March 2011 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Website Progress...
by Pajarico 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

2011/3/8 Hinerangi Courtenay <duckgoesoink@...400...>: > Chris Morgan wrote: > >> This is the most important part. There's a significant quantity of new content needed for the website which just hasn't existed before. I think the main thing we need is just lots of basic content which can be refined later. Most of the pages aren't created yet; some have been designed but don't have all their content yet. > > Agreed completely. As I said on the user list, much of the text on the brand new pages was written by me for the mockups (I'm a terrible copywriter, so there's unfinished Lorem Ipsum and blah blah stuff), and much of the other stuff was brought straight over from the current site - some serious tidying is in order, and will help speed things up significantly. Why is there commit 50 by Chris Morgan reverting my additions to Lorem Ipsums texts (see column "More stuff" in content/en/about/features.html)? I could understand that maybe I added more content than I should have, but that doesn't explain why parts were reverted to Lore Ipsum. Also, the style of those epigraphs is too repetitive: all of them prominently display the word "Inkscape"... we already know we're talking about Inkscape! ;) Some of my edits in that area were done to break that monotone writing (giving a more "human" tone and avoid repetition of the word "Inkscape"). I'm unsure is this edit was done on purpose or accidentally. > Sent out another request on the user list for screen recordings...no bites yet. Maybe if someone posted to Deviant Art? Or twitter? Or facebook or flickr or any of those other social websites I don't use... We need the stuff mentioned in this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1QDTbDv7SGZIyrBUvSoraC_587ROY49l-bV… Working on it. Commented this before, but haven't had time to record them. The two drawings that I was going to record are halted. I'm involved on acourse about web design so will be busy until 23 March. Regards.

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--query-all and hidden objects
by Ogla Sungutay 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Hi guys, When a group's children are all hidden (style="display:none"), --query-all command line parameter does not list this group's geometry. All of its children are listed. But not the parent. Another observation is that if one of the children is visible, then the parent's geometry is listed. Is there a specific reason for this feature? Or is it a bug? Thanks! -- -- V. Ogla Sungutay, GUI Programmer www.lyciasoft.com skype:oglasungutay

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Tango Pasodoble Icons updated for Inkscape 0.48.1
by jEsuSdA 8) 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hello again! This evening I have been working hard to update the Tango Pasodoble icon theme for Inkscape. The original theme have no icons for the new tools and options and some icons has changed his name. Yo could see a screenshot of the result here: http://www.jesusda.com/files/inkscape-tango-theme/tango_icons_new_0.48.1_v0… You could download the icons.svg file here http://www.jesusda.com/files/inkscape-tango-theme/tango_icons_new_0.48.1_v0… This SVG file could have some bugs, cause it is *SO PAINFUL* to mantain because nobody has updated the icon names and nobody adds the new icons to this file. In the future I would appreciate so much you notify me (sending an e-mail to the mailing list, for example) any change in the icons.svg main file (change of names, new icons, etc.) because it is very difficult to compare icons.svg and tango.svg icon by icon, name by name. The easy way to use the Tango Pasodoble Icons is downloading this file: http://www.jesusda.com/files/inkscape-tango-theme/tango_icons_new_0.48.1_v0… There are two folders: 16 and 24. You must copy the icons inside the 16 folder and paste then into your desktop icon theme ACTIONS folder for 16px icons (do the same for 24). Inkscape will load the icons from your desktop icon theme. ;) This option is only for Linux users. I know the icon topic was disscussed time ago, but I think we must do anithing about this: the default icon theme is not so pretty. It does not brings users the hi-quality appearance Inkscape has inside. I know is so difficult to decide and change the icons. I know the tango pasodoble icon theme could be better, but we has no other options. It is great that Inkscape could load the icon from our desktop icon theme, but what abou Mac and Windows users? It will be a nice idea to allow users select the theme via preferences or simply use the tango icon theme as a default one. I hope you like this update and I hope you excuse my poor english. :D Thank you for made the best ever vector drawing software. ;) Cheers! Salu2 de jEsuSdA 8)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] outset confusion
by ~suv 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

On 11/3/11 12:16, kqt4at5v@...210... wrote: > I did find that dynamic offset is not quite as destructive > Is there a way with dynamic offset to set an exact dimension, 5.626 px Inkscape currently has no special GUI to edit the distance of the dynamic (or linked) offset numerically, nor does its handle snap to grid, guides or other node targets. You can however easily adjust the numeric offset distance using the XML Editor: 1) select the dynamic offset 2) open 'Edit > XML Editor...' 3) in the list at the right side, select the attribute 'inkscape:radius' 4) edit the value in the entry box at the bottom (in px) 5) click 'Set' (or use the keyboard shortcut 'Ctrl'+Enter) hth, ~suv

