NEW: spell checker
by bulia byak
There's now a built-in spell checker. Press Ctrl+Alt+K or choose Text
> Check spelling to check all visible text objects in your document
(they need not be selected) in turn, going top-to-bottom and
left-to-right. Once a misspelled word is found, a red frame around it
is displayed, and the object with the misspelling is selected; if you
are in Text tool, it also places the text cursor at the beginning of
the misspelled word.
In the dialog, you can choose one of the listed suggestions and Accept
it (this button is disabled unless you choose something in the list);
Ignore the word for the rest of this session; or Add the word to the
local dictionary.
Also, since the dialog does not lock Inkscape's window, you can simply
edit the word with Text tool. Once you edit it to something acceptable
to the speller, it will automatically turn off the red frame and
continue checking the
document.
On Linux, you need to install Aspell and its dictionaries for the
languages you want to check. On Windows, for now, only English
dictionary is included with Inkscape builds.
My questions:
- how do you want to select the language - in the prefs or right in
the spellcheck dialog?
- should I make this compiled conditionally on linux - will anyone
want to compile without spellchecker?
- what other languages to include with windows installer? we could
take all, but it's many megabytes...
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
12 years, 2 months
OpenMP, encouraging developers, etc
by NoviceNotes℠
Admirable Inkscape Developers, and fellow Inkscape Enthusiasts:
I'm writing as a proponent of best practices, respecting copyright
ownership and ethical use of content, whenever I can not claim it as my
own. I realize you are busy with real development issues, and this looks
like a long-winded message (it is, sorry), but I imagine you are the
proper contact for addressing this proposal.
Having just read the the "OpenMP Is Coming" news byte at inkscape.org [
http://inkscape.org/archive.php?lang=en&year=2009&month=01 ] , I would
like to make myself available to you-- not as an expert in
multi-processor; multi-threading efficiency maximization for the
application-- but as an additional resource for propagating information
about Inkscape.
I seek authorization-- ideally the blessing of Inkscape developers and
primary contributors-- to publish an article (on my own web site,
available at http://NoviceNotes.Net . NoviceNotes℠) containing text
copied, verbatim (or, as recommended), from the aforementioned "News"
section of Inkscape.org .
Because I use Inkscape daily, usually for multiple, separate design or
illustrative tasks, I have a vested interest in the gainful advancement
of the Inkscape project. I appreciate your need for the most
accommodating crew in the development team complement. Rest assured that
I would not burden the team on my own whimsy; that my proposed use of
inkscape.org content is bourne of a primary intent to act as an asset--
a disseminating agent, bolstering Inkscape's list of proponents. I have
no interest in exploiting Inkscape that I might enjoy the privilege of
association, favoring integrity over content padded in that ubiquitous
manner.
Please take a moment to read the article I wrote on Geany, a GTK+ text
editor which I use quite often, as my enthusiasm for Inkscape inspires a
similar viewpoint:
http://tinyurl.com/NoviceNotes-on-Geany
I hope this note reaches the appropriate party. I look forward to a reply.
Respectfully,
Jeff Sabarese
Author: NoviceNotes.Net
--
For beginner Web Technologists,
and pros, their fees well-spent,
For entertainment mixed in tutelage, I strive
at NoviceNotes.Net
12 years, 2 months
Fwd: [CREATE] Categorizing resources
by Jon Phillips
Here is an interesting proposal about how to handle resources. Please
join the Create mailing list if you are interested in this and/or for
Inkscape. It is a nice way to handle a quick way of organizing
resources.
Jon
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Aurimas Juška <aurimas.juska@...400...>
Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CREATE] Categorizing resources
To: CREATE@...626...
Hi,
Resource tagging is now available in GIMP development version. Before
it is released, I think it would be good to discuss possibilities how
tags could be shared between applications and also how tagging could
be implemented in other applications.
Common (standardized?) tag storage format
Currently GIMP tags storage format is minimalistic, but seems to work
quite well. Tags are stored in a tags.xml file which can be easily
understood and edited manually:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<tags>
<resource identifier="/home/auris/gimp/trunk/build/share/gimp/2.0/brushes/confetti.gih"
checksum="d136b60fdd9cf41693a485a329b32e95">
<tag>aaa</tag>
</resource>
</tags>
Resources are mapped with entries in tags.xml using:
* identifier - filename for resources stored on disk. Easy to
understand, but can be different between computers and platforms.
* checksum - uniquely represent resource. However, how checksum is
calculated (which data from resource is used, algorithm) seem hard to
standardize. Useless when user wants to edit tags.xml manually (or
with a simple script).
Currently identifier is used primarily to identify resources, and
checksum is only used when identifier can't match actual resource file
(file rename/move).
Tag is a text string which cannot contain separator characters,
newlines, tabs, etc. There is no additional information stored with a
tag, such as language. However, tags provided with GIMP can be
translated into various languages. Localized version is installed in
user's home directory on the first run but is not changed when
switched to a different language later.
In order to make format useful for other applications and external tag
editors as well, is there anything that should be added/removed ? It
would be good, as always, to keep the format simple as possible.
Common GUI elements
It might be good for user if similar GUI element would be used for
similar purposes. There is a small PDF available which shows more
detail how tagging GUI elements work in GIMP:
http://sites.google.com/site/aurijusk/gimp-resource-tagging/tagging.pdf?a...
