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Re: [Inkscape-user] SVG Fonts
by bulia byak 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:51:15 -0800, Landon Blake <lblake@...732...> wrote: > This is something I might be able to work on.....I've just begun learning C and GTK GUI programming, so that I can contribute to Inkscape development. > > Any idea how I might get started? Attached is an archive of several files that someone called massifr (sorry I don't know the real name) created some time ago. This is a beginning of implementation of svg:font, svg:fontface and svg:glyph. Really the files are almost placeholders, with little real code, but you still can use them as the starting point. The author (his email is in the files headers) said he won't continue to work on them, but you can contact him with questions. (As well as any of the developers, of course - use the devel list and the jabber channel for any questions you might have.)

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GNOME 2.10 splash screen contest
by Bob Jamison 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Here is something that an Inkscape user might find of interest: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2168 Also, Gnoppix needs some graphics: http://www.gnoppix.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page So this could be a way for an IS artist to become famous! Bob

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Another Newsforge article that mentions Inkscape
by Bob Jamison 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

There is a follow-up to the "graphics apps integration" article from Newsforge a couple of weeks ago. Just posted! Here it is: http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/02/24/1818224.shtml Bob

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Inkscape: PT_GNU_STACK RWE
by Ivan Gyurdiev 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Hi, I've subscribed to this list just to post this one question. The inkscape binary is marked with PT_GNU_STACK RWE. This creates problems for the SELinux strict policy, and requires that special privileges be granted for inkscape as a "legacy domain". The question is, does inkscape really require an executable stack? I'm not a gcc expert of any kind, but from what I've read I understand that asm code causes gcc to mark the binary as requiring executable stack. I think it can be overridden with ld -z noexecstack. It would be a lot easier to write the inkscape security policy if it didn't require executable stack. -- Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@...729...> Cornell University

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Inkscape.app for Mac OS X
by Aymeric GILLAIZEAU 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

I have succesfully built Inkscape 0.40-1 via Fink under Mac OS X 10.3 After I have moved to "~/Desktop/Inkscape.app/Contents" following the way explained for the Gimp.app The application lauches itself with a double-click and it is available there http://niwaconcept.free.fr//x11/Inkscape.zip But if it can be stored there that would be better. The file is 60 Mb do dwnload, and then 280 Mb for the software itself. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingMacOsX ____________________ PowerMac G4 400 Mhz 1 Gb RAM Mac OS X 10.3.6 Ubuntu Linux PPC 4.10

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Nice inkscape article on Linuxplanet
by Lucas Vieites 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hi, Rob Reilly wrote a nice tutorial on Inkscape for beginners: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/5757/1/ Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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Gradient editing...
by John Cliff 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Been playing with bulias on canvas gradient stuff, And its SO good. Its not quite Andys chrome, but I created this in half an hour or so's messing about. Cheers Sim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Gradient handle => Pattern handles?
by Alan Horkan 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

I was thinking how cool the gradient handles were and was wondering if it would be difficult to extend similar functionality to Patterns? (Should I file a request?) - Alan Horkan

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Master Opacity and Marker question
by cedric 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Hi, I'm back to User Manual. I 've been trying the Master Opacity, to explain its use. But when applied to Markers, only the path seems to be affected by the opacity changes. Is there another way to do ? PS to Bulia : Wonderful your new gradient handles !! -- Cedric ----------------------------- LISEZ -> SOS GIMP : http://www.le-radar.com/?mm/gimp mais aussi : http://wwww.le-radar.com http://www.cgemy.com

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removing trivial wrappers
by Robert Crosbie 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

