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Blur tips
by bulia byak 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Some tips for using blur in Inkscape SVN: 0. Use the Blur slider in the Fill and Stroke dialog. You can blur anything - paths, shapes, strokes, calligraphy, bitmaps, text, clones, groups. 1. Currently, the maximum blur radius is 10% of the object size. Any larger blur will reveal the clear-cut margins - the blurred object cannot (currently) spread wider than the 10%. However it's easy to work around this limitation: group the object that you want to blur with some large fully-transparent object, thus making the group larger than the object, and blur the group. 2. Objects that store their transformation matrices (texts, groups, shapes, but not paths - unless you set "Store transforms" to "Preserved"), when scaled, scale also the blur applied to them. This means you can squeeze an object and its blur will be bigger in one dimension than the other. (It's also possible to do that by setting different blur radii for X and Y, but we don't yet have UI for that, though it works if you set it manually.) 3. You can combine blurring with gradients. For example, an ellipse with elliptic opacity gradient will look much softer and more natural when blurred. An object with a horizontal linear opacity gradient, when blurred, will look like it is more blurred on its transparent side than on its opaque side. 4. Masks and clipping are applied AFTER blur. That is, if you clip an object and then blur it (or blur it first and then clip - it makes no difference), the clipped edges will remain crisp. Often, this is what you want. If, however, you want to blur the clipped/masked edges too (possibly with a different radius), you can use grouping: group the clipped object with some other object (which you can then delete from the group) and blur the group. 5. A recipe for an autoupdating black drop shadow for object of any color: create object; unset its fill (it becomes black); create two clones of it; put one clone on top and paint any color; put the other color at bottom, blur it and shift sideways. Now you can edit the unset-fill original (use Alt+click to select it) and everything will update. Obviously, if you want a drop shadow of the same color as the object itself, just one clone for the shadow will suffice. 6. If an object has a fill that you don't want to blur (e.g. pattern, or if it's a bitmap), but you want to feather its edges, use blurred transparency mask: copy the object; paint it white; blur it as needed; scale the blurred copy down so its blur margins are entirely within the original object; select both the original and the blurred mask; do Object > Mask > Set. 7. You can use the Tile Clones dialog to create patterns of variously blurred clones - either with smooth variation of the blur per row/column, or/and with randomized blurring. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Posts filtered?
by John Culleton 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Recently none of my posts have made it to the list. I signed on using a different email addy (see above) but they still didn't make it. Sugestions? John Culleton

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Error with recompiled 44.1
by John Culleton 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

When I downloaded and compiled 44.1 I get this error: inkscape: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_intern_static_string I use slackware 10.2. I have tried two different Gnome add-ons. Currently I am using Freerock (latest stable version). John Culleton

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Posts not getting through.
by John R. Culleton 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

I keep asking this question but never see it on the list. will try once again. I compiled 44.1 clean but I get this error on execution: inkscape: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_intern_static_string -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Palettes and swatches questions
by Judy Wilson 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

I don't see a color palette on my window. Is it still there? (I'm studying tavmong's online manual-I love it). How do I make a customized color swatch? I use Kubuntu/Ubunut. I've looked on the web and in manuals and can't find what I'm looking for. Thank you! Judy Wilson Belize

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problem export pdf (images) 0.44/Mac OS10.4.8
by Stephane Mottelet 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hi all, With 0.44 version on Mac OS 10.4.8 (PowerPC), when I export to pdf some drawings with images (png, jpg), the images do no appear in the pdf. Where is the problem ? Thanks for help, S.

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Windows build crash?
by Arnout Standaert 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi people, I'm experiencing a problem with the 0610072339 build, available from http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D. I'm running it on a Windows 2000 system, but it also happens on a WinXP system at home. Recipe: - open Inkscape - choose Text tool, click canvas, type text - choose Arrow tool Result: "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now. Automatic backups ..." and so on. I did a backtrace and included it below (hope I did it correctly, let me know if not). I hope it helps to isolate the problem... Regards, Arnout *** backtrace *** $ gdb inkscape.exe GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...(no debugging symbols found) (gdb) run Starting program: /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/inkscape.exe Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libatkmm-1.6-1.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libsigc-2.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/KERNEL32.DLL Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/msvcrt.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libatk-1.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libglib-2.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/iconv.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/intl.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/ADVAPI32.DLL Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/rpcrt4.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/OLE32.DLL Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/GDI32.DLL Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/USER32.DLL Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/SHELL32.DLL Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/shlwapi.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/comctl32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/ws2_32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/ws2help.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgobject-2.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libglibmm-2.4-1.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgmodule-2.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libcairo-2.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpng13.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/zlib1.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpango-1.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/imm32.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgdkmm-2.4-1.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpangomm-1.4-1.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libgtkmm-2.4-1.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/liblcms-1.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libfontconfig-1.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/xmlparse.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/freetype6.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/popt1.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libintl-2.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/COMDLG32.DLL Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/Program Files/inkscape/libxml2.dll Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/wsock32.dll Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x627014d5 in _libuser32_a_iname () (gdb) bt #0 0x627014d5 in _libuser32_a_iname () #1 0x77fcb63e in ?? () #2 0x025a0000 in ?? () #3 0x40000060 in ?? () #4 0x02ab4028 in ?? () #5 0x0022e998 in ?? () #6 0x62701555 in _libuser32_a_iname () #7 0x00000000 in ?? ()

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Basic problem with font substutition
by Ian 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Thanks for the suggestion Lars. This worked. I upgraded to 0.44.1 for another reason and found the PDF creation to be much better than 0.42.2. With the new version I don't have to convert to paths. Regards Fog_Watch 1 My Inkscape document uses a custome > > asked a thousand times. Any pointers for how to prevent such font > > substitution? > > If you want to be sure that the fonts look the same on every > machine/platform, convert them to paths when exporting to pdf. > > Cheerz Lars > > > Slackware 10.2 > Slackware current :-)

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Artists needed!
by bulia byak 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

With all the recent additions - clipping, masking, and especially blur - Inkscape is finally able to produce some real photorealistic art. This is a call to arms for all Inkscape artists to start working on some stunning examples of what's now possible in Inkscape. We will need them - the more the better - for screenshots, examples, tutorials, etc. etc. One thing I would like to request in particular: A car. It would be very nice to have a complex, detailed, photorealistic SVG image of a shiny impressive car. There are several reasons for why this is desirable. First, cars are sexy (for many people, anyway). Second, they are relatively easy to draw by tracing a photo - you don't need to be much of an artist for that, you just need patience, Inkscape skills, and a good photo to start from. Third, with their glass and brass and polish, well-lit cars are ideal for showcasing "photorealism". And finally, our main competitor at this time, Xara LX, has long used amazingly photorealistic images of cars (among other things) for its promotion, and it worked well. We need such an image if only to give people an idea of how we compare with Xara. Here's a Xara example for inspiration: http://downloads.xara.com/opensource/images/screenshots/realistic/11.jpg (John, I'm cc'ing you personally because I know you did some car traces in the past. Do you think you could make such a photorealistic example from one of your old images?) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape video tutorials (Polish)
by Karol Krenski 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Hi list, I'd like to announce that I've created video tutorials for Inkscape 0.44. Those are Polish version, with Polish narration and cover pretty much of Inkscape functionality. They have been announced at Polish Linux sites this week and I have got positive feedback concerning not just the movies, but Inkscape being great program! Added link to the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TutorialsAndHelp And this is the movies page: http://www.inf.sgsp.edu.pl/lab/filmiki/filmiki.php regards, Karol

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