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Google Summer of Code 2012 Results
by Josh Andler 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Hello Inkscapers! The Google Summer of Code 2012 program is now officially over. We’ve managed to have 3 out of 5 projects successfully completed by our awesome students. * Jan Pulmann created Python bindings for lib2Geom, the computational geometry library we use in Inkscape. * Samuel Chase made a lot of internal improvements to handling guides and to the coordinates system, making it easier to switch away from Cartesian system. * Veronika Irvine created a new tool for on-canvas tessellation. The code for 2geom library was written in the main development branch and hence is immediately available to all 3rd party developers. The changes to Inkscape have to be finalized before they can enter the main source code repository. Currently we don’t expect both of the new Inkscape features to be used in upcoming v0.49. We are sorry that 2 students didn’t make it, and we are going to take steps to avoid this kind of failure in the future, should we be accepted for the next runs of the program. Cheers, Josh (on behalf of the Inkscape team)

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inkex.py not found for extensions in user's directory
by Patrick 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Thanks to ~suv I now have a copy of the inksyntax plug-in I am having trouble installing it but I think it's outside of inksyntax. At the interactive terminal I tried to import all the dependencies that inksyntax has. I could not import: inkex.py and simplestyle.py It looks like this may be a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/551433 I am on xubuntu 11.10 I have installed a few plug-ins through synaptic Does anyone know how to export variables so that python will be able to find these two .py files or some other solution? Thanks

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code syntax highlighting in svg image
by Patrick 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hi Everyone I've been away from inkscape for a few years but I am looking forward to doing another project with it. I am trying to create a little book/pamphlet that has coloured syntax highlighting of code. It looks like there was a plug-in that would have been perfect, inksyntax, but it seems abandoned. Here is the dead link: http://xico.freeshell.org/ The project seems to have been built on highlight and pygments. The highlight command works great for me and now I have a svg of the code sample with syntax highlighting. The problem is the svg utilizes an external css sheet and inkscape and scribus cannot handle it. I am wondering if there is some tool to reintegrate the external css sheet back to inline or if if anyone has any suggestions on how I can accomplish my goal? Thanks for reading-Patrick

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Custom Font Issues
by Ryan Hodson 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

Hello! I'm new to Inkscape, and I'm having some problems finding custom fonts. In the Style selector of the Text and Font Dialog, it only displays normal, italic, bold, and bold-italic. I'm using a custom font whose weight is "light" and another that's "black," but these two are not options in the Style selector. It seems like Inkscape is guessing at which matches best, but it's guessing in the wrong direction. Is there a way to explicitly specify the font to use, or to add new items to the Style selector list? Thanks for your help! Ryan

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is there a way to save swatch color name into generated svg file?
by Auguste Pop 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

hi, i am not native english speaker, please endure my poor english. i added a custom swatch color with a custom name. i hope the color name can be saved into the svg file. but inkscape actually saves the rgb values. is there a way that i can see the color name in the svg file? best regards,

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weeding lines
by Gary Hawkins 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

HI, Inkscape is great for designing but if you design for use with vinyl you need to have weeding lines. is it possible to add these in inkscape or to have a extension that would add them to a file? Thanks Gaz

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alignment question
by Gergely Buday 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

Hi there, I would like to do the following: --- I would like to align elements: e-mail address and phone number to be equally far from the vertical equator of the card, and their center be on the same vertical line. How can I do that? --- The latter thing, namely, to align the centers of two text objects can be done according to "Align horizontal centers to center of anchor" of http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Align.html but it is not clear how I could do the mirroring of two text objects to the equator of the card. How could I do that? Cheers - Gergely

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Bad cursor movement while dragging
by Carlos Alegría 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi all, I am facing an issue while trying to drag an element to move an object or change an object dimensions. The cursor jumps to a random position after dragging a couple of seconds. This makes the objet to suddenly change its dimensions or its position, preventing me from making my drawing. I am using Arch Linux + XFCE. I have searched on the bug database but could not find anything referring to this behavior. Does anyone facing the same (or a similar) issue that knows a workaround to solve it? Thanks a lot Carlos Alegria

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Is there a way to avoid CSS style attributes?
by unknown＠example.com 10 Jul '12

10 Jul '12

Hi, inkscape usually puts a lot of attributes into a CSS style attribute, for example: <rect x="10" y="10" width="10" height="10" style="fill:red;stroke:blue;stroke-width:2" /> Is there a way to tell inkscape to never use the style attribute but instead use SVG attributes? For example: <rect x="10" y="10" width="10" height="10" fill="red" stroke="blue" stroke-width="2" /> Regards Marco

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Cutter recommendations?
by Terry Brown 07 Jul '12

07 Jul '12

Any recommendations for those paper / card cutters that can be driven by Inkscape / an Ubuntu environment? Cricut and CraftRobo are a couple of brands. We're using Inkscape to design and print buttons, the round mylar coated things you pin to your shirt, it works very well, clones and clones of clones make it easy to control the number of each design printed per sheet. We have a manual circle cutting device but aligning it with the accuracy required is a pain, and it only cuts 1-3 circles at a time (for more than one you stack pages, but that creates alignment issues too). So the immediate use for a cutter would be simply cutting 12 circles in a sheet of regular weight paper, but something more versatile would be good. Thanks, Terry

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