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Inkscape Hackfests!
by Tavmjong Bah 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

Dear Inkscaper, We plan on holding two Inkscape hackfests in the next half year. The first will be in Pasadena (Los Angeles), California from March 4th through March 6th.[1] This hackfest takes place just before the 2019 Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE). The second hackfest will at the Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) in Saarbrücken, Germany (near the French/German border) from May 29th through June 2nd. We encourage all Inkscaper's (developers, designers, translators, etc.) to attend these hackfests. Financial support will be available to active participants in the Inkscape community. To be eligible for support you need to add your name to the appropriate "Attendees" page. [3][4] Don't hesitate to add your name even if your attendance is not certain yet. Tav [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_SCALE [2] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_Saarbr%C3%BCcken [3] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_SCALE_Attendees [4] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_Saarbr%C3%BCcken_Atten…

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Failed builds on Launchpad - daily emails
by Christoffer Holmstedt 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

Hi I keep getting daily emails about failed builds from "Launchpad Buildd System" [1, 2]. As Inkscape is now built on Gitlab infrastructure afaik is this something to look into or should launchpad builds be disabled somehow? [1] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/404699241/buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-i386.inksca… [2] https://launchpadlibrarian.net/404699568/buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-amd64.inksc… Best regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Inkscape 0.93.3 Bug
by Nico Sauter 31 Dec '18

31 Dec '18

Hello, we encountered a bug in the new Inkscape Verion (0.93.3) on our Fedora28 Workstations. Steps to reproduce: - Start Inkscape - Open a new document (Even if Inkscape opens one on defalut) - Write Text - Mark the text from right to left. -> Crash I can reproduce that every time and even with a new installed machine. flatpak installations works. But dnf package seems to be corrupt somehow. Here a few more debug infos: https://pastebin.com/ujHZVR6e I hope thats right here, i noticed that inkscape-tracker seems to be outdated.

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Bitmap scan results in layers instead of objects.
by Aditya Sher 30 Dec '18

30 Dec '18

The *bitmap scan feature * results in layers instead of objects, which leads to low quality conversion at times, is there any ongoing work or beta that supports that feature, I will be glad to help in any way I can to implement it in case its possible to do so. Best, Aditya Sher

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Repeated tasks:
by Aditya Sher 25 Dec '18

25 Dec '18

Is there any plugin which will help me achieve repeated tasks? Like: There are 52 files, with exact same layers and all same objects (except top layer). Is there a way to change color of object in lowest layer (for all 52 files) Or delete all objects of a layer and replace them with objects present in same layer of file 1. In case it doesn't exist, how can one look forward to developing such a plugin? Is it feasible? and most importantly do others feel the need or its just me because I am doing a exception case task which will rarely occur? Also as a question, in case such a feature doesn't exist, has anyone else faced a similar problem and wished to eliminate such repeated tasks? Regards, Aditya Sher

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Inkscape 0.92.3 package for MacOS
by Jim McDermott 23 Dec '18

23 Dec '18

Hey all - I saw that you're looking for help putting together the package for the above. What kind of help do you need? I'll do what I can to hep out. Thanks, Jim McDermott, CSM

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Board meeting Friday Dec 7th at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, Dec 7th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * Future meetings/hackfests. ** [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/ SCALE] - March 7th-10th, 2019 (Pasadena, California) ** [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] - May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) Proposed. (About two hours by train from Paris.) * Merchandise sales ** Spreadshirt ** Evaluate self-serve merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc] * Bug tracker transition plan * Weblate service deployment * Sponsorship management + Meeting w/ Karen on Conservancy assistance + Sponsor acceptance policy + Sponsorship procedures & defined contact point + Sponsor soliciting / outreach * Action Items * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- === SCALE === ♢ ACTION: Check into pre/post SCALE meeting options & AirBNB [tedg, scislac] ♢ ACTION: Propose some options and concrete plans for hackfest at SCALE [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Email board about status on SCALE venues by Nov 9th [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Lock in commitment for SCALE hackfest venue by Nov 16th, else plan to reschedule hackfest [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Set up hackfest fundraiser web page for SCALE hackfest ♢ ACTION: Put together list of people to invite to 2019 SCALE hackfest [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Identify/recruit Inkscape presenters for SCALE [ryangorley] === Merchandise Sales === ♢ ACTION: Coordinate announcement of spreadshirt with hackfest [crogers, vectors team] ♢ ACTION: Check with Conservancy on status of sticker production [doctormon] ♢ ACTION: Email Bryce with evaluation/details about hellotux.com merchandise service, for preparing board vote [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Board vote on hellotux.com [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Follow up with Cr on status of Spreadsheet rollout [bryce] === 0.92.4 Release === ♢ ACTION: Kickoff 0.92.4 release [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Remember to put correct version string in AC_ for 0.92.4 [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Start 0.92.4 release once Inkscape 1.0-alpha is released [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Plan PR for 0.92.4 (with mention of availability of alpha) [vectors team, ryangorley] == Inkscape 1.0 alpha release == ♢ ACTION: Start Inkscape 1.0-alpha release once 2geom is released [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Check in with people doing test case conversion [Tav] ♢ ACTION: ping jimmac/barbara about the symbolic icons for adding the theme to Inkscape [scislac] ♢ ACTION: Plan video for Inkscape 1.0 release [crogers] === Bug Tracking === ♦ ACTION: Recruit folks to help plan gitlab bugs transition [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Write up an orientation web page for new bug triagers, for gitlab migration [Mc] ♢ ACTION: Announce move to gitlab for new Inkscape & 2geom bug reports, once inkscape 1.0-alpha is released [bryce] === Trademarks === ♦ ACTION: Ask SFC opinion for widening our trademark registrations beyond US [bryce] === 1.0 Release === ♢ ACTION: Brainstorm plans for 1.0beta / 1.0 commemorative merch [crogers, tedg] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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Autosave for inkscape
by Aditya Sher 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

