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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Snapping toolbar
by Diederik van Lierop 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Op Vr, 16 januari, 2009 01:39, schreef Rock Star: > The difference between creating and editing can be somehow seen from the > video [1]. That video indeed explains everything! A few months ago I introduced a snapping delay, which makes snapping in Inkscape much more responsive in complex documents. That snapping delay is what you noticed when editing objects, but it apparently it doesn't work when creating objects. I will fix that. If however you prefer the old behavior without any delay, then just go the preferences -> snapping and set the delay to zero. > Now I see the problem with guides and grid and toggles. However, since I > come more from a CAD world, I'm used of snapping to whatever is visible. > Hence, if there are 2 grids turned on, I would expect to snap to both. > This > would than mean 2 more toggles. If you see grid/guides it snaps, otherwise > not. Maybe it isn't a problem after all to add an additional toggle in series. When creating a grid, the per-grid snapping is turned on by default. So if a user is not aware of this then he won't notice, and if he turns it off then... well, that's his/here responsibility ;-). So we would end up with these options in series: 1) the global snapping toggle -> EVERY USER MUST KNOW ABOUT THIS** 2) the GLOBAL grid snapping toggle -> CLEARLY RECOGNIZABLE ON THE TOOLBAR 3) the PER-GRID snapping toggle -> ON BY DEFAULT 4) snap bounding box corners toggle or the snap nodes toggle -> EVERY USER MUST KNOW ABOUT THIS TOO** **) ... but only if they care about snapping obviously. > Anyway, thanks for the answer and additional explanation. You're welcome. Thanks for your feedback! Diederik

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chebyshev.cpp missing
by bulia byak 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

during recent 2geom update, this file was not added, preventing compilation -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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more gradients
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Hi, Here is an interesting patch in the tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346681 "This is a .diff file containing code that allows Inkscape to generate spiral gradients, as well as conical or angular gradients as a degenerate case. It allows the user to create and edit these gradients with the gradient context (tool) and the Fill and Stroke dialog in the same manner as a Radial gradient. It also includes an (ugly) icon for use in the Fill and Stroke dialog and Gradient toolbar." How come no has one commented for 5 days now? :) Alexandre

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how to edit blueprint in launchpad?
by the Adib 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

I tried to set the webpage for this launchpad blueprint "multiple-pages-support" https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/mutiple-pages-support to the page in the wiki that I recently created: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Multipage It looks that I have no rights to do that.? I am member of the "inkscape bug team". Do I need an other membership? Who can help? theAdib.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.47 - was Re: GSoC 2009 - Project handling in the repository
by Guillermo Espertino 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

There's a pretty large amount of 0.46 bugs being reported again and again in launchpad, and most of them are fixed in SVN. I guess that stabilizing the SVN and fixing important bugs and regressions to release Inkscape 0.47 as soon as possible would have a significant impact (positive) in the reduction of duplicated bugs. I personally don't care if some filters, lpes or features don't make it. I'd prefer a stable 0.47 with the bugfixes and the enhancements that may be considered "stable". Even with its regressions and some high importance bugs, the SVN version is pretty stable and it has loads of improvements (snapping, pdf output, eraser, spiro, etc.) that would make 0.47 attractive enough, from the user pov. And that would help to close lots of fixed bugs for good. So +1 for the idea of starting the freezing and regressions hunt. Gez

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GSoC 2009 - Project handling in the repository
by Joshua A. Andler 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Hey All, Due to concerns and issues voiced in the past, it seems like we should talk about how GSoC projects should be handled in our repository. A big concern is the impact on Trunk and if we want to release 0.47 with minimal pain this year. Given that I'm the hold-over release warden for 0.47, and that I have also taken on future release related duties from bryce... I'd like to see things work as smoothly as possible. What are some thoughts on what to do? Should we stick to the way we did it in the past and potentially introduce much more breakage in the near future? Branches on an as-needed basis? Perhaps just a GSoC2009 branch for all students work to be committed to? I could see the latter being beneficial to ease testing all their work with no harm to trunk the process. Additionally, it's a great way to learn about our "don't break trunk" rule... the students will be forced to commit responsibly as breaking it would hinder all other students too (which I would hope they'd be vocal yet diplomatic in handling). Any and all thoughts are welcome. Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape DVCS - was: Re: GSoC 2009 - Project handling in the repository
by Jon A. Cruz 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 15:09 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:02:24PM -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 14:49 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I definitely agree that it is high time to move to a DVCS. I've > been > > > using both git and bzr in my day job and it makes so many things > so > > > much > > > easier. > > > > Yes... and it's also high time that bzr admitted there are platforms > > other than Linux out there and fix their line-end handling. > > You're talking about AmigaOS, right? No. I was thinking more of OS-9 (note that it is not OS/9) :-)

