Hi Bryce,

On Jan 29, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Trevis Martin wrote:

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Hi folks,

First let me say what a great program inkscape is! I'm really happy to find it!

Great! Tell all your friends too. :-)

Believe me I will!

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Now on to the problem :-)

I compiled inkscape myself according to the instructions on the wiki and it runs fine on OS X 10.3.7. I'm seeing two issues so far.

The first one is the most annoying and that is on the stroke menus, when choosing style, the drop down list appears behind the box so you can't see part of it. This is even more true in areas like preferences where you cannot see the drop-down lists for things like "Dialogs On Top" in the "Windows" Tab, at all b/c it is completely concealed behind the window.

Okay, send in a bug report with a screenshot. We don't have OSX developers but possibly with enough info we can figure out what's going wrong.

Note that it may be possible that this could be caused by a bug in the OSX port of Gtk.

Will do.

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The second thing is that it seems that it refuses to save a file in .ai format. I just save it in svg anyway but when experimenting I found that it always gave an error message that file /Path/name/of/file could not be saved.

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Any ideas about either of those.? Patches or anything I could apply?

The ai writing code is implemented via the pstoedit program. It is run by exporting a postscript file from Inkscape and then running it through pstoedit to create the AI file.

First, try saving as postscript. If it fails with the /Path/name/of/file error, then it is an error in Inkscape's postscript exporter; send a bug report through the 'Report Bugs' page on the inkscape.org website.

Okay, It saved fine as a .ps file, so I guess its the pstoedit issue. I checked the packages I've installed and I don't seem to show Pstoedit. I'm installing that to see if it helps. If not then I'll report the bug.

Thanks for your kind assistance! I'm an art teacher and have a wide acquaintance of other artists and graphic designers. You can be sure I'll be telling them about inkscape!

best

Trevis

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Trevis Martin wrote:

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First, try saving as postscript. If it fails with the /Path/name/of/file error, then it is an error in Inkscape's postscript exporter; send a bug report through the 'Report Bugs' page on the inkscape.org website.

Okay, It saved fine as a .ps file, so I guess its the pstoedit issue. I checked the packages I've installed and I don't seem to show Pstoedit. I'm installing that to see if it helps. If not then I'll report the bug.

Aha! Yes, possibly once you install pstoedit, everything will suddenly work.

We do need to have some better explanation to users regarding the need to install the various optional dependencies like pstoedit to get all of the functionality from Inkscape. Hopefully one day...

Thanks for your kind assistance! I'm an art teacher and have a wide acquaintance of other artists and graphic designers. You can be sure I'll be telling them about inkscape!

Very cool, welcome aboard! There's starting to grow a really good little community of artists here; so far it's been focused on usage type questions however I suspect in 2005 the community will be sharing style tips and tricks more often.

Also, check out the tutorials in Inkscape; these have largely been written by artists in close collaboration with developers, and I think that's helped make them much more focused and useful than software help documentation usually is. ;-) In fact one of the tutorials is not really about Inkscape at all, but more about general art principles. It would be great to see more such tutorials, because they're great for helping non-artists like me learn some of the basics. So if you ever have some ideas, definitely indulge them! ;-)

Bryce