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Make inkscape remember dialogs window status (bug #171579)
by Nicolas Dufour 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Hello, The wishlist report bug #171579, "Make inkscape remember dialogs window status", has been recently patched by John Smith. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171579) The patch compiles correctly on Windows XP, OSX and Ubuntu, and behave *almost* as expected. But: 1. It only works with dockable dialogs (not with Text and fonts, XML editor, etc.). 2. It doesn't work correctly with dialogs docked in a floating window. 3. The minimize status of the docked dialogs is not rememberer (they are considered closed). 4. It doesn't restore all the locked/visible icons of the Layers dialog. 5. The status is updated when the dialog is opened or closed, and doesn't necessarily reflects the status of the last closed Inkscape window. 1, 2 and 4 are probably out of the scope of the patch, but fixing 5, and maybe 3, would make the patch committable for 0.49 IMHO. 5 is debatable though. Should we save the status in the preferences when the last document is closed, or save it on a per document basis? Tests and comments are welcome! Regards, -- Nicolas

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svg cleaner
by Alexandre Prokoudine 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Hi, Today I got a mail from developers of a new SVG cleaning app called... *drumroll*... SVG Cleaner :) Source code is at Launchpad: bzr branch lp:svg-cleaner There are builds for Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/~svg-cleaner-team/+archive/svgcleaner The app seems capable, developers are seeking input from experienced users. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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DHW file input extension
by Nikita Kitaev 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

A couple of months ago I modified someone's BSD-licensed DHW to SVG converter and turned it into an Inkscape extension. DHW is the proprietary format used by DigiMemo digital notepads (writing on the notepad with a special pen will record all of the penstrokes and save a copy of the writing onto an SD card). Right now the code is up on github [1]. It's a 215-line perl script, plus the accompanying INX file. I'm wondering if it would make sense to do something else with it, like adding it to an extension repository or maybe even including it with Inkscape. Any suggestions? ~Nikita [1] https://github.com/nikitakit/DM2SVG

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Adding half tones pattern to SVG filters
by gespertino＠...400... 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

2011/12/11 Ivan Louette <ivan_louette@...48...>: > Thanks ! It's a very nice filter in GIMP indeed ! > > But SVG filters are non destructive and another advantage is that you can > combine several filters in one to create powerfull and customizable non > destructive custom effects. You're welcome! I mentioned GIMP's newsprint just as a reference of the needed features (dot shape, resolution, channels, etc) and UI. Using similar sets of features, names and UI distribution would make the SVG filter more familiar for GIMP users and vice-versa. I know SVG filters are different and of course I'd love to have a non-destructive filter instead of a one-time raster effect. Well, I'd love to have non-destructive filters in GIMP too, but that's far in the GEGL horizon. ;-)

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Useful functions
by Josh Andler 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hey All, I stumbled across some videos a while back relating to some plugins for Illustrator that provide some pretty cool functionality and wanted to share, I just don't believe I did on the list (hopefully I'm not repeating). Do we have an appropriate page in the wiki for me to add them or does anyone think it would be more appropriate to just add a number of RFEs to the tracker? This first one shows some pretty useful color functionality you normally see associated with raster apps but is stuff that would rock to have for use in the vector space. Yes we have extensions that provide some of the functions, but they're destructive effects. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRthJrsYepg This live half-toning stuff is definitely sweet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLOVqTE9Zy8 When we finally get to a point where we can produce proper PDFs for print, this would be some fantastic functionality to have (especially with the costs of home printing supplies). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnGgtQAXf8U Just thought I'd share... Cheers, Josh

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Next release check-in...
by Josh Andler 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Hey all, Anything in particular people are looking to add or refactor which they haven't discussed yet? Development has greatly slowed and I am curious if it's related to lack of interest, time, or people not wanting to hold up a possible release by adding new features. Note, a release is unfeasible at this time anyway, so we're really still game for new code currently. Related to this, Tavmjong's gradient mesh branch is pretty nice (and still has bugs) atm... if anyone is interested in helping out with it, please let him know. It would be awesome if we could see that work stabilized and available in the next release. Just checking in... Cheers, Josh

