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how to include size information in SVG_G_ELEMENT
by Ogla Sungutay 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi guys, I need to add the size of the SVG_G_ELEMENT in a custom namespace as seen below: <g inkscape:label="baz" id="foo" myNamespace:width="647" myNamespace:height="400" > This will require some hacking, so before I go into the code, I wanted to get some feedback from you; I'm hoping that you can give me some directions or offer me solutions. Thanks!! -- V. Ogla Sungutay, UI programmer www.lyciasoft.com skype:oglasungutay

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Website redesign Proposal (was: )
by AJ Ashton 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi all, I've been reading the side-discussion about the current state of the Inkscape website and figured I should speak up. from Alexandre Prokoudine in the 'Free Desktop Release' thread: > In fact, our custom website CMS is rather unmaintained. Several people > volunteered to create a new website based on drupal or possibly > something else, and we never heard back from them. This was me and my colleague Young Hahn. We work for Development Seed, a small web shop in Washington, DC, with a focus on using & contributing to open-source projects. Young and I are both designers who rely on Inkscape for the majority of our graphics work. You can see the kinds of things Inkscape is helping us do at http://developmentseed.org/projects Earlier in the year we chatted with Josh Andler about how the current website works and what a Drupal redesign/migration might look like. We suggested Drupal since that is what we specialize in - Young, in addition to being a kick-ass designer, is also a highly respected and experienced Drupal developer. Since our initial chat with Josh we've been letting other projects distract us. However, recently I've been speaking to Young and our CEO, Eric Gundersen, about scheduling some real time for this and, if the community is willing, we'd love to get started soon. One important aspect of the site that we think needs work is the information architecture. We propose reducing the main navigation menu to: - News - Download - Documentation - Resources - Gallery - Community - Development I would like to open a discussion about people's thoughts on this, and perhaps get into some specifics regarding what pages/sections would need to be consolidated, rethought, or perhaps eliminated in order to do this. I have some ideas regarding a new visual design as well, but think that can wait until these more fundemental decisions are made. Thanks! AJ Ashton

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our logo in EPS
by Alexandre Prokoudine 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Hi, For a reason I may not yet announce I need our logo in EPS file format. Unfortunately Inkscape still has no idea how to flatten transparencies when saving to PS/EPS. Before I go tweaking the SVG to get rid of them, I'd like to find out if somebody did this job before, so that some time could be spared. Thanks in advance, whatever would come out of this :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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round and bevel edges of any kind of shapes ?
by Axel Richter 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

hi, is it possible to bevel or round edges on any shapes? i know its going on the boxes but how can i realize it when i need a bevel of 5mm or any unit. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Axel Richter ~ +WEB+VECTOR+PHOTO+MUSIC+ ~ Web: http://www.airwaveindehouse.com http://www.axelrichteronline.de Mail: airwaveindehouse@...1439...

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Status of dbus awareness
by Kent Tenney 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Howdy, I just built the inkscape trunk from bzr and ran this script #!/usr/bin/python import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() inkdoc1 = bus.get_object('org.inkscape', '/org/inkscape/desktop_0') doc1 = dbus.Interface(inkdoc1, dbus_interface="org.inkscape.document") im = doc1.image(100 ,100, '/home/ktenney/Firefox_wallpaper.png') Which worked on a dbus branch a while back. Now it starts inkscape, but does not place the image - was the dbus code merged? - if so, how do I enable/use it? - if not, where is dbus capable code? Thanks, Kent

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Error while building 9775 on windows
by Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

After R19 of devlibs everything is fine. Got a new completely rebuild. Thanks Krzysztof Sincerely, UweSch The build problem introduced in trunk revision 9775 should be fixed with devlibs revision 19; they now contain libxml2 2.7.7 built against iconv and zlib from the devlibs. Regards, Krzysztof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel -- Mit freundlichem Gruß, Uwe Schöler

