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Other pen "shapes" for caligraphy tool?
by Rob Antonishen 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Is there a way to change the shape of the calligraphy tool "nib". I found the setting for capping the end (can't remember what it was called) to mimic a round tip (at the end of the strokes. What I was hoping to do was emulate a split or notched tip to get parallel strokes that respect the stroke weight and gravity. -Rob A

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Fleshtones Palette
by Mr. Shawn H. Corey 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

I have created a GIMP palette for skin, eyes, hair, and lips. It is available at: http://www.magma.ca/~shawnhcorey/downloads.html http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Fleshtones_Palette However, I do not have a Windows machine handy to test the installation for it. Could someone help me? Specifically, could they send the installation instructions for Windows? -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn +------------\ | Shangri La \ | 40,000 km / +------------/

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Inkscape 0.46~svn Ubuntu .deb snapshot
by Bryce Harrington 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

HI all, For those on Ubuntu who would like to install and test the latest development snapshot of Inkscape, I've rolled .debs for Gutsy: http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/inkscape-Gutsy/ and for Hardy: http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Testing/inkscape-Hardy/ Bryce

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inkscape gallery changelog
by davide|inkscapegallery 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Hello again, well, i made some changes: i tried to follow suggestions about text colors and changed to a delicate ivory the pink ones , i've changed most of the purple titles and links to a vivid fucsia to avoid darkness in older monitor too. Honestly i can't tell you if this is an improvement but maybe i just need to get used to. I followed nicu suggestion about image size, this is what i've done: now the limit is at 1600x1600px, we had some problems with php timeout, but the hosting provider "diciannove" is our friend and they fixed right away. Nothing changed apparently but if you have a big screen you'll surely notice that the "test" image i posted takes all the screen window. I could use a landscape image to make it clearly visible, but what happens now is that if you have a 1600px wide monitor and you'll see the image (a 1600px wide image, clicking on the thumbnails or on the image in the full node view too) you will have the entire screen filled by the image powered by jquery thickbox. Pretty cool... ;-) Please give me feedback about the colour scheme changes, at this point you're the jury. :-) Da.

