September 2014 - Inkscape Devel

another updating faq question (how to open CDR files)
by Brynn 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Hi Friends, Another FAQ item which doesn't seem to make sense, and that I'm not familiar with -- How to open CDR files. (Currently item 6.8 but will be moved in updated faq). Here's what it says now: ____________________ You can use UniConvertor for converting CDR files and some other formats to SVG. In Inkscape 0.46+, there's an input extension that will allow you to open or import CDR files directly from Inkscape if you have UniConvertor installed on your system. If you can't run UniConvertor, you can try this workaround: 1 - Open the CDR file in Corel Draw. Save it as a binary encoded CGM* file. It will save only vector graphics. It will not save bitmap graphics. 2 - Open the CGM file in OpenOffice Impress. Copy to Open Office Draw and insert original JPG or another bitmap graphics. Save file as ODG And you can continue in Open Office Draw program.) 3 - Select all (CTRL+A) 4 - Export as SVG. 5 - Open SVG file in Inkscape and correct mistakes if they appear. Note: OpenOffice will open only binary encoded CGM files in Impress. If the CGM is encoded using clear-text encoding, it will be opened in OpenOfice Writer, thus rendering the next steps invalid. ____________________ It's the workaround that's not making sense. #2 about inserting JPG -- I might guess that maybe CDR files can contain both raster and vector images?? But it's not clear at all. I mean, this workaround requires the user to have Corel Draw, Open Office Impress, and OO Draw, all installed. With all that, and they still need Inkscape? I'm not sure the workaround is even worth keeping -- especially not if it's out of date. And there's a close parenthesis which didn't have an open parenthesis. So I think something has been edited incompletely. However, if that's still a valid workaround, I'll keep it in place. Would someone please give me a quick verdict on that? If worth keeping, any edits needed? Thank you so very much :-) All best, brynn

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New funded development and fundraising policy
by Bryce Harrington 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Earlier this year we developed a policy for fundraising and for funding development work on Inkscape. Thanks to everyone that helped on this! Now that the policy is fully official I've given it a spot on our website. http://inkscape.org/en/contribute/funded-devel (Martin and other web folks, feel free to move it around if there's a better spot for it...) The intent of this is to delegate power to community members to organize fundraisers and use the gained monies for paid development. This isn't the *only* way we can do fundraisers or paid development, but other things will require more direct board involvement. Hopefully this will give us a more streamlined approach that folks can take advantage of. Bryce

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how to submit tutorials for official documentation?
by Brynn 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

Hi Friends, For item #4.2 of the FAQ ("Are there non-coding ways to help?") under Help Fellow Users > Write Tutorials, I want to include info on how to submit tutorials for the official documentation. Or at least provide a link to such info. (Also, I might want to contribute tutorials myself.) So far, all I've found is this page http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/User_manual_information, which I'm not sure is even a relevant doc anymore. It says to subscribe to the Inks Docs mailing list, but other links are dead (not found). Is there any other info, that I haven't found yet? Or is subscribing to the list, pretty much all that's needed (and then tutorial writers will find out how to submit them, from the mailing list)? Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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updating FAQ, Linux and Mac issues
by Brynn 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi Friends, I'm still working on updating the FAQ, and splitting into User FAQ and Development FAQ. Could some one or more of you, please review the following (regarding Linux and Mac issues) and suggest any corrections which may be needed? Since I only use Windows, I can't be sure about them. Bryce indicated that some of it might be tmi (in a previous message). I can say that generally the Alt key in Linux, as well as all the Mac issues, do come up frequently. So I'd like to keep them in there. But if any of it can be deleted or consolidated, ....or even if you know of additional issues, I certainly will trust your judgment. 3.10 and the 5 sub-sections (3.10.1 through 3.10.5) and 3.17 and its 9 or 10 sub-sections (3.17.1 through 3.17.9.2) which you can see on the website http://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/ or in the wiki http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ. Since there is so much text, I've attached just those portions in a separate html file, for your convenience. You may note some minor changes between the current faq (on wiki and inkscape.org) and my file, already, but it's nearly identical. And I'm asking about the content, not the html code. It just seems like html would be the easiest way to provide it. Anyway, I suspect it's probably fairly current and correct already, so it shouldn't take long :-) Thank you very much :-) brynn

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Meeting
by Martin Owens 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Did we have a devel meeting this evening/afternoon? If so, I completely forgot! Martin,

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Document Unit Change problems.
by Tavmjong Bah 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hi, Trunk/experimental has the ability to change the "Document Unit" in the Document Preferences dialog. Changing the unit changes 'lengths' throughout the document. This process has quite a few problems as demonstrated by the number of bugs reported. In order to get a handle on these problems, I've started a Wiki page to track the issues and to get an idea about possible solutions: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Units_In_Inkscape:_Document_Unit_Ch… The problems are quite complex. The simplest solution for the short-term (on the 0.91 release time scale) might be to just disable document unit changes. Please look at the page and add your comments, bugs, etc. Thanks, Tav

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Bug with pixel perfect SVG
by Fabien Sanglard 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hello, I am trying to open in Inkspace (Mac OS X v0.48) a SVG file (wolfd_4.svg) that is a pixel perfect version of a PNG (wolf3d_4.png). Chrome and Safari are able to render the image well (chrome_rendition.png and safari_rendition.png). However when loaded in Inkspace (inkspace_rendition.png), I can see gaps between the squares that are supposed to be pixels. Is there any way to fix this ? Fabien PS: Safari Mac OS X v7.0.6 (9537.78.2) Chrome Mac OS X v37.0.2062.94

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Changing trunk to 96 pixels per inch.
by Tavmjong Bah 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hi, The experimental branch has been using 96 pixels per inch per the CSS 2.1 standard for over two months now without complaint. Is there any objection to switching trunk to this value? As Inkscape has switched to using 'pt' for text size by default, it is important that this change happen to ensure that the size of text rendered in browsers match the size of text rendered in Inkscape. Tav

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Paying for Downloads
by Martin Owens 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

I've here at Free Software Day (Boston) and have just completed a panel on the economics of Free Software development. Something which came up and something I want to have a serious discussion about is the implementation of an opportunity to donate screen like libreOffice: http://donate.libreoffice.org/home/dl/deb-x86_64/4.3.1/en-US/LibreOffice_4.… If one clicks on this link, it waits a few seconds and gives you the file. But as well as the file it also offers you an opportunity to donate/contribute to the project. I'd like to implement this for inkscape.org but it would have to be blessed by the community since other developers are users may have valid concerns which should be taken into account with this format. Things I'm thinking about: * Making sure we have suggested amounts * Offering something in return? Maybe offer an ability to buy swag? * What is SFC's position on these kinds of pages? * Have an invitation to contribute other things. Time, bug tracking etc? * Give donators a badge on their website user? I'm looking for any contribution to this discussion, good or bad. Please let me know what you think. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Windows testing needed
by Josh Andler 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Can someone on Windows please apply the following patch and check to see if it affects building? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1323592/+attachment/4184115/+files… Cheers, Josh

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