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Can of Soup Tutorial
by Nikki Bennetts 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

New to Inkscape. Going through tutorials. Stuck on Step 2c of Can of Soup tutorial. Nodes are not at the horizontal or vertical axis and so I can't split the ellipse across the horizontal plane. Nodes are offset at 1, 4, 7 and 10 o'clock. Is there a step missing? Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address. www.yahoo7.com.au/y7mail

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translator screens about, proposal change structure and font.
by ValessioBrito 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Hi all, first, proposal change font family comercial 'Draw Freely' for font family Free/GPL/PD. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/192399 Actual: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/pushkin/ change for: http://www.dafont.com/excellentia-in-exce.font?nb_ppp=50&l[]=10&l[]=1&text=…. use Ctrl+L to simplify nodes/dots. --- second, proposal in ./share/screens/about.svg and others... to create a deep model of and only importing the translation. see: ./about.pt_BR.svg ( 12k ) translator ./about.en.svg ( 12k ) translator ./about.de.svg ( 12k ) translator ... ./background.svg ( 155k ) bg model and not: about.pt_BR.svg ( 180k ) about.de.svg ( 180k ) about.es.svg ( 180k ) ... my English is horrible. I wait that somebody understands the importance of the proposals. -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Can of Soup Tutorial
by Cedric Sagne 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Apart from the slight problem in your post, I guess you could be talking about the Can of soup tutorial on Tavmjong's Bah userguide... if so, he's the fellow who can give you the best answer. Cedric

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Re: [Inkscape-user] No Inkscape window in MacOS 10.5.2
by Oscar Moreno 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Dear Jeremy, I do not know why Inkscape builds a font cache. The user JiHO in the Inkscape-users list is the one who recommended to wait for Inkscape to build the font cache. Thanks for the message. Regards, Oscar On Feb 15, 2008, at 22:58, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > (I'm not on inkspape-users, so please cross-reply to x11-users as > well) > > Why does inkscape build a font cache? Why can't it just rely on the > existing fontconfig cache? Or is it using yet another font > mechanism that is going to give me nightmares? > > On Feb 15, 2008, at 15:46, Oscar Moreno wrote: > >> I had to wait for Inkscape to build the font cache. It took a >> while. Now it works. >> Thanks, Oscar >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Oscar Moreno <oscar.moreno@...483...> >>> Date: February 15, 2008 18:44:08 EST >>> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >>> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] No Inkscape window in MacOS 10.5.2 >>> >>> Dear Community, >>> >>> Patience did it!!. It works. Thanks a lot for the tip. >>> >>> Oscar >>> On Feb 15, 2008, at 16:32, jiho wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 2008-February-15 , at 21:12 , Oscar Moreno wrote: >>>>> I have installed Inkscape-0.45.1-2-UNIVERSAL into Mac OS 10.5.2 >>>>> with >>>>> Xquartz 2.1.3. I can NOT get the menu bar or the window. I only >>>>> get >>>>> the part of the menu bar that reads "inkscape." Has anyone seen >>>>> this >>>>> behavior? Can someone give me direction on how to troubleshoot my >>>>> installation? >>>>> PowerMac G5 with 1.5 Gb of memory. >>>> >>>> >>>> The first time Inkscape starts it takes quite a while to build the >>>> font cache. Maybe you just have to be patient. Otherwise there's >>>> a PPC >>>> build available in the development versions: >>>> http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-16774-PPC.dmg >>>> Tell us if one of the two solutions work. If the development >>>> version >>>> works, it means that the next version (due soon) will. >>>> >>>> JiHO >>>> --- >>>> http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >>>> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >>>> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Inkscape-user mailing list >>>> Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> X11-users mailing list (X11-users@...2454...) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/jeremyhu%40freedesktop.org >> >> This email sent to jeremyhu@...91... >

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No Inkscape window in MacOS 10.5.2
by Oscar Moreno 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

I have installed Inkscape-0.45.1-2-UNIVERSAL into Mac OS 10.5.2 with Xquartz 2.1.3. I can NOT get the menu bar or the window. I only get the part of the menu bar that reads "inkscape." Has anyone seen this behavior? Can someone give me direction on how to troubleshoot my installation? PowerMac G5 with 1.5 Gb of memory. TIA Oscar

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Save As EPS Brings up Printer Interface
by Mark Lucas 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Hi, I've been poking around the site and can't find anything regarding the following oddity. When I moved to Fedora 8 and installed inkscape, I found that whenever I try to save as an eps file, the printer window would come up. This does not happen under windows and has not happened to me before under FC4. Has anyone else found this issue? I'm presuming I'm missing a package somewhere or there is a misconfiguration. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Mark Lucas -- Mark Lucas email: lucasm@...2451... 252D Clippinger Lab phone: (740)597-2984 Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: (740)593-0433 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701

