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Win32 041008 Build Backtrace
by Alvaro Schneider Guevara 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hello list, I've got an assertion failed in 041008 from http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D. Inkscape does not start. If there's anything I could do to solve this, please don't hesitate in telling me. I could not manage to put the backtrace to a text with symbol-file, so I captured the thing. Thank you all. Cheers. -- ÁLVARO SCHNEIDER GUEVARA Gerencia de Desarrollo IGUANAE: Infraestructura, Desarrollo y Consultoría en Open Source. Tels. (+57)(091)2024070 - (312)5719046 Este mensaje y sus anexos son confidenciales. No podrá ser revelado ni utilizado por nadie que no sea el destinatario. Si lo recibiera por error, por favor avise al remitente, y destruya el mensaje inmediatamente. Gracias. This message and its attachments are confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify us and destroy this message inmediately. You must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Thank you.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] 0.47 on Win32 request
by Diederik van Lierop 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Op Do, 2 oktober, 2008 06:50, schreef Alvaro Schneider Guevara: > Hello Everybody! > > Does anybody has compiled the Win32 0.47 yet? > Hi Alvaro, There is no v0.47 yet, but you can download development versions here: http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en Look for the header "Development versions" Regards, Diederik > Thanks in advance. > > -- > ÁLVARO SCHNEIDER GUEVARA > Gerencia de Desarrollo > IGUANAE: Infraestructura, Desarrollo y Consultoría en Open Source. > Tels. (+57)(091)2024070 - (312)5719046 > > Este mensaje y sus anexos son confidenciales. No podrá ser revelado ni > utilizado por nadie que no sea el destinatario. Si lo recibiera por error, > por favor avise al remitente, y destruya el mensaje inmediatamente. > Gracias. > > This message and its attachments are confidential. If you have received it > in error, please notify us and destroy this message inmediately. You must > not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Thank you. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/_________________… > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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CorelDraw importation with uniconvertor
by Frederik Himpe 05 Oct '08

05 Oct '08

I try to get CorelDraw cdr files importation working with uniconvertor on Mandriva Linux. uniconvertor is installed and working fine (the binary is called uniconvertor). I have /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/cdr2svg.sh with these contents: #! /bin/sh rc=0 TMPDIR="${TMPDIR-/tmp}" TEMPFILENAME=`mktemp 2>/dev/null || echo "$TMPDIR/$$"` TEMPFILENAME=${TEMPFILENAME}.svg unviconvertor "$1" "${TEMPFILENAME}" > /dev/null 2>&1 || rc=1 cat < "${TEMPFILENAME}" || rc=1 rm -f "${TEMPFILENAME}" exit $rc and there is also /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/cdr_input.inx: <inkscape-extension> <_name>Corel DRAW Input</_name> <id>org.inkscape.input.cdr</id> <dependency type="executable" location="path">unviconvertor</ dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">cdr2svg.sh</ dependency> <input> <extension>.cdr</extension> <mimetype>application/vnd.corel-draw</mimetype> <_filetypename>Corel DRAW 7-X4 files (*.cdr)</_filetypename> <_filetypetooltip>Open files saved in Corel DRAW 7-X4</ _filetypetooltip> <output_extension>org.inkscape.output.cdr</output_extension> </input> <script> <command reldir="extensions">cdr2svg.sh</command> </script> </inkscape-extension> However when trying to open a cdr file with File - Open or File - Import in inkscape, I get the message: Failed to load the requested file And at the command line there is: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found RIFFJ which gives the impression that it interprets it as an svg file. How do I get this working correctly? -- Frederik Himpe

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Exclude drawing area
by Johannes Bauer 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hello list, I'm fairly sure that what I'm trying to accomplish is quite common, but I don't know how to do it in inkscape: Say I have a complex group of paths (of different widths and so) and I want a certain area of that path to not be drawn. Currently what I do is I create a second layer on top and move a white, filled rectangle above the places which I do not want to have drawn. This has one problem, however: When the svg is exported as png, the "not drawn" area is (of course!) white instead of transparent. If I make it transparent, however, it will (also of course!) not cover the background. I've played around with the AND and XOR functions of the Path menu, but I don't quite get how they work. Sometimes everything disappears, sometimes nothing happens. How do you do this the *right* way? Thanks in advance, Johannes

