October 2005 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Website translation and updating issues
by Daniel Stiefelmaier 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

> I agree with Bryce: this don't scale well. Personally, if I would have > to deal with this cut-and-paste work , will think twice before > committing anything to the website. > > But I got another proposal, which could solve this better: as we have > the CVS commits mailing list, it would be useful to have a similar > list but only for commits in the website module. This way translators > could subscribe to the list and receive automatic notification for > each website change. The WEBFORM was originally ment to be sent to webmasters/translators only. Now we changed that, so that it is sent to this list. I thought that everytime a update affecting the translations is made, the one who did it should use the webform to tell the translators to update that. Webmasters should be encouraged to filter webform messages to a special folder, maybe. But you can never expect that all translations will be up-to date within 24h. On many pages, there will be english messages if no translation is available (e.g. screenshots, news, status) As i am pretty new, i don't know how the changes to download.php look like. If there are mostly updates to links, then i'd suggest to place them in variables in download.php and <?php echo $lnk_release ?> in the include files. caliga

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Generating improved EPS/PDFs for transparent bitmaps before PS/PDF supports transparency
by Tom Epperly 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

I wonder if you've considered an interim solution to generating better EPS files and PDFs for Inkscape drawings with transparent bitmaps. I would like to run and idea past you. I am unfamiliar with Inkscape from a developers perspective, so it may be worthless. In case it's not, here goes. If we exclude bitmaps which are rotated or skewed, it seems that one could use Inkscape's SVG -> bitmap capability (demonstrated by the PNG export) to resolve the transparency and generate a resolved bitmap that could be used instead of the original tranparent bitmap when producing the EPS/PDF. If a transparent bitmap covers the rectangle defined by its corners (x1, y1) to (x2,y2), you can calculate the dots per inch of the in the x and y dimension taking into account any scaling applied by the user. Use Inkscape to render a bitmap of the rectangle (x1,y1) to (x2, y2) at the maximum of resolution (perhaps min {300, max {x_resolution, y_resolution}}). Use this bitmap instead of the orignal when creating the PDF. Of course, this idea can be improved upon. For example during the bitmap rendering phase, it would be better to render only the bitmap and elements below it (i.e., things that could actually appear in the transparent parts of the bitmap and not things above). If SVG's bitmap renderer can have different x and y resolutions, match the original bitmaps x and y resolutions. Alternatively, you could render the bitmap at a higher resolution to make sure the background elements that show through the transparent parts appear smooth at reasonable printing resolutions. I suppose you could even handle scaled, rotated and skewed bitmaps by rendering at high resolution a box that includes the whole scaled, rotated and/or skewed bitmap. Then take the resolved bitmap and undo the scale, skew and/or rotation to generate an unperturbed bitmap that when scaled, rotated and/or skewed will produce the contents that the renderer produced. I am guessing that in 90% of the situations, bitmaps aren't rotated or skewed, so it may not be worth solving the general problem. Well, what do you think? I recently made a poster with a radial gradient as the background and several logos (tranparent bitmaps) were on top of the gradient. I ended up exporting as a high resolution PNG, converting to TIFF and then converting TIFF2PDF. Inkscape looks like a fine program. Tom

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Paper on testing and open source
by Bryce Harrington 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hi all, Next week I'm going to be presenting at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference regarding combining traditional and open source practices for software testing. The paper focuses mainly on my involvement with the NFSv4 testing community, but it tries to identify some general principles that may be of use in other testing efforts as well. http://developer.osdl.org/bryce/papers/nfsv4_pnsqc.pdf Bryce