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Error while building 9775 on windows
by Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Hi, i get the following error: Make error line 299: problem compiling: src/xml/repr-io.cpp: In function 'Inkscape::XML::Document* sp_repr_read_file(const gchar*, const gchar*)': src/xml/repr-io.cpp:297: error: 'XML_PARSE_HUGE' was not declared in this scope Can someone else build 9775 on windows? Sincerely, Uwe Schöler

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Bug reports in portuguese
by Felipe Sanches 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

The brazilian inkscape community is very active. But lots of people are not familiar with english. So there seems to be a need for a community effort to proxy their bug reports and feature requests into our official bugtracker (by translating them into english). I am not sure whether launchpad has a feature to enable that. But I would like to install a launchpad server to host bug reports in portuguese and I'd like to know whether there is some feature that would help us keep some kind of relation between equivalent bugs in both systems so that we can minimize the human effort to keep both systems fairly synchronized. I'd like to have bug status, tags, metadata, etc.. all shared and synchronized so that the only human effort would be the actual translation of user comments. But if we dont have such features, I still would like to try to setup the best system we can in order to allow greater user participation. Felipe "Juca" Sanches

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] funding inkscape developement
by Björn Göransson 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

LyX has some kind of mechanism for jointly donating towards the implementation of a specific feature. http://www.lyx.org/Donate With a bit of googling there seem to be quite a number of sites for > arranging freelance work like this. I don't know if anyone here has an > experience with such a site or would be able to recommend one, but my > guess would be that it might be easiest and most transparent to just > post your requests on such a site and announce it here, especially if > you also want to let others donate. > -- Med vänlig hälsning, Björn A. Göransson

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Accessing Inkscape document data as it is generated
by David Yip 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hello all, Haven't posted a message here in a long time -- hope things are going well! I've received a message asking about the best way to access Inkscape's document data as it's changed. His project involves serving document data from Inkscape to locally-running programs, for which he plans to use DBus. The questioner prefers to remain anonymous for now. My initial response recommended implementing Inkscape::UndoStackObserver, much as Inkboard did, as it's an easy way to obtain a stream of transactions on the document. However, questioner's concern with this approach was that listening for changes on the undo stack wouldn't capture intermediate states of actions, e.g. motion along a path. He brought up another possibility, which was to send changes in batches at short intervals (using, say, Inkscape::XML::NodeObserver). I'm no longer familiar enough with the Inkscape codebase to give an opinion on how well this would work, nor do I know if there's been any changes in the past few years that would make this sort of thing easier. Can anyone help out? I can offer clarifications as necessary. Thanks, - David

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] our logo in EPS
by Guillermo Espertino 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

May I ask why EPS? Even the position of its creator is to move forward to PDF. I usually find myself trying to import/export proprietary formats but if I send the "wrong" format to my providers they ask me to export it again in their preferred format. I wonder why we have to worry about this and not them, since we can do PDF or even SVG (which doesn't seem to be very well supported by some commercial and people can't complain, by the way). I know saying this won't solve anything and it's not very helpful, just my two cents.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Error while building 9775 on windows
by Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Do difference :( > -----Original Message----- > From: bulia byak [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] > Sent: 22 September, 2010 22:04 > To: Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com; Krzysztof Kosiński > Cc: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Error while building 9775 on windows > > Anyway, I added #include <libxml/parser.h> in rev 9776, see if this > fixes it for you. > > -- > bulia byak It made no difference. Searching, I could not find the constant anywhere in devlibs. Preben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel -- Mit freundlichem Gruß, Uwe Schöler

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.po problem when compiling on Win 32
by Docsonic 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

When I try to compile the source files on a Win32 platform, I get a raft of errors saying that 'keyword msgctxt not found' in file am.po. Each file I delete leads the error onto the next po file until I delete all the po files, the compilation then works properly. This is not a great issue for me as I don't need the translations but it is bound to be a problem for some others. Thanks, Tony -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/.po-problem-when-compiling-on-Win-32-tp29771438p29771… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Private strings: use of const
by Kris De Gussem 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

