January 2014 - Inkscape Devel

External SVG Files via href
by Martin Owens 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Hey Devs, I've been looking into this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1269880 And have forged a solution in uri-references.cpp by using the existing getPath property and GLib's build_filename. See the commit here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/12939 I really didn't expect this to work, I thought it'd be step one in a chain of items to fix. But it actually works and I'd like other dev's input to see if it's doing the right thing. I'd like to have a document based list of linked documents, so they could be tracked (and maybe ui'ed in the future). But I'm not sure if it's even needed. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Text decorations, GUI
by mathog 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Display of text decorations is in trunk and it can display things as shown in this example: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/140347078/text_decorations.png (Note install the last patch in https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1243401 to see these again, as a recent change to trunk broke them.) Text decoration control requires three GUI fields: Line: NONE, or any combination of: underline, overline, linethrough, blink Style: solid, double, dashed, wavy Color: From Text or (Color setting widget) I'm thinking about what the GUI should look like to access these. My first thought was to add them to the "A" (Create and edit text objects) part of the GUI, since text decoration does not make a lot of sense without text to decorate, and this sort of thing would be in a part of the GUI like that in a Word processor. But that part of the GUI is already packed with options, to the extent that on my computer I can only see all the options when Inkscape fills the entire screen. If text decoration was added there, it would never all fit. So my second thought was to maybe put these in "A (with a wavy line through it)" as (Create and edit text decorations). That would let it fit on screen better, at the cost of making the line of icons down the left side of the screen one longer. The third option is to add a second line of options to the existing "A". That would use up more vertical screen space, but it would have the advantage that all of the text and text decoration formatting options could be on screen at once. This is more of a departure for the GUI, since it seems not to happen anywhere else. Thoughts? (Note: "blink" line type is emulated with a type of double line style. I don't expect true blink display to be found in many SVG viewers, ever, so all Inkscape has to do is indicate that it is set.) Is there at present anything in the Inkscape GUI where a check box widget is exposed when one of the left side icons is selected? As far as I could tell all of the widgets exposed by selecting one of those icons are of the "select one" type. Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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wiki.inkscape.org down
by Guiu Rocafort 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Hi ! I noticed that the wiki page wiki.inkscape.org is down ( at least for me and from this page[1] ) Guiu [1] http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/wiki.inkscape.org -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Symmetry Tool
by Tom Lechner 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

Is anyone out there secretly working on the symmetry-tool branch? I've tried to compile recently, but it seems to be suffering some bit rot. I'm working through errors, but for the moment I'm stumped on what seems to be a lot of c style object code from the general src breaking compilation. Any hints? -Tom ----- tomlechner.com

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Menu option for web pages.
by john Culleton 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

The one major item that is available in html5 that I miss in Inkscape 48.4 is the drop down menu feature. I can emulate it of course with a second (third etc.) copy of the entire index.svg page with the menu dropped down. It would be cool however if I could overlay the first page with a smaller page consisting of just the menu items, live of course. Any thoughts on this? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Updated Fedora inkscape builds
by Ryan Lerch 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Hi all, I am periodically building recent trunk versions of Inkscape for Fedora. all the details and repo installation inctructions are available here: http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/coprs/ryanlerch/inkscape-unstable/ cheers, ryanlerch

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Unfinished features for 0.91?
by Bryce Harrington 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Because we're now in the Chill phase of the release cycle, I need to inquire as to the status of any unfinished features for the 0.91 release. We still have ample time before the release, but what we want is for any feature that will take more than a month or two to reach full maturity, to be postponed for a future release. If you're working on a feature which you, or someone else, may legitimately consider to be not "release ready", please let me know asap. Bryce

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Inkscape 0.48.5 (again!)
by Alex Valavanis 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hello All, It's great that we're moving forward with 0.91, but I still think there's merit in pushing a quick bugfix release. There are a lot of high-importance bugs fixed in the 0.48.x branch [1] including a number of build-failures on current linux distros and OS X. There are currently only six backport proposals remaining [2]. Are there any other known issues preventing us from pushing the release? AV [1] https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+milestone/0.48.5 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs?field.tag=backport-proposed

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Removing a property entirely from a style list?
by mathog 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi, I have been experimenting with adding text-decoration control to the "Text and Font" dialog. It is working (crudely) except I have not yet figured out how to remove the text-decorate property from a "style". That is, to go from: style="text-decoration: underline wavy #ffff00;fill:#ffff00;stroke:#006400" to style="fill:#ffff00;stroke:#006400" To add this property, or to modify it, this works: sp_repr_css_set_property(css, "text-decoration", td_full_string); and these work: sp_repr_css_set_property(css, "text-decoration", "none"); sp_repr_css_set_property(css, "text-decoration", "inherit"); putting "text-decoration: none" and "text-decoration: inherit" in the style. But while this looks like it should have eliminated any mention of text-decoration from the style: sp_repr_css_unset_property(css, "text-decoration"); it only succeeded in moving the existing text-decoration from wherever it was to the end of the style. In the file src/xml/repr-css.cpp it says that that unset function sets "inkscape:unset" for that property. Is something else (that I need to modify?) supposed to see that and then really delete the property? Is there an sp_repr_css_remove_property() somewhere that I have not found? Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Libre Graphics Meeting and GSoC students.
by Tavmjong Bah 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi, It appears that Google will fund up to $500 US for travel (airplane/train/bus) expenses to send some 2013 GSoC students to LGM[1] in Leipzig (April 2nd-5th). Students, if you are interested, please fill out the form at: http://goo.gl/NgKei4 Hotel/meal expenses will not be covered but there are cheap hostels near the meeting site. Google will not be funding mentor travel. Tav NB. There is currently a cut/paste error on the form. Accommodations in Phnom Penh are not being provided! [1] http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/

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