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building a team of Inkscape forum representatives
by Brynn 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hi Friends, I want to create a small team made up of representatives from all the Inkscape forums which are listed on the Community page of the website. (https://inkscape.org/en/community/) This could be useful for making certain announcements to a broader community of Inkscape users, only a fraction of which are even aware of the mailing lists. For example, it would be nice to have a message posted in all the forums, linking to the recent news items about the need for donations for Hackfest. (https://inkscape.org/en/news/2015/02/11/inkscape-developers-need-your-help/). For another example, to announce a world-wide drawing competition, perhaps such as the About Screen contest, or others which may be created in the future. In the past, since I only understand English, I've run into problems trying to figure out who the admins are, for the non-English forums, and problems communicating, even if I can identify the admins. But that was before I joined this user list. And so now, maybe I can reach out on this mailing list, and begin to build this team. It would involve very little efforts or time/energy, on the part of these volunteers. Such representatives would receive very occasional emails from me, with the links and info that needs to be posted. We just need 1 person from each of the forums listed below, who would be willing to receive these email messages, and post the info in new topics on the appropriate board of their forum. It doesn't have to be the admin of the forum (but it could be). Any registered member who is allowed to post messages could do the job. InkscapeForum.com - I can post here myself Inkscape Community - same here InkscapeForum.de (German forum) - we already have a volunteer for this forum Inkscapeforum.it (Italian forum) Open Draw Community (another German forum) LinuxGraphic.org's Inkscape board (French forum) Russian Inkscape forum (Russian) Inkscape Google Plus Community (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117926126525789007045) Just reply to this mail with your name and contact info. If you don't want to announce your address on the mailing list, just send the reply to me directly. And by the way, I know there are more Inkscape forums in existence, which are not listed on the Community page. I'd be very happy to add them to the list, if the admins of those forums would like to be listed. Just reply to this message, to let me know. Thanks for your help :-)

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Version 0.91 Frequent crashes
by Steve 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Hi folks, I wonder if anyone else is seeing frequent crashes with this new version? I don't see any remarks to this effect in this forum and a quick look at the Inkscape Launchpad doesn't reveal anything to me. I'm running Inkscape 0.91 r13725 on Windows x64 and when I paste an image into an Inkscape page, the application crashes. Every time. I plan to uninstall and reinstall. Maybe try the win32 version of the application. If nothing helps, I'll go back to the prior release which was rock stable for me. Cheers, Steve

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GSOC 2015 application - vouch for Valentina?
by Susan Spencer 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi Inkscape devs and users, At various times Valentina <http://www.valentina-project.org> patternmaking software and it's predecessor projects have reached out to the Inkscape community with questions, and you have responded graciously with supportive answers and suggestions. Thanks to you, Valentina has grown quite a bit this past year. We are applying to GSOC 2015 as a mentoring organization. To be accepted, we need one or more established organizations to vouch for us in their GSOC 2015 application. If Inkscape is applying for GSOC 2015, would you please consider vouching for 'Valentina' in your application? If anyone is curious, we have started a Project Ideas page here: https://bitbucket.org/dismine/valentina/wiki/GSOC%202015%20Ideas%20Page The list should change and expand over the next two weeks so keep checking back. Thanks for all your awesome work! Best, Susan Spencer *www.valentina-project.org* <http://www.valentina-project.org> *https://bitbucket.org/dismine/valentina <https://bitbucket.org/dismine/valentina>* *@ValentinaPSW*

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Thinking of attending SCALE 13x? Inkscape booth could use your help.
by Jon A. Cruz 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi people, I'm just sending out a quick note to explicitly invite any Inkscape users, devs or other interested parties to come to SCALE 13x and spend a little time helping to represent the project in the exhibit hall. The conference has provided us booth space again, along with a set of passes for those helping. Even being able to spend an hour or two over the weekend could be helpful. And in case you or anyone you know might be wondering about attending SCALE, I have a discount code that can be used. Since I'm speaking, the conference has given us the promotional code 'SPEAK' to advertise. Use it to get a 50% discount. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x -- Jon A. Cruz jon@...204...

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Asset creation for SCALE 13x conference
by Jon A. Cruz 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi, Inkscape will once again have a booth at the SCALE 13x conference this year ( http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x ). To help with our presence, and to highlight the new release, we are producing some assets for the booth. We will be getting a large two-sided banner that will also be usable for future conferences Inkscape might have a presence at. And for giving away at the booth we will be getting some mini-business cards and stickers. The latter two will be done through moo.com. If anyone would like to lend a hand with suggesting or creating graphics for these pleas let me know. We might have a line on designs for the banners and mini cards, but much will depend on the availability of different individuals. The stickers will be a run of 180 total, but we can have many designs up to each sticker being different. As far as timing goes, it would be good for me to get the cards and stickers ordered ASAP to ensure delivery for the opening of the conference. So feel free to contact me for details and format requirements if you might be interested. -- Jon A. Cruz jon@...204...