There are some wrappers that I'm not sure what to do with: This one below returns a value, but it is never checked. I assume a straight replacement is fine in this case and ignore the return value. inline unsigned int sp_repr_add_child(Inkscape::XML::Node *repr, Inkscape::XML::Node *child, Inkscape::XML::Node *ref) { repr->addChild(child, ref); return true; } There are others like this one below, where the value is actually checked somewhere. Should the ckeck be removed since it will always be true anyway? inline unsigned int sp_repr_remove_child(Inkscape::XML::Node *repr, Inkscape::XML::Node *child) { repr->removeChild(child); return true; } ... ok = sp_repr_remove_child (NODE_DATA (old_parent)->repr, NODE_DATA (node)->repr) && sp_repr_add_child (NODE_DATA (new_parent)->repr, NODE_DATA (node)->repr, ref); ... sp_repr_set_attr is another one that always returns true, but is used as a return value and in conditionals in a number of places. Should all instances of append_child be replaced with addChild? There are many, but it could be a Janitor item. void addChild(Inkscape::XML::Node *child, Inkscape::XML::Node *ref); void appendChild(Inkscape::XML::Node *child) { addChild(child, _last_child); } Cheers, -- Rob. http://woodpendant.com

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NEW: on-canvas gradient editing
by bulia byak 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Now in CVS: Gradient editing on canvas is now available, much more convenient and powerful than the old way of dragging gradient knots in the Fill&Stroke dialog. o Any number of selected objects can simultaneously display handles and direction lines for their linear and radial gradients (in the objects' fills or strokes). You can drag these handles directly in the drawing, to interactively adjust gradient positions. o Gradient handles can be enabled in the Node tool, shape tools, Text tool, and Dropper tool (on by default), as well as in Selector and Zoom tools (off by default). Use the Inkscape Preferences dialog to change this. o Any gradient handle, if dragged close to a handle of another gradient, will merge with that handle (drag with Shift to prevent merging). Dragging such a merged handle will adjust any number of gradients attached to it. To separate merged handles, drag them away one by one with Shift. o Radial gradients display handles in the center and at the ends of two radii, which allows you to move, rotate, squeeze, or stretch the gradient to form an arbitrary ellipse. Also, you can independently adjust the focus of the gradient; drag the central handle with Shift to separate the focus handle. o When dragged, handles will snap to the edges and the central axes of the bounding boxes of all selected objects (drag with Shift to prevent snapping). o Dragging with Ctrl will snap the angle of the linear or radial gradient to the user-settable angle increments (default is 15 degrees). The center of a radial gradient, dragged with Ctrl, will be constrained to horizontal and vertical movement relative to its previous position. When dragged with Ctrl+Alt, a handle moves along the gradient direction or its perpendiculars, allowing you e.g. to stretch or squeeze a linear gradient without disturbing its angle. Overall, this is a major usability milestone, something I dreamed to do since Sodipodi times. Gradients are one of the most widely used features in Inkscape, and now they are finally made usable (well, almost - see below). The old gradient position widget in Fill&stroke remains for now (and still works), but I plan to remove it as soon as the new on-canvas editing is sufficiently tested. I would welcome any feedback on the new feature. Next in my plans: A Gradient tool, which will allow you to actually create new gradients by dragging (at the moment you still need to open Fill&stroke to switch an object to gradient) as well as adjust most gradient settings in its controls bar at the top of the window. In that tool, the selected gradient handle will be moveable by arrow keys (with all the usual modifiers), and setting any color via Fill&stroke, palette, dropper, or Paste style will be applied to the selected handle's gradient stop (instead of the entire selected object).

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cxxtestgen.pl
by Robert Crosbie 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

I'm getting this trying to compile from latest CVS has cxxtestgen.pl been checked in, or did I just not update correctly? cxxtestgen.pl -part -o libnr/test-nr.cpp ./libnr/nr-types-test.h ./libnr/nr-translate-test.h ./libnr/nr-rotate-test.h ./libnr/nr-scale-test.h ./libnr/nr-point-fns-test.h ./libnr/nr-rotate-fns-test.h ./libnr/in-svg-plane-test.h ./libnr/nr-matrix-test.h make[2]: cxxtestgen.pl: Command not found make[2]: *** [libnr/test-nr.cpp] Error 127 ... Cheers, -- Rob. http://woodpendant.com

