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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.47 splash contest?
by Josh Andler 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Spray Tool is NOT going in 0.47... we can't introduce it so late in this cycle if we want to have a shot at releasing anytime soon. For the record I've been testing it as they've been working on it too, so it's not an excitement issue here. :-) On Apr 22, 2009 3:29 AM, "Alexandre Prokoudine" < alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:28 PM, John Cliff wrote: >> +1 for DeviantArt > > +1 from me too > We have decent sized community there that have done well for us in the past, > ... Whatever hosting we pick, what rules do we set this time? What particular new features would we want to have being demoed? We have new modes in Tweak tool. We have new Spray tool that might or might not make it into 0.47 (their deadline is 2 weeks away) We have a hell of new SVG Filters and a bunch of new extensions Ah! We have Spiro :) What else? Alexandre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of every...

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21199 not building on Linux
by Thomas Worthington 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

I'm getting the following when making 21199 on my Gentoo box: depbase=`echo widgets/icon.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\ g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/ImageMagick -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I../cxxtest -I./bind/javainc -I./bind/javainc/linux -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -MT widgets/icon.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o widgets/icon.o widgets/icon.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po widgets/icon.cpp: In function ‘void sp_icon_paint(SPIcon*, const GdkRectangle*)’: widgets/icon.cpp:869: warning: converting to ‘int’ from ‘double’ widgets/icon.cpp:870: warning: converting to ‘int’ from ‘double’ widgets/icon.cpp: In function ‘void imageMapNamedCB(GtkWidget*, void*)’: widgets/icon.cpp:1450: error: ‘GIcon’ was not declared in this scope widgets/icon.cpp:1450: error: ‘gicon’ was not declared in this scope make[2]: *** [widgets/icon.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/thomas/src/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/thomas/src/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 Anyone else, or is it just me? -- Thomas Worthington Tech Nouveau 32 Bangor Road Groomsport BT19 6JF 07748 792333

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Inkscape 0.47 Proposed Release Plan
by Joshua A. Andler 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hey All, In an effort to honor Bryce's work in this department for previous releases, I've liberally copied & pasted what he wrote last time. :) I know that it looks incredibly ambitious with the dates on there, but it IS doable provided people have the time and desire. I'd be interested to see what would happen if we plan a bug sprint weekend on May 9 & 10. We can have whoever is up for the challenge commit to it and see what we can pull off in two days. The following is based on previous release plans. Let me know if there's anything missing. 1. Open development. (Complete) 2. Chill. Development focuses on wrapping up. (In progress) 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. Most development complete. (May 1, 2009) Release Notes should be >90% filled in. Bug Hunt: 500 points Post inkscape-0.47-alpha.tar.gz 4. Feature Freeze. No further development work. (May 15, 2009) Disable features that can't be finished in time. Focus on critical bug fixing. Finalize all tutorials, docs, etc. Finalize all extensions. Translators create translations. Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck' Post inkscape-0.47-beta.tar.gz 5. Hard freeze. Only release wardens can commit to mainline. (May 25, 2009) No further string changes. Focus on release-critical bug fixing. Finalize translations, release notes, etc. Packagers test creating pkgs of the -beta release. Post inkscape-0.47-rc1.tar.gz 6. Branch. Establish the Stable Branch for release (June 5, 2009) Complete any late-late-late work. Final verification of packaging, release notes, docs, etc. Publish more release candidates until ready for release. Plan 0.47.1+ release(s), if needed 7. Release. Post inkscape-0.47.tar.gz (June 15, 2009) Post packages Post official announcements 8. Open development. I know it is a radically short timeframe, especially given how long 0.46 took. However, our last few releases have been dragged out to a painful degree. Honestly, it seems like most people loathe the process now. So... let's rip the bandaid off and just make it happen. We can modify the schedule at any point of course, but we need to address our biggest issues IMMEDIATELY to attempt to keep the dates as close as possible. 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. Cheers, Josh P.S. As all can see, I'm attacking the bug tracker... I hope other non-coders will contribute to preparing the bug tracker for the bug hunt too (let's free up the bug fixers time to actually fix things, rather than wade through the current mess).

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Error compiling on Opensuse 11.1 from today's SVN
by Lucas Vieites 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi, it's me again, I'm trying to compile today's svn version to check out translations but I can't succeed. I've pasted the las section of the make output below jus in case it makes sense to any of you. My steps are the following: # ./autogen.sh # ./configure --prefix=/var/opt/ --with-perl --with-python --with-xft --enable-lcms --enable-inkboard --with-gnome-vfs # make ===================================================== depbase=`echo inkscape-version.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\ g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -fopenmp -I/usr/include/ImageMagick -DRELAYTOOL_CRYPTO='static const int libcrypto_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libcrypto_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DRELAYTOOL_SSL='static const int libssl_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libssl_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DHAVE_SSL -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/giomm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I../cxxtest -I./bind/javainc -I./bind/javainc/linux -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp -MT inkscape-version.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o inkscape-version.o inkscape-version.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po rm -f libinkversion.a ar cru libinkversion.a inkscape-version.o ranlib libinkversion.a depbase=`echo main.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\ g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -fopenmp -I/usr/include/ImageMagick -DRELAYTOOL_CRYPTO='static const int libcrypto_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libcrypto_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DRELAYTOOL_SSL='static const int libssl_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libssl_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DHAVE_SSL -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/giomm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I../cxxtest -I./bind/javainc -I./bind/javainc/linux -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp -MT main.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o main.o main.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po g++ -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp --export-dynamic -Wl,-z,relro -o inkscape main.o libinkscape.a dom/libdom.a libcroco/libcroco.a libavoid/libavoid.a libgdl/libgdl.a libcola/libcola.a libvpsc/libvpsc.a livarot/libvarot.a 2geom/lib2geom.a pedro/libpedro.a libinkversion.a -pthread -lgtkmm-2.4 -lgiomm-2.4 -lgdkmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6 -lpangomm-1.4 -lcairomm-1.0 -lglibmm-2.4 -lxslt -lxml2 -lsigc-2.0 -lgtkspell -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lpng12 -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -lpng -lz -lgomp -lpopt -laspell -pthread -lgnomevfs-2 -lgconf-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfreetype -lz -Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE -L/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE -lperl -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz -lMagick++ -lMagickCore -lgc -llcms -lpoppler -lpoppler-glib /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: error in libinkscape.a(lpe-text_label.o)(.eh_frame); no .eh_frame_hdr table will be created. /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: sp-object-group.o: access beyond end of merged section (1711341569) /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: sp-object-group.o: access beyond end of merged section (102111551) /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: libinkscape.a(point.o): unrecognized relocation (0x41) in section `.debug_loc' /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: ld devolvió el estado de salida 1 make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1 make[2]: se sale del directorio `/home/lou/code/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: se sale del directorio `/home/lou/code/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 ===================================================== Thanks in advance, -- Lucas Vieites

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Printing Resolution
by Craig Leat 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi Thanks for a great app. My GIS app has limited print composer functionality and I've been looking for a tool to create fancy titleblocks around my maps. I'm able to export a map from my GIS app and export a titleblock from my CAD app both as pdf files. Using Inkscape I'm able to overlay the titlebock on the map, mask some of the map with a white hatch, save as a pdf and finally print from Adobe Reader. This works well as both the vector titleblock and raster map print clearly. I could save some time if I could print from Inkscape directly instead of going via pdf to Adobe Reader. I tried file -> print -> rendering -> vector, but I lose my bitmap. I also tried file -> print -> rendering -> bitmap -> DPI setting, but always get a low resolution print out. The manual [1] states "The second option is Bitmap which rasterizes the output. There is an option to set the DPI for the output but this does not appear to have any effect (Bug). All drawing elements are rendered correctly but with poor resolution." So my question then is "has this bug been resolved yet?" I searched on Launchpad, but didn't find it. I'm using version 0.46 on Windows XP. I tried to compile the development version on Ubuntu 7.10, but ran into problems with a Cairo library that appears to be too old (1.4). Thanks for your time. Craig [1] http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/File-Printing.html

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a few issues
by ryrych＠...400... 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi guys and girls! Working in Inkscape I've found some inconvenience recently. I often work in Inkscape creating and experimenting with logotypes. I do like this vector application. :) I migrated to Gentoo a few months ago and didn't have time to deal with Inkscape devel especially of dependencies. So, I use stable version now. If I remember correctly there was available many LPE in dev Inkscape, but they disappeared somewhat. I especially pay attention on envelope, which was very helpful. I'm lack of it. I had to use GIMP to use perspective on shapes, save them to png and then trace them in Inkscape which was a little tricky. I hope guys you restore adequate LPE or some perspective tool for users. :) Next issue. Sometimes I have to add some nods on a shape in a straigh line (horizontal or vertical - it doesn't matter). So I adjust a guideline and "cut" shape - that is, add nods. I had a short experience in Blender - the 3D application and still remember helpful tool which cuts shape to add nods (velocities? - I don't remember) on it. I think of a thing that it would be useful in Inkscape too. Operating on nods during play with logotypes is really common - so you often move them forward and backward. I don't mind that the tool (let's call it interactive knife) cuts one shape into antother two like difference. I want it to add series of nods on a shape cause adding them by clicking is very tricky. Imagine - Hold [ALT] keys and LMB and move your mouse - such an interactive selection tool could add nods on a shape (outline). See? I had to use offset or dynamic offstet (excuse me, I don't remember actual name because I use Polish version) just today. I found this feature quite interesting, but in rough use. I needed to enlarge a shape about literraly a few pixels - you know - logo require precission, and found it a little tricky to do it. It would be fantastic to add some numeric fiels for offsets like for width/height. What do you think about it? Some months ago I told one developer about my idea of eraser improvement. He found it quite interesting. So I repeat it. So could you add default shapes for eraser for instance a circle or a square? The tool uses calligraphy mechanism today. Do you intent to improve it before next release? Eraser is quite interesting tool but is really useless as far the calligraphy philosophy is concerned - you know, utterly useless change of angles while moving/turning. What's your plan for eraser tool? So, that's all now. I hope I expressed myself clearly and made myself understandable. :) cheers, Wojciech Ryrych :)

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objects along path extension
by Alexandre Prokoudine 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

Hi, A user published his own extension for Inkscape here: http://www.linuxgraphics.ru/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=545&pid=4921#pos… As you can easily decipher, the extension places multiple objects along a path (which should be bottom object in a selection) Code: http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/2459363_ia86q/placeonpath.ink.7z Do we want this in upstream? Alexandre

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Re : Inkscape bug #193926
by Ivan Louette 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

Thanks for your attention ! However I am not coder but only filters designer. I think you should contact Preben who quickly solved a Color matrix problem in the past : Preben Soeberg <prsodk@...400...> ivan ________________________________ De : Thomas Ibbotson <thomas.ibbotson@...400...> À : ivan_louette@...48... Envoyé le : Lundi, 20 Avril 2009, 1h42mn 29s Objet : Inkscape bug #193926 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Ivan, I just assigned an Inkscape bug to you in Launchpad. I was doing some triaging and came across the bug, which had a patch applied to it. I noticed on the mailing list that you had been doing a lot of work on the filters, and I thought you might be the best person to assign this to, so you could possibly review and apply the patch. I apologise if this was inappropriate, I am still learning how to triage! Thanks, Tom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknrtuUACgkQFRlp6kAWdpvKIACdEGVTOcBkoca6NqxjMABVmXrp xlUAn1tOrby0hfZatdXTklSWdm+XywAb =KvLo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Inkscape "simple" Configure bug-fix needed
by Joshua A. Andler 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

Could someone who is competent with configure options take a quick look at the following?: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/169097 I'm not a configure guru by any means, but it seems like it should be straightforward. Just thought I'd point out A low hanging fruit for anyone who might want to fix it (and close a bug). Cheers, Josh

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Broken icon build
by Jon A. Cruz 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

It appears that the build has been broken this evening due to addition of icons and makefile changes. I am working on this, and should have things tracked down shortly. I do want to test it before committing, though. So it's being worked on. If anyone runs up against this, just drop in the chat room to check the status. Thanks.