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Inkscape DVCS - was: Re: GSoC 2009 - Project handling in the repository
by Jeff Kowalczyk 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

The GSoC 2009 might present a good opportunity for inkscape to move to a DVCS. Students, mentors and testers would benefit from enhanced branch, merge and branch tracking capabilities at github, launchpad, bitbucket, et al. Jeff

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GSoC, KML-SVG
by Piotr Kopczyński 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Now to the matter. I haven't got a clear idea what to do, I'm not even sure about the guidelines for this task nor have a complete feeling of the goal. On the other hand I have some chances to make a piece of valuable work here. The task was described as "likely XSLT". Fortunately I have the basic understanding of XML and XSLT (I've recently accomplished a subject at my university devoted to XML and XSLT, so I'm quite fresh with it). In addition, I got to like it and feel a need to deal more with such translations. The fact is, I don't know the "XML Schemas" and practical aspects of SVG and KML. I will need some time to get through their documentations. Anyway, both specifications are worth knowing, so I will gladly learn them. I guess the job may be considered as import and export respectively. Importing (KML to SVG) shall be relatively simple and with a small risk of an "out-of-time" defeat. The other direction (export) seems more hard and needing deeper considerations. Of course, the importing part might also need some "parameters" (options in import wizard?). As I am freaky/scarry of not meeting the deadline, I like to find a safe-feeling solution first. An example of such is making a little website for converting KML to SVG using for example Firefox built-in XSL processor (I've used this solution in my last XSLT project, although it didn't involve any SVG rendering). I have then made a silly and tiny web framework (using PHP + .htaccess + mod_rewrite) for passing parameters to the XSLT file (parameters are dynamically inserted into original file as lines with an xsl:param definition each). Thus I could make a small portal driven only by XSLT :-) As this solution is quite comfortable and "recent" for me, I believe "I can make it", and in the meantime we can optionally consider if I will be able to deal with Inkscape internals (that is what I don't know at all, so this may be more risky). That's it for a minimum. I'm waiting for your opinion and expectations. If you agree for solving this task via XSLT, I'm likely to success with it. Piotrekk

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GSoC mentoring
by Josh Andler 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Our requested number of slots for GSoC is currently greater than the number of mentors we have. If I don't see a change in this equation soon, I need to change our request to a lower number. SO... If we have anyone interested in mentoring students this year who is not signed up, please do so asap. If we have anyone that is currently signed up who is willing or able to mentor more than one student, please speak up. Cheers, Josh P.S. Existing mentors, please start reviewing student proposals if you haven't already done so.

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Johan's GSoC App
by Josh Andler 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

I have marked him as ineligible per his desire to not participate this year. This was done to take his proposal out of the ranking queue, so it is more accurate for the students that wish to participate. Johan, we're sorry it wasn't able to work out this year with your schedule, but we all go through busy spells and know it wasn't an easy choice to make on your end. Cheers, Josh

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inkscape.org is offline
by Alexandre Prokoudine 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Hi, inkscape.org is offline for several hours already Alexandre

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Can math support be enabled on the Wiki, please?
by Jasper van de Gronde 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

