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Help with using Inkscape • Re: svg file is blank upon opening

2019-12-07T02:24:00+10:00

Yes, probably. Unless you accidentally converted all contents of your drawing to patterns. You can do Object > Pattern > Pattern to objects on a patterned object to convert it back, if that's the case.

Statistics: Posted by Moini — Sat Dec 07, 2019 2:24 am

Help with using Inkscape • Re: svg file is blank upon opening

2019-12-06T08:35:20+10:00

Moini wrote:
The file contains nothing but ~15 patterns with different amounts of stars, and lots of gradient definitions.

If you did File > Clean up document, it would be entirely empty (78500 definitions - i.e. gradients, filters, patterns - would be removed).

ok thanks.. guess its lost forever!

Statistics: Posted by crazycd — Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:35 am

Help with using Inkscape • Re: Copying Text Put on Path (moving text relative to a line)

2019-12-06T05:32:03+10:00

Sorry, it's not clear to me what you want yet.

So, what I understand is:

You want to have a text that follows a path, and is centered on that.
Text > Put on path works for you.

It seems you want to have the same text linked to a different line, is that correct?

If that is the case, then:

- Ctrl+C the text
- Paste it
- Text > remove from path
- Text > put on path with the other path

or:

Make a copy of the text before you put it on the path and put only the copies on different paths.

or:

Edit the text attributes to point to the id of the new path in the XML editor.

It doesn't look as if anyone has created a feature yet to link the text to a different path, when the path is copied along with the text.
You can make a feature request for that at https://inkscape.org/report .

Statistics: Posted by Moini — Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:32 am

Help with using Inkscape • Re: It is not possible to import the Jpeg-pictures in inkscape 9.2.4

2019-12-06T05:22:25+10:00

There's a known issue, maybe that is yours, too:
https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/l ... ape/#c2837

Statistics: Posted by Moini — Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:22 am

Help with using Inkscape • Re: svg file is blank upon opening

2019-12-06T05:19:49+10:00

The file contains nothing but ~15 patterns with different amounts of stars, and lots of gradient definitions.

If you did File > Clean up document, it would be entirely empty (78500 definitions - i.e. gradients, filters, patterns - would be removed).

Statistics: Posted by Moini — Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:19 am

Help with using Inkscape • Re: open .eps file in Inkscape

2019-12-06T05:08:51+10:00

Ghostscript instructions are also available in the FAQ, maybe those are detailed enough? See https://inkscape.org/learn/faq/#how-ope ... es-windows .

Statistics: Posted by Moini — Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:08 am

General Discussions • Re: How to draw line

2019-12-06T05:05:34+10:00

It's the Pen tool.

Maybe it would be enough to rename the 'Advanced' tutorial in the 'Help' menu ... It contains the info you're looking for.

I think you might also like to have a look at a beginner-friendly manual, like https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io ... index.html or a tutorial series like this series: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11981 .

Statistics: Posted by Moini — Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:05 am

General Discussions • Re: Inkscape v Mac

2019-12-06T05:00:03+10:00

If you don't get a reply here (I think there aren't any macOS experts here on this forum, and I'm not one, either), try the user chat at https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/inkscape_user or the forum at https://inkscape.org/forums.

Statistics: Posted by Moini — Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:00 am

News, Events & Developments • Inkscape 1.0 -beta2 release

2019-12-05T23:51:36+10:00

Inkscape 1.0 beta2 is released to the public for testing.
There are more than 100 major and minor improvements and bug fixes since 0.92.4.
If you are interested, please also consider helping the developer team with feedback on
• problems with texts in Inkscape files from older Inkscape versions
• unknown crashes
• extensions not doing what they should be doing
• things that worked in 0.92.4, but are no longer working in the beta version.

Further info, download links available here:
beta 2

Statistics: Posted by Lazur URH — Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:51 pm

General Discussions • Re: How to draw line

2019-12-05T23:38:58+10:00

My first experiences with Inkscape - A true story

I really need to do that diagram for the paper I'm writing. I could do it in GIF, but it would actually be better if I did it in SVG. Maybe I should finally learn to use Inkscape, that's been recommended. It's already installed on this computer.

OK, start it up, blank diagram, ok, let's see, first make a rectangle. Ah there's a tool for rectangles, That looks easy enough. Hmm, not the defaults I would use for drawing a rectangle, but I suppose they've done usability analysis that shows this is what most people want. 50 pixels is too thick a line, how do I fix that. Click on Stroke? No, that just says it's a rectangle; what's this thing down here...ah opacity, no good. Right click and select Object properties? No. Right click and select Fill and stroke? Ah yes, under stroke style, and I can fix those rounded corners as well.

Now to draw a straight line. Hmm, nothing obvious as there was for rectangle. Let's see what the hover text says for each tool: Spirals, no; Freehand lines, no; Bezier curves, no; calligraphic strokes, no. Hmm. Looks like I'll have to check the documentation. There's a Help menu. Ah tutorials: basic. Let's see. Panning, zooming, managing documents, creating shapes, moving scrolling and rotating, transforming, selecting, grouping, filling, duplicating, aligning, z-order. How odd. Nothing on lines. There's another tutorial on shapes...no nothing there.

Ok, let's start reading the Inkscape manual... strange, doesn't seem to have anything on lines either. Let's check the Comprehensive index... Only line spacing and line widths. How odd.

OK, time to go to the internet, Google "inkscape draw straight line"; oh wow! Lot's of people asking that question, I'm glad it's not only me then! Best take the top result. Ah, on the Inkscape forum, they'll know the answer.

Whoa! The guy asking this seems pretty frustrated, he must have just gone through what I went through. Oh dear, looks like they're not very friendly here, rather than just answering the question they're treating him like a child, and telling him to read the manual. Apparently they haven't read their own manuals. If this is the top search result, it's going to frighten off a lot of newcomers.

Hmm, here's an answer that suggests using the bezier tool. Let's see if that works. Click here, click there, No! That's straight alright, but it's a weird shape. Hmm, here's another answer telling the poster that he didn't try hard enough! Wow. Here's someone wondering if the original poster is a Troll. Good grief, they really don't like newcomers here. Here's someone suggesting reading the tutorials again.

Ah, here, answer number 17 "Use the pencil tool". Let's see, I didn't notice a pencil, oh that thing, "Freehand line"? That's not what I wanted. Let me try it. OOOOH! I see! It's just labelled wrongly. That's not a freehand line, that's the tool for drawing straight lines. Well, that's solved that then.

OK, I sure hope someone files a bug against Inkscape about the mislabelling of the line tool.
And I sure hope that someone files a bug against all the documentation that fails to mention how to draw a line.
And I sure hope someone files a bug against the forum, about being friendly and helpful to newcomers, and answering the bloody question.

Statistics: Posted by stevenpemberton — Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:38 pm