June 2015 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

New features in Scribus 1.5.1svn -- feedback, testing and bug reports required
by "Christoph Schäfer" 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

Hi all, Not long ago, we released Scribus 1.5.0, and the development of 1.5.1, which will bring us closer to the next stable version 1.6.0, is underway. We have recently added some amazing new features that need feedback and testing from those who are willing to build 1.5.1svn (and a new dependency) from source and to test, namely: 1) Scribus 1.5.1svn comes with a new and modern icon set. It's not 100% complete yet, and you need to turn it on in the Preferences (it will become the default set once it's complete). 2) Scribus can now handle the CIELAB colour space and comes with a new CIELAB colour map for picking colours. 3) Scribus can now import/use Swatchbooker palette files (SBZ), which, together with CIELAB support, means that you can take full advantage of the Open Colour Systems Collection (http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/2015-May/051770.html). 4) Scribus can now import/use Adobe Swatch Exchange files (ASE). 5) Thanks to the release of libfreehand 0.1.1 by the Document Liberation Project, Scribus can now import Freehand files (FH*) to the extent libfreehand allows. To build libfreehand 0.1.1 on Linux, just extract a source archive available from http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/libfreehand, cd into the source directory, run ./configure, make, and (as root) make install, and finally ldconfig, also as root. After that, CMake will detect libfreehand automatically (make sure to delete CMakeCache.txt in the ./Scribus source directory before running your cmake command). Initial tests have shown that it's already working pretty well. The Scribus Team (and I'm sure Document Liberation as well) would be grateful for feedback and bug reports. Thanks, Christoph

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Would you accept patches for a C++ Plugin implementation?
by Sebastian Faubel 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

Hello everybody, I'm working as a contractor for the University of the Arts, London. Currently, we're developing a Semantic Desktop to capture data about the creative process which is currently based on Linux, Inkscape and Zeitgeist [0]. In order to realize pushing events from Inkscape into Zeitgeist, we have currently created a fork and implemented the functionality as an internal plugin. This works well, but requires us to maintain a patched version of Inkscape. When i was starting with the implementation I stumbled across a site mentioned in your Wiki [1], which says: "Plug-in" - a loadable module with a message handler routine that receives messages and that operates on the Inkscape API functions directly. When I was digging in the source code I found some commented-out parts of the software [2] which contained code for those plugins, which seem to be native C++ plugins. It seems to me, that support for native plugins was prepared but never fully implemented. As we'd like to contribute something to your project we'd be looking into developing the missing plugin support. So we're asking: Would you be accepting patches for the C++ plugin support? And may be you know why it was never implemented? Are there any fundamental issues with this? With best regards, Sebastian Faubel [0] http://bitbucket.org/semiodesk/artivity [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/doc/ext… [2] File in repo: src/extension/system.cpp:468

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Mailinglist list on inkscape.org
by Johan Engelen 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Hi all, Today I wanted to direct someone to our mailinglists, and found that on inkscape.org [1] the listing is probably a bit unclear. What I mean is: the actual mailaddresses are not listed. Any reason for that? Would be great if the section header ("inkscape-announce", "inkscape-devel", ...) would be the mailaddress -Johan [1] https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/

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Jenkins is unhappy...
by Maren Hachmann 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi all, I don't know whose task it is now to keep Jenkins happy, but I noticed his desperate message on the tester mailing list - maybe someone would like to help him ;) ? http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34123279/ From: Jenkins (build tester) <inkscape.jenkins@...1410...> - 2015-05-18 20:05:05 Hi Developers, It looks like "bzr up" failed for Inkscape trunk. Please, someone have a look on jenkins.inkscape.org and restart the "Inkscape_trunk_bzr_up" job! cheers, Jenkins Regards, Maren

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please review hackfest article
by Brynn 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi Friends, I thought I'd use the list for you to review the article, before it goes on the website (since apparently there is some urgency, and this will be faster). It's attached. When I first decided what questions to ask, I was asking questions I would be interested to learn, as an Inkscape user. Unfortunately, to meet the requirements for the article, I wasn't able to use much of the information that you all so patiently provided and explained. I really would like to write a much longer article, where much more details are provided. So this turned out to be "the "Readers' Digest" version". Please let me know if any edits are needed. We'll hope to get this up on the live site before the end of the week. It will first be published with 1 photo, but if that group photo shows up, I'd like to edit that in later (assuming that doesn't break any rules for the News articles) (to add a photo later after the article is published). Thank you very much. It was a pleasure getting to know you all a little better, and learning a little more about your programming world. All best, brynn

