January 2013 - Inkscape Devel

Grayscale viewmode prefs
by Johan Engelen 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

Hi all, I'm lazy... please tell me where to store in preferences.xml the 'user-calibratable' grayscale conversion values for the grayscale view mode. Something like: /options/grayscale/r /options/grayscale/g /options/grayscale/b (off-topic: the value itself is a floating point value between 0 and 1 that says how gray that primary color should be shown; 0 = black, 1 = white) Thanks! Johan

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Patch that allows use of Meta key on Mac OS X and all platforms
by Valerio Aimale 09 Jan '13

09 Jan '13

I've submitted this patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1097539 that activates the Meta (or Apple or Command or Windows Flag) key as modifier key. It allows to have Mac-like menu accelerators (Command-C for copying, Command-V for pasting, etc.) After applying the patch and compiling/packaging, the file share/keys/mac.xml has to be copied as Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/keys/default.xml The file mac.xml is a copy of default.xml where I brutally found all occurrences of 'Ctrl' and replaced them with 'Meta'. I'm sure it needs a more careful approach. Valerio

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Inkscape and Mac OSX menu integration
by Valerio Aimale 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

I think there might be a somewhat involved solution to the problem of integrating mac osx menus in inkscape. Sure having Inkscape with mac-ish menus would be nice. It entails creating an invisible window with a menu that is managed by OSX-integration. When a menu event is generated, the invisible window delegates the event to the windows that has focus - either via programmatically triggering the window's own - invisible- menu or by directly calling the verb/action. Valerio > Your email, unfortunately, made me think that OSX menu integration > might not be possible, without a major rewriting of the source code. > Inkscape's architecture (as for the majority of gtk apps) assumes > that, in multi-document mode, every window has its own private menu > that receives and process events. > > In OSX, in multi-dicument mode, there is only one menu that processes > events and dispatches actions to the window that currently has the focus. > > It might not be possible to achieve this type of integration with the > current state of Inkscape' sources.

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Regression Customizable filters stop to customize after opening Filters Editor
by Ivan Louette 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

Rev 12010 on Kubuntu 12.04 Open Inkscape Import a bitmap Apply a customizable filter Open the Filters Editor Now you are unable to live preview the changes of any customizable filter, even if you close and reopen Inkscape ! You must delete Preferences.xml in .config to recover the live preview changes.

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Programmer needed
by Susan Spencer 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Looking for a programmer to develop a cairo-graphics demo app of Tau Meta Tau Physica pattern design software. This software can be used for sheet metal and wood working in addition to garment design. If you are interested please contact me at susan.spencer@...400... Cheers, - Susan

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BSpline branch renamed. New branch for 0.48 Series
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Hi to all. I update the 0.48.x branch to the official stable branch instead the development 0.48 branch. The names are changed. Stable Branch lp:~jabiertxof/inkscape/BSpline+SpiroLive-RELEASE_0_48_BRANCH Devel Branch lp:~jabiertxof/inkscape/BSpline+SpiroLive We can find here: https://code.launchpad.net/~jabiertxof in 1 day max.

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Inkscape 0.48.3 Windows 7 64-bit
by Partha Bagchi 06 Jan '13

06 Jan '13

Hi All, New to the list but not to compiling gtk programs on Windows. I decided to try my hand on compiling Inkscape on 64-bit Windows 7 after users of my Gimp builds urged me to look into Inkscape. However, I am running into an issue that is not making sense to me. The compile fails on the ui/dialog part of the tree with a message that giom/dbusmessage.h has an error in it!. I can post the exact error if needed. However, thought this might be familiar to veterans out there and so decided to post. I am using gcc 4.7.2 if that matters. If/once I am successful, I will be happy to put up builds on my website. While Googling for 64-bit builds, I see that there is virtually nothing out there for Inkscape. The SuSE builds are interesting and work. However, the ui is screwy in that you cannot open any files or save them. In other words, no dialog box shows up when you run it. So, it's not very useful. :) Thanks in advance, Partha www.partha.com

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] BSpline + SpiroLive branch noww full ready
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 06 Jan '13

06 Jan '13

Hi to all. The branch BSpline is update to fix continue previous curve error. Now is complete for testing. https://code.launchpad.net/~jabiertxof/inkscape/BSpline Feedback are welcome. Hi, Jabier. -----Mensaje original----- De: Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> Reply-to: jabier.arraiza@...2893... Para: inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: nemes.sorin <nemes.sorin@...400...>, moduli16 <moduli16@...400...>, Guiu Rocafort <neandertalspeople@...400...>, Romain de Bossoreille <romain2boss@...48...>, inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net, inkscape-user-es(a)lists.sourceforge.net, inkscape-user-fr(a)lists.sourceforge.net, inkscape-user-it(a)lists.sourceforge.net, inkscape-user-brasil(a)lists.sourceforge.net, mp+137463 <mp +137463@...2499...> Asunto: BSpline + SpiroLive branch is ready for testing. Fecha: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 08:14:33 +0100 Hi to all. The branch BSpline is on. https://code.launchpad.net/~jabiertxof/inkscape/BSpline It has the SpiroLive code refactored and the new code BSpline. It has a new button near spiro, It work in pen and pencil mode. For developers: I have a problem in code commented in bspline function. Please anybody can fix? This code is for use continuing existing curves in CUSP node. I lost my terribol history of this proyect in bzr because i kill the "bzr merge" command and it corrupt a file in the branch. Please test. Feedback are welcome. Hi, Jabier.

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undo: writing to XML during load
by Johan Engelen 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

Hi all, We have a problem with the LPE-system writing to XML *during* the load process. When loading an SVG with path effects, you can do an undo operation that bugs. Upon loading a file, all effects get recalculated, because of "path_set" being the same for initialization and changes. Can we fix the situation by simply (re-)initializing the undo system *after* a file has been fully loaded? Cheers, Johan

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A slight tweak to symbol manager ;-)
by Jelle Mulder 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

Hi all, A thought struck me while working with the symbol manager. As it currently is springtime again, I can't help myself but post this idea here. Launchpad is not often available to me due to timeouts (3 sec reply limit reached due to GFW and NSA), sorry for that. As it now reads <symbol> code and put it neatly into a window, how hard could it be to let it read <glyph> code and put that in a window. I am sure that the font designers would be thrilled with it and using LibreOffice draw to generate SVG fontsets by using its SVG export would open up a plethora of fonts to the Inkscape community. Including all those symbol sets, wingbats, sign language symbols and whatever has been put into ttf, type1 and whatever convertible format. An addition would have to be to limit the amount of glyphs read at one time as I guess that a full traditional Chinese character set of 180.000 characters would be a tad heavy. The basic tools are there though and it can't be that hard to have it read <glyph> rather than <symbol>. Reading the UNC code per 128? incrementally and adding a number under the glyph display would turn it into a pretty sophisticated tool for font developers and designers alike. Cheers, Jelle P.S. I deem myself a lousy coder, otherwise...

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