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Extensions Repository
by ValessioBrito 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

You it made or it knows an extension for inkscpae? it divulges! - http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionsRepository .ValessioBrito PS: PathDeform is rules! Pretty.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 6, Issue 30
by ilya y. rostovtsev 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

> Trace Bitmap is actually a wrapper around another tool called potrace, > which can be used from the commandline. While Inkscape adds some useful > capabilities in its wrapper, you might be able to achieve what you need > directly. More info on potrace: > > http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ > > Bryce Thanks, that actually helps quite a bit. Q: Say I have a complex path that needs to be broken up into pieces. I generally copy-paste-in-place and then delete unnecessary nodes that leave me only with the piece that is most curious to my cause. I am familiar with "Break Apart" function, yet it only works for objects which contain multiple disjoint paths. Would be rather nice if I could select necessary points of the path and "extract" them into a new object without using "Cut Path," since it requires another shape to place correctly... -ilya.

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by anas emad 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

-- with my best weshes Anas Emad www.anas.co.nr

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Wanting to understand issue with transparent GIF export
by Mike Causer 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:38:00 +0000 "Andrew S. Townley" <atownley@...16...> wrote: > I know IE doesn't support PNG (which is what the FAQ entry is about), > but if I create a transparent GIF with the Gimp, I get a transparent GIF > (albeit with much worse-looking text) than if I do it with Inkscape. > It's been a while since I looked at image formats in detail, but if it > is simply a matter of massaging the color of the "background" pixels in > the GIF, is there a tool that can do this? I changed the document > properties from #ffffff00 to #00000000 wondering if that may make a > difference, but it doesn't. If you know the background colour, gifsicle will fix it for you. (http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/) The MS-Windows binary is not as current as the Un*x ones, but will still do the job you need. Mike -- Mike Causer Email - mailto:mikec@...2046... GPG KeyID 1C2DDA07 WWW - http://www.mikecauser.com Flood the fen again! - Wicken Fen enlargement - http://www.wicken.org.uk

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Automating Inkscape
by ilya y. rostovtsev 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hello: I've been working on a number of things in Inkscape, a lot of which deal with tracing of many frames of 2D animation. Since I generally apply the same settings to a multitude of files, I was wondering if there is a way to do command-line access of "Trace Bitmap" command that could still utilize my settings... I only ask because most characters are extremely low-res to begin with and require being cut into a number of parts to create a good final composite. If there was a way to convert large amounts of bitmap data to SVG based on a specific setting I've set, and perhaps a way to cleverly automate coloring of the parts as well (if I can trace, I can figure out the rest), I could save a monumental amount of time. Any information is greatly appreciated. -ilya.

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Wanting to understand issue with transparent GIF export
by Andrew S. Townley 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi, I know there's an entry in the FAQ on the wiki about this, but I was wondering if anyone could shed more light on why this isn't working if you export to GIF rather than PNG. I know IE doesn't support PNG (which is what the FAQ entry is about), but if I create a transparent GIF with the Gimp, I get a transparent GIF (albeit with much worse-looking text) than if I do it with Inkscape. It's been a while since I looked at image formats in detail, but if it is simply a matter of massaging the color of the "background" pixels in the GIF, is there a tool that can do this? I changed the document properties from #ffffff00 to #00000000 wondering if that may make a difference, but it doesn't. Why I care: I'm trying to create some white text to be composed over a colored background, but I want to be able to control the color of the background via CSS in a web page rather than have to create a separate image for each color I want. Any ideas/suggestions/information would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, ast -- Andrew S. Townley <ast@...2044...> http://atownley.org

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [RE] Wanting to understand issue with transparent GIF export
by Andrew S. Townley 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 19:44, Black Fire wrote: > Your message isn't clear how you tried to use GIMP. Did you use it to > convert at PNG made with Inkscape? > If not, then try exporting your Inkscape drawing as a PNG, then use > GIMP to convert it to a GIF. I was actually just pointing out that if I did something similar with GIMP, e.g. new bitmap with transparent background, white text, that it did what I expected. I actually did what you suggested, but I gave up after I discovered that I was really dealing with a PNG anyway (see earlier message) and that I couldn't figure out in under 20 min how to get the image converted from PNG to GIF and still keep the anti-aliasing so the text looked presentable. I finally took the original PNG, pulled it into GIMP and added the background color as a new layer to save as a GIF. Isn't what I wanted, but the visual effect is the same as long as I don't change the colors. ast -- Andrew S. Townley <ast@...2044...> http://atownley.org

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wiggly lines, springs & coils
by Kasper Peeters 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Is there a way to draw wiggly lines with Inkscape? (I don't mean hand-drawn wiggles, those are never regular; I need wiggles which have the same size everywhere on the path). A related question: is there a way to draw paths with a "spring" or "coil" shape superposed on it? Thanks, Kasper

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Assign hot keys to specific actions?
by Thorsten 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi, is there a way to assign hot keys to specific actions in Inkscape instead of specific menu entries? I often need to center objects horizontally and vertically and it would be a massive timesaver if I could simply use hot keys, maybe even one hot key for both actions (applied successively)? I checked through the keybindings settings and the wiki, but failed to find an info. Keep up the good wirk, - Stellaris

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Joining two paths.
by Thetargos 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Hello list, I use Inkscape 0.44.1 on Fedora Core 6 Linux, and I would like to know how could I sort of "join" two paths together. I'm not necessarily talking about grouping them, but rather like what happens in Blender, where you can have a mesh and then start molding another mesh separate from the first, but sill be the two part of the same "object". I don't know if I make any sense with this. Particularly what I want to do is have the two objects be as one. The reason I want this is because I'm trying to prototype a font style, so I need to have characters such as 'ñ', 'á', 'é', 'í', 'ó', 'ú', 'à', 'è', 'ì', 'ò', 'ù', 'ä', 'ë', 'ï', 'ö', 'ü', 'â', 'ê', 'î', 'ô', 'û', etc. From what I have been gathering, these have to be treated as a single entity so that the font renderer can "pick" the right character. I'm trying to make this and hopefully turn it into a TTF (would be my first). I'm not sure if I could then "import" the individual characters into a program such as FontForge and have the font made. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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