March 2008 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Fwd: [CREATE] Inkscape coordinator for LGM travel costs needed
by Plinnell 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [CREATE] Inkscape coordinator for LGM travel costs needed Date: Monday 17 March 2008 From: "Louis Desjardins" <louis.desjardins@...400...> To: "Create List" <create@...626...> Hi Inkscape team! We need one person per team to act as a coordinator to gather the names and needs of the Inkscape people going to LMG this year. The task is simple, yet it takes someone who has time to do it. 1st round : gather the names and approximate cost for travel to Wroclaw (transport only, economic) and put that on a calc sheet. Send it to kamila giedrojc at gmail.com and cc to me. 2nd round : gather the names and real costs as we are approaching the LGM and also help get the complete banking info and full name and address of participants. The sooner the better. This helps us have a fair idea of the total needs for this year's LGM. So who will that be this year is up to you guys! Please find out asap and let us know who that person will be! Thanks and hope to see you at LGM this year again! Louis Desjardins -------------------------------------------------------

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Re v 17971 libnr build failure - patch
by Krzysztof Kosiński 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

nr-matrix-scale-ops.h was converted to be 100% inline, yet the rule for nr-matrix-scale-ops.cpp was not removed, causing a build failure. Index: src/libnr/Makefile_insert =================================================================== --- src/libnr/Makefile_insert (revision 17971) +++ src/libnr/Makefile_insert (working copy) @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ libnr/nr-matrix-ops.h \ libnr/nr-matrix-rotate-ops.cpp \ libnr/nr-matrix-rotate-ops.h \ - libnr/nr-matrix-scale-ops.cpp \ libnr/nr-matrix-scale-ops.h \ libnr/nr-matrix-translate-ops.cpp \ libnr/nr-matrix-translate-ops.h \ Regards, Krzysztof (Chris) Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rev-17971-libnr-build-failure---patch-tp16208029p1620… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] FOREIGN:Re: Re v 17971 libnr build failure - patch
by Aaron Spike 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote: > It would be nice if a GSoC student would convert our building to CMake............ Is this something we as a project would like to do? I know Josh Blocher has started working on this and I'd like to help him, but I've been a little short on time lately. Aaron Spike

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CNET uses Inkscape for NCAA tournament brackets
by Bryce Harrington 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

"Inkscape is an easy program to use; the only big problem I encountered involved aligning copied brackets." "Inkscape is a vector graphics editor, which means that images and objects can scale easily, so team names and brackets can be resized as you like. The SVG file is included in a downloadable ZIP file on the template product page. Inkscape also exports PDF files, so I created a printable version of the bracket if you want a down-and-dirty printout for brainstorming upset picks or tracking winners. The PDF file is also included in the downloadable ZIP." http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9897368-12.html

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Calligraphic presets
by Aubanel MONNIER 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hello list again, I sent my patch to Alexandre P. for him to commit it. It's a naïve implementation for the low hanging https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171255 . It's really nothing but I like the calligraphic tool a lot better with this small adjustment: I added 4 icons for dip, pen, brush and reed in the toolbox with hard coded matching settings. Clicking one button sets the calligraphic tool with the matching presets. I also removed the reset button (the default settings are the dip settings) On the negative side, the toolbox gets very very long, and there is no way to customize those presets, but I think those are quite sane. If you want to suggest more presets, ore some improvements, or your disagreements, please go. Aubanel.

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Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Please consider this idea, screen shot plus small demo
by Joshua Blocher 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

> There is indeed a GTK control called GtkVolumeButton that does kind of > that > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.12/GtkVolumeButton.html > or rather > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.12/GtkScaleButton.html > but it is only in GTK 2.12, which is above what Inkscape currently > requires. One of the conditions for upgrading the requirements are the > version that is available in older distros. I am afraid GTK 2.12 is > pretty new and won't be available widely. Well, I know that Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) has 2.12.9 and is soon to be released. Where are the other distros at? Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow

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Inkscape Font Sizes
by Tayfun BIYIKOGLU 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hi all, I am a new user of this forum and also new to inkscape. I have an issue to resolve about font sizes in inkscape which is as follows; As far as i know, Inkscape uses SVG standard units (px) internally, even for fonts. And here arises the problem: Everybody is used to interpret font sizes as pt (the font size 10 I use for this mail is actually 10pt!). As Inkscape interprets (and stores) the font sizes in px (that is: smaller), a 100% print of fonts from Inkscape will yield smaller characters than with probably any other application around. Any help and directions about this issue is welcome. Actually i am a java developer, i downloaded the source code and prepared the environment on eclipse. But i do not know how to approach the problem and where to start. Thanks to you all.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Please consider this idea, screen shot plus small demo
by jiho 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

