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newbie question...
by Nathan Rollins 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

I have a CG rendering that I want to create a jagged edge along one side - like this: cid:image002.png@...2944... (well, this shows 2 sides; and I will just need the right side.) I created this example with Snagit and I am usually content with the results. But today I am in need of a much larger image: ~10k x 6.6k (pixels) and Snagit just can't cut it. I can create a path that sorta looks like what I want, but I am not sure how to use layers and transparency, etc. to get what I need. This might be a lot to ask through a forum. If so, please feel free to direct me to a tutorial, or some other lesson / resource. Any hints or tips? Thanks a lot! -Nate

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SVG 2 Requirements
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Hi, As most of you probably know, Inkscape uses SVG as its native file format. The specification directly influences how easy some features can be implemented by Inkscape (think arrowhead color matching stroke color). The SVG working group is almost finished going through the request for changes to the specification for SVG 2. This is your chance to influence the next version of the spec. See my blog post for more details: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=375 Tav

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Inkscape 0.48.3
by Ted Gould 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Happy to announce the 0.48.3 release of Inkscape being out the door. Of course this is only the source release, binaries will be along shortly. You can find the LP milestone here: https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.48.x/0.48.3 Which reports 68 bugs as Fix Released, from 18 different assignees. Both impressive numbers. There are files on that page but also at SourceForge here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.3/ For the paranoid I've also included hashes of the files on my system, love you paranoids! == MD5 == 9038961369c4f8b63e900ca4bfa4da61 inkscape-0.48.3.tar.bz2 4b88d6220b491e94366c2365b90d36cc inkscape-0.48.3.tar.bz2.asc 4623e6be4d4553d7c871b26454de88db inkscape-0.48.3.tar.gz c97bb53225556cf704ca1d2cad4b654f inkscape-0.48.3.tar.gz.asc 2669679a121def72577184c8691f4209 inkscape-0.48.3.zip cedf6bc858ff63d54c0659eaabd2ddba inkscape-0.48.3.zip.asc == SHA1 == 7de7f5cb28d7407a891f02a3cfcfbff962bc3f9f inkscape-0.48.3.tar.bz2 531349ebbcbde497b419b86b14b8f4588e5f592b inkscape-0.48.3.tar.bz2.asc 937c1376bb0d9c00b22b88525826257d67ce237b inkscape-0.48.3.tar.gz e90e00e75a1af5ec0ef9736ebcff843e5def9a5b inkscape-0.48.3.tar.gz.asc 048e65843d61a70858966068a1c98f3e3a8667b6 inkscape-0.48.3.zip eb65f197135c48acfa274f3a16a93761c30b3562 inkscape-0.48.3.zip.asc --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Re : Inkscape 0.48.3
by Johan Engelen 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

On 16-2-2012 19:32, Nicolas Dufour wrote: > Hi, > > > >> De : Josh Andler<scislac@...155...> >> Ted and all contributors that made this happen, thank you for all your >> work! Windows& OSX packagers, please do your magic. :) > > I'm not the Windows packager, but wanted to compile and test it on XP. And unfortunately, the current revision doesn't compile correctly and returns the following error: > > Make error line 302: problem compiling: src/color-profile.cpp: In static member function 'static std > ::vector<Glib::ustring> Inkscape::ColorProfile::getBaseProfileDirs()': > src/color-profile.cpp:824:5: error: 'cmsUInt32Number' was not declared in this scope > src/color-profile.cpp:824:21: error: expected ';' before 'pathSize' > src/color-profile.cpp:826:46: error: 'pathSize' was not declared in this scope > > IIRC we've already had that kind of issue with the trunk on Windows, and thus I guess backporting the fix would solve the issue. Oh wow, that is very unfortunate :-( Should be fixed now. -Johan

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Inconsistent behaviour?
by Philip Rhoades 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

People, If I create a few objects - rectangles and ellipses - and then select the whole group and rotate it - these two operations behave differently - they should do the same thing?: 1. Clicking on the "Rotate 90 Clockwise" tool button 2. Clicking "]" six times - (2) does what I want - (1) appears to be rotating the individual objects? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Script to grab outline and create svg files?
by Ferdinand Ramirez 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

