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[Fwd: [Inkscape-tracker] [ inkscape-Patches-1591552 ] stringfix: s/Add Layer/New Layer]
by Jon Phillips 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Should I accept this patch? It is a stringfix for consistency between gimp and inkscape and layers... Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: SourceForge.net <noreply@...34...> > To: noreply@...34... > Subject: [Inkscape-tracker] [ inkscape-Patches-1591552 ] stringfix: > s/Add Layer/New Layer > Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:41:37 -0800 > > Patches item #1591552, was opened at 2006-11-06 18:41 > Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1591552&group_… > > Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, > including the initial issue submission, for this request, > not just the latest update. > Category: None > Group: None > Status: Open > Resolution: None > Priority: 5 > Private: No > Submitted By: Alan Horkan (horkana) > Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) > Summary: stringfix: s/Add Layer/New Layer > > Initial Comment: > stringfix: > > change the menu item from "Add Layer" to "New Layer" > > better consistency with the GIMP and other applications > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1591552&group_… > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-tracker mailing list > Inkscape-tracker(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tracker > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Assign hot keys to specific actions?
by bulia byak 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

On 11/7/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > Bryce, the file to edit for remapping keys is called > > share/keys/default.xml. > > Can you put a note about this into the Tips and Tricks tutorial or the > Keys document? OK, I will add a note. As for the .rc file, would anyone object if I just delete it? It doesn't look like it's being used. > Well, units.xml was something Jon Cruz started after I implemented the > units stuff using the units.txt file. The units.txt file is pretty easy > to edit and has worked adequately, but I can see why some people might > want it in xml. Unfortunately, the units.xml stuff never actually > worked, and it wasn't clear what the plan was for making it work, so > it's just been there disabled all this time. JonCruz, will you object to removing units.xml? > Then would it be possible to have a shortcut key that does vertical and > horizontal center alignment? What needs to be done is creating a _verb_ that does this. After that, adding it to menu or assigning a key to it will be trivial. There are many things that Inkscape can do in principle, but not through a verb, and these things should be verbified. By the way, verbification is pretty simple thing to do, so it's a good work for novice coders. Just review verbs.h and verbs.cpp, they're pretty self-explanatory. For example just recently, I verbified the select next/select prev actions, bound to Tab/Shift+Tab, and as a result these keys now work in all tools and not only Selector/Node as before. > Oh, there is also a bug in text centering - write some text, then change > it from left-aligned to center-aligned. The text then moves from its > current position to half its width to the left. This bug has been there > since Sodipodi days... It's not really a "bug". Inkscape just needs to recalculate the anchor point based on the bounding box of the text, in addition to changing alignment. More like a missing feature (worth a RFE). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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GTK+ Quartz Backend on Mac OS X
by Derek Hinchliffe 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi all, Recently I've been playing with compiling Inkscape against the experimental native quartz (Mac OS X) backend for GTK+ [1] and I've had some reasonable success so far. After following the GTK+ build instructions on the Imendio project page, I then compiled all the pre-reqs for Inkscape into a custom prefix (/opt/gtk), and then compiled Inkscape using: CFLAGS="-flat_namespace -undefined suppress" ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk The result is a binary that I can run (using inkscape -g) and doesn't require X11 at all. A screenshot is available.[2] It loads fine, and I can open and edit files. The problems so far: 1. Various visual glitches (eg. some icons in GTK dialogs displaying an ugly yellow, scroll bar glitches, menus not being entirely responsive), 2. Some random crashes when dealing with complex SVGs, 3. Very slow refresh of canvas, which gets painted in gray first, then you can visibly see it paint the canvas on from top to bottom. This happens regularly when interacting or scrolling. Problem 3 is by far the most noticable, and if it wasn't for that (and the odd crash) it would be quite usable! Having no experience with developing Inkscape (and very little with GTK+), can someone give me a clue as to which package I need to focus on to troubleshoot #3? Does Inkscape use Cairo to paint the canvas? Or is it pure GDK? Or cairo via GTK+? You can see I know very little here ;) Anyway the progress so far is impressive, and I don't think it will be too much longer before it would be realistic to start integrating GTK+ further into the OS (eg. using native OSX menu bar, a quartz widget gtk-theme-engine, etc). Cheers Derek [1] http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/ [2] http://www.hinchy.org/inkscape/inkscape-gtk-quartz.png

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Openfontlibrary] Fwd: Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation
by Jon Phillips 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 11:37 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi All, > > Thought this might be of interest to this list :-) Yes, I apologize for cross-list posting, but this is pretty huge news for Inkscape and others... > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alex Hudson <home@...1553...> > Date: 07-Nov-2006 09:33 > Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with > Mozilla Foundation > To: discussion@...1554... > Cc: fsfe-uk@...570... > > > > I'm not sure if people will have seen this with all the other noise > about Novell etc.: > > http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html > > The scripting engine of Flash (which, from what I've been told, is very > much like Javascript anyway) has been donated to Mozilla, and will be > part of their future JS implementation (I gather). > > In other Adobe news, people may have seen that they're building on other > free software like WebKit: > > http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo > > (RIA's == "Rich Internet Applications", FYI) > > .. and Microsoft's XML Paper Specification seems to have scared them > into doing: > > http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars > > While Adobe haven't been terribly free software friendly in many ways in > the past, it does seem like now is an opportune time to talk to them: > they may be becoming more receptive to the needs of the free software > community. > > Cheers, > > Alex. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fsfe-uk mailing list > Fsfe-uk@...570... > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk > > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Command Line version of Inkscape for Windows
by Hugo Ferreira 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, Could someone provide me with an URL (or just send the executable) of a the latest version of inkscape for windows compiled for console use (as seen here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#I.27m_on_Windows.2C_and_command…). The problem is that I'm invoking inkscape from a PHP script with exec() to convert an .svg to .jpg on-the-fly, but since inkscape doesn't hold the console until the conversion is done, most of the times I try to read the file before it has been created. Thanks in advance, Hugo Ferreira P.S.: If anyone know other way of using Inkscape to render .svg to .jpg without calling it from the console, then I would very much appreciate the help! -- GPG Fingerprint: B0D7 1249 447D F5BB 22C5 5B9B 078C 2615 504B 7B85

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Feature request: Update imported graphic
by Vladimir Savic 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Most of the time I have both Inkscape and GIMP opened. Vector gfx is being done with Inkscape and then imported into GIMP, and opposite direction. I use Inkscape to finalize illustrations - typography, frames etc. Even if everything is set up (almost) perfectly there are unfortunately always a few pixels to tweak. Then I must switch to GIMP, retouch bitmap, reimport that illustration and do the resizing again (As noted in previous posts, Inkscape doesn't know exact printing size of imported graphics.). Another situation where I needed similar workaround was after reorganization of files. I run into the problem of having to correct all the links to graphics and then reloading the whole document to see the changes. It would be very handy having option to update selected pixmap graphic from file. Please don't be resent for throwing my working problems notes directly at this list. Afterall, these are all real life expiriences. :) Cheers, Vlada

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ANN: Crucible 1.7 released
by Bryce Harrington 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hi all, Crucible is the automated test harness we've used for testing Inkscape. It's also in use for a number of projects including Cairo, GEGL, Linux NFSv4, and Linux CPU Hotplug to do automated building and testing. Much has changed in this release; most notably is the new installation system, making it possible to get Crucible up and running in a matter of minutes. Kees and I have also installed it on the quad PPC machine he received for Inkscape testing. Some work is still needed to hook things up but I hope to get that finished within a week or two. The code is available here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/crucible/crucible-1.7.tar.gz Crucible provides a powerful, flexible backend for building automated testing systems. It allows for conducting tests on multiple machines (via NFS), including patching, rebuilding, and booting new kernels, libraries, and services. Configuration and customization can be done through simple config files and bash scripts. It is suitable for performing tests of GUI applications, services, libraries, and kernel patches. Changes: A new installation system is in place, which should make it straightforward to getting a basic crucible install up and running quickly. Lots of documentation has been added. There is a new post-installation test 'make installcheck'. Directory locations have been abstracted. Internals have been abstracted and generalized, giving more flexibility for customization/extension. Several new subcommands added to 'sut' script for managing system images, adding new machines, etc. A new queue_plan script is added for doing easier one-off testruns. Kernel building is more robust and generalized. Bryce

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06 Nov '06

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NEW: more outline mode goodies
by bulia byak 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

* The window title displays "(outline)" next to the file name when that editing window is in Outline mode. * The bug whereby stroked shapes didn't change stroke width when swithing to Outline mode or back is fixed. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Crash after closing Image Properties dialog
by Vladimir Savic 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Reproduce procedure: Import an image and from RMB drop-down menu pick "Image Properties" item. Close the dialog that appeared and click on the image again. Then Inkscape crashes (at least here). Regards, Vlada

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patches in the tracker
by Jon Phillips 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Hi all, could you all take a look at what is in the inkscape patch tracker so we can get some flow through there. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=93438&atid=604308 I closed out my assigned patches which took about 15 minutes. Hopefully a few more people could do this as well. It really helps churn up activity and get more developers attracted to the project. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Feature request: DPI value of imported graphic shouldn't be ignored
by Vladimir Savic 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

While doing some graphic design for printing I'm often obliged exchanging pixmap and vector graphics between GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. Inkscape discards DPI of GIMP exported graphics, which is really unintuitive. Drawings that GIMP displays exactly how they were saved previously (I'm referring to format here -- A3, A4, B5 etc.) Inkscape opens at wrong DPI thus they're a few times bigger. Not a big deal when the whole page is exported from gimp (just scale picture at format's dimensions) , but makes things complicated if many smaller components are imported to be assembled in Inkscape. I must write down every single component's width or height and scale it proportionally. Really time consuming... Vlada

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[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-user] Registration Mark]
by Jon Phillips 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Aaron Maxwell <amax@...1548...> > Reply-To: Inkscape User Community > <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Registration Mark > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:59:32 -0800 > > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:52, bulia byak wrote: > > On 11/1/06, Aaron Maxwell <amax@...1548...> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Is there a canned way to make a registration mark in a text > > > field? Obviously, we can just draw a circle and position it around a > > > floating letter "R". Is there a cleaner way to do it? > > > > Yes, just insert the corresponding character by its Unicode code: > > Ctrl+U a e Enter. > > That works wonderfully, thanks. > > -Aaron This would be a killer extension to have.... Make registration marks and/or make crop/cutline marks! Whoa! ACSpike, what do you think? Bulia? Others? Jon > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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NEW: more stuff in Help menu
by bulia byak 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Since none of our standard libs could offer a cross-platform, easily available way to launch an URL in the user's default browser, I looked around and found exactly what we need in Python (which we carry anyway) - the standard "webbrowser" module. So I created some Python extensions to launch various URLs using webbrowser.open calls, and put them into Help menu: - Inkscape Manual links to http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php, do you think we should host a redirect at inkscape.org instead? - Command line options: http://inkscape.org/doc/inkscape-man.html - FAQ on wiki - Release notes for the current version - "Report a bug" page - SVG 1.1 specification at w3.org I tested this and it seems to work well in Linux and Windows. Let me know if you have any problems. Also feel free to suggest other "launch an URL" commands for Inkscape (openclipart? wiki? inkscape.org? Aaron's extension page?) The only change I made in the core of Inkscape was to allow an inx file to specify <effects-menu hidden="yes"/> so that these new extensions don't automatically show up in the Effects menu. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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car.svgz
by Tobias Jakobs 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi, if I try to open the new example car.svgz image Inkscape crashes with this error massage: ----------------------------------------------------- $ ./inkscape ** ERROR **: file sp-object.cpp: line 861 (void SPObject::releaseReferences()): assertion failed: (this->hrefcount == 0) aborting... Emergency save activated! Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it.Aborted ----------------------------------------------------- Regards Tobias

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PDF Export
by MenTaLguY 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

We've got two Cairo PDF exporters right now -- the regular one and the "experimental" one. Which one should we focus on polishing for the 0.45 release? -mental

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NEW: display mode toggle and other goodies
by bulia byak 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

* A new menu command (View > Display Mode > Toggle) and a new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+<keypad 5>) switch the display mode from Normal to Outline and back. * An object with mask and/or clipping path, when viewed in Outline mode, now displays both the object itself and its clipping path and mask as objects, using different outline colors. By default, clippaths use green outlines, and masks use blue. These colors, as well as the colors of the regular object outlines (default black on light background and white on dark background) are now changeable by editing the "wireframecolors" group in the preferences file (~/.inkscape/preferences.xml). * An object with no fill and no stroke, invisible and not selectable by mouse clicking in normal more, can now be picked by a mouse click in the Outline mode using its visible outline. * To cater for specialized uses, such as preparing input for personal media cutters, Inkscape now has an option to start in the Outline mode upon launch. To enable this, add the following line to your preferences.xml file: <group id="startmode" outline="1"/> placing it after the <group id="options"> opening tag. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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dz.po errors
by bulia byak 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

The recently committed dz.po has several errors (unclosed tags, etc). Whoever committed it, please fix, and please never put anything into SVN without running "make" first to make sure the file is clean! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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LaTeX formula renderer: adding amsmath
by Johan Engelen 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hey guys, I am using the LaTeX formula renderer quite alot, and have added the amsmath package in the preamble in the python file. Is it ok to commit this? I suppose everybody has this package. Cheers, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Scroll+blur bug?
by Jasper van de Gronde 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

bulia byak wrote: > On 10/31/06, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote: >> When I open the file that was attached to this mail >> (gradient-mesh-4.svgz), press 1 to zoom in and then scroll downwards to >> where the end result is, I get an image like the attached screenshot. >> Zooming in or out makes it look right again (as does disabling/enabling >> blur). >> >> I'm using the latest exe-only version from inkscape.modevia.com (built >> on Oct 20 according to the about box), the selected blur quality doesn't >> seem to affect this (I tried average and best and both show the same >> problem). I couldn't find any bug report in the tracker about this >> problem. >> >> Is someone already working on this? (Or is even already fixed?) Or >> should I file a bug report? > > I think it's already in the bug tracker but you can check. Hopefully > Niko or I will address it one day. I couldn't find it in the tracker, so I created a bug, id 1588463.

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NEW: SVG output configurable
by bulia byak 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Not per-document yet, but better than nothing... For specialized uses, several aspects of Inkscape's SVG output can now be customized via editing the preferences.xml file (there's no UI for these options). A <group id="svgoutput"> inside <group id="options"> can have the following attributes: * usenamedcolors (default is 0). If nonzero, Inkscape uses symbolic color names (such as "white" or "lime") and three-digit color designations (such as $dfe) where appropriate; otherwise, it always uses six-digit colors (such as $d0f0e0). Note that in 0.44, the default was to use named colors, which created problems for some extension effects. * numericprecision (default is 8). This is the number of significant digits written for each number into SVG. You can lower this number to get slightly more compact SVG at the expense of precision. * minimumexponent (default is -8). In transform= attributes, any number whose absolute value is less than 10 to the power of minimumexponent (i.e. less than 10-8 by default) is written as 0. * indent (default is 2) controls the number of spaces that each level of nesting in SVG is shifted. Set this to 0 to disable indentation. * inlineattrs (default is 0). If nonzero, attributes are placed on the same line as their tags; otherwise they are separated by newlines. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely.

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WEBFORM download link is bad
by vic 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: vic email: submitted the following: Hello, TYhank you for that great tprogram. I use Mozilla 1.7.12 ; From the inkscape home page (french and english) the download link href to : http://www.inkscape.org/download/?css=css/base.css http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en&css=css/base.css from these links i get page with HTML source... Fortunately when I modify manually the link to http://www.inkscape.org/download/ I get the download page. Regards, Vic

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gradient mesh plan
by bulia byak 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Long ago, Ted Gould made a proposal on how to do gradient meshes using elliptic gradients. Sadly this was not workable because gradients are simply not flexible enough. But now we have blur - and while approximating a gradient mesh with blurring is still not trivial, it is possible. See an attached SVG for an example. Of course it's a nightmare to do all this manually, but as soon as we have code for bezier intersections, it becomes possible to do an automatic gradient mesh object using this approach. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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HowTo limit significant figures saved?
by Jonathan Chetwynd 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

HowTo limit significant figures saved? I find the default eight, far too many. cheers Jonathan Chetwynd

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wiki not accepting svg?
by bulia byak 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I tried to upload an SVG to Inkscape wiki but the format is not accepted (only png/jpg). I think it's a shame :) Can someone knowledgeable please fix this? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Contest Planning
by Jon Phillips 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hello all, I put a wiki page up to plan for the two upcoming contests on the Open Clip Art Library wiki. Please look at them, add your two-cents, and lets get this show on the road :) http://openclipart.org/wiki/Contests Oh, the first contest will be: 1.) Inkscape 0.45 About Screen 2.) Open Font Library logo contest After we review, then the Open Clip Art Library folk will set it up and develop press/announcements which can be sent out in a big burst. Thus, please hold off on blogging/posting too much about this yet so we can maximize our impact on launching these contests. Cool? Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Scroll+blur bug? (was: gradient mesh plan)
by bulia byak 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> Date: Oct 31, 2006 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Scroll+blur bug? (was: gradient mesh plan) To: Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...>, Niko Kiirala <niko@...1267...> On 10/31/06, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote: > When I open the file that was attached to this mail > (gradient-mesh-4.svgz), press 1 to zoom in and then scroll downwards to > where the end result is, I get an image like the attached screenshot. > Zooming in or out makes it look right again (as does disabling/enabling > blur). > > I'm using the latest exe-only version from inkscape.modevia.com (built > on Oct 20 according to the about box), the selected blur quality doesn't > seem to affect this (I tried average and best and both show the same > problem). I couldn't find any bug report in the tracker about this problem. > > Is someone already working on this? (Or is even already fixed?) Or > should I file a bug report? I think it's already in the bug tracker but you can check. Hopefully Niko or I will address it one day. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] gradient mesh plan
by bulia byak 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

On 10/31/06, Andy Fitzsimon <andyfitz@...400...> wrote: > looks great Bulia, I'd kill for this functionality. > My only problem is that the colors just before the clipped edges are > blurred with 50% opacity. > > Is this intentional ? That's a side effect that can be prevented by adding outside margins to the edge segments that would be clipped off. And of course, the number of flat segments per mesh cell should be variable. The finer is the segmentation, the more precise is the mesh and the less blurring is needed to smoothen it. With sufficiently small segments, you may not even need blurring at all. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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by Pansy Kenney 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

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Catch the next big thing now, overwhelmingly important letter
by Quotes.com corset 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

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UPDATE: Jon Cruz' Kitchen Fire and Timeline
by Jon Phillips 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Heya all, I wanted to let you know that Jon Cruz's house had a big kitchen fire today. The good news from him is that his whole family is okay and it happened while they were out getting lunch. A faulty electrical outlet caused the problem, so it is pretty much a totally random accident. The problematic thing is the smoke and heat damage he told me, and that it might have blown out his computer monitors. He thinks his computers are ok. He and his family are in good spirits and so far things seem salvageable, as they have good insurance. He wanted me to let you all know and for us to plan accordingly for development. What a great person! Thinking about us in the midst of crisis. It would be very nice for everyone to send him some good thoughts and cheer as he will be off and online over the next month because of this unfortunate incident. Bryce and others, Jon wants us all to plan accordingly, so we can think about the release soon. The good part though is that all his family is ok, and the stuff is replaceable :) Big hug to Jon Cruz and his family from me and the Inkscape family. :) Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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New Cairo renderer (for PDF export)
by Miklós Erdélyi 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hi all, I committed a part of my GSoC work, a Cairo-based simple, naiv SVG renderer which will help to have better quality PDF export. It can be found in extension/internal/cairo-render* and there's a new showGlyphs function in class Layout (Layout-TNG-Output.cpp). Its raster output can be considered usable and might be useful for testing Cairo vs. libnr rendering performance. The new output types in 'Save As' are: 'Cairo PDF experimental' and 'Cairo PNG' (this doesn't have any options yet unlike the PNG export function). Currently the renderer doesn't have any obvious optimization like creating surfaces with only the needed bbox size and not of the full size of the output. It needs Cairo 1.2 since it uses cairo_pop/push_group calls so I have wrapped the code around HAVE_CAIRO_PDF which ensures the correct API version. The SVG element-specific rendering methods are in static methods named like sp_flowtext_render so they could be easily put into the virtual methods of the objects representing these elements in other source files. Please consult the source code for more details (cairo-renderer.cpp). The Cairo-specific rendering part can be found in cairo-render-context.cpp. This renderer supports clipping (objectBoundingBox clipping doesn't work -- does anyone have an idea what could be wrong?), masking, and surface patterns in SVG, among the other straightforward things. I wanted to have more things implemented properly but since September I didn't really have much time to spend on this so I decided to release it in its current state so you can tear it apart :) Unfortunately I haven't finished the Cairo-PDF patches for it yet. I have a working version which is quite unstable with text (isn't shown in layers except for the 'root' layer) and images and which supports masking with constant alpha. I cannot release it because it's such a mess at this point. I know the main problem with this exporter is the fact that first the support needs to be built into Cairo in order to take advantage of this exporter and that won't happen overnight, but at least now Inkscape has a simple Cairo-based SVG rendering backend. I hope to get the Cairo-PDF patches into Cairo 1.4.x. Any ideas, comments regarding the subject are welcome. Cheers, miklos

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Find out today, it will rock tomorrow, Urgent message
by Investors.com andrea 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

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bugs with nested svg elements
by Alex Mac 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

Things seem to go wrong when you have nested svg elements in inkscape. The following file shows an odd bounding box bug: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" x="0" y="0" width="384.45239000000004" height="314.24681000000004"> <svg x="0" y="0" width="251.33313" height="119.18141"> <rect width="249.33313" height="117.18141" x="0.99999917" y="0.99999452" style="color:black;fill:#ccb10e;fill-opacity:1;stroke:black;stroke-width:2"></rect> <path d="M 125.66639,20.551222 L 103.86753,73.531393 L 147.54482,73.531393 L 125.66639,20.551222 M 116.59678,6.3613066 L 134.81557,6.3613066 L 180.08392,112.82096 L 163.37689,112.82096 L 152.55696,85.510834 L 99.014529,85.510834 L 88.194731,112.82096 L 71.248871,112.82096 L 116.59678,6.3613066"></path> </svg> <svg x="50" y="50" width="133.11926000000003" height="195.06540000000004"> <rect style="color:black;fill:#3521b0;fill-opacity:1;stroke:black;stroke-width:1.99999988" y="0.99998748" x="0.99999869" height="193.0654" width="131.11926"></rect> <path d="M 40.50448,99.92175 L 40.50448,138.92595 L 66.28125,138.92595 C 74.92641,138.92595 81.31752,137.33357 85.45456,134.14856 C 89.64455,130.91596 91.73962,125.99594 91.73975,119.38813 C 91.73962,112.73298 89.64455,107.83669 85.45456,104.69915 C 81.31752,101.51426 74.92641,99.92175 66.28125,99.92175 L 40.50448,99.92175 M 40.50448,56.13992 L 40.50448,88.22756 L 64.29223,88.22756 C 72.14186,88.22756 77.97614,86.92031 81.79492,84.30569 C 85.66665,81.64373 87.60258,77.60308 87.60271,72.18374 C 87.60258,66.81211 85.66665,62.79519 81.79492,60.13299 C 77.97614,57.47102 72.14186,56.14004 64.29223,56.13992 L 40.50448,56.13992 M 24.43371,44.30311 L 65.48559,44.30311 C 77.73744,44.30323 87.17827,46.58502 93.80821,51.14847 C 100.43787,55.71216 103.75278,62.20096 103.75291,70.61497 C 103.75278,77.12761 102.05554,82.30928 98.66121,86.15972 C 95.26661,90.01028 90.28108,92.41084 83.70437,93.36152 C 91.60696,94.88284 97.73303,98.06785 102.08215,102.91655 C 106.48437,107.7178 108.68548,113.73125 108.68548,120.95691 C 108.68548,130.46435 105.07879,137.80891 97.86568,142.99045 C 90.6523,148.17199 80.38933,150.76276 67.07678,150.76276 L 24.43371,150.76276 L 24.43371,44.30311"></path> </svg> </svg> and the following file shows a different bug where some nested svg elements are not show and others are shown in incorrect places: <svg width="350.0" height="16.0" x="0" y="0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <rect width="55" height="5" x="0" y="0" style="fill:orange;stroke:black;stroke-width:2;"/> <svg width="295.0" height="16.0" x="0" y="0" style="" transform="translate(55,0)"> <rect width="30" height="13" x="0" y="0" style="fill:yellow;stroke:black;stroke-width:2;"/> <svg width="265.0" height="16.0" x="0" y="0" style="" transform="translate(30,0)"> <rect width="75" height="16" x="0" y="0" style="fill:green;stroke:black;stroke-width:2;"/> <svg width="190.0" height="10.0" x="0" y="0" style="" transform="translate(75,0)"> <rect width="90" height="8" x="0" y="0" style="fill:red;stroke:black;stroke-width:2;"/> <svg width="100" height="10.0" x="0" y="0" style="" transform="translate(90,0)"> <rect width="100" height="10" x="0" y="0" style="fill:blue;stroke:black;stroke-width:2;"/> <svg width="0.0" height="0.0" x="0.0" y="0.0" style="" transform="translate(100,0)"/> </svg> </svg> </svg> </svg> </svg>

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0.45 Release - Patches to include
by Bryce Harrington 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

There are a lot of patches in the patch tracker right now. Some have been in there quite a long time. We really ought to try to include or resolve as many of these for 0.45 as we can. And we should include them now rather than later, to ensure there's plenty of time to test them and work out any bugs. Please take a look through these and indicate if you have concerns for any of them that should be addressed before we include them. I've indicated below which seem ready for inclusion and which need further testing or work first. I think it'd be a good goal to reduce the number of open patches to less than half a dozen, for the 0.45 release. 1567964 "Unknown error for pclose" when using effects fintatartaruga Assigned to: acspike Simple bugfix. Looks fine to me, although I'm curious why it is checking the return code to be >= 0 rather than == 0. 1539297 Export of clip-paths to Ps/Pdf ulferikson Assigned to: bulia It sounds like this one is probably good to go; Ulf is asking if someone could review it beforehand, so bulia or mental, if you could take a peek and give a yea or nay, that'd help. 1536990 [STABLE] Pdf fixes ulferikson Assigned to: mental Collection of bug fixes. Sound very much worth including. Mental, do you see any issues with incorporating this one? 1535878 palette converters (.acf and .bcf to .gpl) nitrofurano Assigned to: acspike Sounds like these converters should be wrapped up as extensions and included. 1535875 .ai example tests for import nitrofurano Assigned to: kidproto These tests would be well worth inclusion, although I'm not certain where they would fit into the codebase. Should they be set up to run with make check, or should they be collected into a standalone testsuite? In either case I think this is of moderate importance, so if it waits until post-release that could be okay. 1533789 ill2svg.pl replacement in python nitrofurano Assigned to: bulia Sounds like the python replacement has some problems, so this patch may need to wait until a future release. 1521963 fix for build problems with autoconf 2.60 sk1p Assigned to: bulia Sounds like this needs a bit more work before it can be committed, but would be a good one to get in for this release. Getting Inkscape to be happy with many different versions of autoconf will make life easier for a lot of folks. 1519675 export to pdf via cairo-pdf from miklos theadib Assigned to: miklosh If this isn't applied already, we should get this in ASAP. We're planning to advertise cairo pdf export, so it's very important we make sure all of miklosh's work is incorporated for 0.45. 1517872 OSX: script for building universal dependencies dhimelright Assigned to: mjwybrow I'm not sure if this is still needed for use on OSX, but if so let's get it reviewed and applied. 1511066 Pref to enable or disable extended input. zeimusu Assigned to: kidproto No patch was attached; we'll be closing it unless a patch gets attached. 1495826 pstoedit and svg with latex render extension dniepper Fixes a compatibility issue with pstoedit; probably fine to include. 1493939 Easter Egg Tutorial skarg Assigned to: scislac The author was asked to convert it to docbook format, but we haven't heard back from him. Still, I think it would be worthwhile to include, so if someone has a chance, please work on converting this to the proper format for inclusion. Even if that can't be done, it'd be nice to have this included in the share directory or something. 1483543 inkview mouse navigation mimooh Assigned to: kidproto This one is an incomplete functionality; the submitter was having trouble figuring out how to get mouse events to be seen by SPView. I don't think this patch is ready for incorporation, but someone with gtk / SPView knowledge should share a few tips to the author, as this could be a very handy feature for inkview users in the future. 1475143 EMF input/output (Windows only) ulferikson Assigned to: bryce Even though this is windows-only, I think it'd be fine to incorporate this, as long as it can be made to compile properly on Linux. EMF is mainly of interest to Windows users anyway. 1466048 Inkscape Buttons johncoswell Assigned to: bryce These are buttons for the website. Rejon or I can take care of adding them to the site. 1463483 Inkscape icons for SVG files boldewyn The icons are fine and probably can be accepted. Packagers will need to look into getting these installed for the respective filetypes, but that's a separate issue from this patch. 1387386 add Tru64/osf1 isNaN/isFinite definitions enchanter Sounds similar to the IRIX patch 1382904 Small patch for mkfiles.pl atwupack Applied by rejon. Thanks! 1379041 patch for SGI IRIX build Simple 3-line patch; I don't know if anyone has access to an IRIX system, but if this makes Inkscape compileable there, it's worth getting applied. It's almost a year old so we really ought to either include it or close it. 1219308 [EPS export] Unicode print - type 1 font embedding Looks good to me if we don't already have this functionality. The patch is over a year old and needs resolution. Bryce

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Clip Art Browser Ideas and Sponsorship
by Jon Phillips 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Hi all, I wanted to dust off the Clip Art Browser code and get some thoughts flowing on this: http://openclipart.org/wiki/Clip_Art_Browser Please put any ideas for this on the above wiki page which will help out much in planning development for this...worldlabel.com is interested in investing resouces (monthly $$$) towards this project, so I want to clearly set out our goals and move towards a good goal with this codebase. Great! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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by Clarissa Quinn 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

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autopackage?
by bulia byak 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Aaron Spike told me that he nevery could overcome the months-old problem that makes autopackage fail. On my system, when I try to run 0.44 autopackage I get: ./inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libXfixes.so.3: cannot open shared object file:No such file or directory Is there anyone who can help with this? It really is a shame that we stopped providing autopackages because of this. In any case, we must fix it before we can think about 0.45, because now that we don't have static rpms anymore, not providing an autopackage will make the release pretty much useless on the Linux side - for those who don't want to compile, the only way to try it will be to wait for their distros to upgrade, which usually takes months. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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About screen for 0.45?
by Bryce Harrington 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Hi all, Any thoughts on what we should do for getting an about screen for this release? Contest? Bryce

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NEW: two new examples
by bulia byak 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

With all the recent additions - clipping, masking, and especially blur - Inkscape is now able to produce extremely photorealistic art. In the share/examples folder in Inkscape distribution, you will find two brand new, stunningly realistic images of shiny cars: car.svgz by Konstantin Rotkevich and gallardo.svgz by Michael Grosberg. Enjoy! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Windows build crash?
by bulia byak 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

I can confirm that with Win2k and latest build. Any switching to Selector tool from any other tool crashes, you don't even need to create a text. On XP it's ok, though. Arnout, can you please download older builds and find out when this started? On 10/12/06, Arnout Standaert <arnout.standaert@...1521...> wrote: > > I'm experiencing a problem with the 0610072339 build, available from > > http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D. I'm running it on a Windows 2000 > > system, but it also happens on a WinXP system at home. > > > > Recipe: > > - open Inkscape > > - choose Text tool, click canvas, type text > > - choose Arrow tool > > > > Result: "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now. > > Automatic backups ..." and so on. > > Could anyone please confirm this? I'm not sure if this is specific to my > system or not... in any case, the 0610110200 build still shows the same > problem. > > Thanks a lot, > Arnout -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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It will go to the sky tomorrow, read an announcement
by Investor.com acanthus 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

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Expect a big move here, Urgent statement
by Stock.com amerada 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

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toolbar menus
by unknown＠example.com 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

I just put in a first-cut of menus for the toolbar spinbuttons. You should be able to get them from the "more" menu when there is not enough room to show the spinbutton on the toolbar, and also by right-clicking on the spinbutton itself.

