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Vacuum defs minor problem
by Brian Vanderburg II 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

I'm not sure if this is only my problem or not, but vacuuming defs only seems to work when the file is freshly opened/reverted. If I make changes to a file that causes new defs to be created, then delete something else that no longer needs some defs and do a vacuum defs, it does not. If I save the file and then do a vacuum defs, it still does not. Only if I reopen and then vacuum or save then revert then vacuum does it seem to work. It's not too big of a deal, but the file size is reduced a little when the unused defs are no longer there, and I normally do this before saving without thinking about saving, reverting, vacuuming, and then saving again. I'm on XP SP2, and this seems to be the case with 0.45 and a development snapshot I've recently downloaded. Brian Vanderburg II

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More control over gradients
by Brian Vanderburg II 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

First of all thanks for such a great product. I know that full control can be achieved by directly editing the file, but I don't know how much Inkscape might still change. After looking though the files produced by Inkscape, I know that for each item that uses a gradient, a special 'dummy' gradient is created that uses the 'real' gradient. This makes it where each item can have it's own transforms for the gradient. But, what if I want two items to use the same transforms, the same 'dummy' gradient. I could use a clone, but what if I have an ellipse and a rectangle, but both I want to use the same gradient. Here is how it currently works: linearGradient1234 (real gradient with real stops) | |- linearGradient2345 (dummy gradient uses 1234) | | | |- rectangle (using dummy gradient 2345) | |- linearGradient7890 (dummy gradient uses 1234) | |- ellipse (using dummy gradient 7890) What I want to be able to do is this: linearGradient1234 (real gradient with real stops) | |- linearGradient2345 (dummy gradient uses 1234) | |- rectangle (using dummy gradient 2345) |- ellipse (using dummy gradient 2345) So that any transforms I apply to the gradient used by the rectangle will also affect the ellipse. Perhaps something that would be nice would be a 'graph' editor for gradients (and for other things maybe as well) that would show the 'real' gradient, and any 'dummy' child gradients connected, grandchild gradients,etc, or something where you can define the actual relationship however you want. Then, when assigning a gradient you can select from not a gradient list only showing the 'real' but a tree, where the items in the root of the tree are the top gradients and sub-items are child gradients that use the top gradients or their parent gradients (support for any level of nested gradients, grandchild gradients, etc) When editing a gradient for an item, the ability to 'pick' which gradient is being edited would be nice as well. For example. If my document is like this: linearGradient1234 (real gradient with real stops) | |- linearGradient2345 (dummy gradient uses 1234) | |- rectangle (using dummy gradient 2345) | |- linearGradient7890 (dummy gradient uses 2345 which uses 1234) |- ellipse (using dummy gradient 7890) When editing the gradient of the ellipse, I can choose to edit gradient 7890 which would only affect the ellipse, or I can edit 2345, which would affect both the ellipse and the rectangle, or I can edit the stops of 1234, which would affect both. This would also make it easy to have a master transformation in 2345 that affects both and a fine-tuned transformation in 7890 just for the ellipse. Perhaps even the same idea could be applied to anything, such as patterns as well. Brian Vanderburg II

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Create inkscape gradient to use in the Gimp
by D. Jones 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

I understand that the Gimp has the ability to svg gradients. How do you create a svg gradient with Inkscape? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 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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resizing page without resizing drawing?
by Daniel Lenski 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hi all, I've been using Inkscape (version 0.45 under Ubuntu) for a couple of months mostly to make technical drawings and diagrams for use on Wikipedia. I love it, but there's just one thing that's driving me nuts! There's no way to resize the page without resizing all the objects in it. For example, I may have an object that's exactly 36×24 mm on an 8×10" page. If I change the page size to A4, all the objects change their size. The only way to restore it is to calculate the *exact* scale factor and then rescale them afterwards... and even then there are sometimes some rounding errors :-( So is there a way to resize the page without scaling the objects within? Thanks! Dan Lenski

