April 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

French translations
by Gazal, Geraud (GE Healthcare) 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Hi Inkscapers, i've submitted a few patches with some French translations (I apologize for having worked so slowly): - update of .po file (I had warned Fred, the latest updater of this file last week) - synchronization with latest (well, until a few days ago) of basic and advanced tutorial the other tutorial are also arriving - added French to .nsi file - translated /Hacking & /Readme to French So my remaining tasks are : - finalising the remaining tutorials, and take the opportunity to update once more fr.po file (I really think that having some coherent vocabulary between software and tutorials is important) - convert them to docbook - update keys.xml I was wondering if some French-speaking guys would agree to share some efforts on translating the different release notes, plus some other readme files spread in the cvs. If yes please contact me so that we can synchronize on this regards, matiphas

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Inkboard released v 0.2
by Montgomery, Steven S 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

We have released our second version of Inkboard. It implements the following changes: Added: -Initial document sending by instantiating user -Buddy list display and buddy selection in "Share with User" dialog -Sending of user's queue(necessary for chatroom usability in future) -Message filtering to ignore messages from old sessions Fixed: -Reliability of sending circles and other objects All-in-all, it's just more reliable and more usable. Feel free to play around with it and offer any feedback to us. And if you notice any bugs not in the Bug Tracker, please submit them. Thank you, Steven Montgomery

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Multiline Textbox for Extensions
by unknown＠example.com 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Would multiline text input be useful for extensions? I can think of three specific uses at the moment: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1187444&group_id=9… Scala scale descriptions for my fretboard designer. LSystem rules. But all of these could be solved in other ways: line delimiters and extension specific GUIs. Thoughts? Aaron Spike

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extensions
by rm 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

hi, i was thinking it would be neat if you could have an automatic word bubble that wraps around text and objects and grows and shrinks keeping the text centered and everything; does something like this exist already for inkscape? looking at the roadmap, there seems to be plans to make a plugin api: is there a point in trying to implement such a thing before that occurs? thanks rob ---- Robert Melby uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!org!arcsin!rm

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stupid problem creating woven ribbons
by Marcel Partap 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Hey folks, I've just started using this wonderful masterpiece of a drawing tool, but soon ran into a big problem. I wanted to create a web design with interwoven ribbons, and when I saw the calligraphy tool I thought my problems where solved. But one object can only have one z-index, not multiple - which does makes sense, but means the ribbon is either on top of or below another. So I thought, mmh... I might just slice them up in between and give the parts different z-orders, which actually worked. The problem is, I want the ribbons to have an outline, and so the seam has an outline too. And I have no clue how to get rid of that now - and can not continue on my design :( I have posted this on the request feature list already, but sorry I am so eager to get this behind and go on drawing... so I'm wondering what do you devs say about that? ..and thx for such a great program ;) Marcel

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Units of coordinates
by Jogchum Reitsma 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Hi, In Inkscape 0.41 on Suse 9.2, I always set the rulers and everything I can find on measurement to millimeters. Only the cursor coordinates, in the bottom left corner of the main window, is shown in some other unit (100 mm = 125 units). Is it possible to set this to mm's too? Thanks! kind greetings, Jogchum Reitsma

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Tutorial conversion
by bulia byak 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

We started to convert Inkscape tutorials into DocBook, with SVG and HTML (and potentially other formats) generated automatically by XSLT stylesheets. The Basic tutorial in English was the first to be converted; here it is in HTML: http://inkscape.org/doc/basic/tutorial-basic.html (obviously there's no interactivity in HTML, but at least it's now printable). If you want to help, pick your favorite tutorial (drop a note to the devel list first, to make sure it's not yet taken), check out the doc-docbook module from our CVS and follow the instructions in the file README to convert it into DocBook and extract illustrations as separate SVG files. This is simple work but it will be great help to the project, since it will make much easier to update tutorials, translate them into other languages, and write new ones. Oh, and if you want to edit or translate or tutorial, please wait until it's converted and work with the DocBook version. (Better yet, convert it yourself :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tutorial conversion
by aaron＠...749... 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

Now back to the text copying discussion. Everything was going fine for quite some time. Now I find that there are a few paragraphs in the advanced tutorial and in the tracing tutorial that I just can't copy. In tracing I cannot copy "the user will see the three filter options" to the end. In advanced I cannot copy the final three paragraphs of the editing paths section. Is it just me? Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tutorial conversion
by aaron＠...749... 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

bulia byak wrote: > On 4/23/05, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: >>On 4/23/05, aaron@...749... <aaron@...749...> wrote: >>>I guess you must mean select the text inside of the text object, copy, >>>paste. >> >>Not necessarily, just selecting the text object with selector works >>just as well. > > Note that text is often grouped in the tutorials. So if you select a > group, this does not work of course. You need to Ctrl+click so that > statusbar says "Text" and then copying will work. And so it does. The problem here is that there is something fundamental that I don't understand about using the clipboard on Linux. When I used paste in the xterm's edit menu it worked fine. I uploaded shapes.tar.gz to the patch tracker. If there are no objections, I will now start on the Advanced tutorial. I am not a very proficient typist. So if someone would like to do the text work, I would be more than happy to do the graphics. Otherwise I will work through each tutorial in its entirety. Aaron Spike

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Wiki style breakage
by Jon A. Cruz 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

The recent changes (edit 303 of the main page) to the Wiki made it 'break' for me. Basically, the page no longer plays nice with narrow windows. http://inkscape.org/wiki_uploads/WikiAtWork.png Remember, many people don't browse with windows maximized. It's well known in the print world that landscape mode is not conducive to reading (which is why magazines, books, newspapers, etc. avoid it). So be sure to check any style changes with windows both ways. Thanks.

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