I want to learn to use Inkscape in conjunction with Scribus to put out a newsletter. I want to create a box to go around a photograph and then import it into Scribus. In Inkscape, I click on the rectangle tool and drag as instructed, and nothing seems to happen. Then I scroll the window, and find that I've drawn a box below the desktop or canvas or whatever it's called. How can I cause the program to draw the box where I click and drag? I uninstalled the program and downloaded and installed it again, but the same thing happens in the second installation. Joe Ward
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Joe Ward <bluegrass_joe@...12...> wrote:
I want to learn to use Inkscape in conjunction with Scribus to put out a newsletter. I want to create a box to go around a photograph and then import it into Scribus. In Inkscape, I click on the rectangle tool and drag as instructed, and nothing seems to happen. Then I scroll the window, and find that I've drawn a box below the desktop or canvas or whatever it's called. How can I cause the program to draw the box where I click and drag? I uninstalled the program and downloaded and installed it again, but the same thing happens in the second installation.
Joe Ward
That sounds strange. Are you just using a mouse or do you have a tablet as well? A lot of times people draw objects that are transparent (zero opacity) but I've never heard of an object being drawn in the wrong place. Have you tried any other of the drawing tools like the star tool, circle tool or the freehand line tool? Do those exhibit the same behaviour?
RQ
Yes, they all do. If I zoom in on the page so that it takes up most of the canvas, the object drawn seems to show up on the page, but at some distance from where I put the cursor when I begin. I'm using a mouse. -Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Querin To: Inkscape User Community Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Drawing problem
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Joe Ward <bluegrass_joe@...12...> wrote:
I want to learn to use Inkscape in conjunction with Scribus to put out a newsletter. I want to create a box to go around a photograph and then import it into Scribus. In Inkscape, I click on the rectangle tool and drag as instructed, and nothing seems to happen. Then I scroll the window, and find that I've drawn a box below the desktop or canvas or whatever it's called. How can I cause the program to draw the box where I click and drag? I uninstalled the program and downloaded and installed it again, but the same thing happens in the second installation. Joe Ward
That sounds strange. Are you just using a mouse or do you have a tablet as well? A lot of times people draw objects that are transparent (zero opacity) but I've never heard of an object being drawn in the wrong place. Have you tried any other of the drawing tools like the star tool, circle tool or the freehand line tool? Do those exhibit the same behaviour?
RQ
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Are you on Linux, Windows or Mac? If you're on Linux, try renaming the .inkscape hidden folder in your home directory and restarting or re-installing Inkscape. If there are some weird settings then reinstalling might still use your old settings unless you delete or rename this folder.
I don't have a Windows (or Mac) machine to check what it is on those systems, but there should be a folder that holds the preferences.xml file which holds your settings. You want to try renaming or deleting that file and re-starting (or reinstalling) Inkscape.
RQ
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Joe Ward <bluegrass_joe@...12...> wrote:
Yes, they all do. If I zoom in on the page so that it takes up most ofthe canvas, the object drawn seems to show up on the page, but at some distance from where I put the cursor when I begin. I'm using a mouse. -Joe
----- Original Message ----- *From:* Richard Querin <rfquerin@...155...> *To:* Inkscape User Community inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net *Sent:* Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:48 PM *Subject:* Re: [Inkscape-user] Drawing problem
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Joe Ward <bluegrass_joe@...12...> wrote:
I want to learn to use Inkscape in conjunction with Scribus to put out a newsletter. I want to create a box to go around a photograph and then import it into Scribus. In Inkscape, I click on the rectangle tool and drag as instructed, and nothing seems to happen. Then I scroll the window, and find that I've drawn a box below the desktop or canvas or whatever it's called. How can I cause the program to draw the box where I click and drag? I uninstalled the program and downloaded and installed it again, but the same thing happens in the second installation.
Joe Ward
That sounds strange. Are you just using a mouse or do you have a tablet as well? A lot of times people draw objects that are transparent (zero opacity) but I've never heard of an object being drawn in the wrong place. Have you tried any other of the drawing tools like the star tool, circle tool or the freehand line tool? Do those exhibit the same behaviour?
RQ
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Thanks, Richard and Shawn, for your help with this. I noticed on uninstalling Inkscape a second time that the uninstaller offered to preserve my personal preferences if I'd like that. I unclicked that box, and on reinstalling, the program worked as I expected. I have no idea how it got the idea I preferred that bizarre behavior, but now it knows better. -Joe
Hey everybody,
I have a weird problem with fonts on Inkscape 0.46 on OSX.
Callibri doesn´t display in the font-list. It´s a TTF. According to FAQ, TTF´s should display correctly on all platforms by now. What could I be going wrong? I remember seing several font-issues on this list, but never this one.
Thanks,
Maarten
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Which version of OS X?
, John
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Maarten van der Velde <Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171...> wrote:
Hey everybody,
I have a weird problem with fonts on Inkscape 0.46 on OSX.
Callibri doesn´t display in the font-list. It´s a TTF. According to FAQ, TTF´s should display correctly on all platforms by now. What could I be going wrong? I remember seing several font-issues on this list, but never this one.
Thanks,
Maarten
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Hey,
It's version 10.5, but I solved the problem in the meanwhile. I thought I posted the answer, but maybe I didn't. For me, the answer is kind of non-trivial:
There are appearently two directories in OSX where one can install fonts. One is whithin the user directory, the other one in the library. Appearently, Inkscape only instals fonts from the library...!
Thanks for your answer!
Maarten van der Velde
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On 05/01/2009, at 7:36 PM, Maarten van der Velde wrote:
There are appearently two directories in OSX where one can install fonts. One is whithin the user directory, the other one in the library. Appearently, Inkscape only instals fonts from the library...!
It's supposed to check both -- this is a bug, possibly caused by different versions of fontconfig supplied with X11. Could you please let us no what version of X11.app you are using? i.e., is it the standard one that comes with Leopard, or a particular version of XQuartz?
Thanks, Michael
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 20:41 -0500, Joe Ward wrote:
Yes, they all do. If I zoom in on the page so that it takes up most of the canvas, the object drawn seems to show up on the page, but at some distance from where I put the cursor when I begin. I'm using a mouse. -Joe
Does the object always appear to the left and above from where you expect it? If you re-size the window so it is in the lower-right quadrant of your screen, is the displacement greater?
It seems to be in different places each time I try it. If I place the cursor outside the page to the left, the object appears below and to the right. If the cursor is inside the page or on the right side of it, the object appears down and to the left. If I go some distance to the right of the page, the object goes farther to the right, still below. I found the preferences.xml file for inkscape and renamed it, but that didn't seem to make any difference. I haven't reinstalled Inkscape yet (since I uninstalled and reinstalled.) I noticed that after the uninstall, I still had an Inkscape folder in Program Files (This being windows XP I'm working in.) and the Inkscape folder had two folders -- python and shares in it. Does any of this make sense? -Joe Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Shawn H. Corey" <shawnhcorey@...1487...> To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:41 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Drawing problem
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 20:41 -0500, Joe Ward wrote:
Yes, they all do. If I zoom in on the page so that it takes up most of the canvas, the object drawn seems to show up on the page, but at some distance from where I put the cursor when I begin. I'm using a mouse. -Joe
Does the object always appear to the left and above from where you expect it? If you re-size the window so it is in the lower-right quadrant of your screen, is the displacement greater?
-- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn
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