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[ANN] Linux Expo London 25/26th October
by Ben Fowler 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Per http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/, there will be a presentation at the .Org Village of the London Expo for Inkscape. Anyone based in the UK should consider visiting this event which is the major national Linux event of the year and is attended by many 'suits' but still has a slightly 'geeky' flavour. We should be alongside the Audio application Jokosher, and in the illustrious company of Gnome, Drupal and many others. Nearly every sizeable FLOSS project uses Inkscape for something even if only the creation of a humble logo or web page mock up and it a chance to speak to end-users even if rather an unrepresentative collection. See also http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Current_events . Ben

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character palette
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Greetings, A while ago Pierre-Luc Auclair and me created an illustrated proposal for advanced character palette in Scribus. I thought that since a user already requested this feature in Inkscape, somebody else could come around implementing it one day or another, so I copied it to the existing RFE: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604309&aid=1306951&group_… So, if you are this one, feel free to use this proposal for a start ;-) Alexandre

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Failing to load .svg files on OSX
by Jasper 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Hello all, I downloaded Inkscape for Mac OS X (I use 10.3.9) yesterday, and when I tried to open my saved inkscape files today, they didn't open. I joined the inkscape IRC chat and first ishmal and the JonCruz kindly helped identify the problem as a bug. JonCruz told me to report the bug, which I did (hopefully I did it right). He also said that if I asked politely, someone on the mailing list might be able to help me get a different build. If there's anyone who can help me getting a different build for 10.3.9, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Jasper (woodman663)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.45 Release Plan
by Johan Engelen 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

> From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> > > Here is a release checklist for 0.45. I am not totally > caught up on what everyone's working on, so please fill me in > on what is missing or not up to date. > > - Axonometric grid must snap before its useful. Reorganize > grid classes and grid snapping stuff. > (Johan Engelen) > The next couple of weeks I don't have too much time to work on Inkscape :( sorry. At the moment the axonomgrid already snaps in X direction to the vertical gridlines. We have to think about how diagonal snapping should work (and in the process make diagonal guidelines :). Without too much hassle I should be able to make snapping work for the vertical gridlines and the points where 3 gridlines meet. After that I can debug the drawing code (zoom in close and see that the emphasis lines are bugged). The reorganisation of grids and gridsnapping gives me lots of frustration every time, because of the C-style gtk-classes :S sorry. So that'll have to wait for now, don't expect big changes on that matter soon. Cheers, Johan

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patches in the tracker
by Jon Phillips 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Hi all, I went through all the patches in the tracker, applied what I could, made comments, assigned all to proper people, and now we wait for responses. Please, everyone take a look at what is still in there if you have special expertise required to accomplish some of the tasks: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=93438&atid=604308 We got many cool little fixes like building on irix, tru64, thai language, many example illustrator files, file icons, etc from the patches...I'm on the patch tracker now to make sure we keep this thing flowing and get some new contributors (which keeping the queue clear helps majorly!) Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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0.44 development status
by Bryce Harrington 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Hi all, I've compiled the status for the 0.44 development checklist. I'm sure this is already out of date, so please email me updates and I'll update next weekend. Luckily, most everything people are working on sound like they could be wrapped up by the end of the month, however the quantity of things going on suggests that at least some efforts may require longer. Thus, I would like to propose the following schedule for getting to Feature Freeze mode: Now - Development continues on the ~24 items identified For non-0.44 feature work, please use branches May 1st - Achieve completion of at least 50% of the items. Work continues on the remaining 12. Work ceases on any other features. Notification to translators Begin focusing on bugfixes. Identify preliminary "must-fix" buglist May 15th - Feature Freeze All feature development work ends Finalize the "must-fix" buglist Issue pre-release packages for testing Focus on bug fixes, translations, & docs TBD - Hard Freeze Translation work finishes Final resolution on all "must-fix" bugs Issue one or more release candidates TBD - 0.44 Release How does this plan sound? Has anything been missed? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inkscape 0.44 Development Checklist ICC Preview =========== Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes CMYK support ============ Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes ArtLibre named icon and cursor loading ====================================== Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes Palette editing and per-file color sets ======================================= Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes Tablet Bugs =========== MentalGuy is working on this. Says for the release he wants to get these resolved. Brush size adjustment on zoom toggle for calligraphic pen ========================================================= MentalGuy is working on this and plans to have it to a finished point for the release. Layer dialog ============ This is an important feature for the release, and on MentalGuy's todo list. However, work has been stuck getting Inkscape::LayerManager to compile due to a subtle detail with sigc::mem_fun(), and it's uncertain if there is sufficient time to unstick it and finish the feature prior to the release. Additional people's help may be needed here. [Beyond the memory issue, are there other aspects to the layer dialog that others could help with, such as UI work or coding helper features or whatever? --bh] * Update Release Notes Fit Canvas to Selection ======================= This is a feature ACSpike has been working on, and plans to complete for the release. The patch is here: http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/inx/current.diff ODG Format Support ================== Ishmal is working on this currently. It basically works and is 90% done; the one issue at the moment that needs to be fixed for the release is that image rotations are backwards. [I think this might be fixed now. -- bh] DOM Support =========== Ishmal has been working on this. The newest code is all imported and builds. [Is there anything else needing to be done prior to release?] SIOX Support ============ Ishmal has this over half done. The code is all imported and building, and the selection mechanism is about done. Getting Inkscape and SIOX intercommunication working, but this can be built as a filter to potrace, which simplifies things. There are some transformation issues that need to be sorted out. Extensions ========== Ted is focusing on cleaning up extension parameters and felt he'd have this wrapped up by the end of the month. The plan is to have longer text (tool tips) available, and a few more widgets. More spacing in the autogui will be added to make it look nicer. * Ted reports there is an unverified bug in the ordering of the effects in the menu, to be investigated. The Extension Editor is further off, and not being planned for this release. Snapping ======== !!! More info needed - Carl and Mathieu (and maybe Ralf?) !!! * Need to fix the freeze when dragging multiple selected objects: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1429049&group_id=9… * Update Release Notes Rendering Performance Speedup ============================= Andrius has a very interesting rendering speedup patch. The feature is complete and accepted for the release. There is one known issue to address with scrolling, but Andrius feels this can be fixed. * Additional testing needs to be performed Screenshots =========== Scislac has taken this task on, and plans to have it done for the release. Two screenshots are done currently, and one more is in the works. There will be a call for more screenshots on the Deviant Art site. Tutorials ========= Calligraphy is mostly done, and a few of the other updates to the other tutorials have been drafted but that stuff definitely needs more work. Should be possible to have them done by the end of April. Calligraphic interface tweak ============================ Bulia is working on this change requested by MentalGuy, and feels they are minor and should have no trouble completing for the release. Windows font handling bugfixes (DONE) ============================== Richard (cyreve) has completed these bug fixes and updated the release notes. * Update ReleaseNotes Python Extensions on Windows ============================ !!! No owner has been identified for this task !!! Bulia reports that extensions that rely on PyXML still do not work on Windows. Due to the number of python extensions, this would be a major missing feature for Windows users. Text/Fonts UI ============= deadchip (aka Milosz Derezynski <internalerror at gmail dot com>) has written a font lister Gtkmm class, to enable re-use of the font list. He is planning to write a font picker dialog, and rewrite the current font picker to use the font _listing_ class. This enables using normal Gtk components (ListStore, etc.) for accessing the font info. He plans to have this work done by May 1st, or May 15th at the latest. Windows "dialogs on top" Patch for GTK ====================================== !!! No owner has been identified for this task !!! This is not exactly an Inkscape-specific problem, since the code changes wouldn't be to Inkscape, but it would be nice to have it finally fixed. This 0.44 release effort may be a good vehicle to tie it to, but we won't hold up the release if it doesn't get done. Scislac had contacted the author previously. * Send a reminder email to the author to find status on this Undo/Redo Dialog ================ !!! No owner has been identified for this task !!! We have a patch for this, but the author has not been reachable. Also needed is undo annotations. * Unless the author or another developer takes ownership of this patch within a week or so, perhaps the wise thing to do would be to incorporate it right after the release, to give maximum debugging time for 0.55. New File Chooser in Export ========================== We have a patch for this, but there were some thoughts of embedding it in the export dialog directly. In the spirit of "patch first, discuss later", the best approach may be to stick in the current patch for 0.44, see what folks think, and do the embedding later. Additional Release Tasks ======================== The following tasks will need to be done for the release, but are not required to be done prior to the Feature Freeze: * Identify the list of must-fix bugs. To keep the freeze phase from dragging out, we will need to be very choosy in what we allow to be must-fix bugs. * Set up a ReleaseChecklist wiki page or similar to keep track of The List. * Designate 2 release maintainers. * Keep and update the above list and encourage people to achieve completion of the items. * Notify translators to complete translation work * Wiki updates + Update Roadmap + Review/Update FAQ + Update InkscapeFeatures * PR / marketing efforts + Plan efforts + Draft press release + Finalize press release + Send out press release [rejon] * Packaging Bryce

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FYI: InkscapeLite in Puppy Linux
by Void 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

This is a courtesy email to let you guys know what has happened with "Inkscape Lite". Awhile back I received some help from this mail-list, to choose an appropriate version of Inkscape for use in Puppy Linux. I chose v0.36, which was the last that used C, not C++, and did not use GTKmm. I made some very small mods to the source and the result we named "InkscapeLite", or just "InkLite" and it appeared in Puppy version 2.10 and now in v2.11. Puppy home page: http://www.puppyos.com/ Download page: http://www.puppyos.com/download/downpage.htm The binary tarball for InkscapeLite is to be found at Ibiblio: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pupget_package… The source tarball is at: http://puptrix.org/sources/ We also have binary tarballs for the full Inkscape, v0.43 and it is interesting to compare sizes: Binary pkg Executable share/inkscape v0.43 shared gtkmm 3807K 1932K v0.43 static gtkmm 5619K 1932K v0.36.2 "InkLite" 1042K 928K ...interesting! Of course, the executables are all stripped. If anyone wants to do a bit of maintaining of InkLite, please do! Regards, Barry Kauler www.puppyos.com ________________________________________________ Dodo - an Official Sponsor of the 2006 FORMULA 1 (tm) Foster's Australian Grand Prix

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Thai Inkscape Translation?
by Jon Phillips 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 20:00 +0100, Craig Marshall wrote: > Hi, > > I had trouble just now building Inkscape because there was a "th" file > missing in the po directory. I noticed on inkscape-cvs that you've made > a thai translation yesterday, could you have forgotten to add/commit, or > have I done something wrong? > > I'm in the middle of re-checking the entire repository out at the moment > (I have other problems!), but I managed to build the code before, after > removing th from the ALL_LINGUAS list in po/Makefile. > > Many thanks, > Craig Ooops...good catch, I added it and committed it...thanks! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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WEBFORM Install of new version 0.44.1 for Mac OS X
by lachaux 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: lachaux email: jl.lachaux@...1537... submitted the following: Enter your message or news here. Why this version don\'t install the French language ?

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stirring it up some more ... 0.45 ramp up?
by Jon Phillips 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

Bryce and others, what's the 411 on the Summer of Code projects and can we get a 0.45 out before the end of October? How does it feel y'all? What do you all think? Googl SoC'cers, how is your code in the codebase? Ideally, it would be great to ramp up this release as the commits are getting lower, message activity is lower on the lists and downloads are going down as well...thus, seems like a great time to put the press on...thoughts? Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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google summer of code summit follow-up
by Jon Phillips 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Hey all, here are my overdue notes about the google summer of code mentors summit meeting from last SAT, OCT 21, 9-5 PM. They picked up the tab for the event, hotel, etc: First Session: Screening Everyone seemed to have their own opinion and success, but it appeared overall that the experiences were similar. I talked about how to successfully get good students by setting up goals, possibly requiring a patch (like INkscape did), and requiring some initial barrier to get rid of the fakers. In the future, seems like it will be a requirement to get students to contact the community in order to become a summer of code student. I then attended the Google Code Hosting talk and heard from the lead developers who re-emphasized that the project is about co-existing with sf.net and others to increase the bus count. There is interoperability between the few...I'm anxious to try their service as it is very glitzy and will become a much bigger deal in the future I think. They also talked abuot Google BigTable and papers that anyone can read and how they should be looked at... After that I had lunch with several developers including Behdad Esfahdood, who leads the pango project and works for RedHat. He wants to get pango hooked into Crucible, so Bryce, you might want to follow up with him about this. I also hung out with Bart Massey who is professor at portland state and hosts freedesktop.org servers. I talked with him about some Open Clip Art Library business and other issues that we have in common. I am following up with him because he wants to and said it is really no problem to get us our own server that we can put Open Clip Art Library on...this addresses the lag we have been having on getting admin requests filled, which we talked about. All in all, he was very enthusiastic about OCAL and moving things over because we are pegging the FD.o server, ongoing security issues, and the need for more control over the server. Next up I participated in a session called "Google Summer of Research" trying to figure out how Google fits into academic research and vice-versa. Seems that Google is trying to sort this out as well, as they funded some academic projects that fit into the Summer of Code, but aren't code exactly...like the Mars Map project. Next up I went to the Poisonous People talk which underlined so many things I talk about about how to build community, keep it healthy, etc. The best part is what they speakers said are the most important commodities in Open Source: Focus and Attention. Thus, a project has to protect these at all costs (which further underlines the need to work in quiet spaces without tons of activity in the background). Here are the excellent slides from this talk, the highlight of the day: http://www.red-bean.com/dav/presentations/Poisonous-people.pdf I then helped lead and particpate in the Google Summer of Content presentation which included several Google-folk, including Leslie who led from Google's end under DiBona. She said they are putting big push on documentation, so this focus on "summer of content" is very important, as they want to have some more content-based commitment next summer. People kept trying to make this session more about documentation, but I reiterated that coding is more than just code and documentation by giving some nice soliloquys ;) http://www.red-bean.com/ospowiki/SummerOfContent Anyway, what is to come from this is that I am leading up following up on this with Karsten Wade, who headed up the Red Hat video project and works on Fedora Core documentation, etc. This is a very cool thing and will push hard to get all content licensed under CC licenses for this next summer, etc. Also, it will be great to push on getting more of the artists to work on tango, etc possibly...is anyone into this idea? Finally, the day had a wrap-up that answered a gazillion questions and kept the future of the program pragmatic. They had a very optimistic view and expect funding to continue. I started to zone off by that point in the day... The day seemed to be both a pressure valve and a great endeavour to try and involve the community in the project. Overall, it is a big success and we obviously should continue to work on it in the future. The best thing to come out of the event is the quick chat with Massey about OCAL, etc. My day also ended with getting to chat with Martin Sevior (abiword) about working closer between Inkscape, abiword, gnumeric, etc, to provide a better user experience and in the face of the closed community policies of OO.o. He and several other people brought up how unhappy they were with the printing functionality on Inkscape. I forgot about how this is such a need. Mostly, ppl. are stoked about Inkscape, but I underlined that we are working on this with Cairo, etc...who is working on this anyway? Seems like a pretty big area we need help on... All in all, I highly encourage more ppl. to attend this next year and bathe in the glory of free-ness at the google-plex (they flew ppl. from russia and other places for the one-day event). oh, I also met Mike Hearn (autopackage) who said he is going through Google's 3-month training program as a new employee. Insane! Pce! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Blur todo
by bulia byak 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

On 10/2/06, Niko Kiirala <niko@...1267...> wrote: > Whoops, old info. Running inkscape in debugger, I just struck gold and > found the reason for this problem. (a rather stupid one, too, so I > won't go into further detail) Now fixed in SVN. Thanks! Finally the blur is usable with UI - please everyone check it out (it's in the Fill & Stroke dialog at bottom). Files saved with blur seem to render correctly in Batik though not in Firefox (which does not support filters yet). There are still things to be done. Here's what I have proposed, please everyone feel free to discuss and add to the list: - There is still some banding happening when I scroll the window with a blurred object so it scrolls in from beyond the screen. There's perhaps some error in determining how much the buffer needs to be enlarged so that the rendering strips tile up seamlessly. - When nothing selected, the blur slider should be grayed out, as is the Master opacity control. - I think it makes sense to set and display blur radius in % of the current object size (the diagonal of its bbox). Otherwise it's almost useless for small objects - a 0.01 increment is too much for them. I think 50% is a reasonable maximum value - any stronger blur just makes little difference visually. - If the radius set by the user is bigger than 10% which is the SVG standard filter area margin, you need to also set the corresponding larger margin, so that blur is never cut off. - Speaking of cleaning up console output: I see lots of (inkscape:7289): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from `(null)' to `SPGaussianBlur' on the console. - While not directly related to the slider, we need to make it so that the blur radius is scaled proportionally when the object is scaled. This can be coded similar to the way stroke width is now treated. Later we can add another button in the row of "scale with object" buttons on Selector controls bar for the blur (now it has buttons for stroke width, rounded rect corners, gradients and patterns). (I think I'll try to do this myself because I know this code.) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.45 release work (was Re: stirring it Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 5, Issue 4
by Johan Engelen 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

> From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> > > Is anyone in the middle of any development work that must > be finished before we freeze? The axonometric grid still needs a lot of work. I have to reorganize grid classes and grid snapping stuff. I am on it, but haven't got that much time; I can definitely not complete it soon. Almost everytime I log on to IRC, someone mentions a bug/feature which I instantly want to fix to keep me from working on it! :P Shall I insert compiler directives to easily disable all axonometric grid code? (simply removing the UI radiobuttons to enable is easier but stupid :) Since this is the first release I am actively involved in, how exactly does it work? You freeze the code at a certain moment (by creating a 0.45 branch?); then new development can still continue on the SVN trunk, and bughunting is done on the 0.45 branch? Cheers, Johan

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WEBFORM Thot parle de vous
by Martine Jaudeau 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Martine Jaudeau email: redaction@...1536... submitted the following: Bonjour, Les 28 900 abonnÃ©s professionnels de Thot, Nouvelles de la formation Ã distance, ont reÃ§u cette nouvelle rÃ©cemment : Inkscape : logiciel de dessin vectoriel Open source sous Linux, Mac et Windows. N\'a rien Ã envier aux logiciels commerciaux. Documentation en franÃ§ais fournie. Lien: http://thot.cursus.edu/rubrique.asp?no=24853 Machine translation in English: http://thot.cursus.edu/en/rubrique.asp?no=24853 Bonne continuation et au plaisir, Martine Jaudeau RÃ©dactrice en chef de Thot Thot - Nouvelles de la formation Ã distance - http://thot.cursus.edu Cursus - Le rÃ©pertoire de la formation en ligne - http://cursus.cursus.edu Abonnement : http://thot.cursus.edu/abonnement.asp Gestion de l\'abonnement : http://thot.cursus.edu/modif_infos.asp Ãdition intÃ©grale- Abonnement : http://thot.cursus.edu/rubrique.asp?no=19995

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toolbar refactoring
by unknown＠example.com 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

I've committed the first step in refactoring the toolbars. So far only the calligraphy toolbar has been updated. Andy's given it an initial shakedown, and suggested turning it on by default. If anyone wants to turn it off, adding this under the "options" group in preferences should do the trick: <group id="options"> ... <group id="stocktoolbars" value="0" /> Give it a spin and see how it works with the platforms, themese, etc.

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SVG validity wants a few minutes of your coding or SVG expertise time
by Ruud Steltenpool, http://svg.startpagina.nl 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Open ClipArt and Inkscape do a pretty good job in promoting SVG. However quite a bit of content on the web that is called SVG, is actually only something that looks very much like SVG, but is not. "Not valid" breaks the principle of a standard. Therefore activities are started and some first code is hacked together to start changing that: http://openclipart.org/wiki/SVG_Testing#Previous_Tools Next to code detecting errors based on DTDs and later also RNGs there's also code that gives the content coder advice, also to help workaround viewer implementation errors. If you have some expertise in SVG or general XML, please invest a little bit of your valuable time. Thanks

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Scripting cchost
by Kevin Driscoll 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Has anyone done a batch upload script for cchost? We have literally hundreds of lesson plans to put up on TeachForward over the next few months. Kevin On 10/16/06, Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 11:52 +0200, Luc Estebanez wrote: > > And what about uploading artwork directly from inkscape to open-clipart ? > > > > This would certainly push me to contribute ! Imagine : I have made some > > cool shapes (an animal for instance) as part of a poster I'm doing with > > inkscape. I just select these shapes and select "export to open-clipart", > > and it is included in the library... > > Yep, there are two strategies for this: > > 1.) there is a commandline script as part of ccHost, which we could use > to create an extension that would let inkscape upload to ccHost. > > 2.) Another approach which isn't so hacky is to help me add webdav > support to ccHost so we could simply use webdav in gnome-vfs (which > inkscape already supports) for posting up files > > 3.) Use the soon-to-come ccHost upload API for uploading to ccHost...I'm > cc'ing the cchost devel. mailing list on this one, so if anyone wants to > track this, please join the cchost mailing list... > > > Actually, I think with this functionality, you would see a surge in > > contributions coming from all the people not doing clipart, but producing > > artwork a part of which can be considered as a clip-art (and that's > > basically every inkscape user, every time he uses inkscape) > > Yes, I completely completely agree! Would you like to help with this? It > would be great to get more help :) > > Jon > > > best, > > > > luc > > > > > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 09:32 -0700, John Cliff wrote: > > >> we had a google SOC project last year that worked on pretty much > > >> exatcly this functionality, except it was done as an external utility > > >> that linked in through the extensions code. > > >> > > >> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ocalhelper/ > > > > > > Yep, I would definitely use this code as a starting point, because it > > > worked prior to using ccHost and allowed one to pull from the website > > > and/or from a locally installed package. > > > > > > Thus, now the way to go is to use ccHost because there is an API for > > > doing just what you are hoping, called the Sample Pool API: > > > http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc.xml > > > > > > This will make doing what you are hoping very easy. > > > > > > Bryce really summed up how to tackle this project and I think that if > > > you take a look at and/or use the previous summer of code code, then you > > > will be on the fast track to getting this done. > > > > > > Please also look at how our SoC student from last summer made a > > > standalone app with python and then created an extension so we could > > > just make use of what already exists...this will help this be usable by > > > other apps. > > > > > > If you are interested in building on the previous student's project, I > > > would like to move that over to Inkscape SVN to progress it and help to > > > get more developer's eyes onto the project. Bryce, do you think this is > > > cool? > > > > > > Michael, this sounds like an awesome project and I will help out however > > > I can :) > > > > > > Jon > > > > > >> --- Michael Moore <stuporglue@...400...> wrote: > > >> > > >> > > While neat, an "Import Clipart" would be a duplication of a current > > >> > > functionality, that is, drag and drop from a nautilus/konqueror > > >> > window that > > >> > > is connected to the clipart internet resource. > > >> > > > >> > That is partially true, there are definately currently ways to import > > >> > clipart that work. The new functionality would be in ease of use, and > > >> > integration with OCAL. > > >> > > > >> > Ease of use: > > >> > > > >> > If you're working with Inkscape full screen, you have to resize and > > >> > move windows to drag and drop import clipart. Drag and drop import > > >> > doesn't seem to work with OSX since Inkscape is running in X11 and > > >> > Finder is an native program. > > >> > > > >> > To non-technical Windows users, I imagine it's slightly confusing to > > >> > import OCAL work since you have to decide which file based on the > > >> > PNG, > > >> > then import the SVG of the same name -- I don't think that this is > > >> > very user friendly. > > >> > > > >> > Integration with OCAL: > > >> > > > >> > Instead of thinking of the OCAL library as a bunch of nested folders > > >> > of SVGs mixed with PNGs and text files, the user can just think of it > > >> > as "Import Clipart --> Browse categories". Currently when using > > >> > drag-and-drop importing, I have to double check that I'm not > > >> > importing > > >> > the PNG since I get both thumbnails (in Nautilus). > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > So, yes, there is some duplication, but I think there may also be > > >> > some > > >> > real gains in functionality and ease of use as well. > > >> > > > >> > Michael > > >> > -- > > >> > Michael Moore > > >> > ------------------------- > > >> > Creative photography for any occasion > > >> > http://elementsbycaroline.com > > >> > Full quality proofs > > >> > Online album > > >> > > > >> > > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > > >> > security? > > >> > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your > > >> > job easier > > >> > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > > >> > Geronimo > > >> > > > >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > >> > _______________________________________________ > > >> > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > >> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> __________________________________________________ > > >> Do You Yahoo!? > > >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > >> http://mail.yahoo.com > > >> > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > > >> security? > > >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > > >> easier > > >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > > >> Geronimo > > >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Inkscape-devel mailing list > > >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > >> > > > -- > > > Jon Phillips > > > > > > San Francisco, CA > > > USA PH 510.499.0894 > > > jon@...235... > > > http://www.rejon.org > > > > > > MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto > > > Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... > > > IRC: rejon@...897... > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > > > easier > > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > > > > > > -- > Jon Phillips > > San Francisco, CA > USA PH 510.499.0894 > jon@...235... > http://www.rejon.org > > MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto > Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... > IRC: rejon@...897... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Cctools-cchost mailing list > Cctools-cchost(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cctools-cchost >

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Inkscape for OS X on a demo CD in SVM Mac
by jiho 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

just a quick message to let you know that the OS X version of Inkscape is included in the demo CD that ships with SVM Mac[1] this month. SVM Mac is a french magazine specialized on the Mac (as the names says... SVM stands for "Science et Vie Micro" by the way). It is presented as "A clone of Illustrator... but free". I hope people trying it will see that is is much more than a clone. http://www.svmmac.fr/ JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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LWN Article on SFC w/ Inkscape mention
by Bryce Harrington 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

LWN is running an article right now about the Software Freedom Conservancy, explaining what it's for and why to join. They mention that Inkscape is a part of it. http://lwn.net/Articles/204870/ Since it is subscriber-only, I've attached the article for those not subscribing to LWN. Bryce

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your change to Makefile.mingw.common
by bulia byak 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Bob, after this change http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/Makefile.mingw.co… Inkscape fails to run on Windows 2000, saying "cannot find entry point freeaddrinfo in ws2_32.dll". I tested this on two different builds made by ACSpike and Scislac. Please fix or revert. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Investor.com Blockbuster performance
by Clare clothbound 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

