September 2007 - Inkscape Devel

SVG filter effects and Batik source code
by rosros-3＠...112... 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

The support for all SVG filters (Filter Effects) is very good in Batik (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/). Since the source code is available, would it be a good idea just to take that code and adapt it?? BTW, an old SVG editor such as Graffiti also supports the filters. -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Devi vendere o coprare qualcosa? Visita il canale annunci di Email.it * Inserzioni gratuite! * Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=6889&d=27-9

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Problem with document base / xlink:href and embbed images
by jiho 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Hello everyone, I just tried to embed images in a new Inkscape document, created with a recent SVN build of Inkscape, and it did not work. Here is the problem (it's quite tricky): The SVG document comes from a computer with a different directory organization. It has images linked in it, that are in the same directory that the document. I open it on my machine and copy parts of it (some paths + some bitmaps) to a new, untilted document. Inkscape copies the images with xlink:href containing a relative link to the image (just the name in this case) and sodipodi:absref which is not valid anymore (it contains the directory structure of the other machine). In the new document, images initially appear as broken links since the absref is not valid and the document has not been saved, hence the root is unknown. I save this new document next to the orignal one, so that the relative links are respected. Once saved, the xlink:href become valid but the images are still show as broken. I have to reopen the document to see the images (which is probably a problem in itself). In the XML editor, just to be sure, I deleted the sodipodi:absref elements which were not valid anyway. Then I tried to embbed the images and Inkscape complained saying "No xlink:href or sodipodi:absref attributes found, or they do not point to an existing file! Unable to embed image. Sorry we could not locate /Applications/Inkscape.app/ u_velocity_bottom.png" The absref attributes are not there so that's fine but the xlinks are valid. However Inkscape looks for images in /Applications/ Inkscape.app which is the default location where documents are saved on OS X. If I remember well there was a document root attribute that was removed some time ago. I suspect that embbed bitmaps was looking for the images as document root+xlink and since document root is inexistant the default is used. This means that embbed images only works when sodipodi:absref is present, now that document root does not exists. This seems like a bug to me but the problem was complicated so I would prefer having your advice. Did I explained it clearly? Well currently I'll have to rewrite the sodipodi:abserf by hand and it will solve the problem but the solution may be quite hard to find for somebody who does not want to dive in the XML editor. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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link to forum
by bulia byak 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604309&aid=1800866&group_… a user requests that we link www.inkscapeforum.com from the front page. Is there any reason not to do it? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Decision on live update of extensions
by Bill Baxter 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

What was the decision on the live update of extensions? The original justification was that it would happen in a separate thread so you wouldn't notice, but it is *very* noticeable. At least on Windows with the snapshot builds. The worst part of it theres a DOS console that pops up every time the command gets rerun, and often that steals the focus away from the text field you're trying to type some number into. It's very annoying. --bb

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Feature question, only current layer visible
by bulia byak 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

> Kent Tenney wrote: > > I would like Inkscape to show only contents > > of the active (selected?) layer, other layers > > would not be visible. Someone just needs to implement Alt+click on a layer in Layer dialog to hide all other layers. That's how it's done in Photoshop so it will be a familiar shortcut for most users. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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About Inkscape description text
by jiho 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hello everyone, As I mentioned earlier, I updated Inkscape description at Apple downloads. The description was taken from the text on the main page of the site and now that I played a bit with it and compared it to other software, I tend to find it quite verbose and technical. This text is what people will copy paste to describe Inkscape (as I did) and does not look to appealing to me. For example I don't think there is enough emphasis on the UI which is one of Inkscape greatest strengths while some very basic things (shapes, paths, etc) are mentioned while they can be considered self evident. Would a rework of this text be acceptable or has it already been reworked many times and this is considered final? How do you want Inkscape to be perceived: as a UI on top of SVG or as a vector editor that happens to use SVG as its format? More specifically about Apple Downloads, I just thought I would let you know that their staff updated Inkscape description. Now Inkscape has a nicer screenshot, a more detailed description and is classified as Imaging and 3D rather than under the more abstract "unix & open source" label. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/inkscape.html However, since I submitted it, it is listed under my name (but links to www.inkscape.org). This is obviously wrong (I don't want people thinking that Inkscape is my project, by any means!) and I tried to correct it by adding "Inkscape Community" as my company name. I hope they will update the description soon. For 0.46, the best thing will probably be to open an Apple account under the name "Inkscape Community" and then I'll delete Inkscape from mine. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Strings in python extensions
by Bill Baxter 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Has anyone noticed that the type=string variables passed to python extensions have literal quotes in them? For instance the number nodes (dots.py) example doesn't really work in the latest snapshot I downloaded because the sizes are getting set to things like '"20"' instead of just '20' --bb

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Extension execution on Windows crashes update
by unknown＠example.com 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Some time ago we reported that executing extensions on Windows crashes Inkscape. Today I read the Bill Baxter was actually able to run some extension, so I tried again. The LaTeX extension still crashes, Path-along-path too. But the grid extension does not crash. Details: I am building Inkscape with a slightly modified build.xml so Inkscape always starts with a console window, to easily see debug info. I am going to try without console window now, to see whether that matters. In any case, execution of the grid extension did not spawn a new console window, nor did it pass focus to the already existing console. Later, Johan

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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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Placment of guidelines
by David Christian Berg 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Hey Inkscapers! I've done some draft yesterday and was using guidelines, something I don't do very often... Well, first of all, I would like guidelines to be selectable and then placeble via the tool bar (everything but the x or y position should be greyed out). However, if this seems to hard to do, quickly, I think it would make sense to at least allow the same number of digest after the point in both, the guideline dialogue (currently 2) and the tool bar coordinates (currently 3, which I of course prefer). Greetings from Spain! David

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