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PRESS RELEASE: Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 Announced
by Jon Phillips 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in MontrÃ©al. Announced 12 February, 2007 - Building on the overwhelming success of last year's Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France, key Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce the second Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Canada, May 6, 2007 at Ãcole Polytechnique de MontrÃ©al. This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics application developers, users and professional artists from all over the world meet to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects together, with the goal of increasing interaction between developers, professional graphics artists and print professionals to improve the steadily expanding FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as Blender - a 3D creation application, Scribus - a professional grade page layout application, GIMP - a versatile and mature image editor, Inkscape - a user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for SVG, Krita - a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application, Open Clip Art Library - a large public domain collection of freely available artwork, and many other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing. According to Louis Desjardins, a 20 year veteran of pre-press and print production and organiser of the conference: "LGM is a sure demonstration of the maturity of free and open source applications - even at a professional level. Not only that, never before have I seen such a close and amicable working relationship between the users of this kind of software and those who create it." Having experienced the whole evolution from camera ready galleys and manual stripping to the advent and evolution of DTP, he states: "We are now seeing Free Software emerge in a domain which was more or less closed before." Numerous companies and organisations are showing their support of LGM by means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a clear positive impact on the evolution of the projects present at the conference. LGM audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum. Sponsors have the opportunity to show their support to the community and get appropriate web and media exposure. This year they also have the opportunity to advertise in the LGM Brochure which will be entirely done using FLOSS. The conference offers presentations of various Free/Libre Open Source graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general issues such as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming sessions and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and to work on common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world. LGM 2007 is putting out a call for participation, sponsorship, and discussion. The call for participation includes the submission of at most 2 paragraph presentation abstracts by interested projects and individuals. All types of presentations will be considered, including topics as diverse as collaboration, power-user art techniques, engineering talks, graphics business best practices, and other relevant topics. Official website http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Source LGM 2007 organisation Press Contact Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins@...155...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] NEW: batch export and slicing
by bulia byak 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

On 2/12/07, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...1631...> wrote: > The DPI setting in the dialog is ignored, then? The current setting in the dialog is ignored, but the export hints on objects are honored. So if you exported some of the objects previously with some resolutions, they will be remembered and reexported with the same resolitions. Otherwise, 90 dpi is used (1 px unit = 1 pixel in PNG). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Drag and Drop import on Mac X11?
by marc0047 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

I'm trying to drag and drop images from my Finder into my Inkscape page (in Mac X11), and it's not responding. Is this feature not possible yet? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Drag-and-Drop-import-on-Mac-X11--tf3216851.html#a8933… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Three questions
by Nick Tolentino 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Guys, I have two questions that bothers me whenever I'm using Inkscape with bitmap files: 1. Whenever I save Inkscape svg files, the bitmap images ( jpg and png types) are not attached to the said Inkscape svg file. So whenever I move the file to another computer, I still have to bring the bitmap files and create a separate subdirectory. Is there a way to make the bitmap files attached to the Inkscape svg files? 2. I work with maps whenever I'm using Inkscape. Is there a way to provide a proper scaling of the objects? My third question is there anyway to import AutoCAD files (dwg) to Inkscape? Hope to hear from you soon. Nick Tolentino 8-) --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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Feature Request, Break a text, lines, words or letters.
by ValessioBrito 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

I request in: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1658585&group_id=9… see animation: http://valessio.ul-jb.org/projetos/inkscape/feature_request/break_text.gif * Many people and I taste to use text in addition, is very fast for edition. -- .ValessioBrito ://valessio.ul-jb.org/

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rulers not correct
by Dennis Heuer 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

On my linux platform, with inkscape 0.45 and with cm used as base, the zero position on the horizontal ruler is not exactly at the left edge of the page. The vertical ruler seems to be layed out correctly. The black triangles that are the visible pointers at the current position on the rulers both miss the correct position visibly. Dennis

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printing layers as pages of a PDF file?
by Dennis Heuer 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hello I am trying to use inkscape for text layout, which implies that I misuse layers as pages. However, I can only convert the visible space to a PDF file. It would be very helpful if inkscape could learn the concept of a page or if it could convert one page per layer to the PDF file (with possible selection of the to be converted layers). Dennis

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INstalling Inkscape on Slackware.
by John R. Culleton 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I have been going through the usual gyrations trying to get inkscape to compile and run on my Slacware 11 Linux system. It can be done I am told, but I got weary of downloading and recompiling this piece of software and that, mostly libraries. One of them (the Deity knows which one) managed to destroy my font loading system and I had to restart with a fresh partition and fresh install. However I have discovered a shortcut. The Slax selfloading CDR distro has a series of optional modules including Inkscape versions 43, 44 and 44.1. Through a series of steps I was able to create a Slax 5.18 cdr that has Inkscape 44.1 on it. And it works! (With Slax 6 Beta the compression scheme changed so that it did not play nicely with Inkscape.) When I need to use Inkscape I can boot the cdr and use it there. Clumsy, but better than no Inkscape at all. Someday when I have no customers pressing on me I will try once again to go down the frustrating path of installing Inkscape natively. I'll start with a separate clean partition, so I don't destroy anything critical to my day to day work. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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the window refuses to shrink below a certain width
by Dennis Heuer 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I want my inkscape window to be very small because I just edit something small in it and I want to watch TV in parallel (ok, there are better reasons but I generally cascade the most important windows on my desktop, like the terminal window, which is just below the TV window). The inkscape window refuses to shrink below a certain width. Please overthink this restriction. Dennis

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how to duplicate layers?
by Dennis Heuer 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

I found no option to duplicate layers. This can be quite useful to create copies of basic layouts and elements (like page templates with headers and footers). Dennis

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