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Drawing problem
by Joe Ward 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

I want to learn to use Inkscape in conjunction with Scribus to put out a newsletter. I want to create a box to go around a photograph and then import it into Scribus. In Inkscape, I click on the rectangle tool and drag as instructed, and nothing seems to happen. Then I scroll the window, and find that I've drawn a box below the desktop or canvas or whatever it's called. How can I cause the program to draw the box where I click and drag? I uninstalled the program and downloaded and installed it again, but the same thing happens in the second installation. Joe Ward

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Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
by Josh Andler 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Hey Everyone, As 2008 comes to a close I wanted to wish a happy holiday season to all and to wish everyone a very happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous new year! A big "THANK YOU!" goes out to to all contributors... whether developers, translators, testers, users, or even just advocates or constructive critics, Inkscape would not be where it is today without everything that you all have given. Thanks again and I can't wait to see what 2009 has in store for us all! Cheers! Josh

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JavaFX Exporter
by Gregg Bolinger 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

The other day I grabbed the latest code from the trunk and built Inkscape and installed it. The JavaFX exporter was there but the resulting syntax isn't valid JavaFX 1.0 syntax. It looks to be from some point in the RC line of the SDK. Is this being worked on and if so is there an ETA when the 1.0 compatible exporter will be available? Thanks. -- Gregg Bolinger

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Snapping to Edge of Paths
by Mike Lewis 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi, I'm new to inkscape and have used CorelDRAW a bit. One feature I really like is the ability to snap to edges of paths (as well as midpoints and whatnot). Is there something like this in Inkscape? Thanks, Mike Lewis -- Michael Lewis lolrus.org mikelikespie@...155...

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Inkscape to Blender:Planetary gears
by Elwin Estle 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Original gears made in Inkscape with the gear effect, then the .svg's are imported into Blender, extruded and animated. First attempt, 2 gears: http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5567/planetaryxl1.gif Second attempt, 5 gears (1 annulus gear, three planetary gears, and a sun gear). Had a heckuva time figuring out the rotation for the central gear. Run the vid twice. For some reason, the first time it runs way too fast. http://vimeo.com/2425916

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Scripting
by Alessandro Antonello 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hi all. I am new in this mailing list and I want some help on writing a little script that I despereted need. I have a huge SVG file. Its resolution is 20000+ by 38000+ and I need to slice it in little PNG peaces with 180x150 pixels. I wrote an batch file (I am a Windows user) that automate this but since it calls the inkscape in the command line to every peace that need to be exported it is very, very, very slow. Some one can guide me in writing a script that could do this in a little less time? I am currently using the version 0.46 of Inkscape in a Windows XP. Regards. -- Alessandro Antonello

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trouble setting correct page size with command-line postscript export
by Jake Beard 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Hi, I have some modeling software which is able to export to SVG. Unfortunately, the SVG exporter isn't perfect, and the documents it exports do not have a width or height set on the top-level SVG element. I'm now trying to use Inkscape from the command line to export these document as PS or EPS, and it understandably is giving me this warning message: ** (inkscape:13070): WARNING **: Could not set export-bbox-page option for this export. And the document that it returns has what looks like inkscapes default page width and height set. The same is true if I use -l to export as plain SVG. I can, however, still query the document using -W and -H to get its bounds, and I can use -D with the PNG exporter to get a raster of the entire document. I'd like to do the same thing with PS export, but I can't seem to figure out how. Is this possible? Right now, the best solution I have been able to come up with is using inkscape to query to documents width and height and inserting them into the document root using sed before finally attempting to use inkscape to export as PS. I think there must be a cleaner solution than this, though. Manually setting the width and height of the generated PS document using command-line flags would be enough, but I can't seem to get it to work. I'd appreciate any guidance anyone can offer. Thanks, Jake

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Command line Inkscape under OSX
by Carl D. Sorensen 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

I have installed Inkscape.app under Mac OSX Leopard. Inkscape works just great as a mac app. I have Inkscape 0.46-devel, built jun 23 2008. I have OS X version 10.5.5. Now I want to build the LilyPond web site (www.lilypond.org). This process requires a command line inkscape in order to render some graphics. When I try to run the scripts, I get the following message: inkscape --export-area-drawing --export-png=de/graphics/annotate-example-1.png --export-background-opacity=0 de/graphics/annotate-example-1.svg make[1]: inkscape: Command not found I've tried locating inkscape from the command line shell> which inkscape and it can't be found. I've also tried to find a file named inkscape on my Mac using Finder. I can't find a file named inkscape (which is what I assume would be needed to run inkscape from the command line). I do find Inkscape.app. Is there a path spec I need to add, or a symlink, or something of the sort? Any pointers on how to make Inkscape available from the command line? Thanks, Carl Sorensen

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Re: [Inkscape-user] download the source code for Inkscape
by vmars 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Thanks for: {The code for the latest stable release (version 0.46) is here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.46.tar.gz If you are interested in the development version, you should checkout it using svn: http://www.inkscape.org/svn.php?lang=en} My winXP doesn't know what to do with .tar.gz can I get Inkscape in a .zip or .exe file? Thanks! ...Vernon Marsden ô¿ô V e r n WinXp sp2 , wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.9.1-py26.exe , Boa 0.6.1, Delphi5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/vmars956/

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adding xml tags
by stephane ancelot 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, To finish my project, aimed to describe a GUI application from SVG , I definitely need a way defining type of GUI element when drawing from inkscape (button, label,scrollbar...) . I am using the id to name the component eg (startstop) and I need another way categorize it (eg button). I do not want the following form : id=rtstopButton, because I would need string treatment when parsing svg to remove "Button" Have you got another idea/way ? Best Regards S.Ancelot

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