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Swatch/Palette border
by John Smith 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Recently committed some options for the Swatch/Palette border (Swatch/Palette popup menu Border->None/Solid/Wide). I think there is a good case made (both user acceptance and better distinction) for setting the default border to solid black in the below bug report. Any interest in changing the default border ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171177

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extension help requested
by Mark Schafer 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

I'm modifying the nicecharts extension to make more charts and 'improve' some aspects. It now reads many lines and columns in a csv file to make several graphs at the same time. Its going very well except for this one problem: - when I feed it too much data inkscape locks up and does not respond. The amount of data is suspiciously low. Can anyone help me to debug it. What am I doing wrong ? - I have fixed a problem where lots of unused filters were being made. - I'm pretty sure I've got my layers and groups being made correctly. - The log shows the file runs to completion without errors but control never returns to the users. - To show the problem, 2 data files are available. one is good one is not. Code logs to file for examination. You will need to modify the logfile location at top of nicecharts.py for your system. Code is here: http://pastebin.com/6b8jcanU inx is here: http://pastebin.com/u3znJNrR you also need support code: http://pastebin.com/YKCdWJYS datafiles: good - http://pastebin.com/7xL4cf8b failure - http://pastebin.com/sqTXb8bd rename the files: nicechart.py nicechart.inx nicechart_colors.py

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HELP CODE UNDERSTAND
by Arshdeep Singh 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

In my courageous attempt at fixing bugs I came across this snippet where the variable setProgramatically eludes me: void RegisteredCheckButton::setActive (bool b) { setProgrammatically = true; set_active (b); //The slave button is greyed out if the master button is unchecked for (std::list<Gtk::Widget*>::const_iterator i = _slavewidgets.begin(); i != _slavewidgets.end(); ++i) { (*i)->set_sensitive(b); } setProgrammatically = false; } Please help. Found in file <registered-widget.cpp> -- demicoder

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Method to get from (font,string) to exact width?
by mathog 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Well, hours later, and I still couldn't figure out where Inkscape hides its table of fonts/font properties. Another one of those cases where it is faster to write something from scratch than to figure out where it is buried in existing code. The attached small test case does the desired sort of calculation and works on both linux and Windows (mingw, with devlibs32 installed for freetype and fontconfig.) The first time it ran on Windowx XP it took about 30 seconds, presumably because it was making the font cache. Subsequent runs were fast. Found the cache file(s) in: C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\<username>\Apps\Temp\fontconfig\cache Strange file names, starts with a long string of hexadecimal characters and then ends in ".cache-2" or ".cache-3". Today's was 456KB and one from two days ago was 935KB. Not sure which other application made the older one, nor why that one was twice as large. Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Sorry about the threadjacking
by mathog 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Apparently my practice of starting new threads by replying with a changed subject was not sufficient to actually start a new thread for some mail readers. I wasn't aware of this issue until one of you just told me, as my mail reader doesn't thread like that. My apologies to all of you whose threads I have accidentally highjacked this way! David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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VACANCY: Font Engineer employment opportunity, London UK
by Dave Crossland 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi! If you can work in London and are interested in font engineering employment then please email me offlist for more details :-) Type of skills required: Python programming, understanding (or potential for quickly learning) OpenType features and shaping, FontForge, and RoboFab. Location details: London office Type of employer: Employment in a UK Limited Company Minimum salary: £26,630–£37,350pa, depending on experience and skills Cheers Dave

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Grayscale mode
by Johan Engelen 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hi all, Early in 0.49 development I added the grayscale viewmode. Very convenient for preparing figures for both color and grayscale print output. With the change to the renderer, we lost the functionality. Is anybody willing/capable of restoring the functionality? Thanks, Johan

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Regression with customizable filters on Kubuntu 12.04
by Ivan Louette 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

With rev11689 and the Oxygen GTK theme on Kubuntu 12.04 customizable filters interfaces no longer work. It only applies the filter default settings and refuse to refresh. When changing to other GTK themes filters work without problems. ivan

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Finally announcing 0.48.3.1?
by Luca Bruno 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

Hi all, so today I was again approached by a user puzzled by the fact that 0.48.3.1 is shipped by most distro, yet our site still mentions 0.48.2 as latest stable. So I found myself a bit bold and proceeded with some action, after last discussion on this topic. Just to recall a bit the issue, 0.48.3.1 has been released as stable in February. Linux and Win packages were ready in June, and in July we had a short vote about the severe lack of .dmg, whose outcome was: «Make announcements and apologize, while explaining why we have left out a group of our users.» This was already two months ago, nothing went out... So, today I first committed to the web SVN an update of all links and labels, then I drafted a short announce explaining what's going on: http://titanpad.com/8eew4Q6uo2 Next step is to publish the announce and run a publish_web.sh to make it public, as I don't have powers to do this. I'm sure it could be polished/expanded a bit, as I'm neither a native speaker nor the usual PR guy. But I fear that delaying this even more is damaging the project, so please let the ball start rolling. Ciao, Luca -- .''`. | ~<[ Luca BRUNO ~ (kaeso) ]>~ : :' : | Email: lucab (AT) debian.org ~ Debian Developer `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 0x3BFB9FB3 ~ Free Software supporter `- | HAM-radio callsign: IZ1WGT ~ Networking sorcerer

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Inkscape Board Election - voting time
by Josh Andler 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

Hey All, The people nominated to fill the open spots on our board are as follow (in no particular order): Johan Engelen Tavmjong Bah Krzysztof Kosinski JazzyNico Jasper van de Gronde If you are nominated and are unable or unwilling to serve on the board, please speak up ASAP. If you are in the AUTHORS file, you are eligible to vote. Please vote for only two, both votes will carry equal weight. In the unlikely event that there is a threeway tie, we will vote again with only one vote per voter. This time, I'm holding off on voting until later in the week (someone else gets to kick it off). The voting opens now and will close on September 23rd, the results will be posted on the 24th. Cheers, Josh

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Updated lcms in devlibs
by Jasper van de Gronde 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

I just updated lcms in devlibs, with a bit of luck solving this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/453931 If anyone developing on Windows who has experience using lcms could test, that would be great. (Although I expect no big problems, I stuck to lcms 1.)

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Guides, backwards compatibility
by Johan Engelen 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi all, The guide project has changed the format in which guides are saved to SVG. The question now is: how do we provide compatibility with "old-style" guides? My proposal: convert old-style definitions to new-style upon loading the file. Saving said file and opening it in Inkscape 0.48 will no longer show any guides in this case. If desired, we can create a python extension that saves the file with all guides converted to old-style. This is the way we went to "new-style" grids back in the day. (unfortunately, grids are stored in 'wrong' coordinates and will have to be transformed too...) Ciao, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rotatable desktop (was: Inkscape 0.49 Proposed Release Plan)
by jbc.engelen＠swissonline.ch 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Indeed, I already had a rudimentary rotatable desktop working a while ago; it was only a small coding effort. What popped up were some UI questions: - page display - boundingbox, do we want it to rotate too or not? - thingies for scaling, shearing, rotating, should they rotate too? - horizontal/vertical directions for dragging objects with ctrl, should they rotate too? Etc... Related: it can be nice to have different scales in x and y dir. If rotating works, then it should be programmed such that any reasonable transform matrix works...? Cheers, Johan ----- Reply message ----- Van: "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> Datum: do, sep. 20, 2012 11:13 Onderwerp: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.49 Proposed Release Plan Aan: "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...> CC: "Johan Engelen" <jbc.engelen@...2592...>, "Inkscape Devel List" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> 2012/9/19 Josh Andler <scislac@...400...>: > I think that if we are going to break compatibility, we go for one > release to do it. Basically, all of the new-style stuff including > custom doc coords would be a huge win to introduce all at once. I > would love to see a rotatable canvas in Inkscape, but I have no idea > how feasible it is with the current rendering/viewport stuff we have > in place. In principle it should be possible to change doc2dt and dt2doc matrices to any transform without any modifications to the display subsystem, but it might expose bugs - mainly hidden assumptions that doc2dt is always an Y flip + translation. The code drawing the page background will need to be rewritten, as it now assumes that the page is a rectangle with sides parallel to desktop coordinate system axes. Regards, Krzysztof

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-Spline
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hello, I'm working on the first phase is to get the preview of the layout spiro match the final result. This is something I see that basic b-spline curves are meaningful. Anyway I'm very slow and not C and something that seems simple to me is a world. Hi, Jabiertxo.

