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SVG filter effects and Batik source code
by rosros-3＠...112... 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

The support for all SVG filters (Filter Effects) is very good in Batik (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/). Since the source code is available, would it be a good idea just to take that code and adapt it?? BTW, an old SVG editor such as Graffiti also supports the filters. -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Devi vendere o coprare qualcosa? Visita il canale annunci di Email.it * Inserzioni gratuite! * Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=6889&d=27-9

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Problem with document base / xlink:href and embbed images
by jiho 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Hello everyone, I just tried to embed images in a new Inkscape document, created with a recent SVN build of Inkscape, and it did not work. Here is the problem (it's quite tricky): The SVG document comes from a computer with a different directory organization. It has images linked in it, that are in the same directory that the document. I open it on my machine and copy parts of it (some paths + some bitmaps) to a new, untilted document. Inkscape copies the images with xlink:href containing a relative link to the image (just the name in this case) and sodipodi:absref which is not valid anymore (it contains the directory structure of the other machine). In the new document, images initially appear as broken links since the absref is not valid and the document has not been saved, hence the root is unknown. I save this new document next to the orignal one, so that the relative links are respected. Once saved, the xlink:href become valid but the images are still show as broken. I have to reopen the document to see the images (which is probably a problem in itself). In the XML editor, just to be sure, I deleted the sodipodi:absref elements which were not valid anyway. Then I tried to embbed the images and Inkscape complained saying "No xlink:href or sodipodi:absref attributes found, or they do not point to an existing file! Unable to embed image. Sorry we could not locate /Applications/Inkscape.app/ u_velocity_bottom.png" The absref attributes are not there so that's fine but the xlinks are valid. However Inkscape looks for images in /Applications/ Inkscape.app which is the default location where documents are saved on OS X. If I remember well there was a document root attribute that was removed some time ago. I suspect that embbed bitmaps was looking for the images as document root+xlink and since document root is inexistant the default is used. This means that embbed images only works when sodipodi:absref is present, now that document root does not exists. This seems like a bug to me but the problem was complicated so I would prefer having your advice. Did I explained it clearly? Well currently I'll have to rewrite the sodipodi:abserf by hand and it will solve the problem but the solution may be quite hard to find for somebody who does not want to dive in the XML editor. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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link to forum
by bulia byak 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604309&aid=1800866&group_… a user requests that we link www.inkscapeforum.com from the front page. Is there any reason not to do it? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Decision on live update of extensions
by Bill Baxter 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

What was the decision on the live update of extensions? The original justification was that it would happen in a separate thread so you wouldn't notice, but it is *very* noticeable. At least on Windows with the snapshot builds. The worst part of it theres a DOS console that pops up every time the command gets rerun, and often that steals the focus away from the text field you're trying to type some number into. It's very annoying. --bb

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Feature question, only current layer visible
by bulia byak 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

> Kent Tenney wrote: > > I would like Inkscape to show only contents > > of the active (selected?) layer, other layers > > would not be visible. Someone just needs to implement Alt+click on a layer in Layer dialog to hide all other layers. That's how it's done in Photoshop so it will be a familiar shortcut for most users. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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About Inkscape description text
by jiho 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hello everyone, As I mentioned earlier, I updated Inkscape description at Apple downloads. The description was taken from the text on the main page of the site and now that I played a bit with it and compared it to other software, I tend to find it quite verbose and technical. This text is what people will copy paste to describe Inkscape (as I did) and does not look to appealing to me. For example I don't think there is enough emphasis on the UI which is one of Inkscape greatest strengths while some very basic things (shapes, paths, etc) are mentioned while they can be considered self evident. Would a rework of this text be acceptable or has it already been reworked many times and this is considered final? How do you want Inkscape to be perceived: as a UI on top of SVG or as a vector editor that happens to use SVG as its format? More specifically about Apple Downloads, I just thought I would let you know that their staff updated Inkscape description. Now Inkscape has a nicer screenshot, a more detailed description and is classified as Imaging and 3D rather than under the more abstract "unix & open source" label. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/inkscape.html However, since I submitted it, it is listed under my name (but links to www.inkscape.org). This is obviously wrong (I don't want people thinking that Inkscape is my project, by any means!) and I tried to correct it by adding "Inkscape Community" as my company name. I hope they will update the description soon. For 0.46, the best thing will probably be to open an Apple account under the name "Inkscape Community" and then I'll delete Inkscape from mine. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Strings in python extensions
by Bill Baxter 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Has anyone noticed that the type=string variables passed to python extensions have literal quotes in them? For instance the number nodes (dots.py) example doesn't really work in the latest snapshot I downloaded because the sizes are getting set to things like '"20"' instead of just '20' --bb

