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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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Inkscape under KDE - focus question
by Donn 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi, I know KDE can do all kinds of funky tricks with windows and focus etc. I was wondering if anyone out there has a way to do this: Make the floating dialogues (like align) release the focus (perhaps when the mouse is away) so that the main canvas keeps it. I am quite worn down by all the click one has to do to get the focus (keyboard) back onto the canvas between uses of dialogues -- one has to click the title bar so selections are not lost and then carry on. So, it's click, select, click the dialogue, work, click title bar, continue, repeat. I could set focus to follow mouse, but that affects *all* other apps and it's not cool. Just wondering. /d -- If there is anyone in the audience who believes in telekinesis, please raise my hand! -- James Randi

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text on linked offset path
by Simon Morris 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, I'd like to create an ellipse, create a linked offset path around it, and put text on that linked offset. This works OK, except that the text goes the wrong way round the path. Reversing either the path made from the ellipse, or the linked offset path, doesn't work. A horizontal flip of the linked offset path works, except that if I then translate the ellipse path, the corresponding translation of the linked offset path is also horizontally flipped. Any suggestions? Thanks, Simon Morris

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to align filled objects to even gridlines
by D. Jones 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Maarten van der Velde (wrote) Hey, Think of it this way: In the same preferences dialog (document preferences), it has an option "major grid lines every [ ] lines." If you set this option to "2", you can easily see the difference between "even" and "odd" lines. This is just a complicated way saying "lines running over pixels and lines running between them". I myself prefer to work in a different way, though. Maybe it suits you as well. I use a 1px grid (with every 8th grid line a mayor one). I put the cursor steps to 0.25 or .5 (Inkscape preference dialogue) and I let objects I draw align to the grid. If a 1px line runs over a grid line (instead of between two), I simply use the arrow keys to nudge the object with half a picture. Maarten When you say you put the cursor steps to .25 or .5 are you refererring to in the inkscape preferences. Inscape preferences> Steps> Arrow keys move by> .25 or .5 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/

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Question on 0.45.1 Different Builds for OSX
by Xin Liu 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, I noticed that there are actually two universal builds of 0.45.1 for OSX: one named "Inkscape-0.45.1-1-TIGER.UNIVERSAL.dmg" is linked on the official download page ( http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en ), the other named "Inkscape-0.45.1-2-UNIVERSAL.dmg" is on the sourceforge download area. I'm just wondering, is there any difference between these two? I can see that the second one was generated on Nov 11, 2007. Does it correct problems of the first build? Best Regards, Xin Liu

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How to align filled objects to even gridlines
by D. Jones 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

In the inkscape tips and tricks it mentions that: Suppose you want to create a 24x24 pixel icon. Create a 24x24 px canvas (use the Document Preferences) and set the grid to 0.5 px (48x48 gridlines). Now, if you align filled objects to even gridlines, and stroked objects to odd gridlines with the stroke width in px being an even number, and export it at the default 90dpi (so that 1 px becomes 1 bitmap pixel), you get a crisp bitmap image without unneeded antialiasing. I get the part about setting up the grid to .5, but I am drawing a blank when it says to align filled objects to an even number and strokes to an odd number. What exactly does this mean and is there an example of this somewhere? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Improved performance of the object snapper
by Diederik van Lierop 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > I wonder if within current snapping framework the so called Smart > Guides are possible. That is -- snapping without touching. This is new to me, but it looks like it simply aligns vertically/horizontally to the boundingbox of objects at any distance, am I correct? Such a thing is not supported by the current snapping framework, but it shouldn't be too difficult to implement. If implemented, it will need a key binding though to easily turn this on/off because otherwise it will get annoying. Diederik

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Automatically set Z-order
by Rob Antonishen 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Is there a way in Inkscape (extension/plugin) to automatically set the z-order of a number of objects? For example, I want to do what is shown by this image: http://www.maj.com/gallery/ffaat/Stuff/howto.png (The objects here are the same just for convenience. They are not necessarily the same, and are not necessarily in a grid). Ideally, I could provide a direction/line and have it change the z-order of all the selected objects in that orientation (though I would settle for top->down and left->right as I could just pre- and post- rotate) I have written script-fu extension for GIMP before, but think that Inkscape is much harder to add to that way... -Rob A>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Drawing boxes around objects?
by Keith Trnka 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

I think I might've not been so clear on what I was looking for -- an automatic way to do it with a tool, where I'd select my text, then select some tool or script, and have the appropriate size boxes created and grouped automatically. I realize I could just do it manually, but I don't normally have the time for that. thanks, keith

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