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Inkscape 0.48.1 is out!
by Josh Andler 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hey All, After 6 months of development and delays out of our control, Inkscape 0.48.1 is out. This bug-fix release of the SVG-based vector graphics editor contains over 80 bug fixes as well as improves stability and performance on all platforms. Please visit inkscape.org for more information and to get your copy. As a side note, if you're a member of the following sites, showing the news some love is always welcome. reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/fxg78/inkscape_0481_bugfix_releas… slashdot - http://slashdot.org/submission/1489758/Inkscape-0481-released deviantART - http://fav.me/n145112 Cheers, Josh

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map units
by Sébastien Barthélémy 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hello, I'd like to draw the map of a building using inkscape, and overlay my drawings with satellite views. A batch program would then modify the map to adjust the position of some points. Then I would like to import the svg file into sketchup and use it as a basis for quick 3d renderings. And now the question: which units should I use for the canvas? The building size is 50x15 meters. My first idea was to use this size as the canvas, but for some reason, in such a case, inkscape does not allow me to unzoom as much as I would like too (I cannot have the full drawing on screen). Is there as reson for this and a workaround? I know many maps and GIS use SVG somehow, how do they choose their basis unit? A Cheers

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Rotating the Axonomgrid
by Shawn H Corey 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

I want to use Inkscape to draw some hex-maps and the axonomgrid is perfect for this except I want it rotated 90 degrees. Is the a way to do this, or better yet, rotate the entire page? -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Confusion is the first step of understanding. Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. The secret to great software: Fail early & often. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS.

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Download Stats
by Josh Andler 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hey All, I just thought people would like to know that we breached over 1 million downloads in a single month on sf.net in January. Note that their tracked downloads since the project first posted files is at ~14.4 million total. I'd say that makes January quite a significant month. :) For those interested in more download stats (this is per month since the beginning): https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/stats/timeline?dat… Great work community! Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Single SVG file to multi-page PDF
by crjw 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

This can be done with a ViewBox. 1. Create your file in Inkscape. 2. Save the file; this is your master. 3. Create one copy of the master file for each page you wish to print. 4. Open each of the copies in an text editor (do this one file at a time). 4a Using the text editor adjust the width and height to be the size of a printed page. 4b Still using the text editor, add a ViewBox with an appropriate offset. 4c. Save the modified file and exit the text editor. 5. Open up each of the modified copies in Inkscape and convert to PDF (do this one file at a time). ###################################################### e.g. The following file is 25.5 inches by 11 inches (assuming 90px per inch) (this file is also attached to this e-mail with the name "master.svg") ###################################################### <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <svg version="1.1" width="2295" height="990" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g style="fill:none;stroke:black;stroke-width:4"> <circle r="270" cx="382.5" cy="495" fill="red"/> <circle r="270" cx="1147.5" cy="495" fill="green"/> <circle r="270" cx="1912.5" cy="495" fill="blue"/> </g> </svg> ###################################################### Now here is a modified version that renders the middle of the drawing on an 8.5x11 inch page. (this file is also attached to this e-mail with the name "page2.svg") ###################################################### <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <svg version="1.1" width="756" height="990" viewBox="765 0 765 990" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g style="fill:none;stroke:black;stroke-width:4"> <circle r="270" cx="382.5" cy="495" fill="red"/> <circle r="270" cx="1147.5" cy="495" fill="green"/> <circle r="270" cx="1912.5" cy="495" fill="blue"/> </g> </svg> Note: If you carve up the drawing such that drawing elements are sliced by page borders, you might want to consider adding margins. Margins can be generated by clipping the area you want to print with a clipPath that is slightly smaller than the size of a printed page.

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Layered pdf?
by Rob Antonishen 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

I read the recent posts on multipage pdf with interest. I was wondering if there is any way to generate multiple layer (single page) pdf files from Inkscape. It seems through tests that this isn't possible and all svg layers end up as one pdf layer. Can anyone offer suggestions on turning a multilayer svg into a multilayer pdf? -Rob A>

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Bug in EPS + Latex
by Adin Ramirez Rivera 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi all, I just found a bug in the EPS + Latex option. If you have percentage '%' symbols in the text, when those are converted to latex they are not escaped. Hence, the latex get broken in that line. It is easy to fix, by escaping the percentage symbols by hand; however, if you have a lot of symbols it will get annoying to change those all the time. I just want to report it. HTH, adin

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Pictures in emf
by Evelyne Lyonnaz Bovio 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Good evening, Since my update to 4.8, the pictures I save in emf are distorted when I open them again and want to use them. It hadn't happened to me before for the some years that I use the previous versions. Thank you for your help. Best regards Eve

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Request: Inkscape presentation at LinuxFest Northwest
by Carl Symons 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

The 12th LinuxFest Northwest (linuxfestnorthwest.org) will be happening April 30th and May 1st in Bellingham, Washington. The "low stress Fest" attracts open source users from Portland to Vancouver, BC., as well as locals and internationally known presenters. It's free to attend the expo, the presentations and the Saturday evening after party. There are already a couple of presentations about the graphics side of open source. A presentation on Inkscape would help round out this track. (For that matter, it would be nice to have presentations for newcomers and for people who are more familiar with SVG tools.) I'm posting a similar message in the Scribus mailing list. If you are skilled with Inkscape and located in the area between Southern BC and Portland, would you please consider sharing your knowledge of Inkscape? Register to present at linuxfestnorthwest.org. There's a big + Present button on the front page. Thank you Carl

