February 2007 - Inkscape Devel

Accessing Inkscape API in external scripts
by Aurélio A. Heckert 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

Hi, >From the thread about the Script Window i start to think how to access the Inkscape API in external scripts. I don't know if you already write something about this, but, if you don't may it help... My idea is to say in the XPI "this script uses the Inkscape DOM" and the inkscape will talk with the script all the time, allowing this to use the inkscape like the user does... The Inkscape must listen the commands from the script output and write an feedback in a pipefile for the script know what happens. A sample bash script to fill in red an rectangle with id rect2: #!/bin/bash pipe=$1 echo 'selectElementById rect2' testError "$( cat $pipe )" echo 'setAttribute fill="red"' testError "$( cat $pipe )" I write 2 scripts to see if it's possible. inkSimulator.sh will do what the Inkscape must to do and externalDOM.sh will test it. See the simulation output: ___________________________________________________ $ ./inkSimulator.sh The user has cliqued on the "External DOM Test" efect. The interface is disabled for the user interaction... All the readed DOM commands gets an error response <error num>|<error text> No error returns something like this: 0|Ok Trying to set the attribute fill... Outch! I recived the error 2: Ups... no element selected Trying to get the rect4... Outch! I recived the error 1: The id rect4 do not existis Trying to get the rect2... Yeah! I recived the error 0: Ok, element rect2 selected Trying to set the attribute fill again... Yeah! I recived the error 0: Ok, attribute fill="red" seted in rect2 Nice! The "External DOM Test" ends. ___________________________________________________ I'm sending this scripts attached in the ink-dom-external-proposal.tar.gz to you see the code, if i was not clear. (English is not my language :-) ) It is a good idea? I think it can be easy to write scripts... Thanks, Aurium -- -===================================================- . . Aurélio A. Heckert [ GNU/Linux ] / \ http://www.aurium.cjb.net ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) `-_---" "---_-´ Web Colaborativa: `--|o` ´o|--´ http://www.TWiki.org \ ' / Projeto Software Livre - Bahia: ): :( http://psl-ba.softwarelivre.org (o_o) Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: "-" http://www.colibre.com.br ------------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ( ( ( http://www.midiaindependente.org ) ) ) -===================================================- "Se conhecimento é poder, que país governado por industriais dará a verdadeira educação? Cuidado com o feedback da miséria!" Tet Ramon "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson

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NEW: batch export and slicing
by bulia byak 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

* Batch export: The Bitmap Export dialog (Ctrl+Shift+E) got a new checkbox, Batch export all selected objects. This checkbox is available when two or more objects are selected. If it is checked, instead of exporting selection as a whole, Inkscape exports each selected object separately into its own PNG file. This uses each object's export hints (i.e. export filename and DPI) if they are remembered from a previous export; otherwise, the filename is created from the object ID and the DPI is 90 pixels per inch. Caution: Unlike regular export, batch export overwrites all existing PNG files without warning. This makes it possible to implement all kinds of image slicing and automated export scenarios. For example, if you are working on a web site design, you can create a separate "export" layer. In that layer, "slice" your web page image into separate areas by creating invisible rectangles with no fill and no stroke. Select each rectangle (by Tab/Shift+Tab, or by switching to Outline mode where even an invisible rectangle can be selected by clicking on its outline) and export it into the corresponding filename (which gets saved as that object's export hint). After that, if you do any changes to your graphics, it's very easy to reexport all the slices: just switch to the "export" layer, select all in that layer (Ctrl+A), and export with the Batch export selected objects checkbox on. This functionality replaces the "groups to pngs" extension which I'm going to remove. If you know of any reason why it should stay, please speak up. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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pstricks export: inkscape 0.45+devel
by Richard Henwood 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hi Folks, I would like to have pstricks export prompt me to 'export text as path'. This would allow me to export text as text - and hence use latex annotations in my inkscape drawing. I've checked out and compiled inkscape 0.45+devel on my suse 10.1 machine (64bit). There is apparently some loss of functionality (bug?) in pstricks export since my previous version of inkscape: pstricks doesn't appear to be including text during output. I can reproduce this problem by: 1. start inkscape. 2. use the text tool and type some text. 3. save to filename as pstricks. 4. examine the filename to see it is empty apart from headers. I appreciate that this is the devel package - but thought that if this section of the code was currently in development, some kind sole might give my give my feature request some consideration at the same time! best regards, richard,

