March 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

thank you
by Artemio 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

Dear Inkscape developers, at first, please take my sincere congratulations - Inkscape is on the 3rd place in my top 5 list of most used applications! :-) You have made possible what I have dreamt for over two years since I started using Linux (I use ONLY Linux since that time). You have done a really great work. Inkscape has absolutely everything I need from a vector editor and even more. It's very light, fast and the interface is very straightforward and intuitive. Thank you, thank you very much! Frankly, you have blown all my expectations away - I didn't think someone would do font->path thing possible, this is amazing! Now I can bring my SVGs _anywhere_ and they will be read just as I made them (already tested this). Please excuse me for talking too much, it's just that I really respect your work and wish you all the best! I do have some little suggestions to you, but I will write them in my next message :-) Good luck to you all and thanks so much again! Artemio. -- KDEvibes ::: audio environment for KDE ::: http://kdevibes.artemio.net/ [local time 12:55:00 (GMT +3) 28 March 2004] [system uptime 1 hr 48 min]

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text improvement
by bulia byak 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

* Clicking on a text object by text tool positions the cursor closest to the click, instead of at the end of the text object as before. _________________________________________________________________ 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 found the problem that causes #1 but I didn't found the source that >writes the root width and height with the units. Initially it's set in document.cpp: /* Quick hack 2 - get default image size into document */ if (!sp_repr_attr (rroot, "width")) sp_repr_set_attr (rroot, "width", A4_WIDTH_STR); if (!sp_repr_attr (rroot, "height")) sp_repr_set_attr (rroot, "height", A4_HEIGHT_STR); but that uses preset strings "210mm" and "297mm" so you don't need to change that. (Ugly, btw, this needs to be reqritten properly, so it takes initial page size from a template.) Then it may also be set in root.cpp, but that is already covered, because it uses sp_repr_set_double. Finally it is also set in dialogs/desktop-properties.cpp (document options dialog): g_snprintf ( c, 32, "%g%s", adjustment->value, sp_unit_selector_get_unit (us)->abbr ); and this one needs to be replaced. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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svg canvas
by laurent belmonte 27 Mar '04

27 Mar '04

Hi all, I'm present my self : i am the developper of monkey-bubble (http://home.gna.org/home/monkeybubble). MonkeyBubble use svg gfx from the begining but i am not happy of my display architecture : i use librsvg to load svg to a bitmap. The main disadvantage of this, is that i can't do sophisticated transformation of vector object like rotation, zoom ..etc So i have read somewhere that inkscape plan to implement a vectorial canvas lib. I am very interesed in this. is the work already started ? where can i know more about this ? regards, Laurent Belmonte

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Release
by Ted Gould 27 Mar '04

27 Mar '04

Hey, Bulia noted on chat the other night that we're getting awful close to the 10% metric on bugs. We discussed, and I think it was generally accepted, that we should feature freeze for a release shortly. Peter has disabled the guideline locking until a GUI can be developed and Mental has moved the AST code on to its own branch. Currently in SF I see that we have 33 bugs out of 252 filed, so we need to fix eight of them. Ironically, we have 8 high level bugs - so I think that fixing those should be our target for the release. They are: 915374 - Command Line Printing doesnt work 914611 - inkview crash on startup 911772 - Extension Saving 911237 - export/save must warn when overwriting file 866103 - non-well-formed preferences.xml causes data loss 857316 - win32: non-english locales: font style matching broken 857311 - win32: correct output SVG of numerics is locale-dependent 852976 - win32: mouse becoming unresponsive I can definitely finish 911772 here shortly. 911237 won't be a big deal, I can do it, but someone else is welcome. Anyone want to grab these bugs for the release? --Ted

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Release
by bulia byak 27 Mar '04

27 Mar '04

>Also, I got distcheck to pass - so we're good there also. I haven't >looked through the release notes recently - how are they doing? Rather well, but they need an intro paragraph summarizing the focus of the release (bugfixing). Also the Known Problems may benefit from a few more items - please try to think what are the most annoying unsolved problems that remain. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Inkscape 0.38 Status
by Bryce Harrington 27 Mar '04

27 Mar '04

Here's the updated stats for today: 2/18 2/28 3/ 8 3/18 3/27 Goal ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1. Bugs 841633-896992 52 33 28 17 12 9 2. Open/Total Bug Ratio 33% 24% 25% 16% 13% 10% Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] more on win32 locale
by bulia byak 27 Mar '04

27 Mar '04

>>Please resend this patch in diff -u format as were the previous ones. >see attached file Thanks, applied _________________________________________________________________ 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] Principles of Design Graphics
by bulia byak 27 Mar '04

27 Mar '04

>In the "Elements and Principles of Design" tutorial", the Principles of >Design graphics are all absent. Should this be so? Try pinging Jon Phillips who is the author of this tutorial. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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multistop gradient editor
by bulia byak 27 Mar '04

27 Mar '04

Thanks to John Cliff, we now have a redesigned gradient editor that can handle any number of gradient stops in a gradient. I decided to commit this now because it's an important improvement which is orthogonal to everything else, so it is unlikely to cause any bugs in the existing code (although the new code itself may contain bugs, of course). The new editor is not as convenient yet as it could be; drawing gradient stops as draggable notches on the gradient strip is in our plans. Still, even as it is now, the editor is perfectly usable. Please test and share your experience. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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