I would very much appreciate it if math support could be enabled on the Inkscape Wiki. Specifically, I'd like to use it for the Advanced Gradients page. I'm sending it to the list(s) because I have no idea who is "in charge" of the Wiki, so if you do know, that would help as well.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly
by Boutros Saba 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Thanks Bulia & JiHo, Now I'm trying to roll back to previous versions of Inkscape on Tiger (10.4) - and I don't find the versions... any ideas where I can find them. I deleted all the previous versions I had. Thanks & regards, Boutros On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:52 AM, inkscape-devel- request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 00:27:45 -0400 > From: JiHO <jo.lists@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X > - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly > To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>, inkscape-devel List Devel > <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <30C8951D-624A-49D1-BC33-0CFD5FA74121@...400...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > On 2009-April-02 , at 13:10 , bulia byak wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Boutros Saba >> <boutros.saba@...400...> wrote: >>> I had a version that worked perfectly. I don't remember which one >>> was >>> it. But when I try to examine the past versions one by one, no one >>> seems to work. It seems that there is something in the system that >>> changed that is affecting the Arabic in Inkscape. >>> I tried rolling back to a previous version of X Server and didn't >>> work too. >> >> Just a guess, this may be related to the Pango library version you >> have installed. Try to upgrade or downgrade it. > > Pango is bundled with Inkscape on OS X so upgrading or downgrading > Inkscape should also upgrade or downgrade pango. > > In X11 (XQuartz) however, there has ben some changes in the font > caching mechanism. I don't know if it could affect this behaviour > precisely. > > Anyhow, before testing a new version of Inkscape and/or X11, you may > want to clear the font cache so that Inkscape rebuilds it on frist > launch (NB: this will make Inkscape's launch time quite long . just > wait). > To do so, remove the directory ~/.fontconfig. One way is to do it in > the Terminal: > > rm -Rf ~/.fontconfig > > be careful with this command, rm -Rf can be dangerous. Basically it > erases recursively everything you give to it. So if you type rm -Rf > ~ /.fontconfig (with an accidental space between the words) it will > read > > rm -Rf ~ > > and that means: erase all of your home directory, where all you files > are. You don't want that ;) > > JiHO > --- > http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Some ideas for Inkscape and William Klingelsmith especially
by Anton Litvinov 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello I would like that some underused possibilities of svg:text to be exposed/implemented in textobject tool (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html) 1) charwidth, to make user able to change the width of gliphs 2) letterspacing and wordspacing 3) higher and lower indexes by means of offsets 4) text-decoration: uderline, line-through 5) text-aligh by textwidth and 6) facilitate users with TeX-formulas input (Abiword guys already have this) What do you think about it? May be my conception of vector drawing tool is too perverse/freaky. PS *whisper* does this desevre to become a GSoC proposal? -- Best regards, Anton Litvinov Yugra State University

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GSoC Idea: Inkscape API Improvement
by Glimmer Labs 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

My name is Soren Berg and I wanted to propose a possible Google Summer of Code project and see what you guys think. I would like to use GSoC '09 to improve the scripting API of Inkscape. This is an area that has seen some major changes over the last few years in terms of extension support and verb passing but I still believe there is room for improvement. The extensions are very useful for making filters but don't (correct me if I'm wrong) really expose any of Inkscape's functionality. You need to use an entirely different set of tools to manipulate the XML data and pass it back. The verbs are very useful for batch processing and similar tasks, but the fact that none of them take any parameters or return results means that they are not ideal for scripting or otherwise interacting with Inkscape in a more in-depth fashion. I wrote a scripting console that exposed many Inkscape functions for programatically creating images and it was accepted for inclusion but it became harder and harder to support, largely because of the lack of any sort of API. It did show some very interesting benefits to controlling Inkscape programatically (like script-fu for the GIMP) though. I know there is some work going on with a Java based API but it seems to be mostly stubs right now. I could start working on this early as well since I have a job that wants to integrate software with Inkscape. What do you guys think? Obviously I haven't fleshed out my plans very much, and that is because I want to get some general feedback on the concept first. Thank you for reading, Soren Berg

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ShapeOpera GSoC
by Stefan Zimmermann 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, I know it's a bit late but is it still possible to work on ShapeOpera for Google Summer of Code? - Stefan

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GSoC, KML-SVG
by Piotr Kopczyński 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello everybody, I have just subscribed because I'm interested in undertaking the SVG-KML conversion/translation task within GSoC contest. I am just writing the details of the proposal (I guess I have some hour and a bit left till deadline), then I'll post it here. I'm looking for directions, what to do and how to behave :) Best regards, Piotrekk

