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Text input
by Marek Ososiński 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Inkscape do not allow me to switch the font once the phrase was written and the font size menu is out of bounds by a few pixels... and am i stuck with the freaking language that is set on my home PC / how to change the lang to english? -- Marek Ososiński

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Text input
by Bob Jamison 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

This always works for me: 1) Using a DOS console, cd to your inkscape installation directory 2) c:\foobar> set LANG=de_DE (or whatever your locale code is) 3) c:\foobar> inkscape You might want to simply add a batch file to the directory with those two lines, so that in the future, you only need to double-click it. bob -----Original Message----- >From: Diederik en Rezi <mail@...1689...> >Sent: Jul 16, 2008 2:25 PM >To: Marek Ososiński <naukowiec@...400...> >Cc: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Text input > >Marek Ososiński wrote: >> and am i stuck with the freaking language that is set on my home PC / >> how to change the lang to english? >On windows, simply delete the relevant directory (C:/Program >Files/Inkscape/locale/your-language) > >Diederik > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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problems with svn commit
by Felipe Sanches 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Today I got this: felipe@...2014...:~/devel/inkscape$ svn commit -m "improving SVG Fonts UI" svn: Commit falhou (detalhes a seguir): svn: MKACTIVITY de '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/act/5b1d8b13-3340-4a3b-8ef3-377d14463b65': 403 Forbidden (https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net) translating to english: felipe@...2014...:~/devel/inkscape$ svn commit -m "improving SVG Fonts UI" svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: MKACTIVITY from '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/act/5b1d8b13-3340-4a3b-8ef3-377d14463b65': 403 Forbidden (https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net)

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Spiro pronunciation...
by heathenx 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Is spiro pronounced sp-ee-r-o or sp-eye-r-o? heathenx

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Just an idea: Kamaelia for InkBoard
by Dave Crossland 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Hi! I wonder about using http://edit.kamaelia.org/ to redo InkBoard so that it scales to many users. Just an idea I thought I'd throw out there, since Kamaelia is awesome and not very well known :-) Cheers, Dave

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Clipart] Inkscape export options
by Tobias Jakobs 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Hello Дамјан (I hope is your first name), On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Дамјан Димитриоски <damjandimitrioski@...400...> wrote: > Hi, I was browsing into the Inkscape's options window and I found export > options(not that that's new :D), something to automatically send image > to your site or somewhere else. > > I was wondering, how to use it :) ? > It doesn't work, it's an unfinished GSoC project. I cc the Inkscape mailinglist perhaps someone there can help. Regards, Tobias

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Multiple inkscape layers with same name
by Peter Moulder 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

----- Forwarded message from Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...400...> ----- Hi Peter, thanks for discussing this. It's not a matter of life and death though, I can live with the way things are now. I just thought initially the restriction is fairly artificial seeing that the layer names are stored in inkscape:label. The reason why I wanted to name multiple layers the same is this -- http://blip.tv/file/1077148 It's not much of a showstopper for me though, and I feel bad for wasting your time, guys. Nevertheless thank you for listening to your whiney users :) On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@...38...> wrote: > I asked JonCruz about it. He said there's no particularly strong reason > for it, and he's fine with reverting that change if you think it better. > > There are also a couple of other proposals for reducing harm; see > http://inkscape.gristle.org/2008-07-14.txt from 19:53 onwards (though > ignore the first few lines :-) ). > > I thought it valuable to have your opinion. Consider discussing on > #inkscape. ----- End forwarded message -----

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INKSCAPE GALLERY RC2 ------draw freely...then publish!-------
by davide|inkscapegallery 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

There's a lot to say about this new release...you might prefer to see it immediately..so, start from here: http://inkscapegallery.net/home I worked hard for three months to build gimpgallery (http://gimpgallery.net)and it has been recently released... So i had many ideas about how to improve inkscape gallery, i was tired and anxious at the same time... The second feeling won and i'm here to list what i've done in the last days: *The home page* It is a complete section with 4 subsections, "from the inkscape's world", "highlight on", "special sections" and "a little taste of inkscpae gallery". *4 new sections called:* fresh, mostvoted, older and popular *The "inkscape galleria"* it is a slideshow made with a jquery plugin labeled "galleria",indeed. It is quite smart and fast, just to give you another way to see what is best in inkscape gallery: images! *The user's "inkscape galleria"* Every user has his own "galleria" , just click on the link in the title block of each image content *Some layout improvements* In a big website you will always have something you fixed with a workaround, not in the best way, in other words... I've found better solutions now *The "from the inkscape world" section* It is the upper section in the home page. This was not an hard work but is important i mean, just because i'd like to work together with other inkscape based website. *The wysiwyg editor* we have a simple wysiwyg editor now. It works only for logged in users, anyway *The antispam framework* we've never had critical spam problems, you can directly publish in inkscape gallery only when logged in, indeed. we have user profiles, with an email field and i wanted to keep it safe from spam even if you need to be logged in to view the user profiles... (maybe not anymore in the future...) Anyway, the email field is protected from spam, now *The gimpgallery promo* I wanted to make you know about gimp gallery. It is another image gallery website for a free image editor and it is even more advanced compared to inkscape gallery, actually. It is freshly born and quite empty, i had to borrow some images from inkscape gallery so, if you're a gimper, go there to publish your images! This is what, i hope you to like it, there's always something to fix, to improve but that's inevitable (especially on IE) :-) i'm planning the next steps to bring inkscape gallery to the next release! See you, and keep drawing! Da. http://inkscapegallery.net