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Cursor Inkscape - Corel
by Fantomas 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hello, Inkscape can be set as the cross cursor in Corel?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] outset confusion
by Jasper van de Gronde 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

I don't think you're missing that much, I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like a numerical problem somewhere. Specifically, for some reason Inkscape seems to convert a perfectly straight line segment into a curved segment when outsetting (even if you explicitly convert to a straight line segment first, so that there is no chance that it's almost straight or anything), that seems a bit odd. On my installation (0.48) it seems like it's mostly just the left tooth(?) at the top, although similar effects play up when insetting. Interestingly dynamic offset seems to do better, but it also clearly gives a different result (it rounds cusp corners). But if that's okay for you that might be a way out. In any case, you might want to file a bug report. To do so, please go to: http://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ and click on "Report a bug" (it's on the right). In the mean time I've also added the developers list to the recipients, in case anyone there knows what to do. On 2011-03-10 20:30, kqt4at5v@...210... wrote: > I am missing something simple > I have the first image, gear.ps, that I want to cut out with a 0.125 > endmill > So I set outset in inkscape preferences to 5.625, select all nodes and > path->outset and I get the second image, gear.svg > Where am I going wrong > > Richard > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Colocation vs. Managed Hosting > A question and answer guide to determining the best fit > for your organization - today and in the future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Partial clip-rule implementation
by Andrew Lutomirski 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I don't know what the standard way to submit patches is, but I've attached a patch that implements loading, saving, and computing of the clip-rule property. I'm playing with getting it to work in the cairo renderer. It's a bit of a pain for two reasons. First, the existing fill-rule implementation for clip paths is not just incorrect (fill-rule shouldn't affect clip paths) but is also very buggy. Second, I don't know how to ask cairo to generate a clipping region that is the union of two paths unless both paths use the nonzero rule. That being said, I have a gross hack that at least gets multiple nonzero paths or a single evenodd path right. I'll make it less ugly before I mail it in. I understand approximately nothing about the nr renderer (or whatever the code that I assume renders the editing view is), so I've made no progress on honoring clip-rule in the edit view. What should I do from here? (Note: I'm not really inclined to try to invent a sensible UI for clip-rule. I mainly want to be able to edit my own figures that need clip-rule=evenodd. --Andy

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printing - rendering bitmaps
by Drechsel Wolf 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hello everybody, I hope folks will apologize me asking for simpe end-user advice: When calling the "printing" dialog, there is a tab "rendering". There I can select "vector" or "bitmap" and set the resolution for the bitmap. As I want to print a self-made map with a scan in the background, the "bitmap" option seems reasonalble to me. But lowering the resolution doesnt make any difference, files are as big as they are when I leave the "rendering" tab set to "vector". Is that a bug - or is my assumtion wrong, that this tab should have an influence to the resolution of embedded bitmaps? (Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard, inkscape 0.48 X11) Thanks and greetings, Wolf

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Fw: Inkscape Website Progress...
by Matthew Todd 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Resending. On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:18:26 +0100 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: > There could also be a link to the dA group. > > Regards, Krzysztof > I would definitely recommend this. Although there isn't much work in the group, some of it is really high quality (several got daily deviations). Plus I think that it'd help give the impression to visitors that the Inkscape user base/community is active. Matthew Todd

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Mockup for Improvement of Fill and Stroke Dialog
by Andrew 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Hi Guys, (I apologise if I sent this to the wrong list and if so, if you could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful :] ) My name is Andrew and I have been using Inkscape for quite a while and have always found it fantastic! One thing I have found though, is that while some parts of Inkscape are brilliantly designed, some legacy parts you use a new lick of paint and a polish :) One such part is the part I use most, the Fill and Stroke Dialog. This was also picked up recently by this blog post http://www.bomahy.nl/hylke/blog/on-gnome-and-elegance/ (yes we can all tell which application screenshots 2 and 3 are from :P ) You can see my findings and my suggestion on the Wiki, but to entice you to read it, the mockup is here :) http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Fill_and_Stroke_Dialog_Re-Design http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/File:Solution-fillandstrokedialog.p… Thanks and I would love to hear your comments! -- Andrew

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