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OT? SMIL seems dead, alternatives?
by Patrick 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

I registered with smil@...2562... I was notified of my acceptance but my questions but they were never posted. There is no SMIL player in the Ubuntu repositories. I don't really want to manually compile one, or use a windows based one, or pay for one. SMIL just seems unsupported. From what I have read, streaming video has made SMIL less desirable. I don't have any real experience with it but it looks like a great idea. I would love to be able to use this to animate my SVGs and to control the audio. I could convert the video after to another format for mass viewing. Is there another alternative to SMIL?, something that can be used to dictate the timing of individual images and audio files? Sorry if this is off topic-Patrick

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Anyone up for testing in Canada?
by Jon A. Cruz 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

http://svg.org/story/2008/9/12/13254/9530 "An SVG Tiny 1.2 test fest will be held Sept 29 - Oct 2, 2008 in Ottawa, Canada." People in the W3C SVG groups have asked if we might have anyone in the area who could attend the "Test Fest". So, do we have anyone who might be able to make that?

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Windows printing problem
by Docsonic 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Some time shortly after the Devlibs update, the windows printing went wierd again. To test I drew a simple rectangular object of 1/2 a page or so and saved it. Then I printed it to a pdf pseudo printer to generate a pdf, first using vector printing, then bitmap. The svg is fine, the bitmap pdf is fine, but the vector pdf comes out scaled down to approx 40% of the original. I tried this with the latest svn to make sure it wasn't fixed and the problem is still there. Please see the attached files for clarification but note that none of the pdfs were generated by Inkscape, they are all 'print' output. http://www.nabble.com/file/p19415057/Print%2Btest_vector.pdf Print+test_vector.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p19415057/Print%2Btest_bitmap.pdf Print+test_bitmap.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p19415057/print%2Btest.svg print+test.svg Thanks, Tony -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Windows-printing-problem-tp19415057p19415057.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Extension Create Separation CYMK (Valessio S Brito)
by Guillermo Espertino 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

> Aurium make a extension created separation CYMK: > view: http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/InkscapeCMYKSeparator > > very util to Silk-screen.. > > -- > .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info That's great Valessio! I tried to install that extension in inkscape 0.47svn but it refuses to work. Apparently the .inx formatting changed and the extension hasn't a valid code for the new inkscape. Could you please ask the autor of the script to fix it? I'd really like to test it since CMYK output is one of the things that are keeping me from adopting inkscape as my main (and only) vector illustration application for print. I'd love to see this extension as part of inkscape. A separated CMYK tiff exporter using the output of this script would be terrific. I'd also like to know if the CMS code is taken in account to do the separations. If not, maybe the separate+ GIMP plugin would be a good place to start.

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SVG web kick start?
by Patrick 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

This might be a really dumb idea but here goes....... I wrote a script in Python using urllib2 to retrieve data I need for my business. I wonder if we could create a scraperbot(and I would need help) that would read the text component of SVG only sites. Perhaps we could then mirror all this data somewhere else so that the search engines would index it? I bet this would not count as duplicate content as the first SVG site was not indexed anyways. In effect I guess what I am proposing is a mini-me-google bot, if the search engines won't index it we could do this for them. -Patrick

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Animation via png frames from Inkscape
by Donn 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi, I have been thrashing around the net looking for a solution and thought to ask here because I can't get no satisfaction ;) I want to draw the frames of a small animation (ajax throbber) with Ink. Ideally I would do this: 1. Draw the frames - all on one layer. Use tricks like interpolate etc. 2. Select everything and press *magic button* which would a. Split each object to it's own layer. So I can at least pull it into Gimp and animate/export from there. OR b. Allow me to export each to a png *without* anything in the background so I can go directly to imagemagick to make the final gif. The problem with things as I find them now (and I hope I am missing the obvious) is that exporting includes stuff that's underneath the bounding box. I want a clean single object/layer in my PNG per frame, not one including all the stuff around/behind it. A kind of 'batch export each item while hiding *all* others each time' option. Any hope ? \d

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Extension Create Separation CYMK
by Valessio S Brito 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Aurium make a extension created separation CYMK: view: http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/InkscapeCMYKSeparator very util to Silk-screen.. -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Inkscape cannot preserve the italics of imported pdf files
by Paul Smith 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

Dear All, Inkscape cannot preserve the italics of the text of an imported pdf file. Can this be considered a bug? I am using Inkscape 0.46 on Fedora 9 (Linux). Thanks in advance, Paul

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landscape printing?
by Elwin Estle 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

I know I saw someone else post something about this. I cannot seem to print in landscape mode in Inkscape 0.46. I used a slackbuild from Slackbuilds.org on Slackware 12.1 (source compile). I tried the workaround posted on the site below, but lpr apparently expects a printer directly hooked to a parallel port and mine is a network printer. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/219640 I also tried printing to a file and then to the printer (an HP LaserJet 6MP hooked to an HP JetDirect 300x Network printing interface), I still got portrait mode. I suppose I can do everything in Landscape, then group the whole works and rotate it 90 degrees, but I am wondering if someone has found a workaround for this.

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outline-drawing for specific layers and general performance-improvements
by Dennis Schulz 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hello, currently i'am working on an relativly complex drawing. its a cinema seatplan.with all those detailed seats inkscape is renders really slow and freezes a lot of times. the outlinemode is working well but it would be nice if i could turn it on for only one or more specific layers. this is a feature-request.. some others ideas to speed up inkscape? its fine for simple graphics but gives a slow-motion-feeling at bigger jobs. i've read some discussions about multicore-support and i would also appreciate that. normally i'm a software-developer so my point of view is perhaps a little bit different from that one a normal user has. i know that this isn't a trivial thing but imho it has to be done to moving on to the magic you can do with adobe's illustrator or the freehand-thing. i'm not shure but i think that illustrator cannot do that too. whats about rendering with the gpu? a pluginable renderingsystem to be platform-independent. ok.. for now.. greetings and have a nice day :) -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Dennis Schulz Fon: +49.203.73 82 0 95 Mobil: +49.160.78 75 4 66 http://www.port42.org http://www.nuenni.de

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