June 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Slow performance on 4.5 MB file [SOLVED]
by Jasper van de Gronde 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

And please be sure to file a bug/feature request at http://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ In the end there will obviously always be cases where Inkscape is too slow, but Inkscape could most definitely be faster in some cases. And just locking/unlocking the layer should (from an intuitive standpoint) NOT cause such a big pause. Dave M G wrote: > Donn, > > Thank you for responding. > >> I have long moaned that "Nodes mean slow" :( I have a fast machine and 2gigs >> of RAM. It makes no difference. I think it's all the looping through those long >> lists of nodes.... >> >> You are doomed. Unless you can simplify or chop-up your comic page into frames >> and assemble them later in Gimp. > > Okay. While it's a little disappointing that there isn't a way to > optimize the file for better performance, it's good to know that at > least I'm not doing something wrong. > > I'll export the paths into a PNG and handle the colouring in Photoshop > or GIMP. It means committing to rasterizing the images sooner in my > process than I had hoped, but hey, life is full of compromises. >

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German pdf user manual
by Ratajski Stefan 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hello, I write a German pdf user manual via inkscape 0.46. In this book are screenshots of Inkscape. I would like to publish the book. I'd like to have your permission. *Do I need a permit? *Please, who is my contact? Who can help me here? Please inform me, thank you. Best Regards Stefan Ratajski ratajski@...173...

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Strange fill/stroke settings in freehand tools after fresh install
by Maximilian Albert 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

Hi, after freshly installing Inkscape (rev. 21524), the Pen/Pencil tools produce lines which are filled black but don't have any stroke. This is very counterintuitive. The small info field in the toolbar (on the right hand side) displays "Fill: None, Stroke: Black (000000/1)" (these are indeed the values specified in preferences-skeleton.h for the freehand tools). However, both in the Fill & Stroke dialog and in the Preferences it says: "Fill: Unset, Stroke: Unset", and this probably explains the strange appearance of the drawn lines. What's happening here? Why are the values in preferences-skeleton.h not correctly taken into account? I think this should definitely be fixed before 0.47. Max

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LinuxFund fund raising
by Milosz Derezynski 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hello everyone, Michael from LinuxFund asked me to announce on the list that another $500 have been raised by a donor for my work on the text bugs and new text toolbar. I will be meeting Michael at LinuxTag Berlin end of this week. Regards, M. -- Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months. [Bitte beachten Sie, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.]

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Re : Re : Re : turbulence filters
by Ivan Louette 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Now to be more precise again : admitting I work with the future corrected version of Inkscape, I select an object or a picture in my document, I click on a filter in one of the lists in a Filters submenu while the filters.svg file in Inkscape directory is the same than today. Will Inkscape new version add to the filter the instructions needed to display the filter like it displays in Inkscape today ? Sorry, I am a visual person and not a coder (if I could I would... but at the moment no time to go further in this direction I am afraid) and I try to understand the most clearly I can because I must evaluate which kind and amount of work will be needed to adapt the results of my work if necessary. Thanks for your patience and regards, ivan ________________________________ De : Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> À : Ivan Louette <ivan_louette@...48...> Envoyé le : Vendredi, 26 Juin 2009, 13h49mn 18s Objet : Re: Re : [Inkscape-devel] Re : turbulence filters Most definitely! Any existing work using filters will be rendered differently using other viewers or newer versions of Inkscape. How visible the difference is depends on the type of filter. And since the transfer function is highly non-linear there is really no other fix than adding the color-interpolation-filters="sRGB" property to the affected filters (which will make them look the same in other viewers as in Inkscape). Ivan Louette wrote: > Thanks. In fact my question is simple : will the coding changes to reach compatibility with other viewers and renderers affect the aspect of the already created works using filters, gradients and other features which causes problem ? Of course if doing some changes in filters numerical entries could help I would search actively how to do this, but if the problem stays deeper in Inkscape code I can't do anything.

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rotating guides
by Alexandre Prokoudine 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hi, I know that it might sound unbelievably silly, but no matter how hard I try I can't get guides to rotate on canvas. The release notes doesn't really explain how to do it. I tried all combinations of Ctrl, Alt and Shift above rotation circle mark. So, any clue? Alexandre

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Inkscape regression files?
by JimmyVolatile 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hi, all. Is there any kind of Inkscape regression files that we can use for testing new releases? I'm thinking about a collection of files that systematically incorporates certain kinds of path effects, patterns, color management testing and so on to make eyballing bugs easier. *If there is none, here's my suggestion*: For example, one file would be for testing the new "Path Effect Editor" and could have 10 sample paths which each is using one of the available effects. Beside each path, there's an bitmap to show what the path is supposed to look like which makes it very easy to compare the desired path effect to the actual effect. At the same time, these files would be kinda educational, since the instructions for producing each effect could be written on the canvas right next to the paths. *Here'**s the same type of files for Blender:* http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/ "Regression files are .blend examples showing systematically all features we test before doing a release. This is a good reference for bug hunting, but also a valuable demo overview for new users. Blender 2.49 regression suite (50+ demo files):" With regs, Jimmy Volatile

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OSS Usability Evaluation
by Arif Raza 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

Hi there Please find below a link to a survey related to my PhD research work to evaluate OSS usability improvement from OSS developer's point of view. It shall not not take more than 5 minutes of your precious time. Your identity is neither required nor recorded. The participation is highly valued and appreciated. http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=ILJEM_ba6da4db Thank you and Best Regards Arif Raza

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turbulence filters
by jf barraud 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hi, Isn't our turbulence filter producing darker output than expected? The attached svg file is borrowed from the w3c test suite, and also contains the expected png output: our render looks draker. I bumped into this trying to use turbulence as a displacement map: the displacement always globaly shifts the image downward and to the right. This is because the avarage value in each turbulence output channel is not 128 but much darker. I think this is a bug... (maybe premuliplied alpha versus normal alpha color mode?) Am I wrong? jfb.

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