March 2018 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape Hackfest 2018 (Boston) Almost here!
by Martin Owens 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Dear Hackers, Are we all looking forward to two weeks from now when we'll be dining on lobsters and dunken donuts? Well if you are coming, please do update the http://wiki.inkscape.org/w iki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Attendees page (or let me know and I'll do it for you) This is the rough itinerary for the week: * Sunday 25th, optional drink with local Free Software hackers at the Grendel's Den in Harvard Square. 8:00pm to 11:00pm Some touristing might be available if you like to see Harvard. * Monday 26th - Friday 30th, Hacking at the Red Hat offices near south station. Anyone lost can contact me +01 857 277 2117 (Signal App is good for anyone from abroad) * Wednesday 28th - User participation day, if we have some users available, we'll be listening to normal Inkscape users. * Thursday 29th - Tentative choice for Inkscape Dinner at Les Zygomates (http://winebar129.com) (If no one objects in the next few days, I'll book a table) Let me know what you're looking forward to working on while your here, I'd like to get a new article put together to kick things off. If you can do photography, please let me know. We'll need a group photo and someone with a nice camera and a good eye is needed sine CR isn't here. Anything else, please let me know. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Inkscape no fonts
by Sam 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

I see small boxes everywhere, i.e. in the menu, in the side bar. There is no font at all in Inkscape. I can't open Inkscape's settings because I don't know where the settings are because everything is only displayed as small boxes. Sam On 24.03.2018 14:00, Robert Funnell wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018, Sam wrote: > >> I try to run Inkscape 92.3 on OpenSuse 42.3 with snapd, but there is >> no fonts. It is running but i only see small square boxes. > > Are you saying that you see boxes when you add new text, or that you > see boxes where there's previously existing text in a drawing? > > - Robert >

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Missing fonts
by Sam 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Hi guys, I try to run Inkscape 92.3 on OpenSuse 42.3 with snapd 2.27.6-1.1, but there is no fonts. It is running but i only see small square boxes. Can anybody help me? Tnx Sam P.S.: I posted this post to the ML "User" by mistake, so this post exists twice. Sorry.

