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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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yet another stupid animation question
by ilya y. rostovtsev 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

On 12/18/06, inkscape-user-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Inkscape is an SVG-based 2D illustration (and maybe, in the future, animation) package. I've been using Inkscape for animation for quite some time already. I'm psyched about that whole "path morphing" thing, because that really (and I mean REALLY) expands my abilities in the department. However, I'd love to see some "bones" that could alter the paths composing a character... Does anyone know of any FREE software package that would do the trick of providing easy path-modification animation? I haven't had much luck finding much else, though Inkscape is better suited for such than what most give it credit for, especially since varying opacity on full objects is so easily tweakable (multiple frames can be referenced without any pain whatsoever). [If anyone has any "non-Free" packages to recommend, I'd like to know about them, though I can't really promise I'll be able to follow up on each recommendation due to conflict of ideology. :) ] -ilya.

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Qs re Save As - eps, pdf, odg
by Phil Rhoades 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

People, Saving as: - eps - produces usable but not great output - odg - does not seem to work? - pdf - produces very rough output? I would like to output directly to PDF or to consolidate pages in Open Office and then export to PDF - is there improvements to these output formats? Thanks for nice software! Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:(0)411-185-652 Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Inkscape.org down?
by Alberto Simões 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Hi For some days I can't access inkscape.org. Any problem with my network or is the server down? Cheers -- Alberto Simões

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NURBS
by Esben Stien 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

SVGs' are not really scalable. Are there any plans to implement NURBS curves and surfaces?. -- Esben Stien is b0ef@...2066... s a http://www. s t n m irc://irc. b - i . e/%23contact sip:b0ef@ e e jid:b0ef@ n n

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Blur Breaks on Export
by Axiom X11 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Ok, so I have this strange tendency to answer my own questions shortly after I post them, but I really needed that image, so I figured out how to alleviate the symptom. I think my last post still showed some kind of rendering bug. The reason why I have the crazy shapes at the edge of the drawing is because when you export the drawing, it cuts things off where it sees that the edge should be, ignoring the blur. This should be fixed. An auto shadow/glow tool would be fun too. Perhaps I should go file some bugs. -Brian

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Blur Breaks on Export
by Axiom X11 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

I'm not sure how I would report this as a bug, but I have got this SVG in which the blur never exports correctly to bitmap. It always shows an artifact in the blur, and I can't tell exactly what is causing it, becasue it only shows up after the export. I am using Inkscape 0.45+devel, built Dec 14 2006 on WinXP. -Brian

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Postscript fonts not being recognized
by unknown＠example.com 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

I'm running Inkscape v0.44.1 on Windows 2000. Recently I installed several adobe postscript fonts and Inkscape is not recognizing them. I have Scribus installed on this machine as well and it recognizes all the new postscript fonts. If I run notepad.exe I can see the postscript fonts as well so I'm pretty sure they're installed correctly but I just can't seem to get Inkscape to see them. Any suggestions? Also by not recognize I mean when I open Inkscape's font selector I don't see the new postscript fonts. Thanks, Kevin

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Bug Hunt for 0.45
by Bryce Harrington 16 Dec '06

16 Dec '06

Hi all, We're ready to move into the bug fixing portion of the release. Traditionally, we specify a point target for us to reach, and award us points based on the severity of the bug: 3, 6, or 9 points for low, medium, and high. But this time, to encourage work on old bugs, lets give double points to fixes for any bugs that have been open for a year or more. Bug Hunt Goal: 300 points Current: 0 points Low: 3 - 6 pts Med: 6 - 12 pts High: 9 - 18 pts We especially need testers (and bug fixers) for Windows and OSX. A lot of bugs have accumulated that only show on those platforms, so they are difficult to test. If you are a Windows or OSX user, you too can be a big help, simply by browsing the bug tracker and see if you can reproduce the bug, and then add a comment on the bug one way or the other. No technical experience required. :-) Thanks, Bryce

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