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Concentric Circles?
by Jim Ford 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi. I want to draw a series of concentric circles, of precise diameters. If I draw a circle about a centre and then resize it, the centre shifts. How do I keep the centre fixed, please? Jim

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Release of JessyInk 1.3.0!
by Hannes Hochreiner 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

The JessyInk team is proud to announce the release of JessyInk version 1.3.0. This release features very exciting contributions from Marc Eberhard, who implemented a drawing mode allowing users to draw on the slides during the presentation in the browser. Another interesting new feature is the ability to assign "views." This feature can be used to zoom-in on a particular region of the slide. "Views" provide exciting new ways to enhance your presentations. Also new in this release is the option to customise the key bindings. To further improve the compatibility and usability of JessyInk, custom keys can now be assigned to all actions. For maximum flexibility, each mode (slide, index, drawing) has its own set of key bindings. Be sure to check out the latest JessyInk release and the showcase file at: http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/ About JessyInk: JessyInk is a JavaScript that can be incorporated into an Inkscape SVG image to turn it into an animated presentation. When the image is loaded into an SVG-capable browser, every layer of the image becomes a slide. Some of the many features include transitions, effects, an optional master slide, index sheet and drawing mode, and zoom-based effects.

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snapping of guides + node editing questions
by adam ambrus 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

hello, one of my great latest discoveries in inkscape is the Snapping tool (or settings). however, i have a question about snapping a guide to an object/object's node - is it possible? according to the settings (Ctrl+Shift+D -> Snap) it looks like it is, but whenever i drag a guide from the ruler part of the screen, no snapping happens. what am i doing wrong? or is it a bug? also, my second point of interest is the node editing. one of the features i miss the most is the shortening of distance of two randomly selected nodes. in case you know Blender, after selecting vertices and pressing S to scale, their distance shortens/lengthens according to mouse movement. is there in inkscape any way of performing similar actions? thanks for any answer, -Adam

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Ruben Quinones Ruiz está ausente de la oficina.
by unknown＠example.com 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

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Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files
by Elwin Estle 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

There are a couple of .svg "renderers" for blender (and I think they were probably the scripts you are talking about). I have only played with one of them very briefly. Seemed to work okay, but I can't remember what it was called, and I seem to remember it being kinda buggy, it was probably a year ago that I tried this. Other than that, I can't help you much. But yes, what little I did do was interesting. Blender also had, or used to have, a feature that would export a UV map as an .svg file. One thing that I have found interesting to do is to make some text (or whatever) in Inkscape, import it into Blender, and then apply a lattice modifier to it. You can deform text into some interesting shapes (and it works better than the Inkscape node sculpting thing), then render a .png file in Blender and then import that back into Inkscape and run trace bitmap on it. Blender does have it's own built in text capability, but I find it a lot easer to work with text in Inkscape, then import it into Blender for "3D-ifying". Another neat trick is to make a sort of "sheet" with text cut out of it, then import that into Blender, so you have a large surface with a text shaped hole in the middle. You can then animate a light shining through that hole using the halo feature available with Blender's lighting options. This creates a really cool backlit text effect. I have also just started to experiment with using Blender's "hooks" feature to animate imported Inkscape .svg files. There are a lot of interesting possibilities there. --- On Mon, 7/27/09, Maarten van der Velde <Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2657....> wrote: > From: Maarten van der Velde <Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files > To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 2:40 AM > Can I ask you a "counter"-question? > Do you have experience with EXPORTING > from Blender into Inkscape? There seem to be a couple of > scripts out there > that seem to do this, apart from that they don't...? > Blender & Inkscape > could be a realy interesting combination. One could create > a 3d-wireframe in > Blender, find a nice perspective and then fill it in in > Inkscape, hence > retrieving a vector-drawing from it. > > > On 7/25/09 11:16 PM, "Elwin Estle" <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> > wrote: > > > > > I am just curious: When you delete an object > from your .svg file, does it > > actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not > display it any more? > > > > I do a lot of stuff in Inkscape and then import the > .svg into Blender for > > extrusion, etc. I find that sometimes I get > "extra" objects in Blender when I > > do this, i.e., the object that was deleted. > > > > ...and I am just wondering where these objects come > from... > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Maarten van der Velde > graphic designer > > Powel ASA Klæbuveien 194, NO-7037 Trondheim, NORWAY > Phone: +47 73 80 45 00 - Fax: +47 73 80 45 01 > Direct line: +47 73 80 46 21 - Mobile: +47 48 16 46 > 21 / +31 (0) 6 30 80 > 95 91 > Email: Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171... > http://www.powel.com/ > > > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are > confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to > whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error > please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has > been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.powel.no > ********************************************************************** > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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"phantom" objects in .svg files
by Elwin Estle 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

