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Win2000TS menu font is white
by Mike Dewhirst 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

I installed Inkscape 0.45.1 built Mar 21 2007 in WinXP and it is fabulous :) Thank you. I installed the same version on a Win2000 Terminal Server and while it works OK - I have difficulty with menu text because it appears white instead of black. It makes all text which appears on a white background invisible. I couldn't find any options for setting the Inkscape menu font color. I experimented with different Windows color schemes but no luck. How can I get the menu fonts to appear black? Thanks for any pointers Mike

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Create favicon.ico
by Tom Smith 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

I created an SVG file in Inkscape and it looks as I would expect it to, regardless of scale. I export it to PNG so that I can then convert it to ICO using The GIMP. The problem is that the exported PNG file is very pixelated and doesn't look near as good as the SVG file. I'm new to Inkscape so I'm probably just not exporting it correctly. Can anyone offer some advise for making this work? Thanks, in advance, for your help. ~ Tom

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Installing pyXML on OS X 10.4.9
by Grey 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Hello Everyone, Because of Inkscape, I started drawing an online comic. I'm now working on a bigger project with this excellent program and I need to use some of the advanced features in the effects menu. I'm running Inkscape 0.45 on OS X 10.4.9. I've followed the instruction on the Inkscape wiki <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX#pyXML> on how to install pyXML and it seems to have installed without any problems. However, when I try to use the effects menu, I still get the error: "|The inkex.py module requires PyXML. Please download the latest version from <http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/>.|" Is there a step that I'm missing? Thank you for any help, -Grey http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/

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Re: [Inkscape-user] inquiry
by unknown＠example.com 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Seymour Fine wrote: > I need to unsubscribe from Inkscape for now; can you please tell me > how to do that? > Thanks a lot > > -- > With very best wishes -- > Sy > > Seymour H. Fine, Ph.D. > WEB: http://tinyurl.com/y5t4r6 would some one please send dr. fine the link again to unsubscribe from the list. since i cannot access the archives to retrieve the link some one had sent him earlier, i would really appreciate the help. dwain -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art"

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please remove me from the list, Thanks
by Seymour Fine 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

please remove me from the list; please acknowledge Thanks -- With very best wishes -- Sy

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Transparency using PSTricks
by Adi Eyal 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Apologies for sending this post out again - I'm hoping that someone who has used the PSTricks export option might be able to help. Can I export using PSTricks and maintain transparency? I don't know PSTricks - but the generated code seems to use solid colours. Anyway to fix it? Regards Adi

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Gradient Dialog Box
by Axiom X11 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

I was going to post a feature request, but it seemed to similar to bug #1507665 (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1507665&group_id=9…) So I thought I would post here first, rather than get myself deleted. I would really like to see some better control over gradient creation in Inkscape. Currently it is possible to make cool gradients, but the dialog is cumbersome, and anti-intuitive. I would love to see colored sliders, as in the attached screenshot from Photoshop's gradient editor so that I can micro-manage every aspect of how my gradients look visually, with instant feedback. Right now it is difficult to get the offsets right, and if you are working with a gradient with a lot of similar colors (say, trying to simulate some shiny metal), it is difficult to select the correct stop (for me anyway). I was very confused by buliabyak's comment that the "'gradient dialog box' is no longer needed," since we would now be able to "edit [it] all on [the] canvas". In Inkscape 0.45.1 I can edit the end points of a gradient on the canvas, which is a neat trick, but I don't see how you would edit any of the stops in between those without the dialog. If this kind of functionality is in the roadmap, I will humbly step back, for I am no coder (in C#/GTK anyway) just a lowly web designer.

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Perspective Effect - Format autodetect failed
by Richard Querin 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hi, I'm getting a warning dialog every time I use the Perspective effect. The effect *does* work, but only after I click OK on the dialog box. This is happening on my Ubuntu Edgy box, but not on my XP installation at work. While I can live with the dialog box popping up, I'd like to create another screencast which includes the perspective effect, but it doesn't look so hot when Inkscape throws a warning dialog up everytime I use it. Any clues as to what it might be? Or how I can avoid it? Here's the warning message - which usually appears 4 times with slightly different numbers at the front: ** (inkscape:5984): WARNING **: Format autodetect failed. The file is being opened as SVG.

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inkscape 0.45.1 for opensuse
by dwain 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

someone gave me a link to get the current version of inkscape for opensuse 10.2. since i can't access the archives, i can't search for the reply. would someone send the link again, this time i'll bookmark it. thanks, dwain -- Dwain Alford Alford Design Group P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 email: dwain@...2157... web: http://www.alford-design-group.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art"

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which file again?
by Dwain Alford 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

i want to reset the default paper size. which file is it again that i edit to set this change? is it default.svg, default_mm.svg or default_pt.svg? i can't remember and i don't want to edit the incorrect file. dwain -- dwain alford p.o. box 145 winfield, alabama 35594 u.s.a. tele: 205.487.2570 cell: 205.495.5619

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