Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Google's Summer of Code 2009 - Let's take the bull by the horns!
by Felipe Sanches
These are the ideas that I am interested:
# Font editing and creation features.
to continue my previous SoC work.
# Multiple Page support
it is a much wanted feature in the users community, but it is not that
much exciting at all for me to implement...
# ICC Color Management for cairo outputs - Would allow Inkscape to
produce CMYK PDFs and PSs with Cairo.
That is an exciting feature and also a much resquested one. I've
played a bit with icc in inkscape sometime ago. The only issue here is
that we will probably depend on further developments in cairo API,
right?
I was also thinking about implementing support for the animation
features in SVG. Anyone interested in mentoring me?
Last year I got a bit frustrated with my mentor because we haven't had
too much interaction. I'd like to be mentored by someone who is often
available on IRC and willing to interact in a daily basis. I feel much
more productive when I have constant feedback on my work.
It would be good to see more detailed descriptions of the proposed ideas.
JucaBlues
12 years, 1 month
Early freeze
by bulia byak
Hi all,
for previous releases, we had a two-stage freeze: first, feature
freeze (no new features, only bugfixes), followed by full freeze for a
short time and then a release. This time, I propose that we start
even earlier with an even milder freeze: a _refactoring freeze_ which
blocks any wide-ranging, deep-going refactorings that are not focused
on adding a specific feature or fixing a specific bug.
In particular, this means no lib migrations, no rewriting and
rearranging code "for general correctness", and no 2geom syncs "just
in case" until the release. I realize this is all done for good
reasons, but experience shows that each such wave of changes brings
bugs that keep popping up long after the wave has passed.
So, if there are no objections, let's finish and commit any
refactorings that are pending, and set a date after which we will only
be allowed to commit focused, easily testable features and bugfixes.
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12 years, 1 month
circle and polyline elements
by Alexandre Prokoudine
Hi,
Some of our extensions create polyline (WMF importer, IIRC) and circle
(create_from_triangle.py) elements which are not directly supported,
thought rendered in Inkscape. I wonder what the plan for suporting
them is, because right now when you have e.g. a circle element, you
cannot edit it and you cannot even change its style.
Alexandre
12 years, 2 months
No blur on zero area bbox items
by unknown＠example.com
Hi all,
In Jabber someone mentioned that no blur is applied on horizontal and
vertical lines. I tried and it is true. I think it is caused by a 'zero
area' geometric bbox for horizontal and vertical lines.
Could someone with more knowledge of the whole filter rendering chain
look into this?
I think sp-item.cpp, line 648, "SPItem::GEOMETRIC_BBOX" should be
changed to the bbox calculation including stroke width.
Thanks,
Johan
12 years, 2 months
LinuxFund work 2009 wiki page
by Milosz Derezynski
Hey,
Just a quick note that I've created a wiki page for the LinuxFund proposal,
which is explicitly meant for everyone to add comments or discuss
propositions.
The page can be found here:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LinuxFund2009_1
Cheers,
M.
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12 years, 2 months
Problem with our stream writing
by Jon A. Cruz
I was tracking down bug #340451 and it turns out to be more pervasive
than I thought:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/340451
The problem is that things are casting 16-bit Unicode values to bytes by
chopping all but the last 8 bits.
I'm going to be working on fixing this, but it is such a fundamental
issue that I'm surprised we're not seeing more issues. Also I'll need to
test a few more things and make sure I don't break more than I fix.
In the Java world they address this by having a very explicit difference
between characters and bytes. Bytes are 'byte' and handled by
"OutputStream"s whereas characters are 'character' and are handled by
"Writer"s.
So I'll just get some tests fixed and then clean up with proper
transformations.
If anyone can take a look for things that might be a problem, related
bugs, things I should test, etc. that would help.
Thanks.
12 years, 2 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] Inkscape File formats
by Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:42 AM, John & Melonie Curwood wrote:
> results. some file types I could load or save in my Ubuntu Linux
> version of Inkscape but not in the Windows version.
Yes, e.g. EMF is not supported on Linux.
> 1) is there a plug-in that is needed for the .dia file type?
You need Dia installed. http://live.gnome.org/Dia
> 2) why are some formats only able to be saved or opened in the linux
> version of Inkscape?
Because the rely either on applications or API available on just one
platform only.
> Are there certain components or plug-ins that are installed with the
> linux version that aren't with the windows version.
Yes. The version 0.46, for instance, isn't shipped with UniConvertor
which is used for opening CDR (v0.47 will).
> I can send through a list of the file types in particular if that helps.
Please do :-)
Alexandre
12 years, 2 months
Batch conversion from raster to verctor (PNG/JPG to PDF/SVG)
by Chris Cinelli
Hi everybody,
I am trying to improve the quality of printing of some low-resolution raster
pics.
I tried autotrace that has the ideal interface for me (i.e. "autotrace
infile.jpg --output-file outfile.pdf"). However the quality is really low
(especially on photos) because it generates random triangles and leave white
spaces.
I am very satisfied with Inkscape's quality using the item in the menu:
"Path - Trace Bitmap." (multiple scans - Colors after adjusting some
options).
I wonder if I can convert the pictures that I have (they are in JPG but I
can convert them to PNG) in PDF (or SVG) through some command line options
or a batch script (that I don't have idea if it exists and how it works).
The process should run on a OpenSolaris box that has not any X client
configured.
Is this feasible or I need to mess up with Inkscape's source code?
Best,
Chris
12 years, 2 months
