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Export to PNG behavior
by Michael Grosberg 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Hi all, I've been working heavily with Inkscape these last couple of months, making technical illustrations that will be shown as a series of images. So I've been using the Export PNG Image dialog - a LOT. And it seems to have an odd behavior: the export area defaults to "Drawing" whenever something is selected, then un-selected. Is there any way to keep it in "page" mode so I can always export the same size of image based on the canvas size? Also, are others here affected by this? perhaps we could get the devs to change it.

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Google Summer of Code 2014
by Josh Andler 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hi All, We're happy to announce that we have two students who will be working on projects with our organization this year during Summer of Code. Krzysztof Kosiński will work on implementing robust boolean and stroking operations for 2Geom. Tomasz Boczkowski will work on improving Inkscape's support for SVG paints. We look forward to working with them and wish them the best of luck this summer. Cheers, Josh

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draw a path consisting of straight lines and arcs
by Daniel Barna 10 Apr '14

10 Apr '14

Hello, I want to draw a path which consist of straight and arc segments (the arcs are tangential to the straight segments). Is this doable in an easy way? Or another approach: is it possible to give fillets to selected corners of a path consisting of straight segments? (I am afraid the answer is no, but who knows?) Thank you Daniel

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Overlaying svg files from the commandline
by M.H. van der velde 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

[EXAMPLE OF HAML TO CREATE SVG] Indeed. the threads are bit confusing,… Let me give an example of a HAML file that creates a svg-file dynamically. I used this one to create a ‘grid-system’. The example might be a bit complicated — but I’ll guess you can figure it out. Keep in mind that every line that starts with a dash is a Ruby command. > - C = W / n Anywhere you see #{something}, we’re outputting Ruby as well: > %path{ "d" => "M #{offset + n*C} 0 l 0 1200” Not in this example, but handy to know, is a dirt way to include one HAML file within another (your bunnies?) > = Haml::Engine.new(File.read(‘bunny.haml')).render And here the complete example, again, it creates a system of grid lines, with numbers at the bottom indicating the amount of pixels. > !!! XML > !!! > %svg{ :width => "1400px", :height => "1200px", "xmlns:svg" => "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", :xmlns => "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" } > %title Grid system template > - n = 12 > - G = 20 > - W = 1200 - G > - C = W / n > - offset = 100 > - (0...n).each do |i| > %path{ "d" => "M #{offset + i*C} 0 l 0 1200" , "style" => "fill:none;stroke:#ff88ff;stroke-width:1px;"} > %path{ "d" => "M #{offset + i*C + G} 0 l 0 1200" , "style" => "fill:none;stroke:#ffccff;stroke-width:1px;" } > %path{ "d" => "M #{offset + i*C + C - G} 0 l 0 1200" , "style" => "fill:none;stroke:#ffccff;stroke-width:1px;" } > %text{ "x" => "#{offset + i*C } ", "y" => "1210", "style" => "font-size:8px;font-family:Arial"} #{i*C} > %text{ "x" => "#{offset + i*C + C/2} ", "y" => "1230", "style" => "font-size:12px;font-family:Arial"} #{i + 1} > - (0..1200).step(25).each do |i| > %path{ "d" => "M 0 #{i} l #{1200 + 2*offset} 0" , "style" => "fill:none;stroke:#ffccff;stroke-width:0.5px;"} > > %path{ "d" => "M #{offset + n*C} 0 l 0 1200", "style" => "fill:none;stroke:#ff88ff;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1" } > %text{ "x" => "#{offset + n*C } ", "y" => "1210", "style" => "font-size:8px;font-family:Arial"} #{n*C} (By the way, n: number of columns, G: gutter width, W: width of the page minus 1 gutter width, C = column width) Hope it helps you or maybe even inspires others? Maarten On 06 Apr 2014, at 15:29, Jake Maier <j.m@...3030...> wrote: > Ooops I'm sorry, don't know what happened. But it got to the wrong thread > J > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jake Maier [mailto:j.m@...3030...] > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 6:30 PM > To: 'Inkscape User Community' > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Overlaying svg files from the commandline > > Thank you David, > You are right, I'm using windows 7. > I forgot about the alt space, and that works perfectly. I can move the file > to the center of Windows, but even when I save the file. When I reopen the > file, it will again be at the same place off windows. I can live with that > but it would be nice if the window would open where it is supposed to open. > Do you have any other idea how to fix it? > Thank you very much for your answer. > Jake > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Lang [mailto:david@...2429...] > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 6:01 PM > To: Inkscape User Community > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Overlaying svg files from the commandline > > On Sat, 5 Apr 2014, John Smith wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:07 PM, David Lang <david@...2429...> wrote: >>> take a look at the blockdiag tool www.blockdiag.com >>> >>> It has ways of making network diagrams from text files and outputs >>> the result in a few different formats (including svg) >>> >>> David Lang >>> >> That's actually pretty cool! Im definitely going to play around with >> that one a little, thanks! >> >> Do you know if its possible to use your own graphics instead of the >> boxes ? Ive seen at least the addition of a 'network cloud' in an >> example by using "inet [shape = cloud];", it would be cool if I could >> replace the boxes with other graphics. > > There aren't a lot of shapes defined (there are several), but the code is > pretty clean so it shouldn't be hard to add additional shapes. One thing to > keep in mind is that all the different varients share a lot of common code, > so even if something isn't documented in the network diagram documentation, > there are good odds that it will still work. > > I actually tried using this to diagram a _very_ complex network (>130 > separate networks with >1000 hosts, some multi-homed to as many as 20 > different networks), the blockdiag tools spit out a svg for it, but I wasn't > able to find a tool that would open the resulting svg :-( the diagram would > have been about 20' on each side if printed at the default size. > > David Lang > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Re: [Inkscape-user] window opens partly off screen
by darkweasel 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Am 2014-04-06 15:33, schrieb Jake Maier: > So second try in the right thread I hope. > > Thank you Darkweasel, > You are right, I'm using windows 7. > I forgot about the alt space, and that works perfectly. I can move the file > to the center of Windows, but even when I save the file. When I reopen the > file, it will again be at the same place off windows. I can live with that > but it would be nice if the window would open where it is supposed to open. > Do you have any other idea how to fix it? > Thank you very much for your answer. > Jake I don't really know either, but looking at some Inkscape SVGs I see that it's possible to save the last window position in the sodipodi:namedview element. Try the following: - find a file called default.svg in your Inkscape installation directory (apparently in share\templates on Windows, on Unix-like systems it's in /usr/share/inkscape/templates). If you use a localized version, pick default.LANGCODE.svg instead (e.g. default.de.svg) - edit it using a text editor - find the sodipodi:namedview element - add attributes inkscape:window-height, inkscape:window-width, inkscape:window-x and inkscape:window-y to it (or change them if they are already there), with values that make the window fit on your screen (for example: inkscape:window-height="600", etc) - save the file I have not tested this though, so it might not work at all.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] window opens partly off screen
by darkweasel 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Am 2014-04-06 00:06, schrieb Jake Maier: > Hi > > When opening a file the inkscape window opens partly off screen so the > controls to close, maximize and minimize are off screen and I cannot move > the window at all. > > The menu with file, edit,. is also off screen. > > How can this be fixed? That depends on your operating system and window manager. Judging from your mail user agent, you appear to be using Windows. There, I would advise using the window menu, which you can access either by pressing alt-space while the Inkscape window is focused, or by right-clicking its taskbar button. There you will have choices to minimize, move, close and maximize the window. (These instructions are taken from my memory, I don't use Windows.) Hope this helps.

