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Question
by ogicar135 22 Aug '20

22 Aug '20

Hello, I have a question about inkscape version 0.92.5. Is there a way to select a part of the object, if there is how to do that. Thanks for reading.

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suggestions for improvement
by Benjamin Simon 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

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Inkscape path to printed circuit board (PCB) extension uploaded
by Erich Heinzle 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

I have contributed a pair of extensions that I refer to as Inkscape2pcb in the Inkscape contributions gallery. The extension code is primarily hosted on github at https://github.com/erichVK5/inkscape2pcb These extensions make it easier to create freeform artwork and outline geometry on printed circuit boards (PCBs), by allowing export of Inkscape paths to PCB layout features. Export to the following formats is possible: 1) the pcb-rnd layout editor as a subcircuit in native pcb-rnd lihata file format (.lht) ( see http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/ ) 2) the gEDA PCB layout editor as a footprint in native gEDA PCB footprint format (.fp) ( see http://pcb.geda-project.org/ ) 3) KiCad users, indirectly, who can import gEDA PCB footprints from within KiCad ( see https://kicad-pcb.org/ ) The export script for pcb-rnd will also export paths as polygons, along with the outlines, provided the paths depict simple, non self-intersecting polygons. The pcb-rnd layout editor has a more capable data model than gEDA PCB, allowing polygons within footprints, and also load and save in KiCad formats. Enjoy responsibly! Erich

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Inkscape path to simple laser cutter gcode extension uploaded to gallery
by Erich Heinzle 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

I have contributed a simple export script that exports Inkscape paths as gcode suitable for cheap laser cutters running GRBL based controllers. I wanted a simple, no-nonsense exporter that produced g-code ready to send to a low cost ebay DIY laser cutter with a gcode sender like Universal g-code Sender ( see https://winder.github.io/ugs_website/ ). I have tested it with GRBL 0.8c on a stock ebay bought laser cutter with inkscape version 0.92. The laser control is simple on/off. The primary repository is at: https://github.com/erichVK5/inkscape2laserGRBL Enjoy responsibly, and avoid reflected and direct laser light exposure!! Regards, Erich.

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Question: Pattern-along-path (LPE) deforms circular path - known issue?
by Dieter Vogel 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

Hi, I'm Dieter and this is my first entry to this mailing list. As I really appreciate the efforts of the inkscape developers I would like to contribute by reporting issues/bugs. I've noticed that, whenever I add the LPE (Pattern along path) on a "perfect" circle (created with Ctrl -> make whole ellipse -> Object to path), the circle (the path for the pattern) gets slightly deformed - subsequently the pattern also doesn't follow a perfect circle. I'm able to replicate the problem (also with default preferences). Originally, I wanted to report this as a bug, but the inkscape website suggests to ask around first. So, does anybody know if this is a known issue or if it should behave like this (I suppose not)? On GitHub I couldn't find an entry for this particular issue. Thx, Dieter

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Hackfest Today! 4PM UTC Leadership/Board day
by Martin Owens 11 Jul '20

11 Jul '20

Dear Develoeprs, Users and everyone, Today is the first experimental online hackfest day. Go here to join: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/vec-tz3-fi9 Today we'll join joining teams and talking about what responsibilities different parts of the project do or should have as well as hosting a "Meet the board" meeting at 5PM UTC. Hope to see you all there! Next week: UX and design day! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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weird behavior Text along path group copy ungroup
by Francesco De Comité 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Open this code in inkscape (a text along a circular path). Group it all Copy paste Ungroupe : the text is no longer along the path. What's wrong with that code (progeamgenerated) ? Thanks <svg viewBox="0 0 500 500" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <circle cx="250.0" cy="250.0" r="119.04761904761904" fill="none" stroke="red" id="sphereceleste" stroke-width="0.5" /> <text font-family="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" font-size="7" > <textPath xlink:href="#sphereceleste" startOffset="20%">equateur</textPath> </text></svg>

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I send my email to the list
by Francesco De Comité 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

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Inkscape Vectors July Meeting Invitation
by Maren Hachmann 03 Jul '20

