November 2005 - Inkscape Devel

RE: Inkscape Announces 0.43 Release
by Alex Biddle 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Congratulations everyone! Blogged it, and yes, the header _was_ created with Inkscape. :D http://blog.heuristicdesign.co.uk/archives/2005/11/21/inkscape-043/ > November 21, 2005 — The Inkscape community today releases Inkscape 0.43, > an Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool available for > Unix/Linux variants, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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Inkscape Announces 0.43 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.
by Jon Phillips 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

November 21, 2005 - The Inkscape community today releases Inkscape 0.43, an Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool available for Unix/Linux variants, Mac OS X, and Windows. The focus of this release is on the exciting new features sponsored by Google through their Summer of Code (SoC) program which provided funding for four individuals to contribute to Inkscape. The primary additions this release are: * Connectors: A new indispensable connector tool implements creation, editing, and auto-routing (object-avoiding) of connector lines between objects. It is indispensable for drawing diagrams. (Google SoC project) * Inkboard Collaborative Editing: One may now connect to other Inkscape users over a network and edit a shared document, watch changes, and contribute one's own changes. (Google SoC project) * Pressure and Tilt Sensitivity: The calligraphy tool may now use a tablet pen with pressure and tilt support to vary the width and angle of a calligraphic stroke. * Better Node Editing: One may freely drag, bend, and stretch a Bezier curve by any point and not only by a node. Also, one may easily add a new node at any point on the curve. * New Extensions: There are now extensions for envelope distortion, whirling, and adding nodes. * Refinements: Inkscape now supports improved precision, expanded limits, usability improvements and several bugfixes. * SVG Compliance: There is now additional support for the viewBox element improving SVG compatibility. In response to the release, Tavmjong Bah updated his online book, "A Guide to Inkscape," to cover the Inkscape 0.43 features. This guide is not included with the Inkscape release. Users are encouraged to read the guide in addition to Inkscape 0.43's release notes and the help included with Inkscape. Currently the Inkscape community is working on the next release which focuses on stability and closing bugs. The next release will add an outline viewing mode, a plan towards SVG Tiny compliance, a fill and stroke interface to the bottom toolbar, and further application refinements. Inkscape is open to all types of contributions by people with all different skill levels from around the world. Inkscape needs translators, web designers, people to help answer questions, and developers to help reach the project's goal of SVG compliance. Visit Inkscape.org and Draw Freely. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.43: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes043 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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Inkscape Announces 0.43 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.
by Jon Phillips 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

November 21, 2005 — The Inkscape community today releases Inkscape 0.43, an Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool available for Unix/Linux variants, Mac OS X, and Windows. The focus of this release is on the exciting new features sponsored by Google through their Summer of Code (SoC) program which provided funding for four individuals to contribute to Inkscape. The primary additions this release are: * Connectors: A new indispensable connector tool implements creation, editing, and auto-routing (object-avoiding) of connector lines between objects. It is indispensable for drawing diagrams. (Google SoC project) * Inkboard Collaborative Editing: One may now connect to other Inkscape users over a network and edit a shared document, watch changes, and contribute one's own changes. (Google SoC project) * Pressure and Tilt Sensitivity: The calligraphy tool may now use a tablet pen with pressure and tilt support to vary the width and angle of a calligraphic stroke. * Better Node Editing: One may freely drag, bend, and stretch a Bezier curve by any point and not only by a node. Also, one may easily add a new node at any point on the curve. * New Extensions: There are now extensions for envelope distortion, whirling, and adding nodes. * Refinements: Inkscape now supports improved precision, expanded limits, usability improvements and several bugfixes. * SVG Compliance: There is now additional support for the viewBox element improving SVG compatibility. In response to the release, Tavmjong Bah updated his online book, "A Guide to Inkscape" (http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php), to cover the Inkscape 0.43 features. This guide is not included with the Inkscape release. Users are encouraged to read the guide in addition to Inkscape 0.43's release notes and the help included with Inkscape. Currently the Inkscape community is working on the next release which focuses on stability and closing bugs. The next release will add an outline viewing mode, a plan towards SVG Tiny compliance, a fill and stroke interface to the bottom toolbar, and further application refinements. Inkscape is open to all types of contributions by people with all different skill levels from around the world. Inkscape needs translators, web designers, people to help answer questions, and developers to help reach the project's goal of SVG compliance. Visit Inkscape.org and Draw Freely. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.43: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes043 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from <nowiki>C/Gtk</nowiki> to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Some difficulties with the new version of Inkscape
by Ralf Stephan 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

bulia: > On 11/20/05, Hago Ziegler <h@...1083...> wrote: > > since I downloaded a new version yesterday I can't use the node tools in > > the tool-bar anymore. > > I tried another download today - the same. > > I don't see this, but from the description it looks like it might be > related to some recent GTKmmfication work. Ralf, can you comment? Not my area at all, at the moment I'm doing dialogs/their widgets, no desktop. Please give a specific sequence of steps to reproduce. ralf

