March 2008 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape 0.46 in Ubuntu Hardy
by Bryce Harrington 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Inkscape 0.46 was accepted into Ubuntu Hardy today, just meeting the Beta Freeze deadline. (Anyone know if we made it in Fedora?) Bryce

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Examples with Inkscape: Designs for animation project
by Bernardo González Reinfeld 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hello, First than all, THANKS! Inkscape is great and we love what you do! We talk about Inkscape with colleagues and partners, and We try to help you spreading the voice. Also we teached (short courses) how to use Inkscape, in our local Fine Arts Faculty (La Laguna University). We're a small studio from Spain that work with open source tools and we like show you what we're doing right now. http://www.cejasbravas.com All the images that you can see in our site was created with Inkscape (we added this point in our FAQ). And also all the scenes of our pilot (CB is a project for a tv series -2D animation- for childs. We're trying to find funds to produce it) has been draw it with your software. (We have a St Patrick's day banner right now :)). You can add our images to your site, if you like show it like examples. Just add a link to our site and write us to see what images you choose... if you do :) We like show that open source tools can be used in studios without problem. And our Creative Director love it! Well, that's all. We add our sites to gallery's wiki. And again, THANKS. We hope that you like what we do. Cheers PS: Please, this isn't spam. We just like show you examples and applications of Inkscape in real world. -- *Bernardo G. Reinfeld* General Manager * http://www.organicadtm.com * Tel. (+ 34) 922 152 660 * Mobile (+ 34) 637 160 308 * Fax (+ 34) 922 299 479 Calle Bethencourt Alfonso, nº 2, Edf. Trianon, piso 5, centro 38001. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Canary Islands. Spain En cumplimiento con la Ley de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y de Comercio Electrónico (LSSI-CE) aprobada por el parlamento español y de la vigente Ley Orgánica 15 13/12/1999 de Protección de Datos española, le comunicamos que su dirección de correo figura en este momento suscrita a nuestro mailing, formando parte de un fichero automatizado de datos. Si no quiere recibir mas información responda a este correo indicando en el asunto "DAR DE BAJA".

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Renaming SPObjects proposal
by unknown＠example.com 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hello all, In spirit of codebase cleanup, I'd like to propose a simple renaming idea, to make things more clear to the developer (to me, at least :) I think, apart from C++-ifying, it would be a lot clearer when the SPObjects are renamed to either "SPObject" (the same :P) or "SVGObject". An example: SPPath represents <svg:path> in the SVG. When <svg:path> is added to SVG, Inkscape immediately generates an SPPath for it. I therefore propose to rename it to something that reflects this aspect of SPPath: that it is directly linked to something in SVG. SPDesktop for example is *not*. SPDesktop => SPDesktop, stays the same SPPath => SVGPath, meaning it represents some element in the SVG. SPShape => SVGShape (since all its derivates are SVG elements) SP_IS_PATH => IS_SVG_PATH (I never understood why it isn't named IS_SP_PATH) SPNamedview => SVGNamedview ? Now this one is a troublemaker. Because it is linked to <sodipodi:namedview> in the XML. I still think we should rename it with SVG up front, because it is linked to something in the SVG, does not matter what its name in XML is. Please, if this above all is non-sense, slanted or incorrect in any way, let me know! I do not know what to do with the filename. I propose to keep them sp-path and such, to avoid losing SVN history, which is absolutely unacceptable to me. (I don't know how to rename files in SVN, is that possible?) Note that we actually already have a file called svg-path... If no (negative) comments have reached me, I'd like to start this in a week or two. I really think it clears up things. It is sort of a first step into grouping things. Thanks, Johan

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NEW: smaller SVG files
by bulia byak 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

As a file size optimization, Inkscape does not write into SVG some of the stroke properties if the object has stroke:none and some of the fill properties when it has fill:none. The only situation where this might affect you is if you remove stroke from an object and then turn it back on - the object will get the default stroke instead of the same as it had before. Also, in manually-edited SVG where a parent group has no stroke but sets some stroke properties to be inherited by its descendants, you will need to set stroke property to other than none on the group, and suppress inheritance with stroke:none on those children that don't need it. Specifically, if stroke:none, the following properties do not get written to SVG: stroke-width stroke-linecap stroke-linejoin stroke-miterlimit stroke-opacity stroke-dasharray stroke-dashoffset Note that this does not include marker properties, which means you can still have markers on a path without visible stroke. If fill:none, the following properties do not get written to SVG: fill-opacity fill-rule -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: single-object and drawing PDF export
by bulia byak 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

With PDF export, it is now possible to make the PDF page the size of the entire drawing, instead of the same as SVG page as before by the "Export drawing, not page" checkbox in PDF export options. Also, you can export a single object from a complex document to PDF if you specify the ID of that object in the "Limit export to the object with ID" field; the page of such PDF will be the same size as the bounding box of that object and will show only that object (all others will be hidden). The same capabilities are available from the command line by using --export-area-drawing and --export-id=ID parameters with --export-pdf (previously, they only worked for PNG export). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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GOption migration patch
by Krzysztof Kosiński 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hello Can anyone review the patch provided here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/195220 It moves the commandline option parsing from popt to GOption and shortens main.cpp a fair bit, but I'm not sure how does Inkscape open files - does it (1) use UTF-8 filenames or (2) filenames in the system encoding? This patch will be ok if 2 is the case, and I believe 2 is the standard practice with Glib. Regards, Krzysztof (Chris) Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GOption-migration-patch-tp16039864p16039864.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Google Summer of Code 2008
by Bryce Harrington 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

I've put in the application for Inkscape to participate in GSoC 2008. Thank you everyone who submitted blueprints for feature idea suggestions (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/). As promised, I've mined that to put together our ideas list, which you can see here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2008 Bryce

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compile failure rev 17889
by bulia byak 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

io/sys.cpp: In function 'int Inkscape::IO::file_open_tmp(std::string&, const std::string&)': io/sys.cpp:187: error: 'file_open_tmp' is not a member of 'Glib' ...ideas? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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difficulties to check in
by Aubanel MONNIER 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hello list, I was going to fix the fact that I did not commit anything to inkscape since several years (implemented solution to bug 171255), but I can't get the damn thing to identify me to commit my code. Do I still have a svn account ? Or should I send a patch ? Regards, Aubanel.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Temporarily disabled snapindicator
by Diederik van Lierop 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Op Do, 13 maart, 2008 12:00, schreef J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...: > I want to make a preference for it. Shall I make a whole new page for snapping preferences? (there are a lot of snap preferences, a whole bunch of them should be global prefs instead of doc prefs in my opinion.) IMHO most of the snapping preferences should be in the document properties, because different documents can have different snapping strategies. It's not that a user simply has a single preferred way of working (w.r.t. snapping) for all his documents. An overhaul of the snapping preferences tabs is already on my TODO list, but if you really want to start working on this then I have some notes for you on which things to change. Diederik

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