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Snap to nodes in groups
by Jochen Deibele 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi! Is there a way to select a node as a snap "target"? What I want to do: I have an irregular (so non rectangular) shaped object, which has points which should snap to the grid, when I move the group (so I can easily lay another object of another shape but same kind next to it and the points meet). These points are not on one of the center-lines and are also not the edges. Is there a way to do this? I tried some combinations of snap options and searched the mailinglist archives and the net but didn't find anything about that. Thank you very much in Advance, Jochen

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unable to export bitmaps
by Sebastian Winkler 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm plain too dumb to check the right prefs: I'm unable to export bitmaps. Here is what I am trying to do. It's actually quite simple — and that's what drives me nuts: I am creating a banner. It has • a background foto • a logo with a blurred drop shadow • a slogan All three parts give me trouble — it's maddening! 1. the slogan: I had to create it in a different program and import into Inkscape because the required font doesn't appear in the font menu (see: [Inkscape-user] fonts on OS X). 2. the drop shadow of the logo doesn't appear blurred anymore after exporting to (Cairo-) PDF. 3. as a work-around for 2. I tried to a) export to PNG instead and b) create a PNG solely from the drop shadow to use instead of the blurred vector logo. Neither the bitmap background nor the blurred shape appear in the output. Making a Bitmap Copy (Alt-B) somewhat worked, but delivered a result which was cropped with the dimensions of the un-blurred shape — bummer! Anyway, I've already spend hours on something that would take me only minutes in Illustrator — if that stupid piece of software only didn't think it had to increase file size and memory usage proportionally to the dimensions of the artwork (the banner is 70cm x 210cm)! How frustrating. Sometimes I think they invented the computer (and the wheel for that matter) only to make our lives more complicated. Well, maybe I'm just too dumb to hit the right switch after all… Somebody throw me a line! Cheers, Sebastian

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Tangofied Inkscape
by Panos Laganakos 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

I'm trying to make inkscape a bit more tango-looking. So far I've only done the vertical toolbar: http://panos.solhost.org/mockups/inkscape-tango-01.png -- Panos Laganakos

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fonts on OS X
by Sebastian Winkler 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

I've mentioned this once before on this list: There is some issue with certain fonts (or variants) not being available in Inkscape on OS X. I think it might be an issue with Apple's dfont format but I'm not sure. Is anybody else seeing this? Anyway, it can render a program quite useless if you happen to not be able to use a requred font… -Sebastian

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0.45 crash on OS X 10.4
by Sebastian Winkler 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

After upgrading to 0.45 Inkscape always crashed on launch. Here is the crash log: Host Name: Cube Date/Time: 2007-03-02 20:27:36.429 +0000 OS Version: 10.4.8 (Build 8L127) Report Version: 4 Command: inkscape-bin Path: /myApps/Image/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape-bin Parent: Inkscape [6968] Version: 0.45 (0.45) PID: 6969 Thread: Unknown Link (dyld) error: Symbol not found: _FT_Load_Sfnt_Table Referenced from: /myApps/Image/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/ libfontconfig.1.dylib Expected in: /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib I since downloaded the developer's build (2004-02-25) and it doesn't crash, so maybe the problem is already resolved. Best regards, Sebastian

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Re: [Inkscape-user] EPS Transparency support
by Nava Whiteford 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

On 3/1/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote: > On 3/1/07, Nava Whiteford <nwhiteford@...2131...> wrote: > > The best option appears to be outputing a pdf and using acroread to > > convert it to an eps, this then "flattens" the tranparencies, while > > keeping them in vector format. I was wondering if anyone else had a > > better (and open source) solution to this problem? > > I think the best open source candidate for implementing this > functionality is Ghostscript. Maybe it even already does something > like it - try it out. > > > If I wanted to investigate adding support for transparency flattening to > > inkscape where would I start? Does inkscape export to eps natively or is > > an external tool used? > > We export PS/EPS natively. And we really might benefit from adding a > flattening code for that export. However, please consider that this > code is likely to become quite complex, involving the use of boolean > ops etc. (unless of course you will do the simple approach of > rasterizing everything with transparency). Will you be able to code > this all to a good level of quality, and test and maintain it > afterwards? I've a fair amount of experience with C++ (3 years undergrad + 3 years PhD etc.). Time as always is an issue. > More importantly, is Inkscape the best place for this code? Agreed > We already export PDF with transparency which fully preserves > the intent of the source. I think it is better to use a separate tool > (Ghostscript) that specializes in "downgrading" this PDF into less > capable formats, perhaps implementing various strategies for that. I > think Ghostscript has much more expertise overall than Inkscape in > PS/PDF. I guess there are a number of places it could be implemented. Even perhaps as a standalone svg2flatsvg program? I'll get on to the Ghostscript mailing lists and see if anybody is working on this for pdf files. Thanks for your prompt reply. And if you are, or anybody else reading is, a Inkscape developer thanks for a great program! nw

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EPS Transparency support
by Nava Whiteford 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi, I've been encountering the problems caused by eps's lack of tranparency support quite a lot lately. The problem (and some work arounds) are described here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=38244491 The best option appears to be outputing a pdf and using acroread to convert it to an eps, this then "flattens" the tranparencies, while keeping them in vector format. I was wondering if anyone else had a better (and open source) solution to this problem? If I wanted to investigate adding support for transparency flattening to inkscape where would I start? Does inkscape export to eps natively or is an external tool used? Many Thanks, nw --

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Hiding/showing layers via command line?
by sness 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Hi, Is there any way to hide and show layers in a Inkscape document with command line arguments before saving? I have an image that has buttons for a webpage, and on different layers there are the normal, selected and rollover versions of the buttons. I have a nice script to automatically output the buttons with command line options, but right now I have to go into the GUI, select the different layers, and run my script. It's not that much work, but I thought it would be neato if I could do all this from the command line. thank you, sness.

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Include article on a magazine (some months old)
by Juan Miguel Ramirez 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

I had been very busy and I forgot to say that in the OLD number 19 of Spanish version of Linux Magazine I wrote about Inkscape 0.44. I wrote about the new (on inkscape 0.44) features and some inkscape's examples logotypes made by me and Included an Illustration from Andy Fitzimon at the header of the first page (He gave me permission). There is a PDF online (on spanish only): http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/19/Inkscape.pdf I am sorry about the delay. If someone wants the .svg of all the graphics only have to write me :D

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how to including a form in a clone set
by unknown＠example.com 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

How can i link a form to a clone set? If I want to unlink somethink I just go ctrl+alt+D (windows XP) Can go back from there relinking it? - how can i include a new form in the clone set? (I know i did once but I don't know how did I get there) basically I was modifying a set of clones through the main form, suddenly i decide to make a star on top of the clone master and the star was in all the clones as well and whatever i drew I could get the same in all clones. unfortunately I lost that file and I do not know how I did activate such a function. thanks kirk --------------------------------- L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail

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