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Fwd: Automatically set Z-order
by Rob Antonishen 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Woo-Hoo Thanks to Kurt I was able to pull together an extension. It is ungainly slow because of the whole "calling another instance of Inkscape" deal , but it does work. This provides an option of restacking the selected objects in a direction (left to right, right to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top) as well as the point of each object to compare (top left, bottom middle, etc). Attached are before and after samples, as well as the extension. It registers as "Effects->Modify Path->Restack" I am running on Inkscape 0.46dev+devel, built Apr 28 2007, so ymmv if running .45 -Rob A>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document
by Matei Stroila 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hopefully, this time will work. I don't understand why the yahoo mail program deletes those lines. I did a test and it works if I add a "<": <<svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; version="1.0" width="800" height="600" viewBox="0 0 800 600" id="Parent"> <svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; version="1.0" width="41.4226" height="38.1808" viewBox="0 0 60 60" id="Child" x="127.653" y="22.089"> <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg>> So this is not a linked svg. I just add another svg as a child element. If you open this in Inkscape and select the the blue rectangle, its bounding box shows up really off. Thanks for help. Matei ----- Original Message ---- From: Tom Davidson <tjd@...589...> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 6:12:35 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document Hi, I still can't see the code you are trying to post. As far as I know Inkscape currently rasterizes linked SVGs before placing them, which might explain the trouble you are having. There is a bug report requesting better support for linked SVGs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171795 . Maybe you'd like to attach your sample document to that bug, then ask again for help on the list... -Tom On Jan 21, 2008 11:46 AM, Matei Stroila <mns3m@...12...> wrote: Sorry about multiple messages, but the svg example got stripped again. Trying now to use plain text message: <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg> Matei ----- Original Message ---- From: Matei Stroila <mns3m@...12...> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:26:47 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document I don't know why several svg lines got removed, here is the svg example that I am trying to edit with Inkscape: " <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg>" Matei ----- Original Message ---- From: Matei Stroila <mns3m@...12...> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:06:56 PM Subject: [Inkscape-user] question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document Hi all, I would like to use Inkscape to visually edit svg documents that contain other graphics as children svg elements like the following: <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg> If one clicks on the blue rectangle, the adorning bounding box does not correspond to the correct bounding box. So it is very difficult to resize or reposition these embedded svg elements. If there is no direct solution for this problem, then, given an svg file with paths and transforms, are there any API tools that allow computing the actual coordinates and remove the transforms so that the svg file has no longer transforms? Sort of like what a rendering engine does, but I would like to keep the svg format. Thanks for help. Matei Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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Re: [Inkscape-user] question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document
by Matei Stroila 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Sorry about multiple messages, but the svg example got stripped again. Trying now to use plain text message: <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg> Matei ----- Original Message ---- From: Matei Stroila <mns3m@...12...> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:26:47 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document I don't know why several svg lines got removed, here is the svg example that I am trying to edit with Inkscape: " <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg>" Matei ----- Original Message ---- From: Matei Stroila <mns3m@...12...> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:06:56 PM Subject: [Inkscape-user] question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document Hi all, I would like to use Inkscape to visually edit svg documents that contain other graphics as children svg elements like the following: <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg> If one clicks on the blue rectangle, the adorning bounding box does not correspond to the correct bounding box. So it is very difficult to resize or reposition these embedded svg elements. If there is no direct solution for this problem, then, given an svg file with paths and transforms, are there any API tools that allow computing the actual coordinates and remove the transforms so that the svg file has no longer transforms? Sort of like what a rendering engine does, but I would like to keep the svg format. Thanks for help. Matei Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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"behind fill" for outlines?
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hello all. There is a nice feature in Corel Draw, that I'd like to ask if it could be included in Inkscape. Or if already is there, please point me out how to use it. In CD, it is called "behind fill", and it is an option for outlines. You see, the outline "grows" both to the outside and to the inside of the given object. With "behind fill" turned on, we can only see the outside part of the outline, as if it were placed behind the object. One workaround for this is to duplicate the object, apply an outline, and put it behind the other object (without outline). But this involves more trouble, more objects, etc. hope to hear from you all cheers Carlos -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document
by Matei Stroila 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

I don't know why several svg lines got removed, here is the svg example that I am trying to edit with Inkscape: " <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg>" Matei ----- Original Message ---- From: Matei Stroila <mns3m@...12...> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:06:56 PM Subject: [Inkscape-user] question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document Hi all, I would like to use Inkscape to visually edit svg documents that contain other graphics as children svg elements like the following: <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg> If one clicks on the blue rectangle, the adorning bounding box does not correspond to the correct bounding box. So it is very difficult to resize or reposition these embedded svg elements. If there is no direct solution for this problem, then, given an svg file with paths and transforms, are there any API tools that allow computing the actual coordinates and remove the transforms so that the svg file has no longer transforms? Sort of like what a rendering engine does, but I would like to keep the svg format. Thanks for help. Matei Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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question about moving and resizing embedded svg children in an svg document
by Matei Stroila 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hi all, I would like to use Inkscape to visually edit svg documents that contain other graphics as children svg elements like the following: <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="60" style="fill:rgb(0,0,255);stroke-width:1 stroke:rgb(0,0,0)"/> </svg> </svg> If one clicks on the blue rectangle, the adorning bounding box does not correspond to the correct bounding box. So it is very difficult to resize or reposition these embedded svg elements. If there is no direct solution for this problem, then, given an svg file with paths and transforms, are there any API tools that allow computing the actual coordinates and remove the transforms so that the svg file has no longer transforms? Sort of like what a rendering engine does, but I would like to keep the svg format. Thanks for help. Matei ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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Export/save custom shapes
by Gabriel Rossetti 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hello, This is probably a dumb question, but I couldn't find anything on google. I am always making the same shapes and copying them from an old drawing to a new one, etc. I would like to export each of my custom shapes into an individual inkscape svg file, and be able to use them when making new drawings. How can I do this? I tried putting just one shape in a new drawing and saving it, but it saves the whole drawing, I just want the shape. Thank you, Gabriel PS Does anyone also know how to create a sort of palette that contain all my shapes (if I can find a way to export them of course) so I can just click on one to add it without having to open them through the open dialog?