A few months ago we had a thread about static code analysis with coverity. However, I have not heard anything from it anymore. So I just installed myself another static code analysis software packet, cppcheck. I played with it a bit and stumbled upon several notifications of functions that could be const. See e.g. the extract of the log: [E:\Inkscapecode\inkscape\src\extension\extension.h:122]: (style) The function 'Extension::get_help' can be const [E:\Inkscapecode\inkscape\src\extension\param/parameter.h:111]: (style) The function 'Parameter::name' can be const [E:\Inkscapecode\inkscape\src\extension\param/parameter.h:116]: (style) The function 'Parameter::get_tooltip' can be const [E:\Inkscapecode\inkscape\src\extension\param/parameter.h:119]: (style) The function 'Parameter::get_gui_hidden' can be const [E:\Inkscapecode\inkscape\src\extension\dbus\dbus-init.cpp:87]: (style) Unused variable: obj [E:\Inkscapecode\inkscape\src\extension\dbus\dbus-init.cpp:104]: (style) Variable 'error' is assigned a value that is never used So the first item lists line 112 of extension.h: gchar const * get_help (void) { return _help; } which should return the pointer to a string in a private variable. However what should be const? The pointer, the string to which the pointer points to or both? Aparently the pointer should be const, no? (e.g. to ensure that the string can not be deleted in some buggy code that calls get_help, leaving the pointer_help in the class pointing to some odd data chunk?) This would result in: gchar * const get_help (void) { return _help; } Or is there something that I am missing? BTW: this is just an example, the same reasoning is valid for the listings in parameter.h Regards Kris

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Input Device UI
by Hans Meine 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Am Freitag 17 September 2010, 04:56:48 schrieb bulia byak: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: > > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/54403269/xinput-ink-vs-gimp.png > > That image was seriously revelatory! Only from it I figure out that > the new dialog does in fact has a column of "disabled" values - for me > it was completely obscured because the dialog appeared in a narrow > sidebar, and I only saw the list of devices. So now we need to solve > the following problems: > > 1. Make sure this column is always visible. If there are no other values than "screen" and "disabled" (I guess there are), one could even just add checkboxes in *front* of the devide ID. HTH, Hans

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Input Device UI
by Guillermo Espertino 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

My wife has a Genius Pensketch tablet that uses the wizardpen driver in gnu/linux. The driver is provided by the community and have some limitations, like being unable to work with a mouse at the same time (if you use the tablet you lose the ability to use mouse on the work area until you change the stylius from screen to de-activated). If that selector is removed it will render inkscape unusable for people with those tablets who want to use the mouse as well. And there are lots of cheap tablets that only run in linux with that driver. Wacom tablets (and those that use the wacom drivers) don't have that problem and you can safely leave everything set to screen.

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rss generation
by Alexandre Prokoudine 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi, While we are waiting for Development Seed guys to start working on the new website, it'd be nice to fix some things on the existing one. One thing that IMO needs fixing is the RSS feed generator. Currently it just compiles all the text it can find into one paragraph, which isn't nice, and loses all HTML links, which is even worse. Could anybody with PHP-Fu please fix that? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape and the future of printing !
by Guillermo Espertino 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Adjusting the colors to the destination gamut seems more acceptable than just de-activating filters since most of the popular CMYK profiles fall pretty much inside the sRGB gamut. The out-of-sRGB-gamut colors can be adjusted using the relative colorimetric intent (probably it would be a good idea to nag the user with a warning when this happens) but in my oppinion as user that's completely acceptable. I agree that allowing untagged CMYK would be a bad idea. Thanks to poor design decisions in popular software packages, users tend to think that the important thing is to have CMYK and color profiles remain like something rather obscure that it shouldn't be touched (i know because I was one of those clueless designers ranting for CMYK knowing nothing about color management :-p) Thanks to being unable to work with early binding with Inkscape and GIMP I got used to late binding and once I saw the benefits I realized that it's better. I finally understood that when designers (like me) ask for CMYK they're actually asking for a way to use black as a spot pass. Pantone colors can be used with both early and late binding. Most of the designers I know use the formula books -which have Lab color values- in an early binding workflow, thinking that they will get the "right" CMYK values and they don't realize that the colors are being mapped to the generic CMYK profile they're using. So, truth to be said, maybe it's better to adopt a late binding worflow with the ability to "force" CMYK values (for blacks/grays or for specific CMYK combinations) rather than worrying too much about how to deal with CMYK and filters and all. >From my user p.o.v. everything seems pretty much ready for a print workflow. We just need to make it more obvious in the UI, and it looks like something that can be achieved improving the fill+stroke dialog and the auto-palette a little. Just my 2 cents.