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Inkscape 0.49 Proposed Release Plan
by Josh Andler 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hey All, The following is based on previous release plans. Let me know if there's anything missing. One thing I want to do differently is the bug hunt. No score for this release, only going for bugs milestoned for 0.49 instead. This also means we need to hit the tracker to ensure the milestoned ones are correct and to milestone and must fixes. The number of bugs already fixed in trunk is huge, so getting the work out for further testing "soon" is better. Dates are subject to change as always, hopefully they could be moved up (with the exception of the the time between Feature Freeze and Hard Freeze, for the sake of the translators). Translators, I would recommend getting started sooner rather than later. 1. Open development. (In Progress) 2. Chill. (September 21, 2012) Development focuses on wrapping up. No further refactoring. Identify 'make distcheck' issues Triage bug reports Run an About Screen contest First draft of Release Notes. Update tutorials and other docs 3. Frost. (October 5, 2012) Most development complete. Release Notes should be >90% filled in. Bug Hunt: Target those milestoned for 0.49. Post alpha quality tarball. 4. Feature Freeze. (October 26, 2012) No further development work. Disable features that can't be finished in time. Focus on critical bug fixing. Finalize all tutorials, docs, etc. Finalize all extensions. Translators create/update translations. Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck' Post beta quality tarball. 5. Hard freeze. (November 23, 2012) Only release wardens can commit to mainline. No further string changes. Focus on release-critical bug fixing. Finalize translations, release notes, etc. Post Release Candidate tarball. Packagers test creating pkgs. 6. Branch. (December 7, 2012) Establish the Stable Branch for release Complete any late-late-late work. Final verification of packaging, release notes, docs, etc. Publish more release candidates until ready for release. Plan 0.49.1+ release(s), as needed 7. Release. (December 21, 2012) Post inkscape-0.49.tar.gz Post packages Post official announcements 8. Open development. Yes, it seems like a ridiculously short timeframe given our history of making releases happen and how much we've strayed in the past. I do however feel it is doable given the change in the bug hunt requirement for this cycle. That usually holds us up. Also, no platform specific bugs will hold up this release. We will release for specific platforms as issues are taken care of. If anyone has objections or concerns, please speak up. As stated in the past... this is doable. We're good, we're smart, we're competent, and we have the resources... we just need to be focused to make this happen. Let's do this! Cheers, Josh

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Release notes page
by Johan Engelen 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hi all, I would very much like to have the release date written somewhere on the release notes page. I can only find it on the 0.48.2 page (I believe I added it back then). If someone is looking for a small task, please go ahead and add the release dates to all other release notes pages! ;) Let's try to not forget it for future releases! An idea just popped up: shall we add the about screen dialog to the release notes page? For extra exposure of the winning entry :-) Cheers, Johan

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Fwd: B-Spline
by Arshdeep Singh 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> Date: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:33 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-Spline To: jabier.arraiza@...2893... @Jabiertxo : Thankyou You seem to have a good level of knowledge of working of the B-Splines and of how curves implemented in lib2geom. I don't know much of code's working. I will study the code and you can help me with the understanding. @Pieter Barendrecht, seems to know A LOT about Beizer Implementations, I guess he seems the GOTO GUY for technical probelms . :) On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: > Good morning. > > I am very glad that people are getting involved in the project. I thank > especially Arshdeep Singh for offering with such enthusiasm, I look > forward to working with him and learn. > > I am also happy news for the project provided by Johan Engelen lib2geom > of the project, which seems key to the achievement of the B-Splines in > Inkscape. > > For my part I contribute my part of the way and start coding before I > point out what I think we need to get. > > The BSplines give the artist total control to make layouts without using > handlers, giving a speed and accuracy, I think, unique in the world of > drawing. > > This feature is primarily patent while you draw each stroke, implement > this feature at the end of the path has no make much sense. > > I therefore propose branch-if so-called the project into two consecutive > parts: > > The first is a part facilitator also has benefits spiro tool. They are > getting while drawing a spiro curve, the mark of the "road" is already > the final route, without going into consideration to show both paths > and / or buttons to switch. > > The second would be to implement a curve BSpline like a Spiro. > > In both modes "spiro" and "BSPLINE" would be important to assign a key > to draw the next point is a corner point. > > Do you think well this way? > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Buenos días. > > Estoy muy contento de la gente que se está involucrando en el proyecto. > Le doy gracias especialmente a Arshdeep Singh por ofrecerse con ese > entusiasmo, estoy deseoso de poder trabajar junto a el y aprender. > > Me alegra también la noticia a favor del proyecto facilitada por Johan > Engelen de el proyecto lib2geom, que parece clave para la consecución de > las B-Splines en Inkscape. > > Yo por mi parte aporto mi parte del camino y antes de empezar a > codificar quiero puntualizar lo que pienso que tenemos que conseguir. > > Las BSplines dan al dibujante total control al realizar trazados sin > necesidad de usar manejadores, dando una velocidad y precisión únicas > -creo- en el mundo del dibujo. > > Esta característica es patente principalmente mientras se va dibujando > cada trazo, implementar dicha característica al final de realizar el > trazado no tiene mucho sentido. > > Por ello propongo bifurcar -si se llama así- el proyecto en dos partes > consecutivas: > > La primera es una parte facilitadora que además tiene beneficios para la > herramienta spiro. Se trata de conseguir mientras se dibuja una curva > spiro, que la marca del "camino" sea ya el trazado final, sin entrar en > consideración de mostrar ambos trayectos y / o botones para alternar. > > La segunda seria implementar la curva BSpline como una Spiro. > > En ambos modos "spiro" y "bspline" seria importante asignar una tecla > para que el siguiente punto a dibujar sea un punto de esquina. > > ¿Os parece bien este camino? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Board Election - voting time
by Ivan Louette 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

JazzyNico Tavmjong Bah

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Question about prototype for new Keybinding GUI (was Fwd: [Bug 1036059] There are no GUI for setting keybindings )
by ~suv 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Anyone interested to help with these questions about Inkscape's handling of keyboard shortcuts (and how to add files for new widgets)? Being able to switch keymap files or redefine keyboard shortcuts from within Inkscape would be a nice new feature (requested repeatedly by users)… Forwarded from <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036059>. thx, ~suv -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Bug 1036059] Re: There are no GUI for setting keybindings Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:19:45 -0000 From: Aapo Rantalainen <1036059@...1882...> Reply-To: Bug 1036059 <1036059@...1882...> To: suv I started to implement GUI-widget for changing keyboard bindings. Here is video of first prototype: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvdvz--L6OM There are many issues where I'm waiting for discussion, help, solution... Patch is not intented to merge as it. It is against rev-11604. a) I had problem to add new files for compilation, so this patch overwrite font-selector (randomly selected dialog/widget) b) Inkscape has some 'own' style to handle keybindings. Thus widget on my patch contains converting between 'GDK-modifier' to 'SP-modifier' and back. Is there reason to not use shortcut handling for GDK? c) Patch handles only primary keys, not secondaries. I'm not sure how they should be handled. I think there are no limit how many secondary key one action could have. d) Patch doesn't check conflicst. I.e. if key is already assigned. e) Tip text (and menus) are not updated, but new window shows new accel keys. f) It doesn't yet save modifications. Maybe the best place is end of the ~/.config/inkscape/keys/default.xml or add one more xml (user_defined.xml). g) Patch just move things in shortcuts.cpp,verbs.cpp private->public. -- So what it does: -shows (primary) keybindings of the every verbs (in _verbs) -allow keybindings to be modified ** Patch added: "keybindings_proto_001.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1036059/+attachment/3262804/+files… -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Inkscape Bug Team, which is subscribed to Inkscape. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036059 Title: There are no GUI for setting keybindings

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Path 'z' question
by Tavmjong Bah 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Hi, Can someone quickly remind me what the problem is with the current SVG 'z' syntax to close a path? Thanks, Tav

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Complete removal of libnr
by Krzysztof Kosiński 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Hello all. Revision 10589 removes all trace of libnr from Inkscape's code, which was a major refactoring goal. This is a rather big change and might break various things. Here is a short summary of the changes: 1. NRRect was replaced by Geom:Rect and Geom::OptRect as appropriate. 2. NRRectL was replaced by Geom::IntRect and Geom::OptIntRect as appropriate. Note that the semantics of Geom::IntRect's contains() function for points are slightly incorrect at this time, as max() will be considered part of the rectangle even though it should not be. This doesn't cause any obvious problems for now. 3. SPItem bounding box methods were rewritten. There are now methods for bounding boxes in 3 different coordinate systems: - visualBounds(), geometricBounds(), bounds() - bounds in the item's own coord system - desktopVisualBounds(), desktopGeometricBounds(), desktopBounds() - bounds in desktop coordinate system (origin in bottom left, but user-editable in the future) - documentVisualBounds(), documentGeometricBounds(), documentBounds() - bounds in SVG coordinate system The "geometric" version returns the object bounding box as defined by SVG (does not consider stroke, filters, clipping paths, masks, etc.). The "visual" version considers all of this to return the bounds of the area affected by the object. The legacy "approximate bbox" was removed. 4. NRActiveObject was used only by SPAction. SPAction was converted to GObject and NRActiveObject listeners were replaced by signals. Some changes to verbs were made along the way. 5. nr-point-fns.h was used by some things in the gradient editor and was replaced with code using Geom::LineSegment. Regards, Krzysztof

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Default Export Area
by Yann Papouin 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hi, I'm testing trunk few times a week and for some time now, the default export area is set to "Drawing" in the export dialog when clicking on a blank part of the canvas. To my mind, it should be set to "Page" as default. Yann Papouin.

