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Complex Shapes, Flowing Text and Justification
by Ralph Bolton 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi, I'm a bit of a newbie to Inkscape, but so far am really impressed. It's one hell of a product, even though it's not v1.0 yet. As with all such projects, it's sometimes hard for us newbies to get to grips with things because of a lack of examples and documentation. Since I've been struggling for a couple of days, I thought I'd write up how to create complex shapes, flow text into shapes and get text to be justified. Clearly, for most users this isn't rocket science, but it might save another new user a bit of time. All the fun is at http://www.coofercat.com/wiki/InkScape (including, importantly, an SVG example). If the Inkscape community wants to use my example for anything, then by all means do so. Obviously, correct any mistakes or make improvements along the way! Cheers, ...Ralph Bolton _______________________________________________________________ Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at <a href=http://www.mail2world.com target=new>http://www.mail2world.com</a> Unlimited Email Storage POP3 Calendar SMS Translator Much More!

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justified text
by Michal Žeravík 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi all, I have prepared a poster in Inkscape, amazing work with great editor. But I desperately need to justify text on both sides. Is there any hack how to do that? Thank you very much. Michal

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Gradients and scaling
by Xavier PITEL 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hello, I am new to this forum and to Inkscape, and first I want to thank all the developers and volunteers who make this software (and open source as a whole) possible. Then, I have a question regarding gradients and scaling. I have made a picture using several gradients ( http://www.xp-internet.com/GradientsAndScaling.htm), but when I select all objects and try to scale up or down the whole image, the start and end point of gradients move when I keep the button mouse down, but seem to turn back to where they were before when I release the mouse button. So all the effects are lost and I have to manually adjust all gradients to have the original image back. Am I missing something, is there a way to move the start and end point of gradients while moving or scaling an image, or not? I have tried to make the image a plain svg, but its just the same. But at the same time, scaling it on the above html page with the Adobe viewer works, without damaging the image. ??? Thank you for your help. Xavier

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Getting text to scale down
by M Fitzgerald 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I've just started with inkscape. I have a document that I'm building in scribus which I want to illustrate with several SVGs. I've generated the SVGs and they look fantastic. However, for use in the scribus document they have to be scaled down. This messes up the text, which doesn't seem to want to scale down. What's the practical solution? malcolm ---------------------------------------------------- Catholic Financial Services Send and Receive all online Payments and Donations No Merchant Account Required! https://www.catholicfs.org/

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Re: details
by unknown＠example.com 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

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Export selection
by Brett McCoy 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I know I can do this to export PNGs, but is there a way to export/save selected objects in other formats (like TIFF or EPS). It seems I can only export an entire document... -- Brett ----------- Programmer by day, Guitarist by Night http://www.chapelperilous.net http://www.alhazred.com http://www.revelmoon.com

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[Fwd: [Linuxmovies-general] Special CinePaint Event!]
by Jon Phillips 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

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RE: [Inkscape-user] Node editing
by Hibbs, Phil 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Goshdarnit I never noticed that toolbar! Thanks. __________________________________________________ Phil Hibbs | Capgemini | Rotherham Technical Consultant __________________________________________________ This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Capgemini Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.

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Node editing
by Hibbs, Phil 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

I'd like to know a little more about node editing. Nodes have two handles, which can be dragged around to produce the desired curve. I have used Corel Draw in the past so I am familiar with this concept. What I don't understand is how Inkscape decides whether the handles should be symmetrical or not, and how I make them line up. Sometimes I find that the node handles are already locked to point in opposite directions, and sometimes they are independent. How do I change this? Most of the time I want to make them line up but change the lengths of the handles independently. I think this may be because some paths are created with the "freehand lines" tool, and others with the "Bezier curves and straight lines" tool. That's how I created my example: http://www.hibbs.me.uk/images/handles.svg One of the mid-line nodes has handles that move sunchronously, the other has independent handles (so the node can represent a sharp corner). How do I change one type to the other? I just edited the sodipodi:nodetypes property from cscc to cssc and that did it, it initially rendered as a sharp corner but as soon as I dragged a handle, the other one snapped to be lined up with it. So, all I need to do is count the number of nodes and edit the appropriate character. Additionally, how do I add nodes to the middle of a path? Is there a "reverse simlpify"? :-) __________________________________________________ Phil Hibbs | Capgemini | Rotherham Technical Consultant __________________________________________________ This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Capgemini Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message.

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Project status Aug 1, 2005
by Bryce Harrington 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

The Inkscape 0.42 release garnered a huge amount of interest, and are stats are reflecting it. We rose to the 3rd most active project of the week on SourceForge today. For downloads we reached 16th, for webpage views we were 10th, for project pages we got 21st, and for tracker activity we hit 4th. Counting all hits to *.sourceforge.net we hit 6th, which was up 68 ranks since yesterday. I have a suspicion we may be going up even a bit further over the next couple days. :-) There were a number of serious bugs found post-release, especially in the packaging, so a 0.42.1 patch release will be produced hopefully some time this week, as soon as resolutions to all the issues are found. Statistics Jun 1 Jul 1 Aug 1 ========== ====== ====== ====== Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 38 35 3 Total SF Page Views 1,935,964 3,797,037 4,452,437 Total SF Downloads 254,647 283,789 378,712 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 19,149 19,809 21,261 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 183 189 208 Lines of Code in src/: 374,180 376,319 389,945 Code lines 260,236 261,600 270,423 Comment line 67,136 67,724 70,478 Blank 53,443 53,651 55,698 Lines of Docs in doc/: 27,790 27,792 28,090 Lines of content in website: 42,490 42,700 44,483 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 26,729 28,525 34,890 Bugs open/total: 215/1223 196/1312 215/1445 Features open/total: 453/ 728 471/ 767 440/816 Patches open/total: 11/ 230 10/ 268 8/325 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 12,040 12,372 12,915 Inkscape-devel membership: 179 188 200 Inkscape-announce membership: 202 217 236 Inkscape-user membership: 248 258 276 Num Translations: 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.8 48.6 54.6

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