September 2010 - Inkscape Devel

comma bug
by Axel Huizinga 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, looks like a bug to me but I'd like to get some comments before reporting. When I add a drop shadow in my de locale environment on XP even after setting inkscape up to use en the stdDeviation and colorMatrix alpha values are set with comma instead of dot. This causes firefox not to display the object any more. Cordially, Axel

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Text Dialog Not Grabbing Font, Style, Size
by MilesTogoe 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

This has been a recurring problem for us since about vers .45: select a block of text, click on the font dialog toolbar (or choose in menu) - when the dialog appears, font is blank, size is blank, style defaults to normal. edit the text and click apply and get an unexpected font in return. clicking on it into rotation mode sometimes helps pop up with font info or rapid clicking to get it into edit mode sometimes helps - but this is too cumbersome are we missing something or does this need work ?

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interview
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi, Just in case not everyone follows news, there is an interview with Inkscape developers and contributors published a week ago: http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=24 Many thanks to everyone who agreed to participate. If you find any reviews of the new version (like e.g. http://www.timteatro.net/2010/08/19/review-of-inkscape-0-48/, but could be smaller) in any language, please let me know: I'd like to quote/link to some of them from a news item at inkscape.org. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Elegant work - thank you
by Joshua Facemyer 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

In case anyone on this list didn't see it, I thought this was a great endorsement posted to the Inkscape Users list. JF -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Inkscape-user] Elegant work - thank you Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:21:15 -0700 From: Carl Symons <carlsymons@...400...> Reply-To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Yesterday, I led an orientation for a small group of beginners from an Native American community in the US. They all wanted Inkscape loaded on their new computers. It is a wonder-full, wonderful application. This Native American nation's (Coastal Salish) heritage and culture is loaded with arts, in particular totem-like images where Inkscape excels. These students were already making exceptional images after just a few hours. One girl did a piece with one star, Ctrl-D-ing, tweaking and arranging the copies. She was gone into the timelessness of creativity. > From the mailing list today came my discovery of F11 and F12 toggles. Simple, but functions I didn't know about or even realize I wanted. I am amazed at the quality and thoughtfulness of Inkscape. So this is a note of thanks to everyone who contributes to Inkscape. You touch lives in unimaginable ways. Carl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Cloned Tiles interface rework proposal
by Valerie 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Congratulations on another terrific release! I hope you’re all taking a well-deserved break. In the meantime, I wanted to discuss whether it’s possible to rework the Tiled Clones interface, mainly to address the following issues: - Location: Tiled Clones is too powerful a tool to be hidden in Edit. Proposal: move Tiled Clones to Object, and have it open a dialogue like Fill, Align etc rather than a floating box (Ctrl + Shift + C). - The interface: the current interface is very powerful, but it feels like staring down a math/geometry class. :P Separating Tiles and Rotate and adding a preview area using simple examples would be nice. - “How do I make it rotate around This point?” Have the option to select an on-screen guideline, like how it works with filters and LPEs. For rotations, you select an angled line. Now, I’m assuming that most uses of tiled clones would fall into a few major categories: - Tiles: including simple symmetry and various tiles options. - Radial Clone: flowers, laces, round borders, clocks, gears... - Objects Along Path: Like Pattern Upon Path, except for objects. Example: a line of trees bordering a curving river and fading into the background. So, long-story short, my proposal for more user-friendly Tiled Clones interface: http://a.imagehost.org/view/0611/Tiles http://a.imagehost.org/view/0362/Radial Options that I’ve missed will of course have to be added back in. Thoughts?

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Free Desktop Release
by Martin Owens 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hey Inkscapers, Firstly, congratulations and thank you all so much for Inkscape 0.48 I was just looking at this page here: http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en And I have to say I'm fairly disappointed that Inkscape as a project caters so poorly to educating Free Desktop users about how to get Inkscape for their platform. It's not just that there isn't a download for Ubuntu or Fedora directly, but because it doesn't even have an apt link or a ppa for where you can get the latest Inkscape release. This causes major headaches for us trying to support Ubuntu: like Mozilla who recommend Ubuntu users upgrade their version of Ubuntu by downloading tar-balls, it's annoying, confusing for users and a it's maintaining the myth that FOSS is for geeks. If you'd like some help with the preparation of the page and publishing for various platforms, I'd be very happy to lend a hand. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Build against external libcroco?
by Alex Valavanis 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

(Posted as question #123799 on Launchpad) https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/123799 For Debian/Ubuntu packaging purposes, it would be preferable for us to build against an external (clean) version of libcroco rather than using the one currently in the Inkscape source-tree. A while ago, someone asked at the Debian bugtracker about this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427946 At the time, it seems that a patched version of libcroco-0.6 was included in the source tree of inkscape-0.45, and that Inkscape could not be built with the upstream version of libcroco. Since then, a lot of changes have been made in Inkscape (including the removal of src/libcroco/README) and there is a new upstream version (0.6.2) of libcroco. Please could someone update us on the situation? Specifically: * Which version of libcroco is included with Inkscape 0.47/0.48? * Have any changes been made to the bundled library? * Can Inkscape be built successfully using a clean external libcroco? Thanks, Alex

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How to fix a bug for 0.48.1
by unknown＠example.com 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hi all, I just fixed a bug in trunk that should be released also in 0.48.1. How should one go about this? Is there a better way of simply doing the edits twice, once in trunk and once in 0.48.1 branch? (i.e. should i merge things or...) Thanks, Johan

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Minor website fixes (was: Free Desktop Release)
by Craig Marshall 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

>> Done. Many thanks. Please check and let me know if it's okay :) > Where did you change it? You didn't put it the SVN repository. It works for me now, you must have changed it again, that's better :-) > The mod_rewrite stuff is really > weird on that server - at the end of last year I put in a rule which should > have made http://wiki.inkscape.org/favicon.ico not redirect to > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/favicon.ico - which gives a 404 - and it > doesn't work. And I don't understand why - the syntax is all correct and it > should work fine. It looks Chris is talking about having added this stuff for the favicon problem: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^wiki\.inkscape\.org [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wiki RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/favicon\.ico$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wiki$1 [L] It looks right to me too... I know that doesn't help much yet. Can you maybe show us (or email to me) the main apache config, if it doesn't include anything sensitive? Just to see what redirecting is being done, it would be good if we can fix the favicon problem while this web stuff is being looked at. It could be the contents of a file that resides here or somewhere similar: /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/inkscape.org or /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.inkscape.org Thanks, Craig

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Google indexes SVG
by Aaron Spike 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hey, we win! Google now indexes SVG. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-now-indexes-svg.h… Aaron Spike

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