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Conical gradient simulation using filters
by Jasper van de Gronde 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

I've been playing with simulating conical gradients a bit more and have updated the Wiki page with the latest results (including some SVGs and some PNGs showing how they are rendered by Inkscape and Batik): http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Gradients As can be seen Inkscape can now render all the required filters properly and in agreement with Batik.

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Please leave the icons alone
by Jon A. Cruz 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Krzysztof, Please STOP touching the icon code and icons. You have been ignoring the problems others are seeing, have ignored the information provided to you on them, and have been breaking existing functionality. It is clear that you don't understand the aspects that are tripping you up (since I don't believe you're being malicious about it), but you are causing serious regressions in behavior. I've also have had to spend a lot of time unbreaking things that I otherwise need to be able to finish some of the new work I had been adding. Also could you *PLEASE* complete the list of icon renamings that I've asked you for. We need this for compatibility, including needing to use it in some icon.cpp code that you removed yesterday. But the list of name changes is very important to document. In case you're just stuck, I've gotten a start added under src/widgets/mappings.xml Please get that updated with all the changes you've made. Thanks.

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GSoC 2009 Mentors
by Josh Andler 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

I have assigned the mentors for gsoc. If you had offered to mentor a student/proposal, chances are good that you have been assigned to them. If for any reason you feel you won't be able to mentor, please let me know asap. Thanks, Josh

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tweenk: re: align nodes
by Ed Halley 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Krzysztof, Please view the following pictures. This is after your commit. http://halley.cc/inkscape-align-nodes-1.png http://halley.cc/inkscape-align-nodes-1.png Also see the following conversation about this feature here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/338521 Can you please tell me why you re-reverted my fix, breaking these buttons yet again? The code and icons for these buttons were FINE in 0.46. The icons.svg images are pretty clear about what the functions should do, and there's no reason to swap their positions or meanings. The IDs in the icons.svg got swapped and the hicolor icons were named after the swapped IDs. Please revert your fix, and test it to make sure it (1) matches the 0.46 look and behavior, (2) has tooltips to match the function and appearance of icons, (3) fully works whether using the hicolor icons or the icons.svg, (4) follow up on launchpad when making behavior changes in code. -- [ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

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Docked dialogs
by Michael Grosberg 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

I'm pretty sure I suggested these before, and if I'm not mistaken I was told there were some implementation problems. But I think these are really important, so here I go again, perhaps someone can come up with a technical solution. I have some issues with the docked dialogs. The first issue is that the dock status doesn't stick across sessions. I always have to re-open them whenever I start a new instance, open an existing file, etc. And in my work process, I always need the fill&stroke and the layers docks open, so I have to re-open the two docks and then adjust the size of the layers dialog (because by default it opens at only two layers height, even if there's a lot of free space to open it in a larger size). Is there no possibility of somehow keeping their status in the inkscape config or the specific file properties? The second problem is the width of the docks. The fill&stroke is excessively large! I have a resolution of 1280X1024 and it still take a HUGE chunk of space. and all the widgets are so large you can barely fit two docked dialogs in the same screen. if you compare that to other applicaitons - Photoshop, BLender, Gimp - you'll see that usually widgets on graphic apps are smaller. This way an artist can keep many open dialogs and still have a large canvas to work on. Lastly, is it possible to add a "layers" button to the main toolbar, to open the layers dialog? We have an "align" button and an "xml editor" button, I'm sure the layers dialog is important enough to also have a button. Please forgive me if this is already being worked on for 0.47... thanks for your time and keep up the good work! Michael

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Tooltips in 0.47
by John & Melonie Curwood 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hi, I've been working on the FM Inkscape Manual which is now focussing on release 0.47 of Inkscape. and while using the development version of inkscape I've noticed that the tooltips for the various tool bars in inkscape no longer include the keyboard shortcuts. The shortcuts were included in the tooltips for the .46 release and I have found these extremely useful in learning the keyboard shortcuts. Also when markers like arrowheads are added to a stroke can the colour be changed? When I change the stroke colour of a path, the markers always remain 'black' when I want them to be the same colour as the stroke. I've managed to do a workaround to add colour to arrowheads, but the path looses it's flexability when I do this. If there is not currently a way that the stroke marker colours can be changed at present, I think this would be a good feature to add to inkscape. Cheers, John Curwood

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NEW: PDF import font name translation
by bulia byak 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

(thanks to patch 179589) A new checkbox on the PDF import dialog, "Replace PDF fonts with closest-named installed fonts" (on by default) attempts to replace all font names in the imported PDF with the most similar names of those fonts installed on your system. For example, if the PDF uses the font "TimesNewRomanPSMT" and you have "Times New Roman" installed, that font will be used, which will likely give you a more correct appearance than the unknown font "TimesNewRomanPSMT" that will be displayed as the default sans serif font. This is a temporary fix necessary because Inkscape cannot yet extract the fonts from the PDF files it imports nor can it embed them into SVG; when it gets these capabilities, such font name conversion will become unnecessary because all fonts will be preserved. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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An eraser tool for Inkscape
by Ivan Louette 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

I dreamed of it for a long time : a non destructive eraser tool ! Take a look at its possibilities in the attached file. Simply draw a white line on top of any shape or object (better with deep color for the first try). Then group the two objects and apply the filter ; the white line becomes completely transparent. If applied on a group which includes images or light colors, you can adjust the opacity with the second color matrix : for example enter 10 and -9 as the two last numbers in the last row below. Then if you select the white object with Ctrl+Click, you can modify it, move its nodes, or press Shift and draw new lines, or apply a distortion or any other filter... The possibilities are infinite. Of course not absolutely perfect but already very usable. It's not made to replace the Object/Mask feature but it can complete it. Enjoy ! ivan

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layers dialog
by Alexandre Prokoudine 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Since we are talking about dialogs :) Mental, a while back you added a tab to Layers dialog that says "Layers". It's the only tab there. Are you planning to add some functionality to the dialog for 0.47? If not, maybe it would be wise to revert this change? As it is now, the dialog doesn't look like the rest of the dialogs. Alexandre

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PerspectiveObject / Envelope Effect
by G33K 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hello, I am very interested in the PerspectiveObject feature that is mentioned in the roadmap for milestone 15 / Inkscape 0.49. Has the implementation already started? Couldn't find any information. Also, the link to the example on the wiki seems to be broken. Does anyone know what it was showing? Perhaps I might get my hands on a developer machine in a few weeks, so I might be able to help out. In the meantime, I'd like to try and fix the Python implemented envelope effect. It looks like it's only using the corners of the envelope for the perspective, but doesn't take any curved sides into account. Can someone tell me in which directory I can find the source code for that one? Many thanks! Gerrit -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html

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Text split / merge tool.
by Terry Brown 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

I've made a simple extension (just lxml twiddling) which, given a selection of a single svg:text or svg:flowRoot, splits it up into separate svg:texts, or, given a selection multiple svg:texts and/or svg:flowRoots, merges them into one svg:text. Splitting in merging appears to the user to be line oriented (actually xpath is collecting flowParas ans tspans). Really handy when you have a list of labels as a single text and want to split them into separate objects quickly. Is it worth including in the distribution (either before or after .47) and if so what should I do with it? And if not, is there somewhere else I should put it? Cheers -Terry

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly
by Boutros Saba 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hello JiHo, I tried to roll back to version 0.44 and to version 0.45 on Mac OS X. I also installed the X11 packaged on under the name X11User_Tiger_intel.dmg at http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?M=D And deleted the mentioned directory each time I rolled back to a previous version and after I installed the X11(prior to rolling back). I still have disconnected Arabic letters - even when I past them from the outside. The thing is that I had a good Arabic support, with connected letters either on 0.44 or on 0.45 (or on both). What could have happened? Any clues? Thanks! Boutros On Apr 4, 2009, at 3:58 PM, inkscape-devel- request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:39:12 -0400 > From: JiHO <jo.lists@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X > - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly > To: Boutros Saba <boutros.saba@...400...> > Cc: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <43F96F56-B51D-45A3-87ED-094F461414BE@...400...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > On 2009-April-03 , at 15:17 , Boutros Saba wrote: > >> Now I'm trying to roll back to previous versions of Inkscape on >> Tiger (10.4) - and I don't find the versions... any ideas where I >> can find them. I deleted all the previous versions I had. > > Sourceforge has an archive of past versions: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? > group_id=93438&package_id=99112 > > JiHO > --- > http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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new: lpe 'recursive skeleton'
by unknown＠example.com 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hi all, Inspired by Hofstadter's GEB, I made a new LPE called "recursive skeleton" (for want of a better name !!!!!!). It takes the original path, and puts it along the parts of the original path. Original path: _________ _________ Parts are: _________ and _________ Result of one iteration: ___ ___ ___ ___ Two iterations: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I hope this makes it a bit clear. Find a more interesting example here: http://smi.el.utwente.nl/~johan/recursive_skeleton.png The LPE is still experimental, have a go at it and see if it makes sense to you, would love to hear comments :) Ciao, Johan

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Problem with wiki
by Jon A. Cruz 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

I think I might have just seen a hidden problem with the wiki. I went to update a page on our versions, and saw contents for our release notes instead. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Dependencies The history listed things as expected, with the time of the last edit corresponding to the time I updated a table on that page. However, the contents were from that other page. Our servers were down for a bit the other day, so it is possible that something got corrupted. Could all of you take a quick moment to skim things and see if any pages are holding the wrong information? Thanks

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Two icon issues
by Jon A. Cruz 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Hi, just a quick note on two current icon issues. The first is that some of the icons when rendered from our internal svg are blurring out at different sizes. This one is due to changes made on Saturday, but I should have a handle on fixing very shortly. The other one is a bit of a spill-over issue in icons on some versions of GTK. This mirrors an issue I saw before where some icons in the same setup were being cropped. For default with a size set to 18 pixels, the GTK theme is using 16 pixel icons and causing issues. I'm not sure if this was a bug with those older versions or just not quite setting things up well. With the same setup, I do not see a problem if the gtk theme sets the size to 12 or 14 or 16 or 22, etc. Just that one main size is triggering it for me. So to sum up... if anyone sees the first issue, don't worry; it's being fixed. However, if anyone sees either cropping or junk on the right or bottom on icons of the second issue, please drop a quick response which which platform and which versions of GTK+ these problems are seen with. Thanks.

