August 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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Smooth transitions in Bézier paths
by Diederik van Lierop 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hi, I hope you don't mind if I increase the traffic on inkscape-devel even more ;-) At some point an idea popped up to only snap to nodes at discontinuities in paths, and not to nodes at smooth transitions from one Bézier segment to another. This is more intuitive (less "Hey, what it is Inkscape snapping to now?") and might increase performance. Problem is that in the object-snapper I only have access to SPCurve, which is a wrapper for "old-style" NArtBpath. It's easy to find out whether a point is inbetween two Bézier segments, but how do I find out if a transition is smooth? I guess that should be done by comparing the control points, or is there an easier way? With the transition to lib2geom, will the NArtBpath be deprecated in favor of the Path class? (that would make this rather exercise useless in the long run). Any pointers would be appreciated here, Diederik

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question regarding wishblade robocraft support...
by stuart 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Sorry for posting here if the user list if better. And sorry about the subject if it has been talked about before. I couldn't get sourceforge to add me to the inkscape user mail list and sourceforge was timing out on all my archive searches with no results. --- I remember reading that there was a patch or something to inkscape to support wishblade and robocraft users. Has that been integrated into the inkscape application? Is that what the DXF is all about? Wishblade users can not use DXF directly (needing the robocraft software to import DXF and change it to some sort of native (and maybe proprietary) GSD). Is there a way to get inkscape to save images in GSD in order to simplify the process? Ideally, I would prefer to skip bringing up the wishblade application. In my set up, I do all my work in linux (GIMP/INKSCAPE) and only the plotting in Windows. If I could do everything in linux it would simplify the flow of work greatly. Has anyone figured out how the craftrobo is communicated to in order to use it with common open source linux plotting software? Better yet, has anyone figured out how the wishblade has been crippled in order to use it with common open source linux plotting software? ...thanks

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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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Undo looses selection (in Tweak tool)
by jiho 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hello again, One other glitch which the tweak tool revealed: undoing looses selection. Example: draw a circle, switch to tweak, tweak, CTRL-Z, tweak again = you can't because the circle is not selected anymore. and furthermore: draw a circle, draw another, select all, switch to tweak, tweak circle nb 1, CTRL-Z, switch to select = only circle nb 2 is selected In fact this happens in all tools: draw a circle [-> it is selected], draw another [-> the second one gets selected], CTRL-Z = nothing is selected anymore This is not particularly annoying in all other tools but it is in the tweak tool, because undoing the first tweak deselects and an additional tool switch is necessary before one can tweak again. I already noticed that when the too was in its embryonic stage in the calligraphy tool... but failed to report it :( It would be nice if: - the selection could be kept in Undo history. this would solve the issue for all tools and in addition I found myself bitten by the lack of selection history several times. Ex: you try to select several small objects, it takes a while, you add another object by mistake, the only way to subtract it from the selection is to click on it again... which cool get messy if there are already several other objects selected, or if you added it via a select under or in group or... - there was a way to select objects directly from the tweak tool. this would, in addition, allow to avoid constant switches between the select tool and the tweak tool (not that s and and w are far apart on the keyboard but still). ALT is not already used as a modifier in the Tweak tool ;) Of course the selection behavior won't be as powerful as the select tool (since the select tool modifiers is already very complex and its modifiers are all full) but just ALT+click/drag = selects and SHIFT+ALT+click/drag = adds to selection would be nice. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango Icons
by joel＠...1709... 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

