April 2007 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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inkscape git mirror?
by MenTaLguY 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

I'm interested in setting up a git mirror of Inkscape SVN; who's the person in charge of our server currently? We'll need to have a fairly current version of git, libsvn, and the libsvn perl bindings installed to do this. -mental

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Odd size of imported bitmaps
by Dan H. 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hello, I've imported a 400x400 pixel TIFF image into an inkscape drawing, and it comes out as 112.89 x 112.89 mm, which translates to a resolution of roughly 90 dpi. Where does this number come from? Shouldn't inkscape honour the dpi information that is embedded in the TIFF image? Alternatively, for images that don't have a "built-in" resolution, inkscape should ask for a "native" size of the image or use a changeable default resolution. Also I noticed that some imported images have width and height xml attributes while others don't. All this came to my attention when I worked with a SVG file with 20 imported images of about 10MB each (TIFF uncompressed) which bogged down my computer. I tried substitutung the TIFFs with scaled-down (by .25) working copies, which worked fine for those images that had width and height attributes (the others came out a fourth of the size), I'm just wondering how Inkscape arrives at the "native" size of an image, and I wanted to know if others agreed with my notion that in a vector drawing program the resolution of imported bitmaps was of high importance. It would also be nice if Inkscape could somehow reload image properties if the original bitmap had changed (by scaling or cropping, for instance). Thanks, --Dan

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Fonts and Boolean Ops
by Jeffrey Brent McBeth 08 May '07

08 May '07

I have two problems on the Windows Nightly Build from two nights ago. 1. Font rendering with styles defined like <svg:g style="font-family:Differentfont"> <text>"Hello"</text> </g> The text is rendering in the default font rather than the font defined in the parent style 2. Boolean operations When I am doing difference operations, the resulting path is not in the same location as the starting point. I'm not really expecting things to work in the nightlies, but I wanted to make sure they get noticed. I'll check the latest tonight after work. Jeff -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hofstadter's Law states: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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GTK icon sizes
by jiho 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hello everybody, I am working on a GTK theme and I noticed some strange things with icon sizes. The icon sizes definitions for GTK I could find are: # gtk-menu -> icon in menus: file, edit, etc. # gtk-button -> icon on yes, no, delete, cancel, back, forward, etc. buttons # gtk-small-toolbar -> not sure about this # gtk-large-toolbar -> toolbars icons # gtk-dnd -> don't know # gtk-dialog -> notification icon in dialogs (e.g. warning, error,etc.) # panel-menu -> icon size in so called 'start' menu but Inkscape apparently uses gtk-menu size for some toolbars icons, instead of gtk-small-toolbar size as used for the rest of the toolbars: - the fill and stroke swatches both at the bottom of the window and at the end of each tool for which they are relevant - the eye and lock icons next to the layer drop down - the lock icon between width and height in selector tool toolbars as well as all icons at the right end of the toolbar - the magnifier icon at the top-right of the rulers/scollbars - the last icon of the node tool toolbar - the connector tool toolbar last two icons - the gradient tool toolbar icons - the dropper tool toolbar icons It does not look like and intended behavior but maybe it is. And a less important problem: in Inkscape's icon.svg, gtk-small- tollbar size icons are designed at 16x16 and gtk-large-toolbar size icons are 24x24. All icons of the fill and stroke dialog are designed a gtk-large-toolbar size (24x24) but the plain, gradient, pattern etc. icons of the fill and stroke dialog are displayed at gtk-small- toolbar size (16x16) which results in less crispy icons. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Inkscape icon
by jiho 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hello everybody, Does anyone know who designed the icon Inkscape uses on OS X? (you can see it here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D). Does anyone have it in a vector format? I would like to remove the paintbrush from the icon to make it more consistent with Inkscape on the other platforms, if that's OK with the author. Then I'll use this new icon to create OS X like document icons for SVG, EPS, etc. What about the plan to change current icon to a Tangoified version? In which case I'll use this one directly. Thanks. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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potrace 1.8
by Alexandre Prokoudine 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

Hi, On April 9 potrace 1.8 was released, two years after the previous one ;-) There are some minor fixes, improved portability and changes in PDF backend. Is there anything we could improve on our implementation? http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ Alexandre

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inkscape.org down
by David Christian Berg 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hey guys! I'm heavily promoting Inkscape within ESTIEM (www.estiem.org) but now got a response that www.inkscape.org wasn't working. I checked and have to admit, that that girl telling me so was right. I hope you get it fixed soon :) I want more people to get hooked up with it. David

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] In praise of Inkscape
by jiho 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

