April 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Some ideas for Inkscape and William Klingelsmith especially
by Anton Litvinov 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello I would like that some underused possibilities of svg:text to be exposed/implemented in textobject tool (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html) 1) charwidth, to make user able to change the width of gliphs 2) letterspacing and wordspacing 3) higher and lower indexes by means of offsets 4) text-decoration: uderline, line-through 5) text-aligh by textwidth and 6) facilitate users with TeX-formulas input (Abiword guys already have this) What do you think about it? May be my conception of vector drawing tool is too perverse/freaky. PS *whisper* does this desevre to become a GSoC proposal? -- Best regards, Anton Litvinov Yugra State University

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GSoC Idea: Inkscape API Improvement
by Glimmer Labs 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

My name is Soren Berg and I wanted to propose a possible Google Summer of Code project and see what you guys think. I would like to use GSoC '09 to improve the scripting API of Inkscape. This is an area that has seen some major changes over the last few years in terms of extension support and verb passing but I still believe there is room for improvement. The extensions are very useful for making filters but don't (correct me if I'm wrong) really expose any of Inkscape's functionality. You need to use an entirely different set of tools to manipulate the XML data and pass it back. The verbs are very useful for batch processing and similar tasks, but the fact that none of them take any parameters or return results means that they are not ideal for scripting or otherwise interacting with Inkscape in a more in-depth fashion. I wrote a scripting console that exposed many Inkscape functions for programatically creating images and it was accepted for inclusion but it became harder and harder to support, largely because of the lack of any sort of API. It did show some very interesting benefits to controlling Inkscape programatically (like script-fu for the GIMP) though. I know there is some work going on with a Java based API but it seems to be mostly stubs right now. I could start working on this early as well since I have a job that wants to integrate software with Inkscape. What do you guys think? Obviously I haven't fleshed out my plans very much, and that is because I want to get some general feedback on the concept first. Thank you for reading, Soren Berg

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ShapeOpera GSoC
by Stefan Zimmermann 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, I know it's a bit late but is it still possible to work on ShapeOpera for Google Summer of Code? - Stefan

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GSoC, KML-SVG
by Piotr Kopczyński 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello everybody, I have just subscribed because I'm interested in undertaking the SVG-KML conversion/translation task within GSoC contest. I am just writing the details of the proposal (I guess I have some hour and a bit left till deadline), then I'll post it here. I'm looking for directions, what to do and how to behave :) Best regards, Piotrekk

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped
by worms invasion 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, No, I believe the actions are correct and the icons are swapped. The actions should remain in the same order as in 0.46, and as they are in r21009, that is: - align horizontally on the left - align vertically in second position. It would be ***very odd*** to change this order in 0.47. Please, can you check that? Regards. --- On Thu, 4/2/09, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: > From: Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:26 PM > > > worms invasion wrote: > > > > This has been going on for a while I think in current > SVN and is still > > present in r21009 (win32snapshot)... The "align nodes > horizontally" > > function is assigned the "align vertically" icon, and > vice-versa for the > > "align nodes vertically" function. > > > I had some trouble figuring out which is which, but it > turns out the names > and icons are arranged properly, it's the actions that > should be swapped. > Fixed in 21038. > > Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Icons-for-%22align-nodes-horizontally%22-and-%22align… > Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Failed to execute helper program in Windows Builds
by Render 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Currently in the development builds editing an bitmap externally by right-clicking the image causes inkscape to return the following message: Failed to execute helper program: (Invalid Argument) Would it be possible to select gimp.exe itself rather than just gimp? Just calling gimp seems to be something associated with Linux. Scribus exhibits this same behavior, but you can navigate to the helper program itself and then everything works fine.

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Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly
by Boutros Saba 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hi there, I tried to post on the same subject in the past, but it I didn't get any working suggestion/consideration back. I'm running version 0.46 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. When I write Arabic into the text tool I get a disconnected Arabic letters. It happens also if I copy a connected Arabic letters from outside Inkscape: when I copy the connected text it gets disconnected. I had a version that worked perfectly. I don't remember which one was it. But when I try to examine the past versions one by one, no one seems to work. It seems that there is something in the system that changed that is affecting the Arabic in Inkscape. I tried rolling back to a previous version of X Server and didn't work too. Any clues??? I rely on Inkscape very much. Thanks in advance guys! Best, Boutros

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC Idea: Inkscape API Improvement
by Josh Andler 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Krzysztof, Please know that anything Jon or Ted discuss is not as short sighted as you seem to think. I won't say that all ideas they have are perfect, but at the very least, they've probably put more thought into it than you're giving them credit for (and no offense, probably more time and thought than you have). I have to put forth that it seems like you are a little too quick with dismissing the input of others. Given that you have applied for SoC, I have to ask... will you be able to really take advice from a mentor as seriously as you should? On Apr 1, 2009 5:58 PM, "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: Ted Gould wrote: > > I think that makes sense. One thing that I think would be interesting > for... We would have to roll back most of the C++ conversion in order to do that, and go back to plain GObject. I don't think that's possible. I think the best solution would be to use SWIG (an automated binding generator). Jon suggested using XForms over DBus, but I think that's just too complicated to be feasible. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GSoC-Idea%3A-Inkscape-API-Improvement-tp22760803p2283… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________...

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Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped
by worms invasion 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, This has been going on for a while I think in current SVN and is still present in r21009 (win32snapshot)... The "align nodes horizontally" function is assigned the "align vertically" icon, and vice-versa for the "align nodes vertically" function.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] State of the Icons
by Guillermo Espertino 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

> > Would it be possible to commit the finished versions of both Tango (art > > libre) and Tango Colors icons in SVN? > See above, discrete icons are needed. I will make them the default for Linux > once I get them. Thanks for your answer. Let me get this straight. There will be two sets and the tango will be used in linux? The ability of changing the theme using a custom file won't come back? What happens to people who wants default icons in Linux, or people who wants Tango in Windows, for example? Gez.

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