April 2021 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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Regarding the serialization of Spiro control points
by Fred Brennan 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Greetings, I write from the FontForge project. Of particular interest to me is the Spiro spline feature, which was originated around ten years ago by Raph Levien. One thing I'd like to add, (which would benefit both our projects,) is the ability of FontForge to understand the Inkscape Spiro serialization format. However, there are several things about the format which to me as an outsider appear to be defects serious enough that I have no idea how to even *import* these splines correctly, much less export our Spiro splines to this format. I would very much like to support the _de facto_ standard Inkscape has originated of supporting Spiro in SVG, but I am lost. George Williams, FontForge's original author, noticed this defect over eleven years ago.[1] Things are virtually unchanged since then, I checked `git blame`. Spiro has five point types, not including beginning and ending points. They are: * G4 curve (o) * G2 curve (c) * Corner (v) * Left Constraint ([) * Right Constraint (]) The ASCII single letters are the normal method of Spiro serialization, as championed by Raph Levien and by us in FontForge. Inkscape seems to create what I will call a "pseudo-SVG path". So, it is not really an SVG path, but rather is an SVG path which undergoes transformation into the typical Spiro format. Inkscape stores this in the "original-d" attribute. So, given a Bezier spline with control points defined as (x, y, c1, c2), Inkscape interprets a control point with only (x, y) to be a corner, meanwhile a control point with all four is a G4 curve, and (x, y, c1, NULL) is a left constraint while (x, y, NULL, c2) is a right constraint. I can probably overcome this, although George Williams was right to be skeptical of this format. There is no way I can see to define a G2 curve in this strange "original-d" format. Thus, this email. I write to ask a few things. I suppose first of all, what are the chances that we can convince you guys to store Spiro splines in plate[2] format, or another widely accepted Spiro serialization format? Second, if we cannot convince you to do that, how do I export FontForge spiros which contain G2 control points to Inkscape's original-d format? It's not possible, yes? So should I just silently fail and save them as G4? The curves will not be the same if I do that. Should I disallow export to SVG w/Spiro if glyph contains G2 control point? That seems a steep cost that will just confuse my users, so perhaps I should abandon the whole thing if it comes to that. Cordial regards, Fredrick Brennan (@ctrlcctrlv) [1]: https://narkive.com/63FADpG3.4 [2]: https://levien.com/garden/ppedit/README, section "Plate files"

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Please add your names to the AUTHORS and TRANSLATORS files
by Maren Hachmann 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi everyone, if you have contributed to the upcoming 1.1 Inkscape release, please add your name to the AUTHORS and/or TRANSLATORS files (these are not auto-generated currently and lacking lots of entries!). You can find the files for the 1.1.x branch at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/1.1.x/AUTHORS or https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/1.1.x/TRANSLATORS respectively. Thanks! Kind Regards Maren

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Meeting Now
by Martin Owens 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Dear Devels on List, The weekly developer meeting is happening today/now to discuss the last run up to the 1.1 release, come join us: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Libre Graphics Meeting looking for talks, live demos, lightning talks - Deadline April 19th 2021
by Maren Hachmann 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hi everyone, our friends from Libre Graphics Meeting have asked us to let our community know that submissions are open for talks, live demos and lightning talks for the event, which takes place 27-30 May 2021, mostly online. Whether you're an experienced Inkscape user, a professional using Inkscape, an Inkscape developer or an active community member - or have knowledge around any other free and open source graphics software that you'd like to share with the world, please visit their website at https://libregraphicsmeeting.org and submit one or more proposals for their different talk formats. Submission is still open for a week, so hurry, and make an impact in the free + libre graphics world! Maren

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P6.Refactoring
by Nilesh Aditya 10 Apr '21

10 Apr '21

Hey! I am Nilesh Aditya, a 2nd year undergrad from Delhi Technological University, India. I have been programming in C++ for quite a time now, and want to make my mark on open source software! *PROCESS* : *Description : *There are many approaches and techniques to refactor the code. - Usage of unnamed namespaces - XML Refactoring *Expected Outcomes: * - Remove direct manipulation of XML from as many places as possible and replace it with SP tree methods. - Reduce source code line count - Make the codebase more convenient to code in. *Skills Required:* experienced in Modern C++ , JS, OOP, experience of Inkscape I had done quite a significant amount of research regarding the idea which included reading the official wiki docs present online, reading and understanding the Inkscape code base. I would love to get in touch with a mentor who would be interested in guiding me with this idea!

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Discussing proposal's idea for GSoC
by Osama Ahmad 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi, my name is Osama Ahmad and I'm planning to join GSoC this year. As stated here <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=SOC_Writing_Project_Proposals>, it's encouraged to discuss ideas for GSoC before submitting. I'm planning to improve symbols dialog. The improvements are: - The symbols are loaded from the dialog itself, not form a background process. making it asynchronous will make the start time (if the dialog is opened before the last exit) or the runtime response (if the dialog is opened for the first time while the program is running) faster. - To be able to open, edit and save the symbols from the dialog. If the symbols are loaded from a read-only folder, or if the user intends to save as a new copy, the user can save the edited symbols as new ones. By edit, I mean to edit the svg itself or edit the tags and other properties of the symbols. - To be able to load/save symbols from/to a folder. Any opinions or changes that can be done? Is it good enough for a proposal?

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1.1-beta available
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Hi everyone! We recently released Inkscape 1.1-beta, while planning to release 1.1 next month. You can get the release at https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1beta1/ for all platforms All testers are encouraged to test this version and report bugs at inkscape.org/report == Packagers == The tarball is not expected to differ much to the beta one, if you want to check that everything is all right for your platform :) == Translators == Thanks for your work! Strings have been frozen for a while, and it's not too late to submit translations until shortly before release date. == Developers == We have now branched the code repo. The new branch 1.1.x now only welcomes bugfixes, translations and easy-to-review changes; while features, performance, code improvements, or anything that was left waiting in prevision of 1.1 are free to go to the main branch. == All contributors == Thanks everyone for your contributions! All the work you're doing in various area, such as UX, outreach, docs, testing and bug triaging, and more, is what makes us a better project over the years :) -- Marc _______________________________________________ Inkscape Translators mailing list -- inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Board Meeting Delayed until Apr 9th
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Howdy Folks, Asked in chat if we wanted to delay because it's Easter Holiday for much of Europe — didn't get many responses so I'm taking that as "we're already gone." Let's move the meeting to April 9th. Those who have the day off work, enjoy it! Ted

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