03 Jul '20

Hello everyone, the Inkscape Vectors (Marketing and Outreach team) are holding their monthly meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC. (time zone converted: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+… ) Find the proposed Agenda at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/162 . Please add your agenda item suggestions to the issue, and join us in the dedicated rocket.chat channel at https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors See you tomorrow! Maren

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Errores Inkscape
by Jonnika 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Hola que tal, Soy usuaria del programa inskcape, lo utilizó en la vectorización de patrones de costura que trabajo en otro programa específico Seamly y así puedo cortarlos en tela a través de láser e imprimirlos si hace falta. Me grabe la versión 1.0 para probarla, pero tengo algunas dudas al respecto de los errores que me salen, es normal, es mi ordenador?? - Suelo trabajar con varias ventanas, pero cuando ajusto las propiedades de documento, se quedan las ventanas abiertas y no las puedo cerrar, a veces desaparecen cuando cambió de archivo, pero se colapsa el programa se cierra y genera un archivo automático .................svg.2020-06-22-20-16-10.0.svg También se colapsa y se cierra si trabajas con dibujos que tengan mucha resolución o cuando quise utilizar: trayecto/vectorizar mapa de bits. Con la anterior versión alguna vez también se cerraba el programa pero no tanto como con esta. Pongo los datos de mi ordenador, por si ese es el problema. Mi ordenador es portatil marca Asus. Windows 10 Home 2019 Procesador Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU N2840 2.16 GHZ Memoria RAM 4,00 (3,89 GB utilizables) Sistema operativo 64 bits Procesador X64 Gracias Pilar

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matching drawing dimensions to print
by Kent Tenney 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Howdy, Inkscape 1.0(1.0+r73+1) A 5"x7" rect in a drawing prints to 4.75" x 6.75" Can this be tweaked in Inkscape? Is it a printer or driver issue? Thanks, Kent

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Inkscape Hackfest 2020
by Martin Owens 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Dear Inkscape developers and users, I've been thinking about how best we can host a hackfest for 2020 given all the restrictions. After talking with multiple people, I've decided that the best format for an online hackfest is to have one spread out over the summer. So may I present to everyone the Summer of Hackfest: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/161 This gitlab issue is just for organising people's preferences, and thoughts. Once I have times confirmed, I'm going to write everything in the regular hackfest wiki page for everyone. So. The idea here is to take advantage of the online nature of this year's hackfest activity and allow people more breathing room between sessions. Each week I'll be hosting a video chat which you will be free to join and just hang out in and where hopefully some of the important topics will happen once per week. No grueling commitment, no big block of time, just a predictable schedule of lovely inkscape topics which will be publisised to get more people involved than ever before. Please join me on GitLab to proposed topics and set your preferred times. I'm looking for one topic per week, so that's six topics. And thanks for your participation. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Positioning objects by center
by Robert Nickels 29 May '20

29 May '20

From other CAD software, I'm accustomed to being able to position an object in a drawing by it's center. For example, I want to locate a 1/2" circle at grid coordinates X 1.000, Y 1.000. In Inkscape, I can create my circle, no problem, and I can enter the X and Y coordinates of 1.000 and 1.000 and the circle appears - but the lower left-hand corner of the box that surrounds the circle is at that location, not the center of my circle, which is in fact at X 1.250 Y 1.250. My question is, how can I change the reference point, "handle", or whatever it's called in Inkscape to the center rather than the outside corner of this box? I can't believe this is not the default, but I also have not been able to figure out what Inkscape calls this, and how to change it. Thanks! Bob

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suggestions UI
by drschafer＠comcast.net 28 May '20

28 May '20

I'm a new user of Inkscape .92 but very long time graphics user (pixel, vector, 3D) and would be a better user if the UI was more customizable and so suggest these possibilities for change, or at least user options: Ability to move tool panel from being stuck at left edge to floating so we can put it where most useable. In all my programs I keep it near right edge of main screen. Ability to move toolbars on top.monitor screen wide enough to have both toolbars on one row instead of 2 rows Allow for use of color palette to be floating. and able to roll-up to a simple panel row; maybe even on toolbar row with dropdown arrow click Probably most important would be ability to drag any panel (or toolbar that changes into a panel) onto a second monitor. I normally use main monitor for workspace and tool panel and remaining tools/panels/etc. on the second monitor. All of above lends toward better efficiency and full screen use of workspace for artboards. Thankfully I can make the program window wide enough to let part of it on second monitor in default mode now. Doug

