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<title>Mapping using Inkscape</title>
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<description>&lt;div class="right" style="float: right"&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/3571723898/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3354/3571723898_486e5505e0.jpg" alt="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3354/3571723898_486e5505e0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/3571723902/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3405/3571723902_6bec581271.jpg" alt="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3405/3571723902_6bec581271.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/5793022199/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/5793022199_2622f9b031.jpg" alt="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/5793022199_2622f9b031.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/8221269254/" class="url http"&gt;&lt;img class="url http" src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8068/8221269254_283e26d2b6.jpg" alt="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8068/8221269254_283e26d2b6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recently decided to &amp;#x201c;publish&amp;#x201d; my high level module &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2012-11-26_Caverns_of_Slime"&gt;Caverns of Slime&lt;/a&gt;. To the right, you can see the various stages my map went through. And you can see that the entire process started out with map. The map was the backbone of all subsequent activities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It all started with the first map at the top. Things that made it from the very first draft to the very end:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;the ring like structure with a water flow leading to the Ooze Lord in the center&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;the lab of one of my former player characters, &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/tags/gar/"&gt;Gar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Shroom Lord (I wanted some continuity with the level above)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;orcs on landsharks throwing bottles of green slime&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prison of Dis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aranea city&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eternal Swamps&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ghouls&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Things that got lost:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;were rats (boring unless transformed in interesting ways)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;poison flowers (what&amp;#x2019;s interesting about poison flowers? the Eternal Swamps ended up being not so evil&amp;#x2026;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;sauro-eels (but giant eels remained)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&amp;#x201c;sulfur levels of clockhouse wheels&amp;#x201d; &amp;#x2013; a kind of evil Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus (the evil fusion of men and machine reappeared in the Fortress Dam of Ix)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;refugees of the fungus forest (the level above didn&amp;#x2019;t seem to have any refugees)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;rock giant with moss (I feel that giants don&amp;#x2019;t fit thematically)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;dread mages of the shroom kings (which kings? what&amp;#x2019;s interesting about dread?)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also note how I abandoned my detailed isometric map in step two. As I drew it, I kept dreading the moment where I&amp;#x2019;d have to key it and I kept thinking that at higher levels, the party would be flying, teleporting, gating, or pass walling anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for the final map: I just drew it all using &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.inkscape.org/"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt;. I wanted to write more about it, but in the end, all I did was draw lines, using a lot of Ctrl+L to simplify the paths and then editing the nodes using F2 to make it look better. Every section was on a different layer so that I could lock the rest. The most important decision was to work on paper for the longest time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Maps"&gt;Maps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Maps"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Inkscape"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Inkscape"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Caverns%20of%20Slime"&gt;Caverns of Slime&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Caverns%20of%20Slime"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:05:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Map Making Using Inkscape</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2011-02-12_Map_Making_Using_Inkscape</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;A long time ago I wrote an &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Old_School_Hex_Map_Tutorial"&gt;Old School Hex Map Tutorial&lt;/a&gt; using Inkscape. The campaign I started this with is still on-going after 46 sessions and more than two years of play. We meet on two Sundays per month. Tomorrow is the next session, and I&amp;#x2019;m looking forward to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I keep working on my map!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="image outside" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/5438543704/in/set-72157594406870853/"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="Working on my map using Inkscape" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5438543704_061a963870_z.jpg" alt="Working on my map using Inkscape" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It just keeps on growing…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="image outside" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/5438543484/in/set-72157594406870853/"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="Alder King map for my players" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5058/5438543484_825d8f743e_z.jpg" alt="Alder King map for my players" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of you may recognize this map as a section of the &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Lenap&lt;/em&gt; region in the &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Wilderlands of High Fantasy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I started on &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://campaignwiki.org/pics/F%C3%BCnfWinde/Karte.svg"&gt;a similar map&lt;/a&gt; for a new &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.goblinoidgames.com/labyrinthlord.html"&gt;Labyrinth Lord&lt;/a&gt; campaign in the &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Sea of Five Winds&lt;/em&gt; region of the &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Wilderlands of High Fantasy&lt;/em&gt;. I love the material because it provides a rough foundation upon which I can build my own campaign setting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Maps"&gt;Maps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Maps"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Inkscape"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Inkscape"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:08:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Copy and Paste Inkscape Problem</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-08-15_Copy_and_Paste_Inkscape_Problem</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Copying_and_pasting_in_Inkscape_creates_pixellated_images_instead_of_copying_the_vector_objects"&gt;  Copying and pasting in Inkscape creates pixellated images instead of copying the vector objects&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl class="quote"&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Starting with XQuartz 2.3.2, X11 has some functionality to exchange the content of the clipboard with OS X. But it currently does not know how to deal with vector images so it just captures the screen, i.e. creates a bitmap copy, and then pastes that. You need to deactivate this functionality in X11 preferences &amp;gt; Pasteboard: uncheck &amp;#x201c;Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes&amp;#x201d;.