I was wondering whether inkscape has autosave, of not I would be willing to work on it, (under a mentor) in upcoming winter break, since I feel autosave is a highly useful feature for vector editors, because we tend to forget to his ctrl+s so often :(

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Bronze sponsor request
by unknown＠example.com 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

Dear Board, We have a request to sponsor the Inkscape project from icons8.com at the bronze level. If anyone knows or can find anything against our rules, let me know. Otherwise I'll post them instructions to send the money by the start of next week. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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As easy way to use development (or 1.0 preview) in Ubuntu 18.10
by anatoly techtonik 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Hi again. https://inkscape.org/release/master/platforms/ doesn't mention upcoming 1.0 at all, and I don't see there an easy way to use development builds in Ubuntu 18.10. Like PPA or better snap. ✗ sudo snap info inkscape ... snap-id: tIrcA87dMWthuDORCCRU0VpidK5SBVOc channels: stable: 0.92.3 (4274) 177MB - candidate: 0.92.3 (4349) 180MB - beta: ↑ edge: 0.92+devel (4265) 192MB - For this snap I'd expect the serial number for edge to be higher than stable, and that means the snap is not updated. So is there any other recommended (which means user friendly in this context) to check latest development versions of Inkscape to give a quick feedback? -- anatoly t.

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clang-format vs custom indentation
by anatoly techtonik 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Hello. clang-format fails my one line patch and proposes to remove the indentation that was before my change. My opinion that the code will become less readable that it is now. How to deal with that? --- src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp (before formatting) +++ src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp (after formatting) @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ set_website ( "https://www.inkscape.org"); set_website_label (_("Inkscape website")); set_license_type (Gtk::LICENSE_GPL_3_0); - set_copyright (_("© 2019 Inkscape Developers")); + set_copyright(_("© 2019 Inkscape Developers")); set_comments (_("Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor\n" "Draw Freely.")); https://gitlab.com/techtonik/inkscape/-/jobs/125913035 -- anatoly t.

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Website Update: Menus
by unknown＠example.com 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Dear Inkscape Devels, The Inkscape website has had a menus problem every since we upgraded. It would show French, German and any random menu to English visitors at random times. The django-cms menus app has always been very slow, way, way over- engineered and just not very good for websites with more than two languages. Thanks to Jabier, we've replaced it with a simple but more manual menu system. The new menu is disconnected from the CMS, so if you edit a cms page, add news ones or delete pages, you must now also edit the menus in each language to account for this. This manual editing is a disadvantage, but there are advantages too. Firstly, we can have different menus for different languages (if we want to say link to a different community forum for Japanese). We can also remove a lot of hacky blank places from our CMS that stood in for regular django pages, making that part of menu management more direct. Finally it's faster. Way faster. 2200ms first hit, 700ms cached vs 940ms first-hit and 512ms cached. Also it serves up the right language menu, which is quite a useful perk. If there's any issues either in the rendering or editing (which is quite crude, I admit) please let me know via an issue on inkscape-web. Thanks again to Jabier for the code and the idea to fix this issue with a bit of DIY. Best Regards, Martin Owens Website Administrator

