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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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save as pdf: acrobat - a number value is out of range
by Marco A. S. Netto 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello guys, I'm having a problem to save a figure as .pdf. I tried to reduce the number of objects of my original figure to figure out where is the error. So if a simply create a new file and import the object computer/server_olivier_boyer_01.svg from openclipart, after I save this file, when I open my Acrobat 7.0.1 I receive the message "a number value is out of range". Has anybody had this problem? I don't know if there is something special in the "server_oliver_boyer_01.svg" file. Please, any help is very welcome. (I'm using inkscape 0.44.) Thanks in advance, Marco

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Rectangular with rounded corners?
by unknown＠example.com 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Hello!! Is it possible to create a rectangular with rounded corners in Inkscape? Thank you!!! Best, Tom

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Transparency and printing or pdf export
by Loïc Martin 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

bulia byak a écrit : > On 7/4/06, Loïc Martin <lomartin3@...155...> wrote: >> Ok. I know acroread does "flatten" it - it's quite usefull when the >> printer don't have a big memory. > > So, you may try to export transparent PDF from Inkscape and print it > from Acrobat. Whether this will be any better than printing bitmap I > cannot say. > Thanks to everybody I was able to print my files with transparency (and still have a few hours of sleep ;) ). There's still the problem of text without transparency but that'll have to do for now (and it could be an acroread bug - evince don't even handle transparency in pdf so I can't check) I can't print in bitmap because my printer don't like it (not enough memory), that's another reason to use Inkscape over the Gimp! >> Doesn't postscript level 3 handle >> transparency ? > > No. > The day they'll add it will be a good day - unless cairo comes to help before (if it's possible to use cairo for printing, that is)

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NEW: dropper tool option changes
by bulia byak 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Instead of the confusing toggle button, now the Controls bar for the Dropper tool has two checkboxes, "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha", which work as follows. Suppose you have an object selected and, using Dropper, click on an object which has red (#FF0000) fill and 0.5 opacity (half-transparent). - If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is off, the selected object will get the fill color #800000 (i.e. faded-out red) and fill opacity will be at 1.0 (opaque). - If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is on but "Set alpha" is off, the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity will be at 1.0. - If both "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha" are on, the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity will be at 0.5 (half-transparent). If you Shift+click instead of click, the same changes will be made to stroke color and stroke opacity, correspondingly. Note that in no situation can Dropper change the master opacity of the selected object(s), although it can pick it just as it does any other kind of opacity. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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