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Hackfest C++11 migration discussion
by Alex Valavanis 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

Summary: We are considering adopting new cleaner & more flexible C++ language features. This may not work with some older compiler versions. Opinions are warmly welcomed! ----- Hi All, At the Hackfest, we discussed adopting features from the C++11 standard into our code. The advantages are (among others) significantly cleaner, more flexible and more readable syntax. I've included three examples at the end of this message. Our discussion included consideration of users of older compilers. A convenient summary of compiler support is available at [1]. Several features (illustrated in the examples below) are well supported, including range-based for loops, type inference and variadic templates. If we adopt these three specific features, we will require: GCC >= 4.6 Clang >= 3.1 (or another suitable compiler!) A complete migration to C++11 would require: GCC >= 4.8.1 Clang >= 3.3 I propose that we adopt C++11 on a feature-by-feature basis, with discussion before requiring any bump in compiler version. We can track this in the wiki or similar. We could potentially consider introducing a couple of the "safer" features within the next release cycle. Maybe even in time for 0.92?! I will be pushing some demos of C++11 features to the branch lp:inkscape/~valavanisalex/inkscape/cpp11-port [2] for testing by other devs/testers before we consider merging anything into trunk. I will let you know when anything interesting is there! We're very interested in any opinions or comments! Will this migration affect you? Is it good for the project? Do you see any trouble ahead? Best wishes, Alex [1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support [2] https://code.launchpad.net/~valavanisalex/inkscape/cpp11-port (Examples follow) == 1. Type inference == The compiler can automatically determine the type of variables, based on the return type of functions etc. For example: std::vector<std::pair<Glib::ustring, Glib::ustring> > pairs = ColorProfile::getProfileFilesWithNames(); becomes... auto pairs = ColorProfile::getProfileFilesWithNames(); == 2. Range-based for-loops == Often, we just want to iterate over the entire contents of a container. The syntax is much cleaner in C++11: for(std::vector<Inkscape::SnapCandidatePoint>::iterator i = _all_snap_sources_sorted.begin(); i != _all_snap_sources_sorted.end(); ++i){ // whatever } becomes... for(auto &i : _all_snap_sources_sorted){ // whatever } == 3. Variadic templates == Sometimes we want many variants on the same function that take a different number of arguments. For example: template <typename CurveType, typename A> void appendNew(A a) { // whatever } template <typename CurveType, typename A, typename B> void appendNew(A a, B b) { // whatever } <snip /> template <typename CurveType, typename A, typename B, typename C, typename D, typename E, typename F, typename G, typename H, typename I> void appendNew(A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i) { // whatever } This long (and incomplete) set of functions can be replaced by a single variadic template in C++11: template <typename CurveType, typename... Args> void appendNew(Args... args) { // whatever }

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Review of small branch
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hi all, devs I have a very tiny branch to review. Anyone are welcome to help on it! https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/bend_and_pattern_alon g_path_width_modified_by_knot/+merge/266659 The video of the branch working: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/6341/ All the best, J.

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New Gnome development libraries need C++11 compiler support
by Alex Valavanis 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hi All, Time to revisit our old discussions about C++11 support (with some urgency). It seems that unstable versions of libsigc++ (as of version 2.4.1, I think) require the C++11 standard to be enabled by the compiler [1]. This is already causing build failures [2] so we need to act soon. Indeed, as suv points out in [2], many of the Gnome development libraries have switched over too. As far as I recall, older versions of OS X do not have a compiler that supports C++11 fully, so we'd risk killing off support for these users if we enforce the C++11 standard in Inkscape. Some options... 1. Add configuration tests to selectively enable C++11 only on systems with the new libraries... this could be complicated to maintain, though 2. Enforce C++11 builds, but forbid developers from using new features until they have been tested on a wide range of systems... I'm not sure how we'd enforce this once we've made it technically possible to build C++11 code 3. Enforce C++11 builds, and give developers "green light" to use new features. This is likely to cause problems for users of old OSes! Best wishes, AV [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/libsigc++2/commit/?id=5a6b8f21f83dfe0f64770196… [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1488079

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[Election Question] Some questions.
by Tavmjong Bah 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Questions for the candidates: The board's primary role has been to handle Inkscape's assets. How can Inkscape's assets be used to grow the Inkscape community? Are there specific projects that you think the board should pursue? How would you contribute to them? Tav

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Bug 418242 - clipboard interaction
by Jared Henley 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hi, I believe that I'm experiencing the bug described here (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/418242). I'm finally sick enough of it to try to get it fixed. I want to start by mailing the list to find out what's going on, if it'll get fixed by some other development, etc. first. Comment #37 on the launchpad bug tracker mentions a patch. Comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/418242/comments/37, Patch: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1021767/My%20Scripts/FixesAndPatches/InkscapePatch.… I haven't tried this as I don't like messing about with stuff managed by the package manager. I have some experience with C, a lot more with Python. Where do I start? Jared.

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[Election Question] Accessibility for non-Developers
by Ted Gould 23 Aug '15

23 Aug '15

Question for the candidates: Inkscape has tried to be welcoming to both developer and non-developer contributions to the project. Do you think the project has been successful there? Is it getting better or worse? What could/should we do to recognize or encourage non-developer contributions? Ted

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SSL config on inkscape.org
by Tobias Ellinghaus 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

Hello, I hope that someone feeling responsible for the Inkscape website is reading this. Would it be possible to change the SSL used by inkscape.org to offer something modern and maybe disable old and weak cyphers? I have disabled the broken ones in my browser and can't reach the website any more. See [0] for details. Tobias [0] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=inkscape.org&hideResults=on

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Seamless Pattern extension updated to V0.5
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

Hi to all. I just commit the updated extension to trunk. 0.91/0.48 users can get it from here: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1358/ Improvements: Cleanup and better script for he helper text, thanks to Maren. Cleanup of layer names to easy use it. A transparency checkboard show in the pattern preview to notice about transparency in the pattern. Non unifrorm patterns not deform the default inkscape based pattern. All elements not necesary for make the patter are blocked, so is more easy work on it. All the best, Jabier.

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Inkscape Board Election: Candidate Nomination Peroid has ended
by Ted Gould 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

Hello, The nomination and candidacy submission period is now closed. We had seven individuals nominated, four of which have been accepted. This is a good time to start thinking of questions to ask the candidates as you will have the chance to ask the candidates anything you'd like to know before you elect them to the board. Please post those questions to the inkscape-devel mailing list. We will be sending out voting tokens to eligible voters before the end of this week, then you will be able to access the voting website provided by the Software Freedom Conservancy for our election. You will be able to go to that website with your token and cast your vote.[1] We will send out an e-mail after all the tokens have gone out so that you can confirm getting one. If you are (or think you should be) in the AUTHORS file, and did not receive the test mail sent out by Ted Gould earlier this week, please send a message to inkscape.elections.committee@...3261... so that we can add it to the voters list ASAP. Thank you and happy voting - and good luck to all our candidates :), The Inkscape Elections Committee [1] The voting system used is Scottish STV (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote), the voting software is an open-source fork of openSTV (from a version before it went closed-source). ------------------------------------------------------------ CANDIDATES == Name == Krzysztof Kosiński == Current Professional Affiliation == University of Warsaw (until end of September), Intel (probably until end of August), Google (starting in late November) == Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies == long time contributor starting in 2008, 4x GSoC participant, 2x GSoC mentor. Responsible for clipboard rewrite, multipath capabilities in the node tool, Cairo rendering, render caching, bitmap image handling improvements, recently focusing on lib2geom - general refactoring and Boolean operations. == Personal statement == Inkscape is a special project for me. It has offered me lots of opportunities to build my experience, earn money through Summer of Code, and has indirectly prompted me to seek a career in software engineering. By serving on the board of Inkscape, I hope to be able to reciprocate some of the positive influence that Inkscape has had on my professional development over the years. ================================================================== == Name == Martin W.F. Owens == Current Professional Affiliation == - Freelance programming contractor, Free Software focus. - Some past inkscape contracting; perl python/django websites, other. == Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies == I state I have contributed to Inkscape evident in the commit logs of the bazaar repository for the master branch and am the principal author of the inkscape-web project. == Personal statement == Inkscape is an important tool for the Free Software community, being its primary graphical design and user interface tool as well as its most advanced web standards compliant authoring tool. Its availability and ease of use make it also important in being able to promote Free Software and the wider understanding of Free Culture as a whole. A large portion of Inkscape's future is in organising and inviting users who participate in the wider community and I wish to be able to help manage the interfaces that serve the community in both their support and involvement in the large landscape of Inkscape's uses. ================================================================== == Name == Nicolas Dufour == Current Professional Affiliation == Sysadmin for the French civil aviation. == Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies == I first used Inkscape in 2007 to create waypoints and airports icons for aviation maps and it rapidly became the main tool for almost all my personal and professional creative work. So I found it natural to give back to the project in 2008 (first contribution: the Printing Marks extension, in collaboration with Aurium) and never left the project since then. Some of my favorite areas are extensions, internationalization/localization, documentation, triaging bug and fixing forgotten low priority bugs. I have some blueprints pending (extensions presets, multiple preferences management and crash recovery dialog), but unfortunately there's too much to be done in the other areas and I have difficulties finding time to be a real developer. Apart from Inkscape, I also contribute to the Floss Manuals project as technical writer (very occasionally now) and as webmaster of the French FM server. == Personal statement == I feel there's a real need for non-developer contributions. A FOSS project is not only a question of code, and bringing it to users is basically why we're contributing. That's the reason why I first focused on documentation and internationalization/localization tasks. Answering questions on LP, the Inkscape forum or IRC and helping with the website content are crucial, too (unfortunately it's very time consuming and I can't contribute as much as I'd like). Being on the Board is different, but also helps developers meet other developers and users, and legal and financial issues are very important to keep the project safe. I'd be very happy to help Inkscape that way, too. ================================================================== == Name == Alexander (Alex) Valavanis == Current Professional Affiliation == School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom == Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies == I have been an Inkscape developer since May 2011, with over 550 contributions committed to the project's code. My main involvement has been in improving the quality and maintainability of the code, and making the best use of the programming language features and software libraries available on the many different operating systems used by Inkscape's diverse user community. Specifically, I led the migration of Inkscape to the new GTK+ 3 graphical user interface library, which will "future-proof" our code, allow us to make much better use of touchscreens, and provide better support for OS X. I set up and maintain the Inkscape personal package archives (PPAs), which enable Ubuntu and Debian users to access both the latest stable version of Inkscape and daily builds of our experimental code. I have also taken a lot of interest in improving the build systems, which are used for building the Inkscape program from its source code. I have aimed to ensure that Inkscape can be built reliably on a wide range of systems, and I have liaised closely with the downstream Ubuntu and Debian package maintainers to make sure that we receive user bug reports and distribute new versions of Inkscape to users as efficiently as possible. I was very grateful for the opportunity to attend the Inkscape Hackfest in 2015, and to meet with other developers and board members to work on the code and discuss the future roadmap for the project. == Personal statement == It is a true honour to have been nominated as a board member for Inkscape. I fully appreciate the high regard in which the project is held by its users, and the wider free software community. My role in Inkscape has, so far, focused mainly on the technical side of improving the quality and longevity of the project, and I am eager now to support the project at board level. It was a real pleasure to meet some of the other board members in person at the Hackfest earlier this year and I look forward to the opportunity to work together with them. As a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, I have experience in the financial planning of small to medium-scale ($1000 - $1.5 million) technical projects, and am confident in my ability to take on board responsibilities for Inkscape. I am also interested in the inter-project collaboration aspects of board membership, particularly in promoting the development of shared libraries and resources for common use with other free-software projects.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] How to include .lib or .a in inkscape
by Alex Valavanis 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi Pratap, I'm afraid I don't know much about Windows development... I'll have to defer to one of the other team members! Best wishes, Alex On 18 Aug 2015 7:04 am, "Pratap Odedara" <p.odedara20@...400...> wrote: > I am using windows os and compiling the inkscape using visual studio as > given in official site > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...400...> > wrote: > >> Hi Pratap, >> >> Which OS are you using? How are you compiling Inkscape? >> >> >> Alex >> >> On 14 August 2015 at 13:15, Pratap <p.odedara20@...400...> wrote: >> > I want to include external library in inkscape project I have both .lib >> and >> > .a files of that library i want to include that library and use its >> methods >> > in inkscape so please guid me how to do it >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > View this message in context: >> http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/How-to-include-lib-or-a-in-inkscape-tp4974… >> > Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Inkscape-devel mailing list >> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> > >

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Seamless Extension Update
by Jabier Arraiza 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi to all, attached are the template for the Seamless Pattern extension. It have some explains in english, also added a new feature to show white patterns without background or transparency. I need help to fix the strings and also a request to clarify it in the user point of view. Thanks in advace for your effort, Jabier.

