March 2007 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

website
by Alexandre Prokoudine 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi, While working on translation of inkscape.org into RU, I noticed several things I'd be pleased to have feedback on. 1. Documentation page. 1.1. It has a "Translations" section which is not quite related to docs. Should we introduce a separate "Translations" or "i18n" page with information on status of supported languages and basic info for new translators? 1.2. Publications (Overviews). Those brochures are nice, but _very_outdated (0.39). Could we "hire" some artist to give them a new life? 1.3. Example SVG Files. This is not related to docs as well. Maybe we should introduce a basic PR page for SVG? 2. Showcase page. Very outdated. Latest entry dates back to 2005. Don't we have something newer to show people? ;-) 3. Status page. Latest Project Status: 15, November 2005. That speaks for itself. Any comments? Alexandre

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website - screenshot thumbnails
by Joshua A. Andler 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I seem to recall bbyak asking (about a month or two back) about the random screenshot thumbnails that used to be on the homepage. I'm checking to see if there are plans to add it back in or what. It really does add quite a bit to have those on the homepage. Just following up... -Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Google Summer of Code Ideas
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

> > Interesting shots. But at least extrude doesn't look like it would allow > the front to be not parallel to the horizone. It's 1 point while what I'm > hoping for would be 3 point. 1 point perspective is nice to have, 2 point > too, but 3 point is a must for industrial and concept design, > (semi-)realistic illustrations. DRAW is the base of Corel Technical Designer, so I have to assume (possibly incorrectly) that what you are talking about is possible. I can't quite picture what you mean exactly though, so maybe if you can attach a quick sketch I can see what you mean? Gail

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Google Summer of Code Ideas
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

> I think this is a really cool idea. DRAW has a few tools that you may > be thinking of such as Extrude and Perspective. However, I must say > that the UI isn't the greatest, probably in large part because this > functionality has been around for a long time. I have attached a > screenshot of each tool in action on a simple rectangle to see if this > is the kind of thing you were picturing. Looks like my original message has made it through ;) Sorry for the duplication everyone! Gail

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Google Summer of Code Ideas
by Bryce Harrington 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi all, Just FYI, I'm sending in the mentor application today, and will be listing our ideas page in it: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2007 If you have any thoughts about GSoC projects, now would be a *great* time to review and add to that page. Students will be looking over it soon. Bryce

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NEW: flood fill
by John Bintz 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Inkscape now has a very rudimentary flood fill tool. It works by performing a bitmap-based flood fill on a rendered version of the visible canvas, then tracing the resulting fill using potrace and placing the traced path on the canvas. You can access it by the paint bucket icon in the toolbar. It places the rendered path onto the current layer, so you can have a layer on top (in my case, "Inks") and select the layer below ("Colors") and do the fills so that they always appear below the inks. This tool is in a very basic state, and there are issues with rendering accuracy and memory usage. Some improvements that I can see being done are: * If the [Ctrl] key is held down, clicking on an object changes the fill color to the current fill color, and [Shift]-[Ctrl] changes the stroke color to the current stroke color * A way to either manually or dynamically increase the resolution of the rendered version so that the accuracy of the flood fill is better Try it and let me know what you think. Thanks, John

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Checking in...
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Thanks for the reply; my fears are put to rest ;) I will resend the message when I get back home (assuming it is still in my sent box), this time with links. I'm currently in Montreal competing in CS Games! Cheers everyone! Gail bulia byak wrote: >On 3/10/07, Gail Banaszkiewicz <gbanaszk@...1686...> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I posted a reply about the 3D tools idea a while back with some >> screenshots. I think the message had to go through the moderator >> because the two images were slightly higher than the max. Since then, >> I have not received any messages from the mailing list. > >I didn't see that message in my mailbox - can you please resend it? I >think it's better to post screenshots to some web site and include >links to the mail. > >> My question is has something gone wrong for me? > >Nothing whatsoever :) > >> Or has activity been >> low? I have not even seen my own message make its way back to me. I >> also couldn't see the archives off the web page. > >I'm also seeing few messages recently - this may be a lull in >activity, or it may be some problems with the sourceforge server (such >things happened before). > >-- >bulia byak >Inkscape. Draw Freely. >http://www.inkscape.org >

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Checking in...
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Hi everyone, I posted a reply about the 3D tools idea a while back with some screenshots. I think the message had to go through the moderator because the two images were slightly higher than the max. Since then, I have not received any messages from the mailing list. My question is has something gone wrong for me? Or has activity been low? I have not even seen my own message make its way back to me. I also couldn't see the archives off the web page. If you reply, please reply to me directly as well as the list just in case something is messed up. Thanks so much! Gail

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LeTeX-Export
by Frank Lanitz 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hi List, I was reading about, that the export to LaTeX/pstricks of inkscape doen's work very well. I also tried to export some small pic with an up2date svn version of inkscape, but my LaTeX-file failed to compile wtih the same problems. Are there any patches inside the queue to fix the problem? Frank

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Cairo-1.4.0
by Bob Jamison 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hi, Everyone, I noticed that cworth uploaded the cairo-1.4.0 release yesterday. So I made a mingw build of it here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/cairo-1.4.0-mingw.7z ..and I made an Inkscape build with it here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0703071310.7z Also, I added it to the lib bundle and uploaded that one also: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/gtk210-070307.7z Cairo is the -only- difference this time, so this is not worth a download for that alone. If you already have the latest bundle, just get Cairo. This is for people who might be downloading the bundle for the first time. Enjoy. bob

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