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Resources for Writing an python export script
by Nathan Hüsken 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hi, I want to write an exporter to another file format for inkscape. Basicly I want to take only polygons, rectangles and circles from the svg, perform some operation on them and save the result to my own xml format. Now, I managed to write the inx file. But for how to write the python script I just cannot find enough information. Can someone point me to information or an example giving the necessary information on how to do this? Thanks! Nathan

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Writing an extension for a new object type
by Nathan Hüsken 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hi, I see that one can write so called "effect" extensions which are available through the effects menu. But is it also possible to write an extension that allows the creation of a new object type at a position where the user clicks? For example, an extension that allows me to click on a new button in the tools menu. When I then click somewhere in the image, a script is run which creates a predefined object at the clicked position. Thanks! Nathan

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Difficulty opening a .ai file
by Andy Graybeal 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Greetings, I'm trying to open a .ai file without luck. It says "Failed to load request file path-to-file-and-filename." Any ideas? I saw that some folks have been using ai2svg.py, I d/l'd it and I'm running it... it's been chugging away for about an hour with no .svg file in site, (it's still running). I have a fairly decent machine running it, Lenovo T410 w/ i5. Is there meta info in the .ai file that would be of use? The .ai file was probably made towards the beginning of the 2000's if that is helpful. I'm in Ubuntu 10.04, I'm using the native Inkscape version in U10.04, 0.47 Any help is appreciated. BTW I'm in love with the The Book of Inkscape, By Dmitry Kirsanov, I had to let a co-worker borrow it and I was sad to do so! We're both beginning to learn about Inkscape for work. I'm totally in love with this program. I got to sit down with my girl the other day and walk her through editing an SVG.. I think I got her hooked to. I guess I might be whining, but I don't want to bother with Illustrator, what a hassle. -Andy

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scaling positions of a group of objects
by Albert Cardona 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Dear all, Is there anyway to scale the position of a set of objects, as opposed to the position and the data of the object? Thanks for any hints. Albert -- http://albert.rierol.net -- http://albert.rierol.net

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dxf import
by unknown＠example.com 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

When I import this file I get no errors just a blank page Any suggestions Richard

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Extensions, raster, grayscale?
by donn 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Anyone have a clue how to convert an image (bitmap) *inside* inkscape into grayscale/desaturate? Are those extensions scriptable perhaps? \d

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outset confusion
by unknown＠example.com 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

I am missing something simple I have the first image, gear.ps, that I want to cut out with a 0.125 endmill So I set outset in inkscape preferences to 5.625, select all nodes and path->outset and I get the second image, gear.svg Where am I going wrong Richard

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Inkscape, Fedora, and SXSW
by Máirín Duffy 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi Inkscape folks! Fedora is going to be promoting Inkscape at the South by Southwest expo in Austin, Texas next week. We've got a booth and we're running a contest where each of the four days we're featuring a specific free & open source application, and one of the days we are highlighting Inkscape. You can see the Inkscape logo stamps we made and the postcards where folks will be getting their cards stamped to enter a contest here: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/christmas-in-march/ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/preparing-for-fedoras-sxsw-debut/ We also highlighted Lorain Baird's Inkscape-created winning poster design entry into the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation contest on one of the flyers we'll be distributing: http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/flyers-about-free-open-source-softwa… (second flyer, upper left) We also have beautiful tri-fold brochures, one for graphic designers, which also highlights Inkscape: http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/designteam/?p=28 We're going to be talking up Inkscape and really trying to build up awareness of it and to encourage the very creative and tech savvy folks at SXSW to give it a try and even contribute back to it. If any Inkscape users or developers are going to be at SXSW, we'd like to invite you to drop by our booth and say hi (you can even get your photo taken with Tux at our booth! :) ) It's booth #344 in the expo hall. In Fedora we absolutely love (I'd go so far as to say worship!) Inkscape and we're hoping our enthusiasm shows through at the show in getting folks to give it a try :) Cheers! ~m -- Máirín Duffy Fedora Design Team Leader

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Command line confusion - Inkscape 0.48.1
by donn 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi, On the matter of exporting pages to PDF, I have been trying to use the cli without much luck. I have observed that if you fit the canvas/page to the selection and then save as a pdf (and tick to use the page) then the PDF output works. Any other way and it does not -- for example, if you give an object an ID and then try to save as PDF only that ID, it's blank. I have many objects --rectangles as pages, with content in each grouped to the rectangle. So, I thought to try the command line for: select an object by ID, fit the page to it and then save a pdf. Something like this: inkscape --select=bozo --verb=FitCanvasToSelection -C -A out.pdf mysvg.svg But that gives a blank PDF. The same actions in the gui work fine. My plan was to then loop that in bash and get a bunch of pageXX.pdf files which I could then join in some way, yet to be grokked. Anyone have a clue? \d

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Inkscape Website Progress...
by Ian Caldwell 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hello, here's an update on the website. We have made some nice progress and it is defiantly coming along. It's going to be launched in phases. Phase #1 will be the main site with all the content and Phase 2 will consist of various things for the user allowing them to be able to post their own tutorials and plugins etc. However in order to do that we need help! We need the following: 1. content writers to go through the site and improve on the existing write ups. 1. Additional old news needs to be ported over. We ported over all of 2010 and 2011 but we need all news ported over 2. Django developers to finish up the last few features After all that 3. we need translators to translate the various parts of the website You can follow the project here: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape-webadmin/inkscape-web/inkscape-web Also the site is visible at http://dev.inkscape.org please feel free to drop by on irc.freenode.net and join #inkscape-web Thanks, Ian Caldwell

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