February 2005 - Inkscape Devel

SVG+Xforms demo
by Bob Jamison 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

One of the guys on irc.mozilla.org/#svg (nick: woo) showed me a demo of svg-enabled Firefox with the xforms extension from mozilla.org. It is a little calculator demo, implemented using svg and xforms. Very nice. http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/svgcalc.xml Bob

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web site proposals
by bulia byak 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

I'd like to propose two things regarding the Inkscape web site. Volunteers are welcome: 1 Create an RSS feed for the main page news. 2 Create a new header graphic to replace the boring white "Inkscape" on blue. As a graphic app, we are starting to deserve something more sophisticated. The web site itself is OK, I don't think we need to drastically change the entire design (although suggestions are welcome), but the top panel is decidedly dull and pathetic. Show off your graphic talent! Send your submissions to the devel list for people to discuss. The best one (if the winner is not obvious, we may need to do a voting) will make it to the site. One technical note: the banner cannot be fixed width, because our site is not fixed width - so it must be either one piece for the top left corner or two pieces for two corners, with some flat color fill between them. The minimum screen resolution is 800x600.

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Press: Inkscape in Linux User and Developer magazine
by Alan Horkan 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

[If you do setup an RSS news feed using open source tools like Word Press I like to be allowed to post information like this.] Press: Inkscape in Linux User and Developer magazine Issue 47 http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/ "Graphic designer Miriam Clinton investigates the free software tools of her trade with a look at the Gimp, Cinepaint, Quanta Plus, Inkscape and Sodipodi." One of the plus points mentioned in the article and in noticable contrast to other projects was the welcome Miriam recieved from the Inkscape community (and the efforts to get her involved). I'm very proud of this ditinction and I think a lot of it can be put down to the maturity of Bryce and the other developers who always moderate dicussions and keep things calm and in perspective. I think this is a valuable asset to the long term health of the Inkscape project. She expressed her disappointment at the Text functionality but as we all know it is a work in progress and the interface will inevitably improve and Ms. Clinton did note that Inkscape is a fairly young 'alpha' stage project and gave a largely favourable and optimistic report. In comparision I think she was quite critical of GIMP, CinePaint and Sodipodi which is quite fair from the point of view of a Graphic designer but usually Linux magazines are very forgiving of Open Source applications (Graphic design magazines are usually extremely critical -- freedom of source and free cost doesn't cut any ice with them -- a flamefest even by comparison to Miriams review). Gotta go. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com

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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG Fonts
by bulia byak 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:51:15 -0800, Landon Blake <lblake@...732...> wrote: > This is something I might be able to work on.....I've just begun learning C and GTK GUI programming, so that I can contribute to Inkscape development. > > Any idea how I might get started? Attached is an archive of several files that someone called massifr (sorry I don't know the real name) created some time ago. This is a beginning of implementation of svg:font, svg:fontface and svg:glyph. Really the files are almost placeholders, with little real code, but you still can use them as the starting point. The author (his email is in the files headers) said he won't continue to work on them, but you can contact him with questions. (As well as any of the developers, of course - use the devel list and the jabber channel for any questions you might have.)

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GNOME 2.10 splash screen contest
by Bob Jamison 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Here is something that an Inkscape user might find of interest: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2168 Also, Gnoppix needs some graphics: http://www.gnoppix.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page So this could be a way for an IS artist to become famous! Bob

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Another Newsforge article that mentions Inkscape
by Bob Jamison 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

There is a follow-up to the "graphics apps integration" article from Newsforge a couple of weeks ago. Just posted! Here it is: http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/02/24/1818224.shtml Bob

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Inkscape: PT_GNU_STACK RWE
by Ivan Gyurdiev 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Hi, I've subscribed to this list just to post this one question. The inkscape binary is marked with PT_GNU_STACK RWE. This creates problems for the SELinux strict policy, and requires that special privileges be granted for inkscape as a "legacy domain". The question is, does inkscape really require an executable stack? I'm not a gcc expert of any kind, but from what I've read I understand that asm code causes gcc to mark the binary as requiring executable stack. I think it can be overridden with ld -z noexecstack. It would be a lot easier to write the inkscape security policy if it didn't require executable stack. -- Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@...729...> Cornell University

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Inkscape.app for Mac OS X
by Aymeric GILLAIZEAU 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

I have succesfully built Inkscape 0.40-1 via Fink under Mac OS X 10.3 After I have moved to "~/Desktop/Inkscape.app/Contents" following the way explained for the Gimp.app The application lauches itself with a double-click and it is available there http://niwaconcept.free.fr//x11/Inkscape.zip But if it can be stored there that would be better. The file is 60 Mb do dwnload, and then 280 Mb for the software itself. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingMacOsX ____________________ PowerMac G4 400 Mhz 1 Gb RAM Mac OS X 10.3.6 Ubuntu Linux PPC 4.10

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Nice inkscape article on Linuxplanet
by Lucas Vieites 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hi, Rob Reilly wrote a nice tutorial on Inkscape for beginners: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/5757/1/ Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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Gradient editing...
by John Cliff 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Been playing with bulias on canvas gradient stuff, And its SO good. Its not quite Andys chrome, but I created this in half an hour or so's messing about. Cheers Sim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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