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GSoC, KML-SVG: The proposal, version 2
by Piotr Kopczyński 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

I have made a more detailed proposal of what might be done, including a rough timeline (actually just the time amounts - I put the timeline into Google Calendar). The basic part is what I find both necessary and lasting to tell that KML files can be essentially displayed as SVG. There are also additional ideas for improvements but I don't feel like I should decide what is important or needed. This is where I am asking you for directions. Initially I was having many ideas of what could be made in this project. Now I'm afraid there is hardly any chance to touch exporting from SVG to KML (except for an extremely simple cases or some silly assumptions) or the import wizard for Inkscape, as in the first proposal. I would rather focus on the KML->SVG transform. Of course, I would like to know your point of view. As for the previous version of application: firstly, I realised that those "configuration options" are not really needed and may be considered as an extension or optional part. Secondly, the mentioned web server requirement issue is no more important. I have adjusted my "framework" for this project and it works fine for static XSLT's which may be enough for the project. I put the reviewed proposal as a comment to the application: http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/piotrekk/t… It is still just an estimation. I have taken into account the time needed for basic learning, preparing tools, debugging and unpredicted situations, thus the timeline may be quite realistic. The next comment contains some ideas how the basic part can be extended or improved. I would need some advice about that "optional" parts, as well as a revision of the "minimal" set. Any clues are welcome :-) The plan (basic part) seems to be finishable before the mid-term evaluation, so I am asking for suggestions what else should be done. In the meantime I will keep investigating the SVG and KML secrets :-) Best Regards, Piotrek

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multipage inkscape
by Albert Cardona 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Hi all, Are there any news on old plans to add multipage support to Inkscape? Having multiple pages would be fantastic. We could then use Inkscape for the formatting of books and magazines, and pdf slides for talks. No existing open source tools (except pure latex + beamer) can be used comfortably for the task (and I have been using them for years now.) Albert -- Albert Cardona http://albert.rierol.net

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Re 2: GSoC, KML-SVG - what is needed?
by Piotr Ko 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

> I think KML also allows you to specify image overlays. > Fine, I'll take it too (there's a <GroundOverlay> element in KML, I believe this is what you mean). Regards, Piotrek

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wmf import/export and uniconvertor
by the Adib 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Hello, I saw a wmf_input.inx using uniconvertor so I created a corresponding wmf_output.inx as well :-) However in the code src/xml/rep-io.cpp there are some sections protected by #ifdef HAVE_LIBWMF that call sp_wmf_convert (localFilename). I have libwmf-dev installed on my computer (Ubuntu 8.10) On windows there is a system specific emf/wmf importer/exporter. Uniconvertor can not handle text for now. Questions: 1) is this code abandoned? I did not found any definition HAVE_LIBWMF using grep -R HAVE_LIBWMF * 2) How can we disable the uniconvertor extension on windows? Thx, Adib.

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State of the Icons
by Guillermo Espertino 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Bug #312993 proposed the Tango set for Inkscape 0.47 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/312993 This has already been discussed but nothing happened. The general consensus seemed to be that the majority wanted the default theme but that it needed to be fixed. The original Tango Icons didn't have much support, although an alternative version with toolbar icons similar than the defaults but "tangoified" had better luck. An improved version of the default set was presented in this list some time ago without much repercussion. Besides, the default set has been converted to a separated icons set but the work isn't finished yet and the possibility of use custom icons has gone. What's the current state of this? Is there a reason for not replacing the default set by the much improved version presented on the list? Would it be possible to commit the finished versions of both Tango (art libre) and Tango Colors icons in SVN? The reworked default theme, and both tango versions are complete and work fine with most of the GTK themes. They need improvements for very dark themes but it is possible that a new theme for that particular situation has to be created. In the bug report you can find the icons files and samples created by dopelover displaying the issues in dark themes. In my oppinion, every proposed set performs better than the current default. What do you think? Gez.

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(no subject)
by worms invasion 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hello I noticed that in the "Save as" dialog, when you save a new file, the fields order when you do TAB is: File Name Type Save Cancel Title So you more likely will hit "Save" before you get a chance to fill in "Title". I remember a discussion about this on IRC, and the goal of adding the Title field was that it shouldn't "get in the way" of the user, or something, even though the "Title" field is part of the SVG specification (or something like that) So I'm wondering... would it make a big difference to have the order: File Name Type Title Save Cancel For people using the mouse to go from field to field, it won't make a lot of difference (I think), but for those like me who use TAB in that dialog, it would (3 TAB instead of 5, but 4 TAB instead of 3 for save) Also, it's a "Save as" dialog, so if you change the File name or the Type, there are chances that you would also change Title maybe, but the current order makes it more likely that you hit "Save" first. The same comment applies to the "Save a copy..." dialog. Anyway, that's only a question - I'm curious about why the current order is as it is, that is all :-) What do you people think? Regards

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GSoC, KML-SVG - what is needed?
by Piotr Kopczyński 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi. I've been playing with Google Maps for a moment. Actually, only "visually" interesting things there seem to be: - placemarks, with choosable icons - polygons, with customizable style - fill color and opacity, border (stroke) color, opacity and width - lines (paths), customizable like polygon's stroke above All these may (or must) have names and descriptions; the latter may be plaintext or html ("rich text"). I assume these elements are a minimum to be done. I can handle that easily (I guess :-) ). How close to your expectations is this subset? Did I miss some essential features? Another thing: what is the expected resulting SVG if the input KML contains, say, just a placemark with name, description and point with coordinates? Is it going to be a placemark's image (icon) and a rectangle (or something) with the texts? Or is it going to involve some background graphics (terrain's map)? Greetings, Piotrek

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Opacity inheritance
by Guillermo Espertino 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

> Actually I can't reproduce this. It seems to remember the last solid > color I used. (When drawing rectangles at least.) Jasper, my bad. I tried with a recent compilation and it doesn't do that anymore. However, the opacity=0 is still inherited when you creat an object with that opacity, and that doesn't make much sense, imo. > Imagine being used to drawing an object, changing its style, then > drawing another object and seeing that it has the same look as the > earlier shape. Wouldn't it then be very weird if opacity was NOT > remembered? You'd then probably get bug reports (again) about how new > shapes have a different color from previous shapes, etc., etc. As far as I could see, most of the users doesn't consider the opacity as one of the atributes of the color. Opacity is considered commonly as an extra property, and not part of the color. That's why several users think their colors look "pale" when they're actually semi-transparent. The alpha value is commonly misinterpreted as a "tint" value. People use it when they want to make the color lighter, not transparent. Of course you have the HSL sliders and you can do a sort of tinting raising the value of the L slider. But both opacity and tinting are commonly applied as transformations over the color, not coloring itself. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that they aren't related to the color mixing, but people usually tend to see them as some kind of post-processing over the color. For instance, they take a red swatch and want to have tints of that red swatch. They don't look for a pink swatch with the same hue than the red swatch. That's why I think that opacity is commonly mistaken as tinting. > It would be ten times nicer if we could simply make it more obvious > what's going on, and make things more consistent (in one of the bug > reports the confusion started because paths behaved differently from > shapes for example). Yes, I agree. But how? What I mentioned is my idea of a fast workaround to avoid a common usage mistake. Of course it would be much better if we find a better way to make it clearer. But that would take some work, and my suggestion was intended to work around the issue, in the most elegant way possible.

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Opacity inheritance
by Guillermo Espertino 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

In the bug report # 285966 (avoid inheriting transparency when it's set to 0) I commented about the problems of the style inheritance in new shapes. New users seem to be very confused by this feature, and in the particular case of creating a shape after setting a gradient (the style of the last stop is preserved, so the last style memorized is A=0) it leads to recurring bug reports because people don't get it and tend to think that there's something broken. I've been thinking about the inheritance of opacity and honestly, I find it rather annoying in most of the cases. At the moment is marked as a wishlist item, but I'm starting to think that it's probably an usability bug. I think that should be better to avoid opacity inheritance as default and make it optional via preferences (i.e.: preserving fill and stroke but not opacity unless the user select the proper option in the prefs). What do you think?

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Improvements for ICC/CMYK Workflow
by Felipe Sanches 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

This is my GSoC application. Please, give me feedback so that I can improve it. *Project idea* My project proposal consists of a set of improvements in the user interface that would improve user workflow when dealing with CMYK color space and ICC color management. Last year I was invited (and received some funds) by Brazilian Government to participate in an event where a couple free software developers and some users of free software graphics applications such as GIMP and Inkscape had the oportunity to exchange ideas and brainstorm about issues related to printing. From these brainstorms I have gathered a set of issues that I believe are of high priority for the inkscape team. I propose that in my SoC project this year I would focus on these activities: - store CMYK color values in the SVG file using icc-color - create a default target device color profile option in the document properties dialog (color management tab) - automatically color transform the color palettes using the selected target device icc profile - automatically color transform the color picker widgets using the selected target device icc profile - brainstorm a way of properly displaying "out of gammut" colors in the user interface - implement "out of gamut" user interface - colors using an alternative color profile should be the exception case (thus, only this case would require the user to explicetely chose the icc profile in the CMS tab at the fill&stroke dialog). Other colors should automatically use the target device profile. JucaBlues

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GSoC 2009 Preliminary slot allocations
by Josh Andler 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hey mentors, The preliminary allocations netted us 5 slots. Please take that into account with any rankings or reviews that need to be finalized. Cheers, Josh

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LGM
by Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi, Inkscape is listed as main project at Libre Graphics Meeting, and yet Ivan Louette seems to be the only guy who signed up. Is anybody else coming? Ted? Bryce? Jon? Bulia? Mental? Alexandre

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Refactoring freeze: tomorrow!
by bulia byak 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Guys: I understand that coding is addictive, but we must finally move ahead with the release. So, unless there are serious objections, I declare a refactoring freeze starting tomorrow at noon EST! Please do all your refactoring commits before then. To refresh your memory, a refactoring freeze means: > no lib migrations, no rewriting and rearranging code "for general correctness", and no 2geom syncs "just in case" until the release. I realize this is all done for good reasons, but experience shows that each such wave of changes brings bugs that keep popping up long after the wave has passed. So, let's stop refactoring and start bugfixing in a serious way. Thanks for cooperation! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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SVG Open Call for participation
by Ted Gould 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Hello, For those who are interested the Call for participation for SVG Open this year has gone out. Very exciting, and specifically I can comment on how nice conferences are on the Google campus. All the information is in this mail, of course Inkscape related SVG topics would be interesting to most of the participants. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2009Apr/0052.html It would be cool to have a good showing at the conference. --Ted

