gdl summer of code
by Johannes Schmid
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.
12 years, 1 month
Affine Transformations in Python
by G33K
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
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12 years, 1 month
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Changes in rendering of lpe tests
by Jasper van de Gronde
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?
>
>
12 years, 1 month
GsoC '09 Proposal
by William Klingelsmith
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.
12 years, 1 month
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Ubuntu nightly builds
by Guillermo Espertino
> 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.
12 years, 1 month
Lib2geom in our wiki
by unknown＠example.com
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!
12 years, 1 month
Ubuntu nightly builds
by Ted Gould
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
12 years, 1 month
Feedback for my project idea
by Palak Dalal
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
12 years, 1 month
