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3 June, 2009

Create a chromatic wheel with Inkscape

Filed under: Inkscape, English tutorial, Tutorial in french, color/colour, vectorial — Administrator @

françaisIl y a une version française de cet article
englishThis is a variant of the old article from august 2007 called Create a radiating sun, this time, I explain how to do a chromatic circle. The technic is about the same, but the color parameter of the clone tiling is used to achieve the object.

This time I used a triangle 200 long, 32 high (32, not 30 to avoid gap between triangles). After selecting the triangle, remove the color informations, to allow cloning to change color. Go to menu Object => Fill & stroke, then select the ? in Fill and in Stroke tabs.

Go then to Edition => Clone => Create tiling clone…

  • In Translation tab: insert -100,0 to per colomn shifting.
  • In Rotation tab: 9° per colomn ( 360° / 40 = 9°, as there are 40 clones for the whole turn).

For color :

  • In Color tab, at T (Taint) insert 2.5 per colomn (100 % / 40 = 2,5 %)
  • To obtain red as initial color, click on little flat colored rectangle at the right of Initial color:
  • On RGB (red - green - blue) insert respectivly 255, 0, 0 and 255 for the alpha channel (A)
  • Then, close this window and press the Create button.

Et voila!

I added some black ring and a circle with white radial gradient on this picture to simulate a saturation gradient.

29 May, 2009

Compil Inkscape SVN (0.47) sous Jaunty

Filed under: Inkscape, vectorial — Administrator @


First get sources directly from SVN or SVN sources snapshot

Then install the following Ubuntu developpement packages:
sudo apt-get install automake intltool libpng-dev libgc-dev libfreetype6-dev libxft-dev libpango1.0-dev libgnomevfs2-dev liblcms1-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libxslt1-dev libgsl0-dev libboost-thread-dev

These one are optionnal, but necessary for some usefull features. Respectivly pdf output, bitmap manipulation, opening wpg vector files, SSL connection to whiteboard:
sudo apt-get install libpoppler-dev libmagick++-dev libwpg-dev libssl-dev

Compile and install inkscape (this will install it in /opt/inkscape-svn-21149 path (revision 21149):
./configure --prefix=/opt/inkscape-svn-21449 --with-perl --with-python --with-gnome-vfs --with-xft --enable-inkboard --enable-poppler-cairo --enable-lcms &&
make && make install-strip

21 May, 2009

Inkscape generator,database or spreedsheat /SVG relationship script

Filed under: Inkscape, extension — Administrator @

Inkscape generator

is a script allowing relationship between SVG and database or spreadsheet, using the CSV format., this can be usefull in lot of case :
* mailing
* badges
* customized objects
* content filling, like a magazine where the page layout is in SVG format
* animation steps
etc…
This script is notably available for Ubuntu Jaunty, using stable Inkscape version.

19 April, 2009

(Français) Mise en page, patrons, grilles et gabarits

Filed under: Inkscape, extension, fonts & typography, illustrated text — Administrator @

Sorry, this entry is only available in Français.

3 July, 2008

Booksprint Inkscape

Filed under: Inkscape, English tutorial, Tutorial in french — Administrator @

françaisA partir de vendredi est lancé le booksprint Inkscape sur Paris, à la Cité des science et de l’industrie de la Villette, venez y participez nombreux, il est toujours possible d’éditer le livre en ligne sur le site du floss (lire ce lien pour plus de détails pour les francophones) en anglais ou français, il faut d’abord s’enregistrer, vous pouvez également rejoindre le canal IRC #inkscape-fr sur irc.freenode.net ou (plus probablement en anglais) #booksprint sur irc.freenode.net et sur jabber, booksprint@conference.jabber.impressusart.com

english A booksprint start friday in Paris, at la Cité des sciences et de l’industrie de la Villette. You can already edit the book in english, french (or other language ?) on the wiki of the Floss, you also can join booksprint@conference.jabber.impressusart.com on Jabber or #booksprint on irc.freenode.net on (IRC)

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