January 2005 - Inkscape Devel

CFV: Inkscape Examples Webpages
by Bryce Harrington 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hi all, Felix made a good suggestion to start posting some 'Call For Volunteers' on tasks that new folks would find straightforward to work on. Here's the first. A while back I started an 'Inkscape Examples' section on our website. We've got a couple things posted, but it's been largely neglected. We need a volunteer to take charge of beefing this section of the website up. This task requires good HTML skills (PHP helps too). No Inkscape development knowledge is needed. Art/design talents will also be pretty important. The purpose of the Inkscape Examples site is to show off different _ways_ Inkscape is used. It's needs to go beyond just showing off new features (we use the Screenshots page for that), but must be complete works. It's not intended to be simply a place for users to post their work (we have a Gallery section, plus OCAL and Deviant art for that), but rather to provide _one_ example of different _type_ of use. It's not intended to teach people how to use Inkscape (we have the Tutorials for that), but more to inspire and entice people into using Inkscape in new ways. Ideally, the site should have a listing of different types of things that can be made with Inkscape, with each having a link to a set of pages describing that thing. (Sort of like a woodworking magazine article showing how to build a cabinet.) For example: * Web site design * CD booklet * Portrait * Presentation * Cross-stitch pattern * Icon set * Landscape design * Org chart * Company logo * etc. Also, there could be examples of different art "styles". For instance, creating 'distressed' art like Brisgeek is into right now, or using the Trace Bitmap feature to artify a photo, or creating three dimensional effects via spherical gradients. "Presentations" could have a link to a page containing an example presentation that someone made, a set of steps for how the user created their presentation, problems/solutions encountered, and the source files for review. Sort of like an article in a woodworking magazine explaining how the author built a table. I think this effort could be done by just collecting examples of work other users have done and posted, interviewing the creator, and writing it up into a decent example, and putting it onto the website. I'd bet, if done well, you could also get it published in an online magazine like OS News. If you want to work on this, your first step will be to go ahead and put together an example of something, and post it here. We will also need someone to take care of editing/reviewing examples and posting them into the website, so if you're interested in doing that, send me your SourceForge ID. Bryce

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[Fwd: Inkscape interface]
by Jon Phillips 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Here is an email I received a few minutes ago... Jon -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Inkscape interface Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:07:12 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua <jwar@...629...> Reply-To: jwar@...629... To: jon@...235..., horkana@...44..., Peter.Moulder@...38... Good day, Jon, Alan and Peter. Attached to this e-mail is just a simple little mock up of an idea for an alternate Inkscape interface. Since most users like the current interface, there would, of course, be no need to change it. But when I read that, amazingly, future versions of Inkscape will incorporate SVG animation, (!) I thought the interface might need a little adjustment to incorporate future features (like the animation feature, filters, anything else that could be used to display the power of SVG). I could be way off with this, but it's just an idea. Thanks for the great work. -Joshua / Jiaxiang _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com -- Jon Phillips 1528 Alice St. Apt. #4 Oakland, CA, USA 94612-5004 USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

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Fw: non-uniform text scaling
by vellum 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Bulia wrote: >What was the change and what was the bug? Bulia, Peter will probably get back to you. The original bug was a record of non-uniform scaling of text causing incorrect pt size designation of font. Peter made changes to correct this and I tested a day or so later as reported below. The new bug was that transformed text could not be transformed again back to a known pt size. This was worse than the original. Hence Peter removed his changes. The original bug should be reinstated in the bug list. vellum ----- Original Message ----- From: "vellum" <kaver@...68...> To: "Peter Moulder" <Peter.Moulder@...38...> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 3:51 PM Subject: non-uniform text scaling > Peter, > I have tested your changes using 0412311700. The changes you have made seem > to work to cure the original bug. However, I think they have created or > uncovered another one. That is: The transformed texts cannot be transformed > back to the original point size. > > In Xarax. Transform say a 10pt text non-uniformly to some other value say > 37.32pt. Select the transformed text and choose 10pt as the font size, > apply. The text will go back to 10pt. > > In Inkscape transform the 10pt text non-uniformly to 38.6pt. Select > transformed text, choose 10pt, apply. The text goes back to 14.3pt. Further > attempts to change it to 10pt are to no avail. > > When the text is transformed uniformly then there is no problem with > Inkscape. And that seems to be the case whether the width/height lock is on > or whether it is done with Ctrl drag. > > In your second comment on the bug sheet 041231 4:41. I think I understand > what you are saying regarding the translation and the other two columns of > the transformation matrix. However, I do not know what the other two columns > are called and each of the other programs tends to have these values hidden, > or if shown it is not clear what they are. When I change values in the > transformation matrix the text seems to go all over the place since I do not > know what I am changing. > > Can you tell me what Column 1 and Column 2 are called? Then I can get onto > your request. > > regards, vellum > >

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[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-devel] CFV: Inkscape Examples Webpages]
by Felix Rabe 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

I'm still not used to this strange kind of replying :/

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elongating lines doesn't work anymore
by David Christian Berg 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

Hey guys, first of all let me wish you a wonderful year 2005! May it be rewarding not only concerned the Inkscape development. Now: I don't have latest CVS, so maybe this is fixed again. My RFE "[ 1036484 ] Elongating straight lines" that was fixed by Bulia seems to have to be reopened. At least I don't manage elongating lines using a modifier key anymore. Any clues? David

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