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Re: [Inkscape-user] Tiled Clones Trace Question
by Richard Querin 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Oh man. I figured it out once I examined the file you attached. I was mistakenly setting the fill and stroke to "none" with the 'X" button, not UNsetting them with the "?" button in the Fill&Stroke dialog. It works as advertised now. Silly mistake. Thanks for the help guys! RQ On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Rob Antonishen <rob.antonishen@...155...> wrote: > Sent to list and direct. Hope that helps figure it out. > > -Rob A> >

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Tiled Clones Trace Question
by Richard Querin 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, I'm playing around with the Trace option for tiled clones and I'm having a problem. I'm creating an 8x8 grid of tiled rectangles overtop of a bitmap (I tried this with a gradient filled rectangle underneath as well). Using the trace tab, i can get the clones to be output based on presence, opacity, and size, but I can't seem to get them to be created based on the underlying object's color as is described here: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles-Trace.html I've made sure the base object has an unset fill (which the tooltip and article recommend) but I still can't recreate the example in Tavmjong's guide. Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong? RQ

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Tiled Clones - Artifacts?
by Aaron Elmquist 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

I'm trying to make some tiled clones of a bunch of squares with a patter inside. I'm getting some kind of line between the squares when I tile it. I tried adjusting down the exponent with no success. Am I having issues because of something to do with the bounding box on this item? Thanks, -- ironranger.deviantart.com

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what file and preference do I change...
by Aaron Elmquist 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

to adjust the default zoom level on the default document opened by inkscape? I've been playing with some settings in the default.svg file. I managed to get it to open a 500 x 500 px page with no boarder. I'd like to have the page zoomed to fit the screen. I see a setting of inkscape:zoom = "0.35" but that doesn't seem to work as adjust in the zoom level in inkscape has no effect on this value in the xml editor. Thanks for the help in advance. -- I'm not a communist. I can have a potato chip. --Ben Stein

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Patterns. How?
by Gian Paolo Mureddu 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

Hello list! I write to you out of sheer ignorance. I generated a pattern with some paths and I'd like to use it as a sort of "texture" and apply it to another path... Is there an automated way of doing this, or should I group/join the paths and repeat them over the path I want to cover "ad nauseam"? I do believe there was a function in 0.46 (or was it since 0.45?) that helped doing that (or so I believe), but I don't seem to find said function. Thanks in advance for any tips!

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How to control the rotation of objects?
by Gian Paolo Mureddu 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

Hi again! I now have a different question. This time it has to do with rotating objects. Is there a way to control how much an object is rotated other than the 90° function? Something similar to the GIMP's rotation tool where you can choose the actual number of degrees by which you want to rotate a given object? Dealing with patterns (see my other post) I am attempting to generate a pattern off different rotation angles of some paths, however I find it very difficult to obtain the desired effect by manually turning every shape into the position I want it/need it to be 100% symmetrical. Is there a way to assess the rotation of objects? (sorry if my n00bishness shows, but I'm a n00b!). Just for the record, I'm attempting this in Inkscape 0.46 on Fedora 8.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to control the rotation of objects?
by Carl Symons 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:54:22 -0500 > From: Gian Paolo Mureddu <thetargos@...155...> > Subject: [Inkscape-user] How to control the rotation of objects? > To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <489B7D1E.7030804@...155...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi again! > > I now have a different question. This time it has to do with rotating > objects. Is there a way to control how much an object is rotated other > than the 90? function? Something similar to the GIMP's rotation tool > where you can choose the actual number of degrees by which you want to > rotate a given object? Dealing with patterns (see my other post) I am > attempting to generate a pattern off different rotation angles of some > paths, however I find it very difficult to obtain the desired effect by > manually turning every shape into the position I want it/need it to be > 100% symmetrical. Is there a way to assess the rotation of objects? > (sorry if my n00bishness shows, but I'm a n00b!). Just for the record, > I'm attempting this in Inkscape 0.46 on Fedora 8. > with object selected (menu) object -> transform (shift-ctrl-m) tabs for move, scale, *rotate*, skew, matrix Carl

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Slicing and selecting
by Donn 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi, Found myself trying to slice-up a page and realised that I can't select the rects that are 'invisible'. I make them alpha 0% so they won't show, but then I can't select them. I followed HeathenX's tut on youtube, doing everything the same way, but he selects the hidden rects click-click no problem, I can't do that on my end. Is there some trick to this? \d

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Snap to grid when pasting
by Vincent Hennebert 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi, Apologies if the issue is already known, but I haven't found anything by making a Google search. When I recently switched to Inkscape 0.46, I discovered that objects are no longer snapped to the grid when pasted from the clipboard. It used to work before and I was finding that quite handy. In the "Snap" tab of the Document Properties dialog box I ticked the "Enable snapping" and "Nodes" options. The release notes for 0.46 say that grids have undergone big changes. Did that behaviour get lost during the refactoring? Is that a new option that I missed? Many thanks for this wonderful software, Vincent

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state of SMIL? + SVG animation workaround suggestion
by Patrick 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

I have been trying to learn more about SMIL recently. The concept sounds great but I am very concerned about the progress of this technology. Some of the SMIL links on the W3C site are dead and many of them are from the late 90'S. Is SMIL just about dead? On a more positive note, I had an idea that I hope will be helpful. Regardless of what technology we use to generate an animated SVG, the animation is unlikely to be available to the masses with IE sucking as it does. I really am not qualified to offer tips to anyone here but on the off chance that no one has thought of it, perhaps we could generate an SVG animation locally, use a screencasting application and then save it as whatever-common-video-format. With a browser identification we could then load the animated SVG to the browser that supports it and the whatever-common-video-format to the others. -Patrick

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