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Structure to store Z-ordered shapes
by Jean Morissette 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Hi all, I would like to know what structure do you use to store shapes in Z-order. It seems to me that a simple linked list would perform poorly for a large number of shapes, since it has a time complexity of O(n) to find the index (the z-value) of a shape. So, I was thinking at two other structures. The first one would be similar to a linked list except that each node would store its own z value. However, since the Z order is only a "less than or equal to" relation, Z values don't need to be equal to their index in the list or even be continuous. So, this class would not waste time to reuse the indices from removed/moved shapes. Operations like add-last, bring-to-front, send-to-back would allocate a new Z-value each time they are called. And operations like remove would not adjust the indices of the other nodes. So, all operations would perform in O(1) time cost! However there is a disavantage of not resuing indice. This class cannot perform an illimited number of some operations (because these operations allocate a new Z value each time they are called). However, this should not be a limitation in real world applications, because that I would be surprised that a user performs more than 2^31 operations (for an integer z value). Another disavantage is that it's not possible to know the real value of the Z order; a Z value makes sence only by comparing it with another. The second structure doesn't have these limitations but it's more complex to implement and a little bit less performant. This structure is a balanced tree where the predicate to insert a node is the in-order index in the tree. The main idea is that the index of a node (thus it's Z value) can be computed by traversing the tree upward to the root, thus in O(log n). So, the nodes don't have to keep its own Z value, and don't need to adjust them. All other operations perform in amortized O(1), since we may need to make some rotations to balance the tree, which should be really fast in practice. Note that these structures assume that a shape *is* a node, i.e. having a reference on a shape means that we have a reference on the node. Thus, we don't need to find the node corresponding to a given shape. What so you think of these structures? What structure InkScape actually uses? Thanks for your comments, Jean

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Import Clipart function
by Jon Phillips 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 11:52 +0200, Luc Estebanez wrote: > And what about uploading artwork directly from inkscape to open-clipart ? > > This would certainly push me to contribute ! Imagine : I have made some > cool shapes (an animal for instance) as part of a poster I'm doing with > inkscape. I just select these shapes and select "export to open-clipart", > and it is included in the library... Yep, there are two strategies for this: 1.) there is a commandline script as part of ccHost, which we could use to create an extension that would let inkscape upload to ccHost. 2.) Another approach which isn't so hacky is to help me add webdav support to ccHost so we could simply use webdav in gnome-vfs (which inkscape already supports) for posting up files 3.) Use the soon-to-come ccHost upload API for uploading to ccHost...I'm cc'ing the cchost devel. mailing list on this one, so if anyone wants to track this, please join the cchost mailing list... > Actually, I think with this functionality, you would see a surge in > contributions coming from all the people not doing clipart, but producing > artwork a part of which can be considered as a clip-art (and that's > basically every inkscape user, every time he uses inkscape) Yes, I completely completely agree! Would you like to help with this? It would be great to get more help :) Jon > best, > > luc > > > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 09:32 -0700, John Cliff wrote: > >> we had a google SOC project last year that worked on pretty much > >> exatcly this functionality, except it was done as an external utility > >> that linked in through the extensions code. > >> > >> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ocalhelper/ > > > > Yep, I would definitely use this code as a starting point, because it > > worked prior to using ccHost and allowed one to pull from the website > > and/or from a locally installed package. > > > > Thus, now the way to go is to use ccHost because there is an API for > > doing just what you are hoping, called the Sample Pool API: > > http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc.xml > > > > This will make doing what you are hoping very easy. > > > > Bryce really summed up how to tackle this project and I think that if > > you take a look at and/or use the previous summer of code code, then you > > will be on the fast track to getting this done. > > > > Please also look at how our SoC student from last summer made a > > standalone app with python and then created an extension so we could > > just make use of what already exists...this will help this be usable by > > other apps. > > > > If you are interested in building on the previous student's project, I > > would like to move that over to Inkscape SVN to progress it and help to > > get more developer's eyes onto the project. Bryce, do you think this is > > cool? > > > > Michael, this sounds like an awesome project and I will help out however > > I can :) > > > > Jon > > > >> --- Michael Moore <stuporglue@...400...> wrote: > >> > >> > > While neat, an "Import Clipart" would be a duplication of a current > >> > > functionality, that is, drag and drop from a nautilus/konqueror > >> > window that > >> > > is connected to the clipart internet resource. > >> > > >> > That is partially true, there are definately currently ways to import > >> > clipart that work. The new functionality would be in ease of use, and > >> > integration with OCAL. > >> > > >> > Ease of use: > >> > > >> > If you're working with Inkscape full screen, you have to resize and > >> > move windows to drag and drop import clipart. Drag and drop import > >> > doesn't seem to work with OSX since Inkscape is running in X11 and > >> > Finder is an native program. > >> > > >> > To non-technical Windows users, I imagine it's slightly confusing to > >> > import OCAL work since you have to decide which file based on the > >> > PNG, > >> > then import the SVG of the same name -- I don't think that this is > >> > very user friendly. > >> > > >> > Integration with OCAL: > >> > > >> > Instead of thinking of the OCAL library as a bunch of nested folders > >> > of SVGs mixed with PNGs and text files, the user can just think of it > >> > as "Import Clipart --> Browse categories". Currently when using > >> > drag-and-drop importing, I have to double check that I'm not > >> > importing > >> > the PNG since I get both thumbnails (in Nautilus). > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > So, yes, there is some duplication, but I think there may also be > >> > some > >> > real gains in functionality and ease of use as well. > >> > > >> > Michael > >> > -- > >> > Michael Moore > >> > ------------------------- > >> > Creative photography for any occasion > >> > http://elementsbycaroline.com > >> > Full quality proofs > >> > Online album > >> > > >> > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > >> > security? > >> > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your > >> > job easier > >> > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > >> > Geronimo > >> > > >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Inkscape-devel mailing list > >> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > >> > > >> > >> > >> __________________________________________________ > >> Do You Yahoo!? > >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > >> http://mail.yahoo.com > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > >> security? > >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > >> easier > >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > >> Geronimo > >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Inkscape-devel mailing list > >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > >> > > -- > > Jon Phillips > > > > San Francisco, CA > > USA PH 510.499.0894 > > jon@...235... > > http://www.rejon.org > > > > MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto > > Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... > > IRC: rejon@...897... > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > > easier > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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vancouver area connection
by Jon Phillips 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

<slightly-offTopic /> Hello all, do any of you on this list live in the Vancouver area? I'm going to be heading up to Vancouver in DEC and am trying to make contacts... Thanks! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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WEBFORM traduzione inkscape
by Enzo 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Enzo email: enzolatina@...1523... submitted the following: Salve, sul sito leggo che inkscape Ã¨ tradotto in diverse lingue, tra cui l\'italiano, io ho installato la versione 0.44 su linux-kubuntu, scaricandola dai repository ufficiali della distribuzione, ma non riesco a farla parlare in italiano e nemmeno trovo files di traduzione, come posso fare? Ci sono per caso files da scaricare a parte? E se si, dove sono? Un cordiale saluto e un grazie anticipato, enzo

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bounding box bug
by Alex Mac 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

When I try selecting and moving the blue box in the attached example the bounding box seems to be displaced from the actual content. I've tested it using the version of inkscape that comes with ubuntu edgy and one I compiled today. Alex

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List access? (anti-uce)
by Bryce Harrington 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

When we set inkscape-devel@ up, we set it to post-by-anyone to make it easy for people not subscribed to be able to send emails. However, in recent weeks we seem to be receiving an unusually high amount of spam. A few months ago the inkscape-user@ list was suffering the same situation, and reached a concensus to have list posting closed to non-members. This resulted in immediately preventing the spam emails. It also had the predicted downside of preventing some people from posting to the list, but so far this has been a fairly low level problem (most of the complaints were from people who didn't have much experience with mailing lists in general, and could be addressed with a little education). Like many on this list, I've always been in the camp of keeping list posting open to non-members, however, given inkscape-user's success, it might be worth considering. What do others think? Bryce

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[karl at xtronics dot com: inkscape wiki]
by Wolfram Quester 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi, I just received this mail from a debian user and thought the best thing would be to forward it to this list, sine I don't have any knowledge about the whole wiki stuff. Thanks, Wolfi ----- Forwarded message from Karl <karl at xtronics dot com> ----- X-Greylist: delayed 1836 seconds by postgrey-1.21 at honk; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:09:24 CEST Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:38:44 -0500 From: Karl <karl at xtronics dot com> To: wolfi@...111... Subject: inkscape wiki I was looking for some info on inkscape and went to the wiki - it had been defaced and Spammed - I deleted the spam, but I did not see how to go back to an older version. I hope you can tell someone as I could not find any email addresses. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Import Clipart function
by Luc Estebanez 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

[sorry Jon Phillips....this time to the list...] And what about uploading artwork directly from inkscape to open-clipart ? This would certainly push me to contribute ! Imagine : I have made some cool shapes (an animal for instance) as part of a poster I'm doing with inkscape. I just select these shapes and select "export to open-clipart", and it is included in the library... Actually, I think with this functionality, you would see a surge in contributions coming from all the people not doing clipart, but producing artwork a part of which can be considered as a clip-art (and that's basically every inkscape user, every time he uses inkscape) best, luc > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 09:32 -0700, John Cliff wrote: >> we had a google SOC project last year that worked on pretty much exatcly this functionality, except it was done as an external utility that linked in through the extensions code. >> >> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ocalhelper/ > > Yep, I would definitely use this code as a starting point, because it worked prior to using ccHost and allowed one to pull from the website and/or from a locally installed package. > > Thus, now the way to go is to use ccHost because there is an API for doing just what you are hoping, called the Sample Pool API: > http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc.xml > > This will make doing what you are hoping very easy. > > Bryce really summed up how to tackle this project and I think that if you take a look at and/or use the previous summer of code code, then you will be on the fast track to getting this done. > > Please also look at how our SoC student from last summer made a > standalone app with python and then created an extension so we could just make use of what already exists...this will help this be usable by other apps. > > If you are interested in building on the previous student's project, I would like to move that over to Inkscape SVN to progress it and help to get more developer's eyes onto the project. Bryce, do you think this is cool? > > Michael, this sounds like an awesome project and I will help out however I can :) > > Jon > >> --- Michael Moore <stuporglue@...400...> wrote: >> >> > > While neat, an "Import Clipart" would be a duplication of a current functionality, that is, drag and drop from a nautilus/konqueror >> > window that >> > > is connected to the clipart internet resource. >> > >> > That is partially true, there are definately currently ways to import clipart that work. The new functionality would be in ease of use, and integration with OCAL. >> > >> > Ease of use: >> > >> > If you're working with Inkscape full screen, you have to resize and move windows to drag and drop import clipart. Drag and drop import doesn't seem to work with OSX since Inkscape is running in X11 and Finder is an native program. >> > >> > To non-technical Windows users, I imagine it's slightly confusing to import OCAL work since you have to decide which file based on the PNG, >> > then import the SVG of the same name -- I don't think that this is very user friendly. >> > >> > Integration with OCAL: >> > >> > Instead of thinking of the OCAL library as a bunch of nested folders of SVGs mixed with PNGs and text files, the user can just think of it as "Import Clipart --> Browse categories". Currently when using drag-and-drop importing, I have to double check that I'm not >> > importing >> > the PNG since I get both thumbnails (in Nautilus). >> > >> > >> > >> > So, yes, there is some duplication, but I think there may also be some >> > real gains in functionality and ease of use as well. >> > >> > Michael >> > -- >> > Michael Moore >> > ------------------------- >> > Creative photography for any occasion >> > http://elementsbycaroline.com >> > Full quality proofs >> > Online album >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >> > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >> > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >> > >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Inkscape-devel mailing list >> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> > >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing list >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> > -- > Jon Phillips > > San Francisco, CA > USA PH 510.499.0894 > jon@...235... > http://www.rejon.org > > MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto > Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... > IRC: rejon@...897... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [offlist] Re: Import Clipart function
by Michael Moore 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Wow, lots of responses! I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed about now. I've never done any major coding before, just school projects, and a bit of goofing of on my own. I apologize if my responses or ideas of what needs to be done seem naive -- I'm trying to learn as I go here. I'd like to make something usefull, but if I try to bite off something too big, I'll never get it done. Here goes... > Alan Horkan > I tend to think of clipart being used when people want a specific image > rather than browsing and I would think the most efficient approach would > be to provide a keyword based search and only show matching results so > there would be much less to render. You seem to be describing two scenarios. 1) You want a specific image and 2) You want an image from a certain category (or tag). If you want a specific image, then the current import function works great. My personal typical clipart use scenario is along the lines of "I need a car, what do I have in cars" -- That's what I'd consider browsing. eg. Looking through the categories of interest. I didn't mean general browsing of the library, just task specific browsing. > Alan Horkan >(Ideally if you can seperate your work out into a library maybe other >projects interested in OpenClipart will reuse it.) I'm not sure I'm that tallented at the moment. :-/ I'll look at it though. > Bryce >Then perhaps you can focus on just "#2. Library browser". This allows >you to not worry about the download/upload capabilities, just stub out >the inserter, etc. Others who may be interested in this could then >focus on owning development of those other pieces. >The approach of having a managed local cache of clipart has several >further benefits. It permits offline use of the clipart that the user >has used in the past. It enables the user to refresh and fill in the >cache when they're not working, Online browsing hadn't entered into my initial thoughts at all. I was imagining downloading a zipped collection of clipart (a-la an OCAL release), pointing Inkscape at that library, and browsing that. > John Cliff & Jon Phillips >> we had a google SOC project last year that worked on pretty much >> exatcly this functionality, except it was done as an external utility >> that linked in through the extensions code. >> >> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ocalhelper/ > >Yep, I would definitely use this code as a starting point, because it >worked prior to using ccHost and allowed one to pull from the website >and/or from a locally installed package. > >Please also look at how our SoC student from last summer made a >standalone app with python and then created an extension so we could >just make use of what already exists...this will help this be usable by >other apps. I'll definately take a look at this -- I wasn't aware of this project. Assuming it's usable, and I could just update it and the extension, would it be possible to have the "Import Clipart" menu item below the current "Import" menu item? I havnen't looked too closely at any extensions code yet. -- Michael Moore ------------------------- Creative photography for any occasion http://elementsbycaroline.com Full quality proofs Online album

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Import Clipart function
by Michael Moore 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

I think it'd be great if it were possible to select "Import clipart" in the Inkscape menu, and there was a nice clipart browser that would pop up to let you view the clipart by category, see thumbnails, and select a piece of clipart to import into your drawing. As I'm thinking about this, I'm thinking specificly of OCAL. What do people think? I'd like to implement this, but I wanted to get some input first. I'm not new to programming, but I haven't done much with GUIs, and nothing with GTK. Here's what I was thinking... The GUI would have a two panes, a Cancel and an OK button. The left pane would be an expandable tree view of the OCAL categories. You could expand a category to view the sub categories. The right pane would display thumbnails of the clipart in the selected category (and it's sub categories?). The user would select a thumbnail, then click "OK" to insert it. Since rendering all of the SVG cliparts in each category would take too long, I would use the png thumbnails already in OCAL. So as not to be reading through all the OCAL collection each time you want to import, the categories and thumbnails listings would be read from an XML file. I would write a script or plugin to generate the appropriate XML file, and if this works out nicely, maybe OCAL would be able to include the XML file in the download. This next part should be read with the disclaimer that this is how it would work if I'm understanding the Inkscape source correctly... I would create a new verb SP_VERB_FILE_IMPORT_CLIPART, and a new menu item "Import Clipart". When it was chosen, it would call sp_clipart_file_import instead of sp_file_import like the current Import does. The sp_clipart_file_import would open the dialog I described above, and call file_import like the current Import method does. Essentially it would do the exact same job that Import does now, but with a GUI that is friendly for browsing clipart. Thoughts? -- Michael Moore ------------------------- Creative photography for any occasion http://elementsbycaroline.com Full quality proofs Online album

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Artists needed!
by bulia byak 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

With all the recent additions - clipping, masking, and especially blur - Inkscape is finally able to produce some real photorealistic art. This is a call to arms for all Inkscape artists to start working on some stunning examples of what's now possible in Inkscape. We will need them - the more the better - for screenshots, examples, tutorials, etc. etc. One thing I would like to request in particular: A car. It would be very nice to have a complex, detailed, photorealistic SVG image of a shiny impressive car. There are several reasons for why this is desirable. First, cars are sexy (for many people, anyway). Second, they are relatively easy to draw by tracing a photo - you don't need to be much of an artist for that, you just need patience, Inkscape skills, and a good photo to start from. Third, with their glass and brass and polish, well-lit cars are ideal for showcasing "photorealism". And finally, our main competitor at this time, Xara LX, has long used amazingly photorealistic images of cars (among other things) for its promotion, and it worked well. We need such an image if only to give people an idea of how we compare with Xara. Here's a Xara example for inspiration: http://downloads.xara.com/opensource/images/screenshots/realistic/11.jpg (John, I'm cc'ing you personally because I know you did some car traces in the past. Do you think you could make such a photorealistic example from one of your old images?) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: blur quality/speed settings
by bulia byak 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

The quality of on-screen blur display is controlled by the Blur quality option on the new Filters tab of Inkscape Preferences (Ctrl+Shift+P). The available options range from best quality/slowest display to worst quality/fastest display, the default being in the middle between the two. Any setting except the "best quality" may introduce some rendering artefacts, especially when blurring thin strokes; on the other hand, the "best quality" setting may make Inkscape extremely slow at high zooms. These settings only affect the screen display of blurred objects; bitmap export always uses the best quality. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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apothegmcougaratheist
by appian 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

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coolalsop
by allocable 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

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alveolus
by awkward 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

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confoundcoagulatebitterroot
by appropriate 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

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handling memory for display buffers
by bulia byak 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

Previously, Inkscape didn't check if there's enough free memory for its pixel buffers and could crash without warning due to insufficient memory, e.g. upon zooming in. This problem became much worse after implementing Gaussian blur, because rendering blurred objects at high zooms may require a pixel buffer much bigger than the visible canvas. Now this situation is handled more gracefully: if a display operation requires more memory than available, or more than 100Mb (which corresponds to a 5000x5000 pixel buffer), it is skipped. This may result in blurred objects "disappearing" at high zooms. This is purely a display issue, however, it never corrupts data; just zoom out (or reduce blur radius) and the missing object will show up OK. The "100Mb" magic number was chosen so that to prevent too large allocations which, even if they succeed, bog the system down to an almost unusable state. I realize it's far from perfect, but at least it's a solution which kinda works for a "typical" system with at least 256Mb memory. Any suggestions on how to better handle this are welcome. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Test
by Jean Morissette 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

Hi, This is a test, sorry for the pollution.

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inkscape.org server full
by Jon Phillips 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

Hello, now that I have access to our server, it looks like the server is full. Bryce, it looks like the /var/log/apache/ftp folder is 4 gigs of space. Seems like we shoudl unmerge apache-1.3 IMO and that ftp issue...looks like failed ftp attempts on there have mounted up over time... Anyway...I think this is causing the wiki issue and any php cookie issues on the site...(and is why I can't change some rewrite rules). Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Tango style icons
by Ronan Zeegers 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hello, I'm working on a more tango like icons style for inkscape. The screenshot is here: http://www.ronanzeegers.com/inkscape/inkscape-tangoished-v0.5.png And feedbacks are welcome! ;) Ronan Zeegers

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wiki error
by Jon Phillips 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hey all, I tried to save some non-english text onto our wiki and now am getting a db error: please see the wiki http://wiki.inkscape.org/ Bryce or ACSpike, could you restart the wiki please? This is weird that it can't take non-english text. I was trying to copy the language bar from the Open Clip Art Library... Please update..looks like the wiki is borked until it can be restarted...I hope we have backups as well in case we need to change things...otherwise, I think we could hand hack those fields in the db with non-english texts. Suck...maybe I can get some more powers on the server to do things...I can help fix this type of thing in seconds ;) I went onto the server and tried to refreshLinks.php in maintenance after this and here is the backtrace: Jon rejon@...1522... /home/inkscape/inkscape_web/wiki/maintenance $ php refreshLinks.php Refreshing link table. Starting from page_id 1 of 710. 100 200 A database error has occurred Query: SELECT page_id, page_namespace, page_title FROM `mw01_page` WHERE (page_namespace=0 AND page_title IN('Coding_Style', 'FileTypes', 'ExtensionArchitectureProposals', 'NewFeatureProposals', 'Roadmap', 'ApplicationIcons', 'InkscapeColor', 'SVG_Test_Suite_Compliance', 'SVG_Tiny_Compliance', 'SVG_Competitors_Plan', 'PrintingSubsystem', 'OtherProjects', 'ExtensionsRepository', 'ReprListeners', 'AddSPObject', 'HandlingPreferences', 'WorkingWithSVN', 'ErrorsAndWarnings', 'DebuggingTips', 'MakingAnExtension', 'ExtensionAttributes', 'InkscapeJanitors', 'DeveloperTitles', 'W3C', 'CSS_Support', 'Animation-(Timeline)', 'Free_Desktop_Graphic_Suite', 'StatusbarAPI', 'KeyboardProfiles', 'KeyboardShortcutsToDo', 'SubsystemRearchitecture', 'GtkMMification', 'WikiAttic', 'ScribusInteroperability', 'Cairoification', 'PathRepresentation', 'TextUsability', 'ModalInterfaces', 'UI_MockupScreenshots', 'Googles_Summer_Of_Code', 'OpenDocument_proposal', 'OpenVG', 'Lib2geom', 'Translation_information', 'DialogReplacement', 'DialogsReorganization', 'ObjectManager', 'AccessibleGraphics', 'CompilingInkscape', 'DeveloperManual', 'FAQ', 'ProjectInfo', 'InkscapeFeatures', 'About_Inkscape', 'Ø§Ù ØµÙØ Ø©_Ø§Ù Ø±Ø¦ÙØ³ÙØ©', 'SupportedOperatingSystems', 'Tools', 'InkscapePopularity', 'TestimonialComments', 'ArticlesAndPresentations', 'Galleries', 'ã¡ã ¤ã³ãã¼ã¸', 'ÐÐ°Ð³Ð»Ð°Ð²Ð½Ð°Ñ_ÑÑÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸ÑÐ°', 'Portada', 'Main_Page', 'Hauptseite', 'Forside', 'ÄefpaÄÃ³wna', 'Hoofdpagina_Nederlands', 'Pagina_principale', 'ContactInfo', 'InstallHelp', 'HelpWanted', 'PrintingConsensusPoll', 'TricksAndTips', 'ArticleIntroducingInkscape0_40', 'CreatingDists', 'WebsiteEditing', 'TestingInkscape', 'How_To_Start_A_Page', 'TutorialIdeas', 'UpdatingTrackerItems', 'Announcing_Releases', 'ReleaseNotes044', 'GettingExtensionsWorking', 'InkscapeSVG', 'UserManual', 'InkscapeTerminology', 'GettingEffectsWorking', 'WhatEffectsDo', 'ReleaseNotes045', 'EmergencySave', 'Installing_Fonts_as_a_User', 'UsingTheConnectorTool', 'WikiSyntax')) Function: Parser::replaceLinkHolders Error: 1271 Illegal mix of collations for operation ' IN ' (db3.osuosl.org) Backtrace: GlobalFunctions.php line 451 calls wfBacktrace() Database.php line 397 calls wfDebugDieBacktrace() Database.php line 347 calls Database::reportQueryError() Parser.php line 3050 calls Database::query() Parser.php line 209 calls Parser::replaceLinkHolders() OutputPage.php line 254 calls Parser::parse() OutputPage.php line 245 calls OutputPage::addWikiTextTitle() refreshLinks.inc line 89 calls OutputPage::addWikiText() refreshLinks.inc line 55 calls fixLinksFromArticle() refreshLinks.php line 22 calls refreshLinks() -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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metadata corruption
by bulia byak 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Whoever recently changed metadata or related code, please look into this bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1575829&group_id=9… It's pretty bad because with it, setting metadata makes the file invalid and not loadable. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 5, Issue 29
by Joe Dwyer 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Please take me off of the list of Inkscape developers. Joe On 10/12/06, inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net < inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Send Inkscape-devel mailing list submissions to > inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Inkscape-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: [inkscape] [Inkscape-user] Artists needed! (bulia byak) > 2. Re: NEW: blur quality/speed settings (Joshua A. Andler) > 3. Re: NEW: blur quality/speed settings (bulia byak) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:51:06 -0400 > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [inkscape] [Inkscape-user] Artists > needed! > To: "Jean-Maurice Le Clech" <jmlecl@...26...> > Cc: Inkscape Development Mailing List > <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, John Cliff > <simarilius@...36...>, Inkscape User Community > <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: > <3c78ff030610121151t593dc257l5a6c92dd4e6cd3f9@...401...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 10/12/06, Jean-Maurice Le Clech <jmlecl@...26...> wrote: > > Are you interrested by this one: > > http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41288680/ > > I can try to finish it. > > Sure, it's a great start! I would love to see it finished. I just > wanted to reiterate that it's very important for you to use blur for > things like reflections, highlights and shadows - otherwise it will > look unnaturally flat and "vectory" no matter how many details you > add. > > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. Draw Freely. > http://www.inkscape.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:52:46 -0700 > From: "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: blur quality/speed settings > To: momo <momo@...1386...> > Cc: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net, bulia byak > <buliabyak@...400...> > Message-ID: <452E8EFE.3090003@...533...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > momo wrote: > >>> > Xara does the job smoothly and without putting the blur in a box. > >>> Can > we > >>> > expect the same behaviour in Inkscape? > >> > >> By the way, note that Xara does not have blur - it only has > >> _feathering_. In many situations they are interchangeable, but not > >> always. Blur is more generic than feathering - that is, if you have > >> blur, you can do feathering with it, but the reverse is not true. > >> > >> -- > >> bulia byak > > > > Thank you for the explanation Bulia, I tried XARA and yes, the behaviour > > is quite different!! :) > > On the other side, the behaviour of Inkscape is still a little > > restrictive (10% box aroud the object is not very much) so it is not the > > most "comfortabe" tool for example to create a very diffused shadow... I > > attached 2 PNGs one created in Inkscape, the other one in xara. > > > > The shadow created in Inkscape is a combination of gausian blur and > > circular transparency, and the problem is that the 10% box around the > > object is still visible... > > The shadow created in Xara is a combination of feather and circular > > transparency. Since there is no restricted 10% area, the shadow looks as > > it has to. > > Please be patient... we just told people to start using the blur > function. If you read bulia's other recent post to the list titled "blur > tips" you will see that he even suggested a workaround for the 10% > limitation. I'm sure there will be something in the UI to modify that > percentage at some point, but it CAN be worked around already. :) > > -Josh > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:56:01 -0400 > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: blur quality/speed settings > To: momo <momo@...1386...> > Cc: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: > <3c78ff030610121156p2099f8d2o6656233a2549f7af@...401...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 10/12/06, momo <momo@...1386...> wrote: > > Thank you for the explanation Bulia, I tried XARA and yes, the behaviour > is > > quite different!! :) > > On the other side, the behaviour of Inkscape is still a little > restrictive > > (10% box aroud the object is not very much) so it is not the most > > "comfortabe" tool for example to create a very diffused shadow... > > As others already explained, this is not something that cannot be > fixed. It's just a case of us not (yet) having bothered to change the > default. Stay tuned, it should be ready before the release. If you > want a workaround that works right now, read my message titled "Blur > tips" sent yesterday. > > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. Draw Freely. > http://www.inkscape.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > End of Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 5, Issue 29 > ********************************************* >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: blur quality/speed settings
by Jon Phillips 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 15:57 +0200, momo wrote: > > Heya, when you really max out the blur, is it a bug that the blur is > > restricted to the selection bounding box around the blurred object? That > > seems like a bug to me, but it might be that way because of computation > > time. I think that adobe does the same thing... > > > > Xara does the job smoothly and without putting the blur in a box. Can we > expect the same behaviour in Inkscape? > > Molumen Well, it seems this 10% around the object is in the SVG spec, so no (because we want to be an SVG compliant editor). Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Expanded alternative to normalized matrix file encoding
by Jonathan Shook 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

I like to use inkscape to build UI elements which I can access in raster form via a caching renderer. Typically, there are one or two aspects within the xml which I need to vary in order to get the dynamic effect I am looking for. I'll substitute values into the xml and render according to the request. Unfortunately, with the normalized matrix form being the final encoding, access to all of the basic transformations is cryptic. I would really like to be able to assign an id to an element, and access its discrete transforms individually, by type. For example, I would like to be able to render a watch into raster form by specifying a normalized rotation for hour, minute, and second. It would be pretty easy for me to do this now, only if I had the option of not collapsing the xml for transforms, and instead could access individual named or numbered transformations which constitute them, in addition to being able to access their high-level parameters, like "rotate by" instead of in affine form. Think of it as leaving procedural hooks for specialized renderings. Perhaps a property on a transform which indicates it should remain separate would suffice. Reactions?

