March 2007 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

official inkscape user docs
by ryan lerch 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

hi all, i have a query about the _official_ user docs for inkscape. i am wondering if it is being developed actively at the moment, and if it is, how do i help out? i have found bits of information about it on the wiki, however it refers to the docbook files in the CVS. i cannot seem to find these files in SVN. is the docbook stuff ancient history? if so would it be feasable to use the wiki as a collaboration tool for developing the official user docs more? sorry if this is all in the wiki somewhere, but the details (to me at least) seem a bit sketchy and spread out a bit... cheers, ryanlerch

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by Cédric GEMY 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi Alexander >The only way to help people appreciate your work is to get acknowledged ;-) see : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/UserManual >If we take a look at http://www.inkscape.org/doc/index.php?lang=en, we >won't see mentioning User manual by you, only "user manual by Kevin >Wixson" that isn't even hosted at inkscape.org. Trouble is not to know if it is made by me or not. It is to know what the team wishes. Asa far as i know Kevin is not working anymore on this, at least i have no news from him. >I suggest two things: > >1. Host HTML version of your user manual at inkscape.org >2. Fix http://www.inkscape.org/doc/index.php?lang=en to mention a) >availability of docs b) ways to contribute to them. Will be done if neccessary Cedric

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC 2007 is ON!!
by Jon Phillips 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:11 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > It's great to see this program continuing again this year. > > Just to illustrate how huge of an impact this project has had, last > year Google funded two students to work for Inkscape on implementing > 'gaussian blur'. Gaussian Blur is what allows things like drop > shadows, feathering, blurring, etc. This was a very significant and > challenging feature to get implemented, and required a good bit of > effect to get it perfected, but those two students put in the bones > for it. > > To give an idea of how profoundly this has improved Inkscape, take a > look at these examples, that almost seem photorealistic: > > http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-volumetric-light.png > http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-photorealistic-car2.p… > http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-cupoftea.png > http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45363866/ > > Thanks google! It will be exciting to see what advancements this > year's GSoC students will produce. :-) > > Bryce > Heya all, I stubbed out a space on our wiki to brainstorm about good ideas (which some have done on the wiki). Please take a chance to help motivate that wiki page, edit out the old 2006 ideas (as it is currently just that list), and come up with some stellar ideas: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2007 Anyway, the GSoC timeline is coming along quickly....fun!!!! 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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scripting interface
by unknown＠example.com 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hello, I try to add some new Python scripts to Inkscape in a project with my students. We need information where the ".inx"-file interface is described. There are other types than only int, bool, float or string to be passed to the script. But we did not find a description how to. Can anyone give us a hint where to find the file format definition of the ".inx" file and where to find some working examples? 2nd question: If anything is detected to be wrong when the script is running, is there a way to inform the user about it? Thanks in advance Werner

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