May 2014 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

64-bit: size of vectors and the like
by Johan Engelen 11 May '14

11 May '14

Hi all, TL,DR: please use std::size_t instead of e.g. unsigned int for STL's size() return values. A quick message. I just fixed a bug in buildtool.cpp that lead to an infinite loop when compiled for 64-bit. It happened because of a loop test on a string.size() with an unsigned int counter type. Changing the counter type to std::size_t fixed the issue. To be honest, I do not actually fully understand why it went into an infinite loop. But hope this is an example to motivate you to use the correct type to store / work with the result of STL's size() return parameters. Thanks, Johan

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0.91 Release Notes
by Ryan Lerch 11 May '14

11 May '14

Just trying to get a go on this item in the release schedule [1] """ Identify remaining writing needed for Release Notes. """ Is it safe to start taking the release notes, and expanding them out further? Are all the features / bugfixes we want to document listed on the wikipage[2]? Or are there some that still need to be added? cheers, ryanlerch [1] - http://inkscape.org/en/develop/next-release/ [2] - http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91

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About Screen Contest: 0.91
by Martin Owens 11 May '14

11 May '14

Hi Devs, Now we're in or very near to Frost, one of the items is the About Screen contest. This sounds like a really interesting task for a non-coder. Maybe one of the people who help with translations, forums or other

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Post LGM notes on PDF and Inkscape2Scribus workflow
by pygmee 09 May '14

09 May '14

During last LGM we have discussed on future development of Inkscape. Among the tasks, we pointed the print-ready PDF request. I mentionned we have 2 opportunities : - as scribus does a print-ready PDF, try to learn from that to develop our own. Discussions with Franz and Andreas have pointed it was not hard in the principle but that cairo might not do it so soon and that Scribus don't provide a library whoch could easily implement it into Inkscape. Andreas has shown interest in helping in a way, and Kryzstof seem to be on the way - i also said that actually we usually import Inkscape documents into Scribus and make the PDF from it. Of course, this is far from being a perfect workflow for it needs few minutes to be done and redone when needed just for an "export". Plus we have issues with Scribus SVG import features which sometimes means come back to a standard PNG export, which is not desired when we decide to use vector. I gave the filter example and this one is really not it the Roadmap because there are many other more important feature to get implement before and that filters are not in PDF so they might be rasterized anyway. Scribus don't provide a command line option that would allow PDF generation on the fly from Inkscape. The situation is improving because Scribus is itself getting getter in SVG support but there are no real plans so that we have no idea when it could be done and the guy working mainly on Postscript and SVG may not be available in the next months. I think that create a better Workflow with Scribus is interesting for many other reasons that get Print-ready PDF for Inkscape. Especially, we'd anyway need to import often vector drawing in Scribus for complex layout. Actually Inkscape is missing many interesting things such as text styles, flowing text around objects, multipage... So we should not imagine Inkscape could replace Scribus as easily. May be that one of the easiest would be exploring by ourselves especially give Scribus files that it can easily read : i guess it's will be easier to get an exporter than an importer - Provide a "Scribus SVG" which contains bitmap data or links so that we could flatten or rasterize everything scribus won't support, choosing the resolution. I didn't check if this could be done in python, especially accessing primitive filters - Provide an exchange format that could help and i'm thinking of OpenRaster. Scribus just begun implemented it in March and i've done some test on it. There is actually no vector support, but this format might be a could beginning point to work with many other softwares too like Krita or Mypaint. I think it would worth to put the effort on ora more that on XCF esport, for example. I can help on this as i can, but i'm not a programmer so i'm slow in coding. I more used in python but i've really done little patch in C++ though never for Inkscape. CU pygmee

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Inverted Linked Path Param in LPE...??
by Papoj Thamjaroenporn 08 May '14

08 May '14

Dear all, I’m a little puzzled at this. Does anyone know why when we define path param by linking, the resulting path param is inverted? Compared to pasted path, the resulting param path’s orientation remains the same. An example using Bend Path LPE is shown below. This behavior happens to other LPEs that use path param as well. Also, does anyone know if we can restrict the path param to link / copy path’s control points *exactly* at the same locations as it’s drawn? Thank you. Regards, _______________________ Papoj "Hua" Thamjaroenporn episer@...400...

