First contribution - looking to improve eps -> svg conversion ( or eps import ) - kickstart needed
by Andrea Bogazzi
Hi Everyone,
I was looking into eps -> svg conversion and inkscape does an almost
perfect job if it wasn't that it trash layers information and group
information.
I started to dig into the code to figure out if it was something i could
look into and try to improve, i found so far this folder that seems to
handle the relevant code:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/tree/master/src/extension/internal/p...
Is there anyone able to give me a quick input to know if that is the
correct code to look at, or if not point me to the right code files?
Also does anyone have information of why this feature is currently not
supported, if is a matter of use case missing, if just no one built it or
if is more about some technical problem that has been already discussed and
discarded?
To be honest i remember in the past opening some pdf with inkscapes and
having multiple ungrouping operations to do before hitting the single
objects, but as of now, if i create an eps with illustrators with group or
layers and then i import it in inkscape, i get a flat list of objects.
So maybe i just remember wrong.
I m not by any mean a c++ expert, i have svg and pdf knowledge and some c++
coding, but since i need this feature i would like at least to give it a
shot.
Andrea
4 years, 10 months
Hello everyone, trying to get my hands dirty with the inkscape codebase
by Andrea Bogazzi
Hi Everyone,
I was looking into eps -> svg conversion and inkscape does an almost
perfect job if it wasn't that it trash layers information and group
information.
I started to dig into the code to figure out if it was something i could
look into and try to improve, i found so far this folder that seems to
handle the relevant code:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/tree/master/src/extension/internal/p...
Is there anyone able to give me a quick input to know if that is the
correct code to look at, or if not point me to the right code files?
Also does anyone have information of why this feature is currently not
supported, if is a matter of use case missing, if just no one built it or
if is more about some technical problem that has been already discussed and
discarded?
To be honest i remember in the past opening some pdf with inkscapes and
having multiple ungrouping operations to do before hitting the single
objects, but as of now, if i create an eps with illustrators with group or
layers and then i import it in inkscape, i get a flat list of objects.
So maybe i just remember wrong.
I m not by any mean a c++ expert, i have svg and pdf knowledge and some c++
coding, but since i need this feature i would like at least to give it a
shot.
Andrea
4 years, 10 months
New developer member
by Mare Soria
Hi everyone! After a few years using Inkscape I finally decided to get
involved with their development.
I think that Inkscape it's the best alternative to Adobe Illustrator, but
I feel like is needed a big upgrade, fundamentally on their interface that
looks like very old and caotic.
Unfortunately, I'm a web developer, so I don't know how to code in C++ but
I can develop the UI/UX design.
Is there someone hightly motivated to develop with me a nice update for
2019?
Marién
4 years, 10 months
Linux Humble Bundle
by John Cliff
Hi All,
Just thought I'd point out that theres a Linux Humble bundle on currently
that includes the Book of Inkscape by Dmitry Kirsanov in the $8 level.
Cheers
John
4 years, 10 months
Inkscape Website: Attack and Spam
by unknown＠example.com
Dear developers,
I've just now been alerted to some activity on our webserver py1. Email
bounces from users started arriving to me (the webmaster) and I quickly
tried to gather information about what kind of event we had. One of the
bounces contained headers showing the emails were coming from our
server.
I have thus shut down postfix on py1 as a precaution, the website will
be unable to send email for the time being.
I've been digging through the logs to find out what kind of issue we
have:
* A service ticket has been created for OSUOSL to investigate
* None of the email addresses appear in our user accounts list, so our
database is unlikely to have been compromised.
* There's been an sshd attack against the server today from 3:12am to
18:23pm but no actual signs of a break in.
* Email appear at 18:53, unknown quantity (more than 40), logs do not
report quantity at this time. So it might be something pretending to be
py1 to osuosl's smtp server.
I'll reply here when I know more, although I probably won't hear back
from osuosl until tomorrow.
Best regards, Martin Owens
4 years, 10 months
Yesterday was SMIL and today is Mesh Gradients
by Victor Westmann
Hi fellow inkscapers,
I was amazed to read that inkscape already has Mesh Gradients (since
version 0.92) just like Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator got this exact same
feature in the version 8 (released in 1998). 20 years ago.
But it seems that Mesh Gradients will be removed from the SVG 2.0
specification. My question is WHY?
That made me really sad and wondering: isn't there anything we can do to
prevent that from happening? Can we make a petition or talk to
Mozilla/Chrome/Opera/Vivaldi browser so they can implement this and this
feature, as soon as it gets traction, to be kept in the 2.0 spec of SVG
technology?
Ideas anyone? Is this too unrealistic or we can do something about it?
I remember google chrome almost removed SMIL feature from Google Chrome but
then the feature got traction and started being used more and more... so
they kept it.
4 years, 10 months
