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New blog post - "Does open source boost mental health?"
by Phil Shapiro 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Inkscape mentioned and linked to several times in this blog post. http://opensource.com/life/14/8/does-open-source-boost-mental-health Kindly share with anyone you know who would be interested in this. phil -- -- 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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Save as html5 canvas
by john Culleton 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

This choice exists in 0.91 but on a small test document seems not to work. The error message is too long to quote but the bottom line is: TypeError: descriptor 'strip' requires a 'str' object but received a 'unicode' Do I need auxiliary programs? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Auxiliary programs.
by john Culleton 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Two questions: 1.What is the list of auxiliary programs that one can use from within Inkscape? I am thinking of LaTeX, Imagemagick, Gimp, Ghostscript etc. 2. Should these programs be loaded before loading or compiling Inkscape or can they be added later? This factor may vary from program to program. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters Book indexing, interior layout, cover design. http://wexfordpress.com

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Rounding the corners of a rectangle
by Ken Springer 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Windows 7 64 bit 8GB RAM Inkscape .48.5 R10040 A friend of mine is using Inkscape for the first time and cannot get rounded corners on the outside edge of a rectangle. Selecting the round join in Stroke style gives a rounded corner, but the radius of the corner is far smaller than desired. I have a Mac, and very little experience with Inkscape also. I can't get a larger radius either. How do we do this? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ken Springer "All progress depends upon the unreasonable person." George Bernard Shaw "Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country!" President William McKinley http://www.greeleynet.com/~wordwork/airpage.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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exporting pdf files: request for assistance
by ⒶRTHUR HENRY LILLIOTT 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

dear inkscape users, can someone please help me with exporting pdf files: i am trying to save pdf files of isolated text within a larger file. i isolate the text on the page and specify the export-area-is-page. but it appears that a larger file still creates a larger pdf file, regardless if i specify export-area-is-page or not. is this correct? i am trying to create pdf with minimum size, so this is relatively important. and the object id doesn't really work for these pdf's. so my question is: does the pdf take into account, or include the size of the whole file, when creating a single pdf file? and lastly, is there a difference to converting to paths, before or after exporting a pdf file? thank you for taking the time to read and reply to this email. your assistance is much appreciated. regards, arthur. -- *@rthur henry lilliott* *ⒶRTHUR HENRY LILLIOTT* -- *@rthur henry lilliott* *ⒶRTHUR HENRY LILLIOTT*

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Same build-different screen
by john Culleton 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

I have built the latest pre2 version (3529). when I sign on as root I get two rows of icons on the right side of hte window. When i sign on using a little used signon called "baker" (not the real name) I get the same display. But when I sign on using my usual user name "able" I only get a single row of icons on the right. Clearly there is a preference hid somewhere. I tried rm -r .cache/inkscape while signed on as able. but the alternative display persists. In all cases I am using /usr/local/bin/inkscape Any suggestions? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Set working directory from the command line
by John Kirkilis 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

In Inkscape's "Save" section of Preferences, it provides the option to either use the current working directory. The checkbox reads: Use current directory for "Save As..." The hint text reads: When this option is on, the "Save as..." dialog will always open in the directory where the currently open document is; when it's off, it will open in the directory where you last saved a file using that dialog. When Inkscape is opened with no file specified on the command line, I assumed the Save As... dialog would come up focused on the directory that the user had "cd" to before invoking Inkscape from the shell, but the dialog always goes to my home directory. Is this a matter of how our virtualized Linux environment is set up? Is there a way to pass a path on the Inkscape command line to explicitly set Inkscape's "working directory"? I didn't see any such parameter in the Inkscape command line help file.\ RHEL is the platform. John

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Setting Inkscape as default SVG editor on Linux
by John Kirkilis 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

Greetings, I'm fairly new to Linux, and we're running RHEL in a virtualized environment. After much searching and various attempts, I haven't come across a standard way to specify that Inkscape is the preferred editor for SVG files. I also can't get it to show up as an option in the Open With... context menu choice in Win7 64-bit. Clues? -John

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New LPE "Show Handles"
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

A new video for a new LPE, is like show handles extension. I reuse -and improve- some of my simplify LPE to do it by a sugestion of suv. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ul_PR9XYo

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need Linux version of 0.91pre1
by john Culleton 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

I managed to download an MSWin 7 version of 0.9pre1 but have had no luck with compiling the same version on Slackware Linux. I also have Knoppix and SUSE. Is there a compiled version of pre1 for any Linux distro? Or even pre0? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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