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Several questions
by M G Berberich 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hallo, Is there a way to switch off the antialiasing of the canvas? Why I want to do so? My 450 MHz PIII gets very slow on complex drawing. Setting the magnification to »1:1« does not give the natural size, even though the X-Server has the correct dpi set (86dpi in my case). So where does inkscape take the dpi from? Can I change it? MfG bmg -- "Des is völlig wurscht, was heut beschlos- | M G Berberich sen wird: I bin sowieso dagegn!" | berberic@...505... (SPD-Stadtrat Kurt Schindler; Regensburg) | www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~berberic

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Survey data? Can this be done at present?
by Erik 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Can Inkscape plot survey data at present? What I mean is: Can we lay down a line A to B with a distance in say metres and a bearing relative to North vertical and plotted clockwise? And then a line B to C etcetera. The sort of data it would be valuable to plot are: Point Point Distance (metres or scaled) Bearing (angle clockwise in degrees from vertical) A B 12.5 25 B C 4.3 328 C D 16.7 85 D E 8.6 45.2 To do this we need lines to be drawn in terms of distance and angle rather than what appears to be the current X and Y positions of the point. Maybe this can be set at present. If so I cannot find it- Another use of this would be to obtain distance and bearing between two points from a map scan. Again a very useful result which may already be possible. Any help here? I seem to remember that at some very early stage in Inkscape this was possible.......sort of....but I cannot find it now. I'll put it in as a request but thought I'd ask first. Erik

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RE: [Inkscape-user] SVG Fonts
by Landon Blake 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

This is something I might be able to work on.....I've just begun learning C and GTK GUI programming, so that I can contribute to Inkscape development. Any idea how I might get started? The Sunburned Surveyor -----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of mental@...32... Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:42 PM To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG Fonts Quoting Landon Blake <lblake@...24...>: > Does Inkscape support SVG Fonts embedded within SVG documents? Not yet. We'd like to do it in principle, but nobody's gotten around to doing it yet, and we're still working out a lot of issues with non-SVG fonts anyway. -mental ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=ick _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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SVG Fonts
by Landon Blake 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Does Inkscape support SVG Fonts embedded within SVG documents? Has anyone created SVG Fonts with Inkscape? Is there any interest in an opens source SVG Font Library? Just Curious......... The Sunburned Surveyor

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GNOME 2.10 splash screen contest
by Bob Jamison 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Here is something that an Inkscape user might find of interest: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2168 Also, Gnoppix needs some graphics: http://www.gnoppix.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page So this could be a way for an IS artist to become famous! Bob

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web site proposals
by bulia byak 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I'd like to propose two things regarding the Inkscape web site. Volunteers are welcome: 1 Create an RSS feed for the main page news. 2 Create a new header graphic to replace the boring white "Inkscape" on blue. As a graphic app, we are starting to deserve something more sophisticated. The web site itself is OK, I don't think we need to drastically change the entire design (although suggestions are welcome), but the top panel is decidedly dull and pathetic. Show off your graphic talent! Send your submissions to the devel list for people to discuss. The best one (if the winner is not obvious, we may need to do a voting) will make it to the site. One technical note: the banner cannot be fixed width, because our site is not fixed width - so it must be either one piece for the top left corner or two pieces for two corners, with some flat color fill between them. The minimum screen resolution is 800x600.

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Inkscape.app for Mac OS X
by Aymeric GILLAIZEAU 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

I have succesfully built Inkscape 0.40-1 via Fink under Mac OS X 10.3 After I have moved to "~/Desktop/Inkscape.app/Contents" following the way explained for the Gimp.app The application lauches itself with a double-click and it is available there http://niwaconcept.free.fr//x11/Inkscape.zip But if it can be stored there that would be better. The file is 60 Mb do dwnload, and then 280 Mb for the software itself. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingMacOsX ____________________ PowerMac G4 400 Mhz 1 Gb RAM Mac OS X 10.3.6 Ubuntu Linux PPC 4.10

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import/edit non-svg ?
by stu seven 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Is there a way to import a drawing into Inkscape ? This would be a scanned drawing... nothing complicated, but what I want, of course, is to be able to edit it, or add color, etc, via Inkscape... is this possible with any format other than SVG and Inkscape ? thanks

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Getting arrowheads into pdf
by Steffen Glückselig 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hello, Since I use arrows in some of my diagrams and batik won't render them into the resulting pdf I am hoping that one of you fine guys could help me with a solution to this. Any ideas on manipulating arrows in a way that makes batik render them? best regards Steffen

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NEW: on-canvas gradient editing
by bulia byak 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Now in CVS: Gradient editing on canvas is now available, much more convenient and powerful than the old way of dragging gradient knots in the Fill&Stroke dialog. o Any number of selected objects can simultaneously display handles and direction lines for their linear and radial gradients (in the objects' fills or strokes). You can drag these handles directly in the drawing, to interactively adjust gradient positions. o Gradient handles can be enabled in the Node tool, shape tools, Text tool, and Dropper tool (on by default), as well as in Selector and Zoom tools (off by default). Use the Inkscape Preferences dialog to change this. o Any gradient handle, if dragged close to a handle of another gradient, will merge with that handle (drag with Shift to prevent merging). Dragging such a merged handle will adjust any number of gradients attached to it. To separate merged handles, drag them away one by one with Shift. o Radial gradients display handles in the center and at the ends of two radii, which allows you to move, rotate, squeeze, or stretch the gradient to form an arbitrary ellipse. Also, you can independently adjust the focus of the gradient; drag the central handle with Shift to separate the focus handle. o When dragged, handles will snap to the edges and the central axes of the bounding boxes of all selected objects (drag with Shift to prevent snapping). o Dragging with Ctrl will snap the angle of the linear or radial gradient to the user-settable angle increments (default is 15 degrees). The center of a radial gradient, dragged with Ctrl, will be constrained to horizontal and vertical movement relative to its previous position. When dragged with Ctrl+Alt, a handle moves along the gradient direction or its perpendiculars, allowing you e.g. to stretch or squeeze a linear gradient without disturbing its angle. Overall, this is a major usability milestone, something I dreamed to do since Sodipodi times. Gradients are one of the most widely used features in Inkscape, and now they are finally made usable (well, almost - see below). The old gradient position widget in Fill&stroke remains for now (and still works), but I plan to remove it as soon as the new on-canvas editing is sufficiently tested. I would welcome any feedback on the new feature. Next in my plans: A Gradient tool, which will allow you to actually create new gradients by dragging (at the moment you still need to open Fill&stroke to switch an object to gradient) as well as adjust most gradient settings in its controls bar at the top of the window. In that tool, the selected gradient handle will be moveable by arrow keys (with all the usual modifiers), and setting any color via Fill&stroke, palette, dropper, or Paste style will be applied to the selected handle's gradient stop (instead of the entire selected object).

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