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Movable Chain
by Hans Carlson 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

I'd like to create a movable chain of sorts... I'm not sure how or if this is possible with inkscape (0.91)... There seems to be lots of tutorials that show how to create a chain using Pattern along Path, the problem is, once the chain is created that's the end of the tutorial. I need to go a step further and actually move/manipulate the chain without deforming the links or changing the length of the chain. Maybe the "Pattern along Path" examples are completely wrong for what I want to do. To put it another way, take a real physical chain... 10' long, sitting on the floor. I can move the chain around, pull on one end, push the chain in the middle, shape it into an S curve, form a circle with the chain, etc. All the while, the individual links are exactly how they started -- they haven't been stretched or bent or deformed in any way. And while the actual length of the chain can very a little bit it's limited by how much slack there is in the individual links. Now, I want to do the same kind of thing in inkscape. I want to create a line long enough to hold exactly 60 circles, 20px in diameter with 5px space between each circle. Then, and this is the important part, I want move and reshape this "chain" around the canvas, just like I can do with a path composed of lots of nodes. But, I don't want the circles to change shape. The space between the circles can change a *little bit*, but should be limited... like the links in a real chain. I'm very new to both vector graphics and inkscape, so I'm not sure if what I'm trying to do is easy, difficult or impossible. I would appreciate some enlightenment.

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inkscape 92.1 screwing up svg
by Gary Hawkins 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

HI, I am trying out inkscape 92 and downloaded 92.1 for windows 10 I just spent over an hour manually tracing a file I was hoping to use on my digital cutter - but it seem inkscape has changed the svg lines to an image - as useful as a chocolate fireguard or teapot - and I don't now how it did it but effing annoying!!!! Steps I did I loaded in an image with the design on I manually traced the outline, using black stroke for cutting and red stroke for any folding (non cut) lines I moved the traced lines to a new layer above the current one turned off the eye on the cut lines layer moved the actual image to the centre of the page locked the image layer opened the eye on the cut line layer selected the svg lines and at the bottom of the screen it say it's an image if I go into view>outline my svg lines show and a whwite square with a X - so it HAS changed it to an image so that was a waste of couple of hours as I now have to start all over again. and it WON'T be using inkscape 92!!! in fact inkscape 92 might well be dumped off the system as it's useless if it convert svg lines to images for no reason. NOT IMPRESSED and before anyone asks, I cannot use trace bitmap as that gives double lines and I need single lines and inkscape does not have a centre line trace. Gaz

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maximized window extends beyond screen area 0.92 (bug?)
by brynn 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hi Friends, I almost posted a bug report on this, but on 2nd thought, maybe it should be discussed whether it's a bug or not. I'm not sure if this is going to be an Inkscape bug, or something about Windows os. But I've never seen this in any other program, and I never noticed this in Inkscape before 0.92. When the Inkscape window is maximized, a small strip of all 4 edges of the window extend past the edge of the screen. Screenshot: https://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/inkswin.jpg It particulary is a problem for the bottom edge for me. That's because I keep my taskbar auto-hidden. So if my mouse strays to the bottom, the taskbar comes up, and then I can't even see the status bar at all. Then I have to wait for it to go back down. So for example, if I want to use the zoom field and spinbox in the bottom-left corner, it's really hard to do. If I want to use the Style Indicator in the bottom-left, you can see that the bottom of almost half of "Stroke:" is beyond the edge. And "Fill:" is overlapping the palette scrollbar. Compare that to the....I guess it's called restore size window. You can see that all of "Stroke:" is showing, and there's even some space below that, like a buffer, before the edge of the window. In the maximized window, you see the toolbar buttons and snap control bar buttons are justified to the edge of the screen, with no space between them and the screen. But in the restore size, you can see there's a buffer there, before the edge of the window. The top, left and right edges don't cause me any touble. But the bottom edge is problematic. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, and this is a 15 inch laptop screen, non-touch, lcd, 1366 x 768 resolution. Should be reported? Thanks, brynn

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Inability to update a Windows installation
by Robert Funnell 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

