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Problems with Text export
by joshyc c 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi, i am drawing a picture b/w with some Text, Arial 12pt. The text is german and contains a word with double ll ( Schnittstelle). I save it as eps and convert it with gs to pdf. The problem is that ll does not render correct. The l's are to bold. Is this a Inkscape problem or a conversion problem. Working with windows xp so can't import into scribus. Greetings, Joshy

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Effects on Windows
by unknown＠example.com 12 May '05

12 May '05

It looks like the Win32 snapshot builds linked on the downloads page have been absent for the last few days. But Bob Jamison had one from May 11, 2005. I just tested it and Effects now work unmodified on Windows. Thanks Ted. On a related note can anyone tell me how to install XML::XQL::DOM with ActiveState Perl on Windows? It is required for the DropShadow effect, so it might be a useful bit of info to have hanging around in the mailing list archives. Aaron Spike

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[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-user] Gradient fills in EPS]
by George V. Reilly 11 May '05

11 May '05

bulia byak wrote: >On 4/26/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> wrote: >>George Reilly wrote: >>>I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. >>>Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill >>>is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and >>>Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS >>>convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, >>>so I suspect the latter.) >>> >>It's a limit of Postscript/EPS, or at least, a limit of the version >>we're using. It may have been added in later versions of Postscript. > >This is fixed in CVS some time ago, though the fix is not 100% (in >particular gradient only works on fill, not stroke, and does not work >on text until you convert it to path). I downloaded the 4/23 build from http://www.inkscape.org/win32-snap/ (the 4/26 zipfile is corrupt) and regenerated the EPS. The EPS file size went from 34K with 0.41 to 57K. The text (outline or fill) doesn't show up at all in Word 2003. There's just a blank area in the Picture object. The gradient fill shows up as a solid color in Photoshop CS. I assume Adobe include a first-rate PostScript handler in Photoshop. I've attached a zip of the SVG source. (Had to be renamed to get past SourceForge's filters.) -- Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle. -- Alexander Pope (Get Witty Auto-Generated Signatures from http://SmartBee.org) George V. Reilly george@...634... http://george.reilly.org/ Read my blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/george_v_reilly/

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problem with parasite cross over in translations
by unknown＠example.com 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi A few days ago, I've submitted small patch and Bulia has kindly commited it. This patch was focusing on /src/select-toolbar.cpp so that X, Y, W (idth), H (eight) strings become translatable. The problem is that now, in all .pot file, H can conflict with H (ue) of the color tab of clonetiler.cpp dialog. See the following extract of fr.po # Hue (in HSV) # Dialog item #: src/dialogs/clonetiler.cpp:2170 src/select-toolbar.cpp:424 msgid "H" msgstr "T" and the attached screenshots So I'm afraid my idea of having those strings translatable was not so good, and my patch, a dummy one... Maybe Arpad or another experienced translator has already faced the same kind of problem and knows a workaround (I hope). I apologize for the annoyance. Regards, Matiphas

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[stoet@...654...: inkscape to pdf]
by Bryce Harrington 10 May '05

10 May '05

----- Forwarded message from gijs <stoet@...654...> ----- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:32:28 -0500 (CDT) From: gijs <stoet@...654...> To: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: inkscape to pdf Sorry for not replying to the right thread, but this is in response to creating a nice pdf with inkscape. First of all, it is not straightforward! Second, the other user that suggested using scribus was right that scribus imports inkscape, but in fact it the svg can look quite differently than what it looked like in inkscape. So here is my solution: 1) Use the inkscape commandline commands to export to a png 2) Import the png in XFIG. 3) export the XFIG to PDF For example: inkscape $i --export-dpi=200 --export-png=all.png Save the stuff betwen "----" as "picture.fig" ---- #FIG 3.2 Landscape Center Metric Letter 100.00 Single -2 1200 2 2 5 0 1 0 -1 50 -1 -1 0.000 0 0 -1 0 0 5 0 all.png -16 1 12567 1 12567 9701 -16 9701 -16 1 ---- Now do a: fig2dev -Lpdf -c picture.fig > figures.pdf Now, you can automatize the whole thing in scripts to make a pdf file of a whole slideshow. Imagine, you have text file that contains a list of svg files, e.g. picture1.svg picture2.svg Now, you want to make a slideshow in pdf? Easy with a script. Make sure you have the xfig file ready, save the file as "inkscape2slideshow" or something like that and do a chmod 755 to make it executable, don't include the ---- ---- #!/bin/bash # inkscape cannot directly print gradients # a way around it is to export as png, import that # in xfig and then print # here is a script to print all files (all) to one big ps file A=`awk '{print $0}' list` rm -f allfigures.ps for i in ${A[*]} do rm -f all.png inkscape $i --export-dpi=200 --export-png=all.png #inkscape -w 1024 -h 768 $i --export-png=all.png fig2dev -Lps -c picture.fig >> allfigures.ps done ps2pdf allfigures.ps rm -f allfigures.ps rm -f all.png ---- Save your list of svg files in 'myslides' and the do: inkscape2slideshow myslides It will take a while, because a lot of stuff needs to be written to disk etc. You can decrease the dpi to decrease or increase quality. Of course, your computer must have installed bash,xfig,ps2pdf. But it works quite well and this is what I use to make my lectures. I can't wait for the day that it is simpler, and actually, I can't wait for the day inkscape has animation. Anyway, I think inkscape is a fantastic drawing program and I would like to use this opportunity to thank the developers for their hard work. Gijs ----- End forwarded message -----

