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Check new code in release mode
by Jabier Arraiza 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Hi all. We notice differences running a Inkscape build in release mode then in debug mode, normaly in debug mode works but not in debug mode. Normaly It happends to me when using an uninicializated variable, but cam be more diferences. So please check your code is working in both modes. Regards, Jabier.

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Meeting - Inkscape Vectors
by Ryan Gorley 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

The Inkscape Vectors will be meeting a couple hours before the board meeting. Catch the agenda, time and location details here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-vectors/general/issues/21 (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-vectors/general/issues/21) All are welcome. We hope you'll join us! -- Ryan Gorley Founder + Creative Director https://dijt.co (https://dijt.co)

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Gtk3 Trunk/Master Status
by Tavmjong Bah 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hi All, At the last Inkscape board meeting I was tasked with looking into the status of our move to Gtk3. I've updated the Gtk+ 3 issues wiki page: wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/GTK%2B_3_issues Here are what I consider to be the big blockers to a 0.93 release from the Gtk3 perspective: 1. Filter Editor dialog rewrite. Our custom Filter Editor dialog is seriously broken with Gtk3. Some work was done at the hackfest on rewriting this dialog from scratch. This needs to be finished. 2. Crash in Wayland with docked dialogs. When Inkscape is run under Wayland and there is a docked dialog, opening a new Inkscape window causes a crash in the GDL code. 3. Icons themes. We've removed our custom icon handling code and now rely on native Gtk icon handling. This means that each icon is now in its own SVG file. In principle this should allow theming to work properly but more work needs to be done. All the icons are currently dumped into one directory. They need to be in put in subdirectories according to the common desktop spec and the Inkscape code updated to use the directories. 4. Icons missing in toolbars. Icons are often missing in toolbars until the window is resized. There are quite a few other major bugs that should be addressed as well listed on the wiki page, some of them may be candidates for blockers. Please give your feedback here and/or on the wiki page. Thanks, Tav

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Inkscape sponsor requirements
by C R 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hey all. As requested of me at the board meeting, I've typed up a "common sense" draft of what I think is in-line with the project's purpose and goals. I thought about all the ways I could think of that a sponsor could make the project look bad with their actions, so here's the result: Sponsorship Requirements: The Inkscape project was founded to serve a world-wide community of artists, hobbyists, designers, scientists, engineers, and people everywhere by providing free and open source software (FLOSS) tools for vector graphics production. Since our sponsorship offerings include the service of exposure on our website, we require that all sponsors meet the following criteria to ensure a mutual compatibility with the spirit of the Inkscape Project. Thus to qualify for sponsorship, a sponsor must be: 1. A Legal, Law-Abiding Business - Must be registered as a business, pay taxes, and maintain a good standing with their customer base, and the country(s) in which they do business. 2. Politically Neutral - Our community is vast, and serves users from all walks of life and political views. The Inkscape Project does not, and therefore must not be seen to support one any particular ideology (beyond that of our belief in the essential software freedoms), and thus can not accept support from organisations of a political or religious nature. 3. Supportive of User Freedoms - A sponsor must not have a history of abusing user freedoms. This includes the sale of and promotion of proprietary software as part of the sponsor's core business, which we consider incompatible with the project's goals of user freedom. 4. Supportive of the Environment and the Future - The Inkscape Project can not accept donations from companies which promote the destruction of the environment. This includes companies which fund climate change denialism, anti-science groups, and members of the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. 5. Supportive of Equal Rights, Free Speech and Gender Equality - A sponsor must not fund groups which seek to deny the rights and freedoms of others based on gender, race, creed, religion (or lack thereof), or sexual preference. If a sponsor is found at odds with any of these essential compatibility points, the Inkscape Project reserves the right to pull the sponsor from our website, at which point a prorated refund of the donation amount will be returned to the sponsor.