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can inkscape have multiple pages, and export them to a PDF?
by Albert Cardona 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Hi all, The ability to export multiple pages to a PDF would enable: - creating slide presentations - creating books Because at the moment there is no nice way to make neither slide presentations nor books in linux or bsd. Both ooimpress and scribus have very, very bad user interfaces compared to inkscape. Are there any plans on this direction? Thanks for any info. Albert -- Albert Cardona http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/Hartenstein/acardona

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convert-to-text bug
by Stephen Silver 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Could someone who knows about text handling in Inkscape please take a look at bug 247632: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/247632

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Code cleanups
by unknown＠example.com 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Hello all, I have some discussion points on code cleanup topics: 1. isnormal.h is not used anywhere in the code, can we remove it? 2. isinf.h defines a lower-case macro. Can I add to the coding standard that all #defines should be capitalized? 3. sigil spacing. Apparently most of Inkscape's code puts no space between sigil (*/&) and the following variable name. The coding style document doesn't explicitly mention this, shall I add it? So: "int const * get_int(double &johan);" Cheers, Johan

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2geom gsl dependency issue
by Jon A. Cruz 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Hi, With the latest 2geom update I'm unable to build on Xandros. I'm seeing ./2geom/numeric/vector.h:76: error: -1'gsl_vector_ispos' was not declared in this scope The version of libgsl0 I have there is 1.8 On Ubuntu 8.04 I have version 1.9 I think it would be good if we could keep compatibility with 1.8 at least for a while still.

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Inkscape0807111532 crashes when opening the about screen
by unknown＠example.com 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

Inkscape0807111532 crashes when opening the about screen (Windows Vista). The crash follows a C++ runtime library error message. Molumen

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[Fwd: [Tango-artists] one-canvas workflow]
by Jon A. Cruz 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

Here's a recent email on the Tango list discussing icon workflow. There are some interesting aspects to it, and Jakub explains the rationale for various aspects fairly well. Those include metadata "abuse", layers, gradients, shared styles, export, etc. Thought this might spur a little discussion and/or tweaking of some Inkscape aspects.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: sliders in tool controls
by Valerie 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

By the way, with the new sliders, you can no longer use directional keys to modify size in the Calligraphy tool. It's a pity, because they could be used for more precise value adjustments (it's hard to get a change of exactly 1 with the sliders). Also, I was hoping for keyboard shortcuts to be available to the pencil tool as well, so... Refer to my proposal for the pencil interface: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Vector-brushes I don't have problems with the integer being replaced by a slider, but I'd still like to be able to control it somewhat with keyboard shortcuts. Though I suppose the issue Could be easily side-stepped by entering a value 5 to 10 times smaller in the second field of my proposal, so that you drag the slider more freely...

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] smoothing in Pencil
by Valerie 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

I've tried the new smoothing values! It's much better than before, so thank you very much! But I think the maximum value could be even smoother. In KOffice's Karbon14, if you choose "Curve" and "Exactness 20" for example, you get an absolutely crazing level of smoothing, i.e. you get only 2 nodes: Inkscape with 100 smooth: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4382/inkscapepk6.png Karbon14 with Curve exactness 20: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/355/karbon14hw2.png Is it possible to make the slider logarithmic? This way you get your raw values, but at maximum, most curves produce only 2 nodes. A center-ish value is normal smoothing.

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A problem compiling CVS
by Valerie 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

I haven't had problems compiling CVS before. This time though, 3 files seem to be giving me problems: /usr/include/poppler/Object.h extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.cpp extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.cpp Nearly all of it involves the following message: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ There are too many of them, so I can't copy/paste them all, but when looking at the files they involve lines such as: error(-1, "Weird page contents"); Any idea where the error may come from? The error function perhaps?

