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

15 Jan '08

A long, long time ago, Macromedia Freehand came with a plugin that exported your Freehand document to HTML. Basically, it turned all of the non-text graphics into a series of JPG's and the text was left as is in an HTML document. Here are two possible options that could make the use of SVG on the web less painful... 1)An Inkscape effect (or HTML export functionality) that generates PNG's (or separate SVG's) of all non-text graphics, then generates an HTML document that displays the graphics along with the original text. 2)An SVG-to-HTML program/script that creates separate SVG's for each non-text object in the original SVG document, then generates an HTML document that displays the new SVG graphics along with the original text. Personally, I would love to see Inkscape have the ability to export the document to a set of documents (HTML and associated PNG's and TXT's) that can be displayed as a web page. I can't help with that option, but I could try my hand at creating option 2 in Java. I haven't used my Java skills for over 2 years, so things will probably go a little slowly. If anybody has any ideas, suggestions or comments about such a program, please feel free to let me know. Heck... I might be taking the long way around for all I know. Please stop me if I'm heading in the wrong direction! - Tony

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Inkscape 0.46 About Screen Contest - Voting time!
by Josh Andler 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hello all! The submission period for the contest has concluded. Now it is time for the community voting. To find out more and to cast your votes, please visit the following link: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16298574/ We will count votes from the mailing list for people who do not have DA accounts, as we did last time. However, if you have a DA account or wouldn't mind signing up for one, it will make things much easier when it comes to tally time. Good luck everyone! -Josh

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Using <Object> to scale SVG file
by Gnosos 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi, I'm new to Inkscape and SVG. I've just created my first Inkscape graphic and now want to include it in my web page. I've learned to use the tag to do this, and it works fine except for one thing. The graphic is too big, and Firefox is automatically generating scroll bars to view the entire image (which does not fit into the height and width specified in the object tag). Is there any way to scale an SVG image at render time, either by using options in the object tag or by some other means? I tried using the object tag's subtag to specify height and width parameters, but that didn't work. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-%3CObject%3E-to-scale-SVG-file-tp14767164p14767… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Animated SVGs
by Claus Cyrny 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi all, when searching the Web for compositing software for Linux, I stumbled upon the web site of Flame <http://www.flameproject.org/index.php/Main_Page> (/not/ the compositing program by Autodesk). The goal of the developer is to provide a software for animated SVGs. I thought this might by interesting to some people here on the list. Flame is being developed under the GPL. Cheers, 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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OSX 10.5 - XQuartz 2.1.2 release
by rygle 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

The latest update for X11 on Leopard is out - see http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz here for the release details. This is greatly improved from the version that ships with 10.5 and is a recommended install. The http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/roadmap roadmap suggests that a Tiger version will be available sometime around March 2008. See http://www.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InstallHelp here for more general information. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/OSX-10.5---XQuartz-2.1.2-release-tp14782078p14782078.… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Lighting Filter Effects Help
by Rob Antonishen 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

I'm trying to get the Lighting Filter Effects (Diffuse and/or Specular) to actually do something.... Using .46 devel Dec 24/07 win32 binary. Has anyone been able to get these to do anything? -Rob A>

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PDF import in 0.46 Ubuntu build
by rygle 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Thanks to Bryce Harrington for the 0.46 dev build. No problems at all getting this running on ubuntu 7.10. My only problem is with PDF import - it just doesn't exist. The package recommends installing a whole lot of things, including pstoedit, imagemagick, python-XML and more. I installed all those. The only one I couldn't install was sketch, which protests on installation because it says a newer version of skencil is already installed. I also tried installing libcairo2-1.5.4 from the hardy package. This required a new version of libc6 from hardy, which required an uninstall and upgrade of tzdata to the hardy package, plus libpixman. Then libcairo2-1.5.4 seemed to install fine, but still no joy in Inkscape. Any thoughts. i386 live CD version of gutsy (7.10). Just trying to figure this out for a friend. Main program running well. Thanks, Rygle. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PDF-import-in-0.46-Ubuntu-build-tp14704404p14704404.h… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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SVG Viewers
by Cedric Sagne 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Thanks all for info on the SVG viewer topic. It never was the most convenient thing about SVGs (and anyway not Inkscape's fault) so I sort of did with it. I added a new section in the FAQ based on the comments here - a very constructive thread for all of us. Please bring your additional comments on the specific viewer you use. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Viewing_SVG_files_like_an_image… Cédric

