pixelsnap
by Alexandre Prokoudine
Hi,
http://code.google.com/p/pixelsnap/
"PixelSnap is an extension for Inkscape, an incredibly useful vector
graphics app. It allows you to align rectangles & paths to pixel
boundaries, to create sharp web & digital graphics."
IMO, we need it shipped by default until we have a global solution (if ever) :)
Alexandre
13 years
Fwd: [cairo] Spot colors (and CMYK)
by Felipe Sanches
we need to provide that for cairo developers
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Carl Worth <cworth@...573...>
Date: Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [cairo] Spot colors (and CMYK)
To: ecir hana <ecir.hana@...400...>, cairo <cairo@...278...>
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:31:12 +0100, ecir hana <ecir.hana@...400...> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've seen some messages about adding spot colors (or named color, or
> Separation and DeviceN in PDF specs terms) some time ago. Or perhaps
> even adding CMYK as well.
> Please, does anyone know if there has been any developments in that
> direction? Is it perhaps planned to include spot colors in the future?
> Or, is this not very central to the current development?
>From time to time, the cairo community sees a message like yours where
we clearly have users interested in these features.
But we haven't had much in the way of concrete API proposals (nor
implementations to go along with them!). And it seems that the current
set of cairo maintainers do not have the expertise to come up with
either of these on their own.
So I think we're going to need some further input from *somebody* before
we'll see concrete progress on this front.
Do you know of anyone (perhaps yourself) that could provide some or all
of the following:
* Concrete use case to describe what is missing at the
application<->cairo boundary.
* A concrete API proposal to satisfy that use case, (and a minimal API
that doesn't multiply existing cairo entry points exponentially).
* An implementation of that API.
I'm looking forward to further input here, since I'd love to be able to
say that cairo has a good answer for people needing whatever is missing
here.
-Carl
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13 years
Fwd: 2D animators using free software
by Felipe Sanches
anyone here is capable of doing simple 2d animations with free software and
would like to help the Free Software Foundation? Please contact Holmes
Wilson at holmes@...511...
-Juca
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From: Felipe Sanches <juca@...2270...>
Date: Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: 2D animators using free software
To: Holmes Wilson <holmes@...511...>
I can ask our geeks from the inkscape users mailing list.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Holmes Wilson <holmes@...511...> wrote:
> Hey Felipe,
>
> FSF is looking for some animators who could do some simple but professional
> 2D motion graphics for a film (mostly interviews) about software patents,
> using free software. Know anybody?
>
> -Holmes
>
13 years
Inkscape 0.48 status and proposed release plan
by Joshua A. Andler
Hey All!
Are there any larger features people are planning on still for this
cycle that aren't well known? I know of the following still outstanding:
*Krzysztof's new Node Tool
*Soren's DBUS work (provided Ted is able to do his magic on it)
*JonCruz's Adaptive UI work
I assume all kinds of smaller, less intrusive things are still on their
way. However, I just want to make sure we keep track of the big things
to keep this cycle tight and under control.
Proposed release plan:
Mid-February for Chill
Beginning of March Frost (Bug Hunt begins)
End of March for Feature Freeze
End of April for Hard Freeze
Sometime in May for Branch & Release
I am planning on maintaining branches to patch in bug fixes for point
releases this time. So we most likely will not do a bug hunt goal of 500
this time if things don't break badly (perhaps 300 if we're in decent
shape, which makes the proposed plan feasible).
Cheers,
Josh
13 years
Objects ("patterns") along path - pathscatter extension
by Hans Meine
Hi,
background: I want to model some room with rows of chairs, not necessarily
along straight lines however. Furthermore, I want to be able to access each
chair from python, in order to change appearance depending on status in a
reservation system.
Thus, I have been looking into an "create objects along path" functionality,
and found the pathscatter ("Generate from Path/Pattern along Path")
extension, plus some "path effect" which I could not get to work and did not
find any documentation on. I also had a lot of problems with the pathscatter
extension, which I would like to discuss with you and possibly provide fixes
for at least some of them. (I am an experienced programmer, in particular
with python, but not very familiar with inkscapes code or even GUI yet.)
First, my impression was that the extension is slow (I think there's a lot of
potential for improvements, since it looks like a straightforward but not
very efficient python implementation) and not very well integrated into the
GUI, which is probably a typical problem with scripted extensions (I have
experience with Gimp's script-fu stuff). For instance:
1. The menu has no accelerators, which makes it inconvenient to start without
using the mouse.
