September 2007 - Inkscape Devel

CMS color selection including CMYK
by Jon A. Cruz 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Well.... I was finally able to get the initial cut of supporting icc-color() in. It should support most color spaces including CMYK. At the moment it will only be active for colors with an icc profile already set. There are some problems with the Lab and YCbCr color spaces. So far I've tested RGB, CMYK and Grayscale successfully. To test just build the latest, have a <color-profile> in your SVG and set the color in the SVG. So if you have a <color-profile> element with a name attribute of "cmyk", then you would just need to set fill:#ff00ff icc-color(cmyk, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

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build.dep
by Bob Jamison 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi all, Most of you never use the win32 stuff. So you probably have never seen the build.dep file. This file is a list of dependencies for each .cpp file in the inkscape source tree. This is purely withing the Inkscape tree. Buildtool does not walk out to list the system dependencies. It can be quite interesting. I put a copy on the server here, in case anyone is curious about dependencies in general, or their file in particular: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/build.dep Later, all! bob (ishmal)

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Mesh Gradient export from Laidout
by Tom Lechner 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi, I've been working on an export of patch gradients (aka mesh gradients) from my program Laidout to SVG. It currently basically follows Bulia's approximation method here: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-gradient-mesh-experim… The final steps of growing the boundary of the patch so the edges do not introduce transparency, and the blurring is a bit haphazard. My question is this: What is the relationship between "blur radius", the 0..100 blur slider in Inkscape, and SVG's stdDeviation? I've tried using various static values, but there doesn't seem to be a very satisfactory one. A sample exported file is here: http://www.tomlechner/randompics/test-colorpatch.svg Tom ----------------------- http://www.laidout.org http://www.tomlechner.com

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keys and mouse reference
by bulia byak 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

I decided to remove the feature that I myself added several versions ago: keys and mouse reference as an SVG file. Since most Help menu items are now URL links, so is this one, linking to this version's current chart at: http://inkscape.org/doc/keys046.html The old SVG chart was not very convenient to use, and it was getting more and more difficult to fit all keys into one screen. The only problem with this change is that for now, we're losing translated version of the chart. However the only two translations were doc/keys.fr.xml and doc/keys.de.xml, both quite out of date. However we can still use them by linking the corresponding HTML files from the main (English) chart. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Announcing Raster Effects (via ImageMagick)
by Christopher Brown 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Dear fellow Inkscape users, My Google Summer of Code project is now in SVN. My project is "Raster Functionality in Inkscape," which involved integrating ImageMagick libraries into Inkscape, in order to manipulate bitmaps from inside Inkscape. You'll have to install ImageMagick with Magick++ support (which is default) in order for these new extensions to work. They can be accessed under the sub-menu "Raster" in the extensions drop-down menu. The code is not quite in its final state--I am still perfecting and smoothing it out--but it's functional and I'd love to get feedback from all of you, especially from Windows users (because I have not tested it on that OS yet). Thank you all, -Christopher Brown

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problem compiling related to 2geom
by E.J. Neafsey 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

I get the following error when compiling inkscape-16107 on linux with gcc-3.3.4. ======================================================================== 2geom/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::lineTo(Geom::Point)': 2geom/svg-path.h:67: error: parse error before `;' token 2geom/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::quadTo(Geom::Point, Geom::Point)': 2geom/svg-path.h:71: error: parse error before `;' token 2geom/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::curveTo(Geom::Point, Geom::Point, Geom::Point)': 2geom/svg-path.h:75: error: parse error before `;' token 2geom/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::arcTo(double, double, double, bool, bool, Geom::Point)': 2geom/svg-path.h:81: error: parse error before `;' token make[2]: *** [live_effects/n-art-bpath-2geom.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/inkscape/inkscape-16107/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/inkscape/inkscape-16107' make: *** [all] Error 2 ========================================================================= I get the same error compiling lib2geom by itself. ========================================================================== [root:/usr/local/src/lib2geom]# make [ 1%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/2geom.dir/svg-path.o In file included from /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.cpp:32: /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::lineTo(Geom::Point)': /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h:67: error: parse error before `;' token /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::quadTo(Geom::Point, Geom::Point)': /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h:71: error: parse error before `;' token /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::curveTo(Geom::Point, Geom::Point, Geom::Point)': /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h:75: error: parse error before `;' token /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::arcTo(double, double, double, bool, bool, Geom::Point)': /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h:81: error: parse error before `;' token make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/2geom.dir/svg-path.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/2geom.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 ================================================================================= -- E.J. Neafsey, Ph.D. eneafse@...1805...

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NEW: XSLT Input/output extension support
by Ted Gould 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

While it's been on my TODO list for a while, I finally realized how easy it was and finally did it. Using libxslt (which we already link to) Inkscape can now use XSLT stylesheets for input and output. (I thought about effects, is that useful to anyone?) I've also included into the build a couple of SVG stylesheets I was interested in: * AI SVG: cleans up Adobe SVG to only have in it the "good stuff" * XAML: Toine de Greef posted on his blog[1] a set of XSLT sheets to convert to and from SVG and XAML. What's really exciting to me about this is that they might be usable to finally bring SVG to IE using Silverlight[2] (at least what XAML supports). But, I think this makes Inkscape the first XAML editor outside of Expression. More are out there. I know that Adobe had a ChemML to SVG stylesheet somewhere, but I've been unable to find it... --Ted [1] http://sanpaku72.blogspot.com/2007/09/having-fun-with-xaml-silverlight-and.… [2] http://members.chello.nl/~a.degreef/xaml/svg_using_sliverlight.html

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docs
by Alexandre Prokoudine 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hi, What are your feelings about documentation of Inkscape? Do you think we still need an official user guide that would be available from our main website just like tutorials (in multiple langauges)? I'm kinda worried about it, because 0.46 will introduce practically all possible SVG filters and there is just no user friendly documentation on them, at least in English (yes, even books on Adobe Illustrator I've seen do not cover them in any decent way, and W3C spec is way too "technical"). Currently we have some ongoing work in French version of the user guide and not much of it in the English version: http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/user_manual/trunk/ Despite of it the situation isn't so bad, IMO. We have pretty detailed release notes that cover a lot of functionality. We could make at least good EN and FR user guides for upcoming 0.46. What I suggest is trying to do it in small steps: 1. Add both EN and FR user guides to main website in same way we add tutorials. 2. Make them updatable in same way we updated tutorials. 2. Sync them content-wise. 3. Add missing parts borrowing from release notes where required. This will raise some public interest and, hopefully, attract people willing to contribute (especially if we provide detailed description, how to do it, and define a place where people can meet and talk about docs). Then we can see if we can keep at least EN and FR versions in sync, which, when successful, will be a lot better than no (visible) official user guide at all. What do you think? Alexandre

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Printing issue
by Diederik van Lierop 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hi, A few days ago a bug was filed by a user, in which the printing area appears to get clipped or offset, see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1796153&group_id=9… Is this a known bug? It looks quite serious/annoying to me, so it would be great if someone could have a look. I'm not at all familiar with the printing mechanisms. Diederik

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Dead links on localized versions of Inkscape website
by Maximilian Albert 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hi, in the German version of the "mailing lists" section on www.inkscape.org (as well as in some other localized versions) there are dead links to the corresponding archives. The correct ones have a "text only" form like http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=inkscape-devel However, some links still contain IDs, as in http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=36054 Clicking on a link of the latter shape yields an error message from Sourceforge, "No forum found". Whoever is in charge of keeping these pages up to date may want to fix it. Should I submit a formal bug report, too? Thanks, Max

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