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Couple of text bugs
by Thomas Worthington 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

I went to print a piece of text on a path last night and nothing appeared. Once the text was converted to paths itself it printed fine. Version 21051. Another, long-standing bug, is that text behaves strangely when aligning. I generally find that of several pieces of text the one used for "relative to" is fairly random; certainly the choice in the alignment menu is frequently ignored. I've not found a pattern yet - the object's ID does not seem to be the basis of the choice nor does the type of alignment (baseline, left, top etc) seem to matter. The order of the objects on the page seem to have something to do with it. Anyone else seeing this? -- Thomas Worthington Tech Nouveau 32 Bangor Road Groomsport BT19 6JF 07748 792333

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Conditional compilation in 2geom
by unknown＠example.com 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

Hi all, Recently in 2geom, "HAVE_GSL" and "GPL_TAINT" #defines were created, to optionally leave out certain parts of 2geom. How should Inkscape handle these things? Should the make script define those things on the commandline? Or should 2geom provide hooks to a 'config.h' of its own that Inkscape can tweak? Thanks for thoughts, Johan

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The bias property for feConvolveMatrix
by Jasper van de Gronde 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

The SVG standard defines a "bias" property for feConvolveMatrix to offset the result of the filter. It specifies that this value should simply be added to the result for each channel. Implicitly the standard defines that these are premultiplied color values, however, this seems to make little sense, as the bias has very little meaning without taking the alpha channel into account. The standard also says that one of the applications of a bias is "to have 0.5 gray value be the zero response of the filter", this seems to be directly contradictory with adding bias to the premultiplied values (as then the same bias could suddenly stand for white if alpha was 0.5). So, what to do? Batik doesn't seem to support bias!=0 at all, so there is also no precedent. I currently let feConvolveMatrix make bias relative to alpha.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] lpe-crash
by Guillermo Espertino 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

This has been fixed as of rev. #21094 by Diederik. It was indeed a bug in snapping code. I created the report #356743 for that, which I'm closing as fixed right now. Gez.

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lpe-crash
by jf barraud 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Hi all, For some unknown reason, all lpes having theire own "addCanvasIndicators()" (namely lpe-knot and lpe-cpopyrotate) now crash inkscape whenever you try to edit with the node tool. Just in case someone is aware of some recent change in the code causing this, please make suggestions, it might save me some time trying to understand what is going on! ;-) Cheers, jfb.

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group options in export dialogs
by the Adib 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hello, how is it possible to group several options in the export dialogue? I think about a grouping inside static box and grouping inside multi tab pane. I would like to group all options related to: - export area/object - font options - file format compatibility / subformats - handling of linked images Good would be if I can save/restore my settings :-) This could be done by defining <group> and <page> tags What do you think? Adib. ---

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Snapping toolbar
by Diederik van Lierop 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Op Vr, 16 januari, 2009 01:39, schreef Rock Star: > The difference between creating and editing can be somehow seen from the > video [1]. That video indeed explains everything! A few months ago I introduced a snapping delay, which makes snapping in Inkscape much more responsive in complex documents. That snapping delay is what you noticed when editing objects, but it apparently it doesn't work when creating objects. I will fix that. If however you prefer the old behavior without any delay, then just go the preferences -> snapping and set the delay to zero. > Now I see the problem with guides and grid and toggles. However, since I > come more from a CAD world, I'm used of snapping to whatever is visible. > Hence, if there are 2 grids turned on, I would expect to snap to both. > This > would than mean 2 more toggles. If you see grid/guides it snaps, otherwise > not. Maybe it isn't a problem after all to add an additional toggle in series. When creating a grid, the per-grid snapping is turned on by default. So if a user is not aware of this then he won't notice, and if he turns it off then... well, that's his/here responsibility ;-). So we would end up with these options in series: 1) the global snapping toggle -> EVERY USER MUST KNOW ABOUT THIS** 2) the GLOBAL grid snapping toggle -> CLEARLY RECOGNIZABLE ON THE TOOLBAR 3) the PER-GRID snapping toggle -> ON BY DEFAULT 4) snap bounding box corners toggle or the snap nodes toggle -> EVERY USER MUST KNOW ABOUT THIS TOO** **) ... but only if they care about snapping obviously. > Anyway, thanks for the answer and additional explanation. You're welcome. Thanks for your feedback! Diederik

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chebyshev.cpp missing
by bulia byak 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

during recent 2geom update, this file was not added, preventing compilation -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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more gradients
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Hi, Here is an interesting patch in the tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346681 "This is a .diff file containing code that allows Inkscape to generate spiral gradients, as well as conical or angular gradients as a degenerate case. It allows the user to create and edit these gradients with the gradient context (tool) and the Fill and Stroke dialog in the same manner as a Radial gradient. It also includes an (ugly) icon for use in the Fill and Stroke dialog and Gradient toolbar." How come no has one commented for 5 days now? :) Alexandre

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how to edit blueprint in launchpad?
by the Adib 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

I tried to set the webpage for this launchpad blueprint "multiple-pages-support" https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/mutiple-pages-support to the page in the wiki that I recently created: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Multipage It looks that I have no rights to do that.? I am member of the "inkscape bug team". Do I need an other membership? Who can help? theAdib.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.47 - was Re: GSoC 2009 - Project handling in the repository
by Guillermo Espertino 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

There's a pretty large amount of 0.46 bugs being reported again and again in launchpad, and most of them are fixed in SVN. I guess that stabilizing the SVN and fixing important bugs and regressions to release Inkscape 0.47 as soon as possible would have a significant impact (positive) in the reduction of duplicated bugs. I personally don't care if some filters, lpes or features don't make it. I'd prefer a stable 0.47 with the bugfixes and the enhancements that may be considered "stable". Even with its regressions and some high importance bugs, the SVN version is pretty stable and it has loads of improvements (snapping, pdf output, eraser, spiro, etc.) that would make 0.47 attractive enough, from the user pov. And that would help to close lots of fixed bugs for good. So +1 for the idea of starting the freezing and regressions hunt. Gez

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GSoC 2009 - Project handling in the repository
by Joshua A. Andler 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Hey All, Due to concerns and issues voiced in the past, it seems like we should talk about how GSoC projects should be handled in our repository. A big concern is the impact on Trunk and if we want to release 0.47 with minimal pain this year. Given that I'm the hold-over release warden for 0.47, and that I have also taken on future release related duties from bryce... I'd like to see things work as smoothly as possible. What are some thoughts on what to do? Should we stick to the way we did it in the past and potentially introduce much more breakage in the near future? Branches on an as-needed basis? Perhaps just a GSoC2009 branch for all students work to be committed to? I could see the latter being beneficial to ease testing all their work with no harm to trunk the process. Additionally, it's a great way to learn about our "don't break trunk" rule... the students will be forced to commit responsibly as breaking it would hinder all other students too (which I would hope they'd be vocal yet diplomatic in handling). Any and all thoughts are welcome. Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape DVCS - was: Re: GSoC 2009 - Project handling in the repository
by Jon A. Cruz 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 15:09 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:02:24PM -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 14:49 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I definitely agree that it is high time to move to a DVCS. I've > been > > > using both git and bzr in my day job and it makes so many things > so > > > much > > > easier. > > > > Yes... and it's also high time that bzr admitted there are platforms > > other than Linux out there and fix their line-end handling. > > You're talking about AmigaOS, right? No. I was thinking more of OS-9 (note that it is not OS/9) :-)

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Inkscape DVCS - was: Re: GSoC 2009 - Project handling in the repository
by Jeff Kowalczyk 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

The GSoC 2009 might present a good opportunity for inkscape to move to a DVCS. Students, mentors and testers would benefit from enhanced branch, merge and branch tracking capabilities at github, launchpad, bitbucket, et al. Jeff

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GSoC, KML-SVG
by Piotr Kopczyński 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Now to the matter. I haven't got a clear idea what to do, I'm not even sure about the guidelines for this task nor have a complete feeling of the goal. On the other hand I have some chances to make a piece of valuable work here. The task was described as "likely XSLT". Fortunately I have the basic understanding of XML and XSLT (I've recently accomplished a subject at my university devoted to XML and XSLT, so I'm quite fresh with it). In addition, I got to like it and feel a need to deal more with such translations. The fact is, I don't know the "XML Schemas" and practical aspects of SVG and KML. I will need some time to get through their documentations. Anyway, both specifications are worth knowing, so I will gladly learn them. I guess the job may be considered as import and export respectively. Importing (KML to SVG) shall be relatively simple and with a small risk of an "out-of-time" defeat. The other direction (export) seems more hard and needing deeper considerations. Of course, the importing part might also need some "parameters" (options in import wizard?). As I am freaky/scarry of not meeting the deadline, I like to find a safe-feeling solution first. An example of such is making a little website for converting KML to SVG using for example Firefox built-in XSL processor (I've used this solution in my last XSLT project, although it didn't involve any SVG rendering). I have then made a silly and tiny web framework (using PHP + .htaccess + mod_rewrite) for passing parameters to the XSLT file (parameters are dynamically inserted into original file as lines with an xsl:param definition each). Thus I could make a small portal driven only by XSLT :-) As this solution is quite comfortable and "recent" for me, I believe "I can make it", and in the meantime we can optionally consider if I will be able to deal with Inkscape internals (that is what I don't know at all, so this may be more risky). That's it for a minimum. I'm waiting for your opinion and expectations. If you agree for solving this task via XSLT, I'm likely to success with it. Piotrekk

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GSoC mentoring
by Josh Andler 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Our requested number of slots for GSoC is currently greater than the number of mentors we have. If I don't see a change in this equation soon, I need to change our request to a lower number. SO... If we have anyone interested in mentoring students this year who is not signed up, please do so asap. If we have anyone that is currently signed up who is willing or able to mentor more than one student, please speak up. Cheers, Josh P.S. Existing mentors, please start reviewing student proposals if you haven't already done so.

