August 2011 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

SVG on web.
by john Culleton 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

I came across an example of svg used as a "wireframe" or mockup of the appearance of a web page here: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/wiki/images/e/ed/Planet.svg The interesting thing to me is that this svg renders the same in Inkscape and in Firefox. And it is editable in Inkscape. So it appears that svg could be added to a web page design. Given that facility, can the svg portion be used for dynamic purposes. For example could an anchor be added to point to another url? Or is svg a graphics-only format? Thoughts, anyone? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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The W3 state of flowPara
by Stefan de Konink 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi, What is the actual 'state' of the flowPara discussion? Is there in fact an alternative way of representing these proposed? Or is the entire functionality removed. On the wiki it is mentioned that some new syntax is introduced, where is this described? Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREKAAYFAk5XgG8ACgkQYH1+F2Rqwn1vAQCfW1cl1h4bdBD4aSyufVRb2Hxz 8y0AnA58jE2mxk87y/M8I4KIQT6+Qynt =plP1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Created node should snap to grid
by Johan Engelen 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hi all, Do more people agree with me that when a node is created (by ctrl+alt or double-click) that it should be snapped to the grid? If so, Diederik, can you look into this? :P Thanks so much! Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] inkscape to synfig studio
by Nikita Kitaev 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

2011/8/17 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...>: > Как и просили :) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> > Date: Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:34 PM > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] inkscape to synfig studio > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > On 14-8-2011 21:04, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: >> Hi, >> >> FYI, for a few weeks now Nikita Kitaev has been working on an svg2sif >> extension that allows exporting SVG to Synfig Studio animation editor >> documents. >> >> https://github.com/nikitakit/svg2sif >> >> He hopes that it will eventually replace the existing SVG importer in Synfig. >> >> Discussion forum is here: http://www.synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2953 > > (After a very brief look) > Apparently, the extension requires all shapes to be converted to paths. > Because it is implemented as a python script, an extra Inkscape > subprocess is launched to convert the non-path shapes to paths. I see > the benefit of having a Python script, but is it not easier/faster in > this case to write it in C++ in Inkscape's codebase ? > Or, alternatively, we could add an option for extensions to request > SVG's with path-shapes only...? > > (Alexandre, can you forward this to Nikita? Thanks) > > Ciao, > Johan > Hi everyone, I agree that having direct access to Inkscape's features would save some code repetition and subprocess calls. C++ is probably faster/easier if you're already very familiar with Inkscape's codebase. I'm not. Having extensions request path-only SVGs would help in this case, but hopefully it can be something more flexible. For example, svg2sif also uses Inkscape to get rid of <use> elements -- but at some point in time I plan to use Synfig's linking/clone features instead. If there's a way to request simplified SVGs, it would be nice to be able to pass options. (e.g. "No non-paths", "no clones", etc.) What about dbus extension features? I remember that there were plans and code, but I don't know what the status is. ~Nikita

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proposed patch for Bug 813829, inconsistent marker rendering
by Alvin Penner 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