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Inkscape textures
by Brian Vanderburg II 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

I've got an external texture made in the GIMP to be seamless. I import it into Inkscape and use it as a pattern. When I scale the object, but keep the pattern the same size, I sometimes notice at certain zooms or when scrolled to certain positions border lines, as if the pattern is not scaling uniformly or if there is some minor precision error where you can see a very fine border at some areas. This is not around all instances of the pattern in the object, but sometimes, just a single line in the middle of the object. Brian Vanderburg II

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How to use path effects
by Brian Vanderburg II 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

I'm still using 0801181659 snapshot and I'm using the live path effects. Where have the settings for the path effects been moved to? I add an affect (test all three), but the options/pattern paste button/etc is no longer there, just a 'Remove' button. Is there some menu command to open the path effect settings for the specific effect (path along path in this case)? Brian Vanderburg II

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Feature Request List
by Anthony Walter 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Could someone tell me if inkscape has these features or if they are on a road map. If they are not on the road map maybe someone could enlighten me as to why they are not. Here is my list ... 1. A layer pallet with the following functionality. Here is a basic screen shot of how it might look: http://codebot.org/inkscape/layers.gif The explanation: Add a layer pallet. The pallet should allow you to visually see each layer with thumbnail previews of each layer, element, and group. The pallet should allow you to create and delete layers as well as group and ungroup items. It should allow you to change item visibility and perhaps item opacity. You should be able to drag items in the pallet to reorder them. You should also be able to optionally change the names for items if you so choose. 2. True docking windows for color mixer, fill and stroke, and layer pallet, The explanation: Allow more windows to be docked to the right/left/bottom side of the main window. Remember the docked layout between inkscape sessions and provide the ability to dock or undock those windows.

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Inkscape filter effects causing crash
by Brian Vanderburg II 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

I'm using XP SP2 Inkscape 20080118 snapshop. When creating a filter effect for an object and connecting the filter to the fill color, activating the effect on the object causes Inkscape to close. I can connect the effect to the source graphic, but not the fill. The problem may also exist in other places of the filter effects. I sent this to both the user and dev lists because the last time I sent something to the dev list it didn't make it and I got a reply of some problem. It should make it to one of them. Brian Vanderburg II

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Hello I'm new ( Blending?)
by Joel Swensen 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

....and i have a question. i'm having a hard time finding a way to Blend two objects? Is this a feature that Inkscape has? I'm just so used to it being there, i hope it is. :) thank you -joel

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very small points, stars
by Terry Brown 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

I think the original thread was in the devel. forum, but just wanted to share my how to make a starry background trick. Rather than make a really small circle and clone it everywhere, just a draw messy scribbled line all over the area that needs stars, using the freehand tool. The kind of thing a toddler would give you to put on the fridge. Then set the line type to the most spaced out, smallest dashes, which are actually square (dash length = line width), so they look like little dots. Make the line white, on a black background you end up with little white points with a pleasing random distribution. Cheers -Terry

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Inkscape 0.46 About Screen Contest - We have a winner!
by Josh Andler 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hey All, As the subject says, we have a winner! With a majority vote: http://needcoffee.deviantart.com/art/Inkscape-0-46-About-Screen-73478652 Congratulations needcoffee! (that's his nickname, not me trying to be funny) We do want to thank all who participated in the contest. Whether you created entries for it, voted, or just sat back and watched it all unfold, thanks for your participation! We look forward to seeing what people do next time around. Speaking of next time around... watch out for another announcement shortly. ;-) -Josh

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Version 0.46
by Claus Cyrny 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi all, just one short question: When is version 0.46 (especially the autopackage) supposed to be released. I'm using Ubuntu "Breezy" (will have to upgrade sometime, though ;-). Claus -- Web design,graphics, photography: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (English|German) Articles: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=2153 (English)

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tetris SVG
by Terry Brown 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Here's someone's tetris in SVG, although maybe it's in javascript and SVG, anyway: http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/svgtetris/svgtetris.svg