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Johan's GSoC App
by Josh Andler 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

I have marked him as ineligible per his desire to not participate this year. This was done to take his proposal out of the ranking queue, so it is more accurate for the students that wish to participate. Johan, we're sorry it wasn't able to work out this year with your schedule, but we all go through busy spells and know it wasn't an easy choice to make on your end. Cheers, Josh

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inkscape.org is offline
by Alexandre Prokoudine 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Hi, inkscape.org is offline for several hours already Alexandre

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Can math support be enabled on the Wiki, please?
by Jasper van de Gronde 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

I would very much appreciate it if math support could be enabled on the Inkscape Wiki. Specifically, I'd like to use it for the Advanced Gradients page. I'm sending it to the list(s) because I have no idea who is "in charge" of the Wiki, so if you do know, that would help as well.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly
by Boutros Saba 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Thanks Bulia & JiHo, Now I'm trying to roll back to previous versions of Inkscape on Tiger (10.4) - and I don't find the versions... any ideas where I can find them. I deleted all the previous versions I had. Thanks & regards, Boutros On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:52 AM, inkscape-devel- request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 00:27:45 -0400 > From: JiHO <jo.lists@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X > - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly > To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>, inkscape-devel List Devel > <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <30C8951D-624A-49D1-BC33-0CFD5FA74121@...400...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > On 2009-April-02 , at 13:10 , bulia byak wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Boutros Saba >> <boutros.saba@...400...> wrote: >>> I had a version that worked perfectly. I don't remember which one >>> was >>> it. But when I try to examine the past versions one by one, no one >>> seems to work. It seems that there is something in the system that >>> changed that is affecting the Arabic in Inkscape. >>> I tried rolling back to a previous version of X Server and didn't >>> work too. >> >> Just a guess, this may be related to the Pango library version you >> have installed. Try to upgrade or downgrade it. > > Pango is bundled with Inkscape on OS X so upgrading or downgrading > Inkscape should also upgrade or downgrade pango. > > In X11 (XQuartz) however, there has ben some changes in the font > caching mechanism. I don't know if it could affect this behaviour > precisely. > > Anyhow, before testing a new version of Inkscape and/or X11, you may > want to clear the font cache so that Inkscape rebuilds it on frist > launch (NB: this will make Inkscape's launch time quite long . just > wait). > To do so, remove the directory ~/.fontconfig. One way is to do it in > the Terminal: > > rm -Rf ~/.fontconfig > > be careful with this command, rm -Rf can be dangerous. Basically it > erases recursively everything you give to it. So if you type rm -Rf > ~ /.fontconfig (with an accidental space between the words) it will > read > > rm -Rf ~ > > and that means: erase all of your home directory, where all you files > are. You don't want that ;) > > JiHO > --- > http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Some ideas for Inkscape and William Klingelsmith especially
by Anton Litvinov 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello I would like that some underused possibilities of svg:text to be exposed/implemented in textobject tool (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html) 1) charwidth, to make user able to change the width of gliphs 2) letterspacing and wordspacing 3) higher and lower indexes by means of offsets 4) text-decoration: uderline, line-through 5) text-aligh by textwidth and 6) facilitate users with TeX-formulas input (Abiword guys already have this) What do you think about it? May be my conception of vector drawing tool is too perverse/freaky. PS *whisper* does this desevre to become a GSoC proposal? -- Best regards, Anton Litvinov Yugra State University

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GSoC Idea: Inkscape API Improvement
by Glimmer Labs 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

My name is Soren Berg and I wanted to propose a possible Google Summer of Code project and see what you guys think. I would like to use GSoC '09 to improve the scripting API of Inkscape. This is an area that has seen some major changes over the last few years in terms of extension support and verb passing but I still believe there is room for improvement. The extensions are very useful for making filters but don't (correct me if I'm wrong) really expose any of Inkscape's functionality. You need to use an entirely different set of tools to manipulate the XML data and pass it back. The verbs are very useful for batch processing and similar tasks, but the fact that none of them take any parameters or return results means that they are not ideal for scripting or otherwise interacting with Inkscape in a more in-depth fashion. I wrote a scripting console that exposed many Inkscape functions for programatically creating images and it was accepted for inclusion but it became harder and harder to support, largely because of the lack of any sort of API. It did show some very interesting benefits to controlling Inkscape programatically (like script-fu for the GIMP) though. I know there is some work going on with a Java based API but it seems to be mostly stubs right now. I could start working on this early as well since I have a job that wants to integrate software with Inkscape. What do you guys think? Obviously I haven't fleshed out my plans very much, and that is because I want to get some general feedback on the concept first. Thank you for reading, Soren Berg

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ShapeOpera GSoC
by Stefan Zimmermann 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, I know it's a bit late but is it still possible to work on ShapeOpera for Google Summer of Code? - Stefan

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GSoC, KML-SVG
by Piotr Kopczyński 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello everybody, I have just subscribed because I'm interested in undertaking the SVG-KML conversion/translation task within GSoC contest. I am just writing the details of the proposal (I guess I have some hour and a bit left till deadline), then I'll post it here. I'm looking for directions, what to do and how to behave :) Best regards, Piotrekk

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped
by worms invasion 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, No, I believe the actions are correct and the icons are swapped. The actions should remain in the same order as in 0.46, and as they are in r21009, that is: - align horizontally on the left - align vertically in second position. It would be ***very odd*** to change this order in 0.47. Please, can you check that? Regards. --- On Thu, 4/2/09, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: > From: Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:26 PM > > > worms invasion wrote: > > > > This has been going on for a while I think in current > SVN and is still > > present in r21009 (win32snapshot)... The "align nodes > horizontally" > > function is assigned the "align vertically" icon, and > vice-versa for the > > "align nodes vertically" function. > > > I had some trouble figuring out which is which, but it > turns out the names > and icons are arranged properly, it's the actions that > should be swapped. > Fixed in 21038. > > Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Icons-for-%22align-nodes-horizontally%22-and-%22align… > Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Failed to execute helper program in Windows Builds
by Render 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Currently in the development builds editing an bitmap externally by right-clicking the image causes inkscape to return the following message: Failed to execute helper program: (Invalid Argument) Would it be possible to select gimp.exe itself rather than just gimp? Just calling gimp seems to be something associated with Linux. Scribus exhibits this same behavior, but you can navigate to the helper program itself and then everything works fine.

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Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly
by Boutros Saba 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hi there, I tried to post on the same subject in the past, but it I didn't get any working suggestion/consideration back. I'm running version 0.46 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. When I write Arabic into the text tool I get a disconnected Arabic letters. It happens also if I copy a connected Arabic letters from outside Inkscape: when I copy the connected text it gets disconnected. I had a version that worked perfectly. I don't remember which one was it. But when I try to examine the past versions one by one, no one seems to work. It seems that there is something in the system that changed that is affecting the Arabic in Inkscape. I tried rolling back to a previous version of X Server and didn't work too. Any clues??? I rely on Inkscape very much. Thanks in advance guys! Best, Boutros

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC Idea: Inkscape API Improvement
by Josh Andler 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Krzysztof, Please know that anything Jon or Ted discuss is not as short sighted as you seem to think. I won't say that all ideas they have are perfect, but at the very least, they've probably put more thought into it than you're giving them credit for (and no offense, probably more time and thought than you have). I have to put forth that it seems like you are a little too quick with dismissing the input of others. Given that you have applied for SoC, I have to ask... will you be able to really take advice from a mentor as seriously as you should? On Apr 1, 2009 5:58 PM, "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: Ted Gould wrote: > > I think that makes sense. One thing that I think would be interesting > for... We would have to roll back most of the C++ conversion in order to do that, and go back to plain GObject. I don't think that's possible. I think the best solution would be to use SWIG (an automated binding generator). Jon suggested using XForms over DBus, but I think that's just too complicated to be feasible. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GSoC-Idea%3A-Inkscape-API-Improvement-tp22760803p2283… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________...

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Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped
by worms invasion 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, This has been going on for a while I think in current SVN and is still present in r21009 (win32snapshot)... The "align nodes horizontally" function is assigned the "align vertically" icon, and vice-versa for the "align nodes vertically" function.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] State of the Icons
by Guillermo Espertino 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

> > Would it be possible to commit the finished versions of both Tango (art > > libre) and Tango Colors icons in SVN? > See above, discrete icons are needed. I will make them the default for Linux > once I get them. Thanks for your answer. Let me get this straight. There will be two sets and the tango will be used in linux? The ability of changing the theme using a custom file won't come back? What happens to people who wants default icons in Linux, or people who wants Tango in Windows, for example? Gez.

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Wiki main page & delete access
by Krzysztof Kosiński 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

I already mentioned this here but I didn't receive an answer. Can I receive the credentials necessary to delete pages and edit the main page on the wiki? For example, the main page has a lot of links in WikiWords, which are pointless in MediaWiki, and it has links to pages that are outdated and no longer useful, even confusing. I'd like to fix that. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wiki-main-page---delete-access-tp22859628p22859628.ht… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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gdl summer of code
by Johannes Schmid 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi! Someone on #gnome-hackers pointed me that you will probably have a student working on gdl to split it out again as a library. While I really appreciate that work I would be even more happy if you could contribute this work upstream. Also gdl spent a rather unmaintained time development seems to speed up again now, mostly based on the work of Joel Halsworth from the Lumiera fame (www.lumiera.org). Patches and documentation improvements landed in trunk in the past weeks. I would like to avoid duplicated work here. Of course the ultimate long-time goal remains to push gdl to gtk+ but before it would be great if all project using it would use the version that ships with GNOME and constribute to this. This will save work for all of us and lead to a better result. Thanks a lot, Johannes (the quasi gdl maintainer) P.S: I am not subscribed to that list so please CC me.

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Affine Transformations in Python
by G33K 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, I' d like to ask if there is perhaps some sort of affine transformation library available to the Inkscape Python scripts? So far, I only found the file simpletransform.py, which is quite useful, but not very comprehensive. The transformation stuff already has excessive support in the Inkscape C++ code. Are there any Python bindings for that? Right now, I am primarily interested in getting pretty constructor functions for defining rotations and scaling, without having all the mathy matrix clutter in my code. If none are available, I could add those to simpletransform.py myself. Cheers, Gerrit -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Changes in rendering of lpe tests
by Jasper van de Gronde 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Interestingly, rendering of lpe-knot has changed again. And to be honest the current behaviour looks more logical to me. So could someone (jfb?) have a look again? jf barraud wrote: > IIRC, the lpe-knot reference is correct. > > Cheers, jfb. > > > > 2009/4/1 Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528... > <mailto:th.v.d.gronde@...528...>> > > jf barraud wrote: > > Argh! right. > lpe-knot for groups does not work :-( > > One bug is not directly in lpe-knot, but in the initialisation > of the array parameter in the case of groups (which is wrong in > some cases). > > > So, who is right? The existing reference or the new output? Or neither? > >