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export id to PDF
by Alexander Bonivento 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hello everyone! strange to say, i need your help once more. As usual by me, it's a bit complicated... It may seem a bug, but i also think it may be me, so here's the explanation. NOTES: i'm using Inkscape 0.45+devel (Dec 8 2007) All of this is done via PHP, no human action. Here i am reporting values dumped from the PHP script itself The issue: Plz cosider this simple code: <svg width="2160in" height="2160in" viewBox="0 0 2160 2160" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve" shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <g id="text_4" transform="translate(1080,1080)"> <text id="text_4_1" transform="translate(0,0)" style=" text-anchor:start; font-size: 90; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; fill: #000000; fill-opacity: 1; stroke: none;">SCHOOL BOARD</text> </g> </svg> It's simply a textline inside a big canvas. What i need to do is to export in PDF only the text_4 object. I need it perfectly trimmed, so that the PDF will be exactly sized over it. As the export-id option seems to work only for PNG export, i tried to do this: - use query-width and query-height to find "text_4 object" size - create a new SVG using the resulted values as width and height - finally export the new SVG in PDF The results of the queries on the avobe file are: inkscape -z svgfile.svg --query-width --query-id text_4 => 66073.068 inkscape -z svgfile.svg --query-height --query-id text_4 => 8594.1 NOTE: I queried text_4 and not text_4_1 because sometimes i will have multiline texts here, and so other text_4_2, text_4_3, etc... inside text_4. text_4 is the container, i need all the "text_4_xxx" in the same PDF. Anyhow, for this specific case, i also tested the query on ID text_4_1: as expected, same result. Values are "SVG user units", which are 90 DPI. So next i divided the values by 90: 66073.068/90=734.1452 8594.1/90=95.49 And finally i create the "last" SVG file: <svg width="734.1452in" height="95.49in" viewBox="0 0 734.1452 95.49" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve" shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <rect x="0" y="0" width="734.1452" height="95.49" style="fill: none;" /> <g transform="translate(0,95.49)"> <text id="text_4_1" transform="translate(0,0)" style=" text-anchor:start; font-size: 90; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; fill: #000000; fill-opacity: 1; stroke: none;">SCHOOL BOARD</text> </g> </svg> As you can see, it's the same identical "text_4_1" line, there's nothing there to alter it. At this point i would have expected the PDF exported from this 2nd SVG to be fine... but it's not at all. Any ideas/suggestion/hints? Am i doing something wrong? Is there some simpler way to export a "trimmed" object alone in a PDF file? I think i may have missed something about SVG units conversion, maybe. Thanks in advance, sorry for the long post. Alex

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lxml + numpy (on OS X PPC but not only)
by jiho 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

Hi everyone, In order to provide out of the box python functionality on OS X for the upcoming 0.46 release, we'll bundle the python packages Inkscape uses in all flavors (i.e. ppc and intel, for every version of python). I would need someone who has these packages installed to send them to me: - lxml and numpy ppc with python 2.4.* - lxml and numpy ppc with python 2.5.* These two versions of python are *not* the one shipped with Mac OS X Panther or Tiger. They are typically obtained via MacPorts, Fink or the binary distribution of Python for Mac. MacPorts versions are in / opt/local/Framework/Python/.../lib/site-packages. Versions for the binary distribution of python are probably somewhere in /usr/local or in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/2.4/. I am looking for two directories in site-packages, unsurprisingly named lxml and numpy. If no-one has them already it would be really nice if someone could compile them for me on a PPC machine. This is really simple: - download lxml and numpy (from their respective homes, google is your friend ;)) - decompress them (usually already done for you) - in terminal sudo python setup.py install - go fetch the directories where they where installed (check the latest terminal messages), zip them and contact me. Thanks in advance. PS for the more knowledgeable around here: I am acting under the assumption that packages such as lxml and numpy are incompatible between point versions of Python (2.3 vs 2.4 vs 2.5), which is what I read somewhere. If someone has indication that this is not true, it would be very nice to point my mistake: things would be simpler and Inkscape won't grow too fat if we can just ship one version of the packages (the sum of all pyton packages will probably be around 70Mb, compared to the 80Mb of Inkscape itself, it seems a bit overkill...). JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Best Practices for making maps
by Will Gant 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