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First Inkscope Video Podcast is live!
by C R 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J1r8a0emYc Future podcasts will be shorter, but hey, at least all the technical difficulties were edited out. :) Enjoy! -C

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Inkscape + Embarcadero C++ Builder Community Edition?
by Victor Westmann 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Hi Everyone, I hope all is well with you. I was just wondering if any of you know if Inkscape 0.92.3 is able to be compiled, on Windows platform, using the Embarcadero C++ Builder Community Edition? https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder/starter https://www.embarcadero.com/docs/rad-studio-feature-matrix.pdf It seems it is a free (but closed) tool to compile Inkscape. Haven't tested it yet but it seems it could be interesting for us to have yet another tool to compile Inkscape on Windows. Just wondering if anyone did this test yet... and if the dependencies were able to be resolved successfully. Thanks, --Victor Westmann

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Rewriting inkview in Python
by anatoly techtonik 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

Hi. It is not that I have a lot of time to do that, but I though that being able to use Inkscape as a library from Python could be an awesome feature to play with. Then one day somebody can come up with alternative SVG viewer. There are problems with current `inkview` from 0.92.3: - it lacks command line help - it doesn't respond to --version - if doesn't render attached file - there is no scaling option - there is no debug option for troubleshooting my content The attached file is rendered correctly in Inkscape, although initial view is too small. -- anatoly t.

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Fwd: $ systemd-analyze plot | inkview
by anatoly techtonik 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

Hi. Is it true that `inkview` is kind of unmaintained? Still maybe it is possible to modify it to accept input from stdin? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1804432 I could do it myself if `inkview` was written in Python. -- anatoly t.

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Inkscape.org in Chinese in Google Chrome (fine in Firefox)
by C R 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Inkscape website navigation comes up in Chinese in Google Chrome. (screenshot attached) Anyone else seeing this? I tried re-choosing English in the language options on the site, but still get Chinese symbols. Odd. -C

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Announcing lib2geom Release 1.0
by Bryce Harrington 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

lib2geom v1.0.0 =============== 2geom is a C++ library of mathematics for paths, curves, and other geometric calculations, designed to be well suited for vector graphics: Bézier curves, conics, paths, intersections, transformations, and basic geometries. Originally developed to restructure and improve path data structures in Inkscape, this library's codebase has been maintained and shipped as part of the professional vector graphics software for over a decade. The major contributors to the 2geom library are Nathan Hurst, Michael G. Sloan, Krzysztof Kosiński, Johan B. C. Engelen, MenTaLguY, Aaron Spike, Marco Cechetti and JF Barraud. Work on this release has focused on updating the 2geom source control, build, test and packaging systems for both Linux and Windows. The py2geom python extension package has been restored and improvements have been made to overall code stabilization and quality. The primary motivation for 2geom's 1.0 release is to support a future Inkscape 1.0 launch. With this evolution to a distinct package, the 2geom team is seeking new opportunities to collaborate with individuals and projects interested in using this proven tool. Downloads ========= Source Release: http://alpha.inkscape.org/releases/lib2geom-1.0.0.tar.bz2 [http://alpha.inkscape.org/releases/lib2geom-1.0.0.tar.bz2.sig] (Other packages for this release may be available in the future; keep an eye on https://www.inkscape.org.) More Information ================ Website: http://lib2geom.sourceforge.net/ Code: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/lib2geom Chat: https://chat.inkscape.org/home Bryce

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GTK3 Lower Bounds
by Jabier Arraiza 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hi all. I ask on chat about lower bounds of GTK3 version. Tav point me to http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Dependencies He also suggest it can be moved from 3.18 to 3.22 in Linux but he is not sure about other OS. What about @win_team and @mac_team? Regards, Jabier.

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Issues on Gitlab?
by Tobias Bernard 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hi all, I'm a UX designer and long-time Inkscape user. I work at Purism, and I'm on the GNOME design team. I've been meaning to get involved with Inkscape for years, but the tools used for development (Launchpad, mailing lists, IRC) don't make it very easy unfortunately. I was very happy when I saw the code migrated to Gitlab, because it's a much more modern tool that works great for design issues thanks to inline media (we've been using it in GNOME for the past year and it's been a total game changer). Unfortunately, though the code is on Gitlab now, it's still not possible to open issues there. I was told this would change "soon" earlier this year, but so far this hasn't happened. Is there a timeline for opening issues on Gitlab? What are the current blockers? I'd really like to avoid using Launchpad if at all possible :) Cheers, Tobias

