September 2012 - Inkscape Devel

Sorry about the threadjacking
by mathog 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Apparently my practice of starting new threads by replying with a changed subject was not sufficient to actually start a new thread for some mail readers. I wasn't aware of this issue until one of you just told me, as my mail reader doesn't thread like that. My apologies to all of you whose threads I have accidentally highjacked this way! David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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VACANCY: Font Engineer employment opportunity, London UK
by Dave Crossland 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

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

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Grayscale mode
by Johan Engelen 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

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

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Regression with customizable filters on Kubuntu 12.04
by Ivan Louette 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

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

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Finally announcing 0.48.3.1?
by Luca Bruno 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

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 -- .''`. | ~<[ Luca BRUNO ~ (kaeso) ]>~ : :' : | Email: lucab (AT) debian.org ~ Debian Developer `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 0x3BFB9FB3 ~ Free Software supporter `- | HAM-radio callsign: IZ1WGT ~ Networking sorcerer

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Inkscape Board Election - voting time
by Josh Andler 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

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

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Updated lcms in devlibs
by Jasper van de Gronde 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

I just updated lcms in devlibs, with a bit of luck solving this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/453931 If anyone developing on Windows who has experience using lcms could test, that would be great. (Although I expect no big problems, I stuck to lcms 1.)

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Guides, backwards compatibility
by Johan Engelen 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

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

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rotatable desktop (was: Inkscape 0.49 Proposed Release Plan)
by jbc.engelen＠swissonline.ch 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

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

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-Spline
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

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.

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