Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've printed my first big project created with Inkscape, "Stars of the Northern Hemisphere". The large, glossy poster is divided into three main panels which map 2,400+ individual stars by season. Two additional panels depict close-up views of the Pl...

I was able to convert the troublesome png into a tiff using ACDSee, which PhotoShop will load.

Where there's a will there's a way!

My current project has too many objects to export without crashing (see recent thread in this category). So I'm now doing it piecemeal and intend to merge two bitmaps in Photoshop CS2. Trouble is, I can load the first png file into PhotoShop but not the second -- Photoshop won't parse it! It's a ver...

Brynn: thanks for the link. I searched for "trees," found hundreds, but actually I think the trees in my mock-up are not so bad in comparison because they are abstract enough to remain distinctive even at low resolution. RM: Check your pm inbox. VW: thanks for the link. I may give them a t...

Greetings All, I need a logo for my astronomy art projects and mocked up a "trees and star" design (shown below). Some of my artist and graphic-arts friends who have seen it told me it's lame, but they are not available to help me improve it (I have no free-hand artistic skills). Could any...

I am running the 64-bit version of Win7 with 12GB of RAM -- so no problem there! But since Inkscape is a 32-bit app, I do not believe that it can allocate more than 2GB.

I'm running Inkscape on Win7 and I'm working with an svg file containing ~120,000 objects. Every time I export it to bitmap, Inkscape crashes. However, if I remove half of the objects (doesn't matter which half), the export succeeds. I guess this is the kind of thing one should report to "Launc...

Hey guess what? If I save the file and re-open it again -- my object comes out on top.

Case closed!

Thanks again, friends. I'm getting a good education here. But I'm not home-free yet. I have taken ~suv's advice and properly slotted my new svg objects in a "custom_layer" group. In Inkscape, in the layers pane, I can now see both "Layer1" and "custom_layer". I can sele...

Okay, thanks ~suv. Since I have myriads of objects, I will try option "b"

I found my way to the "Layers" pane and it looks like everything is on "Layer 1" :-/

To prkos: it does not seem to matter whether or not the object is in a group. What matters is that the object was in the file originally -- that is, before I pasted in the extra objects (which the original objects will not surmount.) Layers... hmmm. I did not explicitly create "layers" -- ...

I might provide a stripped-down file if it comes to that. Also I need to add that something I said above was mistaken . If I create new objects in Inkscape, then actually they will go to the top. But if I select or copy a preexisting object that was in the file originally, then it will not go to the...

I have a file in which an object that I want to "Raise selection to top" doesn't quite go to the top. There are still other objects 'above' of it. This also happens when I create new objects in Inkscape -- they won't go to the top. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot t...

Hello again all you smart people out there. I am building a star map in which I need to draw constellation outlines (straight lines) between stars (circle objects). Now, when I use the "Draw Bezier curves and straight lines tool, " the default style is a thin black line. This is rather inc...

Okay, I worked through your instructions which demonstrated that this is indeed the effect I want. I think now all I have to do is to make my Excel sheet build an svg path for my string of preset coordinates, then once I have it in Inkscape, I can use the node tool to finesse it. I'll let you know i...

I am using an Excel spreadsheet to generate svg code for a series of points placed at precisely calculated x-y locations. I insert this code into the file which I edit with Inkscape. The line is supposed to represent a geodesic path that is projected onto a flat map. Depending on how finely I space ...

Is there a straightforward method to create a path which results as a "smoothed line" through a set of fixed points? By this I mean in the same way that anyone can do with any charting program, such as in this MS Excel example: http://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/res/gt/lwr-cap14b.gif I do realiz...

Wow. Solution arrives in 11 minutes. Thank you prkos. Problem solved. InkscapeForum rocks!

Greetings, I am trying to create glowing stars (i.e., with 'bloom') and I am very pleased with the look of Inkscape's Filter>Blur>Fancy Blur effect when applied to bright-color-filled circles 10-20px in diameter on a black background. Trouble is, the blur gets squared off at the objects' boundaries,...