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Rounder Extension
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hi to all, I just made a new extension to round to a fixed decimal position some data in SVG. Currently it round optionaly: Nodes, with another optional check to move handles along Handles Stroke width Height Width Position X Position Y https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/7126/ Ping me if think some atribute important to add( ex:transforms, viewbox...) Cheers, Jabier.

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does this need to be reported or commented as bugs?
by Brynn 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Hi Friends, I've come across some wrong behavior that's new to me in version 0.91. I suspect it could be related to whatever is causing the behavior described in this old report of mine, which (I'm happy) is in progress: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/299362. The reason I think it might be related is because (a) objects are displaced, and (b) it only happens in Layer 1 of my default doc, which uses the landscape orientation. When I make a new layer (which is the trick to avoiding that bug) it doesn't happen. However, there is some new/different unexpected behavior in the new layer. It seems to me like these might be separate problems, but I'll have to leave it to you to decide. I just need to know (1) whether these things need to be reported. And (2) if the first problem is related to the old bug report, should I report this new behavior in a new comment? (It seems like if the bug is causing new behavior in 0.91, assuming it really is related, then it might be a clue to fixing it.) (just my simple sense of logic) First problem: To reproduce in the attached file: -- Draw a simple path under the bold red line, in Layer 1, with either the Pen/Bezier or Pencil/Freehand tool. -- Click Undo The path moves above the red line. You have to click Undo a 2nd time to actually get rid of the new path. 2nd problem: To reproduce in the attached file: -- Draw a simple path anywhere, in Layer 2, with either the Pen/Bezier or Pencil/Freehand tool. -- Click Undo The path doesn't move. But it also doesn't go away. You have to click Undo a 2nd time, to get rid of it. I haven't tested every single tool, but so far, it's on the Pen and Pencil tools that show this behavior. I think you might need something else from me....maybe my preferences.xml file??? Or do you need my default doc? Anyway, let me know whatever it is, and I'll send it :-) Thank you very much, brynn

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How 2 mask an arbitrary object with a grid of only whole smaller objects?
by unknown＠example.com 18 Dec '15

18 Dec '15

Hi, I'm moving over to Linux & Inkscape from Windows & Adobe. I'm working on learning the tools and methods in Inkscape. Got a lot of it figured out. Pretty similar actually. I do have a test case that I'd appreciate some help figuring out: Given an arbitrarily shaped object, how do I mask out a tiled pattern, using only complete tile objects? So for example, starting with (1) main object is a red, 8inch diameter circle (2) mask object is a black, 1inch square I want to mask (1) with (2), so I end up with a bunch of complete (no clipped, or partial) 1inch red squares on a grid, contained inside the boundary of the original 8 inch circle. I've figured out Tile Clones, so I can manually make a grid of mask objects larger than the original object. I guess I'd put together two layers -- one with the original and one with the mask later -- and intersect them. Is there a way to do this in (more?) automated fashion providing the sources only for (1) & (2)? Cheers, Jim

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Jessylink maximum layers.
by John Culleton 17 Dec '15

17 Dec '15

In your experience what is the maximum number of layers created in Inkscape for a jessylink application: 20, 50, 100? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Book layout, typesetting and Indexing Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html

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Trouble to save svg and export to pdf
by Bernhard Kleine 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Hi, I have a figure with 4 levels and different types of elements on these levels. the important part is a png image where I removed the background to have colour shining through. However I donot succeed in saving the svg file and exporting it to pdf: the png figure is not shown. Do you have any idea what triggers this behaviour? Other similar files are properly saved and exported. Enclosed are two screenshots to show what is shown in inkscape (1) and anywhere else (2), for example in windows explorer which is examplary for Acrobat and anyother program. You will notice that the next figure 127BK is shown properly, demonstrating that with the first figure there is something fishy. Thanks for your help Bernhard

