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unable to open older version
by brynn 20 May '18

20 May '18

Hi Friends, I've just downloaded a fresh copy of version 0.48.5, the 7z package. But when I try to open inkscape.exe file, I get an error. This is on Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit, but approx 1 year old laptop. Application was unable to start correctly 0xc0000005. (only available button is OK, or X to close) I have done some searching on the error, and tried some of the troubleshooting steps - at least the ones I understand. No success yet. Of course it's not vital that I get this version open, but I do occasionally need older versions to help users with problems. As far as I can recall, I have had this version open a few months ago - maybe 4 to 6 months ago. I have no idea what might have changed. But since that's the format for Windows errors, I'm thinking it's a problem with Windows. Does anyone have any experience with this, or have any idea how to fix? Thanks for any comments, brynn

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How to eliminate aria-label, flowRoot and rdf from my SVGs
by Steve Litt 02 May '18

02 May '18

Hi all, I've created a bookwriting format called Stylz, which can be turned into an HTML doc or ePub by running a program. I check the ePubs with a very strict program called epubcheck, and the only errors it still finds are errors in my SVG images, even after I saved the SVGs as plain-svg. Specifically, it complains about my <rdf> elements, my <flowRoot> elements, and my aria-label attribute. Can I just remove the two elements and delete the attribute, or do I need to do something else to preserve the look of the image while getting rid of these three? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt April 2018 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

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Inkscape Vectors Meeting - This Saturday
by Ryan Gorley 02 May '18

02 May '18

Hello All, This is just a friendly invitation to join the Inkscape Vectors meeting this Saturday. All are welcome to participate by video/voice/chat. Details can be found at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/57 Come with your ideas and enthusiasm. I look forward to seeing you there! Ryan

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Inkscape Vectors Meeting - This Saturday
by Ryan Gorley 01 May '18

01 May '18

Hello All, This is just a friendly invitation to join the Inkscape Vectors meeting this Saturday. All are welcome to participate by video/voice/chat. Details can be found at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/57 Come with your ideas and enthusiasm. I look forward to seeing you there! -- Ryan

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New Das Stroke LPE
by Jabier Arraiza 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Hey folks, Whit the help of Lazur and the thread: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=24175&p=83448&hilit=s troke+dash#p83448 just do a tiny LPE to fix it. Here are the new video showing it (no audio): https://archive.org/details/dash-stroke-lpe Hope is useful since is not included in the SVG spec. With love, Jabiertxo.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] New Das Stroke LPE
by Jabier Arraiza 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

I just see the spec. I hope I can improve the LPE with it. Regards, Jabier On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 14:16 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote: > On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 12:51 +0200, Jabier Arraiza wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > Whit the help of Lazur and the thread: > > http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=24175&p=83448&hil > > it > > =s > > troke+dash#p83448 just do a tiny LPE to fix it. > > > > Here are the new video showing it (no audio): > > > > https://archive.org/details/dash-stroke-lpe > > Nice! > > > Hope is useful since is not included in the SVG spec. > > If it's an LPE it doesn't need to be in the SVG spec. Have a look at > this to see what the SVG group was thinking about before it was > removed > from the SVG 2 spec: > > https://svgwg.org/specs/strokes/#StrokeDashing > > > With love, Jabiertxo. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------- > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Re: [Inkscape-user] New Das Stroke LPE
by Jabier Arraiza 01 Apr '18

01 Apr '18

Thanks Tav for the feedback. Im working in a feature to allow use min lenght of a segment to define the aproximate lenght of the hole/dash, this allow corner perfect dashes in a rectangle with diferent ammount of dashes. I go to the link you send to catch more ideas... I realy like more a SVG spec than a LPE, mainly because Im not recreating the stroke but subdividing the segment, so we cannot handle fills without fill between many LPE. Regards. On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 14:16 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote: > On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 12:51 +0200, Jabier Arraiza wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > Whit the help of Lazur and the thread: > > http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=24175&p=83448&hil > > it > > =s > > troke+dash#p83448 just do a tiny LPE to fix it. > > > > Here are the new video showing it (no audio): > > > > https://archive.org/details/dash-stroke-lpe > > Nice! > > > Hope is useful since is not included in the SVG spec. > > If it's an LPE it doesn't need to be in the SVG spec. Have a look at > this to see what the SVG group was thinking about before it was > removed > from the SVG 2 spec: > > https://svgwg.org/specs/strokes/#StrokeDashing > > > With love, Jabiertxo. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------- > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Inkscape no fonts
by Sam 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Hi guys, I try to run Inkscape 92.3 on OpenSuse 42.3 with snapd, but there is no fonts. It is running but i only see small square boxes. Can anybody help me? Tnx Sam