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Stroke color
by Romain Thouvenin 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hi devel, If I remember well, when I was using CorelDraw, a right click on a color of the palette was the action to change the color of the stroke of an object. I find it more logical than Shift+click, since you have two things to paint, and two buttons on the mouse ; and why Shift rather than Ctrl or Alt ? So I thought it would be a good idea to enable right click to paint the stroke, since it isn't used. Of course, we would keep shift + click until another better use is found, since many users are used to this. If you think it is a relevant feature, then I would agree to implement it. It would be my first coding contribution, an occasion to put the hands in the code, and learn about glib, which I don't know at all. What do you think ? Romain

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Inkscape #1 Project
by Spyros Blanas 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

In the latest SourceForge.net site-wide email, Inkscape is rated as the #1 project! (Rating is based on project activity.) Judging from recorded stats in these e-mails alone, this is the first time we reach the top. (Inkscape had however reached #2 when preparing for the 0.44 release.) Congratulations to everyone involved! - Spyros Blanas

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PRESS RELEASE: Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 Announced
by Jon Phillips 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in MontrÃ©al. Announced 12 February, 2007 - Building on the overwhelming success of last year's Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France, key Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce the second Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Canada, May 6, 2007 at Ãcole Polytechnique de MontrÃ©al. This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics application developers, users and professional artists from all over the world meet to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects together, with the goal of increasing interaction between developers, professional graphics artists and print professionals to improve the steadily expanding FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as Blender - a 3D creation application, Scribus - a professional grade page layout application, GIMP - a versatile and mature image editor, Inkscape - a user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for SVG, Krita - a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application, Open Clip Art Library - a large public domain collection of freely available artwork, and many other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing. According to Louis Desjardins, a 20 year veteran of pre-press and print production and organiser of the conference: "LGM is a sure demonstration of the maturity of free and open source applications - even at a professional level. Not only that, never before have I seen such a close and amicable working relationship between the users of this kind of software and those who create it." Having experienced the whole evolution from camera ready galleys and manual stripping to the advent and evolution of DTP, he states: "We are now seeing Free Software emerge in a domain which was more or less closed before." Numerous companies and organisations are showing their support of LGM by means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a clear positive impact on the evolution of the projects present at the conference. LGM audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum. Sponsors have the opportunity to show their support to the community and get appropriate web and media exposure. This year they also have the opportunity to advertise in the LGM Brochure which will be entirely done using FLOSS. The conference offers presentations of various Free/Libre Open Source graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general issues such as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming sessions and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and to work on common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world. LGM 2007 is putting out a call for participation, sponsorship, and discussion. The call for participation includes the submission of at most 2 paragraph presentation abstracts by interested projects and individuals. All types of presentations will be considered, including topics as diverse as collaboration, power-user art techniques, engineering talks, graphics business best practices, and other relevant topics. Official website http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Source LGM 2007 organisation Press Contact Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins@...400...