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How to include .lib or .a in inkscape
by Pratap 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

I want to include external library in inkscape project I have both .lib and .a files of that library i want to include that library and use its methods in inkscape so please guid me how to do it -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/How-to-include-lib-or-a-in-inkscape-tp4974… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Fwd: Inkscape Ballot E-mail Test]
by Ted Gould 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

If you are in the AUTHORS file, you should have received an e-mail like this in the last half hour or so. If not, please check your spam filter (it kinda looks like spam, I understand that) and then contact the Elections Committee. We've been working hard (mostly Maren) to get all of your e-mail addresses correct and updated, but I could have made a typo or we could have an old e-mail address for you. It'll be much easier to correct things now rather than when we start voting. If you know someone who is an Inkscape author but is not on inkscape-devel, please contact them and tell them to look out for this message as well. Thank you, Ted -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Ted Gould <ted@...11...> > To: inkscape.elections.committee@...3261... > Subject: Inkscape Ballot E-mail Test > Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:16:52 -0500 > > Hello, > > We are testing the e-mail addresses that we have for people who can > vote in the Inkscape election. If you've received this e-mail there's > likely nothing you need to do. If this e-mail is going to an address > that you don't want us to use, please contact the Inkscape Elections > Committee: > > inkscape.elections.committee@...3261... > > If you know someone in the AUTHORS file that should have gotten a test > e-mail, and did not. Please have them contact the committee so that we > can get it sorted out. > > Thank you, > Elections Committee (via Ted)

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How to include .lib or .a in inkscape
by Pratap Odedara 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

I want to include external library in inkscape project I have both .lib and .a files of that library i want to include that library and use its methods in inkscape so please guid me how to do it

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Inkscape Board Elections: Last chance for nominations and candidacies
by Maren Hachmann 16 Aug '15

16 Aug '15

Hi everyone, it's been a little difficult to get people to volunteer (nobody did without having been asked) or to even nominate someone (same!). Now's your last chance to step up and tell us you'd like to run for one of those two empty seats - or to nominate someone you think should be on the Inkscape Board. We'd really like to see your candidacy and / or nominations (hurry up - we still have to ask the nominee ;) )! (else the election could become a little boring...) Please send your mail to the Inkscape elections committee list at inkscape.elections.committee@...3260... Thank you! Regards, Maren

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Switch
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Hi to all. Im thinking going to work on "switch" code now "full" implemented in Inkscape but without GUI. Tav give me help on it. I have a idea on how to get working but have questions. Im focused on languaje selector but maybe im wrong, maybe need a full "switch" GUI with "requiredFeatures", "requiredExtensions" and "systemLanguage" conditional processing attributes. Realy Im not sure if "requiredFeatures" and "requiredExtensions" are useful to handle on Inkscape or maybe is better for use on the XML editor or raw SVG editing for the moment. In my mind, with language only point of view, I need a object dialog method to redraw a "switch", and a language -or "switch"- widget to: * Add multilenguage title and desc * Switch all "switches" to one lang * Add lang to a "switch". Global? * Remove a lang * Insert selected element to a new "switch" in the default lang. * Handle more Aria atributes? By the way, about "switches" in webpages with "systemLanguage" conditional processing attribute, whats the best way to user based switch a lang? We need a JS hack? Now im very bussy whith my payed work but hope can take some time to this proyect but sure not as dedicated as previously :( Regards, Jabier.

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Error compiling for Win64
by Christian Budde 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Hello, today I wanted to build the latest trunk version for Win64, but I encountered an issue I don't know how to fix myself. What I did so far is to follow the instructions here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_64-bit I also tried with more recent versions of MinGW-w64 now that Sourceforge is back online. Below is the error reported. It seems to be related to MinGW-w64, but I'm not sure what code actually triggered this and how to solve it. compile src/graphlayout.cpp Make error line 311: problem compiling: In file included from src/style.h:21:0, from src/graphlayout.cpp:34: src/style-internal.h:522:107: warning: unused parameter 'inherits' [-Wunused-parameter] SPIEnumBits( Glib::ustring const &name, SPStyleEnum const *enums, unsigned value = 0, bool inherits = true ) : ^ src/style-internal.h:522:107: warning: unused parameter 'inherits' [-Wunused-parameter] In file included from C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/move.h:57:0, from C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/stl_pair.h:59, from C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/stl_algobase.h:64, from C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/char_traits.h:39, from C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/ios:40, from C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/ostream:38, from C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/iostream:39, from src/graphlayout.cpp:15: C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/type_traits: In instantiation of 'struct std::remove_reference<SPItem*&>': C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/move.h:87:5: required by substitution of 'template<class _Tp> constexpr _Tp&& s td::forward(typename std::remove_reference<_From>::type&&) [with _Tp = SPItem*&]' C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/stl_construct.h:75:68: required from 'void std::_Construct(_T1*, _Args&& ...) [ with _T1 = SPItem*; _Args = SPItem*&]' C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:75:53: required from 'static _ForwardIterator std::__uninit ialized_copy<_TrivialValueTypes>::__uninit_copy(_InputIterator, _InputIterator, _ForwardIterator) [with _InputIterator = SPItem* *; _ForwardIterator = SPItem**; bool _TrivialValueTypes = false]' C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:125:41: required from '_ForwardIterator std::uninitialized_ copy(_InputIterator, _InputIterator, _ForwardIterator) [with _InputIterator = SPItem**; _ForwardIterator = SPItem**]' C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:278:63: required from '_ForwardIterator std::__uninitialize d_copy_a(_InputIterator, _InputIterator, _ForwardIterator, std::allocator<_Tp>&) [with _InputIterator = SPItem**; _ForwardIterat or = SPItem**; _Tp = SPItem*]' C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/bits/vector.tcc:213:29: required from 'std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>& std::vector<_Tp, _A lloc>::operator=(const std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>&) [with _Tp = SPItem*; _Alloc = std::allocator<SPItem*>]' src/snap.h:148:100: required from here C:/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/c++/type_traits:1476:5: internal compiler error: in finish_member_declaration, at cp/seman tics.c:2828 { typedef _Tp type; }; ^ Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64> for instructions. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Kind regards, Christian Budde -- Christian-W. Budde Eleonorenstr. 17 30449 Hannover Tel.: +49 511 31048857 E-Mail: Christian@...3256... WWW: http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian

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Printing orientation issues
by Philipp Hachtmann 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Hi folks, Inkscape does the print orientation thing wrongly. I'll try to explain. Most - but *NOT* all! - printers start printing on the top of a sheet which comes out of the printer in portrait. That means that if you have your inkscape (or other document) in portrait, it will be sent to the printer just like you have it on the screen. No rotation, no nothing. Everything fine. Inkscape assumes that all printers work this way. It's hard coded in (at least, I did not go that deep, sorry) src/ui/dialog/print.cpp: > if (doc_width > doc_height) { > gtk_page_setup_set_orientation (page_setup, GTK_PAGE_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE); > paper_size = gtk_paper_size_new_custom("custom", "custom", > doc_height, doc_width, GTK_UNIT_POINTS); I am not sure where the image is actually rotated (in Inkscape, the CUPS driver?), but the decision goes completely wrong when you have a printer that prints natively in landscape. This is the case for my label printer and my photo typesetter. And as I read in the web, I'm not the first one with that problem. The inkscape code is that "intelligent" that you can't even work around it by rotating the drawing before printing. It always comes out wrong. Amazing! I'm sorry that I can't provide a useful patch (I'm not good at application programming and all the high level stuff), but perhaps someone could fix this issue? It would be great to have some kind of config option that sounds like "Printer prints in landscape". Then this could be used to correct the decision if the image/print has to be turned. Kind regards Philipp

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Reminder: New members for the Inkscape Board wanted!
by unknown＠example.com 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Hi everyone, this is just a small reminder that the application period for the Inkscape board has started. It is planned to last until August, 18th 2015. Please consider if you can imagine to extend your support for Inkscape to include some legal and financial responsibility for the project. Or if you know someone who you think could be a suitable person for one of the two vacant board seats, don't hesitate to submit a nomination. In either case, send your mail to inkscape.elections.committee@...3261... so we can help with your candidacy / ask the nominee. For more info about the process, also see https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/board-duties/ If you have any questions about Board duties, or the election process, also don't hesitate to contact the elections committee via inkscape.elections.committee@...3261... . Thank you! Regards, Maren Hachmann

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vpaint - new revolutionary open source vector animation technology - github+ demos
by Todor Imreorov 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

What is vpaint: VPaint is an experimental vector graphics editor based on the Vector Animation Complex (VAC), a technology developed by a collaboration of researchers at Inria and the University of British Columbia, featured at SIGGRAPH 2015. It allows you to create resolution-independent illustrations and animations using innovative techniques. it is open source and it has a solution to some of current vector graphic's biggest flaws. See video here: https://youtu.be/NdQFAMe7TlY It also has tweening capabilities, which makes it incredibly powerful as a 2d animation tool: https://youtu.be/Xk1_CugdytI Website: http://www.vpaint.org/ github: https://github.com/dalboris/vpaint Available for windows, linux and mac Posting this with the hope that some of inkscape's developers could look into a way to integrate some of the features into inkscape.

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Fw: OSUOSL Post-Mortum
by Martin Owens 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

For those who are interested in the full issue with the website and it's background: http://osuosl.org/blog/mysql1-vip-post-mortem Best Regards, Martin Owens

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New video Mirror Symmetry LPE update to fussion paths
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 08 Aug '15

08 Aug '15

Hi again to all. I lost time ago publish one of my code, now fix it. You can see the video here: http://www.jabiertxof.tk/2015/08/mirror-symmetry-lpe-update-for -inkscape.html The branch to review: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape /mirror-symetry-lpe-improvements All the best, Jabier.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] New video Mirror Symmetry LPE update to fussion paths
by Jabier Arraiza 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Hi Shlomi. Add a copy to original CC, maybe could be interesting to someone. Im using Evolution in a Debian Box in plain text mode. I usualy write whith the default "normal" mode that break links. I hope if I switch to "preformated" mode the links not broken anymore. In the next line i write a link in normal mode and preformated: "normal mode" https://www.google.es/search?q=inkscape&pws=0&hl=es&num=10&gws_rd=ssl#pws=0… +a+libre+and+very+amazing+draw+editor+for+all "preformated mode" https://www.google.es/search?q=inkscape&pws=0&hl=es&num=10&gws_rd=ssl#pws=0… All the best, Jabier. On jue, 2015-08-06 at 13:04 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Jabier, > > On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 10:53:04 +0200 > Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: > > > Thanks Shlomi! > > All the best, Jabier. > > > > You're welcome. I wonder what caused this problem at your end and how it can be > fixed. > > — Shlomi > > > On jue, 2015-08-06 at 11:16 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Hi Jabierxto, > > > > > > the links were still broken in your reply, so here are corrected + shortened > > > links: > > > > > > On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 00:21:23 +0200 > > > Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi again to all. > > > > I lost time ago publish one of my code, now fix it. > > > > > > > > You can see the video here: > > > > http://www.jabiertxof.tk/2015/08/mirror-symmetry-lpe-update-for > > > > -inkscape.html > > > > > > > > > > http://www.jabiertxof.tk/2015/08/mirror-symmetry-lpe-update-for-inkscape.ht… > > > > > > Short: http://is.gd/HMf0SD > > > > > > > The branch to review: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape > > > > /mirror-symetry-lpe-improvements > > > > > > > > > > https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/mirror-symetry-lpe-improv… > > > > > > Short: http://is.gd/cFcH5s > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Shlomi Fish > > > > > > > > > >

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New video Mirror Symmetry LPE update to fussion paths
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Link broken for the vídeo, here are again: http://www.jabiertxof.tk/2015/08/mirror-symmetry-lpe-update-for -inkscape.html All the best, Jabier. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Inkscape Call for Candidates
by Ted Gould 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Inkscape is holding elections for two vacant Board Member seats. As you may know, two of our seven Inkscape Board Members have resigned a few months ago. Now that all the infrastructure we need for an election is in place, we want to invite our Official Project Members¹ to run for a seat on the board. We encourage everyone of you to consider increasing your involvement in the project by applying as a candidate for the Inkscape Board. If you are an Official Project Member, and would like to run or to nominate someone, please send your suggestion to inkscape.elections.committee@...3260... We will then ask the person you nominated (if not you) if they are willing to accept their candidature. Details about the Board's duties, the application process and the election schedule can be found below: Duties Typically the board votes on things such as project fund expenditures (travel, conferences, marketing materials for events, etc), trademark related issue, other legal issues that arise, etc. The board does not have responsibility currently for technical decisions for the project, and does not handle social/community issues where there are no financial or legal aspects to the problem. Board membership requires a commitment of time: At a minimum you will be expected to participate in votes on the mailing list, which typically occur with a frequency of about 0 to 3 per month. You are required to be on the board mailing list, which has a volume of about 30-50 emails per month; you're not required to participate in the discussions, but it is very strongly encouraged. We also solicit volunteers from the board to serve as as event managers, team leaders, fundraising coordinators, etc. - Again, not a requirement, but we value board members who can shoulder such duties for the project. Board members will serve on the Board until they resign (or are removed from the Board under the provisions of the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with Software Conservancy — available on https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/). Candidature The election process starts with a Candidacy Period during which any Official Member may indicate interest in running for the positions. To register, please email inkscape.elections.committee@...3261..., giving your: * Name (legal name required when elected) * Current professional affiliation * Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies * A personal statement At the end of the Candidacy Period, the applicants will be reviewed to verify eligibility. The list of candidates will then by published, and the community will have a chance to ask questions on the development mailing list. And then we will move forward with voting for the candidates. More information for voters will be sent before the election starts. Schedule The schedule for the elections will be as follows: * Candidacy period Start: August 5th, 2015 * Candidacy period End: August 18th, 2015 (08:00 UTC) * Publication of Candidates & start of Candidate Q&A: August 18th, 2015 * Election Start: August 18th, 2015 * Election End: September 2nd, 2015 (08:00 UTC) * Results Posted: September 4th, 2015 Full election procedures can be found here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.board/+junk/board-docs/view/head:/res… The Inkscape Elections Committee ¹ For this election we are using r14222 of the AUTHORS file for the list of eligible voters and possible candidates http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/14222/AUTHORS If you believe that there is an error in that version (omission or mistaken inclusion) please contact the election committee as soon as possible.