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Error building (last two steps)...
by Patrick Dorion 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Hi, could anyone give me a hint? I don't know what to do... Building on FreeBSD-amd64 11.1-REL from the Ports tree... --> See attachment for output. Patrick Dorion 📱 +1 438 345-4575

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[Inkscape-board] Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, Nov 3rd, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings [Please note that some timezones have gone through daylight savings time changes, but others have not, so check your time!] Agenda: + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting + Sponsor acceptance policy + Preliminary preparations for 0.93 [tav] + Merchandise sales + Other Business Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] reply to personal message re Inkscape
by brynn 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi Andrew, I'm posting this directly to the mailing list, as an introduction. And I'm also copying in Alexia, who has replied to me as well. You will have to subscribe before you can send messages to the list. As I mentioned before, please find the link you need to subscribe to the Devel Mailing List here: https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/ There's a good chance your scale issues can be fixed with this info: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#inkscape-092-my-drawings-are-just-quarte… Or the other possibility I can think of is Inkscape Preferences > Input/Output > SVG Output > Path Data If those don't solve the problem, then it's well over my head, and definitely you should subscribe and post to developers on the mailing list. All best, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Jansen Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 6:53 PM To: brynn@...3472... Subject: Re: reply to personal message re Inkscape Hello Brynn, Confirming receipt of email below. Please confirm and let me know if you can point us in the right direction. Thanks, Andrew Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 27, 2017, at 2:07 PM, "brynn@...3472..." <brynn@...3623...> > wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > I'm contacting you as a reply to a personal message you sent me today, > on Inkscape Community. I've pasted the text of your message below, just for > convenience. > > I don't think you've actually contacted the person you intended. I have > not posted in any forum about AxiDraw, and in fact, this is the first time > I've heard about it. I tried searching for a forum, and found a few which > have messages about AxiDraw. I'm guessing you were referring to the Evil Mad > Scientists forum. But once there, I still had no idea which message to look > at. > > The president of the Inkscape Board of Developers' name is Bryce. And > with my name Brynn, we get confused sometimes. This forum is run separately > from the Inkscape website, although I am quite active in the community. I can > certainly put you in touch with Bryce, or whomever you're looking for. > > I've never heard of the Inkscape community having a paid consultant > service. But I know the Board has been creating sponsorship opportunities, as > well as funded development options. So perhaps either one of those would work > for you, or perhaps could be modified. But certainly I can't represent either > one of those to you. > > The Inkscape development community primarily communicates via mailing > list (although they also use IRC for real time chats). I'm pretty sure you > can post to the Board of Developers list, without subscribing to it. But the > Development list does require subscription (although you don't necessarily > have to receive mail or stay subscribed, and you can read messages via the > archives). (Although for developing an extension, perhaps you'd want to be > subscribe to the list?) > > This page has links for all the mailing lists, as well as the archives: > https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/ > > Or if you know the name of the person you're looking for, I could > probably put you in touch. > > For the scale issue, I'm guessing there will be a simple solution. > Starting with version 0.92, Inkscape's native unit is mm, rather than px, and > if you need a different unit, you have to set the Scale option correctly. As > someone who participates primarily with user support, I can tell you there is > a good deal of confusion about it. So whoever you end up working with can > explain it to you. (Personally it confuses me, haha. As far as I can > understand it, it sounds like something that most users should never have to > deal with. But unfortunately, it currently requires user input.) > > Let me know if I can help you contact someone in particular. > > All best, > brynn > > __________________________________________________ > > Hello, > > My name is Andrew and I noticed you commented on a AxiDraw Forum. We're new to > using Inkscape and we currently use it for pen plotting. The pen plotter we > are using is called the AxiDraw3. Inkscape has been quite challenging to use > at scale. We currently use Inkscape and our pen plotter to write handwritten > cards. I understand that Inkscape is free but is there a paid consultant > service we can use to help us streamline our business? > I sincerely appreciate your time. > > I check my email more than I check my messages on this forum so if you could > respond back at andrew@...3622... that would be incredibly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance! > > Andrew > (323) 532 6551

