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.
Questions tagged [inkscape]
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Crop SVG drawing to canvas size in command line
I have SVG images produced by PlantUML, which has some parts of drawing outside of canvas. It makes it difficult to use such images and I need to crop drawing to canvas size. As I produce UML diagrams with script anyways, it would be really…
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Clean way to temporarily replace a config file?
I use a drawing program called Inkscape, which has both a GUI and a command line interface. When used on the command line, it has a large number of options that can only be controlled through a user-specific config file, which is hardcoded to…
user39248
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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 on top of all other applications as you use…
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Inkscape not opening after installed?
I just installed 14.04 on my laptop. The first thing I did was to install inkscape by using the instructions on this website.
However, after installation, it does not appear if I search for it in the Unity dash. If I try running it from the command…
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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, Inkscape hangs and fills up the RAM, the only exit is…
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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 images to obtain the image format they need. However,…
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Can't install inkscape on Ubuntu?
I tried to install inkscape in my Ubuntu 14, but it doesn't exist. And when I install my ubuntu says that is already install, but when I put in the terminal $ inkscape it says that is necessary to install.
It is confusion.
See file below
How can I…
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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
real 26.95
user 0.59
sys 0.05
I've read posts (here and…
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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
uniconv_run()
File…
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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 the loader spins for a while but then stops and…
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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 install bzr:
apt-get install bzr
Then I use command…
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Failed to receive the Open Clip Art Library RSS feed
I tried import drawings from OpenClipArt in my Ubuntu using Inkscape, but appear this problem below:
Failed to receive the Open Clip Art Library RSS feed. Verify if the server name is correct in Configuration->Import/Export (e.g.:…
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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?).
It is illustrated in this screen capture.
I…
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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 path information from?
echo ${PATH}
Shows…
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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 inkscape argument I can use for a commandline…
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