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Extension execution on Windows crashes update
by unknown＠example.com 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Some time ago we reported that executing extensions on Windows crashes Inkscape. Today I read the Bill Baxter was actually able to run some extension, so I tried again. The LaTeX extension still crashes, Path-along-path too. But the grid extension does not crash. Details: I am building Inkscape with a slightly modified build.xml so Inkscape always starts with a console window, to easily see debug info. I am going to try without console window now, to see whether that matters. In any case, execution of the grid extension did not spawn a new console window, nor did it pass focus to the already existing console. Later, Johan

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CMYK imput problem
by momo 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

The CMYK color input behaves strangely: in the Fill and Stroke panel, when I try to change the color percentages in the CMYK tab by entering numbers on the right of the color mixers, these numbers are somehow recalculated on the fly and already entered amounts change. Here's an example: C 0 I change it into 44 M 27 jumps to 0 Y 61 jumps to 47 B 60 jumps to 71 And so on... It is almost impossible to input a CMYK color. Even entering CMYK color amounts with the help of the color sliders (for example MAGENTA) leads to subit changes in other colors (CYAN, YELLOW and BLACK). Molumen

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Placment of guidelines
by David Christian Berg 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Hey Inkscapers! I've done some draft yesterday and was using guidelines, something I don't do very often... Well, first of all, I would like guidelines to be selectable and then placeble via the tool bar (everything but the x or y position should be greyed out). However, if this seems to hard to do, quickly, I think it would make sense to at least allow the same number of digest after the point in both, the guideline dialogue (currently 2) and the tool bar coordinates (currently 3, which I of course prefer). Greetings from Spain! David

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CMS color selection including CMYK
by Jon A. Cruz 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Well.... I was finally able to get the initial cut of supporting icc-color() in. It should support most color spaces including CMYK. At the moment it will only be active for colors with an icc profile already set. There are some problems with the Lab and YCbCr color spaces. So far I've tested RGB, CMYK and Grayscale successfully. To test just build the latest, have a <color-profile> in your SVG and set the color in the SVG. So if you have a <color-profile> element with a name attribute of "cmyk", then you would just need to set fill:#ff00ff icc-color(cmyk, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

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build.dep
by Bob Jamison 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi all, Most of you never use the win32 stuff. So you probably have never seen the build.dep file. This file is a list of dependencies for each .cpp file in the inkscape source tree. This is purely withing the Inkscape tree. Buildtool does not walk out to list the system dependencies. It can be quite interesting. I put a copy on the server here, in case anyone is curious about dependencies in general, or their file in particular: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/build.dep Later, all! bob (ishmal)

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Mesh Gradient export from Laidout
by Tom Lechner 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi, I've been working on an export of patch gradients (aka mesh gradients) from my program Laidout to SVG. It currently basically follows Bulia's approximation method here: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-gradient-mesh-experim… The final steps of growing the boundary of the patch so the edges do not introduce transparency, and the blurring is a bit haphazard. My question is this: What is the relationship between "blur radius", the 0..100 blur slider in Inkscape, and SVG's stdDeviation? I've tried using various static values, but there doesn't seem to be a very satisfactory one. A sample exported file is here: http://www.tomlechner/randompics/test-colorpatch.svg Tom ----------------------- http://www.laidout.org http://www.tomlechner.com

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keys and mouse reference
by bulia byak 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

I decided to remove the feature that I myself added several versions ago: keys and mouse reference as an SVG file. Since most Help menu items are now URL links, so is this one, linking to this version's current chart at: http://inkscape.org/doc/keys046.html The old SVG chart was not very convenient to use, and it was getting more and more difficult to fit all keys into one screen. The only problem with this change is that for now, we're losing translated version of the chart. However the only two translations were doc/keys.fr.xml and doc/keys.de.xml, both quite out of date. However we can still use them by linking the corresponding HTML files from the main (English) chart. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Announcing Raster Effects (via ImageMagick)
by Christopher Brown 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Dear fellow Inkscape users, My Google Summer of Code project is now in SVN. My project is "Raster Functionality in Inkscape," which involved integrating ImageMagick libraries into Inkscape, in order to manipulate bitmaps from inside Inkscape. You'll have to install ImageMagick with Magick++ support (which is default) in order for these new extensions to work. They can be accessed under the sub-menu "Raster" in the extensions drop-down menu. The code is not quite in its final state--I am still perfecting and smoothing it out--but it's functional and I'd love to get feedback from all of you, especially from Windows users (because I have not tested it on that OS yet). Thank you all, -Christopher Brown

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problem compiling related to 2geom
by E.J. Neafsey 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

