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Large EPS filesizes
by Craig Pearce 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi Trent, Thanks for the response. The SVG images I created (about 15) were all done in Inkspace, and saved into a single inkspace .svg file. The .svg is only 900KB... however when using inkspace to save each of the 15 images to EPS, they each take about 8MB. I'm not importing any raster images. I could export SVG images to PNG, then use imagemagic convert or gimp to go back to EPS however the resulting image is blocky due to vector->bitmap->vector process. I find it strange that an Inkspace-created SVG takes so much space in EPS when they are both vector based. Kind regards, JoeBlow Quoth Craig Pearce on or about 2004-11-15: > When I indivually place each image in the page, change > page size to match image size and print direct, I > choose various resolutions such as 72DPI, 300DPI etc. > The output filesize is the same no matter what DPI > setting I choose. PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript are vector-based formats, like SVG. Vector objects will simply be transformed, so the only change between DPI sizes will be the transformation matrix. PostScript can include raster images, but probably they also simply have a transform applied. > The issue is the size of the file, it is common for the > file to be 7MB which results in the latex-generated > postscript document being too large for me to email. Some suggestions are: * When importing raster images (e.g. JPGs), first reduce the resolution in e.g. the GIMP. * Look for ways to simplify the design of the vector parts. * You can import raster images directly into LaTeX, rather than going through Inkscape / SVG (the graphicx package). HTH -trent

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0.40pre3
by Ted Gould 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hey everyone, I'm pleased to announce that 0.40pre3 is now in Sourceforge for your testing pleasure. It seems that the major crash bugs are not present at this point, this may be the last pre-release. Get your bugs in now! https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Enjoy, Ted

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gamma-correcting SVG files?
by Ben Crowell 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi all -- I'm new on this list. It's very impressive how Inkscape is coming along! I have a large set of SVG files (665 of them) that I've exported from Macintosh Adobe Illustrator and am now hoping to be able to work on exclusively in Inkscape. (Bye bye proprietary software!) As part of the process, I need to gamma-correct all these files, since the gamma correction on a Mac is different from the one used on Linux and Windows. In the past, I've done this by taking the EPS output from Illustrator and munging it using a kludgy perl script I wrote. (I convert the figures from EPS to PDF, and include them in a book done in pdftex.) I'd like to be able to do this to the SVG source files now, and solve the problem once and for all. Can anyone suggest an easy way to do this? Can this be done in Inkscape, and, if so, can the operation be scripted? Or is there some other utility that can do it? As a last resort, I could look into writing a less-kludgy Perl script using XML::LibXSLT or something, but I'm hoping for an easier way. TIA! On a related note, it occurs to me that if Inkscape has a test suite of SVG files, some subset of mine might be a useful addition to it --- if so, let me know. (They're technical illustrations from a physics textbook.) For example, when a new release of Inkscape comes out, it might be a good workout for it to see if it can read in a bunch of files, and render them as PNG without choking or producing an empty output file on any of the inputs.

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"Art Tips for Programmers"
by Bryce Harrington 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

There's a post on Slashdot right now asking about "Art Tips for Programmers" with a link to the Open Clip Art Library. Add your comments here: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/016244&tid=152&tid=156&tid=4 Bryce

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Inkscape for Mac OS X
by M-Rick 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

There is no other way than fink to install Inkscape under Mac OS X ? Because I will not install 100 Mo of packages and binaries requested by fink only to be able to use Inscape .... There is really no one binary somewhere ??

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Large EPS filesizes
by Craig Pearce 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, I am using 0.39 and have an inkspace-generated SVG that contains several images that I want to include in latex as EPS. When I indivually place each image in the page, change page size to match image size and print direct, I choose various resolutions such as 72DPI, 300DPI etc. The output filesize is the same no matter what DPI setting I choose. The issue is the size of the file, it is common for the file to be 7MB which results in the latex-generated postscript document being too large for me to email. Perhaps I am using the wrong procedure to generate an EPS, either way, I'd like to have smaller EPS images :) Kind regards, JoeBloe

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Fonts and TextFlow
by Ed Donnelly 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi I'm new to Inkscape so forgive me if these are silly questions. I'm looking into using Inkscape to make a sprite based webcomic, but I've got a problem with some of the fonts I want to use. I've installed some fonts from Blambot (you can try some from http://www.blambot.com/dialogue.html as samples), but while they work with other Windows apps (like OpenOffice) they don't appear in the list of available fonts in Inkscape - they're just not there. While I was looking through the screenshots I found one which showed text being confined to a shape (http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.40-CVS-linux-flow-01…) but I can't work out how to do it. Can it only be done through the XML editor? If so how, and will it ever be made available through the front end? I'm using Windows 2000 and one of the snapshot builds from http://cortijodelrio.net/, though the fonts didn't appear with 0.39 either. TTFN, Ed

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Good news (but could be better)
by Alan Horkan 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Although Inkscape did not win this years Linux Journal Readers Choice Award in the best Graphics category it did get a mention as having received the most write in votes which bodes well for next year. Sincerely Alan Horkan Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org

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auto-increment object id's?
by Jay Vaughan 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

hey, i use inkscape a lot - it is my primary svg editor - and i'm very impressed with it. but there's one thing that frustrates me, and that is the way it handles auto-id assignment. ideally i'd like to be able to select a group of objects, set the ID property of one, with a -1 at the end, and have the rest all be enumerated based on the first one.. is there any way to tell inkscape to use specific id's for objects, and auto-increment properly? i've dl'ed the code and had a look at the sd-object "sp_object_get_unique_id" function, but it doesn't look to me as if theres' an 'easy' way to get it to handle auto-increments properly without majorly restructuring things .. anyone got clues? -- ; Jay Vaughan

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape for Mac OS X
by Paul Libbrecht 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Le 12 nov. 04, à 00:38, Alan Horkan a écrit : >> That would also mean provide XWindows by default (not the case). > I was under the impression that there was an official Apple supported > version of X11 that worked well (I believe they are even going to use > X.org) but I guess it is still an optional extra. It is an optional extra, just as the developer tools are also an optional extra which takes a lot of hard-disk space. But the latter are required to get anything fink. As I said, having Inkscape be in the stable branch of Fink would already be an immense help for joe-7-pack! paul

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