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Adding Fonts
by Landon Blake 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

I am running Inkscape on both Windows XP and Debian Linux. Is there a way to add fonts to the program? I couldn't see anything in the menus or help that discussed this. (Although I could have missed it.) How do you add fonts to Inkscape under the two different systems, and what font types/formats are supported? Thanks, Landon

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XML Editor Units
by Landon Blake 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

I finally got a couple of books on SVG and started to use the XML Editor feature in Inkscape. I've been using Inkscape for a couple of years now, but never messed with the XML Editor. I'm confused about one part of the XML Editor, however, and I wanted to ask about it. I usually have my documents set up to work with the units in inches. However, I noticed the XML Editor was using a different unit value. Why is there a difference, and what unit is the editor using? I'd like to use the same units in my drawing as are displayed in the XML editor. Thanks, Landon

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Re: excel document
by unknown＠example.com 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

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compilation problem on Ubuntu Warthy-Warthog
by Oguz Akyuz 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Although configure script does not give any errors I get an error during the make operation. The error starts with the following lines: In file included from ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp:21: ui/dialog/align-and-distribute.h:93: error: syntax error before `;' token In file included from ui/dialog/transformation.h:23, from ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp:34: application/application.h:51: error: syntax error before `*' token In file included from ui/widget/unit-menu.h:16, from ui/widget/scalar-unit.h:19, from ui/dialog/transformation.h:25, from ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp:34: Then follows a millions of other errors, but they might all be due the first error. I checked line 93 of align-and-distribute.h and it defines a Gtk variable. I have both gtkmm-2.0 and gtkmm-2.4. I appreciate any help on fixing this problem. Thanks.

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Text Background Color
by Bill Denney 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Hello, I am wanting to create highlighted text (i.e. have a background color). I've read that the SVG standard does not support this, so I was wondering if there were any work arounds possible like creating a rectangle that just matches the bounding box of the text or something like that? I'd like for this to be a dynamic solution (i.e. if I change the text I don't have to manually change the rectangle, too). Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Bill -- "All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." -- James Thurber

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important excel document
by unknown＠example.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

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Delivery failure
by unknown＠example.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

This is the mailer-daemon. I'm sorry to inform you that your message, addressed to dave@...1160..., could not be delivered due to the following error. *** E-mail address dave@...1160... is not known here. *** Please do not reply this email. Header of your message follows... --- header of your message --- Received: from lists.sourceforge.net (szenat-3.sze.hu [193.224.129.20]) by mf103 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B5B175D70 for <dave@...1160...>; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:13:12 +0200 (CEST) From: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: dave@...1160... Subject: hello Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:53:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0014_DDD1877C.34C201D0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <20051025161312.24B5B175D70@...1224...> --- end of header ---

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Inkscape thrashed my user account? Probably not, but...
by Christopher Wright 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

For the record, I don't think Inkscape *did* thrash my user account, but the problem occurred while I was using it and I thought it would be foolish not to mention it... on the off-chance that there was a connection. I was running the 200510151203 autopackage developer's build. I had selected a bunch of text and pressed the Alt+I key combination to make it italic. Immeditely on doing that, Inkscape disappeared (no error message, nothing). I also noticed that the wallpaper I'd set up on my account disappeared, and I couldn't load any new applications, nor could I exit my session. (In other words, the mouse could move around but it couldn't actually do anything else). I had to ctrl+alt+backspace to restart X, then I rebooted. After that, I was unable to log in to my user account -- after entering in my password, the login prompt would disappear, it would try to load something, then it would boot me back out to the login prompt. I logged into my root account and tried to figure out what happened. I have no idea what happened, to be honest, but it appears as though all user accounts were good and messed up by that crash. Creating a new user account from root and trying to log into that caused the same reaction. That last bit is why I'm pretty sure Inkscape didn't do anything. I was running it in my user account, which means that it shouldn't have touched anything anywhere else, right? So it's more likely that something else occurred when I hit that key combination, and it's only coincidental. Still, I wanted to mention it just in case... Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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.jpg modification?
by Patrick Roane 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hey folks, I have some .jpg files that a client sent me. I was wondering if Inkscape has the ability to: 1. import .jpg files 2. tweek the .jpg files ie. crop, fade, color etc. 3. does Inkscape have any adobe photoshope 'like' tools? Thanks- Patrick Patrick Roane Web design and development www.franklin-band.com Fox River Grove, Il.

