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Inkscape Borked :(
by Abrolag 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

I've just got around to updating my main machine from debian jessie to stretch (I only ever do this when a release freeze is well established) and it's fine for everything except Inkscape. Existing files are all over the place - especially where text is concerned, and trying to change a font in any way causes Inkscape to freeze. I tried to compile an older version but configure doesn't seem to recongnise libraries that are installed (yes I included .dev) or calls for ones that I can't find anywhere. debian has no fall-back system so it would seem the only solution would be to scrap the entire install and go back to jessie. This is something I *really* don't want to do. -- W J G

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The SVG blues
by Donn Ingle 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

Seems SVG is more and more invisible to the big companies. Here's sad tale of Amelia Bellamy-Royds's experiences with SVG and its seeming demise. (http://codepen.io/AmeliaBR/post/me-and-svg) I wonder how the Inkscape devs (et al.) feel about this. Could Inkscape not take a new route, perhaps bake-in some new features*, now that the SVG standards seem to be moot? * Multiple pages in one file — and export to multi-page PDFs. A real symbol system — within and *between *documents. Custom colours that don't rely on that fake gradient trick (And make them work between documents too!) Animation time lines. Output to gif, video and so forth. Perhaps to HTML5 Canvas with some js framework too. Scripting, Blender-style, right there in the app. In Python and JS perhaps. Opening of Gimp native files (xcf) into layers, perhaps. Use of 3D objects and materials, from Blender (say) directly in the canvas — some kind of OLE layer thing. I am sure there are many more. I think Inkscape could have, by now, matched what Flash, Freehand and Corel et al. had 20 years ago! It did not go there because it, honourably, stuck to the SVG standards. Inkscape is the best thing we have for graphic design on Linux (at least), but it's still way too primitive. Could we dare to think bigger? Start our own standard? Just wondering. Is this a disaster or an opportunity? /d

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SVG-AU meets May 11th in Sydney.
by MarkT 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

Nakama Sydney are hosting our next meeting in Sydney CBD! A short walk from Martin Place. Please enter the lifts before 6pm! Light refreshments available. Topic of the evening is the recent release of Sarah Drasner's book: 'SVG Animations From Common UX Implementations to Complex Responsive Animation' More details in the links: https://www.nakamaglobal.com/sydney https://www.meetup.com/SVG-AU https://area51.govirtual.com.au/SVG-AU#NextMeeting Hope to see you there! MarkT -----------------------------------------------------------------

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When to use onclick(evt) and when to use onclick(event)?
by Steve Litt 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

Hi all, Within a <svg> element in my HTML body, I can use onclick(evt), as exemplified below: ============================================================ <svg width="500px" viewBox="0 15 80 30"> <circle id=circ1 r="6" cx="10" cy="30" onclick="top.doit(evt)" /> </svg> ============================================================ I can change the "evt" to "event" and it still works, but if I change it to anything else, for example "e", it fails. Is evt some kind of reserved word within SVG? By the way, if an item in HTML itself (like a paragraph) has an onclick, you need to remove the "top." and only "event" will work. I have the rudiments of a clickable map using SVG, CSS and Javascript, and am starting to build it into something useful. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt April 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

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Clickable SVG map
by Steve Litt 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Hi all, I've read that, when making an HTML page with a clickable map (a map of the states in America, for instance), it's very doable in SVG. Has anybody done this? If so, did you need to copy and paste the svg code into the HTML, or were you able to work from an image imported with the <img src="mymap.svg"/> tag? Did you need to do something to tell the CSS in your HTML doc's head that you meant #rect1234 in the <css> tree? Does anyone know of a document that unambiguously tells exactly how to do it? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt April 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

