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Ctrl + Delete issue for deleting nodes
by Brynn 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Hi Friends, Was there supposed to be a change for Ctrl + Delete in 0.91? I used to use Ctrl + Delete (pre 0.91) to delete a single node, when I did not want to preserve the shape. It essentially would leave a straight segment. Delete alone would try to preserve the shape. Now it seems that Ctrl + Delete does preserve the shape, while just Delete does something in between preserving the original shape and not preserving it. (And it really is not very close to preserving the shape at all. Actually Ctrl + Delete preserves the shape better than just Delete.) Here's the relevant section of the K/M Ref page: https://inkscape.org/en/doc/keys091.html#d0e4087 Attached is a convenient file for testing. The middle smooth node it the one I'm testing on. This is using 0.91, 32-bit (exe installer) on Windows 7, 64-bit. Technically, the following is entirely a separate issue, but somewhat related. In the K/M Ref page, it shows "click + click" to add a new node. However, I think it should technically be "double-click". Click + click with the Node tool simply selects the 2 nodes on either side of the mouse. It takes a real double-click to add a node. (This has to do with the speed of clicking.) It does say "double-click" in the fine print, but I think the bold print should say "double-click". I'll be glad to write up bug reports for either or both of these, if they are indeed bugs. Thank you very much :-) brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Choosing an Open Font for Inkscape "Draw Freely".
by Susan Spencer 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

My vote is #54 Mrs Shephards, because it looks great with the Inkscape icon. http://www.opendesignstudio.org/inkscape/samples/draw_freely_font_list.html… - Susan

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The Story of Tommy Trimble - animated Inkscape SVG's
by Phil Shapiro 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

For those who might be interested, I've uploaded to YouTube a narrated and animated children's story I wrote -- The Story of Tommy Trimble. I hired an illustrator and animator to draw the graphics using Inkscape and animate the SVG's using the Animatron.com web site -- which is in some ways a "primitive Adobe After Effects/Adobe Flash." Here is the video. https://youtu.be/JdYINJp64XA I'm delighted with how this turned out. And here is a short screencast from the animator, Taylor Jansen, explaining some of the process she used to bring the SVG's to life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCAMtcQXew Thanks for sharing these links with any youth or adults you know who are interested in using Inkscape for drawing animated stories. In some ways, the animations from Animatron.com look like Jib Jab animations -- at least to my eye. I don't know the folks who created Animatron.com, but I'm very grateful they created this neat web creative tool. You can follow them on Twitter, too, at https://twitter.com/animatron Phil Shapiro Washington DC For some of my other animated children's stories, see -- The Great Ping Pong Ball Experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCFMM95XJMg (created using Adobe Flash) An Ordinary Mother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4reitjBTlI (created using Adobe Flash) -- Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@...2324... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens thru gentleness."

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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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