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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of 2 straight lines
by unknown＠example.com 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

-------- Original Message -------- From: catoblepa <puntoebasta@...155...> Apparently from: inkscape-user-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of2 straight lines Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:24:08 +0100 > re2823@...2071... ha scritto: > > > Could anyone tell if there's a way to place a new node at the > > intersection of two straight lines (without converting each line > > into a shape by adding more nodes, then doing something like path > > merge/union/intersection on those two shapes etc). > > Hava you tried with path --> cut path ? Yeah, I've just spent some time trying to work out exactly what "cut path" does. It's easy to understand when both parties are shapes with area, but when either (or both) are just splines, the results are a little confusing. It certainly doesn't seem to do what I'm after (which is to chop each of my two splines into two pieces)... :-(

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How to create a new node at the intersection of 2 straight lines
by unknown＠example.com 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi. Could anyone tell if there's a way to place a new node at the intersection of two straight lines (without converting each line into a shape by adding more nodes, then doing something like path merge/union/intersection on those two shapes etc). Also, would the same procedure work for two beziers splines? Thanks, Jaime

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Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of 2 straight lines
by unknown＠example.com 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

-------- Original Message -------- From: Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> Apparently from: inkscape-user-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] How to create a new node at the intersection of2 straight lines Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:32:41 -0500 >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:26:52PM +0000, re2823@...2071... wrote: >> Hi. >>=20 >> Could anyone tell if there's a way to place a new node at the >> intersection of two straight lines (without converting each line >> into a shape by adding more nodes, then doing something like path >> merge/union/intersection on those two shapes etc). > >None that I'm aware of. I was swearing at that yesterday. It would be >really nice (and really impossible task) to have the geometric features of >Geometry Expressions in Inkscape. Just out of interest (as your post kind of makes me think that it's theoretically "hard" to do), how does inkscape calculate intersection points when I ask it to do path intersection of solid shapes made from bezier curves? Does it use these "geometry expressions"? Jaime

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install/un-install and 'libXinerama.1.dylib' problem
by Gareth Jordan 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi all, I hope this is the right place to post this, apologies if not. Happy New Year anyway. I had Inkscape (IS) installed a long while ago and it worked ok for a while. I had some novice but useful results. i am using an G4 iBook 933 OSX 10.4.8 After a longer while it became impossible to open either an old or new file in IS. I uninstalled IS but was unsuccessful in my attempts at re-installing for similar reasons as I have just encountered today. Today I have tried to install IS again, all seemed to go ok, but when I started Inkscape up, it got the Apple X11 programme going and then the IS logo appeared in the dock but nothing else whatsoever. I trashed the IS app and now it won't let me delete it from the Trash, even though nothing is open, and shows a trash error msg as follows: 'The operation cannot be completed because the item "libXinerama.1.dylib" is in use.' Does anyone know what may be going on? What solution might there be? Many thanks regards Gareth

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PDF output...
by Phil Hendry 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hi folks, I'm trying to work out a way of integrating Inkscape into my workflow. Indesign CS2 doesn't support SVG import. Saving as PDF from Inkscape seems a wee bit flaky - I used a pattern fill in a couple of places, and that had disappeared when I opened the PDF. The EPS export, of course, doesn't support transparency - I suppose I could 'flatten' the transparency somehow, so it appeared to export - but that seems a lot of work. EPS export also seemed to screw up the fonts, but that's no surprise, and I can export them as curves - but it also lost the pattern fills. PNG export works fine, but then I'm up against all the 'issues' of using bitmaps. Ho, hum. Frustrating. Of all the drawing packages I've tried since switching to the Mac, Inkscape is the most promising - far easier to use than Illustrator and with a similar (but better?) feature set. A 'pukka' OS X version would probably answer the PDF export problem, since printing to PDF on the Mac works so well - I often use it where other export methods fall down. I must find a way around this issue - I'm b*gg*r*d if I'm going back to fighting with Illustrator when I need a drawing. Phil

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I may have found a bug...
by Phil Hendry 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

...But I'm not sure - it may just be me not understanding how the package works. I can create new layers (apparently - at least the dialog appears and I can type a new layer name in it), move stuff to other layers and that sort of thing, but I can't open up the layers dialog - CTRL- SHIFT-L does nothing at all as far as I can see. Also, is there any way to lock the contents of a layer? If I go to Global Inkscape Preferences, I can check the 'Select only within current layer' box, but even if I then go to the layers menu and select 'Switch to layer above', the objects on the layer I've just moved from are still selectable. Phil

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Apropos letter spacing
by Michèle Garoche 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Could the alt modifier key not be hardcoded for that function, i.e. customizable as already done for some other functions? Reason: the alt key is used for accented characters on a Mac, hence not usable as a modifier for people with native languages using those accented characters. This leads to impossibility to use the letter spacing function.

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letter spacing
by Hago Ziegler 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hi, I need letter-spacing a lot. How do you do that in inkscape? For the moment I always have to use other programs for that. Regards, Hago

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please test the proposed perspective extension
by bulia byak 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

We have a new Perspective extension in our patch tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1600298&group_id=9… It's very useful potentially, but for some reason, I can't make it work properly, although it reportedly works for the author and another user. I would appreciate if more people could try it out and report their results. Note that to use it, you will need to install Numeric Python: http://numpy.scipy.org (in addition to regular Python). To install the extension, place the inx and py file from perspective_v0.3.tgz into your extensions directory. Please share your experience - thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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THANK YOU to Inkscape developers!
by John Beale 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Dear Inkscape Developers, THANK YOU so much for creating this amazing program! For a long time I have wanted to have the capabilities of something like Adobe Illustrator but I could never justify the cost for an occasional use. I just discovered Inkscape and within a few hours I was able to do useful work with it (well- creating holiday greeting cards, if that's useful!) I'm running on Windows XP, generating a PS output file and converting that to PDF with Ghostscript for laser and inkjet print. It looks great. All the built-in features I've tried work smoothly and I was particularly impressed by the ease of use, and output quality of the built-in bitmap-to-vector converter. Great stuff- thank you all! season's greetings, John

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