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Re: [Inkscape-user] Illustrate screenshots (bitmap) with vector objects...
by Tony Vigil 16 May '07

16 May '07

After you import your bitmap, go into the "Document Properties..." dialog and select "Fit Page to Selection". After you annotate your image, you can export to PNG and it will be the same size as your original image. - Tony ----- Original Message ---- From: "Jean-Marc Molina" <jmmolina@...206...> I would like to use Inkscape as a screenshot illustrator (image editor). I have a bitmap, a software interface capture for example, and would like to draw some vector objects over it. However I can't find the proper zoom level to display the bitmap properly (at 100% or 200% it randomly works, it depends of the screenshot size) and more important, export it so the result is not "jagged". The zoom level, even at 100% (1:1) is never correct as Inkscape doesn't consider the canvas as a bitmap, as The GIMP does for example, but as vector. The only solution I found is to set the exported bitmap dimensions to 90 ppp but I'm not sure it works in all cases. I don't even know why 90 works, I suppose it balances the bitmap/vector ratio. I guess I'm looking for some sort of hybrid mode between bitmap and vector image editing.

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Defining a clones group as a mask
by Jean-Marc Molina 16 May '07

16 May '07

It seems a group of clones can't be defined as a mask. I drew 1 ellipse shape and cloned it 2 times. Then I grouped the 3 shapes and defined it as a mask to an other shape. It seems only the original shape is used as a mask, the others are ignored. Worst when disabling the mask, only the original shape is restored. The group is lost and all its clones. Try to define the 3 red ellipses as a mask to the black ellipse using the attached file. Am I missing something ? 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Clone across files
by Marc Eberhard 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi, is it possible to clone an object/group across files? I tried using clone, but pasting into another file results in an orphaned node (apparently the reference is only valid _within_ the file with the original). Is there some other way to achieve something like this? I want to prepare a set of slides with the same background. I can of course select and copy the background from one slide to the next, but if I want to change something on it then I need to go over all files again. Is there a way to define an object/group in one inkscape file and then link to this in another inkscape file? For plain XML files it would look like below, but I don't know, if this would work for SVG files and if I can use the XML editor in inkscape to achieve an effect like this. All comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Marc --- common.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <somedata>xyz</somedata> --- slide1.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE slide SYSTEM "slide.dtd" [ <!ENTITY common SYSTEM "common.xml"> ]> <slide>... &common; </slide> --- slide2.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE slide SYSTEM "slide.dtd" [ <!ENTITY common SYSTEM "common.xml"> ]> <slide>... &common; </slide>

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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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