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GsoC '09 Proposal
by William Klingelsmith 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello everyone, Upon reading Alexandre's post about submitting proposals ASAP, I fired off my idea. I would like to use this post to not only introduce myself, but to also share my proposal here. ~proposal~ My proposal for Inkscape and GsoC 09 deals exclusively with altering the existing typographic system in Inkscape. The three primary areas I wish to work on are kerning, tracking, and typeface organization. Kerning, the altering of spacing between a pair of letters to enhance aesthetic appeal, is implemented in Inkscape currently, but the existing system provides several hurdles to the designer. The first hurdle is the speed in which a designer can apply or remove kerning. The current approach using the arrow/alt combination is interesting, but inefficient if the designer needs to apply or remove massive amounts of kerning quickly. The second hurdle is that there is no visual record of how much kerning is applied to a specific area. This can be frustrating if the designer wants to keep track of the changes he/she has introduced. My solution to this first area is the implementation of a dropdown box in the toolbar that appears when the text tool is selected. This tool would remain unusable until the user placed their cursor in between two letters in a text area. When this condition was met however, the box would show the amount of kerning applied at the location of the cursor. Upon clicking the arrow on the dropdown box, a small menu would appear that listed several discrete steps of kerning which could be applied (-25, -10, 0, 10, 25, etc). The addition of this box alone would alleviate most of the problems stated above. The second issue that requires attention is the lack of a tracking system. Tracking is similar to kerning in that it adjusts the space in text. Unlike kerning however, tracking works with multiple words/sentences. Ellen Lupton gives a great example of what tracking is here http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/text/tracking.htm. Since tracking is pretty similar to kerning, it could be implemented in a similar way with a similar dropdown box. The box for tracking would become enabled when a designer selected a group of words or the entire text box. The final issue deals with the organization of typefaces in Inkscape. More often than not, a designer has several hundred typefaces installed on their computers. Inkscape's current type selection box indepedently lists all variations of a specific typeface. An example of this would be the presence of Helvetica, Helvetica Semi Bold, Helvetica Black, etc. This current arrangement makes an incredibly long list that the designer needs to troll through in order to find the face they want to use. This could be alleviated by collapsing all of the different weights of a typeface into one designation (in the example I just gave, it would collapse to Helvetica). A small box could be placed next the typeface selection box which contained all of the different variants. This would make it incredibly easy to pick and choose what typeface variant one was searching for. I hope you find this as interesting as I do.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Ubuntu nightly builds
by Guillermo Espertino 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

> Can someone put a link to these nightly Ubuntu builds on our download > page at inkscape.org? I end up searching my mail archive everytime I > want to comment on a bug-report posted by Ubuntu users. Unfortunately the last nightly build in that PPA has a nasty bug in the blur code that makes it almost unusable (it is already fixed in SVN). iirc, the build process had some bug but it will be fixed soon. In that case, a link in the download section would be great. Gez.

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Lib2geom in our wiki
by unknown＠example.com 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi all, At the moment, lib2geom is pretty hidden on our wiki. It is under the heading "Developer Documentation >> Development Discussion". We (lib2geom folks) would like to have it more visible, more easy to find. Perhaps we can make a new header for lib2geom with the links from http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Lib2geom under it? Thanks a bunch, Johan and the lib2geom team!

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Ubuntu nightly builds
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hello all, So I've gotten most of the way on getting a nightly build setup in a Launchpad PPA. It builds for the current, the previous and the next release of Ubuntu. What I'm particularly happy about is the package is "inkscape-devel" so it can be parallel installed with a stable version of Inkscape. Here's the PPA: http://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+archive I'm going to run the script by hand for a couple of days to catch errors but then Cory has graciously allowed me to run it on his server after that so it should become more regular. --Ted

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Feedback for my project idea
by Palak Dalal 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I am thinking about doing a project on reading digits on licence plate of cars from a picture of the car. I have done considerable research on this project which involves both image processing and optical character recognition. Please let me know if you are interested in this project or any other requirements i need to fulfill. Thank You

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[GSOC Propose] Automatic pattern making script
by tera api 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi all, Title: Automatic pattern making script Student: hiroki utsunomiya Abstract: 100% GPL & Python extenstion. Select 3 colors & 1 Click. SVG output. HOMT pattern?: Example site using HOMT pattern (http://www.novemberkou.com/RMGJ/ not my site). I aim at this. (+SVG output) exe application (Incompleteness) & SVG output samples: http://teraapi.com/homt/ Sorry for my bad English. cheers, --- Hiroki Utsunomiya teraapi@...400...

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] more gradients
by Tom Lechner 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Speaking of gradients, just in case you need a bezier mesh math refresher mish mash (so to speak), I wrote one here: http://laxkit.sourceforge.net/html/lotsamath.html I made an svg approximation generator for bezier meshes, loosely based on Bulia's method, which works sort of ok in most cases. Bezier meshes can be made to be conical gradients, but the svg blur technique doesn't do so well for that configuration. Pdf, by the way, natively supports bezier patches, so if such things get in Inkscape, they can at least export naturally to pdf. Compare svg approximation versus actual patch: http://laidout.org/other/exported-svg.png http://laidout.org/other/exported-laidoutpatch.png -Tom > Jasper van de Gronde wrote: > > > > .... but I started a Wiki page on how we could > > approximate more advanced gradients... > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Gradients

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Changes in rendering of lpe tests
by Jasper van de Gronde 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Can somebody knowledgeable in all things lpe have a look at the new rendering results for the "lpe shapes.svg" and "lpe-knot.svg" tests? Links to the SVG files in SVN can be found on the results page: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html The existing references are also in SVN: https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/gsoc-testsuite/tester… (There are a few other "New" results shown on that page, but that's just due to a change in the missing file image, and the references have been updated already.)

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Fwd: Google Summer of Code: Potential Student Applicants: "***Very Important***: Submit your Proposals via the 2009 site *now*"
by Alexandre Prokoudine 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

For your consideration ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vaughan Johnson <vaughan@...2172...> Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:08 AM Subject: [Audacity-devel] Google Summer of Code: Potential Student Applicants: "***Very Important***: Submit your Proposals via the 2009 site *now*" To: Audacity Developers List <audacity-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Leslie Hawthorn, who runs GSoC, just posted to the mentors announce list a msg with subject "***Very Important***: Get Your Students to Submit their Proposals via the 2009 site *now*". If you're planning to apply, go ahead and do so now. This way, you can start to get feedback from us and Google can get an idea of how many students are applying. We fully expect applications to be iteratively refined before the deadline, so don't worry if your application is not complete, submit it now, so we can give you feedback on how best to complete it. The other reason to do so, LH explained, is because it is vital information in considering whether to extend the application deadline, which is under consideration. Thanks, Vaughan

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GSOC: Dynamic tints, tones and shades based on a named 'anchor' color
by Frederik Fabritius 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi Inkscape developers I hope to participate in GSOC 2009 and have written my project proposal in the bottom of this message. I have (very) briefly outlined the idea in an email to Jon A. Cruz, and he did not seem dismissive to this idea ;) This has some overlap with existing blueprints in Launchpad, so this project could be complementing current ongoing efforts in the code base. It seems that the work has barely started yet, so i hope my work will speed up things in this regard. My project proposal is below, and i have signed up for GSOC 2009 (name: frederikf) but not submitted my proposal, since i wanted some feedback from you guys first. Best regards, Frederik ------- Project proposal ------- Name: Frederik Fabritius Project: Dynamic tints, tones and shades based on a named 'anchor' color Project proposal: The idea is to have named colors which objects can inherit as fill or stroke color, so when changing the color value of the named 'anchor' color, all objects inheriting it will change color accordingly. As well as inheriting the exact 'anchor' color it should also be possible to specify an object color as 'linked' a tint/tone/shade of the 'anchor' color. After having seen this in Xara and Adobe Illustrator i immediately thought that Inkscape was missing this feature. I saw on Launchpad that two blueprints had been written, but not much had been implemented: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/named-color-swatches https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/color-groups Jon A. Cruz 2008-06-03: This sounds like an overlap of the named color stuff, Open SwatchBook, and what I've been calling "live colors" but are actually dynamic tints, tones and shades based on an 'anchor' color. I have briefly emailed with Jon A. Cruz about this proposal who has said he was just begun implementing part of the ground work for implementing named swatches. I was thinking that this GSOC project might offload/complement some of Jons work. I think the concepts could be extended by not only linking shade/tint of a color, but also looking into linking colors across the spectrum such as complementary/triad/analogous colors as explained here: http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-theory-intro.htm I consider this extension to the concept, to be out of scope of the GSOC delivery. Final deliveries: A named swatches dialog A property editor dialog to edit the color in the swatch, which also allows one to specify a 'linked' tone/tint/shade to a named 'anchor' color in the swatch. These should support being stored in Jon's "Open Swatchbook", if it makes sense in the given timeframe. I know Jon has considered implementing an additional color picker, but i plan on limiting the delivery to support the current color pickers implemented in Inkscape and working out the details with the mentor associated for the project. Inkscape Questions When did you first hear about Inkscape? Have you used Inkscape before? If so, for what sorts of things? Ive used Inkscape mostly for illustrations for the past three years for student projects at my university. I have also used it for website mockups and for doing layouts for event invitations and the like. About Yourself I am currently writing my master's thesis at the Technical University of Denmark where i am writing audio processing on the GPU. I have a 2 week planned vacation where i was going to bring my laptop and work on the project as well. My main programming language is python, but have done various projects in C++, C# and java.

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Inkscape logo license
by Nicolas Dufour 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

I know it has already been discussed before, but I can't find any conclusion. We (me and Elisa) need to use the Inkscape logo in two contexts: . to create a customized logos for the inkscape-fr and planet Inkscape-fr websites; . in a book we're currently writing, adapted in our drawings. All of these uses need that the logo allows modifications, and the last one no commercial limitation. We plan to release our work very shortly and we really need to know what to do. Thanks. -- Nicolas

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Tutorial and .po(t) autobuilt
by Luca Bruno 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi, For some weeks now, I've been trying to setup an autobuilder for various inkscape docs (and translations). While the .po(t) process is quite fine (minus some rough edges, like errors report), I'm still unable to build the tutorials. I can't even compile correctly them on my machine, and I haven't yet found out the cause of these issue; saxon or java is throwing a NaN in a normal sum calculus... help is highly appreciate. The current result is at http://www.unstable.it/luca/inkscape/trunk/ The cronjob is not yet scheduled, as I don't like wasting cycles when the process is not correctly working. The build environment is a debian unstable chroot, with: ii java-common 0.31 ii libsaxon-java 1:6.5.5-5 ii sun-java6-bin 6-12-1 ii sun-java6-jdk 6-12-1 ii sun-java6-jre 6-12-1 I'm not very comfortable with java and saxon, so I'm glad to hear for your suggestions. Ciao, Luca -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Luca Bruno (kaeso) : :' : The Universal O.S. | lucab (AT) debian.org `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 3BFB9FB3 `- http://www.debian.org | Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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Math on the Wiki?
by Jasper van de Gronde 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Can we have <math></math> enabled on the Wiki? Or am I overlooking something?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-translator] Re : new strings and translation statistics for trunk (2009-03-31)
by Alexandre Prokoudine 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Leandro Regueiro wrote: > If the files are well formed it isn't necessary to check if it > Inkscape compiles right with that translations files. Leandro, Inkscape does have to compile before you can generate a POT file :) Alexandre

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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.19 Announcement and OCAL10K Goal Exceeeded
by Jon Phillips 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

