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Contest
by Jabier Arraiza 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Hi to all. I get some interesting info about a contest to use Europeana Cataloge of art. Here are the link: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-creative/news/-/blogs/design-challeng… Im thinking on expand open-clip art import to allow europeana content. Im not sure if is allowed by licensing, etc. and if seems a good proyect to Inkscape. Also if anyone want to join on this proyect, specialy Open Clipart imports devs -sure i reuse a lot of code- are greatly welcome. Regards, Jabier.

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Website Mirror System (Video)
by Martin Owens 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Dear Inkscape Develpers, Submitted for your review is the Inkscape Website mirror system. https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/2600/ I'm interested in hearing from potential hosts and what they want to see in terms of credit as well as the more technical aspects of the system. Martin,

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remove of DPISWITCH extension from tunk
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

Hello i want to remove the DPISWITCH extension from trunk. Why? I find displacements problems in clip-mask, -inverse displacement-. So because we are thinking to handle the DPI on export/print... If DPI is customizable on export, maybe is a good point to allow by default 96 but a free input box. Regards.

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Visual Align interaction proposal
by Fernando Cuenca Margalef 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

Hi folks, I've seen the nice visual alignment development, I will love it! But I find the interactionvery overloaded of buttons in the video. And I think it becames so complex and not coherent with the old functions. I send you attached an alternative proposal to implement such nice feature in next Inkscape version. Considering the simplest way and more coherent with Inkscape. Thanks to all for the great work with this amazing piece of software, Fernando

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Fwd: Re: Roadmap brainstorming for 0.92 and forward
by Liam White 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Liam White" <inkscapebrony@...400...> Date: Nov 29, 2014 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Roadmap brainstorming for 0.92 and forward To: "Alexander Brock" <a.brock@...2965...> Cc: > What's the difference between an SPObject and an SPItem? Which svg > elements translate into an SPItem, which into an SPObject? > > Alexander SPItems are generally visible objects. SPObjects that are not SPItems are the rest of the objects and are not renderable.

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Volunteers needed: 0.91 Release Marketing
by Bryce Harrington 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hi all, As the developers put the final touches on the 0.91 release, it's high time to plan a media blitz to get this announced to all our users. I'd like to recruit and organize a formal team to do marketing for Inkscape. This'll involve writing copy, planning announce strategies, notifying news sites, coordinating with parallel fundraising efforts, and more. We'll be organizing an online IRC meeting soon to coordinate these activities. Sound like fun? Ryan Lerch, Josh Andler, and myself are already signed on; we've been through the release announcement process before so we're old hands. But we're looking for new ideas and fresh blood, so that we can go beyond what we've achieved in the past. Interested? Reply to this email and introduce yourself! Bryce P.S. Inkscape's past marketing teams have left us a wealth of notes we can use to build from. Two items in particular: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Announcing_Releases http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage

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Download method, roadmap brainstorm, percentage in SVG root and objects, units
by Jelle Mulder 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Hello people, On behalf of your Chinese users I'd like to ask to make sure there are multiple channels to download the new Inkscape versions as bittorrents are blocked by at least two ISP's here. Anything remotely social gets blocked in this socialism the Chinese way state. I agree that the new release will get quite some attention as it has been ages since the last major release and Inkscape is well known as one of the FOSS must haves. In case of 0.91 it will also gets known very fast there are important perks such as the greater speed of operation and a plethora of other improvements and new tools. So we can expect a lot of downloads in the first two months and then a gradual decrease in intensity. I do however expect an increase overall as 0.91 is greatly more productive tool than 0.48 and Inkscape has become more useful as a serious replacement for other tools. For the roadmap I would like to ask how feasible it would be to add javascript and SMIL to the renderer? There was a javascript plugin for 0.48 that I never managed to get to work. The instructions were in Portugese, but the idea of being able to use javascript sure was a good one. Add SMIL to it and you're all set for development of animation tools. On the GUI side, I would like to ask how possible it would be to have the GUI be constructed with SVG objects. That would allow enthusiasts to radically revamp the GUI and make specialised versions with limited tool sets for special tasks (think of Inkscape for kids) or change the GUI depending on tasks at hand (animation GUI, cutter GUI, etc.). If the Inkscape renderer would support javascript and SMIL it would open a whole world of web designers to use their skills to create slick GUI's that scale to whatever resolution in the future. I personally use percentages in both SVG root and for objects. Currently it means using Notepad++ to create groups to position things percentage wise and changing sizes. The use case here is having a layout adopt to whatever resolution of the user and display objects you want with scaling backgrounds and positioning absolutely sized objects in the center of the page. It would be great if Inkscape would support that natively and the hassle of hand editing SVG code wouldn't be a necessity anymore. I'm also quite exited by the idea that I won't have to contend with the dumb 90dpi or 96dpi setting, but can use whatever setting is my fancy. Having to work with 3.45xxx pixels per MM is really horrible. Setting that to 10 and just use a viewport would make my life a lot easier. Considering the new resolutions of screens for mobiles that go up 551 ppi these days, having 90 or 96 dpi defaults with lots of decimals to position something doesn't make much sense to me anyway. Having a higher dpi setting would allow for working with whole numbers in files and might also increase speed of rendering due to that I would imagine. Also nice for those working with print btw. My two cents, Jelle

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clarification for new user faq re faking italics
by Brynn 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Hi Friends, We just need a couple of final clarifications for the new user faq. And fyi, I think we've decided to wait until after 0.91 comes out, to publish it on the live site. This is one, and the other will be in a separate message. The old item "Bolding has no effect on some fonts" says: Some fonts are available with in an unique, "normal" variant (i.e. no italics or bold). Nonetheless, Inkscape currently displays four styles available for them: Normal, Italics, Bold, Bold Italics. Italics is correctly faked by inclining the font but bolding cannot be faked at this point. Since the font itself does not have a Bold variant, the result would likely be of poor quality anyway. You should rather consider using a font with a real Bold variant. When I re-wrote it, I wrote that italics can only be "faked" not "correctly faked" because in my experience, I have not been able to correctly fake an italicized font by skewing (which I assume is meant by "inclining"). (To me, italicized text doesn't just lean over, but sort of curves over.) Can anyone speak to whether skewing is a correct italics or not? Thank you very much!

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final clarifications for new user faq re SVG renderers
by Brynn 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Hi Friends, And there's a 3rd item to clarify, if someone has a chance. and please note that these can all wait until after 0.91 is released! The faq item "Inkscape and renderer X show my SVGs differently. What to do?" mentions the Adobe SVG Plugin, which of course has been discontinued a few years ago. The text is below. Can "Adobe SVG plugin" just be deleted? If so, does the rest of the item need to be rewritten? I do see this question from time to time, in forums, so it's worth keeping the faq item. Just want to have a correct answer :-) "That depends on X. We accept Batik and Adobe SVG plugin as authoritative SVG renderers because they are backed by some of the the authors of the SVG standard and really care about compliance. This may not be true for other renderers. So if you are having a problem with some renderer, please try the same file with either Batik or Adobe, or better yet, with both (they are free and cross-platform). If you still see a discrepancy with Inkscape rendering, we want to look into it. Please submit a bug; don't forget to attach a sample of the problem file to the bug report, and ideally include screenshots too" Thank you very much!

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clarification for new user faq re flowed text
by Brynn 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

Hi Friends, Oh crap -- I just let that last message go without switching it to plain text. REALLY SORRY!! This is the 2nd clarification we need for the new user FAQ. The old item re flowed text is shown below. It's the part about the SVG specification that we think has probably changed. And we don't know exactly what should be said. I think Maren suggested Tav might be able to address this. Thank you very much! "When flowed text support was added to Inkscape, it was conformant to the then-current unfinished draft of SVG 1.2 specification (and was always described as an experimental feature). Unfortunately, in further SVG 1.2 drafts, the W3C decided to change the way this feature is specified. Currently SVG 1.2 is still not finished, and as a result, very few SVG renderers currently implement either the old or the new syntax of SVG 1.2 flowed text. So, technically, Inkscape SVG files that use flowed text are not valid SVG 1.1, and usually cause problems (errors or just black boxes with no text). However, due to the utility of this much-requested feature, we decided to leave it available to users. When the final SVG 1.2 specification is published, we will change our flowed text implementation to be fully conformant to it, and will provide a way to migrate the older flowed text objects to the new format. Until that is done, however, you should not use flowed text in documents that you intend to use outside of Inkscape. Flowed text is created by clicking and dragging in the Text tool, while simple click creates plain SVG 1.1 text; so, if you don't really need the flowing aspect, just use click to position text cursor instead of dragging to create a frame. If however you really need flowed text, you will have to convert it to regular (non-flowed) text by the "Convert to text" command in the Text menu. This command fully preserves the appearance and formatting of your flowed text but makes it non-flowed and SVG 1.1-compliant. "

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Units update
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi, It has been hard to keep track of everything going on with units in the past couple of days. I've got some comments about what has been done and where we should be headed. Please add your comments. 1. 'display_units' I think we all agree that inkscape:document-units is meant to be 'display_units'. Johan's changing of 'doc_units' to 'display_units' should make this much clearer. Thanks Johan! (BTW, I change 'units' to 'page_size_units' last week for similar reasons.) 2. 'svg_units' I am not sure about what this actually means. The comment is: // Units used for the values in SVG Is this the suppose to be the unit identifier used inside the SVG file? The only time that would be useful is if the 'user unit' has a real world value of 1px otherwise unit identifiers don't mean what users would expect them to. Or is this the unit identifier in the root 'width'/'height'. In this case, I think it might be useful to take a step back and look at the a more global picture. The root SVG values of 'width' and 'height' along with the 'viewBox' establishes the scale for the drawing. Typically one has: <svg width="20mm" height="20mm" viewBox="0 0 20 20" ...> where the 'user unit' is equivalent to 1mm. But one could also have a valid file with: <svg width="20mm" height="20mm" viewBox="0 0 40 40" ...> where the 'user unit' is equivalent to 0.5mm. We really should support arbitrary scaling (including non-isotropic). So instead of an 'svg unit' we should have an 'svg scale'. (Our rendering already supports arbitrary scaling so it would be a shame if our GUI didn't too, see the example SVG below.) 3. % values on root 'width' and 'height' I saw something on IRC about % values on the root SVG 'width' and 'height'. This is actually a very common use case for web designers where the SVG is to automatically fill a space. Inkscape treats % values on the 'width' and 'height' by using the values from the 'viewBox' (or if there is no 'viewBox' it assumes all values are in pixels). Here is an example of where 'width' and 'height' are in % and the scaling is non-isotropic. Inkscape renders it just fine: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/TEST_IMAGES/root_percent.svg 4. Precision The SVG spec says that values like length are floats and this is indeed what we use internally in Inkscape. I am wondering if we should change this to double as it would make internal calculations more precise. This might avoid some of the rounding errors when switching units back and forth from say 'mm' to 'pc'. We allow the user to set the numerical precision to up to 16 digits. This makes little sense given that floats are good to only 6 or 7. 5. Converting between 90/96 dpi I think our focus here is to do the minimum possible to convert an SVG file between 90 and 96 dpi. Trying to scale everything inside the file is rarely going to work satisfactory for a file of any complexity. Here are some things we should try (I am brain storming here): a. Add a 'viewBox' If a file has been created to a specific size using only user units, say A4 at 90dpi, using on user-units then one can set the SVG root to be: <svg width="210mm" height="297mm" viewBox="0 0 744.09448819 1052.3622047" ...> b. Absolute sizes are really only important for producing printed matter. We could add a 'dpi' factor. Values must be converted in PDF/PostScript export from 90 or 96dpi to 72dpi. The conversion factor could be user selectable. (Although adding a 'viewBox' as above should take care of this.) c. Grids and guides and ? These currently are defined in external units (no consideration of transforms, viewBox, etc.). Guides should be easy to auto adjust using the SVG scale (as defined above). Grids may be too (but I haven't tried yet). Note: We will need to update grids and guides when we do the coordinate flip so if we do need a more sophisticated solution we can do it at the same time. d. Use internally of 'unit identifiers'. If absolute unit identifiers ('mm', 'in', 'pt', etc.) have been used internally (other than on the root SVG element), then these do need to be scaled to account for a switch between 90dpi and 96dpi. This is not a problem for pre-0.91 Inkscape created files. To keep it from being a problem in 0.91 Inkscape files, we need to disable saving 'font-size' with a 'pt' unit identifier. Tav

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Next Inkscape board meeting
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi, We'll be having an IRC meeting today (Wednesday, November 26th, 20:00 UTC). The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Everybody is welcome to join the discussion. We'll continue the discussion of the Hackfest we'll be holding before the LGM meeting in Toronto as well as discussing fund raising, testing, etc. You can read more about the Hackfest at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 Hope to see you there, Tav

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[glocke01@...400...: Fwd: wiki account]
by Bryce Harrington 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