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How to get source for and build libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
by Jakob Ilves 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Hello! First of all... Inkscape is a fantastic product. I'm a very enthusiastic user. I just got quite frustrated in my efforts to get the latest version working for me... so my apologies for being a bit... harsh in the text below. (um... and very long in my writing) I downloaded the inkscape-0.42.2-1.static.i686.rpm from the Inkscape download section. The RPM installed successfully (did not complain that there were any missing prerequisites). After the install "rpm -q inkscape" returned "inkscape-0.42.2-0". When I try to run inkscape I get the following message: inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I did a "find" on the harddrive and yes, there were indeed no libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 anywhere (not even any file with the string "pangocairo" in it). I see two problems with this: if there were necessary software missing, why did the RPM successfully install without telling me to install other required software? Obviously, there is some other RPM I need to install (or already installed which needs to be update) or some software I need to download the source for and build, and the RPM package shoud really have refused to install in the first place. Second problem: I decided to download the source for this libpangocairo library, only to find that it has no home page and even using Google in all possible ways, I still don't find any sensible "home page" from which I can download this. I downloaded and built both "cairo-1.0.2.tar.gz" (untar, ./configure, make, make install etc) and successfully built it and as well as the "pycairo-1.0.2.tar.gz" (untar etc etc). Still there is no libpangocairo available. And as I cannot find the homepage for this libpangocairo thing, I cannot find a safe source for any precompiled RPMs either. (oh my God... after reviewing I realized how long the next set of paragraphs became... and how much it sounds like criticsm... :-( ) Inkscape usability is of course an important aspect and it is good it is being worked on, but between the 0.41 and 0.42 I feel that Inkscape has made a major dip in another critical aspect namely "Inkscape installability". Suddenly there is a requirement for odd libraries for Inkscape to successfully install, libraries I cannot get hold of. I understand that in order for Inscape to be a high quality product, there is a need to base it on modern software libraries. However, I find it troubling that Inkscape seem to rely on software libraries which are so cutting edge that one has to almost break ones machine in order to build/install Inkscape. Is inkscape in each and every required library dependent on features that do not exist in earlier versions of the libraries? If it is, then there is no choice than letting Inkscape RPMs and builds have those (IMHO draconian) installation/build requisites. However, if Inkscape would work fine with the set of features (and yes, set of bugs) found in some less modern (but more easily to get installed) versions of the software libraries it depends on, then going for requiring the modern versions locks out a lot of users who run on Linux installations on which it is difficult to install those modern versions of Inkscape. Users who is not THAT savvy on hunting down, downloading and installing 10+ pieces of software (RPM or source) in order to get Inkscape to run. (I ran Redhat Advanced Server 3 before, and at time I encountered that installing Inkscape 0.40 required me to install packages which in turn had dependencies which at the end of the day required me upgrade sort of half of my RPMs!). Sorry for ranting and sounding negative, it's simply that I really, really love this piece of software and long for that moment when I can run around among friends and workmates and evangelize about how wonderful it is and what a fantastic graphics format SVG is etc etc.... so finding that I now and then get's locked out from using it in it's latest production release is very frustrating! It makes it hard to evangelizing about it, when installing it have rather draconian requirements. Yes, I know, this is a pre-production release and yes, I've not contributed a BIT to the project, not even assisted in building those static RPMs which I were encouraged to do so I should really keep my mouth shut... (or rather, my fingers away from the keyboard). I'm running Redhat Advanced Server 4. Think I mentioned that above BTW. And yes, Inkscape 0.41 is a lovely product. I'm certain that 0.42 is even lovlier and yes, I will eventually get it running for me (very, very, VERY eager about testing out the new user interface to curve editing!!) Best regards /IlvJa -- Jakob Ilves jakob.ilves@...1215... AIM ID: illviljans , Yahoo IM ID: illvilja

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