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0.44: Shift+middle button drag pans, does not zoom in
by Jean-François Lemaire 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hello, I see in the release notes for Inkscape 0.44 that Shift+middle button drag should zoom into the canvas, but here it does exactly the same as middle button drag: panning. And yes, both my Shift keys are working fine :-) JFL -- Jean-François Lemaire

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Inkscape 0.44 pre 0
by Aaron Spike 27 May '06

27 May '06

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Inkscape 0.44 pre 0
by Bryce Harrington 26 May '06

26 May '06

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:03:28PM +0300, Spyros Blanas wrote: > Is it possible to build and distribute a win32 binary as well? Many > people use Inkscape on Windows and we could benefit from their feedback > as well. Aaron just does the official tarball; other packagers will hopefully supply binaries for the other systems. Bryce > Also, please upload your key to a public keyserver (like pgp.mit.edu)! > > Thanks, > - Spyros Blanas > > > Aaron Spike wrote: > > I've just uploaded the tarball for 0.44pre0. Enjoy. > > > > I'll upload an autopackage later this evening, if time permits. > > > > Aaron Spike > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! > Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in > the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: Grid questions.
by Black Fire 26 May '06

26 May '06

Abrolag <abrolag@...16...> wrote: > A point I would add is that I always put an 'invisible' rectangle > around components that I have defined, that has zero thickness lines > of no colour, and is an *exact* multiple of the grid size. The whole > object is then grouped. This makes it far easier to precisely align > them, and also makes it practical to keep a file that is a library of > such components for later re-use. This reminds me of an idea that could be recycled: Electronic circuits as blocks. Fit all of your compenents to the same sized invisable square. Draw the connections to the midpoint of the sides of the squares. Then when compenents are placed against each other, they connect. Of course, this is only suitable for simple circuits, but it would be possible for a program to analyze the SVG file and interpret the circuit, possibly even generating Javascript for a suitable viewer to simulate the the operation. -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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Inkscape on Windows
by Peter Hillier-Brook 26 May '06

26 May '06

I recently had to remove a virus (actually hundreds) from a friend's machine by kicking his hard disc back to the stone age. As I'm not yet able to convince him of the merits of Linux, I had to re-install Windows ME and I thought it would be good to introduce him to Inkscape. As is probably well known to everyone other than me, this is apparently not possible because of GTK+ requirements and the installation failed. However it didn't fail tidily and the first indication that something was wrong was when I tried to start the apparently installed application. Obviously I needed to un-install the package, but couldn't do it easily because there was no entry in the Control Panel|Add or Remove Programs table. In consequence I had to clear the Inkscape components manually, including the Registry. If some versions of Windows are not supported I would have expected the Windows installer to check its environment before creating directories, Registry entries, Icons etc.? Do I need to raise a bug, or is this issue already known? Peter HB

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Re: Grid questions.
by unknown＠example.com 25 May '06

25 May '06

> I've not quite grasped how the grid works (it helps a lot!), but I'm drawing > some schematics and I need millimetric precision (literally), so I need each > square to be precisely 1mm2 and the nodes to snap to them... Now the > "problem" I have is that I don't quite understand what the "adjust distance" > attribute of the grid does and to what value set that. Any help will be > appreciated. I've recently been using Inkscape for schematics / block diagrams, which involved a lot of grid work. It sounds like you are referring to the "Snap distance" field on the "Grid" tab of the Document Preferences. As far as I have found, this value is the maximum distance the cursor must be from a grid point before it will snap there. e.g. if you have a 1x1mm grid, and snap distance is set to 0.25mm, then if you have the cursor in the centre of that grid square, it will not snap anywhere. To make sure the cursor will always snap to the nearest grid point, snap distance should be at half of the grid spacing value. (It doesn't seem to make any difference if it is larger, so I just set all three values to the same). Also, for schematic work, I have found that it is best to turn off the "Snap bounding boxes to grid" option, because with this on, horizontal and vertical lines will snap in three ways: first one edge will snap to the grid, then its centre line, and then the other edge. Ken

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batch command using potrace
by unknown＠example.com 25 May '06

25 May '06

hi there. I would like to convert a batch of bitmaps into vector graphics using a set potrace command. Any help in identifying the switches would be really appreciated. I am using inkscape v.41 thanks steve

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Re-download SVN stuff I broke?
by Michael Moore 25 May '06

25 May '06

Slightly OT perhaps, I downloaded the Inkscape SVN a few days ago, and have been poking at it to try to understand it, and managed to break some stuff. I'd like to download the latest version again, and just overwrite my changes. Is there an easy way to do that? I'd rather not download the whole thing again. Thanks, -- Michael Moore ------------------------------- www.stuporglue.org -- Donate your used computer to a student that needs it. www.ubuntu-utah.org -- In Utah? Interested in Ubuntu? Come join us.

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Grid questions.
by Thetargos 25 May '06

25 May '06

I've not quite grasped how the grid works (it helps a lot!), but I'm drawing some schematics and I need millimetric precision (literally), so I need each square to be precisely 1mm2 and the nodes to snap to them... Now the "problem" I have is that I don't quite understand what the "adjust distance" attribute of the grid does and to what value set that. Any help will be appreciated.

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output filter not recognized
by Black Fire 25 May '06

25 May '06

I'm running Inkscape 0.43 on Windows XP SP2 I have attempred to find whatever log file Inkscape might be writing, but can not find any such log files, so I do not know what is happening. Is there a command line option that turns on logging relavent to extensions? I am trying to write a custom SVG output filter. I started by making a copy of the svgz_output.inx extension. My extension just does nott not appear in the Save As dialog. I do have Perl installed. I use it for other purposes. It is in the PATH by default, so any application should be able to find it. I have paired down my INX file to a very simple test: <inkscape-extension> <name>Extension Test Output</name> <id>org.inkscape.output.test</id> <dependency type="extension">org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape</dependency> <dependency type="executable">perl.exe</dependency> <output> <extension>.test</extension> <mimetype>text/x.test</mimetype> <filetypename>Extension Test(*.test)</filetypename> <filetypetooltip>Extension Test</filetypetooltip> <dataloss>FALSE</dataloss> </output> <script> <command reldir="path">perl -e "print join(' ',@ARGV)"</command> <helper_extension>org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape</helper_extension> </script> </inkscape-extension> Any idea why this isn't even appearing? Or at least how I can get usable error messages to help me find out? -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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