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Website update: current status
by Maren Hachmann 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hi there, Martin, Bryce and Travis from our friendly hosters at OSUOSL have worked on switching the inkscape.org website to the newer version this evening. In some parts of the world, due to DNS propagation, you might not yet see the new page, but you will soon (it looks pretty much the same, though, just the backend is newer). It now features a new shiny django (yay!). Unfortunately, it currently has problems with page edits, news edits and resource uploads. Please hold off editing anything on it, to not lose any work. Martin is working on fixing things, and will let you know when it's good for editing again. Downloads and viewing the pages work as usual (except for viewing pasted texts), so most people won't be affected by the issues. Kind Regards, Maren

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lib2geom 0.9.0 (pre-release for 1.0)
by Bryce Harrington 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

A pre-release of lib2geom is packaged and can be downloaded here: Download: http://alpha.inkscape.org/prereleases/lib2geom-0.9.0.tar.bz2 Signature: http://alpha.inkscape.org/prereleases/lib2geom-0.9.0.tar.bz2.sig I've doublechecked that it builds and its tests pass, but I would really appreciate if someone else could check too. I haven't tried building Inkscape against it, and while I don't expect any issues at all, it would be wonderful if someone could check. Assuming all is well, I'll put out the final 1.0 release in a few days. The release notes are inlined below. Michele has kindly offered to help craft a news announcement to go with the release. Bryce lib2geom v1.0.0 =============== 2geom is a C++ library of mathematics for paths, curves, and other geometric calculations, designed to be well suited for vector graphics: Bézier curves, conics, paths, intersections, transformations, and basic geometries. This library was originally developed to restructure and improve the various path data structures in Inkscape, but the design intent is for it to be of general utility to others. The codebase has shipped as and been maintained as part of the Inkscape software for over a decade. It has been a very long time since 2geom saw a packaged release, and so much has changed it is hard to reduce to a summary. Recent work has focused on updating its source control, build, test, and packaging systems to more modern technologies for both Linux and Windows, and on restoring the py2geom python extension package to usability. Attention in recent years has also focused on stabilization and code quality improvement. The primary motivation for this 1.0 release is in support of overall efforts towards the (future) Inkscape 1.0 release, but we also hope that having this as a distinct package from Inkscape itself will facilitate wider collaboration. We would love to hear people find good uses for this beyond the Inkscape codebase!

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Duplicating objects in a Python extension
by Pieter Barendrecht 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Hi all, Given a selected object (e.g. firstObject = self.selected[self.options.ids[0]]) in a Python extension, how can I duplicate it? I've checked a couple of code snippets (e.g. pathscatter.py as well as some online content) and stumbled upon copy.deepcopy(...) and append() for layers, but I don't have it working properly yet. Usually, I add a new object (e.g. a path) using newObject = inkex.etree.SubElement(self.current_layer, inkex.addNS('path','svg'), pathAttribs), where pathAttribs has been defined before. Can I add the duplicated object in a similar way? When I substitute 'pathAttribs' with 'firstObject' or a deepcopy() of it, I get the following FutureWarning — FutureWarning: The behavior of this method will change in future versions. Use specific 'len(elem)' or 'elem is not None' test instead. newObject = inkex.etree.SubElement(self.current_layer, inkex.addNS('path','svg'), firstObject) As an exercise I'm trying to write an extension that generates a circular array of a selected (path) object. The approach could be to first duplicate the object and subsequently transform it (i.e. rotate and possibly translate) using simpletransform.composeTransform () and simpletransform.applyTransformToPath(). As a follow-up question, is it possible to clone an object from within a Python extension? With 'clone' I mean the operation that's available in Inkscape through Edit → Clone → Create Clone. Thanks! Best, Pieter

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Python coder needed for simple Launchpad/Gitlab metrics tools
by Bryce Harrington 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Hi all, I've got a little scripting project for someone interested in exercising their python skills for Inkscape over the next couple weeks. It involves collecting data about bug reports via the Launchpad API, and a similar tool using the Gitlab API. One tool will use Launchpad's API to get data about bugs (age, # comments, length of description, etc.) and calculate a score. We essentially want to measure the "triaging difficulty" of each bug. The other tool will use Gitlab's API to detect bugs that have been moved from Launchpad, what the LP bug # was, and the person that did the triaging work. It also does some simple quality checks on the ported bug - presence of tags, length of bug description, is the bug description in valid markdown format, etc. If this sounds interesting, let me or Chris Rogers know and we can fill you in a few more details and help you get going. Bryce

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Vectors Meeting - Tomorrow
by Ryan Gorley 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Hello all, Just a friendly reminder that the Vectors are meeting tomorrow. The agenda is being refined but the time and place can be found here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/74 All are welcome! Ryan

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