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moderation - 'could have been made w/Inkscape'
by brynn 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi Friends, I think I probably know how the community leans on this. But since it bothers me so much, and happens so often, I thought it was worth not assuming the answer, and finding out for sure. A few months ago, we decided not to allow random photos in the gallery, which are unrelated to the project in any way. We also decided not to bother with copyright issues. (long discussion - https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/35798617/) Probably equally as often as random photos being uploaded, are images which *could have been made with Inkscape* but which I doubt were. So far, I've been letting these go through. But as I said, I wanted to have a discussion, rather than assume. Here are a couple of recent examples: -- 2 images, 1 resource and 1 thumbnail -- https://inkscape.org/en/~noahgabe@...3618.../%E2%98%85music -- https://inkscape.org/en/~KristiBryant113/%E2%98%85jesus-saves-the-world2 (I did a little research on this one, and found it at many different sites (many on different sites selling tshirts, as well as just web images) with the same basic image (and this exact image here: https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--rVeDm8Gt--/t_Preview/…) -- so I'm pretty sure it wasn't made with Inkscape) --https://inkscape.org/en/~chiquitita/%E2%98%8515230751-703016283207581-8475381764676214363-n To me, all of those /could have been/ made with Inkscape. But I have reasons to doubt all of them. How do you all think they should be handled? I think they should be handled similarly to random photos (contact the member, explain and link to CoC, ask to explain the relation to Inkscape, ask if they would like to remove, inform after 2 weeks we will do it, of course with graciousness. Or do we let them have the benefit of our doubt? I honestly don't understand why people go around posting random images (apparently, afaict) in random galleries, once or twice, and never come back. (I have the same curiosity about people who post 1 or 2 frivolous, sometimes meaningless messages in forums and never return.) But it seems worth the effort not to waste our limited resource on hosting these things. Anyway, thanks for any thoughts or comments :-) All best, brynn

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Development versions
by Jabier Arraiza 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Hi all. I have a request from a Grafica Libre user to get a PPA or AppImage of devel versions to start working filling bugs. Hi is focussed now in Jessyinc. Is posible create similar thing like the one for windows described a little time ago in Appveyor for Appimage to allow user coexist easy 2 inkscape versions without need install&reinstall PPA needs because same package devel and stable? This grow our testing base user and also provides people ability to test if a bug is realy fixed without need to wait the release, removing surprises. Thanks in advance, Jabier.

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Inkscape 0.92.2, win64: install additional Python modules
by Sebastian Kraft 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

Hi, I have written an Inkscape extension (https://github.com/seebk/LaTeXText) that requires additional python modules (PyGObject). In previous Inkscape versions on windows, I could simply install the PyGObject module into the Inkscape/[...]/python/site-packages subfolder from the official PyGObject windows builds. However, since 0.92.2 it seems that the windows build and python version changed and is incompatible to the PyGObject windows builds. What would be the recommended way to add modules to the Python distro bundled with Inkscape on windows? I tried to use the python module from msys2/mingw64 but did not succeed. The import of gi fails, it misses some DLLs. Unfortunately, the error message does not give detailed information what exactly is missing. Thanks for your help! Sebastian

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Fwd: Message from User: Inkspace Issues - AxiDraw3 (request for "paid consultant service")
by Eduard Braun 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Hi all, I don't know why they particularly chose me to write this message to, maybe somebody is interested / knows somebody? Regards, Eduard -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Message from User: Inkspace Issues - AxiDraw3 Datum: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:27:08 -0000 Von: webmaster@...1478... An: eduard.braun2@...173... Dear Eduard Braun, Oparix, another user of the Inkscape web site, has sent you a personal message: Inkspace Issues - AxiDraw3 ================================================ Hello, My name is Andrew and I read your bio on the Inkscape website. We're new to using Inkscape and we currently use it for pen plotting. The pen plotter we are using is called the AxiDraw3. Inkscape has been quite challenging to use at scale. We currently use Inkscape and our pen plotter to write handwritten cards. I understand that Inkscape is free but is there a paid consultant service we can use to help us streamline our business? I sincerely appreciate your time. I check my email more than I check my messages on this forum so if you could respond back at andrew@...3622... that would be incredibly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Reply: http://www.inkscape.org/en/~Oparix/message/209/ Visit Oparix's profile: http://www.inkscape.org/en/~Oparix All my messages: http://www.inkscape.org/en/alerts/ All the best, Inkscape.org Website ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscribe: If you do no longer want to receive these messages, you can edit your subscriptions and notification settings at http://www.inkscape.org/en/alerts/settings/.