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Blur tips
by bulia byak 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Some tips for using blur in Inkscape SVN: 0. Use the Blur slider in the Fill and Stroke dialog. You can blur anything - paths, shapes, strokes, calligraphy, bitmaps, text, clones, groups. 1. Currently, the maximum blur radius is 10% of the object size. Any larger blur will reveal the clear-cut margins - the blurred object cannot (currently) spread wider than the 10%. However it's easy to work around this limitation: group the object that you want to blur with some large fully-transparent object, thus making the group larger than the object, and blur the group. 2. Objects that store their transformation matrices (texts, groups, shapes, but not paths - unless you set "Store transforms" to "Preserved"), when scaled, scale also the blur applied to them. This means you can squeeze an object and its blur will be bigger in one dimension than the other. (It's also possible to do that by setting different blur radii for X and Y, but we don't yet have UI for that, though it works if you set it manually.) 3. You can combine blurring with gradients. For example, an ellipse with elliptic opacity gradient will look much softer and more natural when blurred. An object with a horizontal linear opacity gradient, when blurred, will look like it is more blurred on its transparent side than on its opaque side. 4. Masks and clipping are applied AFTER blur. That is, if you clip an object and then blur it (or blur it first and then clip - it makes no difference), the clipped edges will remain crisp. Often, this is what you want. If, however, you want to blur the clipped/masked edges too (possibly with a different radius), you can use grouping: group the clipped object with some other object (which you can then delete from the group) and blur the group. 5. A recipe for an autoupdating black drop shadow for object of any color: create object; unset its fill (it becomes black); create two clones of it; put one clone on top and paint any color; put the other color at bottom, blur it and shift sideways. Now you can edit the unset-fill original (use Alt+click to select it) and everything will update. Obviously, if you want a drop shadow of the same color as the object itself, just one clone for the shadow will suffice. 6. If an object has a fill that you don't want to blur (e.g. pattern, or if it's a bitmap), but you want to feather its edges, use blurred transparency mask: copy the object; paint it white; blur it as needed; scale the blurred copy down so its blur margins are entirely within the original object; select both the original and the blurred mask; do Object > Mask > Set. 7. You can use the Tile Clones dialog to create patterns of variously blurred clones - either with smooth variation of the blur per row/column, or/and with randomized blurring. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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[Portland] LinuxUser & Developer
by Bryce Harrington 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

----- Forwarded message from John Cherry <cherry@...1...> ----- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:00:21 -0700 From: John Cherry <cherry@...1...> To: dtl_marketing@...790... Cc: portland@...626... Subject: [Portland] LinuxUser & Developer Just received permission to send out the pdf of the Portland Project article that was released in LInuxUser & Developer. http://www.osdl.org/Documents/LuD68_Cherry_Portland.pdf The timing of this article actually turned out pretty nicely. We will be making a press release of Portland 1.0 on Wednesday, with a couple of press prep interviews tomorrow. Congratulations to Waldo and the Portland team. The article is a little "dramatic," but that is how these articles tend to be. Other than the theatrical opening, it actually does a nice job of explaining the multi-phase approach, the installation and runtime tools, a call for testing, and a call for application vendors to use the tools. This project really IS a representation of the power of the open source community to define a need, and to collaborate to address it in a way that moves both the market and technology forward. Cheers, John Cherry OSDL Destkop Linux _______________________________________________ Portland mailing list Portland@...626... http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/portland ----- End forwarded message -----

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texturizing objects
by bulia byak 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hi Popolon, on another subject, I read your blog post: http://popolon.org/gblog2/script-masque-opaque-opaque-mask-script and I think this kind of extension well deserves being in the Inkscape's distribution. However, I think that to be really usable and convenient, your script must be changed to do the following: 1. It must embed the bitmap used for the mask into the SVG, using the data URI (see share/examples/data_uri.svg for an example). This way the user won't have to fiddle with the separate bitmap files - much simpler to use. 2. The mask must cover objects of any size, so that the user does not have to think if the object is big enough or not. This can be achieved in two ways: either by scaling the mask bitmap to cover the entire object (but it may grow after that!), or (better) by using seamless bitmap texture and converting it to pattern first (i.e. create a large enough rect; fill it with pattern made from the bitmap; then apply that rect as mask to the object). This bit is difficult because to do any of this, the script must know the dimensions of the objects currently selected. So I have a question for Ted: how difficult it would be to add new command line parameters in script calls, that would supply these dimensions for each selected object (now, only object IDs are supplied)? Would this break the existing extensions? 3. And finally, to make this really useful, we need to provide at least several different texturizing extensions - they would only differ by what bitmaps they use (plasma, wood, bubbles, clouds, etc etc) What do you all think? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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XOP support
by Jon A. Cruz 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

I wanted to toss out that we might want to look into XOP for binary parts. http://www.w3.org/TR/xop10/ We've had a feature request for it for a bit [ 1119540 ] XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP) support http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1119540&group_id=93438&atid=604309 One thing interesting about it is that the packaging is intended to be transparent from the DOM view of things.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: more stuff in Help menu (fwd)
by Alan Horkan 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Jon Phillips wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:22:42 -0700 > From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> > To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> > Cc: Inkscape Development Mailing List > <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, > Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: more stuff in Help menu > > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 14:56 -0300, bulia byak wrote: > > On 10/11/06, Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> wrote: > > > Yes definately. In ten years time that link might break, especially since > > > it links to index.php instead of the relevant directory. Odds are it will > > > break far sooner than that - and who knows what it could get changed to - > > > but once there are Inkscape binaries out there in the wild there will be > > > nothing we can do about it. > > > > Sure, linking to inkscape.org should be preferred, but ten years? I > > can't imagine anyone will use Inkscape 0.45 in 2016. > > And, we will have flying cars ;) By 2016 we will be using 0.54, right? > hahahaha As I said in my other message I was exaggerating but when you say we will still will not have reached 1.0 I am not at all sure you are joking, given how some people seem to resist bumping major version numbers. If, no when Inkscape covers all of SVG Mobile (it aint tiny) that will be something to celebrate and merit a big 1.0 in my not so humble opinion. > > They are needed by some, that's enough. We get questions on how to use > > Inkscape in scripts regularly. > > I agree. We could even have an advanced submenu if that is > better...really, is it not more helpful to have more help rathr than > less! It is about organization IMO and Bulia's awesome addition really > cracks this one open IMO. Inkscape already has way more in the Help menu than most programs but there is very little downside to having a Help menu jam packed full of information. The time wasted by firing up a browser can be mitigated if there is some way for users to spot the difference between fast local help files and slow remote files but all too often the help menus look exactly the same. I've stated for the record there might be a small downside to having loads of things in the Help menu and good links on the website help avoid most of the usual problems. > > Therefore it is justified to mention them in the GUI because otherwise > > many people (that might benefit from them) will never even think to > > look for them. > > Yeah, I totally agree. This is one area where Inkscape (GIMP) and others > really really shine. At siggraph many production companies were into > Inkscape and other open source apps because they could do mass amounts > of work via batch scripts. Its really in our best interest to pimp these > features. funny example, gimp sucks compared to imagemagick in this regard. imagemagick has much more usable command line arguments to such an extent gimp users and developers regularly recommnd using imagemagick for batch processing. you can still do some very interesting things with gimp scripting at the command line but the base case of converting files from one format to another maybe isn't as streamlined as it should be. The command line arguments have their place but providing equivalent functionality in the user interface is an easier way to address discoverability and learnability. > > > > - SVG 1.1 specification at w3.org > > > > > > Artists are the target users of Inkscape. > > > > Who says that? > > > > > Is this really useful to artists? > > Yep, I agree. I like how Bryce makes it a point that we really focus on > developers. This is really key to getting more features in Inkscape...we > have to make it easy for new developers to get involved. and this is > really key to our philosophy. More features and developers means way > more artists... I dont think that is the whole answer, a big part of it sure but when developers actually get down to being users of inkscape the same questions of "who are the users" arises and knowing those answers makes it easier to make the right tradeoffs and know how much or how little technical information to put in certain places. > > completely open and standardized format, and we encourage editing SVG > > both by hand or by other tools in addition to Inkscape - so this menu > > item is quite relevant. > > I totally think so as well. This is very very key! Plus, it will help us > and others find compliance problems quicker (esp. if there are > questions). Linking to the w3c validator would be a better way to help avoid compliance problems if that is the underlying problem you really want to solve. > Awesome! I love how the simplest feature additions sometimes are the > most r/evolutionary...bulia, awesome job on this feature, really! Very true. I wouldn't care about the details if it wasn't already a great idea. Very inkscape. -- Alan

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This got to the hottest list beatrice
by designate 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

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Recommended PC anti-virus strategy!
by unknown＠example.com 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

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WEBFORM suggestion
by Thomas 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

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[Fwd: Re: Simplify (ctrl+L) remove mask & clip_path fix]
by Popolon 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

That was the original text, I resolved the booleans functions bugs. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Simplify (ctrl+L) remove mask & clip_path fix Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:28:16 +0200 From: Popolon <popolon@...1497...> To: Popolon <popolon@...1497...> CC: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net References: <451D988D.4080505@...1497...> I believe two other bugs come from the same problem. Mask and clip_path attribute are not copied during opération, only style is copied. That's the case for object to path function. I discover than using simplify function (that do an object to path transformation), the object become path, but with the patch attached to this bug report, the mask/clip-path are keeped. This is because ths simplification function call the sp_shape_get_curve(SP_SHAPE(item)) function, and mange itself style/mask/clip-path copy with the patch. I tried to find the equivalent object to path function without succes. Their is only to keep mask & clip-path attribute and paste them in the object created after transformation. This could resolv bug #1562520 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1562520&group_… The same way, several bugs are relatad for mask/clip_path function. The mask and clip_path keep their 'set action time' position in the following bugs : bug #1566018 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1566018&group_… and bug #1568048 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1568048&group_… Popolon wrote: > I opened few weeks ago this bug report and just fixed it, the patch is > in the bug report : > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1561034&group_id=… > > bug #1561034 > > Regards > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] How to remove several bugs in inkscape.
by bulia byak 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

On 10/10/06, Popolon <popolon@...1497...> wrote: > * make an object > * apply a mask or clip-path > * move that object > * create a linked offset => he don't follow original object at all. Yes, linked offset is obviously broken by ignoring the transform. It would be nice if you could fix it. It shouldn't be too difficult. If you run into problems, let me know. By the way, you don't need masks or clippaths to reveal this. In Inkscape Preferences, Transforms tab, we have a switch which forces Inkscape to always store transforms as matrices (Store transformations: Preserved). Turn it on and it will be much easier to find and debug such bugs. > I seen this kind of bug for mask/clip path postion with object too : > on text on path for example. Of offset's brokenness I was vaguely aware, but I never saw this kind of problem with textpath. Can you give the steps to reproduce for textpath? > Lot of objects don't manage them correctly in fact, I written a mail on > the list about some of them. I may have missed that email - can you please resend it to me? Thanks, -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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[Fwd: Re: How to remove several bugs in inkscape.]
by Olivier Gondouin 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

bulia byak wrote: > On 10/10/06, Popolon <popolon@...1497...> wrote: >> the object created (linked offset, or in some case a text to path,...) >> didn't follow the original object position. But keep the position of the >> object at the moment of setting of the mask/clip-path > > I don't think I follow. Can you please give step-by-step instructions > for reproducing this? * make an object * apply a mask or clip-path * move that object * create a linked offset => he don't follow original object at all. The same way : * make an object * create a linked offset * rotate it => The offset go to wrong position without rotation. Tried to modify this function used at the creation of the linked object : sp_selected_path_create_offset_object() in src/splivarot.cpp This isn't enough. I believe the most important is to have the matrix of the transform attribute copied by string at each update, the applied. I seen this kind of bug for mask/clip path postion with object too : on text on path for example. >> That's because when a mask/clip-path is set on an object, when the >> object move, the object coordinates are not longer modified, but a >> translation matrix is applied. > > Yes, and it should work the same regardless. If some code only looks > at "object coordinates" and ignores the transform matrix, this code is > broken and must be fixed. SVG uses transforms everywhere. > Lot of objects don't manage them correctly in fact, I written a mail on the list about some of them.

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How to remove several bugs in inkscape.
by Popolon 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

I found a bug in several objects after applying mask/clip-path giving me clue for lot of bug I found in inkscape. the object created (linked offset, or in some case a text to path,...) didn't follow the original object position. But keep the position of the object at the moment of setting of the mask/clip-path That's because when a mask/clip-path is set on an object, when the object move, the object coordinates are not longer modified, but a translation matrix is applied. At least the linked offset, doesn't duplicate transformation matrix (transformation attribute), then keep the original position/rotation. This cause the offset to go to buggy place when the original object is rotated + moved even without mask/clip-path. I will try to resolve this bug quickly but some help would be welcome.

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inkscape and SVG Tiny
by Jon Phillips 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Heya guys, did you all see that 150 million phones have now shipped that have SVG tiny support! http://svg.org/story/2006/9/27/121431/107 Anyway, I'm curious to revive this discussion about what we need to do to get Inkscape up to par with using differing SVG profiles. Here is what we wrote so far: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SVG_Tiny_Compliance I really think our 0.5 is SVG Tiny compliance and I'm curious how we can get there. How can we do it y'all? Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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win32 cairo with ft support
by Adib Taraben 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

Ishmal, the current svn does not compile. There is a call to some cairo_ft_ function in the inkscape source. Our win32-cairo version is not compiled with freetype support. I got a cairo-dev from the glade/gtk+ for windows project from sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98754 Now it compiles. DO we have to update our cairo package or do we continue with the current and have to modify this single call to the unsupported cairo function. Thanks, Adib. ---

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and not think that
by Lincoln Horn 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

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[Fwd: [ inkscape-Feature Requests-863380 ] Implementation of SVG Filters, specifically BLUR]
by Jon Phillips 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

Did a feature request get filed for the rest of the SVG filters? If not, this would be a good thing... Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: SourceForge.net <noreply@...34...> > To: noreply@...34... > Subject: [ inkscape-Feature Requests-863380 ] Implementation of SVG > Filters, specifically BLUR > Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:10:22 -0700 > > Feature Requests item #863380, was opened at 2003-12-20 08:59 > Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by buliabyak > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604309&aid=863380&group_i… > > Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, > including the initial issue submission, for this request, > not just the latest update. > Category: Other > Group: None > >Status: Closed > Priority: 6 > Submitted By: Jon Phillips (kidproto) > Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) > Summary: Implementation of SVG Filters, specifically BLUR > > Initial Comment: > One of the biggest artistic failings of Sodipodi is a > lack of blurry objects. If I want to have a shaped > blur, there really is no possible way of doing it in > Sodipodi. I have to hack together multiple circular > objects with radial blurs and hope the effect is right. > > Think this in Gimp: Use Lasso tool to draw a shape. > Then choose to "feather selection", then fill the > selected area with a solid colour. If I could reproduce > this inside Sodipodi, I would be a very, very happy man. > > See > http://faemalia.homeip.net/ArtWorx/Anasong-Asian-size850.jpg > and notice the shadow is very sharp and crisp. In this > case, it looks good. But in other cases, I might want > the shadow to be slightly blurry. > > > KIDPROTO: This should be implemented as SVG filters: > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/filters.html > > ( NOTE: originally in sodipodi RFE tracker as RFE # > 716562 , Date Submitted: 2003-04-06 22:22, Date Last > Updated: 2003-05-17 16:23, comments in sodi tracker ) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >Comment By: bulia byak (buliabyak) > Date: 2006-10-08 21:10 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=741217 > > Finally we can close this. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) > Date: 2006-10-05 09:33 > > Message: > Logged In: NO > > Subtle blurs and drop-shadows are like the second most > common effect used for web-design currently... > > blurs are part of the svg spec as said - the sooner inkscape > can render them, the sooner it will get a whole lot more web > developers interested. once inkscape can render gaussian > blur, i assume its easy to make automatic 'outer glow', > 'inner glow', 'drop shadow' effects and so on? > > this feature is very important. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Julian Mehnle (jmehnle) > Date: 2006-05-09 12:30 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=617904 > > What's the status of this issue? Is it still being worked > on? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: James Richard Tyrer (tyrerj) > Date: 2005-07-31 13:17 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=57413 > > To quote from the GCJ documentation: > << > The key idea in CNI is that Java objects are C++ objects, and all Java > classes are C++ classes (but not the other way around). So the most > important task in integrating Java and C++ is to remove gratuitous > incompatibilities. > >> > So, the important question is whether the current version of GCJ will > build Batik. > > This might not be as easy as mixing procedural languages, but it might > work. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Nicu Buculei (nicubunu) > Date: 2005-07-31 12:06 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=612070 > > Sketsa is a Java application, so it make sense for it to > have a Java renderer (Batik), but Inkscape is C/C++, so the > renderer, which is a core component, must also be C or C++ > > Unrelated, Cairo is preparing for a 1.0 stable release in a > few weeks and is already in use in some major projects like > Mozilla (Firefox 1.5) and GTK+ (2.8) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: James Richard Tyrer (tyrerj) > Date: 2005-07-31 07:04 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=57413 > > Just a thought since Batik is already at 1.6 and Cairo is still > experimental. > > Have you ever tried Sketsa which does use Batik to render SVG. > > It also has some nice features which might improve InkScape. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Nicu Buculei (nicubunu) > Date: 2005-07-28 09:34 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=612070 > > tyrerj -> so you propose to use Batik as Inkscape's > renderer? I am affraid this is not realistic, a much better > option is Cairo > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: James Richard Tyrer (tyrerj) > Date: 2005-07-27 17:57 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=57413 > > > I guess the priority is so low (6) because is not easy to do > > it with the current renderer. > > As mentioned by wiscalico, Apache Batik (Squiggle SVG viewer) *will* > render filters. This is written in Java, but I would think that it would be > possible to port it if GCJ 4.01 won't compile it. > > The filter I use for a Drop Shadow is: > > <filter id="DropShadow"> > <feGaussianBlur in="SourceAlpha" stdDeviation="2" result="DSBlur"/> > <feOffset in="DSBlur" dx="3" dy="3" result="FinalDS"/> > </filter> > > This has three parameters: > > stdDeviation > dx > dy > > and applying it needs: > > fill-opacity > > in the "style" > > style="fill-opacity:.7500000;fill:#000000;filter:url(#DropShadow)" > > So we would have a plugin with 4 parramaters. > > It would also be helpful if there was a direct method of creating the > object with #000000 fill that is the intersection of the relevant objects. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Nicu Buculei (nicubunu) > Date: 2005-07-27 13:12 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=612070 > > franp wrote: > > If too difficult to add filters supports right now, I think > > an effect, plug-in or whatever should be quickly added to > > offer dropshadoow > > You may want to check the recently released 0.42 and enable > in preferences the experimental effects menu. There you can > use a combination of "Dropshadow" and "Blur edge". It is not > the same as the dropshadow filter (and should not stop the > development of real filters) but it may be used as a > temporary solution. > > > And since filters are part of the SVG spec there is even > > less reason filters are kept as low priority as 6, IMHO. > > I guess the priority is so low (6) because is not easy to do > it with the current renderer. AFAIK, at some point in the > future Inkscape will switch to Cairo as renderer, which will > automatically give support for rendering filters. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Franp (franp) > Date: 2005-07-27 12:59 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=1319446 > > The inkscape people are doing a wonderfull an amazing job > with features seen nowhere else, but I just wonder if the > low priority given to this feature (priority 6) is serving > the inkscape penetration in the "market". > > With dropshadow common features of all vector drawing tools > on the market for more than ten years now (it was already in > CorelDraw 3 back in 1992), the lack of support for filters > (and particulary dropshadow) is a real problem when trying > to "sell" Inkscape to my friends. The first question I hear > each time is "Where is that bloody command to add shadow ?" ... > > While I understand Inkscape surpasses many vector drawing > tools by far on many places, and happilly use it myself for > this very reason, the lack of dropshadow makes it very, very > , very, very hard to sell to the ordinary layman next door. > > And since filters are part of the SVG spec there is even > less reason filters are kept as low priority as 6, IMHO. > > If too difficult to add filters supports right now, I think > an effect, plug-in or whatever should be quickly added to > offer dropshadoow. This would certainly leverage by several > orders of magnitude the penetration of Inkscape in the > general population, even if ull, generalized support for the > other SVG filters comes years later. > > This feature thread should be separated, IMHO, in two > threads : one titled "support for dropshadow" (priority 10), > and a second one titled "support for filters in general" > (priority 6 if you like). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Jacob Emcken (wiscalico) > Date: 2004-06-04 12:08 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=784787 > > For startes I would be great if Inkscape could just render > filters. Then you could write them in a text editor and have > em exported the right way. Right now I use Batik to render > my SVG images after putting filters in them. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604309&aid=863380&group_i… > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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NEW: clone tiling with blurring
by bulia byak 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

The Tile Clones dialog now supports blurring. On the "Blur & opacity" tab, you can set the blur percentage per row or per column of your tiling, as well as randomize blurring and make it alternate (all the same options as for Opacity). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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[Fwd: [tux-authors] December 2006 - The Holiday Projects Issue!]
by Jon Phillips 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Heya, does anybody want in on helping make an article on creating a christmas card for TUX mag? Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Tony Mobily <tonymobily@...400...> > Reply-To: ed@...851... > To: tux-authors@...851... > Subject: [tux-authors] December 2006 - The Holiday Projects Issue! > Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 21:07:04 +0800 > > Hello, > > I am trying to organise TUX's focus for December 2006: "The Holiday > Projects" > Keep in mind that this issue will be out on the 1st of December. > > I am thinking of a small focus with just two articles. The first one > could be: > > 1 Create your own Christmas cards - the right way. An article on how > to go online, look for Christmas pictures from anywhere, and create > Christmas cards from nothing. Don't forget about printing them! > > 2 !!! Your input is welcome here! I have some possible ideas, but > well, I'd like to leave this article slot open to your ideas - what > would YOU see as a good "Holiday project"? This would be a task that > is somehow connected with the holiday season. Please let me know! > > Please let me know if you want to take 1), and your ideas about 2)! > > Thanks a lot, > > Merc. > > _______________________________________________ > Tux-authors mailing list > Tux-authors@...888... > http://lists.ssc.com/mailman/listinfo/tux-authors > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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save as AUTOCAD (dxf): Unknown error attempting to open temporary file
by unknown＠example.com 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Hello list, I am using Inkscape Version 0.41 on Suse 9.3 and I would like to expot DXF format which does not work. What I have done so far: 1. downloaded svg2dxf.zip from http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~squiresm/ 2. unpacked the zip file and copied the files ps2dxf.sh and dxf_output.inx to /opt/gnome/share/inkscape/extensions 3. made the file ps2dxf.sh executeable 4. Then I start Inkscape from a Shell 5. right afte the start, I check the extensions-errors.log which has no messages 6. I place some straight lines and save them as .svg which works 7. I try "save as AUTOCAD (dxf)": Inkscape says "file saved" but 8. I get the following message in the shell: Extension::Script: Unknown error attempting to open temporary file : invalid or incomplete Multi-Byte- or Wide-Sign [translation from German: : Ungültiges oder unvollständiges Multi-Byte- oder Wide-Zeichen] No file has been saved. Any Idea, what has gone wrong here? Thanks for help Rai

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WEBFORM Some informations...
by Eric Fernandes 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Eric Fernandes email: eric@...1511... submitted the following: Hi! I\'ve looking for a place to contact you but just today I found the right place... I\'m brazilian, and I\'m studying computer science in University from ViÃ§osa. I\'m developing some tutoriais in portuguese for the inkscape, and I need help to know where I found people that are doing the same thing... I translated the basic tutorial at yet... It\'s my final project in my course, and I need some directives to know how can I contribute to the inkscape. I\'m thinking to create a new function to learn about multimidia for teenagers that never had learned about computers... is there a place in internet that i can find this?? if yes, please tell me... I thank you a lot since now! And wait you answer... Eric

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WEBFORM What is your wiki?
by David 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: David email: penzes_david@...36... submitted the following: Dear Adress! What is the name of your wiki, wich you are yousing for the Inkscape? Best wishes! P.D. from hungary

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The fixed length toolbars issue
by Chris Hayes 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hi, I'm new to this but I was hoping that I could get some feedback about this bug submission about the fixed toolbar making inkscape unusable on unusual or small screen resolutions: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1469554&group_id=93438&ati… I have left a reply to it, and I hope that people will read what I've added, because it is stopping me from being able to use inkscape. Could someone please reply telling me whether it might be possible for anyone to fix this or not? Or more importantly, whether this bug is one that the developers consider important enough to warrant a fix or not. I have made some suggestions as to how it might be fixable, however I am not a real programmer, so they are just suggestions. Thanks for reading this, Chris

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The fixed length toolbars issue
by Chris Hayes 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hi, I'm new to this but I was hoping that I could get some feedback about this bug submission about the fixed toolbar making inkscape unusable on unusual or small screen resolutions: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1469554&group_id=93438&ati… I have left a reply to it, and I hope that people will read what I've added, because it is stopping me from being able to use inkscape. Could someone please reply telling me whether it might be possible for anyone to fix this or not? Or more importantly, whether this bug is one that the developers consider important enough to warrant a fix or not. I have made some suggestions as to how it might be fixable, however I am not a real programmer, so they are just suggestions. Thanks for reading this, Chris

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GSoC 2006 Mentor Summit
by Bryce Harrington 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Google is holding a summit in San Francisco, on Sat Oct 14th. I won't be making it, but wanted to pass this along in case another mentor (Ted? Jon?) would like to... http://www.red-bean.com/ospowiki/MentorSummit-2006 Bryce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LH <lhospo@...400...> to GSoC Hello everyone, If you are an organization administrator who is not planning to attend the summit, please forward this message along to the two delegates for your organization so they can register for the event and get looped in all logistical details. We've put up a wiki to plan the GSoC 2006 Mentor Summit. Thanks to our friends at red-bean.com for hosting it for us! In order to access and edit the wiki, you will need to register at http://www.red-bean.com/socwiki/UserPreferences Once you've registered and logged in, please visit http://www.red-bean.com/socwiki/. From this page you'll find general information about the summit, as well as links to an attendee registration page, logistics information, an agenda page and our mentor summit FAQ. A few things you'll notice when visiting the wiki: 1) We're structuring the summit as an unconference - we want you to decide what topics should be discussed and will be most useful to your fellow mentors and admins. Please feel free to populate the conference agenda with whatever sessions you'd like. 2) There is still no information on the wiki for booking flights, though there is information on booking your hotel stay. According to our Finance department, everything should be ready with our travel agent to allow you to book flights as of tomorrow morning. I will post to the list as soon as everything is finalized and instructions for booking flights have been added to the wiki. Any questions, just let us know at soc2006support@...1508... Cheers, LH

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New Cairo renderer (for PDF export)
by Johan Engelen 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

> From: Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] New Cairo renderer (for PDF export) > > Mikl?s Erd?lyi wrote: > > Any ideas, comments regarding the subject are welcome. > > Looks like we are still having a few troubles on win32. /snip > extension/internal/cairo-render-context.cpp:74:22: error: > cairo-ft.h: No such file or directory I think your Cairo package does not have FreeType, same as my package. You can disable building Cairo-pdf support by editing config.h in your inkscape root and outcomment #define HAVE_CAIRO_PDF ; that way you can compile again. I have not searched for a compiled Cairo package with included FT font support yet. - Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Hi
by Jamaal Meekins 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

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Building Debian package from svn
by Stefan Endrullis 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hello, I have tried to run 'checkinstall' after compilation but building the Debian package fails. Here are the default values I had to customize: > 0 - Maintainer: [ root@...1501... ] > 1 - Summary: [ A Vector Drawing Application ] > 2 - Name: [ inkscape ] > 3 - Version: [ 0.44+devel ] > 4 - Release: [ 0 ] > 5 - License: [ GPL ] > 6 - Group: [ Applications/Graphics ] > 7 - Architecture: [ i386 ] > 8 - Source location: [ inkscape ] > 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] > 10 - Requires: [ desktop-file-utils > desktop-file-utils ] First I have set the release value to '0' because it includes spaces. But there is still a problem with the requirements. I get the following error message: > dpkg-deb: Fehler beim Parsen, in Datei »/var/tmp/GUhrNQjUXHjWJoYFAWYQQ/package/DEBIAN/control« nahe Zeile 9 Paket »inkscape«: > Zeilenvorschub im Feldnamen »desktop-file-utils« When I try to change the value of Requires nothing changes. Any suggestions? Thanks. Regards, Stefan

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ANNOUNCE 1.3.3.4
by Plinnell 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.3.4 This release is purely a further bug fix release to the recently released 1.3.3.3. In particular, there are a number of SVG import and rendering fixes, including better support for gradients in imported SVGs. Also there were fixes and improvements in the Story Editor and Undo/Redo and UI translation updates. Scribus now requires libtiff and the littlecms libraries. The Scribus team has announced previously there there will be substantial core code changes in the next 1.3.4 and 1.3.5 releases, so the team has branched 1.3.3 to provide a stable usable version. The upcoming 1.3.4 version will include a completely rewritten text layout engine for more refined glyph and text layout, along with a host of new features including advanced transparency support, image effects and more. The team has decided to migrate QT 4.2.x for version 1.3.5. The Scribus Team would also like to thank - Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting and Cardia AS for their continued hosting of all the Scribus websites. The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release. Downloads: Windows 2000/XP: http://windows.scribus.net MacOSX: http://aqua.scribus.net Source Tarball, GPG Signature and Suse 10.x rpms: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235 Debian/Ubuntu Repository: http://debian.scribus.net Ubuntu/Kubuntu Instructions: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_… Thanks to Gustvo Homem from Angulo Solido, Mandriva RPMS : http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/scribus-rpm/mdv2006/1.3.3.4/… http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/scribus-rpm/mdv2006/libqt3/R… About Scribus Scribus is a cross-platform open source page layout application with a focus on high quality commercial grade PDF and postscript export. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus runs natively on Windows 2000/XP and MacOSX. Scribus is free of charge and source code is free to download. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, spot colors, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus was the first page layout application on the planet to directly support PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard. Scribus did so by almost a year. The Scribus Team is made up of a diverse group of developers with significant experience in pre-press, and newspaper publishing. Commercial support for Scribus is available for companies and institutions for implementation, training and migration.

