Marc Jeanmougin, a member of the Inkscape board based in Paris, spoke to The Register about the new release. There are some breaking changes in the new version, especially with extensions, most of which will need to be updated to work with this release. You can also set a custom GTK3 theme, and import new themes by moving them to the themes folder. The user interface is more customisable than before, with the ability to modify menus via an XML file and to configure interface colours and styles by editing a CSS file. There was intended to be support for adding CSS classes and styles to elements, though the team said: "There are a couple crashes, which is the reason why the dialog has been disabled for the 1.0 release." The feature is now documented as "experimental". A new export format is HTML5 canvas, which saves an image as code to render it on an HTML Canvas element. Some new options are aimed at web developers. A new tool in Align and Distribute, called on-canvas alignment, lets you align objects relative to the current selection by clicking them three times. imagine a "lake" inside a country) you *have* to delete it manually (delete the "lake", not the country), otherwise you will receive error.Inkscape is now a native application on MacOSĪ new measurement tool shows the length, height, width and position of a path when you hover over it, while the improved context menu has been extended to offer hide/unhide and lock/unlock options. # if you have a compound vector path (i.e. (The last step in InkScape are just in case erros still occur, the objects should have already been optimized successfully by Illustrator.) # Convert objects to paths, Path > Object to Path, then select tool Edit path by nodes (F2), select *all* nodes (drag) and then click on the 11th icon from the left - Make selected segments lines # Open InkScape, go to File > Inskscape Preferences > SVG Output, *uncheck* Allow relative coordinates and *check* Force repeat commands # Export the vector from Illustrator as SVG *1.0* (nothing "Adobe", nothing optimized, standard SVG) # Select all objects and go to Object > Path > Simplify, under Options *check* Straight lines and then OK # Ungroup all objects, remove clipping masks, remove all strokes, leave just fill and go to Object > Expand When maps are detailed and/or sloppy created, regardless of InkScape version, you can use Adobe Illustrator: This application saved me much more time than what I spent trying to figure out these issues. ![]() In these very few cases I had to break them apart using the option "Path > Break apart".įinally I could convert my map without more problems. Not all, but some ones that were too complex. Some paths composed by subpaths caused me problems. In my case, because the end nodes were so close, the new segments were imperceptible :). Fortunately this action ignores the nodes that are already joined and only creates a segment between the end nodes. So I tried to select all the nodes of each path and use the option of the node editor called "Join selected end nodes with a new segment". Many paths look like closed, but they aren't really! InkscapeMap returned a cryptic message: " c not implemented yet" when I tried to load the SVG file.ĭetecting the end nodes of each path and joining them, one by one, had been a very tedious task :S. It may sound obvious, but when you work with graphics from external sources, it isn't :/. It allows you to set the level of flatness, which is a desirable feature to keep the looks as much close to the original graphic as possible.Ģ. Because my graphic used lots of curves, I used an extension of Inkscape, located on "Extensions > Modify path > Flattern Beziers". ![]() The paths must be straight lines, without any Bézier curve. Thanks to some information found on Launchpad (/inkscape/+question/81736) and after many trial and error tests, I discovered some important rules that the SVG file must meet:ġ. Specially about the requisites of the SVG file to convert. However, it took me some time to do it because of the lack of some important information. I took a SVG map that I needed from Wikimedia Commons, and converted it into a HTML image map successfully.
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