May 2010 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

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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Poppler internal API problem
by Krzysztof Kosiński 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

We are still using the internal Poppler API to import PDFs. This is very bad, since the internal Poppler API is not stable, and will keep breaking. (We already don't build with poppler > 0.12.1) How about using the public Glib API to render to a Cairo SVG surface instead? This is how pdf2svg works, and to be honest I had to use that utility several times to augment Inkscape, because it handles text much better. What are the advantages to using internal Poppler API directly? Regards, Krzysztof

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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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NEW: mouseover cursors in Selector
by bulia byak 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Selector tool has a new mouse cursor (arrow with an open hand) for when your mouse is over a selectable object, and another (arrow with clinched hand) for when you're dragging an object. This improves precision of selection and UI consistency (previously, the mouse cursor over a selectable object was different across platforms, e.g. hand icon on Linux or four-way arrow on Windows). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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"close all curves" extension
by Alexandre Prokoudine 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi, Do we want this extension in the bundle? http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=37 By the way, the very same guys implemented an absolutely amazing extension that creates Gcode (Computer-aided manufacturing, or CAM data) out of Inkscape drawings: Main English page seems to be http://kalyaev.com/2010/20100423/gcodetools.html They have a bzr repo here: https://launchpad.net/gcodetools Unfortunately there is less information in English than in Russian. But you can look at pretty pictures :) http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=34 Alexandre

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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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Extended Input settings not stored permanently
by Alexander Roalter 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

The input devices settings (for extended input, e.g. tablet) have changed some time ago to a different format. Now, I can set the stylus device to Screen to have it pressure sensitive as expected, and it is also stored as this in the preferences.xml, but on reload if forgets this setting. My stylus device is called Stylus0, the eraser Eraser0. Setting the eraser to screen mode, in the preferences.xml I see something like <group keys=";;;;;... axes="x;y;pressure;xtilt;ytilt;wheel" mode="screen" id="E:Eraser0" /> but no such entry for stylus or Stylus0 exists and is created... -- cheers, Alex

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SPObject counting clones
by unknown＠example.com 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hi all, Is the number of times an spobject is cloned (svg "use") counted? It would be a really great help in fixing a bug. So what I'd like to have is: SPObject obj; obj->clone_count or something similar. Thanks, Johan