Code reuse for implementation, etc.
Some code could probably could be used as starting point. It might be
possible to put some functionality in places where multiple
applications could take advantage of it.
Best regards,
Aurimas Juška
_______________________________________________
CREATE mailing list
CREATE@...626...
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
--
Jon Phillips
http://rejon.org/
12 years, 2 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] [libcroco-list] Generic cascading in libcroco
by Robert Staudinger
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Dodji Seketeli <dodji@...45...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Robert Staudinger a écrit :
>
> [...]
>
>> I've finally gotten around to add a generic interface to the libcroco
>> selection engine. Pretty much just exchanging libxml calls to
>> invocations on an vtable provided by the API consumer.
>>
>> On top of that I reinstated the libxml-based API and made sure the
>> tests (the selection engine is only used by test5) work as before.
>
> Sounds great ! Thanks for that.
>
>> Are you inkscapers still interested in eventually using upstream
>> libcroco? Your internal copy seems to have deviated pretty much from
>> upstream, it would be good if we could at least exchange fixes, things
>> were not quite obvious looking at the raw rdiff. We (Thomas Wood +
>> yours truly) actually tried to extract just the selection engine
>> patch(es) from your svn repository, but it proved quite hard to make
>> any sense of it.
>
> I don't know for inkscape, but I'll happily review the patch of that
> feature if you for instance submit it to the libcroco bugzilla.
>
>
>> My branch is at
>> http://bzr-playground.gnome.org/~robsta/libccss-selection-engine/
>> but will go to trunk within the next few days, as the tests already
>> work as they should.
>
> Could, would it be possible to extract a patch from that and slam it to
> bugzilla so that I can have a chance to review it ? I don't intend to
> nitpick, do not worry :) It's just to add some more eyeballs to the game :)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572454
- R
12 years, 2 months
Filters top-level menu?
by Felipe Sanches
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Felipe Sanches
> <felipe.sanches@...400...> wrote:
>> svn update; make; sudo make install
>>
>> And I still have the filters submenu inside extensions top level menu.
>> And the list of pre-built filters does not appear at the filters top level menu.
>
> ah - and let me guess - the menus are not in English?
Yes, they are in brazillian portuguese. And I guess prokoudine uses russian...
Juca
12 years, 2 months
Filters top-level menu?
by bulia byak
I think filters are sufficiently complex, different from everything
else, and have enough support in Inkscape now, so they deserve to be
treated more like a top-level entity. In particular, I propose to add
a new menu, Filters, before Effects. It would contain:
- All the submenus with preset filter that are now in Effects >
Filters. Ivan Louette is working on a huge and exciting expansion of
that hierarchy, adding lots of powerful new filters. It's obviously
too deeply hidden now, it deserves more visibility as one of the most
important 0.47 additions.
- The "Filter Effects..." dialog command which I propose to rename to
"Build Filters" or "Filter Builder" or something like that. The
current name is not very descriptive and even a bit misleading due to
the word "effects" which refers to too many too different things in
Inkscape (once again, let me reiterate my old wish: rename "Effects"
menu to "Extensions", that is what they are!). The typical workflow
would be to first choose one of the presets, then if needed, go to the
Filter Builder to adjust the preset or start a new filter from
scratch.
- The Remove Filter command.
Thoughts?
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
12 years, 2 months
"no color swatch" resizing bug
by Felipe Sanches
Revision 20710 by JonCruz broke resizing of "no color swatch".
I dont know how to properly fix that. Could you please take a look at that,
Jon?
Juca
12 years, 2 months
Compiling svn on Opensuse 11 64 bits
by Lucas Vieites
Hi all,
I am slowly becoming desperate. I have been trying to compile from svn the
same way I always have:
svn update
autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/var/opt/ --with-perl --with-python --with-xft
--enable-lcms --enable-inkboard --with-gnome-vfs
make
make install
But now I have a new machine: a dual core 64 bit AMD running OpenSuse 11.1.
When running ./configure ...... it keeps complaining about:
------------------------------
checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no
configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape
------------------------------
I have already installed all packages I thought might be useful:
------------------------------
# rpm -qa | grep png
libpng-devel-1.2.31-4.35.1
libpng12-0-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1
libpng-devel-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1
latex2html-pngicons-2002.2.1-604.27
libpng3-1.2.31-4.35.1
libpng12-0-1.2.31-4.35.1
------------------------------
But still no luck. Is the configure script looking for libpng's devel files
somewhere strange?
Thanks for your help,
--
Lucas Vieites
12 years, 2 months
Building ubuntu/debian package from svn
by Kalman KHIRALY
Dear list,
Im trying to build a .deb package to test out the greatest and newest
feature of inkscape.
I have read this documentation:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingDebian
I have downloaded the daily snapshot:
http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/inkscape-current.tar.bz2
I followed the steps without success. I suspect, the documentation is outdated.
There is no debian/ directory in the inkscape source. The inkscape does not use
autoconfig but cmake if I see it correctly.
So creating the debian/ directory using the dh_make command, and building the
package fails. (make[1]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.)
So can somebody direct me to an updated documentation?
How can I create a proper debian/ directory, and building the package with
help of this directory? Using this command:
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
In summary a step-by-step tutorial would be really helpful!
Im using ubuntu 8.10 currently.
Thank you in advance,
Khiraly
12 years, 2 months