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livarot stroke to path calls union?
by Shriramana Sharma 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

I noticed that when Inkscape does stroke to path of a self-overlapping stroke, it automatically does a union of the resulting filled paths because there are no overlaps after stroke to path. Trying to track this I found: src/verbs.cpp:2396: new SelectionVerb(SP_VERB_SELECTION_OUTLINE, "StrokeToPath", N_("_Stroke to Path") -> src/verbs:cpp:1073: case SP_VERB_SELECTION_OUTLINE: sp_selected_path_outline(dt); -> src/splivarot.cpp:880: sp_selected_path_outline(SPDesktop *desktop) which calls Path::Outline from src/livarot/PathOutline.cpp which calls Path::SubContractOutline. My question: Despite all this searching it is not clear to me where the livarot union function is being called. Perhaps I am missing something? Thanks. -- Shriramana Sharma

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Inkscape Board/Committee Nominations
by Josh Andler 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Hello Developers, I am recycling Aaron Spike's email from the last time we went through this. As many of you know, Inkscape is a member organization of the Software Freedom Conservancy ( http://sfconservancy.org/ ) and that we have a board. The board/committee consists of Josh Andler, Jon Cruz, Ted Gould, Bryce Harrington, Nathan Hurst, MenTaLguY and Aaron Spike. Bryce Harrington currently serves as the Representative (the official board representative on behalf of Inkscape to the SFC). Dr. Hurst had previously resigned his position on the board and Aaron has done so more recently. Therefore we must elect new committee members to fill the open spots. I will be collecting nominations through the weekend (ending Sunday, September 16th unless there is great desire for an extension to the nomination period). Anyone listed in the AUTHORS file (as of September 10, 2012) may make a nomination. Anyone listed in the AUTHORS file (as of September 10, 2012) may be nominated. Nominees are free to refuse nomination. Just as a heads up, if you use a pseudonym, you will have to sign the agreement with your legal name (not that this information gets released to the public). Note: The dates related to the AUTHORS file are to avoid anyone trying to get in at the last second, and they will always adjust with future nomination periods. Typically the board votes on things such as project fund expenditures (travel, conferences, marketing materials for events, etc), trademark related issues (a topic currently be worked on), other legal issues that arise, etc. Our hope is that by refreshing the board, that we'll be better suited to give better guidance on items and hopefully be more effective at supporting the Inkscape project and our community as a result. As specified in Section 6 or our charter we maintain a committee of seven project members. Section 6 reads as follows: "6. Representation of the Project in the Conservancy. The Developers, each a signatory hereto, shall represent the Project in its official communication with the Conservancy. There shall be seven Developers (together, the "Committee"), elected by the community members of the Project listed in the Project's AUTHORS file (the "Community Members"). Each Developer shall continue to serve until he or she resigns from the position. The Developers may be removed from the position at any time by a majority vote of the Community Members. Upon the resignation or removal of a Developer, the Community Members shall elect a replacement Developer to serve on the Committee. The Committee will elect a single individual to communicate with the Conservancy (the "Representative") and shall notify the Conservancy promptly following the election of a new Representative. The Representative will have the authority to instruct the Conservancy on the Project's behalf on all matters. This section may be modified by a vote of at least 3/4 of the Community Members, with the consent of the Conservancy, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld." The election itself will take place from the 17th through the 23rd. The process will be voting for your top two choices (all votes carry equal weight) and the two names with the most votes will be elected. Thank you to everyone for your participation. Cheers, Josh P.S. I have uploaded a redacted copy of the full Charter at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21152971/InkscapeSponsorshipAgreement-redacted.pdf (modified only for privacy reasons). We will get something more official in place soon.

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Creating color managed PDFs
by Adrian Johnson 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

I have been working on an experimental branch of cairo that supports color management for the image and pdf surfaces. I'm currently trying to get Inkscape to use this API so I can test creating color managed PDF files. I'm not familiar with SVG or the Inkscape source and have some questions. The SVG specification says that compositing can be performed in sRGB or linear RGB color space. I could not find where this is supported in Inkscape. For now I've set the PDF surface color space to sRGB. What color space are gradients interpolated in? Are all gradient stops the same color space? In my patch I have assumed that all stops have the same color space and used this color space as the interpolation color space. Can a color space be set for an image? If anyone is interested the code is here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ajohnson/ To simplify the implementation only RGB color spaces are currently supported.

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Talks for SVGOpen (the graphical web).
by Tavmjong Bah 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi, I've posted drafts of my talks for SVG Open 2012 (now known as "The Graphical Web") to my website. Comments welcomed. I give both talks Tuesday morning in Zurich. The talks use JessyInk and require you to hit Page Down twice to get to the first slide. Firefox messes up some figures while Chrome doesn't do indenting text spaces well. Inkscape Update: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/SVGOpen2012/INKSCAPE_2012/svg_2012_inkscape.svg SVG 2 For Artists: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/SVGOpen2012/ARTISTS/svg_2012_artists.svg Tav

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Eraser
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Hello. I have realized that an extension inkscape, by means of filters and clones makes some other deleted objects in overlapping parts, something also cut live. The problem is quite complicated and the resulting svg uses a filter that erodes quality minimally deleted edges, which I think would be invaluable in print because you have to maximum zoom to see the difference of pixelization. Researching upcoming SVG specification have seen that the primitive blend filter-I-will have to incorporate a new method that is draft. I understand it's a little early to incorporate it into inkscape, but it occurred to me that if you could add a new element to inkscape namespace for the element that contains all Scrap right of the lower elements of the group. More could be done adelate this namespace be reflected in any svg renderer thanks to the new way of blend filter primitive. Now I'm starting with B-Spline extension but I think this is a good thing for inkscape, and they can see how it works if you install the extension in the latest stable version, is not urgent since no alternative but can be interesting look. The extension is set in inkscape forums with a link to the website of my company and a donation button if any millionaire out there . http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=12517 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yo he realizado una extensión en inkscape que, por medio de filtros y clones hace que unos objetos borren a otros en las partes coincidentes, algo asi como un recorte en vivo. El problema es que complica bastante el svg resultante y hace uso de un filtro que hace perder minimamente la calidad de los bordes borrados, cosa que considero que sería inapreciable en impresion ya que hay que hacer un zoom máximo para apreciar la diferencia de pixelización. Investigando la próxima especificación de SVG he visto que la primitiva de filtro mezclar -creo- va ha incorporar un nuevo metodo que se trata de borrador. Entiendo que es un poco pronto para incorporarlo a inkscape, pero se me ha ocurrido que si se podria añadir un nuevo elemento al espacio de nombres de inkscape para que el elemento que lo contenga haga de borrrador de todos los elementos inferiores de su grupo. Más adelate se podria hacer que este namespace se reflejase en cualquier renderizador de svg gracias a el nuevo modo de la primitiva de filtro mezclar. Yo ahora mismo estoy empezando con la extensión B-Spline pero considero que esta es una buena cosa para inkscape, y ademas pueden verla en funcionamiento si se instalan la extension en la última versión estable, no es algo urgente ya que hay alternativa pero puede ser interesante mirarlo. La extensión está puesta en los foros de inkscape con un enlace a la web de mi empresa y un boton de donación por si hay algún millonario por ahi. http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=12517

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-Spline
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Good morning. I am very glad that people are getting involved in the project. I thank especially Arshdeep Singh for offering with such enthusiasm, I look forward to working with him and learn. I am also happy news for the project provided by Johan Engelen lib2geom of the project, which seems key to the achievement of the B-Splines in Inkscape. For my part I contribute my part of the way and start coding before I point out what I think we need to get. The BSplines give the artist total control to make layouts without using handlers, giving a speed and accuracy, I think, unique in the world of drawing. This feature is primarily patent while you draw each stroke, implement this feature at the end of the path has no make much sense. I therefore propose branch-if so-called the project into two consecutive parts: The first is a part facilitator also has benefits spiro tool. They are getting while drawing a spiro curve, the mark of the "road" is already the final route, without going into consideration to show both paths and / or buttons to switch. The second would be to implement a curve BSpline like a Spiro. In both modes "spiro" and "BSPLINE" would be important to assign a key to draw the next point is a corner point. Do you think well this way? ------------------------------------------------------------- Buenos días. Estoy muy contento de la gente que se está involucrando en el proyecto. Le doy gracias especialmente a Arshdeep Singh por ofrecerse con ese entusiasmo, estoy deseoso de poder trabajar junto a el y aprender. Me alegra también la noticia a favor del proyecto facilitada por Johan Engelen de el proyecto lib2geom, que parece clave para la consecución de las B-Splines en Inkscape. Yo por mi parte aporto mi parte del camino y antes de empezar a codificar quiero puntualizar lo que pienso que tenemos que conseguir. Las BSplines dan al dibujante total control al realizar trazados sin necesidad de usar manejadores, dando una velocidad y precisión únicas -creo- en el mundo del dibujo. Esta característica es patente principalmente mientras se va dibujando cada trazo, implementar dicha característica al final de realizar el trazado no tiene mucho sentido. Por ello propongo bifurcar -si se llama así- el proyecto en dos partes consecutivas: La primera es una parte facilitadora que además tiene beneficios para la herramienta spiro. Se trata de conseguir mientras se dibuja una curva spiro, que la marca del "camino" sea ya el trazado final, sin entrar en consideración de mostrar ambos trayectos y / o botones para alternar. La segunda seria implementar la curva BSpline como una Spiro. En ambos modos "spiro" y "bspline" seria importante asignar una tecla para que el siguiente punto a dibujar sea un punto de esquina. ¿Os parece bien este camino?

