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Justification of text on an arc?
by Jim Ford 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi If I draw an arc and some text, select them both and then Text->Put on Path, I get the text 'left' justified on the arc. I would like the text _centre_ justified. How do I go about it, please? Jim

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Extracting sub shapes from bitmaps
by John LeMasney 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

William, it would help to see the bitmap or converted path to see if what I'm suggesting will work, but it was scrubbed. Here's what I would suggest. Make sure that your converted bitmap is indeed a single path. You will get feedback about this in the taskbar when you select the object. If it says '1 group' or "two paths" or anything else selected, you must ungroup, etc, until you have a single path. A single path can of course have many many separated shapes in it with space in between them Then, in the path menu, choose 'ungroup'. You should then see your shapes separated into a series of selection boxes all selected at once. Click away with the selector, then select individual circles. If you have overlapping circles, they will become a single object in a single path. Hope this helps. John LeMasney, 365sketches.org On June4 2:57 PM, inkscape-user-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:57:26 -0500 > From: William Oquendo<woquendo@...155...> > Subject: [Inkscape-user] Extracting sub shapes from bitmaps > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: > <AANLkTilKg97UD0k_C0aXzFLPpyT_kKeiBi6rAPxAvJf5@...156...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear all, > > I have a bitmap with many circles inside it, and I would like to manipulate > each circle individually. I have already converted the bitmap to svg by > using Trace Bitmap inside inkscape, but I dont know how to "ungroup" the > vectorized figure and manipulate the circles individually. > > I would like to know if I can do that in inkscape and how. I am attaching an > example bitmap. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards / Cordialmente, > > -- > William Oquendo > Phd Candidate > Simulation Of Physical Systems Group > National University of Colombia > Linux User # 321481 > ********************* > Este correo puede carecer de tildes o e?es ya que el teclado no contiene > estos caracteres. Presento excusas por eso. >

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Extracting sub shapes from bitmaps
by William Oquendo 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Dear all, I have a bitmap with many circles inside it, and I would like to manipulate each circle individually. I have already converted the bitmap to svg by using Trace Bitmap inside inkscape, but I dont know how to "ungroup" the vectorized figure and manipulate the circles individually. I would like to know if I can do that in inkscape and how. I am attaching an example bitmap. Thanks in advance. Best regards / Cordialmente, -- William Oquendo Phd Candidate Simulation Of Physical Systems Group National University of Colombia Linux User # 321481 ********************* Este correo puede carecer de tildes o eñes ya que el teclado no contiene estos caracteres. Presento excusas por eso. *********************

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SVG Open 2010 conference - Last Call for an Inkscape contribution
by Andreas Neumann 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Hi all, As every year we are organizing the SVG Open conference (http://www.svgopen.org/2010/). This year it takes place from August 30 to September 1 in Paris. Inkscape was always present in the past couple of years through presentations of Jon Cruz, one time also a keynote. His contribution was always one of the highlights of the conference. Inkscape is the most powerful SVG editor we have at hand. It would be very nice if the Inkscape project would be represented at the conference. I am sure there are plenty interesting aspects in Inkscape that would be worth being presented at the conference. If you live close by and have time and interest in presenting Inkscape, both from a developer, but also from a designer/user point of view, you are still welcome to submit a short abstract until June 9. The official abstract submission deadline is over, but we are still accepting late interesting submissions. If you are interested, please submit an abstract at https://www.svgopen.org/2010/registration.shtml (you first have to preregister) or ask me questions, if any. I would hope that the Inkscape project could be present at the conference. Thanks, Andreas

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Power Stroke discussion
by unknown＠example.com 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hi all, This summer, Zhenfeng will work on a new "variable stroke width" LivePathEffect, called "Power Stroke". Now that Zhenfeng has started his GSoC, I'd like all who are interested to join the discussion on this page: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PowerStroke#Discussion_at_LGM_20 10. Already I got some great input at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels last week. More input is always welcome. Thanks a lot! Johan

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Possibilities with Inkscape extensions
by Jon 31 May '10

31 May '10

I've now nearly completed my project to implement the International Orienteering Federation mapping standards in Inkscape - three mapping standards, one of which has two symbol scales - which has resulted in a large number of extension files. In order to simplify things, I'd like to be able to have, for a given subset of the symbols, four separate INX files each calling the same PY file where a parameter is passed to the PY file, not user selected, indicating which INX file has made the call. Is this possible? Is it possible to specify a variable in an INX file and ascribe a value to it without presenting the user with some form of parameter input? Also, I'd like to be able to produce a routine to fill an inkscape closed shape with randomly sized (between a lower and upper size) and positioned dots where the user can alter the density of dots and where dots will not overlap / touch / be closer than a specified distance between them. This raises a number of questions: 1) Is it possible to specify a slider-type input tool in an INX file? 2) Is there a Python command or a routine in one of the Python extension supporting files (simplepath, etc.) to detect whether a point lies within the bounds of a closed shape? 3) Is there an available routine to determine the area of a closed shape? 3) Are there any simple ways to detect collision / distance between dots? I'd like to implement something similar to the 'Remove Overlaps' capability available within the 'Align and Distribute' dialog as part of the routine generating the dots, but with a single (polar - sqrt(x^2 * y^2)) variable related to the user-selected dot density determining how close the dots can be placed to each other. I can see this getting complex when the area, and hence the number of dots, gets large. 4) Getting more complex, would it be possible to have a gradient-filled shape and vary the density of dots dependent on the gradient? ----- Jon

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Expanding text
by George Farris 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi All, I'm wondering if there are some good text tools in Inkscape or maybe the new .48 version. It seems very difficult to do things such as expanding text where for example the first letter of a word or sentence is say 10 points high and the last letter is 70 points high. Is this easily done? Inkscape seems awesome except for the text tools but maybe I'm missing something. It would be nice to convert a piece of text to one object and distort it accordingly. Not each letter as happens now. Any help or pointers greatly appreciated. Thank You George

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Importing PDF loses some text characters
by Philip Rhoades 30 May '10

30 May '10

People, I you import the attached PDF - you will see that some characters are missing (eg look at words "Office*"). pdftotext extracts the text properly. I am using" inkscape-0.47-2.fc12.x86_64 -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Reviewing Inkscape 0.47 Illustrator’s Cookbook
by Akash Johari 19 May '10

19 May '10

Hi All, I am a Technical Editor working with Packt Publishing. We are coming out with the book on "Inkscape 0.47 Illustrator’s Cookbook". I am looking for a *Technical Reviewer* to provide feedback on the content of the book. It would be of great help if you would be willing to take it up as this is your area of expertise. When people like yourself, work for us as technical reviewers, we can be sure that the content will be of the highest quality. I should point out that there is no payment for reviewing, instead you will receive full credit in the book (including a bio where you can put up a link to your website or blog) and you will receive two complimentary books: · One copy of each book you review - see how what you've done makes you proud! · A book of your choice from our catalog. For more details on Packt Publishing, visit http://www.packtpub.com/. Please let me know if this interests you, so that I can give you more details on technical reviewing and the book. You can contact me at akashj@...2728... -- Thanks and Regards, Akash Johari Technical Editor [ Packt Publishing ] MSN: _akashj@...2729...

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Relative font sizes
by Erik Hahn 16 May '10

16 May '10

Hi, Is there a way to make Inkscape use relative font sizes (em or %, or even mm) instead of px? Erik

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