On 2007-April-28 , at 06:27 , Albert Cardona wrote: > We use Inkscape to make posters for scientific meetings. The ease with > which we can create beautiful, unintrusive text boxes and flow > charts is > unparalleled. And of course cartoons of all sorts. I can't hardly > believe we used to bring in PowerPoint for the task! those nightmarish > days are over. Plus, Inkscape intergrates very well with the host OS, > i.e. dragging and dropping images and text just works. > > In this regard, I must mention that exporting to PDF is a big deal. > Figuring out the exact dimensions of the poster relative to the final > print is some sort of obscure magic for us, simple mortal users. With > PDFs, printers (or their drivers) have zero problems to scale on > the fly > and thus generate perfect maximized print outs of our gigantic > posters. That's very nice to know! I also use Inkscape to do scientific posters and as I don't want to bother with scaling computations I usually design it directly at final size. Inkscape deals as easily with a 1m*1m page than with an A4 one and it allows me to specify sizes (including font sizes) in cm and get a better feeling of how big things will actually be. In addition, raster images (jpeg, png, tiff and the like) are often imported among the scalable objects and having them included at their final size allows me to know how pixelized they will appear in print. > What surpises me, though, is that exporting to PDF seems to leave > images > uncompressed, resulting in 300+ Mb posters. I don't know which pdf exporter you used (regular PDF or Cairo PDF) but at some point these exporters "rasterize" some elements (another reason why designing the poster at final size in interesting: these elements still look sharp and crisp). Transparent areas or gradients for example are converted from scalable entities to a bunch of pixels. Given how big posters usually are it implies creating a large number of pixels hence the size. Nevertheless I never experienced such large sizes! > In short: congratulations! And keep at it! We take time to tell our > visitors (at the poster, during the conference) how the poster was > made, > since they usually comment on how beautiful it looks (no kidding). > Inkscape, Blender and ImageJ are always mentioned. I usually include inkscape logo in a corner of the poster, together with the website address, to give credit to the Inkscape team for their work. Inkscape logo is so nice and original that it can even attract readers! There is section on the website dedicated to use cases of Inkscape in "real life". What about adding a part explaining the design of scientific posters? I had prepared a few screenshots some time ago and I re-wrote accompanying texts (see below - please correct my english where necessary). What do people think? Is it good enough for the website? BTW Bryce or anyone, it seems I can't connect to inkscape.org currently (I get a 104 error: "Connection reset by peer" from osuosl) -------------------------- A scientific poster has to be precisely organized, full of information, yet visually attracting to gather a large audience. Furthermore it should be printable at different sizes (final size poster and handouts). Inkscape gives us scalability and an unparalleled ease of use which allow to meet these goals elegantly. It make you forget the nightmarish days when you used PowerPoint for the task! The poster below was designed entirely in Inkscape for presentation on a 4-foot-high by 8-foot-wide poster board (1.2m x 2.4m). The page size was set up to be the final printing size because Inkscape deals with it as well as with an A4 page. http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/ poster_publish_ghostscript.pdf [WARNING: big file. 7.5 Mb] Temporarily masking layers and using the outline mode allowed to work on this complicated file (> 5000 paths, large amount of text) while keeping things responsive enough even on a mid level laptop. http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/poster_inkscape_outline.png The gradients and scripts from the "Effects" menu helped to create an attractive look [note: this was pre 0.45 so blur was not current yet]. The bitmap tracing feature and Open Clipart Library provided scale independent eye candy for some illustrations. http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/poster_inkscape_eye_candy.png The text was flowed into custom shaped frames so that it had a "clever" position with respect to the graphics. It was edited though the Text Tool palette which was easier on the eye and helped to focus on content rather than on layout for a while. http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/poster_inkscape_text.png All scientific plots were produced in scalable formats and converted to SVG. They were therefore completely editable within the poster which allowed to have a unified look (for the fonts, line width, colors etc.). The "Apply style" command (SHIFT+CTRL+V), the styles bar and the swatches panel, helped to work with styles quickly and easily. http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/poster_inkscape_style1.png http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/poster_inkscape_style2.png Finally the SVG file was exported to EPS or PDF for print. The text was converted to shapes to avoid font problems when bringing the file to the printing company. The PDF scaled down nicely to fit an A4 and hence serve as handouts. -------------------------- JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] In praise of Inkscape
by Bryce Harrington 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

It's great to hear you're getting good use of inkscape. I'll forward this along to the development lists. Thanks, Bryce On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:19:27AM -0500, Shane A. Stillwell wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not much of a graphics developer, but every now and then I need a > graphic for a website I'm doing. I've only been using Inkscape for about > 6 months and I really enjoy it. > > Recently I put a copy of Adobe Illustrator on my Macbook Pro and thought > "Surely this industry standard powerhouse package is more powerful than > Inkscape." Wrong! I quickly learned that the simple things I took for > granted in Inkscape are not possible in Illustrator (at least not > intuitive enough for me to find after hours of searching). > > For example, adding corners to a star on the fly, editing the radius of > a rectangle, and so on. > > The blurring feature in the latest version really put Inkscape on a > whole new level. It was pivotal in creating the main graphic for this > website (http://www.wildpaddle.com). > > My only lament is that Inkscape requires X11 on Mac. > > Thank you so much for such an excellent product! > > -- > Shane A. Stillwell > Shane@...1730... > http://www.wildpaddle.com > 218-390-5493 (mobile)

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