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inkscape python needs lxml
by Adib Taraben 25 Jun '07

25 Jun '07

Bob, some python scripts need python lxml extension. >> The fantabulous lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex_lxml.py and therefore this extension. Please download the latest version from <http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/>. << could you please add this into the gtk package you provide. So that this get inserted into the win32 build. Regards, Adib. ---

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Wiki and Planet Skins
by ryan lerch 24 Jun '07

24 Jun '07

you may have noticed that the wiki and the planet skins have been changed to come into line with the inkscape website. (im not sure if the wiki skin is the default yet, but if you want to set the skin as your default in users prefs, that will work - the skin is unimaginatively called "inkscape") if there are any problems with these, or you have some suggestions for improvements, feel free to discuss them, and i will try to include them... i intend to try to get the posts on the planet looking a bit better, maybe even displaying them in speech bubbles similar to http://planet.gnome.org/ cheers, ryanlerch

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Automatic engraving?
by bulia byak 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

On 6/21/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote: > See attached .jpg - my thought is that if you could just cover a > picture with some uniform paths (made from stroke to path) and then > have thick/thinning applied to them across a regular grid (red dots) > you could make these engraved style pics with a lot of complexity > and detail very quickly and easily. Obviously my example's just a > simple mock up. I like the idea. All that needs to be done is to combine the trace-background code and the thinning/thickening code. Should not be too difficult to do. The only problem is, with this addition the thinning/thickening functionality certainly breaks the envelope of the Calligraphy tool. It needs at least one more keyboard modifier and some toolbar controls, which simply won't fit into this already overloaded tool. So I'm thinking about breaking this functionality into a tool of its own, for example Shape Morph, which would give me more room to develop it further. Also it will hopefully improve the visibility of this functionality - it seems to me it wasn't noticed enough so far, although it's extremely useful in a lot of ways (not only for engraving, of course). So, any objections to me adding one more button to the main toolbar? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Automatic engraving?
by bulia byak 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

On 6/22/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote: > Hmmm, maybe your thinking of something more dynamic than I had in > mind, I was thinking you would use a menu item to thicken/thin the > selected paths based on the underlying image. That's possible, but I don't like this approach - it's too mechanical, leaving too few room for creativity. Instead, I envision it as a different mode of the thinning/thickening brush where, instead of indiscriminately thinning/thickening selected paths, it does thinning if the background is light and thickening if it's dark, with settable thresholds/force/inversion if needed. This way you can "develop" the background image interactively, emphasizing some of the details and leaving others hidden. What do you think? > But I agree thicken/thin doesn't belong as a subpart of the > caligraphy tool. What about the 'draw using another path as a > guide' mode, does that need more general exposure too? No, that one is definitely part of the calligraphic tool - it draws calligraphic strokes with all the same parameters and modes as usual, except they are guided. The thinning/thickening is quite different from that - it does not draw anything at all. Its only connection with the calligraphic UI is that it uses 10x of the calligraphic pen width as the thinning brush width, but it's a poor UI anyway because it's not very obvious. Having its own toolbar will allow it to have its own width control. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] website, take two :)
by Colin Marquardt 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

"Leandro Regueiro" <leandro.regueiro@...400...> writes: > And why not a link to the translation section on the main page of the project?? I'm not against it, but next to what other link would you put it? Cheers Colin

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Effects error dialog
by Aaron Spike 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Could someone puh-lease help me. I'm translating the python extensions to use lxml and the effects error dialog is really driving me nuts. It is modal and it doesnt' stay ontop of the inkscape window. This makes it the most annoying dialog ever. This is a Win32 problem. I run and effect that generates an error. I switch to a text editor to fix the error. I click back on inkscape and the error windows is below inkscape so I have to minimize all the other windows and then move inscape to the left or two the right to read or close the dialog. To make matters worse the dialog is always placed in the middle of the inkscape window, so I have to move inkscape every time. I tried to hack the dialogs ontop hack for this dialog and failed. Aaron Spike

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Help needed on OS X
by Jean-Olivier Irisson 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Hello all, To solve a bug I need a little help from the community. I would need the output of this command: ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXine* Just copy paste the line above in a Terminal and then copy paste the output back in an email. I would need this information from users with 4 different setups: - 10.3.* (Panther) with X11 installed (X11User package) - 10.3.* (Panther) with X11 and X11-SDK installed (X11-SDK is available in the developer tools, when you install XCode and such) - 10.4.* (Tiger) with X11 installed (X11User package) - 10.4.* (Tiger) with X11 and X11-SDK installed (X11-SDK is available in the developer tools, when you install XCode and such) Thank you in advance for your help. Jean-Olivier Irisson --- UMR 5244 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, 52 av Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France +336 21 05 19 90 http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/

