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New features in Illustrator
by Joshua A. Andler 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Just thought I'd throw the link on the list so you can all see what they're up to... http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/newfeatures.html Boy does that "Control Palette" look awfully familiar. ; ) (yeah, I know Xara had it first, but still... goes to show how they're playing catch-up in some areas) The Live Painting and Enhanced Stroke options look interesting... I question how much better their new "live tracing" is, compared to their old tracing engine (as it is supposedly much better). The rest of the "new features" don't look too interesting to me (other than the custom workspaces, which might be handy... but it's something only a fringe crowd would benefit from). Just figured I'd see what others opinions were. -Josh

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Palette loading
by Jon A. Cruz 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

I got palette loading in last night. It now looks in the /usr/local/share/inkscape/palettes and ~/.inkscape/palettes directories for any Gimp-style palette files and loads them all up. Of course... that was just loading. :-) I'll check in soon to add UI changes to allow switching the palette displayed in the swatches window.

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undo crash
by bulia byak 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

Mental, I had to revert document-undo.cpp to 1.21 because your version crashes on any attempt to undo with: ** ERROR **: file xml/simple-session.cpp: line 45 (virtual Inkscape::XML::Event* Inkscape::XML::SimpleSession::commitUndoable()): assertion failed: (_in_transaction) aborting... Sorry I didn't discover this yesterday, was too busy with other things. But please do be more careful with testing before committing.

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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.12 Announcement
by Jon Phillips 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Open Clip Art Library Release 0.12 Announcement April 1, 2005 UTC — Release 0.12 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now available for download on-line as an individual package consisting of over 3100 images submitted by over 200 artists from around the world. This release also helps us celebrate our first year as a project and provides foreshadowing as to what the rest of this year will bring. Highlights from this release include: * Several previous submissions have been re-converted from their original WMF format using Stephen Silver's new wmftosvg converter * Updated keyword search tool on the website * New imagery related to the March theme of "Spring" During the month of March we received around 200 new images thanks to our many contributors. With everything from flowers to a much improved collection of vehicles, to more food imagery, the community is putting out another great Open Clip Art Library release. In April, we are encouraging people to submit imagery related to "Birthdays." Please share your vector graphics at the Open Clip Art Library. Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.12/openclipart-0.12.tar.bz2 http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.12/openclipart-0.12.tar.gz http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.12/openclipart-0.12.zip http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.12/openclipart-tools.zip The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used freely for any use. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.

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remembering window size in config
by Artemio 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Hello all! I indeed know that it's possible to store window geometry in the .svg files, but now I have this feature turned off. It comes out not really useful in sutuations like described below. What if I want Inkscape to always start maximised, but my friend whom I share my works with wants his Inkscape to start not maximised but with a given window size? All apps I know remember minimised/maximised status and geometry in their configs. Is it possible to be added to Inkscape too, or this is not something you consider needed? Thanks! Artemio.

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NEW: snapping improvements
by bulia byak 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

- When several objects (or a group) are selected and the "snap points" mode is active, only the outermost points or nodes will snap, instead of all points in selection. [patch by Eric Jonas] - In the "snap points" mode, a text object will snap its baseline anchor (the left end of the baseline) to grid or guides. That anchor point is visualized as a little square mark when a text object is selected.

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Rotation anchor point & Inset/Outset functionality
by Joshua A. Andler 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

I'll probably be told to file and RFE, but... Is there by chance an option that I don't know of so that Inkscape can remember where you've moved the "anchor" or center of rotation for an object for future use? As far as I know, currently when you move that little + ("anchor") to some other position, when you switch to move mode and then back to rotation mode, the "anchor" is centered on the object again. It would be helpful for going back to edit objects between sessions of work (and even within the same one), if it could remember where you last had it. One thing that would be helpful either way though is for you to be able to do our new favorite "ctrl+click" on the anchor to get it back to the center of the object again. (yes I know it's easy and I can switch selector modes and go back and it's back in the center, but not switching tools is even easier than that) And this ties into a thought I had about Inset/Outset... would it be possible to have those functions "weighted"? Basically by using that "anchor" like for rotation, it could possibly pull the inset offset in a different direction other than purely centered. I guess the equivalent for how it would function would almost be like on radial gradients how you can pull the center to some other location and it "weights" the coloring. I know that the inset/outset stuff currently is a fixed amount so it will probably not work, but it was just a thought. I'm sure that once we also have the object transform (from one shape to another) that will probably handle what I'm looking for too though. -Josh

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NEW: baseline align & distribute
by bulia byak 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Improvements in Align & Distribute dialog: o The new Unclump button works the same as in the Tile Clones dialog, except that it unclumps the selected objects instead of the tiled clones of the selected object. o Four new buttons let you align or distribute horizontally or vertically the baseline anchors of the selected text objects (non-texts are unaffected by these buttons). A text object's baseline anchor is the left end of its first character's baseline, visualized as a small square mark when the text is selected. Now you can easily align or distribute lines of text in different fonts or sizes, regardless of whether they have letters with extenders (such as 'y' or 'j') or not. o All the icons in the dialog are redrawn in a consistent style. Buttons are rearranged for clarity. Tooltips are made shorter and easier to understand. Also, Simarilius is planning to move his "Grid arrange" dialog as a second tab to the Align & Distribute dialog.

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BOOST okay?
by Jason Dusek 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I would like to work on Inkscape, and I'd like to use BOOST ==================================== http://www.boost.org/ ==================================== for things like smart_pointers, numeric stuff and the like. is that okay? is it a problem to make inkscape depend on BOOST? -- _jason

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Strange transparency behaviour opening old files
by Lucas Vieites 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi, I'm currently using Inkscape 0.41 and when I open up old files, created with 0.39, all the objects that have a gradient fill appear with the correct gradient, but with transparency. I'm attaching an svg file and a png I exported when I created the original, so you can see the difference. Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Asix Informática <info@...212...> http://www.asixinformatica.com/ Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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