I would like to create a "base document" consisting of the outline of an object. This base document would then be referenced by other documents, so if I change the original base document, I would like all other documents using it to be updated. Is there a way to do this in Inkscape? The o...

There's a big difference between 0% opacity (nothing in the object needs to be drawn because it's 100% transparent) and hidden (the object is not displayed, and therefore Inkscape does not need to evaluate any other properties). You're right, hiding a layer should be the same as hiding an object... ...

~suv (s/he/she/ ;-) Whoops, sorry. :) Don't suppose I'll forget that in the future now. I might have good solution for this issue for this general issue of using Unix command-line tools on Windows, but I really haven't had time to pursue it... my wife's Windows install died yesterday and I had to a...

When you double-click on scour.py, I don't think you're getting a command prompt... as a typical Unix program, not giving it a filename means it's waiting for an SVG XML structure to be entered. It doesn't expect you to do this by hand, but it expects to be opened in this mode to receive the output ...

I'd soften those hard, black strokes... make them a shade of orange so they blend in, the way you did with your other work.

My second plan is to use autotrace under Linux to do the vectorization but my original task is to do it with Inkscape, which is why I ask here again. Inkscape isn't the right tool for this job. It would be convenient if you could automate this with Inkscape, but that functionality isn't there. This...

I have .ai file which have muliple icons that I want to export idividually as jpgs. Like say I have 10 icons in one file and would like to export as 10 individual bitmap files, is it possible in inkscape? I tried copying individual icons but its tedious, I can't copy all layers and am missing few l...

So is it as simple as just not being supported yet? That appears to be the case. You could ask on the sk1 forum about the status of v1.1.5 and this feature... http://sk1project.org/forum/index.php Is there a program like uniconverter for windows that I could use to batch convert a large amount of f...

hint/how to for newbies when exporting: First go into the Edit tab, click on the camera icon/Make a Bitmap Copy function. It does not appear to do anything, but don't worry. This is unnecessary if you want to export your SVG to a bitmap. What Edit -> Make a Bitmap Copy does is export the selection ...

Sadly, I found the answer... http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor&op=roadmap UniConvertor Roadmap version 1.1.5 * XAR importer (Xara LX graphics format) * CDR exporter (Corel Draw v7 and v11) * DXF exporter (AutoCAD document exchange format) * text support for...

Does this wiki page shed some light on the icon issue? Yes, it does. Any idea how the end-user makes it quit doing that? I much prefer the Inkscape icons for rotate/flip over my default theme's icons. (I did some reading, but didn't find a clear clue toward how to change that behavior.) Thanks.

I built 0.47pre1 on Debian Lenny, and my rotate/flip icons are coming out as arrows instead of the little triangle symbols. I still see the usual triangle symbols in icons.svg, and I don't see these arrow icons anywhere in there, so I don't know where they're coming from. These icons changed identif...

Can you guys with the "missing text" problem post a sample CDR file?

I have a similar problem I am guessing and I am already using an RPM based Linux distro. (Fedora 11) Within the attached ZIP file is a CDR file that will not open... haven't found one that will open yet. This one converts with uniconvertor v1.1.2 on the command-line, and it opens in Inkscape 0.46 f...

Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by "batch export", but when I use --export-png=myfile.png, it saves it in the current directory. Or I can specify a relative or fully-qualified path and it will save it there.

Using 0.46 under Debian "lenny".

Can you provide a sample file?

I've had weirdness happen when I use "Fit Page to Selection" in 0.46. Inkscape doesn't relocate the coordinate system, it puts a translate on every layer... and there are some operations that get confused by that. (Creating rotated tiled clones of objects that existed before the page-resiz...

It doesn't seem to work that way (at least in 0.46). For now, the only way I know of to remove unused patterns is to remove them from the XML tree by hand. Ctrl - Shift - X to open the XML editor... Find the svg:defs section (should be near the top), and your svg:pattern node where id="patternN...

I'd love a keyboard like that, though it'd have to be a "natural"-style ergonomic. I'd especially like one because I'm working on a keyboard layout similar to the Right-Handed Illustration layout, except tailored to the types of work I do. Ideally, I'd never have to take my right hand off ...

Very nice. I like the foreground frame effect.

I wasn't aware one could manually enter a guide's location. Thanks :) I'll have to give that a try. Edit: Ah. That is cool. It also allows you to set the guides at an angle. :) Yeah, when I discovered that, I was surprised. I can't count the number of times I zoomed way in to position a guide befor...

You could also: Use a pair of Guides to find the center (double-click on a guide to manually enter its exact measurement). or Position the pivot point by hand and "get it close", then group the two elements and use Align & Distribute to center the group to the Page. or In Inkscape pref...

While I think this would be a great feature (aligning the stroke to inside, center or outside), but I think microUgly's got it right... until such a feature is implemented, linked offset are your friend. (Well, up until you want to use linked offset of an open path... the offset always wants to clos...

Oh, yeah... this is a great picture of the real world. If OSS developers can't compromise, can't accept that the world is what it is and won't change overnight, then we cut ourselves off from a vast number of desirable options. Especially when some of those options are things that businesses have to...

I've seen this feature requested by several other people, maybe one of the developers will also feel this itch and scratch it for 0.48 :) I would contribute money (say, US$20) toward a bounty for this feature. For someone who opens up one file and works on it for hours, this isn't a big deal. But I...