September 2009 - Inkscape Devel

Contact to the author of 0.47 about.svg
by Alexander Senger 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Hi there, I did some of the german translations for the upcoming release. There is a little issue, though. I would like to translate the about screen, which was drawn by "sko", but I have no idea what font is used there and how to apply the fancy shadow effect beneath "Draw freely". So, could anyone forward my email to the artist who created this very nice graphic? Or could you point me to where I might find his email adress? That would be great! Thanks in advance Alex P.S.: Sorry if this is the wrong mailing list, but I had the feeling that the developers are most likely to know the answer to my question.

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[basic@...2167...: Re: [Hosting] OSUOSL Xen iSCSI outage, 2009-09-25 0630-0900 UTC]
by Bryce Harrington 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

----- Forwarded message from Rudy Grigar <basic@...2167...> ----- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:06:13 -0700 From: Rudy Grigar <basic@...2167...> To: hosting@...2167... Subject: Re: [Hosting] OSUOSL Xen iSCSI outage, 2009-09-25 0630-0900 UTC On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 01:10 -0700, Rudy Grigar wrote: > Xen hosted clients: > > We are currently experiencing an outage due to a bug with ietd on one > of our iSCSI disk backends. We have shutdown all VMs that were using > the disk backend, and will be restoring them shortly. > > The affected VMs are: > eese > aqsis > darcs > puffin > signal > dotkde > drupal-scratchvm > jaws > kdeget > twist > dspace > openmrs > parrotvm > yum > bigleaf > bonsai > driverdev > geoip > infratest1 > mertan > vapor > gatewayvm > gocc > infratest2 > mozdev-stats > osgeo > osi > sugarlabs > webdav > amahi > flossmanuals > linuxlookup > openclipfont > openvoting > polk > scratchmrs > arklinuxvm > busybox > drupal-stagingvm > pcc > myrtle > > > We are working to get services restored as soon as possible, and will > be sending a follow up once services have been restored. > > > Sincerely, We have restored all of the affected VMs. We also hit a snag on one of our Xen nodes that required us to reboot it, and the following VMs were also affected: inkscape mandrivausers2 musicbrainzvm tillikum We are very sorry for the outage and any frustrations it has caused you. -- Rudy Grigar OSUOSL _______________________________________________ Hosting mailing list Hosting@...2167... http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/hosting ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fill calligraphy outlined shapes automatically
by G33K 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Hi everyone, I'd like to use the calligraphy tool to draw outlines for a shape, and want to fill the initially transparent interior of that outline with a different color. The only solution I've found so far is to apply the "break apart" command, then select the inner shape and change its color manually. That's a lot of steps, which stops the flow of drawing. I've already found this extension which tries to solve the problem: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CalligraphedOutlineFill To lessen the number of manual steps, I'd like to automatically apply some similar logic after each calligraphy stroke, so that a calligraphy outline's inner shape can be filled immediately if it's drawn in one stroke. I think the following steps might suffice: * After a calligraphy brush stroke, apply "break apart" to the resulting object. * If the result is only one shape, then the calligraphy path isn't closed. * If there are several shapes, the one with the largest bounding box is the outline, all others are enclosed inner shapes and are filled in a different color. You could even maintain a history of successive calligraphy strokes, or search the object stack, until the "break apart" command produces more than one shape. My questions: * Is it somehow possible to automatically execute an extension like that after each calligraphy stroke? * Or is there a way to code this into Inkscape itself? * If yes, what would be the API calls for "break apart", and where would I have to insert that code to get it executed after a completed clligraphy stroke? * Is there maybe a similar extension or drawing tool feature that I could use as a model? (I posted this to the user list when I realized that it is probably more of a development question. Sorry for the double post.) Best regards, Gerrit -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail

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Hyphenation in Inkscape
by Santhosh Thottingal 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hello, This is regarding a wishlist bug reported here; https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171140 I am writing an extension for hyphenating the text when it is justified. I have the first version ready to use for both English and Malayalam(ml_IN) and tested in Inkscape 0.46 in Debian Sid. It is available for testing here: http://thottingal.in/projects/inkscape/inkscape-hyphenation.zip It is on top of the python hyphenation code written by Wilbert Berendsen. The hyphenation rules, also called as patterns is TeX or Openoffice itself. There are a few more changes need to be done: a) Making the extension language independent: Loading all the patterns from a directory while initializing? Or is it okey to ask user to select the language? As of now I am doing a unicode range checking to differentiate between Malayalam and English. but it will be buggy for other languages. b) On GNU/Linux platforms can we point to the default hyphenation patterns directory of openoffice? Feedbacks are welcome. Thanks Santhosh Thottingal htt://thottingal.in

