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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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Insert nodes via command line
by Antonio Roberts 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

Is it possible to insert nodes in an SVG, in the same way that the "Insert new nodes into selected segments", via the command line? Antonio -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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Better DXF support
by || ΣΖΟ || 16 Jun '12

16 Jun '12

Hello everyone. I'm wondering why .dxf export isn't better supported Inkscape is a great tool for drawing plans for lasercutters, but all the companies who do the cutting ony accept .dxf There are a few 'reasonable improvements' available like Better DXF, Better Better DXF and BigBlueSawDXF https://sites.google.com/site/scidiy/inkscape-dxf-output-for-lasercut But none of them are good enough to deliver a cut file without hassle. Most important are the support of layers (and the use of spaces in the layer names) and SPLINE objects that aren't rendered right. A good support for .dxf could draw Inkscape into the maker-world. Makershed/Thingtverse/Instructables websites etc. And I noticed that .dxf is NOT mentioned @ http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FileTypes Is there any particulair reason for this? What is needed to get .DXF up to par?

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Jessyink renumber effects order
by Johnny 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Hi all, Jessyink [1]is really a very nice extension to Inkscape to enable doing dynamic presentations, I can really recommend it! There are two versions, I use the latter, Jessyink 2.0.0-alpha1. However, I usually end up adding effects and manually setting the order and eventually running out of numbers. E.g. I start to number the effects by 10, 20, 30, etc. but soon end up having orders 1, 2, 3, 4, ... and wanting to insert a new efect between e.g. 2 and 3. Therefore I wonder, is there some way to renumber the effects to make some space that I have missed? As the svg-files are just text files, I am considering a script to do this to find and renumber the effects; the finding part can be achieved by e.g. ,---- | cat my_svg_file_with_jessyink.svg|grep "sodipodi:role=\"line\">[0-9]*</tspan></text>"|grep [0-9]* `---- This gives all the lines with effect numbers, maybe sed or awk can be used in a loop to renumber in order and increment by a desired step (e.g. 10). Now, my skills are not really up to the task, so before embarking, the question is is this really the best route to go or are there any better ideas? Thanks and cheers! Footnotes: [1] http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/ -- Johnny

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How to get coordinates of node handles
by unknown＠example.com 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hello everybody out there using Inkscape, Is it possible to get the exact coordinates of a node handle and change their numeric values? One can of course zoom in and look at the coordinates of the mouse cursor, but that's not perfectly precise. I also found this thread in the forum (http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=295) but it doesn't really contain a good answer. Thanks in advance for your help, Julia

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downloaded version in turkish
by Giovanna Di Pietro 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, I just downloaded the official release for mac (for OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard ) and it is in turkish! how can i change it to german or english? thanks, giovanna

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gel effect on type.
by john Culleton 28 May '12

28 May '12

There are various tutorials/howtos on the web about spplying a gel effect to type. Anyone have a favorite (with an url that is currently working) to suggest? Thanks in advance. John Culleton

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