I get the following error when compiling inkscape-16107 on linux with gcc-3.3.4. ======================================================================== 2geom/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::lineTo(Geom::Point)': 2geom/svg-path.h:67: error: parse error before `;' token 2geom/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::quadTo(Geom::Point, Geom::Point)': 2geom/svg-path.h:71: error: parse error before `;' token 2geom/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::curveTo(Geom::Point, Geom::Point, Geom::Point)': 2geom/svg-path.h:75: error: parse error before `;' token 2geom/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::arcTo(double, double, double, bool, bool, Geom::Point)': 2geom/svg-path.h:81: error: parse error before `;' token make[2]: *** [live_effects/n-art-bpath-2geom.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/inkscape/inkscape-16107/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/inkscape/inkscape-16107' make: *** [all] Error 2 ========================================================================= I get the same error compiling lib2geom by itself. ========================================================================== [root:/usr/local/src/lib2geom]# make [ 1%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/2geom.dir/svg-path.o In file included from /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.cpp:32: /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::lineTo(Geom::Point)': /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h:67: error: parse error before `;' token /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::quadTo(Geom::Point, Geom::Point)': /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h:71: error: parse error before `;' token /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::curveTo(Geom::Point, Geom::Point, Geom::Point)': /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h:75: error: parse error before `;' token /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h: In member function `void Geom::SVGPathGenerator<OutputIterator>::arcTo(double, double, double, bool, bool, Geom::Point)': /usr/local/src/lib2geom/src/svg-path.h:81: error: parse error before `;' token make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/2geom.dir/svg-path.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/2geom.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 ================================================================================= -- E.J. Neafsey, Ph.D. eneafse@...1805...

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NEW: XSLT Input/output extension support
by Ted Gould 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

While it's been on my TODO list for a while, I finally realized how easy it was and finally did it. Using libxslt (which we already link to) Inkscape can now use XSLT stylesheets for input and output. (I thought about effects, is that useful to anyone?) I've also included into the build a couple of SVG stylesheets I was interested in: * AI SVG: cleans up Adobe SVG to only have in it the "good stuff" * XAML: Toine de Greef posted on his blog[1] a set of XSLT sheets to convert to and from SVG and XAML. What's really exciting to me about this is that they might be usable to finally bring SVG to IE using Silverlight[2] (at least what XAML supports). But, I think this makes Inkscape the first XAML editor outside of Expression. More are out there. I know that Adobe had a ChemML to SVG stylesheet somewhere, but I've been unable to find it... --Ted [1] http://sanpaku72.blogspot.com/2007/09/having-fun-with-xaml-silverlight-and.… [2] http://members.chello.nl/~a.degreef/xaml/svg_using_sliverlight.html

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docs
by Alexandre Prokoudine 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hi, What are your feelings about documentation of Inkscape? Do you think we still need an official user guide that would be available from our main website just like tutorials (in multiple langauges)? I'm kinda worried about it, because 0.46 will introduce practically all possible SVG filters and there is just no user friendly documentation on them, at least in English (yes, even books on Adobe Illustrator I've seen do not cover them in any decent way, and W3C spec is way too "technical"). Currently we have some ongoing work in French version of the user guide and not much of it in the English version: http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/user_manual/trunk/ Despite of it the situation isn't so bad, IMO. We have pretty detailed release notes that cover a lot of functionality. We could make at least good EN and FR user guides for upcoming 0.46. What I suggest is trying to do it in small steps: 1. Add both EN and FR user guides to main website in same way we add tutorials. 2. Make them updatable in same way we updated tutorials. 2. Sync them content-wise. 3. Add missing parts borrowing from release notes where required. This will raise some public interest and, hopefully, attract people willing to contribute (especially if we provide detailed description, how to do it, and define a place where people can meet and talk about docs). Then we can see if we can keep at least EN and FR versions in sync, which, when successful, will be a lot better than no (visible) official user guide at all. What do you think? Alexandre

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Printing issue
by Diederik van Lierop 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hi, A few days ago a bug was filed by a user, in which the printing area appears to get clipped or offset, see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1796153&group_id=9… Is this a known bug? It looks quite serious/annoying to me, so it would be great if someone could have a look. I'm not at all familiar with the printing mechanisms. Diederik

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Dead links on localized versions of Inkscape website
by Maximilian Albert 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hi, in the German version of the "mailing lists" section on www.inkscape.org (as well as in some other localized versions) there are dead links to the corresponding archives. The correct ones have a "text only" form like http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=inkscape-devel However, some links still contain IDs, as in http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=36054 Clicking on a link of the latter shape yields an error message from Sourceforge, "No forum found". Whoever is in charge of keeping these pages up to date may want to fix it. Should I submit a formal bug report, too? Thanks, Max

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raster effects crashing
by Alexandre Prokoudine 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hi, Following raster effects crash Inkscape here (Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon) on most recent SVN trunk: convolve shade wave raise And a couple of notes: 1. Do we really need flop effect since we can already flip raster images horizontally and vertically, while flop does it only horizontally and in a destructive way? 2. Types of noises in "Noise" effect are not translatable. 3. Names of channels in Channel and Level Channel effects are not tranlsatable. 4. Does Threshold actually work? I tried it on several images but didn't see any effect whatever value I specified (0-100). 5. Should raster effects probably provide some hints to tell range of possible values for each variable? 6. We seem to use "Variable: [value]" convention in GUI, but no (boh raster and path) effect uses ":" after name of variable. Should it be fixed? Alexandre

