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inkview: linked image not found
by Karol Krenski 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi list, There is foo_dir directory with slide1.svg and mapa.jpg files. I insert mapa.jpg into slide1.svg. Now I copy foo_dir to another machine with win32. I drop slide1.svg on inkscape icon, fine - mapa.jpg is displayed in the slide I drop slide1.svg on inkview icon, I get a red cross: Linked image not found. This is the XML editor info for mapa.jpg inside slide1.svg: sodipodi:absref /home/users/mimooh/foo_dir/mapa.jpg xlink:href mapa.jpg I guess inkview doesn't respect xlink:href entry. Karol

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Dependencies
by Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi list, I tryed to install inkscape 44-pre but I got some dependencies to FC 4. Can anyone tell me where to find all de rpm dependencies ? The files reported where: libglitz liblcms libpangocairo Regards ... -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha http://ezequiasrocha.blogspot.com msn:ezequias@...9... "the worst of democracies is still better than the best of dictatorship"

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building inkscape from subversion on ubuntu
by j michaelson 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

hello all, i've just done a fresh install of ubuntu 6.06 amd 64 and built inkscape from the subversion repository. first installed all the packages i needed with... apt-get install subversion autoconf automake1.7 automake1.8 automake1.9 intltool libglib2.0-dev libtool g++ libpng-dev libgc-dev freetype-tools libfreetype6 liblcms-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libpopt-dev make ...then i downloaded a working copy from the subversion repository with.... svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk inkscape ...then cd'd into the inkscape directory that subversion had created and built it with the following commands.... ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install ...and i now have a bleeding edge version of inkscape. well worth it. --------------------------------------------- when i fancy updating all i have to do is cd into the inkscape directory again and do use the following commands..... svn update ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install hope this is useful to someone. john

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export as
by Kasper Peeters 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi, Is there any way to save a drawing as eps, yet make inkscape keep saving to the svg file with 'save'? Right now, the 'save as' option switches the default 'save' to whatever format is selected in 'save as', which is not necessarily even a format that inkscape can read again. It's very easy to lose work this way. In other words, is there a way to have the equivalent of 'export as'? Thanks, Kasper

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0.44: 'Build-dependencies for inkscape could not be satisfied'?
by Terry Hancock 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Hi all, I was trying to build the new Inkscape 0.44pre4 using the advice at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingDebian "Oh cool" , I thought -- I didn't think of using Debian's system to install the dependencies. But then... samwise:/project/Packages# apt-get build-dep inkscape Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Build-dependencies for inkscape could not be satisfied. I get the same results for '-t testing', '-t stable', and '-t unstable', too. So it kind of looks like the Inkscape dependencies have package breakage at the moment? Any advice on how to proceed? Does this mean I'm going to have to install a lot of deps from source? I'm just kind of rusty at this stuff, I'm afraid. Terry -- Terry Hancock (hancock@...1625...) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com