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Distrowatch + IBM
by Arpad Biro 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hi, Not sure if everyone has heard of this: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20061002#donation Also, I think the IBM PPC donation is newsworthy - someone could probably write an inkscape.org article about these... Arpad Biro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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failure opening svg's on debian etch
by ben lipkowitz 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my laptop, then removed all of the Gnome stuff and installed KDE and Inkscape. For some reason inkscape cannot open or import svg images (though raster formats work fine, and inkview can load svg's) and it fails with the error: (inkscape:25435): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_is_local: assertion `uri != NULL' failed which is the same as in [ inkscape-Bugs-1363390 ] (at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13947179 ) The bug fix doesn't provide much information regarding what the problem was or how to fix it. I am using: Inkscape 0.44.1 (Sep 25 2006) libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.2-2+b1 libgnomevfs2-c 2.14.2-2 But the problem existed in earlier versions also - I didnt think to write down the old version numbers before I upgraded. Any help appreciated! -fenn

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Quad PPC from IBM
by Kees Cook 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

IBM donated a quad-proc PPC for Inkscape testing. I've finally overcome the weird console problems it was having, and got Ubuntu Dapper installed on it. Bryce and I are going to get Crucible running on it shortly, but until then (and after), anyone who's interested in getting an account on it, please email me your SSH pub key and desired account name. Doing "make -j6" it took about 3min40sec to do a full recompile. :) -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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WEBFORM Khmer translation (km)
by Khoem Sokhem 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Khoem Sokhem email: khoemsokhem@...1503... submitted the following: Hi, I would like khmer translation to be added in SVN Server. And I don\'t know how to upload file to server. Now Khmer translation is almost finished 100%. Thanks, Sokhem

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Cairo changes breaking build
by Jon A. Cruz 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

I've hit problems with the Cairo changes from r13107 breaking the build. Specifically, PANGO_GLYPH_EMPTY is undeclared, as is PANGO_GLYPH_UNKNOWN_FLAG. I have cairo 1.2 and pango1-dev 1.10.0 The one value appears to have been added to Pango 1.11.4, and then hidden in 1.11.6. There are also several other warnings that need to get cleaned up at some point, but the build breakage is the main problem for me. I'd hack something in, but I'm not sure of the "proper" fix in this case.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] inkscape and SVG Tiny
by Jon A. Cruz 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

On Sep 30, 2006, at 3:38 AM, Andy Fitzsimon wrote: > > The toolbar should be vertically collapsible with a ^ button leading > to other options > also, the commands bar should also horizontally collapse with > > leading to other options... We'll mainly need some widget to wrap a spinbutton in a menuitem. Then we can finish a transition to stock GTK menubars and get exactly that functionality.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Please clean up console output
by Johan Engelen 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: bulia byak [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] > Sent: donderdag 28 september 2006 4:23 > > 3. Three "(inkscape:12772): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: > g_object_set_qdata_full: assertion `quark > 0' failed" > warnings when I run Inkscape with a query, for example > "inkscape -W file.svg". Two of the errors were indeed spawned by paramnotebook.cpp. I fixed the bug (something with tooltips). After quite a search: the third error is not caused by my code but by event-log.cpp. Newing SPDocumentPrivate() causes the error => Member 'Inkscape::EventLog event_log;' causes the error => and finally "_event_list_store ( Gtk::TreeStore::create(_columns) )" is the cause of the error. The code should be changed to create the TreeStore only if there is a UI which can actually call Undo/Redo. Because I am not familiar with the EventLog (mental proposed a better name: 'HistoryLog'), I hope the author can look into this. I tried to correct it but it started becoming a nasty hack; I gave up for now. Side note: we should make it clear to windows developers to enable the console. I vote for enabling it standard in the SVN's makefiles, and disable it for the pre-compiled distributions. I think people who are keen enough to compile their own Inkscape can also cope with a console screen. This should prevent some of the errors being missed. However, since I never use inkscape from the commandline, I still would have missed some of the errors caused by my code... Now back to work on the axonometric grid :-) - Johan

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my PHAdfxRMA
by Eloi Mikesell 01 Oct '06

01 Oct '06

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boolean operation loose mask/clip-path too
by Popolon 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Here is another patch to resolve the issue (to apply after the previous one, that is already commited to SVN) : https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1568462&group_id=… I also made a patch to apply to 0.44.1 that correct the 3 clip-mask/boolean bug (boolean + simplify + object2path): http://popolon.org/inkscape/patchs/fix_mask_clip-path_for_bool-simplify-obj…

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better patch for mask loose
by Popolon 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

The patch attached I just attached in bug #1562520 corrects it and corrects bug #1561034 too in a better way. it also free a string that was not freed in the bug #1561034 patched function that lead me to wrong patch. <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1562520&group_…> There are nothing in guide line about comment and cast. I do a cast (gchar *) for a temporary 'gchar *' from a 'const gchar *' given by attribute() function. And about comment : in src/path-chemistery.cpp there are C style single line comments: /* foo bar */ but in src/splivarot.cpp there are c++ comments: // foo bar and some time not spaced text and c++ style comments //foo bar Is there no project to add something about that in coding style guide?

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a little more on the blur crash
by Jon A. Cruz 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

I managed to track down more on that crash problem. down in desktop-style.cpp, things seem to have some issues right after this: SPGaussianBlur * b = new SPGaussianBlur(); I added this, and see a warning. if ( !SP_IS_GAUSSIANBLUR(b) ) { g_warning("problem with gaussian blur object"); } I'd sprinkled some of those debug messages starting at the point where I'd seen the lockups on OS X, and then moved things back until I'd gotten there. So I think the new call there is not getting all needed items setup. Given the "TODO" comment right above that, I think this is the right point to change things. I'm not familiar with the filter code enough, and the other object creation that doesn't use new has a bit more context for creating things. So I think I'm at the point where I've done what I can tonight.

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[PATCH] bug in FileSaveDialog
by Kees Cook 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

I know inkscape is normally a patch-first-talk-later place, but I haven't done a "serious" commit to SVN in a while, so I thought I'd see what people thought of this patch... Here is the problem: in Ubuntu Edgy (glib 2.12.3) the filedialog throws an error if you give it a _file_ rather than a _path_ in set_current_folder(). src/file.cpp expected (at one time) to give the dialog a full path, not a directory, but at some point the logic slowly changed. This patch restores the logic of letting the dialog specify a full path name. (And as such, the "drawing.svg", "drawing-1.svg" default names re-appear too.) Example scenario: - start without ~/.inkscape dir and without any ~/drawing*.svg files - open inkscape - draw anything - click "save" expected results: put in home directory, with "drawing.svg" already in the filename entry box. - click "OK" - open new inkscape window - draw anything - click "save" expected results: put in home directory, with "drawing-1.svg" - click on "Filesystem" and scroll to "tmp". - click "OK" - switch back to first window - Select "File/Save As..." expected results: put in home directory, with "drawing.svg" already in the filename entry box. Thoughts? Index: src/ui/dialog/filedialog.h =================================================================== --- src/ui/dialog/filedialog.h (revision 13104) +++ src/ui/dialog/filedialog.h (working copy) @@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ */ virtual void change_title(const Glib::ustring& title) =0; + /** + * Change the default save path location. + */ + virtual void change_path(const Glib::ustring& path) =0; }; //FileSaveDialog Index: src/ui/dialog/filedialog.cpp =================================================================== --- src/ui/dialog/filedialog.cpp (revision 13104) +++ src/ui/dialog/filedialog.cpp (working copy) @@ -1138,6 +1138,7 @@ Glib::ustring getFilename(); void change_title(const Glib::ustring& title); + void change_path(const Glib::ustring& dir); private: @@ -1355,7 +1356,7 @@ // leaving a trailing backslash on the directory name leads to the infamous // double-directory bug on win32 if (len != 0 && udir[len - 1] == '\\') udir.erase(len - 1); - set_current_folder(udir.c_str()); + myFilename = udir; } //###### Add the file types menu @@ -1455,10 +1456,7 @@ bool FileSaveDialogImpl::show() { - Glib::ustring s = Glib::filename_to_utf8 (get_current_folder()); - if (s.length() == 0) - s = getcwd (NULL, 0); - set_current_folder(Glib::filename_from_utf8(s)); //hack to force initial dir listing + change_path(myFilename); set_modal (TRUE); //Window sp_transientize((GtkWidget *)gobj()); //Make transient gint b = run(); //Dialog @@ -1519,6 +1517,24 @@ this->set_title(title); } +/** + * Change the default save path location. + */ +void +FileSaveDialogImpl::change_path(const Glib::ustring& path) +{ + myFilename = path; + if (Glib::file_test(myFilename, Glib::FILE_TEST_IS_DIR)) { + //fprintf(stderr,"set_current_folder(%s)\n",myFilename.c_str()); + set_current_folder(myFilename); + } else { + //fprintf(stderr,"set_filename(%s)\n",myFilename.c_str()); + set_filename(myFilename); + Glib::ustring basename = Glib::path_get_basename(myFilename); + //fprintf(stderr,"set_current_name(%s)\n",basename.c_str()); + set_current_name(basename); + } +} Index: src/file.cpp =================================================================== --- src/file.cpp (revision 13104) +++ src/file.cpp (working copy) @@ -589,7 +589,8 @@ save_loc.append(formatBuf); } } else { - save_loc = Glib::path_get_dirname(doc->uri); + save_loc = Glib::build_filename(Glib::path_get_dirname(doc->uri), + Glib::path_get_basename(doc->uri)); } // convert save_loc from utf-8 to locale @@ -615,6 +616,8 @@ (char const *) _("Select file to save to"), default_extension ); + else + saveDialogInstance->change_path(save_loc); saveDialogInstance->change_title(dialog_title); bool success = saveDialogInstance->show(); @@ -640,7 +643,7 @@ if (success) prefs_set_recent_file(SP_DOCUMENT_URI(doc), SP_DOCUMENT_NAME(doc)); - save_path = fileName; + save_path = Glib::path_get_dirname(fileName); prefs_set_string_attribute("dialogs.save_as", "path", save_path.c_str()); return success; -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Simplify (ctrl+L) remove mask & clip_path fix
by Popolon 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

I opened few weeks ago this bug report and just fixed it, the patch is in the bug report : https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1561034&group_id=… bug #1561034 Regards

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pr launched for 0.44.1
by Jon Phillips 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

I finally launched out the press barrage for 0.44.1 >From the looks of the tracker, there aren't many packages up there. Also, could someone please post up a snippet or notice of the release up on the main Inkscape blog. I don't know the process for doing it after the site changeover. Thanks! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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metadata: general vs. specific in SVG
by Jon Phillips 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

So, one of the things I've wanted to work on is more specific metadata usage per-object which we could hav UI for in Inkscape and for use in Open Clip Art Library. I did some spelunking while doing research on pippin's gegl (next generation gimp library, http://pippin.gimp.org/gegl) and I found how to do this in SVG. The SVG spec defines global and specific per object metadata: SVG 1.1 standard http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/metadata.html SVG 1.2 working draft with more specifics http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/nonvisual.html#external-metadata Its really simple and is spelled out in the SVG 1.1 spec like so: <svg> <metadata>  </metadata> <rect> <metadata>  </metadata> </rect> </svg> Here is what the spec states about the specific metadata: "It is strongly recommended that at most one 'metadata' element appear as a child of any particular element, and that this element appear before any other child elements (except possibly 'desc' or 'title' elements) or character data content. If metadata-processing user agents need to choose among multiple 'metadata' elements for processing it should choose the first one." Thus, what I think would be a good approach is to generalize Kees' document metadata dialog into a panel which can be re-used and then either we add an object metadata dialog (using Jon's panel work), or just attach this functionality to the object properties dialog. Thus, one could select any object and attach the same good ole quality metadata we currently can set to the entire document. Kees what do you think? Others, what do you think? This would be awesome for asset management, right Andy, and would also allow some cool features in compositing multiple elements from Open Clip Art Library... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Please clean up console output
by Johan Engelen 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Bulia Byak wrote: [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] > Here are some specific problems I found: > > 1. Several "** Message: arg" lines every time GUI is started. > I think this is from the axonometric grid code by Johan > Engelen (though I may be wrong). > > 2. "(inkscape:12768): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: > assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed" every time I quit > Inkscape. Has been there for a long time already, though I > don't know who's the culprit. > > 3. Three "(inkscape:12772): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: > g_object_set_qdata_full: assertion `quark > 0' failed" > warnings when I run Inkscape with a query, for example > "inkscape -W file.svg". This warning originates in > paramnotebook.cpp code, also by Johan - most likely the new > code is unaware that Inkscape can be run without GUI, tries > to do something GUIish and fails. > > 4. A stream of "(inkscape:12776): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: > invalid cast from `SPCAxonomGrid' to `SPCGrid'" when I'm > trying to use the new axonometric grid. > > 5. A "(inkscape:12778): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_set_alignment: > assertion `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed" when I open the > Document Properties. Ad 1. Correct. Removed the stupid debug message. I forgot about it. It is actually not that handy to have a window in Inkscape which you have to enable to see these messages :( Ad 2. I cannot reproduce this one. Ad 3. Will look into this later. I already knew in the back of my head that Inkscape can be run without UI. On WinXP because the console output didn't work, I forgot about it; thanks for making me remember! Ad 5. Fixed. Had to do with the entry of the radiobutton-widget (which gridtype to use) in the widgetlist. Ad 4. Solution: do not use the axonometric grid with snapping! :P I haven't had time to code the snapping thing yet for the axonometric grid; and it is clear that some generalization of grid/snapping code and mechanism is needed for this to work nicely. At the moment, I haven't changed any of the snapping code, therefore invalid casts result. I am sorry that the axonometric grid commit gives so many warnings/errors. Especially the invalid cast to SPCGrid is nasty. I committed it so all can see what the grid looks like on which I am working, so I can get comments on how to improve things. Use on your own risk! :P

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wouldn't penitentiary
by Flora Malone 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

warming,A said Mark Pagani, professor of geology and geophysics at Yale

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Please clean up console output
by Johan Engelen 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: bulia byak [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] > Sent: donderdag 28 september 2006 4:23 > > Some of the recent commits resulted in various debug stuff > and warnings output to console. Please don't leave it that > way, clean up after yourself promptly. Thanks for letting me know about these problems: I will try to fix them ASAP. I did not know about these warnings/errors because I don't see any: how can I view console output in windows XP? (running Inkscape from the commandline does not help) Regards, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango style icons
by Ronan Zeegers 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

The first idea with this icons theme was not to follow strictly the Tango guideline. I Just wanted a style that fit well with the default tango gtk/gnome icons (open, save, print, preferences...), very minimalist icons and that can be fast and easy to read. Some work and elements from the Tango icons have also been reused. So, Tangoished for this theme is maybe not the best term... I'm award of the new gimp icons that can be found here: http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet I think they don't fit exactly the minimalist idea behind my theme. But I can take a closer look to the Tango guidelines and see if I can change my icons and still stick to the original concept.... @graffoo: > Also can you post a download link? > Yep. Before that, I have to work on lots of stuffs (menu icons) and clean the icons.svg I also have to take a closer look the icons size. The toolbar seems to use a not very conventional 24x24 pix size... Ronan Zeegers

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SoC outcome?
by bulia byak 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

There's a thread on the SoC list discussing the results for different projects, which got me curious about, naturally, Inkscape :) I know my projects turned out well, but what about the others? Could the mentors share their experience? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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'tabs' in extensions
by Ted Gould 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hey, I've been out of it for a while, so I don't know that I get much of a vote on this... but here's an idea: Instead of making another parameter type for the tabs, we could allow it to be a property of each parameter -- like a group tag. So then all the parameters with the group 'help' would then be put together on the tab 'help'. Then it could be reorganized with other means also. --Ted

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LaTeX formulas on win32
by unknown＠example.com 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

I suppose i have all the dependencies on my box (latex, dvips, pstoedit) but this functionality does not appear in the effects menu. Any hints? I'm using 0.42.1-1 and have also a separate python interpreter. Some other extensions using python work fine.

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WEBFORM Download Now! link
by Pavel Horak 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

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Prize Disbursement
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Update of Downloads page
by Josef Vybiral 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hello fellow translators, I have updated downloads' page to point to 0.44.1 release. I updated pages for all translations(cz/sk, de, en, es, fr, it) with correct links to files and would like to ask those who did translations to look on downloads page and tell me if I screwed up anything in their translation and how to correct it :-) Missing links (for .tar.bz2 and .package) were removed (commented out in html) until these packages are created(if they are to be created). Also, I have noticed that there is one untranslated paragraph on downloads page for Italian translation. Could Luca or any other Italian speaking guy/girl update it? It is the first paragraph under "Development version/Versioni di sviluppo" heading. Thanks for all your work sincerely Josef 'cornelius' Vybíral P.S. this message is CCed to inkscape-devel list to inform developers about changes on website. -- Josef Vybíral a.k.a. cornelius -------------------------------- Inkscape translators' member gimp.cz's second editor in chief web: http://cornelius.gimp.cz mail: cornelius@...1135... jabber: cornelius@...1136...

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swfml export
by Gerrit . 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

hello everyone at inkscape! first, let me thank you all for the great work. i am using inkscape to produce assets for flash animation. recently, i have turned to swfmill for converting svg to swf. in swfmill, the svg is first transformed into an xml dialect resembling swf structures (swfml), which is then converted to swf. while trying to include more svg features, i thought that maybe it would be easier to generate the swfml in inkscape, where the data is already available in code. QUESTION: would anyone be in favour or support the idea of exporting swfmill compatible xml from inkscape? or do the ming based swf export patches already work well enough to make this obsolete? i would try this, but would probably need some support and advice. cheers gerrit

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Security Alert
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WEBFORM inkscape logo in a vector file format
by Frank Ludin 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Announcing: 'tabs' in the UI for effects.
by Johan Engelen 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

I did not foresee a big discussion on this topic, as the 'tabs' came as a natural solution to me. Some comments to what has been mailed: > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:06:38 +0100 (BST) > From: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> > > If you are going to introduce the extra complexity and > inconsistency and inflict tabs in what should be a clear and > simple user interface why not just go the whole hog and use > python+glade to create the extension user interfaces? In fact, I first wanted to make my own UI, because the funcplot extension really needs to be able to read the SVG and change the UI depending on the contents of the SVG. (if you select a function plot, you should be able to change its formula; now you have to recreate a rectangle and apply a new formula) Because I want the extension to work on all Inkscape distributions I did not advance into Python libs there are not supported by the current distro. (if this is desired, then inkscape should come with a separate installer for Python, and not include it in itself) > I worry about any effect that has so many options that it > requires seperate tabs. I like options :). The funcplot extention should have a "config" tab where you can specify wether it has to delete the rectangle or not, what the stepsize is to calculate the numerical derivative, wether to actually do anything with the derivative or just make a sharp cornered 'curve', etc :) I usually want to make things as versatile as possible, which maybe is bad indeed. (certainly eats up a lot of time) > Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:55:10 -0300 > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> > > I see absolutely no problem with tabs for effects UI. If you wish you > can consider them just semantic groupings that Inkscape chooses to > show as tabs. My thoughts exactly. At first I intended to make "frames". To group parameters in a framed box. But for sake of "tinyness", I made tabs so the UI window can be kept small. > Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:58:41 -0700 > From: "Jon A. Cruz" <jon@...18...> > > At first I was thinking that we might want to shift it away from the > containment of items inside of pages, and instead go with attributes > on things to mark them as belonging to the same groups. Then > as I was > looking to tuning things up, I realized that the way things are in > funcplot.inx at the moment could be one good way to present paged UI > in an abstract manner. So things could go a few different ways > internally. I did only a little thinking myself before I came up with the XML as it is now, but I don't know wether it is correct use of XML or not. I hope it is. One side effect of the way it is now, is that the notebook is really a parameter: you can read back which page was being displayed when the user clicked OK. This has to do with the way I made the implementation and was not really intended. Probably that does invite bad and unclear design. Note that the XML syntax for notebooks springs from ease of implementation and having control over positioning. (you can position a notebook halfway for example, with parameters above and below it. Clearly ugly :)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 4, Issue 17
by Johan Engelen 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Re: Announcing: 'tabs' in the UI for effects. (bulia byak) > Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:22:46 -0300 > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> > > On 9/14/06, Johan Engelen <johane@...1482...> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > For those of you creating Effect extensions... you can now create a > > so-called 'notebook' parameter: this way you can arrange parameters > > (or help > > text) on seperate tabpages. > > (0.44+SVN) > > > > I have included an example of how this works. See the > Function Plotter > > effect and funcplot.inx. > > Looks very good, thanks! But when I click OK on the Function > Plotter effect, Inkscape crashes with: > > (snip) > > I did "make install" before running. > > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. Draw Freely. > http://www.inkscape.org I've found what caused the crash: do not use empty default values for string parameters in the inx file. Will have to fix this later. For now, I changed the funcplot.inx file to have non-empty default values. Have a nice weekend, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] still can't compile a working copy from trunk nor .44.1
by pbhj 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Just thought I'd offer an update on my progress on trying to compile from SVN: pandfi@...1446...:/usr/local/svn/inkscape/trunk$ svn info Path: . URL: https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk Repository Root: https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape Repository UUID: 79ec4920-5e0a-0410-a93a-b0c7084bcf59 Revision: 13075 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: johanengelen Last Changed Rev: 13073 Last Changed Date: 2006-09-15 10:46:06 +0100 (Fri, 15 Sep 2006) Properties Last Updated: 2006-08-31 22:35:25 +0100 (Thu, 31 Aug 2006) Can now compile without any errors using: "./configure --enable-lcms --prefix=/home/pandfi/inkscape-svn/" I then make && make install. Everything went smoothly. Still get "segmentation fault". Using gdb the output is: pandfi@...1446...:~$ gdb ~/inkscape-svn/bin/inkscape GNU gdb 6.5 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-slackware-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /home/pandfi/inkscape-svn/bin/inkscape [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1228736288 (LWP 15332)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1228736288 (LWP 15332)] 0xb7136d7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (gdb) where #0 0xb7136d7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #1 0xb712fab1 in std::ios_base::_M_init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #2 0xb712dd94 in std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #3 0x0853266a in global constructors keyed to _ZN8Inkscape5Debug6Logger8_enabledE () at /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/3.4.6/../../../../include/c++/3.4.6/fstream:632 #4 0x08532a85 in __do_global_ctors_aux () #5 0x08183605 in _init () #6 0x0853298b in __libc_csu_init () #7 0xb6fafdbf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #8 0x0818b7a1 in _start () at ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:119 (gdb) The latest released version 0.44.1 doesn't work for me either ... (but I have 0.44 installed and working fine) ... I get this from gdb: pandfi@...1446...:~$ gdb inkscape GNU gdb 6.5 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-slackware-linux"...(no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/local/bin/inkscape (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1230436032 (LWP 10872)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1230436032 (LWP 10872)] 0xb7a42d7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (gdb) where #0 0xb7a42d7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #1 0xb7a3bab1 in std::ios_base::_M_init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #2 0xb7a39d94 in std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #3 0x085172ba in Inkscape::Debug::Logger::init () #4 0x085176d5 in __libc_csu_fini () #5 0x08183f65 in _init () #6 0x085175db in __libc_csu_init () #7 0xb6b94dbf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #8 0x0818bf71 in _start () (gdb) If I'm reading this right I have a problem between inkscape and libstdc++ (standard C++?). In fact it looks to be a locale issue? Any help greatfully received, thanks. I'm using cxxlibs-6.0.3-i486-1 and gcc-g++-3.4.6-i486-1 (these appear to be originators for libstdc++). Cheers pbhj PS: see http://pbhj.alicious.com/hardinfo1.html up to date info on my system.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Board Seat - Nominations
by Bryce Harrington 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi all, Aaron Spike has been nominated for the Inkscape Board. No other nominations have been made, thus this means Aaron wins the election by default, and there is no need for an election. Thanks everyone! Congrats Aaron! Bryce

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Inkscape Board Seat - Nominations
by Bryce Harrington 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Please nominate someone for the Inkscape Board! Or second someone already nominated! One slot is open on the new Inkscape Board, and we would like to invite you to nominate someone to run for election. Anyone listed in the 0.44.1 AUTHORS file may be nominated. As well, nominations will be accepted from anyone listed in this file. All nominations must also be seconded. Don't nominate or second yourself. Some background: Inkscape is joining the Software Freedom Conservancy, and as a condition of our participation, we will be forming an Inkscape Board to oversee financial matters related to the money held and managed for us by SFC. Please see the relevant threads on the mailing list, or http://www.inkscape.org/conservancy for details. Please post your nominations here to this thread at this time. Nominations will be accepted until midnight Saturday night, Pacific Coast time. Bryce

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a package for linux ppc
by Albert 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Would any developer be so kind as to release an inkscape 0.44.1 for linux ppc? Otherwise: which is the exact list of dependencies of inkscape so I can compile it myself? Thanks! Albert

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Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.44.1 Unleashed :: Download Now :: Inkscape.org
by Loïc Martin 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Thanks for this new release. It's great to have such a lively development. Two questions: - I can't find linux autopackages anywhere (the latest one I have is 0902, and I wanted to see if the stable release still crashes on my machine) ; - I remember a discussion about it on the list, but I'm not sure if anybody has Inkscape running on Windows 98SE (2nd edition) or if it's even supported. If not, does anyone remember what the version where it was still working is? Thanks a lot, Loïc On 9/14/06, Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> wrote: > > Inkscape 0.44.1 Unleashed :: Download Now :: Inkscape.org > > The Inkscape community announced the release of Inkscape 0.44.1 > today. This bugfix version fixes several weeks of work by the community > in order to fix some crashes on windows, Mac OS X, and other packaging > issues which have come up from our last successfule release, 0.44 which > introduced substantial features like graphical layers, clipping and > masking support, and native PDF export with transparency. > > Here is a full list of bug fixes in this version: > > * fix a crash on Windows ("python.exe can't find msvcrt71.dll") by > providing that dll in the package; > * fix hang in page size widget * on Mac OS X, removed problems with > home folder path names > containing spaces; > * inkscape now finds libpng include headers on some systems where it > previously failed to do so > * several changes to allow compiling on glib-2.4 systems (e.g. > RHEL4); > * allow compiling on systems with incomplete boost library headers; > recognize if boost is too old > * inkscape now compiles with gcc-4.2.x. * fixed a bug where stderr > output from scripts was not shown * fixed a bug affecting the recent > files menu * resolution information is now saved in exported PNG > files * fix some ODG export bugs * fix dia import * fix several > include issues affecting building on Solaris > (there are still some more problems, at least under Solaris 8, > and similar ones on OpenBSD) > * added missing German version of the advanced tutorial and made > corrections to the calligraphy one; added missing Czech, German, > and Brazil-Portuguese tutorials to tarball; added missing German > keytable to tarball > * applied changes to the German and Spanish translations of Inkscape > strings > * interactivity improvements at high zooms * fix for specifying > CSS colors with percentages * re-enabled old PDF exporter alongside > the new one * minor fixes to new PDF exporter (a major overhaul is > still in the > works) > * fixup for invalid "s odipodi" namespace which has become > widespread in Inkscape documents > * Mac OS X packaging updates * miscellaneous build fixes > > Please visit www.inkscape.org and see what you would like to help the > project in solving. > > Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 > > Community submitted screenshots: > > http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ > > > About Inkscape > > Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web > Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported > SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha > blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape > supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path > operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can > also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, > PS, PDF and various vector formats. > > Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community > with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional > work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, > emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an > extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented > development process. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Website translation status
by Bryce Harrington 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

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Inkscape 0.44.1-1 Intel Mac OSX Package (Attempt!)
by Craig Marshall 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi, With the guidance of Michael Wybrow, I've managed to create a working Intel OSX package, but I only have the one machine to test it on, and I don't know how likely these things are to not work on other machines. Anyway, I uploaded it to the sf.net incoming folder, and it's called Inkscape-0.44.1-1.INTEL.dmg, so please try it, and if it's okay feel free to use it for the files page. I used curl to transfer the file, and it didn't give any errors, so I'm guessing it arrived okay! If it doesn't work, please try: http://craigmarshall.org/Inkscape-0.44.1-1.INTEL.dmg I'm going out for my wedding anniversary dinner right now, so I won't be available to answer emails for a couple of hours at least. But I'll check them later on. Craig

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Announcing: 'tabs' in the UI for effects.
by Johan Engelen 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hello all, For those of you creating Effect extensions... you can now create a so-called 'notebook' parameter: this way you can arrange parameters (or help text) on seperate tabpages. (0.44+SVN) I have included an example of how this works. See the Function Plotter effect and funcplot.inx. Cheers, Johan

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compile dependencies on debian
by John Griessen 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hello, I got the latest from SVN and ran ./configure It says these were not findable on my system: No package 'gdkmm-2.4' found No package 'glibmm-2.4' found No package 'gtkmm-2.4' found So, I installed some debian packages, gdk-imlib11-dev libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgtkmm-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev but no change. Hints?