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Inkscape 0.92.3 bugfix release
by Bryce Harrington 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Inkscape 0.92.3 is a maintenance release resolving numerous bugs and making this the most stable release of the series. To download the latest packaged version of Inkscape visit: https://inkscape.org/release/0.92.3/ (Note: A build of 0.92.3 is not currently available for MacOS. The project welcomes additional contributors with MacOS expertise.) Among the most reported bugs addressed were: * Blank pages being output when printing multiple copies of a document * The inability to cancel during the export of large files * Application crashes caused by dragging a path at a cap or line join * Keyboard shortcut problems on non-Latin keyboard layouts Also a few performance improvements and usability enhancements of note: * New SVG export options from the command line * Support for right-to-left text * Improved ellipse controls * Multi-line text support for the PDF+LaTeX export * New render tile preferences for performance tuning * Better startup performance for many Windows users Find out more about the release at: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2018/03/22/announcing-0923-release-inkscape/ Inkscape 0.92.3 -~= Released 2018-03-11 =~- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Release Highlights | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Inkscape 0.92.3 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, but it also brings some small new features, like being able to set an ellipses' radii numerically in the tool controls, or switching the writing direction from left-to-right to right-to-left. Windows users will be happy to learn that the long startup times many of them were seeing could greatly be reduced. A new rendering option with an adjusted default value can vastly improve performance when working with filters. Many of the bug fixes address important functionality, like printing issues, crashes with the node tool or problems with keyboard shortcuts. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Improvements | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Command line usage ================== Three new command line options controlling page size are supported when exporting in SVG format: • --export-area-drawing (feature requests in bug #1597921 and bug #1722844) • --export-area-page while using --export-id • --export-margin Text tool ========= Support for switching between RTL and LTR writing directions has been added (on narrow screens, find it by unfolding the overhang menu for the text tool's tool controls by clicking on the triangle at the far right). Circle/ellipse/arc tool ======================= New fields for setting vertical/horizontal radius (Rx/Ry) were added to the tool controls bar. (Bug #1181127) PDF+LaTeX export ================ Support for multi-line text with basic support for line-spacing attribute was added. (Bug #771959) Please note: • Currently only the line-spacing of the top level text element is considered, i.e. all lines in one text element share the same line spacing. • LaTeX is much more clever with respect to line spacing, so layout might not always be exactly the same as in Inkscape. • Make sure to use a continuously scalable font in LaTeX, otherwise results might be unexpected. Preferences =========== A new renderer option called "Rendering tile multiplier" was added. Making this value larger can speed up drawing, if you have large areas with complex filters in your drawing or work a lot with high zoom levels on filtered objects. Making the value smaller can make zooming and panning in relevant areas faster on low-end hardware (if there are no large filtered areas on the visible part of the canvas). The default value makes your screen consist of about four tiles that are rendered independently, if you're not using a hidpi screen (which requires more tiles). For a more detailed explanation, see: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/211#note_62157385. Startup Performance =================== The first start of Inkscape on Windows is much faster now. This is the result of improvements in fontconfig 2.13.0, a third party library which handles font related tasks for Inkscape. One of the tasks is creating an index of all fonts available on the system which is much faster now. If the new indexing causes any issues (i.e. fonts or glyphs not available that could be used before) make sure to let us know or report the issue directly to the fontconfig project. Extensions ========== Extensions on Windows can now make use of Tkinter, without requiring users to install it themselves. Tkinter provides functionality for creating interactive graphical user interfaces. This is used, for example, by the TexText extension that renders mathematical LaTeX formulas to SVG (feature request at bug # 1735451). +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Regression Fixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Potentially missing command line output in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows 7. (Bug #1714278) • Extensions in the 'Raster' submenu relying on ImageMagick were broken and caused crashes in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows. (Bug #1720330) • gcodetools were creating wrong orientation points since the dpi change had been made for Inkscape 0.92. (Bug #1680760) • Regression on 0.92.2 makes it impossible to fill a powerstroke shape (Bug #1715433) • The preferences dialog was tiny by default. (Bug #1360213) • Node handles no longer get too large when selected, and they also revert back to standard size when deselected. (Bug #1568644) • Export to .odg (Open Document Drawing) works again on Windows. (Bug #1654034) • Inkscape no longer freezes when trying to import clipart from OpenClipart when the openclipart.org server takes too long to respond to requests. (Bug #1745521) • Text that is written in vertical direction now has its marks (e.g. accents) on the correct side again. (gitlab commit 2abe0bb6) • The 'Clone original' path effect works again to fill a path with a PowerStroke applied to it (useful for drawing cartoons) (Bug #1715433) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Important bugfixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Fix crash when attempting to drag path at cap or line join. (Bug #1691406) • Inkscape process did not exit cleanly on Windows. (Bugs #1412365 and #1715339; also causing #1714278) • File extension was sometimes omitted when adding saved files to Windows' list of "recently used documents" resulting in unusable links. (git commit 4d599528) • Do not crash on systems with illegal fontconfig configurations. (Bug #1716516) • Resolve issues when attempting to save files to non-existing directories. Could happen for shortcuts.xml and when setting the autosave location manually. (Bug #1719629) • Allow cancellation of bitmap export. (Bug #1195929) • Fix issues with PDF+LaTeX export: wrong stacking of text/graphics, missing pages in PDF output. (Bugs #771957, #1417470) • Fix shortcuts not working as expected when a non-latin keyboard layout is the primary keyboard layout on a system. (Bugs #1226962, #1730246, #1734308) • Printing multiple copies of the document resulted in one copy and many blank pages. (Bug #490866, #1733424) • Fix export area when exporting single objects to SVG using the --export-id command line switch. (Bug #1306662, #1707368) • Fix DXF output and Windows vector print scaling for documents with a custom view box. (Bug #1672066) • Invalid output generated from extensions no longer makes Inkscape crash. (gitlab commit 608fa56e) • The Ruler Live Path Effect now shows correct measurements in the default template (and other non-px-based templates), too (Bug #1460858) • The Document Properties dialog now has a more compact layout, so all items should be accessible on smaller screens (Bug #1510831) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | More bug fixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these probably only affect a small portion of users, or are relevant for development and packaging only. For a complete list, visit our launchpad bug tracker and see the commit history on gitlab (all changes from August, 6th 2017 until release date). +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Translations | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ The following UI translations received updates: • French • German • Icelandic • Italian • Korean • Spanish • Ukrainian The following installer translations received updates: • Korean Contributing to interface translations ====================================== Want to help with translations? Learn how to help at: https://inkscape.org/contribute/translations/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Documentation | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Documentation Relaunch ====================== The Inkscape documentation repository, containing the man page, the keyboard shortcut list as well as the tutorials and their respective translation files, has been almost completely refactored (Java has been dropped in favor of Python), and was updated to work with git and gitlab. Documentation Updates ===================== The man page and the keyboard shortcut list have been updated. Where to find recent documentation ================================== Continuously updated man page (for command line usage), keyboard and mouse shortcut list, tutorials and translation statistics for the various parts of the Inkscape project are available on the inkscape.org website: • Man page • Keyboard shortcuts • Tutorials • Translation statistics for Inkscape 0.92 series / development branch Tutorials, as always, are also included with your Inkscape installation. Contributing to documentation and documentation translation =========================================================== Contributions to the documentation translations, as well as improvements to its contents, are welcome at the inkscape-docs repository. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Known issues | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • DPI Change: known issues with 'Scale elements' option (Bugs: 1653230,1653236,1654342,1654796,1654880,1654903,1655005,1655053,1660228) • DPI Change: Default grids in documents created with Inkscape 0.91 don't scale correctly. (Bug #1653893) • Line height: Changing "baseline spacing" stops working. (Bug #1707808) • Renderer: Artifacts in Gaussian blur effects with default quality settings. (Bug #1656383) • Node editor: Deselecting selected nodes of complex paths takes a long time. (Bug #1652100) • Performance: Using the objects dialog at least once in your Inkscape session slows down actions such as duplicate and delete for files with many objects. (Bug #1431274) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape

