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redocking toolbar
by Sébastien Lanteigne 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi, I'm not sure if it's just me who can't figure this out. I have undocked the right side toolbar in 0.48.1 to put it back on top where I had it in 0.47 but now I can't redock it on top or elsewhere. Inkscape 0.48.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Seb.

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Inkscape 0.48.1 is out!
by Josh Andler 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hey All, After 6 months of development and delays out of our control, Inkscape 0.48.1 is out. This bug-fix release of the SVG-based vector graphics editor contains over 80 bug fixes as well as improves stability and performance on all platforms. Please visit inkscape.org for more information and to get your copy. As a side note, if you're a member of the following sites, showing the news some love is always welcome. reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/fxg78/inkscape_0481_bugfix_releas… slashdot - http://slashdot.org/submission/1489758/Inkscape-0481-released deviantART - http://fav.me/n145112 Cheers, Josh

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map units
by Sébastien Barthélémy 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hello, I'd like to draw the map of a building using inkscape, and overlay my drawings with satellite views. A batch program would then modify the map to adjust the position of some points. Then I would like to import the svg file into sketchup and use it as a basis for quick 3d renderings. And now the question: which units should I use for the canvas? The building size is 50x15 meters. My first idea was to use this size as the canvas, but for some reason, in such a case, inkscape does not allow me to unzoom as much as I would like too (I cannot have the full drawing on screen). Is there as reson for this and a workaround? I know many maps and GIS use SVG somehow, how do they choose their basis unit? A Cheers

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Rotating the Axonomgrid
by Shawn H Corey 07 Mar '11

07 Mar '11

I want to use Inkscape to draw some hex-maps and the axonomgrid is perfect for this except I want it rotated 90 degrees. Is the a way to do this, or better yet, rotate the entire page? -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Confusion is the first step of understanding. Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. The secret to great software: Fail early & often. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS.

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Download Stats
by Josh Andler 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

Hey All, I just thought people would like to know that we breached over 1 million downloads in a single month on sf.net in January. Note that their tracked downloads since the project first posted files is at ~14.4 million total. I'd say that makes January quite a significant month. :) For those interested in more download stats (this is per month since the beginning): https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/stats/timeline?dat… Great work community! Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Single SVG file to multi-page PDF
by crjw 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

This can be done with a ViewBox. 1. Create your file in Inkscape. 2. Save the file; this is your master. 3. Create one copy of the master file for each page you wish to print. 4. Open each of the copies in an text editor (do this one file at a time). 4a Using the text editor adjust the width and height to be the size of a printed page. 4b Still using the text editor, add a ViewBox with an appropriate offset. 4c. Save the modified file and exit the text editor. 5. Open up each of the modified copies in Inkscape and convert to PDF (do this one file at a time). ###################################################### e.g. The following file is 25.5 inches by 11 inches (assuming 90px per inch) (this file is also attached to this e-mail with the name "master.svg") ###################################################### <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <svg version="1.1" width="2295" height="990" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g style="fill:none;stroke:black;stroke-width:4"> <circle r="270" cx="382.5" cy="495" fill="red"/> <circle r="270" cx="1147.5" cy="495" fill="green"/> <circle r="270" cx="1912.5" cy="495" fill="blue"/> </g> </svg> ###################################################### Now here is a modified version that renders the middle of the drawing on an 8.5x11 inch page. (this file is also attached to this e-mail with the name "page2.svg") ###################################################### <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <svg version="1.1" width="756" height="990" viewBox="765 0 765 990" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g style="fill:none;stroke:black;stroke-width:4"> <circle r="270" cx="382.5" cy="495" fill="red"/> <circle r="270" cx="1147.5" cy="495" fill="green"/> <circle r="270" cx="1912.5" cy="495" fill="blue"/> </g> </svg> Note: If you carve up the drawing such that drawing elements are sliced by page borders, you might want to consider adding margins. Margins can be generated by clipping the area you want to print with a clipPath that is slightly smaller than the size of a printed page.

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Layered pdf?
by Rob Antonishen 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

I read the recent posts on multipage pdf with interest. I was wondering if there is any way to generate multiple layer (single page) pdf files from Inkscape. It seems through tests that this isn't possible and all svg layers end up as one pdf layer. Can anyone offer suggestions on turning a multilayer svg into a multilayer pdf? -Rob A>

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Bug in EPS + Latex
by Adin Ramirez Rivera 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi all, I just found a bug in the EPS + Latex option. If you have percentage '%' symbols in the text, when those are converted to latex they are not escaped. Hence, the latex get broken in that line. It is easy to fix, by escaping the percentage symbols by hand; however, if you have a lot of symbols it will get annoying to change those all the time. I just want to report it. HTH, adin

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Pictures in emf
by Evelyne Lyonnaz Bovio 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Good evening, Since my update to 4.8, the pictures I save in emf are distorted when I open them again and want to use them. It hadn't happened to me before for the some years that I use the previous versions. Thank you for your help. Best regards Eve

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Request: Inkscape presentation at LinuxFest Northwest
by Carl Symons 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

The 12th LinuxFest Northwest (linuxfestnorthwest.org) will be happening April 30th and May 1st in Bellingham, Washington. The "low stress Fest" attracts open source users from Portland to Vancouver, BC., as well as locals and internationally known presenters. It's free to attend the expo, the presentations and the Saturday evening after party. There are already a couple of presentations about the graphics side of open source. A presentation on Inkscape would help round out this track. (For that matter, it would be nice to have presentations for newcomers and for people who are more familiar with SVG tools.) I'm posting a similar message in the Scribus mailing list. If you are skilled with Inkscape and located in the area between Southern BC and Portland, would you please consider sharing your knowledge of Inkscape? Register to present at linuxfestnorthwest.org. There's a big + Present button on the front page. Thank you Carl

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