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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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