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msys2 Symantec oddness for your amusement
by mathog 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Installing msys2 on a 32bit W7 machine today. Check this out: cat >helloworld.c <<'EOD' #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> void main(void){ printf("Hello World!\n"); } EOD gcc -o helloworld helloworld.c ./helloworld Hello World ldd ./helloworld ntdll.dll => /c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x77740000) kernel32.dll => /c/Windows/system32/kernel32.dll (0x778b0000) KERNELBASE.dll => /c/Windows/system32/KERNELBASE.dll (0x75830000) SYSFER.DLL => /c/Windows/System32/SYSFER.DLL (0x754b0000) UMEngx86.dll => /c/ProgramData/Symantec/Symantec Endpoint Protection/12.1.4013.4013.105/Data/Definitions/BASHDefs/20171016.001/UMEngx86.dll (0x71c70000) msvcrt.dll => /c/Windows/system32/msvcrt.dll (0x76af0000) Hopefully that is just what it looks like in msys2 and not a real dependency for the Symantec dll in the resulting program! I cannot really tell right now because all the PCs near me have the same Symantec program on them, so they have that dll. msys2 is a lot more like Cygwin than mingw2. The latter was a really light development platform, msys2 has everything including the kitchen sink. Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Confusing windows build instructions
by mathog 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Hi all, Today while perusing the varied Windows build instructions I was struck by some contradictory, or at least, not fully fleshed out text. For instance, it says here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows Warning: As our 32-bit development libraries (devlibs) currently do not offer GTK+ 3 (which is required by trunk) you have to follow the instructions for 64-bit builds or use MSYS2 if you want to compile the latest code (lp:inkscape)! Is "lp:inkscape" the name on github too? The Msys2 page says here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_with_… nothing about devlibs. Presumably it doesn't need them anymore and msys2installdeps.sh takes care of it? Never having used Msys2 it isn't entirely clear what the "gtk3" install (for instance) is. If there is no devlib for gtk3, what is this? More like a cygwin library? The 64 bit build page says here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_64-bit in several places to use "mingw32-make". No explanation why 32 and not 64. Somehow related to "win32 threading model and SEH exception handling"? Finally the visual studio page says here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_Visual_Studio "Follow all steps of guide Compiling Inkscape on Windows." At that point one has a fully compiled and working Inkscape. Why bother with Visual Studio? For the IDE? Is there a discussion in the wiki somewhere about other IDEs, like CODE::BLOCKS or Eclipse? Do any of these give instructions for packing up the built Inkscape so that it can be given to somebody else, like in a zip file? As I recall there are a bunch of dll's that need to be copied into the Inkscape folder from other locations (devlibs/bin, mostly). That was for an Inkscape built with mingw and msys and devlibs. What about Msys2 and whatever it is using for libraries? Can you just copy over whatever it has for devlib equivalents or are there Msys2 core libraries which must come too (like when distributing a cygwin binary)? Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] moderation - 'could have been made w/Inkscape'
by brynn 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Hi Reidar, Thank you for your comments. Anyone is welcome to share their comments. It's not an interruption - it's what I was asking for :-) I agree about integrity. I really would like the gallery to have only Inkscape images. But considering this post was answered by only 2 people, I guess the community isn't very concerned. So I probably won't change much, if anything, about the way I handle these images. If we start to run short of space for the gallery, maybe we would want to revisit this. But for now, it doesn't sound like the community is concerned about this. Thanks again for your comments! All best, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Reidar Vik Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 1:52 PM To: brynn Cc: C R ; Inkscape-Devel ; Inkscape-Docs Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] moderation - 'could have been made w/Inkscape' @brynn, I agree about what you said about images. It is fairest and most honest to only use images made with inkscape. Integrity is very important in this game. (I hope I didn´t interrupt the discussion) Vennleg helsing Reidar Vik Trostereiret Vik org.nr. 912 333 485 trostereiretvik.blogspot.com https://twitter.com/Trostereiret 2017-10-22 20:09 GMT+02:00 brynn <brynn@...3133...