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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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Re: [Inkscape-user] hola, gracias por aceptarme / hi, thanks for accepting
by Guillermo Espertino 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Andrés: abre la terminal y ejecuta inkscape sin sudo. Probablemente te informe de alguna dependencia que te pueda estar faltando y por eso se cierra. La dependencia que falte la puedes buscar con synaptic, y una vez instalada ya no te dará problemas. Saludos! Gez.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] spot colour
by Mathew Oakes 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

HI Jon, I agree that littleCMS does matter, I just meant for the purpose of outputting separations. Thanks for your insightful links, as usual I am totally impressed with the work of Inkscape community and your input here is clearly very important. The concept of common swatch library format across different programs is really fantastic, and the kind of co-operation that is needed to provide viable alternatives to adobe creative suite. Sorry if my tone was too strong, but I have many reasons to prefer working in inkscape, and this particular point is a terrible difficulty in terms of being able to use my artwork over the full range of media. I'll be looking into your workaround mentioned when I have time! cheers Mat > > > > LittleCMS doesn't matter particularly as the answer to the original > > question from Terry Brown. Printing as SPOT colour, means output > > separations for named colours individually, not mixed as CMYK, RGB, > > LAB or anything else. > > LittleCMS actually does matter. > > It gives support for *previewing* output results, for detecting out > of gamut colors, and even for using named color icc profiles. The > latter is probably the primary way to reliably and portably denote > spot colors, but SVG hasn't integrated direct use of them yet. > > A functional work-around would be to have an icc profile with a > single number input, and that does an effective index into a set of > spot colors. A bit strange, but should work with Inkscape 0.46 as it > was released.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] spot colour
by Mathew Oakes 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

The discussion around spot colour largely misses the point as I see it. As a professional graphic artist I think its an important thing to have clearly understood. Colour support has become my #1 problem with using inkscape at work. Well, that mixed with the fact of the difficulty of getting editable artwork to work the same in illustrator (just for setting up separations for output). LittleCMS doesn't matter particularly as the answer to the original question from Terry Brown. Printing as SPOT colour, means output separations for named colours individually, not mixed as CMYK, RGB, LAB or anything else. Example: - Pantone 872C is a gold metallic ink (can't be accurately mixed in other systems). - On spot colour output you want a separation of solid black ink (to make the printing plate), labelled Pantone 872 (for the ink that is applied). - To approximate it on screen you want specific RGB values - To approximate it web-safe you need some other RGB values - To approximate it on desktop printer you need some CMYK values Nasty workaround: ============= I started doing graphics in the beginning of the desktop publishing almost 20 years ago, and there was time like 90-91 where you had to abuse the CMYK separations to get spot separations out of illustrator and freehand: - re-color your artwork before sending to the printer, - so 'Pantone 872C' became cyan (for instance), and - make sure the printer had clear instructions replacing cyan with Pantone 872C Changing applied colours like that in inkscape is laborious for complex artwork. Its probably less work than the suggestion in this thread of setting up layers for the various colours, exporting them individually and manually aligining the separations later in other programs. The problem? ========== I think the reason this is not addressed in inkscape, is the way that colors are stored and used. We can use a palette to apply a color. Later we cannot change the palette - and even if we could, it wouldn't change all instances where that colour is applied. The established solution: ================== Illustrator has an additional concept of swatches - where the colour properties of objects are linked to a swatch object. Swatches can be changed, changing all objects/lines/fills/gradientstops that reference them. This is extremely useful in complex illustrations where you might have several colours that mean things, but need to adjust them later in the process. A spot colour needs to be defined like a swatch, so that the one definition can be used identically across many different objects, and later used as a separation. That also allows artwork to move between colour spaces, as each swatch can have a representation defined in each colour space. That is the real value that the downloadable profiles and swatch libraries provide -- the ability to match output from different devices eg. screen (RGB), web-safe (RGB), inkjet (CMYK),web offset lithography (CMYK with colour profile) and spot colour reproduction.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG Font Editor
by quetim porta 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

Hi Olivier. I have been playing a little with the Beta. I believe that the problem is apparently solved. I made the following: I recorded my live playing in Harmony and route the output to Samplitude music studio. So, i recorded in Harmony and the midi output at same time. I exported the Harmony recording and merged them in a same midi file. If you open it in a Piano-roll, you can see some differences. I transpose the samplitude record one step down. So, the note above is the harmony record, and the one down, is the samplitude one. There are some timing differences, but what catch my attention was the velocity differences. The midi file Harmony export has very high values compared with the real input. Hope i expressed myself clear enough. Any question is welcome. Best Regards. --- On Tue, 5/19/09, Alvin Penner <penner@...2467...> wrote: From: Alvin Penner <penner@...2467...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG Font Editor To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 12:25 AM bulia byak wrote: > > Thanks Felipe, I added this to release notes: > thanks for the documentation, this should certainly whet peoples' appetites. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SVG-Font-Editor-tp23574059p23606454.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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