October 2015 - Inkscape Devel

Another font issue: Calluna Regular
by C R 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Calluna Regular, which is currently in use on the website is a commercial font. While it's true that the regular version is offered under a free license, it is not offered under an OFL license, and what's a bit worse, is not licensed at all for use in documents, etc. (only desktop/web, and some sites want to sell a web license for it, which is worrying). So... heh. Anyone want me to work on finding alternatives for that one too? We pretty much need to. -C

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Technical IRC Meeting
by Josh Andler 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Hey All, During the board meeting today it was evident that we need to schedule a technical meeting to discuss development issues (likely both Inkscape code and Inkscape website related). It looks the week of the 18th-24th is where we should be aiming to calendar something as 1 of the people who would like to participate has school conflicts between now and then. Does the noon Pacific time slot work again like it did for the board meeting? If so, what days are people available that they're aware of in that timeframe? I'm pretty open right now, so we can leave it to others to eliminate days based on availability. Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape extension: inkscape-placeholders
by Xaviju Julián 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Hi! I just wanted to share with you an extension I developed that might be useful for some of you, specially for inkscape web designers. Its a extension that has two functionalities: - Create image placeholders in any size and width with random images from unsplash <https://unsplash.it/> - Create random user avatars from uifaces <http://uifaces.com/>. Both plugins and documentation on how to install them are available via github: https://github.com/Xaviju/inkscape-placeholder I have also written a blog post on how to create inkscape extensions for non developers: https://medium.com/@xaviju/inkscape-extensions-by-non-developers-for-non-de… with what I have learned developing this extensions. Since I am not a python developer myseff it can contain some errors so I will be glad to receive feedback and corrections on how to improve it or PRs to fix any code bugs. Of course, any suggestions or ideas are welcome as well. Regards!

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Gimp to SVG
by Jabier Arraiza 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Hi to all. I just update the plugin export from Gimp to SVG to allow the export text as text. It become in a new class called "pango to SVG" on the branch. Here are the code: https://github.com/jabiertxof/Gimp-to-SVG Dont forget make executable the plugin if on Linux. Thanks to Guillermo Espertino for the idea and for first betatesting. All the best, Jabiertxo.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Another font issue: Calluna Regular
by Hinerangi Courtenay 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Hi people, Maren gave me a heads up on the font issue (sorry I've been skipping the digests lately, so thanks for that!). Actually great point about the font, at the time I made the website mockups (5 years ago now) I didn't even consider open-source font licencing a critical issue. The Libertine Regular font proposed looks like a good drop-in replacement. There are so many issues with the way the typography has evolved on the website, that I'd really like to redefine a proper style guide (typography, colours, everything) with the planned responsive redesign/evolution. Also the new Draw Freely font is great! Cheers,Hine

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The font issue
by Jelle Mulder 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Hi all, I tend to use fontsquirrel for things like this. It also allows to filter your search for languages. Sadly though for me in China it is hardly possible to use the filters due to timeouts. However, looking for scripts,.. how would you imagine doing that for Chinese or Hindi? I actually thought this was limited to the English text "Draw Freely". I would suggest that the slogan can be edited freely for other languages and fonts chosen as required. Vectorising the fonts would also solve the problem as it then no longer is a font. No need to download font files either that way for those few characters. When it comes to Chinese fonts, they can have up to 180.000 characters for the traditional ones and come at a whopping 18 MB for a font file. It's one of the reasons I am not that happy with deprecating SVG fonts in SVG 2.0. It was a godsend for keeping the glyph libraries small. The alternative now is to create font subsets for every page. But yeah,.. that's another discussion. I think the website font is more of an issue really. That one requires a number of font sets to be chosen and recommended for several of the larger language groups. That basically leaves us with only a few options as the amount of fonts that cater to the world are pretty few. Only fonts used by OS interfaces will be available all others will be proprietary created by foundries that spend years on it. Cheers, Jelle

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Strange bug related to "recent file" list
by su_v 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Quoting reply received off-list - maybe someone on the list can comment on the proposal? On 2015-09-29 21:29 (+0200), Riccardo Bernardini wrote: > >> Known issue (not fixed yet) tracked here: >> Bug #1404934 “Crash when opening files (Glib::ConvertError exception)” >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1404934 > > Would it suffice to catch the exception Glib::ConvertError: threw by filename_from_url() at resource-manager.cpp:225, so that the offending entry is skipped and not appended to priorLocations (maybe with some warning output)? If yes, I could try doing the minimal change and submit it. > > Riccardo

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