August 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

[SPAM] Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels Announced
by Jon Phillips 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

GLOBAL - August 22, 2009 - Cutting edge graphics software meets free culture at Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels Users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source graphics software will meet in Brussels, Belgium on May 26-29, 2010 at the fifth annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM). Held in a historical piano factory, newly renovated into a lively exhibition and work space near Brussels' city center, LGM 2010 offers software developers, artists, designers and other graphics professionals the chance to collaborate and learn from each other. LGM emphasizes the sharing of collective creativity, innovation and ideas and is free for everyone to attend. The LGM community is excited for the opportunity to bring this event to the European capital. About the Libre Graphics Meeting The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting is the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats. Face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to users and developers alike; in the form of tutorials, talks, workshops, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) the event offers many formal and informal opportunities to interact. Highlights from LGM 2009 The last Libre Graphics Meeting took place in Montreal, Canada. It involved 150+ participants from around the world working together for four days to give presentations, demos, and meet informally. Through support from the Ãcole Polytechnique MontrÃ©al, the LGM user community (raising money on pledgie.com), Sourceforge, River Valley Technologies, Intel Communities, Open Candy, QT, sK1, GIMP, Python Software Foundation, Gnome foundation and Group Eyrolles, the conference funded travel for many international developers whom otherwise would not be able to work face to face. Highlights included contributions by companies building on Open Source such as AscenderCorp and Open Source Publishing, and presentations of Jeff Fortinâs PiTiVi Video Editor, FontMatrix, Phatch and Michael Terryâs work on In-Gimp user-experience analysis and kinetic templates. All major projects in attendance, Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape, and Open Font Library, spent time planning activities for the next year. New projects like the panorama stitcher NONA, Lighttwist, a system for running multi-projector immersive video displays, and Markus Weiland's FacetZoom widget, set the stage for new exciting software developments leading into LGM 2010 in Brussels. A Preview of LGM 2010 For Libre Graphics Meeting 2010, the conference promoters challenge all participating projects and people to set goals and plan creative projects. First, each major project is requested to have set three solid priorities before the conference to work towards. Second, one or more collaborative projects is to be developed, beyond just the tools used, such as a book or animation. And third, the conference hopes to involve an increasing number of artists and academics to show novel uses libre graphics software, and to discuss, analyse and provide inspiration. In the coming months, Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 organizers will release more information about the upcoming conference, raising funds to enable the event, and release the official call for participation for 2010. Immediately, the conference organizers invite all interested in participating to watch the http://libregraphicsmeeting.org website and join the Create Project (http://create.freedesktop.org) mailing list and get involved. LGM 2010 is hosted by the Libre Graphics Community and Constant in collaboration with De Pianofabriek, Master Networked Media and Research programme Communication in a Digital Age (Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam) and the Bruxelles Linux User Group (BXLUG). For more information, visit http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org Press Contact * Sponsoring Organization: Create Project and Libre Graphics Meeting * Contact: Jon Phillips * Contact email: jon@...235... * Phone (USA): +1.415.830.3884 * Website: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/ * Press Release in other languages: http://ur1.ca/a33b * Press Photos: http://ur1.ca/a34y ###

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PNG Export directory
by Tavmjong Bah 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Hi, Prior to recent changes if one exported a PNG without specifying a path it would be saved in the same directory as the SVG. Now it gets saved in the home directory (in Linux). I don't think that this is desired. I would almost never want the PNG to end up in my home directory. This is causing a significant interruption in my work flow as I have hundreds of SVG's that have the PNG export name set without a path (inkscape:export-filename). Can we have the original behavior back (without breaking, of course, the new support of relative paths)? Thanks, Tav

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Important information about 0.47
by Joshua A. Andler 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Hey All, As you are aware, I am the release warden for 0.47. Unfortunately, I have some major things going on in my personal life that will prevent me from contributing much, if at all, over the next couple of weeks. Given these circumstances, please CC both Jon Cruz and bulia byak with any patches/concerns you are sending my way so we can ensure they will be reviewed and handled in a timely fashion. When things have settled a bit, I will return and resume my duties as normal. I am sorry for any inconvenience this may cause anyone. Thanks for your understanding. Cheers, Josh

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Current 7z version of inkscape for windows
by Render 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

I notice on the website http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D the current windows version is 22040 but it is an exe file but creates temp files that I cannot use to overwrite my current development version. Is there one around that is in zip formant so that I could extract the contents into my current inkscape development version?

