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Book on Inkscape
by Denis Fernandez Cabrera 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hello, people. I may have missed it on the mailing list, but I don't think anyone has commented on this book, and I don't see an announcement on the website either. Since, as far as I know, this is the first Inkscape book to be published, I'd say that it should deserve a bit of publicity. So, the data: "Inkscape Starter Kit", by Emilia de Castro Guerra, published by Pearsons Education France, some 250 pages, plus CD-ROM. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.fr/Inkscape-Apprenez-pratiquez-cr%C3%A9ez-1C%C3%A9d%C3%A9… I've found the book quite nice for beginners. It would be useful for people wanting to give courses on Inkscape, so that the students have some guide to follow. There are also some tricks and in-depth exploration of functionalities that can be helpful to more advanced users, if only to formalize all that things that we learned by trial-and-error and instinct. Unfortunately, the book is in French (techie and simply written, I suppose, because I don't know the language but I was able to understand most of it). It'd be interesting if they translated it into english or other languages. Denís. -- ########################### # Denís Fernández Cabrera # # denis@...2126... # # gatonegro.ceibes.org # ###########################

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space betwen text-lines
by Florian Ludwig 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hi, is there a easy way to set how much space is between to lines of text? The only way i was able to figure out was to enter a blank line just with a space in it and set the font size of it to something small :) thanks in advance, Florian Ludwig

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font selection performance
by Benjamin Huot 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

I used another piece of software for a project instead of Inkscape because of the long wait before I could see the font list after starting to select from the font drop down menu. Is there any way for me to improve the performance via some setting? I am using Inkscape .45.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.9 PowerPC 1.33 GHZ with 1 GB RAM. No other problems on the system.

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Effect xml: xml in string
by Terry Brown 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

I have a standalone python program that generates svg layouts for 'n-up' printing, like four postcards arranged on a page. Or 30 address labels, or whatever. Trying to package it as an Inkscape effect, I run into something like this: svg_xml_string = foo() reader = Sax2.Reader() content = reader.fromString(svg_xml_string) self.document.documentElement.appendChild(content.documentElement) dies with: xml.dom.WrongDocumentErr: Node is from a different document Well duh. :-) So how can I move svg_xml_string into the Inkscape document tree? I've RTFM'ed on PyXML, but didn't find it. Thanks, Terry

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multiple png export
by Pawel Cesar Sanjuan Szklarz 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Hi. I use inkscape to draw icons to web pages. I use the export-dialog to create the final png files. I would like to export multi area using only ones the export-dialog, It is enough to add two new parameters to sp_export_png_file: repeat_x, repeat_y. Then in export.cpp make this loop (pseudo-code): for( i=0; i< repeat_x; i++) { for( j=0; j< repeat_y; j++) { if (!sp_export_png_file (sp_desktop_document (SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP), filename + "_x" + i + "_y" +j, x0+i*width, y0+j*height, x1+i*width, y1+j*height, width, height, xdpi, ydpi, nv->pagecolor, sp_export_progress_callback, base)) } } Another possibility is to add access to sp_export_png_file from the extension API. Thanks. Pawel Szklarz.

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0.46 ?
by Carlos E. Lara 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Hi there im new to inkscape as well as this mailing list. any idea when is inkscape 0.46 roughly going to be released ? thanks ! -- Carlos E. Lara, MS Comp Sci Software Engineer - Computer Gaming University Of Denver

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Cairoification clarification
by Bill Baxter 24 Jun '07

24 Jun '07

Is this page out of date? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Cairoification Latest I heard on IRC was that Inkscape *is* using Cairo and in the end it's actually *faster* overall than libart. --bb

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Again: Text tool in Inkscape 0.45 autopackage
by Claus Cyrny 23 Jun '07

23 Jun '07

Hi all, since I didn't get any response to my first query, I have to post this again, since the problem is still there: After installing Inkscape 0.45 from the autopackage, Inkscape freezes when I try to invoke the text tool (both by means of the shortcut and the button). Did anyone else experience this, and is there a fix of some kind for this problem? TIA, Claus -- Home Page - http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ [in English] graf-o-matic 2.0 - http://grafomatic01.twoday.net/ [in German]

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ttf or Adobe Type 1 fonts
by Jan Homan 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

I am looking for a tool to convert these kind of fonts into CEF fonts. Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks.

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library of Inkscape / SVG "shapes" or "components"
by Niall Mansfield 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

I'm using Inkscape for diagrams of computer networks, i.e. the sort of thing that Visio is good for. Is there a gallery or library of "shapes" or "components" anywhere? (Hoped to find something on www.openclipart.org but that site is still down.) Thanks, Niall

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