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global unit system and transformation
by Wolfgang 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hi all, I've just started to use inkscape a few days ago to draw a map. But for this I would like to have a user defined coordinate system as my country outline is in "degree". It would be really nice if I could use the geographic grid (ie. for adding point symbols at 19°N, 101°E). But I would need to set somewhere a global transformation to map that system onto the drawing area: 1° equals 3cm on paper, and the origin of the paper =18°N,99E for example. Perhaps something like that is already included and I only couldn't find it? Thanks Wolfgang

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import svg file by reference
by Chris Bare 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

When I import a jpg or png, the svg file contains an external reference to that file. When I import an svg, the file is merged inline. Is there a way to tell inkscape to import the svg by reference instead? I'd like to be able to edit several sub files independent of a master file. -- Chris Bare chris@...1958...

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save as PDF loses jpegs & bitmaps
by Werner van Staden 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

I upgraded to 0.44 (using svn) for the enhanced transparency handling but - altho' I do get vector graphics retaining their transparency when saving to PDF - I am now losing all .png .jpg and bitmaps. They don't show up at all. ldd /bin/inkscape shows that all dependencies are met on my Ubuntu Dapper box running kernel 2.6.15. Am I missing something simple or is this a bug?

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Cropped pdf files as output
by Paul Smith 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Dear All Is there some way of having Inkscape outputting a pdf file already cropped? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Add xml-stylesheet processing instruction
by Dennis Benzinger 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

Hi! Can you add an xml-stylesheet processing instruction to Inkscape SVG files in a way that this processing instruction is preserved if you edit the file in Inkscape? Dennis

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Coordinates all different
by Fred Labrosse 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

All, I just created a document using inkscape to layout objects of which I known the position in real space. Because some of these positions are negative, I specified an offset in the origin of the grid so that the grid point (0,0) is not the bottom left corner of the document. So far so good. Once the whole layout has been created, I now would like to know the position of other objects on there (middle points and such). This position is given by the rulers although at the precision of the reading of the ruler. However, the other ways of getting positions (little box at the bottom right of the application window or boxes in one of the toolbars) give the position in the document's references ((0,0) at bottom left), not in the grid's. Did I miss anything or is that a bug (or a feature that could possibly be configurable to offer alternatives)? Cheers, Fred

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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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