Optional hands on interface
by L2L 2L
> recently found out that I can ctl+atl+X to bring up a interface. That is nice. I enjoy programming the code more then I would using Inkscape GUI. But even the interface is still a GUI. I would like a second option to not reference from ID, but to actually have the code lay out like in a console. And also the ability to pin the window to the bottom of the main
8 years, 11 months
Inkscape 0.48.5 - one bug left
by Krzysztof Kosiński
I have applied the patches from most of the "backport-proposed" items
in the bugtracker and the 0.48.5 release is almost ready to tag. The
only thing left is this bug related to UniConvertor:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/656938
Can someone test on Windows and report on the status of this issue?
Does it apply to the 0.48.5 branch?
Regards, Krzysztof
8 years, 11 months
Website Stats
by Martin Owens
Hey Developers,
I'm been monitoring the inkscape.org website for a few weeks and I waned
to give you guys some data on how much traffic we get and what kind of
visitors are coming.
http://inkscape.org/media/stats/2014-05-18-2014-06-18/os.pdf
http://inkscape.org/media/stats/2014-05-18-2014-06-18/lang.pdf
http://inkscape.org/media/stats/2014-05-18-2014-06-18/searches.csv
http://inkscape.org/media/stats/2014-05-18-2014-06-18/http-searches.csv
First off, one and half million freaking views a month guys. This
project is rocking and we should count our website as a major outlet for
news and contributions. That's half a million users a month, 80% of who
never visited before.
If you take a look at the files, os wise we have a lot of windows and
mac visitors. Plenty of iOS ones too, more than android. I feel we
should make our os downloads more prominent on the front page. That's
where most people are going.
Language is interesting too. Lots of French, German, Japanese and
Spanish. We should make sure that our website translations are up to
scratch for these languages especially.
Search terms are also interesting. Common mis-spellings for inkscape are
inkspace, inscape, inskape, incscape, inkskape, inkscap, inscape, 'ink
space' etc. Which looks like people heard is by ear and heard 'in' or
instead of 'ink' and 'space' instead of 'scape'. Various variations on c
for k and lots of transpositions.
Other popular terms: download, free, vector, svg, drawing, program,
software, tutorial, mac, illustrator, open source, editor, msi, osx and
x11.
Some searches of 'inkscape portable' spread around th results, not sure
what that is or if people are searching for phone versions.
Questions searched for:
What is Inkscape for
What fonts are available on Inkscape
What is the latest version of Inkscape
inkscape when converting a bitmap to vector what determines the order of
the color layers
what do i download on the computer 2 be able 2 draw
what file formats does inkscape use
what is a free software like adobe
what is a vector based graphic
what is a vector editing program
what is the best free vector graphics program
what is the latest version of inkscape for mac
what program do i open a vector image
what software do google use to create svg
whats a free vector app for mac
when is the best time to add filters to an art project?
when should you use the undo command in inkscape
where can you find inkscape's tools in the workspace?
where is x11 inkscape
where to download inkscape
where to find inkscape for download
which is best gimp or inkscape
why an icon made in inkscape does not change into nvg
why does pasting into inkscape make it black
Interesting results. Any ideas from this data yourself?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
8 years, 11 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] patch: merge pdf import via poppler-cairo into native importer
by mathog
On 17-Jun-2014 11:55, Josh Andler wrote:
> The handful of random files I had around here as well as a couple I
> found
> in the tracker are importing the glyphs as outlines/symbols... here are
> a
> couple examples:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/429709/+attachment/718312/+files...
> from https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/429709
Ah, I see now what you are talking about. After poppler import defs is
full of symbols like this:
<symbol
overflow="visible"
id="glyph12-48">
<path
style="stroke:none;"
d="M 2.765625 (PATH EDITED OUT) Z "
id="path4079" />
</symbol>
and they are placed in the drawing with
<g
style="fill:rgb(0%,0%,0%);fill-opacity:1;"
id="g10226">
<use
xlink:href="#glyph12-48"
x="183.553346"
y="712.58976"
id="use10228" />
</g>
The original PDF did have selectable text when opened in a PDF viewer,
but after poppler import into Inkscape all of the text has been replaced
with graphic draws. Looks like poppler import is essentially treating
everything as a draw operation, and it has no concept of <text> or
<tspan>. The resulting SVG representation would not be easy to invert
since the glyph IDs provide no clue as to the original font or unicode
value. The part of the id before the dash is probably correlated with
fonts, as in glyph1 might be "Arial", glyph2 "Courier", and so forth,
but the part after is just numbered sequentially for each "glyph*"
variant.