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LinuxUser is looking for German-speaking author(s) for Inkscape articles and / or workshop
by Maren Hachmann 19 May '20

19 May '20

Hi all, the German magazine 'LinuxUser' is looking for one or more German-speaking authors for writing articles about Inkscape (e.g. workshops, a review of 1.0). They are explicitly looking for someone who is *NOT* a member of the Inkscape community to exclude any bias. If you think that could be you, please send an email to redaktion(a)linux-user.de and also check out the hints for authors at http://www.linux-user.de/Autorenhinweise . Maren

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Re: starting Inkscape 1.0.0 (4035a4f) on Mac Mojave
by Alistair Kwan 07 May '20

07 May '20

An update: Inkscape 1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03) runs without problems. After successfully starting up and shutting down 1.0beta2, now 1.0.0 isn't starting at all.

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starting Inkscape 1.0.0 (4035a4f) on Mac Mojave
by Alistair Kwan 07 May '20

07 May '20

A couple of weeks ago, Inkscape 1.0.0 was running happily on my Mojave machine. Today, it won’t start. Instead, MacOS gives this error message: The last time you opened Inkscape, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again? There are two option buttons: Don’t Reopen, and Reopen. Both have the same effect: Inkscape vanishes. I have tried: - trashing pref files - trashing app support files - trashing Inkscape.app and re-installing from a fresh download Context: Inkscape 1.0.0 (4035a4f) MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 RAM: 24 GB Processor: 3.2 GHz core i5 Where should I be looking next to fix this?

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Inkscape 1.0 released
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 May '20

04 May '20

================ = Inkscape 1.0 = ================ Inkscape version 1.0 is now released. ---------------- You can watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/release-video-1-0/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.0 is a major milestone for the Inkscape project, following the update of our user interface toolkit GTK to GTK+3, which allows us to support custom theming and HiDPI screen resolutions, and to provide a native app for macOS (as a preview). We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/1.0 . The highlights of this release are: * Easier theming options * macOS support * HiDPI screen support * Rotating and mirroring of canvas * Alignment of object with on-canvas handles * Split view and X-Ray modes to inspect path geometry * Searchable symbols dialog * New live path effect selection dialog * PowerPencil Live Path Effect to draw variable width strokes with graphic tablets * Many new useful live path effects (corner rounding tool, offsets, measures...) * Performance improvements for path operations on large number of paths * Default coordinate origin has been moved to the top left * Improved text line-height support * Variable font support * Browser-compatible flowed text * Extensions now use Python 3 ----------------------------- 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://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-translator.lists.inksca… [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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Importing .ai gets cut off in Inkscape how to change width of import.
by Richard Anthony Horan 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

I am importing a file from Illustrator of the newest version. My file is wide and gets cut off. How do I stop it from being cropped on import.

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How to create curved text box
by Joe Duarte 22 Apr '20

22 Apr '20

Hi all – I'm trying to design some coins and need to place text such that it wraps along the curved rim of the coin. I can't figure out how to get a text box to curve or wrap. Any ideas? Here's a photo of a silver coin that has text like I've described: https://imgur.com/gallery/CuugtEA Thanks, JD

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Inkscape 1.0-rc1 (Release Candidate) and Inkscape 0.92.5 released
by Marc Jeanmougin 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