&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;Phew!! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=OSX"&gt;OSX&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/OSX"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Inkscape"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Inkscape"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:46:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SVG, CSS, and Inkscape</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-09-19_SVG%2c_CSS%2c_and_Inkscape</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I have a problem with &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.inkscape.org/"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; and I think it&amp;#x2019;s related to the handling or loss of CSS information. I have a script that creates an SVG map which looks fine in Firefox &amp;#x2013; &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/svg-map"&gt;check it out&lt;/a&gt; and hit the submit button.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I import that &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG"&gt;SVG&lt;/a&gt; into another SVG in order to add more layers, &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://campaignwiki.org/pics/Kaylash/Kaylash_Subsektor_Karte%2c_mit_Routen.png"&gt;everything looks more or less ok&lt;/a&gt;. One thing that&amp;#x2019;s already wrong is that the hex coordinates are missing. When I save the file, close Inkscape, open Inkscape again, and reopen the new file, &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/Kaylash/download/Kaylash.svg"&gt;things are messed up&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coordinates are still missing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Font sizes are wrong for the coordinates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Symbols (text elements) around planets have some sort of white border&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you think Inkscape will have an easier time handling the SVG if I don&amp;#x2019;t use CSS to specificy stroke width, opacity, and the like?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m using Inkscape 0.46 at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Software"&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Software"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=CSS"&gt;CSS&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:CSS"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=SVG"&gt;SVG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:SVG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Inkscape"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Inkscape"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:19:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>My New RPG Network Logo Using Inkscape</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-06-26_My_New_RPG_Network_Logo_Using_Inkscape</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;My old &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face"&gt;X-Face&lt;/a&gt; logo is an traditional 48×48 black-and-white image. It is used on my blog in the upper right corner and on my old &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://rpgbloggers.blogspot.com/"&gt;RPG Bloggers&lt;/a&gt; 170×50 logo:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="image" href="/alex/pics/Alex%20RPG%20Logo%202008.png"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="Old Logo" src="/alex/pics/Alex%20RPG%20Logo%202008.png" alt="Old Logo" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to have a bigger and printable version of the logo. The problem with the old logo is that the background was is on a map I drew for a campaign of mine, based on &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/3127562077/in/set-72157618394102137/"&gt;a campaign map I drew&lt;/a&gt;, in turn based on the Lenap  map of the &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderlands of High Fantasy"&gt;Wilderlands of High Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;. If I zoomed in, the town name &amp;#x201c;Boghra Little&amp;#x201d; was going to be readable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I decided to rearrange elements on my map such that only elements I had added myself were going to be visible, purging all traces of the Lenap map. And I was going to keep an &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG"&gt;SVG&lt;/a&gt; source file around. This also meant I needed to vectorize my old X-Face. No problem. &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.inkscape.org/"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; makes this really easy. The result:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="image outside" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kensanata/3663805838/in/set-72157618394102137/"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="New Logo; click for the Flickr page" src="/alex/pics/Alex%20RPG%20Logo%202009s.png" alt="New Logo; click for the Flickr page" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Inkscape"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Inkscape"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:49:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;There was a lot of talk about corporate wikis, measuring corporate wiki participation, and some wikis &amp;#x201c;competing&amp;#x201d; for use in the corporate area.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oddmuse is definitely not a &amp;#x201c;corporate wiki&amp;#x201d; in this respect. I think the problem is the process of decision making: Someone starts with a list of features and goes to collect more items for that list by talking to other &amp;#x201c;stakeholders&amp;#x201d; in the company. This is what you end up with:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="image outside" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/Corporate%20Wikis.svg"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="Corporate wikis are a waste of time" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/Corporate%20Wikis.png" alt="Corporate wikis are a waste of time" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I&amp;#x2019;m being mean. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Damn, I forgot &lt;abbr title="what you see is what you get"&gt;WYSIWYG&lt;/abbr&gt;, blog integration, &lt;abbr title="content management system"&gt;CMS&lt;/abbr&gt;, mailing list integration, bug tracking system integration, calendar integration, &amp;#x2026; there&amp;#x2019;s so &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; out there!