February 2009 - Inkscape Devel

New book about Inkscape
by Cédric Gémy 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

lo guys,just a message to tell you that a new book about Inkscape is published in France. I hope everyone will like it and that is will be useful. After Yemanja's, tav's plus the one we've done thanks to flossmanuals last summer, available documentation is growing. !beer inskcape :) pygmee http://www.amazon.fr/Inkscape-efficace-R%C3% A9ussir-dessins-vectoriels/dp/2212124252

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Inkscape Export to "JavaFX 1.0 FXD/FXZ Content file" format
by Sergey Esenov 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi, all Last year Sun Microsystems released JavaFX Production Suite (together with JavaFX 1.0) which have Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Illustrator CS3 plugins for exporting graphical assets into JavaFX format. The output (.fxz) is a ZIP archive containing 'content.fxd' file representing vector graphics picture in JavaFX format. Optionally, this archive may contain images and fonts referenced by the 'content.fxd' file. The content file can be viewed in netbeans IDE (JavaFX plugin should be installed!). The netbeans has UIStub generator for building a JavaFX class based on content.fxd and users may manipulate graphic objects by changing object properties, moving them, animating, making them visible/invisible and so on. The objects you want to control in JavaFX should have special prefix in naming of Inkscape "id" attribute like "jfx:object_name". Others will be anonymous in JavaFX. I propose that this plugin for Inkscape be used. It is based on the work of B.Jamison, S.Neto and J.Clarke for JavaFX Export (javafx-out.h, javafx-out.cpp). My updates to it were posted a few weeks ago. Personally I consider the "FXD/FXZ Content file" format more useful and I am going to use this actively in future projects, which explains my motivation. Implementation. ---------------------- The implementation is obvious: scan the object's tree and write the corresponding JavaFX constructs. The output has all attributes embedded in line therefore the information about gradients, filters and clip-paths are stored (only pointer information) and then used when actual graphic objects in the scene are built. Embedded images are decoded and external images are copied into the output ZIP archive automatically. Fonts should be handled in the same way (any volunteers!?). Like Illustrator plugin I always try to recognize simple objects (circles, ellipses, rectangles) behind the paths to reduce the output size. As a zip library implementation I used http://www.nih.at/libzip. Actually I am working with Linux, openSUSE 11.1 distribution, where this library is known as libzip1. It seems that Ubuntu distribution supports it as well. The Windows platform is also supported: http://www.nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00009.html While I might agree that introducing a new dependency into inkscape may not be welcomed, my attempt to use inkscape/src/dom/util/ziptool.[h,cpp] was unhappy: extremally slow! (~ 30 secs on some pictures). Testing. ----------- It is checked on the following pictures: http://chrisdesign.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/simple-metal-orb-using-gradient… -- gradients http://howto.nicubunu.ro/shiny_web_buttons_inkscape/ -- gradients, embedded images http://openclipart.org/people/Chrisdesign/Chrisdesign_Golden_mask_Tutancham… -- large picture with clip paths and I have used this simple tutorial to check clipping mask handling http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/07/12/screencasters-episode-064-bitmap-ma… Installation. ---------------- The installation is simple if you are able to build svn version of inkscape on your platform. 1. Make sure you have libzip1 + libzip-devel packages installed in your system. Or you should have this installed from sources. See the reference above for instructions. 2. Get SVN version of inkscape: svn co https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk inkscape 3. Copy 'javafx-fxz.h' and 'javafx-fxz.cpp' from attachment into 'inkscape/src/extension/internal' 4. Create build directory: cd inkscape mkdir build 5. Add 'javafx-fxz....' entries just above 'javafx-out' entries into po/POTFILES.in src/Makefile.in src/extension/internal/Makefile_insert src/extension/internal/CMakeLists.txt src/extension/init.cpp and in the last file (init.cpp) put just before "Internal::JavaFXOutput::init();" line the following... Internal::JavaFXZ::init(); 6. Go back into inkscape (top) directory and do ... ./autogen.sh cd build LIBS="-lzip" ../configure --prefix=/opt/inkscape or CFLAGS="-g -O0" CXXFLAGS="-g -O0" LIBS="-lzip" ../configure --prefix=/opt/inkscape if you want to build inkscape with debug information then make && su -c "make install" 7. Use /opt/inkscape/bin/inkscape executable and enjoy! Of course, I am interested if some person(s) from development team might review the code and make a decision. Anyway I hope it will be useful. Cheers, Sergey

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Windows test builds are broken on http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D
by Mourad Mokrane 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

hi, On http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D, the last 4 build are broken (6.3 Mb in size) Molumen

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no color swatch in the palette:
by bulia byak 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Thanks for adding it! Two comments: - Can we please make the cross black, not red? The red is too bright and distracting. - Dragging this swatch onto canvas objects does not work, sets them to black instead. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Little mistake in the wiki regarding the font cache on Windows
by worms invasion 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hello, In the page: http://www.inkscape.org/faq.php#Inkscape_does_not_see_some_of_the_fonts_.28… I think there is a little mistake when it says: This was a bug in versions of Inkscape up to 0.43, caused by using an obsolete font cache. This cache is stored in the file called .fonts.cache-1. This file may be in your Windows folder, or in your Temp folder, or in "My documents" folder, or in the folder listed in the $HOME environment variable. Use file search by name to locate this file. On my Windows XP system, the font cache is called FNTCACHE.DAT and is located in c:\windows\system32 I also have in C:\Program Files\InkscapeDev20090217\inkscape\etc\fonts fonts.conf fonts.dtd I couldn't find a .font.cache-1 file anywhere, and all the references to it point to Linux OSs. Could someone with editing rights edit this particular section of the FAQ? It looks like there is no section regarding the font cache for Linux, maybe that is what is missing or where the confusion lies? Thanks :-)

