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Batch trace of bitmaps
by Antonio Roberts 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hi Inkscape list, Is it possible for inkscape, or some other command line utility, to do batch tracing of bitmap to svg files? I've seen that through Inkscape verbs you can use "SelectionTrace", but that still requires manual input. I've tried potrace, but that only works on black and white images, and I've tried autotrace but that only produces jigsaw-like svgs and I want ones where the different colours are stacked on top of each other Thanks for any help that you can give Antonio -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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Alternative to Inkscape for Windows 7
by Dennis Melling 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

I have a recent laptop with Windows 7, 64 bit and 8GB of RAM. If I use any kind of effects on inkscape I can forget using inkscape for the day because the speed is so slow it takes a day for any movement to appear on the screen. Again trying to export to bitmap is impossible. If I don't use any effects then the speed is reasonable. I like what Inkscape is intended to do but does anyone know of a similar open source program that will work on Windows 7?? Dennis

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Shortcuts not working
by Eneko Gotzon Ares 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Good night :) I find that some keyboard shortcuts don't work, for example the # (Grid) and | (Guides) ones. May be it is because I'm using a Spanish- ISO keyboard on an English system? * I'm using Inkscape v0.48.2 on an iMac iSight —last and most powerful PowerPC iMac— running Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard). Thanks :) -- Eneko Gotzon Ares I'm a beginner and my first impression about Inkscape is very good. Thank you very much to its developers :)

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by Michael Hudson 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

take me off your lists

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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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