August 2007 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Problem with Scim and choice of fonts with non-latin-characters in name
by Gerrit Sangel 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hello list, I have two problems with Inkscape: 1. Everytime I want to input Chinese, Japanese, Korean or a Raw Unicode Value, I use Scim (more precisely Skim). Usually, the not yet committed string of characters is displayed on the spot, the same way as ordinary (e.g. German) strings are displayed. When I choose another character in Scim, the previously written character in the text is deleted and replaced by another one. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_input_method#Kana_to_kanji_conversion as an explanation of how this works). In Inkscape, by contrast, the precommited string is displayed in a seperate box which is somewhere on the screen. I can do all the actions there, but it is extremely annoying because I always have to search the little box and not before I submit the string it is shown in the destinated area. See http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1135/scimgm1.jpg I have the same problem with Abiword, so I guess it is somehow a problem of GTK. But I do not have the problem with Firefox, so I think there must be a solution to it. I do not have any other gtk programs (apart from Openoffice, but there, scim does not work in any way) so I cannot test this any further as to where this happens. I can't really stress how annoying this problem is. It makes Inkscape almost unusable for typing a longer text in a CJK language. I have Gentoo and tested it with version 0.45.1 2. Also I wanted to choose the fonts “EPSON 教科書体Ｍ” and “文鼎PL細上海宋Uni” in a text field. Note the Japanese/Chinese characters in the font name. Inkscape did display the fonts correctly during the initial font choice, but after I chose the font, it just displayed “EPSON”. It did not choose the Font, then, but happily continued using the former font. Thanks Gerrit Sangel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Inkscape back up.
by Jon Phillips 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Do it. They are great and paid to do this... -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:31 PM To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>; inkscape <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Inkscape back up. John R. Culleton wrote: > Whatever Gremlin there was blocking www.inkscape.org has been slain by > some anonymous internet hero. I can get on lne and I'll wager so can > you. I'd really love to know who the gremlins were. I'm considering handing over our root priviledges to osuosl and allowing them to administer the server for us. Any comments or objections? Aaron Spike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Inkscape back up.
by Aaron Spike 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

John R. Culleton wrote: > Whatever Gremlin there was blocking www.inkscape.org has been slain by > some anonymous internet hero. I can get on lne and I'll wager so can > you. I'd really love to know who the gremlins were. I'm considering handing over our root priviledges to osuosl and allowing them to administer the server for us. Any comments or objections? Aaron Spike

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Pixelated gradients
by microUgly 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

I created simple gradient with 4 stops where the middle two stops were tight against each other to creat an instant jump from one colour to the next. This instant jump creates pixelation - http://www.microugly.com/images/misc/inkscape-pixel-gradient.gif Is this a known issue? It's strange to get pixelation in a vector application :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Pixelated-gradients-tf4304604.html#a12252881 Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Ubuntu hug day, dedicated to GNOME
by Bryce Harrington 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Coming up tomorrow - join #ubuntu-bugs on Freenode if you're interested in participating! Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Gerry Carr <gerry.carr@...1798...> ----- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:24:39 +0100 From: Gerry Carr <gerry.carr@...1798...> To: Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum@...1798...> Cc: Warthogs <warthogs@...1799...> Subject: Re: Ubuntu hug day, dedicated to GNOME Don't neglect to check out the graphic featuring handwriting from Mrs Nuzum and a real cake. www.ubuntu.com Gerry Matthew Nuzum wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to let you know that we're dedicating hug day, which is > Wed Aug 22nd, to GNOME in celebration of their 10th birthday. > > We're featuring a special graphic on the homepage to draw attention to it. > > Obviously, our token of gratitude will be more valuable to the GNOME > community if it results in something that genuinely helps them. One > way to help ensure this is to publicize hug day as widely as possible. > > Would you consider spreading the word by blogging about it and/or > telling others? > > Here's the URL for the details: > http://www.ubuntu.com/news/hug-day-aug-2007-dedicated-to-gnome > > -- ?Mob +44 7809 389 871 | Tel +44 207 630 2457 | gerry.carr@...1798... | Main: +44 20 7630 2400 Ubuntu - Linux for human beings | www.ubuntu.com | www.canonical.com -- warthogs mailing list warthogs@...1799... https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/warthogs ----- End forwarded message -----