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Fwd: B-Spline
by Arshdeep Singh 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> Date: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-Spline To: jabier.arraiza@...2893... I am a computer graphics enthusiast who loves mathematics. The idea of implementing B-Splines seems really cool. I am proficient in C/C++. And I am doing a course in college that covers the basics of Beizer Curves and B-Splines. Can I be of any help ? On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: > According council go Gronde Jasper I decided not to do before an > extension in Python. I created a branch in Launchpad called B-Spline. > > As I want to make it work with the tool Beizer I have a problem. This is > the result I want to see while drawing tool like calligraphic strokes. > > Subtraction accurately understand this if, for example, stroke is the > width or has a color similar to background. From what I see important > that the line where the stroke will go, once completed, should continue > as a curve or BSPLINE spiro and not currently a curve Beizer. > > For as designed the efect that are updated live to close the path not > know if this is possible or not. Does anyone know? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Color Management Doesn’t Seem to Work
by Jason Simanek 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Thanks for the response. On 09/09/2012 10:43 AM, S.Kemter wrote: > The CM functionality in Inkscape means screen proof and adding the > profile to the svg, as the standard supports this. It doesn't seem to be giving me an color managed screen proof though. If I fill a square with a hexadecimal value in Inkscape and fill a square with the same value in Gimp, on screen they look like two different colors. > For export to png Inkscape uses cairo and that doesnt support this > feature. This is unfortunate, but as long as I am primarily working in sRGB this is still usable for created screen/web graphics. Thanks again. Jason Simanek

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Color Management Doesn’t Seem to Work
by Jason Simanek 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

Hi, I'm trying to nail down a color managed workflow for my design work (print and web). I am running Inkscape Trunk on Ubuntu 12.04. I can't seem to get Inkscape to output color managed colors. For a test I export my Inkscape artwork as a PNG and open the resulting PNG in Firefox (with full color management turned on) as well as Gimp (with color management turned on). My laptop display has been calibrated with a colorimeter via colord/Argyle. I have assigned this display color profile in both Gimp and Inkscape preferences. The colors in my graphic should match in all three applications, but Inkscape is obviously showing over-saturated colors while Gimp and Firefox match exactly. Am I doing something wrong? Is color management in Inkscape not really working correctly yet? Any help is much appreciated. Jason Simanek

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Shared library
by Alex Valavanis 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hi All, I'm not an expert on this kind of thing, but is there a reason why we don't distribute libinkscape as a shared library? At the moment, Inkscape and Inkview share a huge amount of code and they are both pretty big executables. Presumably, we'd save a lot of installation space with a shared lib. AV

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-Spline
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

According council go Gronde Jasper I decided not to do before an extension in Python. I created a branch in Launchpad called B-Spline. As I want to make it work with the tool Beizer I have a problem. This is the result I want to see while drawing tool like calligraphic strokes. Subtraction accurately understand this if, for example, stroke is the width or has a color similar to background. From what I see important that the line where the stroke will go, once completed, should continue as a curve or BSPLINE spiro and not currently a curve Beizer. For as designed the efect that are updated live to close the path not know if this is possible or not. Does anyone know?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-Spline
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Traductor inkscape create a path effect In the attached document on the B-splines, especially in point 4, I read the way a cubic Beizer curve, generate another curve to follow another path to simulate a curve B-Spline. At this point I find doubts. I understand that the ideal is that the system works as curbas Spyro. The Spyro curbas are really a "LIVE PATH EFFECT". My ask is: I have doubts if start is better here or a different starting point and go directly to the "live path effects" My current point is: develop it as an extension in Python that from a path, create another with the path I should follow BSPLINE for points and handles used in the original path. Moreover Barendrecht Pieter offered me another way with groups but do not understand. Thanks Peter. Thank you very much in advance for their cooperation.

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Future releases
by Josh Andler 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Hey All, I'd like to proposed that after we get 0.49 out the door, we have regular planned releases. No more "always open" trunk development. But leverage merge windows instead... which also means needing to land "more complete" features in trunk than we've historically allowed. I'd love to see us have 6 month cycles to get features and fixes out to users sooner. It's awesome to have flashy new stuff for every release, but it's just not necessary. What are people's thoughts on this tried and true strategy many other projects use? Can we at least give it a shot? Cheers, Josh

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Please Update Release Notes!
by Tavmjong Bah 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Hi, I will be giving an Inkscape status talk at the "Graphical Web" conference (formerly "SVG Open") in two weeks. It would be very useful if the release notes for 0.49 were up-to-date. I know there are some important things missing like the recent updates to the Text toolbar and the removal of the Gradient dialog. Can all developers who have made significant changes please up date the release notes if they haven't done so already? Thanks, Tsv

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-Spline
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Thanks Pieter. a simple cuestion. My goal is a button near spyro button for made the bsplines. Is posibol to made entire proyect in phyton or need to learn C? Sorry burt im a beginer programer. Thanks very much for the quick response.

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SVG 2 and Inkscape
by Tavmjong Bah 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Hi all, As has been noted by Alexandre, the first public draft of SVG 2.0 has been released: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-SVG2-20120828/ While this is a very early draft and will be unstable for some time, I don't think it is too early to make plans on how Inkscape will handle incorporating new SVG feature. SVG 2.0 will bring many things that will benefit Inkscape. Here are just a few: Mesh Gradients New blend modes New ways to specify color (CSS3 Color) Named colors Markers inheriting stroke color Hash lines Variable stroke placement (inside/outside path) Fill over stroke 3D transforms Before I make a proposal, I will review the status of the SVG in general. As many of you know, SVG as a standard almost died when Adobe bought Flash. (Adobe was the main driver behind SVG at the beginning.) The SVG Working Group (WG), which once had more members than the CSS WG, shrunk to just a handful of active participants. With SVG now being a core component of HTML5 and with SVG being added to IE 9 and the decision by Adobe to stop development work on Flash, interest in SVG has grown. New members have joined the WG over the past year. (The group is still smaller than the CSS WG which limits the speed that the SVG 2 specification is developed as well as what can be added.) In addition to renewed interest in SVG proper, there is interest in adapting many SVG features for more general use on the Web. Many parts of the SVG specification are being ripped out and made into stand-alone specifications shared with the CSS WG. These include Transforms, Blend modes, Filters, and Colors. These sections are maturing fast and experiencing rapid adoption by browser vendors. You can already use HSL colors (from CSS3 Colors) inside SVG in current versions of all major browsers. Transformations should be usable soon. In summary, SVG is moving forward and doing so rather quickly. How should Inkscape handle new features? First of all, as Josh has stated, we don't want a repeat of the flowtext fiasco where Inkscape implemented a feature that ended up not being added to the SVG specification. We should only enable stable features in our official releases. One indication of stability is the implementation of a new feature by one or more browser vendors without using a vendor specific prefix. HSL color is one example of this. We should encourage new features in unstable releases. It is important to the SVG specification development that there are working examples, even if only partially implemented, as it demonstrates a user desire for the feature and it gives the WG a chance to test and experiment with it. Second we should be backwards compatible with SVG 1.1 when feasible. By backwards compatible, I mean being able to read and write SVG 1.1 files. Some things are relatively simple to handle. HSL colors can be easily converted to RGB colors. Others like mesh gradients may require using a PNG. What I propose, is that as new features become stable, we modify the internal Inkscape code to use them while at the same time adding an option to export to SVG 1.1. In many cases, this will have the side benefit of simplifying our code. For example, matching marker color to stroke color now requires some rather complex code to create new copies of a marker for each different colored path as well as monitor changes to stroke and fill color. What do others think? Tav

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B-Spline
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 02 Sep '12

02 Sep '12

Hello to all. I know some Python and I am able to use inkscape develop curve B-Spline. The Spyro curbas are fine for artistic themes but the B-Spline give greater accuracy with less work. Not quite where to begin. I have the mathematical formula for creating splines that I got Internet, I have always worked with programs in script and not much to compile C or anything Can you help me with the first / ... steps? Greetings from Pamplona. Sorry for my English.

