February 2005 - Inkscape Devel

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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filter for inkscape and OpenDocument
by Jon Phillips 28 May '05

28 May '05

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 -- 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)

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Re: [Inkscape-user] icon theming
by MenTaLguY 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

> 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

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Re: [Inkscape-user] autosave ?
by MenTaLguY 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

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

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common interface for graphics apps on the "free desktop"
by Jakub Steiner 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

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=9… 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...>

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Freehand drawing tool
by Bryce Harrington 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

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

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layer commands we need
by bulia byak 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

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

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URGENT BREAKAGE: preferences loading/saving
by bulia byak 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

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.

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Adobe Illustrator CS SVG files + incompatibility
by Jon Phillips 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

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=9… Also, if anyone needs more examples, I can get those created in Adobe Illustrator CS. Jon -- 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)

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Inkscape.org and the image/svg+xml mimetype
by Bob Jamison 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

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

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