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inkscape2pdf
by Gijsbert Stoet 10 May '05

10 May '05

For all of you looking for a program that can convert inkscape to pdf, I have made the script a little nicer. Just save everything starting with the line #!/bin/bash in a text file and make it executable (chmod 755). This works only on unix compatible systems, and you need xfig, ps2pdf and bash installed. Run this, there are some options: -p (portrait) -l (landscape) -d dpi (90 is default, higher looks better but is slower) Final argument is the filename of a file containing a listof inkscape svg files. The list can contain just one or a more svg files, which allows you to make a nice sideshow. Oh, btw, you can also use inkview, which is very nice, but it seems to ignore the color of the paper, if you set it to anything else as white. I don't know whether that is a bug or whether I did something wrong. Hope it works! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash orientation="PORTRAIT" DPI=90 while getopts pld: option do case $option in ( p ) orientation="PORTRAIT" ;; ( l ) orientation="LANDSCAPE" ;; ( d ) DPI=$OPTARG ;; esac done FILE=($*) FILE=${FILE[(($#-1))]} if [ ! -e $FILE ] then echo File $FILE does not exist. exit fi TMPFIG="tmp.fig" echo "#FIG 3.2" > $TMPFIG if [ $orientation == "PORTRAIT" ] then echo "Landscape" >> $TMPFIG else echo "Portrait" >> $TMPFIG fi echo "Center" >> $TMPFIG echo "Metric" >> $TMPFIG echo "Letter" >> $TMPFIG echo "100.00" >> $TMPFIG echo "Single" >> $TMPFIG echo "-2" >> $TMPFIG echo "1200 2" >> $TMPFIG echo "2 5 0 1 0 -1 50 -1 -1 0.000 0 0 -1 0 0 5" >> $TMPFIG echo " 0 all.png" >> $TMPFIG if [ $orientation == "PORTRAIT" ] then echo " -16 1 12567 1 12567 9701 -16 9701 -16 1" >> $TMPFIG else echo " 3 22 9715 22 9715 12566 3 12566 3 22" >> $TMPFIG fi A=`awk '{print $0}' $FILE` rm -f allfigures.ps for i in ${A[*]} do rm -f all.png inkscape $i --export-dpi=$DPI --export-png=all.png fig2dev -Lps -c $TMPFIG >> allfigures.ps done ps2pdf allfigures.ps rm -f allfigures.ps rm -f all.png rm -f $TMPFIG

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Printing in landscape
by wayne 10 May '05

10 May '05

I'm using Inkscape .41 and I'm not able to print in landscape format. Whenever I configure my HP laserjet1300 printer to print in landscape, it comes out in portrait orientation. I'm using Mandrake 10.1. Any clues as to what I can do? Currently, I'm rotating my images onto a portrait page. Thanks, Wayne

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[stoet@...654...: follow up on the inkscape to pdf]
by Bryce Harrington 09 May '05

09 May '05

----- Forwarded message from gijs <stoet@...654...> ----- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 16:00:42 -0500 (CDT) From: gijs <stoet@...654...> To: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: follow up on the inkscape to pdf I made one mistake in the previous mail regarding a script for making a pdf. If you want to use the script to make a slideshow using the inkscape2slideshow script, the file containing the svg filenames must be called 'list'. Of course, you can easily change the script. ----- End forwarded message -----

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stroke style and position
by Gezim Hoxha 09 May '05

09 May '05

Hi all, I'm new to this list (and to inkscape) so I first would like to congratulate and thank the developers and whoever contributed to inkscape. Here is my question: Say I have an object. And for this object I would like a border (i.e. stroke). How would I make sure that this border (stroke) is completely _outside_ the object and does not at all overlap with the object? Thanks for your help, -Gezim

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SVG to PDF?
by Claus Cyrny 09 May '05

09 May '05

Hi, I have a question: How do I convert an Inkscape SVG file to PDF? TIA, Claus

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