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node sculpting behavior
by Brynn 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Hi Friends, When I first started using Inkscape, which was version 0.44, node sculpting had a different behavior than it has now. I want to ask if it would it be possible to provide the previous behavior, as an option, perhaps using key modifier, or option on the control bar? I'll try to describe, with attached screenshot (sculpt2.png). You can see that dragging the right end node, with Alt key results in the nodes wider apart in the middle, and closer together on the ends (no matter whether I dragged from the right or left side, the result is the same). I'm not sure exactly in which version this changed. But previously, dragging the same right end node would result in nodes wider apart, the closer they are to the node being dragged. Since I can't show an example, imagine it's the same right end node, and it would behave much like a rubberband...or elastic string -- stretched more near where the force is applied, and less on the other end. And so the nodes would be progressively closer together, the further they were away from the node being dragged. One thing I used to like to do, was find an end node of a spirogram. Select all nodes except the other end, then Alt + drag the first end, and it would unravel the spirogram from one end to the other. One of the first images I ever made with Inkscape is also attached, the unravelled spirogram. You just can't do that anymore, with Inkscape, afaik. To be honest, I loved that old behavior and used it a lot. I haven't found many uses for the current behavior. I guess it can make a good bell curve. But I think both behaviors are useful. Would it be possible to provide this optionally? If so, I'd like to make that a feature request. (Unless it already is??) Thank you very much, brynn

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Freezes when saving svg created with Chrome's SVG Crowbar
by Pierre Massat 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Dear list, I work a lot with d3.js to create charts and other visualizations, and I have to export static versions of them every once in a while. After searching the web it turns out that Chrome's plugin called "SVG Crowbar" (https://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/) is currently one of the most reliable tools for that. It works quite well indeed (except that any style written in CSS is not taken into account, which is fine). But after some editing in Inkscape, saving the file makes it freeze completely. I have no choice but to kill Inkscape manually. Does anybody know what goes wrong ? Cheers, Pierre.

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Offset LPE
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Hi to all. This is a mail about the "new" LPE offset I made with the help of the previous work of Liam P. White. in Join Type LPE and the Krzysztof Kosiński on new boolops code. The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfzvXD9jrAk This code is slow than previous (non lpe) with Livarot, I try to improve it but is slower. By the other side it bring to the user the ability to use non rounded join types on increment offseting. Any way I couldent full remove Livarot from the code want, is using to hadle nonzero fills and for simplify the paths. Not sure about the LPE, I spend a lot of effort improving it, but i couldent get it like Livarot one and think is a blocking problem to substitute SPOffset code like Mc- want, but maybe can be a first step to other dev... Another way can redone or mix it with Libarot but maybe is a back step. But if is not a problem, and while getting better result, we can do a LPE to offset like SPOffet do, allowing to remove SPOffset from the code. Also I hope could make join types diferent than rounded except extrapolated arc :(. Cheers, Jabier.

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problem (bug?) Wireframe Sphere extension
by Brynn 29 Nov '15

29 Nov '15

Hi Friends, I've just been experimenting with the Render > Wireframe Sphere extension, and found some unexpected behavior. Want to make sure if it's a bug or not, before I possibly make an unecessary report. Or maybe there's another place besides LP where it should be reported (assuming it's a bug)? Attached is a PNG export of what I see. These are the settings which produced it, although I tried several other radius values which also produced it. Lat = 8 Long = 16 Tilt = 0 Rot = 0 Rad = 145.0 Window 7, 64-bit, Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit (exe installer) So far, the trigger seems to be the Radius value -- over 100 px gives the unexpected result, and under 100 gives the expected result. I haven't tested with other options. But I could if it would be helpful. Should this be reported? Thank you very much :-) brynn

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trace bitmap on filtered JPG image
by Brynn 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Hi Friends, I was just playing around with a JPG, a filter, and Trace Bitmap. The filter is Filters menu > Image Paint and Draw > Posterize Basic. No matter what settings I use for that filter, for example Levels = 1 or Levels = 10 (which produce very different results) after I use Trace Bitmap, the result is identical to if I use Trace Bitmap with no filter at all. What gives? Doesn't Trace Bitmap "see" the filter? I can provide screenshots or examples, if necessary. Thanks for your help, brynn

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