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Wrong positioning of guidelines on the typography extension
by Felipe Sanches 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

Hello, there! I am the original author of the typography extensions in Inkscape. Those were implemented roughly 4 years ago and used to work well. I tried using them again today and noticed that the positioning of the guidelines is wrong in the current development version of Inkscape. The specific one I'm talking about is: share/extensions/setup_typography_canvas.py Looking at git blame (I am using git bzr) I have seen that tavmjong did modify the code some months ago (actually in October 2014) adding a declaration of document units being in pixels. =================== commit 4c2c309889e6c7ad12ddd2479294ccc6f3564953 Author: tavmjong-free <tavmjong@...8...> Date: Thu Oct 9 11:25:39 2014 +0200 Add proper 'viewBox', set 'inkscape:document-units', set maximum em-size to 2048 as is typical in TrueType. =================== What I observe on the current misbehaviour is that the positioning of the guidelines is being done as if the units were given in millimeters... I'm not sure whose fault is this: If it is the parsing of the sp-guide parameters that ignore units, or if it is my extension that should explicitely append "px" to the values instead of simply passing plain unit-less numbers. Anyway... It's been a long time I've written this code and perhaps someone here who's been more active these years in the project may have a quick answer to my issue. Otherwise, I'll be investigating it further in order to get it fixed, anyway. happy hacking, Felipe Sanches (a.k.a. "Juca")

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Regarding Inkscape in Indian languages
by chandrakant dhutadmal 03 Aug '15

03 Aug '15

Hi Axel, David and others, There is no issue or problem as far as translations are concerned. We already have the translations done for all Indic languages and these are also attached in the Bugs (https://bugs.launchpad.net/~cpdhutadmal ). If this can be taken ahead, Indic language users will be very happy. Regards,Chandrakant Dhutadmal.Pune, India. On Friday, February 13, 2015 9:33 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev@...3215...> wrote: On 02/11/2015 10:44 PM, chandrakant dhutadmal wrote: > Hi All. > We have submitted requests for bringing out localized Inkscape for Indian languages through various bugs filed. List of all such bugs filed can be looked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/~cpdhutadmal. > We have also submitted translations for those languages. Would like to know from the community if we have considered making builds for Indic languages. If so, when are we going to do it. If not, can we have a discussions surrounding the topic ? > > RegardsChandrakant DhutadmalPune, India. > > I suspect what is missing is volunteers to do the translation. How to contribute a translation is outlined on this web page https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/translations/ Thanks, Alex

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Problems in rendering LaTeX in Windows 7
by Yuxiang Wang 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Dear all, I find my Inkscape 0.91 for Windows 7 64-bit has problems in rendering LaTeX. What I did was: 1) Extensions - Render - LaTeX 2) Enter "test" in LaTeX input 3) Click "Apply". Then, a cmd.exe window will pop out and just hang there. If I close this window, I get: Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected. ^Cinvalid LaTeX input: test temporary files were left in: c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\inkscape-zxdypk Could anyone please help? Thanks! Shawn -- Yuxiang "Shawn" Wang Gerling Haptics Lab University of Virginia yw5aj@...3259... +1 (434) 284-0836 https://sites.google.com/a/virginia.edu/yw5aj/

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Easy size bend and pattern along path LPE's
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Hi to all! Here are my last branch ready for review! https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/bend_and_pattern_alon g_path_width_modified_by_point_parameter The video in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSzqKL2POW4 Also i lost in You Tube make public this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21C3tsYdBEI Is a LPE from Ivan Louette mind in review process by Nathan Hurst. All The Best!

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Website is Back up
by Martin Owens 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Dear All, The database came back online 7 minutes ago, and the website has been turned from read-only (sqlite) to inkscape_live (MySQL). All downloads and errors should be solved from now. Thank you to everyone for being patient and please contact the various user groups to let them know the process is done and things are back up. Best Regards, Martin Owens Website Administrator

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Spare Links
by Martin Owens 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Dear all, Because there is such huge delay getting the website back up, please use these links for downloading inkscape: https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/Inkscape-0.91-1… https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/Inkscape-0.91-1… https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/Inkscape-0.91-1… https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/Inkscape-osxmen… They're the regular links, so they'll continue to work after; we just can't track downloads via them so that why we use the links we do on the pages. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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[lance@...2167...: Re: [Hosting] mysql1-vip update]
by Bryce Harrington 01 Aug '15

01 Aug '15

Update on the database rebuild... ----- Forwarded message from Lance Albertson <lance@...2167...> ----- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 10:56:40 -0700 From: Lance Albertson <lance@...2167...> Cc: hosting@...2167... Subject: Re: [Hosting] mysql1-vip update Just an update on our current progress. The replay of the binlogs are still going and we seem to be about 55% the way through. I'm not entirely sure when it will finish but I'm hoping sometime this afternoon at the current rate and then we can finally start the restores. Thanks again for your patience. On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Jordan Evans <jordane@...2167...> wrote: > We ran into a few issues importing the largest db from backups, but it > has now finishes and we have moved on to replaying the binary logs. > The replay of the logs is going significantly faster. We hope to begin > restoring databases into production around 0600 PDT (1300 UTC). > > We want to again thank you for your patience during this outage. We > know it is very stressful for all of you and we hope to resolve this > as soon as we can. We've discussed some policy changes to keep this > from happening again, and to improve our mysql backup and restore > process in general. > > Expect another message when we begin restoring databases. > _______________________________________________ > Hosting mailing list > Hosting@...2167... > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/hosting > > -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab _______________________________________________ Hosting mailing list Hosting@...2167... http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/hosting ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-docs] Website Down
by Maren Hachmann 01 Aug '15

01 Aug '15

Hi Martin, despite all this mess, I wish you a happy Sysadmin Day :) Thanks for keeping us informed and dealing with the flood of bug reports! > We do have content backups (cms etc) which we do each night, so if > you've written something recently and would like content from the backup > let me know. - Yes. There are a few things: I had just changed all those Windows download links to the non-sf addresses (which seems a bad move now... but I couldn't foresee this... - we wouldn't have those Windows dl bug reports and unhappy users now if I had not changed them.... :-( - can't kick myself as hard as I'd like to...). When OSUOSL has brought the db back, it would be good if you could restore the Windows downloads pages for all languages, *if* it still seems a good idea to use our own file archive instead of the sf ones until they are in the resources system. Also new: - Animation page (all languages) - A few smaller changes to the FAQ (at least German, English) - To-Do list (all languages) - Contribute page had been updated (at least German, English) Thanks again, Maren We don't keep backups of user registrations or uploaded > gallery items so those in the last two weeks are gone. > > Like last time I swapped the database to a read only sqlite db from > April. So at least the website shows base pages, there's still some > errors since I really didn't expect database fallback to be a huge part > of what we had to deal with but it's something we may want to improve if > we think osuosl's database is likely to have problems again in the > future. > > Thanks for your attention. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs

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Website Down
by Martin Owens 01 Aug '15

01 Aug '15

Dear inkscape devels, docs and users, OSUOUL had a major database error (they accidentally dropped all their databases from their master database). They're restoring currently from a backup from two weeks ago, so any changes to the website in the last two weeks will need to be recreated. We do have content backups (cms etc) which we do each night, so if you've written something recently and would like content from the backup let me know. We don't keep backups of user registrations or uploaded gallery items so those in the last two weeks are gone. Like last time I swapped the database to a read only sqlite db from April. So at least the website shows base pages, there's still some errors since I really didn't expect database fallback to be a huge part of what we had to deal with but it's something we may want to improve if we think osuosl's database is likely to have problems again in the future. Thanks for your attention. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Cleanup on SF
by Martin Owens 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

Hi Bryce, I'm cleaning up the sourceforge project, I've managed to get a lot of stuff but the files are causing some issues. Could you see if you can delete the old folders with your account? we have everything backed up. Martin,

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Inkscape windows installer 0.48.5 still goes to Source Forge downloads page
by C R 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

Was recommending a user try the previous version for his needs, but I refuse to send anyone to Sourceforge. Is the legacy windows installer on Inkscape.org somewhere? The installer listed on this page still goes to sourceforge: https://inkscape.org/en/download/windows/ Thanks. -C

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Possible bug in rotation toolbar icons
by MichaelGrosberg 27 Jul '15

27 Jul '15

Something I noticed lately: You've got these four icons in the toolbar, two for rotation (CW and CCW), and two for flipping (vertical and horizontal). The way they work is inconsistent if you select several objects: The rotation icons rotate each object separately on its own center. The flip icons flip all objects together along a shared center. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but I thought I should at least bring it to your attention. As a user I'd prefer all four icons to work on all objects together, not individually. Cheers, Michael

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mirror symetry
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 26 Jul '15

26 Jul '15

Your designs not symetric? Change it with this branch ready to review by you https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/mirror-symetry-lpe -improvements Is a 3 files diff of 400 lines. You Like it? The original code is from Maximilian Albert, Johan Engelen and Abhishek Sharma but is updated to fusion paths and ability to fix the direction X,Y or free. No video but very useful. If you like it... Maybe you want get crazy...Similar but more complicated is the option "Fusion Paths" in "Rotate Copies" de Maximilian Albert y Johan Engelen. This allow kaleidoscope works without masks, clips or clones. https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/copy-rotate-lpe -improvements Now I have 3 videos: The first is "Fusion Paths" aka Kaleidoscope whith live editing the path in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE The next is a kaleidoscope effect but in a group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo And for the last, Kaleidoscope go to Fusion Paths allowing sections of the effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 See you!

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Bend from clipboard
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

As is well know im a fan of Creature House Expression skeletal strokes. Here is my FAR FAR FAR away implementation. https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/bendFromClipboard Is only 167 lines, you are welcome! And a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owBLWJ2RvLA J.

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Transform by two nodes
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Ivan Louette a great typo designer and svg filter creator ask to me for this effect. Is done, only need your review. https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/transform_by_two_poin ts #MakeIvanHappy A video working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21C3tsYdBEI

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Interactive pencil smooth
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Hi devs! Here are a very tiny and basic branch ready for review. With it you can smooth pencil strokes with the slider at any moment. https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/simplify-lpe-pencil -toolbar/+merge/252223 Cam'on is only 219 lines most of them svg from a new icon! A video working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDef4hU4tNc

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removal of "tidy_operator_styled_whitespace"
by Marc Jeanmougin 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Hi all, when looking at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1477723 (Cannot style spaces in text + Styling spaces moves them to next tspan) that a friend mentioned to me*, i found the cause of it in a very old function: tidy_operator_styled_whitespace <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/src/tex…> This function is one of several that try to "tidy" text trees, doing the following transformations (or attempts to do so**) : abc def -> abc def abcdef ghi -> abcdef ghi This transformation is exactly what should not be happening in my case (there is imo no reason for not being able to style spaces, especially when doing so changes space width), so *I plan to remove it entirely.* Does someone have any objections? I'm not that familiar with text styling code or with the reasons that prompted this particular set of tidying operators, and it seems that these date back from "revno 1", which explains i'm not as confident with removing it as if it had been introduced a few months ago. Thanks for any advice, -- Mc *He had several lines with different styles, using spaces for indentation, and was unable to put all the spaces in the same style so that lines would be aligned, i guess that's a legitimate example of why people should be able to style spaces ** It also causes the displacement mentioned in the report, but that can probably be cured