>: Thanks for your comments, C R. Re: Time as a resource: I think it's not worth anyone's time to scour the internet trying to prove that something wasn't made in Inkscape. Well of course, that's not what I'm proposing. For the image I did search, there was no scouring. It was the first result of the first search I made. It was clear enough for me just to look at the image. But I searched it out just to prove my suspicion. (It's the only time I've done that.) For the rest of your comments, I had the very same thoughts at first. If it could have been....why not. But the reason I wanted to try to discuss, is because (a) These images are numerous, considering our limited space. (b) Most of them could really only be done by advanced users (That's usually how I catch them. If they really had been made with Inkscape, in my experience, the artist wants to shout it out - not make a drive-by upload.) (c) I'm afraid it's misrepresenting Inkscape's abilities. I'm afraid it gives the impression that it must be easy to create amazing images. (d) It makes it harder to find the really awesome Inkscape-made images. It kind of dilutes the pool of awesome. I really have always (well, since I found Inkscape 10 years ago) wanted an Inkscape-only gallery. To me, THAT would be amazing! And to me, that's what the website should provide. I wonder if it would work to have another category, or another Order By option, like All Inkscape or 100% Inkscape, or something like that? Because I certainly have no objection to having images in the gallery, for which Inkscape was used only for part of it. But maybe it would be nice to have the "all Inkscape" images easier to find? Well anyway, as I said, I already had an idea that this isn't a big concern for the community. But I just wanted to voice a few thoughts as to why maybe it should be. Thanks again :-) brynn -----Original Message----- From: C R Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 4:33 AM To: brynn Cc: Inkscape-Docs ; Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] moderation - 'could have been made w/Inkscape' Re: Time as a resource: I think it's not worth anyone's time to scour the internet trying to prove that something wasn't made in Inkscape. I can think of several ways to do the graphic in question (or at least similar) in Inkscape, so I'd let it stay as it's actually quite stunning and not really hurting anyone. Even if it's not done in Inkscape, it gets people thinking about how it could be done in Inkscape, which is not a bad thing. Maybe it will inspire someone to post a vector resource of it in the future. Going forward, this is my recommendation: If it looks like it could have been done in Inkscape, and it was posted on our website, then we can assume (for the sake of aesthetics) that it was. Obviously if the uploader came back and replied to your comment, saying "Oh, I've not done this in Inkscape." Then you can remove it without having to make any guesses. :) Thanks for bringing it to attention, Brynn. Your hard work to fight against random non-Inkscape posts is definitely making the site much more usable and clutter free for everyone. -C On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 5:29 AM, brynn <brynn@...3133...> wrote: Hi Friends, I think I probably know how the community leans on this. But since it bothers me so much, and happens so often, I thought it was worth not assuming the answer, and finding out for sure. A few months ago, we decided not to allow random photos in the gallery, which are unrelated to the project in any way. We also decided not to bother with copyright issues. (long discussion - https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/35798617/) Probably equally as often as random photos being uploaded, are images which *could have been made with Inkscape* but which I doubt were. So far, I've been letting these go through. But as I said, I wanted to have a discussion, rather than assume. Here are a couple of recent examples: -- 2 images, 1 resource and 1 thumbnail -- https://inkscape.org/en/~noahgabe@...3618.../%E2%98%85music -- https://inkscape.org/en/~KristiBryant113/%E2%98%85jesus-saves-the-world2 (I did a little research on this one, and found it at many different sites (many on different sites selling tshirts, as well as just web images) with the same basic image (and this exact image here: https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--rVeDm8Gt--/t_Preview/…) -- so I'm pretty sure it wasn't made with Inkscape) --https://inkscape.org/en/~chiquitita/%E2%98%8515230751-703016283207581-8475381764676214363-n To me, all of those /could have been/ made with Inkscape. But I have reasons to doubt all of them. How do you all think they should be handled? I think they should be handled similarly to random photos (contact the member, explain and link to CoC, ask to explain the relation to Inkscape, ask if they would like to remove, inform after 2 weeks we will do it, of course with graciousness. Or do we let them have the benefit of our doubt? I honestly don't understand why people go around posting random images (apparently, afaict) in random galleries, once or twice, and never come back. (I have the same curiosity about people who post 1 or 2 frivolous, sometimes meaningless messages in forums and never return.) But it seems worth the effort not to waste our limited resource on hosting these things. Anyway, thanks for any thoughts or comments :-) All best, brynn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs