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Italian Translation of Guide Book
by Tavmjong Bah 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Ciao! I am pleased to announce that a partial Italian translation of my guide book for Inkscape is now available at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html_it/ The Introduction and Quick Start (tutorial) sections have been translated thanks to Luca Flori. More translation work is planned. Italian now joins French (complete) and Spanish (partial) in having translations available. Tav

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0.47 on Win32 request
by Alvaro Schneider Guevara 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hello Everybody! Does anybody has compiled the Win32 0.47 yet? Thanks in advance. -- ÁLVARO SCHNEIDER GUEVARA Gerencia de Desarrollo IGUANAE: Infraestructura, Desarrollo y Consultoría en Open Source. Tels. (+57)(091)2024070 - (312)5719046 Este mensaje y sus anexos son confidenciales. No podrá ser revelado ni utilizado por nadie que no sea el destinatario. Si lo recibiera por error, por favor avise al remitente, y destruya el mensaje inmediatamente. Gracias. This message and its attachments are confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify us and destroy this message inmediately. You must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Thank you.

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Exclude drawing area?
by Johannes Bauer 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hello list, I'm fairly sure that what I'm trying to accomplish is quite common, but I don't know how to do it in inkscape: Say I have a complex group of paths (of different widths and so) and I want a certain area of that path to not be drawn. Currently what I do is I create a second layer on top and move a white, filled rectangle above the places which I do not want to have drawn. This has one problem, however: When the svg is exported as png, the "not drawn" area is (of course!) white instead of transparent. If I make it transparent, however, it will (also of course!) not cover the background. I've played around with the AND and XOR functions of the Path menu, but I don't quite get how they work. Sometimes everything disappears, sometimes nothing happens. How do you do this the *right* way? Thanks in advance, Johannes PS: This is my second try for posting on the inkscape-user list, might it be that SF.net has some problem with lists? I cannot find my original posting (identical content, from yesterday) within the archives anywhere.

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Batch resize of .svg files.
by Gian Paolo Mureddu 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hi list. I was wondering if I could perform a batch resize of many small .svg files using Inkscape's command-line arguments? The --help doesn't state much about this, and the only options having to do with size seem to be width and height, or should I use something else like ImageMagik? I'm on Linux, by the way.

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2nd Edition of: Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program.
by Tavmjong Bah 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hi, I am pleased to announce that the 2nd edition of my book "Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program" is available at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.html A PDF version can be obtained at: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=9780137004720 (The book has actually been available for the past month but it came out just as I was leaving for vacation.) The 2nd edition covers all the new features of Inkscape version 0.46 including SVG filters, "Live Path Effects", the 3D Box Tool, and the Tweak Tool. Loïc Guégant of Cévennes Libres has done an amazing job of translating the entire book into French. It is available at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html_fr/index.html A partial Spanish translation by Ocetalo is also available and an Italian translation has been started but is not yet available. I would like to thank all the people who have sent me comments and corrections to the previous versions of the book, and to thank Jon Cruz and and Loïc for corrections to the current version. Thanks also to Loïc and Ocetalo for their translation work and to everyone who has contributed to making Inkscape such a great program! Tav

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Tavmjong's Book - guide to a vector drawing program
by Donna Benjamin 24 Sep '08

24 Sep '08

Hey Tavmjong, I bought your book! http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0131357948 and now I really want a printed copy too. I tried uploading it to lulu.com as a private project to purchase a print copy, but it can't be printed there because the fonts are not embedded. Just wondering if you (or your publisher) has plans to make it available as print on demand? I know a school that also wants to buy a couple of copies for the school library. I've posted this to inkscape-users, because I imagine there are others who might like a printed copy, and support your excellent efforts in writing it! cheers Donna -- Software Freedom Day 2008 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/melb A world wide celebration of Free and Open Source Software Melbourne event at The Hub@...2567... and the community behind it. 11am - 4pm, Saturday 20 September

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Tiled clone to create radial symmetry
by Dave M G 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Inkscape Users, I am relatively new to Inkscape, and I'm trying to learn how to use Inkscape's tiled clone feature. What I would like to do is take an upside down triangle that is tall and skinny, and rotate it around it's bottom point so as to create a radial pattern. Sort of like the rising sun flag of old Japan. So far I have figured out that I can set the number of columns to 15 and rotate them 22.5 degrees to get a total of 16 copies, including the original. That produces the right number of copies at the right angle. But, I can not get them positioned right. The settings of the "Shift" tab completely elude me. I thought if I experimented enough I would eventually figure out what they are doing and dial in on the right settings. No such luck. Each experimental setting scatters the triangles all over the screen in what might as well be random dispersals for all I can tell. How do I get each triangle to have it's bottom point stay at the centre of the radial pattern? Thank you for any advice. -- Dave M G