Could someone set George up? George - the list is configured to reject email from non-members; we had too much spam being sent to us from spammers. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from George Locke <glocke01@...400...> ----- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:48:34 -0500 From: George Locke <glocke01@...400...> To: inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Fwd: wiki account Perhaps you don't want the riffraff getting wiki accounts, but I'd like to have one. The wiki itself says I should contact the developer's list in order to get an account. I tried to email the list, and was bounced. Now here I am. I'm not an Inkscape developer and don't want to be added to the list, I just want a wiki account so I can add something to a particualr talk page, as described below. Thanks, George Locke ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:42 PM Subject: wiki account To: glocke01@...400... You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at inkscape-devel-owner@...460... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: George Locke <glocke01@...400...> To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:42:32 -0500 Subject: wiki account Hi, I tried to edit a wiki page and foudn that the only way to create an account was to "email the developer list," so I am doing so. Preferably, my u/n would be "flies". Thanks, George Locke PS the page I wanted to change was http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial , or more specifically the discussion page, where I was going to indicate that the installation instructions reference a <inkscape>/extensions directory that, on my install, Windows 0.48, is located at <inkscape>/shared/extensions. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Units in LivePathEffects
by Johan Engelen 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hi Jabier, I just discovered that you added a "default unit" to LivePathEffect::Effect class. Unfortunately, we will have to remove that, or at least make a drastic change there. A LivePathEffect is meant to be a purely mathematical function, that depends as little as possible on the rest of Inkscape. To work with units, one would have to know the full item2document transform times the SVG units used, and use that in the effect calculation. I'm really not sure if we should do this. What the code is doing now is wrong if an item has a transform applied to it. regards, Johan

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inkscape wiki account request
by Guiu Rocafort 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hello, Can someone create an user for me in the wiki. I want to update some very outdated pages. Specially about the one about multi-page support which has been dropped from svg 2.0. Thanks Guiu

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C++11 for Experimental Branch?
by Tavmjong Bah 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Hi, I noticed a bunch of 'for' loops in Liam's code and that got me wondering about using C++11 in the experimental branch as 'auto' is so much nicer that "std::map<SPDocument*,int>::iterator iter". When can we start using C++11? I noticed that http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/C%2B%2B11 only shows results for one Window's compiler. Is there a test program we can run? Fedora 20 is using GCC 4.8 and clang 3.4; both support 'auto' (GCC since 4.4). Tav

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Windows: 64bit GTK3 buildfile
by Johan Engelen 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Hi all Windows devs, If you're interested in testing and helping with moving Inkscape towards GTK3: I just committed build-x64-gtk3.xml that you can use to build Inkscape on Windows with GTK3. btool -file build-x64-gtk3.xml This works for me using the latest devlibs. Let us know if you have problems. Your help is very much appreciated. cheers, Johan

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Website Menus
by Martin Owens 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Dear Website Users, Some of you may have experienced the menu explosion bug that the website has come down with. I've put in place a fix for both javascript (so it won't cause an infinite loop) and for the menus themselves which were getting progressively worse as the caches refreshed. Please test and don't hesitate to make a bug[1] if you notice anything wrong. Best Regards, Martin Owens [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web

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GTK application with high dpi support
by Johan Engelen 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Hi all, Does anybody know a GTK application that supports high-dpi monitors, on Windows or Mac? I'd like to know, so I can see how they got things to work well. Thanks so much, Johan

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0.91 Blockers
by Josh Andler 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

This is to follow up on Bryce's earlier Hard Freeze announcement to bring attention to our blockers once more. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=21423field… #384688 - Long Standing Bug. Offset on text objects causes rendering/geometry artifacts. Pretty nasty and very easy to run into... I know I personally have a handful of files affected by it. Would really be nice to get fixed, but if it were the last blocker it should be re-milestoned. #953992 - Regression. Imported pattern disappears on transform. This is a renderer regression which is why it's marked as a blocker. It is still an issue in 0.91.x but is no longer affecting trunk. Is anybody interested looking into backporting this? If not, we're fine to bump the milestone forward since 0.92 will have it resolved. #1245989 - Regression. Canvas ends up 1x1px on certain documents. This is a weird issue and also affects XAML import (1235809). However, Inkscape can't directly produce files with this issue w/o the XML Editor being used. Apparently we used to create an A4 canvas in these situations, now it's 1x1 px (happened with templates due to the units refactoring). Logically, doing it to drawing size would be the best "fix" (I agree with comment #5 in 1235809). #1387864 - Regression. THE BIG BLOCKER is the one on document units. Tavmjong posted to the list about this with the subject of "Hard Freeze for 0.91: Inkscape Units". At this point there appears to be two obvious paths forward, 1) Possibly reverting back to the old superficial behavior when switching "Default units" (Tav's question at the end of his message pertained to this), or 2) hide/remove the "Default units widget" for 0.91 and potentially make Inkscape unusable to a sizable portion of our userbase. Obviously 1 is ideal, but we're left with the question of how feasible it is to get back that functionality in a way we're reasonably confident won't break 0.91 so close to release. Cheers, Josh

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Effective Modern C++ (book)
by Johan Engelen 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hi all, Tip: you can buy Effective Modern C++ (you do know it is out, right?) ebook with 50% discount now from O'Reilly here http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033707.do using http://www.retailmenot.com/view/oreilly.com 22$ for the most anticipated C++ book of the year, not bad. Although you will read this book front-to-back first, it may come in handy later while coding too. So having the ebook version is convenient for searching, plus, it will be updated with bugfixes and such. The book is good for all skill levels. Cheers, Johan

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2Geom automated testing + doxygen
by Johan Engelen 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Hi all, I've set up 2Geom automated builds, testing, and doxygen on Inkscape's Jenkins server. http://jenkins.inkscape.org:8080/ What I find pretty cool is that we now also have a trunk up-to-date version of our documentation: http://jenkins.inkscape.org:8080/job/2Geom_trunk_doxygen/doxygen/index.html This should make us more aware of the fact that we actually have a number of tests failing........!!! cheers, Johan

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Translation update, POT date out of sync, how do I fix?
by Christoffer Holmstedt 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

hmm. I've been working on a Swedish translation since a few weeks back and I just tried my translation against trunk and it was committed nicely. (POT date the same) [1]. When I now committed it to 0.91 [2] it seems like POT date was out of sync. ### How do I set up a proper workflow to not end up in this situation? With Git I would have just kept the different branches as they are and created a translation branch (like a hotfix branch in the git-flow mindset) that I could merge into the others when I felt it was ready, but I have no idea how to do this with Bazaar. ### Revert current revision (0.91 branch, revision 13646, [2]) As my experience with Bazaar is limited I don't want to revert, which can go terrible wrong. Anyone else that knows how-to can just remove revision 13646 from 0.91 and I will make a new commit on Wednesday. [1] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~christoffer-holmstedt/inkscape/swedish-inksca… [2] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/RELEASE_0_91_BRANCH/rev… Best regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Next Inkscape board meeting: focus on Hackfest 2015
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi, Our next IRC board meeting is schedule for Wednesday, November 12th, 20:00 UTC. The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at: wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Everybody is welcome to join the discussion. This is an important meeting as we need to finalize some of the details for the LGM Hackfest. We need to decide: * Place (Toronto or Boston) * Date (before or after LGM) * Duration (two or three days) * Attendance You can read more about the proposed meet up at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 See you Wednesday, Tav

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GSoC Mentor's Summit - Report
by Tavmjong Bah 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

Hi, Here is a report on the recent GSoC Mentor's Summit: Four Inkscape developers were at the 2014 GSoC Mentor's Summit in San Jose: Johan Engelen, Krzysztof Kosiński, Tavmjong Bah, and Joakim Verona. Johan and Krzysztof were Inkscape's official delegates, Tav won the special 10 Year Reunion lottery, and Joakim was there representing the GNU Project. The first day started out with a bonding session... a visit to the Great America theme park which Google had rented out. There is nothing like sharing a death defying roller coaster ride to get to know your fellow Inkscaper. The afternoon was free and we held an informal Inkscape session. Johan worked with Joakim on setting up an automated testing system using Jenkins. It turns out that this is what Joakim does for his day job so it was very helpful to have him there. Krzysztof reviewed Tav's preparations for the SVG Working Group meeting that Tav was attending the following week in Santa Clara. The next two days of the "un-conference" were full of short informal meetings on various topics of interest to the open-source community. Here are a notes on the more memorable sessions (with help from Johan): FLOSS Funding ------------- There was a very interesting session on FLOSS funding. * Paid development A point that was repeated many times was that the introduction of paid development must be done in an open and transparent manner to avoid alienating contributors. One suggested place to spend money is on code reviews. Paying a small amount rewards long-term contributors (i.e. reviewers) while encouraging reviews to be done in a timely manner thus encouraging future contributions. Quality insurance is another place where paid contributions can be useful. It was noted that paid development can be helpful to those on "2nd shift" where the "1st shift" maybe taking care of kids. Johan observed that most of the talk was about "sustained funding" (where the goal is having full time developers) vs. "beer money" (where the money helps subsidize some of the time developers invest). He's a little leery of getting into the former type of funding. One possible place for funding might be grants, perhaps in a university setting where money could pay for a PhD/postdoc to work on improving Inkscape for a particular purpose. * Cookie licking Not only limited to paid development: An example of a problem one can encounter is the "Cookie Licking Pattern"[1] where someone takes a cookie (project) and licks it to claim the project as their own. This discourages others from taking up the project - which may not be a problem if the "licker" delivers on the project in a timely matter. But if the "licker" doesn't, then project doesn't get done as nobody else will touch it. An additional problem can occur if the "licker" puts the cookie back without telling anyone and someone else picks up the cookie. A conflict in "ownership" can occur. This can be be avoided by having well defined policy about project ownership. Community Building ------------------ Another session focused on community building. Drupal seems to be very successful at this. "Web chick"[2] reported (if my ears didn't lie to me) that Drupal has 30,000 contributors! One only needs to look at their web site to see the effort they take in building community[3], especially in mentoring new contributors.[4] Good community management starts with tracking your contributors (emails, commits, etc.) overtime to see if you are improving or not. Post times when regulars can be found on IRC. ( Just saying "join us on IRC" can be demotivating if no-one is in channel. "join us on IRC, many of us are there at 1:23 UTC" is better.) Our community is friendly, and we should try to be even more friendly! E.g., keep the mail list friendly and mannered. There is a book available for free download called "The Art of Community".[5] FLOSS Audio/Visual ------------------ There was a session focusing on FLOSS audio/visual projects. * Press releases Don't let coders write the press release! Coders tend to focus on bugs and not on how awesome the software really is. Be careful with what you say. The press has a tendency to parrot the press release. * Stickers/Advertising Some projects could benefit from providing stickers... think of the publicity from having a sticker on a DJ's setup advertising a FLOSS DJ project. Inkscape might try to get "Supported by Inkscape" on Wacom boxes. (Aside: Maybe seek support from Wacom to improve support for tablets.) * Missing Assets (non-coder contributions) One area where non-coders can help is in providing missing assets. This was brought up in the context of getting more sound samples for digital sound libraries. In the Inkscape context it could be things like getting more seamless patterns in our pattern library. Overall, it was a very good meeting. [1] http://communitymgt.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Licking [2] https://www.drupal.org/u/webchick [3] https://www.drupal.org/community [4] https://www.drupal.org/core-office-hours [5] www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/09/18/the-art-of-community-now-available-…

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Add new Guides extensions to Inkscape extensions page
by Samuel Dellicour 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

Hi, I'm using Inkscape for making webdesign, and to improve my workflow, I made a couple of Inkscape extensions related to guides. Namely - add centered guides (centered to the document) - add margin guides (set to a certain distance to the document border) - add grid guides (guides in a grid of columns and gutters) - remove guides (made by Heathenx, bundled with his permission) - remove selected guides (remove only horizontal/vertical/angles guides) Full description and download can be found here: https://github.com/sambody/inkscape-guide-tools I've also presented them in the Inkscape forum: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=17985 My question: How do I add a link to the extensions page in the official Inkscape extensions page? Or can someone add it for me? Something like "Inkscape guide tools: add centered guides, margin guides, grid guides, remove guides" I would also appreciate any feedback to improve the tools (code, interface, functionality). Thanks Samuel Dellicour samplify webdesign <http://www.samplify.be/>

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Inkscape gtk-3.0 Themes
by Partha Bagchi 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

I built Inkscape with gtk+-3.0 support. Now I am trying to test it with themes such as DeLorean-Dark-3.14. Is the current gtk+-3.0 support have theming support? No matter how I do it, Inkscape does not honor gtk-3.0 theme. I put gtk-3.0 folder with gtk.css in the etc/ folder within Inkscape installation. I also tried share/themes/gtk-3.0/ etc. Of course, I could be doing something totally wrong. Win64 8.1 etc. with gtk+-3.14.5 (or 3.15.1 doesn't matter) and glib-2.42.1 and revision 3708. Thanks in advance, Partha

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Shared Access to Project Credentials
by Bryce Harrington 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

[ If you aren't maintaining services for Inkscape and have no interest in doing so in the future, you can stop reading here. :-) ] For the Inkscape project, a number of us have set up various online services. In some cases the services allow team management, and each of us has our own account; in others we have a single admin account which we share. For these shared admin accounts, we now have a way to securely share the credentials amongst ourselves, using GNU Privacy Guard (aka GPG), and stored in a bzr repository: % bzr branch lp:~inkscape.dev/inkscape/credentials Don't panic! There's only a handful of gpg and bzr commands you need to know to use this, and I've written them up in Cookbook format in the included README: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/credentials/view/head:/R… The directions are from a Ubuntu perspective -- please help expand the README with the appropriate commands for other systems. Drop me a line if you need help. Bryce

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Mirror Symmetry Improved
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

He Here are a screencast of the merge feature added to the experimental effect "mirror symetry". This is a example running in a layer but also can apply to other objects. When i have time i made a procedural template and a extension to it for work on a layer, and after, go to Kaleidoscope LPE. https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1970/ Regards, Jabier.