2. It has an apply and a close button, but the apply button does not close the
dialog, although the only sensible (actually: possible) action after it is
close, since it modifies the selection, and the dialog is modal.
3. The dialog is modal, but does not check whether its preconditions (two
objects selected) are fulfilled, so you end up making settings, getting an
error message on "apply", need to close, fix the selection, and re-open it
again (suffering from 1 again).
4. Also, there does not seem to be any good documentation or even help within
the program (for instance: icons, tooltips or "whats this" texts, ...); the
best information I found was the python comments at the top of
pathscatter.py, which should probably be at least put up on some wiki page.
Speaking of preconditions, it took me more than an hour to understand how to
use the extension, simply because I tried it only with a rectangle as
pattern. The results were incredibly... wrong. That's because the extension
seems to work only with paths (that is - circles seem to work) - this could
surely be improved either by
a) allowing rectangles, which should be possible at least in the "snake" mode,
or by
b) automatically converting other objects into paths.
Actually, my plan would be to implement both a+b, since I then realized that
with just b) (which is probably the easiest to implement) I have yet another
problem: in the "repeated" mode, I am still getting only a single path as
result, which contains several path components. For my use case, I really
need separate objects, in order to be able to differently style the chairs.
I have some basic coding questions, which I will put into a separate posting.
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13 years
Shifting UI
by Jon Cruz
I've gotten a first part of the shifting UI done. Toolbars can now be somewhat repositioned. The alternatives are hardcoded at the moment, but to see that just hit widgets/toolbox.cpp and uncomment:
//#define ENABLE_TASK_SUPPORT 1
I've left that defined out for the moment in case the other cleanup did not fix the 64-bit issues. If someone can check that, it would be very helpful.
13 years
Getting an Inkscape generated PDF in CMYK
by JiHO
Hello everyone,
I have a colour document I want to get printed by a print shop. It is
a monochrome (shades of the same hue with different
lightness/saturation, basically all brown) fully vector document.
Currently I have the SVG exported in PDF.
The print shops want a CMYK PDF, as expected. They don't seem too
smart (insist on using photoshop on the PDF, don't pay much attention
to the superposition of recto and verso, etc.) so I would like to do
as much as possible myself. However, even with a CMYK document I guess
they would still need to do a CMYK to CMYK conversion between my CMYK
profile and the one of their printer. Would this be any better than
going straight from my RGB to their CMYK?
If I do need to convert in CMYK, I explored the possibilities. The SVG
does not import correctly in Scribus so this is out of the question. I
have Adobe Acrobat, which looks like it can do the conversion on the
PDF. I am just not sure what it assumes as a starting colour space, if
any. What would the knowledgeable people on this list advise as a
workflow to get an Inkscape generated PDF in CMYK?
As a related note, what is the advised workflow within Inkscape? I
have a display and proofing profiles set in the preferences (NB: Jon,
does the "Retrieve profile from display" works on Mac? It does not
inactivate the drop down menu when checked at least, while it looks
like it should.). My understanding of the 0.46 release notes is that
as soon as a display profile is set, it is used, and clicking the
indicator at the bottom-right corner turns soft proofing on, using the
specified proofing profile. Am I right? What part of all this is
currently retained in the SVG? in the PDF?
Sorry for the numerous questions. I would like to get this one right.
Thanks in advance,
JiHO
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13 years
Re: [Inkscape-devel] "Print colors"?
by Felipe Sanches
A friend wrote a message to this list in portuguese and asked me to
translate it to english for him. Here it is:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Valessio Brito
<contato@...2138...>wrote:
> Isto é uma boa ideia para separação de cores ou no processo de
> visualização. A opção "Imprimir Cores" é legal porque se você utiliza
> CMYK e cores especiais, pode visualizar quantas camadas de cores tem
> seu trabalho.
>
> This [the print colors preview mode] is a great idea for color separation
or also in the process of previewing your artwork. This is cool because it
enables you to know how many color channels your artwork has (be it CMYK or
spot colors).
>
> Acho que isso que você fez é
> um grande passo para separação de cores e é bastante utilizado em
> processo Silk, se colocar isso no dialogo de impressão é um sucesso.
>
>
I think that what you [Felipe] have done is a great step towards color
separations and is very frquently used in silk processes. If you add it to
the print dialog it will be a success!
Valessio Brito
13 years
