August 2008 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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LPE dropdown box (was : NEW: LPE Interpolate)
by Steren 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

>> The LPE choose dropdown box is getting really huge now. Who wants to >> make mockups of what is a better system for applying effects? > > What about just a hierarchical menu with submenus, similar to the Effects menu? I think this is an issue that needs more to be discussed before coding anything (search for filters ?) Here is a first draft for LPE submenus, please comment and modify : =Artistic= // Everything that changes the path style (on a visual point of view) Freehand Shape Interpolate Sub-Paths Pattern Along Path Sketch Stitch Sub-Paths =Create= // create a very different path Gears Spiro spline ? VonKoch =Path Tweak= //small modifications Knot =Distort= // change the path shape Bend Envelope Deformation Lattice Deformation Perspective path =Technical= // tools for tech and serious drawings Angle bisector Boolops Circle (center+radius) Circle through 3 points Construct grid Mirror symmetry Offset Parallel Perpendicular bisector Ruler Rotate copies Tangent to curve

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Smooth transitions in Bézier paths
by Diederik van Lierop 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hi, I hope you don't mind if I increase the traffic on inkscape-devel even more ;-) At some point an idea popped up to only snap to nodes at discontinuities in paths, and not to nodes at smooth transitions from one Bézier segment to another. This is more intuitive (less "Hey, what it is Inkscape snapping to now?") and might increase performance. Problem is that in the object-snapper I only have access to SPCurve, which is a wrapper for "old-style" NArtBpath. It's easy to find out whether a point is inbetween two Bézier segments, but how do I find out if a transition is smooth? I guess that should be done by comparing the control points, or is there an easier way? With the transition to lib2geom, will the NArtBpath be deprecated in favor of the Path class? (that would make this rather exercise useless in the long run). Any pointers would be appreciated here, Diederik

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Direct Mailing Extension - A end-use file generator
by Aurélio A. Heckert 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

Hi all, I made this extension: http://www.colivre.coop.br/Aurium/InkscapeDirectMailing I don't think "Direct Mailing" is a good name, but is the better that i can think because it do part of this work. This is on it's third version after some usage and a test by the brazilian Inkscape community. For now it's being used by the DebConf organization at Argentina to make the certificates. :-) Até! Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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Win32 nightly builds don't work since Aug 16
by Alvin Penner 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

this is just an attempt to bump the priority of https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/259237 and http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=op.uf6b2ds4a8nfnl%… as far as I can tell, the windows nightly builds have not worked since Aug 16. Using the Aug 21 download, the most recent timestamp that I can see on any files is 08/16/2008 02:49 PM 14,671,360 inkscape.exe part of my reason for posting this is because there is a possibility that I may have caused this, since I did a commit on that day, svn 19670, for the first time, and I'm afraid I may have done it wrong. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Win32-nightly-builds-don%27t-work-since-Aug-16-tp1909… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Max value for colors < 255
by Oliver Etchebarne Bejarano 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Hi, I have GTK+ 2.13.6, and had problems compiling Inkscape 0.46, until I found this patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15113774/gtk-clist.patch. Inkscape compiled pretty well, but now the color values are gone wild :-P I can't raise any of the color components more than 245. Even the default colors (in the color bar) are semi transparents (the alpha channel is at 245). I can write the HTML color "FF0000FF", and then the drawing turns solid red. But in the "fill and border" pannel, the values are at 245 (for red and alpha). If I try to change one of those values, they return to theier "correct" values (254), the image turns transparent again, and the HTML color shows "F50000F5". Here is a screenshot: http://drmad.org/inkscape-245-problem.png I've work with Inkscape 0.46 with a older GTK version without any problem. Help :( -- Oliver Etchebarne Bejarano drmad/paperclip http://www.paperclip.com.pe/

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question regarding wishblade robocraft support...
by stuart 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Sorry for posting here if the user list if better. And sorry about the subject if it has been talked about before. I couldn't get sourceforge to add me to the inkscape user mail list and sourceforge was timing out on all my archive searches with no results. --- I remember reading that there was a patch or something to inkscape to support wishblade and robocraft users. Has that been integrated into the inkscape application? Is that what the DXF is all about? Wishblade users can not use DXF directly (needing the robocraft software to import DXF and change it to some sort of native (and maybe proprietary) GSD). Is there a way to get inkscape to save images in GSD in order to simplify the process? Ideally, I would prefer to skip bringing up the wishblade application. In my set up, I do all my work in linux (GIMP/INKSCAPE) and only the plotting in Windows. If I could do everything in linux it would simplify the flow of work greatly. Has anyone figured out how the craftrobo is communicated to in order to use it with common open source linux plotting software? Better yet, has anyone figured out how the wishblade has been crippled in order to use it with common open source linux plotting software? ...thanks

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sorting out PS/EPS/PDF export mess
by bulia byak 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

It's always bad when the UI offers two ways to do the same thing without really explaining what's the difference. It's equally bad when UI uses some meaningless techno jargon such as "cairo" :) Unfortunately 0.46 was released still in the middle of a transition period which made both these evils inevitable. Now that we're in 0.47, however, I would like to address this issue by switching all of PS, EPS, and PDF output to cairo, removing the builtin Inkscape exporter, and purging the mentions of "cairo" from the UI. As a matter of fact, this has already partially happened (not sure who did this). Right now both PS export options work via cairo and produce identical output. The Inkscape-native PDF export is nowhere to be seen. The only exporter which still uses native code is EPS. However, since 1.5.2 cairo can produce EPS files too, so this can all be done in one place now (closng several EPS export bugs along the way). The only downside is that it will require cairo >= 1.5.2, is everyone OK with that? By the way, the latest cairo 1.5.12 finally fixes the bug where zooming in too closely in Outline mode produced messy broken lines. Now everything is neat and clean. Upgrade is recommended. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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LPE tool
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi, Honestly, I'm as much happy as much puzzled about the new tool called LPE tool. All across source code it is called an LPE tool, which probably means it's supposed to do editing of LPE params on canvas or draw LPE. It does both, but is restricted to geometric constructions only (and not all of them), which is why it probably has a "Create geometry constructions" tooltip. So the question is conceptual: is it supposed to do more than it does now and cover all possible LPEs or is it only geometry constructions related? Alexandre

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new tool - lattice deformation
by ryrych＠...400... 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

hi! In latest revisions a new LPE effect appeared - Lattice deformation. But it hasn't been working properly these days. I propose to create a new tool - exactly Lattice deformation. This tool (idea) is in Adobe Photoshop. This tool would be very helpful. Currently we can bend a shape in a few way, but only in one direction. This tool would enable to bend the shape in many directions. Have a look at my image: http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8486/siatkasn2.png I want to show a shape which is bent from top and bottom but I couldn't do it in Inkscape but I hope you know what I talking about - plaese see Everest logo: http://www.lackenbach.com/Images/Newsletter2000/Everlast.gif What do you thing about it? regards, Wojciech RRH Ryrych ps. sorry for my English

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