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proposals for website content, including splitting the FAQ
by Brynn 15 Nov '14

15 Nov '14

Hi Friends, As a brief backstory, Martin had contacted me some months ago, asking if I had any ideas for the new website which he'd been developing, and we had some general discussion. That was before the "new" site launched. After it launched, I had some specific suggestions, and contacted him again. He suggested I could use the django editor on the staging site, and create some sample pages, showing the changes I would make. Part of my suggestion was to incorporate some of the wiki content in the site, and that's when he explained to me about how the wiki should now be only for development topics, and most of the user content should either be on the website, or in official documentation. That's when splitting the FAQ into 2 faqs -- a user faq for the website, and a developer faq for the wiki, came up. So now I have those proposed new pages finished, and as well, the FAQ has been overhauled, and split in two. And below is the info. I'm not quite sure how the process works, for approving these kinds of things, but Martin said to post to the dev mailing list. So here are the results of all my work. Oh, I should also say that after I started all this work, I noticed this bug report, suggesting some of these changes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web/+bug/1274098 I still haven't figured out exactly how bug reports are handled, or who decides on the Importance, Status, etc, so I just added a comment that I was working on some of it. OK, here we go. 1 - My proposed new Community page: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynntest/ (Now includes all Inkscape forums, which are part of the community.) 2 - Since the listing of external galleries was so long, I put them on a new page. It's found via text link, in the 2nd sentence in the Gallery section of Community page. This is that page: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynn-community-pg2/ They all came from the old wiki Galleries page, which was disorganized and quite outdated, with ~ 40% bitrotted links and several spammish entries, which weren't even Inkscape related. (I'd give a link, except I deleted all those entries, after moving them to this page, on Martin's instruction.) This new list is more organized, and current. Should the page be approved, I intend to keep it up to date and organized. 3 - After moving the list of forums (from Learn page) to Community page, the Learn page would now look like this: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynns-learn2/ Very short page, and somewhat boring, imo. 4 - To make it more interesting, I added sort of a teaser, using a bit of content from some of the pages. That proposed new Learn page looks like this: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynns-learn-page/ However, what I think would be better, is to use some kind of imagery. Maybe we could find, or someone could draw for us, some clipart. Actually, for a website which promotes a graphics program, inkscape.org seems *to me* practically devoid of graphics (except of course for the front page and gallery). I think it would be nice to incorporate some Inkscape graphics on each page -- either as clipart, that is designed to help with the flow of the site (sort of like a theme, I guess); or just have an image on each page (maybe a script could call up random images from the gallery). But I'm getting off track. Just a thought :-) 5 - Here is my proposed new FAQ for Inkscape Users: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynns-user-faq/ It's been seriously overhauled -- several items deleted from the original, which are no longer needed; another several new ones added; re-organized; and a TON of useless html code was removed. Note that I changed the numbering system, to more of an outline style, because I think it looks better. But I did a bit of research, and found a way to keep the same numbering system, and still look better. It's just that it involves editing the CSS/style sheet, and will take me some experimenting to get it right. So I decided to use the outline style, and I can work on the other system, if there is an outcry for the old numbering system. There are still 2 issues left, before the user faq is complete. 5a - There are 5 bitrotted links, which need to be updated. The list is attached: "bitrotted-links-in-InksFAQ.txt" In a previous message, Bryce said he thought he could track them down. (Actually, only 2 for the user faq. 3 are for the dev faq.) 5b - 5 wiki articles which need to be put into some kind of documentation. The list is attached: "2b-documented-for-InksFAQ.txt" I'm still not clear how documentation is handled, so I can only provide the list. Unfortunately, I don't have the technical knowledge to write any of them myself -- except for just copying and pasting somewhere else. I assume they would need to be reviewed and updated, for accuracy, and none of those topics I happen to know, inside-out. (Related to this, I would be glad to make a listing of all user-related content that I can find, in the wiki. I've already had a look at a lot of it. But since I don't understand some of it, I would need some suggestions from more knowledgeable folks, about what to do with it (i.e. delete, put in documentation, or leave in the wiki for devs). But let me know. I'll be glad to help with any of that, if I can.) 6 - After removing the user-related parts, this is the new proposed FAQ for Inkscape Developers: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynn-dev-faq/ I used the django editor, but I guess it would ultimately belong in the wiki. I'll be glad to transfer to the wiki, if it's approved. Just lmk :-) Note that I was not able to update any of the developer topics section, because I'm just not knowledgeable on those. As it turns out, 3 of the 5 bitrotted links, in the attached list, are for the developer faq. It may be that they are no longer needed; I just don't know. But that's all that is outstanding, to complete it. Any and all comments or suggestions are welcomed, and especially any typos. I must have proof-read 4 or 5 times, in the end, but I still could have missed some. I appreciate the opportunity to contribute more to the Inkscape project than just answering messages in forums. And if any of my limited skills can be useful, I'll be glad to continue to help. All best, brynn

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RenderTests WRT python
by Martin Owens 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Johan E, I've looked at the inkscape-rendertest branch. There is a pdiff codebase and a few other bits, but I notice no use of Pillow(was PIL) to process the images. We have access to PIL.ImageChomp to select the difference rectangles and further processing (with some good guides online) for pulling out more information if we need to. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1927660/compare-two-images-the-python-li… If we went with pdiff instead of Chomp and CMP in python, was there a reason? Thanks for your time. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Looking for Code Inefficiences
by Natalie Sanders 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hi All! I'm new to the community and I'm looking to improve any code inefficiencies, especially inefficient data structures. Do you have any suggestions on where to start? Thanks! Best, Natalie -- Natalie Sanders University of Notre Dame Class of 2016 Computer Science Major

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Good Introductory Bugs
by Kathryn Weiss 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hello, I am a relatively new programmer. I am looking to gain some coding experience and I am interested in developing Inkscape. In particular, I am looking at trying to fix bugs or improve performance related to data structures. I was wondering if anyone had advice as to specific areas that need this sort of work. Thank you for your help! Sincerely, KW

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Testing related
by Josh Andler 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hey all, There has been quite a bit of discussion over the past couple months related to testing. Thanks to an inquiry from someone interested in helping us improve Inkscape, it was a reminder that we have a mailing list which used to be dedicated to the topic. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tester In looking back in the archive, there were regular posts from automated builds of Inkscape which would provide compilation warnings and errors encountered during the build. It seems like it would be great to get the results from Coverity, automated builds, and the test framework (whatever we end up with) posted there. Any thoughts on us doing this? Cheers, Josh

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Feature Freeze for 0.91
by Bryce Harrington 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

3. Frost. √ Experimental Branch is forked √ Mainline Branch focuses on stabilization √ Only production-ready code committed to Mainline √ Post inkscape-0.91-pre0.tar.gz √ Finalize any major changes to platform packaging √ Release Notes should be >90% filled in. √ Inkscape must pass >90% of 'make distcheck' √ Start an About Screen contest √ General Bug Hunt: 1500 points √ Post additional inkscape-0.91-pre*.tar.gz releases √ Packagers test creating pkgs of the -pre* releases 4. Feature Freeze √ Stable Branch is forked from Mainline Regular development resumes on Mainline. Avoid major refactorings on Mainline. Only bug fixes committed to Stable Branch. Bug fixes are cherrypicked from Mainline. Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck' String Freeze No further string changes allowed on Stable Branch. Finalize tutorials to be shipped with release Finalize other docs included in the release Finalize about screen Finalize Release Notes except Known Issues Translators work on translations. Recruit Release Wardens for Hard Freeze Inkscape has completed the Frost phase and is moving into Freeze. Translators, please fire up your engines! You have (at least) until Nov 18th to commit translation updates to the stable branch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A stable branch lp:inkscape/0.91.x has been split off of trunk. Only strict bug fixes and translations may be committed to this branch; for anything else please seek release manager approval (Josh or Bryce). # Stable branch bzr clone lp:inkscape/0.91.x inkscape-0.91-stable You will need to check this out only if you intend to check in fixes to the stable branch. IMPORTANT: Do not make changes to translatable strings in the stable branch. If it is critical that a string change be made, please get approval from the release managers first! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The lp:inkscape branch (trunk) is now open for regular development towards the 0.92.x series. # Development branch bzr clone lp:inkscape You don't need to do anything with your current branch if you just want to keep committing to the development branch. Congrats to everyone that helped us get this far, Bryce

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Merge of experimental branch
by Liam White 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

With Bryce's permission, I have merged the experimental branch into trunk. Trunk is now open for development. Please do not make further commits to experimental. If you do not use a separate directory for build and source: > $ bzr pull lp:inkscape … > Conflict: can't delete src/dialogs because it is not empty. Not deleting. > 1 conflicts encountered. > Now on revision 13641. > $ rm -rf src/dialogs > $ bzr revert This should fix your local copy.

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About Screen
by Josh Andler 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Alright... we should get this wrapped up. Here is the about with just 0.91: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1586/ Here is the about screen w/ the 0.49 strike: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1592/ Johan, you were the one mainly interested in the strike through 0.49, what are your thoughts on it? Cheers, Josh

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Static analysis results
by Jon A. Cruz 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hi, I've been working with Johan and Bryce on the clang and Coverity analysis. Bryce should be getting the coverity runs more automated soon, but we'll take a little before things get published. We'll need to ensure we are sensitive to security, disclosure, etc. However I do have a few preliminary results. First goes to leveraging the clang results effectively. We'll need to pull together some wiki info on which clang issues to prioritize, and what approaches might be used for remediation of some of the reported problems. Initially we have one question on "Dead assignment" and the other dead store. The first case Johan and I looked at was one that did warrant skipping initialization... however clang reports 167 of those while Coverity lists only 8 issues that might overlap them. So this set of clang warnings appears to be a bit subjective on the clang dev's part, or perhaps just more advisory. So we should probably look at addressing those last. In the Coverity results I spotted two different big-picture issues hiding in the details. One warrants just low-level code cleanup while the other should be looked over by as many people keeping 'architecture' in mind. The simple issue is with the GTK-style casting macros such as SP_IS_USE(x) and SP_USE(x). They started out following the GTK team's approach to adding objects to C. A while back these were refactored to be C++ oriented so existing code would not have to be changed as we migrated to true classes. However, the usage is backwards (check-then-cast vs. cast-then-check) and conceptually there are some big mismatches that lead to most usages being vulnerable to null pointer dereferencing. Conceptually these are also backwards as they use run-time checks instead of compile-time checks. >From an implementation viewpoint, these macros have two major problems. First is that they cast away any const attributes and thus make the code less safe. Secondly (and far more critical) they are using C-Style casts that also make them take any random block of data and treat it as a proper C++ object. One of my test cases was to feed the macros a simple array of 5 arbitrary bytes. I expected it to accept but result in NULL, however it instead gave me a seemingly valid SPUse pointer. Not good. The good news is that in the vast majority of cases, no macros or casts are needed at all in C++ (for upcasting, etc.) and thus their use can just be removed. I'm working through an initial cleanup pass that should correct all but those where the improper loss of 'const' comes into play. This cleanup is good since these macros are responsible for 600-800 of the outstanding 1,135 Coverity defects. The second issue is a higher-level problem of design and naming. There are a few methods who's names appear to be leading to buggy use. The main example is SPShape::getCurve(). The problem is that to convey proper meaning this probably should be called something more like SPShape::generateNewCurve(). Many developers were treating it similar to std::string::c_str() and accessing it to query attributes of the resulting curve without explicitly grabbing and then freeing the curve. That is, the name implied access to an existing object instead of creation and ownership transfer of a new object. To fix this we might simply change the naming approach (e.g. avoid 'getFoo()' for anything that allocates) and the using code... or we could change getCurve() and friends to operate on an internal object that is persistent... or perhaps something else. -- Jon A. Cruz jon@...18...

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Problem with "node->position()" and document units.
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hi to all. I have a problem with this call to a node->position()[1], if the document unit not in "px" give wrong results in X and Y, I try to fix myself but for the moment no lukcy. If anybody know where is the problem, tell me. I fill a bug if nobody has a quick solution to this problem. Jabiertxo. [1]http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/src/l…

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need a short name
by Jabier Arraiza 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi to all, i want a short name to a type of fillet chamfer. Currently is called "double chamfer" but i want add a int parameter to subdivide the chamfer in more steps than one. see the attachment. I want a two word name at max, because is in a GUI button. Im thinking in: multi chamfer chamfer steped... Finaly, about this, i have another question, could I remove this button "double chamfer" and manage it in the chamfer subdivision? The only disventage i find, is you can't have a "real chamfer" -0 subdivision- and a stepper chamfer in the same path. Removing or not the "double chamfer" button, there is only one subdivision to all chamfers in the path, also a extra "no subdivision" -0- in case of retain the button. Think i explain well, but tell me if dont undertand my "english". Cheers, Jabier.

