May 2018 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

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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About knots selection
by Antonio Ospite 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

Hi, I was looking into fixing https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1707919 and, after compiling a recent Inkscape version I noticed that the behavior of knot changed wrt. selection and dragging compared to 0.92.x. After some research on the mailing list I found the change mentioned here: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2017/07/12/what-happened-hackfest-2017/ I can see the benefit of keeping knots selected to be able to move them with the keyboard but I still find the new behavior a little unintuitive, at lest for shape editing: 1. The colors of the mouse-over and selected states are the same, maybe the coloring scheme of node paths can be copied: where mouse-over color is different from the selected and dragging colors which are the same. 2. Previously selected knots look still selected when _another_ knot is dragged without pressing Shift. Steps to replicate: 1. Change size of a rect using one corner. 2. Then change the size using the opposite corner. The firs corner looks still selected. 3. Shift-click does not really select arc knots for ellipses, or rounding knots for rects, because this action is already used for something else, e.g. to close the arc instead. Would it be possible to use Ctrl-Shift-click for the current function and leave Shift-click for the normal select behavior? IMHO this would be more consistent. 4. Dragging with the mouse only affects the last selected knot, even if multiple ones are selected, but this is not a big deal, the behavior is different compared to path nodes, but both make sense IMHO. I'll resume working on https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1707919 after the details from above are sorted out, to avoid overlapping problems. Thanks, Antonio P.S. When verifying 1. I also noticed that path nodes change their size when clicked the _first_time_ but then get smaller again if the object is unselected and re-selected; however this is unrelated to the message above, I'll file a separate bug report for that if it can considered a bug, what do you think? -- Antonio Ospite https://ao2.it https://twitter.com/ao2it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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September Hackfest in Kiel, Germany
by Maren Hachmann 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

Hi Developers and Community Members, we are currently planning to have an Inkscape hackfest in Kiel, in Northern Germany. It was suggested it could take place this year's autumn/fall already, and I was able to reserve a conference room in a startup center close to the city's university for early September, from Sun, 2018-09-09 until Thu, 2018-09-13. This will be during the 'Digitale Woche Kiel', a city-wide event week that aims to introduce people to IT and technology, and just before the 'Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage', a local conference with workshops, talks and an exhibition about Linux and Open Source software. The Inkscape Board has not voted on funding of the event yet. Details about the proposed Hackfest can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Kiel If you are interested in attending the Hackfest in Kiel in September, please add your name to the list at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Kiel_Attendees Please also add any topic that you would be interested to discuss during the Hackfest, or that you would like to suggest for discussion, here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Kiel_Topics Kind Regards, Maren

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Important Inkscape Vectors Meeting - This Saturday
by Ryan Gorley 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hello Vectors and Community, I'd like to invite all who are interested to attend the Inkscape Vectors meeting this Saturday, June 2, 15:00 UTC (See time conversion <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…>). This meeting will be conducted by chat only at: https://teams.freecreatives.org/inkscape/channels/town-square June 13th is the one year anniversary of our first meeting as a team! We've seen progress, but we're still learning and have room for improvement. Accordingly the main topic (see agenda discussion <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/59>) of the upcoming meeting will be organization and governance for the group moving forward. Brynn will be leading the meeting. It's a big deal. I hope you'll join us! -- Ryan

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New Extensions
by Tonya Sims 30 May '18

30 May '18

Hi all, I’m going to be writing tests for the newer extensions. I just want to make sure I have the right github repository. This is the one I cloned: git clone git@...3601...:inkscape/inkscape.git Is there a more updated one? I couldn’t find any in the documentation but wanted to make sure. Thanks, Tonya Sent from my iPhone

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Plotter Cameo 3
by imagen imperio 25 May '18

25 May '18

Hi everybody, I want to know if there is and extention or plugin to manage Cutting ploters Cameo. Thanks, -- José Quintanilla Ramírez Imagen Imperio www.imagenimperio.net <http://imagenimperio.us/> 83993758

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Survey about Inkscape UX
by JORGE LUIZ FRANZON ROSSI 23 May '18

