March 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Vector Aesthetics Presentation
by Jonathan Phillips 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Hello All, I'm giving another presentation that kinda involves Inkscape at UC Berkeley on April 04, 2004. Please see http://art.berkeley.edu/040404/ if you are interested in attending. It should be very interesting. The event is free I believe and has food and whatnot. I will post info on the talk to the WIKI shortly. It is an overview of a framework I'm calling Vector Aesthetics. I will only discuss post-Bezier art/design/etc at the talk, but will end with Inkscape short-note. Anyone seeking help, or wants to have a little mini-meeting in the area, then please stop into that talk. Jon -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...247... http://www.jonphillips.info

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Text Special Characters
by bulia byak 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

>Each time I try I get a small empty rectangle instead of the character. Also please try to find the latest build that worked and report it when submitting the bug. _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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How to get up-to-date PO/POT files
by Arpad Biro 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

Hi, How can the current PO/POT files be obtained/generated? (I mean, files that contain the very latest English strings.) Are they updated automatically or do we have to update them by hand? Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Gradient Meshes
by bulia byak 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

>>When these things are done, I will be almost happy. It will be relatively >>easy then to emulate most meshes, fields, etc. by overlaying >>semitransparent elliptic gradients. > >How does that follow? Nobody has shown how to transform a gradient mesh >into a gradient field (a very good name actually). I'm not a mathematician; I'm a designer. I think I can approximate well enough (for design purposes) most useful meshes using ellipses, and a still better approximation is possible with blurred strokes of blur filter on shapes. See the current about.svg for a crude example. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Gradient Meshes
by bulia byak 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

>I think we're best off providing UI to utilize the features we do have >from SVG; And from Sodipodi. It's amazing how much stuff we can render but lack creation tools for. Bitmap fills, patterns, masks, clones (svg:use), multistage gradients... All we need for these is just UI and some bugfixing, and voila. This should be one of the main directions of Inkscape development IMHO. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Error on Inkscape web pages
by Alan Horkan 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

I thought you might want to fix this immediately so I'm mailing it to the list rather than filing a bug at the top of every page on the inkscape site is the following error message: Warning: open(/tmp/sess_8fbb6e7c1573df58b634cba6b111355e, O_RDWR) failed: No space left on device (28) in /home/groups/i/in/inkscape/inkscape_web/includes/header.php on line 6 - Alan

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Text Special Characters
by bulia byak 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

>Each time I try I get a small empty rectangle instead of the character. I can confirm that. Please file a bug. >I am also getting the error message shown in the attached file. This is likely unrelated, please file a separate bug. I also noticed that saving with non-ascii filenames on windows does not work (I will file this too). Did it ever work, or was it only fixed/tested on linux? _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] more on win32 locale
by bulia byak 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

>Se attached diff for the function that causes the komma. Thanks, applied >For now I don't see other cases that generate wrong number output even >there are a lot printfs. Here's what I found: sp_arc_set_elliptical_path_attribute in sp-ellipse sp_stop_write and sp_gradient_repr_set_vector in sp-gradient sp-metrics one more _dump_path is sp-offset sp_shape_build in sp-shape still lots of printfs with %g in style.cpp sp_svg_write_percentage all postscript output in extensions/internal/ps.cpp sp_dtw_whatever_changed and 2 more cases in desktop-properties still more style writing in sp_fill_style_widget_paint_changed in dialogs/fill-style similar in stroke-style, also dash setting there widget_opacity_value_changed in item-properties setting font-size in text-edit Perhaps I still missed something... _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] more on win32 locale
by bulia byak 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

I applied your first three patches, thanks. >1. When drawing a polygon (the star) numbers in the points element are >locale dependent, strange the star is drawn correctly. >2. The root document with and height are also locale dendent. Yes, and probably other places, too. What we need to do is just search for "printf" and see if the output of it goes into SVG, and if so, replace them (some printfs print debug messages on screen, you can leave them alone). Now that you know what to do, it should be easy :) >cvs diff sp-polygon.cpp (in directory C:\projekte\inkscape\src) Please resend this patch in diff -u format as were the previous ones. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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some UI suggestions ;-)
by Artemio 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

Hello all! Once again thank you so much for your great efforts and unbelievable results. I have several suggestions to make Inkscape UI even more usable. -= 1 =- Currently, most (if not all) the tool options, fill/stroke and similar dialogues appear as top-level windows. If Inkscape's main window is maximised, this makes coming back to a certain dialogue to slow (one has to use Alt-tab or go to taskbar). Possible solution: make all dialogue windows child windows so they never go away if one works on the canvas etc. This would drastically speed up the work with the app. Also, possibly remember open child dialogue windows and their positions - this way users would be able to create their very own In -= 2 =- In export dialogue, it would be nice to be able to export a PNG of the same size the canvas is, not just the size of the whole drawing. Drawing can be small, but people often need to export 300/600 dpi A4 page. -= 3 =- I think that most of "file", "edit" and "dialogs" menus should also be available as tollbar icons (like it is in Sodipodi). Of course, users should probably be able to configure this so those who prefer I'll tell you why I'm asking about this. Working with your left hand on the keys and right on the mouse is faster and better. But very often there are times when one puts his back on the armchair, holds a cup of warm tea with his left hand and wants to have some nice rest with drawing in his favorite Inkscape :-) This makes this person walk in menus too much. So if he'd be abke to add the file/edit/diaogue toolbars he'd be so much happier :-) These are just what I feel Inkspace is lacking, although nothing here is critical. Thank you very much again for Inkscape! Sincerely, Artemio. -- http://artemio.net/exp ::: Artemio's hot sound tweaks [local time 13:04:31 (GMT +3) 28 March 2004] [system uptime 1 hr 57 min]

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