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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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How to export a pattern filled-shape to be imported correctly by Adobe Illustrator and Firefox
by Paul Gruzdev 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi! What is the way AI and Firefox to understand pattern fills of objects, created in Inkscape? I can't achieve this, getting no fill at all when opening in AI or Firefox. I've noticed that the image itself is not embedded inside the SVG. Is there a way to embed it inside? Maybe some Inkscape options that I didn't find?

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Strange movement during scaling
by Georg P. Israel 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Dear all, I have trouble with Inkscape while scaling objects or changing the width of lines. E.g. if I draw a polygon with the line with width=1, then I can have all the vertex of the polygon placed nicely on a grid. If I now change the line width to e.g. 0.5, then suddenly, all the nodes are off grid!! Does anybody know how to prevent Inkscape from this?? Best regards Georg P. Israel

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Inkscape Tutorials
by ryan lerch 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

If you are looking for inkscape tutorials, i am building up a list of ones that i find at http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com . i have posted around 28 so far, but there are heaps more that i have in the pipeline, but not pubished yet. (i dont want to swamp the planet.inkscape.org) also, i try to keep track of the tutorials that have been translated into other languages and provide links to the translated tutorials... so if you find a tutorial and it appears that i have not posted it or if you find a translation of an exisiting tutorial send me an email... cheers, ryanlerch

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Export bitmap function stops at around 900KB, instead of exporting the entire 5MB svg graphic file onto my desktop.
by unknown＠example.com 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

Anyone know how I can keep the process from stopping when it's only about 20% done?? I have a PowerBook G4 with a 512MB RAM card (original equipment). I tried upgrading the RAM to 1GB but that didn't work any better.? I want to eventually translate my Inkscape svg file into jpeg format so I can get the thing printed at imagestation.com. Jeff ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.

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