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cannot link rev 13646, Windows XP
by alvinpenner 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

attempting to compile rev 13646, devlibs rev 52, I get the following link error: --- link / rc --- link / link ============ cmd ============ mingw32-g++ -o build/inkscape.exe -mwindows -mthreads build\obj\2geom\affine.o b uild\obj\2geom\basic-intersection.o build\obj\2geom\bezier-clipping.o build\obj\ 2geom\bezier-curve.o build\obj\2geom\bezier-utils.o build\obj\2geom\circle-circl e.o build\obj\2geom\circle.o build\obj\2geom\conic_section_clipper_impl.o build\ obj\2geom\conicsec.o build\obj\2geom\conjugate_gradient.o build\obj\2geom\convex -cover.o build\obj\2geom\crossing.o build\obj\2geom\curve.o build\obj\2geom\d2-s basis.o build\obj\2geom\ellipse.o build\obj\2geom\elliptical-arc.o build\obj\2ge ... snip ... 9 -Lc:\devlibs/lib -lwpd-stream-0.9 -Lc:\devlibs/lib -lwpg-0.2 -Lc:\devlibs/lib -llcms2 -liconv -Lc:\devlibs/lib -lMagick++ -Lc:\devlibs/lib -lMagickCore -Lc:\d evlibs/lib -lfontconfig -Lc:\devlibs/lib -lfreetype -Lc:\devlibs/lib -llcms2 -Lc :\devlibs/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -lpng -ljpeg -ltiff -lexif -lpopt -lz -lgc -l ws2_32 -lintl -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lm -lgomp -lpthreadGC2 -laspell -lmscms ============================= Make error line 447: LINK problem: mingw32-g++: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory Cheers, Alvin -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/cannot-link-rev-13646-Windows-XP-tp4971975… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Assertion/Parser Error
by Partha Bagchi 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

I am getting the following error(s?): Entity: line 22: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xED 0x6C 0x69 0x61 <filetypetooltip>A família de formatos de imagem PNM/PBM/PGM/PPM</filetypetoolti ^ ** (inkscape.exe:67052): CRITICAL **: Inkscape::Extension::Extension* Inkscape::Extension::build_from_mem(const gchar*, Inkscape::Extension::Implementation::Implementation*): assertion 'doc != NULL' failed Entity: line 22: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xED 0x6C 0x69 0x61 <filetypetooltip>A família de formatos de imagem PNM/PBM/PGM/PPM</filetypetoolti ^ Does anyone know what line 22 is and how do I fix it? Built today from revision-13657 Windows 8.1 64bit. Thanks, Partha

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Saving dialog position: is it broken?
by Michael Grosberg 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Hi, I'm trying to get Inkscape to have the "prefect" work layout for me, and that includes having all of my work-relevant dialogs docked at the same time and available without having to scroll down and up a list of dialogs. So, I arrived at the following layout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1HG067cLWGDRFBjRE03bkN4M00/view?usp=shari… but I just can't get Inkscape to make it stick. Even if I lock all dialogs, They just can't stay in the same place between sessions. They get arranged one under the other in a long list or in three columns after I quit and restart again. I also tried placing the left column in its own window, while still docking the two dialogs one below the other. That produced the result of having the dialogs appear floating and in seemingly random locations the next time I ran Inkscape. The only thing that worked is to get two dialogs docked one below the other and have everything else as floating dialogs outside the window. But I would really like to have a maximized window with all the dialogs visible at once. So my question is, am I missing something or is this a bug? Also, if this IS a bug, is there a workaround, like locking some settings file from being re-written? I'm on Windows 7 64-bit, running a recent dev build.

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Rcord to gif
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

Hi to all. For all linux users here are a sreen recorder script to save directly as gif im using on the wiki. It require the byzanz package instaled. once instaled use as: ./recordToGif.sh "40 Desktop/myGift.gif" 40 are the seconds to save. (you can give more and stop the script when you want.) Is a modified script taked from here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/107726/how-to-create-animated-gif-images-of-… Best regards, Jabier.

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Release date of Inscape 0.91
by "Christoph Schäfer" 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Hi Inkscape developers, As some of you may know, I'm a contributor to an influential German-language publishing magazines. It's in this capacity that I ask if there's a chance of a 0.91 release before 10 November, as this is the deadline I'd have to meet for an article on 0.91. The editor has reserved some space (1.5 pages) for text and images, and I may be able to convince him of a delay (i.e., 17 November). If even 17 November is unrealistic, please let me know. The article on 0.91 will then be published in the January issue of the magazine, but it'd help the editors and myself if we knew about the time frame. Please feel free to answer me off-list, if necessary. Christoph

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Feature Freeze for 0.91
by Jon A. Cruz 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Sounds like we should do a quick round of new discussion on this. Not necessarily to reach a different conclusion, but rather to refresh the details for capturing in a Web/wiki page. I'll run through the past discussions on my archive and then start a new thread with a summary. Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message -------- From: Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> Date:10/30/2014 10:36 (GMT-08:00) To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Feature Freeze for 0.91 On 30-10-2014 18:30, Johan Engelen wrote: > I do not have a preference, as I am pretty much unfamiliar with either. > But I do think that Google Test is more widely used, and so more people > are familiar with it? Perhaps my searches have been biased. An important > feature for me is how well it integrates into Jenkins; a clear test > report on a website will greatly contribute to its usefulness I think. lib2geom uses Google Test, btw.

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[Inkscape][Devel][Windows][MinGW][Bazaar on Cygwin]
by Mathieu Gueydan 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Hello everyone, I spent some time to build Inkscape on a windows, using his wiki : wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows As it was pretty hard and I had to "fix" (I mean to work around) many issues (7 in fact), I summed up everything in order to ease the way for people that would have the same problem. Everything is written here : http://mathieugueydan.blogs.centraliens-marseille.fr/archive/2014/10/30/bui… Keywords are : - Bazaar on Cygwin, no file fetched - as.exe crash 0xc0000022 - gettimeofday(timeval*, NULL)' is ambiguous - error executing 'bzr revno - Python crash (Oxc0000022) - <cxxtestpart>, problem: - <msgfmt> problem:

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Inkscape in print workflows: Feedback from a conference in Switzerland
by "Christoph Schäfer" 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Hi Inkscape developers, This is my first posting to the developer list. Some of you may know who I am, others won't. I'm a member of the Scribus development team, and I recently enjoyed the privilege of being invited as a speaker to the "swiss publishing days 2014" in Winterthur/Switzerland (http://swiss-publishing-week.ch/index.php). In terms of Open Source software, there was a talk about Scribus and another one about Photoshop alternatives (Photoshop Elements and GIMP). There was also a Mac + Eizo screen for everyone to use, which was especially set up to test PS, PSE, and GIMP, as well as Scribus and its PDF export with Acrobat. Please note that this was a commercial event, and its main sponsor was Adobe! Also note that it was for the first time in the history of the conference that alternatives to Adobe's traditional domains were being presented. What I found astonishing was that while *everyone* knew about GIMP and many were aware of Scribus, *no one* had ever heard of Inkscape! Now they have, and they're definitely interested ;) Many of the very nice people from Swiss training companies I talked to are more than eager to provide training, given Adobe's stranglehold and its new licensing scheme. In the case of image editing, enough companies have already switched to GIMP, which is why offering GIMP trainings is already profitable. Interest in Scribus is growing, too, especially since the quality of its (print) PDF export has been there for everyone to test. At lunch during the conference, I was approached by a pre-press engineer, colour management and Adobe-certified Acrobat/InDesign/Illustrator trainer who was asking questions over questions. He approached me again during dinner, and because he had so many questions, and I had to bring my laptop to the table, so he could play with Scribus. His verdict (after 3 hours): "Once you have polished this ("this" being Scribus 1.5.0svn), Adobe and other vendors won't be amused." He also played with the stable Inkscape branch and was very impressed by its features for creatives. However, and this is something he rightfully noted, at least the printing business needs reliable PDF export, including CMYK and spot colours, colour profiles and font embedding. He said to me that, unless Inkscape embraces the PDF requirements of the printing industry, it will never been taken seriously, SVG::Print notwithstanding. What Inkscape needs is colour-managed PDF export and support of some print-specific PDF versions, especially PDF/X-*. It also needs to support CMYK and spot colours in PDFs. (Not my judgement; his!) This posting isn't meant to criticise your fantastic work. I only intended to make you aware of the issues that still exist in professional environments when it comes to replacing AI. In terms of features Inkscape is already able to compete with AI, and sometimes it's even better. It's just that PDF thingy that prevents Inkscape from being used by the majority of pre-press professionals. Kind regards, Christoph

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[karen@...3057...: Org Application period open for Google Code-in]
by Bryce Harrington 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

FYI if anyone's interested. ----- Forwarded message from Karen Sandler <karen@...3057...> ----- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:55:47 -0400 From: Karen Sandler <karen@...3057...> To: project-reps@...3057... Subject: Org Application period open for Google Code-in Reply-To: karen@...3057... If you were thinking of doing so, now is the time to apply for the Google Code-in. Applications for orgs are being accepted until November 10. It's a great program and a way to engage teenagers in free software. Only projects that were orgs for GSoC are eligible. Let me know if you have any questions about this or need any help! More information is below. karen Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List wrote at 01:36 (EDT): > Hello GSoC Mentors and aspiring GCI Org Admins, > > Earlier today we opened the Google Code-in 2014 Mentoring Org app. > Organizations that would like to apply for GCI 2014 can submit their > application from today until Monday, November 10th at 19:00 UTC. You > can now go to the contest site [0] and Register as an Org Admin. Once > you have created your Org Admin profile you can go back to the > homepage and the Mentoring Org app button will appear for you. > > This year we will have 10-12 open source organizations work with the > students as mentoring orgs. All organizations that have participated > in a previous Google Summer of Code are eligible to apply. This is > not like GSoC, we do not get hundreds of applications from orgs so > don't be scared away by the relatively low number of orgs. The main > thing that we are looking for are orgs that can be patient with the > students and who are interested in helping 13-17 year olds learn > about open source development. > > For some general tips about mentoring for GCI and what to expect you > can check out the new GCI Mentor info [1]. > > Important Upcoming Dates: > > ** Monday, November 10, 2014 at 17:00 UTC - DEADLINE for orgs to > apply as Mentoring Orgs for Google Code-in 2014. > > November 12, 2014 - The 10-12 Mentoring organizations are announced > for Google Code-in 2014 and the orgs can start entering their tasks > into the Google system (the tasks will not be viewable to students > until the contest opens on Dec 1). > > December 1, 2014 19:00 UTC - Google Code-in 2014 contest opens for > students > > January 19, 2015 17:00 UTC - Google Code-in 2014 student work ends > > January 21, 2015 17:00 UTC - Deadline for Mentors to evaluate student > work > > January 26, 2015 - Mentoring Organization deadline for submitting > their 2 Grand Prize Winners > > We hope you will help us spread the word about the Google Code-in > contest so we can introduce more young developers to the wonderful > world of open source. If you will be going to any talks or > conferences aimed at pre-university students in the next month we > would be happy to send you some cool GCI 2014 stickers. Please > contact me directly at sttaylor@...819... if you would like stickers > or if you have any questions about applying to be a mentoring > organization. > > [0] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014 > > [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/ > mentor-and-orgadmin-info > > Thanks, > > Stephanie Taylor > > Google Code-in 2014 Program Manager > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to gsoc-mentors-announce+unsubscribe@...3168... > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ > gsoc-mentors-announce. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > ----- End forwarded message -----

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New cairo released
by Josh Andler 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Hey all, For those who don't sub to the cairo list, cairo 1.14 has been released which has the downscaling we need available for 0.91. So, any Windows devs want to see about building it and testing for the devlibs? The sooner we can can get on this, the better... http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.14.0.tar.xz Cheers, Josh

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lightweight export svg to pdf
by unknown＠example.com 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Hi, I use inkscape in a image processing script in batch mode where I want to export svg graphics to PDF. Now I want to move this within a web application. Inkscape has a lot of dependences to other packages and libraries and thus is less suitable to install on a web server. Is there are lightweight alternative to convert svg or ai to pdf? Does inkscape use other libs or tools to export to pdf? maybe cairo? Any ideas are appreciated. thanks! best regards, knut

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tesselations
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

Hi to all. Im working in a tesselation code but i dont want to duplicate code, so im trying whith tiled clones. I have this page as reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group#The_seventeen_groups But i think the cloned tiles generated with reset shift, rotation and scale seems wrong. Can any one confirm me if im ok? Attached are a ex/sample of a tile P3M1. Regards, Jabier.

