May 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-devel] fill & stroke]
by bulia byak 22 May '04

22 May '04

>I'm not that enamored of Illustrator's implementation, exactly, but I do >think it or something like it would be an improvement over the tabs. Illustrator is full of tabs, they're just very small. I find its interface rather clunky. >A less drastic marginal improvement might be if the tabs contained >preview rectangles of the fill and stroke. Don't you mean the CurrentColorWidget (see wiki)? _________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] listed before sodipodi
by bulia byak 22 May '04

22 May '04

>I'm a bit confused at Jimmac's comment, that, "I'm hoping to write a >simple functional spec for path editing, since at least Inkscape >developers seem to be interested in making their app be a graphic tool, >not an SVG editor aiming to implement all of the standard." My guess is that he is aware of our attempts to make Inkscape usable - that is reflected in the "making their app a graphic tool" part, because a graphic tool is what he's interested in too. But he's probably not too interested in SVG as such, and perhaps when he tried Sodipodi and found it unusable, he ascribed that to its intention to focus on SVG too much, instead of the real reason (the neglect of usability by the Sodipodi author). _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages 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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[Fwd: Re: [OSNews-Crew] Inkspace change to Inkscape]
by Jon Phillips 21 May '04

21 May '04

Can anyone more up to date respond to Eugenia from osnews? Thanks, Jon -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Eugenia Loli-Queru <eugenia@...358...> > To: osnews-crew@...358... > Cc: jon@...235... > Subject: Re: [OSNews-Crew] Inkspace change to Inkscape > Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:50:15 -0700 > > Done. BTW, have you updated inkscape to build with the latest gtkmm? Last > time I tried it wasn't buidling... > > Eugenia > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jon Phillips" <jon@...235...> > To: <osnews-crew@...358...> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:09 AM > Subject: [OSNews-Crew] Inkspace change to Inkscape > > > > Hello. > > > > While I understand the importance of upholding an interview verbatim, > > could you all possibly correct the misspelling of the Open Source > > project Inkscape, which is mispelled as Inkspace in this article: > > > > JIMMAC and EVERALDO > > http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7102 > > > > The misspell is on page 2. Could you also include the link: > > http://www.inkscape.org/ as this is great press for us. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Jon > > > > > > -- > > > > Jon Phillips > > Graduate Researcher > > Visual Arts Department > > > > PO BOX 948667 > > LA JOLLA, CA > > 92037 > > USA > > > > cell.858.361.2811 > > jon@...235... > > http://www.rejon.org > > > > _____________________________________ > > OSNews-Crew mailing list > > OSNews-Crew@...358... > > -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] lock icon in the selection mode
by bulia byak 21 May '04

21 May '04

>I think that once that lock icon is clicked, that it should turn red I don't think so. Being depressed is enough. >something and then lock the handles on the selected objects to scale at >the current aspect ratio. Yes, I thought about that too. Will do. _________________________________________________________________ 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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"save as copy" or "export"
by David Christian Berg 21 May '04

21 May '04

I'm not totally up to date with my cvs and not sure if it is worth compiling a new version of inkscape. But I was wondering, if there is "save as copy" menu item, just as in gimp. You know, when you want to create an ps, or eps, you do want to save the changes into the svg as well. You could also think about extending the functionality of the export dialog to handle the .ps .ai and .eps and what ever formats as well. What do you think about this? David -- Windows is not the answer. It's the quesition. The answer is "No!".

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] about current snapshot
by bulia byak 21 May '04

21 May '04

>On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:58, you wrote: > > >3. Mini-sized dropdown lists still look weird because the font size is > > >large, > > >like in usual-sized dropdown lists (see the shot). > > > Does this only happen in that dialog? >No, not only. See attachements. > > > What about the units list on the > > selector top panel? >It looks fine. See my shots at the "web design" section of inkscape.org ;-) I see. I think I know where this comes from but please submit this as a bug (attaching your screenshots) because I may not be able to fix it right now. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages 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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lock icon in the selection mode
by Jon Phillips 21 May '04

21 May '04

It seems counter-intuitive to click the lock icon and then when scaling from the dragbars to not have the aspect ratio locked as well as when entering numbers manually into the input field. I think that once that lock icon is clicked, that it should turn red or something and then lock the handles on the selected objects to scale at the current aspect ratio. FYI. Jon -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org

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[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-devel] fill & stroke]
by Jon Phillips 21 May '04

21 May '04

-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> > To: bulia byak <archiver_1@...19...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] fill & stroke > Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:19:03 -0700 > > No it is useful to have the fill and color stroke more like swatches > that are compared against each other. The tabbed palette hides this > information too much (and yes you can see it on the canvas, but what if > you want to color mix without an object selected). > > Also, this request is not so much about saving space as about providing > a similar experience across applications. Please look at this > illustrator screen shot of how colors are handled: > > http://protofunk.org/projects/group/inkscape/reference/adobeillustrator/10/… > > Illustrator's smaller interface is brilliant and how colors can be dealt > with as foreground/background or stroke/line is brilliant as well. > > Jon > > > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 12:38, bulia byak wrote: > > >Couldn't the Fill and Stroke tabs be condensed into one by having a > > >toggle between fill and stroke on the same pane with the color chooser. > > > > Don't see how this is drastically better than a pair of tabs. It's not > > likely to take much less space. > > > > >This is the most common use in Illustrator, Freehand and other apps. The > > >illustrator approach is pretty useful, because you can change a shape's > > >line and fill back and forth by hitting the 'x' key, and do it in the > > >interface as well. > > > > What do you mean by "doing it in the interface"? > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > 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… -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] fill & stroke
by bulia byak 20 May '04

20 May '04

>Couldn't the Fill and Stroke tabs be condensed into one by having a >toggle between fill and stroke on the same pane with the color chooser. Don't see how this is drastically better than a pair of tabs. It's not likely to take much less space. >This is the most common use in Illustrator, Freehand and other apps. The >illustrator approach is pretty useful, because you can change a shape's >line and fill back and forth by hitting the 'x' key, and do it in the >interface as well. What do you mean by "doing it in the interface"? _________________________________________________________________ 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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all-clubs bug
by bulia byak 20 May '04

20 May '04

I think i fixed the all-clubs bug in marker previews. Please test and report. The bad thing is that the dialog takes quite some time to show up initially. We probably need some kind of caching for the previews. _________________________________________________________________ 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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