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Vacuum patch (2)
by David Turner 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi! I would like to introduce myself to the list and provide a patch for review. I'm novalis_dt on Sourceforge. I know Bryce from when he worked on the Worldforge project. I have recently started using Inkscape -- I'm not much of an artist, but I redid the front page of my website with Inkscape. I've also done a couple of diagrams for work (I do licensing for the Free Software Foundation). I've submitted a couple of other minor patches, and now have CVS commit access. This patch provides a new command: "Vacuum unused defs." SVG files can accumulate cruft -- gradients, markers, etc, which aren't in use. I've chosen to make this command manual, because sometimes, you'll want to keep this cruft for later usage. But if you want smaller SVG files, for web usage (or secrecy reasons), you might try this feature. When I wrote the first version of this patch, I didn't understand the SPObject tree. I think I do now. I'm somewhat baffled that there's no sp_object_get_child_by_tagName function already -- am I just missing it? If not, it probably belongs in sp-object.cpp, but I didn't want to put it there prematurely. If I hear no objections, I'll commit it in a few days. -- -David "Novalis" Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "Once, there were three lizards, and they were all named Pants. " -Sho Kuwamoto (seen on talk.bizarre)

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optimization
by bulia byak 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

I found that Inkscape runs 6% to 7% faster if I replace in nr-point.h Coord operator[](unsigned i) const throw(std::out_of_range) { if ( i > Y ) { throw std::out_of_range("index out of range"); } return _pt[i]; } with inline Coord operator[](unsigned i) const { return _pt[i]; } and the same for non-const version. I think it's safe to get rid of the range check because the indices are never calculated and are extremely unlikely to go off limits. So if nobody objects I will commit this change.

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[Fwd: [ANN] Sketsa (SVG Graphics Editor) 2.0 released]
by Jon Phillips 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Tonny Kohar <tonny@...498...> > To: www-svg@...157... > Subject: [ANN] Sketsa (SVG Graphics Editor) 2.0 released > Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:41:22 +0700 > > > We proudly released Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor 2.0. Sketsa is a cross > platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various > tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed > support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source > editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation > tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native > file format. > > Features: > - SVG native file format > - Property palette > - DOM Editor > - Source Editor > - Resource Editor: gradient and filter > - SVG specific shape tools: rect, ellipse, line, polyline, polygon > - Additional illustration tools: Pencil tool for freeform shape and Pen > tool for curve shape > - Transformation tool: rotate, skew, scale, and translate > - Basic Text Tool > - Export or rasterize to JPEG and PNG > - Written entirely in Java > > What's new > - UI changed (docked panel, menu rearrange) > - Speed Improvement > - Canvas Ruler > - Text Style property > - Toolbox transform improvement (support parent transform) > - Pencil / Freehand tool improvement > - Various bug fixes > > The latest news about Sketsa can be found on > http://www.kiyut.com/products/sketsa/index.html -- Jon Phillips USA.PH.858.361.2811 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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Inkscape BOF @ Siggraph LOS ANGELES - MON, AUG 9, 4-5 PM
by Jon Phillips 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

*PLEASE FORWARD* Inkscape: An Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Editor Overview Birds of a Feather Meeting in Co-operation with Siggraph 04 at the Los Angeles Convention Center http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/conference/birds/index.php?pageID=conference Monday, 9 August 4 - 5 pm Holiday Inn City Center Santa Monica Room Jon Phillips + Jon Cruz ### Inkscape: Draw Freely. (http://www.inkscape.org/) Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool. Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development processes. The specific emphasis of this talk will be for intermingling between attendees and to allow for suggestions and discussions about where Inkscape is heading...draw freely! -- Jon Phillips USA.PH.858.361.2811 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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Inkscape BOF @ Siggraph LOS ANGELES - MON, AUG 9, 4-5 PM
by Jon Phillips 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

*PLEASE FORWARD* Inkscape: An Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Editor Overview Birds of a Feather Meeting in Co-operation with Siggraph 04 at the Los Angeles Convention Center http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/conference/birds/index.php?pageID=conference Monday, 9 August 4 - 5 pm Holiday Inn City Center Santa Monica Room Jon Phillips + Jon Cruz ### Inkscape: Draw Freely. (http://www.inkscape.org/) Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool. Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development processes. The specific emphasis of this talk will be for intermingling between attendees and to allow for suggestions and discussions about where Inkscape is heading...draw freely! -- Jon Phillips USA.PH.858.361.2811 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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Glib::ustring
by Bob Jamison 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

With my short education into Gtkmm recently, I have become acquainted with the Glib::ustring class. It is a clone of the std::string class, with the addition of supporting unicode in utf8 format. This sounds like it might be a nice replacement for our many g_blah_blah_utf8() calls, and also a nice storage for our internal strings. Anyone have any thoughts? Maybe Jon could look at it to see if it is sufficient/valid. Just wondering.... (I'm sitting in a boring meeting right now ;-) Bob

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Re: spalah + inkscape?
by bulia byak 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