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] 2 new pages for website, another 1 planned
by Martin Owens 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 10:00 -0600, Brynn wrote: > Hi Friends, > We have 2 new webpages for the website, should anyone have any > comments or suggestions. Also, they are ready to be translated. > > 1 -- In the Contribute section: > https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/to-do-list/ Community To-Do List. This > is a list of jobs that are needed by all parts of the community. It's not > about new features or bugs, but for jobs that definitely need to be done, to > move the project forward. > If anyone has any jobs like this, which they would like the wider > community to know about, you're welcome to add them to the list. If you > don't have edit permissions on the website, you could either request to > have, or contact the website team to have your info listed. This pages looks great. A good addition to the website. > 2 -- In the Learn section: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/animation/ > Animation. This is to help answer the many questions which are posted in > forums and elsewhere, about animation and Inkscape. > While I searched (and researched) quite diligently, and also had > help from Maren, there may be some apps out there that I didn't find. > Especially I feel like I might not have covered the Scripting and Markup > section very well, since I have barely a general grasp of that area myself. > So any comments or suggestions will be very welcome. While the Learn menu doesn't contain any other specific topics, I'm willing to see where this topic goes. If it's good at reducing the questions about animation then I say we keep it as an exception. Otherwise we should think about a topics section as we perhaps link parts of the manual in (much later! maybe next year) > Next I'll be working on a page for a curated list of Inkscape > extensions ("curated" meaning that I'll attempt determine which versions of > Inkscape each extension works on, which come with Inkscape/which need to be > installed, and including current download and contact info for each, etc.). > Eventually we hope to have them all on Add-ons page > (https://inkscape.org/en/download/addons/) but for now, they will just be > listed in a table, maybe something like the table on the To-Do List page. > If anyone has any comments or suggestions about that, I will welcome > them :-) This is a great start Brynn, and looks like lot of hard work on your part. Thanks a lot for putting together and doing the research on these items. Crafting website content can be quite a bit of research and a tiny bit f writing to do it well and I think you have done it well here. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Fw: 2 new pages for website, another 1 planned
by Brynn 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Hi Everyone, I originally mailed this, addressed to both dev and docs list. It went through to docs, but I got a fatal delivery failure for the devel list. I've been getting delivery failures about 50% of all the messages I send to Inkscape lists, over the last 3 days. I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong? Anyway, the original message is below. (cross fingers!) All best, brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 10:00 AM To: "Inkscape-Docs" <inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net>; "Inkscape-Devel" <Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: 2 new pages for website, another 1 planned > Hi Friends, > We have 2 new webpages for the website, should anyone have any > comments or suggestions. Also, they are ready to be translated. > > 1 -- In the Contribute section: > https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/to-do-list/ Community To-Do List. This > is a list of jobs that are needed by all parts of the community. It's not > about new features or bugs, but for jobs that definitely need to be done, > to move the project forward. > If anyone has any jobs like this, which they would like the wider > community to know about, you're welcome to add them to the list. If you > don't have edit permissions on the website, you could either request to > have, or contact the website team to have your info listed. > > 2 -- In the Learn section: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/animation/ > Animation. This is to help answer the many questions which are posted in > forums and elsewhere, about animation and Inkscape. > While I searched (and researched) quite diligently, and also had > help from Maren, there may be some apps out there that I didn't find. > Especially I feel like I might not have covered the Scripting and Markup > section very well, since I have barely a general grasp of that area > myself. So any comments or suggestions will be very welcome. > > Next I'll be working on a page for a curated list of Inkscape > extensions ("curated" meaning that I'll attempt determine which versions > of Inkscape each extension works on, which come with Inkscape/which need > to be installed, and including current download and contact info for each, > etc.). Eventually we hope to have them all on Add-ons page > (https://inkscape.org/en/download/addons/) but for now, they will just be > listed in a table, maybe something like the table on the To-Do List page. > If anyone has any comments or suggestions about that, I will > welcome them :-) > > All best, > brynn

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Weird commit message for Rev 14242
by LucaDC 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

I suppose that the message for commit 14242 was not really intended to be that. -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Weird-commit-message-for-Rev-14242-tp49740… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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I want you for review
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Hi to all, we speak in Toronto about the reviews. we spoke is good make them more faster about less than a mounth. But there is "anciant" branches waiting for some love. I not have enought knows to do it with sure and a cuple of them are mine. Im happy because a lot of my code is on 0.91+devel but i want more :). Maybe is better this new improvements wait for 0.93 release... I hope we can start a discussion about it from here. Anyway thanks to all reviewers and hope more people can help them soon. All the best, Jabier.

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How OpenCV did their c++ to python bindings
by Mark Schafer 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

The OpenCV project has documented their approach here: http://docs.opencv.org/master/da/d49/tutorial_py_bindings_basics.html

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SVG to PDF, dbus errors on Ubuntu inkscape.dev/stable PPA
by Peter Tripp 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

I don't know if this is fixed in trunk, my apologies if it has, but the current stable binary on Ubuntu in the PPA throws an ugly error if you don't have dbus configured. Someone else reported this here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1460797 To reproduce, convert any svg to pdf on the command line: inkscape --file logo.svg --export-pdf logo.pdf Error: Failed to get connection ** (inkscape:10595): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion 'connection != NULL' failed ** (inkscape:10595): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion 'DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed ** (inkscape:10595): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_connection_register_g_object: assertion 'connection != NULL' failed I don't know if this is a missing packaging dependency (requiring dbus) or a configure-time error, but I run Inkscape without X and so don't normally have dbus available. Full steps to reproduce in vagrant: vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64 vagrant ssh sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install inkscape wget https://chartio.com/static/app/images/logo.svg inkscape --file logo.svg --export-pdf logo.pdf Thanks -Peter

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PNG export
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Hi to all. I need a feedback about a change i want: Bitmap export always save whith png extension. This help overwriting other similar files, like current SVG Whats the opinion?

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Wiki account creation
by Jonathan Demeyer 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hello, Can I have a wiki account to be able to improve the french part of it (first of all, the french link is missing from the main page) ? Thanks, Jona

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] Window to Gif script
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Improved compatibility. Thanks to Maren!!! Here are the new script. All the best, Jabiertxo. El mié, 08-07-2015 a las 03:47 +0200, Maren Hachmann escribió: > Had to add -c to options, to get mouse cursor, too. > > Am 08.07.2015 um 03:42 schrieb Maren Hachmann: > > Hi Jabier, > > > > I wanted to try the script, but I had to change it so it works for > > me. I'm on Linux Mint 17.1 Xfce, based on Ubuntu 14.04; beep, > > byzanz installed. Maybe it's a version problem? > > > > As soon as I started the original script, I got a cross-like > > cursor. As soon as I clicked with that anywhere, I got > > > > ./recordToGif.sh: Zeile 29: Syntaxfehler beim unerwarteten Wort > > »<« ./recordToGif.sh: Zeile 29: `read X < <(awk -F: '/Absolute > > upper-left X/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO")' > > > > (translates to: syntax error on unexpected word "<" in line 28) > > > > Fortunately, I was able to debug with google's help :) > > > > byzanz also didn't like the parameters formatting --x=$X - but it > > is happy now with -x $X ... > > > > The attached script works on my setup (although it doesn't want to > > beep, so I threw that out...). Cool thing :) This will be so > > helpful when answering a user question :D > > > > Regards, Maren > > > > Am 07.07.2015 um 23:08 schrieb Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz: > > > Thanks Maren! > > > > > > El mar, 07-07-2015 a las 23:04 +0200, Maren Hachmann escribió: > > > > Thanks for sharing, Jabier! I've always wanted to ask you how > > > > you did that :) It's a very useful script. > > > > > > > > > > > > Am 07.07.2015 um 21:55 schrieb Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz: > > > > > Here are the script we speack at hackfest I use to record the > > > > > gifs on 0.92 release page: Need beep and byzanz-record > > > > > > > > > > use as : ./recordToGif.sh 60 /path/to/file.gif where 60 is 60 > > > > > seconds select the window to record... > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > > > > > > > # Delay before starting DELAY=3 > > > > > > > > > > # Sound notification to let one know when recording is about > > > > > to start (and ends) beep() { /usr/bin/beep } > > > > > > > > > > # Duration and output file if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then > > > > > D="--duration=$@" else echo Default recording duration 10s to > > > > > /tmp/recorded.gif D="--duration=10 /tmp/recorded.gif" fi > > > > > > > > > > XWININFO=$(xwininfo) read X < <(awk -F: '/Absolute upper-left > > > > > X/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read Y < <(awk -F: '/Absolute > > > > > upper-left Y/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read W < <(awk -F: > > > > > '/Width/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read H < <(awk -F: > > > > > '/Height/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") > > > > > > > > > > echo Delaying $DELAY seconds. After that, byzanz will start > > > > > for (( i=$DELAY; i>0; --i )) ; do echo $i sleep 1 done echo > > > > > ":::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::" > > > > > beep byzanz-record --verbose --delay=0 --x=$X --y=$Y > > > > > --width=$W - -height=$H $D & read FULLDURATION FAKE > > > > > <<<$(IFS=";"; echo $D) read FAKE DURATION <<<$(IFS="="; echo > > > > > $FULLDURATION) for (( i=$DURATION; i>0; --i )) ; do if [ $i > > > > > -ne $DURATION ]; then echo $i Segundos fi sleep 1 done beep > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------ > > > > > > > > > > > ----------- > > > > > Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's > > > > > Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that > > > > > you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your > > > > > business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud > > > > > Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs > > > > > mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------ > > > > > > > > > --------- > > > > Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud > > > > Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need > > > > to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. > > > > Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. > > > > https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs > > > > mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs > > >

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Window to Gif script
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Here are the script we speack at hackfest I use to record the gifs on 0.92 release page: Need beep and byzanz-record use as : ./recordToGif.sh 60 /path/to/file.gif where 60 is 60 seconds select the window to record... --------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # Delay before starting DELAY=3 # Sound notification to let one know when recording is about to start (and ends) beep() { /usr/bin/beep } # Duration and output file if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then D="--duration=$@" else echo Default recording duration 10s to /tmp/recorded.gif D="--duration=10 /tmp/recorded.gif" fi XWININFO=$(xwininfo) read X < <(awk -F: '/Absolute upper-left X/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read Y < <(awk -F: '/Absolute upper-left Y/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read W < <(awk -F: '/Width/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read H < <(awk -F: '/Height/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") echo Delaying $DELAY seconds. After that, byzanz will start for (( i=$DELAY; i>0; --i )) ; do echo $i sleep 1 done echo ":::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::" beep byzanz-record --verbose --delay=0 --x=$X --y=$Y --width=$W --height=$H $D & read FULLDURATION FAKE <<<$(IFS=";"; echo $D) read FAKE DURATION <<<$(IFS="="; echo $FULLDURATION) for (( i=$DURATION; i>0; --i )) ; do if [ $i -ne $DURATION ]; then echo $i Segundos fi sleep 1 done beep

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[Fwd: OpenSource library for Biharmonic Diffusion Curves]
by Bryce Harrington 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

----- Forwarded message from barla <pascal.barla@...3252...> ----- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:18:51 +0200 From: barla <pascal.barla@...3252...> To: tavmjong@...8..., th.v.d.gronde@...528..., j.b.c.engelen@...3066..., bryce@...961... CC: Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@...3253...>, Simon Boyé <sim.boye@...1761....400...> Subject: OpenSource library for Biharmonic Diffusion Curves Hello, We had discussed by email quite a long time ago about a library we were working on that implements Biharmonic Diffusion Curves. We eventually released a first version a few weeks ago, as part of our Patate Library : http://patate.gforge.inria.fr/html/vitelotte_user_manual_page.html It implements the paper "A vectorial solver for free-form vector gradients <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2366145.2366192>" (I've put my co-authors in CC). Starting from a mesh with constrained curves or points, it provides routines for harmonic and biharmonic diffusion using FEM. Do not hesitate to give us feedback on the library module ! In particular, we wonder how it could fit in (or be converted to) the SVG format. A new version of the library with a few new features (color spaces, Bezier curves) should be out during the summer. Best regards, Pascal Barla. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Inkscape in the wild - seen in Tel aviv
by MichaelGrosberg 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

So I was walking near the Tel Aviv municipality building yesterday and noticed that the entire side of the ground floor was covered with a large abstract mural composed of multiple shapes. Started looking at the shapes and noticed: spirals, 3D boxes, shapes filled with a vertical stripe patterns, pie slices... And it dawned on me that it MUST have been created in Inkscape! You can see photos of the mural here: http://bit.ly/1euwWvS (I had to shorten the link - the original link has hebrew characters in it and I can't paste it correctly) The page is in hebrew but you can see the photos. The text next to the mural says the artist's name is Nurit David, that the mural has somethign to do with Peter Bruegel's "The Triumph of Death" and that the digital nature of the work has something to do with the transience of time (I'm heavily paraphrasing, translating art-speak between two languages is nearly impossible).

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Inkscape_trunk_scan-build - Build # 120 - Unstable!
by Jenkins (build tester) 05 Jul '15

05 Jul '15

Hi developers, Clang scanbuild found a potential bug in recently committed code. Inkscape_trunk_scan-build - Build # 120 - Unstable. See here which bugs were found (new in red): http://jenkins.inkscape.org/job/Inkscape_trunk_scan-build/120/clangScanBuil… It is paramount to keep our codebase clean with as little compiler warnings as possible, so we can swiftly eradicate newly introduced bugs, to keep Inkscape stable and prevent lengthy dragging bug hunts before releases. Your friend, Jenkins http://jenkins.inkscape.org

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About hidpi support
by Pengfei Hao 05 Jul '15

05 Jul '15

I am using Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro with resolution 3200x1800, gnome 3, the icons, axis fonts, look so small. Some buttons, texts, have overlapping. I noticed that this already reported on bug tracker on launchpad a long time ago. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1285887 I just want to know if there is any update of the hidpi support? Is it on the going or no buddy even care about it?

