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Inkscape Website (Help needed)
by Ian Caldwell 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hello Folks, It's that time again, I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! I am writing to you all in an urge to complete the new website within the next couple of months. I know we have all been busy with the holidays and what not. Here's a brief update on that status. The website in regards to the design elements have been completed almost all the bare bones pages have been completed and implemented into the design. The design can be seen at dev.inkscape.org . and of course the code can be viewed at https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape-webadmin . The backend code has been partially implemented however a lot is still missing such as user accounts login etc and a web based editor. I'd like to take a moment to thank Chris Morgan for porting over all the pages an Hinerangi Courtenay for the actual design as well as the various others. I can't name everyone in this email but it's definitely been a team effort. On that note there's still a lot to be done. Here's what I think our best plan of attack is. I think our best plan of attack is to take the current site and all of it's factors and put it into a solution such as pinax ( http://pinaxproject.com/) Using pinax allows us to make a custom website without having to have all the components of a CMS but it allows us to easily implement various things with little effort such as account management profiles etc and web based editing. Overall it shouldn't be too much work but we need someone with python/django experience to port our current code/design elements to pinax. >From there once it's implemented we will then of course need the various translation teams to finish translating the content and to port over the rest of the news. So today I am looking for anyone with django/python experience to contribute to getting this website finished. I need people who are motivated and willing to push forward and get this done in the least amount of time possible. If you're willing to contribute or have any further questions on the inkscape website please feel free to reply to this email or to me directly via email or irc (msg inc) Also if there is a company that would like to sponsor development of the website or put in hours. We're willing to list you as a contributor on the website development page. In the past this project has kind of been put a little bit on the back burner due to everyones time constraints which is completely understandable but any help we can get would be great. Thank you, Ian Caldwell

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Participation at SCALE 10x
by Jon Cruz 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hi guys, Just putting out a general call for anyone who would like to help us man a booth at SCALE 10x this year. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x I know Josh and I will be there, but if anyone else can spend a little time in the booth that would be a big help. The conference has given us a set of free full access passes for that. If anyone is interested in helping, just drop me an off-list email. I'll get you the instructions (which basically cover registering up to the point of paying, then sending me the registration number to finish on my side).

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New Inkscape website?
by Antonio Roberts 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

I remember awhile back a new website was being constructed that looked very finished. What ever happened to it? Ant -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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Embedding fonts.
by john Culleton 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

The Wiki describes how to create "SVG Fonts" which are embeddable. But the description is down at the source code level. Is there/will there be a high level facility whereby the user can insert text in a particular font and size and then translate that text into an embedded font? I know about outlining a font, but that technique renders the text unreadable to web crawlers. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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a question about path
by Auguste Pop 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, I'm not a native speaker of English, I'll try to explain my question clearly. We can draw an ellipsis in inkscape, and rotate it. When we save it as svg, it is saved as a path, which uses elliptical arc command inside the its d attribute. So, i think this save operation is lossless. We can draw a rectangle in inkscape too. After intersecting an ellipsis with a rectangle and saving the file as svg, we can find out that the intersection is also saved as a path. However, the elliptical arc command is no long inside the d attribute of the path element. The path is depicted by lines and cubic Bézier curves. Mathematically, an elliptical arc can not be losslessly transformed into a polynomial curve. So, this save, or intersection, operation is not lossless. My question is, how good the approximation would be? Do we have any control over this, like we do in simplify? Best regards,

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Re: [Inkscape-user] command line fitCanvasToDrawing (~suv)
by unknown＠example.com 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

> Alternative without needing to press any buttons: > > $ inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.pdf -l matplotlibOutput.svg > $ inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.svg --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing \ > --verb=FileSave \ > --verb=FileQuit > $ inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.svg -A prettyfigure.pdf > $ rm matplotlibOutput.svg > > > hth, ~suv That works! Thanks!! The resultant file is also only 30% as big as the original. Hm, maybe that's bad. Has it lost fonts? The GUI popups are funny, but better than fiddling with other methods, so far. (It would be nice if I could tell X11 to set my display for this process to a sort of /dev/nul of X...) Cheers, Chris

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command line fitCanvasToDrawing
by unknown＠example.com 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Matplotlib produces pdf figures whose bounding boxes do not enclose all of the contents of the figure (or, usually, are too big). I thought inkscape could easily solve this problem with: inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.pdf --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing -A prettyfigure.pdf But that leaves the pdf unchanged. Have I made a basic error? Thanks, Chris

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Application Error -- HELP!
by Christen 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Running Inkscape on Windows Vista 32-bit. Previously, I had 0.48.1 installed, but last night when I went to run it, I received a pop-up box with the following message: "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click OK to terminate the application." Thinking that maybe re-installing it would solve my problem, I got online this morning and downloaded the .exe for 0.48.2 and installed it. When I attempted to run it, I received the same message. Can anyone tell me please what is going on, and if it can be fixed? TIA, Christen

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fill&stroke, alignment don't work
by Carl Symons 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819 running on Kubuntu 11.10 none of ctrl-shift-f, right-click fill&stroke, tool bar icon, (menu)object fill&stroke do anything same (lack of) behavior with align and distribute I've reinstalled Inkscape and installed inkscape-trunk. Nothing. Any ideas?

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Simplify inkscape transforms
by Paul Whipp 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

> > For groups, to flatten the transform, ungroup the moved group, and > regroup it (keep the same selection) - it's done rather quickly with > keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+U, Ctrl+G. Watch out for transforms of parent > groups (if nested), though and transforms on parent layers (after > resizing the page or changing its orientation). This works. I already had transforms set to 'optimize' in preferences. Of course I have 60+ groups on an average map so I'll look to scripting this as an extension but you've pointed me in the right direction. Thanks.

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