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Mac users - please check install help wiki entry
by rygle 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi, While helping a friend start the install process on a Mac today, I checked out the wiki to find nothing there about the Mac process. So I wrote my own section, including the X11 installation. Problem is, I don't have a Mac of my own, and I can't verify what I've written. I won't see my friend to finish the X11 part for several days, and even then I will only do one of the three alternatives for X11. Can Mac users check it out http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InstallHelp here and please make any corrections? Can I encourage others to write entries there for different platforms, including the Autopackage method? If you've installed it before on a platform that isn't well explained, then please at least have a go. What a pity if people were turned off before even getting going! Cheers, Rygle -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mac-users---please-check-install-help-wiki-entry-tp14… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Inkscape SVN snapshot - Ubuntu .deb's
by Benjamin Huot 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Sorry about the previous html version - somehow I had the wrong setting so when I copied and from the web page, it added html. This version should be fixed. I tried the Inkscape SVN snapshot - Ubuntu .deb's on Ubuntu 7.10, but I don't see an entry for importing or opening PDFs in the open or import menu. I see that on a recent Mac OS X PPC version though which is older.

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Inkscape 0.46 About Screen Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hey all, The Inkscape team and community is proud to announce the About Screen contest for the upcoming release of Inkscape (0.46). The contest begins on December 22, 2007 and the deadline is January 6th, 2008. As with the past few contests we've had, it is being done on DeviantART ( http://www.deviantart.com/ ). You can find out more about it at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16001755/ Additionally, if you have a DeviantART account, please show the news some "love" so we can hopefully get the story promoted to the front page. http://news.deviantart.com/article/39226/ Good Luck! Have fun! Draw Freely. -Josh

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Inkscape 0.46~svn Ubuntu .deb snapshot (Bryce Harrington)
by Tony Vigil 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Bryce, Thanks for the new .deb file! Unfortunately, some of the effects don't seem to work any more, specifically perspective and envelope. When I run perspective effect, I get a dialog that says the following... "Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected." The dialog box also provides the following information... "Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/perspective.py", line 127, in <module> e.affect() File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py", line 153, in affect self.effect() File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/perspective.py", line 72, in effect q[query] = float(f.read()) ValueError: invalid literal for float(): Initting inputs Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input In " Is this the case on your install as well? Should I report this a bug or am I just missing a python component perhaps? - Tony

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splash screen
by gandalf the gray 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

I too want to submit a splash screen. I will do it by the end of Sunday (i.e. Jan.06 23:59, GMT +2). I was planning to do it earlier but I kept postponing this. I hope I won't be too late (I interpreted the current deadline as 00:00 Sunday, i.e. the beginning of the day, rather than the end.)

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My submission for the splash screen
by Alex 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hi fellow inkscapers! My splash screen is ready, I posted it here: http://railean.net/index.php/2008/01/06/inkscape_046_splash_screen_contest Unfortunately I don't have an account on deviantart, so I am using this mailing list to make my submission. On the page above you'll find the SVG, two variations of the splash screen, as well as some comments about it. It's 4 AM here %-) I hope I am not too late... Alex

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Inkscape SVN snapshot - Ubuntu .deb's
by Benjamin Huot 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

I tried the Inkscape SVN snapshot - Ubuntu .deb's on Ubuntu 7.10, but I don't see an entry for importing or opening PDFs in the open or import menu. I see that on a recent Mac OS X PPC version though which is older.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.46~svn Ubuntu .deb snapshot
by Bryce Harrington 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:22:38PM +0200, Nemes Ioan Sorin wrote: > I just installed this snapshot for Hardy - and there is a bug which froze > Inkscape when is to use Fill Bounded Areas. Anytime when I click with this > tool on the canvas ( on empty space OR on a shape ). > > Also this was present in a yesterday SVN compilation. I cannot reproduce this issue on gutsy - fill bounded area seems to always work correctly. > On the same system Inkscape which come from Ubuntu repositories (0.45) does > not have this bug. > > I'll put this on launchpad anyhow - I just respond on this list to see if > others can found the bug. Thanks, Bryce > Bryce Harrington wrote: >> 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 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing list >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Aligning strokes along a circle
by Claus Cyrny 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Hi all, I would like to align a number of cloned strokes around a circle, but wasn't able to find a howto at the Inkscape web site, or Tavmjong's online book, so I'm posting this to the list. I guess that it must be easy, but I just haven't figured it out, yet. Btw, I find the Inkscape documentation (and especially the book by Tavmjong) really great! Thanks, 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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Easily edit names
by Brian Vanderburg II 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