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Wiki"&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Wiki"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=WikiSym"&gt;WikiSym&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/WikiSym"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=WikiSym2008"&gt;WikiSym2008&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/WikiSym2008"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Oddmuse"&gt;Oddmuse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Oddmuse"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Diagram"&gt;Diagram&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Diagram"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=SVG"&gt;SVG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/SVG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Inkscape"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Inkscape"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:44:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Inkscape for Mapping</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2008-06-25_Inkscape_for_Mapping</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m using &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://www.inkscape.org/"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; to create a multilayer map. Unlike my previous project (&amp;#x2192;&amp;#x00a0;&lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2007-06-08_Old_School_Hex_Mapper_Getting_Better"&gt;2007-06-08 Old School Hex Mapper Getting Better&lt;/a&gt;) I&amp;#x2019;m now using Inkscape to draw the map directly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m using four layers:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;Hex&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;This is a light blue hex grid I got from a grid PDF generator &lt;a class="url http number" href="http://www.nomic.net/~uckelman/mkhexgrid/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="url http number" href="http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/hexagonal/"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;Geography&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Rivers, hills, forest&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;Civilization&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Dots for cities, ruins – my goal is for every hex to offer something to do&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt&gt;Unknown&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;All the stuff my players don&amp;#x2019;t know yet&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TheAlderKing/HomePage"&gt;The Alder King&lt;/a&gt; is going to be a game of exploration. There are no detailed maps available to the players.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="inter CW" href="http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TheAlderKing/Map"&gt;Check it out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have a crappy browser, the above PNG file with a transparent background will probably look borked. Get &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Firefox"&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; instead. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The above map without the Hex and Unknown layers, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I wrote a tutorial for those interested in doing something similar: &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Old_School_Hex_Map_Tutorial"&gt;Old School Hex Map Tutorial&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now that I&amp;#x2019;ve placed a few things on the map, I will need a little campaign plan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=RPG"&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:RPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Maps"&gt;Maps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Maps"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Inkscape"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Inkscape"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:37:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SVG to PDF</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2007-06-02_SVG_to_PDF</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Gah, I can&amp;#x2019;t find a good SVG &amp;#x2192; PDF tool that I could install at my webhoster. I downloaded the &lt;b&gt;svgtopdf&lt;/b&gt; module from the &lt;a class="near" title="Community" href="http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/InkScape"&gt;InkScape&lt;/a&gt; svn repository, installed PDF::API2 in my home directory, and tried it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;alex@mirabel:~$ svgtopdf &amp;lt; test.svg &amp;gt; test.pdf
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at /home/alex/lib/perl5/SVG2/ToPDF.pm line 57.
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the library requires a height and width of the document to be specified. Ok, try again&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;alex@mirabel:~$ svgtopdf &amp;lt; test.svg &amp;gt; test.pdf
Creating a page: 1600, 1200
Unknown Object Found 'defs'
Unknown Object Found 'use'
Unknown Object Found 'use'
Unknown Object Found 'use'
Unknown Object Found 'use'
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gah! That&amp;#x2019;s the central idea behind the SVG I&amp;#x2019;m generating: I define each hex only once, and then rely on the &lt;code&gt;use&lt;/code&gt; element to assemble the map. (&lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2007-06-02_Hex_Mapping"&gt;2007-06-02 Hex Mapping&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x2019;s a svg2pdf that is part of &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://cairographics.org/"&gt;Cairo&lt;/a&gt; which works more or less. I built it on my webhost machine. I downloaded, configured using &lt;code&gt;--prefix=/home/alex&lt;/code&gt;, compiled, and installed the following from source:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;libsvg 0.1.4&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;cairo 1.4.6&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;libsvg-cairo 0.1.6&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;svg2pdf 0.1.3&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Building required me to set &lt;code&gt;PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/alex/lib/pkgconfig&lt;/code&gt;, and running requires me to set &lt;code&gt;LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/alex/lib&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check out my &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.epfarms.org/~alex/old-school-hex.pl"&gt;old-school-hex script with PDF support&lt;/a&gt;. Source available. &lt;a class="url http number" href="http://www.epfarms.org/~alex/old-school-hex.txt"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why am I not 100% happy? Somehow the PDF output doesn&amp;#x2019;t look too good. The aspect ratio is wrong, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=Software"&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=Web"&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=Inkscape"&gt;Inkscape&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=PDF"&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=SVN"&gt;SVN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:27:28 GMT</pubDate>
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