I am just curious: When you delete an object from your .svg file, does it actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not display it any more? I do a lot of stuff in Inkscape and then import the .svg into Blender for extrusion, etc. I find that sometimes I get "extra" objects in Blender when I do this, i.e., the object that was deleted. ...and I am just wondering where these objects come from...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files
by Elwin Estle 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Thanks for the info! I will try that. --- On Sun, 7/26/09, Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote: > From: Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] "phantom" objects in .svg files > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 3:32 AM > On Saturday, 25 July 2009 23:16:15 > Elwin Estle wrote: > > I am just curious: When you delete an object > from your .svg file, does it > > actually get rid of the associated XML, or just not > display it any more? > There is a button to open the XML editor/viewer. > Edit->XML Editor (A little > window icon with <> in it) > It's worth watching what happens there as you select and > edit (and delete) in > the design window. You can also edit the SVG from that > window. > > > ...and I am just wondering where these objects come > from... > You can 'vacuum' the defs File->Vacuum Defs, this cleans > a lot of gumpf (a > technical term that I cannot explain without killing you > first ;) ) out of the > XML file. > > hth, > \d > -- > home: http://otherwise.relics.co.za/ > 2D vector animation : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/things/ > Font manager : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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text-decoration and overline-position / overline-thickness
by Beims Bob-RWBC70 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Folks; SVG 1.1 provides the @overline-position and @overline-thickness attributes (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/fonts.html#FontDescriptions) and @text-decoration="overline" (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#TextDecorationProperties). I can't figure out how to apply such text decorations (in particular, overline) to text in Inkscape, and I'm finding that some rendering engines don't know how to display them. As a test, if one takes opens the file @ http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/text/textdecoration01.svg in Firefox 3.5, the text decorations aren't applied. They are rendered in Safari 4 and Chrome 2. So what's the *real* status of text decorations in SVG? Thanks in advance for your help, Bob

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by Daniel Drijard 23 Jul '09

23 Jul '09

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Slow performance on 4.5 MB file
by Dave M G 22 Jul '09

22 Jul '09

Inkscape users, I have an Inkscape file that is about 4.5 megabytes in size. It is essentially an A4 size comic book page. One layer contains the orginal scanned pencils, which were in PNG format. The next layer are flat colours, no gradients, just simple paths with colour fills. The top layer is the inks, which were almost all created with the calligraphy pen. This seems to be where the problem is. Even just locking/unlocking the layer causes Inkscape to pause for many seconds, maybe 10 or so. My computer is by no means the latest, but it should handle these file sizes alright. I use GIMP and Photoshop on larger file sizes without any noticeable slowdown. (My computer is a 2.8GHz dual processor, with 2 GB RAM, running Ubuntu 9.04). Is it normal for a collection of paths created with the calligraphy pen to be this bulky and slow a system down? I tried removing the original scan images to try and reduce the file size, but it has not helped. Is there something I'm doing inefficiently or wrong, or is it just that complicated paths can't help but soak up lots of memory. Any advice would be much appreciated. -- Dave M G

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