March 31, 2009 - Release 0.19 of Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000 artists, is now available for download and use. In celebration of this accomplishment, since OCAL��s last release happened in 2005, and March being 5th anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), the OCAL community set a goal to achieve 10,000 uploaded pieces of vector graphics. The project achieved this with the 10,000th submission from user Boobaloo who uploaded a graphic of an onion. The project congratulates Boobaloo for uploading the 10,000th upload. Also, project congratulates all artists who have uploaded in this anniversary OCAL10K sprint. The project congratulates Nicu who personally crossed the 500 clip art upload barrier and now has 696 pieces of clip art uploaded to the system. All efforts towards the OCAL10K goal helped boost the site��s registrations and focus on releasing monthly packages once more to make this project a flowing river of clip art uploads. Since all contributions to the project are released into the public domain via the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication, anyone may use the Open Clip Art Library files for any use including collections, to make money, and to generate compositions. However, the community encourages anyone who uses the clip art to provide attribution back to the original clip art in the form of a link or to announce the use of the clip art in some form. For the month of April in lead up to the annual Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montreal, May 5-9, 2009, the Open Clip Art Library is setting a goal to achieve 12,000 pieces of uploaded clip art related to spring time, release the 0.20 package of clip art, and to update the site��s software to ccHost 5. The projects asks all who are software developers comfortable with PHP and MYSQL, to consider joining the project now ti help with three critical tasks of adding rendered thumbnails, update the site software to ccHost 5, and to help roll-out our latest software theme. Highlight * An offline HTML gallery to browse through the thumbnails of all clip arts * Over 4,000 new cliparts as compared to release 0.18. * 10,000th upload by Boobaloo: http://openclipart.org/media/files/boobaloo/11895 * Refocused Development around three critical tasks * Call for Participation toward April goals of 12,000 uploads about spring * Call for Participation towards Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 ** http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Downloads * http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.bz2 * http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.gz * http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.zip Press Kit * Logos: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/about * All Clip Art: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art About Open Clip Art Library Founded in 2004 from Inkscape, the open source drawing tool, the Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration. Help by submitting artwork today or join the IRC channel or the mailing list to find out about e.g. web development related contributions: http://openclipart.org/discussion For More Information: http://www.openclipart.org.

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GSoC 2009 project - lib2geom development
by Marco 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi all! After some talk with Nathan Hurst I decided to apply for GSoC also this year. I would like to go on with the development of lib2geom that as I can see is now almost completely integrated into Inkscape. So, before submitting my project proposal to google I would like to know your opinions! Kind Regards, Marco =======================PROPOSAL START============================ Name: Marco Cecchetti Project: lib2geom development Abstract Lib2geom has become the core geometric library of Inkscape and it is also an open source project on its own. My project aims to expand the library and give evidence of its skills through the implementation of ad hoc "toys": little interactive applications showing off the power of lib2geom. Moreover many of these toys could be suitable directly for live path effects. Goals (1) Complete the work on bezier clipping routines making them more robust, and implement more specialized intersection routines for the various curve types; (2) Adding support for more basic geometric shapes (triangle, regular polygon, ...) so making easier the development of educational and technical geometric tools. (3) Implementation of a new curve type (clothoid) to let 2geom supporting spiro tools into Inkscape; a clothoid toy showing off the feature of the implemented curve will be provided, too. (4) In case I have some time left after fulfilling the other goals I would like to implement a parallel version of some 2geom routine using a multi-thread library, and explore the possibility of exploiting vectorialized support (e.g. SSE2) provided by modern cpus. Details (1) Towards the end of my last year project I start developing routines that compute the intersection points and the collinear normals of two Bezier curves. Both these routines are based on the Bezier clipping technique as it is explained on Sederberg's book [1]. Though at 99% these routines work correctly there are still cases where they show some spurious behaviour. As they are really useful tools I think that spending some time in order to make them more roubust it is a worthwhile task. Moreover I would like to investigate the utility of implement specialized intersection routines for various curve tipes (bezier-conics), (conics-conics) (conics-line) and so on. This would save the time needed to convert them to symmetric power basis or to bernstein basis before computing the intersection and would make also the computation more robust by removing the possible approximation errors introduced by the conversion stage. (2) In order to simplify the implementation of technical drawing tools or the development of a geometric educational version of inkscape, I think that it is useful to have direct support in lib2geom for simple geometric objects and the availability of geometric construction methods. In my last year project I implemented several tools, such as (infinite) line, ray, circle, ellipse, arcs and I provided routines for making up parallel line, perpendicular line, angle bisector, circle by 3 points, ellipse by 5 points. Now I want to go on adding new geometric objects such as triangle, regular polygon, and the left conic sections, moreover I want to implement other construction methods such as circle by 2 points and tangent to a line, inscribed and circumscribed circle of a triangle and of a regular polygon, conic section by 5 points and so on. (3) A Clothoid, also known as Euler's spiral, is characterized by the property that its curvature varies linearly with the arc length. Because of this important property they are useful in the route design of highways and railways to achieve smooth transitions between lines. For the same reason they are also appreciated in the design of font types. I'll provide the Clothoid class with a complete implementation of all methods inherited by the abstract Curve class such as bounds computation, evaluation for a given parameter value, conversion to and from a s-power basis path, and so on. The Clothoid-Toy will provide the ability of interactively play with a clothoid curve by modifying the initial and the final clothoid arc points, set its length, watch the projection of an external point on the curve, and all other abilities that the Clothoid class will own. (4) Several 2geom routines such as the bezier clipping algorithm and the curve-curve distance computation will benefit from a parallel implementation. The trick is in partitioning the work in several tasks that can be executed by different threads managed by a task scheduler. All that can be achieved using a multi-thread library like the Intel Threading Building Blocks (released under the GPL license) or through the Boost.ThreadPool library still in active developement. Likewise exploiting a vectorialized instruction set such as SSE2 will allow us to parallelize the computation of large amount of data by producing more compact assembly code, that is working on "packed" data we save a large number of clock cycles. Benefits to Inkscape My first goal is to simplify the development of technical drawing tools into Inkscape and the development of an educational version of Inkscape focused on geometry learning and here I think to programs like Cabri [2]. All the first 3 points of my project go in this direction. The geometric construction methods I want to implement will make possible to deploy new technical live path effects. Expecially the fulfil of the third point will simplify the design of a complete spiro tool into Inkscape (at present such functionality is supported by a live effect). Having a complete and robust api for curve intersections will be useful to simplify the implementation of cut path tools, and boolean shape operations. Finally, the fourth point will put the basis for exploiting the power of modern cpu architetures. About me I am a student in mathematics (University of Pisa, Italy) I am always been keen on computer graphics and I am interested in computational geometry. My main programming language is C++, but in the past I also programmed in pascal, fortran 90, assembler, java, javascript, actionscript, bash script. Moreover I am knowgeable about several Boost libraries, XML APIs and the Scalar Vector Graphics Markup Language. Contributions to open source projects My main contribution in the open source field is the Google Summer of Code Project I applied for the last year. It was about 2geom development. In the project time-frame I achieved the following goals: - Implementation of a new curve type that fulfils the traits of an SVG Elliptical Arc and of an "Elliptic Toy" for playing with this curve type. - Some basic GSL library wrapping classes such as Vector, VectorView, Matrix, MatrixView and a fitting tool. - Ellipse and Circle curves with the ability to be created or by the algebraic implicit equation, or by providing a sufficient number of points lying on the curve. - Nearest point routines for all curve types, computing the point on the curve nearest to a given external point. - A curve-curve distance routine. - A Polynomial class for symbolic computation. - Implicitization method for polynomial curve intersection, and Bezier clipping method for Bezier curve intersection and for collinear normal matching. - Several simple geometric objects and construction methods that I have already listed above. I'm developing an extension of Boost.Function [3] in order to implement a model of function concept supporting multi-signature and so overloading. [4] I contributed in the development of a proof of concept svg import filter for Open Office. This import filter has been developed mainly by Fridrich Strba at Novell, my contribute consists in having added svg text element support to the import filter. [5] [1] Sederberg, Computer Aided Geometric Design [2] http://www.cabri.com/cabri-2-plus.html [3] http://www.boost.org/doc/html/function.html [4] source code: https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/overload/trunk documentation: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfxvjncs_1x6456m [5] source code: http://tinyurl.com/2es9cu =======================PROPOSAL END============================== -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 Call for Presentations
by Jon Phillips 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Apologies for cross-posting. Please spread around :) ### Hi, FYI, the standard LGM press release: Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), the premiere workshop and conference for developers and enthusiasts of free software graphics, will be held May 6-9, 2009, at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. LGM invites you to share your work with the community. Topics of interest include reports on major open source graphics projects, technology previews, engineering talks, power-user techniques, graphics business best practices, and general issues such as open file formats and collaboration. Interested projects and individuals should submit proposals for presentations, demonstrations, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) sessions by visiting the talk submission page at the CREATE project wiki. Proposals should be at most two paragraph abstracts and should include any special technical requirements. http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2009/Submit_Talk Individuals who already plan to attend can now register free of charge at the LGM Web site. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/signup.php The call for participation ends April 1, so don't delay! About Libre Graphics Meeting: For four years, the Libre Graphics Meeting has been the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of free software graphics applications. Developers from projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of brushes and other assets, and common formats. The face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important to developers, but LGM offers plenty for end users as well. Tutorials, talks, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) meetings to help free software users get the most out of their applications fill out the LGM schedule, and demonstrations from artists showcase what is possible. For more information, visit www.libregraphicsmeeting.org To support LGM 2009's community fundraising campaign, visit pledgie.com/campaigns/2926 -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86 132-6817-8381 (china) Sent from: Beijing 11 China.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [FWD: [Inkscape-docs] Inkscape File formats]
by John & Melonie Curwood 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi, Sorry It's taken so long to get back to you. You asked about a format list after my last emial. well here they are. Now I think I have the lists correct, but it seemed everytime I looked through the Open and Save dialogs I saw something new, so I've been through the dialogs several times refining the lists. To save space I will only add the discrepncy lists to the email. If you want the whole lot just let me know. FORMATS THAT CAN ONLY BE OPENED IN LINUX .outline .ps .eps .cdr .txt .icns FORMATS THAT CAN ONLY BE SAVED IN LINUX .ai .epsi .dxf (AutoCAD DXF) .xcf FORMATS MENTIONED IN MANUAL THAT AREN'T IN EITHER wIN OR LINUX .dia FORMATS NOT IN MANUAL THAT CAN BE OPENED/SAVED BY WIN OR LINUX .emf .wmf .wpg .gif .cdr .txt .icns .gpl .zip Now as I said in my original email the final list I am happy to add to the manual, it's just here for general info. Cheers, John Curwood Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:51 PM, <marketing@...2141...> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm Currently working on the Floss Manuals Inkscape manual. At the moment I >> am editing the working with files chapter and have a few questions about >> file formats. I originally posted my question to the Inkscape docs list and >> was advised to ask my question of the Inkscape-dev list. My original >> posting is below. >> >> I look forward to any info you may have. >> > > You were also asked to provide list of file formats of interest :) > > Alexandre > > >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rendering problem for an object with blur / 0.46 Official vs 209225 vs 20967
by worms invasion 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