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Preview redraw problem in the PDF import dialog
by momo 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Hi! It seems that there is a preview redraw problem in the PDF import dialog. When I list the pages, the preview seems to cumulate the images (the next page preview is drawn on top of the previous page preview). See attached screenshots of the problem (PNG, 38Kb) I'm using Inkscape0708210339 on Win XP SP2. Molumen

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] EXPERIMENTAL: gradient noise (Was: Re: Gradients.)
by joel＠...1709... 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

> the real source of the banding (besides buffer precision issues) is the > precomputed vector, but changing that means a pretty significant change > architecturally. Come on cairo!!! ---------------------------------------- From: MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> Sent: 21 August 2007 04:54 To: Inkscape ML <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] EXPERIMENTAL: gradient noise (Was: Re: Gradients.) On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 15:49 -0700, MenTaLguY wrote: > Adding random noise to the gradients may help reduce the visibility of > artifacts to the human eye, however. Gradients are rendered by selecting > colors from a precomputed 1024-color vector, so adding a very small > amount of noise to that index calculation should be sufficient. Ok, as of r15880 I've added a little bit of noise to gradients using a linear feedback shift register. I would consider this pretty experimental and it might get reverted later. I'm mainly curious to see how much this helps perceptually; the real source of the banding (besides buffer precision issues) is the precomputed vector, but changing that means a pretty significant change architecturally. -mental ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Windows console
by joel＠...1709... 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Yes and that's exactly what I need for my explorer thumbnail extension, so as to allow it to load the renderer. (Although I'm wondering if the renderer itself could be broken into it's own shared dll, rather than static linked to reduce memory footprint) ---------------------------------------- From: Bob Jamison <rwjj@...127...> Sent: 21 August 2007 03:28 To: Gail Banaszkiewicz <gbanaszk@...1686...>, inkscape-devel@...941...rge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Windows console The problem is, I guess, how to allow the console for some people but to not display the annoying console for everybody. It's probably time that we re-examine the Inkscape-as-a-DLL problem. This way we could provide several small executables, like Inkscape w/console, Inkscape w/o console, and Inkview, all calling the large main DLL. bob Gail Banaszkiewicz wrote: > Kent Tenney wrote: >> On 8/20/07, Gail Banaszkiewicz wrote: >> >>> I seem to have lost the ability to run Inkscape as a console app in >>> Windows. >>> >> Same here. I had console a build or two back, but it's gone now (r15870) >> >> Kent > > Looks like you have to "put it in -mconsole" - > according to Bob the FAQ is wrong ;) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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GSoC Final Survey
by Bryce Harrington 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Hi all, Today Google has posted the forms for GSoC surveys; they're due on the 31st. For more info, please see: http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/midterm-s… And feel free to direct questions my way. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] disappearing gradients when moving/scaling
by bulia byak 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

On 8/11/07, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 22:11 -0300, bulia byak wrote: > > You just have the "transform gradients" button toggled off in the > > selector toolbar. That's the mode in which transforming an object does > > not affect the gradients - they stay in the original place. Toggle it > > back on and it will work as you expect. > > Any ideas for reducing this problem? As a small improvement, I just added a label saying "Affect:" in front of the buttons. This should be beneficial in several ways: it attracts more attention to the buttons; it visually separates them from the rest of the toolbar; it gives an immediate hint on their purpose - configuring what is and is not affected by Selector tool transformations; and finally it gives these buttons a name ("the Affect buttons") that will make it much easier to explain to users what they need to toggle :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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