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Should Inkscape use fonts from folder of currently opened SVG?
by Eduard Braun 25 Oct '17

25 Oct '17

Hi all, I'm currently implementing functionality which allows Inkscape to use fonts *not* installed on the system [1]. * Suppport for loading fonts from share/inkscape/fonts as well as the fonts dir in Inkscape's configuration directory is already added. * Support for custom locations configurable by the user is provided, too. * One task is left: load fonts from the location of the currently opened SVG document While the last point could be especially interesting (e.g. it would allow people to simply distribute fonts required by an SVG alongside with it) it's also a bit tricky: fontconfig scans directories recursively. This means if the user were to open an SVG file somewhere at the top of the directory tree, fontconfig suddenly would scan *a lot* of directories for fonts. So I basically want to collect some opinions: * Do you think this would be acceptable? In that case I'd probably implement a boolean setting which defaults to false and explains the risks. * Could it make sense to rephrase the task a bit to "load fonts from the 'fonts' directory in the folder of the currently opened SVG"? It might be an option to offer this functionality while reducing the risk of indexing a large amount directories, however discoverability of the feature would be significantly reduced. * Should I just skip the last task? * Other ideas? Let me know what you think! Best Regards, Eduard [1] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/102

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Convert to path on use/clones
by Jabier Arraiza 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

Hi all. I want to start a discussion to make convert to paths function and also the stroke to paths works on use/clone elements. The question: Is a good idea? To me is the expected result from a user point of view... Cheers, Jabier.

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Development versions for Windows available on a regular basis via AppVeyor
by alvinpenner 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

Just found out about this, so I'm re-posting this notice, slightly edited: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=32932#p100877 Development versions of Inkscape for Windows (currently for 0.92.x branch and for master branch (formerly called 'trunk') ) are now automatically created on every change to the code base. They can be found at https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/history Click on the title of the build you want to test, i.e. a URL that goes like: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/build/master-606 or https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/build/0.92.x-607 On the next page, below 'Job Name', select if you want the 32 or 64 bit version (Environment: MSYSTEM=MINGW32 or Environment: MSYSTEM=MINGW64). On the next page, click on 'Artifacts' (at the right, right above the terminal-like box). On the next page, download a 7z file. (If necessary, you may need to install the 7z decruncher, from http://www.7-zip.org/) ................... For Ubuntu, there's https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/trunk (0.93 devel series) and https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable-daily (0.92.x series) -- Sent from: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Inkscape-Dev-f2781808.html

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Development versions for Windows available on a regular basis via AppVeyor
by alvinpenner 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

