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spot color
by Terry Brown 21 Jun '09

21 Jun '09

Hi all, I've got a project set up in inkscape, designed for two color (green and black) spot color printing. First I'm going to send a PDF to the printing service and ask if it will work for them. But I'm guessing I may need to cut all the green stuff out of the black stuff for this to work, maybe provide two separate layers, one with the black shades, and one with the green shades. Does it sound likely that I'll need to do this, and if so are there any easy ways to do so, other than a lot of path differencing? And perhaps making the green shapes larger so there's no white where they're supposed to be contiguous with the black? Or is there some easy way around all this I'm overlooking? Thanks, Terry

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color print
by H.Lekin 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hi, I started using Inkscape 6 weeks ago. I went to a print shop to get a color drawing - exported as PNG - printed. On this print, a blue gradient fill turned into a blue to dirty-green fill. Do you have to transform color space afore? How do you usually do this? Convert PNG to TIF, transform RGB to CMYK with embedded profile? Make a PDF/X-3 via Scribus? If via SVG import, how do you handle tranparency? What standard color profile do you use, if you don't know exactly on which machine you are going to print? Or was this color shift just caused by a misconfiguration of Photoshop in the print shop? Thanks in advance for your help. HL

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Segmented circle by default in 0.47
by Steven M. Ottens 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hi all, I'm using the latest build of http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D on windows XP. When I draw a circle it defaults to drawing a segmented circle; it draws a full circle, with the begin and end point on the same place and a line going from those points to the centre of the circle. I need to hit the 'make shape a full circle..' button to get rid of it. Does anyone else have the same problem, if so wouldn't it be better to default to a full circle? Regards, Steven

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Script to gather resources (fonts and images)
by Denís Fernández Cabrera 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Hello all, I have just submitted this as a RFE in the Inkscape Launchpad section [1], but I thought I'd share here too in case someone comes with a quick fix -- perhaps a script that will do the job. The basic idea is, as I detail in the ticket: I have the fortune of working with a printing house that actually uses Inkscape (and Scribus and The GIMP) in they day-to-day. This means that they know the intrincacies of the program and I can send them pure SVGs with the reassurance they will know what they are doing. One of the problems I find, though, is that whenever I prepare a complex design (a poster, or even the layout of a page for simple books) where several font faces and external images are involved it is a real pain to gather all the resources (font files, image files) that I need to send them. Sure, Inkscape can embed images (but this generates huge SVG files and becomes aggravating when an image is used repeatedly in several files). It can also generate PDFs which I can send to them (but sometimes they need to do preprinting and there is no good PDF editor for GNU/Linux, and PDF doesn't support all the features SVG and Inkscape do). Hence I think that an option that parses the SVG file and generates a tarball with the SVG, its associated images and the relevant font faces would be very nice to have. Denís. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/386664 -- Denís Fernández Cabrera mailto://denis@...2650... Gatonegro deseño http://gatonegro.me

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Coordinates of a page
by Alessandro Antonello 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Hi, all! Is it possible to invert the coordinate system of a page? I mean, the measurement of a page become at its lower-left corner. It's possible to change this to the up-left corner instead? Alessandro Antonello

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Inkscape 0.47pre0
by Ted Gould 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

I've made a pre-release to signify our increasingly frozen state. This image is more intended to help packagers to ensure that our tarballs are of good quality to make packages and to help users find bugs so that we release with as few as possible. This is not recommended for production work. === Tarballs and zips === https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… === MD5 Sums === 7c794ec299573da3769dbcab1ff73182 inkscape-0.47pre0.tar.bz2 4ce7b7c349f5999ff4b233d952c132c7 inkscape-0.47pre0.tar.bz2.asc cd38689df58b7e37d17b69639fa4076b inkscape-0.47pre0.tar.gz d71511bc4684ff7204ec6c0c3dc789c4 inkscape-0.47pre0.tar.gz.asc 71cb667999b1cabac197c951a52e8219 inkscape-0.47pre0.zip ae6d202080e22334b3188f10814ed328 inkscape-0.47pre0.zip.asc I think that's it. Thanks from everyone for putting work into this. A very exciting release is starting to take shape. --Ted

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hola, gracias por aceptarme / hi, thanks for accepting
by Andrés Rodríguez 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

hola, soy un usuario colombiano que estoy comenzando a descubrir el mundo del software libre, inkscape me parece genial, pero solo lo he podido utilizar en virtual box por que tengo el siguiente problema: he instalado inkscape con privilegios de administrador me parecio muy buena esta forma de instalacion pero ahora que esta instalado sobre linux ubuntu no se como abrirlo o ejecutarlo utilice alt + f2 y escribi inkscape, y no aparece nada ¿Como puedo abrir el software? Hi, I'm a user Colombian starting to discover the world of free software Inkscape seems good but I could just use virtual box that I have the following problem: Inkscape I installed with Administrator privileges I felt very good this way of installation but now that is installed on ubuntu linux not open or run as use alt + f2 and write Inkscape, and nothing appears How do I open the software? -- Andrés Rodríguez V. Estudiante Tec. Industrial Recomiendo el uso de programas alternativos a Word, Excel, PowerPoin, etc. por favor trate de no trabajar o enviar archivos adjuntos en estos formatos estas son las razones: http://andresuncio.blogspot.com/ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html

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Copy between documents only copy as bitmap? (21461 in OS X)
by Jmx 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hi, I just noticed that i can't copy items between documents in the latest build for OS X (21461 and 21420) Copied vector objects turn up as bitmaps with a white background. It copies fine in the old 0.46 though Thought someone would like to know :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Copy-between-documents-only-copy-as-bitmap--%2821461-… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Remove all guides
by Lars Behrens 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hi there, sometimes I find myself locked in a world of guides :-) I can't find a quick way to remove all guides in drawing (Inkscape 0.46). Can someone help me? TIA! Lars

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Blur in EPS output
by Peter Desjardins 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

I have established a pattern of using blurred drop shadow in the diagrams I produce for technical manuals. I've used Adobe Illustrator in the past and I am attempting to switch to Inkscape. I find that Inkscape does not save EPS files with that blurred drop shadow. The only reason I am saving my Inkscape diagram as EPS is that my publishing tool (RenderX XEP) doesn't seem to support the blurred drop shadow in SVG either. I ran a simple test in which I created an SVG Inkscape diagram with the blurred drop shadow. It looks perfect in Firefox. Then I saved it as EPS. I opened the SVG diagram with Illustrator, saved as the Illustrator format, and then saved the Illustrator diagram as EPS. So I have two EPS files that should contain the same diagram. http://sites.google.com/site/filessharedbypeter/Home/graphic-test-inkscape.… http://sites.google.com/site/filessharedbypeter/Home/graphic-test-inkscape-… I placed both diagrams in a document and published it to PDF. The Inkscape EPS file does not blur the shadow. The Illustrator EPS file does blur the shadow. Here's the PDF. http://sites.google.com/site/filessharedbypeter/Home/graphic-test.pdf My environment is Windows XP and Inkscape 0.46. My copy of Illustrator is CS2. I publish PDF documents using DocBook XML, RenderX XEP 4.15, and GPL Ghostscript 8.62. Is there a way to get Inkscape to save the blur in the shadow in EPS? Here's the original SVG for my test. http://sites.google.com/site/filessharedbypeter/Home/graphic-test-inkscape.… Thanks for your help. Peter Desjardins

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