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Inkscape plugged in a local magazine
by Mark Crutch 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Some of you may be familiar with our Inkscape-created webcomic, "The Greys". It's now been adopted by our town council's quarterly magazine, "Aylesbury Town Matters", which goes out to over 29,000 local households. The first appearance of the comic is in the issue that's being delivered this week, and we were fortunate enough to get the space for a short article as well. We made sure to plug Inkscape in the article, and if you want to read it there's a low-res PDF of the page available to download, plus the original comic at our site (though it helps if you're familiar with the architecture of Aylesbury to really appreciate it). Article - http://www.peppertop.com/greys/pdf/ATM_20_Greys.pdf Comic - http://www.peppertop.com/greys/2011/02/welcome-to-aylesbury/ Mark & Vince -- "The Greys" - a sci-fi webcomic http://www.peppertop.com/ http://facebook.com/TheGreysComic

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Inkscape on Windows 7 pro 64 bit - very slow, unusable.
by donn 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hello, I am posting on behalf of a friend who is stuck on Win7 pro (64 bit I think). He installed the latest Inkscape (as of about Jan 2011) and he cannot use it at all. His laptop is pretty powerful with min 2gigs of RAM; hell, it makes my desktop look like a block of wood! It's very slow to draw, to drag around or zoom. There are no advanced filters, or anything complex, being used - even a blank file with a single line in it cannot be edited. I am asking if there are any windows "tips" for using Inkscape? Is there some kind of "XP mode" or some advice re 64bit/32bit or maybe some graphic driver tips? Perhaps there are known clashes with other fancy windows software - like a colour enhancer (he has some kind of thing that makes his colours brighter on his laptop). Anyone have a clue what I could suggest to him? Thanks, \d

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Convert to eps in command line without embed or link prompt
by Adin Ramirez Rivera 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm wondering if is there any command or parameter that I can set on Inkscape to perform a conversion automatically. For example, if you do *inkscape -E image.eps image.jpg*, then a window appears and ask you if you want to embed or link the image. However, I need to do this conversion for a batch of images; and I need an automatic way of setting the option: embed or link. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks, adin

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Can't start on Win7
by Jonathan Mitchem 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

I was using an older version of Inkscape (not sure which one), and couldn't start it: "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005)." I upgraded to latest version (0.48.0) after an uninstall. I deleted all user preferences too. I am getting the same error. I checked in my AppData/Roaming/inkscape, and all I have in there are empty folders. What do I need to do to get this working?

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Importing paths from OneNote to Inkscape via clipboard
by Alex 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Hi, I use Microsoft OneNote to take notes with my tablet, sometimes I need to modify the sketches - and there's no better tool than Inkscape for that. Simply selecting the paths in OneNote and pasting them into Inkscape works as expected. The problem is that the resulting objects have a great number of nodes, so it becomes very difficult to apply any further transformations. Even on a reasonably fast machine, scaling an object takes a while. I made a short video, to illustrate what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOcE7C4_NN8 The workarounds I found are: - press Ctrl+L multiple times to simplify the paths (Inkscape will freeze, but if you're patient - it comes back eventually). Don't be too greedy, if you Simplify multiple times without waiting for Inkscape to update the rendered image - it will crash. - save OneNote's image to a bitmap, then trace the bitmap with Inkscape. This produces objects that have a relatively sane number of nodes, but this operation takes more time and involves the use of other tools- it is not as convenient as copy/pasting. Taking notes directly in Inkscape does not produce good results. There is a delay between the stroke of the pen and the appearance of the stroke on the screen - so I don't see what I'm writing. Apparently, this short-timed lack of feedback is sufficient to make me hate my own handwriting. So, this boils down to 2 questions: 1. can someone suggest a better approach to migrating sketches from OneNote to Inkscape? 2. is there something I can change in my Inkscape habits in order to be able to take notes directly in Inkscape? Alex --- read my poems and stories on railean.net

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Kudos for Inkscape
by Shawn H Corey 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

A recent article from opensource.com on the delight school children have in using Inkscape. Good news and kudos to all the developers of Inkscape. http://opensource.com/education/11/2/students-los-altos-delight-using-inksc… -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Confusion is the first step of understanding. Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. The secret to great software: Fail early & often. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS.

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Illustrator files.
by John Culleton 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

I have a vector file that was originally made in Illustrator. I downloaded it as a zip file. When I unzipped it the file had an .eps suffix. GV can view it. Converted to pdf acrobat reader can view it. Inkscape only gets a black background. Is there a way to manipulate this image in inkscape? Here is where I retrieved it. http://www.vectorportal.com/iFile/8566/ABSTRACT-BLACK-VECTOR- BACKGROUND.eps/inc_downloading.asp John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/

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divots in bevels
by Steven Parkes 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

In trying to do a minimal amount of glitz for a button with the beveling filter, it comes out with a bit of a divot. The result is at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11615635/lump.png Something to do with the house/home shape? Any way to cajole it into not doing that?