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Clickable measurements
by Susan Spencer 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Use this for measurements On Apr 23, 2017 23:24, <inkscape-user-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: Send Inkscape-user mailing list submissions to inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to inkscape-user-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net You can reach the person managing the list at inkscape-user-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Inkscape-user digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Clickable SVG map (Steve Litt) 2. Re: Clickable SVG map (Martin Owens) 3. Re: Clickable SVG map (Victor Westmann) 4. Re: Clickable SVG map (Steve Litt) 5. Re: Clickable SVG map (C R) 6. Re: Clickable SVG map (C R) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:38:35 -0400 From: Steve Litt <slitt@...2357...> Subject: [Inkscape-user] Clickable SVG map To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20170424003835.552d6f01@...3217...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi all, I've read that, when making an HTML page with a clickable map (a map of the states in America, for instance), it's very doable in SVG. Has anybody done this? If so, did you need to copy and paste the svg code into the HTML, or were you able to work from an image imported with the <img src="mymap.svg"/> tag? Did you need to do something to tell the CSS in your HTML doc's head that you meant #rect1234 in the <css> tree? Does anyone know of a document that unambiguously tells exactly how to do it? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt April 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:58:27 -0400 From: Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Clickable SVG map To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <1493009907.13767.9.camel@...155...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I did this many years ago if's an interesting example for you: http://divajutta.com/doctormo/locomap/map.svg But there are lots of svg maps these days. Leaflet does a fairly good job of showing a map which can be constructed from svg paths, you can choose to have open street map tiles or not. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 00:38 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I've read that, when making an HTML page with a clickable map (a map > of > the states in America, for instance), it's very doable in SVG. Has > anybody done this? If so, did you need to copy and paste the svg code > into the HTML, or were you able to work from an image imported with > the > <img src="mymap.svg"/> tag? > > Did you need to do something to tell the CSS in your HTML doc's head > that you meant #rect1234 in the <css> tree? Does anyone know of a > document that unambiguously tells exactly how to do it? > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt? > April 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques > ?????of the Successful Technologist > http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 22:07:55 -0700 From: Victor Westmann <victor.westmann@...155...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Clickable SVG map To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <CAPOH7=amxU8mZw-EVLr3AbN1=vQ1cLWhO8uwLjHHaFtCQF-2iw@...156...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, This is really cool. Do we have a map sample on inkscape website? I mean... can we promote our tool as an app that does this? Do you guys think more people would be interested? On Apr 23, 2017 10:00 PM, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...155...> wrote: > I did this many years ago if's an interesting example for you: > > http://divajutta.com/doctormo/locomap/map.svg > > But there are lots of svg maps these days. Leaflet does a fairly good > job of showing a map which can be constructed from svg paths, you can > choose to have open street map tiles or not. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 00:38 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've read that, when making an HTML page with a clickable map (a map > > of > > the states in America, for instance), it's very doable in SVG. Has > > anybody done this? If so, did you need to copy and paste the svg code > > into the HTML, or were you able to work from an image imported with > > the > > <img src="mymap.svg"/> tag? > > > > Did you need to do something to tell the CSS in your HTML doc's head > > that you meant #rect1234 in the <css> tree? Does anyone know of a > > document that unambiguously tells exactly how to do it? > > > > Thanks, > > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > April 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques > > of the Successful Technologist > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------- > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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Snap Version 0.92.1, Extensions: ImportError: no module named site
by Daniel Johannsen 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

Hi, first let me say that this new effect "Perspective/Envelope" is totally awesome. I was waiting for this for a very long time! But with the latest snap installation, i am having trouble to run extensions. No matter if i try to run my own extension or the already included extensions, when i hit the "Apply" Button i get the message: "Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected. ImportError: No module named site" I guess that some paths don't point at the right location, e.g., the path to site.py. Maybe something is messed up with the snap and standard file locations? Is there a way to figure out, if my guess is right? Then where to change settings for the extensions to work again? (I am running ubuntu 16.10.)

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(no subject)
by sadiq h 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

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Changing default units to px?
by Christoph Raab 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

Hi everyone, is there a way to change the default units (for measurements, stroke widths. etc) permanently? I want to use px but need to change the setting with every new document. Best, Christoph

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Book cover template
by ink＠...1668... 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Long ago inkscape offered a perfect book cover template feature. I don't see it now. Can anyone enlighten me on why it disappeared? John Culleton

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