>> is there any way to change the standard GTK + icons on the windows >> build to the tango style also? >> > Hi Ryan! > You mean stuff like open, new, save etc? > Those are coming in gtk 2.12. Will be released in September. > - Andreas Andreas: That's wonderful wonderful news, I'm so glad to hear it. It's going to massively improve a lot of gtk apps for windows users. But for the rest of the inkscape icons - like the drawing tools etc, the windows users will want the tango icons for these as well, simply because they're very much more in keeping with the Windows style. So I agree with ryan; i think we should change these over as soon as we can. ---------------------------------------- From: Andreas Nilsson <nisses.mail@...563...> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 10:54 AM To: ryan lerch <ryanlerch@...400...> Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango Icons ryan lerch wrote: > is there any way to change the standard GTK + icons on the windows > build to the tango style also? > Hi Ryan! You mean stuff like open, new, save etc? Those are coming in gtk 2.12. Will be released in September. - Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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need-review: Default Metadata Preferences Patch
by Felipe Sanches 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

hi! I have just submitted a patch that implements a "default metadata" page on the preferences dialog. This defines the default values to be used as metadata for newly created documents. I need someone to review this code, please. It works fine for me. There is just one little issue: I havent been able to figure out how to update the status of the license radiobuttons on the documentMetadata dialog. Some more experienced programmer could, please, take a look at it? I imagine that it may be a simple thing that is still just not clear enough for me. This is my first patch for inkscape, so I am not much comfortable yet with the overall structure of the program. here is the patch: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1746892&group_id=9… thanks, Juca

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filter UI merge
by MenTaLguY 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

I've just merged the first code drop from Nick into SVN; I was hoping to avoid any regressions, but at this point I think it's more important to start merging now since Niko and Nick are starting to touch the same code and I want to avoid too much divergence. Things that work: - blend modes can now easily be selected for objects, just like blur - background accumulation buffer is enabled as-needed - the filter UI dialog has very very basic filter editing capabilities Regressions: - Niko's work in r15171 (non-destructive filter update) needs to be re-integrated with the new filter metawidget, which replaces the old blur slider - the blur slider in the filter metawidget needs to be made percentage like the slider it replaced Todo: - add filter metawidget to layers dialog too, for layers - fix flakiness for "Filter" "blend mode" - flesh out filters dialog, parameter editing/connections, etc. I think we'll need to work out who wants to work on what with the metawidget at this point, depending on what you guys are each most comfortable spending time doing, and on your respective current states of progress. -mental

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PDF import extension
by Miklós Erdélyi 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hi, the cairo-based simple PDF import extension has been in trunk for a while (well, for a week or so :) ). Now I have committed a preliminary version of the native libpoppler-based one to trunk (you can activate it by uncommenting the line Internal::PdfInput::init() in src/extension/init.cpp). I did commit this unstable version because I need your help regarding a strange bug. When a PDF document is opened Inkscape crashes with segmentation fault, giving the following backtrace: #0 0xb6ebeb46 in malloc_usable_size () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #1 0xb6ec0ecd in free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb6ec283f in malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0xb70844b7 in operator new () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #4 0xb70845ed in operator new[] () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #5 0xb71719d2 in PDFDoc::checkFooter (this=0xa6c5700) at PDFDoc.cc:248 #6 0xb7171e90 in PDFDoc::setup (this=0xa6c5700, ownerPassword=0x0, userPassword=0x0) at PDFDoc.cc:185 #7 0xb71721c5 in PDFDoc (this=0xa6c5700, fileNameA=0xa6c56c8, ownerPassword=0x0, userPassword=0x0, guiDataA=0x0) at PDFDoc.cc:102 #8 0x08594ec7 in Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfInput::open ( this=0x8857030, mod=0x8861350, uri=0xab497e4 "/home/shudo/tiger.pdf") at extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:51 Please test whether the same thing happens on your system also (note: PDF import is not yet available on Windows) and tell us if you have any ideas regarding the solution to this problem which sets back the further development of the import extension. Thank you, miklos

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CMYK imput problem
by momo 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

The CMYK color input behaves strangely: in the Fill and Stroke panel, when I try to change the color percentages in the CMYK tab by entering numbers on the right of the color mixers, these numbers are somehow recalculated on the fly and already entered amounts change. Here's an example: C 0 I change it into 44 M 27 jumps to 0 Y 61 jumps to 47 B 60 jumps to 71 And so on... It is almost impossible to input a CMYK color. Even entering CMYK color amounts with the help of the color sliders (for example MAGENTA) leads to subit changes in other colors (CYAN, YELLOW and BLACK). Molumen

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