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Introspection
by Stefan de Konink 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Is it currently already possible to use introspection with Inkscape? Are there any examples? Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREKAAYFAk7enuoACgkQYH1+F2Rqwn2fuACffR2/B0NXftshRRNcGhGfCBF2 6sYAoIgHfBlMRVP/2hpakGQ1N3hbyQqK =AkN7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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new color / System Palette
by GiveLifeCS 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Hi, I am Gabriel Vano the creator of Givelife color system GiveLife Color System put online the second product , the Color / System Palette in RGB ,more biggest of the world with 5101 shades of Color. I belive that this tool is very important and beneficial to help the Designers in General , saving time and to forget about having to create your own Color Palette , because with this Color Palette the Designers can find the most desirable shades of Color. This Color System has been tested by Designers demanding and the conclusion of all them is very clear ,it is a key tool of color. Currently this Color Palette is by default in the Operative System "Asturix" that the new version Asturix 4(Distribution of Linux), will be online in a week more or less for this reason I send an e-mail to all the developers of Inkscape to study the possibility to put it, by default in Inkscape. the type of the RGB is "SRGB". if you visit the website you can download the Color palette for Inkscape I am sure that this tool will be very ussefull for all the users of Inkscape. also the type of the licence is creative commons "CC" BY-NC-ND. I wait for your comments greetings Gabriel Vano http://www.givelifecolorsystem.com http://givelifecolorsystem2.blogspot.com/

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Bug report
by Stefano Galli 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Dear All, I'm a very satisfied user of Inkscape. I use MAC OS and passing from snow leopard to Lion OS I've found a problem of some file visualization. It happens that exported files in Pdf from Inkscape, if I use some gradient, this gradient is not well displayed on Anteprima software on Mac running Lion, while it is well displayed in Snow Leopard OS. Also the pdf files are well displayed on Acrobat Reader in both Snow Leopard and Lion. I've already reported the bug to the MAC people but I would like also to tell this to you if you have any solution also to suggest to the MAC people. Of course I can send every kind of example, screenshots and files also. I hope to get a reply. Thank you. Best Regards, -- Stefano Galli

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Cleaning up Inkscape's SVG output.
by Tavmjong Bah 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi, I have just checked into trunk some of the fruits of Abhishek's GSOC project to improve Inkscape's SVG output. Abhishek wrote the core routines to which I added a variety of utility functions. This code can result in cleaner and smaller SVG. It does the following things: For a given element (<rect>, <path>, etc.) it checks: 1. That all attributes are valid.[1] 2. That properties are appropriate.[2] 3. That properties are useful.[3] What Inkscape does when it finds a problem is controlled by settings under the "SVG output" section of the Inkscape Preferences dialog. For each of the above cases, you can independently: 1. Print out warnings to the console (if running Inkscape from the command line). 2. Delete the invalid or not useful items. In the dialog, you can choose when Inkscape should test the SVG: 1. When reading files. (If this option is enabled at start-up, files Inkscape uses internally like icons.svg will also be checked.) 2. When editing files. (Mostly useful for debugging Inkscape.) 3. When writing files. This code has been test on a variety of SVG files but it will need much broader testing. The default preferences are set to do nothing so as to avoid the risk of damaging files. Please take your favorite SVG files and compare the visual output when the "Remove" and "Writing" boxes are checked in the Inkscape Preferences dialog. Also, compiling the code under Windows and OSX needs to be checked. Tav [1] Only elements in the SVG name space are tested. [2] The SVG specification explicitly allows styling properties such as 'font-family' on most SVG elements (e.g. <rect>) but there a many cases where they are of no use. [3] A property is useful if it changes an inherited or default value.

