin*

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Inkscape 1.0.1
by Marc Jeanmougin 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Inkscape 1.0.1 ============== Inkscape 1.0.1 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.0.1 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It also comes with a few new features that hadn't been stable enough to make it into Inkscape 1.0: * Selectors/CSS dialog is now available * Experimental color-managed PDF export through Scribus * Many crash fixes and bugs fixed ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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Translate to swedish
by freemem＠tutanota.com 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

Hi I'm new to translating work in general and for Inkscape in particular. I intend to start translation to Swedish but I am not sure how it works. Are there more people working on the Swedish translatino currently? If so, am I supposed to cooperate so that we can divide work between us or should I just go ahead and translate? Some advice would be great :-) BR /Freemem

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