October 2006 - 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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Status of inkboard feature
by Denis Leroy 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

What is the status of the inkboard feature ? Is it considered stable ? More importantly, is it considered safe (from a security standpoint) ? We had requests in Fedora to have the feature enabled and so am doing some testing on my side. It was originally turned off because it was pretty unstable and would often crash in the loudmouth library, but that was a while ago... thx! -denis

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NEW: more stuff in Help menu
by bulia byak 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Since none of our standard libs could offer a cross-platform, easily available way to launch an URL in the user's default browser, I looked around and found exactly what we need in Python (which we carry anyway) - the standard "webbrowser" module. So I created some Python extensions to launch various URLs using webbrowser.open calls, and put them into Help menu: - Inkscape Manual links to http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php, do you think we should host a redirect at inkscape.org instead? - Command line options: http://inkscape.org/doc/inkscape-man.html - FAQ on wiki - Release notes for the current version - "Report a bug" page - SVG 1.1 specification at w3.org I tested this and it seems to work well in Linux and Windows. Let me know if you have any problems. Also feel free to suggest other "launch an URL" commands for Inkscape (openclipart? wiki? inkscape.org? Aaron's extension page?) The only change I made in the core of Inkscape was to allow an inx file to specify <effects-menu hidden="yes"/> so that these new extensions don't automatically show up in the Effects menu. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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WEBFORM download link is bad
by vic 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: vic email: submitted the following: Hello, TYhank you for that great tprogram. I use Mozilla 1.7.12 ; From the inkscape home page (french and english) the download link href to : http://www.inkscape.org/download/?css=css/base.css http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en&css=css/base.css from these links i get page with HTML source... Fortunately when I modify manually the link to http://www.inkscape.org/download/ I get the download page. Regards, Vic

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gradient mesh plan
by bulia byak 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Long ago, Ted Gould made a proposal on how to do gradient meshes using elliptic gradients. Sadly this was not workable because gradients are simply not flexible enough. But now we have blur - and while approximating a gradient mesh with blurring is still not trivial, it is possible. See an attached SVG for an example. Of course it's a nightmare to do all this manually, but as soon as we have code for bezier intersections, it becomes possible to do an automatic gradient mesh object using this approach. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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HowTo limit significant figures saved?
by Jonathan Chetwynd 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

HowTo limit significant figures saved? I find the default eight, far too many. cheers Jonathan Chetwynd

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wiki not accepting svg?
by bulia byak 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I tried to upload an SVG to Inkscape wiki but the format is not accepted (only png/jpg). I think it's a shame :) Can someone knowledgeable please fix this? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Contest Planning
by Jon Phillips 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hello all, I put a wiki page up to plan for the two upcoming contests on the Open Clip Art Library wiki. Please look at them, add your two-cents, and lets get this show on the road :) http://openclipart.org/wiki/Contests Oh, the first contest will be: 1.) Inkscape 0.45 About Screen 2.) Open Font Library logo contest After we review, then the Open Clip Art Library folk will set it up and develop press/announcements which can be sent out in a big burst. Thus, please hold off on blogging/posting too much about this yet so we can maximize our impact on launching these contests. Cool? Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Scroll+blur bug? (was: gradient mesh plan)
by bulia byak 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> Date: Oct 31, 2006 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Scroll+blur bug? (was: gradient mesh plan) To: Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...>, Niko Kiirala <niko@...1267...> On 10/31/06, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote: > When I open the file that was attached to this mail > (gradient-mesh-4.svgz), press 1 to zoom in and then scroll downwards to > where the end result is, I get an image like the attached screenshot. > Zooming in or out makes it look right again (as does disabling/enabling > blur). > > I'm using the latest exe-only version from inkscape.modevia.com (built > on Oct 20 according to the about box), the selected blur quality doesn't > seem to affect this (I tried average and best and both show the same > problem). I couldn't find any bug report in the tracker about this problem. > > Is someone already working on this? (Or is even already fixed?) Or > should I file a bug report? I think it's already in the bug tracker but you can check. Hopefully Niko or I will address it one day. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] gradient mesh plan
by bulia byak 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

On 10/31/06, Andy Fitzsimon <andyfitz@...400...> wrote: > looks great Bulia, I'd kill for this functionality. > My only problem is that the colors just before the clipped edges are > blurred with 50% opacity. > > Is this intentional ? That's a side effect that can be prevented by adding outside margins to the edge segments that would be clipped off. And of course, the number of flat segments per mesh cell should be variable. The finer is the segmentation, the more precise is the mesh and the less blurring is needed to smoothen it. With sufficiently small segments, you may not even need blurring at all. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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