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Can't get inkscape --export-area to work on windows
by Marcin Kasperski 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

I am using inkscape in batch mode to convert SVG images to PNG. On Linux it works perfectly. On Windows it works ... until I try using --export-area. Whenever I give --export-area parameter, inkscape silently does nothing. I suspected locale settings but even without fractional parts it does not work... Has anybody succeeded at using inkscape in such way on win? What can be the trick? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marcin Kasperski | Users typically do not know exactly what | http://mekk.waw.pl | they want and are unable to articulate all | | that they know. (Parnas) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Import question from a newbie
by Gavin Glencorse 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Hi there, Am looking to import AI, DXF and EPS files into Inkscape but am unsure how to get any further. I know I need Image Magick, dfx2svg, pstoedit and skencil installed to achieve this but don't know how to go about it. Is there an easy way to go about this as I've no experience of using the command line and this was the main reason I downloaded Inkscape. I run a MacBook Pro using OSX 10.4.10 with 2.16 GHz intel Core Duo and 1 GB RAM. Thanks in advance for any help! Regards. Gavin ___________________________________________________________ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html

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Intersection of rectangle and traced object
by Frank Knappe 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Hello, from the png export of an mask file I vreated a path object by using the buitin tracing function. This works great. I now have to show certain areas of the file only. For this I created a rectangle and used the "intersection" routine. This operation works in principle, but there are some side issues. The rectangle has the outer lines with 2mm, whereas the traced object has 0.282mm. The final object after the intersection has also 2mm line which is to coarse for showing certain details. Is this behaviour intented? version 0.46devel from 22102007 Ciao, Frank

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Paint Bucket Tutorial
by Ryan Lerch 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

the tutorial for the paint bucket / flood fill tool is now almost complete. Before we convert this into DocBook XML format, would it be possible for devs and users to have a quick read, and give the tutorial writers some tips on improvements etc. ? the tutorial draft can be viewed here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Scratchpad_paintbuckettutorial thanks in advance, ryanlerch

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Wacom tablet and Linux.
by John R. Culleton 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Has anyone used a Wacom tablet with Inkscape and Linux? -- John Culleton

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Need feedback from multi-monitor users
by Jon A. Cruz 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi, In adding support for color management and ICC profiles, I need a bit of feedback from anyone who has more than a single monitor under X11. If you have more than one monitor... 1) Do you have Xinerama running? 2) What do you get from running the following command? xdpyinfo | grep screen Thanks.

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Clipping?
by Jim Ford 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

I'm finding trouble getting to grips with clipping! Say I have two lines crossing near their ends and I want to cut the 'loose' ends off. If I then draw around a piece of line I want trimming, select the line to be trimmed and the clipping path object, and then do Object -> Clip, everything _other_ than the bit I want trimmed disappears! Is this the way it should work? I have the feeling that I'm missing the point regarding clipping (and the docs aren't very clear)! Jim Ford

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about constraining movement, rotation and scaling
by Albert Cardona 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hi Inkscapers, I read in the manual that one can make 50% and 200% scaled objects, as well as scale up and down by 2 pixels. But: can one constrain the finess of the scaling the same way one can in Blender? That is: - hold control to scale up/down modifying only the first decimal, all other decimals to zero - hold control and shift to do the same for the second decimal. Such ease in precision constraining would be very useful for CAD-like accurate graphics. Albert -- Albert Cardona http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hartenstein/acardona

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Online vectorizing application
by jiho 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hello everyone, I just found out about this app developed at Stanford: http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ which offers high quality bitmap vectorization/tracing through and online interface. There is a comparison of its output with Adobe and Corel's ones. The good part is that Inkscape's trace (well Potrace one actually) is already _way_ better than those two ;) However, VectorMagic takes it even a step higher. Their output is really nice. For comparison purposes I created a file with their test images, Inkscape's trace and VectorMagic trace: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/VectorMagicTests.svgz Bear in mind that their second image is hand tweaked in the middle of the tracing process and that mine are probably not the best Inkscape/ Potrace can do. I tried to tweak Potrace's parameters the best I could but I am no expert. Be that as it may, their output is still superior, particularly on the first image. Since it is developed in a university lab I wonder how they would license it. Maybe getting them a bit exited about Inkscape would incline them toward putting their code under a license liberal enough for Inkscape to use it. I did not contact them but I think it would be a good thing if someone more officially involved in Inkscape contacted them and discussed a possible collaboration, or at least pointed them to the traces Inkscape/Potrace can produce. I would love to see a fifth column on their comparison page with Inkscape kicking Adobe and Corel's a.... ;) Anyway, even currently their tracing service can be very useful to Inkscape users (they export SVG!). JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Latest autopackages not working
by Matt Jordan 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hello, At the beginning of September, I decided to start trying out the autopackage bleeding edge Inkscape. Oddly, the autopackage supply immediately went dry for almost two months, but lately it's been flowing again. Only problem is that the last two packages have failed for me with this error: inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libMagick++.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I'm on Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10). I've rolled back to the Oct 27 autopackage to get a working copy. Matt

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