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SVG viewer
by Cedric Sagne 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

I just checked and it seems irfanview can (with a plugin) handle svg files - it has a thubnail/folder browser -- check it out. :: I confirm Irfanview has an SVG plugin, and it works just fine (although filled areas look funny) Cédric

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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG Viewer
by D. Jones 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Maarten van der Velde wrote: Dear People, Is there a good working SVG-Viewer for Windows? Firefox works, but is a bit clumpsy. Inkscape works, ofcourse, but is too heavy. Adobe SVG viewer simply does not work. I'd like something like the windows Fax and Picture viewer but then for SVG. Regards, Maarten I found that Opera works best for this particular need. Even though you cannot see the file as a thumbnail, but in terms of opening the file Opera is lightning fast. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG viewer
by loscotec＠libero.it 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

That's actually what linux does.. If you just need to do that and no fast integration of that with other works, you could at least try a live version of .. ubuntu (the one I'm sure is doing this..) Lucio Boscolo .In addition to a viewer, what I'd like is a decent SVG browser/explorer. . .In particular, I'd like to navigate directory trees of SVG files and .get thumbnail views of the entire directory at once. . .Integration with the native directory explorer/navigator would be .beneficial too. . .Thanks, .greg.fenton . .On Nov 22, 2007 3:05 AM, Maarten van der Velde .<Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171...> wrote: .> Dear People, .> .> Is there a good working SVG-Viewer for Windows? Firefox works, but is a .> bit clumpsy. Inkscape works, ofcourse, but is too heavy. Adobe SVG .> viewer simply does not work. I'd like something like the windows Fax and .> Picture viewer but then for SVG. .> .> Regards, .> .> Maarten .> . .------------------------------------------------------------------------- .This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft .Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. .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 . .. Caminante no hay camino, solo se hace camino al andar ..

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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG viewer
by D. Jones 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Maarten wrote Two suggestions. First. I find that Adobe SVG viewer works well. I just redownloaded it. Adobe's free SVG viewer plug-in, ASV 3.0. If you don't already have ASV installed, you can get the executable setup file, SVGVIEW.EXE, at the following Web site: www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html Install the plug-in by simply downloading and running SVGVIEW.EXE. The setup is quick and there are no options. I downloaded version 3.0.3 and it works fine. How do you get it to work like the windows picture and fax viewer? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Looking for tutorial on editing the source of SVG files
by Dave M G 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Inskcape Users, I'm creating a bunch of line art drawings in SVG that I will then edit within PHP to do some dynamic transformations before displaying on the web. I'm trying to find a readable and helpful set of instructions on how to manipulate groups of objects to do the following: Scale group with X and Y proportioned Scale in X or Y separately flip on vertical axis Refill colour on all group elements jitter slightly points in group overlay SVG files onto one another So far I've been able to figure out how to change the color on one object, but not on a group. Outside of the very technical W3C documentation, I'm not finding much in the way of user friendly tutorials. Anyone have any tips on where I might look for such a resource? -- Dave M G -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Looking-for-tutorial-on-editing-the-source-of-SVG-fil… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Simulating rubber stamp impressions (postmarks, etc.)
by Tristan Miller 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Greetings. What would be the best way of simulating the impression made by an old inked rubber stamp? Such stamps often have uneven ink distribution and the edges are often eroded. For example, check out the postmark on the upper right corner of this stamp: <http://www.sillektiki.com/images/2491.jpg>. This sort of style is commonly seen in grunge fonts. So, given a clean vector representation of such an image, such as <http://files.nothingisreal.com/tmp/postmark.svg>, how can I make it look nice and grungy like a real postmark? Regards, Tristan -- _ _V.-o Tristan Miller [en,(fr,de,ia)] >< Space is limited / |`-' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= <> In a haiku, so it's hard (7_\\ http://www.nothingisreal.com/ >< To finish what you

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Tablet's eraser cursor not visible in Inkscape
by Dave M G 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Inkscape List, I have a Wacom tablet, and the pressure sensitivity works great inside Inkscape. However, things are not perfect. As anyone who has used a tablet probably knows, if you have it in "Screen" mode, then the accuracy of the stroke isn't so great. In "Window" mode, where the size of the tablet matches the size of the active drawing area, you get a much smoother line with greater accuracy. But then in Window mode, the problem is that the location of the cursor and the location of where the line gets drawn can be different. I've found a workaround that works in GIMP, which is to assign the eraser tip of the pen to be in Window mode, and then simply use that as the drawing device. So I can just flip the pen in my hand and use the stylus tip as my primary pointing device for selecting things and making menu choices. And then flip back to the eraser end and just use it as a pen in Window mode to get great lines. But... there is one problem in Inkscape. When I use the eraser, there is no cursor indicating it's location on screen. It can still draw, and draws smooth, natural curves. But, not being able to see where I am until I actually lay down a line is kind of a problem. I'm hoping that people who have tablets will know what I'm talking about, or at least can easily reproduce this. My apologies if my explanation is not clear enough. Is there a way I can get the eraser end of my pen to have a visible cursor in Inkscape? Or, alternately, if anyone has any suggestions on other ways to get the smooth lines of Window mode while having a usable interface, that would be good too. Thank you for any advice. -- Dave M G -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tablet%27s-eraser-cursor-not-visible-in-Inkscape-tf48… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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NEW: Live Path Effects
by unknown＠example.com 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

