September 2008 - Inkscape Devel

Stand alone inkscape version for servers
by Bassel Safadi 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Hello folks, we are trying to include the functionality of converting svg files to png in our web content management system ( ccHost ) mostly for ( openclipart.org ), I tried every possible solution using imagemagick and GD, but nothing did the job as of inkscape, so we decided to actually use inkscape for that ( below the php function that do this ), that cleared the biggest problem, but still have another one: inkscape have a GUI that means a lot of stuff needed to be installed on a "web server " to get inkscape running, but we are using inkscape from the command line and we don't need all that fancy GUI things.. So can you please help us shipping ( or doing this if possible for us ) a stand alone ( one file only ) copy of inkscape without GUI, just the command line, in case we got a one file inkscape binary we can use in a lot of content management systems to actually add the functionality of converting and handling SVG files it will be great if some one can do it, we need such thing a lot Thank you all in advance. Best regards, Bassel Safadi _______________________________________ php function that can handle svg to png converting using inkscape: function convert_svg_png($path_to_inkscape, $svg_default_background, $images_path, $filename){ $filenamepng = str_replace(".svg", ".png", $filename); //check if inkscape is exists exec("".$path_to_inkscape."inkscape -V", $checkversion); if ($checkversion[0]){ exec("".$path_to_inkscape."inkscape -e ".$images_path.$filenamepng." ".$images_path.$filename." --export-background=".$svg_default_background."", $output); }else{ $output = "<b>Fatel Error: </b>Can't find (inkscape)"; } return $output; }

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Lots of stuff
by Inkscaper Inkscaper 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Ted Gould <ted@...2044...> wrote: > > * 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. Hi, Could you please allow users to redefine this shortcut? I can't find it in global keys/default.xml file. It's a bit frustrating as I was using "q" key to group objects for a half year or so, and after update this key started to zoom objects and nothing can be done to change it. I had the same problem with "d" and space keys, but those were hard coded for a long time, so most users probably get used to them.

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Fwd: NEW: more modes in Tweak tool
by bulia byak 26 Sep '08

26 Sep '08

Oops, looks like I sent this to 2geom-devel instead of inkscape-devel by mistake... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:32 PM Subject: NEW: more modes in Tweak tool To: "lib2geom-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net" <lib2geom-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> 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. * Move mode moves those selected objects that are under the brush in the direction in which you move the brush. This is similar to the Push path mode, except that the Move mode affects entire objects and not parts of the paths under the brush. * Move in/out mode moves those selected objects that are under the brush towards the cursor (default) or away from cursor (with Shift pressed). This is similar to the Attract/repel path mode, except that the Move in/out mode affects entire objects and not parts of the paths under cursor. * Move jitter mode moves those selected objects that are under the brush in random directions and by random amounts, but the overall amount of movement depends on Force, pen pressure (if you're using a tablet pen), on the closeness of the object to the center of brush, and on how long you apply the brush. * Scale mode scales those selected objects that are under the brush down (by default) or up (with Shift pressed). The speed of scaling depends on Force, pen pressure (if you're using a tablet pen), on the closeness of the object to the center of brush, and on how long you apply the brush. * Rotate mode rotates those selected objects that are under the brush clockwise (by default) or counterclockwise (with Shift pressed). The speed of rotation depends on Force, pen pressure (if you're using a tablet pen), on the closeness of the object to the center of brush, and on how long you apply the brush. * Duplicate/delete mode randomly duplicates those selected objects that are under the brush (by default) or deletes them (with Shift pressed). The chance of an object to be duplicated and deleted depends on Force, pen pressure (if you're using a tablet pen), on the closeness of the object to the center of brush, and on how long you apply the brush. As with regular Duplicate command, duplicating with Tweak tool places the copies right over the originals, and you may need to use the Move jitter mode to ruffle them apart. Note that the duplicates created by the tool are not automatically added to selection and therefore are out of reach for further tweaking until you manually select them. To work around this, group all the objects you are working on and select the group. All Tweak modes will work with individual objects inside the group, and any objects created by the Duplicate mode will also be part of that selected group and therefore immediately tweakable. Also, the existing path editing modes of the tool have been rearranged: now Shrink and Grow are one mode (shrinks by default, grows with Shift), and Attract and Repel are one mode (attracts by default, repels with Shift). Here is a complete list of modes and shortcuts of the Tweak tool: Shift+m, Shift+0 move mode Shift+i, Shift+1 move in/out mode Shift+z, Shift+2 move jitter mode Shift+<, Shift+>, Shift+3 scale mode Shift+[, Shift+], Shift+4 rotate mode Shift+d, Shift+5 duplicate/delete mode Shift+p, Shift+6 push path mode Shift+s, Shift+7 shrink/grow path mode Shift+a, Shift+8 attract/repel path mode Shift+r, Shift+9 roughen mode Shift+c color paint mode Shift+j color jitter mode -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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On hold
by Maximilian Albert 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hi all, just a quick note to all of you who are waiting for me to further work on (i.e., clean up, improve, extend, etc.) my latest contributions: It's likely to take a while until I can resume this work since my laptop ceased to work a couple of days ago. I can't tell yet how severe a problem it is (although I'm not too confident) and how fast it can be fixed - if at all... But in any case it'll take some time before I can set up either this or a new machine and start working on Inkscape again. Sorry for the inconvenience. :-(( Max -- GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/61691…

