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vector-effect: non-scaling stroke
by m .h. van der velde 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi all, I’m playing with SVG content generated outside Inkscape that uses the ViewBox property. I’m experiencing two problems there, can somebody maybe help me with that? 1) It seems like inscape ignores the ‘non-scaling stoke’ vector effect. My view box is 30 x 60 (no units) large, the stroke width is 1px. But is seems like Inscape interprets it as 1 view box unit - and draws the stroke way to thick. 2) The same seems to apply to text. The font size seems to be interpreted as view box units, no matter what unit I define for the font-size (pt, mm, px) Also, the interpretation of the font size seems to differ between browsers and operating systems! Sometimes rendering the font way to large and sometimes way to big. And, related to 1) and 2), I noticed when saving a SVG from Inkscape, that Inkscape doesn’t define any unit but the SVG’s work fine and accurate. Even if I define a box to be 100mm x 100mm. Is there a ‘conversion’ between mm and ‘units’ going on somewhere. Is there a convention how units in SVG correlate to ‘real world’ dimensions such as mm or inches? Thanks for your help! Maarten (Btw, I would love to mention the website that generates these SVG's, but I do not know if it’s appropiate to do so?)

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Creating flow diagrams with Inkscape
by W. Martin Borgert 04 Jul '15

04 Jul '15

Hi, in the past, I created flow diagrams (e.g. https://xkcd.com/627/) using Dia. While Dia is a marvellous program for such kind of diagrams, it is quite limited in its design and layout capabilities. Now I'm looking into Inkscape, but I encountered some problems: I draw a create a rectangle and place a text object inside and align the text object horizontally and vertically with the square: +‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾+ | Ask someone | | for help | +_____________+ Later on, I change the text: +-------------+ | Ask someone | | for help | | or give up. | +-------------+ Unfortunately, now I have to re-align again. Is there any way to do this automatically like in Dia? Also, I would like to adjust the height of the box accordingly. If this is not possible out of the box, but would it be possible to write a Python script/plugin to do it? Can Inkscape run a plugin automatically e.g. on every text change? TIA & Cheers

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How to do this?
by Perry Kappetein 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

I am following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwOYO9cAows and I can't get it to work. As soon as I remove the fill (so it turns blank) and apply a Stroke, I don't get the outline. Idk what I am doing wrong, but I cannot get this to work in 0.9.1 I am trying to put text in a half circle Thanks Perry

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Multiformat Palette Collection
by Igor Novikov 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

Hi all, sK1 Project released multiformat Palette Collection compatible with a wide range of graphics applcations: sK1, Inkscape, GIMP, Scribus, Karbon, Calligra, LibreOffice, CorelDRAW, Corel PhotoPaint, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Xara Designer, Xara Web Designer etc. We hope the palettes may be useful for graphics design. All the files are into the Public Domain. So they may be used for any purposes. Palette Collection is available on following link: http://sk1project.org/palettes.php Our team would appreciate any comments and suggestions about collection. -- Regards, Igor Novikov sK1 Project http://sk1project.org

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Pen, Pencil behavior w/shape option
by Brynn 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

Hi Friends, I've come across some surprising behavior and I'm not sure if it's intended or not. ("surprising" to me, in my permanent learning mode :-D) When the Shape option is Triangle In or Out, on the Pen/Bezier control bar (Pencil/Freehand tool too) and the mode is set to anything except Spiro Spline, the path automatically has the Power Stroke LPE applied to it. It used to be Pattern Along Path. And when the Shape is set to Ellipse or From Clipboard, it still is PAP. Is this intended? If so, I wonder if "Shape" as the title for that dropdown list should be "Path Effects" or something to indicate that it's much more than just a "shape" that you're about to draw? Thanks for clarification or comments. (I'm on Windows 7, sp1, 64-bit, Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit (exe).) :-) All best, brynn

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Quick Editor Needed
by Martin Owens 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Dear Users, The inkscape website has a news article ready to go live about the hackfest that was developed by Brynn. She's currently taking a break from inkscape web work, but the article is almost finished so I need to ask for a user to step up and help get it over the line. It may just be as simple as reading the text and being happy with what has been written and getting it on the website. But the important part is that it's a user and not a developer. Because we'd like news to be user centric; for and by users and all that. If you're interested in helping out, please email here [on list] and I'll send you the last draft copy. Thanks for helping. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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PATH OUTSET
by asterof nighthawk 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Trying to use Outset on text But nothing changesI looked at you tube videos and it should be workingDid something changeThanks

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Object position forward
by asterof nighthawk 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

I have three objects on the pageIf one is forward and I need it to go behind another one that was create first, how do I do thatI can not locate a selection like send to back or bring forwardThanks

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transparent graidents
by asterof nighthawk 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

when ever I create an object and add a gradient to itthe gradient seems to make the object somewhat transparentHow do I keep that from occurring Thanks

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Improvements to Kaleidoscope from "Rotate copies LPE"
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Hi to all! Now the "Kaleidoscope" option in "Rotate copies" LPE became to "Fusion paths" and don`t need a 360 degree rotation. Here are a video on action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 In my youtube chanel there is more old kaleidoscope videos to get biger idea. The branch is: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/copy-rotate-lpe-improveme… Regards, Jabier.

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