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Inkscape 0.44.1 Unleashed :: Download Now :: Inkscape.org
by Jon Phillips 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Inkscape 0.44.1 Unleashed :: Download Now :: Inkscape.org The Inkscape community announced the release of Inkscape 0.44.1 today. This bugfix version fixes several weeks of work by the community in order to fix some crashes on windows, Mac OS X, and other packaging issues which have come up from our last successfule release, 0.44 which introduced substantial features like graphical layers, clipping and masking support, and native PDF export with transparency. Here is a full list of bug fixes in this version: * fix a crash on Windows ("python.exe can't find msvcrt71.dll") by providing that dll in the package; * fix hang in page size widget * on Mac OS X, removed problems with home folder path names containing spaces; * inkscape now finds libpng include headers on some systems where it previously failed to do so * several changes to allow compiling on glib-2.4 systems (e.g. RHEL4); * allow compiling on systems with incomplete boost library headers; recognize if boost is too old * inkscape now compiles with gcc-4.2.x. * fixed a bug where stderr output from scripts was not shown * fixed a bug affecting the recent files menu * resolution information is now saved in exported PNG files * fix some ODG export bugs * fix dia import * fix several include issues affecting building on Solaris (there are still some more problems, at least under Solaris 8, and similar ones on OpenBSD) * added missing German version of the advanced tutorial and made corrections to the calligraphy one; added missing Czech, German, and Brazil-Portuguese tutorials to tarball; added missing German keytable to tarball * applied changes to the German and Spanish translations of Inkscape strings * interactivity improvements at high zooms * fix for specifying CSS colors with percentages * re-enabled old PDF exporter alongside the new one * minor fixes to new PDF exporter (a major overhaul is still in the works) * fixup for invalid "s odipodi" namespace which has become widespread in Inkscape documents * Mac OS X packaging updates * miscellaneous build fixes Please visit www.inkscape.org and see what you would like to help the project in solving. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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WEBFORM My homepage
by Lisa 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Lisa email: greg@...1480... submitted the following: Well done! http://vzgjvdjs.com/msuq/rdqn.html | http://zinpupwm.com/nept/jgbu.html

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WEBFORM My homepage
by Lee 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Lee email: naomi@...1479... submitted the following: Thank you! <a href=\"http://vzgjvdjs.com/msuq/rdqn.html\">My homepage</a> | <a href=\"http://tgtrncxq.com/znzm/fink.html\">Please visit</a>

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WEBFORM My homepage
by Candice 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Candice email: jody@...1266... submitted the following: Good design! [url=http://vzgjvdjs.com/msuq/rdqn.html]My homepage[/url] | [url=http://znoufsxm.com/iook/ntqd.html]Cool site[/url]

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Election process for Inkscape Board
by Bryce Harrington 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:26:26AM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > We've reached the signing stage of getting Inkscape accepted into the > > Software Freedom Conservancy [1]. > > > In the Sponsorship Agreement we've specified that people in the AUTHORS > > file are eligible to vote. Beyond that the election process is up to > > us. > > As someone only recently included in the AUTHORS file I would hope there > will be some room for other stakeholders to petition to be included in the > electorate (or added to the AUTHORS file as needed). > I understand you have to draw a line somewhere and the AUTHORS file is a > good basis but I think there are contributions which you may also want > to acknowledge so I'm just saying this now to make sure you dont rule > out appeals. To avoid confusion, and to make sure the line is drawn very clear, I suggest that we use the AUTHORS file from the most recent release (0.44.1). People who are not in that AUTHORS file, but that can prove that they deserve to be included in it can email me prior to the actual start of voting. Bryce

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Election process for Inkscape Board
by Bryce Harrington 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi all, We've reached the signing stage of getting Inkscape accepted into the Software Freedom Conservancy [1]. To refresh your memory, in the previous thread [2] we decided to go with a board to represent the project, and decided to fill the board using a combination of the Inkscape project founders and the current admins. In other words: Mental, Ted, njh, Jon Cruz, myself and Bulia. Bulia chose to give his spot to Joshua Andler. However, for voting purposes it works best to have an odd number of people on the board, so we defined the board to be 7 members. This means we have one spot open for election. In the Sponsorship Agreement we've specified that people in the AUTHORS file are eligible to vote. Beyond that the election process is up to us. I'd like to propose the following: * Announcement of the upcoming election + Inkscape website news + inkscape-announce@ * Short nomination period (2 days) + AUTHORS may nominate people + AUTHORS may be nominated + All nominations must be seconded + You can't nominate or second yourself * Voting period, using Instant-runoff voting [3] + Lasts 7 days + Ends at Midnight Pacific time + Send votes to "vote@...1478..." alias + Votes will be private + List of voters will be public * Votes will be tallied according to IRV and posted + Inkscape website news + inkscape-announce@ Does this sound like an okay process? Ideas on improving it? I figure unless there are any changes to be made, we can kick off nominations tomorrow, then start the voting process on Saturday. Bryce 1: http://www.inkscape.org/conservancy/ 2: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/17092/focus=17092 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_runoff_voting

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Inkscape 0.44.1 Release !
by Bryce Harrington 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi all, The 0.44.1 release has been finalized and the code is now available for download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=99112 Thanks go to Mental and all the translators and bug squashers who helped put this point release together! Packagers are encouraged to produce and upload packages for all platforms at this time. We will do the public announcement Monday evening, which we hope gives packagers sufficient time. The website download page needs to be updated, and a news item entered. It would be great if someone could do these updates; otherwise I'll tackle it as I have time this weekend. Rejon, please prepare press release materials, and send notices about this release Monday evening. Everyone else, please do not submit information about this release to any online sites until Monday evening, so that folks have time to do packaging, website updating, etc. Thanks! Bryce Inkscape 0.44.1 changes with respect to 0.44 * fix a crash on Windows ("python.exe can't find msvcrt71.dll") by providing that dll in the package; * fix hang in page size widget * on Mac OS X, removed problems with home folder path names containing spaces; * inkscape now finds libpng include headers on some systems where it previously failed to do so * several changes to allow compiling on glib-2.4 systems (e.g. RHEL4); * allow compiling on systems with incomplete boost library headers; recognize if boost is too old * inkscape now compiles with gcc-4.2.x. * fixed a bug where stderr output from scripts was not shown * fixed a bug affecting the recent files menu * resolution information is now saved in exported PNG files * fix some ODG export bugs * fix dia import * fix several include issues affecting building on Solaris (there are still some more problems, at least under Solaris 8, and similar ones on OpenBSD) * added missing German version of the advanced tutorial and made corrections to the calligraphy one; added missing Czech, German, and Brazil-Portuguese tutorials to tarball; added missing German keytable to tarball * applied changes to the German and Spanish translations of Inkscape strings * interactivity improvements at high zooms * fix for specifying CSS colors with percentages * re-enabled old PDF exporter alongside the new one * minor fixes to new PDF exporter (a major overhaul is still in the works) * fixup for invalid "s odipodi" namespace which has become widespread in Inkscape documents * Mac OS X packaging updates * miscellaneous build fixes Inkscape 0.44: overview Inkscape 0.44 is bigger and better than ever. Some highlights: * Layers dialog * Outline mode, many performance improvements * Native PDF export with transparency * Clipping and masking support * Configurable keyboard shortcuts, including optional Xara X compatibility * Docked color palette in the editing window * Interactive indicator of the style of selection in the statusbar * Innovative "node sculpting" and other improvements in Node tool * Extensions are enabled by default and work on all major platforms * Better SVG support: <switch> element, ICC color profiles for images * Persistent rotation centers, Paste Size command * New icons, redesigned preferences dialogs, rearranged menus, many cosmetic improvements * Hundreds of bugfixes and smaller features * Not directly related to Inkscape, but important nevertheless: since our last release, Firefox 1.5 was released with SVG support enabled by default. This means that you can now view any Inkscape document right in your Firefox window without any format conversions or installing any plugins! Performance Outline mode An Outline ("wireframe") display mode is implemented. Use the View > Display Mode > Outline to activate it. In this mode: * all paths and shapes are rendered as inverse (black on light background and vice versa) outlines of constant width (1 screen pixel regardless of zoom), without fill; * text is painted by inverse fill, without stroke; * bitmaps are shown as is; * any opacity and gradients are ignored. The outline mode is usually not drastically faster than regular mode (usually 10% to 50% faster), and in some special cases it may even be slower. However, the value of the outline mode is not only in its speed; it is a good way to get an idea of the structure and objects of your document, and it is convenient for precision node editing and for finding "stray objects". Speed In addition to the Outline mode which makes it much easier to work with complex drawings, this version of Inkscape also provides significant speed improvements in many areas. * Thanks to optimizations in the renderer, Inkscape's screen redraw is faster by at least 10%, and in some cases (such as complex stroked/dashed paths at high zooms) up to three times faster. * Optimizations in the Node tool resulted in noticeable speed gains for node editing. Thus, switching to and from the Node tool (with a path selected), as well as selecting nodes in that tool, are now at least ten times faster than before. Other operations, including curve and node dragging and move/scale/rotate operations on multiple selected nodes, are much faster as well. This is especially important when working with complex paths; with these optimizations, paths containing several thousand nodes, though still slow, are much more usable. * An optimization in the attribute setting method made operations such as moving multiple objects with arrow keys at least 30% faster compared to 0.43. This is especially noticeable when you are moving clones selected together with their original (e.g. a clone tiling), in which case Inkscape now works three to four times faster. * Interface icons are now rendered in the background (from SVG source in share/icons/icons.svg) when Inkscape is idle, rather than waiting for all the icons in a menu to render the first time you pull it up. This eliminates the annoying delay when opening menus for the first time. * Previously, zooming in to view a small portion of a path (especially big and complex path), there was a very noticeable slowdown and memory use increased dramatically. We optimized the renderer to only process the visible part of a path, and as a result the rendering speed is now almost the same at any zoom up to the maximum, providing up to 10-40 times speedup compared to the previous version (the closer is the zoom, the greater is the gain). * The Path > Break Apart command is now dozens of times (up to 100x) faster for complex paths with thousands of subpaths. SVG conformance Color profile support Inkscape now includes base ICC profile functionality. If compiled with LittleCMS support (if you run configure with --enable-lcms switch), Inkscape passes the ICC color profile test by W3C. The <color-profile> element has been implemented along with the "color-profile" attribute for <image> elements. <switch> support Rendering support for SVG 1.1's Conditional Processing Module has been implemented, including switch element, requiredFeatures, requiredExtensions, systemLanguage attributes. Inkscape passes the Conditional processing tests ( and ) by W3C. SVG output * In Inkscape's SVG documents, colors are now expressed by name (`white') or three-digit form (`#f3c') when possible. * The numeric values in transform attributes are written without insignificant trailing zeros, and anything less than that 1e-8 by absolute value (usually caused by rounding errors) is written as 0 to reduce clutter. Interface Layers dialog A Layers dialog (Ctrl+Shift+L) is implemented in this version. It works in parallel with the quick layer selector in the statusbar, so you can use whichever is more convenient for you. * In the dialog, you can click on a layer to make it current, as well as toggle layers visible/hidden and locked/unlocked. You don't need to make a layer current to toggle its visibility or lock status. * A hierarchical tree of layers is represented by a tree-like display in the dialog. You can expand or collapse branches of the tree to make the layer structure of a document easier to navigate. * At the bottom of the dialog, there are buttons for adding a new layer, moving the current layer up or down (either one step or all the way to top or bottom), and deleting the current layer. * Below the buttons, there's a slider and a spinbutton for adjusting the opacity of the current layer. A layer's opacity affects all objects in that layer in the same way as opacity of a group. Selected style indicator A new control in the left end of the statusbar lets you quickly view and change the fill and stroke of the selected objects. When you have a text selection in Text tool or a gradient handle selected in the Gradient tool, this indicator displays and changes the style of the text fragment or gradient stop, instead of the entire object (it's the same behavior as the Fill&Stroke dialog.) * The two indicators, labelled F: (top) and S: (bottom), display fill and stroke of the selected object(s) correspondingly. (For gradient handles, they always display the same style.) * Each fill/stroke indicator can display either a color+opacity swatch (the opacity shown here is the fill opacity or stroke opacity, not the master opacity) or a text label specifying N/A (nothing selected), None (no fill/stroke), Unset (unset fill/stroke), L Gradient, R Gradient, Pattern (corresponding fill/stroke types), or Different (selected objects have different fill/stroke types). * Additionally, each indicator may be accompanied by one of two flags, m ("multiple", meaning there are two or more objects all with the same fill/stroke) or a ("averaged", meaning there are two or more objects with different flat colors in fill/stroke, and the indicator shows the average of these colors). * Left-click on an indicator opens or activates the Fill&Stroke dialog with the corresponding tab (Fill or Stroke) active. * Right-click on an indicator opens a popup menu with the following items: + Edit fill/stroke...: Opens or activates the Fill&Stroke dialog with the corresponding tab selected. (Same as left-click.) + Last set color: Applies to the selected objects the fill/stroke color that was last applied to anything. + Last selected color: Applies to the selected objects the fill/stroke color that was last displayed in this indicator. (Allows you to easily copy fill/stroke color between objects: select source, select destination, apply "last selected color".) + Invert: Sets the fill or stroke to the inverse of the current color (does not affect opacity). + White, Black: Sets the fill or stroke to the corresponding color (fully opaque). + Copy color, Paste color: Copies or pastes the fill or stroke color (when it's color) to/from the system clipboard, as text in the #rrggbb hex format. + Swap fill and stroke: Exchanges fill and stroke (both their types and colors, if any). + Make fill/stroke opaque: Removes fill or stroke transparency (not master transparency!). + Unset fill/stroke: Unsets fill or stroke from selected objects. + Remove fill/stroke: Removes fill or stroke from the selected objects. * Middle-click on a fill/stroke indicator removes fill/stroke from selected objects; if it is already removed (i.e. if the indicator displays "None"), it does the same as the "Last set color" command from the popup menu. * Drag and Drop of colors onto a fill/stroke indicator sets the fill and stroke of the selected object(s) correspondingly. * The Stroke indicator also displays the stroke width of selection (averaged if there are multiple objects selected with different stroke widths), located to the right of the stroke color/transparency swatch. Left-clicking on it opens the Fill&Stroke dialog with the Stroke Style tab selected. Right-clicking on it opens a popup menu which allows you to choose the units for displaying the stroke width, as well as choose one of the presets to assign to selection. * To the right of the fill/stroke indicators, the Opacity numeric field (labelled "O:") shows and allows you to change the master opacity of the selected object (or the averaged opacity of several selected objects). Right-clicking the numeric field opens a popup menu with preset opacity levels. Middle-clicking on the "O:" label cycles the opacity through the values of 0 (transparent), 0.5, and 1 (opaque). The zoom field and the cursor coordinates indicator have been rearranged for compactness and moved to the right end of the statusbar. There's also a window resize handle added at the very end of the statusbar. Tool style indicators For each object-creating tool (shapes, Pen/Pencil, Calligraphic, Text), the Controls bar (above the canvas) now includes a style indicator on the right. This indicator shows you which style the newly created object will have. * The indicator correctly displays whichever style the tool is set to use - the global "last set" style or that tool's fixed style. For example, clicking on a palette swatch (even with nothing selected) changes the "last set" color and, if your tool is set to use the last set color, its indicator is updated, giving you an idea of your "brush" before you start to draw. Controls bar for the Text tool * This version adds the beginnings of a Controls Bar for the Text tool (previously empty). Now you can select the font family, size, apply bold and italic styles, change alignment and text orientation without opening the Text and Font dialog. * All controls are instant-apply and work on the entire text object (if nothing selected) or text selection. They can also apply to multiple text objects (though you would need to switch to Selector to select multiple text objects, then switch back to Text tool for its controls). * The font-family drop-down contains names and previews of all fonts; unlike other programs, we didn't apply each font to its name, but added a separate preview string displayed with gray color after each font's name. This design ensures readability of font family names and provides maximum useful information in a limited space. * We will be adding more controls (including spacing and kerning) to this bar for the next versions. Docked color palette * Previously, color swatches could only be used from a floating palette (Ctrl+Shift+W). Now the color swatches palette is embedded in the main UI, at the bottom of the window between the canvas and the statusbar. It is enabled by default; use View > Show/Hide > Palette to enable or disable it. The docked palette has the same functionality as the floating one; use a button in the top right corner to access the swatches menu. * The Wrap option (off by default) in the swatches menu converts the palette from a single row into a frame 2 or 3 rows high, for better access to colors in large palettes. * Drag and Drop of colors has been enabled. + Dragging colors from a palette shows a live swatch of the color being dragged under cursor. + Drag and Drop of colors onto the selected style indicator in the statusbar sets the fill or stroke of the selected object(s). + Colors can be dropped directly on to objects on canvas to set their fill, or shift+dropped to set their stroke. This affects only the object you drop the color on, regardless of whether that object is selected or not. + Colors can be dragged to and from other applications. * The new Inkscape default color palette was added. It contains a range of grays, standard HTML named colors, and a full range of colors sorted by their HSL values (475 colors overall). It is generated by a Python script which is available from Inkscape SVN in share/palettes. * Several specialized color palettes, useful in color-coordinated projects, were created or borrowed from GIMP: Grays, Reds, Greens, Blues, Gold, Royal, Khaki, Hilite, and Topographic. * All standard sizes of the swatches (Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge) are made smaller overall. Inkscape Preferences dialog Not only was the Inkscape Preferences dialog completely rewritten and redesigned, with numerous bugs fixed in the rewrite. * The old tabbed dialog is gone; the new dialog fits much better with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. * As a new feature, the Simplify threshold can now be set with more precision. Document Properties / Metadata dialogs * The Document Preferences dialog is now named Document Properties, and it was split in two: metadata were extracted into the Document Metadata dialog; metadata widgets are now also spread over two pages. * A button was added to fit the page to the current selection or, if there's no selection, to the entire drawing. The button resizes the page and, if necessary, moves the drawing into place. It is now very easy to size a page to an illustration after it is ready. * New controls: the new object snapping features required their own property widgets, and you can set the snapping sensitivity with a slider, or let it snap regardless of distance (grid only). * Rearrangements within Document Properties: everything snapping-related was collected on one page; Grid and Guide widgets are on their own, the same page. For better HIG compliance, all widgets were categorized; especially the widgets on the Page page were completely rearranged in the General/Format/Border categories. * Bug fixes: grayed out license URI had too low contrast, so it's no longer grayed out; the proprietary license didn't clean the license URI; spinbuttons had no tooltips, and minor grid quirks were removed; data was not updated when a new file replaced another in the same window. * HIG compliance: much work went into improving GNOME HIG compliance but usability it is always an ongoing process. * Updated Creative Commons Licenses: Updated CC licenses to the latest 2.5 versions by default in the license tab of the metadata dialog. Configurable keyboard Inkscape's keyboard shortcuts are now configurable! There is no graphical users interface at this time, and not all Inkscape actions can have their shortcuts customized. However, if you do not mind editing a configuration file, the majority of actions, including everything you see in the menus, can already have their keys changed. We're working on making more actions configurable. On startup, Inkscape reads its keyboard shortcuts from share/keys/default.xml. That file is a copy of inkscape.xml in the same directory, which also contains keyboard emulation profiles for other vector editors: * xara.xml: Xara X/Xara Xtreme/Xara LX keys You can copy any of these over default.xml to use that profile. In all profiles, those keys which are not used by the corresponding program still have their Inkscape bindings. If you can contribute a profile for some vector editor that we don't yet have, we will appreciate that. The files have a simple XML-based format described in inkscape.xml. You can also customize some of your keybindings without overwriting the main default.xml. If your profile directory (~/.inkscape on Linux) contains a keys subdirectory with a default.xml file, the keybindings from that file will overlay (i.e. add to, and override in case of a conflict) the default bindings. The format of your own default.xml is the same as that of the main default.xml. Menus * Zoom commands in the View menu are moved to a submenu; the Zoom In and Zoom Out commands are added to that submenu. * Clone commands are moved into a submenu in Edit menu and given more descriptive names and tips. * Pattern commands (Objects to Pattern and Pattern to Objects) are moved into a submenu in Object menu, under the new Clip and Mask submenus. * The contents of the Effects menu are categorized into submenus, and several effects are renamed to use more intuitive names. Statusbar * In Selector, for multiple selected objects, the statusbar now reports their types. For example, if 5 groups are selected, it displays 5 objects of type Group in layer LayerName. instead of just "5 objects selected" as before. If there are up to 3 types in the selection, they will be listed, for example: 5 objects of types Group, Path, Rectangle in layer LayerName. The order of the list will correspond to the order in which the objects were added to selection. If there are 4 or more types in selection, only the number of types is reported, for example: 5 objects of 4 types in layer LayerName. * In Selector, objects selected in groups are now identified as such, and the group ID is given, for example: Rectangle in group g212 (layer content) If selected objects have different parents within one layer (for example, if one is selected in a group and another outside it), the number of parents is reported: 2 objects of types Rectangle, Path in 2 parents (layer content) If objects are in different layers, only the number of layers is reported since this also implies different parents: 2 objects of types Rectangle, Path in 2 layers * In Node tool, if your node selection includes nodes from different subpaths, statusbar reports the number of subpaths with selection and the total number of subpaths, for example: 2 of 195 nodes selected in 2 of 36 subpaths. * The contents of the statusbar message are now duplicated as a tooltip that is shown when you hover the mouse over the statusbar. * The statusbar text is now no longer just cut off if there is insufficient room, but an ellipsis (...) is inserted at the end to show there's more (only with Gtk 2.6 and newer). Theme * Inkscape has a new default icon set titled "Crispy" provided by Andre Sousa. The new icons are intended to add a more professional and cohesive look to our application, as well as to make the functions the icons represent more self-evident. Tools Node tool Node sculpting An entirely new way of manipulating paths in Node tool is added in this version: Node sculpting. Normally, when you have several nodes selected and you drag one of them, all selected nodes move by the same amount. Now, if you Alt-drag one of the selected nodes, only that node is fully displaced; other selected nodes are moved less than the full amount, so that those farthest from the drag point remain stationary. This is similar to "proportional editing" or "soft selection" in 3D editors such as Blender. So, for example, if you select several nodes on a straight line and Alt+drag the middle selected node, the path will bend into a smooth bell-like curve. Nodes' handles are also adjusted correspondingly to keep the overall shape smooth and natural. (If you don't have enough nodes on a path fragment that you want to reshape in this way, just select the end nodes of that fragment and press Ins a few times to populate it with nodes.) Moreover, node sculpting is pressure-sensitive when you are using a tablet pen. If you press slightly, your curve will have a narrow sharp tip (i.e. the nearest neighbors of your dragged node will move only a bit); if you press hard, the curve's tip will be wide and blunt (i.e. the nearest neighbors will move almost as much as the dragged node). (Hint: to stop dragging without losing your shape, first release Alt and then lift the tip of the pen.) There are many possible applications of the sculpting technique. To take a simple example, selecting all nodes of an ellipse-like shape and Alt+dragging one of them will smoothly and naturally stretch and skew the entire shape in any direction. Doing the same to a complex path, such as star or spiral, will twist and punch it without destroying its intricate structure - this is the way to get squashed or self-intersecting stars, eccentric spirals and other shapes not easily doable before. Selecting only part of all nodes allows you to smoothly reshape parts of the figure without disturbing the rest. When applied to text converted to path, node sculpting is a fun and easy way to twist, bend and distort it, achieving effects similar to "perspective envelope" or "curvilinear envelope" in other programs - but in a more powerful and flexible way. For example, by selecting all or part of the text's nodes and Alt-dragging, you can not only make a wavy banner out of a paragraph of text, but also apply a "magnifying lens"-like effect to any word in the middle. Especially useful node sculpting is for complex natural paths, such as calligraphic strokes or bitmap traces, where you often want to do large-scale pushes and bends without destroying the small-scale features. Things like making a calligraphic stroke narrower in one place and wider in another, or changing the proportions, extending the ear or flattening the nose of a head - all this is now much faster and more natural to do using sculpting. It is also a new way to create new paths, too - starting from en ellipse with added nodes, it takes just a few Alt+drags to tweak it into a silhouette of a head, or a map of Australia, or an Inkscape logo! Some examples are shown on the screenshot: inkscape-0.44-nodesculpting.png. "Show handles" toggle The Controls bar for the Nodes tool now includes a toggle button which controls whether Bezier handles are shown on selected nodes (on by default). Selecting and dragging nodes on node-dense paths in zoom-out (e.g. for node sculpting) may be extremely difficult without hiding the handles, as it's hard to pick a node and not a handle when handles are shown. New deletion behavior * In Node tool, deleting node(s) by Del/Backspace keys or by Ctrl+Alt+clicking a node now tries to preserve, as much as possible, the current shape of the path. This means that the nodes adjacent to those being deleted have their handles adjusted to approximate the form that the path had before deletion. For example, if you Ctrl+Alt+click a path twice, once to add a new node and then to delete it, the path will not change at all (or change very slightly). The old deletion behavior without adjusting handles is still available via Ctrl+Del or Ctrl+Backspace. Preserving positions of nodes and handles * When you switch the type of the selected node to Smooth or Symmetric by pressing Shift+S/Shift+Y, you can now preserve the position of one of the two handles by hovering your mouse over it, so that only the other handle is rotated/scaled to match. * Similarly, when you join endnodes by pressing Shift+J, you can preserve the position of one of the two nodes by hovering your mouse over it, so that only the other node is moved. Miscellaneous * The ! key inverts node selection in the current subpath(s) (i.e. subpaths with at least one selected node); Alt+! inverts in the entire path. (This is similar to how these keys work in Selector, with current subpath(s) instead of the current layer.) * The keyboard shortcut for "Make selected segments curves" in Node tool is changed from Shift+K to Shift+U for better mnemonics. Calligraphic pen Tremor * Even when using a graphics tablet with pressure sensitivity, the Calligraphy pen's strokes often look too smooth and artificial. To enable a more natural look, the new Tremor parameter is added to the Calligraphy tool in this version. Adjustable in the Controls bar from 0.0 to 1.0, it will affect your strokes producing anything from slight unevenness to wild blotches and splotches. This significantly expands the creative range of the tool. Pen width * In all previous versions, pen width depended on zoom in such a way that the strokes appeared the same visible width at any zoom, but were in fact narrower at zoom-in and wider at zoom-out. This behavior makes sense if you want to keep the same "feel" of the pen regardless of zoom; for example, if you zoomed in to make a small fix to your drawing, it's natural that your pen becomes physically smaller but feels the same to you. So, this behavior is kept as the default, but now we also added an alternative mode where your pen width is constant in absolute units regardless of zoom. To switch to this mode, use the checkbox on the tool's Preferences page (you can open it by double-clicking the tool button). * The Width field in the tool's controls bar now changes from 1 to 100, which corresponds to the range from 0.01 to 1.0 in the previous version. If the "width in absolute units" mode is turned on, the value in this fields gives the width of the stroke in px units. In the default mode, the value of 100 gives 100px wide strokes only at 100% zoom, and strokes are correspondingly narrower or wider at other zoom levels. Selection * A new preferences option for the Calligraphic tool, Keep selected, controls whether the newly created object remains selected after you finish drawing it. If you turn it off (by default it's on) and set the tool to using Last Set color, you can easily choose a new color by clicking on the palette without having to worry if this will change the color of the stroke you just created. (Watch the tool style indicator at the right end of the Controls bar for the style of the next stroke you will draw.) * Esc deselects selected objects in Calligraphic, as in most other tools. Style * The stroke you're drawing is now shown, while you're drawing it, with the correct color and opacity that it will eventually have, instead of always black as before. * On a new Inkscape installation, this tool now uses the last set style by default instead of the fixed black as before (this is changeable in the Inkscape Preferences for the tool). Pen tool * While drawing a path, you can now move the last node you created by the same keys as in Node tool - that is, arrows, with Shift (for 10x displacement) or Alt (screen pixel displacement) modifiers. * Also, you can switch the not-yet-finalized (red) segment of the path being drawn from curve to line (Shift+L) or back to curve (Shift+U), again the same shortcuts as in the Node tool. * By popular demand, if a new path is being drawn but not yet finished, Ctrl+Z cancels that unfinished path (i.e. does the same as Esc), instead of undoing the previous action. * In Pen tool, Del works the same as Backspace to delete the last created point on the unfinished path. Clipping and masking Inkscape now provides some UI for using clipping paths and masks. * Any object can be non-destructively intersected with a path (called a clipping path) so that only the intersected portion of the object is visible. + To apply clipping, select the objects to be clipped and the clipping path object, make sure the clipping path is above the other objects in z-order, and do Object > Clip > Set. + You can transform, edit, or style the clipped objects as usual. The clipping remains applied and transforms together with each clipped object. + To remove the clipping, do Object > Clip > Release. The clipping path is returned to the drawing as a regular object; it is inserted on top of the unclipped object in z-order. * Any object can be non-destructively masked by another object (called mask) so that: the mask's black or transparent areas become fully transparent in the masked object; mask's opaque white areas become fully opaque; and all intermediate colors translate into intermediate levels of opacity in the masked object. This allows you to apply, for example, arbitrary transparency gradients to objects. + To apply a mask, select the objects to be masked and the mask object, make sure the mask is above the other objects in z-order, and do Object > Mask > Set. + You can transform, edit, or style the masked objects as usual. The mask remains applied and transforms together with each masked object. + To remove the masking, do Object > Mask > Release. The mask is returned to the drawing as a regular object; it is inserted on top of the unmasked object in z-order. * Objects with clippath show their bounding box intersected with the bounding box of the clippath, instead of the original unclipped bbox as before. (However, this does not apply to objects without clippath of their own which are clipped by being inside a clipped group.) * Clipped or masked objects display "clipped" or "masked", correspondingly, in their statusbar descriptions. * Although Inkscape had render-only support for clipping paths and masks for quite some time, in this release we fixed a number of bugs which may affect the display of your documents using clippaths or masks. + Clippaths and masks with objectBoundingBox units are now shown correctly upon loading of the document. + Clippaths without fill didn't work, this is now fixed. + Objects with clippaths or masks are correctly copied/pasted between documents. Transformations Transform dialog Fixes and improvements in the Transform dialog (Ctrl+Shift+M): * The Apply to each object separately checkbox is added, allowing you to scale/rotate/skew each selected object by the same amount, around that object's center. When off (by default), the selection is transformed as a whole. The status of this checkbox is remembered across sessions. (It has no effect on Move and Matrix tabs). * The Clear button resets the values on the current tab to defaults. * The Scale tab now allows you to specify horizontal or vertical size increments in percentage or absolute units. Also, there's a Scale proportionally checkbox which ensures that scaling preserves the width/height ratio. (If you are scaling several objects proportionally with "Apply to each object separately", you can only use the % unit to specify the scaling; otherwise each object's scale increments will have the width/height ratio of the entire selection, not of that specific object.) * The Skew tab can now specify the skew as an absolute displacement (e.g. for horizontal skewing of a rectangle, that means the shift of the top rectangle side relative to the bottom), as percentage displacement (e.g. a 1% horizontal skew of a rectangle means shifting the top side by 1% of the rectangle height), or as an angle (e.g. horizontal skew by 15 degrees results in the sides of a rectangle being rotated to that angle, while the top and bottom remain horizontal). * The Matrix tab (previously called "Transform") can either edit the current transform= matrix of an object, or post-multiply the transform= with the matrix you specify, depending on the Edit current matrix checkbox. (As it is now redundant, the transformation matrix in the Object Properties dialog is removed.) * The dialog now correctly watches selection changes in the active document window and updates its values accordingly. * The layout of the dialog is simplified, tooltips and mnemonics added for better usability. * Many bugs are fixed, especially in value conversions between units. Persistent rotation centers * The position of the center (axis) of rotation and skewing used by Selector is now remembered for all objects and restored when you select those objects again (even after saving and reopening the document). When you move or scale an object, its rotation center is moved or scaled too, so its position relative to the object always remains the same unless you move it explicitly. * When you have several objects selected, they use the rotation center of the first selected object. If the first object does not have center set (i.e. if it's in a default central position), then several objects will rotate around the geometric center of their common bounding box (as before). * Shift+click on the rotation center resets it back to the center of the object's box. * Consequently, dragging the rotation center is now an undoable action; you can press Ctrl+Z to undo the drag. * Keyboard rotation by [, ] keys with various modifiers, as well as the Rotate tab in the Transform dialog, work around the selected object's rotation center (for multi-object selection, the rotation center of the first selected object). * Rotation centers are preserved when duplicating, cloning (including clone tiler), grouping/ungrouping, and converting to path. Pasting size A number of commands are added to easily scale selected objects to match the size of the object(s) previously copied to the clipboard. They are all in the Paste Size submenu in Edit menu: * Paste Size scales the whole selection to match the overall size of the clipboard object(s). * Paste Width/Paste Height scale the whole selection horizontally/vertically so that it matches the width/height of the clipboard object(s). These commands honor the scale ratio lock on the Selector controls bar (between W and H fields), so that when that lock is pressed, the other dimension of the selected object is scaled in the same proportion; otherwise the other dimension is unchanged. * Paste Size Separately, Paste Width Separately and Paste Height Separately work similarly to the above described commands, except that they scale each selected object separately to make it match the size/width/height of the clipboard object(s). Connectors and automatic layout * There have been numerous bugfixes and several improvements to the behaviour of connectors and the connector tool: + Connectors moved as part of a selection will now stay attached to other objects in the selection, rather than becoming detached from them. + By default, the Connector tool will not attach connectors to text objects. There is a new checkbox in the connector preferences to control this setting. + The margins around avoided shapes (used for autorouting connectors) can now be adjusted via the "Spacing" control on the controls bar. * Automatic Diagram Layout: A new button is available in the Align and Distribute dialog that performs automatic layout of diagrams involving a network of shapes and connectors. Layout is accomplished using force-directed graph layout based on the Kamada-Kawai algorithm. This algorithm treats edges as if they are springs such that the distance between nodes will be proportional to the path length - number of connectors - between them. Disconnected components (where not every shape is connected) will be arranged around the circumference of a circle. * There is a new Remove Overlaps button to move the selected objects enough that they don't overlap each other. A minimum spacing between the boundaries of objects can be specified. Together with the automatic layout tool, described above, this should be a significant addition to Inkscape's usability for diagramming. Removing overlaps is different from the "Unclump" button in that the former is completely deterministic and guarantees removing overlaps on the first application, but is not concerned with visual perceptive distances between objects. Unclumping, on the other hand, attempts to equalize perceptive distances between objects and can be applied repeatedly for gradual effect. Selective tracing with SIOX * Inkscape 0.44 has an early version of the Simple Interactive Object Extraction (SIOX) algorithm (see siox.org) implemented in its bitmap tracing code. For a quick reference on how this is used, please see this file. This clever algorithm from the realm of Image Recognition allows you to select areas of similar color, with the goal of extracting a foreground area from the background. To use: + Enable the SIOX checkbox in addition to your usual tracing options. + Select both the bitmap and an object that covers the foreground and part of background, leaving only background areas of the image uncovered. + Hit OK. SIOX will now analyze and attempt to pull out the foreground-colored areas you want, and trace only those parts of the image. * The full SIOX selection mechanism (e.g. the ability to identify foreground and background areas separately) is not implemented yet, but is planned for a future release. Snapping * In addition to snapping to guides and grids, you can now snap to other objects' paths and/or nodes. As with grid and guide snapping, you can separately enable snapping of bboxes to objects and/or snapping of nodes to objects. Be aware, however, that this is experimental code - there may be surprises. It may also be slow in large documents with thousands of objects. * In addition to the snap sensitivity sliders in Document Preferences (which set snap distances in px), there are Always snap checkboxes (separately for object, grid and guide snapping) which force snapping at any distance. * Grid snapping now applies only to the visible grid lines. For example, if you have zoomed out so that only every 10th grid line is visible, snapping will only apply to these visible lines. In addition, default grid snap sensitivity is set to "Always snap". This will hopefully reduce the number of "snapping does not work" complaints from users who didn't zoom in close enough to see that snapping does in fact work, but only at sub-px distances to the 1px-spaced grid. At the same time, you can still snap to finely grained distances if you zoom in. * Guidelines are made easier to pick. Now you don't need to position mouse exactly over a guideline to activate it; instead there's a small position tolerance (1 screen pixel on each side of the guideline). Sublayers Previously, it was only possible to make a group a temporary sublayer by entering that group. Now Inkscape supports creating and using true persistent sublayers within a layer. * The Add layer dialog allows you to place the new layer above, below, or inside the current layer. * In Preferences (Selecting tab), options are added allowing the "Select All" command and Tab key selection to work either in the current layer only or in the current layer and its sublayers. Markers * Converting stroke to path now correctly processes dashed strokes. For paths with markers, this command now creates a group containing the stroke converted to path and all its markers as independent objects (i.e. they are not markers anymore, but instead you can easily transform them or paint them any color, as a workaround for the "markers don't take the color of the stroke" bug; to be properly fixed, this bug requires implementing some SVG 1.2 features). * The DimensionIn and DimensionOut markers are changed so that the arrow tips exactly correspond to node positions. It is now very easy to make dimension lines that correspond to drawn objects. The dimension specifications can now easily be chained by splitting a straight line at a point and assigning DimensionIn/Out markers to the resulting smaller paths whose endpoints coincide. * All arrow markers in the standard set are moved on the path so that their tips are as close as possible to the corresponding node of the path. Complete coincidence is not possible, because it would cause the blunt end of the stroke itself to be visible under the sharp tip of the arrow, distorting its shape. However, now the arrow tips are much closer to their nodes than before, and probably sufficiently close for many practical situations. * A new RazorWire path marker was added. By applying it as a mid-marker you can get a good approximation of a razor wire. Extension effects * The Effects menu is now officially on and no longer an optional "experimental feature" as in past versions. The preference setting to enable the menu has been removed. Inkscape 0.44 comes with about 30 effects that perform a variety of useful tasks, such as path blending, randomization, function plotting etc. * Python effects (which includes almost all currently available effects) work on Windows out of the box, using a copy of Python shipping with Inkscape. The only minor inconvenience is that when an effect is launched, you get an empty console window that stays on while the effect is doing its work. (Don't close that window, it will disappear by itself when the effect is finished.) * A new Python effect, Render > LaTeX formula, allows you to type in any LaTeX formula and get a vector object with the TeX rendition of this formula inserted into your document. You need to have latex, dvips, and pstoedit installed and in PATH for this to work. * A new Python effect, Flatten Path, flattens paths in the current selection, approximating each path with a polyline whose segments meet the specified criteria for flatness. * A new Python effect, Measure Path, attaches a text label to each path in the selection giving the length of that path (in px units). * The Radius Randomize effect has a new parameter which enables normal distribution of random displacements instead of uniform as before, which gives a more natural feel to the randomized path. * The Render > L-system (formerly "Fractal (Lindenmayer)") effect is improved in this version. Now you can specify different angle values for turning left and right, which makes it possible to smoothly bend some L-systems sideways. Also, you can separately randomize the step length and the angles by a given percent for more natural look (this works especially well with plant-like branching shapes). This effect can be used to create Penrose tiling, Sierpinsky triangle, Dragon curve and other famous mathematical artefacts, as well as various meanders, friezes, patterns, and trees. Some examples can be seen on this screenshot: inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.44-lindenmayer.pn g as well as in the new example file share/examples/l-systems.svg. * The Interpolate Path, Random Tree, and L-system effects are fixed to place their result on the current layer instead of document root and in the center of the (last-saved) document view instead of 0,0 as before. * INX files now have the ability to hold more information. This includes tooltips and descriptions of the extensions. These are all also translatable. * Thanks to keyboard configurability, it is now possible to assign keyboard shortcuts to those effects you use most often, so you can activate them without going into the menu. Formats * Inkscape's PDF export is now native (i.e. does not require any external applications) and supports transparency, including gradients with transparency. This replaced the old export extension that required Ghostscript and worked via Postscript, losing any transparency. The new PDF export is still immature; in particular it does not handle text, so you should check "Convert text to path" on the export options dialog. Other things not yet supported include: gradients on stroke; eccentric elliptic gradients; patterns, masks, and clipping paths; embedded images. * You can now Save as Compressed Inkscape SVG with media.This save option collects the svg file and all linked images into a zip archive for distribution. Although you cannot open the resulting archive directly with inkscape, the media is linked such that after unzipping you can open the SVG file immediately. * An output format for desktop cutting plotters, such as the Wishblade and Craftrobo, was added. This format is a very minimalist DXF file with appropriate scaling and translation applied. This output format should not be expected to operate as a generalized DXF output. * Inkscape can open/import default files generated by the Xfig vector graphics editor. This requires that the fig2dev command (transfig) is in your PATH. * Starting with this version, there is a limited ability to export Inkscape drawing shapes as Open Document Format drawings (.odg files). Currently the export is limited to text, shapes, and solid fill and strokes. This output will be improved in the coming months. In the meantime, however, ODG output is already useful for getting your SVG drawings into the Open Document world, in particular into an office suite such as OpenOffice.org. * The new XCF output extension exports all top-level elements (i.e. layers and objects directly under root) as PNGs and assembles them into an XCF for procesing in GIMP. Requires Python, PyXML and GIMP. GIMP 2.2.x or above must be in the path and be named gimp. A version of Inkscape 0.44 or above must be accessible from the path. Does not function in Windows yet. Miscellaneous shortcuts * Now you can use Shift+middle button drag, in any tool, to zoom into an area. This works the same as simple drag in Zoom tool, but is faster because it does not require switching away from your current tool. Together with middle button drag (panning), middle button click (zoom in) and Shift+middle button click (zoom out), this completes the set of canvas navigation shortcuts available in any tool or context. * In Gradient tool, Shift+R reverses the gradient definition (i.e. mirrors the stop positions) without moving the gradient handles. For example, an elliptic gradient with blue center and red periphery becomes red in the center and blue in the periphery. This works on the gradient(s) of the currently selected gradient handle or, if no handle is selected, on all selected objects' gradients. (Compare with the Node tool where Shift+R reverses the direction of the selected path.) This is especially convenient for elliptic gradients which, unlike linear, you cannot simply rotate by 180 degrees for the same result. * In Selector, Ctrl+Enter enters the selected group (making it a temporary layer). Ctrl+Backspace leaves the current layer and goes one layer up in the hierarchy (but not to root). Miscellaneous improvements * Document templates (listed in File > New) are now first searched in the templates subdirectory of the user's profile directory (on Linux it's ~/.inkscape/templates), then in the system-wide Inkscape templates directory. This allows you to add your own templates on top of the list of standard templates, as well as override the default template with your own one (the default.svg in the profile directory has priority over the system-wide one). * When toggling one of the "transform with object" buttons (for stroke width, rounded rectangle corners, gradients, or patterns), a message is displayed in the statusbar explaining what has changed in the program's behavior. Hopefully this will reduce the number of complaints from users who had accidentally toggled one of these and were surprised by the result. * Whole thousands above 2000 in the rulers are now displayed as 2k, 3k, 4k etc. * In the Inkscape Preferences dialog, the new object style for each tool is now shown as a style swatch (displaying fill/stroke colors and opacity, stroke width, and master opacity), similar in design to the selected style indicator in the statusbar. * In the Grid Arrange dialog, row/column spacing can now be negative. * The installation default is now to scale the rounded rectangle corners with the rectangles themselves (the previous default mode, still available as an option, was to keep rounding radii unchanged when scaling rectangles). * Added a new --export-area-canvas command line parameter that causes the exported PNG to contain the full canvas. This option as well as --export-area-drawing and --export-area can now be used along with --export-id and --export-id-only for greater flexibility. * The --query-* command line parameters now return the true SVG bounding box of the object instead of the Inkscape coordinate system bbox (with inverted Y axis). The new behavior makes more sense for scripting use of Inkscape. * The dpi value in the Export dialog has had its range extended; now possible values are from 0.01 to 100000. * Individual <tspan>s within text objects (including line tspans) can now be selected via the XML editor to view their bounding boxes (though per SVG, you cannot transform them). Also, you can use the --query-* command line parameters to find out the bounding boxes of tspans from a script. (Individual strings within or between tspans are still not selectable, and they cannot have an ID for querying anyway.) * The placeholder image which is shown when a bitmap file was no longer accessible reads now "Linked image not found" instead of the confusing "Broken image". * Cloning multiple selected objects now works as expected (i.e. each selected object is cloned separately, similar to the Duplicate command). Previously you could only clone a single selected object. * The separate "license" and "contributors" dialogs have been merged into tabs on the About dialog. The about dialog now correctly sizes itself to fit the size of the splash SVG (while remaining resizable), and the rendering area is now cropped to the correct aspect ratio when the dialog is resized. The dialog also now displays the build information in the upper right corner. * In the Transform dialog / Rotate tab, the icon was flipped horizontally to be in line with the direction of positive rotation; the change was applied to the default (now crispy) and legacy icon sets. * The scale ratio lock button on the Selector controls bar shows a closed lock when pressed and open lock otherwise (same as the layer lock in the statusbar). * The Browse button on Export dialog now opens the new file chooser, same as those used by Open and Save. Miscellaneous bugfixes * Reading a document with an incorrect namespace URI not only did not cause Inkscape to complain, but could also "pollute" Inkscape's internal namespace table, resulting in an "infection" of subsequently saved documents by the incorrect namespace. This is now fixed, but as a result, documents with incorrect namespace URIs will no longer load. You will have to edit them in a text editor to fix the namespaces. * With newer versions of GTK, dragging with graphics tablet pen did not work in some tools and contexts (in particular, in Node and Rectangle tools). This is fixed. * Scaling of objects with stroke in Selector used to cause undesired shifts of the scaled object, as well as scaling it in the dimension which was intended to remain untouched (e.g. slight change in width when you scale only height). All these problems are now fixed, both for interactive scaling by mouse and for numeric scaling via the Controls bar, and for both values of the "Scale stroke with objects" option. Among other things, this means that stroked objects no longer lose snapping on scale, and that the "Default scale origin" option in the Selector tool preferences finally works as designed. Caveat: There may still be problems if you scale a selection that contains objects with different stroke widths. * Scaling of stroke now works for objects that didn't specify stroke-width; before, they always ended up with the default 1px stroke. * The bounding box for text and flowed text objects did not include stroke width. This has been fixed. * Stroke miterlimit on text objects was misinterpreted in absolute units instead of multiplies of stroke width (resulting in miter joins rendered as bevel). * The unfinished path in Pen tool is now cancelled, not finalized, when you switch away from the Pen tool. Apart from being more intuitively correct, this also fixes a crash when you quit Inkscape with the unfinished path in Pen tool. * Fonts on Win32 now use the native font mapper, meaning that Inkscape's font list is the same as other Windows programs, and the (potentially) very long delay experienced when using fonts for the first time in each session is gone. * Setting dash pattern was broken for transformed objects, and copy/paste of style with dash pattern did not apply correctly to objects with transforms. * An error caused a complete extra screen redraw after each zoom operation. That is, after you press "+" in a complex drawing, Inkscape redraws, but for some time after that it remains still unresponsive because it does that second redraw (invisibly for you, i.e. nothing changes on the screen). This is fixed. * Gradient rendering was off by one pixel, which often resulted in visibly wrong gradient rendering for small objects or in zoom-out. * The SVG path parser could not handle fractional numbers with the initial dot. * Several pattern rendering bugs are fixed, discovered by working with SVG files exported from Adobe Illustrator. * Inkscape on Mac OS X will now notice fonts in your ~/Library/Fonts directory, in addition to the other standard places. * Inkscape couldn't be compiled with libxml versions <= 2.6.9, and we now bumped the requirements from 2.6.0 up to libxml >= 2.6.11, which is the earliest you can get officially, anyway. * Inkscape no longer crashes when presented with a defective inx file for extensions. * More document memory is now freed when documents are closed. * EPS output now correctly includes an %%EOF footer. * There was a regression in 0.43 that caused several minor, though annoying bugs; knots and handles remained highlighted after the mouse was released, and the rubberband selection rectangle stayed visible if the selection was ended over a node while in the node tool. This regression has been fixed. * The connector routing code would previously sometimes confuse objects between multiple documents resulting in strange routing behaviour. This has been fixed. * There existed a bug in 0.43's Inkboard code that allowed a malicious outsider to very easily disrupt an Inkboard session. This has been fixed. * There existed a bug in 0.43's Inkboard code that would cause deadlocks in the case that two users attempted to invite each other at the same time (see bug #1352522 for further details). This should be fixed, although the fix has not been widely tested. * There existed a bug in 0.43's Inkboard code that would cause session invitations to not appear on the invitee's screen. This was the result of a mistake in handling GDK modifier flags, and has been fixed. Translations * INX files (containing the UI of the external effects) now allow the user visible strings to be translated. This means that effect dialogs, file type selections, and extension names can all be translated by translators. * Inkscape is now significantly translated to 18 languages: Basque, Catalan, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål dialect), Polish, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese. Additionally, 21 more languages have some level of translation. Average translation ratio has increased from 49% to 61% in this release. * Some new translations of tutorials have been brought by contributors: Czech, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian. Internal * The Document Properties Dialog code was completely gtkmmified, which lead to dramatic reduction of code size due to usage of widget objects. The used widget objects should be reusable by other dialogs, too, and the code is much more readable. * Work on optimizing includes in all cpp files started, using the purgeincludes tool specifically written for that purpose, and ended with 40% of include lines removed! Known problems SVG files saved using previous version don't display font correctly * You may find that fonts don't correctly display when opening a file from a previous version (eg 0.43). This can be fixed by simply reapplying the font. However, bringing up the font dialog doesn't acquire the font size from the document and so the actual size may be lost. If you select the text, then check using the XML viewer what the original font and size were you can then input this via the font dialog and restore your document to it's original glory! [ pbhj ] Problems with some Debian libgc-6.7 packages * Inkscape will hang or crash when linked with the first Debian packaged version of the Boehm garbage collection library. This problem was fixed in version 1:6.7-2 of the package. If you have libgc 6.7 on your Debian-based system, make sure that you are using that version of the package or later. Problems with "Composite" option of X.org * Some prereleases of inkscape-0.44 could crash if the "Composite" option were enabled in X.org's configuration. This is not a problem in the final release. Namespaces may need fixing * Previous versions of inkscape sometimes silently saved documents with wrong namespace URIs. This has been fixed, but such corrupted documents will no longer load successfully. Such documents may require their namespace declarations to be fixed by hand. Correct namespace URLs are as follows, with typical namespace prefixes given in parenthesis: + Sodipodi + Inkscape + XLink + SVG + RDF + Creative Commons + Dublin Core Metadata Beware of defective themes on Linux * Inkscape and other Gtk programs can crash on any Linux, when the gtk2-engines-smooth / libsmooth package is installed. We have filed a bug against libsmooth which is now in gtk-engine and part of gnome. Removing the package resolves the problem. Update: this bug appears to be fixed in newer versions of gtk-engines. If you are affected by this problem please update to a newer version of gtk-engines. If problems persist then please inform the gtk-engines maintainers of the problem. * A similar crash happens if the KDE Baghira theme or the package gtk_qt_engine are installed. If you experience Inkscape crashes on KDE, please try to install a different theme from Baghira, or uninstall the gtk_qt_engine package from your system. Both problems also affect older versions of Inkscape. Make sure to remove menus.xml if you have it * If you were using certain CVS/SVN builds from autumn of 2005, you may have the file menus.xml hanging around in your profile directory (e.g. ~/.inkscape on Linux). In that case you will see many errors about verbs that cannot be found, and some commands in menus will be disabled. Make sure to delete menus.xml to fix this.

