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anhinga
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INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby anhinga » Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:23 pm

I have a problem with EXTENSIONS/INTERPOLATE
what did I do:
- I start inkscape
- circle tool, draw circle, object to path
- select circle, CTR D, shift 2nd circle
- select both. text: 2 objects of type path in layer 1
- Extensions, generate from path, interpolate, apply
- nothing happens, dave for short flicker on the screen.

What did I do wrong?
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Moini
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby Moini » Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:02 pm

Does the preview work?

Do any other extensions work?

Has this worked before?

Can you share info about your operating system and Inkscape version (see Help > About, please paste complete version info).
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby brynn » Mon Oct 29, 2018 10:23 pm

It's possible that Interpolate is working, but the results are not on the visible area of the canvas. If you've done a lot of other work on the same layer (or changed page size or orientation), it's possible one of those transform attribute bugs is happening.

Try looking around - scroll around to look outside the visible area of the canvas, or zoom out quite a bit, to see if you see them. Or to absolutely make sure it's not a transform attribute bug, create a new layer, move the circles on to that layer, and try again.

Or I suppose it could be possible it's just talking a long time. How many steps did you set? If it's over say 50 to 100, it might take a little longer than usual.
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby druban » Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:55 pm

The interpolate extension only works on paths. Convert your ellipses to paths first
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Polygon
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby Polygon » Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:45 pm

Convert your ellipses to paths first

This is what he does in step 2 - no?
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anhinga
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INTERPOLATE does not work - II

Postby anhinga » Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:18 am

Sorry, for not providing enough information.
    1) I am using Inkscape 0.92.2. i.e. nearly the latest one,
    2) I have the same problem on 2 computers, one is running W10-64 pro, the other W7-64 home,
    3) PREVIEW does not work, also the other EXTENSIONS do seem not work. Do they have to be down loaded or activated specifically?
    4) I start INKSCAPE, and do as described in my first posting. So the results cannot be hiding somewhere:
I am using INKSCAPE quite a bit, but have never run in an obstacle like this.
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby druban » Wed Oct 31, 2018 4:20 pm

Polygon wrote:
Convert your ellipses to paths first

This is what he does in step 2 - no?


So it is! Thanks for reading more carefully than me.
I was going by the memory of having people have the problem before to which this was the solution...

To the OP: can you save the file of the circles that failed and upload it here?
Or you could combine the two circles and try path effect interpolate subpaths
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anhinga
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby anhinga » Wed Oct 31, 2018 5:39 pm

Hello druban, I attached the file. anhinga

interpolate-circle.svg
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Polygon
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby Polygon » Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:00 pm

Please check your file again.
You have 3 objects on the canvas - 1 yellow double on top of the other. Selecting just the 2 paths of them will work with the interpolation extension:
interpolice.jpg
interpolice.jpg (47.25 KiB) Viewed 6618 times

(My Inkscape version don´t interpolates borders - so that´s not normal)

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anhinga
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby anhinga » Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:29 pm

Hi Polygon,

it does not work with me, if I have only two objects. I attach the corrected file, which does not work with me. Anhinga
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interpolate-circle-2.svg
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Moini
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby Moini » Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:57 pm

Okay, the issue is here:

3) PREVIEW does not work, also the other EXTENSIONS do seem not work. Do they have to be down loaded or activated specifically?


My suggestion:

Uninstall Inkscape - COMPLETELY!
After uninstall via uninstaller, remove any files thatmight have remained in the Inkscape installation directory.

Download the recent version from https://inkscape.org/releases

Install it, including Python.
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anhinga
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INTERPOLATE does work

Postby anhinga » Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:14 am

Hello Moini,
I have installed the new Inkscape, and now it works without a problem. Thanks!! Why should I install Python, allthough I do not use it?
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby Moini » Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:20 am

Well, the extensions depend on it - as you have seen when you tried them and they didn't work.
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anhinga
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INTERPOLATE DOES WORK

Postby anhinga » Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:19 pm

I have used the windows 64 bit msi installer, and INTERPOLATE does work. So Python must be part of that.
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Moini
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Re: INTERPOLATE does not work

Postby Moini » Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:03 pm

Yes.
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