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Godot Company
by Martin Owens 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

Dear PLC & Devel, This is an interesting bit of news. Godot, which is a member of the Software freedom Conservancy, and one of their largest other projects have had their leadership set up a for profit company called w4 games. This is ostensibly to develop Godot further. "Our mission is to strengthen the open source Godot ecosystem by providing companies with the commercial products and services they need." - https://w4games.com/ This is interesting to us here I believe. One of the conflicts I have personally with the SFC is how constraining and limited the SFC are for many of the things that would allow Inkscape to grow, invite commercial partners, hire developers, pay mentors, fund marketing research and design. Material things that we currently patch together with very kind support for key volunteers, but should be more properly resourced. Has anyone here had thoughts about developing a commercial company to develop Inkscape? I'm going to be reaching out to the new Godot business as well as a few of their contacts to see what their thoughts are and see what I can learn and if we can copy them. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Monthly PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Howdy folks, We have our monthly PLC meeting this Friday (Aug 5) at the regular time on chat. You can figure that out in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220805T10&p1=202 The projected agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Everyone is invited! Also, a special thanks to Maren who sent out the Vector's reminder and made me realize I had forgot to send this email. Ted

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Vectors' Meeting July
by Maren Hachmann 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Hello Vectors (and those interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/258 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape 1.2.1
by Marc Jeanmougin 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

Inkscape 1.2.1 ============== Inkscape 1.2.1 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2.1 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, fixing a nasty data loss crash with the export dialog, various other crashes, and improving page export and some translations. Thanks to everyone involved in that release! -- The Inkscape team

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Github Page and Repository
by Ted Gould 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Howdy folks, I was looking at our repo on Github, and frankly, I like it. But, I know for some employers they're rating potential employees on their Github profiles (I don't agree with this, but it happens) and so not having the commits in Github reduces the exposure for that work. This probably effects our "interns" from Google SoC and Outreachy the most. For reference: https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape The problem we've had in the past is that when we had the repo on Github, people would fork it and create Pull Requests that no one would see or triage. Which would frustrate folks (understandably) and look poor on the project. The idea that I had is that we take the Inkscape repo, and we make a branch "github" that has the same README and graphic that is currently up on Github. We push the full Inkscape repo, but then set the default visible branch to the "github" branch. So anyone going to the repository sees exactly the same thing. Github doesn't seem to have a mechanism for disabling PRs, or forks. So we're relying on people actually reading the text. But I was curious what folks thought about the idea. Ted

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Vectors' Meeting July
by Maren Hachmann 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Hello Vectors (and those interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/256 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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PLC Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Howdy folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday July 1st. Everyone is invited. Proposed agenda is currently: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda You can find the time in your timezone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220701T10&p1=202 And you can add it to your calendar from here: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/46/ Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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Inkscape lagging
by Finn Downey 05 Jun '22

05 Jun '22

> > > > > > > > Hello Inkscape. My name is Finn Downey. And I have been using Inkscape to make a drawing to put on Deviantart but I am having a slight problem. > It seems that the bigger my drawing gets, the slower the website seems to act. I have especially noticed that whenever I try to change the width and height of the drawing in the document properties, the numbers seem to automatically revert to what they were before I changed them. And whenever I select something to try and move it, it moves so slowly. > do you know what is wrong and if there is anything that can be done to fix these problems? > > please send a reply. Thank you kindly. >

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Vectors' Meeting June
by Maren Hachmann 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Hello Vectors (and those interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/252 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Further information about CVEs
by Thomas Leroy 20 May '22

20 May '22

Hi there, As you may know, 3 CVEs [0] [1] [2] have been assigned to Inkscape, but there are a very few information available. The 3 CVE pages redirect to the same CISA page [3], mentioning Inkscape version 1.0 or later as fixed. Could you please confirm this information? Moreover, in the case of backporting patches is preferred instead of upgrading, could you please point me to the fixing commits? That would be very awesome.:) Best regards, Thomas [0]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42700 [1]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42702 [2]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42704 [3]https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-132-03 -- Thomas Leroy Security engineer SUSE Software Solutions

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Inkscape 1.2 released !
by Marc Jeanmougin 17 May '22

17 May '22

================ = Inkscape 1.2 = ================ Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.2 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features, and watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/news/2022/05/16/inkscape-12/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following one year of development after the 1.1 major release. The highlights of this release are: * Inkscape documents can now hold multiple pages, which are managed by the new Page tool * Editable markers and dash patterns * Layers and objects dialog merged * On-canvas alignment snapping and Snap settings redesign * New 'Tiling' Live Path Effect * Redesigned Export dialog with preview and ability to select objects/layers/pages and even multiple file formats to export to * Import SVG images from Open Clipart, Wikimedia Commons and other online sources * Selectable object origin for numerical scaling and moving * All alignment options in a single dialog * Gradient editing in the Fill and Stroke dialog * Gradient dithering * SVG Font Editor updated * Flowing text around shapes and text padding * Convenience Boolean operation for splitting paths * Configurable Tool bar, continuous icon scaling and many more new customization options * Performance gains for many parts of the interface and many different functions * Lots of improvements to the user interface * Numerous crash & bug fixes in the main Inkscape program and in in the stock extensions We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.2/Inkscape_1.2.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], bug triaging[4], or even outreach[5]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… +https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/bug_migration [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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PLC Meeting in an hour
by Ted Gould 06 May '22

06 May '22

Okay, I think I figured out why these emails aren't going out on Monday, but that doesn't help for this one. Sorry for it being late. But we have a PLC meeting in an hour. I imagine most of the big things are going to be hiring and the release. But we'll check in on other stuff too. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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Inkscape 1.2.x branched of main
by Ted Gould 05 May '22

05 May '22

Howdy, Not sure who else needs to know it but apparently 1.2.x was branched of main. AFAICT it wasn't announced anywhere. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/tree/1.2.x Ted

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Fw: Re: Introduction
by Shlomi Fish 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Please see https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/reply-to-l… . Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:43:12 +0200 From: "Fares M. Basosy" <faresbasousy(a)gmail.com> To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Introduction Is there a task that i am supposed to do? On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 7:30 AM Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> wrote: > Welcome, Fares! > > please see https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and > > https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/how-to-start-co… > . > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 04:02:40 +0200 > Fares El-Basousy <faresbasousy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello I’m a student from GSOC and I’m willing to contribute to Inkscape, > > my name’s Fares and I am in 3rd year in computer engineering, > > > > My main languages are C/C++ and python, I am new to open-source > community > > and I am willing to give it my all the thing I love the most about > this is > > that I can gain new experiences and get to know more people in the field > as > > well, > > > > > > > > Sent from Mail for Windows > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ > NSA Factoids - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/NSA/ > > Buffy: OK, Xandoosh, can you perform a search to find where such a > duplicator > is present? > Xander: Sure! Hey, Wil, can you use a spell for that? > — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Buffy/A-Few-Good-Slayers/ > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply > . > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - https://shlom.in/enemy Chuck Norris ability to destroy is only matched (and exceeded) by Summer Glau’s ability to undo his destruction. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Summer-Glau/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .

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Introduction
by Fares El-Basousy 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

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Creating an Inkscape wiki login
by Solutions Master 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

I am trying to set up an account on https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=C…. This page says the following: > Automatic account creation has been disabled due to high levels of spam. To request an account please email the developer list Can anyone give me access, or know a more proper way to get/request access? Thanks.

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GSoC Proposal for integrating Tesseract OCR into Inkscape
by Bashar Ahmed 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Hello everyone, I am Bashar Ahmed, a CSE Sophomore at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. I wanted to get some feedback on my proposal before the final submission. I have already sent it on the IRC. Any reviews will be valuable https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C10mlxyYuyTDBY7B9g6xS09RKzYbdJqwXWAm0ff…

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Help Vote on 1.2 Release Video Features - Urgent
by Ryan Gorley 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

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From Roy Torley: support to evaporate soon for gtkmm?
by Roy Torley 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hello, I took a quick look at Kjell Ahlstedt's statement that he will cease to maintain gtkmm and other such modules soon. Before I write him to find out what's happening, I would like to get a few ideas from any of you what you want to see in gtkmm so that I can write a letter that is worth reading. For context about me, I am just getting back into C++ after a 20-year hiatus and am in the process of reviewing latest developments in the language. I have written an introductory tutorial series for Inkscape, so I have a decent feeling for how to use it so I can talk with you about it intelligently (I hope). My basic idea is that, if Kjell wants to move on from gtkmm, might it be worth our while to step in where he leaves off? Might there be other options? I speak naively because I am new to this particular arena of software development and yet am interested in contributing to Inkscape's good health in a meaningful way. I appreciate and salute all of you who are doing all this work for Inkscape and for all those graphic artists who desperately want to learn, improve, and realize their creative potential with this powerful tool. Your thoughts and perspectives are more than welcome. Best wishes for the early Spring, Roy Torley

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Inkscape 1.1.2 and Inkscape 1.2-alpha released
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Inkscape 1.1.2 ============== Inkscape 1.1.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.1.2 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It fixes numerous crashes and several major inconveniences, such as lost styling when when converting text to path, or relative position of clones pasted into a new document ---------------- In addition, we are releasing an alpha version of Inkscape 1.2, to facilitate testing of major upcoming features, such as the multipage support, editable markers, on-canvas alignment, revamped alignment and snapping options, layer and objects dialog, etc. If you find any issue with this new version, please report it tohttps://inkscape.org/report You can download it at https://inkscape.org/release/1.2alpha0/ ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us onhttps://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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From Roy Torley: gtkmm lack of maintenance
by Roy Torley 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi Martin, I have read your musings about gtkmm and I wonder: is it worthwhile for somebody else to cultivate the Web site and help gtkmm keep up with the rest of the world? I am sorely tempted to get involved, especially because I am reviewing my old C++ from about 20 years ago. Maintaining and improving gtkmm would be a huge task and, indeed, much more than one person can do, and yet, that is how wonderful things get started, or revivified. I have looked over the gtkmm Web site and noted that it is a good Web site. To keep it up-to-date is a huge project for one person. On the other hand, might it be worth thought and energy for new blood to maintain gtkmm and its Web site? I am tangentially involved with a science fiction and fantasy convention organization in Portland, Oregon, USA, called Orycon. We are aging out and desperately need new blood to continue a worthwhile and valuable tradition in this city. The challenge for us involves reaching out and contacting younger people of a New Age culture to become involved in keeping Orycon alive and vibrant. I spend time thinking about what we can do to keep gtkmm alive and thriving. I remember that a new fellow in India, Soham, just contacted us and is interested in getting involved. This is a good sign. How can we recruit more? This is just a naive rhetorical question right now, perhaps all the more rhetorical because I have a busy and chaotic work schedule. At least, I can sit with a glass of a nice white wine and think through what we can do. I hope I'm not wasting your time. I like to sit on the sofa and think about projects and, when the time is good, act on those thoughts. The tutorial I was writing is finished and now I can move on to other things, such as gtkmm. I appreciate your time, thoughts, and concern. You are not alone. I hope that I can provide good company. Best wishes, Roy Torley

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New Contributor - Help
by soham tripathy 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Dear Contributors, Hello everyone, I am Soham Tripathy aka Archaic Mage from India. I started using Inkscape as an alternative to Illustrator (which was costly) for my school projects (small scale). Inkscape is free to use, easy to navigate and has noticed many significant improvements over the years. I was fascinated by the team which was able to make such a wonderful product.This inspired me to contribute to open source projects. Since, Inkscape was the first software which introduced me to open source, I wanted to start contributing to it. I am a second year, computer science student in Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. I am completely new to open source contributions, but I have a good enough knowledge on git, c++, CSS, GitHub and I have also started learning GTK. In regards to it, I have successfully forked and cloned the Inkscape repository on my local system(Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS) and I was also able to build and run it. I have also read the programming style used. Kindly guide me, on how to start making small contributions to Inkscape, what kind of issues to address and how to start researching about those issues. Thanking You, Yours Sincerely, Archaic Mage

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Post on List
by soham tripathy 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Dear Sir/Ma'am, I want to post to the Inkscape Devel mailing list, kindly consider the same. mail: sohasoham811(a)gmail.com Yours sincerely, Archaic Mage

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Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Dear Inkscape Contributors, here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different artists: ----------------------- 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs ------------------------ Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): ========================================= Ranking: Name or nickname: Contribution to Inkscape: ========================================= You can subscribe to the mailing list here: https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors ) so we can help you set this up. The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in one week from now). To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ Thank you everyone! --------------------- Explanation: Ranking: Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. The system that is used for determining the winner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. Name or nickname: The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. Contribution to Inkscape: We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the inkscape.org website for the voting. Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an Inkscape membership!

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Vectors' Meeting April
by Maren Hachmann 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/248 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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PLC Meeting Today
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Howdy Everyone, Sorry for the late notice, not sure what happened to my scheduled email. But we do have a PLC meeting today. Lots of things in progress. Everyone is invited. Time and date: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220401T10&p1=202 Agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Ted

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Future of Gtkmm?
by Diederik van Lierop 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Hi, Not sure if everyone is already aware of this, but see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/-/issues/110 "I will not continue forever with maintenance of gtkmm and other *mm modules. Unless someone else continues the work, glibmm, gtkmm and other modules will be abandoned in a near future." Should we be worried? Best regards, Diederik

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Regarding the serialization of Spiro control points
by Fred Brennan 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Greetings, I write from the FontForge project. Of particular interest to me is the Spiro spline feature, which was originated around ten years ago by Raph Levien. One thing I'd like to add, (which would benefit both our projects,) is the ability of FontForge to understand the Inkscape Spiro serialization format. However, there are several things about the format which to me as an outsider appear to be defects serious enough that I have no idea how to even *import* these splines correctly, much less export our Spiro splines to this format. I would very much like to support the _de facto_ standard Inkscape has originated of supporting Spiro in SVG, but I am lost. George Williams, FontForge's original author, noticed this defect over eleven years ago.[1] Things are virtually unchanged since then, I checked `git blame`. Spiro has five point types, not including beginning and ending points. They are: * G4 curve (o) * G2 curve (c) * Corner (v) * Left Constraint ([) * Right Constraint (]) The ASCII single letters are the normal method of Spiro serialization, as championed by Raph Levien and by us in FontForge. Inkscape seems to create what I will call a "pseudo-SVG path". So, it is not really an SVG path, but rather is an SVG path which undergoes transformation into the typical Spiro format. Inkscape stores this in the "original-d" attribute. So, given a Bezier spline with control points defined as (x, y, c1, c2), Inkscape interprets a control point with only (x, y) to be a corner, meanwhile a control point with all four is a G4 curve, and (x, y, c1, NULL) is a left constraint while (x, y, NULL, c2) is a right constraint. I can probably overcome this, although George Williams was right to be skeptical of this format. There is no way I can see to define a G2 curve in this strange "original-d" format. Thus, this email. I write to ask a few things. I suppose first of all, what are the chances that we can convince you guys to store Spiro splines in plate[2] format, or another widely accepted Spiro serialization format? Second, if we cannot convince you to do that, how do I export FontForge spiros which contain G2 control points to Inkscape's original-d format? It's not possible, yes? So should I just silently fail and save them as G4? The curves will not be the same if I do that. Should I disallow export to SVG w/Spiro if glyph contains G2 control point? That seems a steep cost that will just confuse my users, so perhaps I should abandon the whole thing if it comes to that. Cordial regards, Fredrick Brennan (@ctrlcctrlv) [1]: https://narkive.com/63FADpG3.4 [2]: https://levien.com/garden/ppedit/README, section "Plate files"

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Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest: Chris Hildenbrand wins with "New discoveries await …"
by Maren Hachmann 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Dear Inkscape Contributors, thank you to all of you who have cast their vote in the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest and to all of you who have worked to allow for this Contest to take place again! The winning image is this awesome entry: "New discoveries await …" by Chris Hildenbrand, aka 2DGameartGuru https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await Congratulations, Chris Hildenbrand! A big thank you also goes to all the other artists who took the chance and participated. You can find their Inkscape-made artwork in the contest gallery: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ The votes ballot file and election running log are available for your interest here: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2271327 For the next Inkscape About Screen Contest, Tim created a collection of possible changes that came up during or before the contest in Vectors meetings. We still need to set a date for when to figure out which of them and how to implement those, more discussion topics are welcome, too: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/243 Maren

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Voting for 1.2 screen
by Victor Westmann 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

I would like to cast my vote to the artwork in this link: https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await Thank you all! Amazing submissions! Thanks, Victor

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Vote for your favourite Inkscape About Screen for Inkscape 1.2 until March 13 2022!
by Maren Hachmann 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

It's time to vote for the About Screen for Inkscape's version 1.2! We're very proud to present you with an amazing gallery featuring 25 entries, by 20 different Inkscape artists. Thank you so much to everyone who entered! Community voting opens on March 7 (0:00 UTC) and closes on March 13, 2022 (23:59:59 UTC). Here are the rules: * If you don't have a user account on the Inkscape website yet, you need to register (https://inkscape.org/user/register/) to be able to vote. * Everyone who enjoys Inkscape is allowed to vote. * Everyone gets 1 vote - this includes all contest entrants. * Visit the gallery and check out all the amazing works of art. * Click on one of the thumbnails to see the a larger version of the image and a description. You can also comment on the contest entry. * To cast your vote, either click on the check mark below the image or hover over the small image in the gallery to see a circle-shaped checkbox you can click on. If you accidentally vote for the wrong entry, you can change your vote by simply voting for a different one. * Voting will ONLY be accepted via the Inkscape website. * You can vote until Sunday, March 13, 2022, 23:59 (Time zone: UTC). In the gallery, there's also a countdown timer available that shows how long voting is open. * Once the community voting is done, the top five entries with the most votes will be passed on to the developers, who will then vote to determine the winner. * For the contest participants, ANY modifications of the files are prohibited at this point. SEE ALL ENTRIES AND CAST YOUR VOTE HERE: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ Good luck to all participants!