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style attribute overrides CSS
by Aurèle Duda 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hello, I don't understand the behaviour of inkscape when using it on a svg with css file written by hand: When using with inkscape a file like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="21cm" height="29.7cm" version="1.1"> <title>CSS</title> <defs> <style type="text/css"><![CDATA[ .foo { fill:red; stroke:blue; } .bar { fill:blue; stroke:red; } ]]></style> </defs> <path id="a_path" class="foo" d="M 0 0 L 200 200"/> </svg> If I do something with #a_path (translate it or other), inkscape create automagically a style attribute which contain a full set of styling properties, including what I provide with .foo. But If I want to change the class in .bar, inkscape do this but keep its style attribute, overriding my CSS. I must delete the style attribute (which is, of course, prompty re-create) to obtain the style I want. I know CSS integration is plan in the future, but waiting for it why not create a work-around ? For instance, I the user make some change in XML-editor, like add, change or remove an attribute, or move an element in the XML-tree, style attr of this element is automatically reconstruct. Regards, Aurèle -- Aurèle Duda aurele_duda@...1470... Origami artworks / Créations en origami : http://aurele-origami.com (en construction) http://aureleduda.free.fr

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Anonymous users have full rights in bug tracker?
by Alan Horkan 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

I accidentally Closed a feature request while logged out. Closing the request was intentional but should I have been able to it without having been logged in? (User didn't provide necessary specific examples needed to diagnose the problem.) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604309&aid=1341926&group_… Changed to Closed status by: nobody Is this intentional? Are all users supposed to be allowed to Open and Close any bug reports or feature request they want? Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Announcing: A TTF font manager for Gnu/Linux.
by Donn 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hello all on the lists, I have released a font manager for Gnu/Linux. Sorry Windows users - go and look for a free app called "The Font Thing" it rocks. I can adjust it to work on Mac OS-X, but will need a volunteer to help me. I am a designer and I missed the ability to view fonts, sort them into collections and install/remove those collections. It was an itch I simply had to scratch and I ended-up using wxPython to solve the problem. With Fonty Python you can select ttf fonts and put them into "pogs" (from the word typography). You can place fonts into pogs from a folder or from another pog. You then install the pog you need. After that, you fire-up Inkscape and those fonts *should* appear in the font dialogue. You do your design, and when you are done and don't need them anymore, you simply remove the pog! It's there for next time. It really helps to keep fonts organized per project/client/job, whatever. If you are interested in trying it out, you can get it from: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython I am still "moving" into the Savannah website, I hope to have a short manual and so forth in the near future. The tarball (the download file) contains a README that you should consult. Please let me know your experiences with it. I apologise in advance if it toasts your hard drive, looks at you funny and then steals your car :) Donn.

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WEBFORM Bulgarian translation
by Ivan Zhekov 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Ivan Zhekov email: joneff@...400... submitted the following: Hello, there. I would like to participate in the bulgarian translation of Inkscape. What should i do? Regards, Ivan.

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coding for small business
by vonHalenbach 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Also sprach vonHalenbach: > Have any of the Inkscape developers been asked to work for hire improving > Inkscape? (Not including the Google Summer of code.) This seems to be > something likely to happen later when smaller businesses take the plunge > and switch to inkscape. I think most of the people requesting features at > the moment would only be able to offer a donation as a gesture rather than > enough to pay a developer for a few days work. Theories of end users > clubbing together to fund development haven't ever panned out far as I > know, but it is certainly a nice hope. > > > Sincerely > > Alan Horkan > > Inkscape http://inkscape.org > Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org > > I don't think we want to get into the business of having donations cause > reprioritization of work. It seems to work best when there is a full > sponsorship for a large scope of work, such as happens with the GSoC. > That'd take quite a pool of donations, but I think it could be made to > happen. > > Bryce > That is in my opinion very likely to happen. I had contact to one guy who had to convert his graphics with some crappy propritary software which is protected by a dongle. He used the software just to convert the files for a cutting-plotter. He asked me, if he can do that with inkscape in the future. Such people like it easy and would gladly pay real bucks, so that they can ditch their old software. Would you like to draw a picture with inkscape, shut down the computer, change the dongle on the printer-port, start the computer again, convert your files and plot them? Every day ? If inkscape-coders like to earn some money, they should write something in the wiki or on the homepage, that they were availebal for such activities. greetings Stefan

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Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Printing Documents
by Joshua Blocher 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

As better temporary solution for *nix systems ( may or may not help windows users ) I suggest using gtklp http://gtklp.sourceforge.net/ it provides a better interface and more options then printing directly to the printer. Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Printing Documents
by Bryce Harrington 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 02:44:01AM +0200, Jon jts wrote: > In my never ending search for a solution to my printing problem > (printing custom sized documents) I can across the following: > > http://forums.techguy.org/business-applications/497368-printer-application.… > > Some folks in the know believe it is an Inkscape coding issue. Inkscape > experts, please let us know what you think. Yup, it's a coding issue. It looks like the code in question is in inkscape/src/extensions/internal/*.cpp . Being able to print banners from Inkscape would be _very cool_. This could be a seriously killer feature. > I noticed on the Inkscape wiki site that there is/was a survey > concerning printing from Inkscape. It appears that the question has > arisen before. Yes, that was a survey to see if there were people willing to fund development work. We came pretty close to having sufficient interest, and some people even pledged some money, but there just wasn't enough to make it viable. > PLEASE, Inkscape coders, if there is something you could do to help lost > souls like me print their documents, look into this. I know I am not > alone in this request (wiki question). > > Thank you once again.... Actually, we could really use YOUR help to get this solved. You're probably thinking, "...but I can't code", but I think you could make a huge contribution here simply by helping locate a coder who can do the work. Ideally, someone could be found that would be willing to do this work simply for fun and to help Inkscape; there may be students who would like to take on a coding challenge like this. A more brute force option would be to do some fund raising and then contract someone to do the work. Either way would probably work, esp. if you can help provide them with guidance and feedback as they go. Does this sound like something you'd like to help with? I know this is probably a call of duty beyond what you expect, but it would be a great way to participate in the Inkscape project, facilitate making it more suitable to your needs, and make it that much better for everyone else as well. Bryce

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(no subject)
by Zvonko Kimble 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

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Bug tracking and Closed feature requests
by Alan Horkan 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

I sometimes feel hesistant to close certain feature requests, or how similar things need to be to mark things as duplicates. There haven't been any complaints so I can only assume no one minds (although bulia has corrected some of my sloppier less accurate comments but some days you are tired and __it happens). One of the requests I closed just today was for asking for Inkscape to use the platform native file chooser. Given how the Inkscape developers have already removed this mis-feature from the codebase I'm just hoping for agreement that it is impractical to do something like that on a per application basis and any future requests should be referred to GTK? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1550205&group_id=… The more general issue I am trying to deal with is how can I better know what bugs to close and make sure I dont go too far? It is always possible some developer somewhere will be inspired to add wacky and interesting features, but it would be helpful if there was something the developers could or say to do to cut down on the guess-work when closing request for things which are likely to be beyond the scope of Inkscape. Does anyone have an ideas about cutting down the quantity of duplicate requests? (I've always said anonymous requests put the barrier too low, and users should at least be interested enough to provide follow up information if needed.) Should I start to carve out some kind of Anti-Roadmap in the wiki and try to explain some of the things which fall beyond the scope of Inscape? Thanks in advance, back to trawling through the tracker for another while Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] WEBFORM informazioni
by Michael Moore 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Oops. I replied directly to Michele instead of to the list. Someone better at Italian may want to give a more verbose answer. -- Michael Moore On 9/10/06, Michael Moore <stuporglue@...400...> wrote: > > name: Michele > > > inizio con il fare i miei complimenti per il software inkscape. > > volevo se possibile avere delle informazioni...è possibile utilizzare questo software in una piccola impresa individuale?è necessario acquistare una licenza?fare qualche versamento? > > ringrazio anticipatamente > > cordialmente > > no parlo bene Italiano, scuzi > > Inkscape é GPL -- gratis e libre, No é necessario acquistare una licenza. > > GPL in Italian: http://www.softwarelibero.it/gnudoc/gpl.it.txt > > speri che aiuti, > -- >Michael Moore

