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Move guides and object to the page
by heathenx 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

I have drawn something off to the side of my page and I have guides on top of it. I would like to move my object along with the guides to the center of my page. Is it possible to move to guides and the object together? heathenx

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looking for book cover design (about free and open source)
by Jeremy C. Reed 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

I am looking for a book cover illustrator. I read this article http://www.linux.com/articles/114172 about using inkscape to design book cover. If this mailing list is not appropriate for my request, please kindly suggest another forum. The idea of the book cover is to include the FSF gnu, McKusick's daemon, and Ewing's penguin. (We will get permission as required.) Or some other artwork covering this theme: "a history of free and open source" and "how free and open software is changing the world". Jeremy C. Reed p.s. The book is written and we are just doing final edits.

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Exporting Inkscape SVG to Corel and other apps
by Ocetalo 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Greetings I made a logo for a client who lives in other city. I'm sending him the source vectors for him to print and work the logo there, so I need to be sure about Inkscape SVG support in other apps. The logo is all paths and includes a shadow (blur effect). Will my file be successfully opened in Corel, and also Illustrator? Will it keep the blur? Please help on this. -- Favor no cambiar el ASUNTO Please don't change SUBJECT

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Setting ICC profiles in Preferences
by Hedley Finger 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

I have Inkscape 0.46 (with liblcms_1.dll in C:\Program Files\Inkscape\ installtion folder) on Windows XP SP2 (and all patches until present). In the **Color Settings** control panel , I have set the device profiles as follows: @ 'Displays' -- BenQ E2200W (Digital) on Radeon 9200 Series @ 'Printers' -- Epson IJ Printer 06 on Epson Stylus CX6900f (multifunction) @ 'Scanners' -- Epson Stylus CX6900f/CX7000f/DX7000f scanner - reflective The **Color Management** page in the **Inkscape Preferences** dialogue neither displays correctly nor allows profiles to be specified. In case the embedded pixmap is stripped by the listserv: @ **Display profile** display <none> and a profile cannot be set. (Fallback is to mark 'Retrieve profile from display' but I do not know if this is actually happening. There is a manufacturer supplied profile for my LCD monitor. @ **Device profile** drop-down is distorted and does not allow selection of the inkjet printer or an industry CMYK profile such as SWOP ( US Web Coated). I would like to use colour management in Inkscape if I can, particularly to preview graphics intended for a particular press and paper stock. But first some answers to a few questions: @ What is Inkscape's working colour profile, if any? Adobe RGB 1998? @ Where do you store ICC *.icc or *.icm profile files on the Windows version of Inkscape? Or does it use the Windows system profiles in C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color ? Any advice about getting the colour-management functionality in Inkscape to work will be gratefully received. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger" <hfinger@...2483...>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Openfontlibrary] FontForge Icons
by Dave Crossland 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

2008/6/18 Liam R E Quin <liam@...2543...>: > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:33 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: >> George Williams <gww@...2542...> > [...] >> FontForge doesn't handle alpha channels, >> so all icons should be indexed images with a transparent color. > > Or someone could write a patch to fix this limitation.... > (just pointing out alternatives here...) If anyone is interested in paid work on improving FontForge's custom toolkit, I have some funds available for that - although I'd like to see Inkscape's capabilities as an SVG Font Editor improved as I think that would have a better price:performance ratio. -- Regards, Dave

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FontForge Icons
by Dave Crossland 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi, Thought I'd forward this on :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: George Williams <gww@...2542...> Date: 2008/6/16 Subject: [Fontforge-devel] Icons for menus To: fontforge-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Some of you may have noticed that the cvs tree contains little icons in the menus. I'm not the greatest icon designer. If anyone would like to redo them so they are nicer that would be great. There is one unexpected caveat: FontForge doesn't handle alpha channels, so all icons should be indexed images with a transparent color. (This corresponds to an alpha channel which is either all on or all off inside gimp).