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64-bit Windows builds
by liamw 08 May '14

08 May '14

http://goo.gl/yVygaU Successful compilation of lp:~inkscapebrony/inkscape/inkscape I have enabled gradient meshes, test path effects, and the LPE tool. I don't think the File open/save dialogs work — you will have to use the command line for that. Many thanks to Partha for the build environment — which you can download here : http://goo.gl/kRnN5z -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/64-bit-Windows-builds-tp4970434.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Merge on to experimental branch
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hi Martin. Devs. I also put the mail to the devel list if anybody want to help you on it. There is a, just created, inkscape "experimental" branch. I'm not in devs group, so, Could you merge this branchs approved by you on to this branch? This branch are: https://code.launchpad.net/~inktxof/inkscape/simplify https://code.launchpad.net/~inktxof/inkscape/lattice2 https://code.launchpad.net/~inktxof/inkscape/lastApplied And check the resubmit of: https://code.launchpad.net/~inktxof/inkscape/envelope-perspective This branch and patches are for review from any dev: Branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~inktxof/inkscape/roughen Patches: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1068987 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1241902 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1242170 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1246550 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1303175 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/609839 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1241501 bspline+spirolive branch is reviewed and aproved by Vinícius -previously approved by Martin, but this seems a incomplete review because a truncate of the diff-, I ask to him directly to merge this branch. Thanks very much Martin.

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pencil functionality
by unknown＠example.com 07 May '14

07 May '14

Hello everyone, I would like to know if it's possible to make the same thing with inkscape, or if it is easy to develop this functionality. see this video : http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cc/allnew-pencil-tool-in-adobe-… Thanks Imppao ps: sorry for my very bad english

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0.91 - Tutorial update tasks
by Bryce Harrington 07 May '14

07 May '14

2. Chill. √ Development focuses on wrapping up √ Disable features that aren't finished √ Identify 'make distcheck' issues √ Identify any critical OSX/Win32 packaging issues √ Identify remaining writing needed for Release Notes. √ Regressions Bug Hunt: 500 points -----> Update tutorials and other docs The last item in the chill list is updating the tutorials that are shipped with the Inkscape package, including anything under the Help menu. The reason this task needs done in the Chill phase is to give translators plenty of time during Frost and Freeze. External tutorials are also worth updating of course but aren't schedule-critical so not tracked here. Ryan, your name was mentioned as someone with an eye on the tutorials, would you mind summarizing what work is already in process relating to tutorials for the Inkscape package? Bryce

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Adding multiple knot holders to the same LPE effect
by Papoj Thamjaroenporn 06 May '14

06 May '14

Dear Inkscape-devel, I am trying to figure out what the best way to add multiple user-defined knot holders to the LPE is. Let’s say I want to allow lpe-tangent_to_curve to have multiple tangent knots that I can slide independently, or lpe-knot to have multiple independent knots instead of shifting between each intersection by dragging a single knot around. What is the best practice of doing this? The mechanism of implementing addKnotHolderEntities(), knot_set(), knot_get() seems to support the case that I have just one knot to insert (per class defined). I am not sure if it can support multiple knots (of the same kind) that work independently from each other this way. Another related question is, what’s is best practice to store multiple ScalarParam’s or VectorParam's that basically do the same thing? Again, let’s say I want to implement lpe-tangent_to_curve so that I can look at multiple tangent lines independently. Would you use, let’s say, std::vector<VectorParam> or ArrayParam<VectorParam>? If someone can point me to existing LPE code that does something similar I’d also appreciate, since I haven’t found it so far. Regards, _______________________ Papoj "Hua" Thamjaroenporn pt2277@...3110...

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