March 2015 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

non-Unicode symbol fonts do not work on Windows. Bug 165665. Do we need the flag USE_PANGO_WIN32 ?
by Alvin Penner 09 May '15

09 May '15

ref : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/165665 I believe this bug can be fixed by disabling the flag USE_PANGO_WIN32 in line 19 of src/libnrtype/FontFactory.h. When I do this on Windows XP, I gain about 35 new fonts. Not all of these new fonts are useable, but the most interesting ones, such as CommercialPi, Symbol, Technic, Webdings, Wingdings, MonoType Sorts, TechnicLite are working well, both in Inkscape and in IE9. This is a Windows-specific bug which hides symbol fonts, and does not occur in Gimp 2.6 on Win XP. As far as I can tell, the Gimp source code does not contain any analogue or equivalent of the flag USE_PANGO_WIN32. Would there be any objection if I disable this flag, or does it serve a specific purpose that is essential? tia - Alvin Penner -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/non-Unicode-symbol-fonts-do-not-work-on-Windows.-Bug-… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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PIL distributed inside Inkscape (Windows 64 bit)
by Lorenzo Luengo 25 Apr '15

25 Apr '15

Hi everyone, While trying to use the PIL library bundled with the python installation inside the Inkscape directory, for developing a new extension, I got the following error: >>> import _imaging Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. Even though the _imaging.pyd file was present, I was unable to load it into the python interpreter. Then I found that even I downloaded the x64 installer for Inkscape, the bundled python version was the 32-bit one. After tweaking the windows registry (to make the installer point to the bundled python directory) I managed to install the x64 version of PIL, still without success because the python interpreter was 32-bit. After forcing the installation of python 2.6 64-bit version over the bundled version, I had to reinstall on this python environment the PIL and lxml libraries, and my plugin finally was able to use PIL. Should this issue be fixed? I mean bundling python 64bit (+libraries) with Inkscape 64bit installer. -- Lorenzo Luengo C. Ingeniero Civil Electrónico Cel: 98270385

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Save and User Manual
by Roger Sharp 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

As a Tech Writer, UX tester, and newbie Inkscape user: Regarding Bit Barrel’s comments, I agree about not having both ‘Save As’ and ‘Export.’ Confusing. Photoshop uses Export for saving pieces of the art such as paths. Also, the User Manual (or Guide?) looks very good BUT it is not searchable. It would be easy to take the current pages (.html or .xml) and import/convert them into a navigable, searchable compiled Help file (whether Web Help or compile .chm file). And, even though I’ve set preferences to Remember Last Window Geometry, it doesn’t remember the dialog layout, i.e., Layers Dialog, the Undo Dialog, etc. ( Version 0.48). Sharpart

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Hackfest 2015 - Topics
by Tavmjong Bah 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Hi, So far we have eight people signed up for the Toronto hackfest. We still have room for more! Our fund raising campaign is doing well. Sponsorship is available for active developers and other Inkscape community members, see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015_Attendees I've prepared a "Topics" wiki page to keep track of things that we should discuss and/or work on at the hackfest. Please add your ideas... even if you are not able to attend. The topics page is at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015_Topics Tav

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Roadmap planning to 1.0
by Bryce Harrington 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Several months ago we brainstormed ideas for the roadmap. Everything people suggested should now be collected here, categorized but not prioritized or ordered: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap One thing we seem to be in consensus about is to get releases out more swiftly. To do this, I think what we should do is a) minimize the number of objectives for each release, and b) stagger the types of objectives in each release, so we rotate what team is in the spotlight each release. With that in mind, what do you guys think about organizing our next few releases with the following focii? Inkscape 0.92 ~ Infrastructure Focus Inkscape 0.93 ~ Maintenance Focus Inkscape 0.94 ~ Feature Focus Inkscape 0.95 ~ Stability Focus Inkscape 1.0 ~ Documentation Focus I anticipate we'd pick a couple objectives for each release that are appropriate to the focus area, plus a smaller, secondary objective unrelated to the focus. For 0.92, I'm thinking we've enough in the hopper that we should expedite it. What do you guys think? Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Website
by Martin Owens 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 12:27 +0000, Hinerangi Courtenay wrote: > Martin, any news from Mathew? I was so caught up in my work I lost > touch a bit with everyone working on the site...sorry about that! Dear Hinerangi, > No more words as of yet. The spring time is always very busy for everyone :-) but I hope if we're still all here as the year goes on, we'll be able to spend a bit of time each on the website items. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Website
by Ian Caldwell 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

