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Reminder about writing a tutorial for Inkscape filters
by Shlomi Fish 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Hi Tavmjong, you wrote on inkscape-user: > On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 17:11 -0600, Brynn wrote: > > Hi Friends, > > For a long time I've been trying to learn how to create new > > Inkscape filters. I mean starting from scratch, not just building on > > existing filters. I've been able to do some very simple things, but my > > efforts usually devolve into one at a time, trying every option available. > > By sheer chance, I sometimes end up with something that might be useful. > > It would be so very helpful if someone could write a guide, which > > explains the basic concepts. I think I've finally managed to work out how > > the Filters Editor works. But I'm missing the basic concepts which would > > help me make decisions about 'what to do next'. > > I have contacted people who I know have created filters, who know > > how to do it, but without success in finding the info needed. And I > > thought about adding this to the Community To-Do List page. It's a lot > > like the need for a guide to writing extensions, I guess. But for some > > reason, it seems to me like more of a request for a tutorial, and that's > > not exactly what that page is for (I don't think). Although if it seems to > > the website team like it's appropriate, I can see to adding it there. > > But otherwise, I thought I'd just make a request to the user > > community. Can anyone either volunteer to write such a tutorial? Or > > otherwise point me (and everyone) to some resources for learning how? > > > > Thank you very much :-) > > Some time ago I started a blog post on how designing a "fabric" filter > effect but never finished it. If you can remind me in a couple of weeks > I can try to get it finished (I'm on vacation at the moment). > > Tav > So this is a reminder for you to do it, per your request. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman Larry Wall can understand the Perl code he wrote last year. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .

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Creating a book cover.
by John Culleton 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

There are lots of topics I need education on in this task but let me start at the end and work backward. I will import a file into Scribus and produce a file in pdf x/1a:2001 format using a particular icc profile that limits ink coverage particularly in rich black situations. Now considering all the objectives, cmyk presentation of colors being paramount, what file format is optimal being saved from Inkscape 0.91 and imported into Scribus 1.5.0. I see three candidates: svg, pdf, and tiff. I'll be asking a similar question on the Scribus list. Many of the gurus on the lists are fluent in both programs. -- 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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Latest version?
by John Culleton 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

My overnight compile run showed version 14341. Is that the latest? -- 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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Arrow heads colored
by Dr. Bernhard Kleine 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

Do I miss anything of a new development? The problem is very old in Inkscape: when one wants to color an arrow, the head remains black. Is there any proposition how to change the color of arrow heads. I like Inkscape very much but this is anoying since the problem is old. I use Inkscape 0.48 on Windows 7. Regards Bernhard

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A problem editing text.
by Wollenberg, Kurt (NIH/NIAID) [C] 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Hello: I am currently editing some .svg figures created in R and cannot seem to get the text in the figures to be recognized as text. Double-clicking on the text doesn't switch to the text objects cursor. When I select a piece of text, change to the text-object cursor and hover over the text I do not get the expected blue outline indicating Inkscape recognizes the characters as text. I can ungroup the text to give individual characters, which Inkscape is telling me are "objects of the type Symbol". Because this seems to be a recent development I'm wondering if my recent system update could be part of the problem. I recently updated to Mac OS 10.10.3 and am running XQuartz 2.7.7. When I go back to R-generated .svg files from before my upgrade I cannot edit the text in these files either, though I'm pretty sure I could before. Does this seem to make any sense to anyone? Have any of you out there encountered similar problems trying to edit text under Mac OS 10.10? Cheers, Kurt Wollenberg, Ph.D. Contractor - MSC, Inc. Phylogenetics Specialist Computational Biology Section Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) OCICB/OSMO/OD/NIAID/NIH 31 Center Drive, Room 3B62 Bethesda, MD 20892-0485 Office 301-402-8628 http://bioinformatics.niaid.nih.gov <http://bioinformatics.niaid.nih.gov/> (Within NIH) http://exon.niaid.nih.gov <http://exon.niaid.nih.gov/> (Public) Disclaimer: The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives

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Update for Gimp plug-in Export to SVG
by Jabier Arraiza 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Hi to all, I just update the plug-in http://registry.gimp.org/node/25049 from Erdem Guven. New features in .md The code is here because registry.gimp.org is locked: https://github.com/jabiertxof/gimp-export-to-svg @Erdem I could transfer the git branch to another GitHUb account All the best.

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Trace Bitmap dialog does not appear
by Brynn 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

Hi Friends, I've been trying to help someone on InkscapeForum.com. They report that the Trace Bitmap dialog does not appear for them, since they installed 0.91. I've worked through every possible scenario that I know of, where a user can't find a dialog. (There have been a lot of these messages, since all dialogs became docked in 0.91) But in this case, the dialog still does not appear for them. And no one else has joined the discussion, with other ideas. We're hoping some advanced Inkscape users or maybe even developers could review the thread, and offer advice. Or maybe you'll need to ask them for supporting documentation, to file a bug report, so you can investigate further. http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19214 Thank you very much :-) brynn

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Trace Bitmap oddity
by Brynn 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

Hi Friends, Another situation where I'm not sure if this is how it's supposed to be, or if it might be a bug. I opened the Trace Bitmap dialog, and left it open while I did other things, even in other files, so when I came back, it would still be usable, without having to close and re-open the file. I had dragged it almost completely off the canvas, to be out of the way. (I normally keep it undocked, so it doesn't stretch the docking area.) So when I was ready to use it again, I dragged it back on to the canvas, and the Preview area is showing an object that's selected in another file! I always have wondered why having Trace Bitmap (and some other dialogs) open in one file, makes it open for all files. But I assumed it would only be functional in the file from which it was opened. Anyway, just in case it's a problem :-) Thanks, brynn

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status bar reports different font/text size
by Brynn 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

Hi Friends, I just noticed something that's different in 0.91. I searched for bug reports, but did not find. But now that I'm subscribed to this list, it seems better to report here, than make a bug report, since I often seem to make duplicate reports. When I set some text to be 18, the status bar tells me it's 22.50. Set to 16, status bar says 20, etc. Is it a bug? Or is there a reason? Whatever the reason, the size the user chooses should be shown in the status bar, imo. This is Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit, on Windows 7, 64-bit. Also occurs in 0.91, 64-bit. Does not occur in 0.48.5. Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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Seamless Pattern extension updated to V0.5
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

Hi to all. I just commit the updated extension to trunk. 0.91/0.48 users can get it from here: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1358/ Improvements: Cleanup and better script for he helper text, thanks to Maren. Cleanup of layer names to easy use it. A transparency checkboard show in the pattern preview to notice about transparency in the pattern. Non unifrorm patterns not deform the default inkscape based pattern. All elements not necesary for make the patter are blocked, so is more easy work on it. All the best, Jabier.

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