this is a request for testing of a proposed patch to file src/2geom/hvlinesegment.h for Bug 813829. since the file belongs to 2geom, I'm not quite sure how to proceed... tia, Alvin http://old.nabble.com/file/p32284561/hvlinesegment.h hvlinesegment.h -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/proposed-patch-for-Bug-813829%2C-inconsistent-marker-… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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inkscape to synfig studio
by Alexandre Prokoudine 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Hi, FYI, for a few weeks now Nikita Kitaev has been working on an svg2sif extension that allows exporting SVG to Synfig Studio animation editor documents. https://github.com/nikitakit/svg2sif He hopes that it will eventually replace the existing SVG importer in Synfig. Discussion forum is here: http://www.synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2953 Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Making GTK UI for inkscape preferences dialog.
by Abhishek Sharma 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Hello everybody, I was trying to add radio buttons for some optional preferences, this GSoC, to allow for attribute checking. I therefore, with discussions with Tavmjong and Josh, decided to add this kinda UI in the SVG Output pane of the preferences dialog to the right hand side area : Incorrect Attributes: Remove ( ) Warn (x) Ignore ( ) Incorrect Style Properties: Remove ( ) Warn (x) Ignore ( ) Style Defaults Remove ( ) Warn (x) Ignore ( ) As you might realize, that each button, takes up one row. Therefore, if some button on the left hand side of this UI corresponds to another button, and has a row width set to some higher value, the UI breaks and become like this. Incorrect Style Properties: Remove ( ) Warn (x) Ignore ( ) Too much gap between Remove and Warn options, the reason being, the row in which Remove lies has the width set to some higher value and hence this weird UI. Therefore to tackle such a thing I made a DialogPage inside a DialogPage. Like SVGOutput in itself is a DialogPage and I made another DialogPage named AtrributeChecking and attached it to the right hand side. This kinda solved the former problem, but another problem came up. Now when I expand the preferences window, this right hand side buttons keep moving to the middle like this Remove() Remove() Remove() like this the on dragging and expanding the window, the buttons keep going in the right hand side direction. If someone wishes to actually observe this behavior, kindly have a look here https://code.launchpad.net/~spyzer-abhishek0/+junk/gsoc2011 Please help me out with this. Google Summer of Code is gonna end on 22nd of August and I have only 5 days. So any help is greatly appreciated. -- Regards, Abhishek Sharma

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Inkscape 0.48.2
by Ted Gould 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Hello, I've made tarballs of the 0.48.2 release of Inkscape. Please, as per usual don't announce these generally until packages have a chance to make binary packages for users. I'd really like to thank those that worked on backporting all of the patches, it's tireless and unforgiving work. But I'm sure this will delight a bunch of people. https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.2/ == MD5 Sums == f60b98013bd1121b2cc301f3485076ba inkscape-0.48.2.tar.bz2 889dcffb2fc72ea8522ca4bed95427e1 inkscape-0.48.2.tar.gz 7cbac56025f9cbabc3b765b2ce4f1610 inkscape-0.48.2.zip == SHA1 Sums == be30ab2d2714d04ddd69b400bd6ad30b09e83067 inkscape-0.48.2.tar.bz2 422a4bacd4dc42adafa203244bc9816783cba4d3 inkscape-0.48.2.tar.gz 356d770d853bd96299d2c8d5f3f3d4949fac2a58 inkscape-0.48.2.zip --Ted

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DXF output extension
by Johan Engelen 13 Aug '11

13 Aug '11

Hi all, I just added support for clones in the non-pstoedit DXF output extension in trunk. Would be happy if people could do some testing. I also removed the DXF-comment from the DXF output because KLayout does not support that. Should we not rename this extension from "Desktop Cutting Plotter (AutoCAD DXF R14)" to just "AutoCAD DXF R14" ? There is another pstoedit-based output extension called "AutoCAD DXF R12", but this one is not available by default (and requires some extra work to get it going on Windows), and does not support layers. Ciao, Johan

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First results
by Krzysztof Kosiński 07 Aug '11

07 Aug '11

Hello all The branch at lp:~tweenk/inkscape/gsoc-caching contains the first testable features of my performance improvement project. The SVG drawing is rendered to a separate surface, so it doesn't need to be redrawn every time there is an editing control drawn over it. The responsiveness of path highlighting in complex documents is improved dramatically. If you turn off real-time updates of paths and leave only real-time updates of outlines on in node editor preferences, there is also a significant improvement in responsiveness when editing complex filtered paths. To fix some breakage with clipped groups (appears to be a Cairo problem, but I couldn't isolate it) I have substantially changed the rendering pipeline. Clipping paths are now rasterized and the drawing is composited with them using the IN operator. This allows us to handle nested clipping paths and clip-rule correctly. As an unrelated improvement, text objects can now be used as clipping paths. Regards, Krzysztof

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