May 2007 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] PDF export seems chopped off at the top with margin at bottom
by R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar 09 May '07

09 May '07

R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: > Is this a bug, and if so, is there a workaround? I still do not know whether this is a bug, but the workaround is: 1. Skip the "Fit page to selection" step and export as PDF; and 2. Use the pdfcrop utility, written by Heiko Oberdiek, and available from: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfcrop/ to crop the file saved in (1) to the correct bounding box dimensions. System requirements for pdfcrop are also given at the above address. The resulting bounding box and PDF file is accurate when viewed at 6400% with Acroread. Chandra 06 May 07

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About animation
by Nestor Diaz 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hi everyone, I wonder why animation and interaction features for inkscape doesn't go in the direction of the W3C standard for these tasks: SMIL http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/ http://www.smilguide.com/guide/tutorial/learning-to-smil Maybe I got it wrong? Yours: Néstor -- ----------- Diseño, Formación y Diversion Por que el conocimiento (lo quieras o no) es libre -------

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Develop Inkscape Animation
by Federico 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello! Creed by now you know that I am developing animations in Inkscape for my thesis of bachelor. I have abandoned the idea to insert the animation in the code source of Inkscape because it does not support the multithreading and I'am writing an extension in python. I would have from porvi some questions: 1) I can write an extension in python that, once under way, to regular intervals it modifies the attributes of an object "rect" or "path" without to block inkscape? I explain better… the python extensions starting in a windows shell and this shell blocks for some second inkscape. It would be possible to reduce to icon this window and to make to turn the animation seeing in real Time on the canvas of inkscape what it happens? 2) As I can proceed in order to analyze the nodes of a document and to only choose nodes that have a particular "ID"? self.selected.iteriterms () it allows me to only estimate the nodes of objects selects to you but not of all the document. Thanks you for the time dedicated to me and I make excuses myself if I seem invading, but I have need of aid in order to finish my thesis and I do not know like moving. Federico

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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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Multiple obejct node select
by Ted Gould 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hey, An e-mail from LGM. I've been chatting with a few of the artists here and they have an enhancement request. That is to be able to select nodes across multiple objects. The use case here is that you have multiple objects that are all slightly off, and you want to extend them slightly by adjusting the nodes. Currently, if they all share an edge you want to move, you have to move each individually. I think the difficulty here is to figure out when your selecting if you want another object or another node. What do people think about this? It seems that you can't use alt to select under... we're running out of keys. I'm all for requiring two keyboards ;) --Ted

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LGM
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hi everyone! Sorry I "disappeared" for a short time while I finished my school projects. I still read incoming list emails, but didn't get a chance to go onto IRC. I'm still planning on attending LGM. I intend to leave Ottawa early Friday morning to make it for the second or third talk of the day. I am staying at the residences (the cheap rooms advertised). I signed up on the LGM website, and said I'd be attending the dinner Friday night, though I don't know any of the details yet. I assume all will be revealed on arrival. Looking forward to meeting you all! Hopefully you can find me based on my photo here <http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~gbanaszk/> or here <http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~peerhelp/Gail2.png>. I probably won't be wearing glasses because I can see better with contacts. I should be able to find some of you since there are a few talks from Inkscape devs ;) Gail

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autogen.sh on 0_45 branch fails
by John Faith 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello, I checked out source from RELEASE_0_45_BRANCH, ran autogen.sh and saw this: ... I am testing that you have the required versions of autoconf, automake, glib-gettextize and intltoolize. This test is not foolproof and if anything goes wrong, there may be guidance in the file HACKING.txt checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... ./autogen.sh: line 37: ((: ((2 == 2)) && ((61 \>= 52)): missing `)' (error token is "\>= 52))") Too old (found version 2.61)! checking for automake >= 1.7 ... ./autogen.sh: line 37: ((: ((1 == 1)) && ((10 \>= 7)): missing `)' (error token is "\>= 7))") Too old (found version 1.10)! ... The test in check_version() where it fails is: if (("$MAJOR1" > "$MAJOR2"))||(((("$MAJOR1" == "$MAJOR2")) && (("$MINOR1" \>= "$MINOR2")))); then Does anyone know why this 'if' does not use '-gt' for numeric compares and square brackets for test, like on the trunk? Am I getting source from the right place? Thanks! , John

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0.45.2 ?
by jiho 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello everyone, Is a 0.45.2 release scheduled? Are there enough bugs fixed to start the process now? John Faith got Inkscape to compile on Mac OS X 10.3 and a new point release would allow to ship some official Inkscape packages via Sourceforge for this platform, which was left behind by 0.45.1. Otherwise two solutions are possible: - just add a notice on the webpage and redirect 10.3 people to the dev builds until 0.46 (not very nice but workable) - patch 0.45.1 source, compile it and upload it as 0.45.1 on Sourceforge. It won't be 0.45.1 exactly of course but most changes are small mistakes here and there and some new definitions in isinf.h, isnan.h,... so nothing major. What do you think? JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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SoC 3D box tool - invitation to participate :)
by Maximilian Albert 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello everybody, during the preparation of my application for Summer of Code, I already experienced the great feedback from Inkscape's vivid community. Thanks to all who shared their thoughts! With the official start of SoC rapidly approaching, I would now like to invite everyone who is interested to collect their ideas on the project's Wiki page, which can be found at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/GSOC2007_3D_box_tool I only created a skeleton page. Please feel free to extend it as you wish. It is intended to be taken over by the community and to serve as a kind of 'market place' where people can share their ideas. Of course you are free to use the mailing list, too. But I considered it convenient to have a central location where all the information is collected. I do not make any promises as to which proposals are actually feasible and will be implemented. But I'm grateful for any suggestions, and any feedback is certainly very helpful to find out what you as users expect from such a tool and how it can be made to help you most in your everyday work. Regarding the latter point, I'd also be interested in what you will be using this tool for (if at all) so as to get an idea which features I should focus on as soon as I (hopefully) get beyond the minimal implementation. For this kind of info maybe the mailing list is an appropriate place, but you can of course als add this to the Wiki. Looking forward from hearing to you. Thanks, Max

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Announce: Scribus 1.3.3.9 Release
by Plinnell 06 May '07

06 May '07

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.3.9 This release is purely a further bug fix release to the recently released 1.3.3.8. This release adds more translation updates, some bugs were found and fixed, added some improvements to the SVG importer and improvements to PDF forms. With 1.3.3.7 we announced the availability of a new OpenSuse rpm download repository for all Suse versions 9.3+, including SLED 10. To download add: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/ to your yast/apt/smart source list for the corresponding Suse version. We have now added Fedora 5/6 rpms as well. Downloads: Source and some rpms: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235 Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net Ubuntu users are advised to see: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_… Fedora 5/6 RPMS: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_Extras_6/repodata/ http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_Extras_5/repodata/ MacOSX: http://aqua.acribus.net (to come soon) The Scribus Team would also like to thank - Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting and Cardia AS for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release. About Scribus Scribus is a cross-platform open source page layout application with a focus on high quality commercial grade PDF and postscript export. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus now runs natively on MacOSX, OS/2, many forms of Unix and Windows 2000/XP. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, spot colors, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus was the first page layout application on the planet to directly support PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard. Scribus did so by almost a year. The Scribus Team is made up of a diverse group of developers with significant experience in pre-press and newspaper publishing. Commercial support for Scribus is available for companies and institutions for implementation, training and migration.

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