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Overlaying svg files from the commandline
by John Smith 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Hi, Im trying to create svg files in an automated manner (with unix shell scripts, command line tools, etc.) All output must be in SVG so that I can open the resulting files later in MS Visio and/or LibreOffice. I figured that one way to achieve this could be : layer existing svg files on top of each other. For example, I might have a (relatively) large svg file that draws a piece of grass or a lawn or something. I then have a (relatively) small svg file that draws a tree. I then draw the tree svg on top of the lawn svg a at a few different places at coordinates x,y. The end result would then be an SVG file of a lawn with some tree's in it. I was wondering if, and if so how, I could achieve this with Inkscape ? So far Ive only managed to convert a single svg image to another svg image like this : inkscape ./foo.svg --export-plain-svg=./bar.svg Is there a way to place small svg files on top of another large svg file, at specified locations in the large svg file, from the commandline, with Inkscape? Thanks, Regards, John Smith

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window opens partly off screen
by Jake Maier 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

Hi When opening a file the inkscape window opens partly off screen so the controls to close, maximize and minimize are off screen and I cannot move the window at all. The menu with file, edit,. is also off screen. How can this be fixed? Thank you for your help jake

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Main Inscape Window Colour Scheme
by unknown＠example.com 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

I have installed the 64-bit version of Inscape for use on Windows 7, but the colour scheme is dark grey, so that the icons do not show up clearly. The 32-bit version has a cyan colour scheme. I cannot see any option in preferences to be able to change the background colour from grey to cyan. Is this possible, or must I install the 32-bit version? I am very impressed with the program, which will be used to prepare drawings for cutting out parts for making model trains and buildings. Mick

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Can't ungroup Conditional Group
by Antonio Roberts 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi, I'm attempting to ungroup this object http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Two-stroke_engine_moving… When I try to do so in Inkscape it identifies the object as having a Conditional Group of 1 Object but then says there are No Groups in the selection when I try to ungroup it. Is this a problem with the file or Inkscape? I'm using Inkscape 0.48+devel+13132+47~ubuntu13.10.1 Antonio -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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