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WEBFORM informazioni
by Michele 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Michele email: mic3000@...1462... submitted the following: inizio con il fare i miei complimenti per il software inkscape. volevo se possibile avere delle informazioni...Ã¨ possibile utilizzare questo software in una piccola impresa individuale?Ã¨ necessario acquistare una licenza?fare qualche versamento? ringrazio anticipatamente cordialmente

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11 Sep '06

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11 Sep '06

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10 Sep '06

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[Fwd: SourceForge.net Update: 2006-09-08 Edition]
by Jon Phillips 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

Yeah, we are the 5th most active project on SF.net last month! Congrats to everyone! This is even with the summer break and post-release! Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: SourceForge.net Team <noreply@...34...> > To: jon@...235... > Subject: SourceForge.net Update: 2006-09-08 Edition > Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 23:59:32 -0700 (PDT) > > 0. Introduction > 1. Sysadmin of the year > 2. July Project of the Month: openQRM > 3. September Project of the Month: Linux-NTFS > 4. Statistics > > > Judging from the spike in SourceForge.net traffic this week, the > Northern Hemisphere is back to work. To those of you returning from > summer holidays, welcome back to SourceForge.net! You will be happy to > know that your counterparts in the Southern Hemisphere have been very > busy. Throughout their winter, the countries of Brazil, Argentina, > Australia, Peru and Chile have all been among the top twenty countries > for visits to SourceForge.net. For the months of June and July, Brazil > surpassed Germany to account for the second most visits to the site. > > Like our friends in the Southern Hemisphere, the SourceForge.net team > has been busy too. We recently deployed a major version upgrade of our > main site database software in conjunction with a database hardware > systems upgrade. To ensure a smooth upgrade, we performed extensive > testing and secured the assistance of Command Prompt, a database > consulting firm (www.commandprompt.com). You may have already noticed an > improvement in site performance. Once we've had a bit more time in > production for tuning, we are confident that you'll notice further > improvement in site performance. > > We also kept busy by bringing aboard additional, talented software > engineers and a user interaction designer. > > Once these recent hires are fully up to speed, they will begin working > on our comprehensive file release system redesign, which is already > underway. Because we plan to improve the file release system in small > iterations, you should expect to see steady progress over the next > several months. > > Going forward, in addition to file release system improvements, we are > also exploring a more flexible approach to project navigation. Even > though we remain committed to revamping, extending and adding to the > developer tools that we provide, we recognize that sometimes our 128,000 > projects have unique needs. Project administrators will soon be able to > provide their users with access to additional tools or services > regardless of their hosted location. Engineering work is underway. > > Our summer hasn't been all work, a hiring spree and no fun. As some of > you have already discovered, we also packaged up and launched the > Syracuse project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/syracuse), which > contains all of the source code that powers SourceForge.net's search > system. If you need to index and search a lot of data, give Syracuse a > try and let us know what you think! > > Thank you for your continued support of SourceForge.net. > > > Jay Seirmarco > General Manager, SourceForge.net > jay@...156... > > > > Sysadmin of the Year (www.sysadminoftheyear.com) > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Here's a way for business professionals to nominate their favorite IT > administrators to be honored as Sysadmin of the Year. No purchase is > necessary. Here are the Official Rules: > > http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/index.php/saoty_rules > > > Sponsoring Organizations: > > Splunk is the main sponsor. Co-sponsors include OSTG (SourceForge.net), > Bawls (www.thinkgeek.com/bawls), the Network and Systems > Professionals Association, the League of Professional System > Administrators and USENIX/SAGE. > > > The contest will end at 11:59 PM PST on October 31, 2006. > > > Fabulous Prizes Include: > > > One Grand Prize winner will receive a $2,500 Splunk Professional license > and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. to attend the Large > Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference December 3-7, 2006. > > > A First Prize winner will receive an Apple MacBook. > > > > July Project of the Month: openQRM > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > openQRM is the world's first open source systems management platform. > Its plugin architecture manages monitoring systems and virtual servers, > and automates common day-to-day tasks in enterprise data centers. > > Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2006-07.php > Home Page: http://openqrm.org/ > Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openqrm/ > > > > September Project of the Month: Linux-NTFS > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > The goals of this project are to create a new Linux kernel driver for > the NTFS file system (1.2, 3.x, and later), user space utilities (e.g. > format, NTFS check, etc.), and a library to avoid code duplication and > provide access to NTFS to other GPL programs. > > On the driver side (kernel NTFS driver, ntfsmount, ntfs-3g), the project > allows users to read and write to their NTFS partitions (the public > kernel driver is mostly read-only at the moment whilst ntfsmount and > ntfs-3g are read-write), thus allowing people to use their Windows files > under Linux. On the utilities side, it allows people to create NTFS > volumes (mkntfs), resize existing volumes (ntfsresize), create copies of > volumes (for backup purposes for example -- ntfsclone), and do all sorts > of other things with NTFS volumes. On the library front, NTFS library > (libntfs) provides API for other GPLed programs to access NTFS volumes, > such as the recovery program TestDisk. > > Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2006-09.php > Home Page: http://www.linux-ntfs.org > Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ > > > > Statistics and Top Projects > --------------------------- > > Number of Projects: 128,787 > Number of Registered Users: 1,385,979 > > > Daily Stats for 5 September, 2006: > > SF.net: 3,053,285 pages served > Open Source Files downloaded in 24 hour period: 1,957,731 > > > Top 25 Projects: > > 1. Gaim > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim > Gaim is a GTK+ instant messaging application. It supports multiple > protocols, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, > Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr, and SILC. It has many common features found in other > clients, as well as many unique features > > 2. ZK - Ajax but no JavaScript > https://sourceforge.net/projects/zk1 > ZK is Ajax Java Web framework enabling rich UI for Web apps with no > JavaScript and little programming. With event-driven feature-rich > components, developing as simple as programming desktops. With markup > language, designing as simple as authoring HTML. > > 3. Azureus > https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus > Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client. > > 4. PDFCreator > https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator > PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.Use it like a > printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application. > > 5. Inkscape > https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape > A Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring > transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and > more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. > > 6. OpenWFE > https://sourceforge.net/projects/openwfe > OpenWFE is an open source java workflow engine / environment. It is a > complete Business Process Management suite, with 4 components : an > engine, a worklist, a webclient and an 'apre' (Automatic Participant > Runtime Environment). > > 7. MegaMek > https://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek > MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi > boardgame for 2+ players.Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or > infantry on a hex-based map. > > 8. XOOPS Dynamic Web CMS > https://sourceforge.net/projects/xoops > XOOPS is a dynamic web content management system written in PHP for the > MySQL database. Its object orientation makes it an ideal tool for > developing small or large community websites, intra company and > corporate portals, weblogs and much more. > > 9. FileZilla > https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla > FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of > features.FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. > > 10. MiKTeX > https://sourceforge.net/projects/miktex > MiKTeX is an up-to-date implementation of TeX & Friends for Windows (all > current variants). > > 11. jEdit > https://sourceforge.net/projects/jedit > jEdit is a programmer's text editor written in Java. It uses the Swing > toolkit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather powerful IDE > through the use of its plugin architecture. > > 12. aMSN > https://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn > A very nice MSN compatible messenger application, aMSN Messenger is a > multiplatform MSN messenger clone. Works pretty much like its Windows > based counterpart. Perfect for keeping in touch with those friends who > have not yet seen the light. Works on linux > > 13. phpMyAdmin > https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin > phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the > administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop > databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any > SQL statement, manage keys on fields. > > 14. Openbravo ERP > https://sourceforge.net/projects/openbravo > Web based ERP for SMEs, built on proven MVC & MDD framework that > facilitate customization & maintenance of code. Already in production, > it encompasses a broad range of functionalities such as finance, supply > chain, project mgmt, manufacturing & much more > > 15. RSSOwl | RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader > https://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl > RSSOwl is a RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader written in Java using SWT as > fast graphic library. Read News in a tabfolder, save favorites in > categories, Export to PDF / RTF / HTML / OPML, ImportFeeds from OPML, > perform fulltext-search, use internal browser > > 16. KoLmafia > https://sourceforge.net/projects/kolmafia > KoLmafia is a cross-platform desktop tool which interfaces with the > online adventure game, Kingdom of Loathing.KoLmafia is written in Java > (J2SE 1.4 compliant), with binary releases in JAR format. > > 17. Gallery > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery > A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery. Gallery is easy to install, > configure and use. Gallery photo management includes automatic > thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and more. Authenticated users and > privileged albums make this great for communities. > > 18. PhpGedView > https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview > PhpGedView parses GEDCOM 5.5 genealogy files and displays them on the > internet in formats and charts that you are familiar with.It also allows > relatives to edit their genealogy online and collaborate together on > their research. > > 19. UFO:Alien Invasion > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ufoai > "UFO: Alien Invasion" is a strategy game featuring tactical combat > against hostile alien forces which are about to infiltrate earth at this > very moment. > > 20. JasperReports - Java Reporting > https://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports > JasperReports, the market leading open source reporting engine, is used > for business intelligence in Web and desktop applications. This project > is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. Check out JasperForge.org > for archived Forums and Trackers. > > 21. FCKeditor > https://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor > Online text editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, > Java and JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful features of > known desktop editors like Word. It's XHTML compliant and works with > Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and IE. > > 22. Saxon XSLT and XQuery Processor > https://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon > The Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor, developed by Michael Kay > > 23. ODF Add-in for Microsoft Word > https://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter > Open XML Translator provides tools to build a technical bridge between > the Open XML Formats and Open Document Format(ODF). As the first > component of this initiative, the ODF Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 > allows to Open & Save ODF documents in Word. > > 24. KeePass Password Safe > https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass > KeePass Password Safe is a free, open-source, light-weight and > easy-to-use password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords > in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master key or > key-disk. > > 25. MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows > https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw > MinGW: import libraries and header files for use with GCC to build > native Windows applications; now with added extensions to the MSVC > runtime to support C99 functionality. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > When the SF.net team sends out a site-wide email, we sometimes see > replies that look like this: "Hey! I didn't ask to be on this list! You > spammer. I hate you! I hate your dog! (insert other colorful phrases > here)." The truth is, when you registered on SourceForge.net there was a > check box that said "Receive Site-wide updates, low volume." You left it > checked when you submitted the registration form, hence you are > receiving this email. We send these updates every 4 to 6 weeks, so it > truly is low volume. 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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PHAydhRMACY
by Elpis Treadway 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

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Lorem ipsum extension
by bulia byak 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

In case someone missed it, we now have a very nice extension by Jos Hirth that creates a "Lorem ipsum" random text of given length. Nice! I changed its name to "Lorem ipsum", moved it to the Render submenu and changed it so that the first sentence is always "Lorem ipsum" (the rest are randomly shuffled). Enjoy. If you have an idea of another helpful extension, don't hesitate to ask on the list! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: optional rounded caps on "calligraphic" strokes
by MenTaLguY 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

I've just added the ability to round the caps of calligraphic strokes, which is useful when the calligraphic tool is being used with low "fixity" to simulate a round pen (as I often do when inking comics). Right now there's no UI for it, but the "cap_rounding" parameter for the calligraphic tool can be set to a constant from 0.0 (existing behavior, a flat line) to 1.0 (an approximate half-circle) in preferences.xml. -mental

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WEBFORM Colors problem
by Tomasz 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Tomasz email: biuro@...1459... submitted the following: J have a problem with colors exported from Inkscape. The problem is that when I import to Inkscape CMYK bitmap (f.e. TIFF CMYK) and then I write the work in pdf, eps or ps format I cannot obtain the same colors as in CMYK palette that was imported. I think that Inkscape make a conversion. But I want obtain exactly this same colors I had imported. How do it?

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ALVN news
by Florence Hogue 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

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Interrupting interruptible displays
by John Bintz 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

Hi, all. I wanted to give a quick update on the set of changes I committed this morning. Basically, buila's cool interruptible display code is now enhanced so that, for operations that require the whole display to be updated (rubberbanding, any sort of drawing operation), the interruptibility of the display code can be disabled and then re-enabled. During the disabled times, the entire affected screen rectangle will paint, making sure the previewed object is displayed accurately. This provides (I hope) the best balance between speed and precision while working in Inkscape. I believe I've hit most of the drawing operations that can benefit from this change. I tested it on the last few pages of my latest webcomic, and it seems to be stable. Thanks, John

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 4, Issue 5
by Joc 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

>On 9/4/06, Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> wrote: >> "Lorem ipsum" is a clever name but almost too clever. (Excellent idea >> though and it is alwasy great to see people creating more effects and >> extensions already.) Although "Lorem ipsum" it is an >expression probably >> well known to typesetters it is not exactly self explanitory for the >> average beginner. > >Perhaps, but would a beginner need it at all? Usually designers use it >for mock-ups to show to clients. What about adding a submenu "Generator" which could have a number of choices, for example "text" or "shape". Where: "generator" would group any functions that generate automatically repeated objects. "text" would generate repeating text given a number of parameters, for example with "Lorem ipsum" or "Happy Birthday" along a curve or inside a shape. "shape" would generate shapes given a number of parameters, for example it could add stars of various sizes and positions at random to simulate a night sky filled with stars. Given that "Lorem ipsum" would be under a fairly self explanatory menu, it should not be so hard to figure what it does even for new users. Joc

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Update on the wandering CAD Tools Developer...
by Redefined Horizons 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

I've been in touch with the lib2geom developers. I'm going to talk with them some more and see if I can help with there efforts. It makes sense to build my CAD tools for inkscape on the geometry library that they are developing, as Botty suggested. I just wanted to let you guys know I hadn't forgotten about this, and I'm still interested in adding some new tools to Inkscape. Scott Huey

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] new icons + anyone want to help? + submenu icons
by Tobias Jakobs 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

> Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote: > > graffoo wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> I have "tangofied" main icons in icons.svg but I have following problem. > >> How do I change icons for File>Open, File>Save, File>Print, Undo, Redo, > >> Clipboard manipulation? I didn't found them in the icons.svg and on > >> winxp these icons are default ugly gnome icons :( Any suggestions? > >> Also how do I change cursor images? > > I understand, that you are interested in a consistent icon theme. But we need a solution, that works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux(KDE, Gnome, ...) > > You can't modify those icons and this is a good thing. They are taken > > from the GTK theme and the idea is to have them consistent across the > > entire desktop (bonus if you have a full GTK/GNOME desktop). > > Inkscape should use the Wimp GTK theme on Windows and those icons should > > fit the Windows look and feel as much as possible. Afaik, the Wimp stuff is integrated in GTK and no longer a separate project. > I thought that. But the problem is as I stated, the icons are not > default windows on a windows machine. There are no default Windows icons... > they are default gnome, which is > on a win desktop a bit confusing. That are not the default Gnome, but the default GTK icons. Inkscape is not a Gnome program. > just look at the attached file. I > think a perfect thing would be that if an icon is specified in icons.svg > file, inkscape will use that icon, and if it isn't specified then use > the default wimp theme icon. what about that? The other thing is, many > apps in windows have their custom icons, even the default ones. And when > Inkscape will use the tango theme, why not use the tango icons also for > the default ones. I think its less confusing when one app has one icon > theme than other rather than one app has two icon themes ;) and to solve > the problem with unification across platforms, simply ship the win > version of inkscape with the modified icons.svg. > To just change the default GTK (not winp ;) ) icon theme to Tango and change the icon.svg file would work for Windows. But Tango is more then just an icon theme, it's a new framework. Please note that older iconsets can be used with our new framework -- and, once ported, will work across the desktops in a consistent manner. If Inkscape would use the Tango ArtLibreSet[1] and not the icons.svg we could change the Incscape, Scribus and Gimp icons just by changing one iconset. Regards, Tobias [1] http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet __________________________________________________________________________ Erweitern Sie FreeMail zu einem noch leistungsstärkeren E-Mail-Postfach! Mehr Infos unter http://freemail.web.de/home/landingpad/?mc=021131

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[Fwd: Re: Free space at LinuxWorld Expo London for inkscape]
by Jon Phillips 06 Sep '06

06 Sep '06

Here is more info...we have to get this sorted b4 friday, which means THURSDAY US PST for me ;) Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Brian Teeman <brian@...1456...> > To: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> > Subject: Re: Free space at LinuxWorld Expo London for inkscape > Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:36:13 +0100 (BST) > > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Jon Phillips wrote: > > > This sounds great Brian. I sent your email to the inkscape list and will > > follow up shortly. I would love to have a presence at this event, but am > > not planning currently to be in the UK during that time and thus need to > > get some of our UK/EU developers on-board. > > > > Jon > > > It would be great if they could make it. It doesnt cost a penny and we > even do a poster for you. All you have to do is to turn up with a pc to > demo inkscape etc > > Dont want to push you but I can only really hold the lace open till > friday. Then I will have to start asking other orgs etc > > Brian > > > > > > > On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 06:20 -0500, rejon.org feedback form wrote: > >> Name: Brian Teeman > >> E-mail: brian@...1456... > >> > >> > >> Thanks to generous sponsorship space is available once again, FREE > >> of > >> charge, in the .Org Village for Linux projects, groups & campaigns. > >> > >> LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will take place over two days, 25th and > >> 26th > >> October at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London, UK. > >> > >> LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is the No. 1 marketplace for companies > >> that > >> sell, market or promote Linux-Based products, services, applications > >> and > >> solutions. Experiencing astounding growth, it's the largest gathering > >> of > >> open source professionals in the world. Linux adoption has been, and > >> continues to be, nothing short of meteoric. > >> > >> Each year I am given the task of scouring the UK and the rest of the > >> world for participants for the .Org Village at Linux Expo's in the > >> UK. Over > >> the last few years we have made the .Org Village the largest of any > >> Linux > >> Expo in the World. > >> > >> I have been able to get some extra space this year and would like to > >> offer a booth to inkscape > >> > >> If you are interested or want to find out more please contact me as > >> soon as possible > >> > >> Brian Teeman > >> .Org-aniser > >> uklinux.net - Sponsors of the .org Village. > >> > >> brian@...1456... > >> > >> > > -- > > Jon Phillips > > > > San Francisco, CA > > USA PH 510.499.0894 > > jon@...235... > > http://www.rejon.org > > > > MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto > > Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... > > IRC: rejon@...897... > > > > Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) > > Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) > > Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) > > San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu) > > > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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[Fwd: Free space at LinuxWorld Expo London for inkscape]
by Jon Phillips 05 Sep '06

05 Sep '06

Is there anyone in the UK who wants to help setup and participate in this event? It is a great opportunity. What developers do we have in the UK and or nearby? I participated in the US version of this in AUG for Creative Commons and we made massive contacts. Please email back if you are interested on this list so we can hash out a plan and esp. if you are in UK/EU. Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: rejon.org feedback form <noreply@...235...> > Reply-To: jon@...235... > To: jon@...235... > Subject: Free space at LinuxWorld Expo London for inkscape > Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:20:35 -0500 > > Name: Brian Teeman > E-mail: brian@...1456... > > > Thanks to generous sponsorship space is available once again, FREE > of > charge, in the .Org Village for Linux projects, groups & campaigns. > > LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will take place over two days, 25th and > 26th > October at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London, UK. > > LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is the No. 1 marketplace for companies > that > sell, market or promote Linux-Based products, services, applications > and > solutions. Experiencing astounding growth, it's the largest gathering > of > open source professionals in the world. Linux adoption has been, and > continues to be, nothing short of meteoric. > > Each year I am given the task of scouring the UK and the rest of the > world for participants for the .Org Village at Linux Expo's in the > UK. Over > the last few years we have made the .Org Village the largest of any > Linux > Expo in the World. > > I have been able to get some extra space this year and would like to > offer a booth to inkscape > > If you are interested or want to find out more please contact me as > soon as possible > > Brian Teeman > .Org-aniser > uklinux.net - Sponsors of the .org Village. > > brian@...1456... > > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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LaTeX extension
by Marcus Brubaker 05 Sep '06

05 Sep '06

This is a new version of eqtexsvg.py which should help resolve this bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1495693&group_id=9… It uses the sax parser to read the svg output. If someone can make the script determine whether to use the plot-svg or svg pstoedit plugin this should be able to handle the output from both. Cheers, Marcus

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Lorem ipsum extension
by Michael Moore 05 Sep '06

05 Sep '06

> I challenge other people on the list to stir up 5 more extension ideas > of your own and post them, then we can take them and add to the wiki > (but hopefully we will inspire development of them by doing this)... I'll see if I can get 5 :-) Michael-1) I'm imagining this as an imagemagick extension, so I'll put these together. I'd like an export that will let me specify a bg color for the png, or let me export to bmp, jpg or anything else imagemagick supports. Michael-2) Word-Art extension that takes whatever text (or object) is selected and projects it to be 3d, on a curve, zooming into the background etc. like the Word-Art in MS Word. Michael-3) Decorative border adder Around all the paths on an object, apply the selected border type. For example, if the user chose a triangle border, nodes would be added to the path and spaces such the edge has a saw-tooth look when it's done. User could also select curvy or square edges. (eg. http://stuporglue.org/downloads/edger.png) Michael-4) Color Scheme palette generator. Generate a web color palette with complimenting and contrasting colors based on the currently chosen color. Similar to how this page does: http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html Michael-5) Export all groups as pngs. Choose an output directory, and every top level object would get output as a png to that directory. By top level object, I mean a single object if it's not in a group, or a group of objects, but not entering into groups to export their individual components. -- Michael Moore ------------------------- Creative photography for any occasion http://elementsbycaroline.com Full quality proofs Online album

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Clipart] Re: Lorem ipsum extension
by Jon Phillips 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 00:03 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:50:49AM +0300, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote: > > Jon Phillips wrote: > > > > > > I challenge other people on the list to stir up 5 more extension ideas > > > of your own and post them, then we can take them and add to the wiki > > > (but hopefully we will inspire development of them by doing this)... > > > > A little redundancy here :D > > > > 1. automatic one-button publish from Inkscape to OCAL > > > > 2. automatic one-button publish from Inkscape to flickr > > > > 3. automatic one-button publish from Inkscape to picassaweb > > > > 4. automatic one-button publish from Inkscape to deviantArt > > > > 5. automatic one-button publish from Inkscape to art.gnome.org > > Can you identify a set of commands necessary to upload to each of these > sites? Oh, the woes of no standard mechanism for upload...if only these sites all used webdav... > I.e., for an Inkscape user, what should the one-button click perform in > order to get their SVG to upload into the given site? > > Bryce Oh, btw, for ccHost, there is a python commandline script in the bin folder of the main ccHost folder called publishcchost which allows one to publish a media file to ccHost from the commandline...thus, it should be easily adaptable for uploading any type of media to Open Clip Art Library or any ccHost installation. I'm looking to add webdav to ccHost soon too, btw... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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Corrupted file: inkscapebrochure.tar.bz
by Tobias Jakobs 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hi, I just tried to open the file: http://inkscape.org/doc/publications/inkscapebrochure.tar.bz But if I try to decompress it I have this errormassage: bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing. Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. Regards, Tobias

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Getting started with the CAD tools...
by Redefined Horizons 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

I've got an hour or two at the end of this work to get started on my CAD tools for Inkscape. (I checked out a couple of books on C++ from my local library in case I get stuck on something.) :] First let me ask a question, and then I'll explain my plan. (You guys can let me know if the plan is feasible with Inkscape's architecture.) Where can I find the classes used to represent Inkscape's geometries? (I'm assuming that each geometry type is represented by a separate class file. Let me know if this is incorrect.) I've dowloaded the source code for Inkscape 0.44, but I couldn't find a "geometry" folder in the "src" folder of the distribution. I imagine there would be a class file for rectangles, circles, elipses, lines, polylines and polygons. (Unless rectangles are represented as polylines and elipses as modified circles...) Now, for my plan of attack... Here is a basic description of my goal for the CAD tools: Tools that allow the user to create the basic Inkscape geometries using precise coordinate entry. (For example, the user could enter coordinates into a dialog box for the two endpoints of a line and then create that line, or they might enter the coordinate for the start point of the line, and then an angle and distance that would be used to compute the endpoint of the line.) Or the user might use other tools to select the precise coodinates of existing geometries as the input for such a tool, instead of entering the coordinates directly. (For example, selecting the coordinate at the midpoint of a line and the node of a polygon, and drawing the line with these exact coordinates as the two endpoints.) These tools will also allow the user to precisely modify existing geometries. (For example, move a polygon by precisely selecting two coorinates on existing geometries to compute the change in X and change in Y for the translation.) Here is what I need to do: [1] Design and implement what I call "coordinate selectors". These are tools that allow very precise selection of points on the canvas. Typically these points will be selected from existing geometries.I would like to implement the following coordinate selectors for Inkscape: End Point (The coordinate at the end point of a line or polyline.) Mid Point (The coordinate at the mid point of a line, polyline segment, or polygon segment.) Nearest Node (The coordinate at the node nearest to center of selection window created by a mouse drag on the canvas.) All Nodes (The coordinates of all nodes within a selection window created by a mouse drag on the canvas.) Perpendicular (The coordinate at point on a line, polyline segment, polygon segment, or projection of any of these segments that is perpendicular to another selected point.) Intersection (The coordinate of the point at the intersection of two or more lines, polyline segments, or polygon segments.) Offset (The coordinate of a point created by projecting an offset along the alignment or direction of two other points and a fixed distance.) Projected Intersection (The coordinate of a point located at the projected intersection of any two lines, polyline segments, or polygon segments.) I'll get started by examing the geometry classes, which I will need to use in my calculations for the coordinate tools. But I will also need to figure out how to add a tool to Inkscapes user interface that allows the user to drag a window on the canvas and then programatically access the geometries or shapes that are contained by or intersect that window. (Perhaps I can use the exisitng pointer/selection tool in Inkscape?) Let me know what you think of this plan, and let me know how I can get to those geometry classes. Scott Huey P.S. - I can program the coordinate selectors in a way that allows them to be used by other developer's tools, not just the ones I design. For example, in OpenJUMP I am building coordinate selectors that can store there selected coordinates on a "Coordinate Clipboard" that can be accessed by the user or programatically.

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Layered export for LaTeX
by Jan Gacnik 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

Hello, welcome everybody. I am new to Inkscape and this list. :) Let me explain my situation. I am an electrical engineer and currently working towards my PhD degree, for that reason I am using LaTeX very often. Since the very first moment I had a problem to find a proper application to create vector-based graphics in a convenient way. The special problem is that the labels in the graphics should use the LaTeX fonts and macros that I use in my paper. The only application that supports this (up to my knowledge) is XFig. The vector based graphics itself are being exported as Postscript or PDF. An additonal LaTeX file containing the labels is generated that includes the PS/PDF graphics file. At compile-time, LaTeX puts the text above the PS/PDF graphics, just at the position where it should be. - That is just a great for me (and a lot of others I know)! The problem with XFig is the following: - Usability (argh!) - Portability (at work I have Windows, I did not find a proper Version of XFig, JFig that did the same job as it does on my Mac) Form what I have seen from Inkscape it has a very good usability and is platform-independent, a very good place to start from. :) Since I have seen others requesting this "layered LaTeX export feature" on lists and forums, but I did not see that it was coded, I hereby volunteer to implement this feature. I hope to get some help from this list to implement this feature into Inkscape. I only had a 2 minutes look at the sources, but my plans are roughly like that: - descent the document tree, find text items, write them to a LaTeX file, remove them form the tree - pass the graphics-only document tree to the standard PS/PDF export routines Could it work out that way? Greetings, Jan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fwd: ANNOUNCEMENT: September PLUG Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

----- Forwarded message from David Mandel <dmandel.dem@...400...> ----- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:04:09 -0700 From: David Mandel <dmandel.dem@...400...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1...>, David Mandel <dmandel@...1452...> Reply-To: dmandel@...1453... Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: September PLUG Meeting MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT The Portland Linux/Unix Group will meet 7 PM Thursday Aug 3, 2006 at Portland State University in Smith Memorial Center Room 294 On the block bounded by SW Montgomery, SW Broadway (7th), SW Harrison, and SW Park (9th) ******************************************************************* PRESENTATION Inkscape by Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1...> Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Inkscape's main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development process, and by making sure Inkcape is easy to learn, to use, and to extend. ******************************************************************* Agenda: 7:00 - 7:30 Business We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education, etc. 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation See above 9:00 - ... Beer The Lucky Labrador Brewing Company 915 SE Hawthorne David Mandel Chief Activist Portland Linux/Unix Group 560 SE Alexander Corvallis, Oregon 97333 (541) 730-5285 mobile dmandel@...1454... P.S. Biznix which specializes in Linux and UNIX support for the Business Computer User. As I understand, they haven't been meeting for a while, but intend to have regular meetings again in 2006. See http://www.Biznix.org for details. P.S. BLUEgroup (The Beaverton Linux Users Education Group) is a group geared toward new users or those interested in learning more about Linux. BLUE group meets on the 4th Thursday of every month (except Thanksgiving and Christmas) at the corner of Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy and Western ave. See www.BLUEgroup.org for details. P.S. PDXLUG provides a less formal alternative to PLUG emphasizing the needs of new users. PDXLUG meets every second Thursday of the month in southeast Portland. See http://www.PDXLUG.org for details. P.S. The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets at 6:30 PM on the first Tuesday of the month. They have out grown their meeting location at PEAK and are now meeting on the OSU campus. See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details. P.S. The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month. See http://www.euglug.org for details. ====================================================================== David Mandel http://www.DavidMandel.com Portland Linux/Unix Group http://pdxLinux.org LinuxFund http://LinuxFund.org ====================================================================== ----- End forwarded message -----

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01 Sep '06

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