Some thoughts
by Daniel Díaz
Hello all!
Well, I finally downloaded Inkscape again and gave it a try. I hadn't
seen it since the old 0.35-pre days, and I must say this new interface
you all talked so much about is MARVELOUS! I *love* it! With the tools
organized this way I can finally make my way into some rather basic
designs! (I couldn't do it before, for I wasn't able, ever, to find
where the things I needed were). I was raised in the old Freehand
school, so this definitely suits me much better!
I do have some comments, however.
Well, at first glance, the "Click, Shift+click, drag around objects to
select." message is not the warm welcome message I would expect. It
would be great to have a "Welcome to Inkscape!" status just as the
program starts if the new window contains a new document.
The about menu entry, also, lacks the typical GNOME about icon. In the
about window, there's Federico Mena (Quintero, I suppose) written as
"Frederico".
I drew a rectangle and tried to move it to some given position with
fixed width and height. After setting X, one (well, I did) would
normally use Tab to switch to the Y field. It does switch, but focus
seems to be lost somewhere, for the next number zooms in or out.
Also, I truly don't know why, my mouse cursors seem to be broken. I'm
sorry I can't make a screenshot of this, but they look odd. The "icon"
looks almost fine, save it's all trashed and shifted and... well, it
doesn't look right.
I just grabbed the code from CVS one hour ago.
It looks great as it is! I'll try to make my dad use it and I'll let you
know about any HID issues.
Greetings to you all!
Daniel Díaz
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19 years, 2 months
RE: [Inkscape-devel] Some thoughts
by bulia byak
>Well, at first glance, the "Click, Shift+click, drag around objects to
>select." message is not the warm welcome message I would expect. It
>would be great to have a "Welcome to Inkscape!" status just as the
>program starts if the new window contains a new document.
Good idea. I'll do it.
>I drew a rectangle and tried to move it to some given position with
>fixed width and height. After setting X, one (well, I did) would
>normally use Tab to switch to the Y field. It does switch, but focus
>seems to be lost somewhere, for the next number zooms in or out.
Yes, this is planned, as well as the shortcuts for quickly going to any of
the secondary toolbar fields/spinbuttons.
>Also, I truly don't know why, my mouse cursors seem to be broken. I'm
>sorry I can't make a screenshot of this, but they look odd. The "icon"
>looks almost fine, save it's all trashed and shifted and... well, it
>doesn't look right.
Perhaps it cannot find its mouse cursor bitmap? Did you do "make install"?
Anyway, if you can find out anything specific about it, please file a bug
report.
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Re: [Sodipodi-list] feature wanted: boolean operations
by Nathan Hurst
David Christian Berg wrote:
>We'd best ask Michal himself on this question but still I'm deserately
>hoping for a intersect, unite and substract tool, where you end up with
>one object at the end.
>Union become a problem when you would want to move the (with grouping or
>combining non existing) nodes at the intersection of the object
>outlines. Actually that was something that quite annoyed me when I
>started out with sodipodi. One learns to work around that kinda problem
>with the time, though.
>
>
If you are desperate, inkscape has boolean operations available in CVS.
njh
19 years, 2 months
postscript output: no included bitmaps
by John Griessen
When postscript output is made, it includes bitmaps in a
reasonable-looking .ps file, but ggv
does not like it...
And trying imagemagick convert on th large .ps file gives:
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 583994
GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
convert: DPS library is not available (card-test.ps).
inkscape puts out this during print... is a module missing?
==========================
** (inkscape:9094): CRITICAL **: file db.cpp: line 39 (void
sp_module_db_register(SPModule*)): assertion `module->id != NULL' failed
** (inkscape:9094): CRITICAL **: file db.cpp: line 57 (void
sp_module_db_unregister(SPModule*)): assertion `module->id != NULL'
failed
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19 years, 2 months
Postscript output
by John Griessen
Hello,
I've just used the CVS version of inkscape from
this AM to print to postscript file using postscript elements
and it works fine for the SVG elements, but not for the .png or
.tif or .jpg bitmaps included in an inkscape document.
Has this worked in the past? If not, should I write this up as a bug report,
or as a feature request on the wiki?
Even without adding inclusion of bitmaps, Inkscape plus Scribus is a like-the-pros-use
set of layout tools, and with plugins planned will outstrip those easily. Thanks for
free publishing your efforts.
Who is working on writing docs? I can help there.
JG
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19 years, 2 months
Minor changes to Win32 build
by Bob Jamison
Hi all.
I uploaded another build last night, which would
basically be a snapshot of CVS at 0600GMT. It
has two changes from the previous build:
1. It does not include the gtkmm, glibmm, atkmm,
and pangomm files. Since we don't have a dependency
on them for the time being, why download them?
2. I changed the build from a heirarchical set of makefiles,
to a single makefile with makedep files. This greatly simplifies
the build, and makes it cleaner/safer. However, any change like
this can possibly change the behaviour of the product. So if
anyone sees anything odd (or odder than normal ;-) please
let me know.
During this week, I will be working on debugging and cleaning
up the GTK static build, which is complete, but needs tweaking.
(Like where /etc and /locale and /lib are found). Hopefully
by next Monday I can get the entire thing working, and also a
nightly automated build from a cross-compiler.
Bob
19 years, 2 months
Gtk 2.2
by MenTaLguY
Would anyone have any problems if we bumped the gtk configure-time
requirement to >= 2.2.0?
We're already having trouble with 2.2-specific stuff getting introduced,
since (I think) that's what most of the developers have. We may as well
make the dependency explicit if we use those features.
-mental
19 years, 2 months
RE: [Inkscape-devel] Re: monostd.h
by bulia byak
>Innocent, your honour! According to cvs log, I added it to Makefile.am
>on 2003-12-21 (cvs comment `Add some header files to SOURCES, so that
>`make distcheck' works.'), and monostd.h was deleted by mental on
>2004-01-03 (cvs comment `portability fixes').
Ah, sorry, I didn't realize that the file was actually there for some time -
I read the CVS log and thought that you just added a reference and not a
file itself :)
Thanks for the fix!
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