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Patch for WWW::SourceForge mailing list stats
by Bryce Harrington 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hi again Kang-min, The enclosed patches add a feature to your WWW::SourceForge module to allow display of mailing list statistics. This allows for example: $ ./sfnet --list-mailinglists stp List Members Posts stp-announce 4 11 stp-devel 13 2628 stp-support 9 130 stp-tests 9 96 $ ./sfnet --list-mailinglists inkscape List Members Posts inkscape-announce 284 28 inkscape-cvs 13 14252 inkscape-devel 213 13006 inkscape-tester 31 114 inkscape-tracker 11 8604 inkscape-user 310 3802 inkscape-user-es 37 59 inkscape-wiki 16 164 I noticed that SourceForge.net recently changed their HTML format slightly. They've added some whitespace here and there, and so forth. I modified the main regexp in WWW::SourceForge::Project to be able to deal with this change, but there's probably more discrepencies that you might want to investigate. Also, I noticed when running your test suite that it gives a couple warnings on lines 62 and 66 about uninitialized values. Not sure what's causing that. Oh, and regarding the downloading of files from SF, thanks for the advice, you're right, and I'm re-thinking the approach for that. I may be able to do it directly to a mirror, without any need for screenscraping, which would be superior for obvious reasons. Bryce

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FOP (SVG2PDF)
by Bryce Harrington 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

This looks like it might be interesting: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ Sounds like it's able to take input from SVG and produce PDF. If anyone's interested in svg2pdf, this might be worth experimenting with to see if it's any good. It's available under the Apache license. Bryce

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WEBFORM reply
by sumomofan 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: sumomofan email: sumomofan@...1018... submitted the following: > ralf > > You must do this in your system. On Linux say > export LANGUAGE=zh_CN > then start inkscape Thank you for your reply,but how about \"on WinXP(sp2) say\" sumomofan

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IRL-GIRL
by unknown＠example.com 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

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Inkscape in the press : Spain
by Jose Hevia 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

An article of Inkscape with topic "Ilustracion con Inkscape" in the Spanish magazine "TodoLinux". Not a very good one in my opinion. Jose Hevia

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] win98 to be dropped?
by Taraben, Adib 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Bob, if you guide me what to do. I have no experience with this gtk stuff. Adib. -----Original Message----- ... > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. Draw Freely. > http://www.inkscape.org > > Bulia, It saddens me, too. What we need is some guy who has Win98, and enough disk space to set up the Mingw environment to build and test. Is there nobody out there? Please be patient with us. We are on your side, dude. You are the best GUI programmer on the planet, and the heart and soul of this project. Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape und Drucken
by Taraben, Adib 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Thomas, hast du schon mal auf dem bug-tracker nach deinem problem gesucht ? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306 ich kann mich an so was wie Drucker in Verbindung mit Netzwerk erinnern. Auch findest du im Jabber Netz bei #inkscape.de evtl. deutsche Hilfe Das wars erst mal in aller Schnelle, Adib. ---- I will translate to this english speaking list :-) Thomas found this program and is very exited. But when he prints over the network there comes an Runtime error: 10H in Modul msvcrt.Dll bei 0197:7820ea8f So printing for him is not possible. He asks whether it is possible to store in a format like *.DXF *.Hpg or *.plt. He has a pantograph milling machine that can read those formats best. Then he posts a RFE Inkscape should also StarOffice compatible file format. so far Thomas. -----Original Message----- From: inkscape-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of thomas Sent: Tue 10/4/2005 17:12 To: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape und Drucken Ich habe mir das Programm auf meinem Rechner gespielt, weil das was ich gelesen (im internet) habe sich gut anhörte für mich. Da ich aber kein Fachmann bin sende ich euch meine Probleme. Sollten die probleme nicht an dem programm liegen bitte ich um entschuldigung für die Störung. Druchen über das Netzwerk ist bei mir nicht möglich. Inkscape versursacht einen Ausnahmefeher 10H in Modul msvcrt.Dll bei 0197:7820ea8f Frage: Ist es möglich das was ich mit dem Programm gemalt habe in *.DXF *.Hpg oder *.plt zu speichern. Ich habe eine Gravier- Fräsmaschiene die diese Daten am besten Lesen kann viele andere kann ich zwar importieren aber muß sie in dem dazugehöriegen Programm noch einmal Zeichnen. Ich schätze mal das würde vielen Leuten die mit so einer Maschiene arbeiten helfen. Verbesserungsvorschlag: Da dieses Programm ein freies Programm ist, wäre es sehr sinnvoll wenn man die daten auch mit StarOffice öffnen kann oder dahin Eportieren. Da Staroffice auch ein freies Programm ist. So könnte man wieder etwas abstand von MS gewinnen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Thomas

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