filter for inkscape and OpenDocument
by Jon Phillips
Heya,
I just read your nice interview at groklaw
(http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050130002908154). First of all, this
is really exciting, but I wonder if you could write up more about what is needed
of Inkscape for this new format. I see in your interview you note that there is
a needed filter for Inkscape, but it is not clarified what this means. I'm
cc'ing the Inkscape development list about this. I just wonder how this
OpenDocument format (the newly standardized open office xml format) relates to
Inkscape and what you are asking to be done.
Or do you want a filter that say one has an SVG file, then one can convert that
to an OpenDocument file. I don't think that would be difficult. But, what about
OpenOffice support for the SVG file format?
Please copy me and/or the Inkscape-devel list and I will make sure they get the
response. Or, please reply to me and the list if you are on Inkscape's list.
Thanks,
Jon
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Jon Phillips
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http://www.rejon.org
Inkscape (http://inkscape.org)
Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)
CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu)
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18 years, 3 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] icon theming
by MenTaLguY
> My 16x16px icon got scaled down to about 10px in the toolbar. What's the magic here?
I would like to be able to tell you why the icons are the size they are,
but the icon drawing code we inherited from Sodipodi is scary and nobody
quite understands it... :P
I'll CC the devel list in case perhaps the gtkmmification team has made
any breakthroughs studying and/or rewriting that code.
-mental
18 years, 5 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] autosave ?
by MenTaLguY
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 18:04, Florent wrote:
> So I'm appealing to anyone who can create an autosave :-)
We already have autosave-on-crash already, actually. The one catch is
that for crashes due to failed assertions (like this one), it isn't
triggered yet.
(I'm CCing the development mailing list, if anyone's interested in
attacking this right now:
At least on Unix, this is relatively easy to fix -- just set up a
SIGABRT handler similar to the SIGSEGV handler we have now. The one
catch is that the handler will need to disable itself as soon as it is
triggered, because the autosave code raises SIGABRT when it is done.
Also we should make sure we've got SIGBUS covered if we don't already.)
-mental
18 years, 5 months
common interface for graphics apps on the "free desktop"
by Jakub Steiner
One of the good things about Adobe's product line is that they "work
together". Same tasks require the same interface. Shortcuts are
consistent.
On the free desktop we have two major graphics applications, Inkscape
(http://www.inkscape.org) and GIMP (http://www.gimp.org). It will not be
uncommon to have users needing both apps in their workflow. I hope you
guys agree trying to have similar consistency helps to provide a sane
user experience.
To be specific, there are areas where GIMP & Inkscape provide similar
functionality in a slightly different way. For now I will ignore the
path tool. An inconsistency that came up while I was working on
something is the mouse wheel behavior. GIMP uses shift+scroll wheel to
zoom, Inkscape Ctrl+mousewheel. GIMP uses Alt+mousewheel to pan
horizontally, Inkscape uses Shift+mousewheel. I've filed this as
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1115612&group_id...
Another area is the aspect ratio constraint and other transform
modifiers.
Note that this isn't a user-transition problem. People like me will be
using GIMP & Inkscape simultaneously. It's _not_ about forgetting what a
user has been used to in the past. Having inconsistent behavior makes
one stumble in both apps.
It would be cool if somebody found the motivation to write up some
extension to the Gnome HIG, defining a standard behaviour for gfx apps
(*hint* *hint* ;).
Sorry for cross posting, but I hope to initiate some discussion among
both camps.
cheers
--
Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...659...>
18 years, 6 months
Freehand drawing tool
by Bryce Harrington
There'd been some comments about the quality of the Inkscape drawing
tool compared with Sodipodi. I experimented around a bit with both. I
see what they mean, but it's difficult to quantify the issue.
Inkscape's drawing tool "feels" snappier, it doesn't lag like Sodipodi,
and it produces lines smoothly, but it just doesn't "feel" right.
I can't draw worth beansy, but I could see the difference when I tried
writing my name:
http://bryceharrington.com/freehand_drawing.png
Try signing your name with the two apps and see if you notice a
difference.
Bryce
18 years, 6 months
layer commands we need
by bulia byak
Here's a list of layer commands that we need to implement, comments
and additions welcome:
Layers... // opens the Layers dialog
-------------------
Move to Layer Above Shift+PgUp
// move selection to the top of sibling layer above, or to the
top of parent layer (but not root) if no siblings
Move to Layer Below Shift+PgDn
// move selection to the top of sibling layer below, or to the
bottom of parent layer (but not root) if no siblings
Move to Layer... // let me choose the
layer name to move selection to
-------------------
Unlock All Layers // unlock all layers in the document (or
all siblings of the current layer?)
Unhide All Layers
-------------------
Unlock All in Layer // unlock all children of the current layer
Unhide All in Layer
-------------------
Group to Layer // convert group to layer
Layer to Group
18 years, 6 months
URGENT BREAKAGE: preferences loading/saving
by bulia byak
Someone's recent change (likely the repr changes by swingincelt) broke
preferences loading and saving. Now upon exit, a new <inkscape>
element with all its children is nested at the end of the
~/.inkscape/preferences.xml instead of replacing the existing
<inkscape>. Thus the size of the file grows by 13K on each run of the
program, and any changes you make to the prefs are not read next time
you run. Please fix ASAP.
18 years, 6 months
Adobe Illustrator CS SVG files + incompatibility
by Jon Phillips
My girlfriend just made all these images for the clipart library by tracing
them in Inkscape (rock!) and then editing and composing them with Adobe
Illustrator CS. However, they cannot be opened in Inkscape.
I'm writing this to let everyone know that there are about 10 images
available at this link, http://openclipart.org/submissions.php, done by
Linda Kim that would be good for testing interoperability of Adobe SVG and
Inkscape.
I created a bug on this and a new category for import bugs. If this one
fits your fancy, it should be easy to write a script to strip out what
Inkscape doesn't support, as can be done by hand in a text editor. However,
to get Inkscape to allow for various unsupported features, or compliant svg
that we don't suppor yet, might be more difficult.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1153207&group_id...
Also, if anyone needs more examples, I can get those created in Adobe
Illustrator CS.
Jon
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Jon Phillips
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)
18 years, 6 months
Inkscape.org and the image/svg+xml mimetype
by Bob Jamison
Could someone please add these entries to /htdocs/.htaccess on the web site?
AddType image/svg+xml .svg
AddType image/svg+xml .svgz
Inkscape.org can't serve svg at the moment, which can potentially
be embarassing. ;-)
This might need to be added to the wiki code, too.
Bob
18 years, 6 months