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Nightly build service statistics
by Mike Hearn 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Hi, The nightly autopackage is currently being downloaded approximately 10 times per day, that is, there have been slightly more than 100 downloads in the past ten days. It's too bad the SF statistics system is offline at the moment, I'd be curious to know how many people were downloading the official packages. Oh well. thanks -mike

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canvas border dropshadow
by Jakub Steiner 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Hi there fellas! How would you feel about dropping the dropshadow for the document canvas border? It's visually distracting for small icons. While I'd like to have a very light outline to see where the edge is, I don't like the border taking too much attention away from the actual artwork and that's what happens thanks to its non-symmetric look. cheers -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...659...> Novell, Inc.

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Wiki change notices
by Bryce Harrington 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Hey Kees, Can you set up that nifty weekly wiki-change notice you did at work, for use with Inkscape? Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Setting physical resolution and exporting
by unknown＠example.com 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Hello! Thanks for the answer, but that did not work in the version I had used. I had just modified the generated postscript files instead. Best regards, Artur > <start-nasty-hack> > > Turns out, that the EPS save uses the Postscript output module, just > with it's own set of parameters. So, if you printed the file using the > postscript output, changing the values in that dialog. Then, you saved > as EPS, it would use the settings you just set in the print. > > I'm not saying this is a good thing, but I'm pretty sure that will work. > > </start-nasty-hack> > > > --Ted

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OSX packaging
by Kees Cook 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Well, with help from many people and activity on the IRC channel, I've blindly cobbled together some stuff for an OSX .app package. This basically works a lot like our Win32 package: all the libraries come along for the ride. (Which makes it giant: installed >100M, .dmg is 32M) New things in the CVS tree: - configure has --enable-osxapp which turns on my guesses at path locations in src/path-prefix.h - packaging/osx-app.sh attempts to create a .app package from a built inkscape - Info.plist is built from Info.plist.in. I have no idea if this file is valid. To compile inkscape on OSX, with modern fink, everything is available except gc 6.4. I updated the wiki here: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingMacOsX I didn't get into the gc details, but if you build your own gc, and install it in ~/sw, you can build inkscape with: SW=~/sw export CPPFLAGS="-I$SW/include -I/sw/include" export LDFLAGS="-L$SW/include -L/sw/lib" ./configure --prefix=$SW After a "make install", you can build your Inkscape.app with: bash packaging/osx-app.sh Inkscape ~/sw/bin/inkscape Info.plist which should also build the Inkscape.dmg This is all completely untested. The only thing I know for sure is that the library resolution works right (I can run inkscape from the .app directory -- via command line). I have no idea what happens from within OSX itself (I'm ssh'd into a friend's machine). But I'm pretty sure whatever goes wrong can be fixed via src/path-prefix.h and Info.plist.in Good luck! I'm going to sleep! :) -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: on-canvas gradient editing
by Alexandre Prokoudine 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:36:37 -0800, Kees Cook <kees@...62...> wrote: > ? http://www.inkscape.org/cvs-snap/ > > That URL gets updated every 20 minutes. Or does that not get you > something you're looking for? (And daniel's has been working since > yesterday afternoon) Hmm, they were not updated for quite a long while earlier, so I didn't even care to look there. Thank you for fixing my /dev/brain symlink :) Alexandre

