March 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Batch conversion from raster to verctor (PNG/JPG to PDF/SVG)
by Chris Cinelli 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

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

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Kernel Unit Length in Lighting Effects
by Ivan Louette 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hello Working on filters for one moment now I was asking myself if there are any progresses (or projects) about implementing Kernel Unit Length in Lighting Effects. Following this Niko Kiirala tutorial http://fedev.blogspot.com/2008/07/filter-effects-lighting-effects.html "Kernel Unit Length is not yet used in Inkscape. It is used to make the result resolution-independent. Now that it isn't used, with high zooms you can see odd plateaus forming." If that's not so important in daily web graphics, from an illustrator point of view that's a problem not only for zooming but also for scaling up some effects or using wide blurs as basic composites for lighting. Thanks for any info and thanks for so much fun with filter effects ! ivan

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Inkscape gave a Job for a brazilian gui
by Aurélio A. Heckert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Leon, a friend of mine, send a e-mail to the brazilian Inkscape user list to say about his new job. http://listas.softwarelivre.org/pipermail/inkscape-brasil/2009-March/004762… He was selected to be software interface designer and the new boos was glad to discover in the interview about the preference of Leon by the Inkecape. Leon made the selection test with Inkscape too, while other ones was using Adobe's software. Good news for Inkscape in Brasilian art market! :-) -- 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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where is the plugin developer's guide...
by stuart 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi... No promises, but I'm mildly interested in getting inkscape to cut directly to small craft Graphtec plotters on any platform that inkscape is supported on w/o installing additional interpreters like Python or PERL. I know this has been talked about before, but I don't think there are any technical discussions to be found here as to how to do it. Looking at the inkscape wiki, all I see are plugins that translate between formats. I'm not terribly interested in saving yet another format on my HDD and would prefer just to print to the plotter. However, I'm not sure this is even possible plugin or not. I assume this is the best inkscape plugin tutorial: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial ...but, as I suspected, this lends it's self to modifying existing Scalable Vector Graphics files. That is, inkscape understands the format it receives back. What happens if the format is foreign to inkscape? Will inkscape still be able to send it to the plotter (i.e. print it)? Let me know if I'm missing the boat, but, as far as I can tell, what is necessary is to place a " filter / plugin " between inkscape and the plotter. And, apparently, inkscape has no provisions for that. ...thanks

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the colour inx parameter
by Aurélio A. Heckert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

There are documented about the colour parameter type: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extensions#Parameters But that is not working: <param name="test-cor" type="colour" _gui-text="Colour"></param> That may be written by an other way? -- 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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graphtec
by Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi, FUI: https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/35004 Apparently, CraftROBO vendor is interested in cooperation. Alexandre

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a daily Make Check Public Log
by Aurélio A. Heckert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

This log will be updated every day: http://inkscapeBrasil.org/LastMakeCheck A script on my cron do this (with other little tests): svn update ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix="$bin_dir" \ --with-perl --with-python \ --enable-inkboard \ --with-gnome-vfs make make install make check > update-the-web-page I may notify the community when a error appear after the start of a TDD politic. (or that can be done by the inkscape project server) 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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Windows nightly builds are still broken...
by Diederik van Lierop 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

The windows nightly builds are still broken... Can anyone look into this please? Diederik

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GSoC 2009
by Aaron Spike 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

The time has arrived to apply for GSoC 2009. Since I haven't heard otherwise I'm assuming I will be the admin? I will be completing an organization app soon. Bryce, since you've held this role previously please verbally confirm that you are passing the torch. :-) Aaron Spike

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plot graph from csv
by florian 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi, there is some few days a man on the French irc ask how to plot graph from data file with Inkscape and I can't answer. So I have quickly made this plug-in. I don't find a good place for share it, so I send it here,( I hope it's the good place for that). have a nice day. Florian

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