any update Courtenay? any drafts? I look forward to seeing what you've come up with. Thanks, Ian On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Hinerangi Courtenay < hine.courtenay@...36...> wrote: > Hello, > > Not yet - I was away for a bit, but have been in contact with the web team > by email, and am back home with the local environment up and running > (finally). So things will start evolving soon :-) > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 13 janv. 2015, at 23:40, Ian Caldwell <inchosting@...400...> wrote: > > Courtenay, > any updates on the mockups? > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Brynn <brynn@...3133...> wrote: > >> while on the other hand they >> > disrespect a professional's time, duplicating work and not using design >> > feedback and critique to work towards the best solution. >> >> I don't understand what you mean? Oh you mean, as opposed to paying >> someone >> for graphics? >> >> If a competition is the wrong or inappropriate or just not the best >> approach, it seems like there still should be a way to use the work of >> Inkscape artists for the website. >> >> Thanks :-) >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400...> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 4:41 AM >> To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> >> Cc: "Gez" <listas@...3059...>; "Hinerangi Courtenay" >> <nospamunicornus-mailinglist@...36...>; >> <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Website >> >> > On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 23:06 -0700, Brynn wrote: >> >> Maybe could even have some kind of competition >> >> for the website graphics? >> > >> > Competitions are a difficult problem. In one sense they open the doors >> > to new artists who lack confidence, while on the other hand they >> > disrespect a professional's time, duplicating work and not using design >> > feedback and critique to work towards the best solution. >> > >> > With great care should we do such a thing :-) >> > >> > Martin, >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, >> sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is >> your >> hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought >> leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a >> look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing list >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> > >

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Website: About SVG page is up
by Maren Hachmann 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Hi, this is just to let you know that our new About SVG (https://inkscape.org/en/develop/about-svg/) page is up now. Thanks again for the feedback! And if there's someone who can help with the The next Release page (https://inkscape.org/en/develop/next-release/) contents (major features, bug fixes), that would be great ;) Regards, Maren

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Example of Inkscape handling corrupt input file?
by mathog 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Can somebody please point me to an example in Inkscape where code which is importing from some other format handles an exception and notifies the user? Ideally this would automagically work with both GUI interactive sessions (where it would open a pop up dialog and send a message to stderr) and command line processing (just the message to stderr). There are three cases which need to be handled: 1. One or more records were corrupt and were ignored. 2. Unsupported record types were seen and were ignored. 3. Input failed completely because the file was missing mandatory records. and in terms of notification, presumably they would all use the same mechanism. However, in the 3rd case, when a file import gives up how should it return "nothing" to the program? For the EMF/WMF imports, since they are creating an SVG and passing that back anyway, it could do something cheesy like creating a drawing with a text box saying: The import of file xyz failed but then the end user has to delete this window, in addition to dismissing the pop up warning box. Would Inkscape just ignore it if the returned SVG was an empty string, or would that trigger yet another set of warnings? Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Document scale
by Tavmjong Bah 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

Hi, I just checked in some code that allows one to change document scale in the Document Properties dialog. This is a first step. I plan to allow the user to select User units per display unit (e.g. mm) or display units per User unit. I also plan an expandable menu that allows setting the 'viewBox' directly as well as handling the case (hopefully rare) where the X scale and Y scale differ. Normal objects on the screen update properly but the editing aids (nodes, grids, guides) do not. I am not sure what I have to do to fix this. (The XML is correct but the display is not.) Feedback welcome. Tav

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