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resizing page without resizing drawing?
by Daniel Lenski 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hi all, I've been using Inkscape (version 0.45 under Ubuntu) for a couple of months mostly to make technical drawings and diagrams for use on Wikipedia. I love it, but there's just one thing that's driving me nuts! There's no way to resize the page without resizing all the objects in it. For example, I may have an object that's exactly 36×24 mm on an 8×10" page. If I change the page size to A4, all the objects change their size. The only way to restore it is to calculate the *exact* scale factor and then rescale them afterwards... and even then there are sometimes some rounding errors :-( So is there a way to resize the page without scaling the objects within? Thanks! Dan Lenski

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export id to PDF
by Alexander Bonivento 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hello everyone! strange to say, i need your help once more. As usual by me, it's a bit complicated... It may seem a bug, but i also think it may be me, so here's the explanation. NOTES: i'm using Inkscape 0.45+devel (Dec 8 2007) All of this is done via PHP, no human action. Here i am reporting values dumped from the PHP script itself The issue: Plz cosider this simple code: <svg width="2160in" height="2160in" viewBox="0 0 2160 2160" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve" shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <g id="text_4" transform="translate(1080,1080)"> <text id="text_4_1" transform="translate(0,0)" style=" text-anchor:start; font-size: 90; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; fill: #000000; fill-opacity: 1; stroke: none;">SCHOOL BOARD</text> </g> </svg> It's simply a textline inside a big canvas. What i need to do is to export in PDF only the text_4 object. I need it perfectly trimmed, so that the PDF will be exactly sized over it. As the export-id option seems to work only for PNG export, i tried to do this: - use query-width and query-height to find "text_4 object" size - create a new SVG using the resulted values as width and height - finally export the new SVG in PDF The results of the queries on the avobe file are: inkscape -z svgfile.svg --query-width --query-id text_4 => 66073.068 inkscape -z svgfile.svg --query-height --query-id text_4 => 8594.1 NOTE: I queried text_4 and not text_4_1 because sometimes i will have multiline texts here, and so other text_4_2, text_4_3, etc... inside text_4. text_4 is the container, i need all the "text_4_xxx" in the same PDF. Anyhow, for this specific case, i also tested the query on ID text_4_1: as expected, same result. Values are "SVG user units", which are 90 DPI. So next i divided the values by 90: 66073.068/90=734.1452 8594.1/90=95.49 And finally i create the "last" SVG file: <svg width="734.1452in" height="95.49in" viewBox="0 0 734.1452 95.49" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve" shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <rect x="0" y="0" width="734.1452" height="95.49" style="fill: none;" /> <g transform="translate(0,95.49)"> <text id="text_4_1" transform="translate(0,0)" style=" text-anchor:start; font-size: 90; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; fill: #000000; fill-opacity: 1; stroke: none;">SCHOOL BOARD</text> </g> </svg> As you can see, it's the same identical "text_4_1" line, there's nothing there to alter it. At this point i would have expected the PDF exported from this 2nd SVG to be fine... but it's not at all. Any ideas/suggestion/hints? Am i doing something wrong? Is there some simpler way to export a "trimmed" object alone in a PDF file? I think i may have missed something about SVG units conversion, maybe. Thanks in advance, sorry for the long post. Alex

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lxml + numpy (on OS X PPC but not only)
by jiho 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

