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GitLab Subgroup
by Ryan Gorley 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Over the past couple weeks I've been exploring the best location(s) to organize the Inkscape outreach and marketing team (a.k.a. Vectors). The team will need some access to GitLab in any regard for storing collateral, however the Issue Board <https://about.gitlab.com/features/issueboard/> could be an excellent project management and communication area in its own right. In order to explore that option I would like to create a "vectors" subgroup. I've already requested access, but I'm not sure who manages that and could grant my account sufficient permissions to manage that subgroup and perhaps create additional subgroups within the vector subgroup. Will whoever has this capability take a minute to help me out? Thanks! Ryan Gorley @ Dijt <https://dijt.co/>

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Power Clip and Power Mask LPE
by Jabier Arraiza 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

Hi my last video with this two LPE https://archive.org/details/00003303 Enjoy.

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How to propose patches
by Daniel A. Wagenaar 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

I created a patch to improve the selection toolbar. It creates two new pull-downs. One determines whether the "X" coordinate refers to the left of the selection (as normal), or the center, or the right; and whether changing the width keeps the left, center, or right edge in place. The second does the analogous function for "Y". Several years ago, I had write access to the inkscape archives, but no more. Can someone please explain where I should send a patch, or if there is some other procedure? Thanks! -- *Daniel A. Wagenaar, PhD* /Research Professor and Director, Neurotechnology Center/ California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA *+1 (626) 395-8567* | *www.danielwagenaar.net <http://www.danielwagenaar.net>*

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off to hackfest
by brynn 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Hi Friends, I just wanted to say Best Wishes to all the hackers, for a great and productive Hackfest! Also, safe traveling! All best, brynn

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ClipboardManagerImpl::getFirstObjectID restricted to very few object types
by Michael Soegtrop 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Dear Inkscape Team, I try to make my bool LPE work with any objects, not just paths. I got around most issues (like getting a PathVector from an SPItem), but I am lost with ClipboardManagerImpl::getFirstObjectID which is used by OriginalItemParam. It is restricted to very few object types (g,path,use,text,image,rect). Since the clipboard is used to set the operand path of the LPE, it is restricted to these types. Is there a good reason for this restriction or is this a bug / non feature? What would be an appropriate SVG tag list? This function seems to be used only in very few places, so I guess it wouldn't do a lot of harm to fix it? Would there be a better implementation than checking for a list of literal SVG types? Btw.: Is the LPE parameter type OriginalItemParam / ItemParam operational or is this beta code I shouldn't use? Best regards, Michael

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two trivial questions concerning the gitlab repository
by alvinpenner 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

1. currently, if I compile Inkscape from gitlab, it reports the rev number as follows: Inkscape 0.92+devel unknown Are there any plans to include a rev number into this report? 2. currently, if I execute git log, I get the following sequence of commit numbers: commit 213013a5a08d37bd29da167eece256be75cebe7c commit 0868ec95edd45394fcf583bf3f1cfa311e8a4c1d commit f836a482511f299034e84f2e153f31698904f92b commit 27f13805c97fcb517982009e2bfb3fd9ad6e413f commit 6e1ecba04f030e650e12edec2ad7a57530c661e4 commit 506e737427861bc1d288c498723d63d56a8075ce commit 0edfdf950796befdb42ab9b2ef76c76483d9dbb1 where I have edited out the text info. I am not able to detect the chronological sequence of these numbers. I understand that the first 8 digits can be used as a shorthand, but these do not seem to be chronologically ordered either. For purposes of bug tracking it would be very helpful to be able to report a rev number that was chronologically ordered. Are there any plans to do so, or am I missing something really obvious here? Alvin -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/two-trivial-questions-concerning-the-gitla… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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How to show a warning message?
by Michael Soegtrop 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

Dear Inkscape Team, I wonder how to show a warning message. I thought this should work: if (SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP && SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP->messageStack()) { SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP->messageStack()->flash(Inkscape::WARNING_MESSAGE, "my text"); } but called from inside an LPE doEffect function I don't see any message. It does go into the flash function. I expected that a message appears in the status bar. Best regards, Michael

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Inkscape Stickers
by C R 24 Jun '17

24 Jun '17

Hey folks. Just wanted to say our first set of stickers are ordered, but are delayed. I was hoping to get them for the hackfest, but they will not make it in time, so I will mail them out to folks once they arrive. Here is a sample of the current collection: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qzws1g3fp2wnsgf/sticker_samples_all.png?dl=0 Enjoy. -C

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [googlefonts-discuss] Re: Variable Fonts support in Inkscape
by Felipe Sanches 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Hi there, These past days I've been adding an experimental UI to Inkscape for tweaking parameters in OpenType variable fonts. One major roadblock I stumbled upon is requiring me to think more carefully about some potentially deeper architectural changes. In the screenshot attached to this message you can see some text written with the Decovar variable font. The slider labeled "Testing" in the "Text & Font" dialog is wired to invoke a callback upon value-change. This callback detects the currently selected font based on the canvas text-tool cursor position, retrieves the corresponding font_instance object and invokes Freetype's FT_Set_Var_Design_Coordinates method with the updated design-space coordinates (the slider in this experiment is hardwired to adjust the weight axis of Decovar). (I really miss a Freetype method to alter a single design-space coordinate, instead of having to pass the full array, by the way) The way things work right now, unfortunately, leads to the glyphs not changing on-canvas because once they are loaded, they seem to be kept in a cache. As you can see in the screenshot, each glyph has a different weigth, based on the slider setting when the glyph was loaded for the first time. It seems quite obvious that I should do something to invalidate the cache upon dragging the slider. But that, on the other hand, should not alter glyphs in other places where the same variable font is being used in the same document. Based on all that, I think that the proper implementation would involve creating individual font_instance objects for each text chunk where a variable-font is used with non-default design-space coordinates so that they can be tweaked independently. Achieving that, though, will surely involve a bit deeper fiddling with Inkscape's text internals, which is what I expect to do in my next few days of work on this. cheers, Felipe Sanches PS: I'm crossposting this to the Inkscape-devel mailing list as the rest of the development community may be interested in receiving updates on this topic. I may as well move all future updates to the Inkscape mailing list directly. PS2: I heard that there's a GSoC student this year who's going to work on Inkscape's text implementation (fixing compliance issues to the SVG spec, I think...) It would be really great to keep in contact with him/her and the mentor to coordinate efforts. 2017-05-30 7:48 GMT-03:00 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@...3544...>: > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:35:24AM -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote: > > The relationship between pango and harfbuzz is still not very clear to > me, > > as I have the impression that even pango_shape() invokes hb_shape() under > > the hood nowadays. > > It will eventually call HarfBuzz on Linux, but in Windows and Mac it > will call Uniscribe and Core Text, respectively. Switching to HarfBuzz > on all platforms is kinda on Pango’s TODO list, but I don’t think anyone > is working on it currently. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Fonts Discussions" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to googlefonts-discuss+unsubscribe@...3168... > To post to this group, send email to googlefonts-discuss@...3168... > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/googlefonts-discuss. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/googlefonts-discuss/20170530104838.GC24994%40macbook. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >

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sodapodi?
by C R 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9tmzwlc2aysxq1j/inkscape_soda_sticker.png?dl=0 Got tea, coffee, and soda. I don't think I'll have time to make a beer one before the hackfest, but it's on the list. Am I missing any other hacking beverages? -C

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