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PDF Support in Inkscape
by Bryce Harrington 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hi all, I've been noticing a LOT of requests for PDF/PS support in Inkscape. Either export or import or both. I'm fairly certain that this is the #1 top feature need for Inkscape right now. Over the past year or so, I've been fishing around for a volunteer to implement this. But unfortunately I'm coming up dry. Ain't no one I can find with an itch to implement this, not on a volunteer basis anyway. However, there are a TON of users with this need. Some of whom, I'm fairly certain, would be willing to pledge some money towards it. Maybe a little, maybe a lot, who knows. I think if enough people pitched in funds, we could actually make this happen. This is one feature I think we as a community could just force through, by hiring some mercenary to attack and kill it for us, hardcore style. Can you all tell me what you think? I really have no solid idea if enough people would be open to this plan. Are you a user that'd be willing to pledge $100 or more towards this? Are you a developer that'd be willing to commit to doing this work for some $k? Or do you have some ideas on how we could make this need get met? Please email me and let me know what you think. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: [Inkscape-user] PDF Support in Inkscape
by unknown＠example.com 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Nicu Buculei wrote: > Bryce Harrington wrote: > >> >> Can you all tell me what you think? I really have no solid idea if >> enough people would be open to this plan. Are you a user that'd be >> willing to pledge $100 or more towards this? Are you a developer that'd >> be willing to commit to doing this work for some $k? Or do you have >> some ideas on how we could make this need get met? Please email me and >> let me know what you think. > > > How about this: we talked at OCAL recently about coloring books [1]. > Once Inkscape is able to create such a book, we put one on sale with an > addition of 1 or 2 USD to the price, all profits going to the person who > implemented PDF export. > I have no idea if this can generate a compelling sum of money (or if it > can generate money at all). > > If this works, i have other similar ideas, for example printing a calendar. > > [1] - http://openclipart.org/wiki/index.php/Coloring_Books > For making a coloring book, I would think our current PDF export via ps=>ps2pdfa would be good enough. Aaron Spike

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latex font
by roberto 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hello i was wondering if it is possible to insert some text, latex formatted, in a figure, like letters with super(sub)scripts or greek letters and so on... i tried to see the options 'text-font' in inkscape but the window options lets me only to change the text inserted in and not any other typesetting specials thank you very for any help -- roberto GNU/Linux, debian sarge 2.6.8-2-386

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help with printing in 0.43
by Michal Žeravík 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hi all, please help me diagnose my problem with printing in Inkscape. I've used "Print Direct" ( |lp ) and it's working before (<0.43). Never got "Print" function working. Printed graphics is about 30%. Please advice me how to diagnose/debug this problem. thx michal

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Forums
by Alberic Slegers 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

>Having to constantly check to see whether anyone's >posted anything new on the web forum means that most busy people >(particularly developers) won't read it. Most forum-systems have an email-notification function. >Maybe we could borrow the setup that ruby-forum has (RForum). It is >a web forum which transparently bridges with the ruby-talk mailing <list. Threads on the mailing list show up on the forum, threads on >the forum show up on the mailing list, and you can post from either >one. That sounds great. >One option would be for you to promote the existing forum to >drive usage of it higher. I have a better idea. You (or whoever is in charge of the website) put a link to this forum on the menu at the left. I doubt there is a better way of promoting it. >I'd strongly encourage you to get a real email client. Awww too bad, I only use Thunderbird. Which other one would you suggest?

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Forums
by Kodoichi 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

>Having to constantly check to see whether anyone's >posted anything new on the web forum means that most busy people >(particularly developers) won't read it. Most forum-systems have an email-notification function. >Maybe we could borrow the setup that ruby-forum has (RForum). It is >a web forum which transparently bridges with the ruby-talk mailing <list. Threads on the mailing list show up on the forum, threads on >the forum show up on the mailing list, and you can post from either >one. That sounds great. >One option would be for you to promote the existing forum to >drive usage of it higher. I have a better idea. You (or whoever is in charge of the website) put a link to this forum on the menu at the left. I doubt there is a better way of promoting it. >I'd strongly encourage you to get a real email client. Awww too bad, I only use Thunderbird. Which other one would you suggest?

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CRIME SCENE DRAWING
by Brian Cochran 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

I have complied an SVG library of crime scene symbols (all public domain). They are all in the margin around a canvas making it a single svg document. This makes crime scene drawing very quick and simple. Its sort of a computerized template that law enforcement can easily relate to. The drawback is that the file is large (approx. 4.5 mb). I would like to upload it and get some feedback. Any law enforcement feedback would be even better. If there are any suggestions on how to get this posted please let me know.

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bezir to yarn
by Martin Klaffenboeck 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hello! I'm new to incscape and vector graphics. I created a bezir curve for a Text (looks like hand written with some extras on the start and end, and should look like made of yarn. Now the curve looks fine to me (even if it is very thin at the moment). Now I would like to make it look like a real yarn, but with different colors. So I created a gradient for the colors I want to have. But when I use this, the text seems to be gradiented from left to right, but I would like to have it over my 'yarn'. So is it possible somehow to tell incscape to do Like my bezir curve is a yarn? Do you know what I mean? Thanks for your help. Martin

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: [Inkscape-devel] PDF Support in Inkscape
by Alexandre Prokoudine 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

On 12/1/05, John Taber <jtaber@...640...> wrote: > Will there be a WoC (winter of code)? This could be an ideal project for > master degree students and maybe make a great thesis - they could do: > 1) research and summarize all pdf <-> svg issues > 2) create a roadmap of priorities > 3) analyze approaches (cairo, converter, ....) > 4) implement 1 or more approaches > > Maybe OSDL members, others can help create/sponsor more student > internship projects ? http://dneary.free.fr/gimp_bounties.html Interesting reading on related issue Alexandre

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Windows hiding/Layer list
by Kodoichi 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi 1. Wouldn't it be more comfortable for us user to set up a message board on inkscape.org instead of a nerdy mailing list that fills up mailboxes with unwanted discussions? 2. I have been playing around with the Windows version. It's nice, but I'd like to see some features and changes: - When I have the document window opened in fullscreen, then open a dialogue window or similar and work on the document again, the dialogue windows disappear behind it. I've seen this behaviour on The GIMP as well and it's damn annoying. Would it be difficult for a coder to change it so the dialogue boxes and menus stay on top? - I mainly use Expression 3 for vector and really like that there is a layer window, so the user can easily choose and rearrange the objects. I haven't found out if Inkscape has this function as well, I have only seen that drop down menu at the bottom which is quite poor compared to Expression/Illustrator and other programs... is there an option to activate a box listing all the layers or is it planned to code something like that?

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