April 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Broken icon build
by Jon A. Cruz 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

It appears that the build has been broken this evening due to addition of icons and makefile changes. I am working on this, and should have things tracked down shortly. I do want to test it before committing, though. So it's being worked on. If anyone runs up against this, just drop in the chat room to check the status. Thanks.

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Conical gradient simulation using filters
by Jasper van de Gronde 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

I've been playing with simulating conical gradients a bit more and have updated the Wiki page with the latest results (including some SVGs and some PNGs showing how they are rendered by Inkscape and Batik): http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Gradients As can be seen Inkscape can now render all the required filters properly and in agreement with Batik.

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Please leave the icons alone
by Jon A. Cruz 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Krzysztof, Please STOP touching the icon code and icons. You have been ignoring the problems others are seeing, have ignored the information provided to you on them, and have been breaking existing functionality. It is clear that you don't understand the aspects that are tripping you up (since I don't believe you're being malicious about it), but you are causing serious regressions in behavior. I've also have had to spend a lot of time unbreaking things that I otherwise need to be able to finish some of the new work I had been adding. Also could you *PLEASE* complete the list of icon renamings that I've asked you for. We need this for compatibility, including needing to use it in some icon.cpp code that you removed yesterday. But the list of name changes is very important to document. In case you're just stuck, I've gotten a start added under src/widgets/mappings.xml Please get that updated with all the changes you've made. Thanks.

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GSoC 2009 Mentors
by Josh Andler 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

I have assigned the mentors for gsoc. If you had offered to mentor a student/proposal, chances are good that you have been assigned to them. If for any reason you feel you won't be able to mentor, please let me know asap. Thanks, Josh

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tweenk: re: align nodes
by Ed Halley 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Krzysztof, Please view the following pictures. This is after your commit. http://halley.cc/inkscape-align-nodes-1.png http://halley.cc/inkscape-align-nodes-1.png Also see the following conversation about this feature here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/338521 Can you please tell me why you re-reverted my fix, breaking these buttons yet again? The code and icons for these buttons were FINE in 0.46. The icons.svg images are pretty clear about what the functions should do, and there's no reason to swap their positions or meanings. The IDs in the icons.svg got swapped and the hicolor icons were named after the swapped IDs. Please revert your fix, and test it to make sure it (1) matches the 0.46 look and behavior, (2) has tooltips to match the function and appearance of icons, (3) fully works whether using the hicolor icons or the icons.svg, (4) follow up on launchpad when making behavior changes in code. -- [ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

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Docked dialogs
by Michael Grosberg 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

I'm pretty sure I suggested these before, and if I'm not mistaken I was told there were some implementation problems. But I think these are really important, so here I go again, perhaps someone can come up with a technical solution. I have some issues with the docked dialogs. The first issue is that the dock status doesn't stick across sessions. I always have to re-open them whenever I start a new instance, open an existing file, etc. And in my work process, I always need the fill&stroke and the layers docks open, so I have to re-open the two docks and then adjust the size of the layers dialog (because by default it opens at only two layers height, even if there's a lot of free space to open it in a larger size). Is there no possibility of somehow keeping their status in the inkscape config or the specific file properties? The second problem is the width of the docks. The fill&stroke is excessively large! I have a resolution of 1280X1024 and it still take a HUGE chunk of space. and all the widgets are so large you can barely fit two docked dialogs in the same screen. if you compare that to other applicaitons - Photoshop, BLender, Gimp - you'll see that usually widgets on graphic apps are smaller. This way an artist can keep many open dialogs and still have a large canvas to work on. Lastly, is it possible to add a "layers" button to the main toolbar, to open the layers dialog? We have an "align" button and an "xml editor" button, I'm sure the layers dialog is important enough to also have a button. Please forgive me if this is already being worked on for 0.47... thanks for your time and keep up the good work! Michael

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Tooltips in 0.47
by John & Melonie Curwood 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hi, I've been working on the FM Inkscape Manual which is now focussing on release 0.47 of Inkscape. and while using the development version of inkscape I've noticed that the tooltips for the various tool bars in inkscape no longer include the keyboard shortcuts. The shortcuts were included in the tooltips for the .46 release and I have found these extremely useful in learning the keyboard shortcuts. Also when markers like arrowheads are added to a stroke can the colour be changed? When I change the stroke colour of a path, the markers always remain 'black' when I want them to be the same colour as the stroke. I've managed to do a workaround to add colour to arrowheads, but the path looses it's flexability when I do this. If there is not currently a way that the stroke marker colours can be changed at present, I think this would be a good feature to add to inkscape. Cheers, John Curwood

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NEW: PDF import font name translation
by bulia byak 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

(thanks to patch 179589) A new checkbox on the PDF import dialog, "Replace PDF fonts with closest-named installed fonts" (on by default) attempts to replace all font names in the imported PDF with the most similar names of those fonts installed on your system. For example, if the PDF uses the font "TimesNewRomanPSMT" and you have "Times New Roman" installed, that font will be used, which will likely give you a more correct appearance than the unknown font "TimesNewRomanPSMT" that will be displayed as the default sans serif font. This is a temporary fix necessary because Inkscape cannot yet extract the fonts from the PDF files it imports nor can it embed them into SVG; when it gets these capabilities, such font name conversion will become unnecessary because all fonts will be preserved. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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An eraser tool for Inkscape
by Ivan Louette 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

I dreamed of it for a long time : a non destructive eraser tool ! Take a look at its possibilities in the attached file. Simply draw a white line on top of any shape or object (better with deep color for the first try). Then group the two objects and apply the filter ; the white line becomes completely transparent. If applied on a group which includes images or light colors, you can adjust the opacity with the second color matrix : for example enter 10 and -9 as the two last numbers in the last row below. Then if you select the white object with Ctrl+Click, you can modify it, move its nodes, or press Shift and draw new lines, or apply a distortion or any other filter... The possibilities are infinite. Of course not absolutely perfect but already very usable. It's not made to replace the Object/Mask feature but it can complete it. Enjoy ! ivan

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layers dialog
by Alexandre Prokoudine 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Since we are talking about dialogs :) Mental, a while back you added a tab to Layers dialog that says "Layers". It's the only tab there. Are you planning to add some functionality to the dialog for 0.47? If not, maybe it would be wise to revert this change? As it is now, the dialog doesn't look like the rest of the dialogs. Alexandre

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