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 20 Mar '22

20 Mar '22

Forwarding your vote to the mailing list, Adib - it's now in the ballot file, too! Thank you! Maren Am 20.03.22 um 15:29 schrieb the Adib: > ========================================= > > Ranking: 1 3 5 > > Name or nickname: theAdib > Contribution to Inkscape: developer > > ========================================= > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:36 AM Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de > <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> wrote: > > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > > here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About > Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different > artists: > > ----------------------- > > 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await> > > 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1> > > > 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski > https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn > <https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn> > > > 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia > https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist > <https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist> > > > 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly > https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs > <https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs> > > > ------------------------ > > Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org>): > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > You can subscribe to the mailing list here: > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or…> > (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) > > In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the > mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat > channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors > <https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors> ) so we can > help you set this up. > > The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in > one week from now). > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ > <https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/> > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>, using the package > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already > voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > > For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the > inkscape.org <http://inkscape.org> website for the voting. > Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an > Inkscape membership! > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org> >

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Pacer 20 Mar '22

20 Mar '22

Ranking: 45213 Name or nickname: Pacer Contribution to Inkscape: I do the monthly challenges

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Gammets
by NASA Jeff 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Do we need someone who can review papers

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Re: [Inkscape-translator] Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Thank you for your vote, Mohammad! It's saved to the ballot now. Maren Am 16.03.22 um 07:25 schrieb MSKF: > Ranking: 154 > > Name or nickname: MohammadSaleh Kamyab > Contribution to Inkscape: Translating Persian

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1.2 About screen contest
by René de Hesselle 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Ranking: 12543 Name or nickname: RdH Contribution to Inkscape: macOS dev

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1.2 About screen contest
by Maren Hachmann 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Forwarding Michèle's vote to the list. Thanks for the vote, it's in the file now! Maren Am 15.03.22 um 01:26 schrieb michele: > Rocket.chat > > *michele* hat Ihnen eine Nachricht gesendet: > > > @zigzagmlt / @michele Vectors Team > My vote is as follows: 2, 3, 1, 5, 4 > > Thanks! > M

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1.2 About screen contest
by Vaibhav Malik 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Ranking: 14253 Name or nickname: vaibhav_malik Contribution to Inkscape: Code and bug triage

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Fwd: about screen 1.2 voting (Lazur)
by Marc Jeanmougin 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: about screen 1.2 voting Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:00:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Tamás Pétery <peterytamas(a)yahoo.com> To: inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.inkscape.org <inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.inkscape.org> Hello there, saw the announcement of the voting in the vectors team chat. Don't want to subscribe to the mailing list, hope this way I can still chime in. ========================================= Ranking: 21435 Name or nickname: Lazur Contribution to Inkscape: -handling the deviantart page as part of the vectors team -occasional showoff on the forum and frequent chat conversation starter -custom filter assets, drawings sharing via openclipart and what not ========================================= All the best Lazur

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Jobs
by NASA Jeff 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

I can do some piece work

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Meeting Recording: Discussing the Project
by Martin Owens 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Hi Everyone, This is a follow up to share the recorded link from last week's leadership committee video meeting: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/playback/presentation/2.3/80b082be7c60e7a1fd9… This was a no decisions meeting. There's no need to watch unless you're interested in a bunch of people thinking and talking. This discussion was really interesting, and varied. Covering people's thoughts on what is Inkscape is as a project, how we paying people changes things, how we go about asking volunteers, what this means for our sense of identity. What the SFC thinks of corperate involvement, of project different structures etc (big thanks to pono and Karen for attenting from the SFC). The video doesn't have a way of continuing any of the discussion on, so if you do want to talk abou the issues, please do add context to which part you'd like to add to. Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape Leadership Committee

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Ishaan Arora 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Ranking: 21534 Name or nickname: pulsar17 Contribution to Inkscape: Writing code for website

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(no subject)
by Adam Belis 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Ranking:21534 Name or nickname: Adam Belis Contribution to Inkscape: UX / UI / testing / documentaiton -- *Adam Belis* Illustrator / Animator/ Designer / Artdirector / Fabulator *www.AdamBelis.com* <http://www.AdamBelis.com>

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Thank you, Valentin, your vote has been saved to the ballot file! Maren Am 14.03.22 um 12:48 schrieb vanntile: > > Ranking: 142 > > Name or nickname: vanntile > Contribution to Inkscape: programmer, translator > > > @vanntile > > developer by choice and designer for fun > > Sent with ProtonMail secure email. > > ------- Original Message ------- > > On Monday, March 14th, 2022 at 02:35, Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de> wrote: > >> Dear Inkscape Contributors, >> >> here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About >> >> Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different >> >> artists: >> >> ----------------------- >> >> 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand >> >> https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/★new-discoveries-await >> >> 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand >> >> https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/★joy+1 >> >> 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski >> >> https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/★a-new-dawn >> >> 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia >> >> https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/★i-artist >> >> 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly >> >> https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/★fox-drag-bugs >> >> ------------------------ >> >> Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send >> >> it as a reply to this email to the Inkscape developers' mailing list >> >> (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): >> >> ========================================= >> >> Ranking: >> >> Name or nickname: >> >> Contribution to Inkscape: >> >> ========================================= >> >> You can subscribe to the mailing list here: >> >> https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… >> >> (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) >> >> In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the >> >> mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat >> >> channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors ) so we can >> >> help you set this up. >> >> The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in >> >> one week from now). >> >> To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: >> >> https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ >> >> Thank you everyone! >> >> --------------------- >> >> Explanation: >> >> Ranking: >> >> Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is >> >> your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank >> >> all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. >> >> The system that is used for determining the winner is >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package >> >> openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. >> >> Name or nickname: >> >> The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, >> >> required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. >> >> Contribution to Inkscape: >> >> We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as >> >> opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). >> >> Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling >> >> us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main >> >> area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing >> >> news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum >> >> moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). >> >> For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the >> >> inkscape.org website for the voting. >> >> Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an >> >> Inkscape membership! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen
by Milo Ivir 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Ranking: 4 5 3 1 2 Name or nickname: Milo Ivir (milotype) Contribution to Inkscape: Croatian translation, bug reporting (sometimes)

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Thank you, Lucas, your vote has been saved to the ballot file! Maren Am 14.03.22 um 14:30 schrieb Lucas Vieites: > ========================================= > > Ranking: 1 3 2 4 5 > > Name or nickname: Lucas Vieites > Contribution to Inkscape: UI translation to Spanish > > ========================================= > -- > *Lucas Vieites* > Blog @ codexion.com <https://blog.codexion.com/> > LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasvieites> > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:36 AM Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de > <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> wrote: > > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > > here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About > Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different > artists: > > ----------------------- > > 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await> > > 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1> > > > 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski > https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn > <https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn> > > > 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia > https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist > <https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist> > > > 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly > https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs > <https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs> > > > ------------------------ > > Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org>): > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > You can subscribe to the mailing list here: > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or…> > (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) > > In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the > mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat > channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors > <https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors> ) so we can > help you set this up. > > The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in > one week from now). > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ > <https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/> > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>, using the package > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already > voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > > For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the > inkscape.org <http://inkscape.org> website for the voting. > Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an > Inkscape membership! > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org> >

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Fwd: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Forwarding Valentin's reply, too - thanks for your vote, Valentin! Everyone: please make sure to reply to the mailing list, not to me personally. Thank you! Maren -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20 Datum: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:48:44 +0000 Von: vanntile Ranking: 142 Name or nickname: vanntile Contribution to Inkscape: programmer, translator @vanntile developer by choice and designer for fun Sent with ProtonMail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, March 14th, 2022 at 02:35, Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de> wrote: > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > > here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About > > Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different > > artists: > > ----------------------- > > 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand > > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/★new-discoveries-await > > 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand > > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/★joy+1 > > 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski > > https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/★a-new-dawn > > 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia > > https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/★i-artist > > 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly > > https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/★fox-drag-bugs > > ------------------------ > > Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > > it as a reply to this email to the Inkscape developers' mailing list > > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > You can subscribe to the mailing list here: > > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > > (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) > > In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the > > mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat > > channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors ) so we can > > help you set this up. > > The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in > > one week from now). > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package > > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > > We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as > > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > > For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the > > inkscape.org website for the voting. > > Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an > > Inkscape membership! > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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1.2 About screen contest
by Tim Jones 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Ranking: 3 2 4 1 5 Name or nickname: T1mJ0nes Contribution to Inkscape: Vectors

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Forwarding Lucas' vote to the developer mailing list: Am 14.03.22 um 14:30 schrieb Lucas Vieites: > ========================================= > > Ranking: 1 3 2 4 5 > > Name or nickname: Lucas Vieites > Contribution to Inkscape: UI translation to Spanish > > ========================================= > -- > *Lucas Vieites* > Blog @ codexion.com <https://blog.codexion.com/> > LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasvieites> > Thank you very much, Lucas! I'm going to process all incoming votes once a day, in the late evening. Maren > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:36 AM Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de > <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> wrote: > > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > > here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About > Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different > artists: > > ----------------------- > > 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await> > > 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1> > > > 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski > https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn > <https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn> > > > 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia > https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist > <https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist> > > > 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly > https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs > <https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs> > > > ------------------------ > > Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org>): > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > You can subscribe to the mailing list here: > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or…> > (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) > > In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the > mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat > channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors > <https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors> ) so we can > help you set this up. > > The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in > one week from now). > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ > <https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/> > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>, using the package > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already > voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > > For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the > inkscape.org <http://inkscape.org> website for the voting. > Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an > Inkscape membership! > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org> >

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Inkscape Booth at Virtual Chemnitzer Linuxtage this weekend!
by Maren Hachmann 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

Hi everyone, do you have plans for this weekend? What about a drawing and inking course with Inkscape? Visit us this Saturday and Sunday at our booth at the virtual Chemnitzer Linuxtage and enjoy free demos and workshops about drawing, programming and design: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en/programm/beitrag/187 (all times CET, Berlin/Paris/Amsterdam - note that US/Canada change to summer time on Sunday, while Europe does not yet) Also ask us anything about Inkscape! See you at the Inkscape booth at Chemnitzer Linuxtage!

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Job Posting: Project Coordinator
by doctormo＠gmail.com 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

Good news everyone! As Inkscape continues to grow, the responsibilities of the Inkscape team increase in tandem. To keep up with the current pace, the Project Leadership Committee are looking for a Project Coordinator. See the job posting for more details... https://inkscape.org/news/2022/03/10/hiring-project-coordinator/ Please check out the article and the job posting link inside it for all the details. Be sure you are emailing any submissions to the right email address. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Leadership Meeting: What is Inkscape
by Martin Owens 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Dear Inkscape, We're having another video chat tomorrow, you can find the date/time in your local timezone, plus the link to the video conference here: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/ * Note: it will be recorded, so share your audio and webcam with that in mind. This is going to be more casual than usual as I want to invite people to ask questions on the topic and discuss together our ideas. The topic I'd like to discuss is: What is Inkscape. Broadly an open source project can have many functions and many masters. Our project here has always been a very flat and inviting space for all sorts of contributors. Now that we are hiring a project coordinator, people would like to talk about what a project looks like when it has contributors who are paid by the project, volunteers, as well as people who are paid by outside companies. So how we can be a broad project to fairly accomodate all types of people. Can we identify when work is volunteer and when it should be a contract? Why have contracted work at all? These are not things we'll be concluding at the meeting. Just the topical questions to get things started. Hope to see you there. Best Regards, Martin Owens Project Leadership Committee

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PLC Meeting this week!
by Ted Gould 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

Hello Inkscapers! We have a PLC meeting this Friday to catch-up on all the fun things happening. Agenda is here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/09C5E804-8AB2-44D1-AB35-048397A21AB5@ge…) Time is Noon US Central Time on Friday March 4th. You can convert that here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220304T10&p1=202 (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/09C5E804-8AB2-44D1-AB35-048397A21AB5@ge…) Everyone is invited, hope to see you there! Ted

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Vectors' Meeting March
by Maren Hachmann 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/244 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Job Posting
by Martin Owens 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Dear Leadership Committee, Following our successful vote to hire a project coordinator, I'm here to report the progress and the remaining process for this job posting. I spoke with Pono from the SFC to finalise the details and the process they would like. These include: * The creation of a private mailing list where applications can go. Marc has created jobs(a)lists.inkscape.org which is a list of the hiring panel, and pono and myself as observers. I think Marc is there too as list admin. * Creation of the complete job text here: https://inkscape.org/jobs/project-coordinator-2022/ which the SFC wanted us to host on our own website. Included modifications from the SFC are the sentence for "equal opportunity employer" and the final section in how to apply for the job. The schedule for the submission of applicants and review processes is in that final section. * The formation of three inkscape community members to vet applications. Tim, prkos and michele have volunteered and are added to the above list. ~ Process todo: Confirm pono is on the mailing list and is receiving emails. Give job posting to the Vector's team for publication, however they would like to do that. A news article, twitter, etc etc. I need two other PLC members to form the finalisation panel, to conduct video interviews once we have a short list. Each interview could be an hour long, and there should be three at least in the short list, so please be aware of the time commitment at the start of April. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Can someone please contact
by NASA Jeff 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Areana Grande fandom on Facebook with regards to new algorithms etc.. and work we can do. I've mentioned mixx so far. But generally anything related to the arts. I've talked most about this on here I believe. Yes, I believe I've finally secured funding for Linux developers. Thank you for your patience.

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How do I invoke my.custom.extension by CLI
by marc 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

Hello all, this is my first post on this list. I'm not sure whether this is the place to ask, but couldn't find a better one. I chose to use inkscape for modifying vector-graphic-PDFs and convert them to PNGs and also to a varienty of PDFs with extra information in a background batch job. Basically this works well with official Inkscape 1.1 (c68e22c387, 2021-05-23) and the results are just as desired. Unfortunatelly there is some glitch with inkscape freezing every some hundred conversions. To track down the above freeze I decided to try the latest inkscape source and build it myself (Windows 10/Windows 11) to be able to debug it. I found that the current app (24f6795) does not obey to the same CLI. Calling --verb=my.custom.extension complains Unable to find: my.custom.extension verbs_action: Invalid verb: my.custom.extension I get the same error message if I try to invoke as -- actions=my.custom.extension. Both --action-list and --verb-list do not list any extensions. The extension is part of the menu, so inkscape seems to know about it. Commit 5e32ad5 "Menubar Filters + Extensions : Conversion to Actions" removes extensions from the verb-list. Various comments suggest that verbs are supposed to be moved to actions. Not sure whether that is the plan for extensions as well. So my question is: How can I invoke my custom extension from CLI in the current version of inkscape (24f6795926, 2021-12-25) or any later? Cheers and a happy new year to everybody, Lokomoko

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Inkscape GIMP Shotwell Aseprite and other open-source image editors - Great Scott! you cannot meet me at Twin Peer-to-Peer Mall at 1:15 AM
by Sergei Udris 15 Feb '22

15 Feb '22

Inkscape GIMP Shotwell Aseprite and other open-source image editors - Great Scott! you cannot meet me at Twin Peer-to-Peer Mall at 1:15 AM program peer-to-peer programs, including unseen competitive games i've had enough practical jokes for one morning, future boy! siding with big by accepting Hill Valley without peer-to-peer games github twitch email when Marvin Berry inviting Marty to play guitar is p2p selling out Isengard Tower and garden by hosting money-donate-sponsor-ads-jobs-coins disease Rey refuses to sell BB-8 for 60 portions in the desert, you burn Fangorn for coin fuel in the era of Internet turning programs into projects like producers pushing Nick Lang to play Joe Gunn when he wants Ray Casanov part docs-nesting around one program and not programming games like proud Vulcan Academy yet having hsiny web pages and lengthy maintainer credits and attributions no wonder Spock left for Starfleet thank you, ministers, for your consideration - live long and prosper maybe you were adopted honest as What the Health? if Federer Nadal Djokovic instead of competing for gran-slam set up a donation-collecting docs-booth in the middle of court if Linus - inner Jabba the Hutt stole name Freax - agreed to join Steve Jobs and Apple on that meeting when first came to California instead of keeping his word - free and open if torrent clients accepted Strickland-serer-networks-only valley instead of generating most traffic if Jesus instead of feeding 4000 had a small comfy meal for himself and friends for years or started a bread-breaking business even Biff would gladly polish their car for being scarier bullies Marty! you've gotta come back with me! even dust of open source image and photo editors we hake off of out Seinfeld-Obama-Nike running shoes but be sure - peer-to-peer programs including new competitive games - are climbing like Honnold on Mount Kenia no projects no experiments no docs no issue-scratching-on-top-of-ou-heads no money-sponsor-donate-ads-coins-jobs fatal error programs who are guests not workers breathing and singing with their won voice like Chris Pine i-am-Chris-Pine better than what Borg of money can collective-gram are on their way along with Pat Brown and Impossible Foods mission both will be served in vegan jars of time travel parens ( ) my calculations are correct - when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit Peter Dinklage: you thought that Joffrey had to survive - he aint in the credits for season five - baby you know i'm the man for all seasons

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Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest open for submissions!
by Maren Hachmann 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Calling all Inkscape artists! ----------------------------- You're invited to enter our traditional About Screen Contest to celebrate the upcoming release of Inkscape version 1.2! Find all information about how to join the drawing contest on our website at https://inkscape.org/en/community/about-screen-contests/ . We're looking forward to seeing **your** art! The Inkscape Vectors Team (marketing and outreach)

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Vectors' Meeting February
by Maren Hachmann 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! After the meeting, the 1.1.2 / 1.2alpha release coordination meeting is planned! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/241 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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PLC Meeting this Friday (2022/2/4)
by Ted Gould 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Howdy Folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday at Noon Texas time. Agenda is updated here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates And you can find the time for you locally here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220204T10&p1=202 Everyone is invited to join in, hope to see you there! Ted

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Fwd: Scribus 1.5.8 released
by Maren Hachmann 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

Forwarding for your interest: -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.8. Like previous releases, work on version 1.5.8 focused mostly on bugfixes and code optimizations, the latter of which are expected to lead to reliability and speed improvements. We have also begun to prepare Scribus for using Qt6, which will make our work easier for future releases. Most important changes General - UI Improvements for dark mode and some icon updates and window interactivity - Improvements to file import (IDML, PDF, PNG, TIFF, SVG) - Improvements to PDF export - Improvements with respect to tables (undo/redo, styles) - Improvements to the Story Editor - Improvements to the build system - Translation updates Technical/OS-related updates - Scribus 1.5.8 now includes Python 3 and is built for mac OS Catalina or higher. Additional Notes The complete changelog is available here: https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=112. More details are available from the Scribus Commit Mailing List archive (http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-commit/), beginning with revision 24637 in April 2021. Please note that while some bug fixes still may be backported to the 1.4.x branch, we do not plan an official release of this version anymore. If you think you need the changes, you have to check out the SVN repository and build 1.4.9svn from source. We encourage all Linux and *BSD distributions to switch from 1.4.x to this new version, since it's not only much more versatile but also more stable. Download For download links and checksums please visit: https://w.scribus.net/wiki/index.php/1.5.8_Release Credits The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. We are grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie for sponsoring. The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg (Germany), Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA), the Newspaper Association of America (USA), Software Consulting Services (USA), freieFarbe e.V. (Germany), bauwerk Kommunikationsdesign (Germany) as Special Supporters and donors of color palettes and other content since the 1.4.x release, just like we are grateful to the owner of Vector Portal for the permission to distribute some of his work as Scribus Templates. Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release.

