Wikipedia talk:How to draw a diagram with Inkscape

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This article seems extremely chatty, annoyingly so.

One of the problems with Inkscape is that it saves its images as its own special version of SVG. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to make the program use standard SVG as the default mode for saving, so it is necessary to select the standard version of SVG each time a file is saved. Not doing so frequently results in images that are not handled properly by Wikipedia. P0M (talk) 09:01, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to change it, I was appealing to a more "How-to" style than I would if I were writing an actual article.

As for Inkscape SVG is simply using extensions of SVG, as allowed by the standard using namespaces. I believe that is errors in rsvg that are responsible for problems, rather than Inkscape's fault (at least as far as page sizing, and black boxes occur). Arrow heads are a RSVG's problem, inkscape uses def tags- but rsvg really should render them properly. For example, text is supported in the SVG tiny specification here, and works fine in rsvg version 2.16.1, but I don't think that Wiki's version likes it (what version do they use?). I think that in time (and a few updates to the server) this will be less of an issue - so I wouldn't worry about it. The inkscape developers are working towards a completely standards-compliant SVG implementation, and on their wiki, at least one developer believes that it is a "Conforming SVG Generator" (ie makes SVG compliant files) [1]. As far as I understand, and I am not in any way familiar with the inkscape source code itself so what I say is most likely wrong (I can make it compile from a tarball), the plain SVG output only strips the inkscape namespace such that poorly decoding SVG readers don't have a fit. I.e. its a compatability tool - not a standards compliance switch User A1 (talk) 11:31, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

This article also is incorrect...

...simply press the align to centre on horizontal axis button; This will bring both eyes' centres in line with one another.

This is not true. In fact, that button doesn't do anything no matter what is selected nor where the two objects are located with respect to each other. I will correct this page when I figure out how to accomplish this... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.54.34.34 (talk) 15:19, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

It works -- I use it all the time User A1 (talk) 00:10, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Shouldn't free be replaced with open source? 24.16.51.115 (talk) 15:09, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikibooks

Shouldn't this article be on Wikibooks? 98.166.139.216 (talk) 00:43, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree, this is not encyclopedic, it's useful, I don't think it should be discarded, just moved to a more appropriate venue. Either Wikiversity to flush out the inkscape stub, or perhaps more appropriate, though outside of MWF to wikihow.com. If nobody objects I'll move it out and link the new location from the Wikipedia inkscape page. Dgandhi360 (talk) 20:48, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

I agree as well Zamp m (talk) 13:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Agree : This is more of a tutorial, not an encyclopedia article. Warrior4321^talk 03:28, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Just to make a comment -- this is in the WP namespace. Not article namespace. User A1 (talk) 07:24, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

There is already a Wikibook project on Inkscape. hydrox (talk) 03:20, 1 August 2009 (UTC)