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Multiple difference boolean ops extension
by Ryan Lerch 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

I have hacked up a quick extension[1] to apply a series of boolean ops on a selection of 2 or more objects. Basically, it just takes the top path in the z-order of the selection, duplicates it, and applies a difference between that shape and each of the shapes underneath. I have frequently (in the past) done this by hand, duplicating shapes, applying the op, and repeating over and over again. This is my first attempt at an extension, and i am calling the inkscape binary from the python script so i can use the verbs availble on the command line. However, i'm unsure how to get this result back into the inkscape window that called the extenstion. (currently a new window opens with the temp SVG in it) any thoughts on how to do this kind of thing in a better way? cheers, ryanlerch [1] - https://github.com/ryanlerch/inkscape-extension-multiple-difference

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Patterns affected by LPE
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi to all. Finaly i desestimate LPE on patterns. Maybe i made a metod to convert a object with pattern to a group whith this patttern "merged/flattern" in the future. Regards, Jabier.

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Website Shield
by Martin Owens 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Dear Devs, Here's a video showing the website's next generation front page editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq2EFX9Aw70 I'm hoping this looks good enough to use, other developers, translators etc will be the ones using the widget to keep the website up to date, so please let me know your feedback. Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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A seamless pattern extension/procedural template update
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Hi to all. I made a big update (0.4) to the extension "seamless pattern". Is commited to experimental branch, or you can take from my inkspace[1] to use in 0.48 or up. Also have a you tube video inside the inkspace page. The video has anotations but im not english so any help to improve is welcome. [1]http://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1358/ Regards, Jabier.

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0.92 milestone now registered
by Bryce Harrington 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Bug reports and blueprints can now be targeted to the 0.92 milestone. I've also opened a 0.91.1 milestone. Please review bugs currently milestoned against 0.91 and re-milestone them to either 0.92 or 0.91.1 (or both). For 0.91.1 we should look for issues which are either severe problems, or that have unambiguously correct fixes. Severe problems include compilation issues, installation breakage, crashes, startup failures, functional regressions, data loss situations, and the like. Unambiguously correct means either by code inspection or mechanical testing we know with great assurance there can be no possible bug in the patch. Everything else should be pushed to 0.92. Also, don't be shy about just deleting milestones on bugs you think are not severe, not easily fixed, and not otherwise pressing issues. Bryce

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0.91 About Screen Contest Results
by Josh Andler 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

We have a winner! http://prudentity.deviantart.com/art/Eisvogel-485536813 If there are any changes or suggestions, please let's try to collect them into one thread so I can then request all modifications at one time. The first one I have will be to use the traditional Inkscape & Draw Freely text from our branding file. Cheers, Josh

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Wiki account
by Maren Hachmann 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi everyone, I saw that this Wiki page: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WebSite needs an update, and I'd like to do that, so that when the next version of the website is released, translators will have a current guide to follow. Could the person responsible for the Wiki accounts add an account for me (preferred username: Moini)? Thank you, Maren

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patterns
by Jabier Arraiza 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hi to all. I'm going to work in patterns to: * If pattern change for example is a clone the pattern is updated. * Make patterns updatable by some live effects -envelope-perspective, envelope, lattice1/2... basicaly deform LPE like experimental do whith clips and mask If any question about, tell me. Regards, Jabier.

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Powerstroke - interpolation change
by Johan Engelen 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hi all, Jabier has found a fairly common case where LPE Powerstroke is behaving unintuitive / unstable / scale-dependent. See the attachment. Both paths are exactly the same, except for a very slight (y-coord) change in the right-most width control knot. This instability happens because of how the interpolation between width knots is done. [*] The fix I propose, and committed to experimental in rev. 13620, is to do the interpolation in a 'proper' coordinate system, using the length of the path as a scaling factor for the width knot offsets. This removes the unstable behavior, and also removes the scale-dependent output (noticeable when scaling the path: the result changes if the width points scale with the same factor). Please test if you like this behavior better. (Compare the attached file in trunk and experimental.) The problem is that for some cases, this will change the result of powerstroked paths dramatically. Can we apply such changes so shortly before release? An alternative is changing it after release, which would be even worse in my opinion. regards, Johan [*] It's technical, but here goes quickly for who is interested. Knots are treated as [offset along path, width] points. The offset along path is the segment number + the location along that segment. The width is (may not be true, but for ease of discussion) in canvas coordinates. This means that the interpolation is performed in a *very* compressed coordinate system, where the x-coords may range from, say, 0 to 5, and the y-coords from 0 to 2000. This is also scale dependent; changing the scale of your path and scaling all widths accordingly will change the look of your path. (The implementation of this scaling is implemented by Jabier and I will commit it shortly.)

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Procedural template for tesselation
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

Hi to all. Attached are a procedural template for teselation. I need help testing, improving and put better strings. Also not sure if procedural template, extension or both. Procedural templates are located in experimental branch into share/extensions. If no object i put on experimental to try. Later make the same as extension for 0.48. Regards, Jabier.

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Templates in experimental branch.
by Tavmjong Bah 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hi, I've replaced a large fraction of the templates in the experimental branch by "procedural" templates. This unclutters quite a bit the Templates menu as well as offering overall more options. Please test your favorite templates and give me feedback. Thanks, Tav

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Daily builds - with static analysis
by unknown＠example.com 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hi all, I have set up a daily build system that checks if trunk still builds (on Ubuntu) and, more importantly, runs clang's static analyzer using scan-build. You can find the results here: http://ec2-54-69-235-61.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/ After some clicking, you will find these interesting pages (links may become obsolete after a new build) http://ec2-54-69-235-61.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/job/Inkscape_t… and http://ec2-54-69-235-61.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/job/Inkscape%2… As you can see, there are still some nasty bugs in trunk. For example http://ec2-54-69-235-61.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/job/Inkscape_t… -Johan (currently I run Jenkins on free-tier EC2, but we are working on getting something more permanent. Expect a longer email with plans in the near future)

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Automate Tesselations
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hello again. Attached are a ?cool svg to make teselations. Is designed to automate it ?easy. Y have a question: Automate as extension or as a procedural templete? The script recibe this inputs: width height Regards, Jabier.

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Release Notes reminder
by Josh Andler 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hey All, This is just the occasional reminder to make sure the release notes are up to date. Given that development on 0.91 is getting late in the cycle if people could go over the release notes [1] for it and double check all noteworthy changes are listed that would be great. Given that a number of things have landed or changed in Experimental, we need to document these things while they are still relatively fresh in people's minds. It would be helpful if authors of any new features or fixes could create a temporary release notes page for staging this information before anything gets ported to trunk (after 0.91 is forked). Cheers, Josh [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91

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Empty page template broken; python problems
by Tavmjong Bah 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hi, I have discovered that "Empty Page" template creation is quite broken. The 'viewBox' is always the same, regardless of which page size and orientation are selected. It appears that "empty_page.py" is just pulling in the "default.svg" file and changing the <svg> 'width' and 'height' attributes without changing the 'viewBox' to match. I can patch this but am having trouble with setting attributes within <sodipodi:namedview> to match. For example, the following code attempts to simply change the 'id' of <sodipoid:namedview>: namedview = root.find(inkex.addNS('namedview', 'sodipodi')) inkex.debug( namedview.get("id") ) namedview.set("id", "NewID" ) inkex.debug( namedview.get("id") ) The debug output shows that the 'id' attribute is changed but if I then examine <namedview> with the XML editor it doesn't show the change. Any clues as to what is going on would be greatly appreciated. Tav

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0.91 About Screen Contest - Developer voting time
by Josh Andler 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Here are the results from the About Screen contest on DA, follow the link to see what the community has voted for. http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/blog/488191078/ All Devs (yes that includes Translators too), please chime in with your opinions, votes, as well as any comments on modifications that may need to be done. Please keep all voting and discussion on the mailing lists and let's wrap this up so we can make an announcement by next Monday (voting open through October 19th). Cheers, Josh

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Release Status (Frost)
by Bryce Harrington 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Here's where we're at in the release: 3. Frost. √ Experimental Branch is forked √ Mainline Branch focuses on stabilization √ Only production-ready code committed to Mainline √ Post inkscape-0.91-pre0.tar.gz Finalize any major changes to platform packaging Release Notes should be >90% filled in. Inkscape must pass >90% of 'make distcheck' √ Start an About Screen contest √ General Bug Hunt: 1500 points √ Post additional inkscape-0.91-pre*.tar.gz releases √ Packagers test creating pkgs of the -pre* releases Last time I checked make distcheck there were just a handful of warnings. I haven't checked recently but suspect we're at 90% now. How are we doing on the release notes? When I checked a couple months ago they were looking quite good so assume we're past 90% there too? For the OSX packaging I have a huge amount of notes about many things that we need to do, but essentially it sounded like we're going to postpone any major work until next release, and just use the existing X11-based scripts. su_v has pointed me at a branch with some osx stuff that needs reviewed/landed, but otherwise is there any other major OSX packaging or porting work I need to be aware of? For Windows packaging, I don't really have much in the way of notes. Sounds like the current scripts mostly just work, and modulo a few platform-specific bugs we should be good to go. There was work being done on a Win32 Installer using the WIX toolset but this sounds still in progress and not something we need to worry about for this release. Correct me if I'm wrong? Looking forward... Once the above stuff is settled we'll be entering Freeze. This is both a Feature Freeze and String Freeze. I'll post more details when we get there, but to answer what I think will be a common question - bug fixes can still be landed freely, it's just that feature work and anything that changes user visible (translatable) strings will need release manager approval (i.e. me or Josh). I don't think anyone is planning work of this type so this should be a non-issue. Probably the next question is how long until Freeze is done? I think we need to keep it going at least 30 days, to give ample time to translators. But most of the tasks for this phase are straightforward and I think we won't need much more than 30 days. After that comes Hard Freeze, where we tend to whatever release blocking critical bugs remain (hopefully none by now!) and finalizing everything for the official release. Maybe we'll have 0.91 out the door by Thanksgiving. Bryce

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RFC: Inkscape Updates
by Martin Owens 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Request for Comment. A feature for the 0.91 release and going forwards. The idea is for inkscape to have a way to alert our users about some goings on in the inkscape world 'in app'. This is needed because many users either download the app and fail to upgrade after that, or are not aware of anything beyond the app download. And for users who get inkscape through their package manager and are thus cut off from us. An xml file would be made generated (and cached) on inkscape.org which would be controllable by the inkscape board by vote. It would contain a list of translated alert 'items' specific for an inkscape released version, each one would contain: - unique id (int) - A subject (translated-text) - A body (translated-text) - A link (url) - Start Date (iso date) - Expire Date (iso date) - Importance (int) This file would be downloaded every so often and cached locally. (default one month between updates). Stored in ~/.cache/inkscape/alerts-${inkscape-version}-${lang}.xml When the app has been opened for a certain delayed time (default 3 seconds) it will check for alerts never shown before by id. It will then filter out any outside of the date range start-expire. It will then check the user's preference for alerts (Developer-Notice(0), Community-Update(5), Important(10), Critical(15), Never(20)) and if >= display the alert[1] saving the fact it has displayed this alert-id. [1] http://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/704/ The importance might be reflected in an icon displayed. The user might be alerted by default to go to inkscape.org to register (and also check their alert settings if they never want to be disturbed) Your thoughts on this proposal are needed. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New cairo released
by Johan Engelen 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Hi Partha, I'd be happy to receive and test it. Will you make a 32 or 64bit build? Thanks a lot, Johan ----- Reply message ----- From: "Partha Bagchi" <partha1b@...400...> To: Cc: "Inkscape Devel List" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] New cairo released Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 23:26 Would this coming weekend be too late? I can provide a build (and associated dependencies) to Jehan then. Thanks, Partha On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote: > Hey all, > > For those who don't sub to the cairo list, cairo 1.14 has been > released which has the downscaling we need available for 0.91. > > So, any Windows devs want to see about building it and testing for the devlibs? > > The sooner we can can get on this, the better... > > http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.14.0.tar.xz > > Cheers, > Josh > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape with Vagrant - Test Inkscape with only 3 commands
by objarni 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

*Update:* I did a *vagrant reload* and that seemed to make the trick: the */home/vagrant/inkscape* folder in the VM is now mirroring my host file system, and a.t.m. my cpu fan is running at 100% because Inkscape is compiling inside the VM! Yey :) Will keep you posted, this might be the tipping point where I actually start contributing as a developer to Inkscape, and not "only" a user/tester+reporter of bugs ... /Olof -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Inkscape-with-Vagrant-Test-Inkscape-with-o… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Special static analysis build target
by Johan Engelen 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

Hi all, To speed up the static analysis and clean up the list of bugs, I would like to have a "make static-analysis" or some other way to "tell make" to not compile the directories that we do not want static analysis on, and not to do all non-compile jobs (so also not link). The following directories should be excluded: - libcroco - libgdl - libavoid As you perhaps have seen, these libs trigger a bunch of static analysis errors, but they really should be fixed upstream. Thanks so much, Johan

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End of the Bug Hunt!
by Bryce Harrington 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

