VACANCY: Font Engineer employment opportunity, London UK
by Dave Crossland
Hi!
If you can work in London and are interested in font engineering
employment then please email me offlist for more details :-)
Type of skills required: Python programming, understanding (or
potential for quickly learning) OpenType features and shaping,
FontForge, and RoboFab.
Location details: London office
Type of employer: Employment in a UK Limited Company
Minimum salary: £26,630–£37,350pa, depending on experience
and skills
Cheers
Dave
10 years, 8 months
Grayscale mode
by Johan Engelen
Hi all,
Early in 0.49 development I added the grayscale viewmode. Very
convenient for preparing figures for both color and grayscale print
output. With the change to the renderer, we lost the functionality.
Is anybody willing/capable of restoring the functionality?
Thanks,
Johan
10 years, 8 months
Regression with customizable filters on Kubuntu 12.04
by Ivan Louette
With rev11689 and the Oxygen GTK theme on Kubuntu 12.04 customizable filters interfaces no longer work. It only applies the filter default settings and refuse to refresh.
When changing to other GTK themes filters work without problems.
ivan
10 years, 8 months
Finally announcing 0.48.3.1?
by Luca Bruno
Hi all,
so today I was again approached by a user puzzled by the fact that
0.48.3.1 is shipped by most distro, yet our site still mentions 0.48.2
as latest stable.
So I found myself a bit bold and proceeded with some action, after last
discussion on this topic.
Just to recall a bit the issue, 0.48.3.1 has been released as stable in
February. Linux and Win packages were ready in June, and in July we had
a short vote about the severe lack of .dmg, whose outcome was:
«Make announcements and apologize, while explaining why we have left out
a group of our users.»
This was already two months ago, nothing went out...
So, today I first committed to the web SVN an update of all links and
labels, then I drafted a short announce explaining what's going on:
http://titanpad.com/8eew4Q6uo2
Next step is to publish the announce and run a publish_web.sh to make
it public, as I don't have powers to do this.
I'm sure it could be polished/expanded a bit, as I'm neither a native
speaker nor the usual PR guy. But I fear that delaying this even more is
damaging the project, so please let the ball start rolling.
Ciao, Luca
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10 years, 8 months
Inkscape Board Election - voting time
by Josh Andler
Hey All,
The people nominated to fill the open spots on our board are as follow
(in no particular order):
Johan Engelen
Tavmjong Bah
Krzysztof Kosinski
JazzyNico
Jasper van de Gronde
If you are nominated and are unable or unwilling to serve on the
board, please speak up ASAP.
If you are in the AUTHORS file, you are eligible to vote. Please vote
for only two, both votes will carry equal weight. In the unlikely
event that there is a threeway tie, we will vote again with only one
vote per voter. This time, I'm holding off on voting until later in
the week (someone else gets to kick it off). The voting opens now and
will close on September 23rd, the results will be posted on the 24th.
Cheers,
Josh
10 years, 8 months
Guides, backwards compatibility
by Johan Engelen
Hi all,
The guide project has changed the format in which guides are saved to
SVG. The question now is: how do we provide compatibility with
"old-style" guides?
My proposal: convert old-style definitions to new-style upon loading the
file. Saving said file and opening it in Inkscape 0.48 will no longer
show any guides in this case. If desired, we can create a python
extension that saves the file with all guides converted to old-style.
This is the way we went to "new-style" grids back in the day.
(unfortunately, grids are stored in 'wrong' coordinates and will have to
be transformed too...)
Ciao,
Johan
10 years, 8 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rotatable desktop (was: Inkscape 0.49 Proposed Release Plan)
by jbc.engelen＠swissonline.ch
Indeed, I already had a rudimentary rotatable desktop working a while ago; it was only a small coding effort.
What popped up were some UI questions:
- page display
- boundingbox, do we want it to rotate too or not?
- thingies for scaling, shearing, rotating, should they rotate too?
- horizontal/vertical directions for dragging objects with ctrl, should they rotate too?