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0.92.3 Release Announcement
by Ryan Gorley 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Hello All, We just published the announcement for 0.92.3 on the website: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2018/03/22/announcing-0923-release-inkscape/ If anyone was waiting for this announcement to push any changes to official repos, or anything else, consider the wait over. :) Bryce, as release manager do you want to do the honors of pushing this out to the inkscape-announce and inkscape-user list? Anyone is welcome to help us promote this, please help us keep track here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/48 Ryan

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Extensions
by Martin Owens 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

Dear all, I've separated out the extensions directory into a new repository: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions I haven't yet removed the files from the master branch, but I will as soon as I get a couple of nods of approval from other developers and packagers as this change needs some consideration. My first job is to upgrade extensions to python3 and to do this I'm going to write tests. Please let me know if there are any extensions tests already written I can use. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions
by Lex Neva 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

> 4. Adding their own UI. In the cases where the current inx based UI falls > down (conditional values, and many more) the users want to able to use, > say, Kivy or even tkinter to do dialogs. This is super hard and only one I > know that works is the very recent embroidery extension which needs own > installer and is so complex I can't follow it. Oh dear! Sorry it's so confusing. As I think you understand, trying to get a cross-platform UI working is quite difficult. And for translations, we had to completely ignore inkex.localize() in favor of bundling our own translations, because we can't get our translation strings into inkscape fast enough. On the plus side, we handle units and viewbox correctly and we're 96dpi compatible already, so no work needed there. Thanks for all the work you're doing! We're happy to answer any questions you might have on how Ink/Stitch works. I follow this list, if somewhat slowly at times, but the best way to reach us is to file an issue (github. com/lexelby/inkstitch).

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GtkActions in toolbars
by Alex Valavanis 17 Mar '18

17 Mar '18

Hi All, In preparation for the Hackfest, I'd like to start looking at ways to reduce (eventually eliminate!) our use of GtkAction. One of the main uses we currently have for them is in toolbars, where the tool widgets (buttons, spinbuttons etc) are all some kind of subclass of GtkAction, which has been removed from Gtk+ 4. This means that when the user clicks on the button, it triggers an "activate" signal, which is handled by a callback function. My question is basically, "what's the point?" Is there any reason why we can't just use a plain old button in most cases, and just connect up the "clicked" signal instead? If it really needs to be some kind of Action, we could migrate to the GAction API, but this may be much more difficult. Best wishes, Alex

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LaTeX rendering fail
by Jakob Peder Pettersen 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

