January 2008 - Inkscape Devel

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] Pattern along path
by unknown＠example.com 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

> -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Antonishen [mailto:rob.antonishen@...400...] > Sent: dinsdag 15 januari 2008 17:43 > To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Pattern along path > > > > Is there a way to make a pattern-along-path without > distorting the > > > original path? Currently, all four options (single, single > > > stretched, repeated and repeated stretched) distort the path > > > > I do not understand your question. Could you provide an example of > > some kind? > > > > I believe he is referring to the distortion of the objects. > If your pattern consists of a square, you will end up with > distorted squares that follow the path ( i.e. not straight > lines connecting at 90 degrees). I think he wants to know if > it will effective "stamp" the pattern along the path either > rotating to follow the path direction at that point (or > possibly not rotating...) Is that what you mean Joshua? This is indeed not possible with pattern-along-path. You could file a feature request for such an effect. (please provide mockup of what you'd like) Regards, Johan

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filters area
by Felipe Sanches 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

shouldnt we have a way in the UI to setup the filter area (default -20%, +120%) ? Juca

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Is Xara Xtreme still merging with Inkscape?
by Louise Hoffman 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Dear Inkscape developers, I was wondering, if anyone know what's has happened to the merge of Xara Xtreme and Inkscape? The Xara Xtreme website haven't been updated for over a year, but the GPL source is still available from their SVN. Lots of love, Louise

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Photo Printing Kiosks
by Alexandre Prokoudine 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

On Jan 21, 2008 12:44 AM, z.pekar wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for a (Gnome) program that provides functionality of a > photo printing terminal/kiosk (smth. like this: > http://www.richardfrankfurt.co.uk/index.php?productID=24 ). http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/photoprint.shtml Alexandre

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Usage of about screen
by khiraly 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

What about to use the second entry for the inkscape devel version? So the first entry would be for the official 0.46 version, while the second one would be for the development builds (svn version). What do you think? Khiraly

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release schedule?
by Felipe Sanches 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

I have never participated on a freesoftware project, so I dont know exactly how does the release schedule rolls. What comes after pre0 ? How many time does it take until pre1? Is pre0 the same that other projects call rc0 ? When do we have string freeze? How many time do translators have? At which date would you guess that we will have 0.46 released? One of the reasons that makes me ask these questions is the fact that I have been working on the filters more actively recently and I hope I am not messing the release schedule. Juca

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On-canvas editing of clips and masks
by unknown＠example.com 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hello all, Josh looked at the LPE parameters in the <defs> section and saw similarities with masks and clips. LPE path parameters are on-canvas editable, so why not clips and masks asked Josh. Well... they *are* very similar, and with minimal effort I made the attached patch. =) Bugs everywhere I think (did not test what happens when you delete the clip path when editing for example...), so definitly 0.47 :) Cheers, Johan

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Small enhancement of ellipse tool
by Maximilian Albert 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hi, I just discovered that the stuff I committed for the 3D box tool also contained a patch for the ellipse tool that had accidentally slipped in. I always found it a bit awkward that it's not possible to create circles/ellipses whose *boundary* (not a corner of the bounding box) passes through the the mouse cursor. Since the Alt-modifier seemed as yet unused in the tool, I added the following functionality. - Alt+drag creates the same ellipse as it normally would, but scaled by a suitable factor so that it passes through the click point and the mouse pointer; - Alt+Shift+drag behaves analogously with regard to Shift+drag (i.e., this creates an ellipse with center at the click point and passing through the mouse pointer); - Alt+Ctrl+drag creates a perfect circle with diameter the segment between click point and mouse pointer; - Alt+Shift+Ctrl+drag behaves the same as Alt+Shift+drag but with radii ratios constrained to integers. So basically pressing Alt just means "make the ellipse pass through the mouse pointer", apart from the exceptional case Alt+Ctrl, which I found very handy. Could you tell me if these shortcuts are intuitive to you or if you would like anything to work differently? Or maybe I missed something and it's already possible to draw these kinds of ellipses easily? If there is no objection, I'll add this to the Release Notes and also add the shortcuts to keys.xml. Thanks, Max

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Inkscape filter effects causing crash
by Brian Vanderburg II 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

I'm using XP SP2 Inkscape 20080118 snapshop. When creating a filter effect for an object and connecting the filter to the fill color, activating the effect on the object causes Inkscape to close. I can connect the effect to the source graphic, but not the fill. The problem may also exist in other places of the filter effects. I sent this to both the user and dev lists because the last time I sent something to the dev list it didn't make it and I got a reply of some problem. It should make it to one of them. Brian Vanderburg II

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