April 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Wiki main page & delete access
by Krzysztof Kosiński 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

I already mentioned this here but I didn't receive an answer. Can I receive the credentials necessary to delete pages and edit the main page on the wiki? For example, the main page has a lot of links in WikiWords, which are pointless in MediaWiki, and it has links to pages that are outdated and no longer useful, even confusing. I'd like to fix that. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wiki-main-page---delete-access-tp22859628p22859628.ht… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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gdl summer of code
by Johannes Schmid 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi! Someone on #gnome-hackers pointed me that you will probably have a student working on gdl to split it out again as a library. While I really appreciate that work I would be even more happy if you could contribute this work upstream. Also gdl spent a rather unmaintained time development seems to speed up again now, mostly based on the work of Joel Halsworth from the Lumiera fame (www.lumiera.org). Patches and documentation improvements landed in trunk in the past weeks. I would like to avoid duplicated work here. Of course the ultimate long-time goal remains to push gdl to gtk+ but before it would be great if all project using it would use the version that ships with GNOME and constribute to this. This will save work for all of us and lead to a better result. Thanks a lot, Johannes (the quasi gdl maintainer) P.S: I am not subscribed to that list so please CC me.

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Affine Transformations in Python
by G33K 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, I' d like to ask if there is perhaps some sort of affine transformation library available to the Inkscape Python scripts? So far, I only found the file simpletransform.py, which is quite useful, but not very comprehensive. The transformation stuff already has excessive support in the Inkscape C++ code. Are there any Python bindings for that? Right now, I am primarily interested in getting pretty constructor functions for defining rotations and scaling, without having all the mathy matrix clutter in my code. If none are available, I could add those to simpletransform.py myself. Cheers, Gerrit -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Changes in rendering of lpe tests
by Jasper van de Gronde 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Interestingly, rendering of lpe-knot has changed again. And to be honest the current behaviour looks more logical to me. So could someone (jfb?) have a look again? jf barraud wrote: > IIRC, the lpe-knot reference is correct. > > Cheers, jfb. > > > > 2009/4/1 Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528... > <mailto:th.v.d.gronde@...528...>> > > jf barraud wrote: > > Argh! right. > lpe-knot for groups does not work :-( > > One bug is not directly in lpe-knot, but in the initialisation > of the array parameter in the case of groups (which is wrong in > some cases). > > > So, who is right? The existing reference or the new output? Or neither? > >

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GsoC '09 Proposal
by William Klingelsmith 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello everyone, Upon reading Alexandre's post about submitting proposals ASAP, I fired off my idea. I would like to use this post to not only introduce myself, but to also share my proposal here. ~proposal~ My proposal for Inkscape and GsoC 09 deals exclusively with altering the existing typographic system in Inkscape. The three primary areas I wish to work on are kerning, tracking, and typeface organization. Kerning, the altering of spacing between a pair of letters to enhance aesthetic appeal, is implemented in Inkscape currently, but the existing system provides several hurdles to the designer. The first hurdle is the speed in which a designer can apply or remove kerning. The current approach using the arrow/alt combination is interesting, but inefficient if the designer needs to apply or remove massive amounts of kerning quickly. The second hurdle is that there is no visual record of how much kerning is applied to a specific area. This can be frustrating if the designer wants to keep track of the changes he/she has introduced. My solution to this first area is the implementation of a dropdown box in the toolbar that appears when the text tool is selected. This tool would remain unusable until the user placed their cursor in between two letters in a text area. When this condition was met however, the box would show the amount of kerning applied at the location of the cursor. Upon clicking the arrow on the dropdown box, a small menu would appear that listed several discrete steps of kerning which could be applied (-25, -10, 0, 10, 25, etc). The addition of this box alone would alleviate most of the problems stated above. The second issue that requires attention is the lack of a tracking system. Tracking is similar to kerning in that it adjusts the space in text. Unlike kerning however, tracking works with multiple words/sentences. Ellen Lupton gives a great example of what tracking is here http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/text/tracking.htm. Since tracking is pretty similar to kerning, it could be implemented in a similar way with a similar dropdown box. The box for tracking would become enabled when a designer selected a group of words or the entire text box. The final issue deals with the organization of typefaces in Inkscape. More often than not, a designer has several hundred typefaces installed on their computers. Inkscape's current type selection box indepedently lists all variations of a specific typeface. An example of this would be the presence of Helvetica, Helvetica Semi Bold, Helvetica Black, etc. This current arrangement makes an incredibly long list that the designer needs to troll through in order to find the face they want to use. This could be alleviated by collapsing all of the different weights of a typeface into one designation (in the example I just gave, it would collapse to Helvetica). A small box could be placed next the typeface selection box which contained all of the different variants. This would make it incredibly easy to pick and choose what typeface variant one was searching for. I hope you find this as interesting as I do.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Ubuntu nightly builds
by Guillermo Espertino 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

> Can someone put a link to these nightly Ubuntu builds on our download > page at inkscape.org? I end up searching my mail archive everytime I > want to comment on a bug-report posted by Ubuntu users. Unfortunately the last nightly build in that PPA has a nasty bug in the blur code that makes it almost unusable (it is already fixed in SVN). iirc, the build process had some bug but it will be fixed soon. In that case, a link in the download section would be great. Gez.

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Lib2geom in our wiki
by unknown＠example.com 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi all, At the moment, lib2geom is pretty hidden on our wiki. It is under the heading "Developer Documentation >> Development Discussion". We (lib2geom folks) would like to have it more visible, more easy to find. Perhaps we can make a new header for lib2geom with the links from http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Lib2geom under it? Thanks a bunch, Johan and the lib2geom team!

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Ubuntu nightly builds
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hello all, So I've gotten most of the way on getting a nightly build setup in a Launchpad PPA. It builds for the current, the previous and the next release of Ubuntu. What I'm particularly happy about is the package is "inkscape-devel" so it can be parallel installed with a stable version of Inkscape. Here's the PPA: http://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+archive I'm going to run the script by hand for a couple of days to catch errors but then Cory has graciously allowed me to run it on his server after that so it should become more regular. --Ted

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Feedback for my project idea
by Palak Dalal 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I am thinking about doing a project on reading digits on licence plate of cars from a picture of the car. I have done considerable research on this project which involves both image processing and optical character recognition. Please let me know if you are interested in this project or any other requirements i need to fulfill. Thank You

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[GSOC Propose] Automatic pattern making script
by tera api 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi all, Title: Automatic pattern making script Student: hiroki utsunomiya Abstract: 100% GPL & Python extenstion. Select 3 colors & 1 Click. SVG output. HOMT pattern?: Example site using HOMT pattern (http://www.novemberkou.com/RMGJ/ not my site). I aim at this. (+SVG output) exe application (Incompleteness) & SVG output samples: http://teraapi.com/homt/ Sorry for my bad English. cheers, --- Hiroki Utsunomiya teraapi@...400...

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