With 1509 points tallied, the bug hunt is now complete. Pts Bug Age Fixed Assignee Description === === === ===== ======== =========== 3 1314910 0 05/01 (unknown) Font size specification 6 1316591 0 05/06 Mohamed IKBEL Boulabiar copy-paste typo in the dbus document interface 3 1317140 0 05/09 jazzynico Tutorials: supported generic font names in trunk have changed (Sans -> sans-serif, Serif -> serif) 3 1247448 0 05/10 jazzynico environment variable INKSCAPE_PORTABLE_PROFILE_DIR should be documented in man page 6 1310266 0 05/10 jazzynico Update the man page with '-i -j' for plain SVG export options 6 1318289 0 05/11 jazzynico preferences > bitmap > rendering shows po file headers 6 1318345 0 05/11 jazzynico untranslatable strings in trunk-r13348 3 1318671 0 05/12 Masato HASHIMOTO url for New in This Version is obsolete 12 1318532 0 05/12 Alvin Penner Extension/Guides creator: Render fails 3 1318328 0 05/11 Masato HASHIMOTO typo in trunk-r13348 12 1256597 0 05/13 Diederik van Lierop several actions outputs to the terminal: "warning: invalid state when picking..." 24 1243401 0 05/13 David Mathog Clickable area of a text object is much larger than the object itself (rev >= 12488) 3 1319060 0 05/14 jazzynico typo in tutorials on r505 6 1318929 0 05/14 jazzynico untranslatable string in trunk-r13370 3 1303422 0 05/15 Tavmjong Bah corrupt -inkscape-font-specification values 6 1320317 0 05/16 Martin Owens barcodes do not scale correctly when modifying default document units (rev 13386) 3 1320613 0 05/18 Matthew Petroff Coordinates don't update properly when moving a node 6 1318339 0 05/22 jazzynico Tooltips in extensions page elements are not translated 8 1022733 2 05/23 Diederik van Lierop Measure tool: flakiness with constrained measuring 6 1318348 0 05/24 jazzynico Extension dialogs inconsistency 6 1270929 0 05/28 Tavmjong Bah sans-serif as default font: gtk-critical, glib-gobject-critical warnings (Text & Font dialog)(rev >= 12164) 11 378097 5 05/20 (unknown) Crashes with several documents 12 1326144 0 06/05 Tavmjong Bah Some fonts no longer work, they appear in the chooser though 14 1188996 1 06/06 Tavmjong Bah real font-style does not correspond with selected style 5 1009953 2 06/09 theAdib Font previewed but not imported 12 1298967 0 06/11 David Mathog trunk: swatches are duplicated again on paste and import (rev >= 13139) 3 1327577 0 06/11 jazzynico Tablet pressure button wrongly located in Spray tool control bar 18 1326652 0 06/11 Johan Engelen Crash if right-click when completing a shape 18 1318657 0 06/11 David Mathog Drag&Drop imports wrongly gradients (leads to crash)(rev >= 13139) 18 1328152 0 06/15 Johan Engelen trunk/experimental: crash on open filter editor after blurring an object 8 433860 5 06/18 jazzynico Live preview doesn't work after updating the values many times (timeout reached) 24 781893 3 06/18 Johan Engelen Crash after moving a Bezier node after Knot path effect 9 1327232 0 06/06 Alex Valavanis Trunk PPA FTBFS in Utopic. Missing Build-Depends: libpoppler-private-dev 18 1333020 0 06/22 Liam P. White trunk: crash on releasing groups clipped/masked by non-SPLPEItems, revision >= 13418 6 1262782 0 06/23 David Mathog inkscape --export-text-to-path - linebreak-bug with flowed text 6 1262792 0 06/23 David Mathog inkscape --export-text-to-path --export-plain-svg - position bug with flowed text 12 1315142 0 06/03 Matthias Kilian Build failure with poppler-0.26 6 1264371 0 05/14 Masato HASHIMOTO Broken Link: Bug Page Not Found From Program Link 3 1281028 0 06/20 jazzynico Update the changelog file in the 0.48.x branch 3 1323561 0 05/27 jazzynico Right handed ilustration file is incorrect 3 1332948 0 06/23 uwesch Typo at German translation 3 1328217 0 06/24 John Smith space bar should allow to easily move around the document without using scrollbars 6 1332461 0 06/25 jazzynico Datamatrix 22x22 is always incorrect 12 810159 3 06/28 (unknown) Crash when removing a color profile 3 1326131 0 06/29 jazzynico Can't delete layer from context menu 12 1337170 0 07/05 Diederik van Lierop snap to grid fails silently when snapping to original target 6 1333465 0 07/08 Liam P. White Node tool can't manipulate nodes dependent on zoom when LPE applied 13 527314 4 07/08 (unknown) Inkscape crashes when I try to resize image 12 1322940 0 07/10 Alvin Penner Object clipped by cloned shape missing selection cue 18 1323849 0 07/10 Diederik van Lierop trunk: crash when ungrouping a filtered group (rev >=13298) 12 1340011 0 07/11 Diederik van Lierop scaling with alt fails at 100% 3 1340816 0 07/21 Yuri Chornoivan Typos in FlowSymbols.svg 10 656938 4 06/22 Abe Yo Uniconvertor formats export fails on Windows 7 (python.exe crashes) 9 1335523 0 07/24 Liam P. White 0.48.x recipe not built correctly 18 1348927 0 07/26 Liam P. White trunk: XML Editor restored on launch allows to add/set attribute without selection and crashes (rev >= 12682) 12 1339305 0 07/25 Alvin Penner Object clipped by text or cloned text missing selection cue 18 1309050 0 07/27 Liam P. White inkscape bzr 13290 crashes when trying to edit a gradient position (rev >= 13223) 18 1348896 0 07/27 Liam P. White trunk: crash when removing pattern fill while pattern handles are visible (rev >= 13455) 6 1299948 0 07/28 Liam P. White LPEs with linked paths sometimes do not recalculate after undo 6 1293979 0 07/28 Liam P. White Clone Original Path gets clip/mask of path instead of path 9 1348891 0 07/28 Liam P. White Crash when pattern fill is quickly changed 8 956225 2 07/28 Liam P. White Current trunk sticks in gdb, prevents gdb debugging 18 1333445 0 07/28 Liam P. White various crashes with color extensions 18 1344217 0 07/28 Liam P. White trunk: crash when resizing page 9 1332038 0 08/01 (unknown) Crash when switching between symbols files 10 605168 4 08/01 Jabiertxof [Pen tool] Deleted 2nd node still appears in finished path. 18 1348385 0 08/01 Liam P. White trunk: converting filtered shape to path removes filter effect (rev >= 13299) 6 1246550 0 08/01 Jabiertxof Live effects dont show helper paths 18 1313431 0 08/01 Liam P. White Inkscape crashing in Ctrl+Z 12 1348959 0 07/30 Diederik van Lierop Grid snapping hangs in large drawings 6 1350897 0 08/04 jazzynico XAML export formats numbers in the top-level TranslateTransform in the user's locale 3 486192 4 08/04 Liam P. White In the node editor, both stroke and fill use the same pattern handles 10 604025 4 08/04 Liam P. White Can't edit stroke pattern unless there is a fill pattern 36 1330295 0 08/05 Liam P. White This file causes a crash when semi circle is moved 18 1274831 0 08/06 Krzysztof Kosinski crash, spraying an object with the mode: spray object in single path 3 1241501 0 08/06 Jabiertxof Better tooltip to "Link path parameter" 12 1327267 0 08/06 Liam P. White Dragging handles results in calls to sp_style_read_from_prefs() 24 1348375 0 08/07 Liam P. White trunk: randomized star/polygon changes shape when moved (rev >= 12554) 18 1335943 0 08/07 Liam P. White Inkscape crashes on quit 14 1155046 1 08/07 jazzynico Assertion `pathlen < 200' failed 14 1093345 1 08/07 Tavmjong Bah Trunk fails to launch with 'Pre-render named icons' if feFlood filter primitive is present in icons.svg 12 1349018 0 08/07 Alvin Penner trunk: visual bbox of objects clipped with a clone doesn't update when size of the clone's original is changed (rev >= 10618) 6 1354249 0 08/08 (unknown) Rotated ellipse and measurements changed 3 1341154 0 08/08 jazzynico Inner shadow filter must allow to set shadow parameters 12 195214 6 08/08 Daniel Macks Bad -I order 8 383246 5 08/08 Krzysztof Kosinski fenv.h not used, some systems don't have fenv.h 3 1065928 2 08/09 Johan Engelen Cannot put text on cloned path 7 1166184 1 08/10 jazzynico XAML export not compatible with Silverlight 6 1350817 0 08/10 Johannes Rssel XAML export omits fractional stroke widths 3 1248174 0 08/11 Alberto Salvia Novella Update the Ubuntu colour palette to fit the spec 10 508529 4 08/13 jazzynico Printing rastered image offsets the page 12 264831 6 08/13 jazzynico Print settings not persistent 26 601336 4 08/04 Liam P. White Inkscape crashes when trying to move or rotate stroke pattern 7 1097383 1 08/14 (unknown) Measurement tool : wrong unit display 24 184499 6 08/15 jazzynico Inkscape Preferences dialog does not remember tabs/pages 12 1352554 0 08/15 Diederik van Lierop trunk: moving object transformation center and flipping causes object to move away from center (>=13452) 12 1357531 0 08/16 (unknown) rotation center does not scale with object size when using transform dialog to rescale 12 1342238 0 08/17 Matthew Petroff Jumping grid when setting the origin to 0 12 1265026 0 08/17 Diederik van Lierop constrained node dragging and path rotating, they snap back to previous position 22 969828 2 08/18 (unknown) Bucket tool crashes when used with small complex path 24 1356192 0 08/17 Liam P. White [trunk] very slow launch time when many fonts installed (rev >= 12105) 8 899786 2 08/13 (unknown) inkscape artwork shifted down when printing 11 977003 2 06/29 Johan Engelen inkscape crashed with SIGSEGV in Avoid::VertInf::removeFromGraph() 8 1236279 1 08/20 Liam P. White trunk: opening second document window corrupts default cursor in first document (rev >= 12476) 4 1099160 1 08/20 Lucas Vieites Error in spanish translation 7 1068987 1 08/20 Jabiertxof LPE perspective path crashes Inkscape 7 1099832 1 08/22 Alex Valavanis Stop using deprecated Gdk Thread API 6 1266499 0 08/23 Diederik van Lierop skew problem when the center of rotation is on a bounding box edge 10 655289 4 08/24 (unknown) Saving Copy as WMF is broken 8 340723 5 08/26 Kris Interface inconsistency of tooltips 12 1360953 0 08/26 Diederik van Lierop cannot set transformation center in this file (rev >= 13512) 12 1360946 0 08/27 Diederik van Lierop Broken transformation center (rev >= 13512) 18 1363497 0 08/31 Liam P. White Path Effects > Knot crashes Inkscape selecting Nodes tool 9 681286 3 08/17 Diederik van Lierop [snapping] nodes ctrl-drag not always working properly 12 1288860 0 07/11 Alvin Penner tiled clones broken with mm as unit (rev >= 12554) 12 1247799 0 08/17 Diederik van Lierop Rotation center moves on copy when units are mm (rev >= 12554) 3 1346972 0 09/02 Liam P. White pen tool: "triangle in" shape for powerstroke should pick width from active style 7 1212641 1 09/04 (unknown) Saved SVG is wrong after resizing 3 1302857 0 09/04 David Mathog EMF, improved clipping support 6 1336753 0 07/24 David Mathog [EMF to SVG conversion]: chinese characters 6 1348417 0 09/04 David Mathog SVG processed differently depending on program context 9 1357411 0 09/09 Liam P. White build failure with boost 1.56 and C++11 6 1345930 0 09/10 (unknown) FILE vs int API mismatch in JarFile class 3 1368375 0 09/12 houz Page titles in preferences don't escape text for markup 8 930998 2 09/16 (unknown) possible memory problems when using complex fonts 3 1365927 0 09/18 Bryce Harrington Small "r" in "register file extensions" during Windows installation looks amateurish 6 1340914 0 09/18 Bryce Harrington Build failure: missing #include in color-profile.cpp 18 1348382 0 09/07 Alvin Penner trunk: unit selector in tool contexts triggers crash on undo of default units change 20 1236257 1 09/21 Alvin Penner trunk: some of the locale-based templates cause objects to be resized when default units are changed (rev >= 12557) 7 505920 4 06/11 jazzynico inkscape loads extension even if the script specified in <command> doesn't exist 12 1372200 0 09/23 jazzynico Comment within <script> element in INX file triggers crash on launch (rev >= 13421) 12 1287288 0 09/19 Alvin Penner trunk: clip-path of clipped group incorrectly scaled when changing default units (rev >= 12554) 11 334973 5 09/28 (unknown) kerning for Latin Modern fonts 12 1279534 0 09/27 Alvin Penner text-on-path size changes if you change default document units 3 690255 3 10/01 jazzynico Rename te_IN.po to te.po 3 1358520 0 10/01 jazzynico show/hide other layers not properly recorded in undo history 3 1325822 0 10/01 jazzynico BMP images resolution not correctly imported 11 380522 5 10/02 jazzynico strings that need to be fixed for translation 12 1364937 0 10/02 Tavmjong Bah pango 1.36.6 breaks 'Light' font styles in 0.48 and trunk 10 586104 4 10/03 jazzynico decimal point issues ? 12 1278561 0 10/03 Alvin Penner flowed text appearance changes depending on default document units 18 1357805 0 10/01 Liam P. White trunk: crash on undo after applying markers (rev >= 13496) 6 1315487 0 05/06 jazzynico [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "tips and tricks" tutorial 6 1315485 0 05/05 jazzynico [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "Elements of Design" tutorial 6 1315483 0 05/06 jazzynico [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with " Calligraphy" tutorial 6 1315480 0 05/06 jazzynico [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with " Bitmap tracing" tutorial 6 1315457 0 05/06 jazzynico [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "Advanced" tutorial 6 1315453 0 05/05 jazzynico [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "Shapes" tutorial 6 1315416 0 05/03 jazzynico [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "Basic" tutorial 24 1367520 0 09/10 Liam P. White [trunk] crash on resize document, copy to clipboard 12 1374614 0 10/08 Alvin Penner unexpected/unwanted translate-x attribute (very small) when creating text or flowed text 6 1310787 0 10/11 Alvin Penner resize page to drawing resets unit to px (rev >= 12554) 6 1380246 0 10/12 Diederik van Lierop snap restrictions (hor./vert.) are broken 3 1380186 0 10/12 Alexandre Prokoudine Russian translation update for 0.91 9 245173 6 10/14 Joshua Blocher Compiling under Solaris 10 9 1375085 0 10/14 Liam GTK3: fails to launch GUI with GTK+ 3.14 Total Score: 1509 / 1500 Thanks everyone who helped with bug fixes, bug triage, packaging, and testing. This was an epic bug hunt. Bryce