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Fwd: [pdf-devel] CMap files freed
by the Adib 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

hope that can be for good use. Adib. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <jemarch@...570...> Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:31 AM Subject: [pdf-devel] CMap files freed To: pdf-devel@...570... Very good news :) To: bug-ghostscript@...570... Subject: CMap files freed From: karl@...2251... (Karl Berry) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:03:29 -0500 Didier and all, I believe GNU Ghostscript can finally include the CMap files now. I looked at the license and I believe it is fine; standard stuff. I haven't looked at the actual content to see if there are any differences from what Aladdin Ghostscript, et al., have been distributing. Best, karl Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:24:37 -0700 From: Ken Lunde <lunde@...720...> I would like to let you know that we just launched the "CMap Resources" open source project at Adobe, which puts all of our CMap resources under a more favorable open source license. Note that I excluded the Adobe-Japan2-0 CMap resources, because they have been in deprecated status ever since Adobe-Japan1-6 was released to completely cover JIS X 0212-1990. Anyway, you can get the details here: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cmap/ When you have a chance, please notify the appropriate people in the open source community about this. I know that some of them have been asking us to provide our CMap resources under a more favorable license, and for them, that day has come. With best regards... -- Ken

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website security fail
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hi, Our inkscape.org/.svn/ is exposed to everyone. Could somebody with write access add <Directory ~ ".*\.svn"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </Directory> to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf please? Alexandre

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Since release is nearing, let's talk 0.48 and beyond...
by Joshua A. Andler 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hey All, Kinda lengthy, but, please read and respond if you intend to be involved in the upcoming releases. In numerous off-list discussions with a handful of devs and contributors it seems like there is a favored route for the upcoming releases. Essentially, make 0.47 "good enough" (avoid point releases if possible). Have a short dev cycle for 0.48 which needs to be pretty solid (even if made so over time by point releases... I will commit to continuing a couple of those). Then we go for another long-ish refactoring cycle for 0.49. For 0.48 the thought is to... move to a DVCS before any code changes are made in trunk. This needs to be discussed and resolved ASAP, svn is not good enough for our needs any longer, period. Then, we drop in this year's SoC work, the spray tool, any big things that are far enough along in people's working copies, polish up everything and fix all new issues discovered from 0.47... if we're lucky, further text tool work could make it in too. Additionally, if we could get cairo work in a branch (under said DVCS) during this cycle, it would be excellent to possibly get something to drop in for the 0.49 dev cycle... this is part of why the stability and functionality of this release is critical (trunk may need to have issues for a bit after 0.48 drops). For 0.49 the thought is to attempt to ditch our copy of gdl in favor of submitting the necessary bits upstream and using it as a proper library. It has been said before, it would be really excellent if we could have 2geom be broken out and used as a proper library. I understand the general "it's an experiment" and "we can't promise a stable api" issues, but, the cord needs to be cut at sometime and I think this is fair notice. Also, this is how gimp is being developed with babl and gegl... so it is doable and a non-issue (I use unstable gimp too, so I know from experience of having to update them both when I want to update gimp). Any objections or concerns that people feel the need to voice? Anything that other people would like to see during these releases? Cheers, Josh

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Info for promoting Inkscape
by Jon A. Cruz 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi, In preparing for SVG Open, I'm trying to come up with a new single- page flyer that can be printed out and given away at conferences and such to help people get an idea what Inkscape is and what it can do to help them. One key part of this is to point out some general usages to which Inkscape can be put. If we can present in one spot how different uses are all served, we might be able to gain interest of people who otherwise would have overlooked the product. For example, some software engineer looking to do some quick UML sketches might only see some Inkscape artwork and think "Oh, I don't need to draw pictures, better go find something else." We then miss out on another potential user. And when we loose a potential user we also lose another potential *contributor*. To help hash this out I have started a wiki page for jotting things down: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Marketing_Scratchpad Please take a look and see if you might be able to add a bit. Edit some info, add a missing usage/segment, etc. The more information we can gather, the better we can refine and then use it. Oh, and for the flyer itself, we are initially targeting a simple design that can fit on a single page. It may be printed one-sided or perhaps double-sided. So the design will include a primary page and a supplemental page. The primary page will be done so that it is a stand- alone product. The supplemental page will be the optional second side for when the flyer is printed double-sided. We also want to design it so that it is effective when printed out in black and white and also when it is printed out in color.

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ui mockup
by Felipe Sanches 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

A brazillian user created this mockup. It might provide some insight to some of us... http://valessiobrito.info/projetos/inkscape/ink-ui/Inkscape-Clean.svg

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Fwd: [Bug 431022] Re: Export as Bitmap, no files listed
by the Adib 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

release warden, The patch to this issue targetted for 0.47 and affects win32 only. As no follower is able to confirm pls review and commit anyhow so it will be streamed into the nighties. Thx, Adib. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alvin Penner <penner@...1856...> Date: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM Subject: [Bug 431022] Re: Export as Bitmap, no files listed To: theAdib@...1439... sorry, I don't actually compile the code myself, I just work from the nightly Windows builds. -- Export as Bitmap, no files listed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431022 You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.

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