Hello all, At the suggestion of a friend, I have downloaded and installed Inkscape on my home PC running Ubuntu. What I would like to use this program to do is to create maps. The maps in question would be maps of a fantasy world (like what you would find on the inside cover of a copy of The Hobbit). Inkscape looks like it would be able to pull this off fairly well, but I wanted to run the idea by the list to see if anyone had done this before. If so, do you have any suggestions on how to make the experience easier? I figure I can't be the first person to do this, so... Also, how hard is it to make an object that is reusable? For instance, if I made a really cool graphic that represented a castle, how could I easily reuse it in multiple maps? Thanks, Will --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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Different style when printing using filter effects
by unknown＠example.com 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

Hi! Im wondering, if is it possible, what many CAD application has, namely when I print the drawing, it applies different style and not the normal one. Im thinking like: When viewing vs. when printing(exporting as pdf) black ->black red -> black yellow -> dotted line green -> dot line dot line etc Maybe a button or a menu item to apply the alternate style (before exporting as pdf) and after it, to remove. Or similar to the viewing possibilities (this one would be the best solution so far, but require programming skills): -Normal -Outline -Simplified/Technical/Black&White I think it would be useful for the drawing community too, for ex. somebody need to design a logo in color and grayscale (or when printing in black and white). As a short term solution I think Filter effects is the easiest solution (no programming required). Can somebody help if is it possible or where can I start? Best regards, Khiraly -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail

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new autopackage install - no icons in toolbars
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

Hello all. I just installed the latest autopackage (inkscape200711070317) in my Ubuntu 7.10, and now there aren't any icons in the toolbars. any ideas? cheers -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK 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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0.46 Development Version available as Autopackage or ZeroInstall?
by Phil Rhoades 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

People, I am hanging out for v0.46 but have had problems building the svn version in the past (Fedora 6/7 - now on 8) - can I get v0.46 via Autopackage or ZeroInstall somehow/somewhere? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Fwd: Resend: Converting older Illustrator AI format
by Michael S 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

(Sorry for the duplicate post -- first msg was sent before I was subscribed) I have some files in Illustrator's AI format (from Illustrator version 8 I believe). According to the Inkscape wiki, only AI version 9 or later can be opened by Inkscape. Does anyone know of a conversion tool that can open my v8 AI files and convert them into a format that Inkscape can open? Thanks, Michael

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Converting older Illustrator AI format
by Michael S 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

I have some files in Illustrator's AI format (from Illustrator version 8 I believe). According to the Inkscape wiki, only AI version 9 or later can be opened by Inkscape. Does anyone know of a conversion tool that can open my v8 AI files and convert them into a format that Inkscape can open? Thanks, Michael

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Equation Graphing (like geg) in Inkscape?
by Phil Rhoades 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

People, I would like to able to produce graphs from equations like geg (Graphical Equation Grapher - uses gtk): http://www.infolaunch.com/~daveb/ A found a suggestion that this is possible in inkscape: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TufteStylePresentation but I can't find any more info about how to do this - can someone give me some info? Ideally it would be great for Inkscape to be able to read a script with the list of equations (using some acceptable syntax) and plot them along with axes, grids, area selection, zoom etc. geg has limitations wrt displaying grids, exporting to PDF etc. It seems that this would be useful addition to Inkscape? Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Using textures
by Will Gant 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Ok, I tried creating some textures to fill in various items in an inkscape drawing that I'm using to test. I created the textures in GIMP and saved them as PNGs. Performance has been abyssmal, even with small numbers of polygons. Is there a different way I'm supposed to be doing this? Will --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

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export inkscape SVG to PNG from commandline
by Tobias Verbeke 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Dear list, Would anyone have a script lying around to export inkscape SVGs to PNG from the commandline ? Any pointer would be appreciated. Kind regards, Tobias

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Re: [Inkscape-user] embedding png
by Cedric Sagne 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