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Posible bug with text on windows
by Michael Grosberg 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

I have a problem with the behavior of the text tool which has been bugging me (excuse the pun) ever since 0.46 came out and still exists in the dev builds. I'm guessing it's something unique to my system or else it would have been reported long ago. First, my system description: Windows XP SP2, with Hebrew language support and some Hebrew fonts installed. I also have Inkscape installed on my Ubuntu system at home, with no problems there. The problem is with the font selection drop-down box in the toolbar. On my system, it just doesn't work. I can't select fonts using it. If I have text selected, I can open the drop down, and click on a font, but then nothing happens. the drop down list stays open as if I haven't clicked anything. If I'm on the text tool but have not yet clicked on the canvas and don't have any text selected, I can select a new font from the list, it will seem as if I just set a new font, but once click on the canvas to begin writing, the font reverts to the last used font. I can only use the text dialog to change font. The font size drop-down box on the toolbar works normally though. Is this a known bug? if not I'll report it officially in the bug tracker. Michael

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Illustrator CS4 New Features
by Josh Andler 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/features/?view=topnew Well... the Multiple Artboards appears to be somewhat like SVG viewboxes. Otherwise not surprisingly a couple other new features would be transparency in gradients and on-canvas gradient editing. And I'm unsure of the Blob Brush... I can't watch the video because apparently Flash doesn't want to work for me today. -Josh

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Big Thanks - redux
by jiho 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

## Sorry for the earlier stub of an email, here is the full thing: Dear everyone, I have not been very active for the last few months regarding Inkscape matters, less than I would have wanted to anyway. The reason why is posted there: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/#publications Low resolution version - 3.8Mb : http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/papers/these_irisson-web.pdf High quality version - 24Mb : http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/papers/these_irisson.pdf I was preparing, defending, and correcting my PhD dissertation. While of little interest to most of you (I guess no one here is currently dying to know where fish larvae go after they are spawned), I wanted to take advantage of this occasion to thank everyone who was ever involved in the development of Inkscape. Every single graphic (scientific or not for that matter!) that I have dealt with in the last 4-5 years have gone through Inkscape and the experience has been delightful (most of the time ;) ). For all of the 60+ graphics of my manuscript, the excellent PDF import and export of the current version, as well as the notorious ease of use of Inkscape's GUI, on canvas tools, and shortcuts were invaluable. The illustrations in my dissertation are probably not very impressive for full-fledged graphic designers; by scientific standards however, they are (hopefully) not too bad, even quite good for some (most of you would be horrified to see what ends up on presentations slides in the average life sciences conference!). I really think that the quality of the tools I used made me upgrade my personal quality standards and, at the same time, allowed me to meet these standards. I am recommending Inkscape often in the scientific community, especially now that it integrates so well file-format wise with the rest of the workflow. Except for X11 issues on Mac OS X (which are mine to fix) people are usually very happy with it, and sometimes surprised that such quality software could be free. I encourage them to think about what they could bring to the software and the community in return, in terms of quality bug reports, well thought suggestions and the like. Hopefully this will pay in the long term. Anyhow, I really wanted to thank you all for such a fine piece of software and for the great community that revolves around it. Working with (and, on too rare occasions, for) Inkscape is an enjoyable and gratifying experience. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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lpe sketch, vonkoch, and knot.
by jf barraud 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

Hi! I quickly added a few words in the wiki about Sketch, Knot and VonKoch. Please feel free to review and eventually translate to decent english ;-). btw: I remember I had some remarks about the name of the "knot" effect. Does it sound correct? Would "over-under" be more evocative? Any suggestion? I also have 2-3 more questions about lpes: -Is there a way to hide/show knotholder/helper paths on demand --- at the moment, I through them far away off the page :-( -Is there a way to have arbitrary and dynamically varrying number of knotholders? I would like to have one per crossing... -An alternative would be to replace them by a path, with a function called whenever a point is clicked. Is this possible? Thanks! JF.

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Preferences refactoring + Calligraphy tool
by Krzysztof Kosiński 22 Sep '08

22 Sep '08

I have committed a rewrite of the preferences system. The old Inkscape::Preferences stub class was replaced by a meaningful singleton, and everything in prefs-utils.h except the recent file list was replaced with stub functions using the new class. I replaced all instances of prefs_get_string_attribute(), create_pref(), pref_path_number_of_children() and pref_path_get_nth_children(). I'll now concentrate on refactoring code which contains calls to inkscape_get_repr() - it is equivalent to the new _getNode member function, but it should be private. I have also introduced boolean preferences in a backwards-compatible way - generally you can replace prefs_get_int_attribute_limited(blah1, blah2, 0, 1, 0) with prefs->getBool(blah1, blah2). There is however some weird breakage in the Calligraphy tool - e.g. sometimes it seems that tracing is on while the widgets indicate that it is off. I don't know whether this is something introduced by the rewrite or a pre-existing bug. Can someone more familiar with this code (widgets/toolbox.cpp) take a look? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Preferences-refactoring-%2B-Calligraphy-tool-tp195164… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Big thanks
by Jean-Olivier Irisson 21 Sep '08

21 Sep '08

Dear everyone, I have not been very active for the last few months regarding Inkscape matters. Jean-Olivier Irisson --- Division of Applied Marine Physics Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida 33149-1098 +1 786 342 3410 http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/

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