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gears Path effect
by Mark Schafer 05 Jul '15

05 Jul '15

I just saw this in this video. Somehow I did not notice it before :( - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTbYHmQkY9w - generates a meshing gear at each point on the path and remains editable (of course) Is it possible for me to redirect its "gear" call to the new gears plugin here: https://github.com/jnweiger/inkscape-gears-dev Is it envisaged in the future to allow this to be python scriptable (I assume its all embedded c at the moment) ?

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Boolops progress
by Krzysztof Kosiński 04 Jul '15

04 Jul '15

There is a new toy "boolops-new" in 2Geom's source repository - it computes an union of two paths using my new boolops code based on the Greiner-Hormann algorithm. What works: - Union - Intersection - Adding difference and XOR is trivial - Linear and Bezier segments of arbitrary degree - Code is fairly clean and understandable - Reasonably good performance, even though there are very few optimizations What remains to be done: - Could be simplified a bit and better documented. - Intersection procedures for arc-arc and arc-Bezier cases. Currently they throw UnimplementedError. - Handling of degeneracies and second-order intersections. I have this mostly planned out, except for a few nasty cases with overlapping Bezier segments. - Add &, |, / operators to PathVector. I think / will be better than minus for set subtraction. - Function that converts a nonzero winding pathvector to even-odd winding pathvector with the same filled areas. It's a lot easier to do this conversion than it is to do Booleans on nonzero winding fills. I observed no crashes or hangs, though when two pathvectors overlap exactly, some paths can be skipped in the output. Since this code is already a lot better than the old attempts present in 2Geom (path-intersection.h, shape.h, region.h and the like), I'm going to remove them to reduce cruft. Regards, Krzysztof

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Fwd: Website Feedback
by Martin Owens 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anonymous User <unknown@...1478...> Date: 29 June 2015 at 13:14 Subject: Website Feedback To: Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> Coding & Technology Workshops This session is aimed at introducing youth to Coding and Technology, and will help to develop students’ computational and critical thinking skills and show them how to create, not simply use, new technologies. Computer Science is foundational for all students, regardless of their ultimate field of study or occupation. With the support from serval national partners the Coding Day would begin with a Plenary, featuring welcome remarks from technologist, followed by an engaging panel discussion, engineering and science professionals, current STEM students and other Youth Leadership Summit STEM event sponsors. The discussion will center on the importance of Coding, the various ways coding can be made more accessible to young people, the benefits of a career in the field and what students can do to learn to code and pursue a career in that field. The Plenary would be following by hands-on, topical workshops, with a focus on Coding, Technology and STEM. Each workshop will accommodate about 30 students, and could be targeted by age or gender (i.e.: middle school age, girls-only, rising college freshmen, etc.) To date, we have Best Buy and Intel delivering content however, we NEED more workshops. Do you have any Professionals and/or Community Outreach program that would be able to deliver coding/technology workshops to our students? Kaelin Hernandez Summer Temp, Education & Youth Development National Urban League | 120 Wall Street, 7th Floor | New York, NY 10005 O: 212-558-5409|E: khernandeztemp@...3251...

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measurement tool - save measurement to drawing
by paul sorenson 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

I would find it very useful if there was a hotkey to "save" the measurement tool as part of a drawing. Ie I use the measurement tool in the usual way and when I have it positioned where I want it, hit a key and the measurement is drawn into the diagram. Maybe one key for angle, one for distance (and one for both). cheers

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Merge Request: When exactly two nodes are selected show the angle of the corresponding line segment
by Alexander Brock 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

Hi, I needed to measure a lot of angles and I thought it would be nice if Inkscape would show me the angle of the connecting line (relative to the x-axis) of two nodes when I select exactly two nodes. So I implemented it and made a merge request: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape+alexander/inkscape/angle/+merge/261397 Opinions? Alexander

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Trunk glitch? and guide lines
by Robert McKay 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

Monday 22 June - 10:08:27 PM Don't really know how to communicate with the developer group(s) on these user boards, which I do glance at now and then, and being in the midst of 'the important work' I must learn more about that a little later. Though a new and often searching user, I do already very (very) much appreciate this Inkscape thing, and want to assist in the developments to whatever extent I might. Two things so far: Loaded in the Trunk version on the 20th to see what that was like, and then put the stable version back in today. (Mint 17 operating system) Changed back for just the one reason really, the Trunk no longer contained 'delete all guides' in the edit menu. I use the 'objects to guides' quite a bit to guestimate reasonable seeming perspectives, particularly when the piece is simple enough not to bother with a paper drawing or a Sketchup model first. (Those sudden nests of guide lines, only loosely related to any real vanishing points, sew confusion onto next uses unless I can keep dismissing them wholesale.) ... That 3D emulator-or-possibly-actual-tool, that is there among the available functions; I've had to tag that one for some future study session. Speaking of the guides, though the labelling and information options are pretty darned useful for getting precise with, it would also be good to be able to push guides around their rotation points by eye, as well as with the deg. entry. (Even though that protractor tool is a completely fine little gem.) ...*Wait*, let me try something here....OH MY GOD, control shift gets little rotation arrows showing and going with stepwise changes, and then shift by itself allows for smooth rotation.*Inkscape Are The Best!* I also think it would be useful to be able to pin different groups of guides to given layers. - Probably also a feature already available and awaiting discovery eh? One last other thing to mention, very minor really, about that Trunk version. A single straight line will not be blurred unless it is manipulated first, though even a very subtle bending was enough to do the trick. As arrow-straight lines are pretty much a wierd and overpowering spice within the 'loosley suggestive' styles of drawing anyway, I found this one by fluke. And it was late at night, and I was tired, so, I am not really sure... The line vanished and an empty selection box grew around where it had been as I increased the blur number. (drawing effects such as pencil and sketch seemed disabled too, but by then I had made a decision and went to bed.) Thanks again folks, for this Inkscape thing. It's a starred line-item on my volluntary payments wishlist.

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bug report: path omitted in rendering to pdf
by Blahde Blah 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

V wrote: >Increase the stroke width, or remove the stroke altogether to work >around a cairo bug (cairo >= 1.12.4) which omits objects with small >stroke-widths when exporting to PDF: Thanks very much. That workaround did it for me. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium

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Inkscape Tools and Functions Interactive Treemap
by C R 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hey everyone. I'm presently developing a system to make it easy to treemap hotkeys and functions of a software package. I'll be posting the code on github and offering it under the GPL. As an initial development example, I'm using Inkscape. I have a mockup of (kinda sorta) what the resulting page will look like (all code will be HTML5 and javascript). The sample is here: http://www.opendesignstudio.org/inkscape/samples/inkscape_tools_treemap_moc… I was wondering what everyone thought of the idea, and the organisation of the information with regards to inkscape tool functions. Any additions or changes to the information? Additionally, I'll be providing the construction files for all the alternative inkscape icons in this chart to anyone who would like to use them, for whatever purpose. After I do a complete keyset of Inkscape in this manner, I'll be doing one for GIMP, Scribus, and *gulp* Blender. I'd also like to add a "quiz" feature that pops up flashcards of the keys to use in a sort of hotkey-calisthenics program. All this is to make people faster at using Inkscape and other software. Thanks for your input! -C

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bug report: path omitted in rendering to pdf
by Blahde Blah 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hi, all, I'm a happy, long-time user of inkscape. Thanks for all your efforts over the years on this wonderful open-source project. This email is to report a bug in pdf rendering, which occurs in both the stable version and, as shown below, in the version compiled from the latest sources. $ /usr/local/bin/inkscape --version Inkscape 0.91+devel r14210 (Jun 22 2015) $ /usr/local/bin/inkscape --export-pdf=b.pdf b.svg $ ls -l b.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 bcrowell bcrowell 857 Jun 23 05:42 b.pdf The file b.svg, which I've pasted into this email below, contains a single object, which is a moderately complex filled path. When I export to pdf, the resulting file does not contain any rendering of the object (as you can see from its small size in the listing above). Rendering to a bitmap works correctly, and rendering of filled paths does normally work, of course. The bug seems to depend on something specific about this particular path. I don't know whether this is a bug in inkscape or in cairo. The version of cairo on my system appears to be 1.13.0, based on the existence of this file: /var/cache/apt/archives/libcairo2_1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb Regards, Ben ================================== b.svg ========================================================= <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>  <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" sodipodi:docname="b.svg" inkscape:version="0.48.4 r9939" sodipodi:version="0.32" id="svg2" height="297mm" width="210mm" version="1.1" inkscape:export-filename="/home/bcrowell/Documents/writing/books/physics/share/mechanics/figs/cm-examples.png" inkscape:export-xdpi="300.09366" inkscape:export-ydpi="300.09366"> <defs id="defs3" /> <sodipodi:namedview inkscape:window-y="0" inkscape:window-x="0" inkscape:window-height="996" inkscape:window-width="1278" inkscape:current-layer="layer1" inkscape:document-units="px" inkscape:cy="671.87269" inkscape:cx="190.88077" inkscape:zoom="1.4939973" inkscape:pageshadow="2" inkscape:pageopacity="0.0" borderopacity="1.0" bordercolor="#666666" pagecolor="#ffffff" id="base" showgrid="false" inkscape:window-maximized="0" /> <metadata id="metadata4"> <rdf:RDF> <cc:Work rdf:about=""> <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" /> <dc:title /> </cc:Work> </rdf:RDF> </metadata> <g id="layer1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" inkscape:label="Layer 1"> <path id="path2125" d="m 254.41718,413.88701 -1.46414,0.17338 -2.77415,0.96325 -1.38708,1.38708 -0.57795,1.0403 c -0.3856,0.97285 -0.64198,1.76746 -0.92471,2.73563 l -0.13486,1.67605 -0.0963,2.06135 -0.52016,1.38707 -0.0193,-0.0193 -0.13486,0.30824 -1.31001,-0.17339 -0.0771,0.0771 -2.60077,0.84766 -4.87403,3.44843 -4.00711,4.31535 -5.16301,7.16656 -4.31535,6.02993 c 0,0 1.15442,-1.4394 -4.58506,4.87403 -5.73947,6.31343 -3.15945,8.61144 -3.15945,8.61143 l 1.13663,4.02638 2.02282,7.74451 2.87048,7.45553 2.29253,6.3189 0,6.02993 1.13663,5.72169 2.60077,4.8933 3.14019,4.87403 0,3.44843 0.57795,3.15945 1.0981,1.0981 4.58506,-0.17338 7.72524,0.46236 2.09988,-0.21192 0,-0.0385 0.32751,0 1.63752,-0.17338 -0.25045,-0.96325 0.28898,-0.57795 -0.28898,-0.86692 0.86692,-0.57795 -0.86692,-0.84766 -3.15945,-1.15589 -5.74096,-2.58151 -1.13663,-1.15589 -2.87048,-6.01067 -1.44487,-7.4748 -1.71458,-4.58506 -0.28897,-5.163 -0.57795,-4.60433 0.11559,-0.38529 -0.0578,-0.0193 0.42382,-2.31179 0.28898,-2.3118 c 0,0 0,-4.74991 0,-5.18227 0,-0.43236 -0.13485,-2.60077 -0.13486,-2.60077 l -0.57794,-5.47124 0.59721,-1.31002 -0.0771,-0.7706 1.71458,-3.44842 2.87048,-4.00711 3.44842,-2.3118 3.7374,-5.163 2.58151,-2.29253 1.4256,-3.7374 3.15945,-3.71814 2.29253,0.28898 8.61144,0.55868 6.60787,0.86692 8.03349,-0.28897 7.45553,-0.28898 2.50445,1.05958 5.24006,-0.7706 4.5658,-0.90546 0.3275,-0.80912 -4.60432,-0.28898 -4.58506,-0.57795 -4.02637,-0.86692 -3.42917,-0.55868 -5.18227,-1.1559 -3.71813,-0.86692 -2.29253,0 -4.02638,0.57795 -6.3189,-1.42561 0.28897,-0.86692 1.44488,-0.28898 0.28897,-0.57795 -0.28897,-1.71458 c 0,0 0.84766,-2.29125 0.84765,-4.87403 0,-2.58277 -2.57022,-4.59107 -3.71813,-5.45198 -0.10304,-0.0773 -0.33528,-0.13644 -0.48163,-0.21191 l -0.94398,-0.23118 -2.35032,-0.26971 z" style="fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:0.03082392pt;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1" inkscape:connector-curvature="0" /> </g> </svg> ____________________________________________________________ Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. Check it out at http://mysecurelogon.com/password-manager

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Objects/Layers/Sets dialogs
by Tavmjong Bah 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