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sharing with you
by davide|inkscapegallery 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hello, my name is Davide, i'm an inkscape user since i started playing with graphics, then it became a work. I started using inkscape for web-design too and then i had an idea after looking for inkscape resources on the internet. I've found many tutorials, some forums but i couldn't find what i expected for a vector graphic software: a web-site gallery, with the opportunity to publish your drawing inkscape made, so... so i did it and with my small company called nois3lab (http://www.nois3lab.it) decided to make the best we could to provide the inkscape's users community with a powerful web-site not only for self publishing of images but also to increase visibility for inkscape and for the users community too. Now we're almost ready to release it, we need someone to join us to fill the web-site with content (images for first) and to debug the web-site, making it comfortable even though we hope it already is. Actually there's a splash page on http://inkscapegallery.net to prepare users to the next release. We used drupal, cause it's open-source and cause we know it well, we tried to make it work the best it can. So, the development area is at http://test.inkscapegallery.net, if you'd like to, you can start to use it, posting your images, populating forums. We need 10 days of debugging and feedback, then we will move everything in http://www.inkscapegallery.net I know that inkscape.org already have a section called gallery, but i think that what inkscapegallery could be is quite different, we hope to give inkscape the best container for images created with it and the users the best place to submit their work. I hope that after the release we will collaborate with inkscape.org too, cause the primary goal of this web-site is to help inkscape knowledge growth, to give a place where to go to see what inkscape can do. I love inkscape.org cause it's full of documentation, resources, forums. Some of these will be in inkscapegallery to, but it is a gallery web-site for the most and we hope a great web-site gallery. I hope you will be happy to know what we are doing. As soon as the web site will be ready, i'll communicate and we will consider if and how to collaborate for the inkscape growing purpose. Thanks, Davide Ferrante nois3lab inkscape gallery

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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG and the Web
by heathenx 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Question: Is it a goal of an SVG website to use SVG text file or should we avoid it since it is not selectable in a browser. I'm referring to Nicu's example: http://svg.nicubunu.ro/ My paragraph text wasn't rendering like Nicu's so I figured that I could just write some text in the html document instead. I set the z-order so that the text would be on top of my SVG file. Should I avoid this method? Is this frowned upon? http://svg.heathenx.org heathenx

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Inkscape About Screen Contest - Community voting concluded
by Josh Andler 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hello all! If you're interested in finding out where things stand for the about screen contest, please visit the following journal entry on deviantART. http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16414256/ The developers are now being passed the top 3 to decide which one best fits the upcoming release. I will post back in a few days with results. -Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG and the Web
by Andreas Neumann 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

I totally agree with Nicu. You inkscape users (and others of course) should start serving SVG on your webpages. Browser makers complain that there is no SVG content out there. I am sure they will more quickly develop their SVG support, once there is more SVG content out there. Wikipedia is a good example. They store their files in SVG format, but server PNG per default. They should enable SVG per default and just server PNG as a fallback. At least one third of the browsers out there can display SVG: Opera, Safari, Firefox. None of them is perfect, but more SVG content would definitely challenge them to complete their support. BTW: the Webkit people just added SVG fonts support to the developers version of Webkit/Safari. So, after Opera, the Adobe viewer and Batik, Safari will be the next browser implementing SVG fonts. So, please start using SVG on the web, and direct users to good browsers, such as Opera, Safari, Firefox 3, instead of just waiting for them to complete their SVG support. Andreas > Chicken and egg: browsers will improve at a slow page until there are no > pages made with SVG and we will not create SVG websites until the > browsers are good enough. > We can wait until the browsers improve (and hope the development will > not be derailed by other priorities) or push SVG websites and force them > to improve. > > -- > nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com > Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org > my cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ > my clipart collection: http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 6, CH-8624 Grüt/Gossau, Switzerland Email: a.neumann@...2251..., Web: * http://www.carto.net/ (Carto and SVG resources) * http://www.carto.net/neumann/ (personal page) * http://www.svgopen.org/ (SVG Open Conference) * http://www.geofoto.ch/ (Georeferenced Photos of Switzerland)

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Is there a place to find a Version of Inkscape that works with Winbdows ME?
by Bibi Morris 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

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