March 2018 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Inkscape-devel] inkscape-0.92.3pre0 source tarball now available
by Eduard Braun 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

Am 04.03.2018 um 06:01 schrieb Bryce Harrington: > The 0.92.3pre0 pre-release source tarball is ready for packaging. It > can be downloaded from: > > http://alpha.inkscape.org/releases/inkscape-0.92.3pre0.tar.bz2 > > The 0.92.x branch should now be considered in Hard Freeze + String Freeze. > Please touch base with me for any changes to code or translations from > now until release. > > --- > > I'm late as usual with cutting the release, but other than that things > have gone smoothly. I would very much appreciate if people could build > and test and give me a thumbs up if everything looks normal. If no > serious issues crop up I will cut the final release next weekend. > > Bryce Thanks Bryce! As you did not publish a schedule this time you're probably only late according to your own private schedule - If you hadn't mentioned it nobody would have noticed. ;-) Windows binaries and installers are available at [1] (64-bit) and [2] (32-bit). Do you want them on the website Bryce? (I noticed you uploaded the tarball to alpha.inkscape.org -- do we even want to add a release to the releases app on the website for the pre-release then? I think it can only consume gallery items...) [1] https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/build/INKSCAPE_0_92_3_PRE… [2] https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/build/INKSCAPE_0_92_3_PRE… Regards, Eduard

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wiki account
by Jan 03 Mar '18

03 Mar '18

hi I need a wiki account to enhance a few articles.

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(re-)Introducing: ink/stitch, machine embroidery for Inkscape
by Lex Neva 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

Hi folks! I'd like to reintroduce you to ink/stitch, formerly known as inkscape-embroidery. A lot has happened in the past couple of months, and we now have a thriving and growing open source community around the extension! The coolest new thing is that ink/stitch is available is a self-contained ZIP containing every Python dependency and all needed shared libraries. There's also a Windows version and a Mac build is in the works. I think you folks might be especially interested in our solution for creating the ZIP/tarball archive. We're using the excellent Pyinstaller, which seems especially well-suited to packaging inkscape extensions. Our goal is to avoid the kind of dependency hell that normally plagues extensions, especially those like ink/stitch that have their own GUI. Pyinstaller packages everything into a native executable. Interestingly, inkscape does not support native executables as extensions and requires an interpreter! We get around this by including a basic stub Python script that executes the real extension binary and forwards the results back to inkscape. Another interesting tidbit for inkscape devs is our localization support. Ink/stitch is currently available in three languages, but the INX is not yet localized. This is because inkscape's localization support for INX files depends on the extension translations being bundled with inkscape. This obviously doesn't work for an extension with a fast release cycle. We're exploring our options. We'd love it if you'd check out project it and perhaps even give it a spin. If you're interested in contributing, that'd be even cooler! Right now, more folks with programming skills would be especially helpful as we have a long feature request backlog, but any contributions would be awesome. Here's ink/stitch: https://github.com/lexelby/inkstitch Happy hacking, Lex On March 1, 2018 7:41:07 AM inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Send Inkscape-devel mailing list submissions to > inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Inkscape-devel digest..." > > > > ---------- > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wacom smartpad support - request for ideas (Martin Owens) > > > > ---------- > Re: [Inkscape-devel] Wacom smartpad support - request for ideas > From: Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> > Date: Feb 28, 9:39 PM > To: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@...3641...> > CC: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net, Benjamin Tissoires > <benjamin.tissoires@...400...> > > >> > I'm sorely tempted to buy one of these things to hack on it to be >> > honest. >> if you do, buy a folio. we don't know if that works yet :) > > OK I got the small folio, got a friendly discount at B&H so only $120. > >> our file format atm is just a json file with the raw data >> (x/y/pressure in >> arrays that are the strokes). we can produce whatever we want from >> that. I >> hear the mp3 patent has expired ;) > > Unfortunatly inkscape doesn't support mp3s ;-P > > Martin, > > > > > > ---------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > > ---------- > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Hackfest in Three and a bit weeks
by Martin Owens 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Dear developers, The 2018 Inkscape hackfest will begin in three weeks. If you are coming, please add your name to the Attendees page right away: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Attendees I'm hoping that both Alex Valavanis and Krzysztof can come to the hackfest and we hopefully will resolve anything to do with funding at the meeting tomorrow. If you think you might come, but aren't sure yet, please add yourself with a MAYBE tag to the list, so I know if the even is going to be as small as it looks like it's going to be. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Hackfests!
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Hi Inkscapers, As you hopefully are aware, Inkscape will be having our main 2018 hackfest in Boston at the end of March and a mini-hackfest in Seville at the end of April (at the Libre Graphics Meeting). All members of the Inkscape community are encouraged to attend! Financial support is available based on past contributions to Inkscape (see "Attendees" page below for details). Please add your name to the "Attendees" page if you are thinking about attending. While you can "walk-in" at LGM, we'll have to provide a list of who is attending the Boston Hackfest to our hosts before the hackfest starts. Even if you can't attend, you can still propose topics for discussion/work on the "Topics" page. And you can contribute financial support at: https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/hackfests/ Here's a list of relevant web pages: Boston Hackfest: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018 http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Attendees http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Topics Seville Hackfest: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM_Attendees http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM_Topics Hoping to see you at one of the Hackfests, Tav

