March 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Logo for SVG Open 2009
by Jon A. Cruz 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Hello all, I just wanted to put out that SVG Open 2009 is looking for header graphics for their new website... which is about to go live. SVG Open 2008 had a subtle header with outlines of the castles in Nuremberg, so is probably not good for this year's conference in California. If anyone is interested, this is a great opportunity to showcase both SVG and Inkscape. I believe that the site will be able to serve SVG directly for browsers that support it.

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Filters zoom problem solved
by Ivan Louette 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

While cleaning up the filters from unuseful primitives I removed some blur redundanceswhich caused that some Bevel filters display badly at full page zoom. I commited the file some minutes ago. ivan

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Inkscape Linux test builds?
by Aurélio A. Heckert 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi all, Who can back to update the linux autopackages at inkscape.modevia.com/ap/ ? The http://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+archive has only Ubuntu packages. No Debian or Fedora or anyother... :-/ Autopackages works good for inkscape in any Linux Distro (where i have tested). That is a good help to have more testers. Thanks! 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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by Wisnu Graf 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

i have a problem with the color profile can u put a CMYK color profile. this is important for printing in separations proses.

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Left ruler squashed:
by bulia byak 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Has anyone noticed this? A recent regression? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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SVG Transforms 1.0, Part 2: Language, W3C Working Draft 20 March 2009 is out
by Alexandre Prokoudine 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hi, Yesterday "SVG Transforms 1.0, Part 2: Language" working draft was released. SVG Transforms spec defines ways to transform two-dimensional objects using three-dimensional transformations. http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVG-Transforms-20090320/ Alexandre

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Guide editing by mouse
by Maximilian Albert 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

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

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[NEW] Icon theming
by Krzysztof Kosiński 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

All icons used in Inkscape should now be themable. You can find out the names by looking at the IDs in icons.svg, at icon names in in share/icons/hicolor/scalable/*, or at the file src/ui/icon-names.h. All names are defined in a new file, ui/icon-names.h. This file should be used for all icon names used in Inkscape. I also removed stale files which attempted to do the same but weren't used universally (ui/stock.h, ui/stock-items.h, inkscape-stock.h). Right now Inkscape uses the discrete SVG icons. I timed "hot" startup (using "time inkscape --verb FileQuit" twice and noting the second run) and it seems that it's actually faster (9.281s) than using icons.svg (9.799s), probably because the RSVG renderer which renders the SVG icons in Gnome is faster than ours. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-NEW--Icon-theming-tp22120443p22120443.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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markers
by jf barraud 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi, I've had to use markers in inkscape recently and found them very frustrating: putting the markers in the middle of the semgents instead of intermediate nodes is much better in many cases. Consider a path made of horizontal and vertical segments: to show an orientation on it, you'd like to add little arrows at the middle of the segments, definitely not at the corners. I know this contradicts the svg specification, wich has good reason to do so (in patricular, I guess the middle of a segment is not so well defined...) Then I came to the following minimal suggestion: would it make sens to refine the svg spec to avoid/allow markers at smooth/angular points? Even in this case, this wont be a perferct solution: in many cases, I'd like to have only one arrow at the middle of each smooth piece, even if that piece requires many points to be drawn. I don't see any svg compilent way to achieve this. Any suggestion? we could have lpe generated markers, more or less like what "pattern along path" does, with improved placement of the pattern (= markers), but I don't like this solution, as it is not natural to use lpe to do a "stroking decoration"... Cheers, jfb.

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Draw freehand lines and Markers - Color
by Fantomas 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi, why is it 'Draw freehand lines' 'Start Markers' and 'End Markers' only the color black? Markers should be the same color as the Line... or wrong? Thanks Martin honor your work

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