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libavoid in Inkscape: bug with compiler optimization
by Johan Engelen 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Hello Michael, While running a static analyzer on Inkscape's codebase [1], I found a fairly severe bug in our copy of libavoid. I checked your git repository, and the bug is still present. In graph.cpp, from line 643: void EdgeList::clear(void) { while (_firstEdge) { delete _firstEdge; } COLA_ASSERT(_count == 0); _lastEdge = NULL; } The bug here is that the compiler might optimize the loop-condition and only check it once, assuming that the destructor of _firstEdge does not have the side-effect of changing _firstEdge. In fact, libavoid's design is such that the destructor does have such a side effect. I find this a *very* questionable design, that is bound to cause bugs for developers contributing code or, in this case, by a (afaik fairly common, see [2]) compiler optimization. I am surprised you have not had programs run into this problem. However, I cannot rewrite all the code that relies on that behavior. I hope you would consider redesigning the list implementation, such that it does not have unintuitive side effects. For now, I am planning to "fix" this bug by: void EdgeList::clear(void) { EdgeInf *edge = _firstEdge; while (edge) { EdgeInf *next_edge = edge->lstNext; delete edge; edge = next_edge; } COLA_ASSERT(_count == 0); COLA_ASSERT(_firstEdge == NULL); _lastEdge = NULL; } Do you agree with this fix? Thank you for your comment. Kind regards, Johan [1] http://ec2-54-69-235-61.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/job/Inkscape_t… [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9495856/how-to-prevent-g-from-optimizing…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-translator] 0.91 About Screen Contest - Developer voting time
by JimmyVolatile 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

For me it's a clear vote for #3, Eisvogel. Simple but different than most about-screens I've seen lately. (although #1 and #2 are also very good. I especially like the SVG anim in #2 even though it's a bit too limited IMHO) Cheers. Jarl Arntzen On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Josef Vybíral (corneliuscz) < newsgroups@...1135...> wrote: > Hi folks, > all three are lovely works. For me the 'numero uno' is number 3 - Eisvogel > by Prudentity. > > Cheers > Josef a.k.a. corneliuscz > > > 2014-10-13 9:14 GMT+02:00 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>: > >> Here are the results from the About Screen contest on DA, follow the >> link to see what the community has voted for. >> >> http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/blog/488191078/ >> >> All Devs (yes that includes Translators too), please chime in with your >> opinions, votes, as well as any comments on modifications that may need >> to be done. >> >> Please keep all voting and discussion on the mailing lists and let's >> wrap this up so we can make an announcement by next Monday (voting >> open through October 19th). >> >> Cheers, >> Josh >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer >> Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports >> Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper >> Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-translator mailing list >> Inkscape-translator(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-translator >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer > Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports > Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper > Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-translator mailing list > Inkscape-translator(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-translator > >

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Use-after-free bug in text_reassemble.c
by Johan Engelen 11 Oct '14

11 Oct '14

Hello David, Recently, clang's static-analyzer found a use-after-free bug in your code in extension/internal/text_reassemble.c [1] The fact that the trace is 83 steps long and goes all over the file is very worrying, and means it would take someone unfamiliar with the code a lot of time to fix the bug. Please study the analyzer report and fix the bug. Thank you, Johan [1] http://ec2-54-69-235-61.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/job/Inkscape_t…

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About Screen Contest - 3-way tie for third!
by Josh Andler 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hey all, There was a 3-way tie for third that needs to be broken... more voting is needed from the community to wrap this up this part of the contest. http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/blog/487392705/ For the record, the two entries which have solidified their place are as follows. 1st - http://grassydeviant.deviantart.com/art/Splash-contest-entry-482486783 2nd - http://jfbarraud.deviantart.com/art/InkMotelBlinking4-480823055 It's a shame we don't support animation because if you go to the second place entry's page and click the download link to the right you get to see the full effect. Cheers, Josh

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0.91 Bug Hunt Status
by Bryce Harrington 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Development focus: 0.91.x series Pts Bug Age Date Assignee Description === === === ==== ======== =========== 6 1299948 0 05/11 Liam P. White LPEs with linked paths sometimes do not recalculate after undo 6 1310266 0 05/10 jazzynico Update the man page with '-i -j' for plain SVG export options 6 1315416 0 05/03 jazzynico [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "Basic" tutorial 6 1315453 0 05/05 Ryan Lerch [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "Shapes" tutorial 6 1315457 0 05/06 Ryan Lerch [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "Advanced" tutorial 6 1315480 0 05/06 Ryan Lerch [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with " Bitmap tracing" tutorial 6 1315483 0 05/06 Ryan Lerch [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with " Calligraphy" tutorial 6 1315485 0 05/05 Ryan Lerch [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "Elements of Design" tutorial 6 1315487 0 05/06 Ryan Lerch [0.91 Tutorial Review] issues with "tips and tricks" tutorial 6 1316591 0 05/06 Mohamed IKBEL Boulabiar copy-paste typo in the dbus document interface 6 1318289 0 05/11 Masato HASHIMOTO preferences > bitmap > rendering shows po file headers 6 1318345 0 05/11 Masato HASHIMOTO untranslatable strings in trunk-r13348 12 1318532 0 05/12 Masato HASHIMOTO Extension/Guides creator: Render fails 3 1247448 0 05/10 bcrowell INKSCAPE_PORTABLE_PROFILE_DIR should be on man page 3 1317140 0 05/09 jazzynico Tutorials: supported generic font names in trunk have changed 3 1318328 0 05/11 Masato HASHIMOTO typo in trunk-r13348 3 1318671 0 05/12 Masato HASHIMOTO url for New in This Version is obsolete 3 1314910 0 05/01 Claus Johansen Font size specification Total Score: 99 / 1500 Scoring: -------- 12, 9, 6, 3 for importances critical, high, medium and low +1 point per year of the bug report's age x2 if bug is tagged 'regression' x2 if closed the week it was declared Bug of the Week Bug of the Week --------------- Ryan Lerch closed 30 points worth of bugs, due to hammering our tutorials into shape. Ryan, would you please find us a good Bug of the Week for May 12-18? Bryce

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Funded development, Convenience Links, Repo checkout, etc..
by Robinson Tryon 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hiya, I saw an article about your new funded development policy, and read over the Funded Development Model page. Is this the Proposed Projects list: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Projects ? It would be nice for http://inkscape.org/en/contribute/funded-devel/ to link the text "Proposed Projects list" to the appropriate page (whether that's on the wiki, the website, or etc..). Speaking of the wiki, it would be very convenient if the wiki login page (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin) linked the text "email the developer list" to the devel list section of the mailing list page, (e.g. http://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/#inkscape-devel). Regarding source code, I didn't find a repository url or checkout instructions on the "Inkscape's Repositories" page (http://inkscape.org/en/develop/inkscape-bzr/). For comparison, here's what Launchpad provides on the "Code: Inkscape" page: --- You can browse the source code for the development focus branch or get a copy of the branch using the command: bzr branch lp:inkscape --- Cheers, --R -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qubit@...3158...

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Inkscape wiki account?
by Robinson Tryon 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hi, May I please have an account on the Inkscape wiki? I just saw a couple of broken links to tidy up. Username: qubit Thanks, --R -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qubit@...3158...

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Running Screen
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Hi to all. I dont know if this are discussed previously, but whats your opinion of a loading/running screen for inkscape? Regards, Jabier.

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[tony@...3057...: minimum system requirements for Inkscape?]
by Bryce Harrington 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Could someone help itemize the OS variants / versions we run on currently? Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Tony Sebro <tony@...3057...> ----- Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:51:36 -0400 From: Tony Sebro <tony@...3057...> To: "inkscape@...3057..." <inkscape@...3057...> Subject: minimum system requirements for Inkscape? Hi, all. See below. Someone has contacted our <trademark@...3057...> account asking a few questions about Inkscape. I can certainly clarify the first question about user- or device-based licenses. But I couldn't find any minimum system requirements or recommended specifications on Inkscape's website. Does Inkscape maintain a set of minimum system requirements for each OS? Please advise. Thanks! -Tony -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 413. Inkscape License Agreement Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 10:25:36 +0100 From: Katarina Helena <katarina.helena@...3139...> To: trademark@...3057... <trademark@...3057...> Dear Sir/Madam, I am an external consultant and one of my customers would like to use your software title *Inkscape *in a commercial environment. I would like to confirm what license terms and user rights are applicable to this specific software title when used in a production environment. According to your website <http://www.inkscape.org/en/download/>, it is a Free and Open Source Software licensed under the GPL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>. Nevertheless, can you please support me on the following topics: 1. Is it licensed by user or device? 2. Which OS (Operating Systems) are supported? According to your site, Windows, Macintosh and Linux but can you please be more specific, indicating the versions? Do not hesitate to contact me in case you need further clarifications. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Kind regards, Katarina Helena ----- End forwarded message -----

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Inkscape 0.91 About Screen Contest - Community Voting
by Josh Andler 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Hey all, The submission period for the About Screen Contest has closed. It's now time for voting to take place. Please help decide the winner of the contest. After this round of community voting the top 3 entries will be passed on to the developers for a final vote. As usual, the voting is taking place on DeviantArt and you will need to be a user there to cast a vote. To vote please go to the voting journal entry at http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/blog/485998934/ . Good luck to all who entered! Cheers, Josh

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Next week's irc meeting
by Josh Andler 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Hey All, Karen asked if we could bump Monday's meeting to Wednesday so Mo (Máirín Duffy from Red Hat) can join us. Any objections? Cheers, Josh

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Fw: how to submit tutorials for official documentation?
by Brynn 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Hi again, Also for item 4.2, under "Development (no coding needed)" > Mockup new dialogs. This is a good one, because I've seen questions about this in forums. No one seems to know where to submit such new dialog mockups. I might guess, the dev mailing list, but not sure. If you could tell me where/how, I'll include that :-) And in that same section, > Add Extensions. I can say that it has been frustrating trying to guide people (in forum topics) who want to learn how to write extensions. If anyone could write a tutorial for that, or at least a brief guide, I think it would be very helpful, and as well, perhaps result in more new extensions. (Same for filters, although that's another story.) As I mentioned earlier, related to updating the FAQ (in an older msg), I'll be making a list of needed documentation (afa the faq). So I'll include this in the list. No one really answered, when I asked to whom I should send such a list. I know you said Tav is the point guy for the manual. But for other documentation, who should I contact? Also Tav? Thanks again :-D brynn -------------------------------------------------- From: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 11:08 PM To: "Inkscape-Devel" <Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] how to submit tutorials for official documentation? > Hi Friends, > For item #4.2 of the FAQ ("Are there non-coding ways to help?") > under Help Fellow Users > Write Tutorials, I want to include info on how > to > submit tutorials for the official documentation. Or at least provide a > link > to such info. (Also, I might want to contribute tutorials myself.) > So far, all I've found is this page > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/User_manual_information, which I'm > not sure is even a relevant doc anymore. It says to subscribe to the Inks > Docs mailing list, but other links are dead (not found). > Is there any other info, that I haven't found yet? Or is > subscribing to the list, pretty much all that's needed (and then tutorial > writers will find out how to submit them, from the mailing list)? > Thanks for your help :-) > brynn > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer > Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports > Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper > Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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another updating faq question (how to open CDR files)
by Brynn 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Hi Friends, Another FAQ item which doesn't seem to make sense, and that I'm not familiar with -- How to open CDR files. (Currently item 6.8 but will be moved in updated faq). Here's what it says now: ____________________ You can use UniConvertor for converting CDR files and some other formats to SVG. In Inkscape 0.46+, there's an input extension that will allow you to open or import CDR files directly from Inkscape if you have UniConvertor installed on your system. If you can't run UniConvertor, you can try this workaround: 1 - Open the CDR file in Corel Draw. Save it as a binary encoded CGM* file. It will save only vector graphics. It will not save bitmap graphics. 2 - Open the CGM file in OpenOffice Impress. Copy to Open Office Draw and insert original JPG or another bitmap graphics. Save file as ODG And you can continue in Open Office Draw program.) 3 - Select all (CTRL+A) 4 - Export as SVG. 5 - Open SVG file in Inkscape and correct mistakes if they appear. Note: OpenOffice will open only binary encoded CGM files in Impress. If the CGM is encoded using clear-text encoding, it will be opened in OpenOfice Writer, thus rendering the next steps invalid. ____________________ It's the workaround that's not making sense. #2 about inserting JPG -- I might guess that maybe CDR files can contain both raster and vector images?? But it's not clear at all. I mean, this workaround requires the user to have Corel Draw, Open Office Impress, and OO Draw, all installed. With all that, and they still need Inkscape? I'm not sure the workaround is even worth keeping -- especially not if it's out of date. And there's a close parenthesis which didn't have an open parenthesis. So I think something has been edited incompletely. However, if that's still a valid workaround, I'll keep it in place. Would someone please give me a quick verdict on that? If worth keeping, any edits needed? Thank you so very much :-) All best, brynn