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped
by worms invasion 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, No, I believe the actions are correct and the icons are swapped. The actions should remain in the same order as in 0.46, and as they are in r21009, that is: - align horizontally on the left - align vertically in second position. It would be ***very odd*** to change this order in 0.47. Please, can you check that? Regards. --- On Thu, 4/2/09, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: > From: Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10:26 PM > > > worms invasion wrote: > > > > This has been going on for a while I think in current > SVN and is still > > present in r21009 (win32snapshot)... The "align nodes > horizontally" > > function is assigned the "align vertically" icon, and > vice-versa for the > > "align nodes vertically" function. > > > I had some trouble figuring out which is which, but it > turns out the names > and icons are arranged properly, it's the actions that > should be swapped. > Fixed in 21038. > > Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Icons-for-%22align-nodes-horizontally%22-and-%22align… > Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Failed to execute helper program in Windows Builds
by Render 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Currently in the development builds editing an bitmap externally by right-clicking the image causes inkscape to return the following message: Failed to execute helper program: (Invalid Argument) Would it be possible to select gimp.exe itself rather than just gimp? Just calling gimp seems to be something associated with Linux. Scribus exhibits this same behavior, but you can navigate to the helper program itself and then everything works fine.

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Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly
by Boutros Saba 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hi there, I tried to post on the same subject in the past, but it I didn't get any working suggestion/consideration back. I'm running version 0.46 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. When I write Arabic into the text tool I get a disconnected Arabic letters. It happens also if I copy a connected Arabic letters from outside Inkscape: when I copy the connected text it gets disconnected. I had a version that worked perfectly. I don't remember which one was it. But when I try to examine the past versions one by one, no one seems to work. It seems that there is something in the system that changed that is affecting the Arabic in Inkscape. I tried rolling back to a previous version of X Server and didn't work too. Any clues??? I rely on Inkscape very much. Thanks in advance guys! Best, Boutros

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC Idea: Inkscape API Improvement
by Josh Andler 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Krzysztof, Please know that anything Jon or Ted discuss is not as short sighted as you seem to think. I won't say that all ideas they have are perfect, but at the very least, they've probably put more thought into it than you're giving them credit for (and no offense, probably more time and thought than you have). I have to put forth that it seems like you are a little too quick with dismissing the input of others. Given that you have applied for SoC, I have to ask... will you be able to really take advice from a mentor as seriously as you should? On Apr 1, 2009 5:58 PM, "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: Ted Gould wrote: > > I think that makes sense. One thing that I think would be interesting > for... We would have to roll back most of the C++ conversion in order to do that, and go back to plain GObject. I don't think that's possible. I think the best solution would be to use SWIG (an automated binding generator). Jon suggested using XForms over DBus, but I think that's just too complicated to be feasible. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GSoC-Idea%3A-Inkscape-API-Improvement-tp22760803p2283… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________...

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Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped
by worms invasion 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, This has been going on for a while I think in current SVN and is still present in r21009 (win32snapshot)... The "align nodes horizontally" function is assigned the "align vertically" icon, and vice-versa for the "align nodes vertically" function.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] State of the Icons
by Guillermo Espertino 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

> > Would it be possible to commit the finished versions of both Tango (art > > libre) and Tango Colors icons in SVN? > See above, discrete icons are needed. I will make them the default for Linux > once I get them. Thanks for your answer. Let me get this straight. There will be two sets and the tango will be used in linux? The ability of changing the theme using a custom file won't come back? What happens to people who wants default icons in Linux, or people who wants Tango in Windows, for example? Gez.

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Wiki main page & delete access
by Krzysztof Kosiński 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

I already mentioned this here but I didn't receive an answer. Can I receive the credentials necessary to delete pages and edit the main page on the wiki? For example, the main page has a lot of links in WikiWords, which are pointless in MediaWiki, and it has links to pages that are outdated and no longer useful, even confusing. I'd like to fix that. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wiki-main-page---delete-access-tp22859628p22859628.ht… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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