January 2008 - Inkscape Devel

Inkscape taken as a reference for vector illustration on OS X
by jiho 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi everyone, I thought I would share this fact with the whole development team: a french guy started a new vector design software called Drawberry[1] which basically leverages OS X technology (Quartz and CoreImage) to draw and export simple vector drawings. In its description, it takes Inkscape as a reference for a complete, high end vector design software: "With DrawBerry, you have all the possibilities the vectorial drawing offers you in a free, easy to use and powerful application. If you don’t need applications such Illustrator or Inkscape and you want to create some simple (or less simple) illustrations, DrawBerry is for you." I'm sure this has already happened plenty of times on Linux: on this platform, Inkscape is clearly the biggest player. However what I find interesting is that Drawberry is Mac OS X only by design, and that Inkscape, though being non native, GTK based and all, is still recognized as a big player on this platform, right next to Illustrator. This is quite an achievement. The ill-intentioned may argue that this could also means that Inkscape is becoming as bloated and unusable as Illustrator is but I'm sure that the amazing amount of new features currently brewing in Inkscape will finally settle down and find their place in a clear, intuitive UI... Inkscape-style. Congratulations to all the dev team, and happy new year. [1] http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/drawberry.html JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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using LPEs (take 2)
by Steren Giannini 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hello, The release is coming and I don't think the LPE tool is ready. I just wanted to notice some strange things that need to be discussed : 1. "Pattern along Path" is not a good name, it doesn't deal with "patterns" (on a svg point of view). 2. The "copy" problem see bug #179840 for description 3. flip, rotate or scale a LPE object : see bug #179842 for description And please watch this youtube video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0rx__lIlkg The Red path has a "bend path" lpe applied The green one is the same converted into path, it acts as a reference for us. This is the result we naturally expect for the transformation of the red path. 4. Once Johan coded a "width control line" for "Bend Path", I found it very useful but it has now disappeared. Hoping It will be useful. Steren

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test, please ignore
by Lucas Vieites 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

having trouble sending to the list, so i'm testing -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...1852...> Got the code, got the connection... codexion.com

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Is OpenClipart export robust enough for 0.46?
by Bryce Harrington 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hi all, The import from openclipart function is pretty slick, and works fairly intuitively. I like it. However, the export function seems clunky, and isn't working for me. The dialog UI for export is quite primitive and doesn't work in an intuitive fashion. It also currently has the following (quite critical) bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/179452 I feel the amount of UI work alone to get export up to snuff is beyond what can be achieved at this point in the release cycle (unless some hero can really pound on it in the next 1-2 weeks). I imagine there may also be a non-trivial amount of work under the hood, too. What are other people's opinions on the idea of disabling OCAL export for 0.46? Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Does PDF Import actually work?
by Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

you can git the latest version at: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test If you still need me to send the files, I can, but it's an old version. JF kaver wrote: > Joshua, > Can you send me the Poppler pdf test suite files that you cannot open? I > would like to test them on Inkscape and CorelDraw. > > Thanks. > Erik > kaver@...68... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art" <faceman@...1574...> > To: "kaver" <kaver@...68...> > Cc: <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>; "Bryce Harrington" > <bryce@...961...> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:06 PM > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Does PDF Import actually work? > > > >> Revision 16895 doesn't open any of the Poppler pdf test suite files for >> > me. > >> JF >> > >

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[NEW] blend modes moved to layers
by MenTaLguY 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Because SVG has problems dealing with blends on non-top-level children (in our case, that generally means non-layers), I've moved blend modes selection to the layers dialog and made it per-layer rather than per-object. If you have existing artwork with blend modes on individual objects, or want to create new artwork with blend modes on individual objects, that can still be done from the SVG filters dialog. -mental

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