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Regressions after r10326 (initial merge of the cairo-rendering branch)
by ~suv 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Since we don't have a dedicated thread for regressions introduced with the initial merge of the cairo-rendering branch and I don't want to mix it with reports about merge of the rendering cache or the removal of libnr, I'm starting a new thread forwarding related confirmed reports in the bug tracker which haven't been mentioned on the list before: Bug #845153 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/845153> "radial gradients not rendered correctly" Bug #837066 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/837066> "Bucket Tool regressions with Cairo renderer" Bug #814179 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/814179> "CMS tab: Yellow and Cyan colors are swapped" Bug #805392 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/845153> "Circle resizing do not preserve stroke width" ~suv (trying to work around the flood of bug mails to developers and the apparent inability of gmail's web interface to filter on custom mail headers [1] ;) ) [1] List of custom mail headers in bug tracker e-mail notifications to allow filtering on assignee, status, importance, tags etc.: <https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/Subscriptions#Bug_mail_headers>

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Make script?
by Martin Owens 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

> On 27 November 2011 00:18, Mark Voorhies <mark.voorhies@...2508...> wrote: >> Do we have an inkscape make script to convert inkscape-svg to >> plain-svg when compiling/building programs that include svg files? > > Is this what you're looking for? > > inkscape --export-plain-svg=stripped.svg inkscape.svg Yes and in a way no, you see having inkscape are a build dependency would probably be considered unacceptable for most build servers, or at least slow down the processing of package building enough for it to be not useful. I'm imagining something light and probably Independent. Perhaps even a script to automatically limits any xml structure to a set list of needed namespaces would be quite cute.

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Make script?
by Martin Owens 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

Hey guys, Do we have an inkscape make script to convert inkscape-svg to plain-svg when compiling/building programs that include svg files? I just noticed that many of the svg icons shipped with Ubuntu have inkscape and sodipodi references. Could we help to make sure that inkscape-svg is more like sources and plain-svg is compiled? Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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how to query current color on code level?
by Aapo Rantalainen 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hi, how I query current color (color of the selected object), fill or stroke, on code? I.e. color of the box in left-bottom-corner "Fill:". I have read the code (version 0.48.2) and tried this: SPDesktop *_desktop = SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP; guint32 color = sp_desktop_get_color(_desktop, true); printf("selected color: %6x\n",color); But it is always returning 'ff0000'. ** I have found the place which writes text (but not the value) for the tooltip: ui/widget/selected-style.cpp:195 __color[i] = (i == SS_FILL)? (_("Flat color fill")) : (_("Flat color stroke")); And value is on ui/widget/selected-style.cpp:979 g_snprintf (c_string, 64, "%06x/%.3g", color >> 8, SP_RGBA32_A_F(color)); But I do not see is this correct place at all for accessing it. -Aapo Rantalainen

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Second opinion
by Kris De Gussem 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Hi all Could someone check independently the modifications in css.h in revision 10748? Seems to me that besides the initialisation, the equals operator in the CSSPrimitiveValue class was not doing what it was supposed to do. Thanks. Kind regards Kris

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glibmm dependency should be updated
by Markus Peloquin 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

I just went through a lot of trouble installing dependencies for inkscape in RHEL5 only to find this error nigh instantaneously in the build: color-profile.cpp: In static member function static void Inkscape::ColorProfile::set(SPObject*, unsigned int, const gchar*): color-profile.cpp:299: error: g_uri_escape_string was not declared in this scope color-profile.cpp:308: error: g_uri_unescape_string was not declared in this scope The g_uri_* functions came in glib-2.16, not 2.4 like configure.ac looks for. I'll just go back to using RHEL5 and hating life...

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Inkscape wiki news
by Kris De Gussem 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hi all I thought it was good moment to give an update from the wiki spam fighting front. I performed a thorough check on the nature and type of the recent vandalism. It is actually quite possible that there is only a single vandal. Because there is no captcha system active, anybody with even very basic programming skills is able to make a simple bot in a few hours that allows automated account creation, uploading fake images and adding spam links. Luckily, all vandalism appears to come from a few specific but broad ranges of open proxies. The reason is that if a vandal is using the IP address he gets from his internet server provider, he gets quickly blocked. Even if he is lucky to have a very dynamic IP address, he generally runs out of available IP addresses quite soon. Therefore, if he is able to, a vandal can (and will) use badly configured open proxies to have a bigger impact. Anyhow, I first checked for the individual vandal IP addresses, which I blocked. After a while, I was able to detect a line in the vandalism and IPs used, so I was able to block a few relatively small /24 IP ranges. With information from wikipedia about known and dangerous or abused open proxy ranges, I finally blocked 5 quite wide IP ranges. As far as I can see, no genuine wiki edit is done from these ranges nor any genuine account created. Since the blocks, no vandal activity was seen. Hopefully this keeps on being the case. Kind regards Kris

