November 2006 - Inkscape Devel

PDF Export
by MenTaLguY 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

We've got two Cairo PDF exporters right now -- the regular one and the "experimental" one. Which one should we focus on polishing for the 0.45 release? -mental

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NEW: display mode toggle and other goodies
by bulia byak 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

* A new menu command (View > Display Mode > Toggle) and a new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+<keypad 5>) switch the display mode from Normal to Outline and back. * An object with mask and/or clipping path, when viewed in Outline mode, now displays both the object itself and its clipping path and mask as objects, using different outline colors. By default, clippaths use green outlines, and masks use blue. These colors, as well as the colors of the regular object outlines (default black on light background and white on dark background) are now changeable by editing the "wireframecolors" group in the preferences file (~/.inkscape/preferences.xml). * An object with no fill and no stroke, invisible and not selectable by mouse clicking in normal more, can now be picked by a mouse click in the Outline mode using its visible outline. * To cater for specialized uses, such as preparing input for personal media cutters, Inkscape now has an option to start in the Outline mode upon launch. To enable this, add the following line to your preferences.xml file: <group id="startmode" outline="1"/> placing it after the <group id="options"> opening tag. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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dz.po errors
by bulia byak 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

The recently committed dz.po has several errors (unclosed tags, etc). Whoever committed it, please fix, and please never put anything into SVN without running "make" first to make sure the file is clean! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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LaTeX formula renderer: adding amsmath
by Johan Engelen 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hey guys, I am using the LaTeX formula renderer quite alot, and have added the amsmath package in the preamble in the python file. Is it ok to commit this? I suppose everybody has this package. Cheers, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Scroll+blur bug?
by Jasper van de Gronde 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

bulia byak wrote: > 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. I couldn't find it in the tracker, so I created a bug, id 1588463.

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NEW: SVG output configurable
by bulia byak 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Not per-document yet, but better than nothing... For specialized uses, several aspects of Inkscape's SVG output can now be customized via editing the preferences.xml file (there's no UI for these options). A <group id="svgoutput"> inside <group id="options"> can have the following attributes: * usenamedcolors (default is 0). If nonzero, Inkscape uses symbolic color names (such as "white" or "lime") and three-digit color designations (such as $dfe) where appropriate; otherwise, it always uses six-digit colors (such as $d0f0e0). Note that in 0.44, the default was to use named colors, which created problems for some extension effects. * numericprecision (default is 8). This is the number of significant digits written for each number into SVG. You can lower this number to get slightly more compact SVG at the expense of precision. * minimumexponent (default is -8). In transform= attributes, any number whose absolute value is less than 10 to the power of minimumexponent (i.e. less than 10-8 by default) is written as 0. * indent (default is 2) controls the number of spaces that each level of nesting in SVG is shifted. Set this to 0 to disable indentation. * inlineattrs (default is 0). If nonzero, attributes are placed on the same line as their tags; otherwise they are separated by newlines. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely.

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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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