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this Friday, Mar 2nd, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings (Note that a Release Team meeting will follow immediately after. The Vectors Team will be meeting the next day.) Agenda: + Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association + Boston Hackfest (March) [doctormo] + Merchandise sales [crogers] + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure hosting [bryce] + LGM 2018 [Tav] + GSoC [ScislaC] + Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote on Budget 2018 [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Make a list of projects for cleaning up our code base [Tav] ♢ ACTION: Send invites to old Inkscapers to attend hackfest [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Collect CMYK ideas into Color_management wiki page [alface] ♢ ACTION: Analyze how we could improve internal handling of Illustrator and Corel file import [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Follow up with MPLA to clarify on funded development and general sponsorship options [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Start reaching out to people (including previous contributors) to attend the hackfest. [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Arrange votes for any special case travelers for hackfest. [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Try one more time to access spreadshirt password, then email bryce for help [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Collab on markdown formatting for the board docs [bryce,tedg] ♢ ACTION: Get the word out about LGM / Inkscape and invite more attendees [Tavmjong] ♢ ACTION: Evaluate use of discorse (https://discuss.pixls.us/ ?) for support/mailing list/forum type stuff [Vector Team] Bryce

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Wacom smartpad support - request for ideas
by Peter Hutterer 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Benjamin Tissoires and I have been working on a project called Tuhi that communicates with the wacom smartpad devices and pulls the data off them. https://github.com/tuhiproject/tuhi/ Devices working so far are the Bamboo Spark, Slate and the Intuos Pro Paper. Smartpad devices aren't traditional graphics tablets [1] but instead have a paper notepad on top of a sensor with a special pen. You draw on the paper, the sensor registers the drawings and stores it in a custom vector-based format in the device. Later, you connect the device over bluetooth to the host and fetch the drawings from the firmware. This is the bit that tuhi does, and it exposes the drawings as a simple json-based vector format overa session DBus API. To interact, you basically connect to the dbus daemon, tell it to listen to the device and then get notified about new drawings. Then you can fetch the drawings one-by-one as needed. Tuhi only has a commandline client for debugging and we don't intend to ship that client, it's for debugging only. Eventually, we may have a standalone application similar to Wacom's Inkspace (yeah, confusing, isn't it?). This app would be a gallery-style application that displays the drawings and exports them to the desired formats. That's a fairly straightforward process. But right now what we're interested in is whether inkscape has interest in a plugin-style implementation that talks to the tuhi daemon. Or whether there are use-cases where the standalone application is insufficient and some tighter integration is needed. Or other use-case you can think of that we haven't yet. Any comments appreciated! Cheers, Peter [1] the intuos pro paper is when you plug it in, let's ignore that for now

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