April 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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Split text extension
by Karlisson 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hello, I've updated my split text extension! See more details in: http://nerdson.com/bin/split/ It doesn't split flowed texts. I couldn't put the splitted elements in the same position they were before (because of the way flowedText data is organized), so I decided to not support this type of element in the extension. I'd like to know if there's a way to get the X and Y of a flowed text. Apparently they are determined by the position of the flowing shape... I'd like you to test it and if possible, put it on 0.47. Files: http://nerdson.com/bin/split/split.py http://nerdson.com/bin/split/split.inx Thanks! -- Karlisson M. Bezerra http://nerdson.com/ -

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fenv.h, fmin, fmax
by Jeremy C. Reed 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Using inkscape-21256 snapshot (because release version has bug causing core dump when attempting to change fill color as reported numerous times). src/display/nr-arena-shape.cpp has #include <fenv.h> But I don't see any use of floating-point definitions, FE* macros, or fe*() functions. I commented that line out and inkscape built fine. (Also some platforms don't have any fenv.h.) Also src/live_effects/lpe-dynastroke.cpp uses fmin and fmax. Some platforms don't have that. So I added to src/live_effects/lpe-dynastroke.cpp : #define fmin(a,b) ((a)<(b)?(a):(b)) #define fmax(a,b) ((a)>(b)?(a):(b)) Also work/inkscape-21256/src/display/nr-filter.cpp refers to fmax but it is commented out.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] The bias property for feConvolveMatrix
by Jasper van de Gronde 13 May '09

13 May '09

Erik Dahlstrom wrote: > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:09:01 +0200, Jasper van de Gronde > <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote: > >> The SVG standard defines a "bias" property for feConvolveMatrix to >> offset the result of the filter. It specifies that this value should >> simply be added to the result for each channel. Implicitly the standard >> defines that these are premultiplied color values, however, this seems >> to make little sense, as the bias has very little meaning without taking >> the alpha channel into account. > > Wouldn't the 'preserveAlpha' attribute[1] be sufficient to control this? No, imagine that the image already has alpha=0.5, then adding a bias of 0.5 suddenly does not correspond to a transparent gray zero response, but rather a transparent white zero response. > ... > There should be some precedent, e.g: > > - Opera 9.x > - Firefox 3.1 > - ASV3 Unfortunately I don't have any of those installed, so if someone could help me test that would be great. I have attached a file that tests numerous cases using bias (and transparency), if someone could try it on his/her favourite renderer that would be great.

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Tango Icons Ready
by Krzysztof Kosiński 11 May '09

11 May '09

I have completed converting the Tango icon set made by Jesusda to discrete icons. The only missing icons are in the geometry tool (which doesn't seem to work anyway), but I'll add them shortly. Should I make it the default for Linux? This would be accomplished by installing the contents of a subdirectory named "tango" to $PREFIX/share/inkscape/icons/hicolor. Windows users would still see the "hicolor" directory, but could rename the tango directory to hicolor and see the Tango icons. Linux users could use the old icons by putting them in ~/.icons/OldInkscape and modifying the index.theme file to inherit from their theme of choice (Human, gnome, etc.). I'm preparing a README with detailed instructions. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tango-Icons-Ready-tp23234723p23234723.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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message overwrites rotation value
by Jeremy C. Reed 09 May '09

09 May '09

I had a box that appear to be skewed. So I tried to grab and I saw numbers flashing on bottom window bar, but it kept getting overwritten with "Rectangle in layer Layer 1. Click selection to toggle scale/rotation handles." Maybe that message should go somewhere else? Or the rotation percentage should be displayed somewhere else? What is my workaround for now? Where can I see the number or where can I manually type it in? I am on inkscape-21256 (from yesterday's snapshot).

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Deactivate knotholder?
by bulia byak 06 May '09

06 May '09

What is the purpose of this checkbox in LPE parameters? Does it work at all? I tried it with Knot, but checking it does not remove the knot on the intersection. I propose to remove it because it does not seem to serve a useful function, and because it uses the absolutely technical term "knotholder" which users have no idea about. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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0.47 App Icon Proposal
by Jakub Steiner 04 May '09

04 May '09

I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2]. The icon feels close to being native on all the major platforms. The added high detail icon will make the Mac OS X builds feel less alien on that platform too. cheers [1] http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/inkscape-app-icon-proposal.zip [2] http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_v… -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...400...> http://jimmac.musichall.cz

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DeviantART & Wacom Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, One of the last major contests held on DA was won by an Inkscape user. There is something to be said for both people's creativity and their tools of choice. :) So, if you'd like a chance to win a brand new Wacom Intuos4, money, some proprietary software that you can throw in the waste bin ;), and all that fun stuff, check out: http://news.deviantart.com/article/76573/ And yes... my recommendation is to use Inkscape. Cheers, Josh

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save as convert text to path loses content
by Jeremy C. Reed 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Using inkscape 21256 from yesterday's snapshot. Doing a save as to save as PDF and selecting convert text to path makes me lose my content. Only part is rendered in the resulting PDF. I see this in multiple SVG projects. If I don't check that, the resulting file appears to be a bitmap. Now I realize that in that case the fonts where I added an outline using object Stroke are the ones that don't look good. The others look fine and pdffonts show me those are embedded. (That success is only without using convert text to path.) I found: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/295138 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/284680 Inkscape has warnings: (inkscape:19722): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to find default local directory monitor type (inkscape:19722): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_grab_default: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_CAN_DEFAULT (widget)' failed ** (inkscape:19722): WARNING **: Ignoring font without family that will crash Pango Maybe they are related. It would be nice if above WARNING would say what font has the "without family" problem. Any ideas for this? As a workaround I may reopen in old 0.46 and save as PDF there. (I am using later development code due to can't change fill color in 0.46 version.)

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