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PRESS RELEASE: Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 Announced
by Jon Phillips 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in MontrÃ©al. Announced 12 February, 2007 - Building on the overwhelming success of last year's Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France, key Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce the second Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Canada, May 6, 2007 at Ãcole Polytechnique de MontrÃ©al. This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics application developers, users and professional artists from all over the world meet to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects together, with the goal of increasing interaction between developers, professional graphics artists and print professionals to improve the steadily expanding FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as Blender - a 3D creation application, Scribus - a professional grade page layout application, GIMP - a versatile and mature image editor, Inkscape - a user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for SVG, Krita - a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application, Open Clip Art Library - a large public domain collection of freely available artwork, and many other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing. According to Louis Desjardins, a 20 year veteran of pre-press and print production and organiser of the conference: "LGM is a sure demonstration of the maturity of free and open source applications - even at a professional level. Not only that, never before have I seen such a close and amicable working relationship between the users of this kind of software and those who create it." Having experienced the whole evolution from camera ready galleys and manual stripping to the advent and evolution of DTP, he states: "We are now seeing Free Software emerge in a domain which was more or less closed before." Numerous companies and organisations are showing their support of LGM by means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a clear positive impact on the evolution of the projects present at the conference. LGM audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum. Sponsors have the opportunity to show their support to the community and get appropriate web and media exposure. This year they also have the opportunity to advertise in the LGM Brochure which will be entirely done using FLOSS. The conference offers presentations of various Free/Libre Open Source graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general issues such as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming sessions and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and to work on common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world. LGM 2007 is putting out a call for participation, sponsorship, and discussion. The call for participation includes the submission of at most 2 paragraph presentation abstracts by interested projects and individuals. All types of presentations will be considered, including topics as diverse as collaboration, power-user art techniques, engineering talks, graphics business best practices, and other relevant topics. Official website http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Source LGM 2007 organisation Press Contact Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins@...400...

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Inkscape OLPC contacts
by Jon Phillips 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hello all, ok, Redhat is handling most of the UI development and I'm got them interested in possibly using Inkscape for the drawing activity on OLPC. So, this is a major component of the project and RedHat has developer(s) working on this. Offline one developer asked me who wants to be in the discussion about this. I'm thinking off the top of my head: Bryce, Mental, JonCruz...are there any other people that would like to be put in contact with them? I connected up their interest with discussion about inkboard, since the device has mesh networking, they want to have collaborative sketching/drawing...cool! This is really good news and hopefully will bear fruit, but wanted to make sure I made public this and to see who is interested in this opportunity... I'll send him a list in a couple of hours...sooo...if you are into, then please reply... 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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node tool refactoring
by bulia byak 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