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plantage sous win 10 Point critique
by Jean-Marc LELIEVRE 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Bonjour ami.e Inkspacer, Je ne peux plus exporter en png. Le message derreur : « point critique. un point d'arrêt a été atteint » Inkspace se ferme alors (plantage). Jai cherché sur la liste en anglais (inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.org <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or g/> ) si cette erreur avait été rapportée. Apparemment non. Je travaille sous Win 10 Pro (ordi de linstitut). Merci à qui pourra aider. JML

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Re: [Inkscape-translator] Re: Call for translations for Inkscape 1.1.2 (bug fix release, stable branch)
by Maren Hachmann 16 Jan '22

16 Jan '22

Hi Firas, confirmed, it's an annoying GitLab issue that hasn't been addressed for quite some time. I think it could potentially be fixable by adjusting our Continuous Integration to not have the Windows builds in a separate pipeline and to just go by date instead or whatever. (or, of course, GitLab itself could fix it, but they have known about the problem for a couple years now, so I'm not hopeful.) The summary is that the additional, scheduled (so, resource-conscious) job of the Windows builds overwrites the build results listed in the dropdown and drops old build results from the 'latest' job. You can still always find the latest successful build for 1.1.x here in this list (don't choose those that are have the little 'Scheduled' badge, but the latest one of the others): https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/pipelines?page=1&scope=all&ref=1.1.x… Or, just wait a bit... (not a great idea at the moment). Or, currently, the po and pot files in the repository are up to date, too, but that is never guaranteed. I'm including the developer mailing list as this is something they might have a way to fix. Maren Am 16.01.22 um 15:31 schrieb Firas Hanife: > Hello, > > I'm not sure if it's only an issue on my side but I'm unable to get the > latest translation from 1.1.x branch artifacts. > The provided link leads to a "Page Not Found" message. > > Can anyone confirm? > > > Thank you! > > > Il giorno sab 15 gen 2022 alle ore 17:03 Maren Hachmann > <maren(a)goos-habermann.de <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> ha scritto: > > Hello Inkscape translators! > > This is the official call for translations for the upcoming Inkscape > 1.1.2 , which is planned to be released in early February. > > 1.1.2 is expected to be the last in the 1.1.x series of Inkscape, and it > is bugfix release, so the number of updated strings is small. > > If you'd like to contribute to 1.1.2 translations, please coordinate > with everyone in your language's translation team, and get the latest po > and pot files from > https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/jobs/artifacts/1.1.x/download?job=tr… > <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/jobs/artifacts/1.1.x/download?job=tr…> > > Further information is available from > https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Translation_information > <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Translation_information> and > https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Interface_translation > <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Interface_translation> > > -------- > > If you are a translator for any of the languages below, please also > check your 1.1.x branch po file for errors – either using the > translation tool of your choice, or by compiling it to a mo file on your > computer and reading the output – as they contain formatting errors and > / or do not properly indicate the language they are for (default value > is still set): > > as, az, doi, en_AU, en_CA, eo, es_MX, fa, hy, kok@latin, ks@aran, mk, > ml, mni@beng, mni, mr, or, sat@deva, sat, sd@deva, sd, ur, ta > > --------- > > Inkscape 1.2 (currently still the same as the master branch) is > approaching its alpha stage. Translations for 1.2 are already accepted, > but it is expected that especially the newly added strings will still > change until the release. > > –––––––––– > > Happy translating! > Maren > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Translators mailing list -- > inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-translator@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-translator-leave@lists.inkscape.org> > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Translators mailing list -- inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org >

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PLC Meeting this week!
by Ted Gould 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Howdy Inkscapers! We have a PLC meeting this Friday at Noon Texas time. You can figure out that time in your local timezone and get info on the agenda here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates Everyone is invited! Hope to see you there! Ted

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How to get started with contributions
by Pranjit Kakoti 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Respected Sir/Madam I am Pranjit Kakoti, an undergrad. I am in my first year at NIT Silchar. I am new to open source contributions but I am well aware of C, C++, Python and a little bit of data science and machine learning. I am open to learning new technologies.I would love to contribute to your organisation but could you please tell me how to get started? Hoping to hear from you soon. Regards Pranjit Kakoti

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Vectors' Meeting January
by Maren Hachmann 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/236 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Also note that the Chemnitzer Linuxtage Intro meeting will be starting after the Vectors meeting. Maren

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Dev Environment Setup
by Aashutosh Konge 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

HI, it would be a huge help if anyone could resolve my issue with the dev env setup as mentioned in 'Getting started with inkscape', specifically with the executable build. Whenever, I try to install the build dependencies on Ubuntu 20.04 using '*bash install_dependencies --recommended'. *I seem to be getting the same error for each dependency: *"**Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/....... <http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/.......>."* I've tried to find answers on the internet but none of them work out. It would be a huge help if someone could help me with figuring out a workaround. *System specs*: OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 OS type: 64-bit GNOME Version: 3.36.8

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Help us staff a booth at the largest German Online Linux event (English/German)!
by Maren Hachmann 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

Hi everyone, the Inkscape project is planning to host a virtual booth/stand again at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage (CLT), on March 12 and 13 (Sat/Sun) 2022! Usually the largest Linux and Open Source event in Germany, CLT are going to be an online-only event in 2022 again. The CLT (Chemnitzer Linuxtage) are an all-day event and we could use your help answering user questions about how to work with the program, how to contribute to it and about what is going on in the Inkscape community, by being available for questions and chatting at our virtual booth. The other thing we plan to do again is a series of short, 10 to 50 min topic-focused sessions – show other users how you use Inkscape, how to use your Inkscape extension, how people can help the Inkscape project or which cool things you made with Inkscape (and they can, too!). A live drawing session, a demonstration, a tour through your maker lab - anything that has to do with Inkscape is possible! So, no matter if you're 'just a user', a developer, a forum member, a regular user support provider in our chat channels, an Inkscape translator or other contributor – if you have some time available to spend helping the Inkscape project on that weekend in March, we would very much appreciate your help! Start by introducing yourself at the GitLab issue report where we're discussing the event organization! ****************** Please get in contact with us as soon as possible and find more info at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/235 Let us know how you can help make the booth an interesting place for visitors to drop by! ****************** We're going to have a first chat meeting with all those interested on Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 17:30 UTC (18:30 German time, after the Inkscape Vectors' meeting) at https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors Hope to see you, it's going to be fun! If you are not able to join us at the booth, consider visiting us there! Kind Regards Maren ------------------ More info: Chemnitzer Linuxtage: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en/ What we did last year: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/192

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Inkscape PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

Howdy folks, I forgot to send out a reminder, hopefully folks have it on their calendar, but it is the first Friday. I've updated the Wiki to show that. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates Everyone is invited to come. Ted

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Vectors' Meeting December
by Maren Hachmann 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/233 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Inkscape PLC Meeting (moved to Nov 12, 2021)
by Ted Gould 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Howdy folks, I am late getting out this notice and folks in the chat mentioned it'd be easier for everyone if we shifted the normal meeting back a week. So we're planning on having it Nov 12, 2021 and high noon Texas time. I think this gets is out of the confusing week where everyone is on different daylight savings time as well. Timezone tool: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20211112T10&p1=202 Wiki page: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates I'll note that we have a few votes outstanding and if all board members could look and make sure you voted that would be helpful. I hope to do an audit on those tonight or tomorrow and it's a lot easier if all the votes are in! Otherwise you'll be shamed at the meeting 😉 Ted

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Emoji handling - a mixed problem of system font management and application behavior - what is the part of inkscape
by Stefan Lechner 22 Nov '21

22 Nov '21

Hello folks, I have a very special and obscure situation. I am using inkscape version 1.1.1 on Arch Linux with Gnome Desktop 41.1, but the problem is present since several years on different systems, but I didn't notice it for a long time. Some months ago the situation changed… It is related to Emojis. I am using svg-files with astrological symbols as text, the fonts I am using are covering this unicode symbols and I do not want to have them replaced with symbols from an other font. But exactly this is happening since some years (in nearly every application and in a very special way in inkscape). I think it all comes from the definition which symbols are emojis and which not. There is a hand full of symbols which are in use as emojis and as normal "letters" in text - in my case asterisks. Since 2016 the system-wide emoji support is interpreting this symbols as emojis and substituting them with an emoji-font even if the signs are available in the font in use. A behavior I dislike at all, but maybe it is wanted by others for chat applications and similar. From 2016 to 2020 my system lack a special bitmap-emoji-font and I didn't notice the on going substitutin in the background. I use the Libertinus Sans (former Linux Biolinum) font and the emoji-substitutin has been replacing the asterisks signs of this font with the Dejavu Sans font - it seems Dejavu Sans is in use as an Emoji-fallback font, because of the huge unicode coverage. Since 2020 a bitmap-emoji-font is present on my system as dependency of gnome-characters. So everything changed. Now I have ugly colorful graphics instead of normal text-signs in many applications including Firefox, Eye Of Gnome,… … and inkscape? Even worse! Inkscape can not handle the signs from the bitmap-emoji-font and is substituting once again the asterisks with normal letters from the alphabet. My workaround at the moment: uninstalling gnome-characters and the emoji-font to again fallback on Dejavu font. But this is not satisfying, I want back the signs from my Libertinus font. I have not found any solution yet. I think this is a misbehavior of the emoji-implementation. But what is the problem? A missing functionality on application side or a bug of the emoji-substitution on system side? In other words: is it part of the application to accept or refuse the emoji-substitution or is the undemanded emoji-substitution of the font-system a bug itself? No matter what - I think, as long as inkscape is not able to use the emoji-fonts, it should refuse all emoji-substitution functionality completely (if possible?!). It causes problems in every case. What do you think, am I right? Stefan

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Thank You Message for Bryce Harrington
by Ryan Gorley 06 Nov '21

06 Nov '21

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[BUG] Inkscape font are not antialiased on Ubuntu 21.10/Gnome 40
by Nicolás Abel Carbone 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Sorry if this is the wrong place to report this. If there is a better place for bug reporting, please let me know. I recently updated to Ubuntu 21.10 and on it inkscape fonts are not antialiased. I am using the snap versión and I reproduced the bug on two different PCs both in the stable and the candidate channel. I attached a screenshot of the bug. Libreoffice had a similar bug, already corrected, that seemed to be related to changes in the location of gsettings attributes related to antialiasing. Here you can see other apps hitting the same problem, they had to be updated to point to another field in the config file: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3680 1 <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3680> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1922464 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1922464> -- Nicolás Abel Carbone Doctor en Física - Becario Posdoctoral CIFICEN-CONICET-UNCPBA Research Gate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicolas_Carbone> epsilon.h <https://epsilonh.com.ar> Bionirs <http://bionirs.com> *Mi horario de trabajo puede no coincidir con el suyo. Salvo que así lo indique el mail, por favor no se sienta obligado a responder este mensaje fuera de su horario de trabajo habitual.* *My working hours may not be your working hours. Unless otherwise specified in the mail, please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your normal work schedule.*

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BUG: Newer inkscape series crashes computer in heavy documents.
by xadaux daux 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hello, I'm currently working on a heavy .SVG document about almost 91 layers containing linked .PNG files in high resolution (300 dpi). While previous series (0.91) saved successfully individual layers as single .PDF-per-layer the latest 1.1 stands working when exporting pages and then crashes the whole computer after 20-30 seconds. Is not posible to kill the process manually by console. Just want to notify devels about this particular issue. Thank you, Xadaux

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Monthly PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 02 Oct '21

02 Oct '21

Howdy Inkscapers, This week we have a monthly PLC meeting. These months where the first Friday is in the early digits really sneak up on me! It will be our usual status update and tracking of tasks throughout the project. It will be in the PLC room on Rocketchat/Libera.chat/etc. Agenda is available: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda The time in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20211001T10&p1=202 Everyone is welcome. Hope to see you there! Ted

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Vectors' Meeting October
by Maren Hachmann 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/231 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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What's the Release process now?
by Ted Gould 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

I thought part of the release process was to email the packagers list about the tagging, but I don't think that happened. I guess I'm a bit behind as I only found out via: https://mastodon.art/@inkscape/107004517806832427 Ted

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GDI BUS Issues - constantly Crashing Inkscape.
by gjr 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Since V1.0 When opening ANY Non exported, Non embedded, Non Related image file with ANY other "GRAPHICS/RASTER" app causes inkscape to crash with a GDI BUS error if INSKSCAPE (NOT RESPONDING) is active in memory. Getting sick of it. For crying out loud - even attaching image to email crashes inkscape. I'm running Win 8.1 (yes, I know). I have tried assigning admin perms to Inkscape and gdibus.exe, to no avail. Here's what I think, you are lockcing the gdi bus memory, ASSUMING THAT ANY CALL TO THE GDI IS FOR YOU, THEN YOU RECEIVE A NULL RESPONSE AND YOU HAVE ZERO ERROR HANDLING. Not every gdi bus call is for inkscape. Fix this. Seriously, I have lost so much stuff because of this - it corrupts text areas and gradients and I am getting sick of it. For crying out loud, handling a null response is coding 101! Kind Regards, Gary -- ..................... Gary Rockley Tel +1 512 519 9593 Cel +1 651-216-4726

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Re: GDI BUS Issues - constantly Crashing Inkscape.
by Luca Bacci 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Hello, I believe you’re experiencing two different issues, actually: * Crash on Win8 / Win8.1 when opening an image in another image viewing / editing program. See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5249. This is already fixed upstream so you can simply use the latest stable bugfix bundle: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.x/?latest=1. * Memory leaks when having the Document Properties Dock open. See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5667, https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5363. That’s already fixed for 1.2, current workaround is to leave it closed. Luca

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Inkscape is participating in Outreachy!
by Martin Owens 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Dear Developers, Inkscape is confirmed to be participating in Outreachy Dec-2021, the principle mentors are Kavya and Adam.Belis, but if you have a project you think would be good for an intern to work on, please do become a mentor or co-mentor too. The projects don't have to be development (unlike GSoC) so if you've been sitting on a documentation project and haven't had time to get to it, now is the time to do some mentoring and make Inkscape even better. Commitment is a couple of hours a week during the intern period. You can go to https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/inkscape/ Scroll down to the bottom to the green "Submit a Project Proposal" button and fill out the forms. The outreachy coordinators (myself, Tav and Marc) will review all the project proposals and confirm them and then they'll be open to potential interns to select from. = Schedule = Oct. 1, 2021 - Contribution period begins Oct. 31, 2021 - Contribution period ends Nov - Lots of administration happens. Dec. 6, 2021 - March 4, 2022 - Internships period Let me know if you need any guidance or further details Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Crash Jam 111 (Sept 8th)
by Martin Owens 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Dear Developers, Please join us tomorrow for the Inkscape Crash Jam 1.1.1, we're getting together for a few hours September 8th from 4PM UTC (for your own timezone, see calendar https://inkscape.org/*developer/calendar/ ) The goal is to go through merge requests and find crash fixes which should be back ported to the 1.1.x branch of Inkscape. Currently the 1.1 point release is quite thin, but we think there's useful fixes that could make it a nicer release, so if you can, please join us and we'll have some fun on the video chat socialising too. Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Hat

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Vectors' Meeting September
by Maren Hachmann 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/230 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Inkscape PLC Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

Howdy Folks, We have our monthly PLC meeting to go over items and get updates. I'll be this Friday at Noon Texas time, find the time in your locale here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210903T10&p1=202 Agenda items (mostly standing): https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Working_… Everyone is invited to participate. Ted

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Inkscape Matrix Space
by Ted Gould 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

Hello, There is a new beta feature the Matrix folks are working on, and after being pinged about it by jabiertxof I setup Inkscape to use it. It basically allows grouping of the Inkscape rooms to get a UX that is closer to Slack/Discord/etc. Feature description: https://element.io/blog/spaces-the-next-frontier/ Generally, since it is a beta feature, I don't want to put it on the webpage/social media/etc yet. But it would be useful if folks who have Matrix accounts and are willing to enable the beta feature could test it out. I believe if you click this, you will be able to join: https://matrix.to/#/#inkscape:matrix.org If you have any issues joining or any recommendations on how to configure it you can reply here, ping me in one of the chats, or DM me on Matrix, @ted:gould.cx Ted

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Meeting Today
by doctormo＠gmail.com 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Dear all, Our Leadership Committee meeting is today¹ and it would be great to have you attend. Each meeting will be recorded so people who can not come will be able to watch the discussion later. This meeting's focus is going to be on making sure we can include more people in the definition of "The Inkscape Community" for the purpose of voting. I've put together this agenda: 1. Moving the canonical membership list to the website 2. Requesting from the SFC a change in agreement to define this new list as the list of voting members. 3. The remaining time we can talk about the mechanisms by which people get added to the list (see continuation of previous discussions). I expect the second item will produce a vote which will be sent to the mailing list. But we'll see how the discussion goes. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape Leadership Committee ¹ https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/

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PLC Meeting this Thursday
by Martin Owens 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

Dear all, A remember that this Thursday we have a big blue button meeting. This month I'd like to have us decide on the membership problem. The question is: "How should we ask the SFC to change our agreement, to include all inkscape contributors" the goal for the meeting will be to put together the vote email which hopefully will be sent at the end of the meeting. Times and links: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/ Please do come if you'd like to be involved in the discussion of inkscape membership. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Vectors' Meeting August
by Maren Hachmann 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/228 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Inkscape Office Hours: Summary
by Maren Hachmann 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Hi everyone in the Inkscape Contributor Community, thank you very much to those who had joined us for the first 'Inkscape Office Hours' meeting on July 16th! We had a great time getting to know each other and tossing some ideas around. You all can find the meeting log at https://inkscape.org/paste/28194/ During the meeting, we've all been working on a document together, where we've been collecting ideas for two of the major questions of the Inkscape Board to the community: https://pad.chaotikum.org/p/Inkscape_Office_Hours_1 For those who were not able to attend the live meeting, I will keep the pad open for another week, so you also have a chance to add your ideas there. Please mark your own ideas with the name you go by in the community, and also add a short suggestion about how you could help with making them reality! When the week has passed, I'll package the results up for handing them over to the Inkscape Board, so they can have a look at the feasibility, and we can continue from there. There's no established process for this yet, so we'll just have to try and see where we can get. There's no date set for the next Inkscape Office Hours meeting yet. Do you think this should become a monthly event? Or do you think it should be more frequent or less frequent? Thanks again everyone for your support of Inkscape, Maren