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Congrats on 0.43 release!
by Mike Hearn 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi guys, I just grabbed the 0.43 autopackage, which worked fine, and had a quick play with the new features. Whoever did connectors I LOVE YOU :) This is one of the features I find most useful in the (shame) MS Word vector editor and now Inkscape can replace it for diagram editing. I also like the new path editing options. In 0.42 I could never figure out how to add a node, now I find I can just double click (or was this feature here before and I just never noticed it). The help tips at the bottom are great but unfortunately my screen isn't wide enough to see all of them. Finally the new about picture is quite funny :) thanks -mike

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Cannot open files on OS X (0.43 pre-releases)
by Andrew Ashton 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I am using Mac OS 10.4.3 with Apple's X11 On an iMac G5 2GHz. I have this problem with all of the pre-release .dmg files (pre0 through pre3), though unfortunately I have been busy and unable to spend much time looking into it. So I can see console errors, I run Inkscape from the command-line[1] and get one error right away: $ /Applications/Inkscape0.43pre3-2.app/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape (inkscape-bin:822): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Clicking the 'Open' icon or going 'File' -> 'Open...' gives me this: (inkscape-bin:822): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from: http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases Finally, actually trying to open any svg file gives me this: (inkscape-bin:822): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_is_local: assertion `uri != NULL' failed ** (inkscape-bin:822): WARNING **: Invalid URI ** (inkscape-bin:822): WARNING **: Error: Could not open file '/path/to/file.svg' with VFS And an error window in X11 appears as well: "Failed to load the requested file /path/to/file.svg" Anyone have any ideas of what's going on? I think it's a problem on my end, because other 10.4.3 users seem to have it working fine. Unfortunately I'm still pretty unfamiliar with OS X (and X11 has always baffled me) so I don't really know where to start looking for problems. (Note: importing bitmaps works fine, though importing svgs gives me the same problem) Any help is much appreciated. AJ Ashton [1] I'm fairly new to Mac OS so I don't even know if this is the correct method for running an app from the console. It runs the same when I double click the .app, so I assume it is.

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illustrator version 3 - 7 Sample Files
by Jon Phillips 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi, I took two files from Open Clip Art Library and saved them as illustrator 3 - 10 versions and put them up here: http://www.rejon.org/projects/inkscape/index.php http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AdobeIllustrator Please compare to the SVG file and use these to help develop the Adobe Illustrator import/export features. Jon L. and others (who asked), please create more examples of AI files so that we can get better compliance with Adobe's AI output. Thanks, Jon BRYCE: one more outstanding task done. -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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WEBFORM Website errors
by sacool 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: sacool email: email@...1082... submitted the following: Hi, first of al i am german, so this text can include a lot of mistakes ;) A few days ago i tried to suscribe ro the rss-feed. But i think it doesn\'t work correctly. The Date of all news is 11/30/2004. I use Opera as Rss-Reader and all others feeds i have subscribed work correct. Also i noticed that this site is not really XHTML valid: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inkscape.org i think you should changed this... so now in german: Hi, als ich vor ein paar Tagen versucht habe den Rss-Feed in Opera zu abbonieren, habe ich festgestellt, dass dieser nicht so funktioniert wie es eigentlich sein sollte. Bei alle News wird das Datum 30.11.2004 angezeigt und das kann meiner Meinung nach nicht so wirklich stimmen. AuÃerdem habe ich festgestellt, dass die Seite entgegen der angezeigten Buttons unten nicht HTML valid ist, wie man hier erkennen kann: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inkscape.org Mfg sacool

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platform specific inx
by unknown＠example.com 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Last night I added a short blurb to http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GettingExtensionsWorking about how I was able to make pdf output work on WinXP with ghostscript. I've been thinking about what if any of that should go into cvs and how would we ever make an inx file cross platform in a situation like this. But it just occured to me that for in/output extensions this isn't necessary. An inx for each platform could coexist as long as they have appropriate dependency tests. Because they don't show up when the deps aren't met. So I guess I just need a proper test for windows. thoughts? Aaron Spike

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Gentoo notified of inkscape 0.43 release
by Bryce Harrington 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

I sent in a gentoo bug about 0.43 this morning, so hopefully it'll be in ~x86 soonish. Bryce

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