June 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

[Fwd: Re: Contact + Question]
by Jon Phillips 25 Jun '05

25 Jun '05

Heya, for all you writers out there, a new magazine that would be good to submit howtos and articles to (and get paid for!) Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Tux Editor <ed@...851...> > To: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> > Subject: Re: Contact + Question > Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:05:18 -0500 > > Hi Jon, > > The basic approach is to "pitch" an idea to me. If it's a good one, > then I'll assign it to you (see the example assignment letter below) > with a due date. Here are things to keep in mind when writing articles > for Tux: > > 1. We prefer "How To" articles over any other type of article > 2. The audience is the average desktop user - try to stick with > point-and-click operations > 3. AVOID passive voice like the plague. For example, write this way: > > "You can configure the colors by opening the "Colors" dialog box. Click > Tools->Configure...etc." > > DO NOT write this way: > > "Configuring colors can be done with the "Colors" dialog box. Opening > the dialog box is done by clicking "Tools-...etc." > > Otherwise, most of an editor's time is spent converting the passive > voice sentences into active voice. Too much of that, and editors tend > to avoid those authors for future articles! > > I look forward to your ideas! > > -Nicholas > > Your article "_________" has been accepted for possible > publication in TUX magazine. We expect your article will cover the > following: Your opinions about something, and that it be kept > around 1,000 or more words. > > Work with the editor-in-chief (ed@...851...) on your article > until the article is in its final form. > > The deadline for the final version of your article is ______. The final > version of your article must be sent to editor@...852... Keep in > mind that we do not accept multiple drafts of articles, and therefore, > we expect a complete and final version on or before the deadline. > > If your article is published, we pay $300 for "how-to" articles and > $100 for reviews. If your article falls into another category, we > will negotiate a payment. > > All writing is done on speculation. If TUX magazine decides to use > the work, we will purchase first rights and compilation rights to > the article. However, we are under no obligation to publish > the work. If the article is selected for publication, your payment will be > "_______". > > Your article will be copyedited according to TUX style, and > English grammar and spelling, though we ask that you carefully review > the materials you submitted for accuracy and completeness. We expect > that you submit your article in text-only format and that any > figures, tables, listings and sidebars be sent as separate files; provide > titles or captions for all figures, tables, listings and sidebars, and > indicate in the text where such items should be placed. > > Please send a photo of yourself, a brief bio, and your mailing address > along with your article. > > Once your article is submitted, it will be in the publication queue and > therefore cannot be submitted elsewhere unless 1) TUX magazine formally > rejects the article, or 2) the author notifies TUX magazine of his/her > intent and TUX magazine agrees to release the article at that time. > > If you have any questions, please feel free to send email to > editor@...851..., and please cc ed@...852... > > > > > > Jon Phillips wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I have the following questions: > > > > > >1. How to get into the writing pool? > > > >2. What the standard writing fare is for TUX? > > > >3. How to submit an article? > > > >4. Where to send press releases for new software releases? > > > >5. Who to submit a request for a review to? > > > > > >Thanks and your magazine concept is great! > > > >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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Is there anything like inkex.rb for inkscape?
by Samir Patel 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

There are external library to use perl or python with inkscape? Is there anything available to use ruby? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Google Summer of Code proposals
by Greg Steffensen 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Thanks to all the reviewers; I'm still waiting to hear, but I'll contribute work on OCAL integration even if mine is not accepted, and hopefully other extension work too. I noticed that the PSF will encourage its accepted applicants to keep a blog about their projects; Inkscape might want to do that too. Greg

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win32 libglib.dll version
by unknown＠example.com 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

I'm wondering which version of libglib.dll will ship with the win32 builds of 0.42. Currently the CVS builds come with version 2.4.5.0 but it can cause a nasty little crash in the Save Dialog. I replaced it with 2.6.4.0 and it works fine on my machines. Save just isn't a place you want a crash bug. :) Aaron Spike

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Someone else discovers the SVG dpi issues...
by unknown＠example.com 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