When running the command Extensions->Rendering->LaTeX and typing in any LaTeX expression, I get no output and Inkscape returns: *** WARNING - the DELAYBIND command has been deprecated, and will be removed in the next version. For now you can restore the behaviour by using -dREALLYDEALYBIND but if you require continued use of this command you should contact the Ghostscript developers. Commercial customers of Artifex should email their support contact, free users are encouraged to talk to us on the #ghostscript IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Unrecoverable error: undefined in DELAYBIND PostScript/PDF Interpreter finished. Return status 65280 executed command : /usr/local/opt/ghostscript/bin/gs -q -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS /var/folders/z_/v0sm2gys3y77640_7m4t99k40000gp/T//psinQuRKci The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed ! Traceback (most recent call last): File "eqtexsvg.py", line 160, in <module> e.affect() File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py", line 268, in affect self.effect() File "eqtexsvg.py", line 154, in effect svg_open(self, svg_file) File "eqtexsvg.py", line 81, in svg_open doc = inkex.etree.parse(filename) File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 3299, in lxml.etree.parse (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:72421) File "parser.pxi", line 1791, in lxml.etree._parseDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:105883) File "parser.pxi", line 1817, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:106182) File "parser.pxi", line 1721, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:105181) File "parser.pxi", line 1122, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:100131) File "parser.pxi", line 580, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:94254) File "parser.pxi", line 690, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:95690) File "parser.pxi", line 620, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:94757) lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Document is empty, line 1, column 1 Using the extension Tex Text yields a similar error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "textext.py", line 210, in cb_ok self.callback(self.text, self.preamble_file, self.scale_factor) File "textext.py", line 369, in <lambda> converter_cls, old_node)) File "textext.py", line 387, in do_convert new_node = converter.convert(text, preamble_file, scale_factor) File "textext.py", line 751, in convert self.pdf_to_svg() File "textext.py", line 849, in pdf_to_svg + pstoeditOpts) File "textext.py", line 596, in exec_command % (' '.join(cmd), p.returncode, out + err)) RuntimeError: Command pstoedit -f plot-svg /var/folders/z_/v0sm2gys3y77640_7m4t99k40000gp/T/tmpAZUsxB/tmp.pdf /var/folders/z_/v0sm2gys3y77640_7m4t99k40000gp/T/tmpAZUsxB/tmp.svg -dt -ssp -psarg -r9600x9600 failed (code 1): pstoedit: version 3.70 / DLL interface 108 (built: Sep 16 2017 - release build - g++ 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37) - 64-bit) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2014 Wolfgang Glunz *** WARNING - the DELAYBIND command has been deprecated, and will be removed in the next version. For now you can restore the behaviour by using -dREALLYDEALYBIND but if you require continued use of this command you should contact the Ghostscript developers. Commercial customers of Artifex should email their support contact, free users are encouraged to talk to us on the #ghostscript IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Unrecoverable error: undefined in DELAYBIND PostScript/PDF Interpreter finished. Return status 65280 executed command : /usr/local/opt/ghostscript/bin/gs -q -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS -r9600x9600 /var/folders/z_/v0sm2gys3y77640_7m4t99k40000gp/T//psinu3vxOs The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed ! I suspect this is a bug in the respective Inkscape extensions for LaTeX output. System information: macOS 10.13.3 Inkscape 0.91 pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) dvips(k) 5.995 pstoedit: version 3.70 / DLL interface 108 (built: Sep 16 2017 - release build - g++ 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37) - 64-bit) Best regards Jakob Peder Pettersen

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Releasing Inkscape onto the Website
by Martin Owens 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Dear developers, The website supports developers submitting releases using the releases app, we haven't linked to the releases app publically, but thanks to Maren and others it's a mostly complete history of Inkscape package files. To upload an inkscape package: a) Go to the website and login b) Click the "Upload Art or Resource" (or click Submit in any of your galleries to better organise your files) c) Fill in all the fields you want, make sure to include the uploaded file and gpg signature. d) Select "Inkscape Package" in the category drop down. e) Save. f) Now re-edit the new upload. This will give you the two new fields of "Release" and "Platform", these ONLY appear if: The upload is in the Inkscape Package category AND you have permission to edit releases. If you don't see these fields, make sure you join the releases team at https://inkscape.org/en /*release-team and try again. You can only have ONE resource per release, per platform. So the Inkscape 0.92.2pre0 release can have ONE Win32 MSI Package, ONE Mac OSX 10.9 DMG, etc etc. If you try to over-write, it will deny you setting the platform and release fields. We're going to try and keep the permissions to one person for each of the main platforms. So bryce can do source uploads, tgh can do Mac uploads etc etc. We make have some backups, but user wise it shouldn't need every developer to be a release team member. Let me know if you have issues. Best Regards, Martin Owens Your Friendly Website Admin

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