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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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cutting a sharp hole through a blurred object
by Steven Parkes 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

I haven't been able to figure out a way to do this, but my inkscape skills aren't too strong. I have a drawing that at the lowest level has an irregular glow. It's a freehand path-based polygon with a heavy blur on it. The blur is all alpha. On top of this is path-based, alpha=1 object; nothing special. I need to knockout an interior region of this to an alpha of zero. It's easy to knockout the alpha=1 object with path difference. However, I can't figure out how to cut a hole in the underlying glow-producing path. It's easy enough to do the path difference, but this actually cuts a hole in the glow-producing path which then blurs into the interior, the part I want to be alpha=0. What I'd like to do is kinda multiply the alpha channel of two paths/groups. The (incorrect) approximation of this is to take the png that I produce at the end and map a particular color to the alpha channel. This doesn't handle the anti-aliased edges correctly. Any suggestions?

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inkscape 0.48 universal binary for os x 10.4 tiger?
by Chris Pickett 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, Can you post an Inkscape 0.48 universal binary for OS X 10.4 Tiger? Chris

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I'm find advertising with SVG. mobile, web or others...
by Valessio S Brito 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm looking for work performed in SVG for advertising. May be work for internet or mobile devices, interactive or not. please, share links/yours jobs. I'm doing research for my course in advertising. I would like to demonstrate the use of SVG in advertising. Thank you. -- ://ValessioBrito.info > Comunicação e Tecnologia mobile: +55 71 VALESSIO

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PCWorld blog post about Inkscape
by Phil Shapiro 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi Inkscape fans, I had fun writing this PCWorld blog post about the use of Inkscape by thousands of students in the Los Altos, California, schools. see http://tinyurl.com/4clzzeh If you have a Twitter or Facebook account, thanks for sharing: Los Altos Students Delight in Using Inkscape (PCWorld) http://tinyurl.com/4clzzeh #inkscape #FOSS #creativity #design phil shapiro -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro@...2324... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens thru gentleness."

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Fonts, fonts & more fonts
by gespertino＠...155... 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Gaz: That sounds like a lot of fonts. I'd use a font manager to create groups (based on style, typology, etc.) and load and unload them when necessary. Having so many fonts active will only make difficult to choose, will make applications start slower and won't help much. For linux you can use FontyPython or Font Manager

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Where to find SVG artists/designers?
by Philip Rhoades 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

People, I have been on this list for quite a while because I am interested in SVG but I have to give one of my web sites a new look and feel and it occurs to me that there are some great people out there (who are much more artistically creative than I am) who could design a new logo, style sheet etc for us. I looked at DeviantArt but I couldn't see how to get a message into their system. What I am thinking of is maybe having a competition with prize money for the best SVG suite that is produced - how would I go about this? Is there a more appropriate list for this proposal? Any suggestions? The site to be revamped is: http://neuralarchivesfoundation.org For more info about what we are looking for, people could mail me: phil AT neuralarchivesfoundation DOT org (that will bypass my vicious spam filter) Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@...2067...

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