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New masthead
by Adam Pearson 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

bulia (I sent this to the user list in error!) I think the site would benefit from more colour and a contrasting (i.e., serif) font as per attached; but I think others with greater graphic skills than me are required! Regards Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> To: <inkscape-devel@...6...>; "Inkscape users list" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 9:27 AM Subject: [Inkscape-user] web site proposals > I'd like to propose two things regarding the Inkscape web site. > Volunteers are welcome: > > 1 Create an RSS feed for the main page news. > > 2 Create a new header graphic to replace the boring white "Inkscape" > on blue. As a graphic app, we are starting to deserve something more > sophisticated. The web site itself is OK, I don't think we need to > drastically change the entire design (although suggestions are > welcome), but the top panel is decidedly dull and pathetic. Show off > your graphic talent! Send your submissions to the devel list for > people to discuss. The best one (if the winner is not obvious, we may > need to do a voting) will make it to the site. One technical note: the > banner cannot be fixed width, because our site is not fixed width - so > it must be either one piece for the top left corner or two pieces for > two corners, with some flat color fill between them. The minimum > screen resolution is 800x600. > >

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new SPRepr class names
by MenTaLguY 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

For reference: SPRepr -> Inkscape::XML::Node SPReprDoc -> Inkscape::XML::Document SPReprAttr -> Inkscape::XML::AttributeRecord SPReprAction -> Inkscape::XML::Event SPReprEventVector -> Inkscape::XML::NodeEventVector -mental

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SPRepr renamed! commits may resume!
by MenTaLguY 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Okay, comitted the most evil of the changes (check out the 80-some line ChangeLog entry XD). I'm not really done yet, but the remaining stuff is much less likely to cause merge conflicts with anything anyone else is working on. -mental

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SPRepr renaming! hold off on commits!
by MenTaLguY 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

I'm getting ready to rename the SPRepr interface classes into the Inkscape::XML namespace. As I'll probably have to end up touching most of the files in the codebase, it might be a good idea to hold off comitting anything until I'm done. Yes, I can resolve update conflicts before I commit, but they are more likely to get resolved correctly if they happen on your end, since you will understand your particular changes better, and you will individually have fewer to handle than I would. -mental

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New text layout engine design RFC
by Richard Hughes 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

See the attached header file for the first draft of what I think the interface for the new text layout engine should look like. The intended audience is developers, there's nothing to see here for people who don't enjoy reading source code. Comments are encouraged on design, comprehensibility, features, style and smackdowns. A few things to talk about, in no particular order: 1) Do we disapprove of public member variables, even where there's no disadvantages to using them? 2) The coding style guide doesn't mention the how the names of enumerations should be formatted. 3) I implement parse_svg_length_list() because the old flow_src did. Should this really belong closer to the XML layer? 4) Likewise the xml:space attribute. The difficulty with moving this is that you could cause roundtripping problems. Can we even do roundtripping? 5) Lots of private members are missing still, because I don't know what they're going to be yet. 6) The appearance of this document doesn't mean I've decided whether to wrap the existing code, switch over the users, then write my own innards, or to do it all in one big (destructive) commit. The latter is quite a lot less work, but the former will likely be broken for shorter intervals (although maybe more of them). 7..n) There are more things to discuss in the attachment, under the heading "Comments", near the top. That's it, I think. I'll remember something else as soon as I click 'send', of course. Richard.

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.svgz reading
by unknown＠example.com 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

I just changed the gzip input stream to remove some of it's limitations. Please give it a shake-down and see if it holds up. (It works on assorted-tiling.svgz now)

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Fwd: Re: [cairo] cairo anti aliasing
by unknown＠example.com 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

----- Forwarded message from Samuel Abels <newsgroups@...722...> ----- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:19:37 +0100 From: Samuel Abels <newsgroups@...722...> Reply-To: Samuel Abels <newsgroups@...722...> Subject: Re: [cairo] cairo anti aliasing To: Tim Janik <timj@...723...> On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 00:38 +0100, Tim Janik wrote: > i am seriously considering to use cairo as a rendering backend in an > anti-aliased canvas i'm currently working on. In case you are using C++ - might we consider combining efforts? http://cms.debain.org/ -Samuel -- ------------------------------------------------------ | Samuel Abels | http://www.debain.org | | spam ad debain dod org | knipknap ad jabber dod org | ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ cairo mailing list cairo@...278... http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo ----- End forwarded message -----

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