September 2008 - Inkscape Devel

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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using inkscape -> plotters in windows...
by stuart 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Hi... First, how do you people do this? Window drivers are a nightmare! For instance, where do they start and where do applications end? People are talking about HPGL, SVG ... I just when round and round w/the Graphtec drivers for their C200-20 and C100-20 plotters. I am convinced they not only control the plotters but also translate depending on the application. That is, I have been told, that printing from Word using the graphics found in the Word's WordArt feature can actually cut on a Graphtec Craftrobo. How would this be possible unless the driver were also translating the output of the Word application. Guess I'm really asking, in windows, using inkscape, is the accepted "go-between" format between application and drivers PostScript? So, if anyone dares to write a windows driver, they can at least count on that much? Also, I understand that the "pipe the output feature" of inkscape was recently broken (during a revamping). Is that true? Has it been fixed? ...thanks

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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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] "Live Pen" Feature Bounty
by Thomas Holder 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

> Nodes are awkward legacy, they should be hidden and not affect > anything. All new tools we've been adding recently go in this > direction: Tweak tool does not care about nodes; Spiros use nodes but > they are much less clumsy than bezier nodes and easier to move around Beziers are clumsy, that's true. At this point I'd like to advertise my patch [1] which introduces automatic maintained handles. I think such nodes are even more intuitive than Spiro splines, and they still can be mixed with normal smooth/cusp nodes in the same path. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/255049 Regards, Thomas

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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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NEW: Lots of stuff
by Ted Gould 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Sorry, I got off on a branch and ended up with a bunch of things. I'm just going to flatten and merge... Here's the list. * Added a focus mode activated by Shift+F11. The goal of this mode is to remove all toolbars for a short period so that you maximize screen area. Useful on small screens. Also when you know lots of shortcuts. * Created what I'm calling "Quick Zoom." The idea here is to have a modal zoom for touching up something with fine detail and then returning to what you're doing. This is activated with the letter "Q" on the keyboard. When you release it, you return back to where you were. This will zoom in on selected objects, or if you're in the node tool selected nodes. * Added .svg on the temporary files in extensions. This'll make many of them happier. This only works on recent versions of GLib, but shouldn't break older ones more than they already are. * Moved the Inkscape configuration directory on Linux from ~/.inkscape to ~/.config/Inkscape. This is the new way to do things with the cross desktop naming spec. I'm unsure whether we should be putting crash dumps in .config or .cache though. * Removed 'tools_switch_current' because every usage of it already had a pointer to where it needed to go. Removes usage of globals. * Made it so that dialogs will be transparent when not focused. This is an alternate to having the docked, and one that I like better as I feel it gives me more screen area. You can adjust how much transparency and the speed of the animation in the preferences dialog. (Note: this requires GTK+ 2.12 and a compositor, but gracefully degrades if you don't have either)

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Cairo PDF, PS, and PNG output.
by Tavmjong Bah 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hi, I've just checked in a few more "fixes" to Cairo PDF, PS, and, PNG output. Clipping and masking now work at least at a basic level. Let me know if you find any problems. Note, evince may not display an object using an image as a mask but acroread will. I know of a few more problems with Cairo output: 1. First and last points of closed paths aren't joined properly. At least in the PS output, the last point is doubled and there is no closepath. 2. Clipping path output twice in PS (maybe PDF too). The second time it is unused. 3. Patterns don't always display correctly in PNG output. Any other problems people know about? Tav

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I am DAILY cutting vinyl with Inkscape
by bruce westfall 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

I've posted this before, but here goes again - What I am currently doing is organizing a cut page with Inkscape, saving that single color file as /home/bruce/hpgl/newplot.ps I then click a script called 'cut newplot.ps' which changes to the correct directory, generates a view using evince ( just to make sure I'm going to cut the right thing ) and then activates another script based on the one found at: http://pldaniels.com/hpgl-distiller/ ( I changed a few things and am more than happy to share everything with anyone. ) Once I close the preview, the plotter does it's thing. ----------------------------- I would like to create a menu item in Inkscape, but haven't figured that out yet. Any links on how to make a custom menu item?? -- Bruce Westfall 740-767-3636 740-707-7038

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fwd: NEW: more modes in Tweak tool
by Inkscaper Inkscaper 05 Oct '08

05 Oct '08

> Several new modes are added to the Tweak tool for transforming, > duplicating, and deleting selected objects using the same "soft brush" > metaphor that the path editing and coloring modes use. Using these new > modes, it is easy to "sculpt" scatterings of small objects, such as > clone tilings, into complex and naturalistic textures. Those are great new features, but this makes tweak tool even more cluttered, wouldn't clones be better for such funcionality? I would propose to split it into: 1. Clone tool ( or Spray/Aerograph tool) - with buttons for creating new clones and changing properities which are currently hidden under "Create tiled clones" window, like align, distribution, size, rotation, blur, opacity and color. This tool would operate only on clones. 2. Tweak tool, which would make the only thing not possible with clones - change shape of different object(s) (push, shrink, attrack, roughten) , and if eventually used on linked clone - unlink them. Current solution encourages users to create zilions of similar objects first, and then radnomise them using smudge tool, which doesn't seem to be elegant way of doing things and will result in huge ang ugly svg files.

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