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inkscape gallery [48 hours later...]
by davide|inkscapegallery 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

i'm here to inform you about the inkscape gallery's two days in the "official world"... I didnt' receive feedback about my previous mail, but i didn't ask for this, i was only giving news indeed. Now i would like the inkscape user's list to come back talking about inkscape gallery (i will label it just IG starting from now...). I learned so much in the few days in this list and i think the improvements we provided are mostly related to the speeches we had here and i would like to thank you again, even if i cannot do this for each user personally, this is my way to tell how precious was your help. But this is done, we're online now and we have to debate about the present and the future of IG... I would like to see many of you posting drawings, cause we're registering many visitors from all the world and we are really happy about this, but we have still a few (i'm giving a special thank to those ones...)users and drawings on the website. I mean, i know i have to be patient...nothing happens just in one day, but i'd like to involve many of you in this moment, because we have to start thinking about the future of IG and we'd like this list, and anyone interested in, to have a leading role in the development. As you may know we are a small company and i love to say that this is just one of the opensource project we are planning... but obviously, we can't do this without help, and mainly this is not a closed project, this is a work done in the inkscape and opensource software growing purpose. And more, this is done to give the best place to share knowledge, drawing skills, tricks, projects for everyone who uses inkscape. IG is just at the beginning , i keep working adding features, (see this: http://inkscapegallery.net/en/node/142 for the comment notification feature) and fixing some stuffs, trying to enhance IG knowledge and google visibility. We could imagine many improvements, now we have two test environments, and someone already made something. Patrick wrote the code for the licenses validation that is another important improvement in IG and i like to thank him in this list, 'cause he's young but really skilled and he deserves our congratulations. We bought the .com, .it and .org inkscapegallery domains too, and they will work in one or maybe two days. So, i will like you to be the leader in the inkscapegallery growing process and in its future development. My work will be the organization, maybe the supervision (i'm still trying to figure out why didn't i seriously study english...) but you will be the one in charge...if you'd like to. Thanks, Da. http://inkscapegallery.net

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Tiling objects
by Claus Cyrny 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi, I've just been able to successfully tile a circle along a path, but the circles are partially deformed <http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/images/circle_along_path.png>, and I would like to know how I can avoid this. TIA, Claus -- Web design,graphics, photography: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (English|German) Articles: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=2153 (English) MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 (English)

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Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by jiho 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

On 2008-February-05 , at 16:27 , Gail Carmichael wrote: > Hey JiHO (I am not on the user's list): yes, this is why I figured I would include you personally in the email. > Can you send me the file in question? I am very curious to know if > this is Mac only or Windows and Linux too. Did you try it out > yourself? Nick, can you do that please? Ideally you should send: - the original files where the fonts used to display fine (apparently you made a backup if I understand you correctly) - the files that show the problem - the font(s) used in those files. The fonts live in /Library/Fonts or /System/Library/Fonts or /Users/yourname/Library/Fonts Even zipped, all this together may be big. If you have facilities to upload it somewhere and send the link it would be nice, otherwise... well make several zip files ;). Please send the attachment to Gail and me only (no attachments to the list) but keep posting follow ups to the list (as I did on this one), so that people know something is happening and the final fix can be found later. > jiho wrote: >> On 2008-February-05 , at 08:02 , churro wrote: >>> I am using OS 10.4.11, Inkscape .45. I started working on a file >>> and used a >>> specific font. Then I discovered that my effects are not working, >>> so I had >>> to download a newer build of Inkscape from >>> http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/ along with the python >>> packages. I >>> reinstalled Inkscape and got the effects working, but when I >>> opened my old >>> file, the fonts have changed to something generic, and I cant get >>> them to go >>> back to what they were! I rolled back to the older version on >>> Inkscape, but >>> that did not fix the problem. >> >> Could you perform these little tests, with the document that has >> the generic font and on both version of Inkscape: >> - select the faulty text, open the xml editor and check what the >> font attributes are (name, weight etc.) >> - check wether you see the font in the text and font palette (even >> if it's not used in the document)? >> - if you see it, what happens when you select the text and apply >> this font? >> >>> All my previous work with that font got >>> messed up (I still have the original files in hopes of getting >>> this to >>> work.) Does anyone know how to get my fonts to work again? >> >> Font got reworked between those two versions and the library that >> deals with fonts was also updated, but all that should have >> improved compatibility, not the contrary. Gail, could you look at >> that please? >> >>> 2nd part of >>> the question: And if I get new fonts, how do I add them to >>> Inkscape running >>> on OSX? >> >> All depends on the format of the font. If you get a ttf font in a >> regular format (ttf extension) Inkscape should be able to see it. >> Inkscape has issues with fonts in the dfont format and with >> Microsoft Font Suitcases (no visible extension). If you install the >> font on your Mac the regular way (double click and click install), >> Inkscape should have acces to it. To force the refresh of the font >> library on startup, delete a file via a command in Terminal: >> rm ~/.inkscape/.fccache-new >> Inkscape will rebuild the font cache on next startup. > JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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external CSS
by Alexander Roalter 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

I've done some digging, and I saw external CSS support was already planned for two consecutives 'google summer of code', though it is still not possible using them in inkscape, be it classes or even getting them to display properly. I've attached three files, one being the original file with the style attributes inline, it shows quite well in inkscape, the other two being a css file and a svg file with references to this css file. When I open the latter, only a black shield is displayed, as no style information is loaded. Additionally to getting inkscape to at least display the SVG correctly, I'm still pondering on how to implement the creation of the file in inkscape, there should be some possibility to apply a certain style (defined in a css file) to a path, so I wouldn't have to change the SVG file later to apply all styles. At the moment, it would suffice to get Inkscape to display the files correctly, as I still do some tidy-up with the resulting SVG files, so I can also replace the style commands with the correct class definitions... -- cheers, Alex

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