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Invitation: INKSCAPE OFFICE HOURS TODAY!
by Maren Hachmann 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Lazur just let me know that I forgot to insert the location (duh!) We're going to have the meeting at https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/inkscape_board and might move it to audio/video chat, if that seems useful. A link to that will, in that case, be announced in the chat channel. Maren > Hello Inkscape contributors! > > The Inkscape project has grown so much in the last couple years, and we > have teams spread all over the internet, working on improving Inkscape > and helping the project and its users. Also, we have lots of exciting > new things to decide upon together as the Contributors' Team! > > For this reason, we've thought of trying out something new to allow > every contributor to also contribute their ideas for the future of the > project as a whole: > > The "Inkscape Office Hours"! > ============================ > > The first meeting of this kind will take place on > > Friday, 16th July (today!) > at 5 p.m. UTC (in your timezone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ ) > > If it is well received and productive, we'll make this a regular thing. > > We will have members from the Inkscape Board there, and also some of the > other people who are most involved with Inkscape matters on a day-to-day > basis. And YOU (hopefully)! > > ------------------ > > Don't know whether you 'count' as a contributor? Doubts? > > Well, that's one of the things we'd like to figure out together! We > really need to, it's required for voting rights. There's a Board vote > pending, because we haven't yet come up with a good definition. > We are planning to update our project charter to include more than only > developers, as is currently the case. > > So please come and join us, even if you're unsure whether you 'qualify'! > > Another important topic is collecting and finding help with ideas for > how to spend our donations. The pandemic left us with a lack of > opportunities to spend them. They need to be spent in a manner that > respects the charitable (non-profit) status of the project (if you > didn't know, we're a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy > (SFC)! [1]), and also needs to obey to high standards of honesty and > conflict of interest policies. All our ideas will need to be approved of > not only the Inkscape Board, but then also by the SFC. > > You can also bring other topics, as long as they have to do with the > Inkscape community as a whole. During the meeting you can get help with > implementing those ideas and making them a reality, from people who > already understand how the project works. > > NOTE: this is NOT about any software features / bugs! > For those, please use the bug tracker [2]. > > See you in a few hours (and sorry for the late notice, we hope you can > still make it)! > > Ted, Michèle and Maren > > [1] https://sfconservancy.org/ > [2] https://inkscape.org/report

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Invitation: INKSCAPE OFFICE HOURS TODAY!
by Maren Hachmann 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Hello Inkscape contributors! The Inkscape project has grown so much in the last couple years, and we have teams spread all over the internet, working on improving Inkscape and helping the project and its users. Also, we have lots of exciting new things to decide upon together as the Contributors' Team! For this reason, we've thought of trying out something new to allow every contributor to also contribute their ideas for the future of the project as a whole: The "Inkscape Office Hours"! ============================ The first meeting of this kind will take place on Friday, 16th July (today!) at 5 p.m. UTC (in your timezone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ ) If it is well received and productive, we'll make this a regular thing. We will have members from the Inkscape Board there, and also some of the other people who are most involved with Inkscape matters on a day-to-day basis. And YOU (hopefully)! ------------------ Don't know whether you 'count' as a contributor? Doubts? Well, that's one of the things we'd like to figure out together! We really need to, it's required for voting rights. There's a Board vote pending, because we haven't yet come up with a good definition. We are planning to update our project charter to include more than only developers, as is currently the case. So please come and join us, even if you're unsure whether you 'qualify'! Another important topic is collecting and finding help with ideas for how to spend our donations. The pandemic left us with a lack of opportunities to spend them. They need to be spent in a manner that respects the charitable (non-profit) status of the project (if you didn't know, we're a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)! [1]), and also needs to obey to high standards of honesty and conflict of interest policies. All our ideas will need to be approved of not only the Inkscape Board, but then also by the SFC. You can also bring other topics, as long as they have to do with the Inkscape community as a whole. During the meeting you can get help with implementing those ideas and making them a reality, from people who already understand how the project works. NOTE: this is NOT about any software features / bugs! For those, please use the bug tracker [2]. See you in a few hours (and sorry for the late notice, we hope you can still make it)! Ted, Michèle and Maren [1] https://sfconservancy.org/ [2] https://inkscape.org/report

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Regular Meeting
by doctormo＠gmail.com 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Dear all, As discussed at the last video meeting, the committee/board did a poll to decide if we wanted to continue doing regular video meetings. There was a unanimous vote to continue (except for ted who had to leave before this discussion) and I was asked to put together the details. Generally people favoured a non-weekend date, any date so long as it had enough notice. This is the new calendar entry, it's set to the second Thursday each month, at 16:00 UTC https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/ I've also created a room on big blue button. The aim will be to record each of the meetings and I can post the recording to the right places (probably here on the mailing list). The general agenda is to come together to talk about what we need to do next for the project. We'll still post all votes to the mailing list, so anyone who misses the meeting won't be left out. But we'll hopefully be trying to work through some of the tasks we have in the team going forwards. Thanks for everyone's input for configuring this meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Vectors' Meeting July 2021
by Maren Hachmann 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/223 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Inkscape Board Meeting, July 2nd, 2021
by Ted Gould 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Howdy folks, We have a board meeting coming up to go over all the items the board is working on and get updates from the various parts of the project. Everyone is invited! Info can be found here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings Time in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210702T10&p1=202 Hope to see you there! Ted

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inkscape-1.1: exit during startup, problem loading svgs
by Thomas Klausner 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Hi! I've tried updating the pkgsrc package from 1.0.2 (working fine) to 1.1. It builds and installs fine, but during startup complains about svg files and exits, without display a window. (org.inkscape.Inkscape:66): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:54:36.278: Could not load image 'resources/template_about.svg': Couldn’t recognize the image file format for file “/usr/pkg/share/inkscape/ui/resources/template_about.svg” (and many more like these, then ending with) Gtk:ERROR:gtkiconhelper.c:494:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/pkg/share/inkscape/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/image-missing.svg: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3) Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:gtkiconhelper.c:494:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/pkg/share/inkscape/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/image-missing.svg: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3) gdk-pixbuf has SVG support, I tested this with: gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer /usr/pkg/share/inkscape/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/image-missing.svg image-missing.png which successfully creates a png file. Now I'm not quite sure where else to look for the root of the problem. The pkgsrc files for 1.0.2 are here: https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/blob/trunk/graphics/inkscape/Makefile The files for 1.1 are here: https://wip.pkgsrc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkgsrc-wip.git;a=blob;f=inkscap… Please let me know if you have any ideas what might be missing or wrong. Thank you! (I've filed https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5111 about this and Nathan Lee suggested I should ask on the mailing list about this.) Cheers, Thomas

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Issue with Inkscape 1.1 snap and REALHOME / getent
by Douglas Paul 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

Hello, I recently had a machine running Ubuntu auto-update its snap to version 1.1. In this version, there seems to be a new mechanism to determine the default config path using getent that is not functional on my system. Some particularities that I have: 1) passwd / groups of users come from a Samba AD using sssd 2) home directories are mounted on NFS The problem that I see is that the REALHOME variable is not set correctly, so it tries to look for the configuration in /.config/inkscape. This is what I see when launching: ==== $ LANGUAGE=en_CA:en inkscape /bin/bash: /home/doug/.bashrc: Permission denied /bin/bash: /home/doug/.bashrc: Permission denied /bin/bash: /home/doug/.bashrc: Permission denied Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused ** Message: 08:43:39.229: Cannot create profile directory /.config/inkscape. ** Message: 08:43:39.229: Inkscape will run with default settings, and new settings will not be saved. ** (inkscape:3501254): WARNING **: 08:43:39.395: Could not create directory '/.config/inkscape' ** (inkscape:3501254): WARNING **: 08:43:39.396: Could not create extension error log file '/.config/inkscape/extension-errors.log' ** (inkscape:3501254): WARNING **: 08:43:39.476: Fonts dir '/.config/inkscape/fonts' does not exist and will be ignored. ==== So, the first thing I tried is to add the following in the snap's apparmor profile: #include <abstractions/nameservice> #include <abstractions/bash> And this got rid of the bashrc access errors (which likely aren't fatal, anyway), and I could get a proper result with this: aa-exec -p snap.inkscape.inkscape getent passwd $UID So, I thought this would work. However, it still doesn't... With careful use of ctrl-Z and attaching strace (since it seems you can't strace directly), I was able to see that the /etc/nsswitch.conf being used by inkscape is coming from inside a chroot or otherwise remapped by snap, and it does not use the system /etc/nsswitch.conf. It looks exactly like this issue: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/no-sssd-support-in-snaps-nsswitch-conf/10412/12 It seems like the only way around this problem is to use NSCD as a proxy, which is generally not recommended, it seems, but might be the only choice I would have. (Using unscd does seem to work, even with 0 cache ttls -- so I think this should be safe) All this to say -- would it be possible to have a fallback in the environment to use the old behaviour (was it to use $HOME as REALHOME?) in case the calls to getent fail? Or, at the least, it should be documented that using nscd/unscd is required when a different nsswitch.conf configuration is used. Thanks, -- Douglas Paul

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Developer Team Budget
by Martin Owens 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

Dear Developer team, Thank you to everyone who made the developer meeting today; we talked a lot about what the budget should look like from the developer team. I have comprised the ideas here which I will be bringing to the next board meeting to be held on June 4th 2021 ( https://inkscape.org/cals/event/2/) Current items to be requested immediately: * The Developer team requests a General Administrator who can take care of many of the organisational tasks which we currently struggle to. This is deemed more important than any funding for specific features. I'd like to invite everyone to join me for a meeting to flesh out what this would look like, we'll use previous work as a base and work from there. Please come to BigBlueButton next Sunday 30th May at 17:00UTC (https://inkscape.org/cals/event/25/) to make sure our proposal is detailed enough. * We would like to budget $5k on macOS speed problems; this is to be spent on analysis first, and then solutions second. The whole developer team recognises how dire the situation is with René specifically saying that without a fix we should not release for macOS in the future. Future budget requests which we do not have a consensus for, or details are missing: * CMYK support; Tav would like this, developers feel it's not important enough. A user study would be useful to know for sure. * PathFinder; Taking over, or working with the Linux foundation for their Rust based pathfinder is a great way to bring GPU rendering to Inkscape. Marc is to contact the linux foundation and Linkmauve about collaboration or taking over the project. * ARM Machine for René; If we continue to develop macOS, René will need one of the newer ARM based macOS machine which would be set up to do CI builds. Improving the ability to check and build testing builds for macOS. Thanks everyone for attending, we had quite a lot of the developer team there today and a lot of students so I feel good that we got to see a lot of different opinions. But let me know in this thread if you have details to add, or can't make the above meeting and want to make sure something is included. Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Team Hat

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Vectors' Meeting June 2021
by Maren Hachmann 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/219 and add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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TODAY: Meeting; hiring an administration position in Inkscape
by Martin Owens 30 May '21

30 May '21

Hello everyone, We have scheduled today's meeting to discuss the specific details of hiring an administrator who can help organise the inkscape project. This is a budgeting request from the Developer Team to alleviate a lot of the stress from running the project and better organise. Starting Questions * Should they be familiar with the project? * They probably shouldn't not be a developer? * Should they be part time or full time? * Should we ask the SFC to fill the role for us? The goal is to flesh out the request so we can offer the board a set of requirements and desires around what we (as the developer team) would like to have. Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/25/ Date/Time: TODAY, 1:00PM EDT (see above link for your local time) Video Link: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Hat

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Re: Crash during Build - invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘SPCurve’
by Marc Jeanmougin 29 May '21

29 May '21

Hi, I can confirm that gcc 7 appears to be too old to compile a recent Inkscape, sorry. Please use a newer compiler (gcc 9 (or later) works, or clang) -- Marc Le 28/05/2021 à 01:17, fi(a)igh.de a écrit : > Dear Marc, > > > > On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:03:11AM +0200, Marc Jeanmougin wrote: >> Hi and thanks for the report! What's your compiler and OS ? > - the compilers are gcc-7 and g++-7 (version 7.5.0) > - OS: OpenSuSE 15.2, Kernel 5.3.18 > > - below is also the output from cmake > > Thanks and best regards > > Torsten > > -- Creating build files in: /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/build > -- Found poppler: /usr/lib64/libpoppler.so > -- Found poppler-glib: /usr/lib64/libpoppler-glib.so > -- Found cairo-svg: /usr/lib64/libcairo.so > -- Found poppler-cairo: /usr/lib64/libcairo.so > -- Found Potrace: /usr/lib64/libpotrace.so > -- Checking for modules 'gtkmm-3.0>=3.24;gdkmm-3.0>=3.24;gtk+-3.0>=3.24;gdk-3.0>=3.24' > -- Found gtkmm-3.0, version 3.24.2 > -- Found gdkmm-3.0, version 3.24.2 > -- Found gtk+-3.0, version 3.24.20 > -- Found gdk-3.0, version 3.24.20 > -- Using gspell > -- Found Boost: /usr/include (found suitable version "1.66.0", minimum required is "1.19.0") found components: filesystem system > -- Checking for module 'readline' > -- No package 'readline' found > -- Did not find GNU Readline > -- Checking for module 'ImageMagick++<=7' > -- No package 'ImageMagick++' found > -- Checking for module 'GraphicsMagick++' > -- Found GraphicsMagick++, version 1.3.35 > -- Found gettext + msgfmt to convert language files. Translation enabled > -- Found xgettext. inkscape.pot will be re-created if missing. > -- Creating build files in: /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/build > -- Generating header and sourcefiles from sp-marshal.list (Glib-Marshal) > INFO: Reading /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/helper/sp-marshal.list... > INFO: Reading /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/helper/sp-marshal.list... > -- sp-marshal.h unchanged > -- Found Boost: /usr/include (found suitable version "1.66.0", minimum required is "1.60") > -- cython: FOUND > -- Checking for module 'gtk+-3.0' > -- Found gtk+-3.0, version 3.24.20 > -- Ragel NOT found. Using stale svg-path-parser.cpp. > INKSCAPE_DIST_PREFIX: inkscape-1.2-dev_2021-05-25_5448704355 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Configuration Summary > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > PROJECT_NAME: inkscape > INKSCAPE_VERSION: 1.2-dev > INKSCAPE_DIST_PREFIX: inkscape-1.2-dev_2021-05-25_5448704355 > > CMAKE_BINARY_DIR: /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/build > CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: /vol/opt/inkscape-5448704355e03a97d2838e1ba30272db335f0dbb > CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR: lib64 > PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR share/locale > CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME: Linux > CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION: 5.3.18-lp152.75-default > CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR: x86_64 > CMAKE_C_COMPILER: /usr/bin/cc > CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER: /usr/bin/c++ > CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release > > ENABLE_LCMS: ON > ENABLE_POPPLER: ON > ENABLE_POPPLER_CAIRO: ON > WITH_GNU_READLINE: OFF > WITH_DBUS: OFF > WITH_GSPELL: ON > WITH_IMAGE_MAGICK: OFF > WITH_GRAPHICS_MAGICK: ON > WITH_LIBCDR: ON > WITH_LIBVISIO: ON > WITH_LIBWPG: ON > WITH_NLS: ON > WITH_OPENMP: ON > WITH_JEMALLOC: OFF > WITH_INTERNAL_2GEOM: ON > WITH_PROFILING: OFF > BUILD_TESTING: ON > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > >> >> >> On 27/05/2021 19:37, fi(a)igh.de wrote: >>> Dear Maintainers, >>> >>> after pulling revision 5448704355e03a97d2838e1ba30272db335f0dbb >>> I try to build inkscape according to https://inkscape.org/develop/getting-started/ >>> but I receive the following error: >>> >>> In file included from /usr/include/c++/7/memory:80:0, >>> from /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/document.h:25, >>> from /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/object/sp-use.cpp:27: >>> /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h: In instantiation of ‘void std::default_delete<_Tp>::operator()(_Tp*) const [with _Tp = SPCurve]’: >>> /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h:263:17: required from ‘std::unique_ptr<_Tp, _Dp>::~unique_ptr() [with _Tp = SPCurve; _Dp = std::default_delete<SPCurve>]’ >>> /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/object/sp-use-reference.h:45:50: required from here >>> /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h:76:22: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘SPCurve’ >>> static_assert(sizeof(_Tp)>0, >>> ^ >>> My questions: >>> - are there simple means to avoid that error? >>> - what information about my building environment is required? >>> >>> BTW: I am trying to build Inkscape because the AppImage crashes. >>> >>> Thanks and best regards >>> >>> >>> Torsten >>> >>> > > >

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Commit Access
by aryan jangid 29 May '21

29 May '21

Hi All, I am a newcomer to the inkscape project and successfully have a couple of patches merged into master. Hence, I am requesting you to grant me commit access to the repository. Links to my merge requests: 1. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/2133/ 2. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/3306 Thanks & Regards, Shubham

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Crash during Build - invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘SPCurve’
by fi＠igh.de 27 May '21

27 May '21

Dear Maintainers, after pulling revision 5448704355e03a97d2838e1ba30272db335f0dbb I try to build inkscape according to https://inkscape.org/develop/getting-started/ but I receive the following error: In file included from /usr/include/c++/7/memory:80:0, from /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/document.h:25, from /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/object/sp-use.cpp:27: /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h: In instantiation of ‘void std::default_delete<_Tp>::operator()(_Tp*) const [with _Tp = SPCurve]’: /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h:263:17: required from ‘std::unique_ptr<_Tp, _Dp>::~unique_ptr() [with _Tp = SPCurve; _Dp = std::default_delete<SPCurve>]’ /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/object/sp-use-reference.h:45:50: required from here /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h:76:22: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘SPCurve’ static_assert(sizeof(_Tp)>0, ^ My questions: - are there simple means to avoid that error? - what information about my building environment is required? BTW: I am trying to build Inkscape because the AppImage crashes. Thanks and best regards Torsten -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Torsten Finke fi(a)igh.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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inkscape | New release: INKSCAPE_1_1
by Martin Owens 25 May '21

25 May '21

Congratulations everyone! Inkscape 1.1 is tagged, bagged and ready for builds to start rolling out tomorrow. Don't go announcing anything, that's for the Vector's team to do tomorrow. And there will be a release party on big blue button! https://inkscape.org/*inkscape-vectors/calendar/ Best Regards, Martin Owens Forwarding Emails

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Inkscape 1.1 released
by Marc Jeanmougin 25 May '21

25 May '21

================ = Inkscape 1.1 = ================ Inkscape version 1.1 is now released. ---------------- You can watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/release-video-1-1/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.1 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following one year of development after the 1.0 major release. The highlights of this release are: * A Welcome dialog, where the look of Inkscape can be selected, and some choices for the new document's size or file to open are available * A Command palette that opens when the '?' key is pressed, that allows to search and use many functions without having to use a keyboard shortcut or going through the menus * It is now possible to copy, cut and paste parts of paths with the Node tool * The dialog docking system has been rewritten, which resolves many issues with Inkscape's docked dialogs and allows you to dock dialogs on either side of the screen * New Outline Overlay mode that displays object outlines while also showing their real colors * Preferences options are now easier to find by using the new search field * It is no longer necessary to remember to click on 'Export' in the PNG Export dialog, as the exporting will already happen after the click on 'Save' in the file selection dialog. * Export as JPG, TIFF, optimized PNG and WebP directly from Inkscape * When pasting a copied object, Inkscape now pastes it directly on top of the currently selected object by default * An extension for updating extensions and installing additional extensions, called the Extension Manager (currently in beta stage) We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.1/Inkscape_1.1.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], bug triaging[4], or even outreach[5]! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or freenode/#inkscape-devel) [2] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/bug_migration [5] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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New dependency for Inkscape 1.2: python3-cssselect
by Jonathan Neuhauser 15 May '21