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Input Device UI
by Martin Owens 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hey all, I've just installed inkscape 0.48 from the nightly build (there is still no stable ppa) since 0.47 started crashing every time I pressed the stroke/fill dialog. Now my presure sensitivity has gone and I was looking at the new dialog for input devices... I can't make heads nor tales of it. What is it supposed to be letting me do? What's the difference between the configuration (which has a single checkbox and that's it) and the hardware tab? What is linking for? If the use pressure sensitivity checkbox is checked, then why doesn't it work? Is there anything else? If the testing area is for trying out all the inputs, why is it so confusing? All those little boxes? Where would pressure be shown? Why is the box so small, even when there is nothing else in that side pannel? It's hard to see everything. I did recognise that the old input ui needed fixing, but I'm very unsure about this ui. I know what I'm doing and I can't figure it out. Martin,

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0.48.1
by Joshua A. Andler 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hey All, Just moving an off-list discussion to the devel list. It seems like setting a goal date for 0.48.1 is a good idea to move forward with it. So, what are people's thoughts on this and the state of things in that branch? Cheers, Josh On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 00:28 +0200, ~suv wrote: > On 15/9/10 23:07, Nicolas Dufour wrote: > > >> De : Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> > >> Nicolas, su-v, is there a considerable amount of bugs fixed already or > >> at least some important ones? > > > > Two crashers, and some minor issues fixes > > (https://edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+milestone/0.48.1). > > And maybe some backports pending. > > > a) 2 patches with pending code review: > > - Unicode/encoding related crash > I'd like to see the patch attached in > Bug #369861 “Unable to open previously imported pdf file”: > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/369861> > get reviewed and backported for 0.48.1 if it is ok'ed. > > Actually the patch seems to address the issue reported as > Bug #605872 “pdf to svg fails with characters from Unicode Plane 1 (SMP)”: > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/605872> > which fails when using certain characters from the XITS math font. > It also fixes (at least on osx) > Bug #625927 “Inkscape crash when importing PDF file”: > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/625927> > > The patch in bug #369861 was provided by the font developer who made the > XITS fonts (OpenType MATH enhanced STIX fonts), see > <http://www.khaledhosny.org/node/143> > <http://typophile.com/node/71171> > > I still haven't had the chance to test other encoding/Unicode related > crashes which might possibly be fixed by this patch too (in my > understanding there are several similar ones to bug #369861). > > - Import dialog enhancement > Another one with a patch pending review, nice to have in 0.48.1: > Bug #203070 “Import Dialog doesn't handle multiple files”: > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/203070> > > - ... > > b) Regressions/crashes (no fix yet) I'd like to nominate for 0.48.1: > > - crash loading system monitor profile > Bug #623640 “inkscape 0.48 crashes on startup in > colorprofile_get_system_profile_handle()”: > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/623640> > Same issue reported on windows: > Bug #608229 “Inkscape crashes on startup”: > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/608229> > > - ... > > c) and of course I'd prefer to wait with 0.48.1 until > > Bug #482993 “Inkscape extensions do not work on MacOS X 10.6 (Snow > Leopard)”: > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/482993> > is either fixed or we know one or two viable, confirmed workarounds that > can be recommended to users on Snow Leopard until the issue is solved > and Inkscape is bundled with updated python modules for all architectures. > > d) ... ? > > > ~suv

