November 2011 - Inkscape Devel

About gtk3 migration....
by Alcides Viamontes Esquivel 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi guys, I found this thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27264203 about migration of inkscape to gtk3. Has anybody worked on this? I've using Inkscape for a long time, but I have zero experience with it's inner workings (beyond coding basic extensions in python ;-) ), so, my question is, how complicated would it be? Regards!

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GPGPU
by Ken O'Brien 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi, What is the current state of gpgpu acceleration in Inkscape? and where can I find the docs for this functionality? Regards, Ken

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inkscape wiki admin
by Ian Caldwell 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

anyone with the wiki inkscape admin credentials please send them to me as soon as possible. Thanks, Ian

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Dead dl links
by John Cliff 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Hi guys, can someone who knows how edit the downloads page to remove the modevia link for the windows nightlies? Cheers John

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Mesh Gradients in Inkscape
by Tavmjong Bah 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Hi, I have just checked in to my private Coons Patch Mesh Gradient branch, code that allows the ability to create and edit mesh gradients. Warning: This code is a real Hack. It is known to segfault and eat kittens for lunch. It will need lots of reworking by real experts before one can hope to see it in Inkscape trunk (as well as dealing with the issue that meshes are not part of the SVG 1.2 standard... they have been accepted as part of SVG 2.0 but that standard is along way from being appearing even in a draft form). What you can do with the code: 1. Create a simple one patch square mesh the size of an objects bounding box. (Select the third button on the Gradient Tool-Tool Bar and the double click the object.) 2. Drag corner nodes (diamonds). 3. Change color of corner nodes. 4. Drag handles (circles). There is no indication of what handle belongs with which corner node or path so it can be confusing. 5. Divide a row or column of patches into two rows or columns. (Double click on the lines connecting corner nodes. Double clicking elsewhere may lead to a crash.) At the moment, the row or column is split down the middle. 6. Save the mesh. The mesh is saved in the proposed SVG standard format (highly likely to change). 7. Read in saved meshes. Some of what is missing: 1. Ability to undo node moves/color changes. 2. Ability to merge two rows or columns into one or delete edge rows or columns. 3. Ability to change paths between straight lines and Bezier curves. Handles are shown even for straight lines. 4. Display of Bezier curves (they are shown as straight lines). 5. Stability (I did tell you it will segfault, didn't I?). 6. Sane coding. 7. Properly handling of gradient copying. 8. Auto-creation of conical gradients or other non-square gradient types. 9. Output to PS/PDF/PNG(?) 10. Update to current trunk. You can check out the code at: https://code.launchpad.net/~tavmjong-free/inkscape/mesh Tav

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Stash-OSX
by Martin Owens 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Quick Update on the stash front, $kouiskas on dA has published a BSD Licensed OSX Uploader. http://kouiskas.deviantart.com/art/OS-X-Sta-sh-195250264 If anyone is interested in making the Inkscape (and/or gimp) da.stash uploader plugins work in OSX, then reusing this code will probably be the right was to go. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Google+ page
by Alexandre Prokoudine 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Hi, We now have a Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/b/108911244660285152681/ Currently we do not have plans to use it other than an additional communication channel. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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PPA progress
by Alex Valavanis 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi All, I'm back from my trip. I've made a couple of changes to the PPAs and things will hopefully be back to normal pretty soon. I have a couple of queries too... Note that Launchpad seems to be having some headaches with recipe builds at the minute. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/884516 == Changes == * Dropped unneeded version specifier for libwp* dependencies in lp:~inkscape.dev/inkscape/debian-packaging * Enabled builds of the inkscape-trunk-daily recipe for Ubuntu Precise and Maverick. * Bumped epoch of package version naming scheme to allow natty builds after the earlier incorrectly-named version == Queries == * At the moment, the "stable" recipe is actually building the head of the lp:inkscape/0.48.x branch. Do we actually want to do this, or should we build inkscape 0.48.2? * Is there much point having a daily build of the stable package? Surely we only need to rebuild it when a new stable version is released? * Have we decided which Ubuntu versions we support? I think it's safe to drop Ubuntu Hardy now - Canonical no longer support it for desktop installations. I'll have to do some tweaking with the packaging code to build for Lucid, but it shouldn't be too difficult. * Thinking about it, do we really need two separate PPAs? As far as I understand it, we can get multiple recipes to build in a single PPA. We can just create separate source packages ("inkscape-stable" and "inkscape-trunk") and use them to build similarly-named binaries in the same PPA. Should be easier for users that way. We can specify the binary packages as conflicting, to prevent any dependency hell. * I don't know much about libwpd/libwpg. Do we actually need both dev packages available at build time? Cheers, AV

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I seek a representation
by Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Hello, I am from Sri Lanka and relatively new to the project, I use inkscape a lot and really felt love with it. I am finding a Sri Lankan, is there any Sri Lankan working with this project in any capacity, please ping. I need you to contact soon, please contact me off list with your contact phone number, thanks -- Regards, *Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera*

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Compilation error
by Yann Papouin 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Actually I can't compile on Windows: src/2geom/hvlinesegment.h:1: error: stray '\357' in program src/2geom/hvlinesegment.h:1: error: stray '\273' in program src/2geom/hvlinesegment.h:1: error: stray '\277' in program I had to encode hvlinesegment.h from UTF8 to ANSI to fix this

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