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Request to join Inkscape Web Development
by Boyd Zhang 01 Sep '12

01 Sep '12

Hi folks, I've translated the most part of the website into Chinese. And I sent a request to one of the admins two days ago to join the dev group, no response yet. I wish to access the svn sumbit level. Thanks all, Medmuf

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Foundations of GTK+ Development
by Arshdeep Singh 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Hi fellow-devs I am new to GTK, and now that GTK+ 3 is here, I found a book published in 2007 by A. Krause called "Foundations of GTK+ Development", I just want to know whether this book is still good to get the hang of GTK+ 3 library ? --- demicoder

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Google Summer of Code 2012 Results
by Josh Andler 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Hello Inkscapers! The Google Summer of Code 2012 program is now officially over. We’ve managed to have 3 out of 5 projects successfully completed by our awesome students. * Jan Pulmann created Python bindings for lib2Geom, the computational geometry library we use in Inkscape. * Samuel Chase made a lot of internal improvements to handling guides and to the coordinates system, making it easier to switch away from Cartesian system. * Veronika Irvine created a new tool for on-canvas tessellation. The code for 2geom library was written in the main development branch and hence is immediately available to all 3rd party developers. The changes to Inkscape have to be finalized before they can enter the main source code repository. Currently we don’t expect both of the new Inkscape features to be used in upcoming v0.49. We are sorry that 2 students didn’t make it, and we are going to take steps to avoid this kind of failure in the future, should we be accepted for the next runs of the program. Cheers, Josh (on behalf of the Inkscape team)

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svg 2.0 first public draft and blending
by Alexandre Prokoudine 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Hi, SVG Working Group release the first public draft of SVG 2.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-SVG2-20120828/ Among other important things it has: 1) Reference to the new "Blending and compositing" spec released earlier this month: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/FXTF/rawfile/tip/compositing/index.html Among the outcomes: more useful blending modes. 2) LAB color, uncalibrated device color, with raw CMYK and n-channel data. There are people around who would kill for these features in Inkscape. Do we have any policy regarding adoptions of new SVG stuff? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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GTK+-3.0 acting strangely
by Arshdeep Singh 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

Hi everyone, I recently coded my first GTK+ app. I had first precisely followed the instructions shown on the "Compiling GTK+" page. The app successfully compiled and ran too. Then I had to turn off my computer as i had an errand to run. The problem now is that, when I restarted the laptop, I had to re-install the GTK+ library although it was present in the /opt/gtk folder. Again I was successfully able to compile and run the app. However when i closed the interval pkg-config no lobger recognised gtk+-3.0 as an installed library ! It seems somehow the changes I make when I install the library do not make it after I close the terminal. What to do, I cannot install gtk everytime I need to run my code ! -- demicoder

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Windows build issues
by Kris De Gussem 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Header adaptations in r10986 break windows building. One of the modifications in src/extension/implementation/implementation.h is the culprit. ------------------------------- Make error line 289: problem compiling: In file included from c:\devlibs/include /sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:8:0, from src/extension/implementation/implementation.h:16, from src/extension/implementation/implementation.cpp:16: c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal_base.h:48:11: error: 'size_t' does n ot name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal_base.h:97:3: error: 'size_type' does not name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal_base.h:241:11: error: 'size_t' does not name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal_base.h:263:3: error: 'size_type' doe s not name a type In file included from src/extension/implementation/implementation.h:16:0, from src/extension/implementation/implementation.cpp:16: c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:33:11: error: 'size_t' does not na me a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:34:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does not name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:99:11: error: 'size_t' does not na me a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:100:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:276:11: error: 'size_t' does not n ame a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:277:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:359:11: error: 'size_t' does not n ame a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:360:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:430:11: error: 'size_t' does not n ame a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:431:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:515:11: error: 'size_t' does not n ame a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:516:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type -------------------

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Packaging for OSX
by Stuart Edwards 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Unfortunately I have the same experience as suv on OS X 10.6.8 Stu

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0.49 Release Plan Discussion
by Josh Andler 19 Aug '12

19 Aug '12

Hey All, It seems like it would be jumping the gun to put forth a proposed release plan without getting input from everyone on what should and should not be pursued during this cycle. After some feedback it should be a bit easier to put forth a somewhat realistic timeframe. Again, the goal is still to have a release before the end of the year. (Note: 0.48.4 is going to be cut hopefully in the next week or so) First, I want to address, what major features and issues are still left that people want include and will be able to wrap up in the near future? We still have some outstanding bugs with the new renderer which should really be addressed when possible. I know I will be going through the tracker soon to look for our blockers and must-fixes... others are welcome to do this as well. Our "start" time is still pretty unfriendly... valgrind just screams that it's fontconfig taking up the biggest chunk of this. I have no clue though if anyone is interested in taking this on. Also, it's time we get the skeletal pieces in place is the release notes. If you don't have time to write the full text, please write a placeholder Todo. Anyone is welcome to do this, if you are the author of a new feature or notable change or bugfix, traditionally you are the one to write this (as you're usually the most familiar with the feature). I don't believe we should include compatibility to compile against GTK3 as it will be viewed as a supported feature. So, where do we stand. I would really like to get a proposed release plan out in the next week if possible. Any suggestions for a theme for this release's About screen contest? Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Powerstroke: adding/deleting width nodes
by Valerie 18 Aug '12

18 Aug '12

Augh, can someone do something about those "WARNING **: Inkscape currently only supports color-interpolation-filters = sRGB" messages? They're clogging up my console while I'm trying to get other bug messages. :( (but all my text tool problems are gone, yay!) Anyway, sorry for the delay. > This is weird, because it is exactly these two things that I fixed! > Can you send me an example file? Still Inkscape 0.48+devel r11297. There are two files attached: - The New doc file is the first file that crashed when I was testing Powerstroke. In fact, even now, it crashes Right when I open it. :P Which is rather fortunate because I wasn't able to get a second file that crashed once to crash again, nor the Tests file. - The Tests file is my more systematic attempt to reproduce the error messages. I basically started with the same-ish shape for different algorithms and cusps and attempted to torture the lines until I got a proper error message. In particular, I've marked one shape where it was quite easy to reproduce this error message: WARNING **: Exception during LPE [Unstable!] Power stroke execution. lib2geom exception: Invariants violation (./2geom/piecewise.h:144) Just select with the F2 tool, and drag the diamond back and forth between where the two lines point at. The error message should pop up. I was able to reproduce that error in several other lines but not as systematically. It seems to affect mostly the Linear and Spiro algorithms, though it may affect other line types too. It usually happens when editing the powerstroke width. No matter what I did though, I wasn't able to reproduce a crash in this session (and not for lack of trying).

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RFC on Bug #168164 and recent changes
by Josh Andler 18 Aug '12

18 Aug '12

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168164

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IDE DEVELOPMENT
by omaida ali 18 Aug '12

18 Aug '12

I need an IDE developed, just like any other drawing tool that users can draw on. The major features is that it would have a tool which users can pick and drop into work space and users would be able to save as SVG and .TeX I want it to be able to perform simple animations in layers and interpolation (ie. users can specify paths and the system generates the other paths automatically ) let me know if you are interested. Interested once can contact me on Skype id: wondaluv gtalk: wondaluv@...400... thanks -- omaida

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Font size in pt
by John Smith 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

An often requested feature is to be able to view and edit font sizes in points (pt) rather than the Inkscape default pixels (px). In style.cpp the font size is always set to be px os << key << ":" << val->computed << "px;"; // must specify px, see inkscape bug 1221626, mozilla bug 234789 Is there a compelling reason why Inkscape always uses px units for font sizes ? The mozilla bug 234789 seems more related to the case of having no unit specified. Any way to access these old bugs reports like 1221626 ? Related discussions https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168164 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2010Jul/0011.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234789

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Queries about lib2geom
by Shriramana Sharma 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Hello people. I'm interested in integrating lib2geom on a project I'm currently working on where I require strokes to be converted to paths and unions of paths to be produced. Do I understand correctly that lib2geom provides these (among other) facilities? Whatever documentation material I am able to turn up on the net is at least a few years old. Can anyone please confirm whether lib2geom (and the proposed transition of inkscape to it) is being worked upon? Please also point me to from where I can download the current lib2geom snapshot or how I can clone the repo. I hope I don't have to download the entire inkscape repo for this. Please also clarify whether the same location contains the python bindings as well or if different, kindly point me to where I can get that as well. Thank you very much! -- Shriramana Sharma

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OSX Mountain Lion? 0.48.2
by Ian Caldwell 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

hello, Has anyone been able to run inkscape (the latest stable build) on OSX Mountain Lion? I have yet to be able to get it to start… nor show any errors... thanks, Ian -- Ian Caldwell Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)

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export eps missing text elements
by Joaquin Rapela 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Hello, I have an eps figure that I generated in the program R (figureToImport.eps attached), I imported it into Inkscape, I saved into an svg file (tmp.svg attached), eps file (tmp.eps attached), and pdf file (tmp.pdf attached). The problem is that the eps file, but not the svg or pdf files, are missing all the text of the figure. I am using Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886 (Mar 29 2012) on Linux. Linux diogenes 3.2.0-26-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 14 16:26:01 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I am running cairo: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6.1ubun The Cairo 2D vector graphics library I should add that if I import the attached eps files into Adobe Illustrator everything works well. But I would prefer to use free software. I am proud of having built a complete research project with free software (Linux, R, latex, ...) and I would not like to ruin my record for the generation of the paper graphics :) I would greatly appreciate any hint on the reasons and/or solution to this problem. Thanks in advance, Joaquin PS: I posted a similar message to inkscape-user yesterday. But I received no reply. I hope I am not being untidy in posting the same message to multiple lists.

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GTK+ 3 build complete
by Alex Valavanis 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hi All, Trunk now builds against GTK+ 3. We now need to do a serious amount of testing... there are bound to be a large number of runtime errors! To build against GTK+ 3, you need to have upstream gdl installed. Configure the build using "configure --enable-gtk3-experimental" then run "make" as normal. Cheers, AV

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Exchanging lcms dll
by Jasper van de Gronde 28 Jul '12

28 Jul '12

There appears to be a relocation related problem with the Little CMS dll on Windows, see this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/453931 Now, someone pointed to an alternative version of the dll that seems to behave better in this respect. Can we just swap out our version of the dll for that one, or am I overlooking something? Perhaps we desperately need lcms to be compiled with certain settings? (The alternative is probably to try and recompile it ourselves and see where that gets us.)