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Nodepath testing
by unknown＠example.com 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

Hello all, I just converted a bit of the nodetool to 2geom. Generating the knots and handles of a path is now done using 2geom path data. As it is late now, I am not 100% sure that it works 100%. Please help test to see if I broke anything. (so draw a strange path, enter nodetool and see whether everything was generated as it used to be) Thanks, Johan

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easter egg star tool :)
by Alexandre Prokoudine 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hi, While documenting Inkscape we (well, Joshua) discovered that Shift + mouse drag for handles of Star tool applies different changes depending on particular handle. This is not documented neither in hotkeys cheat sheet, nor in tutorials, not in Tav's book. The middle handle gives larger values, and the periferal handles gives smaller values. This kind of switch is usually achieved by using Alt key in other tools. So, is it an easter egg? :) Alexandre

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NEW: sliders in tool controls
by bulia byak 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Some controls (such as the Width in Calligraphic/Tweak/Eraser tools, Tremor, Wiggle, and Mass in Calligraphic, Threshold in Paintbucket, Tolerance in Pencil) are converted from numeric editable fields into draggable sliders. As these values don't usually require much precision, this makes adjusting them much easier and faster. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Break path at selected nodes
by Stefaan 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

I'd like to bring bug #168589 "'Break path at selected nodes' only breaks a few nodes" to your attention, as no developers are cc'd on it. I attached a patch which I believe fixes the problem. It would be nice if someone could review the patch. Many thanks for making inkscape a very cool piece software, Stefaan https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168589

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Rendering(/verb) tests - comparing output files to reference files
by Jasper van de Gronde 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

To elaborate on what I'm working on, I currently have a tool which can execute Inkscape with some arbitrary command-line and (given what the output file is) compare the output to a set of reference files. If it finds a match it assigns the test the result belonging to that reference file, it can't find a match the test is marked "New". (It can also deal with crashes and so fort. And it can use a tool like perceptualdiff to compare the files.) Currently there are two short-comings: 1. Obviously it needs a bit more automation (you don't want to enter it all manually). Locally I'm doing this using a batch file. Since this isn't portable I'm thinking of either modifying buildtool to be able to do this, or more or less porting my batch file to Python. 2. Comparing the generated files completely automatically to the W3C reference files is practically impossible, because of font differences. This also goes for sharing reference files between different computers. I would definitely welcome some ideas for solving 2. Currently I'm thinking of a combined strategy. First of all the problem can be mitigated somewhat by using --export-id=test-body-content --export-id-only (this makes sure the revision string and the border aren't exported). This doesn't make it easier to compare the output to existing reference files, but does make it easier to share reference files between computers. Going a bit further it would be possible to eliminate all the unnecessary labels from test files. Secondly, there will always be files with text. To prevent those from being a problem I could do roughly two things: - Make sure it is relatively easy to judge the files on your own PC (using some GUI tool that lets you judge the files by clicking on a button for example). - Make some on-line tool that runs the tests and publishes the results. Both have their (dis)advantages. What would people prefer? And what are the possibilities for option 2? (That is, would it be possible to do this on the Inkscape site somewhere? Does SF have facilities for running periodic tests that I could use?)

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Rendering(/verb) tests - where to put them?
by Jasper van de Gronde 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

I'm working on implementing rendering(/verb) tests (getting Inkscape to render SVG files and comparing them to known-good/bad reference files) and was wondering how I could best make my work available. Just putting it in some directory under the trunk does not seem like a good idea (especially at the moment). And if I were to create a separate top-level directory, should it include data files (a selection of the W3C SVG test suite a the moment)?

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Icon loading now fixed
by Jon A. Cruz 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

I've finished up the second round if icon loading cleanup. First was to get things going with stock images http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-Themeable-Stock- Images.html This second pass was to get the newer icon theme (added with GTK 2.6) http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkIconTheme.html That second part allows for the newer theme sets of icons to be loaded. These include the Tango icons. Probably the most important part is this now allows Inkscape to follow a standard look with other apps by using shared icons. In order to do this well we need to use standard names and standard concepts as much as possible. With my recent checkin I switched three icons over to standard, but there are still two main things to do First is to see if we can use any existing standard icons. The base spec with proposed standard icon names is at http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec- latest.html The standard icons out in existing themes, though, don't use all of those. Such themes are usually under /usr/share/icons/* or the equivalent. A few I have here are "highcolor" (the fallback default), "Human" and "Tangerine". The main second thing is to get graphic-app specific icons that are not listed in the default set figured out and assigned names. The Tango project had started this under their Art Libre set. http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet If anyone can take a look through there, that would be a great help. And more importantly if anyone who uses other apps such as GIMP, Krita, Blender, etc. could take a peek at what could be unified that would be a huge help.

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multiple inkscapes on linux
by Mihaela 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

How can I have multiple inkscape versions on the same machine (im on fedora8) and can you choose if those use the same or their own profiles?

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