I think I did not yet officially announce LPE... from our wiki: __________________ Live path effects (LPE) Live path effects (not to be confused with extension effects or SVG filters) are a new way to non-destructively modify path and shape objects. Path effects affect the path data of an object but not its style. The original path is preserved and can be edited directly on-canvas, and the path effect applied to it will be updated live. In this version, we include several path effects that are analogous to the corresponding extension effects (such as Path along Path effect and Pattern along Path that replaces the extension of the same name). The most important advantage of path effects is that they are, indeed, live - you can still edit the original path and the effect will update in real time (unlike the extension effects which were one-time one-way transformations). In the future, we plan to reimplement most if not all of path-changing extensions as live path effects. Live path effects were developed by Johan Engelen as part of the GSoC 2007. = Applying effects = Path effects are applied through the Path Effects dialog (opened from the Path menu, or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+7. This dialog is also used for controlling the effect's parameters and for removing effects. When a path with a path effect applied is selected, the statusbar description mentions that, for example "Path (4 nodes, path effect)". There is a special Paste Path Effect command (Ctrl+7) that can be used to copy effects from one path to another. [edit] Editing effect parameters When switching to the node edit tool (F2), the original path can be edited. The original path is shown as a red helper path. Normal path operations, like simplify, still work. Some parameters of effects can be edited on-canvas. For example, path parameters can be node-edited, by pressing the "edit on-canvas" button in the Path Effects dialog. Press "7" to cycle through the different on-canvas editable parameters. This way, one can edit the parameters without opening the Path Effects dialog. The statusbar tells the name of the parameters that is currently being shown. = Available effects = Path along path The Path along Path effect can curve a path along another path. When this effect is applied to a path, it can be bend along another path (called bend path). With the node edit tool, both the original path and the bend path can be changed on-canvas and the result is updated live. This provides a direct equivalent of "vector brushes" or "skeletal strokes" features in other vector editors. In the effect's control panel in the Path Effects dialog, you can select how many copies of the original path are put along the bend path (either single or repeated) and whether it is stretched to fill the bend path. In this dialog you'll also find a button to edit the bend path on-canvas and a button to paste a new bend path from clipboard. A possible workflow is this: you select and copy the new bend path to the clipboard, then select the path you want to bend, apply the Path along path effect, and paste the bend path with the paste button next to 'bend path'. Pattern along path The Pattern along Path effect can curve a path along another path. When this effect is applied to path A (called skeleton), another path B (called pattern) can then be passed as a parameter. The result is that path B is bent along path A. With the node edit tool, path A can be changed on-canvas and the result is updated live. This provides a direct equivalent of "vector brushes" or "skeletal strokes" features in other vector editors. In the effect's control panel in the Path Effects dialog, you can select how many copies of the pattern are attached (either single or repeated) and whether the pattern is stretched to fill the skeleton path. You can also choose the pattern for the selected skeleton [either directly or] by pasting it from clipboard (that is, you select and copy to the clipboard the pattern, then select the skeleton, apply the Path along path effect, and paste the pattern). The Scale width parameter allows you to change the width of the pattern applied to the path. Stitch Subcurves The Stitch Subcurves effect connects points from two subpaths of the path with straight line or curved segments, i.e. the stitches. It looks a lot like the Effect Lines from Expression 3. The result is also referred to as "String Art". For some examples of string art, see http://members.shaw.ca/jillbritton/string_art/jbstringart.htm. The shape of the connecting paths can controlled by the stroke path parameter. This could be used to draw 'hair-shaped' connecting paths with sharp end-tips. Other controls include the number of paths, the variation in spacing between the connecting paths (clustering) and also whether the start and end points of the stitches should like exactly on the original subcurves or can stray randomly around them. Finally the width of the stroke path can be varied. Note that this effect can only be applied to a path with two subpaths in it, hence 'subcurve' in the name. Use Path > Combine to create such a path from two separate paths. Example file: live-path-effects-curvestitch.svg Example file showing cooperation between Stitch Subcurves and Path along Path: live-path-effects-curvestitch-hair.svg Gears The Gears effect is a toy effect. It generates a chain of interconnected gears from the path that has the effect applied to it. The nodes of the path define the centers of the gears. The first 3 nodes are special; the first defines the start angle of the chain, the second defines the center of the first gear and the third knot specifies the radius of the first gear. That is, to create a chain of 2 gears, you will need a path with 4 nodes; for 3 gears, 5 nodes, and so on. Example file: live-path-effects-gears.svg = Development of new effects = One of the goals of the Summer of Code project was to make it easy to create new effects. There is a framework that greatly simplifies effect implementation; very little code is needed to get the effect hooked into Inkscape. This leaves valuable time for the actual effect to be implemented. See the http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingLivePathEffects wiki page for an explanation of how to get started with your own effect! ___________ I'd really like people to test things and to get feedback. It already works very nicely from my point of view, but that is also because I know how to use it! I hope it is intuitive enough to be used, if not: please let us know! Kind regards, Johan Engelen

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hybrid inkscape/blender gear
by Elwin Estle 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Made the path in Inkscape development version using the gear rendering script. Made a few changes with some boolean operations, then imported it into Blender and extruded/textured it. http://clayogre.deviantart.com/art/blender-gear-70132293 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Changing arrowhead size and color?
by Stephen Tucker 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi list, I am trying to make a flow diagram with Inkscape 0.45 on Windows XP. (1) I have arrows pointing to and from text. Whenever I move the text, I am deleting the arrow and making a new one, because I cannot seem to move/scale the arrow in such a way that the size and aspect ratio of the arrowhead is preserved. Is there a better way? (2) I can change the arrowhead color to match the line by going to Effects -> Modify Path -> Color Markers to Match Stroke But each time I do this I get additional End Markers. For instance, if I had used Arrow1Lend, each time I invoke the function above I seem to get another marker, Arrow1Lend[x], where [x] is a letter of the alphabet. Because of the procedure I described in (1), I have a ton of these extra markers... is there a way to prevent this? Thanks very much in advance! Stephen ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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