On the Inkscape download/windows/ page it says 'exe and msi installers are equivalent but not compatible (i.e. one can not update the installation of the other)'. This seems to imply, for example, that a new msi installer can update a previous msi installation. However, when I try to install using the msi installer, I get a message saying 'Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue', and the existing version needs to be removed before installing the new version. This happened before for 0.91-x64.msi -> 0.92.0-x64.msi and has just happened again for 0.92.0-x64.msi -> 0.92.1-x64.msi. This is under Windows 7. Is this behaviour expected? - Robert

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SVG Questions and Inkscape Forum
by PipingDesignCentral . 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Is it OK if I post an SVG-related question both at http://www.inkscapeforum.com AND here? Paul

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Resizing an SVG
by Kai Hendry 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hi there, Given an SVG that seems bounded to 100x100 which looks small when embedding into a Web page, how do I alter the SVG from Inkscape to make it take 100% of the space? E.g. https://s.natalian.org/2017-02-16/Compute_AWSLambda_LambdaFunction.svg I did try a few things in the Document Properties without success. Scale seemed to move the object around instead of actually scaling the graphic. I am using Inkscape 0.92 as packaged by Archlinux. https://s.natalian.org/2017-02-16/inkscape.png Many thanks,

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Inkscape 0.92.1 now available
by Bryce Harrington 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

The Inkscape project announces an update to its 0.92.0 release, bringing important bug and regression fixes, updated translations, and improved documentation. Download 0.92.1 packages from: https://inkscape.org/en/download/ Inkscape 0.92.1 is a stability and bugfix release. Below lists the main changes. For a more complete list, see: https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+milestone/0.92.1 == Regression fixes == * Text: baseline-spacing related issues with regular and flowed text in legacy Inkscape SVG files (Bug #1655483 and others). * Text: Default baseline spacing stored in relative units is always converted to document units (Bug #1645016) * Path effects: Crash on ungroup if group contains elements with path effects (Bug #1657591) * Clipboard: Pasting a path effect from clipboard fails (Bug #1656093) * Clipboard: Fix copy&pasting of groups which contain elements with path effects (Bug #1656527) * Selection: Node tool can selected objects on locked layers (Bug #1656141) * Clones: Critical warnings with clones and symbols (Bug #1653184) * About screen missing for several UI languages (Bug #1659426) * Selection: Missing transformation handles after reset of rotation center (Bug #1657874) == Important bugfixes == * Bitmap images: Crash when opening files with invalid image links (Bug #1660142) * Bitmap images: Fix path separators in relative image links (Windows) (Bug #1659347) * File import: Failure to open CDR/Visio/WPG files from paths with special characters (Windows) (Bug #1656763) == Translations == * Catalan: Tutorial translation ("Basic") added * Czech: UI translation updated * English (GB): UI translation updated * French: UI translation updated * French: Man page, Readme and Keys & mouse reference updated * German: Man page and Keys & mouse reference updated * Icelandic: UI translation updated * Italian: UI translation updated * Latvian: UI translation updated * Russian: Tutorial translation ("Tracing Pixel Art") added * Russian: UI translation updated * Spanish: UI translation updated * Slovak: Tutorial translation ("Tracing Pixel Art") added * Slovak: UI translation updated * Ukrainian: UI translation updated == Documentation == * Shortcuts: Add shortcut '7' for cycling through path effect parameters in node tool (Bug #1656713) * Shortcuts: Add new Shift+I shortcut to keys and mouse reference (Bug #1644609) * Man page: Add new --no-convert-text-baseline-spacing command line option (Bug #1661811) == Known issues == * DPI Change: Dialog needs better explanation of available options (Bug #1659229) * DPI Change: Provide command line options for batch-processing legacy files (Bug #1659489) * DPI Change: known issues with 'Scale elements' option (Bugs 1653230, 1653230, 1653236, 1654342, 1654796, 1654880, 1654903, 1655005, 1655053, 1660228) * DPI Change: Default grids in documents created with Inkscape 0.91 don't scale correctly (Bug #1653893) * Renderer: Artifacts in Gaussian blur effects with default quality settings (Bug #1656383) * Node editor: Deselecting selected nodes of complex paths takes a long time (Bug #1652100) * Fill and Stroke: HSL color selector may show corrupted colors, defunct 5th slider (Bug #1635982) == Help Support Inkscape == We are already at work both on another bugfix update (0.92.2) targeted in a few months and a future development release (0.93) with more fundamental changes to the codebase. If you wish to track either of these developments, you can learn more at: https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions/ The Inkscape Project thrives due to your support. We are a volunteer-driven community built from thousands of contributions of time, skill, and funds, to create a powerful open source tool that is made available for free to everyone in the world. We invite you to join our community and participate in helping advance Inkscape towards new objectives. Come help us chart out the new directions that Inkscape needs to take! Inkscape is created *by* the community *for* the community. Your donations also help further Inkscape's mission. You can donate to Inkscape's general fund, or target your donation to support our SVG Standards work or Hackfests. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join Inkscape at: https://inkscape.org/community/ Become a donor at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ Download Inkscape at: https://inkscape.org/download/ Watch our showcase at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1hxXt9U4c --------------------------------------------------------------------

