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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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Inkscape plugged in a local magazine
by Mark Crutch 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Some of you may be familiar with our Inkscape-created webcomic, "The Greys". It's now been adopted by our town council's quarterly magazine, "Aylesbury Town Matters", which goes out to over 29,000 local households. The first appearance of the comic is in the issue that's being delivered this week, and we were fortunate enough to get the space for a short article as well. We made sure to plug Inkscape in the article, and if you want to read it there's a low-res PDF of the page available to download, plus the original comic at our site (though it helps if you're familiar with the architecture of Aylesbury to really appreciate it). Article - http://www.peppertop.com/greys/pdf/ATM_20_Greys.pdf Comic - http://www.peppertop.com/greys/2011/02/welcome-to-aylesbury/ Mark & Vince -- "The Greys" - a sci-fi webcomic http://www.peppertop.com/ http://facebook.com/TheGreysComic

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Inkscape on Windows 7 pro 64 bit - very slow, unusable.
by donn 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hello, I am posting on behalf of a friend who is stuck on Win7 pro (64 bit I think). He installed the latest Inkscape (as of about Jan 2011) and he cannot use it at all. His laptop is pretty powerful with min 2gigs of RAM; hell, it makes my desktop look like a block of wood! It's very slow to draw, to drag around or zoom. There are no advanced filters, or anything complex, being used - even a blank file with a single line in it cannot be edited. I am asking if there are any windows "tips" for using Inkscape? Is there some kind of "XP mode" or some advice re 64bit/32bit or maybe some graphic driver tips? Perhaps there are known clashes with other fancy windows software - like a colour enhancer (he has some kind of thing that makes his colours brighter on his laptop). Anyone have a clue what I could suggest to him? Thanks, \d

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Convert to eps in command line without embed or link prompt
by Adin Ramirez Rivera 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm wondering if is there any command or parameter that I can set on Inkscape to perform a conversion automatically. For example, if you do *inkscape -E image.eps image.jpg*, then a window appears and ask you if you want to embed or link the image. However, I need to do this conversion for a batch of images; and I need an automatic way of setting the option: embed or link. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks, adin

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Can't start on Win7
by Jonathan Mitchem 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

I was using an older version of Inkscape (not sure which one), and couldn't start it: "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005)." I upgraded to latest version (0.48.0) after an uninstall. I deleted all user preferences too. I am getting the same error. I checked in my AppData/Roaming/inkscape, and all I have in there are empty folders. What do I need to do to get this working?

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Importing paths from OneNote to Inkscape via clipboard
by Alex 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Hi, I use Microsoft OneNote to take notes with my tablet, sometimes I need to modify the sketches - and there's no better tool than Inkscape for that. Simply selecting the paths in OneNote and pasting them into Inkscape works as expected. The problem is that the resulting objects have a great number of nodes, so it becomes very difficult to apply any further transformations. Even on a reasonably fast machine, scaling an object takes a while. I made a short video, to illustrate what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOcE7C4_NN8 The workarounds I found are: - press Ctrl+L multiple times to simplify the paths (Inkscape will freeze, but if you're patient - it comes back eventually). Don't be too greedy, if you Simplify multiple times without waiting for Inkscape to update the rendered image - it will crash. - save OneNote's image to a bitmap, then trace the bitmap with Inkscape. This produces objects that have a relatively sane number of nodes, but this operation takes more time and involves the use of other tools- it is not as convenient as copy/pasting. Taking notes directly in Inkscape does not produce good results. There is a delay between the stroke of the pen and the appearance of the stroke on the screen - so I don't see what I'm writing. Apparently, this short-timed lack of feedback is sufficient to make me hate my own handwriting. So, this boils down to 2 questions: 1. can someone suggest a better approach to migrating sketches from OneNote to Inkscape? 2. is there something I can change in my Inkscape habits in order to be able to take notes directly in Inkscape? Alex --- read my poems and stories on railean.net

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Kudos for Inkscape
by Shawn H Corey 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

A recent article from opensource.com on the delight school children have in using Inkscape. Good news and kudos to all the developers of Inkscape. http://opensource.com/education/11/2/students-los-altos-delight-using-inksc… -- 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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Illustrator files.
by John Culleton 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

I have a vector file that was originally made in Illustrator. I downloaded it as a zip file. When I unzipped it the file had an .eps suffix. GV can view it. Converted to pdf acrobat reader can view it. Inkscape only gets a black background. Is there a way to manipulate this image in inkscape? Here is where I retrieved it. http://www.vectorportal.com/iFile/8566/ABSTRACT-BLACK-VECTOR- BACKGROUND.eps/inc_downloading.asp John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/

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divots in bevels
by Steven Parkes 15 Feb '11

15 Feb '11

In trying to do a minimal amount of glitz for a button with the beveling filter, it comes out with a bit of a divot. The result is at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11615635/lump.png Something to do with the house/home shape? Any way to cajole it into not doing that?

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