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Rename "Inkscape Preference"
by Maulik Gordhandas 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

Hi, Can anyone tell me how can i rename the "Inkscape Preferences" [dialog & File Men entry] to just "Preferences" Thanks Maulik

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rename "Inkscape Preference"
by Tobias Jakobs 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

> On 6/19/07, Maulik Gordhandas wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how can i rename the "Inkscape Preferences" [dialog & > > File Men entry] to just "Preferences" > > grep 'Inkscape Preferences' -r /path/to/source/code > > Then edit the found file and recompile. > > Is it because of HIG incompatibility? > It can't be the HIG, because the HIG suggests "Application Name Preferences": http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-utility.html#prefer… So we should not change that! Regards, Tobias __________________________________________________________________________ Erweitern Sie FreeMail zu einem noch leistungsstärkeren E-Mail-Postfach! Mehr Infos unter http://produkte.web.de/club/?mc=021131

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Link help
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

I added a class called SPTRefReference, similar to SPUseReference. It extends URIReference. When I try to instantiate it in my tref struct's init function (tref->ref = new SPTRefReference(SP_OBJECT(tref));), just as the SPUse struct does, it won't link. Something about missing definition for SPTRefReference's vtable. Anyone know what step I am missing? Probably something small or maybe related to this particular compiler (which I have not used before; at least not on Windows). Much appreciated, Gail

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<use> Element
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Hi all, In my quest to implement <tref> I have been examining the <use> element. In its implementation, there are several members related to the connection it makes to the element it wants to use. I'm trying to sort out which of these is necessary because it seems that there is some duplication. SPUse has the following as members: gchar * href; SPUseReference *ref; sigc::connection _delete_connection; sigc::connection _changed_connection; sigc::connection _transformed_connection; But SPUseReference is in fact a subclass of URIReference. Does having this make the other members redundant to a point? Similarly, SPTextPath uses a subclass of SPUseReference called SPUsePath, which contains all the same sigc::connection stuff that is stored in SPUse. Is it possible that SPUse could strip itself of the connection stuff and maybe even the href (not sure exactly the need for that one) by replacing the SPUseReference with SPUsePath? Most importantly, is there any reason that SPTRef could use SPUsePath to refer to the element it will take character data from? Thanks, your help is much appreciated :) Gail

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Patch for restoring window geom from prefs uploaded
by Bill Baxter 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

I finished my patch for saving and restoring window geometry from preferences, and uploaded it to sourceforge. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1734633&group_… Comments / suggestions appreciated. --bb

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Layers Dialog Mockup.
by Stathis Sideris 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

> I know it's been on your personal list, which is kinda why I was asking. > But I also knew that you haven't had much inkscape hacking time (but > you've been fighting for the greater good)... I really wasn't sure if we > were just rehashing the old conversation again for the new folks or > what. :) So, are there any volunteers? I'm sure that if people need a > little coaching that the dev community would be happy to help. > > -Josh > [moved the above from the user list] I'm volunteering to implement the gradient editor featured I proposed on the 25th of May in this mailing list. I will definitely need coaching, I looked at gradient-vector.ccp and I don't get it. Can someone point me to the part of the code responsible for the layer preview right at the top of the Gradient Editor dialog? I will also try the Inkscape IRC channel in order to get "live" coaching, I hope you don't mind :-) Thanks, Stathis

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Layers Dialog Mockup.
by ryan lerch 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

The other day, i decided to lock an object using the "lock" checkbox in the properties dialog box, and when i wanted to edit this object again, the only way i could find to unlock it was to edit the XML using the XML editor. This got me thinking, how could an easier way be implented? microUgly and i were throwing around some ideas at http://inkscapeforum.com/ and we thought, why not be able to change these properties of objects in the layers dialog box? anyhoo, the moral to my rambilings is that i did a simple mockup of how this may work: please tell me what you think... mockup: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/Layersmockup.png cheers, ryanlerch

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Antwort: Layers Dialog Mockup.
by bulia byak 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