15 May '21

Dear all, Over the past week, I've implemented CSS support in the extensions repository. This means that if an extension asks what color an object is, it will get the correct answer regardless of where the style is defined, if it is overwritten or !important or defined by a shorthand somewhere in the cascade. It also introduces default values for common attributes as well a new functionality to get a parsed value (e.g. the reference to a gradient object instead of a string with its id) or to set an attribute to a parsed value. This feature has been merged this morning and will be released with *Inkscape 1.2*. Check out the branch here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/-/merge_requests/294 In order to avoid writing a CSS3 parser, I had to introduce a new dependency for parsing, computation of a style's specificity and the conversion of a selector to xpath. This is handled by the python package https://github.com/scrapy/cssselect. I've already opened MRs to add this dependency to deb, snap, appimage and windows packaging (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/3239, https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/3238). If you are responsible for packaging Inkscape in some way, please have a look if I did this correctly or missed a packaging type (MacOS is still missing, for example). Again, this is not relevant for the upcoming 1.1 release. Best regards, Jonathan

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Inkscape Board Meeting this Friday
by Ted Gould 05 May '21

05 May '21

Hello Inkscapers, We've got the monthly board meeting this Friday at Noon Texas Time. Check on what time that is for you here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210507T10&p1=202 Agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings#Agenda Everyone is invited! Ted

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Inkscape 1.1 release candidate is available !
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi to all Inkscapers! We just launched the Release Candidate of Inkscape 1.1, with a plan to have roughly three weeks of testing for a release around May 24th. You can get it here: ================================= https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1/?latest=1 ================================= (source tarball, linux appimage, windows installers and macOS dmg are available) We encourage you to use it as you would use Inkscape 1.1 stable, in order to find any problems people may encounter with the release. In particular, if you find any regressions, please do submit a bug report as soon as possible on https://inkscape.org/report : if nothing major is reported, the state of that release candidate should be close to the release. If you want to help with the translations to your language, it's still possible to submit those until close to the release date. Thanks to everyone involved in this release ! -- Marc

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Please help check release notes for any larger changes missing
by Maren Hachmann 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi everyone, the release notes for 1.1 are progressing here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.1 We're not sure if we've succeeded at including all major new features and important changes. I'm currently still working on looking through the commit history and merge requests. Please browse the linked page to check for any major features that you have contributed to. If you find the current description lacking detail, or if the big (or even small) thing that you've been working on is missing entirely, please let us know in https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation You can help tremendously with documenting your changes through good commit messages that include how your change affects the users' experience and that include full links to related bug reports. Version tagging when closing a bug report and linking back to the original MR/Bug report in cherrypicks is also super helpful in knowing which version(s) a change ended up in (i.e. currently the main question is: is it in 1.0.2, too, or is it only in 1.1 + master). I've also seen some very good merge request descriptions (with before - after pictures), and found them to be very helpful - thanks to everyone who helped their reviewers and the users understand what they've been up to with the code in this way! All of this doesn't only make it easier to document changes, it also makes it easier for other developers (including your future self) to understand and search the commit history. Kind Regards Maren

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Please add your names to the AUTHORS and TRANSLATORS files
by Maren Hachmann 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi everyone, if you have contributed to the upcoming 1.1 Inkscape release, please add your name to the AUTHORS and/or TRANSLATORS files (these are not auto-generated currently and lacking lots of entries!). You can find the files for the 1.1.x branch at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/1.1.x/AUTHORS or https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/1.1.x/TRANSLATORS respectively. Thanks! Kind Regards Maren

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Meeting Now
by Martin Owens 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Dear Devels on List, The weekly developer meeting is happening today/now to discuss the last run up to the 1.1 release, come join us: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Libre Graphics Meeting looking for talks, live demos, lightning talks - Deadline April 19th 2021
by Maren Hachmann 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hi everyone, our friends from Libre Graphics Meeting have asked us to let our community know that submissions are open for talks, live demos and lightning talks for the event, which takes place 27-30 May 2021, mostly online. Whether you're an experienced Inkscape user, a professional using Inkscape, an Inkscape developer or an active community member - or have knowledge around any other free and open source graphics software that you'd like to share with the world, please visit their website at https://libregraphicsmeeting.org and submit one or more proposals for their different talk formats. Submission is still open for a week, so hurry, and make an impact in the free + libre graphics world! Maren

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P6.Refactoring
by Nilesh Aditya 10 Apr '21

10 Apr '21

Hey! I am Nilesh Aditya, a 2nd year undergrad from Delhi Technological University, India. I have been programming in C++ for quite a time now, and want to make my mark on open source software! *PROCESS* : *Description : *There are many approaches and techniques to refactor the code. - Usage of unnamed namespaces - XML Refactoring *Expected Outcomes: * - Remove direct manipulation of XML from as many places as possible and replace it with SP tree methods. - Reduce source code line count - Make the codebase more convenient to code in. *Skills Required:* experienced in Modern C++ , JS, OOP, experience of Inkscape I had done quite a significant amount of research regarding the idea which included reading the official wiki docs present online, reading and understanding the Inkscape code base. I would love to get in touch with a mentor who would be interested in guiding me with this idea!

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Discussing proposal's idea for GSoC
by Osama Ahmad 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi, my name is Osama Ahmad and I'm planning to join GSoC this year. As stated here <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=SOC_Writing_Project_Proposals>, it's encouraged to discuss ideas for GSoC before submitting. I'm planning to improve symbols dialog. The improvements are: - The symbols are loaded from the dialog itself, not form a background process. making it asynchronous will make the start time (if the dialog is opened before the last exit) or the runtime response (if the dialog is opened for the first time while the program is running) faster. - To be able to open, edit and save the symbols from the dialog. If the symbols are loaded from a read-only folder, or if the user intends to save as a new copy, the user can save the edited symbols as new ones. By edit, I mean to edit the svg itself or edit the tags and other properties of the symbols. - To be able to load/save symbols from/to a folder. Any opinions or changes that can be done? Is it good enough for a proposal?

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1.1-beta available
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Hi everyone! We recently released Inkscape 1.1-beta, while planning to release 1.1 next month. You can get the release at https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1beta1/ for all platforms All testers are encouraged to test this version and report bugs at inkscape.org/report == Packagers == The tarball is not expected to differ much to the beta one, if you want to check that everything is all right for your platform :) == Translators == Thanks for your work! Strings have been frozen for a while, and it's not too late to submit translations until shortly before release date. == Developers == We have now branched the code repo. The new branch 1.1.x now only welcomes bugfixes, translations and easy-to-review changes; while features, performance, code improvements, or anything that was left waiting in prevision of 1.1 are free to go to the main branch. == All contributors == Thanks everyone for your contributions! All the work you're doing in various area, such as UX, outreach, docs, testing and bug triaging, and more, is what makes us a better project over the years :) -- Marc _______________________________________________ Inkscape Translators mailing list -- inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Board Meeting Delayed until Apr 9th
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Howdy Folks, Asked in chat if we wanted to delay because it's Easter Holiday for much of Europe — didn't get many responses so I'm taking that as "we're already gone." Let's move the meeting to April 9th. Those who have the day off work, enjoy it! Ted

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Discussing an initial idea for GSoC (inspired by vim's registers).?‏
by Osama Ahmad 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Hi, my name is Osama Ahmad and I'm planning to join GSoC this year. As stated here <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=SOC_Writing_Project_Proposals>, it's encouraged to discuss ideas for GSoC before submitting. Inspired by vim's registers, I'm thinking of adding the ability to make multiple copies. But, unlike vim's registers which have a fixed name and are limited to several registers, I'm thinking of allowing the users to assign a name for each copy and be able to create as many as wanted. There will be an option under the "copy" option which will have a name like "add to copy list", and will have a text box for the users to enter the name of the copy. Later, when they want to paste a certain copy, they click on an option which has a name like "paste from copy list", when clicking on it, a list of the names of the previously made copies will appear and the user can choose from them. This will not modify the original "copy" and "paste" options. The program will have its normal copy and paste options, but will have the named copies as an additional option. To make things even more convenient, there can be a counter that starts from 1, if the user just wants to copy multiple objects without assigning names each time, they can just click on the third option which will have a name like "add to copy list as #x" where x is the current value of the counter. The counter is increased by 1 each time this option is clicked. I'm not planning to decrease it at all since it's very unlikely for users to make more than a 100 or even 10 copies anyways. Also, there will be an "X" button beside each item in the copy list to enable users to remove items they're not in need anymore from the list. Optionally, since there will be an option that says "add to copy list as #x", if the users have used it a lot, thus have a lot of items which all have a names of numbers, the users might forget what each item corresponds to, so, a solution will be to show (but not actually paste) the items when the user hovers over them. Probably this will complicate things, I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it. But in case I've finished the main project before the deadline, I think this will be a good addition. Problems: - It might slow the program if the user has copied a lot of items. Yet, we don't force the user to copy, if the user is in need of lots of copies, then being able to do it and have the program to be a little slower is way better than not being able to do it at all, so, I think this is not a big issue. If the idea is a good one to submit, where in the code should I start to read and grasp first (probably a good starting point would be where the copying and pasting functions are located)? And, if the idea is not good enough, I'd love to know why and how I can improve it. Thanks.

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Introducing my-self (introduction request)
by SIVALASETTY AKHILRAM 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Good Afternoon respected community, I am Akhil Ram, I am very new to this community. coming to me i had good programming experience with c , python( machine learning basics to average). I made some projects to showcase my knowledge in python and c programming. But, I have a very little knowledge about open source contributions. It sounds a bit weird but keep faith in me "because i had good progress while learning ". I had gone through the ideas list of Inkscape. I had gone through the project ideas mentioned on the page.I am willing to work on "P7. Tesseract OCR", Based on my past knowledge the word OCR makes me very interactive. Please help me get started on my journey(what else i have to do before submitting the proposal ).please ignore grammatical mistakes . If I am wrong to introduce myself to a different mailing list please let me know. thanking you, Akhil Ram Sivalasetty akhilram2001(a)gmail.com

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Introduction to Inkspace community
by Vikash Kumar 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

I am an open source developer looking to contribute to your organisation in GSOC 21. I am looking forward to contributing to Improvements to the Paint Server Dialog project. It would be great to hear from your end a bit more about this project and the mentors associated with this one.

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Major applause for Ozant's artwork
by Roy Torley 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Excellent! Let's clink glasses to Ozant's good fortune. It is my first choice: busy but not cluttered, good choice of color palette, my wife and I anthropomorphize everything so the theme is right in line with our view of the universe, and the way your eyes are gently directed to the upper right is very well played! Ozant, very well done! Enjoy your moment in the spotlight! I hope it's not too hot! Maren, many thanks for keeping us in the loop! With a clink of glasses (mine are bifocals), Roy Torley

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Inkscape 1.1 About Screen Winner
by Maren Hachmann 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Hi everyone! Thank you all for your votes in the Inkscape 1.1 About Screen Contributor vote! *drumroll* The Winner Is: "Art Bot" by Ozant Liuky https://inkscape.org/~ozant/%E2%98%85art-bot Read the full news: https://inkscape.org/news/2021/03/09/ozantliukys-art-bot-wins-hearts-votes-… Find the votes and detailed vote results attached. I think our 1.1 will look really great with this fantastic new About Screen :D Kind Regards Maren P.S.: For those who wonder about the different name - that's Fauzan's artist name

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Re: [Inkscape-translator] Final reminder: Contributor About Screen Voting until March 7, 23:59 UTC
by Maren Hachmann 07 Mar '21

07 Mar '21

Thank you for your vote, José! Am 07.03.21 um 18:50 schrieb imagen imperio: > Hi Maren, > > > Here is my vote: > > My Ranking is: 13254 > > My Nickname: JoseQuin > > My Contribution: I am part the translating members, exactly in the > spanish translators. > > Let me know if the vote is received. > > > Regards. > > > José Quintanilla Ramírez > > > > > El sáb, 6 mar 2021 a las 12:16, Maren Hachmann (<maren(a)goos-habermann.de > <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>>) escribió: > > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > there are still about 29 hours left to vote on the Inkscape 1.1 About > Screen! > > These are our community's favorites: > ----------------------- > > 1: “Art Bot” by Fauzan Syukri > https://inkscape.org/~fauzan291/%E2%98%85art-bot > <https://inkscape.org/~fauzan291/%E2%98%85art-bot> > > 2: “Desenhe Livremente” by Ray Oliveira > https://inkscape.org/~RayOliveira/%E2%98%85desenhe-livremente > <https://inkscape.org/~RayOliveira/%E2%98%85desenhe-livremente> > > 3: “Ilha Livre” by Ray Oliveira > https://inkscape.org/~RayOliveira/%E2%98%85ilha-livre > <https://inkscape.org/~RayOliveira/%E2%98%85ilha-livre> > > 4: “Running Free” by Antonio Santiago > https://inkscape.org/~asantiagogeo/%E2%98%85running-free > <https://inkscape.org/~asantiagogeo/%E2%98%85running-free> > > 5: “Fly Freely” by Luiz Lucas > > https://inkscape.org/~luizlllucas/%E2%98%85fly-freely-concurso-inkscape-11 > <https://inkscape.org/~luizlllucas/%E2%98%85fly-freely-concurso-inkscape-11> > > ------------------------ > > If you haven't voted yet, but are a contributor to Inkscape, please fill > in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org>, subscription at > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or…> > ) > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > The contributor vote closes on Sun., March 7, 2021, 23:59:59 UTC. > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-11/ > <https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-11/> > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>, using the package > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already > voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > We allow voting from Inkscape contributors (as > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Translators mailing list -- > inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-translator@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-translator-leave@lists.inkscape.org> >

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Contributor About Screen Voting until March 7
by Maren Hachmann 07 Mar '21

07 Mar '21

Dear Inkscape Contributors, Here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.1 About Screen chosen by 411 community members from 82 entries by 62 different artists: ----------------------- 1: “Art Bot” by Fauzan Syukri https://inkscape.org/~fauzan291/%E2%98%85art-bot 2: “Desenhe Livremente” by Ray Oliveira https://inkscape.org/~RayOliveira/%E2%98%85desenhe-livremente 3: “Ilha Livre” by Ray Oliveira https://inkscape.org/~RayOliveira/%E2%98%85ilha-livre 4: “Running Free” by Antonio Santiago https://inkscape.org/~asantiagogeo/%E2%98%85running-free 5: “Fly Freely” by Luiz Lucas https://inkscape.org/~luizlllucas/%E2%98%85fly-freely-concurso-inkscape-11 ------------------------ Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): ========================================= Ranking: Name or nickname: Contribution to Inkscape: ========================================= The contributor vote closes on Sun., March 7, 2021, 23:59:59 UTC (in one week from now). To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-11/ Thank you everyone! --------------------- Explanation: Ranking: Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. The system that is used for determining the winner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. Name or nickname: The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. Contribution to Inkscape: We allow voting from Inkscape contributors (as opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.).

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Ranking the contestants
by Roy Torley 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

Ranking: 145 Name or nickname: Roy Torley Contribution to Inkscape: Roy Torley's Inkscape Tutorial

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(no subject)
by Adam Belis 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Ranking:13254 Name or nickname: Adam Belis Contribution to Inkscape: UX / UI

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Ranked Voting for 1.1 About Screen Contest
by zigzagmlt zigzagmlt 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

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Re: Old bug tracker / bug migration
by Nathan Lee 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Hi Max, I thought I'd add some input instead of staying silent (Thanks for cc'ing the Bug Wranglers in Patrick!). As I understand it, now that we know bugs can still be accessible, the main objection is to keep the bug migration game going (and the effort spent to make sure it's done right). It looks like the workaround with the teams will work smoothly, without adding much of a barrier to the bug migration game. Just to make sure, would anyone still be able to update existing issues? (e.g. status changed, comments added, receive notifications for these) If the existing issues aren't modifiable, I would prefer to keep launchpad as is till the bug migration game is over though (perhaps we should consider when it should be closed if we can't migrate them all over. If existing issues are modifiable, don't have any objections from my end. I do notice that there is a steady trickle of bug reports that are consistently opened; closing the page does seem helpful even while the bug migration is going on since we are wasting time dealing with these reports anyway. The last objection is the effort spent. Well, thanks for picking up this task again and investigating! Regards, Nathan.