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Report from LGM 2010
by Tavmjong Bah 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hello, As I am sitting on the train returning from LGM 2010, I thought I would give you all a summary of the conference. There where many nice talks and it was great to finally meet many Inkscapers who I only knew by name. There were also very nice endorsements of Inkscape. The Fedora design team made a big point of expressing how much they LOVE Inkscape. Inkscape appeared all over the place at the conference, from designing icons to designing fonts. I am sure I have forgotten somethings as my memory needs a serious upgrade... so other Inkscape attendees, don't hesitate to correct me. Here is a summary of talks by Inkscapers about Inkscape or other topics. Friday: Jasper van de Gronde: Diffusion curves (gradients defined by values specified along the defining paths). Felipe Sanches (JucaBlues): GNU LibreDWG to read DWG files from AutoCAD. Saturday Jakub Steiner: Icon Workflows with Inkscape. Alexandre Prokoudine: Digital photography workflow on Linux with darktable. Andy Fitzsimons: Inkscape for everybody. Elisa de Castro Guerra: Workshop for Inkscape beginners (in French and English). Sunday John Phillips: Aiki framework. As a side note, he used Inkscape for his presentation, putting all his slides on one page and then zooming in and out on individual ones. Other Inkscapers present included Ivan Louette, Gemy Cedric, and Johan Engelen. My only critique is that it would have been nice to have had a demonstration of some of the new features of the upcoming Inkscape release. The list of other interesting talks is long. You can look at the website for a list of talks and the videos of all the talks should be online soon if not already. Some of the crowd favorites were the talk by the NodeBox2 group and the talk by Tom Lechner who showed a very impressive demonstration of putting images on a sphere and then unwrapping it. During the talks and at informal gatherings, there was quite a bit of discussion about what users need from Inkscape. Here is a list of requests: 1. Hyphenation support in the text tool. 2. Faster loading/displaying fonts in the menu. 3. Command line interface without opening the GUI. 4. Trapping for commercial work. 5. Fixes for bugs #167809 (Linked offset performance issues) and #270983 (Terrible performance node editing even in outline mode). In general there is a desire for more SPEED! 6. Shortcuts in tooltips (especially for tools). 7. Don't muck up imported SVG, e.g. turning ellipses into paths. This is important when planning to animate things. Many people design with Inkscape and then use Scribus for preparing files for commercial printing. Members of the SVG working group were present which lead to a number of useful discussions. They will hold a working group meeting tomorrow. Here are a number of topics that were covered: 1. Support for multipage documents. The proposal for multipage documents has been dropped from SVG 1.2 due to many negative comments. The proposal was too complicated for simple uses and not sophisticated enough for advance uses. If we push, a simplified version could be added to SVG 2.0. 2. Support for patterns along paths. Coming out of the discussion on Power Strokes lead by Johan Engelen, Doug Schepers of the SVG standards group expressed a great interest in pursuing this as it would allow some LPE like effects to be animated. Doug, in general, would like to see greater ability to edit/animate SVG. 3. Support for diffusion curves. 4. SVG Fonts: Firefox and IE at the moment don't have any interest in supporting, preferring to focus on WOFF implementation. It was pointed out by several people that SVG Fonts are much more useful for artistic purposes as one can imagine animating the glyphs or adding special effects to them. 5. Increasing the bit depth for some of the filters to avoid artifacts (e.g. the displacement filter or lighting filters). There is a need to balance requirements for small devices (small memory) with the need for large ones (smooth/accurate displays) but perhaps a compromise could be made (I've suggested adding an optional second byte to the bump maps). 6. Standardizing layers (Inkscape currently uses tagged groups for layers). Other SVG news is that Adobe is again interested in supporting the standard and that IE9 will support all of SVG except SVG fonts and filters. Finally, the SVG working group really stressed the need for community participation, especially from Inkscape. I have volunteered to help represent Inkscape in the group. So let me know on this list or off of any thing you want raised with the group. You can also join the SVG mailing list (www-svg@...157...). Jasper is already a member and I just joined. One of the more interesting talks was about trying to develop Open Source tools for fashion design. It seems that there is a need to develop adjustable patterns for those who don't have the petite bodies the industry designs towards. The industry just scales up the patterns for bigger women, leading to poor fit. After hearing the talk, someone has already created an Inkscape extension to help with the work. See: http://www.sew-brilliant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Projects Finally, several venues for LGM 2011 have been proposed. The leading candidate seems to be Ho Chi Min City, Viet Nam. Montreal is also a possibility. Felipe was encouraged to think about Brazil for 2012. Tav PS. Thanks to Jasper for reading a draft of this summary and making many corrections.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Re : Re : I suck at Perl (orcheck-markup)
by Preben Soeberg 31 May '10

31 May '10

> From: Krzysztof Kosiński [mailto:tweenk.pl@...400...] > > W dniu 30 maja 2010 14:33 użytkownik Preben Soeberg <prsodk@...400...> > napisał: > > Now at devlibs rev. 17, still having the same problem: > > > > Make error line 452: <msgfmt> problem: po/fr.po:18690: keyword "msgctxt" > > unknown > > po/fr.po:18690:8: parse error > > po/fr.po:18695: keyword "msgctxt" unknown > > po/fr.po:18695:8: parse error > > ... > > > > I'm not near a computer for the next week or so. > > I think you have an obsolete version of gettext tools installed in > your MinGW directory, or somewhere in your PATH before the devlibs > bin/ directory. Make sure that the msgfmt.exe from devlibs is first in > your PATH. > Thanks, that solved my problem. I just managed to test it, before I leave for the train. Regards Preben

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