I just committed some changes in node tool code. No new features so far, everything must work exactly as before, but under the hood things are getting into motion. So, if you find any problem with node tool behavior, please let me know at once. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in Montréal Announced
by Louis Desjardins 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hello all, Our 1st press release is out now! Hope to see you in Montréal! Louis LGM 2007 organiser * * * ENGLISH VERSION * * * FRENCH VERSION BELOW * * * Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in Montréal Announced Issue date: 12 February 2007 Building on the overwhelming success of last year's Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France, key Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce the second Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 4—6, 2007 at École Polytechnique de Montréal. This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics application developers, users and professional artists from all over the world meet to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects together, with the goal of increasing interaction between developers, professional graphics artists and print professionals to improve the steadily expanding FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as Blender - a 3D creation application, Scribus - a professional grade page layout application, GIMP - a versatile and mature image editor, Inkscape - a user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for SVG, Krita - a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application, Open Clip Art Library - a large public domain collection of freely available artwork, and many other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing. According to Louis Desjardins, a 20 year veteran of pre-press and print production and organiser of the conference: "LGM is a sure demonstration of the maturity of free and open source applications - even at a professional level. Not only that, never before have I seen such a close and amicable working relationship between the users of this kind of software and those who create it." Having experienced the whole evolution from camera ready galleys and manual stripping to the advent and evolution of DTP, he states: "We are now seeing Free Software emerge in a domain which was more or less closed before." Numerous companies and organisations are showing their support of LGM by means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a clear positive impact on the evolution of the projects present at the conference. LGM audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum. Sponsors have the opportunity to show their support to the community and get appropriate web and media exposure. This year they also have the opportunity to advertise in the LGM Brochure which will be entirely done using FLOSS. The conference offers presentations of various Free/Libre Open Source graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general issues such as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming sessions and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and to work on common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world. LGM 2007 is putting out a call for participation, sponsorship, and discussion. The call for participation includes the submission of at most 2 paragraph presentation abstracts by interested projects and individuals. All types of presentations will be considered, including topics as diverse as collaboration, power-user art techniques, engineering talks, graphics business best practices, and other relevant topics. Official website: http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ - 30 - Source: LGM 2007 organisation Louis Desjardins EMAIL louis [dot] desjardins [at] gmail [dot] com * * * FRENCH VERSION * * * ENGLISH VERSION ABOVE * * * Une rencontre internationale stimulante entre les arts graphiques et les logiciels libres. Le Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 débarque à Montréal. Date de diffusion : 12 février 2007 La deuxième édition du Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) se déroulera à Montréal, au Québec, les 4, 5 et 6 mai 2007 à l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. Le succès retentissant du premier Libre Graphics Meeting à Lyon, en France, l'année dernière, a convaincu les développeurs des meilleurs logiciels libres dans le domaine des arts graphiques de renouveler l'expérience. Le LGM est un moment privilégié au cours duquel développeurs de logiciels libres, utilisateurs et créateurs professionnels venus du monde entier se rencontrent. C'est l'occasion pour eux de tracer les lignes directrices des développements futurs de ces logiciels au travers d'une réelle collaboration entre les gens du métier et les concepteurs. Ces échanges soutenus permettent d'enrichir et de développer l'écosystème en pleine évolution que constituent les logiciels libres de la chaîne graphique. Cet écosystème est constitué de logiciels libres tels : * Blender, un modeleur tridimensionnel * Scribus, un logiciel de mise en page de niveau professionnel * GIMP, un logiciel complet de manipulation d'image * Inkscape, une application de dessin vectoriel au format SVG * Krita, un logiciel de création d'images peintes ou dessinées de manière « naturelle » * la graphothèque Open Clip Art, une vaste collection d'images qui peuvent être utilisées librement * et d'autres encore... Pour Louis Desjardins, organisateur de la conférence et professionnel des arts graphiques depuis 20 ans, « le LGM est une démonstration éclatante de la maturité des logiciels libres, même sur le plan professionnel. Je n'ai jamais vu une aussi étroite et amicale collaboration entre ceux qui utilisent les logiciels et ceux qui les créent. » Ayant vécu de l'intérieur la révolution numérique dans les arts graphiques, du montage traditionnel des textes photocomposés à l'essor considérable de la publication assistée par ordinateur (PAO), Louis Desjardins ajoute : « Nous voyons maintenant arriver les logiciels libres dans un secteur qui a toujours été traditionnellement fermé ». Plusieurs compagnies et organismes soutiennent d'ores et déjà le LGM. Elles se montrent ainsi convaincues de l'impact positif du LGM sur l'évolution des logiciels libres présentés à la conférence. En soutenant le LGM, les organisations démontrent leur volonté d'appuyer la communauté du libre. Elles obtiennent en retour une visibilité médiatique des plus recherchées. Cette année, un espace leur sera notamment réservé dans la brochure du LGM qui sera entièrement conçue et réalisée à l'aide de logiciels libres. Les conférences seront l'occasion de démonstrations, de présentation des avancées techniques récentes et de discussions sur des sujets plus généraux tels que les formats de fichiers ouverts. Des sessions de travail plus informelles permettront également aux développeurs et utilisateurs de travailler de concert sur des objectifs communs. La participation des professionnels des arts graphiques aux travaux du LGM est fortement encouragée, elle est même essentielle. Un appel à contribution est donc lancé. Les personnes intéressées peuvent soumettre un résumé d'au plus 2 paragraphes de toute présentation qu'elles souhaiteraient faire. Toute proposition sera considérée : contribution à un projet, démonstrations par des utilisateurs experts, discussions techniques, présentations d'expériences en entreprise, etc. Renseignements et inscription : http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/fr - 30 - Source : L'organisation du LGM 2007 Contact : Louis Desjardins — courriel : louis [point] desjardins [à] gmail [point] com -- Louis Desjardins Mardigrafe inc. T 514 934 1353 F 514 934 3698 http://www.mardigrafe.com

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