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Difficulty understanding a tutorial
by Jarlath 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

I'm doing an inkscape tutorial where you make a flag of the EU. http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MAN...ExampleEU.html At the end, the author explains the positioning of the stars in terms of mathematics; Quote: Next, select the original star and make a new Clone. This time move the Clone 60 pixels downward direction (-60). Repeat for the Horizontal (x) direction. For the rest of the stars use the eight permutations of x(y) = ±30 and y(x) = ±52 pixels (60 times the sine and cosine of 30° respectively). It's the bold part I don't understand. I've tried getting the COS and SINE of these numbers but the resulting figures (even when multiplied by said '60') don't position the stars correctly. If anyone can help here I'd appreciate it. I did contact the author a few days ago, but I'd like to get on with the tutorial and it's probably something I should know. Thanks, Jarlath

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Switching between A4 and Letter
by anon trol 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to switch back and forth (scale, with or without correct aspect ratio) between A4 and Letter formats?

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Help needed to fight spam in forums and wiki
by bulia byak 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Hi all, We need volunteers! There's quite some spam in our forums: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=93438 Also, around Apr 11-12, we had an invasion of vandals deleting stuff on wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=2… We need your help to weed this out. On wiki, you just need to register as usual to be able to revert vandalism; you can also request admin powers from Aho at strange-a at users.sourceforge.net to make it easier. On forums, you need a sourceforge account first, then please contact Bryce for granting you admin access to the forums. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Questions regarding Tile Clones
by Tony Vigil 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Is there a way to change the transformation order? Scaling happens before rotation. What would be really cool is if you could stack the transformations in any order you want. I actually have use for rotating THEN scaling the clones. - Tony

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Nerdson Cartoon by Karlison, using Inkscape
by ValessioBrito 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

(pt_BR) http://kmb.digi.com.br/blog/desenhe-livremente/ - Dialog in English Nerdson: "the ascent is difficult..." Taggy: "but if to continue we will obtain." N: "still well that we were not of balloon..." T: "It's..." N: "very expensive" T: "and flat." -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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wacom tablet setup on linux
by dwain 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

i found the settings area in yast to set up the tablet, but i don't understand what settings to use for some of the dialogs. would someone be so kind to explain (i.e. x and y settings)? i am using a 4x5 graphire 3 usb tablet. dwain -- KDD http://www.studiokdd.com/ "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky

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Development version crash
by Michael Grosberg 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Should I file bug reports for crashes in development versions? The few latest development versions I downloaded all crash on my computer (Windows XP) when I load a file with linked or embedded images. I'm just not sure whether it's a known bug or not.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Engraver's Toolbox in Linux (bulia byak)
by Donn 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

> Thanks, Donn! > > OK... So I want to map the "Windows" key to "meta" (or something like > that), but what do I map to the Alt key? Does it matter? > You know, I thought it would be easy to tell you how to do it. I use Kubuntu (KDE) and I have just spent 10 minutes going through the kcontrol and I cannot find where I set the Win key. There is such a confusing number of keyboard options (most under Regional and Access.) that your best bet is just to wade in and try stuff. Sorry 'bout that. /d

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NEW: touch selection
by bulia byak 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

In Selector tool, a new object selection mode is available: selecting by touch. In this mode, you draw a freehand path across the objects; when you release mouse button, all objects that are touched by this path get selected. This mode is very convenient in situations where you need to select objects so intermingled that selecting them by the rectangular rubberband is too difficult and so numerous that click-selecting them one by one is too tedious. To activate selecting by touch, whenever you are drawing a rubberband rectangle, just press Alt to switch it to the touch mode. The rectangle will disappear and a red touch path will be shown instead. When dragging from an empty space, you can press Alt first and then start to drag to get the touch mode (note that your selection must be empty, otherwise Alt+dragging will move the selected objects instead). To start a touch selection from a point over an object, or to add to existing selection by touching, press Shift+Alt and then start to drag. Comments: I'm not too fond of the name "touch selection"; naming suggestions are welcome. Note however that this is not a "lasso" because you don't need to enclose objects, just touch them; and it is not "magic wand" because it does not try to select similar-styled objects. Some Adobe Illustrator users have requested a support for an AI-like selection mode where any object _touched_ by the selection rectangle is selected. Inkscape's new touch selection mode should satisfy them - it is a superset of AI's functionality because a touch path can be arbitrary and not only a box. Note, however, that AI gets this exactly backwards: in it, a rectangle selection selects by touching, whereas a freehand "lasso tool" needs to enclose objects to select them (although its definition of "enclosing" is rather strange - I was able to get very difficult to explain results with that tool). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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PC crawling due to apparent complexity -- need tips
by Charles Blaine 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi all, I poked into the gristle.org Jabber server for the first time ever but nobody was around. I've got the start of a drawing (much more detail to come in the drawing...) which is already making Inkscape crawwwwwl then quite often crash with some sort of "heap" issue when I push the complexity a bit further. The source of the problem, I suspect, is that I am tile cloning a (probably) complex shape and this is only the first of many I plan to tile clone for this drawing. I assume there is some way to simplify the object in question and I am just not experienced enough to know that technique. Or... perhaps it's a limitation in Inkscape? Anyway, here's a sample file containing 2 of the objects I am tile-cloning. You will find 2 objects (each grouped from many) and 2 "originals" the clones were generated from. http://www.kickflop.net/temp/inkscape-tiles-problem.svg Any help? Jeff B. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html

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