March 2007 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Portfolio
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

Hi everyone! I wanted to have a portfolio to share my background with you before applying to SoC. It's not 100% finished at this point, but it's in a state I feel comfortable sharing. If you're interested please have a quick look, and if you happen to see anything that is blatantly not working (especially in IE 7, which I don't have), do be shy to let me know off-list :) http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~gbanaszk/ Gail

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Google Summer of Code Ideas
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape at LGM 2007 Montreal
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

> > May 4-6 is the Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal. Mark it on your > calendars! Wow, I hadn't heard of this before, but it sounds pretty amazing! I live in Ottawa so there is a chance I could actually attend. I'd love to hear about your experiences if any of you have gone before...? Gail

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Latest news on LGM 2007 Montreal
by Louis Desjardins 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Dear Inkscape team! I'd like to post a few info here for the benefits of all travellers to LGM. 1. I know the website of LGM is outdated. I expect things to be straightened up in the coming days. :) 2. Meanwhile, the Create wiki has been updated : http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Conference 3. Visa. Please review the VISA info as it might apply to some of you when travelling to Canada. 4. Rooms. We have dealt a LGM special price on rooms at the Student Residences of the uni hosting the LGM. All info is on the wiki. What has guided me is to allow LGM participants and especially the devel teams to be together most of the time (remember we only have 3 days), have internet access and enough room to organize meetings. All that into a calm environment. The residences are on the site of the LGM at less than 5 minutes from the main auditorium. Arrival date : May 3 (Conference starts on May 4). We may be able to arrange things if you want to arrive earlier. Please let me know. And we also want to avoid getting people lost in the city (Montreal is a North American city, quite extended...) and taking up most of their time getting from their hotel to the LGM site and back. I have made a reservation on 50 Single rooms + 5 Cosy Suites (with large bed) and there are lots more room there if needed. On each other floor of the residence people have access to a Salon that can hold a good 10 to 12 people meeting and we also have access to another 3 large rooms for meetings with more than 20 persons at a time. 5. Sponsorship. I am deeply concerned by sponsorship. We have to be able to help people get to the LGM. So far, I am still waiting on confirmation but sponsors have shown clear interest in helping us again this year. It's a matter of time until we know for sure the exact amount we going to get from the sponsors. Please stay tuned. I will post the info as soon as I have something to say. 6. LGM speakers. I would appreciate that people interested in making a talk at LGM show up on the Create wiki. Some people have contacted me early by e-mail. Please fill the wiki as well. This is the only sure way to help me put the schedule together. Also, if you know someone that would be a good speaker, don't hesitate to propose his/her name. And don't forget the subject suggestions as well. 7. LGM Brochure (see wiki for details) : we'd like to have each project described. Cédric Gemy should be able to take care of Inkscape's description and maybe more. At the same time, if anyone on this list has images created with Inkscape that we could use to show what the program can do, please contact me off list. We don't need that many images but since we're distributed in the graphic designers magazine, the higher the level the better the effect, imo. 8. If anyone has a question or comment or suggestion, please don't hesitate to get back to me. Hope to see you again at LGM2 and of course meet new people! Louis Desjardins LGM 2007 organizer -- Louis Desjardins Mardigrafe inc. T 514 934 1353 F 514 934 3698 http://www.mardigrafe.com

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0.45.1: Small translation changes
by Colin Marquardt 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi, it seems that translations in the 0.45.1 branch got some new (< 10) fuzzy strings. Also, the very first msgid which is meant for metadata has a strange header: #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:4037 ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:4058 #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:4087 ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:4108 #: ../src/widgets/toolbox.cpp:4135 msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: inkscape\n" [...] All these toolbox.cpp lines should not be there. They don't seem to hurt though. If someone has time to dig into this and possibly revert a commit, please do, I myself probably won't find the time before the 0.45.1 release. Cheers Colin

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0.45.1pre0
by Aaron Spike 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 0.45.1pre0 is upon us! Packagers, please package. Testers, please test. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Aaron Spike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFF9v+v1wsJX4VXgboRAtScAJ9HjD+Meaiai/KIOGPGJTPamfl7KQCfQHu2 P/U9hfPk3PV2uSAfSrkben4= =h1A2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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stroke-dasharray
by Aurèle Duda 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hello, I want to add some dasharray in the select area of the style dialog. I can't find where in the source code are defined all the predefined dasharrays. Can someone point me this ? Thanks, Aurèle -- Aurèle Duda Origami / Pliages de papier contact@...1693... http://aurele-origami.com/

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Error during building the Inkscape 0.45.
by Areozol 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi there, I am trying to build the Inkscape 0.45 for Pather (Mac OS X 10.3.9), but during the building, the following error has occured: object-edit.cpp: In function `void sp_spiral_outer_set(SPItem*, const NR::Point&, const NR::Point&, unsigned int)': object-edit.cpp:921: error: `isfinite' undeclared in namespace `std' make[2]: *** [object-edit.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 What to do now? I am using gcc 3.3, but I can install the gcc 4.3 by Darwin Ports. Would it resolve my problem?

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OpenICC in SoC
by Jon A. Cruz 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

OpenICC has also been selected for Google's Summer of Code. There's a blog entry on it at http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/software/iccsoc.html And their main page on it at http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIccForGoogleSoC2007 I point this out in case there are some students out there who aren't as interested in SVG and Inkscape directly, but who are interested in various color issues. We should be interested in OpenICC as the work there is good for graphics apps and professionals, and Inkscape will gain more integration of it over time.

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Font size: Pixels vs. Points
by Jed Frechette 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

I've written a simplistic Python script [1] that will change all of the font-size units in an SVG file from pixels to points. The script doesn't actually do a conversion it simply replaces the unit suffix of px with pt. If you create some text in Inkscape with size 10 and save it; font-size:10px Run the script on the file; font-size:10pt Open and edit the file in Inkscape; font-size:12.5px This is a workaround for the bug that the UI never shows the units (pixels) associated with font size numbers and it is difficult to specify sizes in units other than pixels [2]. This is the quickest hack I could put together when I realized that the text in all of the figures for my thesis was the wrong size, therefore it hasn't been tested much, so if anybody uses it you should take appropriate precautions (e.g. backup your data). Clearly this is an ugly hack, but if there is no interest in fixing the underlying issue, or it's to painful, I could put together something similar as an effect. It seems like a better solution would be to, at a minimum show, what unit font size is in. When setting the default font size in the toolbar specifying a unit results in the correct conversion, so maybe a more general fix wouldn't be to hard. Unfortunately, trying to specify a unit when changing the size of existing text or doing anything with a unit in the text dialog doesn't work. In any case, I would be interested in getting some input from others. Best, [1] http://www.unm.edu/~jdfrech/svg_font-size_px2pt.py [2] See bugs 161347, 1619753, and 1657337 P.S. Sorry about the cross-posting but this seems like a somewhat nonobvious issue that has tripped up at least a few other people before me. -- Jed Frechette http://jdfrechette.alturl.com 3203 Dead, 23,417 Wounded

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