druban wrote:You can try (in a test copy of your svg) selecting all your rectangles and in the control bar of the rectangle tool click on the remove rounding button. Save it under a test name. Then see how an export goes.

Well, it rendered more of the image when taking off the corners, but Inkscape still stops working and crashes. I'm hoping to keep the rounded corners anyway as that's how they are in the game ...

druban wrote:Also try removing definitions just to see if that reduces your filesize although export should not really be affected by this....

"removing definitions" What do you mean by that?

druban wrote:

Off topic:

That is an impressive number of pieces in the shogi game. Is this variant shogi played on a go board?

That variant, Ko Shogi, is played on a Go board. It's kind of a combination of Go (size of the board), Xiang Qi (pieces placed on the points rather than in the squares), and Shogi. You think that one has a lot of pieces, take a look at this ... (That's a 36x36 board, with each player starting with 402 pieces). Ko is the largest variant I've played so far.

brynn wrote:But for making the map, can't you align the individual rectangles while they are rectangles or 4-node paths -- then once you finish a block of a color, then combine paths?

Well, see the problem is that I'm not doing all of one block of color, and then moving on to the next. I'm following the landmass in the game doing line by line (but not all the way cross the full map each line, just across the current piece of land between "unselectable spots" which don't show their outline rect in the game, like the mountains and hills in the picture above). So I'm doing multiple terrain types at a time. A the current stage of the map I'm pretty much past that and going back to fill in the "unselectable spots", but using the rects I've put down previously to align with.

brynn wrote:If you're saying that you move them around later, then yeah, combining will make alignment more difficult.

Later on the rectangles won't get moved around any more, but counters representing armies, city developments, etc will get moved/placed and I thought it'd be handy to keep using the align function for that too.

brynn wrote:And for another idea, what about, instead of using Align and Distribute dialog, you use snapping to do the aligning? Does this help?

I haven't messed around much with the snapping, but I'll give that a try.

Isn't it a search box? It doesn't seem work for some reason though, but I think it's a built-in GTK-search-thing because it looks like the one that shows up when you type something in Nautilus (file manager in Ubuntu) and in lists in general. I'm on a windows machine right now, so I can't test it. ...

Out of curiosity, why are you using vectors for this project? Does each rectangle have a stroke? I'm using Inkscape because I find the objects easy to manipulate, especially with the crtl-shift-a alignment functions. I've used Inkscape to make boards and pieces for shogi variants like this one ... ...

I'm working on a file using different colored rectangles, stacked brick-like, that form a map (specifically I'm trying to duplicate the map of China from the video game Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI). So far the file contains a bit over 22000 rectangles in 24 layers (one layer per terrain type). ...

I think your best bet for getting rid of the blur would be to increase your image size. 16x16 isn't a whole lot of room to fit stuff on, and it's probably that size more than anything that is causing the blurr in your letters and such. With how your .svg is that's 16x16 including blank space around ...

I'm not at my home computer at the moment, or I would double check to be sure, but I believe Inkscape is available in the package manager in Ubuntu. You should be able to go to the Admin -=> Synaptic package manager, or to the "Add/Remove Programs" and select Inkscape in either of those. T...

Mato (a cool guy from Japan), is working on a special version of Blender 3D. In this special version you can use SVG files as textures on your 3D models. SO, since I'm a Blender user, and wanted this for ages, I'm doing some experiments. Looks like your experiment came out pretty well. Hopefully Ma...

The only thing I can suggest is that maybe the svg is too big. There's a max filesize of 256 Kb.

I usually upload the image (in .png format) to either DeviantArt or photobucket and then use the IMG tag to put the image into posts.

I've had the same thing happen to me. In my case I use a USB flash drive to keep my artwork on. When I use the flash drive at home the drive it is the "e:" drive, but when I use the drive at work it gets allocated as the "g:" drive. Inkscape saves the last file path used and atte...

Select everything before bringing up the Doc Properties, and then "Fit page to selection". If you want to make the page slightly bigger than the bounding boxes of the selected items, make a square temporarily, size it around the rest of the drawing how you want the page to boarder to be, s...

I think my favorites of what you've posted are Dawn and Headshot, but I think all of them are pretty good

Inkscape has a few "hidden" features that aren't on any menus or buttons... you have to know the right key to press or that double-clicking brings up a dialog. I think that Optimus Maximus keyboard would be a very handy tool to use with Inkscape, since almost everything is done by pre...

Looks pretty cool. Your choices in colors looks real good to me.

I think he looks pretty good. At least he's not crying.

I can't count the number of times I zoomed way in to position a guide before I learned I could enter exact measurements just a few weeks ago. That was my usual method as well. Now for that angled guide thing ... I wish there was an Apply button to apply the angle to the guide without closing the di...

CarlCravens wrote:Use a pair of Guides to find the center (double-click on a guide to manually enter its exact measurement).

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.

I was reading in this post that if you hold shift and click the rotation center "+" it will re-center itself. Something I've been wanting to know for some time too

BenjaminLDD wrote:Just a lot of learning what you want to learn when you want to learn it.

That's the best kind of learning

Although I haven't gotten around yet to following your tutorial and vectorizing myself, I have been watching them in preparation for it. Great job on the video tutorials

hjalle wrote:And i don't have a clue were I'm going.

Maybe not, but your frog looks pretty cool. I'm looking forward to seeing him finished

Mmmmm, fishies make me hungry

I don't see anything wrong with the font ...

I look at the Task Manager and cpu is normal when I'm not doing anything even though I had Inkscape opened. But it went up when I start doing even the simplest thing such as selecting an object, let alone selecting several objects, it'll go to 70%-80% range. I have encountered this same thing. What...

Cool icon. If I may make a suggestion though ... a cup with such a round bottom would spill very easily

You're pretty good at that. I look forward to seeing your tutorial. I've tried to vectorize myself, but it never comes out right.

I am only vaguely aware of who Tintin is, but that is an awesome map you made.