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Tablet Tricks?
by microUgly 20 Feb '07

20 Feb '07

I got myself a new Tablet and have been playing with it in Inkscape. I really like the calligraphy tool but I think I need practice with the sculpting tool. I wonder what other tricks Inkscape might have for tablets, or even just techniques people have found useful. It would be nice to be able to tune a shape without individually selecting nodes. I imagine something similiar to Photoshops blur tool to manipulate a shape, which might sound like the sculpt tool but is different because it would be indipendent of the nodes. I can also imagine a tool that would allow you to create an object by painting a path, but the path itself would not be editable, just the outline of the area - just like painting an area with a brush if that makes sense. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tablet-Tricks--tf3260123.html#a9060618 Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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what icc profile
by Dwain Alford 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

i have been wondering lately, does inkscape use the srgb iec61966-2.1 color space? although it's not the best for commercial cmyk printing (there are other open source tolls to convert it), it's the cat's meow on an inkjet printer. 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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how to get coordinates.
by Piter_ 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

Dear All. I there any script (script command), through which I can get coordinates of a node (or a line). Thanks. Petro

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Depth of field png
by D. Jones 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

How do you get Inkscape to display the canvas so that it looks transparent with checkerboards as in this picture http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-depthoffield.png --------------------------------- Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] toshiba m7 convertible tablet
by Devon Scott-Tunkin 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

Yeah, I'll do whatever I can. I haven't done any work with linux. Been meaning to install ubuntu one of these days but haven't had a reason. I was wondering if it was still a problem in linux as the wacom driver is different. Of course it may still be a problem, I don't know exactly how these things work. But installing linux just for inkscape isn't really a great incentive. Devon > Well, the problem probably is in GTK+, not quite > Inkscape itself. GTK > + is the widget toolkit that Inkscape and the gimp > are both built on > top of. > > I don't happen to know a work-around off-hand, but I > do know this is > something people would like to help fix. In fact, we > were just > discussing this last weekend at the Linux conference > in Southern > California. > > The main problem is that none of the developers I > know of have such > hardware. However, if you are interested in working > together some > people should be able to come up with various things > to try. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news

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changing default page settings on win xp
by Dwain Alford 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

what file, and where would it be located, do i need to edit to change the default page size and orientation on win xp? if there is a link to the answer someone could send me i would be appreciative. thanks, 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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Comparable program tutorials
by D. Jones 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

I was wondering since tutorials are severely lacking in Inkscape. Which program(s) (Illustrator, Coreldraw, ....) is Inkscape the most comparable to in terms of functionality. Because I seen where people have taken for instance Photoshop tutorials and replicated them in the Gimp. Which program's tutorials could best be done in Inkscape? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367

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Problems loading svg files
by Reinhard X. Fuerst 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

Hi I`m using inkscape 0.44 on Ubuntu 6.10 Linux. After saving a normal svg file as 'inkscape svg', this file cannot be loaded anymore. Error-Message: Failed to load the requested file If I save the same file as 'standard svg', it loads without any problems. What's going wrong there? Regards Reinhard

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toshiba m7 convertible tablet
by Devon Scott-Tunkin 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

Hello, I'm new here. I have a toshiba M7 convertible laptop tablet. In any mode but landscape primary (you flip the screen and can choose to have it in portrait mode to write on like a pad of paper) the tablet input still thinks it is in primary landscape or something and the axis' are all off so when i draw something with the calligraphy tool it is not where the cursor is. it works fine with the mouse. from what i have researched it has to do with inkscape (and the gimp) using the older wacom API as opposed to the newer HID that does not support rotate. Is there a workaround or fix for this? Maybe editing some variable to make it think it is always in portrait mode? I really don't want to have to go back to illustrator, but will have to if I have to turn my whole tablet around backwards to use it with the usb and lan ports all sticking at my stomach. i am using windows xp tablet edition. does the custom linux wacom driver work with screen rotation? i could install linux if i had to. or is it hard coded in the program and have nothing really to do with the wacom driver? Any help is appreciated, Thank you Devon ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097

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Wondering why Ink is running slow.
by Donn 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hello, I don't really know how to phrase this, on one hand it may sound like I am whining and on the other it's a real issue I experience. If this should be in another list or posted as a bug report, just yell. I think I'll just jump in. The thing : Inkscape 0.45 gets gradually slower and less responsive over a period of time. My system : Old AMD Athlon 1Ghz, 1 Gig RAM, Ample drive space (IDE), Nvidia something or other card, Kubuntu Dapper. The caveat : For some reason or other I have the very real (and seemingly unique) experience with GTK apps all running very slowly -- well the gui response makes them appear to be slow. Apps like Firefox and OOO and Gimp and wxPython stuff and Tomboy, etc, are all painful. Still, I am used to that basic sluggishness. I have been using Inkscape quite a lot in the last week doing icons and other designs and for the first ten minutes or so it's allright. Even fairly complex drawings (stuff all over, many layers, some bitmaps) are not a problem. After that, the refresh rate begins to slow. After about half an hour, it's in the order of seconds, not milliseconds. It's like move 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 re-draw, with big black squares gradually filling-in. I have found that I cannot leave tool dialogs open -- especially the fill/outline one. I must open one, use it and then close or shade it and move it off the canvas area. After 30 mins to 1 hour Inkscape really becomes impossible to use. I cannot select a single node without a long pause as the mouse freezes and then suddenly jumps into life (dragging the node radically). At this point I save my work and close the app. I wait for a couple of minutes and re-start it. All is well for a while. Repeat. BTW - what I am describing is not an illusion of slowness, it really does get slower. Oh yeah, one more thing, when I close Firefox it seems to give Ink a boost in speed but it does not last. So, what's going on? Am I running some processes or other apps that are known to interfere with Inkscape? Is it more of a GTK thing? Is my AMD chip a known culprit? Is my RAM bad perhaps? How can I profile this so the stats are more useful to the coders of Inkscape? Okay, thanks for reading, Donn. -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. -- Voltaire

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