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Inkscape 1.1 About Screen Contest: Community Voting until February 28
by Maren Hachmann 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Hi everyone! The community voting for the Inkscape 1.1 About Screen has started! You can learn more about it at https://inkscape.org/news/2021/02/22/your-choice-counts-vote-your-favorite-… and cast your vote at https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-11/ (it's really, really difficult to choose one this time! I have 18 favorites, lol.) Thanks + enjoy all those cool pictures we got from the community artists! Kind Regards Maren

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Old bug tracker / bug migration
by Maximilian Gaukler 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

Hi all, every once in a while, people still report bugs on the old bug tracker on launchpad.net. Currently, the bug tracker was left open so that we can still read old bugs and move them over to GitLab. With some help from Launchpad.net support <https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/695519> I figured out that we can disable bug submission there without losing access to the old bugs: https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+configure-bugtracker -> Setting: Bugs are tracked: "somewhere else". I tried that temporarily for a few seconds, and it seems to work: Then, the main links "Bugs" and "Report a bug" on Launchpad disappear. However, one can still search for bugs using the direct link to the "advanced search": https://bugs.launchpad.net/~inkscape.bugs/+bugs?advanced=1 Links to old bugs still work, e.g.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/682585 Maybe in the future we could import the old bugs to a separate GitLab project, so that one can find all bugs (inbox, real bugs, old launchpad bugs) using the single URL https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/issues . And/or mass-close the largest part of the old bugs, at least those that are not confirmed/triaged and have not been updated for many years. Looking forward to hear your thoughts. Best regards and have a nice weekend Max

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Chemnitzer Linuxtage Booth Coordination Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Hello everyone, we're going to meet up to coordinate the timetable for the virtual Inkscape booth at Chemnitzer Linuxtage (March 13/14) this Friday at 18:00 UTC! More information: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/192 See the time in your local time zone: https://inkscape.org/*inkscape-vectors/calendar/ Location: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Even if you haven't said you want to help with the booth before, you can still join us on Friday! You could do any kind of presentation, or just be there to help users with their questions. See you soon! Maren

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Charter Discussion Meeting
by doctormo＠gmail.com 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Dear Developers and Board, We're organising to have a video chat in 3 weeks time to discuss opening Inkscape up to allowing more contributors that just programmers to vote on board elections. Please attend if you are a team leader or if you are interested in how the project should certify contributions from all our different teams. Calendar entry: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/11/ ical: https://inkscape.org/*board/calendar.ics Best Regards, Martin Owens

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February Vectors' Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/194 and add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ See you tomorrow! Maren

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Board Meeting Today
by Tavmjong Bah 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Reminder: Board meeting today! https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings

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Calling German-speaking Inkscape Community members (and those who don't mind to communicate in English with German Linux users)!
by Maren Hachmann 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Hi everyone, the Inkscape project is going to host a virtual booth/stand at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage, on March 13 and 14 this year! We have already gathered a small booth team of 4, possibly 5, but the CLT (Chemnitzer Linuxtage) are all-day events and we could use your help answering user questions about how to work with the program, how to contribute to it and about what is going on in the Inkscape community. We might even do some short, up to 20min topic-focused sessions, if someone would like to organize (one of) them. So, if you're a developer, a forum member, a regular user support provider in our chat channels, an Inkscape translator, or are contributing to the project more or less regularly in any other way, and you have some time available to spend helping the Inkscape project on that weekend in March, please introduce yourself at the GitLab issue report where we're discussing the event organization! We would also be glad to have someone on board from any of the maker labs or similar communities, who are proficient in helping with maker topics, or who can demo something interesting in a short session (or both :) ). Or if you'd like to present the top 10 Inkscape extensions that people must know about, or do a quick drawing session, or want to tell people how to compile Inkscape and get started with development or ... whatever you can think of. ****************** Please get in contact with us as soon as possible and find more info at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/192 Let us know how you can help make the booth an interesting place for visitors to drop by! ****************** We're going to have a meeting with all those interested in about a week, so it would be good to hear from you before that. I'm going to announce the meeting time in a separate message. Hope to see you - and if you are not able to join us at the booth, consider visiting us there! Kind Regards Maren

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Inkscape 1.1 About Screen Contest open for submissions!
by Maren Hachmann 24 Jan '21

24 Jan '21

Calling all Inkscape artists! ----------------------------- You're invited to enter our traditional About Screen Contest to celebrate the upcoming release of Inkscape version 1.1! Find all information about how to join the drawing contest on our website at https://inkscape.org/en/community/about-screen-contests/ . We're looking forward to seeing **your** art! The Inkscape Vectors Team (marketing and outreach)

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Inkscape 1.0.2 and Inkscape 1.1-alpha released
by Marc Jeanmougin 17 Jan '21

17 Jan '21

Inkscape 1.0.2 ============== Inkscape 1.0.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.0.2 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It fixes numerous crashes and several major inconveniences, such as extensions popping up dialogs when interacting with a clipboard manager, or additional options to disable canvas rotation. ---------------- In addition, we are releasing an alpha version of Inkscape 1.1, to facilitate testing of major upcoming features, such as the new dialog system by Valentin Ionita or the command palette by Abhay Raj Singh. If you find any issue with this new version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report You can download it at https://inkscape.org/release/1.1alpha0/ ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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Board Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Happy New Year Inkscapers! We have a board meeting this week. Friday, Jan 8th. Check it out in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210108T10&p1=202 (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/3C28F8E0-1B3C-4393-9C77-8C137EEFE956@ge…) For the agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings#Agenda (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/3C28F8E0-1B3C-4393-9C77-8C137EEFE956@ge…) I hope to see everyone there! Ted

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[Re: cloudscale.ch's sponsoring for Inkscape]
by Bryce Harrington 06 Jan '21

06 Jan '21

----- Forwarded message from "cloudscale.ch Support" <support(a)cloudscale.ch> ----- Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:02:56 +0100 From: "cloudscale.ch Support" <support(a)cloudscale.ch> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce(a)bryceharrington.org> Subject: Re: cloudscale.ch's sponsoring for Inkscape Dear Bryce Thanks for your message. We are working hard for the exact feature you are asking about: Soon (tm), our cloud control panel will allow to create "organizations", which in turn can own "projects" consisting of one or more servers/resources. Multiple people/accounts can be part of such an organization and also invite others across organizations to collaborate on their projects. It will also be possible to hand over entire projects from one organization to another. However, we expect to release a first version of this long-awaited feature within the first half of 2021 only. In the meantime, we can offer to change your account's main email address (i.e. your username) to something more general such as "devops(a)inkscape.org", if that helps. For day-to-day use, you would need to share API keys and/or GUI credentials, though (which is a nasty way, admittedly, but obsolete within a few months' time). While "transferring" an entire account to another email address is possible already, transferring resources between accounts is not yet. Having outlined the currently possible workarounds, I am glad that this big rework of our control panel will exactly fit your (and many others') use case. We are almost there... If we can do anything else for you, please let us know. Best regards from Zurich - Switzerland, Markus -- Markus Furrer cloudscale.ch AG Venusstrasse 29 CH-8050 Zürich Fon: +41 44 55 222 55 Fax: +41 44 55 222 56 Web: https://www.cloudscale.ch > On 5 Dec 2020, at 10:30, Bryce Harrington <bryce(a)bryceharrington.org> wrote: > > Hi Markus, > > Thanks again for all the support you've provided, the project has really > benefitted from cloudscale's support! > > Could I ask, what is the procedure for turning over responsibility for > the account to another person? Should I have them create a new account > and then I let you know so you can switch everything over to them? > > Alternatively, is there an established way for more than one person to > share access to the dashboard + hosts? > > (With my severely limited time availability I find I am a > single-point-of-failure. So we need a way to either turn it over to > someone else, or a way to share the duty with them.) > > Thanks, > Bryce > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 07:56:00PM +0200, Markus Furrer wrote: >> Dear Bryce >> >> Thanks for such a quick response! >> >> And many thanks for the interesting insights into your environment! As your server naming indicated some sort of "scaling out", I was not sure to suggest our larger flavors and our new "Plus" offerings featuring dedicated CPU cores [1]. Seeing the list of different services, however, there probably are reasons to separate things on multiple, smaller servers. >> >> While we trust that our users keep a backup outside of our infrastructure (as mentioned in our TOS), you might want to take advantage of our new, second cloud location for the backups you decide to keep with us [2]. This way, you can get to your data even in the unlikely case of a major incident impacting the site where your main servers are located. >> >> Third, thanks for going through your servers and reducing some of them. Please note that Floating IPs are not deleted together with the respective servers - in fact, one of their use cases is to keep a service IP across server replacements. In case you do not need them anymore, just delete them in the "Floating IPs" section in our control panel. >> >> It was not my intention to enforce an exact budget. If you need resources going a little beyond that rough CHF 5000 per year in order to reasonably run something useful, please go ahead. In case it is considerably more, we might also be able to find a solution to split the cost - after all, we work hard to be our users' favorite cloud provider, and do not want to stop you from using us :-) >> >> Glad to hear you work with Canonical! Ubuntu is the distribution powering most of our own infrastructure, and - you guessed it - most of our customers' virtual servers. It was a no-brainer to support the new 20.04 LTS release as early as possible. >> >> Again, we are happy to support Inkscape, and if there is something we can help you with, please do not hesitate to contact us. >> >> >> [1]: https://www.cloudscale.ch/en/news/2019/11/19/even-more-power-thanks-to-plus… >> [2]: https://www.cloudscale.ch/en/news/2019/11/06/geo-redundancy-with-two-cloud-… >> >> >> Best regards from Zurich - Switzerland, >> Markus >> >> -- >> Markus Furrer >> >> cloudscale.ch AG >> Venusstrasse 29 >> CH-8050 Zürich >> >> Fon: +41 44 55 222 55 >> Fax: +41 44 55 222 56 >> Web: https://www.cloudscale.ch >> >> >>> On 27 Apr 2020, at 18:56, Bryce Harrington <bryce(a)bryceharrington.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Markus, >>> >>> Thank you again for your sponsorship of Inkscape, and I apologize for >>> going over the limits. I've freed up resources we're not actively using >>> and brought the usage down to 15.55 CHF. There are a couple more >>> servers I think I can remove as they were for new services that I think >>> the setup work did not get completed. >>> >>> Regarding how cloudscale.ch's sevices are being used, they are hosting >>> the primary communication channels for the Inkscape project's >>> development work: >>> >>> * Mailman3 - All of Inkscape's user and development mailing lists are >>> hosted from a cloudscale host (Flex-4 with 100GB). We had run into >>> memory limitation issues running on a 2GB node, so appreciated being >>> able to scale up to Flex-4 to solve the issue. >>> >>> * Mediawiki - Inkscape's institutional memory is its collection of >>> wiki pages, which has been migrated to a cloudscale host (Flex-2 >>> node with 200GB). >>> >>> * Rocket.Chat - The project has largely moved away from IRC to this >>> modern chat system, which hosts a couple dozen channels for the >>> various Inkscape teams to discuss their work. This was the first >>> service we brought up at cloudscale and has been a resounding >>> success. >>> >>> * Intranet - we also have one node we used for internal >>> developer-focused web pages, such as transcripts from Inkscape's >>> board meeting, and misc. cron jobs. >>> >>> * Backup - another node runs rsnapshot to backup the above services. >>> >>> Other services we've looked running include Kiwi TCMS, and a translation >>> system called weblate. We also considered hosting an Inkscape community >>> forum whose administrator no longer has time to maintain it, but he's >>> also not had time to hand over the database. I think if we cancelled >>> these efforts we can get the rate back under the limit, but I need to >>> try to talk to the individuals working on those projects first. >>> >>> Thanks again for hosting Inkscape, and apologies again, I was more >>> focused on keeping the CPU / RAM under control and didn't take into >>> account the disk space resource needs. >>> >>> On a more personal note, last year I started a new job at Canonical, >>> where I maintain the Ubuntu Server product. I'm very happy to see >>> cloudscale.ch already lists our freshly released 20.04 LTS. :-) >>> >>> Bryce >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 03:00:33PM +0200, Markus Furrer wrote: >>>> Dear Bryce >>>> >>>> Reviewing cloudscale.ch's sponsorship commitments, I am very happy that we support Inkscape - and will hopefully keep doing so for a long time to come. >>>> >>>> To my knowledge, the original sponsorship agreement was about servers totalling around 32 GB of RAM (which would add up to around CHF 5000 worth of services per year). Looking at your account, however, I noticed that current usage is at CHF 41.30 per day (i.e. CHF 15000 per year). Approx. one third of this amount actually covers virtual servers, and two thirds are for disk upgrades and floating IPs. >>>> >>>> Can you give me some more insights in how you are using our services, how they support your (or other contributors') workflows etc. And, since things generally tend to grow and accumulate over time: might there also be some room for optimization? >>>> >>>> I would be glad to hear back from you and understand your use case better. Thanks in advance for your beedback! >>>> >>>> >>>> Best regards from Zurich - Switzerland, >>>> Markus >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Markus Furrer >>>> >>>> cloudscale.ch AG >>>> Venusstrasse 29 >>>> CH-8050 Zürich >>>> >>>> Fon: +41 44 55 222 55 >>>> Fax: +41 44 55 222 56 >>>> Web: https://www.cloudscale.ch >>>> >> ----- End forwarded message -----

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Dev Meeting Presentation on Tuesday, Dec 22nd
by Thomas Holder 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

Hi devs, I'll give a short presentation about "Assertions and Warnings" at the next developer meeting on Tuesday, December 22 (in two days). Hope to see you there! Dev Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Meeting Link (as usual): https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Thomas

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Developer presentations
by Thomas Holder 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

An idea I brought up in today's developer meeting: Developer presentations to share knowledge, experience, and to promote best practices. Schedule: Either as part of the weekly developer meetings, or as a separate event. E.g. once a month. Ideas for topics: * Warnings and Assertions best practices * std::move and other modern C++ features * How does Inkscape's garbage collection work? * How to properly use signals (libsigc++) * Why is direct manipulation of the XML tree discouraged? * What is a node observer? https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Community_Development#Developer_Pr… I'd be willing to prepare some of these topics and to host the event. I'll bring it up again in the next dev meeting, then we can maybe settle on a schedule and see who is willing to contribute with a presentation. Thomas

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wiki access
by Epper Marshall 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

So I started following the instructions for compiling inkscape on Windows and ran into some issues. I did figure out how to fix/get past the issues but felt like the wiki could contain the information. I created a ticket: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/4112 but was wondering if I could get wiki access to update the wiki. Or if someone else wants to update the wiki that would be great too. Regards Epper Marshall

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openswatchbook hijacked
by Nozz 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

Hi, when saving svg in inkscape 1.0.1, the file contains a link to openswatchbook dot org and that website appears to have been hijacked and is serving porn and possibly malware. I'm new to inkscape so I was curious what that address is about and why it's in the generated svg file. If you could explain why a svg file needs url links in the first place I would love to know. I don't know what relationship inkscape has with that website but you should contact whoever you think is the original owner and let them know of the situation. Best regards

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Backports into 1.0.2
by Marc Jeanmougin 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

Hi team, If you have ideas or proposals to backport stuff that is already in master, and want it into our next 1.0.2 release, could you mention it in https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/2067 Input from the bugs team would be particularly appreciated in this matter :) Thanks everyone! -- Marc

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finally, finished using boolean operators
by NASA Jeff 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

finally, i finished off by trimming the lhsf eyebrow to the face using boolean operations. I couldn't seem to get them to work how I wanted, to trim the eyebrow bit. And selection order didn't seem to change the precedence in the boolean operation. In the end I ended up doing a copy and paste replacing the face, then a copy of the eyebrow with no paste, then the boolean operation between the eyebrow and one face copy, then paste from the eyebrow copy the style (opacity/blur didn't seem to copy, just the colour, not sure it stroke styles copied or not), then deleted the original eyebrow. And renamed everything correctly again using the XML editor. I noticed you can't do a multiple select in the XML editor, only select a single element. So, I think I'll raise three bugs from this, boolean operation precedence, style paste not pasting blur and transparency and maybe stroke styles etc.. and inability to select multiple shapes/groups via the XML editor dialogue. I'll leave the snapping as an enhancement to look into and not raise as a bug as the enhancement I suggested may be best as a different snap modulator.

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path snap
by NASA Jeff 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

As I mentioned in my last email, I found snap to path, but it didn't work that great. It seemed to fit curve to a curve well some of the time and didn't seem to snap vertices to the path curve. What would be great is if it could snap a curve to a curve all of the time by inserting vertices as needed to make the snap happen. I'm also going to play around with grow and shrink, to see if that's a better option for multilayer hair, that just adjusting the paths manually. There would still be some alignment of paths between objects with higher/lower z-orders needed and it still wouldn't solve the eyebrow problem. I may end up just doing a boolean operation.

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found path snap
by NASA Jeff 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

I found path snap and it worked okish, though not that great. An example of where matching two paths is required because you can't just use z-order and have a blob underneath is the eyebrow, where I have a semi transparent top layer for the hair and an opaque background that has to be beneath or fit the face and above or fit the eyebrow. https://imgur.com/4oHHL6Z

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simple edge detection of a bitmap
by NASA Jeff 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

I can't remember exactly how to do an edge detection mask for a bitmap but it's something like 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 as a matrix applied to the bitmap, this has issues with jpeg compression though as you get square artefacts from the lossy-ness of the compression, soi it may be an idea to detect the compression window for the jpeg image and use that to scale the matrix. I believe jpeg compression is more or less just an inverse fast Fourier transform.

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Here's the image I've drawn
by NASA Jeff 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

https://svgshare.com/i/RUo.svg Some curves I've hand fitted to each other and some I've just relied on z-order with a cruder edge for the lower shape. I'm not sure how well relying on using z-order to account for matching detail of the edges of paths would work if we wanted to animate the shapes. e.g. make the dress and hair move as if the wind was blowing.. Incidentally, this svg renders funny in chrome, I've added some blurred, semi-transparent detail on a higher z-order than the base image but it's not showing... Here's a png exported from inkscape.. https://imgur.com/j8mDI6b

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slightly more advanced
by NASA Jeff 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

Something slightly more advanced would be being able to take the pattern from the traced portion of an underlying image. So lets say I trace a sofa and I want to take the pattern from the material of the sofa and use it to fill my vector shape. Even more advanced is that the possibility to extract the shading from an underlying image and turn it into fill gradients may become possible once a uniform texture is extracted from the material.

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snapping to lines &co.
by NASA Jeff 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

I've just been hand tracing a jpg image someone asked me to turn into a drawing. Here are my notes on the process: When moving points they need to be able to snap to points on the curve of lines of other shapes, maybe controlled by being in the same group. Smoothing worked quite well, it would be nice if there were some option to do it to the contours of an image either, Fitting when smoothing, Snapping curves to to an underlying image when editing a curve over an image, could be controlled by layers and opacity etc.. Another feature that would be nice is to snap one part of a path to another part of a path, breaking segments where necessasasary. So say you have two hand drawn paths, where some segments of one are close to or partly overlap the some of the segments of the other path. An option to fit the two segment sets of the path that are close to each other would be nice. I expect I can prototype some of this.

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oh, i didn't send this and answered my own question.
by NASA Jeff 14 Nov '20

14 Nov '20

Does anyone know OTT how filling is performed? Is it just the standard, sort the vertices and walk the inside edges down either side of the vertex a line at a time? I can probably tell by making some shapes that don't fill in a uniform manner when you do that and see who inkscape fills them. I've got a good collection of path segment functions together now for prototyping, and found the first SVG feature implemented on the GPU, or at least in OpenCL, filters. So, that's a positive. I'll think I'll keep on working on the extension before doing any experimentation but I think I've to go a good outline of things to test to see how they fair in terms of rendering performance and enough SVG features down that I should be able to do a bit more than just a point line test. I looked up Bézier length calculations again, and they are basically an approximation using lookup tables. Wikipedia said you could calculate them definitely using a partial integral when I looked a while back but it seems it was incorrect and I'm back where I started in high school calculating the sum of the magnitude of the segments.

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so that would mean.
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

When I do a bucket fill I store the result as a collection of lines going from one inside edge to the other than enumerate the list to redraw the lines. Something like gimp would typically trace the extremities to produce a selection outline and fill a bit mask in the same way as I would bucket fill. To create a selection. I don't think a GPU would handle the outline trace at-all well, but most fill patterns and styles are quite possible using shaders, or tilled textures. (I just did a search and came across an OpenCL implementation of filters) https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70099 I don't know what licence the code uses but it's a good example of what's achievable. Oh, I see now, there's fill rule evenodd and fill rule nonzero, so i was almost right.. That's a lot of experimentation, hopeful we should be able to identify what SVG elements or parts of elements can be calculated or rendered at high performance and which ones require a more traditional approach. Even then performance could possibly be improved manually vectorizing if GCC doesn't for a good job. (I expect you have to structure your code in a way that's friendly to GCC's algorithms) and switching to scaled integers over floats which are higher performance and give you more control over the (I've forgotten the word), basically the number of bits you've got to play with to maintain a desired rounding error. Integers having higher performance is certainly the case for older generation CPUs where that bit of performance may be really noticeable to the end user who may not have an acceleration viable GPU.

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i think i've got it.
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

It looks like as I described, sorting the vertices and walking the inside edges. Except overlapping boundaries seem to follow a z-order based on the order in which the vertex appears on the path. So, it's basically a bucket fill with some level of z-order based on vertex creation order.