On 6/14/07, Marcel.Tippmann@...1751... > but please don´t forget -if possible- some kind of "unlock all" comand you already have Unlock all and Unhide all in Object menu (in SVN) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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New template and palette committed but not installed
by jiho 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

hello all, I committed a new template and a new color palette (for use with the Beamer LaTeX package, to produce screen presentations). I just added the files to share/templates and share/palettes (around rev 15000) in svn but I discovered today that, though the files are in a source checkout, they are not installed and therefore not distributed. Is there an extra step to have them installed by "make install"? (I thought that everything in those directories was just copied). Thank you in advance for your help. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Fill and stroke properties incompatibility between devel and release versions
by jiho 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Hello everyone, Certain drawings I produce with a recent development version of Inkscape display with stroke and fill attributes as unset in the release version (0.45.1). It is not really a show stopper because it is quite easy to make people install a devel version of Inkscape but it does not help collaboration ("Hey, the image you just sent me is all black!"). I cannot reproduce this on new drawings currently (with devel version 070603200 vs. 0.45.1 on windows) but this file: http://cbetm.univ-perp.fr/repos/distribution_data/tetiaroa/trunk/sampling/s… shows the behavior (NB: you probably have to "save as" and add the svg extension manually on this link. I don't know why but the apache subversion interface insists on treating the file as text). I am the only one seeing this? I won't be able to do some more tests before a while (the logic board of my laptop fried....grrrr) but I thought I would report this before I forget about it. Cheers, JiHO

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [CREATE] Inkscape at SVG Open 2007?
by Jon Phillips 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 07:54 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is it possible to have someone from Inkscape at SVG Open 2007? This > year its in Tokyo, Japan on 4-7 September - are there Japanese > developers for Inkscape? Or someone in that area of the world? > > http://www.svgopen.org/ > > The conference will be bilingual English and Japanese (so a talk can > be in either language). The call for participation recently closed, > but the conference committee would be flexible if an Inkscape > presentation was received. Heya, I'm emailing the inkscape-devel list about this. I might be in the area around then, otherwise, if you all are providing travel sponsorship, then, I'm sure there is an inkscape developer that can make it to present and get in depth. I believe Ted wants to go to Japan to present...Andy might be able to go to... I need to go there and tend to some cc business, so that might fit my timeline as well... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Off Topic: Fundraising!
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] pdf - blur/filter support ?
by Adib Taraben 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

I feared that someone would say this. Probably we have to fall-back into a kind of rasterizer in order to realize those features. Same scary story to alpha/transparency on PS output. Uh ..., Adib. Stathis Sideris schrieb: > Not sure whether blur can be supported natively in PDF, but I know > that other programs (such as Illustrator for example) seem to handle > this by "rasterising" the blur (and other effects) by the use of > numerous little boxes (vector "pixels"!) that approximate the effect. > Needless to say that the inclusion of such "rasterised" effects > results in significantly larger files. > > Adib Taraben wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I wonder whether pdf has the ability to output blur/filter natively. >> I do a lot now with blur like shadows but the exported pdf is not the >> same. I already downloaded the pdf reference but there might be to >> much pages so I did not found the reference. >> >> I am looking for something that corresponds to svg filters. Could >> someone point me to the right direction ? >> >> Thx, >> >> Adib. >> --- >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing list >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> > >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Preventing spam on the Wiki
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

I think it's a good idea, so long as there are volunteers to handle approving account requests. One thought I've had is if it can be configured to work with LDAP, we could try to shift the project to being more LDAP-based. I have zero LDAP experience, and haven't made any progress on setting this up on inkscape.org, but that's sort of the direction I've wanted to go. Especially since we've also talked about setting up additional software like a forum, translation tool, bug tool, etc. Having to force people to have 7+ separate logins for all these inkscape tools would be annoying at best for both user and admin, so if most could be set up to use LDAP, then it'd save a lot of time all around. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from inkscape-wiki-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net ----- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:07:24 -0700 From: inkscape-wiki-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-wiki-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Inkscape-wiki post from aaron@...749... requires approval As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting: List: Inkscape-wiki(a)lists.sourceforge.net From: aaron@...749... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Preventing spam on the Wiki Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list At your convenience, visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/admindb/inkscape-wiki to approve or deny the request. Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:45:34 -0500 From: Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> CC: inkscape-wiki(a)lists.sourceforge.net, inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Preventing spam on the Wiki Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > I noticed that the Inkscape Wiki has been flooded with spam recently. We had > the same issue on the Scribus Wiki and found a simple, but effective way to > handle it. > > We disabled the automatic creation of accounts and put a request mechanism in > place. Everyone who wants an account has to ask for it via email to one of > the SysOps or to the mailing list. We haven't had a single issue with spam > since then. > > Maybe you could consider something similar for your interesting Wiki. I've been working with Christoph on this matter and I asked him to propose this idea on the mailing lists. We've made a few changes without asking. We've upgraded the wiki to version 1.10. A few weeks back I enabled email for password reminders at mental's request. And now I have set the wiki to only allow edits by users who have configured and confirmed a email address. I hope we don't have to resort to manual account creation, because it is work for someone to do, and because wiki edits are usually rather spontaneous (asking for an account could take hours if not days). But if that is the only method available to put an end to the spam that is causing our wiki editors a large amount of wasted time, then we will have to do so. Aaron Spike From: inkscape-wiki-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: confirm b0a05df54b5f2e598ebecd089c217b726f9e0bf5 If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line of the body of the reply. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Corel Draw CDR importer
by Tobias Jakobs 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Hi, I've just found the sK1 Projekt: http://sk1.sourceforge.net/ It's an Skencil (aka Sketch) fork with an Corel Draw CDR file importer. I haven't tested it but it may be a nice way to convert Corel Draw files to SVG. Perhaps even someone may be interested in porting the code to Inkscape or to a lib that can be used in both programs. Maybe this is something that Scribus can use too. Regards, Tobias

