June 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

off-topic but related: SORBS, oh sweet SORBS...
by Artemio 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hello, everybody! I am writing this message using a newly-subscribed address. As sourceforge started using SORBS, I could not send any message to Inkscape lists anymore. The machine my artemio.net site is hosted at got into their super-smart database, but this is a clear mistake - read below if you are interested. So now I have to use my other mail located on a US server. The story. I have two web sites hosted at the h2.prohosting.com.ua server (IP = 217.16.18.181). This IP is listed in the SORBS database, and they give the list of abusing hosts: gotov.ru, kak-po-tv.ru, ckz.ru, asiapress.ru, ukt.ru, rakushki.ru, mebgamma.ru, autonomer.ru, corleone.ru, polikomplast.ru, koncert.ru, xprint.ru However, NONE of these hosts are hosted at the server my site and my mail are located at. Here are the IPs these domain names point to: PING gotov.ru = 217.16.16.121 PING kak-po-tv.ru = 217.16.16.116 PING ckz.ru = 217.16.16.109 PING asiapress.ru = unknown host PING ukt.ru = 217.16.16.124 PING rakushki.ru = 217.16.16.134 PING mebgamma.ru = 217.16.16.130 PING autonomer.ru = 217.16.16.115 PING corleone.ru = 217.16.16.110 PING polikomplast.ru = 217.16.16.133 PING koncert.ru = 217.16.28.166 PING xprint.ru = 217.16.25.105 They seem to have all 217.16.*.* addresses as abusing hosts. It's very nice but I don't have those $50 to pay to SORBS to have my address removed. I like anti-spam campaigns but not when they work against me, at the time when I myself try to fight spam. Artemio.

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modified wiki
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi Inkscape development team, while having a look at your wiki, I've noticed some strange things on it : advertisement for a casino (links and stupid text). -> I've removed them from the impacted pages (see recent changes). There's just a page to remove (I've emptied it) : "Casino" Hope I did not do anything wrong. Regards, and thanks for your excellent software, Matiphas

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PS output problem with line markers
by Eric Jonas 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hello! I've found a bug with the EPS output and line markers... it appears that the markers defined in the <defs> section for line ending (like TriangleOutM) are actually all the same size marker but with different 'transform="scale=(foo)"' attributes in their path. However, the code that converts this into eps evidently ignores the transform. This can be seen from the two files below: http://web.mit.edu/jonas/www/drawing.svg http://web.mit.edu/jonas/www/drawing2.svg Both convert to the same postscript : ) I've tried stepping through the code a bit, but after a few hours I'm giving up and seeing if anyone might point me in the right direction... Any ideas on how to fix this? I'm using yesterday's 0.39 cvs sources... Thanks! ...Eric

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rounded stars fun
by bulia byak 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Today I was in a mood to do something funny... * A wild variety of central-symmetric curvilinear shapes, including softly rounded stars and polygons, can be created using the new Roundedness control on the options panel for the Star tool. The value is a ratio of the length of Bezier control handle to the length of the corresponding polygon side. Values of 0.2 to 0.3 give normal smooth rounded corners. Most other values (negatives are permitted too) deliver tons of sheer excitement. Enjoy! P.S. Following which I'm going to be absent for a few days, as I have an urgent paid job to do. If you need me for something, please try to not forget what you need me for until I'm back :)

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Backtraces and Win32 signals
by Bob Jamison 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Whilst pondering the debugging situation with our development builds, I was wondering if we can provide backtrace information in our builds in case of abnormal termination. Sk1p on IRC/Jabber pointed this out to me in the GLibC docs: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Backtraces.html#Backtraces ...it even has a code example. I noticed that MinGW does support signals to some extent, so I removed the '#ifndef WIN32' switch from that part of inkscape.cpp. Likely inkscape_segv_handler() is now enabled on Win32. Maybe we could add a backtrace to inkscape_segv_handler(), with a note asking the gentle user to send this to us? Maybe save it to a file? Just an idea. Bob

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Scale origin
by Carl Hetherington 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi, Currently if you select, say, a rectangle and scale it using a knot, the origin for the scale is taken as the opposite corner of the rectangle's bounding box. This is fine if you want snap-to-bounding-box behaviour, but it presents problems if you want snap-to-nodes since the node near the opposite corner of the bounding box will drift wrt its original position. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to take the origin from? If it needs to be optional, how should we decide which point to use for a given instance? Thanks Carl

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape is spectacular -- feature requests?
by bulia byak 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:11:52 +1000, Trent Buck <fubarbaz@...405...> wrote: > <g transform="..."> > <image source="....svg" /> > </g> Perfectly possible, except that you lose vector editability and resolution-independence of the linked images.

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support indexed pallete for exported PNGs?
by Artemio 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi everybody! I just thought - would it be possible to have a support to export indexed PNGs? I just thought that it might be very useful for web design - for example, I have many icons/buttons/images that have not so many colours, and I use Inkscape to export them to PNG, and no other tool is used after that, I use the Inkscape.s resulting PNG on my pages. In terms of UI, an "indexed colours" checkmark and colour number chooser could be added in the export dialogue. Artemio. -- The official web residence of Artemio -> http://artemio.net/ [local time 08:51:48 (GMT +3) 22 June 2004] [system uptime 22 min]

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slight site reorganisation proposals
by Artemio 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

Hello everybody! I am happy to tell you that yesterday Bryce added me to the Inkscape SF project and now I have access to modify the site ;-) So now it's time to create some nice new galleries of Inkscape usage examples. Here is what I plan, and I won't allow myself a think Current situation (structure). ------------------ Site navigation -> Screenshots -> this page has a link to Examples -> Galleries -> this is a link to a wiki page ------------------ Future scheme (a proposal) ------------------ Site navigation -> Screenshots -> still contains everything it has now -> Galleries -> contains links with thumbnails to [1] Inkscape examples (as now in at the Examples page, plus [2] link to Wiki gallery page (with a thumbnail image too) ------------------ What do you think about my plan? I have already created a new page telling about the creation of the new Artemio.net interface and icons/buttons. I am currently writing a book on sound design (it's getting bigger and bigger), and there are already around 25 structure drawings created with Inkscape, and I plan creating a page about this too. I'd also be glad to add others' info and screenshots! Yours, Artemio. -- Don't be shy, ask Artemio -> http://ask.artemio.net/ [local time 19:14:39 (GMT +3) 22 June 2004] [system uptime 1 hr 22 min]

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terminology - help needed
by bulia byak 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

There are going to be three "toolbars" in Inkscape: 1. Under the menu, horizontal, with buttons for common non-tool-specific operations such as Open, Save, etc. 2. Below 1, horizontal, with too-specific buttons and controls (exists now and is called "top panel" or "aux toolbar"). 3. Vertical at the left, with tool buttons. The question is: How to call them? They are all "toolbars" technically but using the word "toolbar" without distinction is going to be very confusing. Even using "toolbar" for 3 only is going to be confusing because people are used to calling "toolbars" any horizontal rows of buttons. So the names need to be unique but at the same time descriptive and short. Most importantly, they must stick. "Top panel" for 2 did not stick, somehow. Here is the best I could think of: 1. Commands bar 2. Tool controls bar 3. Toolbox Any other ideas? _________________________________________________________________ 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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