IMHO "save as" tick box is the most elegant way. Cédric

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Re: [Inkscape-user] embedding png
by heathenx 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Daniel Hulme wrote the following on 12/10/2007 9:10 AM: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:54:33AM -0500, heathenx wrote: >>> I'm unconvinced. Such an option could be useful separately, but usually >>> I want to embed all the images, not just one. Making the slow, manual >>> method of selecting each image by hand, right-clicking on it, and >>> choosing 'embed' from the context menu easier to discover than the >>> automatic method of clicking the 'embed all images' button or menu >>> option, wherever it is, seems like a bad idea. >> Fair enough, I see your point, but still right-clicking on a single image >> to embed just ONE or ALL make sense to me. It eliminates the need to find >> it from a pull-down menu. > > Did you mean to reply off-list? > > Well, technically, you are still finding it from a pull-down menu. I > can't think offhand of a more logical place to put 'embed all' than on > the image context menu, but it still seems a little non-obvious. In any > case, it's still more obvious than were it is currently, so you'll get > no objection from me. > > I suppose the only way to really know is to try it out on novice users, > but easier said than done. > Whoops! No, I did not mean to reply to you directly. My apologies. I understand the point that you have made. I have been burned by forgetting to embed images in the past. That's mostly my fault for forgetting (just like forgetting to make my text a path before giving my svg to others). However, if I had an "up-front" feature somewhere that would help me remember then maybe other users would find it handy too. I'm no developer nor a bigwig in the community so I wouldn't expect anything that I suggest to go very far. Thank goodness for that. :) heathenx

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tracing lines from a bitmap
by Francois du Toit 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

I want to trace a map from a bitmap, and using the built in tracing tools I get a reasonable trace. But I was wondering if there isn't a way to trace bitmap lines not as a path shaped as the outline of the bitmap lines, but as a single path going through the center of those bitmap lines. In other words, some kind of line recognition. I tried the edge detection, but that gives you two lines - not really what is required. Thanks for any help.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Office vector formats
by Diederik van Lierop 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Your options are limited to either emf/wmf or eps, but I've found that eps produces the best results.... well, at least for _my_ documents that is. Diederik Op Wo, 5 december, 2007 08:38, schreef Francois du Toit: > As a linux user I have little experience with Office vector formats. > Which formats that Inkscape can export works best with Office (2003 or > 2007)? > > Thanks > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Office vector formats
by Diederik van Lierop 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Op Wo, 5 december, 2007 10:10, schreef Andreas Neumann: > EPS ... doesn't display onscreen in MS-Office. It does for me, using Office 2003 SP2! But I must admit the aliasing/hinting/whatever is quite bad... Diederik

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Office vector formats
by Francois du Toit 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

As a linux user I have little experience with Office vector formats. Which formats that Inkscape can export works best with Office (2003 or 2007)? Thanks

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Icons do not show up
by Sridhar M.A. 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

I installed the development version of inkscape from http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/?M=D The version that I downloaded and installed is inkscape200711070317.package When I try to run the program, the inkscape window does not contain any icons :-( I am attaching a screenshot of the same. It also prints to the console messages to the effect that it cannot draw the icons. I am also attaching the log of that. Can this be fixed locally or do I have to wait till the next version is released. From the same site, inkscape200710270316.package works well. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 You have acquired a scroll entitled 'irk gleknow mizk'(n).--More-- This is an IBM Manual scroll.--More-- You are permanently confused. -- Dave Decot

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CAPS lock problem
by Sridhar M.A. 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

I am using the development version of inkscape (inkscape200710270316.package). After I choose to enter text, if I press the Caps lock key, it does not light up. But, the characters come out in uppercase. Any pointers to this problem would be helpful. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 BOFH excuse #264: Your modem doesn't speak English.

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no colored arrow heads?
by Albert Cardona 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

I am in wonder, why I can't make colored arrow heads for lines? They are always black. Albert -- Albert Cardona http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hartenstein/acardona

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help - older inkscape artwork does't open correct in new version, why? please help
by Jelle de Jong 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello everybody, I created some artwork a while back ago, and needed to create a new version of it. So I opened the *.svg documents but the text is wrong. All text is is put on the same character. Can somebody please take a look at the files, and maybe help me with a solution and explanation. inkscape --version Inkscape 0.45.1 (Sep 20 2007) Kind reagards, Jelle

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