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Installing Inkscape for use by Cygwin command line
by Brenton Horne 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Hi, I've got Inkscape installed on my Windows 7 64 bit OS, but Cygwin doesn't recognize Inkscape as a valid command executed from the command-line. Does anyone know how I can get it to recognize this command? Thanks for your time, Brenton

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unsuscribe
by Ariel Ramirez 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

Hello, I don't want to receive emails for your forum. How can do it? thank you, regards -- Rodolfo Ariel Ramirez arielLyonOf@...155... ===================

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Reducing SVG filesizes --- auto-identify clones?
by William Adams 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Anyone remember Aldus Intellidraw? Anyway, I'm working on re-drawing the diagrams for the Shapeoko (an opensource CNC mill/router/lasercutter/3D printer kit) so as to improve the appearance and reduce the filesizes. Files were really bloated by having been exported as .pdfs from Autodesk Inventor (or some other commercial 3D design tool) and being comprised of lots of short little paths: http://docs.shapeoko.com/content/tPictures/PS20022-100.svg Re-drawing the files results in a greatly reduced filesize and (I think) a nicer appearance: http://docs.shapeoko.com/content/tPictures/PS20029-100.svg (replacing a single M5 nut w/ the hand-drawn version lowers the filesize by ~100KB --- other parts yield similar savings, while bolts are several times that) This still leaves a lot of instances of identical parts being used multiple times --- is there a way to have the program automatically identify identical objects and set them to be clones? I've looked, but can't find anything --- (if memory serves) this was a nifty feature of Aldus Intellidraw, and one which I missed. I did find the Vacuum Defs command (saved ~4,000 bytes) and I found this post: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4314#p19654 so will be trying: > • Experiment with the 'SVG output' settings in 'Inkscape Preferences'. > • Save a Copy as 'Plain SVG (*.svg)' > • Save a Copy as 'Optimized SVG (*.svg)' which uses the python script 'scour' to optimize the SVG file size. > • Save a Copy as 'Compressed (plain) SVG (*.svgz)' William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Volunteers needed: 0.91 Release Marketing
by Brynn 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

If I know of a place that could receive an announcement, that's not on any of the lists on that wiki page, how do I put it on the list? I do have edit permission on the wiki, but I'm just not sure if I should add a new site myself. (I'm thinking of Full Circle Magazine http://fullcirclemagazine.org/ where 1 of InkscapeForum.com's members writes an ongoing series of tutorials -- a new one every month!) brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...983...> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 6:16 PM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3089...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Volunteers needed: 0.91 Release Marketing > Please feel free to post the actual release announcement on any forums > you think it'd be appropriate on. > > Also, please mark any place you post it on to our announcements page, so > we'll remember to post to that place in the future too. > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AnnouncePlanning091 > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 05:31:06PM -0700, Brynn wrote: >> Hi Bryce, >> Is it ok if I post this in forums too? >> >> Thanks, >> brynn >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...983...> >> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 1:15 AM >> To: <inkscape-devel@...84...> >> Cc: <inkscape-user@...84...> >> Subject: [Inkscape-user] Volunteers needed: 0.91 Release Marketing >> >> >Hi all, >> > >> >As the developers put the final touches on the 0.91 release, it's high >> >time to plan a media blitz to get this announced to all our users. >> > >> >I'd like to recruit and organize a formal team to do marketing for >> >Inkscape. This'll involve writing copy, planning announce strategies, >> >notifying news sites, coordinating with parallel fundraising efforts, >> >and more. We'll be organizing an online IRC meeting soon to coordinate >> >these activities. Sound like fun? >> > >> >Ryan Lerch, Josh Andler, and myself are already signed on; we've been >> >through the release announcement process before so we're old hands. But >> >we're looking for new ideas and fresh blood, so that we can go beyond >> >what we've achieved in the past. >> > >> >Interested? Reply to this email and introduce yourself! >> > >> >Bryce >> > >> >P.S. Inkscape's past marketing teams have left us a wealth of notes we >> >can use to build from. Two items in particular: >> > >> > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Announcing_Releases >> > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage >> > >> > >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server >> >from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards >> >with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & >> >more >> >Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE >> >http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Inkscape-user mailing list >> >Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Inkscape Version 0.91 is Released!
by Bryce Harrington 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

The Inkscape community proudly announces the release of Inkscape 0.91. https://inkscape.org/en/download/ Inkscape is a drawing and painting tool similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, and Xara X, but with features, new tools, and interface style of its own. It emphasizes the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format, but reads and writes a wealth of other formats including PDF, so it is an easy complement to your other graphics and desktop tools. Best of all, Inkscape is created *by* the community *for* the community: Inkscape is 100% Open Source and freely available to everyone in the world. This release marks the culmination of a multi-year effort to switch to a new internal graphics rendering engine, Cairo. This brings performance enhancements and more accurate rendering of drawings. Thanks go especially to Google for sponsoring much of this work. A new Trace Pixel Art feature enables creation of vector art from bitmaps, sprites, and icons. A new Symbols Library provides reusable graphics elements - you can even read in Visio symbol libraries. New Snapping options and improved Snap preferences make it easier to quickly place items in the alignments you need. The tools for arranging objects offer several new ways to position the elements of a drawing. Tons of other little improvements have been made across all the other tools as well. Several new file formats are supported, including FXG, SIF and HTML5 export; and VSD and CDR import. EMF/WMF are now readable and writable for all platforms. And XCF, PDF, EPS, and PS+LaTeX support are improved. Inkscape has a rich Extension ecosystem, which is well known for bringing clever, cool, and innovative new ideas. Over a dozen new extensions are added in this release, including an Isometric Grid Generator, a Bitmap Cropper, a Text Extractor and a Text Merger, an HSL Adjuster, a Font Replacer, a Voronoï Diagram Creator, and more. The above barely scratches the surface of all the new stuff included in this release. For the full story, including examples and screenshots, please see our detailed Release Notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91 The Inkscape developers plan to meet for a 3-day Hackfest in Toronto at the end of April 2015. You can help us to improve Inkscape by donating to help cover travel, room and board so our international volunteer developers can attend the hackfest in person: https://inkscape.org/en/donate/hackfest/ Bryce

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