Just found out about this, so I'm re-posting this notice, slightly edited: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=32932#p100877 Development versions of Inkscape for Windows (currently for 0.92.x branch and for master branch (formerly called 'trunk') ) are now automatically created on every change to the code base. They can be found at https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/history Click on the title of the build you want to test, i.e. a URL that goes like: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/build/master-606 or https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/build/0.92.x-607 On the next page, below 'Job Name', select if you want the 32 or 64 bit version (Environment: MSYSTEM=MINGW32 or Environment: MSYSTEM=MINGW64). On the next page, click on 'Artifacts' (at the right, right above the terminal-like box). On the next page, download a 7z file. (If necessary, you may need to install the 7z decruncher, from http://www.7-zip.org/) ................... For Ubuntu, there's https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/trunk (0.93 devel series) and https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable-daily (0.92.x series) -- Sent from: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Inkscape-Dev-f2781808.html

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GSoC mentor summit
by Marc Jeanmougin 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

Hi all! Last weekend, I attended the GSoC mentor summit which had a great variety of very interesting people and sessions, I'm just going to summarize my thoughts about some of the most interesting sessions and discussions. Some are mostly board-related, but most can be of interest to the whole contributors community. ToC: * Diversity * Fuzzing * Version numbers * Gitlab : self-hosting & independence * Bug management * GCI * Funding I started writing all this in a single email, but for clarity, I'm just going to answer this email with an email for every individual topic, allowing to thread it nicely on email clients and keep all threads on mostly one topic. -- Marc

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Bugs
by mathog 21 Oct '17

21 Oct '17

On 20-Oct-2017 15:53, Marc Jeanmougin wrote: > == Migration == > > How I would propose to go about the migration would be to basically > post > on every one of the 4500 open bugs on lp a closing message with an > invitation to try to reproduce the bug with the devel version (maybe > with a link to a page explaining how to try it [e.g. Ubuntu with apt, > other linux compiling, windows with downloading the latest built 7z]) > and if it can be reliably reproduced, to submit it on gitlab and close > the issue on lp (or, if wishlist, submit it to the wishlist project). > Distributing the task on the bug reporters may help a lot with the > initial triaging, and (I'm an optimist) make for a smooth transition. That is going to create a black hole into which 99% of the information from the launchpad bug reports is going to fall, some of the ones which are open, and all of the ones which are not. I have worked in one way or another on ~100 bugs and will tell you right now I am NOT going to be testing again for all of those glitches and issues! I'm not even that big a contributor, others have worked on thousands of bugs. Just think how long it would take to get through a list like that. Never mind the list of people who no longer work on the project and would ignore your request. A smooth transition would involve some tool which automatically migrates all of the bug information from Launchpad to some other bug tracking platform. Note that on launchpad links from a bug to a patch/revision are all entered manually. Whatever the bug system migrates to, it would be nice if that function would be integrated. Ie, place a patch on the bug reporting system, hit some "push patch" button, and presto links are made in both directions between the bug reporting system and the revision system, once the new revision number appears. If such a thing actually exists. Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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No Align shortcuts documented in Keyboard and mouse reference of 0.92
by Raghavendra Kamath 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

Hello, In Inkscape 0.92 a user can quickly align objects with the following keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+2 : Align bottom Ctrl+Alt+4 : Align left Ctrl+Alt+5 : Align horizontal and vertical center Ctrl+Alt+6 : Align right Ctrl+Alt+8 : Align top Ctrl+Alt+h : Align horizontal center you can check the discussion & commit enabling this shortcuts here -> https:// bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/189535 However, I couldn't find these shortcuts documented in the official keys and mouse reference. May be I am missing something? If it is not there already can we update the shortcut sheet. Thank you -- Raghavendra Kamath Illustrator raghukamath.com