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Merge request / features
by Alexander Brock 07 Jun '15

07 Jun '15

Hi, I changed some features / added new ones which make it easier to prepare vectors for vinyl cutting, laser engraving and embroidery: 1. I changed the behaviour of "Path->Stroke to Path": It now recurses into groups and creates a duplicate of any object which has a visible fill, so you end up with one object showing the original stroke and the original object without the stroke. 2. I added "Path->Remove Overlap": It removes all overlap of the selected objects using boolean operations, resulting in a visually (nearly) unchanged document where objects don't overlap. 3. I added "Object->Clip->Intersect": It replaces every selected object by the intersection of the object and all clipping paths affecting the object or it's ancestors. 4. I added "Edit->Clone->Unlink Clones recursively": It recurses into groups and unlinks every clone it finds, including clones used as clipping paths. This is the merge request: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape+alexander/inkscape/flatten/+merge/2607… Opinions? Regards, Alexander

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Fw: Your message to Inkscape-devel awaits moderator approval
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

Ok folks, sorry again from the hopeless newb :-( The one that bounced must have been Jabier's, which includes a few photos attached. I thought others might like to see them as well. brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: <inkscape-devel-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 9:42 PM To: <brynn@...3133...> Subject: Your message to Inkscape-devel awaits moderator approval > Your mail to 'Inkscape-devel' with the subject > > Fw: photos and permissions > > Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. > > The reason it is being held: > > Message body is too big: 4597117 bytes with a limit of 248 KB > > Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive > notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel > this posting, please visit the following URL: > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/confirm/inkscape-devel/1a63ed8b25ef2f98… >

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Fw: photos and permissions
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 8:03 AM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Cc: "Alex Valavanis" <valavanisalex@...400...>; "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...>; <jabier.arraiza@...2893...>; "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...>; "Krzysztof Kosinski" <tweenk.pl@...400...> Subject: Re: photos and permissions > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 17:39 -0600, Brynn wrote: >> Hello Hackers :-) >> >> I apologize for all the messaging, and should have asked everyone this in >> the first message. >> >> First, we want to include photos from the Hackfest in the article on the >> website. Could you all shoot back a yes or no for your permission for >> your >> image to be published on the website? > > Yes, you can use my image. > > Tav > >

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Fw: photos and permissions
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 9:11 PM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Cc: "Alex Valavanis" <valavanisalex@...400...>; "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...>; "Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz" <jabier.arraiza@...2893...>; "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...>; "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> Subject: Re: photos and permissions > 2015-06-02 1:39 GMT+02:00 Brynn <brynn@...3133...>: >> First, we want to include photos from the Hackfest in the article on the >> website. Could you all shoot back a yes or no for your permission for >> your >> image to be published on the website? > > Yes > (sorry for being late) > > Regards, Krzysztof

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Fw: photos and permissions
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex Valavanis" <valavanisalex@...400...> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 5:52 AM To: "Jabier Arraiza" <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> Cc: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...>; "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...>; "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...>; "Krzysztof Kosinski" <tweenk.pl@...400...>; "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> Subject: Re: photos and permissions > Yep! > > On 2 June 2015 at 07:16, Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: >> Yes i have some phothos but no so good amd whith partial group Tav, Josh >> and >> Bryce and some of the university. Raphael from insaner.com have the only >> photo whith all together >> >> >> El 2 de junio de 2015 01:39:35 CEST, Brynn <brynn@...3133...> escribió: >>> >>> Hello Hackers :-) >>> >>> I apologize for all the messaging, and should have asked everyone this >>> in >>> the first message. >>> >>> First, we want to include photos from the Hackfest in the article on the >>> website. Could you all shoot back a yes or no for your permission for >>> your >>> image to be published on the website? >>> >>> We already have a few photos from Bryce, and understand someone else was >>> taking pictures (possibly insaner?) If anyone has any nice photos from >>> Hackfest, and that you would like to offer to be used with the article, >>> please send to me and/or Maren and/or Bryce. >>> >>> Thank you very much! >>> >>> brynn >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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