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tracing ui
by Alexandre Prokoudine 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi folks, Since the team seems to be in a UI normalization mood, please have a look here: http://www.segtsy.com/blog/?p=173 Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Next release?
by Dave Crossland 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi! Does anyone know when the next release will be? -- Cheers Dave

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Vacation
by Josh Andler 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hey all, I'll be on vacation through the 5th and will be without net access for the last 7 days of it (and limited until that point). Just don't want anyone to think I'm intentionally being unresponsive. Cheers, Josh

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Retire Gradient Editor
by John Smith 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

I propose we retire the Gradient Editor dialog before 0.49 Any objections or concerns ? For retiring: * Old, not maintained code with many bug reports still piling up * Almost all functionality is available in the Gradient toolbar / on-canvas editing now For keeping: * Can be used to edit gradients in the document but not used on-canvas. Here is the bug tracking the gradient editor retirement https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/950677

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Backwards compatibility issues of using a new SVG attribute for representing guides
by Samuel Chase 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hello Everyone, I'm working on improving the usability of guides as a GSoC project. My mentor (Johan), suggested that henceforth "inkscape:guide" be used instead of "sodipodi:guide" as the SVG attribute for representing guides. In my branch one of the things we worked on was to change the co-ordinate system used by guides from desktop co-ordinates to document co-ordinates. Snapping, general guide operations etc. seem to be working properly after the co-ordinate change in my branch. A problem arises when a user opens an SVG that has "sodipodi:guide" using a build of Inkscape that uses "inkscape:guide" as the attribute. What should (ideally) happen in this situation? Johan suggested the idea of creating an extension script that transforms between new and old guides. The user will be made aware of this extension when an incompatibility is detected. Samuel

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LPE: Curvature normal (request)
by Simon A. Eugster 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hi Devs, hi Maximilian, I have a wish for a new path effect – or a modified one, since it is quite similar to the Ruler effect (that's why I CCed Maximilian who wrote it). It should act like a ruler (i.e. draw lines perpendicular to the path in regular intervals), *but* their length should correspond to the curvature, showing how much the curve is bent (second derivative). Example image: http://granjow.net/uploads/bugs/curvature-normal.png For Bézier curves this could be done analytically, but I would wish it to be numerically (i.e. the derivative over some distance like 10 page pixels). The use case I have in mind is bow making, to visualize irregularities in how the bow bends. Best explained in an image, here in the first post: http://www.fletchers-corner.de/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17924&start=75 But obviously that's not the only thing one could use it for :) Could you do this? It would be absolutely great (… at least for bowyers :D) to have this in Inkscape! Simon

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OCAL upload in Inkscape
by Jakub Jankiewicz 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hi all We are working on Upload to Open Clipart Library API, it's correctly on our dev server and we'll move it to live, when we will have clipart remix option, and we do some test. We are working with ImageBot and they are the first one that use the API on their site (there is Edit button on their site that got to theirs), on their dev servers. Do you want to implement OCAL Upload to Inkscape? If so I can give that person(s) access right now to dev server (it's not protected we only don't publish it's url publicly), or they can wait until it will be live. I can send working php example that upload to OCAL from different domain, (probably we will need to tweak API a bit to fit non www application), I can send this code to person that will want to implement this, the code for now it's only documentation (but it's very simple and short). Regards Jakub Jakiewicz -- www: http://jcubic.pl twitter: http://twitter.com/jcubic blog: http://jcubic.wordpress.com

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Mac .app bundle creation?
by Dave Crossland 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hi! I'm hoping to make a totally self contained .app bundle for FontForge on Mac OS X. I wonder who makes the .app build for Inkscape, and if they'd be interested in helping me with this? :-) -- Cheers Dave

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Should Inkscape
by Martin Owens 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

Hey guys, I'm trying to use inkscape to moc up something quickly, but it's getting in my way. It keeps on trying to snap to anything and everything when I don't want it to EVER snap anything to anything, in fact I'd love snapping to go away as it's hard enough to draw with a touchpad without having inkscape making my nodes go to the wrong places automatically. I just looked at the inkscape prefs, there's no kill snapping option. I guess I'll have to go in and disable it via code, unless anyone has any suggestions? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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New extension: svgtextext_to_pdflatex
by Håkon Marthinsen 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi everyone, I have just made a new Inkscape extension. See https://launchpad.net/svgtextext-to-pdflatex The purpose of this Inkscape extension is to export Tex Text objects as real LaTeX code, not just paths. This way, the typeface can be changed from the LaTeX document without having to regenerate all the Tex Text objects inside the figure in Inkscape. It also ensures consistency with the fonts used in the rest of the LaTeX document, and furthermore, it is possible to cross-reference other parts of the document from within the figure. The extension has been tested in Ubuntu with pdf2svg installed. To install it, download the two source files, put them in ~/.config/inkscape/extensions and restart Inkscape. This will add a menu entry to Extensions > Export. Håkon Marthinsen

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Provide simple way to export images optimized for the web
by Maurizio Casimirri 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

I often use inkscape to create website interfaces. But exporting things in inkscape works fine only at 90dpi, when i try to reduce it to 72dpi exported images are stretched accordingly. Rather than change the default export tool, my proposal is to introduce some specific features to export optimized images for the web. I'd like this workflow: - Mark groups/elements for export (very simple: just add an attribute to xml) - Create sprite images - Mark groups/elements to be exported together in a sprite image - See/copy css for sprite image - Select export for the web ... from 'File' menu - In the export dialog select which elements/sprites to export and where - The images exported are optimized for the web using some tool like pngcrush (not only 72dpi) - maybe necessary css code could be exported along with sprites also Implementing something like that and correcting some other little problems should bridge the gap between Inkscape and Ilustrator or other commercial tools in terms of website interfaces design

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vector printing win32
by Solor Vox 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Hello, I've been trying to solve a 2+ year issue with inkscape and my printing device (laser cutter) not accepting paths as vectors. All I can seem to get out of inkscape is rastered images. Yes, exporting to PDF works, but it's not a fix and not a great solution either. As such, I've been digging in the code to inkscape versions 0.46 to 0.48.2 on a win32 platform. Why was a call to cairo PS level 3 commented out on line 101? And can you tell me if the call to renderItem() is sending bitmap or vector data to the surface? Where in the code chain might the vector paths be rastered? Cheers, sV

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Old configure options
by Josh Andler 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Hey All, Is there a reason we still have the --with-perl and --with-python configure options? Apparently they still don't work on OSX with current trunk and didn't work in some linux distros as of a report from forever ago (circa 0.44pre0). suv's understanding was that they were only used for our internal script dialog which was disabled prior to 0.47. Cheers, Josh

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Rationale for typography canvas defaults?
by Matt Gushee 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Hi, all-- First of all, if this is not the right list for this question, please direct me to a better one. Anyway, I am interested in using Inkscape (together with FontForge) for font design, and thus I am trying out the more-or-less latest development version from Bazaar, with the typography extensions. And I'd like to thank the folks developing these extensions; I know good typography tools are not easy. I am curious, though, about why the default and maximum em sizes are what they are: 1000 and 2000, respectively. I've been Googling hard for info on the "right way" to design glyphs for Freetype or Opentype fonts. I'm sure noone will be surprised to hear that it's hard to find definitive info, but so far I have found: * There doesn't seem to be any universal agreement on the best design size, BUT * An 1000-unit em square is seen as an old-school measurement, associated with Type 1 ("Postscript") fonts, and * Apple uses a 2048-unit em square, and of course Apple is right about everything (just kidding!), and * A size that is a power of 2 is thought to make scaling more efficient and/or accurate, leading many designers to favor 2048 or 1024 units. At any rate, to the extent there is consensus, people seem to prefer 1024 or 2048 these days. So I'd like to know why 1000 is the default, and if there is a technical reason for setting a maximum size of 2000. Meanwhile, I'm going to go with 2048, and will tweak the code in my installation to allow that size, and see how it works. I'll report back if I notice anything interesting. -- Matt Gushee

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GTK+ 2.20 support status
by Alex Valavanis 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hi All, I wondered what people's thoughts are on our support for GTK+ 2.20... A quick check reveals that we now have 100 conditional code blocks to support the obsolete symbols provided by GTK+ 2.20, so it adds a bit of a burden on developers and it makes the code horrible to read in places. Most stable/LTS releases of major linux distros provide newer versions of GTK+/gtkmm than 2.20. The exception is Debian Stable, but that's a pretty special case (i.e., ancient versions of everything!) If we were to drop our support for gtk+ 2.20, the main casualty would be Ubuntu Lucid. However, (a) there are two newer stable versions of Ubuntu and a newer LTS release available, (b) we have already bumped our Cairo dependency to a version that is not in Lucid, and (c) I guess that trunk will inevitably reach the point where we leave some older distro versions behind. So... the question is whether we continue supporting a big chunk of conditional code or whether we drop support for gtk+ 2.20. Any thoughts? AV