I've got a few questions about the Objects, Layers, and Sets dialogs: * Does the Layers dialog have any functionality that isn't supported by the Objects dialog? * Can the Layers dialog be removed (or merged with Objects dialog)? * Does anybody understand why the Objects dialog slows down Inkscape (bug 1431274)? * What is the purpose of the "domino" like icon in the Objects dialog? Is it just to open the color dialog? Is there an easy way to close the color dialog once open? Is it really useful to be able to open the color dialog from this dialog? * In the Sets dialog, what is the purpose of "Items"? It seems like an unnecessary layer between the set name and the objects in the set. Thanks, Tav

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New features in Scribus 1.5.1svn -- feedback, testing and bug reports required
by "Christoph Schäfer" 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

Hi all, Not long ago, we released Scribus 1.5.0, and the development of 1.5.1, which will bring us closer to the next stable version 1.6.0, is underway. We have recently added some amazing new features that need feedback and testing from those who are willing to build 1.5.1svn (and a new dependency) from source and to test, namely: 1) Scribus 1.5.1svn comes with a new and modern icon set. It's not 100% complete yet, and you need to turn it on in the Preferences (it will become the default set once it's complete). 2) Scribus can now handle the CIELAB colour space and comes with a new CIELAB colour map for picking colours. 3) Scribus can now import/use Swatchbooker palette files (SBZ), which, together with CIELAB support, means that you can take full advantage of the Open Colour Systems Collection (http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/2015-May/051770.html). 4) Scribus can now import/use Adobe Swatch Exchange files (ASE). 5) Thanks to the release of libfreehand 0.1.1 by the Document Liberation Project, Scribus can now import Freehand files (FH*) to the extent libfreehand allows. To build libfreehand 0.1.1 on Linux, just extract a source archive available from http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/libfreehand, cd into the source directory, run ./configure, make, and (as root) make install, and finally ldconfig, also as root. After that, CMake will detect libfreehand automatically (make sure to delete CMakeCache.txt in the ./Scribus source directory before running your cmake command). Initial tests have shown that it's already working pretty well. The Scribus Team (and I'm sure Document Liberation as well) would be grateful for feedback and bug reports. Thanks, Christoph

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Would you accept patches for a C++ Plugin implementation?
by Sebastian Faubel 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

Hello everybody, I'm working as a contractor for the University of the Arts, London. Currently, we're developing a Semantic Desktop to capture data about the creative process which is currently based on Linux, Inkscape and Zeitgeist [0]. In order to realize pushing events from Inkscape into Zeitgeist, we have currently created a fork and implemented the functionality as an internal plugin. This works well, but requires us to maintain a patched version of Inkscape. When i was starting with the implementation I stumbled across a site mentioned in your Wiki [1], which says: "Plug-in" - a loadable module with a message handler routine that receives messages and that operates on the Inkscape API functions directly. When I was digging in the source code I found some commented-out parts of the software [2] which contained code for those plugins, which seem to be native C++ plugins. It seems to me, that support for native plugins was prepared but never fully implemented. As we'd like to contribute something to your project we'd be looking into developing the missing plugin support. So we're asking: Would you be accepting patches for the C++ plugin support? And may be you know why it was never implemented? Are there any fundamental issues with this? With best regards, Sebastian Faubel [0] http://bitbucket.org/semiodesk/artivity [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/doc/ext… [2] File in repo: src/extension/system.cpp:468

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Mailinglist list on inkscape.org
by Johan Engelen 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Hi all, Today I wanted to direct someone to our mailinglists, and found that on inkscape.org [1] the listing is probably a bit unclear. What I mean is: the actual mailaddresses are not listed. Any reason for that? Would be great if the section header ("inkscape-announce", "inkscape-devel", ...) would be the mailaddress -Johan [1] https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/

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Jenkins is unhappy...
by Maren Hachmann 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi all, I don't know whose task it is now to keep Jenkins happy, but I noticed his desperate message on the tester mailing list - maybe someone would like to help him ;) ? http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34123279/ From: Jenkins (build tester) <inkscape.jenkins@...1410...> - 2015-05-18 20:05:05 Hi Developers, It looks like "bzr up" failed for Inkscape trunk. Please, someone have a look on jenkins.inkscape.org and restart the "Inkscape_trunk_bzr_up" job! cheers, Jenkins Regards, Maren

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please review hackfest article
by Brynn 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi Friends, I thought I'd use the list for you to review the article, before it goes on the website (since apparently there is some urgency, and this will be faster). It's attached. When I first decided what questions to ask, I was asking questions I would be interested to learn, as an Inkscape user. Unfortunately, to meet the requirements for the article, I wasn't able to use much of the information that you all so patiently provided and explained. I really would like to write a much longer article, where much more details are provided. So this turned out to be "the "Readers' Digest" version". Please let me know if any edits are needed. We'll hope to get this up on the live site before the end of the week. It will first be published with 1 photo, but if that group photo shows up, I'd like to edit that in later (assuming that doesn't break any rules for the News articles) (to add a photo later after the article is published). Thank you very much. It was a pleasure getting to know you all a little better, and learning a little more about your programming world. All best, brynn

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Merge request / features
by Alexander Brock 07 Jun '15

07 Jun '15

Hi, I changed some features / added new ones which make it easier to prepare vectors for vinyl cutting, laser engraving and embroidery: 1. I changed the behaviour of "Path->Stroke to Path": It now recurses into groups and creates a duplicate of any object which has a visible fill, so you end up with one object showing the original stroke and the original object without the stroke. 2. I added "Path->Remove Overlap": It removes all overlap of the selected objects using boolean operations, resulting in a visually (nearly) unchanged document where objects don't overlap. 3. I added "Object->Clip->Intersect": It replaces every selected object by the intersection of the object and all clipping paths affecting the object or it's ancestors. 4. I added "Edit->Clone->Unlink Clones recursively": It recurses into groups and unlinks every clone it finds, including clones used as clipping paths. This is the merge request: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape+alexander/inkscape/flatten/+merge/2607… Opinions? Regards, Alexander

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Fw: Your message to Inkscape-devel awaits moderator approval
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

Ok folks, sorry again from the hopeless newb :-( The one that bounced must have been Jabier's, which includes a few photos attached. I thought others might like to see them as well. brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: <inkscape-devel-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 9:42 PM To: <brynn@...3133...> Subject: Your message to Inkscape-devel awaits moderator approval > Your mail to 'Inkscape-devel' with the subject > > Fw: photos and permissions > > Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. > > The reason it is being held: > > Message body is too big: 4597117 bytes with a limit of 248 KB > > Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive > notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel > this posting, please visit the following URL: > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/confirm/inkscape-devel/1a63ed8b25ef2f98… >

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Fw: photos and permissions
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 8:03 AM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Cc: "Alex Valavanis" <valavanisalex@...400...>; "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...>; <jabier.arraiza@...2893...>; "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...>; "Krzysztof Kosinski" <tweenk.pl@...400...> Subject: Re: photos and permissions > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 17:39 -0600, Brynn wrote: >> Hello Hackers :-) >> >> I apologize for all the messaging, and should have asked everyone this in >> the first message. >> >> First, we want to include photos from the Hackfest in the article on the >> website. Could you all shoot back a yes or no for your permission for >> your >> image to be published on the website? > > Yes, you can use my image. > > Tav > >

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Fw: photos and permissions
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 9:11 PM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Cc: "Alex Valavanis" <valavanisalex@...400...>; "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...>; "Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz" <jabier.arraiza@...2893...>; "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...>; "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> Subject: Re: photos and permissions > 2015-06-02 1:39 GMT+02:00 Brynn <brynn@...3133...>: >> First, we want to include photos from the Hackfest in the article on the >> website. Could you all shoot back a yes or no for your permission for >> your >> image to be published on the website? > > Yes > (sorry for being late) > > Regards, Krzysztof

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Fw: photos and permissions
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Alex Valavanis" <valavanisalex@...400...> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 5:52 AM To: "Jabier Arraiza" <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> Cc: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...>; "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...>; "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...>; "Krzysztof Kosinski" <tweenk.pl@...400...>; "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> Subject: Re: photos and permissions > Yep! > > On 2 June 2015 at 07:16, Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: >> Yes i have some phothos but no so good amd whith partial group Tav, Josh >> and >> Bryce and some of the university. Raphael from insaner.com have the only >> photo whith all together >> >> >> El 2 de junio de 2015 01:39:35 CEST, Brynn <brynn@...3133...> escribió: >>> >>> Hello Hackers :-) >>> >>> I apologize for all the messaging, and should have asked everyone this >>> in >>> the first message. >>> >>> First, we want to include photos from the Hackfest in the article on the >>> website. Could you all shoot back a yes or no for your permission for >>> your >>> image to be published on the website? >>> >>> We already have a few photos from Bryce, and understand someone else was >>> taking pictures (possibly insaner?) If anyone has any nice photos from >>> Hackfest, and that you would like to offer to be used with the article, >>> please send to me and/or Maren and/or Bryce. >>> >>> Thank you very much! >>> >>> brynn >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Fw: photos and permissions
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

From: Jabier Arraiza Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 12:16 AM To: Brynn ; Alex Valavanis ; Bryce Harrington ; Josh Andler ; Krzysztof Kosinski ; Tavmjong Bah Subject: Re: photos and permissions Yes i have some phothos but no so good amd whith partial group Tav, Josh and Bryce and some of the university. Raphael from insaner.com have the only photo whith all together El 2 de junio de 2015 01:39:35 CEST, Brynn <brynn@...3133...> escribió: Hello Hackers :-)I apologize for all the messaging, and should have asked everyone this in the first message.First, we want to include photos from the Hackfest in the article on the website. Could you all shoot back a yes or no for your permission for your image to be published on the website?We already have a few photos from Bryce, and understand someone else was taking pictures (possibly insaner?) If anyone has any nice photos from Hackfest, and that you would like to offer to be used with the article, please send to me and/or Maren and/or Bryce.Thank you very much!brynn -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Fw: photos and permissions
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 6:06 PM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Cc: "Alex Valavanis" <valavanisalex@...400...>; "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...>; "Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz" <jabier.arraiza@...2893...>; "Krzysztof Kosinski" <tweenk.pl@...400...>; "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> Subject: Re: photos and permissions > Yes to giving consent, not to being in possession of any images from the > event. > > Cheers, > Josh > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Brynn <brynn@...3133...> wrote: >> Hello Hackers :-) >> >> I apologize for all the messaging, and should have asked everyone this in >> the first message. >> >> First, we want to include photos from the Hackfest in the article on the >> website. Could you all shoot back a yes or no for your permission for >> your >> image to be published on the website? >> >> We already have a few photos from Bryce, and understand someone else was >> taking pictures (possibly insaner?) If anyone has any nice photos from >> Hackfest, and that you would like to offer to be used with the article, >> please send to me and/or Maren and/or Bryce. >> >> Thank you very much! >> >> brynn >> >>

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Fw: photos and permissions
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

-------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 5:42 PM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Cc: "Alex Valavanis" <valavanisalex@...400...>; <jabier.arraiza@...2893...>; "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...>; "Krzysztof Kosinski" <tweenk.pl@...400...>; "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> Subject: Re: photos and permissions > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:39:35PM -0600, Brynn wrote: >> Hello Hackers :-) >> >> I apologize for all the messaging, and should have asked everyone >> this in the first message. >> >> First, we want to include photos from the Hackfest in the article on >> the website. Could you all shoot back a yes or no for your >> permission for your image to be published on the website? > > Yes > >> We already have a few photos from Bryce, and understand someone else >> was taking pictures (possibly insaner?) If anyone has any nice >> photos from Hackfest, and that you would like to offer to be used >> with the article, please send to me and/or Maren and/or Bryce. >> >> Thank you very much! >> >> brynn >>

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Hackfest 2015 - were you there?
by Brynn 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

Hi insaner, I think some people are quite anxious for the article. I should have the text finalized either this weekend, or early next week at the latest. And then I'll start to look at photos, possibly editing some that are too dark (or have flash bulbs going off in shoes). I'll be interested to see as many as you can share. But I'm most hoping for a group photo (the kind where everyone is grouped together and facing the camera, rather than staring into their computer screen) (although I'll use both, probably). We have a few from Bryce and Jabier, but as mentioned, probably need some editing. So it would be nice to see others, if you can share. If there are any photos revealing any kind of sensitive material or info, just don't send them :-) I'll forward the permissions over the list, so it's all public. I wasn't thinking that way originally, because I thought everyone knew what I was doing, and didn't want to make extra noise on the list. Here's they come :-) All best, brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "insaner" <nabble-inkscape@...2943...> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 10:26 PM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Hackfest 2015 - were you there? > Hi Brynn, > Yes, I did, but I understood you were still missing some, so I just went > ahead and asked. I don't think there should be any issue, but it's always > safer to confirm and make sure just in case, especially given some things > we discussed during the hackfest itself that made me want to make > especially certain. If you can send me their confirmations that would be > great, but I think I still will wait to make sure they all answer on the > mailing list before I hand them over, just in case. Is there a deadline > for delivery? > > > On 06/04/2015 09:33 PM, Brynn wrote: >> Hi insaner, >> Didn't you get my recent message, about photos and permissions? >> I've received permissions from 6. Only lacking you and Amelia. With >> Amelia's message to the devel list, that make it complete (except for you >> :-)). >> Would you like me to forward to you those messages I've received >> giving permission? >> >> All best, >> brynn >> >

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Hackfest 2015 - were you there?
by insaner 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

if so, you might be in a photo, and if so, your permission is needed to make the photo(s) public. Please contact me via IRC (or replying to this thread if you can't via IRC) to grant/decline permission. Please let others know too. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Hackfest-2015-were-you-there-tp4973881.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Improvements to Kaleidoscope from "Rotate copies LPE"
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Hi to all! Now the "Kaleidoscope" option in "Rotate copies" LPE became to "Fusion paths" and don`t need a 360 degree rotation. Here are a video on action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 In my youtube chanel there is more old kaleidoscope videos to get biger idea. The branch is: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/copy-rotate-lpe-improveme… Regards, Jabier.