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memory requirements and GPU CPU performance on older systems.
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

A full 32bit 4k screen is 31mb There are approximately 70 full 4k screens in 2GB, which is about the memory of an ancient PC or graphics card. My PC performs unbuffered memory writes at 10GB/s according to a benchmark I just ran, and read performance is over 13GB/s That means my PC can write the full 2GB in 1/5 of a second and my PC is currently under a lot of load, I have loads of stuff open. More details including GPU to CPU and CPU to GPU memory performance can be found here: http://www.bealto.com/gpu-benchmarks_mem.html The devices listed are relatively old, a PCI Express V2 16 BUS is listed with a performance of 8GB/s It would take 1/25 of a second to transfer the full 2GB at theoretical maximum performance. That means you could sustain a transfer rate of 201MB at a speed of 40 frames per second, or about 6 and a half full 4k screens or 25 full-HD screens 40 times a second. A modern PCI Express bus can sustain 126 GB/s Having a vector with 32bit x and y coordinates for every pixel of a 4k screen shouldn't pose a performance issue. Old PCI Express 2 systems can achieve that at 120 fps. Masks and stencils won't be the whole screen and even if they were older systems without 4k screens (you need a modern graphics card to be able to operate one) could have roughly 350 full-HD screen stencils before filling up 2GB of RAM. So, the memory requirement of using masks and stencils and then texturing and filtering on the GPU shouldn't be an issue. Well, that's all the theory out of the way, and it certainly seems viable. Just to see if any of it works in practice.

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whilst the user twiddles their fingers.
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

Creating masks for filling may be slow, but it could just initially be done for clipped areas and then background areas can be calculated during user idle time, so they can be cashed so that they don't have to be recalculated if something on a layer above them changes.

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worst case scenario
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

worst-case scenario is that i have to load everything into bitmaps and do the calculations using shaders using the colour of the bit map for the coefficient values. That's basically what OpenCL does in the background for you, but it should work on machines that don't support OpenCL assuming they can operate on enough bitmaps at once to provide the number of coefficients needed.

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i may do a little experiment sooner rather than later.
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

What I'll do for feasibility is create some arrays for triangular strips for every pixel of the screen, perform the basic spline calculations on them combined with normal calculations so the triangular strip has a width in the direction of the normal of either side and see what the performance is like. I have quite a new PC with a fast GPU, my older PC will have a different performance profile I expect.

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more on rendering usin g the GPU.
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

it does if it's architectured right, see for instance how the Pathfinder library does it it doesn't if it needs back-and-forth stuff with cpu and gpu involved (anyway, 2am, going to bed) oliverthered 1:37 AM ok, I'll run a test soon of calculating all the line points an entire SVG file in one go to see how that performs. but you're correct, unless there's some way you can work with the line points when rendering an image on the GPU you have to shuttle the calculations between the GPU and CPU to do the drawing. that then leaves the question of how often do you actually have to recalculate all the drawing points. you could calculate the drawing points as a triangular strip maybe. Then it's just one trip to the GPU and back to calculate them and then you change the data type into vertices and send them off to the GPU again to be rendered. you should then be able to manipulate the line directly on the GPU you just can't break it or delete it without having to go from GPU to CPU again. Filling is a lot harder on any kind of scale. Here's one example of SVG filling on the GPU: http://matthieu.besson.pagesperso-orange.fr/2010.01.15/SVG Rendering using OpenGL.html matthieu.besson.pagesperso-orange.fr SVG Rendering using OpenGL line drawing is however fixed filling not dynamic filling, you know the width you don't have to do bounds checking for the fill boundary. and it's still possible to do that on the CPU as a mask and then have the GPU render the fill texture and style etc.. an array of drawing points need be no bigger than a few full screen 32bit depth textures to fill the whole screen with lines. If you can create an array of triangles at point separation using the tangents of the spline you should then be able to use a shader to do all the stroke drawing, feeding it the array of triangles you've calculated. anyhow, i'll have to do some benchmarking, but in theory at least everything apart from creating a mask for filling can be handled by the GPU. So to do all of that you need to know the length of the lines so you can precalculate the size of the array needed to hold the triangular stipes at one pixel spacing..

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looks like opencl should be able to do it.
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

So, long as you don't need to increase or change the number of elements in the vectors, basically no memory allocation, it looks like bulk vector operations are easy with OpenCL... here's an example where a vector id added: https://github.com/rsnemmen/OpenCL-examples/tree/master/sum_array But there's a wide variety of other possible functions... I'll have to port the path rendering into OpenCL code and see how well it performs when I give it a vector containing all the path data in an entire SVG file in one go. That should at least performance benchmark it and provide a proof of concept.

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I just looked at Krita and they say...
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

"Selecting this checkbox will enable the OpenGL / ANGLE canvas drawing mode. With a decent graphics card this should give faster feedback on brushes and tools. Also the canvas operations like Rotate, Zoom and Pan should be considerably faster." I think it should be possible to do way better than that assuming the bus isn't too much of a bottleneck because you have to pull any points that are calculated back on to the CPU so that they can be drawn on the canvas and send out to the GPU again for layering.

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can we render vector graphics using the GPU to process everything in mass parallel.
by NASA Jeff 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

I got told off for this monologue, so I hope it's a good one... I didn't manage to draw a conclusion but I did come up with a way of testing if the vector drawing calculations can be offloaded to the GPU which would in theory make them blazingly fast. It would also be of interest to other open-source graphics projects, so I may get Intouch with the Krita guys https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/ as I know they have some GPU optimizations and see what mileage they got out of it. At the very least SIMD on the CPU is capable of performing those four multiplications required for a spline in one cycle, it's just a case of what performance gains can be made rendering the other embroilment beyond basic line drawing. --------------------------- I've got my Béziers down to this... a * p[0] + b * p[2] + c * p[4] + d * p[6] etc.. The points are fixed for the segments and a,b,c,d are a function of the fraction t. that should vectorize nicely and do all four mul operations in one cycle. The number of fractions in t is really dependent on the length of the curve.. Which makes the performance bottleneck populating the arrays to do the vectorized calculations. It's always possible to have arrays with prefill numbers of fractional steps. That would prevent the over head of the CPU having to go out of catch to fetch data in an informally populated memory block... but just having a pre-allocated array to stick all the fractions in should overcome that. So, the only question remaining, assuming fractioned aren't precalculated. is what is the performance difference between populating a preallocated array of fractions and then doing one massive vector operation on the lot in batch, vs calculating the fractions on the fly and just doing a little vector operation. It should be possible to hold all the calculations of the fractions in the loop inside the registers, which should make on the fly faster than populating a vector as there're no worries about the CPU having to fetch data from odd places. GCC is supposed to auto vectorize but I think I'll have a crack at using the extensions to see what difference there is between GCC's auto vectorization and optimal irker203 12:52 AM [inkscape] Marc Jeanmougin pushed new commit to master: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/compare/69dc1688...d2b75904 gitlab.com 69dc1688...d2b75904 · Inkscape / inkscape Inkscape vector image editor oliverthered 12:52 AM Looks like OpenCL should give the best bulk operation solution. I think it's only 32bit precision, that just means quadrupling up the data and scaling the fractional component into nice 32bit chunks. a standard loop would be quicker than calculating all the points in bulk into memory, but that's assuming you only want to draw a pixel line with no other operations performed upon it. if you have all the points of the line calculated and held in memory on the GPU you can then perform a load of other operations upon them in bulk like anti-aliasing. It is a shame the GPU can't just take the values stored in what is effectively a texture used for bulk parallel processing and turn them into pixel co-ordinates to draw on another texture or it would be possible to calculate and draw all the vector points on the GPU. If you calculate many lines all simultaneously on the GPU the overhead of transferring memory over the bus should be well mitigated against. ``` Anyhow, that was some interesting research. When i get around to taking a look at Inkscape code I should be able to frame some idea of just how much of the vector drawing operations can be calculated in bulk on the GPU. Certainly, all the operations requiring tangents and normals should be achievable given an array of line fractions and the spline control points. SVG drawing is complex so there's a lot of overhead in the actual drawing process compared to line drawing so holding an array of points to be drawn in memory may actually make performance sense.

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The notes I used for todays meeting
by NASA Jeff 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

It's a bit marketing bumph laddered after I got some work and sponsorship based on the design work I posted to Inkscape's mailing list. The project in which my design was spotted was inkscape for which I not only designed the feature google was extremely interested in but reworked undo/redo and scripting to support macros, real time ECMA scripting as well as their current batch python scripting and additionally added the versatility to support older plugins that are currently unusable without being ported to Inkscape new python scripting API, although I also schemed a proposal for automated porting. On-top of ECMA scripting I designed a modular and secure API system that is extensible and reusable by other 'open source' projects. This enables the development of real-time drawing tool and utilities (such as real-time shape recognition, recording of macros based on user interaction, click-and lock user interface integration during design (the UI becomes integrated with the application API via wisywig script instead of hard-coding), SVG Animation using CSS, SIML (deprecated) or JavaScript, and finally interactive SVG for development of graphic rich web applications and games (think sopped up flash replacement). A radical, high performance, caching system was also designed, high-performance matrix operations for groups of a vector and bitmap objects, such as rotation, scaling, shearing and translation, along with implementing some industry standards that were missing such as deciles black boxed from Google Chrome. Graphics fidelity was also addressed and fidelity/performance trade-offs discussed with some key design pointers such as moving objects require less fidelity and feature scaling should be uniform possibly even dropping the current non-uniform scaling as even an optional feature. Backtracing methods for 'random' animation JavaScript/CSS allowing for wisywig editing and the ability to control and pre-empt the animation timeline were also worked into the project, this also enables high-performance animation through the ability to pre-empt caching and transformations. Another feature where I deltered and improved with existing API and radically extended the AI to enable clean matching of both straight and curved segments, more or less regardless of the angle that they are drawn with, though fixed angle snapping was implemented by default to make for easier drafting)

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Concept mapping & Knowledge Modeling with Inkscape
by Ludovic Bocken 08 Nov '20

08 Nov '20

Hello, I would like to know more about possibilities to do concept mapping, mind mapping, knowledge modeling (UML, BPMN, ...), etc. with Inkscape. Some questions... 1. How to start quickly and efficiently these kind of tasks? 2. How to develop new functionalities to make easier these kind of tasks? 3. What kind of extension is better to do that? 4. Is there a specific SVG format to use? 5. Do I have to develop in Python or in C++? Thank you very much for your help ! Best regards, Ludovic BOCKEN lbocken(a)gmail.com www.ludovicbocken.com Skype: ludovic.bocken http://www.linkedin.com/in/ludovicbocken 2222 Rue Hochelaga, Montréal, QC H2K 4N8 +1 (514) 649 0755 *Avis de confidentialité* Le présent message transmis par télécopie est confidentiel, et son contenu peut être protégé par le secret professionnel. Il est à l’usage exclusif de son ou sa destinataire. Toute autre personne est par les présentes avisée qu’il lui est strictement interdit de le diffuser, de le distribuer ou de le reproduire. Si la ou le destinataire ne peut être joint ou vous est inconnu, nous vous prions d’en informer immédiatement l’expéditeur ou l’expéditrice et de détruire ce message et toute copie de celui-ci.

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Inkscape Board Meeting this week!
by Ted Gould 07 Nov '20

07 Nov '20

Howdy Inkscapers! Board meeting this week, sorry for the late notice! It will be Friday at it is usual time. It is important to note that the website was wrong, so if you've used the ical feed there it may be wrong on your calendar. Here is the time for you locally: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201106T10&p1=202 (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/BC846A37-A1BF-478B-AC0A-379CF668536B@ge…) The agenda is up here: (I need to update it as of this writing, but it's a wiki, it should be better soon) https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/BC846A37-A1BF-478B-AC0A-379CF668536B@ge…) Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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[Inkscape-vectors] Vectors Meeting, November 2020
by Maren Hachmann 06 Nov '20

06 Nov '20

Hi everyone! There's going to be the monthly Vectors (marketing and outreach group of Inkscape) meeting on Saturday. Time and date: https://inkscape.org/*inkscape-vectors/calendar/ Please add your agenda items to the agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/176 Hope that many of you can join :) Maren _______________________________________________ Inkscape Vectors mailing list -- inkscape-vectors(a)lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-vectors-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Dependency : lcms2
by Marc Jeanmougin 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Hi all, developpers, packagers, as discussed in the last developer's meeting (and given that Inkscape did not actually compile without lcms2), lcms2 is now a mandatory dependency of Inkscape. Good evening, -- Marc

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Inkscape 1.1 Release Schedule
by Tavmjong Bah 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Hi all, We've discussed the release schedule for Inkscape 1.1 during the on- line developers meetings. This is a heads-up to those who don't follow IRC or RocketChat (or attend the meetings). A draft schedule can be found at: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Inkscape_1.1_Release_Planning Please add comments here or on that page (or even better, come to the next meeting.[1] Tav [1] https://inkscape.org/fr/cals/

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back in the USSR
by NASA Jeff 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

or rather the UK, I left my flat keys in turkey and can't get into my flat and my mum and grandfather were moving house when I got back and we've only just had the internet hooked up. it's running at a measly 1.5mb so I'm going to have to wait until I get a new keyfob from the landlord and can get back into my flat before I can continue with more serious work. They take a week or so to get a new keyfob for some reason so I'll ask them if they have a code for an emergency box on the door so I can get in sooner and don't have so much hassle if I lose my keyfob again. They will probably tell me to bugger off so I expect to see you all again in a week or so's time when I have fiber and we can catch up properly. My mum is almost moved now so hopefully i'll have some time to relax and get on with some reading, Turkey was busy all the time and I got quite a lot done over there and even learnt a little turkish. I had a chance to look at acrobat when I was over there and appart from the kind of clicking and locking you get in cad packages it didn't really seem anything special, it was quick however.

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Custom Styles
by Early Ehlinger 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

Hello Inkscape Devs, I've put together this pull request: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/2405 I've run into a bit of a snag on the unit test front because make check doesn't show as a valid target, even though I've run download-gtest.sh and re-run cmake. cmake complains that: -- Could NOT find GTest (missing: GTEST_INCLUDE_DIR GTEST_MAIN_LIBRARY) CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:187 (message): No gtest found! Disabling testing... I'm going to keep hacking at this, but would love any advice and/or to discuss the PR in the meantime. -- Early Ehlinger

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i missed the team meting again :-(
by NASA Jeff 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

apologies for missing the team meeting. I had to order a take out, I got food poisoning. Almost recovered but my bottom can't stop blowing trumps.

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Board Meeting this week!
by Ted Gould 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Howdy Inkscapers, We have a board meeting this Friday, October 2nd at high noon Texas time and you're invited! In your time that is: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201002T10&p1=202 There is also a list of things we plan to discuss: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings If your name is next to one of those items, and you can't make it, please make sure to designate someone in your place. It'll make the meeting flow more smoothly. See you there! Ted

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Dependency : boost-filesystem
by Marc Jeanmougin 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

Hi all, Since we switched to C++17, there has been an attempt to use std::filesystem to simplify some of our file handling code. However, some compilers we still want to support for now (like gcc8 or some macos clang versions) do not have it in by default or need a special flag. Hence we decided at the last dev meeting (reminder, next dev meeting is saturday, and we have a board meeting tomorrow (friday)) to use boost-filesystem, which has exactly the same API, in the meantime (so that when we switch, it will "just" be a matter of removing the dep, a few lines in CMakeLists and change the #include). On some systems boost includes everything (and we already use some of boost) so you'll be fine, and on ubuntu-like systems you might need to apt install libboost-filesystem-dev If you have questions for a particular system, feel free to voice them, and if you are willing to use std::filesystem and want to maintain a patch to avoid adding a dep in the meantime, you'll basically want to locally revert 6880148747deb6d7ec4e73068b9e196bb11a0f0c Good evening, -- Marc

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Vectors Meeting, October 2020
by Maren Hachmann 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Hi everyone! There's going to be the monthly Vectors (marketing and outreach group of Inkscape) meeting on Saturday. Time and date: https://inkscape.org/*inkscape-vectors/calendar/ Please add your agenda items to the agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/173 Hope that many of you can join :) Maren

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Help adding support for dxf arc on dxf_outlines.py
by Sandro Duarte 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Hi, I'm trying to add dxf arc to the dxf_outlines extension but I'm having some problems: At first I'm using only the arcs that have the same radius, basically the code goes like this def dxf_arc(self,arc_info): """Draw an arc in the DXF format""" self.handle += 1 self.dxf_add(" 0\nARC\n 5\n%x\n100\nAcDbEntity\n 8\n%s\n 62\n%d\n100\nAcDbCircle\n" % (self.handle, self.layer, self.color)) self.dxf_add(" 10\n%f\n 20\n%f\n 30\n0.0\n 40\n%f\n100\nAcDbArc\n 50\n%f\n 51\n%f\n" % (arc_info[0],arc_info[1], arc_info[2], arc_info[3], arc_info[4]) def arc_info(previous_end_point, arc_path): Ax = previous_end_point[0] Ay = previous_end_point[1] radius = arc_path[1] Bx = arc_path[-2] By = arc_path[-1] ... return [center_point_x, centerpoint_y, radius, start_angle, end_angle] The problem is for this to work it must be before converting the path to superpath or all the svg arc information will be lost as it will become a curves but somewhere in the code there's the information that there is some issues when transforming(matrix) the path before converting it to superpath. So I'm thinking if it would be possible to use something like simplepath (but now it's decrepted) and convert the path into segments and then the segments to curve as they go into the process_shape loop and separating the arcs that fulfill the conditions(same radius) from the others that should be converted to curves and then to dxf spline. It would go like this: path -> transform matrix -> simplepath -> separate the arcs from the others (M L C etc) -> arcs goes to arc_info and the others goes to either dxf line or dxf spline as opposed to what it is now path -> superpath -> transform matrix -> separed lines from curves to go to dxf line and dxf spline respectively So my questions are : How to convert the path to some sort of superpath but without converting it curves? Does a command to do this exist or should I write a function to do it? And if I should write one, what's the format of a superpath so it could match with my function? What was the issues of having the transform matrix before converting it to a superpath? It is possible to do it the way i intend? Any help would be appreciated

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notes on Inkscape's canvas performance and caching, with GPU summary.
by NASA Jeff 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

There was some discussion on dev-chat about using SVG for rendering rotation handles and performance and bitmaps came up in discussion. This should provide a thinking point for talking about canvas performance at Fridays meeting. That led me onto some investigation into Inkscapes canvas performance when rendering bitmaps and vectors and how chrome handles it. This is about the only benefit of running on an old laptop. Anyhow, the notes cover the whole file and subfile (z-order sandwich) caching for all possible dynamic transforms of objects (that is excluding node, filter, style modification etc...) which should dramatically improve the performance of inkscape in anything to do with dynamic transformation where perfect fidelity isn't so critical because it's blurred to the eye. It's also very practical on the GPU which has enough fast memory and image filtering technologies to offer good support and high fidelity with no noticeable artifacts in the rendering. oliverthered 9:48 PM I just had a bit of a look at image drawing performance and there is lag when I'm dragging the image. That means the image position is being updated with intermediary points when the mouse has long left that point. scrolling the view point doesn't seem to have these issues, the performance is still slower than my web browser. That may be because the browser renders to over-view-size bitmaps, or a composite of bitmaps and caches them, so all scrolling involves is translating the cached bitmap. oliverthered 10:00 PM vector performance doesn't seem too bad, it's still not great though. does it use intermediary bitmaps with an alpha channel that are cached so that translating and scaling etc.. operations operate with optimum performance? in a similar way to how true type font rendering works in most applications, except with layers. so say when you select something the objects with z-orders above and below the selection are cached to bitmaps as layers so they don't have to be rendered for every update. obviously you get a sandwich effect if the selected objects aren't in a z-order group. oliverthered 11:16 PM me running out of memory/swapping or whatever causes chrome to show it's caching system for rendering and it uses square tiles (deciles) when rendering this svg file. with square tiles it's easy to clip the vectors so you can minimize redraw because in addition they over size the view. oliverthered 11:45 PM looking at inkscape, when the canvas size is larger than the view area +-42? inkscape resorts to redrawing the portions of the svg file that are out of view when they come back into view. where as chrome uses deciles so that at most the content of the squares are redrawn if they move back into view and are no longer in cache and at least the squares cache the content once it's been drawn once (in an over sized view that is square by square proportioned) it's cached and doesn't have to be drawn again for translation exercises. with decent filtering square caching can also be used for scale, rotate and skew with the svg file only being needed to be redrawn when it's enlarged beyond the cache size. There's a possibility that this may produce some unwelcome artifacts in studio production though so it may only be workable during dynamic operations with the svg file having to be redrawn once the dynamic (and so blurred by the eye) operation is complete to give production quality fidelity again. oliverthered 11:50 PM so all dynamic transforms of svg objects can use bitmap caching deciles as mentioned about along with the sandwich caching I mentioned earlier when a fraction of the svg file is modified, nodes, transform, properties, filters etc... This should work very well on the GPU too as it's ideal for this kind of compositing. That should cover animated transforms and path movement (esp in CSS) and with clipping changes to styles and filters and possibly node movement. It should be possible to parse this information out of the file so caching can be optimized with advanced knowledge and not have to be done with "on the fly" optimization for the various fragments which would get messy.