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Upgrading the MingW pack
by Joel Holdsworth 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hi, I'm running into a couple of problems with the MingW pack right now. My main problem is that if you look at mingw\i686-pc-mingw32\include\windef.h you'll see on line 12 that WINVER is #defined as 0x0400 which indicates that the version of the Windows SDK is very old - that WINVER value corresponds to NT 4.0! This is a little troublesome for me because there are some newer APIs which I need to be able to use, and I'd like to use them without defining home-brew versions of those APIs. So is there any scope for upgrading to a more modern version of the SDK? Thanks Joel

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issue with .dxf
by Maude ALLAIS 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Hi! First of all, sorry for my bad english, I'm french! I have an issue with inkscape 0.45.1 download in inkscape.org Indeed I use this software to make some documents with the extension dxf. Then these are used with the software robomaster. But when I save my document as a dxf doc, the dos window appears (black with nothing written) and then dissapear (normal by now) But it seems that this step is not well done because after robomaster is not able to upload my dxf doc. Moreover, all dxf documents have all the same capacity" that is to say 76 octets, even if documents are differents (text or picture) Have you heard something like that before? and have the solution?? Thank you for looking, If you want more information, do not hesitate to contact me! Best regards, Sialla

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] docs
by Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

> It has been mentioned several times, but never done. I guess nobody has > time for that...And in fact, i would do it > well (i hope) for french but my english is so poor taht i just usually > use the Release Notes as a basis for he EN version....Currently we > have some ongoing work in French version of the user > guide and not much of it in the English version I'd be happy to put some time in working on the English version of what you have already in French. My French is not nearly as good as your English, but I'm sure we can manage something. Is there currently someone heading English documentation? If so, please tell me where the best place is to begin. Otherwise, I'll need someone to start at the basics with me - you can email me off list so I can get the info that doesn't need to be posted here. > the more consistent it is the better I agree, and it's useless to duplicate work, anyways. I'd also be happy to dive into documentation of the new filter effects, and would be grateful for those who are working on them to help me get a layman's understanding of what they do. I realize that the best way is to actually use them, which I'll be doing, and read the specs, but that doesn't always bring better understanding :) Anyway, I may be able to begin the work in English which can be shared with the French version (and others). I'll be really looking at the docs, as I get some free time. Would someone be so kind as to point to all the current doc locations for me? Also, will I need any sort of commit access to those places? Thanks. jf

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Dockable dialogs, todo list
by Gustav Broberg 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Thanks for all bug reports, comments and wishes regarding the dockable dialogs I've received in the last weeks! To sum it up, here's my todo list for the time to come: TODO (in no specific order) --------------------------- * Allow in-dock dialogs to be expanded even if there's no "slack". (I've got it kind of functional, but needs some more work). * Force GtkPaned to pass on F6 and F8 (i.e. those shortcuts can't be used now when the dock is displayed). * Make all the functionality provided by dialog-events.cpp work with the new dialogs. Perhaps by moving it into the Dialog class. This will lead a bit of to code duplication as long as there are "old" dialogs around, which is bad, on the other hand it allows the code to be C++-ified, which is good. * Tackle the problems with dockable dialogs and multiple desktops, i.e. the Dialog manager redesign. * Scroll dock to display docked dialogs when requested, and needed. * Remove old, obsolete object-properties dialog (a.k.a "Fill & Stroke"). Add methods for setting a specific tab in the new F&S. * Manage the Swatches dialog with the dialog manager, like any other dialog. * Fix minor problem with switching focus directly to dialog docked in main window, when a floating dialog have focus. Also give focus to a dialog that is deiconified. * Fix all GDL runtime warnings. * Fix all GDL compile time warnings. * See if anything can be done about the clashing mnemonic accelerators, i.e. allow them to be context sensitive for dialogs. * Add any (if any) major, user visible problem from above that didn't get fixed to "Known problems" sections in the release notes. Wish list (in no specific order) -------------------------------- * Add a "iconify/minimize all" button and bind a shortcut to it. * Pan/zoom drawing depending on dock size, behavior toggled by the current "Zoom drawing if window size changes" button. * Allow dock to "start" from menu bar instead of toolbar (and thereby giving it more space), by adding an option in "options.dock". * Add another, horizontal, docking area. Potentially hard if we wan't dialogs to be dragged and dropped between the docks. I might have missed something, please tell if there's something crucial that needs to be fixed before the code freeze that's not already on the TODO list. -- Gustav

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