May 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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Flood fill suggestion - Bound threshold
by microUgly 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Some of the stuff I do with the calligraphy tool has gaps between sections I would like to colour. Visually the gaps don't bother me, but I can't use Flood Fill when the area isn't properly closed. It would be nice there was a threshold where we could say that gaps of a certain size should be considered closed. I imagine it would be like a thickness to the paint where if it's very thick it can't flow through a small gap. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Flood-fill-suggestion---Bound-threshold-tf3822118.htm… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Eclipse Tutorial
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Better late than never, I would like to finally create my promised tutorial on how to set up building and debugging with Eclipse under Windows. A couple of questions first: (1) I made an account for the wiki, but I'm not sure if I need some kind of special permission to edit the main page <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape> in order to add my new page. Or maybe one of you guys has to just create the page for me and I can start editing it? I would call it "UsingEclipse" probably, and put it in the Dev Documentation under General. (Although I am only doing Windows, somebody could add information related to Linux and Mac later on.) Let me know how that all works... (2) I'm hoping images can be uploaded directly to the wiki (for screenshots). If not, then let me know what most people do to get around this. Gail

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change the Inkscape Application
by Support Required 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hi! I wanted to change the Inkscape Application to some thing else. But I am not able to find which files do i need to change. The Application name : New Document 1 Inkscape the inkscape should change to someother name! it is like i want to change the brand name!! is it possible? if it is please let me know how! thanks

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Image attachments
by Stathis Sideris 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hello everyone, I just wanted to know what the policy is for attaching images to emails to this list. Are we allowed to attach images under a certain size, or not at all? I have a suggestion for a GUI enhancement and I have prepared a mock-up to explain it and hopefully get some useful feedback from here. Thanks, Stathis

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Selection trouble with geometric bounding box on zero width objects
by jiho 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hello everybody, I encounter some problems when using the geometric bounding box option and trying to select perfectly vertical or horizontal paths. The issue seems generic enough but I find it surprising that nobody else experienced this problem since the geometric bounding box option appeared quite some time ago now. Some details are available in a bug report: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1728776&group_id=93438&atid=604306 Am I the only one seeing this? Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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pLAySVG and extensions
by Justin Barca 31 May '07

31 May '07

As a Playful Geometer, I have been developing some python libraries for the manipulation of SVG, and I have developed some Inkscape extensions that depend on the project, and reside in the code base of it. The project resides on sourceforge here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/play-svg Some sample artwork developed using pLAySVG: http://playful-geometer.deviantart.com Currently the libraries self-install using python distutils, but the Inkscape extensions do not. My difficulty in acomplishing the latter: - for Linux, I must sudo to run the installer, so that when the Inkscape extensions are copied to the extensions directory, they are owned by root, and thus are not available to users running Inkscape (this may be remedied by doing a chown in the setup.py script) - for Windows and MacOSX, I do not know where to copy the extensions Could someone offer me some suggestions on how to make this work? Considering that Inkscape is leaning towards separate distribution of extensions, it is important that these issues be fleshed out. I started a wiki page as a HOWTO for package distribution of Inkscape extensions here http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionPackageHOWTO, however, it does not deal with the owership issues I mentioned, so it is inacurate in that sense. Originally, my intentions with pLAySVG was just to allow me to create images using code rather than point-and-click methods, but now I am interested in making pLAySVG more than a pet project, something that will be - an educational resource that will allow people (especially children) to learn about geometry, computer graphics, SVG/XML documents in a playful and creative way (similar to the way LOGO has been employed) - a toolkit for those who wish to do graphics scripting - most relevenatly, a toolkit for those who wish to develop Inkscape extensions Considering this, I am interested in expanding the functionality of pLAySVG to encorporate some the features already resident in Inkscape, including: - path operations (i.e. union, combine) - arc estimation as in the circle tool - star tool Could anyone offer any advice and/or assistance on this ? As well, I'd like to figure out how I could tap into the functionality of lib2geom and make it accessible for extensions developers and stand-alone graphics scripting. Lastly, I am interested in making my software used as an educational resource, and I welcome any input you have on achieving this goal. I have just submitted a proposal to OLPC to make this a part of XO laptop learning and have contacted Jon concerning his post on working with OPLC (although I'm probably not capable of porting). Your feedback would be greatly appreciated, -Justin

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Idear for a more precise flood fill.
by Florian Köberle 30 May '07

30 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is a way of getting a very precise flood fill: 1. Join a copy of all the object to one big object. 2. Create rect which is so huge like the whole document 3. Use path/difference to get a flood fill for all positions. 4. Put the different shapes of the result in thier own objects. 5. Find out which of the result object has been clicked by the flood fill operation and remove the other result objects. I don't have the time to work myself into the inkscape code, but maybe a inkscape developer like the idear and implement it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXDGS59ca4mzhfxMRAgo3AJ96XfsHUkhqUhdth3fZxbcmANueVQCfZtiW Edg1mmKXAkGWI54iKY1xR5A= =9Sa9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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