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Inkscape labrat
by Steren 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi, I recently started a new blog featuring the latest Inkscape features currently in the development version. It's just for people who are curious to see what will be in the next release and who don't want to compile or try it by themselves using automatic builds. Check it here : http://inkscapelabrat.wordpress.com/ Of course, this blog is open, if you want to post on it, contact me. Steren

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ABLEConf this weekend in AZ (and a request for images)
by Josh Andler 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Hey all, This Saturday, September 20, 2008 in Tempe, AZ (USA) the first ever ABLEConf will be taking place. I will be doing a presentation as well as Q&A session on Inkscape there (in addition to the many other speakers that will be there that day). If you are in AZ I'd recommend coming if possible. Additionally, if you are in AZ and not in the Metro Phoenix area, people from around the state are trying to arrange ride shares to reduce the cost for everyone making a trip. To find out more about the conference, the location, and the ride sharing go to http://www.ableconf.com/ Additionally, I was asked to put together a gallery of images created with FLOSS tools. So far I have mostly gathered illustration and some design work from some Inkscape users via deviantart, however a lot of people have not responded to messages (a lot of people don't log in as much as they used to). So... that leads to the following request: If you have any images created/edited/composited with any FLOSS tools such as Inkscape, The GIMP, Krita, Karbon14, Blender, Scribus, or your other favorite open source apps please get in contact with me directly. We'd love to display your work and credit you appropriately (it's a great way to get free advertising if you're looking for contract work). Note that were looking for Illustrations, Design (web, logos, marketing materials, etc), diagrams, blueprints, photography (obviously color corrected, manipulated, etc), industrial or trade related images, and the list could go on. A focus of the conference and this image gallery is to show the small businesses how versatile and powerful the tools available are. Oh, and if you want to pass on the word too that would be more than welcome! :) Cheers, Josh

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JPG-Import
by Hago Ziegler 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Hi, I mostly use the newest builds from inkscape.modevia.com/win32/ For some time now I'm not able to import JPGs bigger than 30 kb into Inkscape. I first have to save them as PNGs, then I can import the images. The last build with which the JPG-import worked normally, was 19770 from august 30. Is this a known thing, or is it a misbehaviour just on my machine? Regards, Hago

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".eps problem"
by LaMark Lee 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hello, I've tried to load vector images format .eps and Inkscape would not allow me. Any suggetions. Contact me whenever you get a chance. Thanks!

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OT? SMIL seems dead, alternatives?
by Patrick 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

I registered with smil@...2562... I was notified of my acceptance but my questions but they were never posted. There is no SMIL player in the Ubuntu repositories. I don't really want to manually compile one, or use a windows based one, or pay for one. SMIL just seems unsupported. From what I have read, streaming video has made SMIL less desirable. I don't have any real experience with it but it looks like a great idea. I would love to be able to use this to animate my SVGs and to control the audio. I could convert the video after to another format for mass viewing. Is there another alternative to SMIL?, something that can be used to dictate the timing of individual images and audio files? Sorry if this is off topic-Patrick

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Anyone up for testing in Canada?
by Jon A. Cruz 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

http://svg.org/story/2008/9/12/13254/9530 "An SVG Tiny 1.2 test fest will be held Sept 29 - Oct 2, 2008 in Ottawa, Canada." People in the W3C SVG groups have asked if we might have anyone in the area who could attend the "Test Fest". So, do we have anyone who might be able to make that?

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Windows printing problem
by Docsonic 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Some time shortly after the Devlibs update, the windows printing went wierd again. To test I drew a simple rectangular object of 1/2 a page or so and saved it. Then I printed it to a pdf pseudo printer to generate a pdf, first using vector printing, then bitmap. The svg is fine, the bitmap pdf is fine, but the vector pdf comes out scaled down to approx 40% of the original. I tried this with the latest svn to make sure it wasn't fixed and the problem is still there. Please see the attached files for clarification but note that none of the pdfs were generated by Inkscape, they are all 'print' output. http://www.nabble.com/file/p19415057/Print%2Btest_vector.pdf Print+test_vector.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p19415057/Print%2Btest_bitmap.pdf Print+test_bitmap.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p19415057/print%2Btest.svg print+test.svg Thanks, Tony -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Windows-printing-problem-tp19415057p19415057.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Extension Create Separation CYMK (Valessio S Brito)
by Guillermo Espertino 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