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inkboard abandoned files? cleanup needed.
by the Adib 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

I commited small patch in order to be able to compile using the "./configure --enable-inkboard" option: rev 20788 It looks that the files that I commented out have no effect in the code and are not in use. Could one please investigate in this? Using this patch inkscape opens the connect dialog. I can not prove that it works because I do not know how to connect. Thx, Adib. --- file: src/ui/dialog/Makefile_insert adib@...2145...:~/Projekte/Inkscape/inkscape_dev/src/ui/dialog$ svn diff Index: Makefile_insert =================================================================== --- Makefile_insert (Revision 20786) +++ Makefile_insert (Arbeitskopie) @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ ## Makefile.am fragment sourced by src/Makefile.am. if WITH_INKBOARD -inkboard_dialogs = \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-connect.cpp \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-connect.h \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithchat.cpp \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithchat.h \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithuser.cpp \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithuser.h +## inkboard_dialogs = \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-connect.cpp \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-connect.h \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithchat.cpp \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithchat.h \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithuser.cpp \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithuser.h endif ink_common_sources += \

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [NEW] Icon theming
by Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

For clarity, my remarks are meant for Windows only. ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> Verzonden: woensdag 25 februari 2009 0:35 > -----Original Message----- > From: Krzysztof Kosiński [mailto:tweenk.pl@...400...] > Sent: dinsdag 24 februari 2009 23:09 > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [NEW] Icon theming > > I guess you run Inkscape from the build tree without installing it. Of course. > Regardless where you run Inkscape from, it looks for icons > and other assets in the place it was installed. You need to > install a daily build from after the change so that the icon > files land in the appropriate places. Pretty sure Inkscape's daily builds cannot be installed. (it's just a zip of the build dir, afaik). > Otherwise it won't > work, just the way it wouldn't work if you built Inkscape and > tried to run the built executable without having it installed > in the regular location as well. I can put in some hacks to > allow Inkscape to see the icons from the source tree, but > this could make testing harder. Inkscape never needed installing; let's keep it that way.

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Wiki cleanups
by Krzysztof Kosiński 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

I'd like to clean up the main page of the wiki a bit. It contains links to lots of outdated information. Some pages are also not needed anymore and can cause confusion, so I'd like to remove them. Can I have administrator access to the wiki? My login is "Tweenk". Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wiki-cleanups-tp22230154p22230154.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Guide editing by mouse
by LucaDC 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Maximilian Albert-2 wrote: > > Hi, > > as a kind of test for some other things I have in mind I added better > support for editing guides by mouse. You will notice that the anchor > point of guides is now displayed on canvas as a small dot. You can > still move guides as you used to, but now you can also rotate them > around the anchor as well as move the anchor along the guide. What I'm > not really happy with, though, is the way in which the various > functionalities are accessed. So I'd like your help in this respect. > Currently it works as follows: > > 1) dragging the anchor moves the whole guide (and the anchor with it) > 2) pressing Shift and dragging the anchor moves it along the guide > (while the guide itself stays in place) > 3) dragging the guide anywhere outside the anchor rotates it around the > anchor > 4) pressing Shift and dragging the guide outside the anchor bypasses > rotation and moves the whole guide (as in 1.) > > Does this make sense to you? Do you have better suggestions as to > which functionality should be accessed in which way/with which > modifier? > > Thanks for your feedback, > Max > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > These are my suggestions: 1) "normal"-selecting and dragging moves the whole guide (and the anchor with it); 2) shift-selecting the guide (in any place along it) moves the guide as in 1) but placing the anchor under the pointer, so you can snap it and place it wherever you want; 3) alt-selecting the guide outside the anchor rotates the guide around it (with ctrl fixed angles snapping); 4) alt-selecting the guide on the anchor moves it along the guide; 5) ctrl-clicking the guide, deletes it. Point 1) is intended to preserve the usual behavior. Point 2) is intended to make it easier to grab the anchor: guides are so "thin" for selecting that having also to get the little circle (not zoomable...) is a pain. And what about if some guides have their anchor all snapped to the same point? How could you select the one you want? Point 3) is for the great feature of rotating guides (with snapping!). Ctrl should be pressed after initiating the rotation, to distinguish from point 5) (deletion): if you start rotating a guide it means you don't want do delete it, don't you? Point 4) is not so essential to me, but could be useful and maybe not so difficoult to implement. Point 5) is the current behavior and should be kept as is. Tanks for all the improvements. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Guide-editing-by-mouse-tp21666562p22180095.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Tooltip on snapindicator is now zoom dependent?
by Diederik van Lierop 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

In rev. #20773 the distance of the snap-tooltip to the snap-indicating-cross has been made zoom-dependent by "speleo3". Now when I zoom in, snapping might occur at one end of the screen whereas the tooltip might show up at the other end of the screen. I think it should appear at a fixed distance from the snap-indicator, i.e. measured in hard screen pixels. Could you please explain why you think this is better? PS: Sorry for forgetting your real-name :-(. That's why I'm sending this to the dev-list. Diederik

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