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Request for hosting sponsorship for the Inkscape Project
by Bryce Harrington 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Inkscape is seeking to improve its online service hosting. To this end we're soliciting proposals for donation/sponsorship of hosting services for the project. The Inkscape Project is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that develops and maintains the popular Inkscape vector drawing software, provided freely to millions of artists, designers, and other drawers of lines. Our website is at http://www.inkscape.org If you would be interested in sponsoring us through a donation of hosting service, we would be happy to add you to our sponsors page, with a mention & link on our main website's footer. Proposals can be sent to me as contact point. These will be presented to Inkscape's board, who will make the final determination in about a month's time. == Background == We currently have various services hosted at a number of different locations with widely varying administrative capacities. We would like to centralize the administration of these services, such as consolidating them onto one platform. We also want room and flexibility to easily install additional services as we grow. Services high on our priority list to migrate soon include mailing lists, Mattermost, and wiki. Bug tracking, web forum and gitlab are potential secondary priorities. Our Django-based main website may also be worth consolidating at some point in the future. For redundancy, we'd like to engage two distinct hosts, with one as a primary and the other backup/space, preferrably in geographically distinct areas (e.g. Europe and Canada). == Requirements == We think that a suitable machine would look something like this: Minimum Desired Required Ideal CPU: dual core quad core RAM: 4 gb 256 gb Storage: 500GB >1 TB (HW RAID-1) HDD SDD Bandwidth: 1 TB/mo 2 TB/mo OS: Any linux Ubuntu 16.04 We like the straightforwardness of physical (metal) hardware, but could consider virtual options if we can get similar levels of flexibility and expandability. * UPS power backup * 24h support at the datacenter - For hardware (metal) options, a technician would need to be available for handling hardware issues, to do OS installation/reinstallation, hook up KVM/IP if available, and to investigate faults that can't be diagnosed remotely. * Server would be under the administrative and technical management of the Inkscape admin team (about 6-8 people). We would have root access to the machine for doing system updates and to install/configure software and services. * We expect to be managing/maintaining our software ourselves. Items we anticipate migrating to this include (in rough order of priority): + Mailman3 + Mattermost + Wiki (mediawiki currently) + Forum (e.g. hosting for inkscapeforum.com) + Bug tracker (TBD) + Gitlab + Other project management tools + Website / Django * Inkscape does not handle anything particularly controversial. No copyright infringing materials, nothing political, nothing intentionally offensive. Our windows binary has been false-positived by virus software in the past, but we clear this up ourselves. * Currently our website hosting is sponsored and managed by OSUOSL. It's a root access virtual machine running postgresql, memcached, nginx and the django site itself. Memory usage is 450MiB per web host thread, currently 2 threads, plus 500MB for postgresql and 500MB for memcache. CDN is hosted by Fastly, currently serving 32TB per month for Inkscape (1:1.5 ratio US:EU, so more EU hits overall). There's enough dynamic content that we still see a decent load (1/2 TB/mo) on the server, notably around major releases (once every year or two); we are continuously tweaking optimizations.

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, Oct 6, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: + Welcome new Board Members + Officer positions? + Board election debrief + Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting + Sponsor acceptance policy + Preliminary preparations for 0.93 + 2017 Budget + Merchandise sales + Funded development + Other Business Bryce

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Cppcheck results
by Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi, I've checked the files in the src directory (without those in subdirectories) with Cppcheck. The attachment contains the results as an XML file. You can open it in the Cppcheck GUI e. g. to restrict the items to errors only. (There are very few ones.) Perhaps, this list is of interest to you to further improve the quality of Inkscape's source code base. Greetings Friedrich

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A future idea: SVG internet kickstarter
by Miguel Lopez 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi Inkscape developers and those who are with Inkscape developers, This idea just hits right in the back of my head, the minute that Inkscape gets bugs fix, and a few more improvement, would it be possible to have every Inkscape users as possible to make their SVGs, and ask internet browsers and so on to support gradient mesh, and other things by getting them to make some sort of text to support SVG development and they post their SVGs on the web? Something like some sort of yearly campaign. I know this might not amount to much, but it's just something.

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