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Font size in pt
by John Smith 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

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

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Queries about lib2geom
by Shriramana Sharma 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

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

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

05 Aug '12

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

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

01 Aug '12

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

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

30 Jul '12

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

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

28 Jul '12

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

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tracing ui
by Alexandre Prokoudine 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

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

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Next release?
by Dave Crossland 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

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

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Vacation
by Josh Andler 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

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

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Retire Gradient Editor
by John Smith 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

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

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

23 Jul '12

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

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

23 Jul '12

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

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OCAL upload in Inkscape
by Jakub Jankiewicz 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

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

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

18 Jul '12

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

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Should Inkscape
by Martin Owens 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

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

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New extension: svgtextext_to_pdflatex
by Håkon Marthinsen 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

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

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

13 Jul '12

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

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vector printing win32
by Solor Vox 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

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

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Old configure options
by Josh Andler 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

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

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

05 Jul '12

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

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

03 Jul '12

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

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symbolic icons
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

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

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

01 Jul '12

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

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Inkscape 0.48.3.1
by Ted Gould 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

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

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Polar Arrangement - Review
by Denis 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

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

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