I am new to inkscape and would like to know if it is possible to automate the following process to create svg files (I have manually succeeded in it), and if so, what does the script look like and how should it be executed? In the manual process, I perform the following steps to create the svg file. 1) Open inkscape 2) Open File->Document Properties and set size to 1000 x 1000 3) Type t 4) Drag a rectangle (this step and previous step are needed to activate the Append button used in Step 7) 5) Click on Text -> Glyphs 6) Choose Font family, script and range (this is not English, which is why I need this step) 7) Click characters and click append for each character clicked (more than one character is involved, and I click on the character since I use an English keyboard but the language I am interested is not English) 8) Ctrl-Shift-C to grab the outline of the text 9) Save as svg by clicking File->Save As I need to automate this process to create a number of svg files, some of which are formed due to the outline of multiple characters. Thanks, -Ferdinand

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Create outline texts only when saving/exporting?
by Felix E. Klee 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

I am currently comparing Illustrator and Inkscape for creation of SVG documents for the web. What I like about Illustrator is that it is possible to "Save a Copy..." of a document and specify that all texts should be converted to outlines *only for that copy*. So I can have all the texts editable in the document, and only in the end they will be converted to outlines. Is a similar workflow possible with Inkscape?

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Are the performance improvements of 0.49 already in trunk?
by Alexander (AddisMap) 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

We are using Inkscape to edit SVGs generated by the Maperitive OpenStreetMap renderer. Those files are very complex and Inscape is practially unuseable in the latest stable version. We found on http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.49 that there are performance improvements upcoming. So we installed the package from the PPA 1:0.48+devel+10922+30~natty1. Build 10922 is the latest build in the trunk branch as I see. But using this version, there were no performance improvements notable. Are those announce performance improvements already in trunk or do be have to use some other branch? Best Regards, Alexander

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change color of arrowhead
by Peter Schürch 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, How do I change the colour of an arrow head from black to (e.g.) red? I can change the line colour but it seems not to affect the color of the arrow head. Any ideas are much appreciated ! Peter Inkscape Version 0.48, Windows 7 -- Meier und Partner AG Freiestrasse 26 8570 Weinfelden Tel +41 71 626 51 15 Fax +41 71 626 51 26 p.schuerch@...2929... <mailto:p.schuerch@...2929...>

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Inkscape deletes whitespace from my xml attributes?
by Andi McClure 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

I am using Inkscape 0.48 (on Mac OS X under X11) to create resources for a video game. A feature I am making heavy use of is the ability to add custom attributes to the XML elements within the SVG document-- I have defined a bunch of attributes like polycode:density="" which are meaningless to Inkscape but my game code knows how to interpret, and I add them to the document using Inkscape's "xml editor" window. This works fine but I am having a problem. Some of my custom attributes contain very long blocks of multiline text, specifically they contain scripts written in Lua. What I find is that Inkscape allows me to put multi-line text into an xml attribute; and I can save as many times as I want, and the multi-line text remains multi-line; but when I *open* a svg document in Inkscape, at that time *all multi-line xml attributes in the entire document get collapsed down to single lines*, and the next time I save all of my xml attributes are single line. This is extremely inconvenient, it confuses my source control and also it could break my code at some point. Why is Inkscape doing this, and how do I make it stop? What I've tried so far: I tried setting an xml:space=preserve attribute on the toplevel svg:svg element in the effected document, but this did not help, it did things to the whitespace * between * elements and broke the display in the XML Editor window, but it did not change Inkscape's behavior wrt whitespace in attributes. Previously, I had a problem where at the same point in time that Inkscape is now eating my whitespace (document open), it was also stripping my custom polycode: namespace prefixes. I eventually fixed this by adding a xmlns:polycode="http://msm.runhello.com/local/svg/polycode0" attribute to the top of each document containing polycode: attributes. (The URL listed is not a valid URL, it's a 404.) Looking on the internet, I got the impression that if I can get Inkscape to load a "DTD" for my polycode: namespace, I can mark in the DTD that the attributes for which I do NOT want whitespace eaten are "CDATA" and this is supposed to make Inkscape leave those attributes alone. However, the document explaining this<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256097.aspx> also suggested xml parsers like Inkscape should assume any attribute they do not recognize to be CDATA. Will creating a DTD solve my whitespace problems? How do I get Inkscape to load the DTD? And are there any examples of Inkscape-compatible DTDs of this sort out there, since I do not have experience with DTDs? Thanks all.

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