23 May '18

Hi! I’m a Computer Science student at Federal University of Technology in Brazil and my group it’s doing a research about Inkscape. The focus of this work is at studying Human-Computer Interaction aspects, by collecting opinions from community and analyzing issues related to User Experience at Launchpad. It would be a great help if you can take a few minutes of your time to answer the questions of this form. Your identity will not be revealed and your answers are anonymous. If you wish to receive the research results, please leave your email address below. Best regards. Survey here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GkAXdEQrxWpolJPgQag5nmuRsRUwaITkn8SW_w4RqK…>

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Help needed: Extensions rotate path
by unknown＠example.com 18 May '18

18 May '18

Hi all, I've been refactoring the extensions code and while working on the paths support, I've become blocked on the rotate path functionality and need help. It's supposed to be able to rotate each of the points in the point list around the center x,y and it's based on the original code. But I have two problems. Firstly, I can't seem to find a way to get inkscape to output the kind of rotated path that would make writing a trustworthy test easier (and I don't know how to do the calculations by hand) And secondly, I'm not entirely sure if the original code worked or not. If you know anything about geometry or the original python, can you take a look at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/blob/master/inkex /paths.py#L92 which is the code in question and https://gitlab.com/inks cape/extensions/blob/master/tests/test_inkex_paths.py#L124 which is the respective test code. Tests can be run with `python3 setup.py test -s tests.test_inkex_paths` Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] reimbursement LGM
by Jabier Arraiza 14 May '18

14 May '18

Thanks Tav! -----Original Message----- From: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> To: jabier.arraiza@...2893..., Inkscape-Devel <inkscape-devel@...1240... ceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] reimbursement LGM Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 13:28:39 +0200 On Thu, 2018-05-10 at 15:08 +0200, Jabier Arraiza wrote: > Hi All. > > Who is the person to send data for reimbursement from last LGM? Send it directly to accounting@...3057... > Thanks in advance. >

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LGM-Hackfest Write-Up
by Jabier Arraiza 10 May '18

10 May '18

Hi all. First to all thanks to all make this happend. To me is very dificult attend conferences and code at the same time, my goal to this LGM not success but now I'm nearest with the help I recive in IRC: Allow link SVG into a SVG as image element. My second goal is make image paths work relative and I couldent get into. Short work done :(

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reimbursement LGM
by Jabier Arraiza 10 May '18

10 May '18

Hi All. Who is the person to send data for reimbursement from last LGM? Thanks in advance.

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GSoC Selections?
by Aditya Sher 06 May '18

06 May '18

The GSoC site shows an error in the selection menu of students , is it that no one got selected for GSoC under inkscape?

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y-axis direction and origin
by Thomas Holder 05 May '18

05 May '18

Hi all, I took the liberty and assigned bug 170049 "Inverted ruler co-ordinate system" to myself. I used the patch from 2010 as a starting point, fitted it to the current code base and made it user configurable. It's been a while (7 years) that I last contributed to Inkscape development. What's the current development process? Do you guys do code review? How do I submit a pull request to the gitlab repository? I'm not a project member yet (my username is @speleo3). Thanks, Thomas

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Inkscape Vectors Meeting - This Saturday
by Ryan Gorley 05 May '18

05 May '18

Hello All, This is just a friendly invitation to join the Inkscape Vectors meeting this Saturday. All are welcome to participate by video/voice/chat. Details can be found at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/57 Come with your ideas and enthusiasm. I look forward to seeing you there! -- Ryan

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Board meeting Friday May 4th at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 04 May '18

04 May '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this Friday, May 4th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * LGM Debrief * Future meetings/hackfests. + [https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2018 GUADEC 2018] - July 6th-11th (Ameria, Spain) GTK conference + [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] - May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) Proposed. (About two hours by train from Paris.) + SCALE * Sponsorships * Merchandise sales + Spreadshirt [cr] + Evaluate self-serve merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc] * Action items * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- === LGM Hackfest 2018 === ♢ ACTION: LGM 2018 reminder email [Tav] ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote on a sponsored dinner at LGM 2018 [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Clarify funding rules to include contributors to inkscape-web, 2geom (maybe more?) [Tav] === Outreachy === ♢ ACTION: Initial planning/contacts for Outreachy [bryce] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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Performance issue with gtk3 (especially on Windows)
by Eduard Braun 03 May '18