----- Forwarded message from Carl Worth <cworth@...573...> ----- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:11:40 -0700 From: Carl Worth <cworth@...573...> Reply-To: Carl Worth <cworth@...573...> Subject: Re: [cairo] svg_cairo_get_size problem To: Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@...58...> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:55:49 -0400, Jason Dorje Short wrote: > The attached SVGs (chosen for their smallness) show a working and a > nonworking SVG file. If you use svg2png or xsvg on the cornwall flag it > will be incorrect, but on the galicia flag it works correctly (or at > least I think so; if not I have other examples that do work > correctly). The first thing worth noting is that in galicia.svg (which works) the overall size is provided in unit-less values: width="999.000000" height="666.000000" which, according to the SVG specification means that these values determine the size in "pixels" (i.e., a px unit as defined by CSS2). Meanwhile, in cornwall.svg (which fails), the overall size is specified with real-world units (in this case, millimeters): width="234mm" height="140mm" So, converting those real-world units to pixels requires information about the real-world dimension of a pixel. In libsvg there's definitely a bug that there's no way to set that value, (instead it always assumes 100 pixels per inch). But that's not what's causing the strange behavior you're seeing. In cornwall.svg, after specifying the size as 234x140mm the first thing drawn is the "background" rectangle which has a size specified as: width="829.133850" height="496.062988" These values don't have real-world units, so according to the SVG specification[*] they should be interpreted as pixels. And ~ 829x496 pixels is only equivalent to 234x140mm if the pixels are sized such that there are 90 pixels per inch, (which must be the assumed pixels-per-inch value of the tool used to create this file). Therefore, the overall size of the SVG file changes depending on the pixels-per-inch value, but the actual drawing contents do not. And this is exactly the behavior you're seeing with libsvg-cairo. My recommendation for you is to just alter the top-level width and height attributes to use the same units as the rest of the drawing. That is, use: width="829" height="496" This eliminates the 90 pixels per inch assumption from the file, and also happens to avoid the need for a set_dpi function in libsvg. It would still be nice to have something like svg_set_dpi but it wouldn't be an adequate solution for this file. It would allow correct rendering at 90 DPI but not at any other value. Does that make sense? Is there anything else I'm missing here? -Carl [*] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-SVG11-20030114/coords.html ----- End forwarded message -----

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Google Summer of Code proposals
by Bryce Harrington 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Hi all, Today was the final day for the mentors to give input for the Google Summer of Code projects. Google is funding 400 projects this summer, including four projects for Inkscape. The decision for how many slots to give each project was based on the proportion of submissions sent in for each project. Approximately 50 people submitted proposals for Inkscape. There were over 10,000 proposals submitted in total, for 40 projects. Google will be making the final decision of which projects will be selected, based on our prioritizations. The prioritization was extremely difficult (I wish we could have had 8 or 10 projects), but thanks to the work of the reviewers I think Inkscape will gain four very significant new features over the summer. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] google SOC
by Greg Steffensen 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Yeah, I have that set to "1". Its really a strange bug in my GTK... the same thing happens with Python plugins in Dia. Anyway, I fixed the working dir prob with the glade file, made it return the original document when closed without clipart selection, made it write the raw clipart to stdout when invoked from the command line, and made it parse the svg to find the title metadata, and display that along with the preview image. The expense of grabbing this stuff (the png preview and actual svg) from the server is definitely starting to show, so implementing caching is next on the agenda. The new version is at http://download.berlios.de/termite/ocal.zip (I'm working on a windows box today, so its a zip this time- sorry). Again, let me know if it doesn't work... I still can't fully test it (because of the GTK prob I mentioned). Greg On 6/15/05, aaron@...749... <aaron@...749...> wrote: > > Greg Steffensen wrote: > > For some reason, the effects menu doesn't work on my Inkscape. > > Forgot to ask before, did you turn on the effects menu in the > preferences.xml file? > > Aaron Spike >

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CxxTest
by Ted Gould 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Last night I was trying to get 'distcheck' to pass and it is have troubles with the testing. This seems to be related to the cxxtest stuff. The cxxtest directory in the CVS tree is not included in the distribution. Should it be? Should I have cxxtest installed on my machine? I tried just including a bunch of the cxxtest files in the distribution but that didn't help. Thanks, Ted

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flowText: skewed
by unknown＠example.com 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

I tried to submit a bug report but sourceforge wasn't cooperating. If I create a shape like a triangle from three straight lines and then flow a word of text into it. When I skew the triangle properly the text will dissappear. It could just be that the text doesn't fit, but it really looks like it should. Aaron Spike

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Post Effect Selections
by unknown＠example.com 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

I missed an interesting discussion about which objects should be selected after an effect. I started of the opinion that the previous selection should be restored in order to make affecting the same objects again simpler. But someone suggested that the effect should be able to control the selection. That sounds very interesting. How would this be done? Would an effect insert some sort of attribute (like inkscape:select-me="1") into each object that should be selected? This attribute would be discarded by Inkscape on load. Any other solution would likely pass a list of selected ids. Id collision was one of the first things I wondered about while writing effects. What would happen if I assign a new object an id that is already taken? Inkscape of course fixes it for me. But I have been assigning no id to new objects and letting Inkscape handle the whole thing. This probably isn't a good behavior. And it wouldn't allow for ids to be passed back to Inkscape. What should an effect do to properly handle id assignments? Aaron Spike

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