A lot of the names can be edited by right-clicking on an item, but some names can't be edited so easily, and even when this works, it is tedious when wanted to give meaningful names to many items. The XML editor could work, but would require a complete find-replace to replace the name. Instead it would be nice if there was a name manager that could show all the name used in a file, what type the name is (group, pattern, image id, etc), and even a preview of the time, and allow renaming it from there and making sure the new name is not used by something else. For example, the name linearGradient3313 doesn't mean much to me in a big file with many gradients. I'd rather name it to be more meaningful so if an item is to use the same gradient, I can more easily recognize it, esp. if it is similar to another gradient. The same goes with other things like patterns, etc, and it would be nice to have an easy-to-use name/id manager for them. p.s Not sure if this is the correct place to send this. Sorry if not. Brian Vanderburg II

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Inkscape and DXF files?
by Jim Ford 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

The school where I work has a laser cutter attached to a pc. The pc runs 'PC Design', outputing to the cutter. http://www.techsoftuk.co.uk/techsoft_software.htm As well as it's own propriety files, PC Design will accept dxf files to output to the cutter. I've tried importing dxf files created with Inkscape into PC Design, but they don't get rendered. Are the dxf files created by Inkscape's export non standard or otherwise 'funny'? Does anyone know of a 'workaround' for this problem, please? Jim Ford

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distort a clone
by Donn 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

I suspect the answer will be "WTF! Are you mad?", but is there any way to distort (envelope/perspective) a clone? \d -- I have a low-traffic blog for basic news: http://otherwiseingle.blogspot.com/

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Default Save Format
by Docsonic 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

I am using the latest windows build of Inkscape (0801032322) but this has been happening for a while. I saved a document as a Cairo PDF which worked fine. Now my save format defaults to Cairo PDF instead of svg? I can see this would be useful to someone who wants a different default format but I expected the format to revert to svg. Curiously, if I open the pdf I saved and do Save As, it does revert to svg but if I open a new document and do Save As, it still reverts to pdf. If I save a document as svg and then try a new document, it does show svg so it is generally using 'last used'. I am not sure if this is a bug or a feature but if there is intent to make the save format persistent then shouldn't it have a setting somewhere to disable it? It seems counterintuitive as it currently is. Thanks, Tony -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Default-Save-Format-tp14615692p14615692.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Linking objects to a path for quick and easy bending around
by username132 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Is there some way that I can link objects to a path so that I can change the path and have the objects follow it? I've made an SVG to demonstrate what I mean (in this example, I had to move the objects manually to match the path. This would be a very tedious method for my actual intention. http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1198962735.svg http://www.petaimg.com/uploads/1198962735.svg My actual intention is to construct a PCR (OE-PCR) illustration for Wikipedia. If you take a look at this, made by someone else: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/DNA_polymerase.svg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/DNA_polymerase.svg you see the DNA strands that I have in mind. I want to be able to bend them easily as though they were a single contiguous path, without having to re-adjust each object. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Linking-objects-to-a-path-for-quick-and-easy-bending-… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Replacing all stamped copies of an object
by Rob Antonishen 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Say I have an object (a circle for example) that I have stamped a whole bunch of times by draging and clicking the spacebar. Is there an easy way to replace each of them with a different object stamp? Sort of an object search and replace? -Rob A.

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[NEW] blend modes moved to layers
by MenTaLguY 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Because SVG has problems dealing with blends on non-top-level children (in our case, that generally means non-layers), I've moved blend modes selection to the layers dialog and made it per-layer rather than per-object. If you have existing artwork with blend modes on individual objects, or want to create new artwork with blend modes on individual objects, that can still be done from the SVG filters dialog. -mental

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using inkscape to convert svg to jpeg - from a plugin
by Jayesh Salvi 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Hi, If you might have noticed, I posted a message about the plugin/extension I wrote to upload images to Flickr/Picasaweb. An important part of this plugin is to convert SVG to JPEG, because both of the above services don't accept SVG images. So the solution I am using in the current version of plugin is, using ImageMagick's "convert" command to do the above image format transformation. This is not an elegant approach, in my opinion. I can't get it to work on windows, etc. I know Inkscape can let you save an SVG image as jpeg. But don't know how to do this programmatically. My extension works as an "output" extension, so it is triggered by the filename extension (.web). This mechanism pretty much isolates the extension developer from having programmatic interface with inkscape functionality. So I am not sure how I can access inkscape's svg-2-jpeg functionality, if at all there is an API exposing it. It is also a possibility to fork another inkscape instance as command line and use --export-png to convert to PNG (I think flickr/picasa will accept png). But the conversion result was very poor when I tried it. When the SVG image contained some simple black lines on a white background, the resultant PNG contained only black lines and no background. Any suggestions around these ideas will help. Thanks in advance. Cheers! Jayesh

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