03 May '18

(I'll split this from the previous thread "slow, sluggish drawing with pencil & calligraphy tool solved" which became quite lengthy with a title not really matching the topic anymore) Hi all, I did not have a lot of time to follow up on this lately but I've got some great news I want to share with you regarding the performance issues we were seeing in Inkscape master (especially on Windows due to extremely poor GTK3 rendering performance which got even worse when drawing native window decoration, i.e. GTK_CSD=0). Turns out a patchset for cairo (see [1]) greatly reduced the latency of the rendering pipeline giving Inkscape a huge boost. I just built Inkscape with the patched cairo and performance with GTK_CSD=0 is now even slightly higher than with GTK_CSD=1! Also the blocking behaviour is completely gone (i.e. UI always redraws properly with current unmodified master). Performance with master/gtk3 is still *a lot* lower than with 0.92.x/gtk2, so I hope we can continue to improve Inkscape code (Yale's changes already looked very promising and I think they were not directly related to the changes in cairo, i.e. could improve performance even more) and maybe even GTK3 code (there are some very recent developments [2] which might result in a completely overhauled OpenGL based backend for win32!) but with today's success I finally feel we have a realistic chance to make the next Inkscape fun to work with on Windows! Best Regards, Eduard [1] https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/pull/3675 [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/105

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Location path for an imported figure
by David Carrasco de Busturia 02 May '18

02 May '18

Dear All, I am finding `Inkscape` a really good tool for importing `PDF` or `EPS` scientific plots into a blank page, and then place arrows on top of the graphs, text, make scientific drawings assemble them in the desired location and then save as a unique PDF page that can then be included as a unique `figure` in a `latex` document. Let's imagine an inkscape project that has assembled 10 plots, imported from these folders: /path1/plot_1.pdf /path2/plot_2.pdf ... /path10/plot_10.pdf We already know that in /path1/ there is also the python, gnuplot, etc source code that produces the PDF plot, for instance: /path1/plot_1.py /path2/plot_2.gnu etc Most of the times I need to continue working over the original PDF plots that I once imported into a inkscape project I made back in time. For example, change the scale and the title of the plots, and so on. In other words, I need to go to the original source code (gnuplot, python, etc) that produces those plots that have been assembled in the inkscape project. In these situations, while having the nice inkscape project in the screen with all the plots 1 to 10, it is quite hard to remember where is the location of the original PDF plot. As far as I am concerned, there is no option in the inkscape interface that allows you to know which is the original location path of the PDF plot that was once imported into the inkscape project. The closest solution I could find is the following: every time I import a new PDF of EPS, I right click and and create a link which is basically a copy-paste of the location path of the figure. This solution is quite tedious and most of the times one forgets to create the link. Once the image is imported, the next natural step is to resize it and locate in the desired place, and it is very easy to forget to create the link. For instance, if this multi PDF plots assemble project was made in Latex, the location path of all the plots would be perfectly identified, i.e. in the `\includegraphics` line. I am sure there are more than one user that misses this feature. I was wondering if it is possible to check an option in the importing process that would allow to automatically write the location path of the figure somewhere. Or any other strategy that would automatically write the location path every time a plot is imported. Would this be very costly ? Thanks a lot for all your help, All the best, David

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Fw: Vectors Meeting - SATURDAY!!! - Unencrypted Edition (LOL)
by brynn 02 May '18

02 May '18

forwarding to devel list -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Gorley Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2018 12:58 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Vectors Meeting - SATURDAY!!! - Unencrypted Edition (LOL) Hello All, I apologize for being a little quiet for the last few weeks as I've been trying to catch up with uncompleted work from the joyful distractions of March. I'm sure you've also been busy, and I'm personally grateful for your time and talents. None of us can carry this by ourselves, every small/large contribution is felt and appreciated. We have a lot of ground to cover, but to respect your time I'd like to make an effort to keep our formal discussion to one hour (side discussions can continue afterward of course). Details are here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/57 I'm not the boss! If you feel like there are items that should be added to this meeting for discussion, then please add them, email me, or comment in the issue. Thank you again for your work and willingness! Ryan -- Ryan Gorley Founder + Creative Director https://dijt.co 1.801.999.1530 ×101 1.801.898.7926

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