It is the way SVG behaves. You have all the children (objects in the group) defined as having no stroke color. Basically telling Inkscape and other SVG interpreters to display nothing. When you change the groups stroke color, it will change that only for objects that have a style property defined. E...

Hello Galvatron, There are ways to do it in Inkscape, unfortunately no easy way. One way is to use the filter editor and muck around with that. The other way is using the XML editor, find the filter applied and change the basic (yellow) color to something more to your fancy in the SVG code. I person...

Hello Shinjui, I am really curious as to what you have made here. If you can save it as a pdf that will tell a bit. The problem could liein converting transparancies, but there shouldn't be anything to prevent saving to eps. Could you give a link to the file you are talking about, so we can have a l...

Hi James, It seems to be related to the font used. Probably the kerning of the font starts at x: -6.9352403 When I opened it in Inkscape on my Linux box the postion had move to -7.8 for Sans, whereas using Arial gave me a x: 0. The kerning of a font is taken from the font file itself and then passed...

Hi Mojave,

No idea why as I cannot see the dropbox content. Are you using bitmapped fonts? Do you open the eps as editable? Do you save the text as text or as paths? Just a few things that strike my mind when it comes to eps exports.

As a Coreldraw user you will easily get used to Inkscape, but the nice way of configuring the whole user interface to your personal preference is not here. You'll also miss the object manager a lot, though the XML editor comes a decent way in the direction and is more powerful in some respects. Part...

Inkscape uses a internal default of 90dpi. That is sad news for anyone who uses mm as everything get's these nice values of 3.45etc px/mm I guess it has to do with this property. I once suggested a setting in Inkscape to define the amount of pixels per unit by the user rather than 90px/Inch so you c...

Hi Mituran, Try changing the font into Arial, Sans or something like it. I suspect you've used a bitmapped or system font for the original. Otherwise converting text to path may be a good option. Make sure though that you do that on a copy of the original and not in the original itself as it is a on...

Hi Atomissant,

Try dig through these wiki area's. In the tutorials by Tavmjong you can also find info on how to use the command line in Inkscape if that would suffice.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extensions

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/DeveloperManual

Well,.. Illustrator CS5 has a rather decent SVG export now, creating very clean code unlike previous versions. The import however is a bit different as AI has a very limited support of SVG really (basically SVG Tiny 1.2) to cater for the mobile world. Adobe however is not really the kind of company ...

Hi nalaurethsulfate ;-) Interestingly there was a discussion on the developers list recently on this topic. Unfortunately it stranded in bickering about save v.s. export, but the basic idea that the current export to .png could easily be extended to all other formats supported by Inkscape stands vin...

Hello Ravinoff, The text frame used in Inkscape is not part of the SVG 1.1 standard and as such is not saved as SVG code, but as an InkscapeXML extension. Inkscape then can read it, but no other parsers can. SVG 2.0 seems to inherit this format proposed for SVG 1.2 in 2004!!! This why you should con...

Hi AA,

It's a bug. The only way you can prevent selecting the friggin object is you put it on a separate layer and lock that. I know exactly what you mean.

Cheers,

Jelle

Ehm,.. vectorising this thing you call a logo won't be a problem, but really Giovanni... This thing is as ugly as hell. Would you mind making this a proper contest and let people here give it a go to come up with something decent? Someone took two picture, stuck 'm together and pasted some text on t...

Hello Pshute, I think the easiest way is to do it with a bit javascript and a browser. Just read the text file using a string function to read word by word and then add some SVG code around it, dump the result to your browser window and save it as a new svg file. That way you have a fast method to c...

I have no clue what you exactly do to unset the fill when you group some items, but I can try to explain inheritance of object properties. You have a parent object and its children. So if you group something you create the parent object and if you then set a fill color, all the children (the objects...

Basically what's needed is a guy with a Mac and the ability to run the makefile to create a binary for the Mac. I personally never liked the vendor lock in that Apple has been playing since ever, so no Macs for me. Well,.. and the shuffle puck mouse ;-) Problem seems to be that there are so few tech...

Alternatively use the fill bucket on it. Just make sure the paths are closed for that. That however is the quick and dirty way of doing it.

Ehm,.. I think I get what you mean. And if you think about it for a minute it is logic as well. Your text is following a path,.... and my guess is, that that's a circle, right? Well, a circle starts at s point at 0 degrees, and goes all the way around clockwise to the end at 360 degrees. What you wi...

Any graphics tablet that works on Linux should work in Inkscape. It's just an input device that is handled by the OS. Inkscape has little to do with that. Only when it comes to pressure sensitiveness it has to be supported by Inkscape, which it does. I had good experience using a Wacom Bamboo and on...

Alternatively: - Make a backup copy of the document (just in case you're like me) - Select everything except the part you want to keep and press CTRL+C - Pres DEL (unfortunately CTRL+DEL doesn't work in Inkscape) - Save as newfilename - Press CTRL+V - repeat several times. The advantage is that you ...

Here's a nice article on the register about it. Just uninstall the update if it bothers you or face the doom of the remote chance of having a virus infected font in your machine. It borked MSoffice apps as well btw.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/17 ... lls_fonts/

I guess it's beautiful, but I guess you'll have to know exactly what the unicode numbers are for your swishes and stuff in order to access them. Typing in ALT+number should show them on screen, but Inkscape doesn't display the whole character set of a font. Try that with traditional Chinese.. 180.00...

Hi Iorweth, Could you add a link to the SVG font file? Maybe if I read the code I can get an idea what might be the problem. If you report this as a bug on the bugtracker list you may also get some more knowledgeable response. I never used the font editor myself as Inkscape can create, but not displ...

Oh,.. btw,.. there is also Optimised SVG a bit down the list that will do basically the same as plain SVG, but will not touch the script elemants. It is a later export filter than plain.