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translation warden?
by Alexandre Prokoudine 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Hi, So who is translation warden for 0.47? Alexandre

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proposed patch for Spiro spline LPE
by Alvin Penner 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

this is a follow-up to LP Bug 415079. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/415079 I'd like to propose a patch to deal with occasional (multiple) circular loops in the Spiro Spline LPE. The patch consists of a re-application of a common clamp which is normally applied to the angles, but which appears to need to be re-applied at the final stage of the calculation. I've tested this offline in a standalone calculation to confirm that it works. I wonder if someone would be willing to test this directly in Inkscape. http://www.nabble.com/file/p25015469/spiro.diff spiro.diff -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/proposed-patch-for-Spiro-spline-LPE-tp25015469p250154… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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matrix isScale and isRotation do not work
by bulia byak 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

This seems to be a cosmetic bug but it's not: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/415168 because the undo comment depends on 2geom matrix functions: if (_current_relative_affine.isTranslation()) { sp_document_done(sp_desktop_document(_desktop), SP_VERB_CONTEXT_SELECT, _("Move")); } else if (_current_relative_affine.isScale()) { sp_document_done(sp_desktop_document(_desktop), SP_VERB_CONTEXT_SELECT, _("Scale")); } else if (_current_relative_affine.isRotation()) { sp_document_done(sp_desktop_document(_desktop), SP_VERB_CONTEXT_SELECT, _("Rotate")); } else { sp_document_done(sp_desktop_document(_desktop), SP_VERB_CONTEXT_SELECT, _("Skew")); } and these are quite fundamental to Inkscape operation - if they are broken I'm afraid to think what else might be broken. Can someone with a good grasp of 2geom or just geometry please look into this? I think this must be fixed before the release. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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The case of the empty status bar/notification region...
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hi, I just noticed that the status bar, aka notification region is often empty. I click on the Rectangle tool and see the text "Drag to create a r". I then move the cursor over the text, expecting to see a tool tip with the full text of how to use the Rectangle tool but all the text disappears. After doing this a few times I realized that passing over the swatches causes the status bar to show the name of a swatch (new feature in 0.47); when the cursor leaves the swatch area, the Rectangle text doesn't reappear. This makes it impossible to read the full text in the status bar for any tool (except the Tweak tool, where the text is restored) unless one make an end-around the swatches (difficult in full-screen mode). Can this be easily fixed? Tav

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Re : Re : Extracting a saturation map with SVG filters ?
by Jasper van de Gronde 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Ivan Louette wrote: > What do you think about placing your filters into Inkscape Samples files > with some comment ? I think they should be shared ! Myself I learned a > lot from Niko Kiirala's files which sit in Inkscape Samples directory. Excellent idea. I'm not very familiar with the guidelines for doing so though (I usually just work on the code). Anything I should be aware of? I assume the file should go into share/examples? > Otherwise I could also include them with your comment inside my > experiments repository file on OpenClipart (when I will be able to > upload it again because OpenClipart has some problems at the moment), or > perhaps in a separate dedicated file, or perhaps could you open a page > yourself for this kind of things ? I was thinking of creating a wiki page or something on the general techniques, as I think they can be of broader interest. I'll have a look this weekend if I can write up something.

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Nodetool problem?
by Thomas Holder 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hi, with svn rev 22105 (and 22073) I get unexpected node selecting behavior. So far I can reproduce: * draw first path * draw second path * switch to node tool * click on first path * click on some node Result: two nodes instead of one get selected and the mouse cursor does not switch to normal arrow when hovering to toolbar. Inkscape also froze (100% CPU for some minutes until I killed it) twice after such incident. rev 22044 is fine, so the fix for bug 168780 might have broke this. Thomas

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