Hi everyone, In order to provide out of the box python functionality on OS X for the upcoming 0.46 release, we'll bundle the python packages Inkscape uses in all flavors (i.e. ppc and intel, for every version of python). I would need someone who has these packages installed to send them to me: - lxml and numpy ppc with python 2.4.* - lxml and numpy ppc with python 2.5.* These two versions of python are *not* the one shipped with Mac OS X Panther or Tiger. They are typically obtained via MacPorts, Fink or the binary distribution of Python for Mac. MacPorts versions are in / opt/local/Framework/Python/.../lib/site-packages. Versions for the binary distribution of python are probably somewhere in /usr/local or in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/2.4/. I am looking for two directories in site-packages, unsurprisingly named lxml and numpy. If no-one has them already it would be really nice if someone could compile them for me on a PPC machine. This is really simple: - download lxml and numpy (from their respective homes, google is your friend ;)) - decompress them (usually already done for you) - in terminal sudo python setup.py install - go fetch the directories where they where installed (check the latest terminal messages), zip them and contact me. Thanks in advance. PS for the more knowledgeable around here: I am acting under the assumption that packages such as lxml and numpy are incompatible between point versions of Python (2.3 vs 2.4 vs 2.5), which is what I read somewhere. If someone has indication that this is not true, it would be very nice to point my mistake: things would be simpler and Inkscape won't grow too fat if we can just ship one version of the packages (the sum of all pyton packages will probably be around 70Mb, compared to the 80Mb of Inkscape itself, it seems a bit overkill...). JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Best Practices for making maps
by Will Gant 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

Hello all, At the suggestion of a friend, I have downloaded and installed Inkscape on my home PC running Ubuntu. What I would like to use this program to do is to create maps. The maps in question would be maps of a fantasy world (like what you would find on the inside cover of a copy of The Hobbit). Inkscape looks like it would be able to pull this off fairly well, but I wanted to run the idea by the list to see if anyone had done this before. If so, do you have any suggestions on how to make the experience easier? I figure I can't be the first person to do this, so... Also, how hard is it to make an object that is reusable? For instance, if I made a really cool graphic that represented a castle, how could I easily reuse it in multiple maps? Thanks, Will --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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Different style when printing using filter effects
by unknown＠example.com 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

Hi! Im wondering, if is it possible, what many CAD application has, namely when I print the drawing, it applies different style and not the normal one. Im thinking like: When viewing vs. when printing(exporting as pdf) black ->black red -> black yellow -> dotted line green -> dot line dot line etc Maybe a button or a menu item to apply the alternate style (before exporting as pdf) and after it, to remove. Or similar to the viewing possibilities (this one would be the best solution so far, but require programming skills): -Normal -Outline -Simplified/Technical/Black&White I think it would be useful for the drawing community too, for ex. somebody need to design a logo in color and grayscale (or when printing in black and white). As a short term solution I think Filter effects is the easiest solution (no programming required). Can somebody help if is it possible or where can I start? Best regards, Khiraly -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail

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new autopackage install - no icons in toolbars
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

Hello all. I just installed the latest autopackage (inkscape200711070317) in my Ubuntu 7.10, and now there aren't any icons in the toolbars. any ideas? cheers -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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0.46 Development Version available as Autopackage or ZeroInstall?
by Phil Rhoades 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

People, I am hanging out for v0.46 but have had problems building the svn version in the past (Fedora 6/7 - now on 8) - can I get v0.46 via Autopackage or ZeroInstall somehow/somewhere? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Fwd: Resend: Converting older Illustrator AI format
by Michael S 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

(Sorry for the duplicate post -- first msg was sent before I was subscribed) I have some files in Illustrator's AI format (from Illustrator version 8 I believe). According to the Inkscape wiki, only AI version 9 or later can be opened by Inkscape. Does anyone know of a conversion tool that can open my v8 AI files and convert them into a format that Inkscape can open? Thanks, Michael

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Converting older Illustrator AI format
by Michael S 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

I have some files in Illustrator's AI format (from Illustrator version 8 I believe). According to the Inkscape wiki, only AI version 9 or later can be opened by Inkscape. Does anyone know of a conversion tool that can open my v8 AI files and convert them into a format that Inkscape can open? Thanks, Michael

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Equation Graphing (like geg) in Inkscape?
by Phil Rhoades 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

People, I would like to able to produce graphs from equations like geg (Graphical Equation Grapher - uses gtk): http://www.infolaunch.com/~daveb/ A found a suggestion that this is possible in inkscape: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TufteStylePresentation but I can't find any more info about how to do this - can someone give me some info? Ideally it would be great for Inkscape to be able to read a script with the list of equations (using some acceptable syntax) and plot them along with axes, grids, area selection, zoom etc. geg has limitations wrt displaying grids, exporting to PDF etc. It seems that this would be useful addition to Inkscape? Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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