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New funded development and fundraising policy
by Bryce Harrington 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Earlier this year we developed a policy for fundraising and for funding development work on Inkscape. Thanks to everyone that helped on this! Now that the policy is fully official I've given it a spot on our website. http://inkscape.org/en/contribute/funded-devel (Martin and other web folks, feel free to move it around if there's a better spot for it...) The intent of this is to delegate power to community members to organize fundraisers and use the gained monies for paid development. This isn't the *only* way we can do fundraisers or paid development, but other things will require more direct board involvement. Hopefully this will give us a more streamlined approach that folks can take advantage of. Bryce

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how to submit tutorials for official documentation?
by Brynn 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

Hi Friends, For item #4.2 of the FAQ ("Are there non-coding ways to help?") under Help Fellow Users > Write Tutorials, I want to include info on how to submit tutorials for the official documentation. Or at least provide a link to such info. (Also, I might want to contribute tutorials myself.) So far, all I've found is this page http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/User_manual_information, which I'm not sure is even a relevant doc anymore. It says to subscribe to the Inks Docs mailing list, but other links are dead (not found). Is there any other info, that I haven't found yet? Or is subscribing to the list, pretty much all that's needed (and then tutorial writers will find out how to submit them, from the mailing list)? Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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updating FAQ, Linux and Mac issues
by Brynn 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi Friends, I'm still working on updating the FAQ, and splitting into User FAQ and Development FAQ. Could some one or more of you, please review the following (regarding Linux and Mac issues) and suggest any corrections which may be needed? Since I only use Windows, I can't be sure about them. Bryce indicated that some of it might be tmi (in a previous message). I can say that generally the Alt key in Linux, as well as all the Mac issues, do come up frequently. So I'd like to keep them in there. But if any of it can be deleted or consolidated, ....or even if you know of additional issues, I certainly will trust your judgment. 3.10 and the 5 sub-sections (3.10.1 through 3.10.5) and 3.17 and its 9 or 10 sub-sections (3.17.1 through 3.17.9.2) which you can see on the website http://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/ or in the wiki http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ. Since there is so much text, I've attached just those portions in a separate html file, for your convenience. You may note some minor changes between the current faq (on wiki and inkscape.org) and my file, already, but it's nearly identical. And I'm asking about the content, not the html code. It just seems like html would be the easiest way to provide it. Anyway, I suspect it's probably fairly current and correct already, so it shouldn't take long :-) Thank you very much :-) brynn

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Meeting
by Martin Owens 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Did we have a devel meeting this evening/afternoon? If so, I completely forgot! Martin,

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Document Unit Change problems.
by Tavmjong Bah 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Hi, Trunk/experimental has the ability to change the "Document Unit" in the Document Preferences dialog. Changing the unit changes 'lengths' throughout the document. This process has quite a few problems as demonstrated by the number of bugs reported. In order to get a handle on these problems, I've started a Wiki page to track the issues and to get an idea about possible solutions: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Units_In_Inkscape:_Document_Unit_Ch… The problems are quite complex. The simplest solution for the short-term (on the 0.91 release time scale) might be to just disable document unit changes. Please look at the page and add your comments, bugs, etc. Thanks, Tav

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Bug with pixel perfect SVG
by Fabien Sanglard 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hello, I am trying to open in Inkspace (Mac OS X v0.48) a SVG file (wolfd_4.svg) that is a pixel perfect version of a PNG (wolf3d_4.png). Chrome and Safari are able to render the image well (chrome_rendition.png and safari_rendition.png). However when loaded in Inkspace (inkspace_rendition.png), I can see gaps between the squares that are supposed to be pixels. Is there any way to fix this ? Fabien PS: Safari Mac OS X v7.0.6 (9537.78.2) Chrome Mac OS X v37.0.2062.94

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Changing trunk to 96 pixels per inch.
by Tavmjong Bah 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hi, The experimental branch has been using 96 pixels per inch per the CSS 2.1 standard for over two months now without complaint. Is there any objection to switching trunk to this value? As Inkscape has switched to using 'pt' for text size by default, it is important that this change happen to ensure that the size of text rendered in browsers match the size of text rendered in Inkscape. Tav

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Paying for Downloads
by Martin Owens 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

I've here at Free Software Day (Boston) and have just completed a panel on the economics of Free Software development. Something which came up and something I want to have a serious discussion about is the implementation of an opportunity to donate screen like libreOffice: http://donate.libreoffice.org/home/dl/deb-x86_64/4.3.1/en-US/LibreOffice_4.… If one clicks on this link, it waits a few seconds and gives you the file. But as well as the file it also offers you an opportunity to donate/contribute to the project. I'd like to implement this for inkscape.org but it would have to be blessed by the community since other developers are users may have valid concerns which should be taken into account with this format. Things I'm thinking about: * Making sure we have suggested amounts * Offering something in return? Maybe offer an ability to buy swag? * What is SFC's position on these kinds of pages? * Have an invitation to contribute other things. Time, bug tracking etc? * Give donators a badge on their website user? I'm looking for any contribution to this discussion, good or bad. Please let me know what you think. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Windows testing needed
by Josh Andler 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Can someone on Windows please apply the following patch and check to see if it affects building? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1323592/+attachment/4184115/+files… Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape Hackfest Planning IRC Report #1
by Tavmjong Bah 16 Sep '14

16 Sep '14

Contents: * Introduction * Hackfest LGM * Hackfest FOSDEM * Updating FSA * Mac OSX Introduction ============ A group of interested Inkscape developers met via IRC with Karen Sandler, the Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)[1]. The primary motive for the meeting was to discuss organizing a hackfest in conjunction with the 2015 Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) at the end of April in Toronto.[2] If you are interested in participating, please add your name at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 We also briefly discussed updating the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement (FSA) and the Mac OSX port. We will meet again next week at the same time (Monday 19:00 UTC, 21:00 CEST, 15:00 EDT, 12:00 PDT) at inkscape-devel on freenode. Hackfest LGM ============ Hackfest: Location ------------------ Two possibilities: Toronto: Advantage: No extra travel required. Cheaper hotels, etc.? Disadvantage: Need to find local host. Boston: Advantage: There are many possible places to hold the hackfest. Disadvantage: Extra travel to/from Toronto. US Visa requirements. Possible place: MIT * Martin is contacting LGM to see if they can help us find space. Hackfest: Costs --------------- What will Inkscape pay for? Travel, accommodation, food for sponsored attendees? Refreshments? Equipment? Video projector? We need to decide who to sponsor. Probably 10, maybe up to 20 people. Preferably those with a "job to do" and not just passers-by. Hackfest: Topics ---------------- Code and documentation, see web page for ideas (and add your own). We should outreach to new contributors; maybe have a training period the first morning. Hackfest: Sponsors ------------------ We discussed who might sponsor a hackfest (and why they might). * Karen will inquire with RedHat and Google. * Bryce will contact Samsung. * Intel? Canonical? * ScislaC will compile a list of companies using Inkscape. Hackfest: FOSDEM ================ It might be possible to have a "warm-up" hackfest at FOSDEM.[3] Hacking is one of the main activities at this conference and there should be no problem finding space. FOSDEM 2015 is the weekend of 31 January/1 February in Brussels. Updating the FSA ================ Before we started discussing the hackfest, we briefly discussed updating our Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement (FSA) with SFC. Inkscape was one of the first groups to join FSA and our FSA is a bit out-dated. There are at least two places where changes are needed: 1. The SFC is financed by its members. Member groups are required to give 10% of the funds they raise to the SFC. Inkscape's agreement predates this requirement. The SFC would like to see Inkscape's FSA brought into alignment. The Inkscape board has agreed in principle to this change. 2. Inkscape needs an active board to successfully manage Inkscape's resources. At the moment, board member serve until they resign or until they are removed by a majority vote of the community members. It would good to have a criteria for removing inactive board members without the need for a potentially disruptive vote by the community members. Karen and Bradley will be at the Google Summer of Code Mentor's meet-up as will three Inkscape board members. This will be a good time to finalize the new agreement. Mac OSX ======= We discussed the status of the native Mac OSX port and the possibility of paying a developer to finish it off. The port is done but there seem to be problems with the underlying libraries (Wayland or gtk+/quartz).

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IRC meeting for hackfest planning and fundraising
by Bryce Harrington 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

When: Tomorrow, Monday Sept 15th at 12 noon (3pm eastern) Where: #inkscape-devel on Freenode IRC Who: Inkscape team; Karen Sandler Karen and I will be discussing plans/ideas for an upcoming Inkscape hackfest. The principal topic we want to discuss is the fundraising/budgeting side of things, but other aspects are within scope. All are welcomed to attend, but this will mostly be interesting to people wishing to help out in organizing the hackfest and/or fundraisers. Bryce

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Merging Policy
by Tavmjong Bah 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hi, The merge of the latest features from Liam into the Experimental branch raises the question of best practices for merging. In particular, I am not sure that merging multiple features at one time is a good idea. Other projects seem to divide commits into the smallest possible pieces. I think that this is good practice as it better documents what is being committed, allows for better reviews, and makes it easier to cherry-pick from one branch to another. In particular, the commit message: "Merge in ponyscape features by Theo and worked on my LiamW" doesn't give any information about what are the purpose of the changes. It takes reading the code and/or searching the web to find this information. (See: http://liamwhite1.deviantart.com/journal/ ) As far as I can tell, the commit: 1. Adds the new LPE's: * Attach path * Bounding box * Ellipse * Fill between many * Fill between strokes * Joint type * Taper stroke 2. A tagging system. 3. Objects dialog. 4. Multi-path manipulator 5. Filter effects chooser. I think these should have been committed separately with a line or two explaining what each does. Also, each LPE should be a separate commit. As an additional question: is the experimental branch going to become 0.92? I think there have been too many changes to the experimental branch to try to merge it with trunk. Tav

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Units in Inkscape
by Tavmjong Bah 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Units in Inkscape ================= Introduction ----------- The recent debate about units in Inkscape highlights the fact that we do not have a clearly defined approach on how to handle units in Inkscape. Units are not as straight-forward as one should think they are. This essay attempts to resolve this problem. Historical View --------------- Part of the problem with units in SVG and CSS in general is why they are there in the first place. In the early days it was assumed that one would want to display drawings on a screen at full scale. In other words, a "one inch square" would be display on a screen as a physical one inch square. This required that displays be queryable as to what there true DPI was. Display manufactures rarely provided the means to query the DPI of the display, and when they did, they often returned incorrect results. Thus, the use of "real" units never became popular and in reality is usually not what one wanted. Eventually, after long arguments, the CSS working group dictated that one inch would be fixed to 96 pixels regardless of screen resolution (ironically, with so called "Retina" displays, there is once again interest in scaling drawings based on DPI). A Philosophy ------------ Absolute units should not be used inside an SVG file with one exception: The 'root' width and height may have units, which with a proper 'viewBox' determines an appropriate scale for a drawing. (This sets the 'real' world value of the SVG 'user unit.) This reflect the opinion of the majority of the SVG working group. It should be noted that the relative units 'em', 'ex', and '%' can be useful in some cases. Inkscape & Units ---------------- Inkscape should not write out absolute units other than in the root SVG element. Inkscape must, however, be able to interpret units from non-Inkscape produced files according to the CSS defined value of 96 pixels (initial user-units) per inch. The use of units in the Inkscape GUI is for ease of authoring only. The actual values should be stored as 'user-units'. Changing the "Inkscape GUI unit" should not introduce any 'transforms' on elements (as seems to being done now) nor should changing the SVG root 'width'/'height units or the 'viewBox'. The GUI should reflect the chosen Inkscape GUI unit scaled to take into account the SVG root 'width'/'height' and 'viewBox'. For example: <svg width="100mm" height="100mm" viewBox="0 0 100 100"> describes a drawing 100mm x 100mm where one 'user-unit' is equivalent to one mm. If the Inkscape property inkscape:document-units="mm" then the GUI would show a width of '25.4' for a rectangle 25.4 'user-units' wide. If inkscape:document-units="in", the GUI would show '1.0'. To implement this, one either needs to find the proper scaling from examining the SVG root 'width'/'height' and 'viewBox' properties or create a new Inkscape property that fixes this scale (in which case changing the 'width'/'height' would change the 'viewBox' and vice versa). Tav

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