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Discussion for the next developers meeting
by NASA Jeff 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

I missed the last developers meeting but intend to make the next one. I'm still in Istanbul and I've had a good chance to think things through more thoroughly and simplify things, still I'll have to be briefer that I otherwise would be as I don't have access to all my resources and am working on a very old laptop. Points: -Pitfalls of CSS and Javascript and indeed SIML, which is now deprecated. *I have some examples of CSS and Javascript I've put together, I'll make sure all the examples are in both CSS and Javascript so the pitfalls can be seen. -Possibility of a dual implementation model, both CSS and Javascript. CSS being limited to just CSS and fully editable in the GUI, Javascript only limited by way of features available (re security etc...) but not being fully editable in the GUI, inkscape isn't an IDE. -Performance issues with Firefox ECMA scripting engine on older machines. -Options for implementing security beyond that provided by the ECMA engine by default. -Modular design, allowing the ECMA engine and APIs to more easily be integrated with other open source applications. *Engine integration, *API modules providing and API view with module availability restricted based on use. i.e. Runtime tool extensions need APIs that should not be available to SVG documents. -Lightly cover extra tools and GUI changes required for animation and interactivity etc... This will require some mockups to have a proper discussion about. -Possibility of assistance from Universities by way of taking on some of the work as elements of research projects. -Potential for revenue generation in a souped up version. -Discuss a Python2/3 implementation written in Javascript that I've used via University. This would allow for existing Python plugins that are apparently quite broken at the moment to be ported to javascript should the time come -Potential for macro recording and real-time extensions, e.g. new drawing tools like the shape recognition extension I've been working on. Finally, -Canvas performance, options available and discuss the current implementation and bottlenecks and how this can be moved forward into the up and coming OpenGL, Vulkan etc.. implementation.

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c++17 usage
by René de Hesselle 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Developers, in our next meeting I'd like to discuss c++17 usage - specifically new std library features (https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=C%2B%2B17). Allow me to be blunt: so far we've achieved nothing but to increase complexity. For the introduction of 'filesystem' alone we already had to introduce three different strategies: - use std::filesystem as default for up-to-date gcc toolchains - use boost::filesystem on macOS to not break support for older OS releases - add -lstdc++fs linker flag for gcc 8.x I propose to refrain from using std c++17 library features and go for boost on all platforms where applicable (e.g. boost::filesystem). This way we avoid introducing new platform/compiler specific code paths that don't bring any benefit. René

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tuning the canvas
by NASA Jeff 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

I missed the dev meet up, I'm on holiday in Istanbul at the moment, here's some additional thoughts i had nodding off last night: I don't know what the performance bottle necks in the canvas are but i had a think about vector graphics performance and this is what I identified: caching of objects and image sections, reducing the fidelity when an object is being modified dynamically, improved drawing algorithms (integer) ... that's a no brainier (fits in with fidelity), clipping (which also fits in with caching), and finally JIT compiling drawing operations with dynamic elements in their inner loops so that they can be properly optimized out, vectorized and unrolled etc...

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canvas performance
by NASA Jeff 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

at the very least it should be podssijble to switch over to almost pure integer rendering with AA disabled to get enough performance to preview animations in real time.

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canvas rasterizing performance
by NASA Jeff 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

from what's bewen said it seems like the canvas has some performance issues. I have quite a bit of background in relation to tuning rendering engines for performance. help i used to do 3d animated graphics on a 386 with a few mewg of ram. even sqeuuzed a simple cad package onto as bbc computer with 32k of memory. basically, if i get time i'll take a look at it and tyry to identify what the performance bottle knecks are and how to improve them.

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animation and scripting developers meeting
by NASA Jeff 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

i don't know what time zoness you guys frequent or other work engagements: I'm going to raise a bug for a developers meeting next wednesday at 4pm GMT+1. it may take an hour or drag on longer depending on how much input people have to give. all are welcome. the adjenda is as follows: the two options going ahead. CSS Only or javascript with css. : with demos summary of the benifts and limitations of each: with demos research and development possibilities exploring javascript further, what work would have to be completed for js+CSS exploring CSS further risks of javascript extra benefits javascript can bring looking into relevent future scribus developments multimodel approach being adopted for importing pdf into scribus what is left to do actions set a date for the next animation and scripting developers meeting.

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Dev meeting tomorrow !
by Marc Jeanmougin 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Hi all ! Our next dev meeting will take place tomorrow (Sep 1st) at 5pm UTC (7PM Europe) -- Marc

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Inkscape 1.0.1
by Marc Jeanmougin 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Inkscape 1.0.1 ============== Inkscape 1.0.1 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.0.1 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It also comes with a few new features that hadn't been stable enough to make it into Inkscape 1.0: * Selectors/CSS dialog is now available * Experimental color-managed PDF export through Scribus * Many crash fixes and bugs fixed ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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Mario Voigt - about perspective
by Andrew Kurn 05 Sep '20

05 Sep '20

This is first to say 'thanks' to Mario Voigt for updating the Clonesp extension. I'm busy these days, so I'm not keeping up with what I should be doing for Inks. However, it seems to me that the fact that there are now two developers on this project means that it should go to Gitlab (or a similar). I hardly know anything about Gitlab, so I don't know where to start. If someone would like to give me a pointer or two, I could try to get that going. Or if someone can simply do it for me (and Mario) that would be welcome. Andrew

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unless there are any objections
by NASA Jeff 04 Sep '20

04 Sep '20

I'm going to raise a bug for a developers meeting to discuss animation and a couple of other related topics I have on the backlog. I've already had a chat with a few developers and got some feed back from other interested parties as well as having long discussions with a-l-e from the Scribus team so I can pretty much fill out an agenda, but I'm open to suggestions.

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Inkscape Vectors September meeting
by Maren Hachmann 04 Sep '20

04 Sep '20

Hello everyone, the Inkscape Vectors (Marketing and Outreach team) are holding their monthly meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC. (time zone converted: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+… ) Find the proposed Agenda at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/168 . Please add your agenda item suggestions to the issue, and check the dedicated rocket.chat channel at https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors to find out where the meeting will take place (BigBlueButton or rocket.chat, unknown to me currently). Maren

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It's a Board Meeting!
by Ted Gould 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

Howdy Inkscapers! We have a board meeting this week, and you're invited! It'll be Friday at high-noon Texas-time. Some of you may not be fortunate enough to live in Texas, if so you can find the time in your timezone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200904T10&p1=202 For an overview of what we'll be talking about you can find the agenda in the Wiki: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings See you there! Ted

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limitations of CSS and SVG animations.
by NASA Jeff 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Browser support for animated SVG Animated SVG files with JavaScript as the animation type are supported by all major browsers. This means that your animation will work and look the same in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Unfortunately, if you choose CSS, not all properties work the same in these browsers. Please see the differences below: AnimationChromeFirefoxSafariEdge Morph 53+ - - 74+ Filter - Yes - - Move on path (linear) Yes Yes Yes Yes Move on path (curved) 56+ 72+ - 74+ *CSS chart* Also good to know: Safari doesn't support negative values for the dash-offset property. You can avoid using negative values by following the instructions here <https://www.svgator.com/help/technical-issues/path-animation-issues-in-safa…> . Color transition animation is limited for JavaScript and CSS, too. You can animate a smooth color transition from color to color, but not from gradient to color or from color to gradient. More articles: The exported file looks different <https://www.svgator.com/help/technical-issues/exported-file-looks-different> Clipping mask not visible in Safari <https://www.svgator.com/help/technical-issues/clipping-mask-not-visible-in-…>

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Inkscape Developer Meeting: Tomorrow
by doctormo＠gmail.com 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

Dear Developers, Marc has accounted a developer meeting for tomorrow. It's a short 30 minute meeting where we can get together to talk about the previous 8 days of development and anything that has come up. He's said that he preferences IRC the freenode chat channel #inkscape- devel but the developer channel on https://chat.inkscape.org will also be available and logging the meeting. The meeting time will be 5PM CET (3PM UTC) If you can't make this meeting, you can attend the next one which will be August 24th, same ink place, same ink time! Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Error occured while compiling inkscape 1.0 from source
by Prakash Bhattarai 22 Aug '20

22 Aug '20

OS: Ubuntu 18.04 Command: $ mkdir build && cd build $ cmake -DWITH_DBUS=ON .. $ make The following error occurs when linking 'inkview': [ 1%] Built target nrtype_LIB [ 1%] Built target inkscape_dbus [ 2%] Built target util_LIB [ 6%] Built target 2geom_LIB [ 7%] Built target uemf_LIB [ 9%] Built target croco_LIB [ 10%] Built target depixelize_LIB [ 13%] Built target avoid_LIB [ 14%] Built target cola_LIB [ 15%] Built target vpsc_LIB [ 16%] Built target autotrace_LIB [ 16%] Built target gc_LIB [ 18%] Built target livarot_LIB [ 18%] Generating inkscape-version.cpp revision is 4035a4fb49, 2020-05-01 [ 18%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/inkscape_base.dir/inkscape-version.cpp.o [ 18%] Linking CXX shared library ../lib/libinkscape_base.so [ 87%] Built target inkscape_base [ 87%] Linking CXX executable ../bin/inkview ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GfxResources::lookupXObjectNF(char*)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `Dict::add(char*, Object&&)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `gmallocn' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GooString::GooString(char const*)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GfxFunctionShading::getColor(double, double, GfxColor*)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GfxResources::lookupShading(char*, OutputDev*, GfxState*)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GfxResources::lookupFont(char*)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GfxResources::lookupGState(char*)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `copyString' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `Parser::getObj(bool, unsigned char*, CryptAlgorithm, int, int , int, int, bool)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `PDFDoc::PDFDoc(GooString*, GooString*, GooString*, void*)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GfxState::GfxState(double, double, PDFRectangle*, int, bool)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GfxResources::lookupPattern(char*, OutputDev*, GfxState*)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `gmalloc' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `Parser::Parser(XRef*, Lexer*, bool)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GfxState::transformWidth(double)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `GfxResources::lookupXObject(char*)' ../lib/libinkscape_base.so: undefined reference to `gfree' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status src/CMakeFiles/inkview.dir/build.make:117: recipe for target 'bin/inkview' failed make[2]: *** [bin/inkview] Error 1 CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1204: recipe for target 'src/CMakeFiles/inkview.dir/all' failed make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/inkview.dir/all] Error 2 Makefile:162: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 -- *Prakash Bhattarai*

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Re: here's some of my more recent qualifications.
by NASA Jeff 22 Aug '20

22 Aug '20

Here's some of recent university study. I'm still not very good at remembering not to send large images to a mailing list: https://imgur.com/a/zOgQB1f > > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Re: dynamic undo-redo
by NASA Jeff 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

I've included a dropbox link, the attachment was too large for the mailing list.a little mockup svg animation that hopefully makes it a bit clear what my idea for dynamic undo/redo is. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ido5jrhe87bpls8/dynamic%20undo%20redo.svg?dl=0 <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 15:07, NASA Jeff <tallboy258(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I've attached a little mockup svg animation that hopefully makes it a bit > clear what my idea for dynamic undo/redo is. > > > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. > www.avg.com > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> > <#m_-2738973539255805922_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 13:39, NASA Jeff <tallboy258(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'll see if I can knock up something quickly in javascript that >> demonstrates what I invasion for dynamic undo-redo. I may write it as >> holywood software that only implements a demonstration instead of being >> fully interactive. >> >> >> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. >> www.avg.com >> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> >> <#m_-2738973539255805922_m_-4489960304315747695_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >> >

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dynamic undo-redo
by NASA Jeff 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

I'll see if I can knock up something quickly in javascript that demonstrates what I invasion for dynamic undo-redo. I may write it as holywood software that only implements a demonstration instead of being fully interactive. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Re: Regarding SVG Animation (cont.)
by NASA Jeff 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

Find a log of all my correspondence on the mailing list regarding animation <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 13:01, NASA Jeff <tallboy258(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sure, I've almost got the core functionality worked out it just has to be > turned into a road map with slime test cases. I may look at > https://monday.com/ to manage things, unless there is a good open-source > alternative > > > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. > www.avg.com > <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> > <#m_-2106103548420495181_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 06:48, Utkarsh Dwivedi <dwivediutkarsh01(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Cool, that's good to know. So, I suppose it will be some time before we >> start working on the project - which makes sense. So, our current task is >> to find a viable implementable solution. Although I'm somewhat busy for the >> coming month, I'll try to look into it and maybe could invest more time >> after that. >> Still, I found the mailing somewhat scattered and difficult to follow >> what you have discovered so far. Perhaps you have discussed it with them >> through some chat. Anyways, could you take some time and send me a mail or >> a resource or screenshot showing/guiding me what's the current >> plan/problems? Thanks in advance. >> >> >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. >> www.avast.com >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> >> <#m_-2106103548420495181_m_-8715313228638969067_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >> >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 6:30 PM NASA Jeff <tallboy258(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm a technical architect by trade, so I've been doing that bit. A >>> thorough investigation before any development work take place with a full >>> roadmap. >>> >>> >>> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. >>> www.avg.com >>> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> >>> <#m_-2106103548420495181_m_-8715313228638969067_m_42994926147689251_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >>> >>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 13:58, NASA Jeff <tallboy258(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> When I spoke to them, they said it would have to be team work, and they >>>> were going to be looking at it. They said SVG DOM was the major part. I've >>>> not written any coder as yet. >>>> >>>> >>>> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. >>>> www.avg.com >>>> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> >>>> <#m_-2106103548420495181_m_-8715313228638969067_m_42994926147689251_m_-9100674961075444458_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >>>> >>>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 04:03, Utkarsh Dwivedi < >>>> dwivediutkarsh01(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> This is the first time me emailing you directly to your mail, hope you >>>>> don't mind. >>>>> >>>>> I read your emails and am now trying to go through the mailing list to >>>>> get an idea what's going on. If you could give me a brief high-level >>>>> overview what's the plan that would also be great. >>>>> >>>>> Also, I think creating an informal slack workspace, or communicating >>>>> on some other media would be more productive than exchanging emails. >>>>> >>>>> Regarding your message, "Once that's done I'm sure other guys will >>>>> start to chip in", I am quite sceptical. Although I am really interested in >>>>> this project, I doubt the Inkscape devs would accept this huge of an update >>>>> on face value. The other day, I did actually ask in the rocketchat >>>>> regarding your work and the "official" reply I got was they. very likely,* >>>>> would not* integrate the code into the Inkscape project especially >>>>> since it has not been discussed and finalised by the devs. This should not >>>>> be shocking though, as big open-source names rarely accept important >>>>> changes in their software without extensive review and planning by the core >>>>> developers. >>>>> >>>>> Still, I think the vision of animation creation is revolutionary and >>>>> highly in-demand and your work valuable. That is why I suggest perhaps we >>>>> should discuss working on this project as an Inkscape extension rather than >>>>> an update to the main software. This is because the last thing we would >>>>> want after investing large amounts of time and energy is to let it go >>>>> futile with no way of spreading our work to the people. What are your >>>>> thoughts? >>>>> -- >>>>> With Regards >>>>> Utkarsh Dwivedi >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. >>>>> www.avast.com >>>>> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> >>>>> <#m_-2106103548420495181_m_-8715313228638969067_m_42994926147689251_m_-9100674961075444458_m_-4617403965772355722_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >>>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> With Regards >> Utkarsh Dwivedi >> >

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retirement
by NASA Jeff 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

you'll be pleased to hear i'm going into retirement for a good while. so no SVG animation for now unless someone wants to continue where i left off. this is to work on personal projects.

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Chat site down?
by Mihaela 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

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one bit in progress and the other bits an attitude about a person or thing.
by NASA Jeff 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

That about sums it up. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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undo redo stack enhancements
by NASA Jeff 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

I have another idea for the undo redo stack, effectively being able to roll back, make a change at a point in history then roll forward again. I think this would be most impressive in bitmap editing software such as krita. For instance, setting the stroke parameters, say colour to keep it simple. Drawing a line, doing some other stuff. Then deciding that you want to change the stroke parameters for everything from a point in history. This should be a simple roll back roll forward and performance can be achieved if snapshots are taken. I don't think snapshots are such a requirement for vector graphics and DTP but would be needed for bitmap graphics along with GPU acceleration to make the whole things as smooth as possible. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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here's the shape recognition plugin i've been working on
by NASA Jeff 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

I've done some work on the shape recognition plugin for inkscape... still have a little work to do (i may try a delta to get the best results) [image: shaope recognition.png]

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any ideas
by NASA Jeff 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Any ideas for crating a standalone PDF editor? <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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