Hello list,
Soon I will have to prepare slides for the lectures. My chief's obvious choice was MS PowerPoint, mine was OOo Impress. Since the slides will inlcude many diagrams I think inkscape would be best choice and slides can be enhanced with animations once inkscape has animations implemented.
A couple of issues: 1. cd my_svgs; inkview *.svg segfaults, while inkscape -s *.svg works fine 2. Can I run `inkscape -s *' in fullscreen? 3. Would an RFE for inkview from layers (many slides in one file) sound reasonable? 4. Would an RFE for exporting layers into files sound reasonable?
My inkscape info:
[mimooh@...1459... ~]$ package info inkscape Short Name : inkscape Display Name : Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor Root Name : @inkscape.org/inkscape:0.43+devel Version : 0.43+devel Interface : 0.0 Revision : Maintainer : The Inkscape team inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net License : Root Install : No Database : System Build Host : localhost.localdomain Build Date : Fri Dec 16 02:58:17 2005 Install Date : Fri Dec 16 23:55:02 2005
Karol
On Jan 6, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Karol Krenski wrote:
Hello list,
Soon I will have to prepare slides for the lectures. My chief's obvious choice was MS PowerPoint, mine was OOo Impress. Since the slides will inlcude many diagrams I think inkscape would be best choice and slides can be enhanced with animations once inkscape has animations implemented.
First warning:
"Soon" and "inkscape has animations implemented" are terms that don't go together at the moment.
:-)
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:48:23PM -0800, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Jan 6, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Karol Krenski wrote:
Hello list,
Soon I will have to prepare slides for the lectures. My chief's obvious choice was MS PowerPoint, mine was OOo Impress. Since the slides will inlcude many diagrams I think inkscape would be best choice and slides can be enhanced with animations once inkscape has animations implemented.
First warning:
"Soon" and "inkscape has animations implemented" are terms that don't go together at the moment.
And that's why I haven't used them in one sentence ;)
Karol
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:19:54PM +0100, Karol Krenski wrote:
Hello list,
Soon I will have to prepare slides for the lectures. My chief's obvious choice was MS PowerPoint, mine was OOo Impress. Since the slides will inlcude many diagrams I think inkscape would be best choice and slides can be enhanced with animations once inkscape has animations implemented.
A couple of issues:
- cd my_svgs; inkview *.svg segfaults, while inkscape -s *.svg works fine
Run this through gdb to sort out why the segfault is happening. Possibly it has something to do with the filenames; internally inkview and inkscape are the same code, so if inkview is failing where inkscape is not, that suggest a superficial issue. Not a surprise; inkview is not as carefully maintained as inkscape is, although it's simple enough that bugs generally tend to be easy to fix.
- Can I run `inkscape -s *' in fullscreen?
Doesn't seem so. Probably would not be hard to port that functionality over into inkscape from inkview if you're interested. Look in inkview.cpp in the sp_svgview_main_key_press() for the code that implements this behavior. I'm not sure where exactly to place it in inkscape itself; my guess would be sp_slideshow_event in slideshow.cpp.
- Would an RFE for inkview from layers (many slides in one file) sound reasonable?
- Would an RFE for exporting layers into files sound reasonable?
Layers are probably not the right metaphor for this, but you're welcome to submit an RFE on this if there isn't already one in there for it.
Bryce
Karol Krenski wrote:
Hello list,
Soon I will have to prepare slides for the lectures. My chief's obvious choice was MS PowerPoint, mine was OOo Impress. Since the slides will inlcude many diagrams I think inkscape would be best choice and slides can be enhanced with animations once inkscape has animations implemented.
Probably a bit late but my solution for the Slides problem was to create them and then I did an PDF export.
PDF is available almost anywhere, Acrobat Reader has slideshow mode and creating handouts is a no-brainer, too.
Greetings-
I was wondering how you managed to export pdfs from Inkscape. I have been attempting to find the requisite packages/scripts, but have been unsuccessful. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm running 0.42 on Ubuntu Breezy.
Thanks,
-Ben.
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 20:27 +0100, Aaron Digulla wrote:
Karol Krenski wrote:
Hello list,
Soon I will have to prepare slides for the lectures. My chief's obvious choice was MS PowerPoint, mine was OOo Impress. Since the slides will inlcude many diagrams I think inkscape would be best choice and slides can be enhanced with animations once inkscape has animations implemented.
Probably a bit late but my solution for the Slides problem was to create them and then I did an PDF export.
PDF is available almost anywhere, Acrobat Reader has slideshow mode and creating handouts is a no-brainer, too.
Ben Stafford wrote:
Greetings-
I was wondering how you managed to export pdfs from Inkscape. I have been attempting to find the requisite packages/scripts, but have been unsuccessful. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm running 0.42 on Ubuntu Breezy.
There are several possible solutions but none of them really easy:
1. Use Batik (xml.apache.org/batik) to create PDFs. I'm not sure if you can create a multi-page document with it, though.
2. Create an XML-FO document and process that with FOP (xml.apache.org/fop). That's what I did.
The file structure for FO looks a bit strange but you only need to copy the surrounding structure from an existing file and then add pages with all the drawings.
Since you can include external documents in the FO, you can have the SVGs as single files (so you can easily edit them individually in Inkscape) and then use FOP to merge them into one big document.
On 1/16/06, Ben Stafford <russbuss@...155...> wrote:
I was wondering how you managed to export pdfs from Inkscape. I have been attempting to find the requisite packages/scripts, but have been unsuccessful. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm running 0.42 on Ubuntu Breezy.
You can always export PS. From that, you can get PDF by Ghostscript (ps2pdf) or Adobe Distiller.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
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