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Announcing Inkscape Testers community
by Bryce Harrington 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hi all, As discussed a few weeks ago, we'd like to form a new community focused on testing of Inkscape. If you are interested in helping Inkscape in ways other than coding, this may be the place for you. Thanks to rejon's fix to wiki, we now have a place to collect information related to testing of Inkscape: http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TestingInkscape An inkscape-tester mailing list is also available for you: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tester There are many ways to test inkscape. Already, many people have contributed greatly to inkscape by simply reporting issues they discover during ordinary use. The Inkscape Tester community will seek to push beyond this by doing more aggressive, focused testing. Our community's goals will include the following long term goals: * Show that Inkscape is fully SVG compliant with all SVG specifications. * Give developers confidence that if bugs are introduced to the codebase, they will be identified and reported to them swiftly. * Ensure Inkscape's files can be loaded into all other compliant SVG software, that Inkscape runs equally well on all platforms, and that Inkscape can be used easily with a range of other open source desktop applications. * Prove that Inkscape's usability is best in class. * Track Inkscape's performance and help motivate its improvement to become the fastest, lightest weight, and most efficient drawing application available. These are ambitious goals, but through testing we can help pave the way for them to be achieved. If these sound like goals you feel like helping to achieve, please join in building a new Inkscape Tester community. http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tester Bryce

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Wiki!
by Jon Phillips 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

http://wiki.inkscape.org/ is our new wiki location. I updated on the website. It redirs to: http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl Please help me find any place on the site and in our documentation that refers to the old one. It works! Thanks again to fd.o and anholt who are awesome! * Michael you can add what you wanted to add now... For memory sake, it is hosted under the create.freedesktop.org project...in a folder called wiki_inkscape Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...895... IRC: rejon@...896... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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Gradient fills not exported to postscript or EPS?
by Kinsley Turner 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hey-ho, I exported some diagrams to postscript, then converted these to PDF with ps2pdf under Linux. (very easy, and works well). But I noticed that anything with a gradient fill loses the fill completely. I figured that perhaps the PDF was borken, but even just firing up ghostscript (gv file.ps) shows the same result. I didn't use any transparency in my gradient stops. If you want to test for yourself, create a document with a simple gradient filled shape. Export to PS or EPS, then view this (or convert to PDF and load the sucker into acrosplat.) You'll get an empty shape! Is this a known issue, or have I missed something ? thanks, -Kingsley PS> Any suggestions as to a workaround ? Please consider our environment before printing this email. WARNING - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please delete and inform us by return email. Because emails and attachments may be interfered with, may contain computer viruses or other defects and may not be successfully replicated on other systems, you must be cautious. Westpac cannot guarantee that what you receive is what we sent. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email by Westpac, please contact us immediately. It is also important to check for viruses and defects before opening or using attachments. Westpac's liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. This email and its attachments are not intended to constitute any form of financial advice or recommendation of, or an offer to buy or offer to sell, any security or other financial product. We recommend that you seek your own independent legal or financial advice before proceeding with any investment decision. Westpac Institutional Bank is a division of Westpac Banking Corporation, a company registered in New South Wales in Australia under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Westpac is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority and is registered at Cardiff in the United Kingdom as Branch No. BR 106. Westpac operates in the United States of America as a federally chartered branch, regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Westpac Banking Corporation ABN 33 007 457 141.

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text-to-path not working
by Tim Reeves 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I'm using Inkscape 0.42 / WinXP and I can't get the text-to-path tool to work. I downloaded some text-to-path example svg files and I can see the result, but I can't do it myself. Any ideas? Thanks.

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arrows on paths -> setting colour ?
by Kinsley Turner 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi-ho, I've got some beautiful arrows on my inkscape-drawn network diagram, but the arrowheads always stay black! Is it possible to colour them ? How? -kt (my apologies for the belowed) Please consider our environment before printing this email. WARNING - This email and any attachments may be confidential. If received in error, please delete and inform us by return email. Because emails and attachments may be interfered with, may contain computer viruses or other defects and may not be successfully replicated on other systems, you must be cautious. Westpac cannot guarantee that what you receive is what we sent. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email by Westpac, please contact us immediately. It is also important to check for viruses and defects before opening or using attachments. Westpac's liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. This email and its attachments are not intended to constitute any form of financial advice or recommendation of, or an offer to buy or offer to sell, any security or other financial product. We recommend that you seek your own independent legal or financial advice before proceeding with any investment decision. Westpac Institutional Bank is a division of Westpac Banking Corporation, a company registered in New South Wales in Australia under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Westpac is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority and is registered at Cardiff in the United Kingdom as Branch No. BR 106. Westpac operates in the United States of America as a federally chartered branch, regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Westpac Banking Corporation ABN 33 007 457 141.

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Vector programs and svg
by Karol Krenski 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi list, I need to send files from inkscape to be printed on a callendar. I can see already that gimp opened gradients a bit different from inkscape. I don't have an easy access to Illustrator and Corel Draw, or whatever else they use in poligraphy. The question is what is the best way and best format to send them the files? I know ps lacks transparent gradients, which I use in the pics. svg would be the best (what's the 'inkscape svg' vs 'plain svg' thing in the save dialogs?) but never seen svg opened in Adobe or Corel. Would instructing them to install inkscape solve the problem? Is inkscape ready for poligraphy? In the worst case I will send them png images... Karol

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imports cdr?
by Adrian Dusa 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Hi, I'm a newbie on Linux and I want to use only open-source software. Not only I switched from Win to Lin, but I want to give up on Corel Draw and start using Inkscape (which in my opinion is the best open-source replacement). Is it possible to import Corel Draw files? I know it's a proprietary format, I just hope some solution could be found. If not, what other format should I export from Corel in order to migrate my files to Inkscape? TIA, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Arhiva Romana de Date Sociale Bd. Schitu Magureanu nr.1 Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/

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Patterns
by David Gurr 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

I'm new to Inkscape, so if this is a dumb question please be gentle with me ... Is there any way of having predefined patterns available for a drawing? Here's my scenario: - I have a room plans drawn in a CAD application - I generate SVG by printing through the SVGmaker print driver - I'd then like to be able to apply patterns to objects in the room plans without having to import each object and then convert it to a pattern If there's no intrinsic way to do this in Inkscape at present, am I right in thinking that it should be feasible to pre-process the SVG file and include the appropriate pattern definitions within it before I open it in Inkscape? Thanks Dave Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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put [objects] on path ..
by Jay Vaughan 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

hi all, i'm using inkscape to create prototype user interface elements, and one thing i'm trying to work out how to do is 'put objects on path', where i have a grouped list of objects (say, 100 rects) and i want them to individually be 'put' on a path.. so that i can, say, draw a curve, and then 'conform' the rect-group of my object to the path .. sort of like 'put on path' for text, only for rect objects instead. i can't, however, quite work out how to do this .. is there a way to take a large number of rects, and constrain their 'bottom edges' to a path using inkscape? something obvious i'm overlooking, perhaps .. (i don't want to use text, but maybe thats a way to do it ..) -- ; Jay Vaughan

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printing on a win printserver
by Stefan Fuhrmann 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

Hello all, I'm using kubuntu on my desktop and have here a win printserver in the lan. In kcontrol is the printer successful created and is ready to work. I tried "smb://...." in the print dialog of inkscape but this don't work! My question is how can I print over the win print-server? what is the correct command? tia stefan

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