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Website access in China - Fix applied
by Martin Owens 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

Dear Inkscape Users and Developers, After a lot of backwards and forwards between osuosl and fastly.net we have put in place a solution for our website's access in China. The problem was that our chinese visitors would be able to get the website, but not any of the media (or downloads) because of their great firewall. The solution was a CNAME from media.inkscape.org to fastly and some special dns configuration which I barely understand to solve the issue with access to fastly caches. (I copied and pasted what people said in two tickets and acted as a manual ticket express for the professionals) This solution is now live and I invite people in China to test the website and please report back if they can see any issues. (and also if they would like to translate pages) :-) Best Regards, Martin Owens

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erase?
by ToddAndMargo 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi All, Since I am running Scientific Linux 7.2 (RHEL clone), I am probably not running the latest Inkscape: $ rpm -qa inkscape inkscape-0.48.4-15.el7.x86_64 I tried Inkcape out to create a graphics for a tech manual. I managed to find everything I need in DuckDuckGo (Google without the spying). I was impressed. One thing I never figured out (and had to use GIMP) was how to erase a section. All the stuff I found on the web made no sense to me and I couldn't find things. Exactly how to I erase something? (I don't mind over writing with a while brush, as I did in GIMP.) Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Revolving / Bending a Rectangle Around a Cylinder
by Ole Ersoy 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi, I'm reviewing the following Adobe Illustrator Logo tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxF7xXt5Oss In it he uses a 3d tool to bend a rectangle around a cylinder. I was wondering if Inkscape has a similar tool / extension? TIA, Ole

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Hackfest: Summary
by unknown＠example.com 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi everyone, the Inkscape Hackfest in Leeds ended yesterday evening. A summary of the Hackfest activity is available at https://plus.google.com/+inkscape/posts/1xZ5aDyCMU2 Many of the Inkscape developers who attended the Hackfest will also be attending the Libre Graphics Meeting in London (starting tomorrow, see http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2016/ for more info). There, they will meet up with users, user interface experts and people whose code Inkscape is using (in the form of shared libraries). You can still join them there, it's not too late ;) Thank you all for your support for the Inkscape project, Kind regards, Maren

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More Hackfest Updates!
by Maren Hachmann 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi again, the Inkscape developers have published a summary of their work on Hackfest Day 2 in Leeds here: https://plus.google.com/+inkscape/posts/ENoe5dPEYNe If you're curious how this translates into code, just take a look at the long list of new commits to the Inkscape development branch made since the Hackfest started (the commit messages may seem cryptic, but the shear amount should tell you something about how hard they're working!): http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/changes If you haven't yet, you might want to support their efforts and future hackfests by making a donation: https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/hackfest-2016/ Kind regards, Maren

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Bug report to EPEL on revision
by ToddAndMargo 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Hi All, $ rpm -qa inkscape inkscape-0.48.4-15.el7.x86_64 I requested from EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) that they update Inkscape. If anyone wants on the Cc: list, it is over at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326441 -T

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about spam?
by Brynn 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Hi Friends, I was just looking at a message that looks like it was sent to 3 Inkscape mailing lists. But it looks quite spammish. I'm just curious how spam in the list is handled. It *could* be spam only for me, that was made to look like it's from the Inkscape lists, to fool me. I don't know much about mail headers and such, but it does look like it was sent to the lists, to me. I won't say exactly which message, in case it's not spam. But how is spam kept out of a mailing list? Thanks, brynn

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First Hackfest update
by Maren Hachmann 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Hi everyone, for those who are as curious about what's going on at the Inkscape Hackfest in Leeds as I am, Inkscape's Hackfest hackers have posted an update at Inkscape's google+ page: https://plus.google.com/+inkscape Cheers, Maren

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screen shot?
by ToddAndMargo 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Hi All, $ rpm -qa inkscape inkscape-0.48.4-15.el7.x86_64 I take it there is no "screen shot" utility built into Inkscape. Just use GIMP? Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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PAP distortion
by Brynn 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

Hi Friends, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this. But I'm hoping someone might know some trick that I haven't heard (or maybe heard but forgot). Using Pattern Along Path LPE, where there's a sharp corner or tight curve, the pattern becomes distorted. Please see screenshot http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/PAPdistort.png. I've corrected some of it by adding nodes near the sharp points. See http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/PAPdistort1.png. Is the only solution to convert the PAP to path, and manually delete the misshaped circles, then replace with individual circles, at or around the points? Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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