Whoever is working on this might have a look at the code for
"pdftotext", which comes with poppler. If that program uses the same
import code it will show at least one way to retain text as text. (Or
it might be completely separate from poppler's usual import and not be
of any use at all. I have never looked at it.)
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/275655/+attachment/362795/+files...
> from https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/275655
That one is odd, the text doesn't import properly in any mode on the
Inkscape versions I tried, and it is also lost going into LibreOffice
draw.
Regards,
David Mathog
mathog@...1176...
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
8 years, 11 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] patch: merge pdf import via poppler-cairo into native importer
by mathog
On 17-Jun-2014 10:47, Josh Andler wrote:
> With the poppler-based import it is converting text to paths (or
> symbols
> from what I saw), but it still leaves the "import text as text" active
> and
> looking as if it will be how it functions. Is not importing the text as
> text via Poppler a bug or what we should expect?
Please post a link to an example (any PDF somewhere on the web) and
describe the region you are talking about. PDFs have a broad spectrum
of how text is encoded and without seeing the example we can't be sure
where the issue is. These PDFs all look the same on the screen, but...
The best case encodes each letter as its own glyph, and the encoding
matches up with unicode. These are searchable with text strings in PDF
viewers.
Not quite so good, the PDF merges pairs of letters like "fi" into one
glyph. This looks good as a graphic but causes hiccups when it hits any
text processing code. These are mostly searchable, but (in this
example) "file" would not be found, even when the word is staring the
user in the face on the screen. Compensating is possible in special
cases if there is a table of the common instances of this, and the
import code splits out the merged glyphs.
Really bad, PDF embeds glyphs and assigns arbitrary codes for each
glyph, so that there is no correspondence whatsoever between the
encoding and UTF or ASCII. These cannot be searched and will be
imported as gibberish. Miserable to straighten out, but in theory it
can be done by first searching each embeded glyph from the PDF against
the corresponding font (assuming that can be identified), to make a
table that back translates to unicode.
Impossible - PDF converts text to graphic draws and there are no
explicit glyphs whatsoever. This normally only shows up if the
exporting program has told the program generating the PDF to do this.
It might happen without the user being aware of it if the export code
passes through a stage where it is forced to bitmap text in order to
satisfy some special effect the program uses that cannot be represented
in PDF (or in some cases in Postscript, if the PDF driver goes through
the usual Windows Postscript driver.) For instance, if the transparency
of the text is 0.001 (instead of 0.0) many postscript drivers are going
to bitmap that text to satisfy the required transparency. The end user
may not be aware that transparency is not 0, since on screen the two
cases are indistinguishable.
Regards,
David Mathog
mathog@...1176...
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
8 years, 11 months
patch: merge pdf import via poppler-cairo into native importer
by the Adib
Hello,
as already discussed here is a patch that moves the pdf poppler-cairo
importer into the native pdf importer.
Thus it obsoletes the current pdf-input-cairo importer and removes from the
source three.
If nobody complains I will go ahead and commit within the next days.
Regards,
Adib.
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8 years, 11 months
New mounted video for SpiroLive feature
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz
Hi to all!
I finish my first "a bit producced" video [1] about SpiroLive feature in
inkscape. I want to do the same whith all others features i develop...
For the moment in the video page i put a share of all sources i use to
develop the video.
Thanks to Martin, Gez and Gabo for his gratefoul offer to make
off-voice, maybe in futures videos i ask to them but while(is enought
easy) i could work whith videos and youtube notes...
The music is far away from the video, like usual and want.
Thanks for your 5 minutes of your live.
Jabier.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFakiI5f0-Y
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