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[Fwd: Fwd: Call for screenshots]
by Aaron Spike 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Call for screenshots Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:43:36 -0300 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> To: Aaron Spike <aaron@...476...> References: <3c78ff030606151411x6334770dp2e1a0a26c4d8a216@...156...> Aaron, I sent this to devel and user lists, but gmail is spamblocked again so it bounced. Can you please forward it to both lists on my behalf? Thanks! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> Date: Jun 15, 2006 6:11 PM Subject: Call for screenshots To: Inkscape ML <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, Bob Jamison <rjamison@...192...> We need more screenshots of 0.44 release for our gallery: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php. So far we only have 6. One feature I would especially like to get more screen space is the docked palette with the new default color set. For a user, screenshots are perhaps the most important resource at inkscape.org. It's what most people look at first. New users don't like to read descriptions; they want pretty pictures. Existing users considering upgrade don't like to read release notes; they want pretty pictures. Besides, our screenshots are borrowed by a lot of other sites and thus end up all over the web. All this means that screenshots must be as good as Inkscape itself, if not better. The lack or poor quality of screenshots means the entire project's bad health. What makes a good screenshot? * The best "feature screenshots" are made by the author of the corresponding feature. Nobody knows the feature better than him/her. In fact, if you contribute a major feature, you are pretty much supposed to submit a screenshot of it in action, much as you are supposed to describe it in release notes. [Note to Bob: Can you please make a good screenshot with several different examples of SIOX at work?] * However, we also need high quality "work screenshots" showing professional Inkscape work. If you are doing something complex and/or artistic and it turns out well, please take a moment to shoot the Inkscape window with your work. * Use PNG format (not JPG or GIF). * The screenshot should be dense and informative. 1280x1024 (the preferred screenshot size) is a lot of space, so don't waste it on just one or two bits. When doing a feature screenshot, combine the various aspects of the feature, add captions and descriptions, demonstrate all relevant tricks and nontrivial things that you can think of. When doing a work screenshot, find the best zoom/view of the document, and consider doing a double view of the same or different documents (as here: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-davinci.png). In both cases, open the relevant dialogs, switch to relevant tools, and do a selection so that the statusbar message adds more useful info to the picture. * When submitting a screenshot, please also submit a blurb (one-paragraph description) that will accompany it in the gallery. Briefly describe the feature you are demonstrating and the most nontrivial aspects of the screenshot. Try to be witty but comprehensive. * Also indicate what the usage terms are for the screenshot (in case magazine writers wish to use the screenshot in their articles). We recommend that you place your screenshots in public domain, as it saves a lot of hassle in asking for and obtaining permissions. To submit, please mail a link to your file to the devel list, or directly to buliabyak at gmail dot com. All this is quoted from a wiki page I wrote some time ago: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingScreenshots -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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default directories
by Gary 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

WinXP. I can't figure out how to change the default directories for "save as" and "import" (etc). I've tried to change the "Start in" property of the shortcut, and I've tried writing a small script that starts with "cd ...". I've looked in preferences.xml, and didn't find anything that looks likely. I also don't see any likely command line options. So ... how can I change the defaults for these directories? Is it any different in Linux? Thanks, gary

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Styles
by Bill Bedford 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I see from the feature requests that there have been a couple of people asking for a styles panel. Is there any possibility that this will be implemented in the forseeable future? I like the idea of Inkscape, but because I use a restricted pallet I really need the ability to reuse standardised lines and fills. -- Bill Bedford "Nothing is as important as model railways and even that isn't very important" -some wiseguy somewhere

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Strange --query-height problem
by Lorenz Haas 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hi, I need to know the geometry of several words, so I write a litle php-prog to get all informations, and write it in a file. But the some returned heights could not be true, why? I use folowing template for each word (%_?_% is replaced with valid parameters): <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg width="100%" height="100%" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <text style="font-size: %fontsize%;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1;font-family: %fontname%" x="%x%" y="%y%" id="testWort">%text%</text> </svg> Then I save the generated svg to disc: svg_temp.svg. And quering witdth and height with: inkscape svg_temp.svg --query-width --query-id testWort inkscape svg_temp.svg --query-height --query-id testWort The returned values are saved in following file, which shows %text% :: %fontname% :: %fontsize% :: WIDTH :: HEIGHT bis 180m::URW Palladio L::48::189.29175::69.696 bis 915m::URW Palladio L::48::189.29175::52.224 bis 2745m::URW Palladio L::48::213.29175::51.072 So, why is 'bis 180m' 69.696pt tall, where 'bis 915m' and 'bis 2745m' are both about 51pt? Same strange behaviour also occurs with other words. E.g.: Gerastos::URW Palladio L::72::310.86675::91.368 Aulis::URW Palladio L::72::187.33612::62.784 Theben::URW Palladio L::72::241.34963::60.696 Thanks for help Lorenz

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Customized border?
by Matt Jordan 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hi all, Is it possible to customize the border in Inkscape? I see that I can set it so that it's always on top of the drawing, but is there anyway to add in some stuff - like a TV safe area, for instance? Right now I'm doing a work-around by having the extra stuff I need (like the TV safe area) in its own layer, but I always have to go in and make that layer invisible before outputting anything. If I could customize the border instead, it would obviously save me some steps. Thanks, Matt Jordan Inkscape on Ubuntu 6.06

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