Questions tagged [inkscape]
Inkscape is a GPL-licensed vector graphics program. Inkscape is commonly used as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator, similar to how GIMP is a common alternative to Adobe Photoshop.
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How is bash autocompletion for Inkscape tied to dbus and how can I stop it?
Recently i noticed that when i try to "tab-tab" complete a filename for some gtk applications (i do not use gnome) i get dbus errors. for example:
$ inkscape pu (tab-tab, to complete the ...
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Crop pdf removing content cropped away
I do have a pdf that contains a drawing, a part of which I would like to extract.
I am able to open the pdf in inkscape. However, it contains a group with 150k items. As far as I see, there are no ...
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Convert SVG to PNG using the command line with '-w' and '-h' values applied as a "box"
Here is an SVG image from Wikipedia:
(Downloadable version: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/CH-Hinweissignal-Wegweiser_f%C3%BCr_Hauptstrassen.svg)
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Do we have inkscape program available in debian based base image
I am creating a image and need to deploy it in docker container.
I have dependency of Inkscape in my project for converting svg to png .
I need to update my docker file as I need to add following ...
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Screen or canvas not updated for Inkscape on Debian bookworm and XFCE
I encounter a problem with Inkscape on Debian bookworm with XFCE and X11.
I ask my question here because I suspect that the problem might be linked to something else than Inkscape (compositor maybe?).
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On Screen Protractor
A handy program for measuring the pixel dimensions of something on-screen is screen ruler:
sudo apt install screenruler ; screenruler
I like how you can place it anywhere on your screen and it stays ...
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Where does Inkscape 1.x get path settings from?
In Inkscape 1.02 on Gentoo Linux I see several duplicate paths in the system settings window (open with CTRL + SHIFT + P)
I would like to drop obsolete/duplicate paths.
Where does Inkscape get these ...
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strace reports a system call which is taking too long
The problem
The following code snippet shows the time it took to my system to open inkscape plus the time it took to me to immediately close the inkscape window.
$ /usr/bin/time -p inkscape
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How to view a big svg file?
I have a big SVG file (~200MB): it's a graph with very precise data. However when gzipped into graph.svgz its size is around 3 MB, so you see it's very repetitive data.
When I attempt to open it, ...
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How to open a file in the /tmp folder in inkscape?
Some software I use uses inkscape to convert images from one format to another, as an intermediate step. This means that they write images to the /tmp folder, and attempt to use inkscape on those ...
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Inkscape and uniconverter
Started working in Inkscape and after drawing a few boxes I am being bombarded by a billion pop-ups with this warning:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/uniconvertor", line 13, in &...
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Script to create new files with content recursively
I have a tree of folders where every folder contains between two and three jpg files. As I have plenty folders, I would like to develop a script to create recursively an Inkscape file in every folder ...
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Automatic conversion of Inkscape <=0.91 files to the new 0.92 CSS format
Inkscape 0.92 asks the user if old files should be converted to match the new resolution.
I aligned all old pictures in units of millimetre.
How can I convert all old files with a script?
Is there an ...
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Inkscape won't open
I have tried installing Inkscape through both the terminal, app grid, synaptic and using the .deb file. Also, I have tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions. The icon appears but when I try to launch it ...
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Install Inkscape 0.91 on Debian Weezy
There is no Debian Wheezy build of latest (0.91) stable version of Inkscape (https://inkscape.org/en/download/linux/). So i can't use Apt.
I have try to obtain source code using Bazaar.
First I ...
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