Etc...
Related: it can be nice to have different scales in x and y dir. If rotating works, then it should be programmed such that any reasonable transform matrix works...?
Cheers,
Johan
----- Reply message -----
Van: "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...>
Datum: do, sep. 20, 2012 11:13
Onderwerp: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.49 Proposed Release Plan
Aan: "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...>
CC: "Johan Engelen" <jbc.engelen@...2592...>, "Inkscape Devel List" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
2012/9/19 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>:
> I think that if we are going to break compatibility, we go for one
> release to do it. Basically, all of the new-style stuff including
> custom doc coords would be a huge win to introduce all at once. I
> would love to see a rotatable canvas in Inkscape, but I have no idea
> how feasible it is with the current rendering/viewport stuff we have
> in place.
In principle it should be possible to change doc2dt and dt2doc
matrices to any transform without any modifications to the display
subsystem, but it might expose bugs - mainly hidden assumptions that
doc2dt is always an Y flip + translation.
The code drawing the page background will need to be rewritten, as it
now assumes that the page is a rectangle with sides parallel to
desktop coordinate system axes.
Regards, Krzysztof
10 years, 8 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-Spline
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz
Hello, I'm working on the first phase is to get the preview of the
layout spiro match the final result.
This is something I see that basic b-spline curves are meaningful.
Anyway I'm very slow and not C and something that seems simple to me is
a world.
Hi, Jabiertxo.
10 years, 8 months
Inkscape 0.49 Proposed Release Plan
by Josh Andler
Hey All,
The following is based on previous release plans. Let me know if
there's anything missing. One thing I want to do differently is the
bug hunt. No score for this release, only going for bugs milestoned
for 0.49 instead. This also means we need to hit the tracker to ensure
the milestoned ones are correct and to milestone and must fixes. The
number of bugs already fixed in trunk is huge, so getting the work out
for further testing "soon" is better. Dates are subject to change as
always, hopefully they could be moved up (with the exception of the
the time between Feature Freeze and Hard Freeze, for the sake of the
translators). Translators, I would recommend getting started sooner
rather than later.
1. Open development. (In Progress)
2. Chill. (September 21, 2012)
Development focuses on wrapping up.
No further refactoring.
Identify 'make distcheck' issues
Triage bug reports
Run an About Screen contest
First draft of Release Notes.
Update tutorials and other docs
3. Frost. (October 5, 2012)
Most development complete.
Release Notes should be >90% filled in.
Bug Hunt: Target those milestoned for 0.49.
Post alpha quality tarball.
4. Feature Freeze. (October 26, 2012)
No further development work.
Disable features that can't be finished in time.
Focus on critical bug fixing.
Finalize all tutorials, docs, etc.
Finalize all extensions.
Translators create/update translations.
Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck'
Post beta quality tarball.
5. Hard freeze. (November 23, 2012)
Only release wardens can commit to mainline.
No further string changes.
Focus on release-critical bug fixing.
Finalize translations, release notes, etc.
Post Release Candidate tarball.
Packagers test creating pkgs.
6. Branch. (December 7, 2012)
Establish the Stable Branch for release
Complete any late-late-late work.
Final verification of packaging, release notes,
docs, etc.
Publish more release candidates until ready for
release.
Plan 0.49.1+ release(s), as needed
7. Release. (December 21, 2012)
Post inkscape-0.49.tar.gz
Post packages
Post official announcements
8. Open development.
Yes, it seems like a ridiculously short timeframe given our history of
making releases happen and how much we've strayed in the past. I do
however feel it is doable given the change in the bug hunt requirement
for this cycle. That usually holds us up. Also, no platform specific
bugs will hold up this release. We will release for specific platforms
as issues are taken care of.
If anyone has objections or concerns, please speak up. As stated in
the past... this is doable. We're good, we're smart, we're competent,
and we have the resources... we just need to be focused to make this
happen. Let's do this!
Cheers,
Josh
10 years, 8 months