================ Inkscape 1.0-rc1 ================ We are about to release the long-awaited Inkscape 1.0 version which has a ton of new features and most notably runs on GTK 3 to provide decent support for macOS and HiDPI screens. We consider the state of this branch to be stable enough to warrant large user testing to prepare for the launch. A big thanks to all our developers, testers, translators, bug triagers, and vectors who are making this release possible! >> Download on https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0rc1/ << AppImage and snap are available for Linux users as well as a ppa coming soon, Installers (.exe, .msi) and portable app (.7z) are available for Windows and a .dmg is available for macOS. The full changelog can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/1.0 Please report all bugs you find on https://inkscape.org/report so that they can be triaged and fixed. =============== Inkscape 0.92.5 =============== Inkscape has launched the latest version in the 0.92 series, namely version 0.92.5. This update is a bugfix release, and its most notable improvements are python3 support for extensions, and better user font detection for Windows 10. >> Download on https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-0.92.5/ << The full changelog can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92.5 ============ Translations ============ We are always on the look for translators in most languages, and if you feel that the translation for your language is not complete or could be improved, feel free to join our translator teams by subscribing to our translators mailing-lists on https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-translator.lists.inksca… ======== Join us! ======== There is always room for new contributors! If you want to join and help the Inkscape project on the development side, or on your areas of expertise (whether it is documentation, translation, outreach to new users, promotion, UX research, etc.), all help is appreciated and we can help you find your place in the project. Feel free to contact us on IRC (#inkscape on freenode) or on https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/inkscape_user Thanks everyone! -- The Inkscape team ;)

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GitHub renders it.
by microsoft gaofei 10 Apr '20

10 Apr '20

https://github.com/vivebox/TREE3/blob/master/TREE(3).svg , GitHub renders it, but inkscape doesn't. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/href , they've deprecated xlink namespace, however, inkscape still uses some outdated attributes.

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Inkscape Compatibility with MacOS Catalina
by Holly Stogsdill 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Is there an updated Inkscape version that's compatible with MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 or later? I updated my operating system and now Inkscape no longer works 😥 Thanks, Holly

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Re: Issues with cutting paths
by Dave Roberts 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

Hi Maren & David, First, this is almost consistent on my system. The variation is that the erase line disappears (as you would expect) but does nothing with the underlying object. In no case have I seen it working on my system. I have removed the preferences file, so I’m working with the defaults set on installation. There are two issues here for me. First the Cut tool does not cut paths. I was trying the erase tool as a work-around. Second, the, is the non-functional erase tool. I am unwilling to restore Mojave, but if I did, I’d go back to Illustrator because I know how to use it. I like Inkscape, but to be a replacement for me, I need the cut tool. Do I need to make this into a formal bug report? Cheers, Dave > On 13 Mar 2020, at 23:29, Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de> wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > I've seen this happen a lot of times in my own Inkscape, and many people > have complained about it. > > In my Inkscape 1.0.x, I cannot reproduce the issue currently with your > file, though. > > There is a similar bug report here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1425794 that assumes it could > be related to the viewbox and any transforms. > > I was not able to find another open bug report, especially none on GitLab. > > There is one closed report > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1539778) on launchpad that > might be what you are seeing - but it's supposed to be fixed in your > Inkscape version (1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03)). > > As it works for me, but does not work for you, maybe a difference in our > preferences files could play a role, too. > > Does it always *not* work for you, or are there cases when it does work? > > Maren > On 14 Mar 2020, at 01:16, DJ Paul <tiggerdjpaul(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > I've had several issues with the version of Inkscape you are using that prevented me from completing drawings. Until the issues are resolved, I have been using the 0.92.4 version on Mac OS Mojave. You will have to build & install the 0.92.4 version using MacPorts. Info on how to do that is here; > > https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-0.92.4/mac-os-x/macports/dl/ > > It was fairly easy to do. I've had no issues with this build on Mojave. I am not using paths in my current drawings so I don't know if it will have the issues you are seeing in the beta builds. > > David

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Issues with cutting paths
by Dave Roberts 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

Hi, I’m a new user migrating over from Illustrator. I’m running a Mac (Catalina 10.15.3) and Inkscape 1.0beta2 (2b71d25, 2019-12-03). I have deleted the preferences file prior to this test. From a new, empty document, I created a couple of shapes. Following an online tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7TU7N3sn0) my installation does not cut paths using the eraser and the ‘cut out from paths and shapes’ setting. I get a [red] line (path) as in the tutorial, but it remains after I lift the mouse and the underlying shape remains intact. I can delete the red line in the usual way. On a second shape, I convert to a path, highlight a pair of nodes and click ‘cut’. The highlight on the nodes disappears, but the path remains intact. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Cheers, Dave

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