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editing gradient mesh on fill vs stroke
by brynn 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi Friends, I was just about to make a bug report, because it looked like as soon as I applied a gradient mesh to a stroke, it would break the mesh I had just applied on the fill (and vice versa). But at the last minute before I posted, I noticed some buttons on the control bar that I had not noticed before. Why do we have to click a special button to be able to edit the mesh? Why can't we just select the object and edit, like with everything else in Inkscape? There must be some reason? I see that by clicking both buttons, and leaving them engaged, we have normal expected behavior. But I'm still curious why it's made like this. Also, I wonder if having both buttons enabled should be the default? Thanks for comments, brynn

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Inkscape 0.92.1pre2 (release candidate) now available
by Bryce Harrington 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at: https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions The release is: 0.92.1pre2 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10661/inkscape-0.92.1pre2.tar.bz2 We are now in final freeze prior to release. Barring any last minute issues, 0.92.1 will be identical to the above tarball except for the version number. We'll let things settle for a few days and hopefully finalize the release this weekend. == Translations == Translation work is done. Please hold off on further updates until we're ready to start work on 0.92.2. == Future Releases == 0.92.2-targeted bugfixing work can begin on the 0.92.x branch once the 0.92.1 tarball's been cut, probably this weekend. A schedule will be established at that time as well, targeting a 0.92.2 release in April. A 0.92.3 release sometime around July seems likely. I'm hoping to continue with subsequent point releases on a roughly 2-3 month interval, so users can depend on the 0.92 series as a 'long term stable' (LTS) product. Work towards 0.93 is already underway in Inkscape's trunk repository. In order to modernize Inkscape for ongoing maintenance, there are several large transitions we need to undertake, including a move to Gtk3, re-engineering the Mac OS X installation packaging, introduction of C++-11 code constructs, dropping of our legacy automake build system, migration of the project to git, and more. We had elected to hold off on these transitions for 0.92 so that release could focus on long term stability first and foremost, with 0.93's focus being on taking the more aggressive steps to move Inkscape forward. I am hoping a 0.93 release can be achieved within the calendar year, though much work remains. Assistance with testing is invaluable and I hope many people will join in following the trunk codebase; however, I know that building Inkscape can be a challenge, and we lack nightly builds on a few platforms, so I may attempt some form of interim snapshot preview release this summer to enable some broader testing before we're too far through 0.93's development cycle. Bryce

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gradient mesh on stroke and fill are opposite
by brynn 11 Feb '17

11 Feb '17

Hi Friends, I want to put a mesh gradient on both the fill and stroke of an object. All the nodes of the fill, and all of the stroke are the same color (a medium shade on the stroke and lighter shade for the fill. The only thing that changes is the opacity or alpha. Wherever the nodes of the fill have higher opacity, I want the nodes of the stroke to have lower opacity. So let's say for example (using a linear gradient as an example) the fill goes from 10% on right end, to 30% on the left end. Then on the stroke, I want 30% on the right end and 10% on the left. Hhmm, there seems to be a bug (or something). I'll make a separate message for that. But my question is: What do you all think is the most efficient way to accomplish this? Can it only be done manually, or is there some extension or maybe even filter which can accomplish it a little faster? Maybe a blend mode? Thanks for comments :-) brynn

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