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Insert symbol from font file
by Facundo Casco 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Hi, I was wondering if there is some way to insert a symbol from a font into the document. I think it would be nice to have some sort of 'insert symbol' option with a window that let's you choose a font from those installed on the system or open a font file and presents you with the glyphs in that font. Then you select one (or even more) and it gets inserted in the document as a path. I would be really helpfull if you have some fonts with graphics. Facundo -- =,=

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missing wingdings font
by Don Ong 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Hi All, wonder any of you guys had experienced the missing windings, wingdings2, wingdings3 font in InkScape? Anyone can advise a way we can use it in InkScape? Thanks. Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Did you know you can import your contact list from Microsoft® Office® Outlook® or Outlook Express to Windows Live Hotmail? http://get.live.com/mail/features

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3d type effect.
by John R. Culleton 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

It is well known how to create drop shadow effects in various tools including inkscape. What I am asking about is a true 3d effect, such as you see in the opening credits of movies in the 1930's and 1940's. I can see how one can do it manually, with two representations of each character overlapping and lines drawn by hand between corresponding vertices. But is there a less tedious way? -- John Culleton

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text case effects
by bulia byak 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

A group of new effects in the Text submenu performs various case conversions on selected text objects: converting to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Sentence case, Title Case, as well as flipping case (switching uppercase to lowercase and back) and rANdoMiZInG cAse. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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change the drag line
by Christopher M. Logan 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

When I'm creating straight lines with the Bezier tool, sometimes i have to trace over black lines. The current Bezier tool line is "red'. Is there a way to change the default color of the line to white or some other color? -Christopher

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dxf to svg conversion
by Stéphane ANCELOT 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

some improvements have been done to dxf2svg have a look at http://sancelot.wordpress.com Best Regards Steph

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installed bar code font wont appear
by Don Ong 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi All, I wanted to add some barcode information to my work in Inkscape, but for some reason Inkscape wont display for me to select the barcode font "Code EAN13" . But in GIMP, Ms Word, Excel and other programs in windows, I can see and select the font and it appears just fine. Website for barcode Font. http://grandzebu.net/index.php?page=/informatique/codbar/ean13.htm Is there some conflict or tweak in Inscape which I can try to resolve this? Thanks. Regards, Don _________________________________________________________________ Did you know you can import your contact list from Microsoft® Office® Outlook® or Outlook Express to Windows Live Hotmail? http://get.live.com/mail/features

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Being able to work with Adobe Illustrator files in Inkscape (workaround)
by chacmool 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hello, I would like to share something that I have found extremely helpful, before I migrated completely to linux I had adobe illustrator and photoshop etc. But then I left window because of all its problems and now I use linux exclusively. The problem that I had faced in the past was whenever I had to use drawings I had made in adobe illustrator cs and obviously because of format differences I couldn't open them with inkscape. Well today I was excited to have found a workaround to this problem. before I continue you will need to have the program called GIMP installed in addition to Inkscape Here is my solution: 1) Go to the folder where you have your adobe illustrator file 2) Right click on the adobe Illustrator file and choose to open it with GIMP, this will cause GIMP to load 3)GIMP will ask you a few things via a new window you, if you know what you are doing feel free to modify them if not you can just click ok 4) Once the file loads in GIMP you can go to file-->Save AS, then type the name that you want and change the extension of the file to JPEG. After you do that click OK 5) when you click ok GIMP will notify you that it needs to export the drawing, go ahead and slide the quality to 100% and click ok 6) after your drawing has been converted to JPEG open up Inkscape and go to --->File-->Import bitmap, then browse to the folder where the JPEG file is stored and click open. This will then place your drawing in the INKSCAPE program. 7)When you have the drawing there you can use the Pen tool in Inkscape to trace over your artwork once you are done you can discard the imported JPEG and save your file as native inkscape file. As you can see this solution requires some work to be done but hey, at least you are able to use your Adobe Illustrator files and not panic about not being able to open them like what happened to me in the past. I hope this helps, if some one else has an easier solution feel free to let me know. Also maybe the developers of Inkscape can ask the ones who develop GIMP to see what sort of converter they use to be able to open Adobe Illustrator files. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Being-able-to-work-with-Adobe-Illustrator-files-in-In… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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noob. Can someone help me build/run?
by xl cheese 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

I want to dust of my programming skills and thought I'd play with inkscape in my spare time. Trying to use Eclipse on a Ubuntu 7.04 system. I did this command to copy the svn locally: (/home/wes/inkscape) svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk inkscape Now that I have the source code how do I make it run in Eclipse? So far I have created a new project called WesInkscape in the dir /home/wes/inkscape/src I can't seem to build it or run it. The inkscape wiki page for eclipse doesn't help. Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migrati…

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Preventing patterns from shifting
by Benjamin Esham 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Hello all, I started a drawing on a US Letter–sized canvas; it contains a lot of objects that use patterns as fills. To share this drawing, I want to crop a lot of whitespace from the edges. When I do that, however, the positions of the patterns within the objects all change. Is there any way to "lock" patterns so that moving the objects doesn't change their appearance? Thanks for any help, -- Benjamin D. Esham bdesham@...155... | AIM: bdesham128 | Jabber: same as e-mail "Don't you think about anyone but yourself?!" "Of course I do... I just think about myself first." — Ishka and Quark, /Deep Space Nine/

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