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Using Text in Inkscape
by Hyperion 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

when i use the text tool it opens the box where im supposed to type what i want, but i can't type??? anybody know what might be wrong??? thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-Text-in-Inkscape-tf1921824.html#a5261955 Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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problem with PUA characters
by Daniel Hulme 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

I'm having a bizarre problem in 0.44 with text objects containing characters from the PUA -- specifically, Klingon glyphs -- and I thought I'd check here to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid before submitting a bug report. I have a sequence of Klingon characters, in the range f8d0 to f8ff, and they aren't displaying. The font I'm using (clearlyU; it is in Debian) has glyphs for these characters. I know this because they show up in Vim with guifont set appropriately, and also in gucharmap. I know that Inkscape has the right characters in the text object, because when I look at the 'text' tab of the 'text and font' dialogue box, it shows the right numbers. I know the object should be visible, because when I type normal characters in they show up. Despite all this, the Klingon characters don't show up in the font preview area in the 'text and font' dialogue box, nor in the document itself. Any hints? Has this been seen before? If it is a bug, what information (beyond the usual) would you like to see on the report? -- Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the King's horses and all the King's men | http://surreal.istic.org/ Couldn't put Humpty together again. | powered by cat and ^d Perhaps they shouldn't have given the horses the first go.

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Missing german tutorials?
by Thomas Zastrow 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hi there, I compiled and installed Inkscape 0.44 from source. The User-interface is perfect in german-language, but under Help/Tutorials there are some files missing: /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-shapes.de.svg /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-advanced.svg (is present, but not in a german version) /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-calligraphy.de.svg /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-elements.de.svg /usr/local/share/inkscape/tutorials/tutorial-tips.de.svg Am I right that there are no translations of that files into german? If so: 1.) Should I translate them? 2.) In the meantime, wouldn't it a good idea to link to the english ones instead of producing an error? Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de ----------------------------

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Is there a way to build an Inkscape "sandbox" environment?
by Christopher B. Wright 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Is there a way to set up the latest version of Inkscape with all the libraries it needs on a distribution that doesn't yet support Cairo without upgrading to Cairo system-wide? Xandros 4 doesn't support Cairo, and you can't install Cairo without nuking all the Xandros-specific stuff. I'm running Inkscape just fine on my Kubuntu machine but would like to run it on my Xandros machine as well... ... so does anyone know if it's possible to set up an environment *with* Cairo that Inkscape can use without nuking the standard environment that doesn't know what to do with it? Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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Inkscape performance issues
by Hans Nieser 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

Hello, I am trying to use Inkscape 0.44 to design basic graphics for websites (think content boxes, buttons, titles and so on) and to get highlight and shadow borders around them I make use of linked offsets, which I find very useful especially when I need to adjust the basic shape (from which the linked offsets are made) later on. Unfortunately, using linked offsets seems to have a very detrimental effect on performance, in my example file [1], I have just a few content boxes and a single button with a small icon on it, yet certain basic actions like creating a new shape, hiding/unhiding/moving layers or shape adjustments are starting to take a lot of time. On my desktop machine, which has an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, hiding the "Buttons" layer causes Inkscape to use 100% CPU and become unresponsive for a good 8 seconds. Considering that I need many more buttons and boxes and thus vastly increasing the amount of linked offsets, I am wondering wether there are other ways of creating buttons and boxes like these without linked offsets while retaining the same kind of flexibility or if there is some other way I can work like this but with better performance. Any suggestions (even alternatives to Inkscape that may be better suited for this) are welcome. [1] http://www.aphax.nl/images/inkscape/webdev.svg

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inkscape "binary" /or/ executable for LINUX ?
by stuseven 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

+ I use debian Sarge... it comes with Inkscape .41... .44 wont load with what I have, and most of the new dependencies aren't on my CD set... so... how to proceed ? Is there, for instance, a way to get all the required libraries together for an Inkscape .44 upgrade ? I guess it would be easy enough to just download all the separate dependency files... the debian site has links to all of them... but, can I just install these newer packages side by side with the older ones I have ? Thought I'd ask before I broke something :) Thanks to debian users who have done this already maybe ! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/inkscape-%22binary%22--or--executable-for-LINUX---tf1… Sent from the Inkscape - User forum at Nabble.com.

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Possible Forum Setup.
by Cory Pollard 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

Hi everyone. I've had a thought that others may be interested in. I would like to start a forum dedicated to inkscape. A place where we can have different headings/subheadings, tutorials, screenshots, WIP, and general discussions. I wanted to see if others would be interested in making use of such a site. I would probably register under inkscapeforums.com or simmilar. I can pay for domain registration and some hosting too. But, does anyone know the overall cost for running forums per annum? Also, I don't want to tread on the feet of the Devs and everyone who started inkscape, would you guys be cool with the idea? So, give some feedback and see if we can get this thing started. Cory -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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Printing Conondrum
by Rick Spillane 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

I want to print my work out now that I've finished working on it. However it seems as though every portable file format that I can take to the poster-printing place is broken with respect to something Inkscape uses in SVG, the export to bitmap seems to ignore transparencies in certain spots for some reason, the pdf export leaves out whole shapes, and cuts off other shapes, as well as distorting them too, and I don't really think post script will do better than pdf, but I haven't honestly tried that yet. Is there some way to export my SVG drawing to a portable and printable format that I can take to kinko's? -- Rick necro351@...155...

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0.44 crashes
by Lars Behrens 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hi there, anybody facing the same problem? As I can't log in to scourceforge (" Logins to SourceForge.net are currently disabled."), I thought that I'd ask if someone has an idea what could be wrong: When I try to start inkscape 0.44 it crashes with the following message (Inkscape 0.43 works ok): ************************************************************************ > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x086143b0 *** > > Emergency save activated! > Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. > If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org > with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it. > ************************************************************************ This happens no matter if I build from scratch, use an autopackage or a binary from linux packages. Here'a gdb backtrace: ************************************************************************ > warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: unknown thread_db error '22 > ' > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x086143b0 *** > > Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. > 0xb6f87847 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > (gdb) bt > #0 0xb6f87847 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #1 0xb6f890d9 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #2 0xb6fbb616 in __libc_message () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #3 0xb6fc1d4f in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #4 0xb6fc20ea in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 > #5 0xb716c341 in operator delete () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 > #6 0xb714d297 in std::string::_Rep::_M_destroy () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 > #7 0x084a542f in Inkscape::Extension::Dependency::check () > #8 0x084a28f4 in Inkscape::Extension::Extension::check () > #9 0x084abd88 in Inkscape::Extension::Input::check () > #10 0x084a5498 in Inkscape::Extension::check_extensions_internal () > #11 0x084a3afc in Inkscape::Extension::DB::foreach () > #12 0x084a5776 in Inkscape::Extension::init () > #13 0x0817868c in inkscape_application_init () > #14 0x0816c599 in sp_main_gui () > #15 0x0826ff8a in Inkscape::NSApplication::Application::run () > #16 0x0816bf58 in main () ************************************************************************ Version: 0.44 Platform: Slackware Linux 10.2 Kernel 2.6.11.11 glibc 2.3.6 gcc 3.4.4 Language: German TIA! Cheerz Lars

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Problem with gradients
by Leonardo 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hi all, I'm learning to use Inkscape, and have found my first 'real' problem. I made something with inkscape that has a color gradient in it, but when I save it as eps or pdf file, the gradient is not present and I see only a full color. I searched the net for posts and documentation, but I could only find a note on inkscape 0.42 saying that it supports eps gradients. I have 0.43, so where's the problem? Thanks, Leo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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