> Aurium make a extension created separation CYMK: > view: http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/InkscapeCMYKSeparator > > very util to Silk-screen.. > > -- > .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info That's great Valessio! I tried to install that extension in inkscape 0.47svn but it refuses to work. Apparently the .inx formatting changed and the extension hasn't a valid code for the new inkscape. Could you please ask the autor of the script to fix it? I'd really like to test it since CMYK output is one of the things that are keeping me from adopting inkscape as my main (and only) vector illustration application for print. I'd love to see this extension as part of inkscape. A separated CMYK tiff exporter using the output of this script would be terrific. I'd also like to know if the CMS code is taken in account to do the separations. If not, maybe the separate+ GIMP plugin would be a good place to start.

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SVG web kick start?
by Patrick 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

This might be a really dumb idea but here goes....... I wrote a script in Python using urllib2 to retrieve data I need for my business. I wonder if we could create a scraperbot(and I would need help) that would read the text component of SVG only sites. Perhaps we could then mirror all this data somewhere else so that the search engines would index it? I bet this would not count as duplicate content as the first SVG site was not indexed anyways. In effect I guess what I am proposing is a mini-me-google bot, if the search engines won't index it we could do this for them. -Patrick

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Animation via png frames from Inkscape
by Donn 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi, I have been thrashing around the net looking for a solution and thought to ask here because I can't get no satisfaction ;) I want to draw the frames of a small animation (ajax throbber) with Ink. Ideally I would do this: 1. Draw the frames - all on one layer. Use tricks like interpolate etc. 2. Select everything and press *magic button* which would a. Split each object to it's own layer. So I can at least pull it into Gimp and animate/export from there. OR b. Allow me to export each to a png *without* anything in the background so I can go directly to imagemagick to make the final gif. The problem with things as I find them now (and I hope I am missing the obvious) is that exporting includes stuff that's underneath the bounding box. I want a clean single object/layer in my PNG per frame, not one including all the stuff around/behind it. A kind of 'batch export each item while hiding *all* others each time' option. Any hope ? \d

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Extension Create Separation CYMK
by Valessio S Brito 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Aurium make a extension created separation CYMK: view: http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/InkscapeCMYKSeparator very util to Silk-screen.. -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Inkscape cannot preserve the italics of imported pdf files
by Paul Smith 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

Dear All, Inkscape cannot preserve the italics of the text of an imported pdf file. Can this be considered a bug? I am using Inkscape 0.46 on Fedora 9 (Linux). Thanks in advance, Paul

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landscape printing?
by Elwin Estle 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

I know I saw someone else post something about this. I cannot seem to print in landscape mode in Inkscape 0.46. I used a slackbuild from Slackbuilds.org on Slackware 12.1 (source compile). I tried the workaround posted on the site below, but lpr apparently expects a printer directly hooked to a parallel port and mine is a network printer. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/219640 I also tried printing to a file and then to the printer (an HP LaserJet 6MP hooked to an HP JetDirect 300x Network printing interface), I still got portrait mode. I suppose I can do everything in Landscape, then group the whole works and rotate it 90 degrees, but I am wondering if someone has found a workaround for this.

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outline-drawing for specific layers and general performance-improvements
by Dennis Schulz 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hello, currently i'am working on an relativly complex drawing. its a cinema seatplan.with all those detailed seats inkscape is renders really slow and freezes a lot of times. the outlinemode is working well but it would be nice if i could turn it on for only one or more specific layers. this is a feature-request.. some others ideas to speed up inkscape? its fine for simple graphics but gives a slow-motion-feeling at bigger jobs. i've read some discussions about multicore-support and i would also appreciate that. normally i'm a software-developer so my point of view is perhaps a little bit different from that one a normal user has. i know that this isn't a trivial thing but imho it has to be done to moving on to the magic you can do with adobe's illustrator or the freehand-thing. i'm not shure but i think that illustrator cannot do that too. whats about rendering with the gpu? a pluginable renderingsystem to be platform-independent. ok.. for now.. greetings and have a nice day :) -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Dennis Schulz Fon: +49.203.73 82 0 95 Mobil: +49.160.78 75 4 66 http://www.port42.org http://www.nuenni.de

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