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Russian question in answers section
by Maren Hachmann 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hi everybody, is there anyone who could potentially help answer a question asked in Russian (I think it's about printing, if my Cyrillic reading abilities don't fault me) in the answers section on launchpad? https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/402755 Don't forget to subscribe yourself to the question to receive any answers ;-) Thanks a lot! Regards, Maren

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looking for a forum host
by brynn 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Hi Friends, As some of you know, a small committee has been investigating the possibility of creating a new "official" Inkscape forum. All along, we've been pretty much expecting that OSUOSL would host it for us (since they already host our website and wiki). However, after an initial request (nearly 6 weeks ago), an updated request (~10 days later), and a 3rd contact (which was just last week) we still have no response from them. Assuming they would notify us, even if the answer is 'no', we think they are probably still working on it, and have not made a decision yet. But we're starting to think the answer might well be 'no', and we're starting to research about other ways to host this forum. So we want to tap the resources of the whole community, and ask if anyone knows of any either open-source-friendly webhost besides OSUOSL, or maybe some kind of program which might pay hosting fees for an open source project (in the event we can't find a free host). Note that the so-called "free webhosting" sites would probably not be acceptable, since they usually accomplish making it free, by loading the site up with advertising. One idea which might be feasible, is setting up some kind of crowd funding, to create the capital for some kind of money-market fund or something like a trust, whose income would pay the monthly fee. The reason why it's such a big "might" is because it would take some time for this fund to reach the point where it could cover the fees (and we hope to get the forum online much sooner than that would take). I've offered, and I'm sure a lot of people in the community might volunteer to pay or help to pay the fees. But that puts us in a similar situation which we're trying to remedy with this effort (i.e. a single owner potentially disappearing). I would consider this to be a last resort. Has anyone heard of any webhost that might meet our needs; or maybe some kind of program which would pay the hosting fees? Thank you very much, brynn (for the committee)

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Placement of render extension output
by Carlos Pita 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Hi all, I'm using the render/latex extension and the output is usually placed at some position of the drawing area pretty far from the image. I would like to know: i. If there is a way to shrink the drawing area so that it just fits the image without extending "infinitely". ii. If there is a way to control the position of the output of render extensions. iii. If there is some rationale behind the way the output is currently positioned I'm missing out. Thank you in advance -- Carlos

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measure curved lines for pap or scatter
by brynn 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

Hi Friends, Lately I've been attempting to use the Scatter extension to create a pattern along path type of effect, on curved lines. I use Scatter because it creates very little distortion while pap creates a lot of distortion around even mild curves. But there is something about the Scatter extension that doesn't work so well, and that's the offsets. Maybe it's because they are curves, that sometimes the normal offset behaves more like tangential, and vice versa. In any case, I'm trying to come up with some way to use it more effectively on curved lines, and I thought, if only there were some way to measure the curved lines, I could set the size of the pattern units, so patterned path perfectly fits the path (in whole pattern units). Of course I could make the calculations on something like a circle, because either I can remember the formula or look it up. I don't know any easy way to measure randomly curved paths in Inkscape. But I'm sure I'm not the only one who has run into this problem. I wonder if anyone has found any effective approach to this problem? I'd appreciate if you could share any tips! Thank you very much, brynn

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Italian plotter question in answers section - Help needed!
by Maren Hachmann 24 Sep '16

24 Sep '16

Hi everyone, please, if you speak Italian and know a little about how Inkscape works together with plotters, could you try and help answer an Italian-speaking user's question in the Inkscape answers section at launchpad? https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/401431 (remember to subscribe to the question, so you will receive any answers and thank you's ;-) ) Thank you! Regards, Maren

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by asterof 22 Sep '16

22 Sep '16

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Gimp to SVG · Batch Mode
by Jabier Arraiza 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Hi, I just commit a github to export images to SVG. Currently support: Batch mode (GUI and Command line) Export jpg, png,gif,bmp,tiff Export a XCF files (With nested layers, text as image or text...) https://github.com/jabiertxof/Gimp-to-SVG I hope you like it. Cheers, Jabier.

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"Permanently Banned from Forum"
by Philip Rhoades 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

People, Because of this mistake: "Re: Architectural drawings? Postby Lazur URH » Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:19 pm Off topic: Sorry for the missing post by philip_rhoades, seems I made a big mistake. Will try to fix it." I keep getting a message that I have been "Permanently Banned from the Forum" - I have been waiting for a quite a while now and have sent a number of notes to the Administrator but the problem has not been fixed - does anyone have any influence that can help get this problem resolved? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Making Screen Units and SVG Units the same
by Philip Rhoades 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

People, When I create a new image, I get a page that, in Landscape mode, is 800 units wide and 600 units high. I know that the origin for the SVG y-axis is at the top-left of the screen and the positive direction is down and the reverse is the case for the Inkscape y-axis and I am not concerned for this exercise about printed output. I just want the absolute units on the screen to correspond to the absolute units in the SVG file that Inkscape produces - is this possible? (I couldn't find anything in the program or Googling . .) Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Strange behaviour of Inkscape
by Ted Gould 11 Sep '16

11 Sep '16

Hello Henry, We have an Inkscape User mailing list that is a great place to ask about questions like this, I went ahead and CC'd it here. It is a great place for finding info on using Inkscape. I think that your problem here is probably related to the origin. Inkscape was designed with a Print mindset, putting the axis in the bottom left corner instead of a computer graphics mindset where it is in the upper left corner. SVG doesn't match that. So that means that Inkscape is translating the positions from the GUI to the SVG document. Good luck! Ted On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 11:15 +0000, Henry wrote: > Hello gentlemen, > > The Question is: How vertical coordinate calculated in Inkscape? > Is there a formula to calculate it? > > I want programarlly put the image at the corner of (0, 0) > coordinates. Actually my purpose is scale the 3406.svg to half width, > keep original height, and put the new scaled image at (0, 0), top > left corner or bottom left corner, never mind. Then I combine another > image at the right area and the two parts must be aligned. > > Please kindly refer the attached python script. > > Could you, Sir, give me any suggestion? > > Best wishes to you and your family! > Henry > > > > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 6:30 PM, Henry <deseaf@...12...> > wrote: > > > Hi Gentlemen, > > Sorry, excuse me. Maybe I should only report this to Mr. Ted Gould, > because I see Mr. Ted is the administrator of Inkscape project on > launchpad. > > Question: > How can I set the x, y of the Horizontal and Vertical coordinate both > to zero in Inkscape and keep the scale value at (0, path-height) of > matrix property in svg file NOT CHANGED. The scale value is the last > two number in matrix property, the x, y of the Horizontal and > Vertical coordinate will change automatically when I set the matrix > property to (0, path-height). On the other hand, the last two number > in matrix property will change automatically when I set the x, y of > the Horizontal and Vertical coordinate. > > Such behaviour of Inkscape troubled and puzzled me, please refer the > attachment. > > Could I report it as a bug or can anyone give me some explain about > it, any help will be great appreciation for me. > > Best Regards, > Henry > > >

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