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powerstroke
by Alexandre Prokoudine 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Hi, I was wondering how powerstroke LPE was doing and whether we should enable it, and just have come across a document on somewhat similar thing called Advanced Outlines in Synfig Studio. I think some people in this list will enjoy reading it :) http://bit.ly/qwZ4lD BTW, should we perhaps enable some of the LPEs in nightly PPA? Some testing wouldn't hurt? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Foot unit
by Johan Engelen 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi all, I just found this in the code: gchar const *sp_svg_length_get_css_units(SVGLength::Unit unit) { switch (unit) { ... case SVGLength::MM: return "mm"; case SVGLength::FOOT: return ""; // Does not have a "foot" unit string in the SVG spec ... That seems weird. Are we sure this is correct, instead of returning "ft" for the foot unit? Thanks, Johan

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About gtk3 migration....
by Alcides Viamontes Esquivel 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi guys, I found this thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27264203 about migration of inkscape to gtk3. Has anybody worked on this? I've using Inkscape for a long time, but I have zero experience with it's inner workings (beyond coding basic extensions in python ;-) ), so, my question is, how complicated would it be? Regards!

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GPGPU
by Ken O'Brien 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi, What is the current state of gpgpu acceleration in Inkscape? and where can I find the docs for this functionality? Regards, Ken

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inkscape wiki admin
by Ian Caldwell 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

anyone with the wiki inkscape admin credentials please send them to me as soon as possible. Thanks, Ian

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Dead dl links
by John Cliff 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Hi guys, can someone who knows how edit the downloads page to remove the modevia link for the windows nightlies? Cheers John

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Mesh Gradients in Inkscape
by Tavmjong Bah 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Hi, I have just checked in to my private Coons Patch Mesh Gradient branch, code that allows the ability to create and edit mesh gradients. Warning: This code is a real Hack. It is known to segfault and eat kittens for lunch. It will need lots of reworking by real experts before one can hope to see it in Inkscape trunk (as well as dealing with the issue that meshes are not part of the SVG 1.2 standard... they have been accepted as part of SVG 2.0 but that standard is along way from being appearing even in a draft form). What you can do with the code: 1. Create a simple one patch square mesh the size of an objects bounding box. (Select the third button on the Gradient Tool-Tool Bar and the double click the object.) 2. Drag corner nodes (diamonds). 3. Change color of corner nodes. 4. Drag handles (circles). There is no indication of what handle belongs with which corner node or path so it can be confusing. 5. Divide a row or column of patches into two rows or columns. (Double click on the lines connecting corner nodes. Double clicking elsewhere may lead to a crash.) At the moment, the row or column is split down the middle. 6. Save the mesh. The mesh is saved in the proposed SVG standard format (highly likely to change). 7. Read in saved meshes. Some of what is missing: 1. Ability to undo node moves/color changes. 2. Ability to merge two rows or columns into one or delete edge rows or columns. 3. Ability to change paths between straight lines and Bezier curves. Handles are shown even for straight lines. 4. Display of Bezier curves (they are shown as straight lines). 5. Stability (I did tell you it will segfault, didn't I?). 6. Sane coding. 7. Properly handling of gradient copying. 8. Auto-creation of conical gradients or other non-square gradient types. 9. Output to PS/PDF/PNG(?) 10. Update to current trunk. You can check out the code at: https://code.launchpad.net/~tavmjong-free/inkscape/mesh Tav

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Stash-OSX
by Martin Owens 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Quick Update on the stash front, $kouiskas on dA has published a BSD Licensed OSX Uploader. http://kouiskas.deviantart.com/art/OS-X-Sta-sh-195250264 If anyone is interested in making the Inkscape (and/or gimp) da.stash uploader plugins work in OSX, then reusing this code will probably be the right was to go. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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