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OSX 10.12 problem
by Girilal Baars 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Hello list! I am completely new to the list and to Inkscape, so apologies for some very basic questions. I had some trouble installing via terminal, but finally it seems it worked. However – I just can’t find the actual app! I assume it is called Inkscape and should be located in the Applications folder. Searching my computer doesn’t turn up any file called Inkscape. I feel like I may have missed a really basic trick:-) Any help seriously appreciated! Thank you Girilal Baars Sweden

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0.91.1 pre0 available for testing
by Maren Hachmann 25 Jan '17

25 Jan '17

Hi everyone, the Inkscape 0.91.1 release is scheduled for ~ mid February (schedule may change!). For testing purposes, Bryce Harrington and Eduard Braun have made the pre0 (beta) prerelease source code and 7z Windows packages available on the Inkscape website at (scroll down to bottom of page): https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions/ This prerelease version introduces an automatic fix (which can be deactivated via command line argument) for some of the line-height problems encountered in Inkscape 0.92. It also fixes some crashes, untranslatable strings and typos, and adds a couple of translations. For more info on the changes, see also https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/0.92.x (relevant revisions: 15301 to 15340) Please only use this prerelease for testing purposes and report issues in the bug tracker at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape Regards, Maren

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svg to emf conversion is still buggy
by Dr. Sören Textor 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Hello Converting an svg to emf still seems to be buggy (I just tried inkscape-0.92.x-15325-win32.7z <http://download.tuxfamily.org/inkscape/win32/inkscape-0.92.x-15325-win32.7z> ). Attached you'll find the input svg and the result emf. This is a screenshot of the resultig emf file using "save as emf": As you can see there are white borders on the right and the bottom of the image. And no: most of the time the width of the bordes is not the same in x and y direction. Is there any way to get better results? Or do you know any freeware to crop emfs (without pixelating)? Best regards, Sören Textor

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issues with Arrange > Polar Coordinates
by brynn 22 Jan '17

22 Jan '17

Hi Friends, I was just answering a forum question about creating a clockface, and I used the Polar Coordinates dialog. I found that if I draw a circle, then type out the numbers, then choose Object's Rotational Center and First Circle (or 2nd), then select all, then click Arrange, all the numbers are placed at 3 o'clock. I found that if I move the circle before clicking arrange, it makes the feature function properly. Should I make a bug report? Or is this already a known issue? I searched LP without finding any similar report. But often I might not know the proper terminology (and recently I found the wiki was being used for bug reports (for gradient mesh)) so I just ask before I make a bug report, just in case. I'm on Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit, Inkscape 0.92, 64-bit. Another issue, which is a little bit nit-picky, but still important, imo. For some time, I couldn't figure out what object was being referred to in "Object's bounding box" and "Object's rotational center". Is it the object I am drawing (such as a clock face)? It can't mean the circle, because further below in the dialog, it says "circle" (and if it meant circle, it would have said 'Circle's rotational center'). But after a lot of clicking around and trial and error, it seems it refers to the numbers on the clock face example. If that's the case, it should be "Objects' bounding box" and "Objects' rotational center". If they had been properly written, I would have understood at once that the objects in question are the numbers (or whatever objects are being arranged around the circle). Should I make a bug report about that? Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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Mesh gradients: Polyfill available
by Maren Hachmann 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

Hi everyone, Tav has published his polyfill for mesh gradients! (A polyfill is a piece of javascript code that supplies functions to browsers that they are lacking. They are usually used, if a web designer/developer wants to use some cool new feature, that doesn't work in some browsers, or doesn't work in older browser versions.) You can find his article (and the code for download, it's licenced GPLv3 or later) at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/POLYFILL/MESH/mesh.html Regards, Maren

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Ubuntu ppa now with 0.92
by Maren Hachmann 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know that Alex Valavanis has updated Inkscape's stable Ubuntu ppa at https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable for the 0.92 release, so you can now install / update to the latest version on Ubuntu and derivatives via package management. Instructions about how to add a ppa to your software sources can also be found on the web page linked from above. Have fun drawing! Regards, Maren

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Hilfe
by gruhler 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

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Settings as command-line options?
by Christoph Raab 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear fellow Inkscapists, thanks to the "Larger" option for icon sizes in the 0.92 version, more of the icons are now usable on my laptop's high-DPI display. Using an external monitor, that makes them too large of course, and changing the setting means starting Inkscape, going into the preferences, and restarting. Since everything else works fine, I didn't want to try compiling with GTK3 enabled since it's marked "experimental". But can I give these these icon size preferences as an option when starting Inkscape? Then I could just start a different script depending on what monitor I'm using. Of course it would be ideal if that's already an option, since then I could eventually switch to a binary distribution. But I don't mind compiling it myself either, if it's something I can add in myself. Does somebody know how this could work? Best, Christoph

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Data-visualization extension ?
by Pierre Massat 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Dear all, I know I should be sending this to the dev list, but I'm not a member and I'm feeling lazy. In Illustrator there's a tool to import data in a spreadsheet, and create basic charts from that. It's very handy for people who do data-visualization. I would think that Inkscape is just as good as Illustrator for tweaking existing svg charts (colors, text, layout, etc.). But due to the lack of this tool Inkscape currently requires an extra step to create the charts with another application (e.g. the R project for statistical computing). I looked at tutorials to create extensions. I think that the logic could be quite easily implemented (i.e. calculating scales, displaying the shapes). But there doesn't seem to be a spreadsheet widget for the UI, which makes it a no-go if users can't input a few simple numbers manually. Any idea how difficult it would be to create this extension ? Cheers, Pierre.

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Fill between strokes
by Robert Funnell 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

I've been trying to figure out how to use the 'Fill between strokes' path effect in 0.92 but I can't figure out what sequence of operations to use, or what the 'Link to path' and 'Select original' buttons are supposed to do. I've searched for instructions or tutorials without finding anything that matches what I'm seeing in 0.92. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you. - Robert

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