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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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Accessing inkscapeforum.com
by Paul Whipp 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

> > > I'm new to this list which I found after failing to get onto > > inkscapeforum.com (which seems to be dead). > The forum is alive and well - there have been reports though by several > users that they can't access the site without turning off the firewall > of their router. > You could try to access the forum using a web proxy like e.g. > <http://www.webproxy.ca/> > <http://anonymouse.org/> > The forum topic about this issue is: > Problem with router firewall -- DNS misconfiguration?? > <http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5097> Interesting. Thanks for the information I don't have a router firewall and my DNS is fine AFAIK (nothing special setup). The webproxy.ca access does work though. I'm continuing this discussion on the forum via the webproxy.ca provided above. Thanks again.

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Embedding fonts in web svg documents.
by john Culleton 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

In most software (e.g., Scribus, TeX) a font can be embedded in the output document, thus preventing font substitution in a viewer. In inkscape one can simply outline the text, but that makes the text not readable by a web crawler. Is there a way to actually embed a font in an Inkscape svg document intended for web use? -- 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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meaning of "standalone"
by john Culleton 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

On the first line of an inkscape svg file is the parameter: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> What effect does "standalone" have? What happens if I change it to "yes"? -- 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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Simplify inkscape transforms
by Paul Whipp 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Hi there, I'm new to this list which I found after failing to get onto inkscapeforum.com (which seems to be dead). I've been looking at inkscape/svg for a while now and I'm considering using it in application development using Python/Javascript. I find inkscape very useful for setting up the graphics and editing them but it leaves translation and other transforms in place on groups etc. after you move them about. This has two issues: i) It slows things down as the transforms must be applied every time the svg is presented even though they always yield the same result. ii) It makes it hard for code manipulating the SVG DOM because the transformations add a layer of obfuscation. Furthermore, browser implementations (chrome & firefox) seem to be buggy regarding SMIL animations on paths if these transforms are left in - they honour the transforms for the path itself but do not honour them for the associated animation posititions. I need to simplify these transforms out of the SVG. To rephrase: I create a rectangle in Inkscape and move it around - the x and y attributes update as expected. I stick a text object over the rectangle and group them together. Now I move the group and I get a "transform = translate(188.98349, -58.129834)" attribute associated with the group rather than the x,y positions being updated as I want. I need to be able to click a button (or set a preference) so that these static transforms (which accumulate) are applied to the attributes and then removed such that the svg is left in a simpler but graphically identical state. Is there some 'standard' or known way to achieve this simplification that I am missing? I will happily RTFM if pointed in the right direction - 'I've tried googling to no avail. TIA, Paul Whipp Office: 07 3103 2894 Mobile: 0410 545 357 Do more business with your website! <http://www.paulwhippconsulting.com.au> Joomla, Python, PHP and MySQL web application developer<http://www.paulwhippconsulting.com.au/>

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