I don't know, really. I *am* on not-so-fast machine myself, and seeing so many "legacy" drawings being degraded this way is... awful. I just can't imagine all the people who will encounter the same experience, and what they will think about Inkscape. What worries me, is that it will force everyone to use "better" or "best", when obviously they don't need it *really*, in fact. Not everyone uses advanced filters. Where is the benefit? I can't, I really can't work on awful renderings like what 0.47 shows, and using a better filter quality puts my machine down. Inkscape has become unusable for me. The dramatic change in the "average quality" is a total turn off :-( Maybe the blur and filter qualities could be stored on a per-document basis, and not for Inkscape itself? Maybe Inkscape could recognize that the file was created with This or That version, and issue a warning of some sort in that case when opening the file, saying "this file was created with an earlier version of Inkscape, the average blur and filter quality will be set to better for this file". These "old" files do not contain advanced filters as 0.47 allows them, anyway, so the performance degradation should not be noticeable and the rendering will be correct on canvas, allowing proper editing? I don't know what would then happen if the user would want to add the (awesome) new filters to the "old" file. I don't know :-( --- On Sun, 3/29/09, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote: > From: Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rendering problem for an object with blur / 0.46 Official vs 209225 vs 20967 > To: "Inkscape Devel List" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 6:41 AM > worms invasion wrote: > > ... > > For all the reasons explained above, I think that, > although done with > > the best intention, the fact that the blur/filter > display "average > > quality" has changed results in the opposite effect > as the one > > intended. It seems to me that, at the moment, there > are more SVG "done > > with 0.46" than "done with O.47', and that the case I > am describing > > will arrive for a long, long time... > > > > If I missed an obvious point, I'd very much like to > hear it. > > I don't think you missed anything, and perhaps we should > rethink the > default setting of the filter quality, but the fact remains > that for > people with not-so-fast machines the best filter quality > simply isn't an > option when interacting with the graphics. (And it is in > fact not > uncommon for drawing programs to have low-quality rendering > modes.) > > So, assuming that simply removing the lower quality > settings is > (currently) not an option, what do you think is an > acceptable way of > decreasing the quality in exchange for speed? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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GSOC: Cross platform WMF and EMF IO and other ideas
by Krzysztof Kosiński 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

I have several ideas for GSOC 2009. I'll present all of them here. Idea 1 is about improving Inkscape's data interoperability. This means being able to paste parts of drawings from Inkscape directly into OpenOffice.org and MS Word and the other way around. This would involve writing a cross platform WMF and EMF output extension (our current EMF extension is Windows only). This could be accomplished by using libwmf, but this project seems to be abandoned since 2002. Another option is to use some code from OpenOffice.org. Recently (2006), MS published a full specification of those formats, so writing a new library to read and write them isn't out of the question. Idea 2 is has a similar goal to Idea 1 and it is to revamp the I/O extension system. This would involve unifying the code paths for open/save, export/import, clipboard, drag and drop, and create bitmap copy; unifying command line parameters for export (e.g. all extensions would accept --export-id); converting all extensions to load/save using GIO streams; and redesigning the Export dialog to allow exporting in any supported format. Idea 3 is to refactor the tools code, so that each tool is a separate object, and the number of files that list all tools is reduced to a minimum. This would get rid of toolbox.cpp, as well as greatly simplify the writing of new tools. Idea 4 is to replace Verbs with subclasses of Gtk::Action, with only one class per action (instead of one Verb class per several verbs). There would be a separate action group per document, and an additional one for global actions. Actions could be registered dynamically at startup. Which idea, when implemented, would be the most beneficial to Inkscape? Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GSOC%3A-Cross-platform-WMF-and-EMF-IO-and-other-ideas… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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SWIG bindings
by Krzysztof Kosiński 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

I stumbled upon this interesting project: http://www.swig.org/ It is a binding generator with support for a lot of languages. We could use this to kickstart Inkscape scripting (as a trivial example, it would be possible to change the license of all files in a directory programatically) and allow extensions to call internal Inkscape functions (e.g. path boolean operations, convert stroke to path, etc.). There was also a GSOC project idea about this from another student, I think he should definitely use this. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SWIG-bindings-tp22774855p22774855.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 34, Issue 40
by Guillermo Espertino 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

> It's not exactly like this. Before my hanges we used scalable icons > rendered > by Inkscape's own renderer. Now we still use scalable icons through a > standard theming mechanism, but it isn't playing well with the > existing code. Krzysztof: If I remove the hicolor directory I get no icons at all (running ubuntu linux). The previous code worked and let the user change the theme. In the current state, all I got is an incomplete set that I cannot customize. Wouldn't be possible to roll back to the working version and move these changes to a branch? Gez

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC Idea: Inkscape API reg. tests
by Glimmer Labs 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

On 3/29/09, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote: > > This sounds absolutely wonderful. And if you do this, be sure to > consider opportunities for testing inkscape as well. Some time back I > tried testing Inkscape just based on verbs and this already allowed me > to do some cool stuff (but not enough to be standardized into a > framework), having more control over Inkscape's actions could allow > semi-automatic testing of quite a few Inkscape features in a way similar > to the current rendering tests. > That's a very interesting idea, and underscores the importance of a generalized API, you never know what people are going to use it for. Here a quick proof of concept I wrote to try it out: Using my old API I wrote a script that made various shapes and did some selections moved things around etc. Then I ran it twice and saved the file each time (as svg) and ran a diff. No difference but the filename, just as I had hoped. Worried that lots of floating point math would be it's downfall, I used the same technique with scripts that generate these images: http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~bergsore/dimond-fractal.jpg http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~bergsore/morph.jpg (They are jpegs here but you can imagine how messy the paths are.) It worked perfectly. Obviously this won't catch errors in the way Inkscape displays things, like bitmap comparisons, but if automated it would be very quick. A fast and easy alternative regression test could definitely be one of my deliverables. What do you guys think? Soren Berg

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rendering problem for an object with blur / 0.46 Official vs 209225 vs 20967
by worms invasion 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, I'll try to explain better what I mean with a new screenshot: http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/display_inkscape_046_v… First, I'd like to state a few things: - I'm not an artist, but I draw things in Inkscape, and I draw them in SVG to have them displayed as SVG. So my "visual perception" of SVG is what Inkscape shows to me, not a PNG (which I often not even generate). It means I design the object *as I see it rendered on Inkscape canvas*. - I have several drawings made with 0.46 or previous versions of Inkscape, and there are many places where I could download SVG designed with that (openclipart, etc.) So, let's take the following hypothesis: - After seeing a nice SVG in my browser, I download or open in Inkscape 0.47 a file which was drawn with a previous 0.46 version, in order to use it as a clipart, or to rework on it. On the top of the screenshot, it is a shape drawn in Inkscape 0.46, with filter quality set to average (default). It is what I see in my browser, or on the PNG if I generate it. My 0.47 Inkscape is set to default for both Blur display and Filter display, as I have a small machine (512Mb memory, Intel Pentium III mobile, 1133Mhz). I open the file, and I see what shows at the bottom of the screenshot. I hope you'll admit that it is awful and doesn't look like at all what shows in my browser. BUT it is what I work on, I have no other way to work on SVG. I'm not switching back and forth to PNG or to the browser to check what it looks like there. What am I supposed to do at this point? Remember, I'm an average user, not knowning the Inkscape internals. A) I say: this Inkscape program is mad, I'm not going to use it. I close it, end of story. B) I could try to change the blur quality and/or the filter quality to better or best. OK, I do that. But the problem is, the canvas is not updated when I do that, and it's a general preference, not a per-document preference. So, first, I'll have to: - with my document still opened, change the Blur / Filter effect and see that what is displayed on canvas has not changed. - close the document and Inkscape, reopen Inkscape which now has Blur and Filter set to better or best, and see that the file looks like what it should. (or something similar, because I have no idea of the exact real value of the quality). SO: setting the displays to a "lower" average quality in Inkscape 0.47 than in Inkscape 0.46, which was supposed to be intentional to help the designer (the designer in Inkscape 0.47) conserve CPU, results in fact in obliging me (who opened on older file) to set Inkscape to high quality, for all my documents. And I have a small machine - I can't afford to do that. C) I could just do what I was adviced to in the channel: remove the filters on the object. This means I need to find all objects with blur/filter, one by one, and remove that. After such a tedious task, then I lose the original information (here, the blur was 0.3), meaning I am absolutely unable to re-create or re-see the original file, as the artist designed it. What am I supposed to do now? For all the reasons explained above, I think that, although done with the best intention, the fact that the blur/filter display "average quality" has changed results in the opposite effect as the one intended. It seems to me that, at the moment, there are more SVG "done with 0.46" than "done with O.47', and that the case I am describing will arrive for a long, long time... If I missed an obvious point, I'd very much like to hear it. Regards. --- On Fri, 3/27/09, Niko Kiirala <niko@...1267...> wrote: > From: Niko Kiirala <niko@...1267...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rendering problem for an object with blur / 0.46 Official vs 209225 vs 20967 > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 1:03 PM > Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:31:44 -0700 > (PDT) > worms invasion <wormsxulla@...36...> > kirjoitti: > > > In short: the exported PNG appears correct in the > three versions, but > > the screenshots of the rendering in Inkscape look very > (or very) > > different across versions. The file looks absolutely > normal, as I > > draw it, in 0.46 official. > > > > In r20225, the object is already badly rendered in > Inkscape. > > > > In r20967, it's awful... > > The default values for filtering quality in r20967 are not > too good. > Neverteheless, as you noticed, the lower quality is used > only while > editing the image and the exported image looks the same in > all > those versions. > > Lowering the quality while editing is intentional: > rendering blur can bog down even the mightiest > workstations. If it > doesn't bother you, you can turn filter quality settings > all the way up > and the quality will be just as good as while exporting. > > -- > Niko Kiirala > niko@...1267... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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GSOC: Interested in joining Inkscape
by sonali mendis 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, I'm Sonali Mendis from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I went through the project ideas listed at Inkscape page and I think it is a great project of my interest. I'm a graphic designer plus a developer and I think and I want to add my ideas and effort to improve this open source project. While using Inkscape, I thought *Guide Improvement *is essentially needed. In addition to that I have another my own idea of introducing different brush types with ability to increase and decrease the size by click of a key while drawing to the pencil tool and introduce an eraser tool with the same options. I need your kind feed back on the ideas mentioned above to select one which will benefit the Inkscape most. Thanking You, Regards, Sonali Mendis

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Blurry Icons Problem on OSX
by André Berg 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, In the latest build from source on OSX (rev 21007) 95% of all user interface icons continue to be totally blurred. I submitted a screenshot in an earlier thread which, if it interests you, can be viewed here: http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/9260/inkscape20798osx105inte.png I understand that this is probably not at the top of the priority list. On that end, I would like to just ask two questions: 1. Is this normal for the current OSX builds or is this tied to my environment only? 2. Is there something I can do to revert back to rev. (approx) 20600 behaviour? At least until this has been fixed. As I understand, the icon engine was radically changed. Thank you very much for reading! André

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Serious regression in rendering of feComponentTransfer test
by Jasper van de Gronde 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

That is, the filters-comptran-01-b test now crashes Inkscape... (and it used to pass) See bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/350317

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