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Inkscape 0.92.3 bugfix release
by Bryce Harrington 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Inkscape 0.92.3 is a maintenance release resolving numerous bugs and making this the most stable release of the series. To download the latest packaged version of Inkscape visit: https://inkscape.org/release/0.92.3/ (Note: A build of 0.92.3 is not currently available for MacOS. The project welcomes additional contributors with MacOS expertise.) Among the most reported bugs addressed were: * Blank pages being output when printing multiple copies of a document * The inability to cancel during the export of large files * Application crashes caused by dragging a path at a cap or line join * Keyboard shortcut problems on non-Latin keyboard layouts Also a few performance improvements and usability enhancements of note: * New SVG export options from the command line * Support for right-to-left text * Improved ellipse controls * Multi-line text support for the PDF+LaTeX export * New render tile preferences for performance tuning * Better startup performance for many Windows users Find out more about the release at: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2018/03/22/announcing-0923-release-inkscape/ Inkscape 0.92.3 -~= Released 2018-03-11 =~- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Release Highlights | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Inkscape 0.92.3 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, but it also brings some small new features, like being able to set an ellipses' radii numerically in the tool controls, or switching the writing direction from left-to-right to right-to-left. Windows users will be happy to learn that the long startup times many of them were seeing could greatly be reduced. A new rendering option with an adjusted default value can vastly improve performance when working with filters. Many of the bug fixes address important functionality, like printing issues, crashes with the node tool or problems with keyboard shortcuts. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Improvements | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Command line usage ================== Three new command line options controlling page size are supported when exporting in SVG format: • --export-area-drawing (feature requests in bug #1597921 and bug #1722844) • --export-area-page while using --export-id • --export-margin Text tool ========= Support for switching between RTL and LTR writing directions has been added (on narrow screens, find it by unfolding the overhang menu for the text tool's tool controls by clicking on the triangle at the far right). Circle/ellipse/arc tool ======================= New fields for setting vertical/horizontal radius (Rx/Ry) were added to the tool controls bar. (Bug #1181127) PDF+LaTeX export ================ Support for multi-line text with basic support for line-spacing attribute was added. (Bug #771959) Please note: • Currently only the line-spacing of the top level text element is considered, i.e. all lines in one text element share the same line spacing. • LaTeX is much more clever with respect to line spacing, so layout might not always be exactly the same as in Inkscape. • Make sure to use a continuously scalable font in LaTeX, otherwise results might be unexpected. Preferences =========== A new renderer option called "Rendering tile multiplier" was added. Making this value larger can speed up drawing, if you have large areas with complex filters in your drawing or work a lot with high zoom levels on filtered objects. Making the value smaller can make zooming and panning in relevant areas faster on low-end hardware (if there are no large filtered areas on the visible part of the canvas). The default value makes your screen consist of about four tiles that are rendered independently, if you're not using a hidpi screen (which requires more tiles). For a more detailed explanation, see: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/211#note_62157385. Startup Performance =================== The first start of Inkscape on Windows is much faster now. This is the result of improvements in fontconfig 2.13.0, a third party library which handles font related tasks for Inkscape. One of the tasks is creating an index of all fonts available on the system which is much faster now. If the new indexing causes any issues (i.e. fonts or glyphs not available that could be used before) make sure to let us know or report the issue directly to the fontconfig project. Extensions ========== Extensions on Windows can now make use of Tkinter, without requiring users to install it themselves. Tkinter provides functionality for creating interactive graphical user interfaces. This is used, for example, by the TexText extension that renders mathematical LaTeX formulas to SVG (feature request at bug # 1735451). +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Regression Fixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Potentially missing command line output in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows 7. (Bug #1714278) • Extensions in the 'Raster' submenu relying on ImageMagick were broken and caused crashes in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows. (Bug #1720330) • gcodetools were creating wrong orientation points since the dpi change had been made for Inkscape 0.92. (Bug #1680760) • Regression on 0.92.2 makes it impossible to fill a powerstroke shape (Bug #1715433) • The preferences dialog was tiny by default. (Bug #1360213) • Node handles no longer get too large when selected, and they also revert back to standard size when deselected. (Bug #1568644) • Export to .odg (Open Document Drawing) works again on Windows. (Bug #1654034) • Inkscape no longer freezes when trying to import clipart from OpenClipart when the openclipart.org server takes too long to respond to requests. (Bug #1745521) • Text that is written in vertical direction now has its marks (e.g. accents) on the correct side again. (gitlab commit 2abe0bb6) • The 'Clone original' path effect works again to fill a path with a PowerStroke applied to it (useful for drawing cartoons) (Bug #1715433) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Important bugfixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Fix crash when attempting to drag path at cap or line join. (Bug #1691406) • Inkscape process did not exit cleanly on Windows. (Bugs #1412365 and #1715339; also causing #1714278) • File extension was sometimes omitted when adding saved files to Windows' list of "recently used documents" resulting in unusable links. (git commit 4d599528) • Do not crash on systems with illegal fontconfig configurations. (Bug #1716516) • Resolve issues when attempting to save files to non-existing directories. Could happen for shortcuts.xml and when setting the autosave location manually. (Bug #1719629) • Allow cancellation of bitmap export. (Bug #1195929) • Fix issues with PDF+LaTeX export: wrong stacking of text/graphics, missing pages in PDF output. (Bugs #771957, #1417470) • Fix shortcuts not working as expected when a non-latin keyboard layout is the primary keyboard layout on a system. (Bugs #1226962, #1730246, #1734308) • Printing multiple copies of the document resulted in one copy and many blank pages. (Bug #490866, #1733424) • Fix export area when exporting single objects to SVG using the --export-id command line switch. (Bug #1306662, #1707368) • Fix DXF output and Windows vector print scaling for documents with a custom view box. (Bug #1672066) • Invalid output generated from extensions no longer makes Inkscape crash. (gitlab commit 608fa56e) • The Ruler Live Path Effect now shows correct measurements in the default template (and other non-px-based templates), too (Bug #1460858) • The Document Properties dialog now has a more compact layout, so all items should be accessible on smaller screens (Bug #1510831) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | More bug fixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these probably only affect a small portion of users, or are relevant for development and packaging only. For a complete list, visit our launchpad bug tracker and see the commit history on gitlab (all changes from August, 6th 2017 until release date). +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Translations | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ The following UI translations received updates: • French • German • Icelandic • Italian • Korean • Spanish • Ukrainian The following installer translations received updates: • Korean Contributing to interface translations ====================================== Want to help with translations? Learn how to help at: https://inkscape.org/contribute/translations/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Documentation | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Documentation Relaunch ====================== The Inkscape documentation repository, containing the man page, the keyboard shortcut list as well as the tutorials and their respective translation files, has been almost completely refactored (Java has been dropped in favor of Python), and was updated to work with git and gitlab. Documentation Updates ===================== The man page and the keyboard shortcut list have been updated. Where to find recent documentation ================================== Continuously updated man page (for command line usage), keyboard and mouse shortcut list, tutorials and translation statistics for the various parts of the Inkscape project are available on the inkscape.org website: • Man page • Keyboard shortcuts • Tutorials • Translation statistics for Inkscape 0.92 series / development branch Tutorials, as always, are also included with your Inkscape installation. Contributing to documentation and documentation translation =========================================================== Contributions to the documentation translations, as well as improvements to its contents, are welcome at the inkscape-docs repository. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Known issues | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • DPI Change: known issues with 'Scale elements' option (Bugs: 1653230,1653236,1654342,1654796,1654880,1654903,1655005,1655053,1660228) • DPI Change: Default grids in documents created with Inkscape 0.91 don't scale correctly. (Bug #1653893) • Line height: Changing "baseline spacing" stops working. (Bug #1707808) • Renderer: Artifacts in Gaussian blur effects with default quality settings. (Bug #1656383) • Node editor: Deselecting selected nodes of complex paths takes a long time. (Bug #1652100) • Performance: Using the objects dialog at least once in your Inkscape session slows down actions such as duplicate and delete for files with many objects. (Bug #1431274) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape

