January 2010 - Inkscape Devel

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] Filters Not Saved with PNG
by Jasper van de Gronde 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Chris Lilley wrote: > On Saturday, January 16, 2010, 10:32:16 PM, knowone wrote: > ... > k> How can I save the file as PNG with the drop shadow intact? > > Make sure you are exporting as PNG. Do not 'Save As' Cairo PNG. > > (I came across this a couple of days ago, and the symptom was that blur filters were not being applied. Also, the pixel dimensions of the two methods differ, if the graphic bleeds over the edge of the 'page'). Can someone tell me why we have a non-vector format in the save as list? One that seems redundant and apparently with less functionality than the normal export. Is this for testing purposes?

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Status of dbus awareness
by Kent Tenney 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Howdy, I just built the inkscape trunk from bzr and ran this script #!/usr/bin/python import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() inkdoc1 = bus.get_object('org.inkscape', '/org/inkscape/desktop_0') doc1 = dbus.Interface(inkdoc1, dbus_interface="org.inkscape.document") im = doc1.image(100 ,100, '/home/ktenney/Firefox_wallpaper.png') Which worked on a dbus branch a while back. Now it starts inkscape, but does not place the image - was the dbus code merged? - if so, how do I enable/use it? - if not, where is dbus capable code? Thanks, Kent

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gradient mesh
by sid datta 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi, Are we still waiting for the SVG standards before we can implement gradient meshes ? I have a ( pretty simple and obvious ) method of rendering gradient meshes that is simpler than blurring multiple beziergons and is quite fast ( 100 ms in Java rendering 500x500px approx ), I was wondering if we start putting a basic gradient mesh in inkscape and we can conform/export to the SVG format when it comes out. I believe we are trying to get a triangle gradient primitive approved from SVG. Do we have any plans of getting a quadrilateral primitive ? It will be more accurate for gradient mesh. This paper I found explains some quadrilateral rendering techniques : http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/publications/papers/quadrendering.pdf Thanks -Sid

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windows devel builds
by Mourad Mokrane 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello, just wanted to ask if new development version will be available for testing on http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D . It seems that no new devel builds have appeared there for quite some time. Thanks, Mourad

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Exchange position of two objects
by Nicolas Dufour 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, Roland Meub has posted a patch to implement this nice feature (see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171944). It compiles and works correctly on Ubuntu 9.10, and the only glitch I've found is related to 3Dbox (unexpected translations). Could a C++ expert review this code and commit? Regards, -- Nicolas

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Node tool committed to trunk
by Krzysztof Kosiński 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

The new node tool is now in the trunk - please test and report any bugs. I made a few last minute improvements inspired by the discussion. New features are listed in the release notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.48#Node_Tool I also made a new icon for the spray tool. It's much better than the old one, but there's still something not quite right with it. Regards, Krzysztof

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] pixelsnap
by Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, I'm Bryan, the original author of pixelsnap. I'd be keen to have PixelSnap included in the official Inkscape repository, and to do whatever's necessary for that purpose (I don't mind releasing it under GPL, either -- I just like the MIT license because it's short & sweet) Just a brief rant on why I think PixelSnap is a useful part of a digital artist's workflow, even if they know inkscape's tools: I'm a fairly technical user of Inkscape, but in spite of the great work done on snapping & grids recently (kudos to the people involved with that!), I've still found the "right" way to be a bit of a pain in the backside. The reasons Rob gives below are two good examples. Another big reason why the "right" way is often unworkable is the fact that odd-width strokes are offset by exactly 0.5 pixels. I understand the reasoning for this, but it means you have to have 2 pixel-sized grids, one pixel-aligned, and one mid-pixel-aligned. Also, you have to keep the grid on permanently while editing for the "right" way to work, unless you want to go back and edit all your vectors later on. I don't find it very easy working with grids all over my work. Sometimes I don't want stuff to snap either -- I only want vertical & horizontal lines to snap-to-pixel. I'd also rather set up meaningful grids for my artwork -- i.e. grids for layout purposes, not grids to overcome the shortcomings of my screen. Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > On 1/13/10, Rob Antonishen wrote: >> The biggest benefit is when working with existing images that were not >> necessarily drawn to pixel snap. >> >> Or after rescaling images and resnapping the elements to the nearest >> pixel. > > Exactly :) > -- Bryan Hoyt, *Web developer* — Brush Technology *Ph:* +64 3 942 7833 *Mobile:* +64 21 238 7955 *Web:* brush.co.nz

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.47 X11 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
by ~suv 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

On 17/1/10 12:47, Michael Wybrow wrote: > On 11/01/2010, at 11:42 PM, JiHO wrote: >>> On 7/12/09 20:51, Wolf Drechsel wrote: >>>> my attempt in building a 0.47 X11 on Tiger can be visited. >>>> It is PPC only - are there people around who need Tiger-Intel? >> I'd say, post it like that. I don't and won't ever have a Tiger >> machine to test it. The release will be the large scale test I am >> afraid. I agree it should be posted, as a reward for Wolf's tremendous >> efforts. > > I tested Wolf's build on Friday and it worked fine other than the > status bar issue which also occurs on all versions of Inkscape I > tested (though it does go blank moving over the page sliders on 10.4 > but not the other later versions). > > I forgot to write a response on Friday, but you may have noticed that > I compressed it as a DMG and uploaded in to Sourceforge. > > Thanks for all your work on this Wolf, and also ~suv. Much > appreciated. Could the newly uploaded Tiger PPC build please be added to the download page on inkscape.org? ------------ Stable release 0.47 intended for production use is available: * Mac OS X o OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard – Universal .dmg o OS X 10.5, Leopard – Universal .dmg (Please first upgrade X11.app to at least XQuartz v2.1.4.) + o OS X 10.4, Tiger - PPC .dmg [1] (requires Apple's X11 v1.1.3) [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47/Inkscape-0.47-… ------------ ~suv

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bzr snapshots
by Alexandre Prokoudine 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, Some people have grown to rely on our daily SVN snapshots and win32 builds. Do we have a plan to provide them now that we have moved to bzr? Alexandre

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