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Inkscape and the future of printing !
by Ivan Louette 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Will Inkscape be compatible with this kind of printer ? http://www.zigonet.com/imprimante/une-machine-imprime-des-lettres-qui-flott… ivan

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Tiff output?
by John Culleton 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Version 0.48.0 won't export tiff file format. This format will accept both vector and bitmap objects. Is tiff output in the plans somewhere? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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feComponentTransfer resource management
by Nicolas Dufour 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi, I'm currently trying to implement customizable filters (try Filters>Experimental) with Ivan Louette, and found (thanks to ~suv) a small bug in the code of the feComponentTransfer primitive (see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/638943). To summarize, when the effect preview is updated (sometimes after many changes) the following error shows in the console: gboolean sp_document_add_resource(SPDocument*, const gchar*, SPObject*): assertion `!g_slist_find(rlist, object)' failed sp_document_add_resource is called from componenttransfer.cpp, line 103, preceded by the comment: //do we need this? When this call is commented out, the error message doesn't show, but I'm not sure it's safe to remove it. It is also used in some other filters (pointlight.cpp, distantlight.cpp, spotlight.cpp and componenttransfer-funcnode.cpp) always with the same kind of comment (or // is this necessary?), but in these cases, the resources are released differently (compare sp_fedistantlight_release with sp_feComponentTransfer_release). Could someone give a clue? or a fix ;) Regards, -- Nicolas

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Two essentials for publishing users.
by John Culleton 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Inkscape needs two more features for publishing. First, the CMYK color model needs to be a real option. ImageMagick will convert an svg file to CMYK but that means going from vector to bitmap. Second, there should be an option for PDF output in PDF X/1-a format to satisfy the largest POD printer, Lightning Source Inc. (LSI). Currently my only path is to import all or part of a cover image into Scribus 1.5.0 (development version) and save it from there. Two requests from the trenches. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Updates from the Image Links branch
by Steren 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi, The project of the students from Ecole Centrale Lyon has ended in June. Their report (written in english) is available on my page of the Inkscape Wiki <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/User:Steren>. The code is in a dedicated Inkscape branch<https://code.launchpad.net/~centralelyon2010/inkscape/imagelinks2> on Launchpad. You will find: - a use of relative links by default - a smart relinking tool for broken images - a first step in the image properties redesign. The first part of this page<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Image_properties_dialog_enhancements> details what has been done and is dedicated to bug tracking for this branch. (Can we use launchpad bug tracking for a branch? If so, we should do it). You are welcomed to test it and report errors, keep in mind that it is non-finished work. Once again, I think it was a great experience for the students to work on a project such as Inkscape. I hope they will see their effort being integrated into trunk one day, the same we were pleased to see the spray tool or the enhanced LPEs. Students involved are : - François Petit <Francois.Petit@...2281...> - Baptiste Soyer <Baptiste.Soyer@...2281...> - Mor Ngom <Mor.Ngom@...2281...> - Rafik Boughida <Rafik.Boughida@...2281...> - Vincent Pais <Vincent.Pais@...2281...> - Yoann Desgrande <Yoann.Desgrange@...2281...> And I was their mentor. Unfortunately, I won't be able to be involved into this project in the future. Some of the students and Nicolas Dufour <nicoduf@...48...> (JazzyNico) volunteered to continue the work. (thanks!) I would advise to continue the work on the branch, and to merge when things start being usable. The code surely needs a review from an experienced dev. And some questions around usage of URL or IRI shoud be discussed (see the previous wiki page): Originally, file:// was before the path, after the students' work, path is written directly and no ASCII conversion is done. The W3C allow the use of IRI, but this change may interfere with Inkscape. I guess it shouldn't be too hard to transform the IRI into a URI. What do you think ? Any feedback is welcomed. Feel free to test the branch. I hope these efforts will help Inkscape. Thanks for your support. Cheers Steren

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