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Locking in Users, Was: Website Feedback
by Martin Owens 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Dear Erlönd Everaert, I'm the Inkscape Website Administrator, I'm not a lawyer and you should certainly seek legal council to get to know Free Software more and how it can help you do what you want to do. I'm sending this to the greater inkscape user community for feedback. Inkscape is Free Software licensed under the General Public License version 2. This comes with all the freedoms you need to present Inkscape to your customers, but it also stops you from removing Freedoms from your customers too. Everyone, you, your customers and anyone else MUST continue to have access to the software and it's code. This doesn't mean however that you couldn't present the most useful template, even default template with logos and such to customers. You can do that. But customers would be free to take your template apart and extract their copyright/artwork from the template too. My best advice, honestly, present your customers with the best experience. Make it the most convenient and easiest to use without making efforts to manipulate your customers into locking them in. Those locks will stop more customers from using your company than you'll get from stopping someone who goes with a competitor. Of course as the company with the best Inkscape workflow all worked out, your company will always be the most convenient place to have the work done and our large community will always respect a manufacturer that respects their customers. Kind Regards, Martin Owens One of many Inkscape contributors On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 08:07 +0000, Anonymous User wrote: > Dear, > > We would like to use your software. We still have some questions. > > We are looking for a software that our costumers can use to draw > their patch panels and send them to us so we can make them. The only > thing we want is a locked file where our logo will be visible so > customers won't go to other companies. Is this possible and how? > > Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, > > Erlönd Everaert > Employee at Livepower/AV-Maatwerk > ______________________ > E-mail: erlondeveraert@...9... > Mobile: +32472197548 > > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/erlondeveraert > > > LIVEPOWER BELGIUM

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