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symbolic icons
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Hi, FYI, Tango Art Libre set is getting symbolic version: http://gnome-stereotype.tumblr.com/post/26134120044/next-stop-art-libre Last thing I heard is that GIMP is likely to be using symbolic icons, and this looks like a beginning. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Text in SVGs exported from Sibelius
by Daniel Spreadbury 01 Jul '12

01 Jul '12

Dear Inkscape developers, Sibelius is a Qt-based application that uses Qt's built-in SVG support to export SVG graphics. These SVGs open fine in various web browsers (e.g. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer), but the text does not appear correctly in Inkscape. Please see the attached example. Does this problem lie on Inkscape's side, or on Qt's side? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Spreadbury Senior Product Manager | Sibelius R & D Avid Unit 20-23 City North Fonthill Road London N4 3HF United Kingdom daniel.spreadbury@...2877... t +44 (0)20 7561 7915 | m +44 (0)7990 558997 | f +44 (0)20 7561 7888 Sibelius is Avid. Learn more at www.avid.com <http://www.avid.com/> Avid Technology Europe Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered No.: 2670844. Registered Office: Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver Heath, Bucks SL0 0NH, England

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Inkscape 0.48.3.1
by Ted Gould 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

Hey, So if you're on these mailing list, you know the deal :-) There are a couple build fixes in this update. Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.3.1/ Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.48.x/0.48.3.1 MD5 Sums f0fcc02088cc643634806064e7ab4ec3 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2 3e956cd9cf6cf0a22b64a821f5a4084d inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2.asc ccf8ccd9e66199badb8c35ea3851a888 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz aded57e1a851a5f3d763fd892c085fe1 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz.asc b1bbe021af4eab8a4c6bb2e4833c6eaf inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip d9f81d36f1e5a9679911dbc12d53d2b9 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip.asc SHA1 Sums 23344555a1b5cc7909ad01d926cfaddb67bfbde9 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2 780bf43ce5148df35420926702b05afadfade239 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2.asc 9a09a97d184e09c2ee7f9956bfe073b7313e919e inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz c8b963d43f56fb7bf42e9474b1b0de7d91be3433 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz.asc b6de562e8c11442afb3d67a59d4d6f82f0c6edd6 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip a17c423b151110d2dab6fd770beb20aaf134caa4 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip.asc --Ted

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Polar Arrangement - Review
by Denis 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

Hello all, I've recently finished implementing my feature, that is, arrange objects in a circular shape. Here you can find the proposal I wrote before implementing: http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement My source code is available on launchpad at: https://code.launchpad.net/~declara91/+junk/inkscape-denis And for all ubuntu users out there, there is a ppa called: ppa:declara91/inkscape Where I have compiled packages of my branch. The package name is: inkscape-denis I would be great if someone could check my branch out! (And maybe one day, it could be pulled in trunk :D) Thank you in advance, Denis

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How to return an error from an extension
by Gerrit Karius 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hi everybody, After calling an Inkscape extension which generates output on stderr, a little info box pops up that says: "Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected." That's all fine, but how do you actually return an error code from a script? I tried "sys.exit(1)", but that didn't work. Is there an example script shipped with Inkscape that returns an error? Many thanks for an answer, Gerrit

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Inkscape sends print jobs with zero page size
by Daniel J Blueman 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hi Inkscape devs, In the current Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release, when printing without print preview, Inkscape submits print jobs with zero sized media, causing print failure [1]. I have just subscribed the "Inkscape Bug Team"; is there anything else that needs doing to get the bug report into suitable shape? Many thanks! Daniel [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/+bug/975972 -- Daniel J Blueman

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wiki administration
by John Cliff 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hi Guys, We really need to do something with regards to the wiki making it harder to sign up spam accounts, we seem to be getting a couple of dozen of junk accounts a day, with most days having no new legit accounts. I dont want to stop people being able to sign up easily, but at the same time, the way we currently has it seems to be balanced all wrong. Who is it that has admin rights for stuff like wiki extensions and the base settings? Cheers John

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layer styles?
by Michael Grosberg 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

I'm working on a technical drawing which is made up of a large number of objects, with a rather limited number of basic styles (this is common in engineering - drawings have layers with a different line style for each layer). So, I created a layer for each style: one layer for dashed lines, one layer for shapes with white fill and no stroke, etc. As it turned out, it was difficult to just draw all of the shapes of one style and then move to another, as they had to interact. So, as I was moving across the drawing and adding shapes, I had to continually set the style to match the current layer I was drawing in. What I really wanted was something like Photoshop's "layer style", Or layers in CAD drawings, where whatever you draw on a layer receives the same style. I was able to do this using the XML editor by copying and pasting the style attributes of existing shapes into the layer nodes, and unsetting the fill and stroke for new shapes. Whatever I drew after that received the layer style. Now my question is this: Is there a mechanism in place to do this without editing the XML? If not, do you think there should be? I think it would be useful.

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pdf import again: poppler native vs. poppler cairo
by the Adib 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Hello All, as the problem is still there I would propose following intermediate solution: currently in the codebasis there is also an pdf import via poppler-cairo. This one is disabled. I would like to enable this as an additional pdf import possibility. We have to decide later when it comes to the release which one to integrate into the release. so we can test in parallel the two options. we have a big tester basis (compared to separate launchpad branch) we get the possibility to switch to an tested poppler-internals independent solution (while using poppler) I there is no big NONO I will go forward and enable this within the next days. attached the patch that is needed for this (tested on windows, should work on Linux) regards, Adib.

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0.47 support status
by Alex Valavanis 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Just wondering what the official position is on the 0.47.x branch. A number of bug reports have been filed recently about build failures with recent versions of Glib, Poppler etc. At the moment, we list 0.47.x as being supported [1], but as far as I know, we have no plans to backport any fixes for the build failures, so it isn't actually usable on current linux distros. As such, would it be appropriate to "retire" the branch and encourage users to upgrade to 0.48.x? Cheers, AV [1] https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.47.x

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Rename 'Vacuum defs'
by John Smith 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Is there a more user friendly way to describe the 'Vacuum defs' function ? How about we rename something like 'Document Cleanup' ? Maybe even a dialog with checkboxes and explanations of the various options: Cleanup and remove the following unused definitions from this document * Unused gradients * Unused color profiles * Unused patterns * Unused markers * Unused scripts * Unused clipping paths * Unused filters etc

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libvisio is available
by Alexandre Prokoudine 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Hi, During this GSoC a LibreOffice student and her mentor implemented support for VSD, binary Microsoft Visio documents, that Microsoft never bothered to publish a specification on. The student managed to do far more that she expected and ended up with a nice C++ library for parsing VSD called libvisio that supports all geometric primitives, formatted text, embedded stencils, all kinds of fills and strokes etc. The long story is here: http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=41 Now, the short story is that the libvisio library (currently at v0.0.7) has a tool called vsd2xhtml which converts VSD to SVG documents and embeds them into XHTML documents. So it looks like it's possible to write an extension for loading VSD directly to Inkscape. Otherwise you have to do some text editing to get an SVG out of that XHTML. Howevere there is a party trick involved. Since VSD files are often multipage, the convertor dumps every page into same XHTML file one by one. So if someone decides to have a go at it, I think it would rather be loader similar to our PDF loader which provides preview for letting a user to choose a page for importing. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Inkscape PRO
by Felipe Sanches 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

This is an output extension for color separation. I have a feeling that it is somewhat inadequate, but I'm unsure. Maybe the color experts here can give us a hint. JonCruz?! http://www.cimcomunica.com/site2/ Felipe Sanches

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GTK+ 3 regression bug tag
by Alex Valavanis 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

I've added a tag "gtk3-regression" that can be added to any bug reports that describe issues that only occur in the experimental gtk3 build. Cheers, AV

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C++ string conversion
by Jon Cruz 09 Jun '12

09 Jun '12

Hi, I finished a simple writeup of converting C strings to C++ strings for our codebase. A couple of people asked me for this, but I thought it might be more generally useful. A shorter summary probably will be appropriate to get on the wiki at some point, but for now http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2012/06/refactoring-c-to-c-part-2-strings.…

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GtkObject stuff
by Alex Valavanis 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Hi All, I've created a branch at lp:~inkscape.dev/inkscape/gtk_object_removal [1] in which I have started trying to rebase SPCanvasItem on GObject rather than GtkObject. I don't really know what I'm doing with Glib/GObject so I have made some (un)educated guesses about how to replace bits of the functionality! The code compiles and gets rid of a huge number of the remaining GTK+3 build errors, but there are major runtime issues (lots of crashes & Glib warnings). Please could someone who knows about Glib memory management take a look at this and give me a couple of pointers about what I'm doing wrong? Am I completely on the wrong track here? Thanks, Alex [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/gtk_object_removal/chang…

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Quick ! Teams, please confirm LGM 2013 dates proposal
by Louis Desjardins 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

