October 2010 - Inkscape Devel

Quirkiness with CMS Fill tab
by Chris Mohler 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hi list - The CMS Fill tab acts funky when I link to 'USWebCoatedSWOP.icc' (as provided by Adobe[0]). The drop-down only works the first time (ie, color sliders appear), but making changes is not really possible - the sliders disappear as soon as you attempt to interact with them. Linking 'ISOcoated.icc' does not cause this issue. This is in stable 0.48. I just checked 0.47 and I get the same weirdness in the CMS tab there. No output on the command line. Can anyone confirm? I'm ubuntu 10.04 amd64. I built 0.48 from the tarball this morning and 0.47 is from the repos. Not a huge deal - but I am curious as to what the problem might be. Thanks, Chris [0] http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/iccprofiles/icc_eula_win_end.html

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svn going nuts
by Alexandre Prokoudine 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hi, As you very well remember, we still use SVN for the website. So, I was intending to commit news translation into Russian today, but they ended up being commited instead of English files, so out first two news items in English for September are in Pushkin lingo now. Here is what I see when I try to commit some more translations: avp@...2472...:~/soft/src/inkscape_web/news/ru/2010$ svn commit 09/004.inc Adding 09/004.inc svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: File '/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape_web/trunk/news/en/2010/09/004.inc' already exists svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file: svn: '/home/avp/soft/src/inkscape_web/news/ru/2010/09/svn-commit.3.tmp' Note how files from ru directory try to be committed to en directory. Could anybody please explain how on Earth this is possible? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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¿How can I move the toolbars from right to top?
by jEsuSdA 8) 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hello, First at all, congratulations for the new Inkscape release. I love it. I have a problem, I can not move the toolbars from right to top. There are more icons than the bar can contains, then it is a headache working with this settings. There are any way to move toolbars from right to top, like the 0.47 version? Thanks! Salu2 de jEsuSdA 8)

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Compiling on Windows
by Nery Chucuy 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hi, According to http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Win32Port I need to use MinGW, is there any way I can use only MSVC08. Have you though about using Scons? Thank you,

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Inkscape UI Papercuts
by Aleksandar Kovac 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi everyone, in the last month+ I have conducted a tiny survey with a few fresh Inkscape users. A mixture of ethnographic research in design and 'papercuts' by mr. Siegel. ;) (http://davidsiegel.org/one-hundred-paper-cuts/) I asked a few colleagues to try using inkscape for some time and put down all the little irritations they find. I tried to systematize the list somewhat, but that could use some more work probably. They are mostly small inconsistencies, unnecessarily complex jargon, etc. Anyhow, it's a list of roughly 100+ small issues (some with suggested simple corrections), a la: -- Inkscape preferences: Color management: 'Black point compensation', the tip says: 'enables black point compensation' not too informative. -- Inkscape preferences: Interface. 'Enable dynamic relayout'... Technical jargon. -- Commands Bar: Import: The Tip says: 'Import bitmap or SVG into this document' but actually it imports so much more (see import in the file:import) -- Text and Font panel: The 'Layout' area is a misnomer. Solution: The correct title would be: 'Text alignment and direction'. (Alignment being: Left, centered, right, justified. Direction: horizontal/vertical). ...etc. What would be the best way to present those? Should I submit them as bugs? Should I try to out down the solution suggestions for the issues, too? Thanks. Alex.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] ui improvements
by Jasper van de Gronde 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

On 2010-09-09 12:54, J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote: > ... (about tool cursor with color preview) > Pretty neat! > Could you also implement this for the spiral, pen(cil) and calligraphy > tools? Sure. The main reason I didn't do it yet is that it isn't clear to me what should be shown. Other than that it's just a matter of changing the corresponding .xpm and adding a small line with tool's "preference url" to its TOOL-context.cpp (in the init function, see rect-context.cpp for example, if you want to do it yourself).

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Cloned Tiles
by Thorsten Wilms 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi! Back to the topic of the Cloned Tiles UI: One issue is if you try to apply one of the non-rectangular wallpaper groups to rectangular prototype, the result does not appear to make sense. Showing schemes like http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/wallpaper_groups1.png would help a bit. But actually, the user should start with the right shape. They should be encouraged and assisted to do so. The "Use saved size and position of the tile feature" allows one to deal with geometry that extends outwards of the base tile, as nicely explained on http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/TilePattern.html I think this is a hack to seemingly get around the need for 2 different things: the base tile area used for building the pattern (gap-less, no overlap), and the prototype with the geometry to be repeated. A solution could be to put this functionality into a tool/effect. You choose the Wallpaper group, then you create the base tile area that will have the right shape (similar to rectangle/star/polygon tools). There could be automatic selection of geometry covered by the base tile area. If you start with a selection, the base tile area could be created centered on it, automatically. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

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Problem resizing horizontal or vertical lines
by JiHO 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Hello all, This is an old issue I think, and this made wonder wether there was a workaround by now. Here are the steps: 1- draw a perfectly horizontal line (snap to grid to be sure) 2- select the path with the selector tool. Its size is displayed in the toolbar 3.1- in inkscape preferences > tools, select visual bounding box 3.2- resize the width of the line by typing a new number (say, half the original) in the toolbar => The line is resized but only approximately 4.1- in inkscape preferences > tools, select geometric bounding box 4.2- resize the width of the line by typing a new number in the toolbar => The line is not resized at all This works the same when you try to change the height of a vertical line. I guess all this relates to a division by zero somewhere since it disappears as soon as the line is slanted even by the tiniest amount. I could not find a bug report but there is surely one (I probably just searched with incorrect terms). Is there a fix in sight? a workaround? I am trying to map an apartment and it's just a bunch of horizontal and vertical lines that need to have a precise length. Thanks in advance for any help, JiHO --- http://maururu.net

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