banjo Posted September 7, 2003 Report Share Posted September 7, 2003 OK. I give up. I need a usable vector graphics program for my 9.1 system, and I cannot get there with what I have found so far. I need to be able to create icons for my web work, and while The GIMP is a wonderful pixel editor, I cannot do this work with a pixel editor. I have tried Kontour (Karbon 14) but that tool does not have Bezier curves. There is only so much you can accomplish with circles and stars. So, I tried Sketch, which works, but I cannot get the text to do anything but tiny tiny tiny fonts. So, I installed sodipodi, which seems to be just what I need....... only to find out that I cannot export my work to anything but SVG, which is readable by next to nothing! (There is a tool to export to PNG, but no matter what I do it stores nothing.... no file is created). I have sodipodi .31, so I downloaded version .32 and tried to install it.... I just got the error error registering local packages I would be very thankful for a pointer to a working vector graphics program, or a way to get sodipodi to actually store a PNG file for me. Is there a trick to that? If I can get a PNG file out of sodipodi then I can take The GIMP and run with it. Help help, oh help.......... Banjo (keep smilin' :? ) (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judland Posted September 7, 2003 Report Share Posted September 7, 2003 How about Open Office's Draw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted September 7, 2003 Report Share Posted September 7, 2003 I would be very thankful for a pointer to a workingvector graphics program, or a way to get sodipodi to actually store a PNG file for me. Is there a trick to that? If I can get a PNG file out of sodipodi then I can take The GIMP and run with it. When you export the drawing to a file, enter the filename as "anyname.png", and sodipodi will export it as a PNG file. Here is one of my sample png export by sodipodi: http://www.geocities.com/zero0w/sodipodi/impro.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted September 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2003 zero0w, Thanks for the info. Nice image. I have the Export Bitmap dialog up on the screen with "test.png" in it. I still cannot get any file to come out of it. When I click on Export, nothing happens. One curious thing is the the Bitmap Size area at the bottom of the screen has the Height box empty and grayed out....??? Is there something else I must do to the image before I can export it? What version are you using; maybe there is a bug in mine. I am running .31, which came with the Mandrake 9.1 distro. Thanks in advance Banjo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted September 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2003 OK. Never mind. I figured it out. I was running sodipodi under KDE, which is my normal desktop. I decided to try it running Gnome and it works just fine. I got my PNG. Yay. I guess that is why I am the GNUbie. Funny thing is that the rest of sodipodi seems to work fine under KDE. So it was a rather deceptive problem. Thanks again for the help. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Well I can export PNG image using sodipodi even under KDE, so I am not sure what's going on with your problem. Note that I use the Mdk rpm of sodipodi from the Sourceforge site, not from Mandrake Cooker. Currently I am running the latest 0.32 version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted September 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Hmmmmmm. I downloaded 0.32 and tried to install it, but it just barfed out the message "error registering local packages" Maybe I will go try it again and see if I can get the new one installed. I am new with RPM. Any ideas of what the above error means? Can you tell me exactly which RPM I should use for 9.1? Perhaps I downloaded the wrong file from sourceforge. I am running on a Celeron chip, and I am not sure where that resides in the i586 i686 chain of processors. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Download this rpm for Mandrake: sodipodi-0.32-1mdk.i586.rpm Normally I install with these steps: su rpm -Uvh sodipodi-0.32-1mdk.i586.rpm Try uninstalling the older package first if you still run into problems: As root user, rpm -e sodipodi (it actually will uninstall any version of sodipodi) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted September 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 That is the same RPM that I had downloaded and tried before. I got errors when I tried to install it. So I tried what you suggested: rpm -Uvh sodipodi-0.32-1mdk.i586.rpm and that seems to have worked. So it appears that updating the package works, but installing does not ??? One of these days maybe I will understand what just happened..... The 0.32 version of sodipodi is much better than the 0.31 I was using. And I also am now able to export the PNG file while logged in using KDE. Another thing puzzling me is that earlier I had downloaded the source code and attempted to build the program, but the configure script gave me errors.... Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-2.0' found .........which implies that my system is missing something..... But the update worked anyway, which implies that all is well........... ??? Oh well. I am very happy that the tool works now. Thanks for all the help. Linux rules! Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 That is the same RPM that I had downloadedand tried before. I got errors when I tried to install it. So I tried what you suggested: rpm -Uvh sodipodi-0.32-1mdk.i586.rpm and that seems to have worked. So it appears that updating the package works, but installing does not ??? One of these days maybe I will understand what just happened..... Yes, if a previous version of rpm package existed, you have to use the "rpm -Uvh ***.rpm" parameter to upgrade the rpm package. Only a newly (non-existed) rpm installation where "rpm -ivh ***.rpm" will work. Glad to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 I remembered your post and maybe your pleased now..but if your lookign for other programs... look at this page: http://debianlinux.net/multimedia.html#drawing (scroll down a litlle bit) Xfig? Maybe it helps also.... a lot of programs on this page! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Thanks for the input, actually dia is a really good flow chart program, and I am going to try Xfig soon (urpmi xfig, it's on CD2 of mdk 9.1). EDIT: I tried it, but I think I like sodipodi better, the control point tool is much more intuitive if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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