November 2016 - Inkscape Devel

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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Winner: About screen contest
by Martin Owens 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Thanks for everyone's vote, the results are as follows: 1. https://inkscape.org/en/~artelnjeru01/%E2%98%85about-092-2-good (#4) 2. https://inkscape.org/en/~Mikhael/%E2%98%85space-inkscape (#1) 3. https://inkscape.org/en/~artelnjeru01/%E2%98%85about-092-11 (#2) 4. https://inkscape.org/en/~bajinra/%E2%98%85draw-freely-in-sticker-sty le (#3) Congratulations to artelnjeru01! Please pass around the good news to all. The entrants this year were really VERY good, even those that didn't make this round of voting. I'm going to leave the committing of the winning entry to the repository to someone else. If you'd like to do this job, please download the svg directly from the above link. We can select a developer's about screen for trunk too, any of the entrants can be considered and I don't think we need a vote on that. Or we can keep the machine robot we have now, both are good. Best Regards, Martin Owens Voting details, instant runoff vote: { 'tie_breaker': ['4', '2', '3', '1'], 'winner': '4', 'voters': 16, 'quota': 9, 'candidates': set(['1', '3', '2', '4']), 'rounds': [ { 'tallies': {'1': 5.0, '3': 3.0, '2': 3.0, '4': 5.0}, 'tied_losers': set(['3', '2']), 'loser': '3' }, { 'tallies': {'1': 6.0, '2': 3.0, '4': 7.0}, 'loser': '2' }, { 'tallies': {'1': 6.0, '4': 9.0}, 'winner': '4' } ] }

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Inkscape Board Meeting Nov 4th
by Bryce Harrington 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Meeting time this Friday, Nov 1st at noon Pacific in #inkscape-devel. Everyone's more than welcome to attend! http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: * SVG 2 news [Tav] * Merchandise sales [bryce] - Spreadshirt account's ready to go - Next need shirt designs * Sponsorship levels followup [bryce] * Inkscape forum followup SFC has been kind enough to establish the Spreadshirt account for us; next step is to arrange login access for administrators. If this sounds interesting please come to the meeting, or contact me directly. Bryce

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Including BSD-Licenced code in Inkscape
by Alexander Brock 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Hi, TLDR: I want to include 3-clause BSD licenced code in Inkscape. I want to improve curve fitting in Inkscape. I was told that Inkscape uses the GSL for root finding etc. so I thought I might implement curve fitting using the headers <gsl/gsl_multifit_nlinear.h> This works but I'd like to improve it by providing derivatives to the solver instead of relying on numerical differentiation. I researched Autodiff tools and found that most require libraries which are difficult to build on windows. At work I use Ceres solver. I extracted the autodiff code (jet.h) from the source code and modified slightly so it works without futher dependencies. Ceres is licenced under the 3-clause BSD licence: http://ceres-solver.org/license.html May I include the modified source code in Inkscape? Best Regards, Alexander

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Contest Results and Developer Voting
by Martin Owens 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Dear developers, The about screen contest for 0.92 is complete and we have our three runner ups for us developers to choose from: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-092+0 / Each of the three are marked as "Next Round", please email to the mailing list with your choices. Simply put your numbers in order of preference, so 3214 would mean 3 is my first choice, 2 is my second choice etc. You don't have to rank all numbers if you don't want to. You'll notice that I've chosen 4 items, this is because 1 and 3 are so similar and I wanted to give us a better choice. Thanks to all our artists and voters, I think this round has been really good. I actually voted for "Ngarai Sianok" and a lot of people loved "Freedom Machine" (see comments on those items). So I'll be adding a few of these to the website front page when 0.92 is released, to replace the current set of images. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Shop
by Martin Owens 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Dear Developers, We've been playing with the settings for the inkscape shop, the conservancy backed spreadshirt account. I'm looking for comments from others about the look of it and what kinds of things we've added to start. https://shop.spreadshirt.com/inkscape-shop/ There's a few restrictions with what we can do, for instance vector art doesn't support gradients / blur etc. But we'll keep playing with the settings to get a good result and then maybe order a few things to test. What do you think? Best regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Shop Results
by Martin Owens 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Dear all, I just got delivery of my inkscape items, one cup and one hat. The cup can be seen here: https://inkscape.org/en/~doctormo/%E2%98%85in kscape-cup-natural-setting It's a good cup, for a simple logo it doesn't justify the $15, but for a more complex artwork it might. The hat looks about as silly as you could imagine, my wife has denied me the right to post that picture. But at $28 it's the least likely product for us to have on the shop. Bryce has gotten a couple of t-shirts and I hope he posts a photo too with a review. There's someone else who ordered some items from Texas, we don't know who, but if that's you, we'd love for you to post a review when your items arrive. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Mesh gradient test and comment
by Nicolás Guarín-Zapata 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Hello, I have tested the Mesh gradient tool and it works. Although the nodes and node handles should be differentiable as mentioned before (https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/35501606). I would also mention that it would be great if the "central" nodes can be group to a single node in the case of conic gradient. Of course, this won't be necessary when one is working with a ring and not a circle, but in some cases it might be useful (see HSV_mesh.png, where this proves useful). I attached a couple of images that I generated using the mesh gradient tool Best, -- Nicolás Guarín-Zapata PhD Student - Purdue University Computational Multi-Scale Material Modeling Lab https://engineering.purdue.edu/~zavattie/ Linux user #514760

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New Extension and video showcase
by C R 27 Nov '16

27 Nov '16

Looks awesome Jabier! I can see this being useful for cell-shading comics, and it masks the issue Inkscape has where a small gap is rendered between adjacent fill edges. Thanks for the demo! -C On 26 Nov 2016 10:25 pm, "Jabier Arraiza" <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: Hi all. I just do a tiny extension on inkscape.org extension page. The extension is called:stroke-color-as-fill and do this. But it bring posibilities to cool efects, so i do a large showcase video. At the start I add a show case to add Delaunay triangulation in 2 steps to any inkscape art. Also you can use after my extension to fix the rouding precission triangles. I try now to fix the problem with custom markers to alow using it in a saved document (middle of the video problem) Take acount you can use a base biger than ~40px to allow more resolution (more pieces,triangles...) -bus slowest- to the output https://inkscape.org/en/~jabiertxof/%E2%98%85stroke-color-as-fill Bye , Jabier. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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New Extension and video showcase
by Jabier Arraiza 26 Nov '16

26 Nov '16

Hi all. I just do a tiny extension on inkscape.org extension page. The extension is called:stroke-color-as-fill and do this. But it bring posibilities to cool efects, so i do a large showcase video. At the start I add a show case to add Delaunay triangulation in 2 steps to any inkscape art. Also you can use after my extension to fix the rouding precission triangles. I try now to fix the problem with custom markers to alow using it in a saved document (middle of the video problem) Take acount you can use a base biger than ~40px to allow more resolution (more pieces,triangles...) -bus slowest- to the output https://inkscape.org/en/~jabiertxof/%E2%98%85stroke-color-as-fill Bye , Jabier.

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