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Inkscape crashes on opening existing svg files
by Murari 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Hi all, I'm using Inkscape on Arch Linux, and am cross posting this from the Arch Linux general mailing list. Since yesterday (I have not used Inkscape for two weeks, so this might be related to something that happened in the last two weeks) I have not been able to open exisiting svg files on Inkscape. Opening any and all svg files causes Inkscape to crash with "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now". I created a test file containing only a single straight line using the Bezier tool and can not open this file again after saving. The command line output after the crash is terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Glib::ConvertError' I saw this error yesterday, on package 0.91-8 in Arch, but the same package version worked on the 17th of May, so some other package that was updated during this time period is probably the cause. The latest package version in Arch, 0.91-9, does not solve this problem. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be the cause? Thanks!

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Decommission SourceForge Downloads
by Martin Owens 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Dear Developers, Because of the thousands of downloads per week of old inkscape releases (mostly windows msi files) from the sourceforge account and because of our successful transition to using our own website with caching proxy fastly. I will be deleting all files from the SourceForge files folder in two weeks time (June 14th). Please make sure you have any and all files you wish to back up, and any downloads you want to make available for your platform available on the website. If there are any objections please raise them here and I won't go ahead with the proposed deletion. This cleanup is mostly to reduce our online search footprint, reduce confusion with users and prevent users getting hold of old, obsolete or buggy versions of inkscape. (I've mentioned this cleanup before, but I wanted to be more proactive and state that I'll do it and take responsibility) Best Regards, Martin Owens

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google deprecating SMIL for Chrome
by Brynn 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Hi Friends, Someone brought to my attention, the other day, this entry in Tavmjong's blog: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1262, which discusses Google's Intent to Deprecate SMIL in the Chrome browser, and links to that discussion: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/bl… Since I've been learning a lot more about animation (while writing a new Animation page for the website) it really seems rather shocking. From what I understand (although still learning, *Always*) it seems like SMIL comes the closest to being "true" SVG animation (of all the existing ways to animate SVG). The Intent to Deprecate message says that MS will be creating CSS animation support for SVG, which will make animation of SVG possible in all browsers. I don't have the technical knowledge to be able to compare SMIL to this new CSS animation (and since it says "just announced" maybe it doesn't actually exist yet). (I am aware of current CSS3 animation, but not about this new bit.) But I'm definitely curious about what will be lost of SMIL, which that new CSS can't replicate, or conversely, if this new CSS will have any new abilities that SMIL doesn't have. And I'm curious what our Inkscape community thinks about this apparently pending deprecation in Chrome? (Because I guess Mozilla/Firefox will follow suit, since IE already stopped supporting it, some versions back. And that makes it seem like a sad day for animation with Inkscape.) I understand that the hopes from several years ago, to have a working SVG animation tool by the release of Inkscape 1.0, have now gone by the wayside (I guess for lack of anyone interested enough to do it). But I wonder, if Inkscape had even an experimental SVG animation model, based on SMIL (along with a new UI which probably would be needed, afaiu) if Google would still want to deprecate SMIL? I do see some comments in the Intent to Deprecate discussion, from Inkscape-related people, or organizations, but I'm surprised not to see any discussion here in this list. Is it just because of not having anyone (or small group) interested in developing animation for Inkscape? Or maybe there was some discussion on IRC, where I don't usually watch. It just seems a little hopeless to me, not to see a vigorous uproar about it, or even any comments from Inkscape developers on the google discussion. I must be still missing something in my understanding of animation and Inkscape. Maybe it's much more hopeless than I realize, no matter what google does with Chrome? What do you all think about google deprecating SMIL? Thanks, brynn

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RFC: Inkscape Code of Conduct
by Bryce Harrington 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

We have a draft version of a Code of Conduct for our project, which Martin and others have carefully assembled for us. As written it looks quite good, and I'd like to go ahead and get this finalized; one less thing on our collective todo list. :-) But before it gets finalized, I'd like to run it by the development community once more for comments. I'll collect and incorporate the comments as best as I can, and repost it for an informal ratification. If there are a substantial number of suggestions, I'll repost some interim versions. Once it's agreed to, we should probably also have some sort of process for amending it. Maybe nothing more complex than posting a diff and same voting as done for the ratification. Bryce Inkscape Community Code of Conduct THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS!!! Inkscape Community Code of Conduct (DRAFT) Like the technical community as a whole, the Inkscape community is made up of a mixture of professionals and volunteers from all over the world, working on every aspect of the project - including mentorship, teaching and connecting people. Diversity is one of our huge strengths, but it can also lead to communication issues and unhappiness. To that end, we have a few ground rules that we ask people to adhere to when they're participating within this community and project. These rules apply equally to board members, developers, mentors and those seeking help and guidance. This isn't an exhaustive list of things that you should or should not do. Rather, take it in the spirit in which it's intended - a guide to make it easier to enrich all of us and the technical communities in which we participate. This code of conduct applies to all spaces managed by the Inkscape project. This includes IRC, the mailing lists, the bug tracker, the web site, official Inkscape events and any other forums created by the project team which the community uses for communication. * Be friendly and patient. * Be welcoming. We strive to be a community that welcomes and supports people of all backgrounds and identities. This includes, but is not limited to members of any race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, colour, immigration status, social and economic class, educational level, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, and mental and physical ability. * Be considerate. Your work will be used by other people, and your code, comments and art will be read and looked at by them. You in turn will depend on the work of others and your code, comments and art will be commented on. Any decision you take and any remark you make will affect other people, and you should take those consequences into account when making them. Remember that we're a world-wide community, so you might not be communicating in someone else's primary language. * Be respectful. Not all of us will agree all the time, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It’s important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one. Members of the Inkscape community should be respectful when dealing with other members as well as with people outside the Inkscape community. * Be careful in the words that you choose. We are a community of professionals, and we conduct ourselves professionally. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other participants. Harassment and other exclusionary behavior aren't acceptable. This includes, but is not limited to: + Violent threats or language directed against another person. + Discriminatory jokes and language. + Posting sexually explicit or violent material. + Posting (or threatening to post) other people's personally identifying information ("doxing"). + Personal insults, especially those using racist or sexist terms. + Unwelcome sexual attention. + Spamming, trolling, flaming, baiting, or other attention-stealing behavior. + Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior. + Repeated harassment of others. In general, if someone asks you to stop, then stop. * Take responsibility for your words and your actions. We can all make mistakes; and when you do, take responsibility for them. If someone has been harmed or offended, listen carefully and respectfully, and work to right the wrong. * When we disagree, try to understand why. Disagreements, both social and technical, happen all the time and Inkscape is no exception. It is important that we resolve disagreements and differing views constructively, keeping discussion on a civil level. Remember that we’re different. The strength of Inkscape comes from its varied community, people from a wide range of backgrounds. Different people have different perspectives on issues. Being unable to understand why someone holds a viewpoint doesn’t mean that they’re wrong. Don’t forget that it is human to err and blaming each other doesn’t get us anywhere, rather offer to help resolving issues and to help learn from mistakes. * Step down considerately. If you leave or disengage from a responsible position within the Inkscape project, we ask that you do so in a way that minimises disruption to the project. Tell people you are leaving and take the proper steps to ensure that others can pick up where you left off. * Conflicts of interest. You should be aware when you are conflicted due to employment or other projects you are involved in, and abstain or delegate decisions that may be seen to be self-interested. We expect that everyone who participates in the project does so with the goal of making life better for its users. When in doubt, ask for a second opinion. Perceived conflicts of interest are important to address. Act to ensure that decisions are credible even if they may occasionally be unpopular, difficult or favourable to the interests of one group over another. * Ask for help when unsure. Nobody is expected to be perfect in this community. Asking questions early avoids many problems later, so questions are encouraged, though they may be directed to the appropriate forum. Those who are asked should be responsive and helpful. Be aware that user-created content on our website can and will be moderated. If you notice an upload, comment or user that clearly violates this Code of Conduct, help us to keep this website a welcoming place by reporting this to our moderators or contact us at <insertEmailAddressHere> or via our <insertContactPageLinkHere>. Also, if you would like to help us by becoming a moderator yourself, please don't hesitate to contact this website's administration team. Further tips for good and successful communication, including but not limited to how to protect yourself from burnout, can be found in the Freenode Channel Guidelines. Credits for the sources and inspiration of this code of conduct go to the SpeakUp! project, the Django Project, Ubuntu as well as many others. This Code of Conduct is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Licence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Selection sets
by Lucian Holland 31 May '15

31 May '15

Hi, I’ve been using the development version of Inkscape for a few days now and am really excited about some of the new features that have gone in. Looking at the material one the website and in the archives of this list I’ve been able to piece together what most of them do, but I’m struggling to make any sense of the “selection sets”. I think know in theory what it’s supposed to do - resolve the ages old “how do I group across layers” problem, but I can’t make the UI do anything useful. Is it incomplete as it stands in trunk, or am I just missing something very obvious? Happy to be pointed at a link/video/whatever if there’s one out there that gives more detail, my cursory searches didn’t reveal much unfortunately…. Cheers, and thanks for all the hard work on a great piece of software - I’m still very much learning to use it and every day that goes by I still get a few “Wow, that is *so* cool!” moments :-) Lucian -- Lucian Holland Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)

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Inkscape Devlibs (windows)
by Josh Andler 30 May '15

30 May '15

Hey all, Now that Cairo 1.14.2 is out, can both the 32-bit and 64-bit devlibs get updated? I think we should aim to get 0.91.1 out in maybe a month or so. I will start looking into doing backports later this week. I figured I'd bring up the devlibs first though since they seem to take a bit to get updated. Cheers, Josh

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Yesterday's Website/Wiki outage
by Maren Hachmann 30 May '15

30 May '15

Hi everyone, at about 00:00 UTC today the website and Wiki went down. This seems to have been caused by problems during scheduled maintenance at Oregon State University, involving device migrations and network structure modifications, and a mislabelled plug. We noticed this at about 2:00 UTC. Half an hour later, the Wiki pages were accessible again, while the inkscape.org website still showed error pages instead of contents due to read-only access to the database. At about 4:30 UTC, we received a mail from OSUOSL about the cause of the problem, the website had come back online a few minutes earlier. If you see any remaining errors, please send a message to the docs mailing list or to Martin directly, Regards, Maren

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inkscape plugin distribution via pip
by Brad Pitcher 30 May '15

30 May '15

Hi folks, I'm toying with the idea of installing Inkscape plugins using pip. In fact, at this very moment, my OpenSCAD DXF Output plugin ( https://github.com/brad/Inkscape-OpenSCAD-DXF-Export) can be installed like this: pip install --target=<installation_dir> inkscape-openscad-dxf The only downside I can see is that in addition to the plugin files it installs a little cruft: easy_install.py, inkscape_openscad_dxf-0.0.1-py2.7.egg-info, _markerlib, pkg_resources, setuptools, and setuptools-17.0.dist-info However, I don't think those extra files would be any problem. The big upsides to this approach are that dependencies are automatically included and that PyPi (https://pypi.python.org/pypi) is searchable. What do you all think of this approach? Is it a good/bad idea?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Build problem
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 29 May '15

29 May '15

Hi Alex. Now at home and i could make the commit. Thanks for the help, Jabier.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Build problem
by Alex Valavanis 29 May '15

