July 2007 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Next Text Task
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Hi all, I'm having Richard and mental review a patch with most of the tref stuff implemented. There are some small issues with it still and I will be fixing those issues, but I'd like to get the bulk of it versioned in the meantime. With this submission, you can open a document with a tref and see the content get updated when the source is modified. Also, I wanted to get a clear consensus on what I should work on next. bulia mentioned that the CSS stuff would be good (bulia, can you remind everything precisely what you were referring to when you mentioned that so we are all clear?). Also keep in mind that I intend to stick around (though probably not as frequently) after the official program ends. So hopefully we'll see text improve more and more over the next year! Finally, look for a blog post that summarizes my feelings on the program so far. You may find it interesting given that this is my first experience with open source. Gail

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Changed bitmap handling
by bulia byak 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

On 7/19/07, David Christian Berg <david@...407...> wrote: > Ok, sorry to disagree, but the always embed option is only good for > home-use, not for professional use. Not at all. Some professionals may sometimes want their images not embedded, but far from always. Even with some bitmap capabilities > integrated in Inkscape people will continue to want to use GIMP or > Photoshop to do sophisticated adjustments. Extracting and re-embedding > is a little cumbersome. OK, I think we can make this behavior settable in prefs, but with the default being to embed. > Or think of one image being used on a poster, a booklet and within some > entrance ticket or the such. It's great to only have to change it at one > place! You're comparing some inconvenience (having to extract or change prefs) with a nasty surprise and frustration that may be caused when you e.g. crop the image for the poster and then discover that it got cropped in the booklet as well. The latter is much worse than the former, and is simply unacceptable as default behavior. > I don't see a strong need for an image lying directly in an > automatically created folder next to the SVG... these can almost just as > well be embedded. However externally linked image are a must imho. Sure, we need this option, but off by default. > As for the editing problem: I believe that editing an image would be > introduced by double-clicking the image. When the linked image has no > write access, a message should show up: > > "The image cannot be edited because you do not have writing access to > the linked file. Would you like to embed the image in the the document > to continue editing?" Yes, but only if the setting is changed to not embed. By default, it just gets silently embedded and no warning is needed. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape Logo use
by Tavmjong Bah 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi, What is the copyright status of the Inkscape logo? Can it be used on a book cover? Of course you want to know why I am asking... I've reached an agreement with Prentice Hall, aka Pearson, aka SourceForge Community Press for publishing my guide book to Inkscape. For the moment, it will remains as a PDF download. The HTML version of the book will remain freely available on my website. (Although there will be three new tutorials that are only in the PDF version.) I will give more details as they are known. This is a recent development and it the move is proceeding at breakneck speed. Tav

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Broken extensions
by unknown＠example.com 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hello all, I just found out that the LaTeX renderer, functionplotter, gears, and probably other effects are broken for me :( I get a Microsoft Visual C++ runtime library (?!) error. This was very dissapointing; now i have to revert to 0.45.1 :( Anybody know what causes the bug? -Johan (winxp, svn head)

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inkscape.org issues + call for revisions.
by unknown＠example.com 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

hello, first of all I'd like to introduce myself as someone who helps to manage the inkscape.org vm, but you may better know me as Inc on irc. Now onto business. If you've not noticed inkscape.org has been going down quite a bit lately that is due to apache hitting max clients. The best way to fix this problem is to put the whole website behind squid. Currently the website is behind squid but it's not able to work efficiently due to the fact that we're sending headers like "cache-control: no cache, must-revalidate. Bryce had mentioned that no-cache was probably there because of the translations. When we didn't have it there people were getting pages in whatever language the first person to load the page had set. So we probably need to rethink that. We need to get this done ASAP so that inkscape.org will be stay up. thanks, --Ian "Inc" Caldwell

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inkscape.org issues + call for revisions.
by unknown＠example.com 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

hello, first of all I'd like to introduce myself as someone who helps to manage the inkscape.org vm, but you may better know me as Inc on irc. Now onto business. If you've not noticed inkscape.org has been going down quite a bit lately that is due to apache hitting max clients. The best way to fix this problem is to put the whole website behind squid. Currently the website is behind squid but it's not able to work efficiently due to the fact that we're sending headers like "cache-control: no cache, must-revalidate. Bryce had mentioned that no-cache was probably there because of the translations. When we didn't have it there people were getting pages in whatever language the first person to load the page had set. So we probably need to rethink that. We need to get this done ASAP so that inkscape.org will be stay up. thanks, --Ian "Inc" Caldwell

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Changed bitmap handling
by Ted Gould 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hello all, As you guys are aware Chris is working on putting some bitmap editing tools into Inkscape for is GSoC project. There's a couple things that are difficult on the user interaction front that I wanted to bring up and see what people think. Basically, there are two types of images: embedded and linked. There is two types of linked images that are read-only and ones that we can write. So what should happen when someone does a bitmap operation on these types of image? How should undo/redo be handled? I'm leaning towards saying "always embed" at this point. It's simpler and probably does something similar to what most people want anyway. We don't need file dialogs or temporary files. What does everyone think about this? Chris, did I state the problem correctly? --Ted

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Probelm with PDF import / PNG export
by momo 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hi, I'm sending these PDF, SVG and PNG files to report a strange behaviour with the PDF import in Inkscape. The following applies to Inkscape0707150130 on Windows XP SP2 The attached file: It is a PDF-X1a 2003 (full cmyk, PDF1.4 compatible) it is the PDF specification that is the most simple and standard for offset printing. No layers, no spot colors, etc... This PDF has been produced by Illustrator CS2. The problems: - The PNG export: the PNG exported from the attached PDF is horizontally mirrored and cutted (see attached PNGs). G9.png was exported with "export selected objects" right after the importing of the PDF. G10.png was exported with "export selected objects" after I moved the logo to the center of the A4 page. LOGOdusicacouture.svg is the SVG saved by Inkscape right after opening the PDF. Looks like there is a mirroring that occurs when saving/exporting from this file, even if the PDF itself shows properly in Inkscape (see attached screenshot screenshotPDFopen.png) - color: When importing this PDF, the color is wrong. The original color (which renders the same in Illustrator, Corel Draw, Photoshop (when rasterized), Indesign) is C44 M58 Y86 K35. Inkscape shows C00 M27 Y61 K60 (alpha 100%). Also, I'd like to help testing more toroughly the PDF import feature. I have tons of PDFs created by a bunch of different programs and I can even create required PDFs (PDF-X3, PDF-X1a:2003 and others) from different applications. So please contact me if you need some specific PDFs for testing. Molumen

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Add export to OCAL feature patch
by Bruno Dilly 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Hi guys, I've submitted some patches to add support to export to OCAL feature patch over WebDav today. It's working fine for me. So, if someone could review this code, I will be grateful. Thanks to Jon and Ted, it's using gnome-vfs library. The neon library dependency was avoid =) Rigth now, it's impossible to interface with ccHost over WebDav, but I'm working on it. So, if you want to test the feature, I recommend you to use any webdav server, as you can find here: test.webdav.org/ Thanks

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Poppler on win32
by Bob Jamison 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

John Cliff helped me get his build of Poppler in win32 into the library bundle. http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/gtk210-070715.7z I tweaked init.cpp and build.xml to use it. The latest build today should have it. Builds after 070715: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32 It is building right now, so I don't know the time yet. It looks like it does definitely import simple PDF's. From what I've seen, it imports curves (to be expected :) but no images or fonts yet. Good start. bob

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