October 2007 - Inkscape Devel

Visio and Inkscape
by Ted Gould 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Hey all, In looking for XSLT scripts that'd be useful for Linux I ran across: http://vdxtosvg.sf.net/ It's a script to use the XML format that is used by Visio, and turns it into SVG. Seems potentially useful. But, I'm e-mailed the author and he's not really interested in maintaining it. It seems like he'd probably be willing to answer questions, but I didn't ask explicitly. Anyone have Visio and interested? --Ted

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Order of Selected Items Presented To Extension Scripts
by Redefined Horizons 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

Warning: This question might be specefic to Inkscape extension scripts written in Python. I've come up with ideas for several little extensions scripts I'd like to write for Inkscape. Most deal with allowing the type of "precision" drawing that would make Inkscape more suitable for precision drawing. I keep running into an obstacle when I think about the design of these scripts, and I thought I might get some help here. An example may be the easiest way to ask my question. I want to write a script that makes one line segment parallel or perpendicular to another line segment. The problem is that I want to make the line segment selected last by the user parallel to the line segment that is selected first, not the other way around. I'm looking for a way to do this without having the user run two scripts. The first to select the line that will not be modified, and the second to select the line that will be modified and that then performs the operation. Does Inkscape "deliver" the selected items to an extension script in the order they were selected? Or is the order random? If the order isn't random, which items (or nodes) would come first? Those selected last by the user, or those selected first? I hope my question makes sense. I might be pushing the envelope of what is possible with Inkscape's current extensions script system. Thanks, Scott Huey

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Losing colours when copying
by MenTaLguY 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:34:57 +0200, "Maarten van der Velde" <Maarten.van-der-Velde@...1771...> wrote: > I'm just wondering why it happens? Are the names for the gradients > assigned based on a incrementing counter? Can't we just assign them > random numbers? Random numbers aren't guaranteed to be unique either. -mental

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Color Tweak - Option to not create new gradient
by microUgly 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Is there an option so when you tweak the colours of a gradient it modifies the current gradient rather than makes a copy then modifies it? I normally reuse gradients on multiple objects to intentially keep them same for if I decide to change colours. I don't know if others feel the same, but my preference would be that when I tweak the gradient on one object, all other objects that also use that gradient should change also. Perhaps a toggle in the tool control bar? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Color-Tweak---Option-to-not-create-new-gradient-tf456… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Tool names in tooltips
by microUgly 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

One minor issue I have with Inkscape is that the tools aren't named in the tooltips. This doesn't effect my own use, but when attempting to help someone else I like to refer to tools by their correct names and I don't know what some tools are called off the top of my head. Refering to them by their description in impractical. The only way I know how to find out the correct name of a tool is to look at the Keys and Mouse reference. Is it possible to put the tool name in the tooltips? Or are the names of the tools already revealed within Inkscape in a way that I have overlooked? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tool-names-in-tooltips-tf4604916.html#a13148870 Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Fwd: Simple Addition
by Martin Owens 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

> Actually it might make sense to make it a preference. Something like > specifying what happens to the other layers when one is selected > exclusively. That's a good idea in and of it's self, make the two things distinct functions and together they make a powerful control. So one idea is to have a slider bar to change which layer is selected. And the second idea is to be able to set some how what happens to other layers and the current layer such that it should be possible to make the current layer visible, the next and previous layers semi transparent and all other layers invisible. this would also be very cool for doing tracing and a bunch of other things. >> >> I wrote the barcode plugin, I can't Imagen it'd be too much more difficult. > > Ah, I didn't realize that was you. Yes, this one should be much easier :) > Yes the barcode wasn't that hard to be honest I translated my perl barcode stuff to python. > Are you planning on using the SVG animation elements or Javascript? > > Also, from the SVG perspective there is a good group of people who talk > about SVG related issues over here: > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ I'm planning on creating a python based plugin which will look at each of the objects in each root layer and allow you to combine them into a complete animation using svg animation (not javascript) primary support is just the path and transofrm animations and maybe style. I'll make it so you should be able to select the timing between each frame ect. I'm posting this to the inkscape devel list for you guys to shoot down as many as the silly ideas as possible so we can come up with some nice improvements. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape staff-picked at Apple again
by jiho 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Hello, Just a quick note to let you know that, after changing Inkscape description text at Apple, the project gained a little visibility (it was marked as updated) but also changed location (moved from Unix & Open source to Imaging & 3D) and lost its staff-picked status. As of today, Inkscape has been staff-picked again and, maybe more importantly, is back in the top ten most popular applications in its new category (it is number 6): http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/index_top.html There is no indication of how the "popularity" is judged but since the list features old and new items, staff-picked as well as non- staff picked items etc. my guess is that a simple metric such as the number of clicks on the download link or the number of visits to the product page is used. This is all very good news for Inkscape and 0.46 promises to be a really big hit. Congratulations to everyone. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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SCALE Papers or BOF
by staff-gmail 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

All those thinking of going to SCALE - it would be great to have a paper submitted, but if no one is up for that, we should plan on at least a BOF on all the new cool features that will be in .46 that should be out by then. At any rate we should coordinate and then let Gareth know.

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Case sensitive font selection field
by momo 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Hi, While working with some text in Inkscape, I found an unpleasant behaviour of the text selection field (the field above the font selection drop down menu): it is case sensitive. When I type "Arial" in it and hit enter, the selected text's font is changed to arial as it should. But if I type "arial" or "ARIAL", then I get a warning that the font is not found/installed. The expected behaviour is that no matter what case I enter in (like aRiaL) it must find the font I'm looking for (this is the behaviour of Illustrator, Indesign, Corel, Photoshop, Openoffice and many other programs). Although it is not a real bug, it is IMO a usability issue. By the way, I'm on Windows XP sp2. Is it the same on Linux? Mac? And should I fill a feature request or a bug report? Thanks! Molumen

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need help
by Elisha 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

When I try to make some effects with windows version, inkscape stop and give this error message- http://www.pisga.org.il/inkscape/inkscape.jpg Elisha

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