To all teams, Hi all ! After our unanimous call for next LGM to take place in Madrid, we now need a quick go-ahead for the dates ! The proposal is April 10-13 (Wednesday-Saturday) Please voice any concern about those dates or your clear approval asap. Many thanks !!! Louis -- Louis Desjardins libregraphicsmeeting.org +1 514 994 9351 (Cell) +1 514 934 1353 ext. 121 (Montréal) HAE / EDT GMT -5

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Regarding variable thickness lines
by Sharad Dixit 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

hi, I am new to inkscape development . I'm not sure I have all the definitions perfectly clear, but I'll try to explain my query as well as I can. Is this functionality already exist in inkspace i.e to create a line of variable width which would allow us drawing curves but where each node could have its width set so that the line width changed from node to node. I've also tried a couple of other vector graphics programs, such as Illustrator and Xara but this functionality doesn't exist. Thanks a lot -- Sharad

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Pass original file path to script extension
by Gerrit Karius 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hello everyone, I'd like to reference external svg files in my document and process them via an extension. I know that Inkscape will not render them, but I am using an external call to the Apache Batik framework which can resolve external dependencies. The problem is, extensions are called on a temporary copy of the current document (usually in some temp folder), so all relative path references are broken. Is there any way to make an extension call on the original file, or somehow pass that file reference to the extension as a parameter? I only found this forum thread where people are guessing that this is not possible:http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1156 Does anyone of you devs know a workaround? Many thanks in advance,Gerrit

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Powerstroke presentation at LGM 2012
by Carlos Lopez Gonzalez 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

>> So... how do other programs draw thick stroked lines? >Well, Synfig also has thick line drawing: >http://wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Outline_Layer Don't forget the Advanced Outline layer: http://wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Advanced_Outline_Layer Carlos

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Verb for swap fill and stroke?
by Chris Mohler 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Hi there. I thought it would be nice to add a verb to swap fill and stroke, but alas - I can't figure it out. I've pasted my feeble attempts below in case anyone has pointers. I barely dabble in C/C++ so I might be barking up the wrong tree entirely... Thanks, Chris Tried adding something like this to verbs: case SP_VERB_SELECTION_SWAP_FILL_STROKE: Inkscape::UI::Widget::SelectedStyle *ss; ss->on_fillstroke_swap(); break; But get this: ui/widget/selected-style.h:223:10: error: ‘void Inkscape::UI::Widget::SelectedStyle::on_fillstroke_swap()’ is protected verbs.cpp:1136:27: error: within this context

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Layer verbs
by Kris De Gussem 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Hi all Anyone who knows what happened to the verbs SP_VERB_LAYER_TOGGLE_LOCK and SP_VERB_LAYER_TOGGLE_HIDE? They are defined at lines 2450-2454 in verbs.cpp but do not seem to be used anymore. Could they be deleted or is some other change needed here? Kind regards K.

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New snap modes proposals
by Valerie 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Here's a few snap modes that could be useful: 1. Snap to parallel If there are one or several angled guides around, any straight line you're drawing will snap to a direction parallel to the direction of those guides. It's like drawing paraxial lines, except not just constrained to horizontal and vertical lines. Useful if you need to draw a lot of diagonal lines for example. (by snapping, it means it will snap when the angle you're drawing approaches that angle. You won't be constrained to just drawing towards those directions) 2. Snap to orthogonal Same principle as the above, except in a direction orthogonal to existing guides. 3. Snap to node alignment When you're drawing an object with straight lines, any new point will snap to align to existing points of that line. I'm asking this because creating open-ended rectangles and more complicated straight-line shapes (examples: folder-like shape, thick U shape etc.) are a pain. Right now I have to either: - create several rectangles - align - combine - open up any extra segments Or: create nearly as many guides for snapping as the number of lines I want to draw (and then I have to delete them) Or: do a so-so job, open up the align dialogue and tediously align each group of nodes In fact, this snapping is the default behaviour I wish I'd have for paraxial drawing mode, but a snap mode should make a decent compromise for everyone. 4. Snap to guide point direction This one requires a guide point object first. When you're drawing a straight line, the line will snap in the direction of that point. Useful for perspective drawing, especially if the vanishing points are very far off from the drawing area.

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IconWidget unused code?
by Alex Valavanis 31 May '12

31 May '12

Hi All, The code in src/ui/widget/icon-widget.[cpp,h] doesn't appear to be used anywhere. I searched for header inclusion, and use of the IconWidget class, and I don't see anything in trunk or 0.48.x. In fact, the C++ source looks rather like a placeholder file that was never completed. Can anyone shed some light on this? The file is contributing to the GTK+ 3 build failure, so if it's not used and not usable, am I OK to delete it? Thanks, AV

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Regression in filters Editor
by Ivan Louette 31 May '12

31 May '12

Seemingly a recent regression in Filters Editor : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1006816 ivan

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Grid and Guide UI
by John Smith 31 May '12

31 May '12

Is there a reason for the differences between the UI for Grid and Guides ? Currently: a) Guides are visually "on" by default - but there are no actual guides. Menu "View->Guides" initially does nothing - since there is no guide to show/hide. b) Grids are visually "off" by default. Menu "View->Grid" creates and shows a grid if there is no grid. c) Guides are created/deleted via the Edit menu d) Grids are created/deleted via the Document Properties dialog. Comments in the code refer to some sort of backwards compatibility // show guides if not specified, for backwards compatibility // hide guides if not specified, for backwards compatibility Propose to change the Guide UI to match the Grid UI as below. 1. Guides would be "off" by default (if not specified in the doc) 2. Toggling "View->Guides" would create guides (same as "Edit->Create Guides Around the page") if there is no existing guide. 3. Add a button : "Document Properties->Guides->Remove Guides" 4. Remove menu item : "Edit->Create Guides Around the page" 5. Remove menu item : "Edit->Delete All Guides" https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1005055

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] InkScape Help !!
by Ted Gould 30 May '12

30 May '12

Hey Suresh, I'm going to go ahead and CC inkscape-devel on my reply. That list, in general, is more likely to get you a timely e-mail than sending it directly to me. Plus it helps everyone learn together. I hope that's okay. On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 03:14 -0700, $uresh... wrote: > Ted, I am using InkScape for vector drawing, mostly I will generated > Vector graphics, generate svg file, and parse the file using C++ > coding and load the final value to CNC machine. By default, when there > is a group of object, by default matrix apply to only group not a > single object, so in some complex drawing with group, group and sub > group to find the object property I have to move to the parent group > and apply the value to group, well this is time taking and in some big > vector image, my binary hand and crash, because i traverse the svg, > find the root parent and apply parent property to child object.. > > For ex. > > Parent -> Child 1 (transform) -> child, in this case i need to > traverse upto the child parent that is Child 1 and if there is any > transform, I will strore it and apply it. > > Now I want to find out how can reduce the whole method using some > simple logic? Is there any way to simplified this process, so that i > will have exact object property of that group. In general, this is the way that SVG is structured, so that is how Inkscape represents it as well. What you're basically asking for is the rendered version that flattens the stack. I'm not sure exactly what you need as the final output, but if you could get it from the renderer directly that might be a solution for you. I'm not that familiar with the renderer code as it's been updated heavily recently, but if you think it might be, reply to the list with your questions. If not, I'd recommend not going up the stack, but in fact down it and keeping the matrix transformations themselves in a stack. So then you effectively have a cache of last few matrices as you move down. Computing the entire stack for each object is much more costly. Good luck! Ted

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Embedded inline graphics and SVG ?
by Ivan Louette 30 May '12

30 May '12

I pick this up from the announcement of Xara Designer 8. This is a great feature but I don't know if this is compatible with svg. Freehand had it already a long time ago, and DTP programs like QuarkXPress also (but the later can also embed bitmap images on text lines, which is a must !) " Designer MX now allows you to embed 'inline graphics' in text using a simple Paste operation. Embedded graphics are great for really small items on the line such as symbols, icons etc, and are treated just like a 'character', in other words they flow and follow the same formatting rules as a character embedded in the text. " ivan

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libpoppler shenanigans
by Chris Mohler 29 May '12

29 May '12

Hi, I had some issues when compiling current bzr against current libpoppler. I've attached a patch of modifications I made - I wouldn't apply it though: First item is that it seems like #define POPPLER_NEW_COLOR_SPACE_API isn't getting set in the configure script, and I don't have enough autotools-fu to figure out why. The test around line 20770 looks OK to me. So I crammed a define POPPLER_NEW_COLOR_SPACE_API 1 into pdf-parser.cpp (which is obviously the absolutely wrong thing to do). The next 57 changes are also in pdf-parser.cpp. It seems poppler's error() function now takes an additional first argument of type ErrorCategory [1]. I changed all error types to 'errInternal', since I'm guessing these aren't getting reported anywhere anyway. The final hack is that GfxFont no longer has a function 'getOrigName()'. It seems 'getName()' takes care of this now [2], so I removed that call from svg-builder.cpp. So, I doubt the patch is of any real value unless you're wanting to play around with current poppler on linux. On the upside, PDF import works just like in 0.48 with poppler shipped by Mint 12/Ubuntu Oneiric (0.16?). Of course the shipped -dev package doesn't have the xpdf headers, hence my willingness to muck about with poppler from git ;) Chris [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/poppler/Error.h#n54 [2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/poppler/GfxFont.h#n199

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