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[inkscape-wiki-owner@lists.sourceforge.net: Inkscape-wiki post from christoph-schaefer@...173... requires approval]
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Not a bad idea, although I wouldn't want to be responsible for approving the accounts. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from inkscape-wiki-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net ----- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:36:46 -0700 From: inkscape-wiki-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-wiki-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Inkscape-wiki post from christoph-schaefer@...173... requires approval As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting: List: Inkscape-wiki(a)lists.sourceforge.net From: christoph-schaefer@...173... Subject: Preventing spam on the Wiki Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list At your convenience, visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/admindb/inkscape-wiki to approve or deny the request. Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:01:36 +0200 From: Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer@...173...> To: inkscape-wiki(a)lists.sourceforge.net, inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net, inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Preventing spam on the Wiki Hi, I noticed that the Inkscape Wiki has been flooded with spam recently. We had the same issue on the Scribus Wiki and found a simple, but effective way to handle it. We disabled the automatic creation of accounts and put a request mechanism in place. Everyone who wants an account has to ask for it via email to one of the SysOps or to the mailing list. We haven't had a single issue with spam since then. Maybe you could consider something similar for your interesting Wiki. Cheers Christoph From: inkscape-wiki-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: confirm 10904d9d429d62e24e36db58c1b3d33533411c3b If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line of the body of the reply. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Strange glitch (or feature?) in an Inkscape file
by Michael Grosberg 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Hey all, I just experienced a moment of slight panic - I had a file full of icons (35 to be exact) which I wanted to batch export to separate PNG files. I use a layer below my icons, with transparent rectangles. They are all named appropriately. This is something I do a lot, but on this specific file, batch exporting always resulted in a single file. After much experimentation, I finally decided to take a look at the XML code, and found that every rectangle had this parameter: inkscape:export-filename="C:\2D_Art\icons\AAA.png" (AAA.png is also the name of one of the rectangles/icons in the file) The parameter was identical in all rectangles, and this somehow caused all the rectangles to be exported to the same filename and overwrite each other. A quick search and replace removed it and I was able to export as usual, so problem solved. Still, I'm curious to know what caused it. Where did this parameter come from? Is this something left over from an old version of Inkscape? It was a rather old file, untouched for almost a year. Michael

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Preventing spam on the Wiki
by Aaron Spike 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Christoph Schäfer wrote: > I noticed that the Inkscape Wiki has been flooded with spam recently. We had > the same issue on the Scribus Wiki and found a simple, but effective way to > handle it. > > We disabled the automatic creation of accounts and put a request mechanism in > place. Everyone who wants an account has to ask for it via email to one of > the SysOps or to the mailing list. We haven't had a single issue with spam > since then. > > Maybe you could consider something similar for your interesting Wiki. I've been working with Christoph on this matter and I asked him to propose this idea on the mailing lists. We've made a few changes without asking. We've upgraded the wiki to version 1.10. A few weeks back I enabled email for password reminders at mental's request. And now I have set the wiki to only allow edits by users who have configured and confirmed a email address. I hope we don't have to resort to manual account creation, because it is work for someone to do, and because wiki edits are usually rather spontaneous (asking for an account could take hours if not days). But if that is the only method available to put an end to the spam that is causing our wiki editors a large amount of wasted time, then we will have to do so. Aaron Spike

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