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Another article about Inkscape
by Bob Jamison 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Hi, all, Occasionally I check Google News for articles about Inkscape. Here is another one I found, that is interesting because it is in a tech section of a mainstream media outlet, not in a tech journal: http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2005/3/15/prodit/10221334&… Bob

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Ktoon + Inkscape = killer app?
by Jiaxiang 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

I just got hold of KToon, a 2D animation program for KDE. http://ktoon.toonka.com/ I'm ultra-impressed. It can export files in SVG, SWF and PNG sequence (as it's listed) formats. It's pretty mature from the set-up and features it has in use. Maybe some talented programmer(s) who are familiar with everything Inkscape and SVG can jump in and add SVG animation capabilities that might get this powerful program somehow connected/interlaced with Inkscape or even just SVG animation standards? :) (Personally, I'm ready to help make SVG the web standard that it should be.) Pardon my zeal over SVG animation... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

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common interface for graphics apps on the "free desktop"
by Jakub Steiner 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

One of the good things about Adobe's product line is that they "work together". Same tasks require the same interface. Shortcuts are consistent. On the free desktop we have two major graphics applications, Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org) and GIMP (http://www.gimp.org). It will not be uncommon to have users needing both apps in their workflow. I hope you guys agree trying to have similar consistency helps to provide a sane user experience. To be specific, there are areas where GIMP & Inkscape provide similar functionality in a slightly different way. For now I will ignore the path tool. An inconsistency that came up while I was working on something is the mouse wheel behavior. GIMP uses shift+scroll wheel to zoom, Inkscape Ctrl+mousewheel. GIMP uses Alt+mousewheel to pan horizontally, Inkscape uses Shift+mousewheel. I've filed this as http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1115612&group_id=9… Another area is the aspect ratio constraint and other transform modifiers. Note that this isn't a user-transition problem. People like me will be using GIMP & Inkscape simultaneously. It's _not_ about forgetting what a user has been used to in the past. Having inconsistent behavior makes one stumble in both apps. It would be cool if somebody found the motivation to write up some extension to the Gnome HIG, defining a standard behaviour for gfx apps (*hint* *hint* ;). Sorry for cross posting, but I hope to initiate some discussion among both camps. cheers -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...659...>

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simplify broken in cvs?
by mak 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

hello. i have been having some troubles with simplify <CTRL+L> in the latest cvs-builds. to _reproduce_ simply create a new document > make a polygon, bezier-curve or anything, except spirals & freehand-lines[those seem to work !?], select and press <CTRL+L>. > inkscape uses 99% cpu. i upped an example-svg here: http://mak.d3f3kt.net/simplify.svg ... if i'm doing something wrong, please feel free to point it out, maybe i need to be more patient[?]. tia. mak. -- [ m e t a sieben ] [ mak@...766... ] [ m4k@...450... ]

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Creative Commons Search
by Jon Phillips 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hello everyone, Please check out the new creative commons search at yahoo. It does turn up some of our content, but hopefully it will get more sorted out: http://search.yahoo.com/cc I have the ear of some of the ppl. at creative commons, so feature requests I can pass on. Jon -- Jon Phillips USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

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Mitchell Baker mentions SVG in Mozilla
by Bob Jamison 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Slashdot had an interview with Mitchell Baker this morning, and she answers a question about SVG in Firefox. "when will it be turned on by default?" http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/22/1442200&tid=154&tid=… Actually, she doesn't answer it, which is very, very disappointing. The situation is quite depressing, with no hopeful future in sight. Bob

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sourceforge and subversion
by Bob Jamison 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

According to SF.net's news page, they are finally considering implementing Subversion repositories. Here is the item: > *Subversion Service: * The research, analysis, and support gear-up > needed to implement a Subversion service at SourceForge.net is now in > progress. As with all SourceForge.net services, extensive analysis and > testing must be performed to verify suitable levels of stability and > scalability before a service can be rolled-out. We are expecting the > initial phases of this effort to last several weeks, to be followed by > the implementation of a testing environment which will be used for a > live beta test by specific selected projects. Pending successful > scalability testing, service details will be finalized and service > will be offered to all projects. (Last updated: 2005-03-02 Pacific) Anyone who is familiar with CVS, but has had an opportunity to use Subversion would never go back. Examples: (a)Try in CVS and SVN, renaming a directory with 100 files in it. No contest. (b) An SVN branch is not a tagging, but an actual branch of a directory tree, with the branch diff'd from the trunk. (c) Commits are 'atomic,' meaning that a commit is not applied if it fails during transfer, but only if it is handled correctly. Very sweet. It would be nice if Inkscape were one of the "specific selected projects". Bob

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CVS trouble
by Jonathan Leighton 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Apologies that this isn't really related to Inkscape development, but... I'm having real trouble with checking in the WordPress stuff I did. I was up til nearly 2AM last night trying to get it to work (I got errors when trying to commit), at which point I when to bed grumpily. Anyway, today I finally got it to commit without any errors, but when I look at the repository via the web interface (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/inkscape/inkscape_web/) it seems to have not worked right. The four WordPress-related directories have checked in (wp-*), but NONE of the files seem to have. Furthermore, in the wp-includes, wp-admin and wp-images directories, it seems the "cvs" data directories have also checked in (which they shouldn't have), again, without the files. I'm confused as hell, because the output in the terminal when I committed seemed to be fine. For instance: RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape_web/wp-includes/vars.php,v done Checking in wp-includes/vars.php; /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape_web/wp-includes/vars.php,v <-- vars.php initial revision: 1.1 done That, and other similar output suggests to me that it worked. But maybe I'm missing something? If anyone can help me out I'd be very grateful. I'm sure this is just my newbie-ness but I can't see where I've gone wrong. Also, on the topic of Subversion, I'd definitely support switching to that -- this is the first time for me using CVS, but I have used Subversion in the past with zero problems, and CVS is feels like an uphill battle. Thanks, Jon -- Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/

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Newsforge article on color management
by Bryce Harrington 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/03/08/1712218.shtml?tid=152&tid=1… (Scribus and Cinepaint have support for LittleCMS, but neither GIMP nor Inkscape support it yet. I wonder which project will succeed in implementing the support first?) Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Mitchell Baker mentions SVG in Mozilla
by Bob Jamison 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

John Taber wrote: >Hmm, one of the killer features that IE doesn't have and they are holding it >back ? He does give a explanation of why re decisions on the feature >conflicts - maybe our SVG community can help them out here. Or maybe should >make available binaries of their SVG enabled CVS version? >John > Well, a person can already find an SVG-enabled version of Firefox, if one looks hard enough. But how do you get this voodoo magic to the unwashed masses, and the PHBs? It really needs to be in every browser. What SVG needs for it to start gaining momentum is a user base. Imagine if 6% of browsers in use already (FF's share) could display SVG without any extensions or plugins. People would actually start putting content onto their sites. Maybe not completely; but a server could check for "Accept: image/svg+xml", and for those lucky people show a detailed SVG rather than a crappy bitmap. More content, more browsers; more browsers, more content. Bob

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