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Make document square; keep contents centered
by Ian Pilcher 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

I feel like I must be missing something *really* obvious, but I can't figure out how to do this. I have a rectangular document that I need to make square, while keeping the contents centered. I.e., I need to add equal amounts to the left and right side of the document. How can I do this? I've tried simply entering the desired margin sizes in the Document Properties dialog, but it has no effect. Changing the width of the document to match the height extends the document to the right, but it leaves the contents in their current position, which is now shifted to the left. Thanks! -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno@...155... Sent from the cloud -- where it's already tomorrow ========================================================================

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Layers (was: Make document square; keep contents centered)
by Chris Mohler 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Chris Tooley <euxneks@...155...> wrote: > Offtopic: is there a reason to work with layers? Is there a memory savings > on that? grouping has always been sufficient for me... I can't live without them once the document gets complex. A common scenario: Text Layer Object layer 3 Object layer 2 Object layer 1 Background layer Each one containing a fairly large number of objects/groups/etc. Once you're dealing with hundreds or maybe thousands of objects, selections can get nutty - layers really help out there. eg you can lock or hide all the other layers and do a 'select all' on an object layer. Chris

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Extension to align boxes around text
by Terry Brown 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Lots of bits of text with boxes around them? Here's an extension to automatically resize all the boxes to fit all the texts with specified padding, all at once. You just draw the boxes approximately in the right place and the extension tidies everything up. https://gist.github.com/tbnorth/7420972 Perhaps something like this could be bundled with Inkscape? Cheers -Terry

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OSSMM FanZine
by Ivano Arrighetta 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Hello everyone. I opened a wordpress blog where I would like to talk about Open Source multimedia software for making digital art. The blog is located at ossmm.wordpress.com and I would like many of you registering and posting articles, news and tutorials. Sent from Windows Mail

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New standard location of X11: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app
by Andrew Pennebaker 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

In recent versions of Mac OS X and X11, X11 installs as /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app. Could Inkscape look there by default, before asking the user to Browse for it? Most users wouldn't even know where to look for X11, especially since it's now called XQuartz. -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker apennebaker@...3047...

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Lattice deformation 2 video
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Hi to all, here are a video with improvements in lattice deformation live effect. read credits and link to launchpad in youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlK9L88_tWE

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Thanks!
by Ravindrasingh A. Patil 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Thanks Jurgen for quick response. I resolved the problem by installing fresh, the latest version and got the problem solved. btw, I use Windows 7 and Inkscape version 0.48. don't know further. Now I want to know how can I get updates? Is there any provision to get automatic updates? Please let me know Friendly regards... Ravindrasingh

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curve connectors between object
by Jehan PROCACCIA 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hello, I want to create links between objects (says some circles) so that when I move my objects , the links between them follows .(architecture schema) So I used connectors to link my circles Now I want those link/connectors to be curved, while I can curve them temporarily while manipulating the link, unfortunatly as soon as I move to another other object or link, my previous curved links returns to a straight line links :-( How can I created persistant curve connectors between objects ? ascii art of what I want from: () --------() _ _ _ / \ to: ()/ \() Thanks.

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PPP
by { brad brace } 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

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Rounded corners
by Abrolag 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

For some reason, every time I try to draw a square I get rounded corners. I don't want this but can't find out how to stop it, so currently I draw squares by using the draw lines tool and making a closed shape. This is daft! This problem has onl;y occurred since I moved from debian stable to debian testing. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

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