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cutting a sharp hole through a blurred object
by Steven Parkes 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

I haven't been able to figure out a way to do this, but my inkscape skills aren't too strong. I have a drawing that at the lowest level has an irregular glow. It's a freehand path-based polygon with a heavy blur on it. The blur is all alpha. On top of this is path-based, alpha=1 object; nothing special. I need to knockout an interior region of this to an alpha of zero. It's easy to knockout the alpha=1 object with path difference. However, I can't figure out how to cut a hole in the underlying glow-producing path. It's easy enough to do the path difference, but this actually cuts a hole in the glow-producing path which then blurs into the interior, the part I want to be alpha=0. What I'd like to do is kinda multiply the alpha channel of two paths/groups. The (incorrect) approximation of this is to take the png that I produce at the end and map a particular color to the alpha channel. This doesn't handle the anti-aliased edges correctly. Any suggestions?

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inkscape 0.48 universal binary for os x 10.4 tiger?
by Chris Pickett 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, Can you post an Inkscape 0.48 universal binary for OS X 10.4 Tiger? Chris

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I'm find advertising with SVG. mobile, web or others...
by Valessio S Brito 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm looking for work performed in SVG for advertising. May be work for internet or mobile devices, interactive or not. please, share links/yours jobs. I'm doing research for my course in advertising. I would like to demonstrate the use of SVG in advertising. Thank you. -- ://ValessioBrito.info > Comunicação e Tecnologia mobile: +55 71 VALESSIO

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PCWorld blog post about Inkscape
by Phil Shapiro 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi Inkscape fans, I had fun writing this PCWorld blog post about the use of Inkscape by thousands of students in the Los Altos, California, schools. see http://tinyurl.com/4clzzeh If you have a Twitter or Facebook account, thanks for sharing: Los Altos Students Delight in Using Inkscape (PCWorld) http://tinyurl.com/4clzzeh #inkscape #FOSS #creativity #design phil shapiro -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro@...2324... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens thru gentleness."

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Fonts, fonts & more fonts
by gespertino＠...155... 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Gaz: That sounds like a lot of fonts. I'd use a font manager to create groups (based on style, typology, etc.) and load and unload them when necessary. Having so many fonts active will only make difficult to choose, will make applications start slower and won't help much. For linux you can use FontyPython or Font Manager

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Where to find SVG artists/designers?
by Philip Rhoades 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

People, I have been on this list for quite a while because I am interested in SVG but I have to give one of my web sites a new look and feel and it occurs to me that there are some great people out there (who are much more artistically creative than I am) who could design a new logo, style sheet etc for us. I looked at DeviantArt but I couldn't see how to get a message into their system. What I am thinking of is maybe having a competition with prize money for the best SVG suite that is produced - how would I go about this? Is there a more appropriate list for this proposal? Any suggestions? The site to be revamped is: http://neuralarchivesfoundation.org For more info about what we are looking for, people could mail me: phil AT neuralarchivesfoundation DOT org (that will bypass my vicious spam filter) Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Where to find SVG artists/designers?
by xm 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

>> People, >> >> I have been on this list for quite a while because I am interested in >> SVG but I have to give one of my web sites a new look and feel and it >> occurs to me that there are some great people out there (who are much >> more artistically creative than I am) who could design a new logo, style >> sheet etc for us. I looked at DeviantArt but I couldn't see how to get >> a message into their system. What I am thinking of is maybe having a >> competition with prize money for the best SVG suite that is produced - >> how would I go about this? Is there a more appropriate list for this >> proposal? Any suggestions? Hi Phil, maybe the contest is nice idea. The problem is that in this kind of issues the difficulty of decide which design is the 'best'. One possibility is to organize the contest where the prize's selection system is decided crowdly by votations between an open community of designers. If you need this selection and you dont have the device to do it, one choice is build it on your own. Maybe is a nice idea to select material or styles in order to choose your collaborators. salut xà! -- GDT >> http://noconventions.mobi/graficantsDtrisseny/ dAAX! >> http://noconventions.mobi/x! tAZ >> http://noconventions.mobi/nvisible.taz/ HTDj! >> http://hackthedj.wordpress.com/ :::..::.......:.. : .. .. .:: . ..:.. .. . .. . .:.. ....... rm -rf / i ens ho carreguem tot.... >> The site to be revamped is: >> >> http://neuralarchivesfoundation.org >> >> For more info about what we are looking for, people could mail me: >> >> phil AT neuralarchivesfoundation DOT org >> >> (that will bypass my vicious spam filter) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Phil. >> -- >> Philip Rhoades >> >> GPO Box 3411 >> Sydney NSW 2001 >> Australia >> E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Fonts, fonts & more fonts
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

> I have over 1000 fonts and not the room to store them all > on the home drive Use a font management software, I explore fonts before doing designs... typically I even send screenshots of preselected fonts for sample text so that I don't have to install the fonts to do that. C

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