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Vinyl cutters, Direct control, Suggested models
by Patrick 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hey Everyone There is a discussion taking place on the developers list right now pertaining to adding control of Vinyl Cutters to Inkscape. It is in the very early stages, the developers are not sure whether to add direct support to Inkscape or to an upstream printing application such as CUPS. Although I am on the developers list I have contributed precisely nothing to Inkscape, so I can hardly call myself a developer. I don't know what is the best way to approach these issues but I feel confident that I can decipher the command set used to control a cutter. I would like to do so and then turn this over to our talented developers. I would like to buy a cutter for this purpose. What would be the most ideal model to start with? I am hoping to spend under $500 U.S for this. Once we determine a good model to start with, I will likely search for a used one. If anyone has a popular model that they no longer need perhaps I could purchase it from you, could you please post the model number in this thread? I am short of money this month but I should be ready sometime in July or August. Thanks in advance-Patrick

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inkscape shortcuts on non-qwerty keyboard
by unknown＠example.com 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

I searched the archives for some solution to my problem, but couldn't find any, so if I overlooked it, please point me to the appropriate thread. I'm using inkscape on KDE with a qwertz (german) keyboard layout. Some shortcuts, like "#" to toggle the grid, don't work, as the corresponding key differs from the US qwerty layout. As the default.xml contains the right bindings (didn't change anything there), I think it's gtk that doesn't get tha mapping right. Is there some viable way to adapt the gtk settings to my keyboard layout? Of course I could learn the US layout for the shortcuts or alter the keybindings in the default.xml, but both workarounds seem to be a bit of an overkill just to use the default shortcuts. And I'm not quite fond of installing a whole Gnome just to have a Control Center where I can change the keyboard layout. thanks in advance

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Clipped bitmap --> closed path filled with patterh
by Hedley Finger 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

I have been producing a series of diagrams illustrating the effect of the various rendering intents. I found an SVG of the CIE 1930 chromaticity diagram and dismantled it to provide a background for my purposes. The familiar (closed) horseshoe shape is clipped from a rectangular bitmap of the radial colours of the visual spectrum: going around the outside border anti-clockwise, the rays from the white point (centre) to the border are R, Y, G, C, B, M and back to R (i.e. RGB and CMY interleaved). Trouble is this doesn't translate to PDF via the Cairo processor, or to PS and PDF via Ghostscript. The clipping of the bitmap is lost and the the border path just appears as an object on top of the full rectangular bitmap. The text labels are aliased in a very ugly way when I try to output to PNG. So I thought to convert the bitmap to a pattern, then fill the horseshoe path with the pattern. No joy. The bitmap turns into a slightly smaller rectangular pattern that is divided into four unequal quadrants, that is, it is tiled. It looks nothing like the demonstration on page 190 (204 of 341) of //Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program//. This shows a picture of a 1920s couple getting into an early MG sports car, then the same picture used as a fill in a circular object, then the pattern translated to change the details included in the fill. If that pic was mine, after changing to a pattern, the pattern would be smaller than the pixmap, and part of the RH and Bottom sides of the pixmap would appear as thin bands extending the LH and Top sides of the pixmap, i.e. the couple and sports car cut up in a way where it would be impossible to show the full graphic as a pattern fill in any object. What I really wanted was the bitmap to turn into a single tile pattern, i.e. a repetition of 1 both vertically and horizontally. Then I could fill the horseshoe border with the radial colours. It didn't look anything like the pattern on page 189 top. So what should I have done? Regards, Hedley Windows XP SP2; Inkscape 0.46; //Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program//, Tavmjong Bah, ed. 0.13 (documenting Inkscape 0.45.1) -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger" <hfinger@...2483...>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] convert pdf to svg from command line
by Matei Stroila 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Thanks a lot bulia! This is exactly what I was looking for. Matei ----- Original Message ---- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:12:45 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] convert pdf to svg from command line On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Matei Stroila <mns3m@...12...> wrote: > Are there any command line options for the inkscape executable to convert PDF to SVG? I just fixed it in SVN (rev 18892) so now this will work: inkscape file.pdf --export-plain-svg=file.svg It will take the first page of the PDF and all the default import options. Before, it crashed because it tried to open the PDF import preferences dialog and could not do it in the command line mode. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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