29 May '15

I'm also not at home but can do it tomorrow if no one beats me to it! It's a standard header, so the position should not matter. I would suggest putting it immediately before <gtk/gtk.h>. AV On 29 May 2015 at 13:58, Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: > Alex, work ok! > > Im not at home so i coulden't commit now, also not sure about the best > position of the header. > Think the faster is you do the commit. Like the idea? > > Thanks, Jabier. > > > On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 12:54 +0100, Alex Valavanis wrote: >> Hi Jabier, >> >> Did including <stdint.h> work OK? If so, it's probably worth >> committing that change. >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> AV >> >> On 29 May 2015 at 12:53, Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: >> > Hi Alex. >> > I try with clang and gcc with the same result: >> > jtx@...3244...:~$ gcc -dumpversion >> > 4.9.2 >> > jtx@...3244...:~$ clang -dumpversion >> > 4.2.1 >> > jtx@...3244...:~$ cat /proc/version >> > Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 (debian-kernel@...501...) (gcc >> > version 4.8.4 (Debian 4.8.4-1) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 >> > (2015-04-24) >> > >> > I include <stdint.h> headers instead. >> > Thanks, Jabier. >> > >> > >> > >> > and clang >> > >> > On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 12:29 +0100, Alex Valavanis wrote: >> >> Hi Jabier, >> >> >> >> Which compiler (+version) are you using? At the moment, we really >> >> shouldn't have to enable C++0x features for trunk builds. >> >> >> >> Instead of setting the build flags, try including <stdint.h> at the >> >> top of sp-canvas.h >> >> >> >> Ideally, we should check for the availability of <cstdint> and use >> >> that instead, although this is only guaranteed to exist with C++11 so >> >> we probably shouldn't use it yet. >> >> >> >> >> >> AV >> >> >> >> On 29 May 2015 at 12:10, Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: >> >> > Hi to all. >> >> > >> >> > Finaly get working using CFLAGS_CXX=-std=c++0x >> >> > Get from here: >> >> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11069108/uint32-t-does-not-name-a-type/1… >> >> > >> >> > Regards, Jabier. >> >> > >> >> > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 10:45 -0700, Josh Andler wrote: >> >> >> Why such an old revision? I just pulled down current and it's at 14182. >> >> >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> Josh >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Jabier Arraiza >> >> >> <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: >> >> >> > Hi to all. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Any one have this problem compiling? >> >> >> > /home/jtx/Development/inkscape/trunk/src/display/sp-canvas.h:126:5: >> >> >> > error: ‘uint8_t’ does not name a type >> >> >> > uint8_t *tiles; >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Clean build r13689 >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Regards, Jabier. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> >> > Inkscape-devel mailing list >> >> >> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> >> >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > Inkscape-devel mailing list >> >> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> > >> > > >

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Build problem
by Jabier Arraiza 29 May '15

29 May '15

Hi to all. Any one have this problem compiling? /home/jtx/Development/inkscape/trunk/src/display/sp-canvas.h:126:5: error: ‘uint8_t’ does not name a type uint8_t *tiles; Clean build r13689 Regards, Jabier.

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Inkscape_trunk_scan-build - Build # 99 - Unstable!
by Jenkins (build tester) 27 May '15

27 May '15

Hi developers, Clang scanbuild found a potential bug in recently committed code. Inkscape_trunk_scan-build - Build # 99 - Unstable. See here which bugs were found (new in red): http://jenkins.inkscape.org/job/Inkscape_trunk_scan-build/99/clangScanBuild… It is paramount to keep our codebase clean with as little compiler warnings as possible, so we can swiftly eradicate newly introduced bugs, to keep Inkscape stable and prevent lengthy dragging bug hunts before releases. Your friend, Jenkins http://jenkins.inkscape.org

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Wiki account
by Brad Pitcher 26 May '15

26 May '15

Can I have an account for the wiki please? I have an extension I'd like to add to the list.

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Inkscape trunk PPA - 'Dependency wait' since May 21 (no new builds)
by su_v 26 May '15

26 May '15

1) Last successful PPA build and upload was rev 14163 on May 20; since then every new build has failed with 'Dependency wait': * Missing build dependencies: libgtkspell-3-dev > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > sbuild-build-depends-inkscape-trunk-dummy : Depends: libgtkspell-3-dev but it is not installable > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > apt-get failed. > Package installation failed Anyone familiar with the build recipe able to fix this dependency issue? 2) GTK3 builds are currently broken (likely unnoticed due to above build failures) - AFAICT the refactored PDF import dialog (r14170-14172) does not compile with GTK3: Build log (first 20 errors) with Gtk+ 3.16.3: https://gist.github.com/su-v/ba21869dc538149dff16

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Scribus 1.5.0 released
by "Christoph Schäfer" 26 May '15

26 May '15

After many years of work and more than a thousand bugfixes and feature implementations, the Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.5.0. Scribus 1.5.0 is a preview of the next stable version 1.6.0 and has primarily been released for testing purposes, so more users can help us with identifying and fixing bugs. It is not stable enough for use in real production scenarios yet, but it can help users to become familiar with the new interface and the amount of new features, the number of which has almost doubled in comparison to the stable 1.4.x series. ==Most Important Technical Changes== - Scribus 1.5.0 uses Qt 5 as its UI toolkit. The minimum version to compile Scribus from source is Qt 5.4. - The file format has undergone significant changes and may change even further before the release of 1.6.0. Thus, files created or edited in 1.5.0 cannot be opened in earlier versions of Scribus. Potential changes to the file format on the road to 1.6.0 notwithstanding, the Scribus Team will work very hard to make sure that files created by 1.5.0 and the following technology previews can be opened reliably in the next stable release. - Unfortunately we cannot offer GraphicsMagick and Open Scene Graph support for all platforms yet, whereas on Linux (and probably *BSD), GM and and OSG have become new dependencies. - Scribus will detect an installed version of UniConvertor and use it to import some of the vector formats supported by this program into Scribus. ==Most Important New Features== ===General=== -The user interface has been overhauled and restructured in many places. For example, the context menu takes a lot less screen estate than before, and the Document Setup / Preferences dialog has been rewritten from scratch. The Scribus Team is aware of the remaining deficiencies and will work on resolving these issues before the release of 1.6.0. In some cases inconsistencies in the UI (e.g. the "Drop Shadow" tab in the Properties Palette) have been deliberately left in place to receive feedback from users as to which way they prefer. - Scribus can now store bitmap images within its native file format. Previously it was only possible to link to external images. - Scribus 1.5.0 now offers a "Symbol" or clone feature similar to Adobe Illustrator: If one master object (Symbol) has been modified, all of its copies (clones) are being modified as well. - With the new "Weld" feature, objects can be combined and moved without being "grouped", i.e., each object remains fully editable. ===Text / Typography=== Scribus 1.5.0 provides some of the most often requested text features, among them: - vertical scaling of text; - orphans and widows control; - foot and end notes; - text variables; - cross references. Moreover, Inline Objects in text frames are finally fully editable. ===Tables== In previous Scribus versions tables were nothing more than combined text frames. Scribus 1.5.0 finally introduces "real" tables that resemble table features in word processors and other DTP programs, including table styles. ===Graphics=== - A new feature-rich plug-in called 'Picture Browser' enables asset management for graphics files by tagging them or creating graphics collections. Graphics files can be dragged into a Scribus document from the Picture Browser. - Scribus 1.5.0 supports all advanced gradient types available in Adobe Illustrator and XARA Designer, including mesh gradients. - One of the most-requested features -- drop shadows -- is finally available, albeit still experimental. - For documents that comprise many large (in terms of file size) bitmap images, a configurable image cache has been added. It can buffer image files to the hard drive and free RAM, so Scribus can continue to run smoothly. ===File Import / Export=== Scribus 1.5.0 is being shipped with a huge number of new or rewritten import filters, although not all of them are of equal quality, and some are still experimental. ====DTP Files==== For the first time in its history, Scribus 1.5.0 can open / import files created by other DTP programs, namely: Adobe InDesign XML (IDML), Adobe InDesign Snippets (IDMS), Adobe PageMaker (P65, PMD), Apple iWorks PAGES, Microsoft Publisher (PUB), QuarkXPress Tags (XTG), VIVA Designer XML, and Xara Page & Layout Designer (XAR). Regarding DTP formats not yet supported, a workaround is sometimes to use an output format as an option. Accordingly, Scribus 1.5.0's PDF importer has been rewritten from scratch, and Scribus can now reliably open almost every PDF file directly with the original layout intact. For Windows users, Scribus 1.5.0 also comes with reliable import filters for Microsoft's PDF alternatives XPS (Windows Vista and 7) and OXPS (Windows 8 and later). ====Vector Drawings==== - The import filter for Adobe Illustrator files has been rewritten from scratch and Scribus's graphics capabilities have been expanded accordingly, so most AI files can be imported or opened flawlessly. Moreover, Scribus can now detect hybrid AI files and enables users to choose between the AI and the PDF version. - The import filter for OpenDocument graphics files has been rewritten from scratch and expanded, so Scribus can now open and import ODG drawings and ODP slide shows without issue. - "Layers" in SVG files are now supported if an SVG document is being opened (as opposed to being imported into an existing document). - Thanks to the libraries provided by the Document Liberation Project, Scribus can now import native MS Visio and CorelDraw files. - Other new import filters: Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM), Photoshop Custom Shapes (CSH), Micrografx Draw (DRW), Enhanced Metafile (EMF), StarView Metafile (SVM), WordPerfect Graphics (WPG), Xara Designer (XAR). ====Bitmap Files=== - Scribus 1.5.0 supports the open standard Open Raster (ORA) for complex bitmap files, including advanced features like layer effects or paths. - With GraphicsMagick installed, Scribus can import all bitmap files supported by this program, including GIMP's native XCF format. - Scribus 1.5.0 can import PGF bitmaps, an open alternative to JPEG 2000. ====3D==== With OpenSceneGraph installed, Scribus 1.5.0 can import 3D objects in all formats supported by OSG into a new frame type called "3D Annotation". Scribus also offers limited editing functions, such as setting the lighting source or the default display mode for a PDF-3D-capable PDF viewer. ====Colors and Fills==== Scribus 1.5.0 can use color palettes in the Adobe Color Swatch (ACO) and AutoCAD ColorBook (ACB) formats, as well as GIMP Gradients (GGR) and GIMP Patterns (PAT). The former color manager has been extended to a "colors and fills manager" to reflect Scribus's new capabilities. ===Output=== The most important new feature with respect to output is the support of PDF/X-4 in the PDF exporter. Another important addition, at least in some environments, is an exporter for Microsoft's XPS format. For a cursory overview of all new features, see: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus_1.5_Readme A data sheet is available here: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/File:Data_sheet-Scribus150.pdf (English) http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/File:Datenblatt-Scribus150.pdf (Deutsch) The complete changelog is available here: http://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=60 ==New Website== Thanks to Carsten Liersch and Dennis Groenewegen van der Weijden, we're also pleased to present Scribus via a new and modern website to the world. ==Primary Download Locations== - Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X and the source code are available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.0/ - Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs - OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs - Packaging for *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana is beyond our influence. We recommend updating the respective repository data on a regular basis. ==Download Verification== Description File Name Sha1sum Source scribus-1.5.0.7z 7a8dbe7ae7790ecc194dbe9c6c23726bb3b226d7 Source scribus-1.5.0.tar.xz fdf451037073ee648f135669535508813d61ee7e OS X Mavericks or higher (DMG) scribus-1.5.0.dmg 55a1e0800b73f7b7b0b136b3ebc1eb6a03ef0b07 Windows 32/64 Bit scribus-1.5.0-windows.exe 9a0ce39350e77d6a907f8aae2b6d803ba6345ef7 Windows 64 Bit scribus-1.5.0-windows-x64.exe 42d489fe1098797772a14113ca2ac49244a4dbd2 ==Credits== The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. We are grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring. Special thanks go to Carsten Liersch/Bauwerk Design (Germany) and Dennis Groenewegen van der Weijden for the design of the new Scribus website. The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio oldenburg (Germany), GiveLife Color System (Spain), Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA), the Newspaper Association of America (USA) and Software Consulting Services (USA) as Special Supporters and donors of color palettes and other content since the 1.4.x release, just like we are grateful to the owner of Vector Portal for the permission to distribute some of his work as Scribus Templates. Porting Scribus to OS/2 and eComStation is being supported by Mensys BV (The Netherlands) and Serenity Systems (USA). Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release.

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RFC: Switch to Google Test framework
by Bryce Harrington 24 May '15

24 May '15

Hi all, At the hackfest today we discussed the Boost test suite vs. the Google test suite. Both options are very good and better than cxxtest that we use currently, and should be straightforward to move to. We tentatively decided on Google test. 2geom uses it, so many of us already have familiarity with it, and it will keep the two projects consistent. Boost's commands have prefixes which makes for a bit more typing, whereas Google test's are more brief. KK liked Google test's handling of templates better too. Does anyone have a strong differing option? We're hoping to have the decision finalized by the end of the week. Bryce

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New LPE Transform by two nodes-knots-
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 24 May '15

24 May '15

Hi to all. Here are a video with my last LPE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLmYdWoXXIw Its based in a feature pointed by Ivan Louette. Here the branch to review: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/transform_by_two_points Best regards, Jabier.

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Description of Livarot's boolops algorithm?
by Krzysztof Kosiński 24 May '15

24 May '15

Hello Can anyone provide a rough description of how livarot's boolops work? In my thesis, I want to compare it to my new implementation in 2Geom. The new implementation is almost complete, and handles all general cases on any combination of lines, Beziers and elliptical arcs. The only remaining thing is the handling of overlapping segments. Regards, Krzysztof

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