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Embedding/linking bitmaps
by Bill Baxter 15 May '07

15 May '07

Is there some way to embed bitmaps in SVG? I was looking at a file I made with a bitmap in it and noticed that the absolute path to the image was hardcoded into the .svg, making this svg useless on any machine but my own. So is there some way to embed bitmap pixel data in SVG? Does the standard even allow that? Aside from that is there some way to get Inkscape to copy linked images to be side-by-side with the svg and use relative paths rather than absolute paths? Does the w3c have some sort of .jar-like standard for creating svg bundles that include both a main svg and associated bitmaps and other linked content all-in-one? That seems like it would be the ideal solution. --bb

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Diagramming with Inkscape
by Kent Tenney 15 May '07

15 May '07

Howdy, I am interested in using Inkscape for flowchart-type diagramming. Are there any libraries of symbols for this sort of thing? Thanks, Kent

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Group a shape with a text object
by Stranger, Stefan 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi there, I'm new to Inkscape but I want to know if it's possible to group a shape with a text object like you can do in Adobe Illustrator? In other words if you draw a square that you want to color programmatically, that square will need a text object grouped to it, e.g. 'My Square' and finally save it as SVG file. Can I do that with Inkscape and if yes how? Regards, Stefan Stranger

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multiple circles aka polor grid
by Rick van der Zwet 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi all, I have been trying to make a polor grid like picture, but it's a bit hard to do it by hand every time (circle->duplicate->make smaller->duplicate->make smaller->...) http://rickvanderzwet.nl/trunkplaza/inkscape-user/circles.svg http://rickvanderzwet.nl/trunkplaza/inkscape-user/circles.png (How do you call this scape(s) in proper English by the way?) As I understand correctly [1] Inkscape doesn't have a build-in function to accomplish this, so does anyone know a workaround to speed things up a bit? [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AdobeToolMap Thanks a lot! /Rick -- http://rickvanderzwet.nl

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Adding lines to a path
by Gian Paolo Mureddu 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hello all... Sorry if this question is unclear/confusing and if it is rather simple, but for the life of me, I've not been able to do it. I have a closed path (by that I mean a shape with a "closed" border, a border in all faces), my problem is that I want to add a line which crosses the shape from one side to the other, but I want to do it so that the line seems to be a continuation of the border (and ideally become part of the shape or object), the problem is that I don't know how could I do this? Heck, I'm not sure if I make any sense at all... Thus far I've tried drawing a single line with the bezier tool, but trying to "merge" the line with the rest of the shape using the stroke tools doesn't yield the desired effect... And I'm quickly running out of ideas, maybe what I want is not possible and I'll have to manage both parts (the shape and the line) as different objects grouped together, or it is possible, but I haven't found how... Any hints?

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Of cut, paste, and crop
by unknown＠example.com 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi list, I suppose this is slightly OT. I need to copy and paste a portion of my figure over to Word. I realize that I can't just do an Edit -> Copy -> switch to Word -> Paste (although that would be nice). So, I have to do it by creating a new file, save it as EMF file, and then switch over to Word, do an Insert -> Picture - From File. That works. However, the resulting figure is a full page figure - with lots of empy space. I also realize that there is no crop feature in Inkscape. So, can somebody please point me to a tool that can crop the EMF file so I can import it into Word? Thanks, -- John Henry

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Of cut, paste, and crop
by unknown＠example.com 14 May '07

14 May '07

Yes, JiHo, I just discovered that that is the way to do it. Shrinking the page to the object size works beautifully. > I've never tried export to EMF but PDF show a similar behaviour. If > your blank space corresponds to the blank area of your > Inkscape page, > you can just fit Inkscape's page to the content of your drawing: > Document prosperties > Page > Fit page to selection > > It would be nice however to be able to do this from the export > dialog, i.e. to have some options similar to those of the bitmap > export dialog such as export only selection, export all drawing or > export the whole page. Maybe there is already a RFE (Request For > Enhancement) about this, otherwise you could fill one. > > Hope that helps. > > JiHO -- John Henry

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Of cut, paste, and crop
by unknown＠example.com 14 May '07

14 May '07

Karol, Thanks for the reply. Well, yes and no. :=) Following your advise, I discovered a way to do it. After pasting the objects onto the new page, *don't* do the "Fit page to selection" from the object property. That won't work. Instead, invoke the "Document Property" function from the top (under File), and then select the "Fit page to selection" from there. The whole page then shrink down to the size of the object - rather then trying to explode the object up to the size of the page. Works perfectly. :=) Thanks for your inspiration. Regards, > > with lots of empy space. I also realize that there is > > no crop feature in Inkscape. So, can somebody please > > point me to a tool that can crop the EMF file so I can > > import it into Word? > > Crop can be done via setting page size. You can select the > object(s) and > ctrl+shift+d and "Fit page to selection". That results in the > object(s) > filling exactly the whole page. > > Karol > -- John Henry

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Of cut, paste, and crop
by unknown＠example.com 14 May '07

14 May '07

Thanks for the reply, Aaron. I don't want to work in PNG mode because there is an obvious quality disadvantage when I resize the figure later inside Word. That's why I am using EMF. The quality is very good in EMF mode. Regards, -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Elmquist Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Of cut, paste, and crop This is cheesey but might work. I say might because I'm at work and don't have Inkscape in front of me. You might also want to work from a copy of the file. Group the entire image. Create a shape around the area you want to keep. Select the grouped image and the shape created in step 2. Clip - Set. Export to PNG to the desired dimensions. Word seems to play nicely with PNGimages. On 5/14/07, kc106_2005-inkscape@...12... <kc106_2005-inkscape@...12... > wrote: Hi list, I suppose this is slightly OT. I need to copy and paste a portion of my figure over to Word. I realize that I can't just do an Edit -> Copy -> switch to Word -> Paste (although that would be nice). So, I have to do it by creating a new file, save it as EMF file, and then switch over to Word, do an Insert -> Picture - From File. That works. However, the resulting figure is a full page figure - with lots of empy space. I also realize that there is no crop feature in Inkscape. So, can somebody please point me to a tool that can crop the EMF file so I can import it into Word? Thanks, -- John Henry -- John Henry

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SVG to EMF via command line
by unknown＠example.com 14 May '07

14 May '07

Hi list, Is there a way to convert a SVG file to EMF using inkscape's command line option? I see that Inkscape supports EPS, PNG, and others but don't see EMF listed. Thanks, -- -- John Henry

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