April 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

short cut lingo?
by Kees Cook 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

In "keys.xml", under the "Offsets" shortcuts, it shows "Ctrl (", "Alt (", and "Shift Alt (". To generate a "Ctrl (" you need to press shift... but the other command makes a distinction. Two solutions: change keys.xml to say "Ctrl 9" change short cuts to handle "Ctrl 9" as well as "Ctrl (" (which is what the "Alt (" shortcut does. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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marker orientation
by John Cliff 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

Hi guys, Bit of a conundrum, which way is the end marker on a curve meant to point? if I've got a curve thus ---------------- and I apply the same arrow marker to each end should I end up with a) <-------------> or b) <-------------< ? I've read the spec, and cant work it out. I looked at the test cases, however they use triangles aligned like this V------V which look the same with both options a + b, so its not very helpful. batik renders b, so thats how I've done it currently, however I just wanted to be sure. (inkscape was rendering them as per option a before.) Let me know what your thoughts are Cheers John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Grid-related patches
by bulia byak 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

>1. Anchor points are snapped to the grid; otherwise when you're drawing a >line with the pen tool you get every point except the first snapped to the >grid, which seems a little odd. I don't normally use grid, but the description of the patch sounds OK to me. Please someone test and apply. >2. Resolve the issue whereby changing grid snap units from pixels to mm >is not noticed. Fuller explanation is in the comments I added and in the >patch tracker. Ditto. >My other grid-related problem is that pasting a snapped object results in >the pasted version not being snapped to the grid. I plan to fix this so >that pasted objects are placed such that their points have the same offset >from the nearest grid points as the original. Any objections? I think this will be useful too. Carl, I can give you developer CVS access if you want it, to make it easier to patch things. You'll still be able to post patches you're not sure about to the tracker first, but otherwise you can write to the tree directly. Let me know. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN Premium. Get 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] Feedback on 0.38 Release
by bulia byak 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

>Does undo work with the gradient dialog open? Because it makes sense to >be able to undo each gradient change while you have the dialog open... Udo works whenever a change is made. Doing anything only "while the dialog is open" is a very bad idea, since our dialogs are not modal and can stay open for arbitrarily long time, with the actions in the dialog intermingled with other actions on the canvas or in other dialogs. _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Win32 build fix.
by Carl Hetherington 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi, Attached is a patch which removes references to extension/menu.h from src/make.dep and src/make.files. It also adds extension/internal/eps-out.o to make.ofiles. I'm guessing that these files are in CVS for the windows build, and are not supposed to be auto-generated... Cheers Carl

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"README" updating?
by Kees Cook 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

This is from the current README: It does not yet handle following svg shapes: - circle Is this right? The XML editor shows it a circle as "path", so I guess this is true. Is this a major missing feature? -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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what happend to the icons.svg (to: nemies) ??
by Adib Taraben 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

most of the buttons meeased up. Adib.

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Feedback on 0.38 Release
by bulia byak 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

>* Default font for text was too small when at the (default) full-size > page view. No problem. Feel free to change. >* The context menu for text should include a link to the Text and Font > dialog. OK with me. I just never use context menu, so someone else would need to do that. >* Changing font color should be easier to access via the context menu > and/or the text and font properties dialog. There's no "font color" in Inkscape (or in SVG). A text object is just an object, so it uses the same way to change its color as other objects. >* The zoom mouse cursor shows a '+' when zooming in. It should show a > '-' when you're zooming out (shift-mouse click) Yes. And all other cursors need to be redrawn too. >* It would be handy to have a way to select objects "under" the object > on top. E.g., a modifier to the left mouse click that would cause it > to select the next object down in the stack for each click. Yes, I was planning to do that by ctrl+alt+click. Keep getting sidetracked into other things :) >* When you select 2+ objects and right click, having access to some of > the 'Align' and/or 'Boolean' commands could be helpful. OK with me. >* When you're editing a multi-stop gradient and then close the dialog > and do 'undo's, it appears to undo each individual edit to the > gradient rather than just undoing the entire editing transaction. Not an entire transaction. Rather, sequences of similar actions (such as movements of the position tracker or color edits) should be lumped together for undo. This is easy to do, just pass a string key when you call sp_document_done, and adjacent actions that have the same value of that key will be undone as one. Simarilius: can you please look into it, see e.g. keyboard object move functions for an example of lumped-together actions. >* There should be a way to not only convert a text object into a node > object, but also to convert the individual letters in the text object > to separate text or node objects. It should _always_ convert a text string into a group of paths, one path per letter, instead of the single compound path as now. As for breaking a text object into per-letter text objects, what might be the use? With kerning, you can move letters freely without breaking, and text remain editable as text. >* Pasting text from open office to inkscape or vice versa. Why OO only? We have an RFE for making Inkscape work with system clioboard on all platforms, that will take care of that. >* Paste style is very cool and works as expected. Some sort of 'paste > size' might also be useful, if you want to force a range of shapes to > have exactly the same dimensions. I don't see how size could be "pasted". Instead I'm thinking about improvements to the Align dialog, one of which might involve a new alignment mode that is allowed to stretch/squeeze, not only move, objects. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Resend: Patch for inkscape.1.in
by Wolfram Quester 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi, I noticed that the hint to the keybindings is still refering to a non-existing file. The attached Patch fixes this. Best regards, Wolfi

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Markers progress & a small bug.
by Carl Hetherington 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi, Thanks very much to all who have put work into the markers code, it's really coming along nicely. I've had bug #934209 in my tree for a while now, and it's still there with current CVS. I'll have another look at it some time this week, but perhaps someone else can sort it in the mean time. Cheers Carl

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