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Some UI questions
by Bill Baxter 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Just started trying to figure out Inkscape. Looks very nice so far. Never have really been able to get comfortable with Illustrator. Photoshop I'm ok with, but Illustrator just always seemed ... weird to me. But Inkscape feels pretty natural right from the start. Love the python scripting too. Can't wait to start tinkering with it. I have done a bit of research on manipulating drawings and have plans for more things. (http://www.cavie-x.net/doodle/) It might be nice to implement future things as Inkscape Python scripts or perhaps more full-fledged plugins. Stroke patterns seem to be limited to axis-aligned textures? Is there any way to transform the pattern applied to the stroke, at least in global coordinates? It would also be nice to be able to apply a texture in a curvilinear coordinate system relative to the stroke itself, with x being the direction tangent to the stroke, and y perpendicular to it. Being able to do curve-relative mappings opens the door to lots of possibilities. Like Hsu's "Skeletal Strokes" (which I see someone has already noted on the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Expression) Why are spirals and stars top level tools? Seems very odd to have two such niche items on the main toolbar. Are they actually used that often? Why not gears or block arrows or speech bubbles or ... etc. I'm curious about the choice of usage for Tab and Space keys. Space as select tool toggle is reasonable, since that is pretty frequently used. Still, seems to me like Photoshop's hold-toggle for canvas panning is a better option (i.e. needed more frequently), but easy access to the selection tool is also nice. But Tab as "select next" seems like a waste of prime keyboard real estate. I don't see how this is useful once you have more than a dozen or so elements in your drawing. Some kind of hide/reveal function might be good for this. Is there a way to hide everything but the current selection? Or to use outline rendering for everything but the current selection? I was playing around with editing the about.svg splash screen and with all the blurring going on rendering was very slow when zoomed in. Outline mode fixed the speed, but then it's hard to tell what the current thing I'm editing really looks like. Anyway more flexible control over the rendering quality seems like it would be useful. An intermediate between outline and full would be nice too. It would basically turn off expensive effects like blur and just do a simple color rendering. Finally seems like there's no way to customize key bindings right now? That's all for now. Thanks! --bb

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unsubscribing
by Seymour Fine 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

I am having much difficulty in unsubscribing from the Inkscape users list. Can someone please help me? S. Fine

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Inkscape Communities?
by Keifer Miller 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Besides this mailing list, is are there any central communities for inkscape, much like what the blender community has with blenderartists.org?

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3D SVG rendering in Firefox
by Donn 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Yo, posted this on the dev-list, but it's so cool you gotta go see it. Using Firefox go to: http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/index.php?/archives/15-Its-alive-Image_3D-live… Click the buttons, change the view, hit svg and then save-as and open in Ink. A-bloody-mazing. /d -- "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." -- Isaac Asimov

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 11, Issue 6
by Tony Vigil 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

It sort of already is out. You just need to download one of the nightly builds... it's in there! - t ----- Original Message ---- From: "Bill Baxter" <wbaxter@...155...> Excellent. That paint bucket will be great once .46 is out. --bb

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Selecting "No" stroke
by Donn 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

Stupid question : is there a way to select no stroke (i.e. none at all) from the palette on the bottom of the screen? Indeed, no-fill too? /d

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Win 2000 menu font colour
by Mike Dewhirst 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

I'm seeing white menu font for Inkscape installed on Windows 2000. This makes Inkscape pretty much unusable when that font occurs on a white background. When installed on Windows XP from the same install kit the font colour is black and everything works well. Rev 0.45.1 Mar 21 2007 Thanks for any pointers Mike

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Selecting "No" stroke
by Gijsbert Stoet 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

Message: 10 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:32:40 +0200 From: Donn <donn.ingle@...155...> Subject: [Inkscape-user] Selecting "No" stroke To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <200704041032.40780.donn.ingle@...155...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Stupid question : is there a way to select no stroke (i.e. none at all) from the palette on the bottom of the screen? Indeed, no-fill too? /d I have been looking for this a long time. It would be so handy if there would be a very fast way (e.g., with one key stroke) to switch off either the stroke or the fill. Even if you already have the stroke/fill dialogue on the screen, it is one of those things you need so often, that it would be preferable (at least to me) to switch fill or stroke off. This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Separating a self-intersecting curve
by Tony Vigil 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

This is what you want... http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 - Tony

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Separating a self-intersecting curve
by Docsonic 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

If I am not misinterpreting what you are asking, you could use the (new) bucket fill to do this? Tony

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