March 2006 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

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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Tangofied inkscape icon
by Andreas Nilsson 14 May '06

14 May '06

Hello everyone! Hope this is the right place to send this stuff. Here is a tangofied Inkscape-icon in the sizes scalable, 22 and 16. Been on my harddrive for quite a while now, but I figure you might have use for it. http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/inkscape-icon.tar.gz - Andreas

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WEBFORM live bookmarks / rss
by pbhj 10 May '06

10 May '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: pbhj email: inkscape@...1029...%0Acc:pbhj@...19... submitted the following: RSS feed, great! No <link> in page header makes it v.hard for Firefox users to add a livemark though. <link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" title=\"inkscape news\" href=\"/inkscape.rss\" /> Cheers pbhj

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RSS feed not synced with website news
by Luca Bruno 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi all, I've just noticed that the RSS feed for inkscape.org[1] isn't synced with latest news on the website. It's currently missing at least latest post by rejon. Can anyone please check why and fix it? I remember the feed-generator script is called from a cron (which?), maybe the problem is there or in the switch between CVS and SVN repo... Greetings, Luca [1] http://www.inkscape.org/inkscape.rss -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Luca Bruno : :' : The Universal O.S. | luca.br(AT)uno.it `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 3BFB9FB3 `- http://www.debian.org | Proud Debian GNU/Linux User

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Flash Export
by unknown＠example.com 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hello everyone. I've been playing with Inkscape for a while now, keep up the good work. I am interested in Flash export functionality for Inkscape. Are any developers working on this? I would be interested in helping out. Brian

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Visual feedback while snapping
by Mathieu Dimanche 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi everyone Since it's my first attempt at trying to make things improve in a software, using cvs, and trying to understand a whole project (and written in c++... sometimes), please don't be too harsh on me and on my english level, I'm just a little frenchy :) Very used to illustrator, I miss some little things that make life easier, like moreeffective snapping. So I tried to understand the whole object tree, reading both the doxygen and the code (...when there were comments) and finally managed to have a patch made. The functionnality is a pretty little one, I just made guides highlight when moved objects snap against them. For now, this only works for dragged objects and rectangles being drawed. I post this for anyone to check if I do right, naming functions, indenting, thinking the whole problem, so please, feel free to over-comment my "work", for me to know if I can go on with these kind of updates. This is the first patch of my life, I hope I've made it well. Could you test that ? Next things I could look at could be : - Snapping modes (enable/disable) Bounding box and dots snapping. I thik it could be great too temporarily disable bounding box snapping, just to make sure only dots do it. - Providing visual feedback of which of these is used now (you grab a rectangle, its bounding box snaps a guide, the guide turns red (default highlight color), and a little text appears along the guide saying (snapping to boungbox). If you drag farther, the boundingbox will stop snapping and it's the corner dot that will do, so the text'll be "dot snapping" or something like this... maybe snapped dots could be highlited too - Making grid lines highlight when snapped, just like guides (it was much easier for guides since they are separate objects and the color/hicolor alread existed) - Trying to make more snapping objects... maybe angled guides, objects themselves, middle of objects, etc... all these could be mode enabled/disabled. What do people think ? What feature would you like most ?

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CVS Snpashots ot of date
by Tomas Janecek 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, the cvs-snapshost of inkscape on http://www.inkscape.org/cvs-snap/ seem to be out of date. The last snapshot is from January 15. Thanks Tomas Janecek

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export dialog patch
by Osei Poku 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hi All, I have attached a patch that uses GtkFileChooserDialog instead of GtkFileSelection when you click browse in the export dialog. I realize after reading the roadmap that the export dialog is due for an upgrade to gtkmm. However, I figured that it wouldn't hurt to have this in anyway until then. Otherwise, thanks for a great piece of software. -- Osei Poku Graduate Student, Dept. of ECE, CMU

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NEW: calligraphic tremor
by bulia byak 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

Even when using a graphics tablet with pressure sensitivity, the Calligraphy pen's strokes often look too smooth and artificial. To enable a more natural look, the new Tremor parameter is added to the Calligraphy tool in this version. Adjustable in the Controls bar from 0.0 to 1.0, it will affect your strokes producing anything from slight unevenness to wild blotches and splotches. This significantly expands the creative range of the tool. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Patch: Undo History dialog
by Gustav Broberg 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hi, I have recently uploaded a patch[1] which provides an undo history dialog. It is similar to those found in e.g. GIMP[2] and Photoshop[3] (I don't know if it's in Illustrator, CorelDRAW, etc). To get an idea what it looks like without having to apply the patch, here's a screencast (in flash, sorry ;) showing it in action: http://www.csc.kth.se/~broberg/undo-history.html First of all, I'm not sure if this is a requested addition to Inkscape -- I can't recall any discussion about it on the list and I didn't find anything in the wiki. Personally, however, I do find it useful (at least occasionally), so I went ahead and implemented it. Secondly (if it's found to be of value), this patch could use some rather heavy reviewing. It's my first patch and I'm not confident enough with the code base to feel sure about what the "right" solutions are. Here are some additional concerns: * To get the type of an event I rely entirely on the current event context. This obviously not (always) a correct assumption. An example of this problem: setting an object's color while the node tool is the current context. * In order to populate the tree with icons I added a help function to widget/icon.cpp to get the internal Pixbuf of an icon. This could be solved in much a better way when the gktmmified stock icon system is in place, but for now, this was easiest way for me to solve it. * There are bugs lurking which I have not been able to reproduce. Some seem to be the result of problems with undoing of certain types of events; i.e. the bugs are in the current code. I'm looking into this... For now, here is at least one I managed to nail down and put in the tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1423038&group_id=9… 1. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1423034&group_id=9…) 2. http://docs.gimp.org/images/dialogs/dialogs-undo-history.png 3. http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/PhotoshopEl/Help/images/wa_11.gif -- Gustav Broberg

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