On 2008-March-20 , at 20:48 , David Christian Berg wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I do very much like the idea! > Actually there is a control very similar to it for volume controls > (its name is also something like that). It's a button and when you > press it you get the slider, just like you want it. This probably > could be used. > On Mar 20, 2008, at 20:21 , Anthony Walter wrote: >> I wrote a lot custom code and custom controls, but am familiar >> mostly with the windows api. >> >> The route I choose to create any control I imagine (and I am >> limited only by my imagination) is I take a window (a rectangle >> which can receive user input, aka key presses and mouse clicks). I >> divide that rectangle into regions and write code to paint those >> regions, and i write code to handle mouse clicks and key presses. >> >> I am pretty sure the process is the same for Linux/GTK. Someone >> familiar with programming against GTK ought to know how to define >> their own controls and not be forced to use only the existing ones. >> I'm sure it can be done and shouldn't be too difficult for a GTK >> programmer, but like I said ... all my knowledge is in the windows >> api. >> >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter@...400...> >> wrote: >> That's great. I agree Inkscape really needs a control like this. >> Not >> even so much for saving real-estate, but just to make it easier to >> tweak the values that are spinner-only right now. Using such a >> control (as can be seen is in Photoshop, Blender, etc.) was discussed >> before and I believe the response was all positive. >> >> The problem was just that no one had a GTK control that fit the bill >> that could be put in place of the current spinners. >> Is your demo using a GTK control? >> >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Anthony Walter <sysrpl@...400...> >> wrote: >> > Here is a feature I think would make inkscape MUCH more >> streamlined, >> > eliminating a LOT of wasted screen real estate (especially in the >> > fill/stroke screen). This is a diagram of my request: >> > >> > http://codebot.org/popslide.jpg >> > >> > Also, a demo of the concept for windows is available here: >> > >> > http://codebot.org/popslide.zip There is indeed a GTK control called GtkVolumeButton that does kind of that http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.12/GtkVolumeButton.html or rather http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.12/GtkScaleButton.html but it is only in GTK 2.12, which is above what Inkscape currently requires. One of the conditions for upgrading the requirements are the version that is available in older distros. I am afraid GTK 2.12 is pretty new and won't be available widely. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Idea: Make all transforms (scale/rotate/shift/skew) available for editing nodes.
by Brian Vanderburg II 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Currently, The transforms only work when selecting an item (with the select tool). But it would be nice to have them for nodes as well. Select several nodes, all you can do is move them. It would be nice if I could select some nodes and scale them about the center of the selected nodes, or rotate them, and not scale/rotate the entire object, just the selected nodes. Brian Vanderburg II

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Access of extensions to the root node
by Hannes Hochreiner 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Dear all: A while ago, I started looking into a method for using Inkscape for presentations. The result of my efforts are now published as JessyInk on a Google Code page (http://code.google.com/p/jessyink/). The system works by incorporating a JavaScript into the SVG image. If viewed in a browser with SVG and JavaScript support, the script causes every layer to be displayed as a slide and connects them with transitions. Later I also added other features like an index sheet and slide numbers. At the moment, incorporating the script and defining transitions and slide numbers can be done form inside Inkscape, which I think is an important point, so that people don't have to switch programmes constantly. However, it involves editing the SVG file in the XML editor, which is very inconvenient for most users. Before working on further features, I wanted to create an Inkscape extension to provide a convenient way for people to add the necessary JavaScript to the SVG image and have an "onload"-attribute added to the root node to load the initialisation function when the image is loaded into a browser. Writing a small C++ programme to add the script was straight forward. The only problem I am experiencing is that the required "onload"-attribute of the root node is not copied into the SVG file Inkscape uses after the extension exits. Having a quick look at the source code, it seems to me that only the "width" and "height" attributes are copied. I am curious why it was decided not to copy the other attributes of the root node from the SVG files that are returned form extensions. I think it would be a neat thing to do, but there might be good reasons why this is not a good idea. Furthermore, I would like to ask, if there is another way to add attributes to the root node using an extension. Thanks in advance! Cheers, Hannes

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