Rename 'Vacuum defs'
by John Smith
Is there a more user friendly way to describe the 'Vacuum defs' function ?
How about we rename something like 'Document Cleanup' ?
Maybe even a dialog with checkboxes and explanations of the various options:
Cleanup and remove the following unused definitions from this document
* Unused gradients
* Unused color profiles
* Unused patterns
* Unused markers
* Unused scripts
* Unused clipping paths
* Unused filters etc
10 years, 11 months
libvisio is available
by Alexandre Prokoudine
Hi,
During this GSoC a LibreOffice student and her mentor implemented
support for VSD, binary Microsoft Visio documents, that Microsoft
never bothered to publish a specification on. The student managed to
do far more that she expected and ended up with a nice C++ library for
parsing VSD called libvisio that supports all geometric primitives,
formatted text, embedded stencils, all kinds of fills and strokes etc.
The long story is here:
http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=41
Now, the short story is that the libvisio library (currently at
v0.0.7) has a tool called vsd2xhtml which converts VSD to SVG
documents and embeds them into XHTML documents. So it looks like it's
possible to write an extension for loading VSD directly to Inkscape.
Otherwise you have to do some text editing to get an SVG out of that
XHTML.
Howevere there is a party trick involved. Since VSD files are often
multipage, the convertor dumps every page into same XHTML file one by
one. So if someone decides to have a go at it, I think it would rather
be loader similar to our PDF loader which provides preview for letting
a user to choose a page for importing.
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
10 years, 11 months
Inkscape PRO
by Felipe Sanches
This is an output extension for color separation. I have a feeling that it
is somewhat inadequate, but I'm unsure. Maybe the color experts here can
give us a hint. JonCruz?!
http://www.cimcomunica.com/site2/
Felipe Sanches
10 years, 11 months
GTK+ 3 regression bug tag
by Alex Valavanis
I've added a tag "gtk3-regression" that can be added to any bug
reports that describe issues that only occur in the experimental gtk3
build.
Cheers,
AV
10 years, 11 months
GtkObject stuff
by Alex Valavanis
Hi All,
I've created a branch at lp:~inkscape.dev/inkscape/gtk_object_removal
[1] in which I have started trying to rebase SPCanvasItem on GObject
rather than GtkObject.
I don't really know what I'm doing with Glib/GObject so I have made
some (un)educated guesses about how to replace bits of the
functionality!
The code compiles and gets rid of a huge number of the remaining GTK+3
build errors, but there are major runtime issues (lots of crashes &
Glib warnings). Please could someone who knows about Glib memory
management take a look at this and give me a couple of pointers about
what I'm doing wrong? Am I completely on the wrong track here?
Thanks,
Alex
[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/gtk_object_removal/cha...
10 years, 11 months
Quick ! Teams, please confirm LGM 2013 dates proposal
by Louis Desjardins
To all teams,
Hi all !
After our unanimous call for next LGM to take place in Madrid, we now need
a quick go-ahead for the dates !
The proposal is April 10-13 (Wednesday-Saturday)
Please voice any concern about those dates or your clear approval asap.
Many thanks !!!
Louis
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libregraphicsmeeting.org
+1 514 994 9351 (Cell)
+1 514 934 1353 ext. 121 (Montréal)
HAE / EDT GMT -5
10 years, 11 months
Regarding variable thickness lines
by Sharad Dixit
hi,
I am new to inkscape development . I'm not sure I have all the definitions
perfectly clear, but I'll try to explain my query as well as I can.
Is this functionality already exist in inkspace i.e to create a line of
variable width which would allow us drawing curves but where each node
could have its width set so that the line width changed from node to node.
I've also tried a couple of other vector graphics programs, such as
Illustrator and Xara but this functionality doesn't exist.
Thanks a lot
--
Sharad
10 years, 11 months
Pass original file path to script extension
by Gerrit Karius
Hello everyone,
I'd like to reference external svg files in my document and process them via an extension. I know that Inkscape will not render them, but I am using an external call to the Apache Batik framework which can resolve external dependencies.
The problem is, extensions are called on a temporary copy of the current document (usually in some temp folder), so all relative path references are broken.
Is there any way to make an extension call on the original file, or somehow pass that file reference to the extension as a parameter?
I only found this forum thread where people are guessing that this is not possible:http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1156
Does anyone of you devs know a workaround?
Many thanks in advance,Gerrit
10 years, 11 months
