- Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

New user and want to resume painting
by Fahad Fateh 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi! My name is Fahad Fateh and I am from Pakistan. By profession I am a researcher and I love colors. I used to paint but few years back I left painting. And now I want to resume. Right now I am using Adobe Flash because I knew that software but I want to move to Inkscape for three reasons. Its open source, its for graphics and because pen support is native. And before I started, I wanted to discuss what is an appropriate way to start. Start painting using Inkscape. Should I copy others, should I draw small things first or should I sketch first using pencil and paper and move to Inkscape later? My earlier experience includes art work back in school and two oil paintings. Any books for recomendation? Thanks, Fahad

3 2

LGM 2008
by Jon A. Cruz 06 May '08

06 May '08

So, Who all is going to make it to LGM for 2008? For those of us not able to make it there this year, knowing who could represent Inkscape and bring up issues, meet people, etc, would be very useful. Thanks.

2 1

Keep Inkscape running after closing single or last document (survey)?
by Hedley Finger 06 May '08

06 May '08

All: Who would like Inkscape to keep running after you close a single document or the last document so that you can immediately start a new document without relaunching Inkscape? I find this behaviour very annoying and contrary to the way most document-oriented applications on all operating systems work. MDI type applications (such as OpenOffice.org) keep a blank grey window frame open into which you can start a new document. SDI type applications (such as the open-source Notepad++ on Windows) open a new blank document when you close the last open document. Gimp keeps a small "launch" palette open when all documents are closed. File > Close should close documents (creating a new empty document if only one document is open). File > Quit should close ALL open documents (giving you the chance to save unsaved work) and then close the Inkscape application. The window frame should have an application-instance close [X] icon at the RH end and the menu bar should have a document close X icon at the RH end. Refer to these bug/enhancement requests at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/> that also request that Inkscape not quit when a document is closed: #170550, open blank document on 'close' #171935, OSX Don't close the application when closing Inkscape window #171596, Reorganize UI when closing document [MDI] #170803, Close document vs. Quit program Please post your preference to the list and identify yourself as an end-user, developer, or both, and what platforms you use Inkscape on. I am just an end-user on Windows and Ubuntu, using v. 0.46. 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...>

10 12

Re: [Inkscape-user] Keep Inkscape running after closing single or last document (survey)?
by unknown＠example.com 05 May '08

05 May '08

One more vote in favour of keeping Inkscape running in some way after closing the last document, so that the next one can be opened without a need to re-load Inkscape. I am an end-user, using Inkscape on Linux, Windows 2000 and XP. Kind regards, Helmut Walle. _______________________________________________________________________ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender of this email. _______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal at www.dynamiccontrols.com

1 0

Nicer SVG support outside Inkscape?
by Denís Fernández Cabrera 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hello, This is more of a whish than anything else, but perhaps raising the issue will grab some attention from the developers of other SVG rendererers out there. The basic problem is that graphics generated with Inkscape usually don't display just as nice in other platforms --- specifically, text kerning and colours and other properties get screwed up, as do images sometimes. This is an important blocker to the creation of SVG wallpapers, or icons that contain some of the poorly supported features, or for using SVG and Inkscape for purposes other than illustration. Right now I am preparing a presentation, for example. It isn't too much of a fuss to pass a series of commands through the terminal and generate PNG versions of all the SVGs, but it would just be a smoother process if I could take any image viewer (like Ristretto or Gthumb) and cycle through the images. Inkview does a great work in representing the SVG from Inkscape accurately. So, my question is: why aren't other projects borrowing code from Inkview and using it to paint their own SVGs? There --- I told you it was more of a wish than anything else. :o) Denís. -- Denís Fernández Cabrera mailto://denis@...2126... http://gatonegro.ceibes.org

3 2

Making an axonometric linedrawing by manually tracing a 3D-Cad screenshot
by unknown＠example.com 05 May '08

05 May '08

I do have some questions concerning technical linedrawings with inkscape: 1. I take a screenshot of 3D-CAD a model that is rotated in a standard axonometric view. For example an isometric projection 30°-30°. 2. I import the screenshot into inkscape. 3. In "inkscape preferences" dialog in option "steps" Is set "rotation snaps every" to 30°. 4. By holding down "Strg" I can easily trace the screenshot. However when I have the 3D-CAD model rotated to some other axonometric view, for example 25-25°. This helpful technique is no more possible, since I can only choose from a list of predifined values in "rotation snaps every". I´d like to put in any kind of value. Should this be on the wishlist? Another question: I want to move an object along a defined axis. When I hold down "strg" I can move a selected object along the vertical and horizontal axis. Are there ways and techniques in inkscape to do that kind of thing along any kind of axis. Thanks for your help Marcel Lindauer DORNIER GmbH Rickenbacher Str. 119 88129 Lindau / Germany Phone: +49 8382 703-0 Fax: +49 8382 703-4 15 webmaster@...2272... http://www.lindauerdornier.com Commercial Registry: HR Kempten Nr. B/1220 Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Prof. Dr. Dieter Feddersen, Managing Directors: Peter D. Dornier (CEO), Michael Ebeling, Dr. Andreas Rutz, Hans-Jürgen Schmidt (CFO)

2 3

Raster to Vector conversion software
by james pringle 04 May '08

04 May '08

What is the best raster to vector conversion software to use with inkscape on Mac osx? I am currently using Delineate but I am looking for better performance and changing the conversion settings doesn't seem to be doing it for me. Thanx

3 2

Re: [Inkscape-user] Printing issues..
by rygle 01 May '08

01 May '08

Hi Pankaj 1. Try printing as bitmap. In the print dialogue, select Rendering -> Bitmap. This is a workaround most printing problems. 2. ?? I think it should be to scale. Size the page the same as your paper and view on 100%. 3. See 1 4. See the preferences under the File menu. Someone else may know more... Cheers, Rygle mittalpa wrote: > > To my surprise, the page is totally blank, forget the scaling. And only > one page came out. > > 1. How do I make sure that the drawing prints? > 2. How do I print to the scale? > 3. How do I make sure that all the pages print? > 4. Besides above, how do I change the unit size in the ruler above canvas. > Its in Pixels and I want in Inches. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Printing-issues..-tp16993283p16993310.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

2 1

Import .cdr files?
by John Culleton 01 May '08

01 May '08

On another list I found someone who had a whole library of clip art in .cdr format which appparently is a Corel Draw vector format. Will Inkscape import these files? I don't have a sample to test. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

2 2

'inkscape:original-d' attribute
by Alvin Penner 01 May '08

01 May '08

what is the significance of the 'inkscape:original-d' attribute, I mean what action causes it to be present? I'm finding that when it is present, then it is no longer possible to edit the d attribute as one normally would in the XML editor, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/223986 . Is it possible to remove the 'inkscape:original-d' attribute, once it is present? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%27inkscape%3Aoriginal-d%27-attribute-tp16957161p1695… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

2 2