I'm cc'ing my reply to inkscape-devel, where more people will be able to comment. On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:30:52 +0300, Anatoly Podlesnuk <beerubeer@...466...> wrote: > Hi > > It's good idea to join spalah and inkscape. > > There is some questions. > > 1. I'm not use in spalah "items tree" of SVG nodes from sodipodi. Spalah > items tree is much simple. So I will need some help with inkscape items > tree. We haven't yet departed too far from Sodipodi's system of SPObjects tree and repr tree that are synced periodically, though we did a lot of incremental changes to it (mostly in the direction C++fying it). I don't think anything simpler than that will actually work for interactive SVG editing. Of course we will be glad to help you with it. > 2. Spalah uses ming library (ming.sourceforge.net) for flash generation, > so inkscape will require this library. No problem. SWF export is a good thing to have, even if for static SVGs at first. > 3. What is role spalah code in inkscape? It will a part of ExportDialog > or inkscape will able to add animation to SVG objects? As I know > inkscape does not support some SVG nodes that responses for animation. Our goal is to be a complete SVG editor, and that includes animation. So we'll need to add support for all the corresponding elements and attributes. As for the UI, what I had in mind is a timeline control selecting one of the frames for editing, plus a separate preview window (based on inkview?) with actual animation. Of course, at this stage all this requires lots of thinking, planning, and experimenting. > 4. What about release planning, code formatting, > classes/functions/variables names? I guess the main development principle is that CVS must always remain compilable and workable, without bad regressions. Releases are done when there's enough stuff for a new release, usually every 2 to 3 months. There's a period of code freeze and bug hunt before a release, but at other times you're free to work on your stuff. For coding style, we have a few guidelines here: http://inkscape.sourceforge.net/doc/coding_style.php Let me know what you think.

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new open dialog
by bulia byak 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

First off, I wanted to say thank you to Bob for this work. The preview on open is fabulous! It gives a whole new perspective on my files. A very important addition. Still there are problems. I know some of them may not be fixable due to GTK limitations, but still. 1 The dialog is modal but not transient. It's a very dangerous combination: it sinks under your document and you can't understand why the document is unresponsive. Please make it transient as it was before. 2 The dialog opens in some unpredictable place on the screen. Before, it opened centered over the document window. Can we restore that? (Maybe it's a consequence of its not being transient.) 3 BUG: when I press Ctrl+O for the first time, there are no files listed at all in the directory where it opens, only subdirectories. If I go e.g. to the parent dir and then back, the files appear. 4 After some thinking I'm convinced that (as suggested here) we must replace the "Autodetect" with two new options, "All images" and "All files". That makes much more sense and is more consistent with typical Windows/Mac programs. Both these options would do autodetect and differ in filtering the list: no filtering for "All files" and showing only Inkscape-supported images for "All images". The bad thing about "Autodetect" is that it speaks about what the program does, not about what the user needs. Autodetect is not something I ever want to be off; it must always work behind the scenes. What I want to control is what files are shown and what not, and this is what this menu must affect. 5 The menu should be reordered more logically so that the most frequently used options are at the top: All images <-- default All files SVG Compressed SVG ---------- (separator) AI EPS PS Dia Sketch WMF text rest of bitmap formats... 6 Also it would be nice to group the same formats with different extensions as proposed here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=990674&group_id=9… 7 If I want to go e.g. to /home/me/inkscape and browse files here, I go to the filename field, type "/home/me/inkscape" and press Enter. Nothing happens. In other programs (and I believe in Inkscape with the old dialog) this caused the dialog to switch to that dir. 8 I get these warnings whenever I open it for the first time: (inkscape:7505): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from: http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases (inkscape:7505): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksettings.c: line 447 (gtk_settings_get_for_screen): assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed (inkscape:7505): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (inkscape:7505): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c: line 1726 (g_signal_handler_disconnect): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed I installed http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases/hicolor-icon-theme-0.5.… but this did not help. Any ideas? Preview: 9 There's no way to turn the previews off. 10 The open/close dance of the preview pane as you go through image/non-image files is a bit disconcerting. Can't we always have the preview widget on (that is, unless you turn it off, see 8), even if inactive for the current file, with the same unchanging size? 11 Bob, you mentioned that you did preview for the bitmap files as well, but this does not work for me, only SVGs. That's it for now, perhaps I'll find more when I test it more thoroughly.

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Adobe Illustrator 7/10, Photoshop CS and Postscript (probably eps)
by Tuukka Pasanen 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

hi, A long story short. AI7 files aren't in PDF format and AI10 uses PDF 1.4 as native saving format. I Have also heared that Photoshop CS uses PDF 1.4 as saving format. So i looked in pstoedit program and finded out (Author pointed out) there is GPL svg output plugin. So it would be neat to have this option in inkscape but is it too much to ask for http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/ and pstoedit be installed to have this input?? There is also one problem in SVG because it doesn't put fill:none in style inkscape just fills everything in black:P.. I still look how good plot-svg output is but seems good enouhg to me.. Then i just have to think how to find AI7 and AI10 in ill2svg.pl;) So should we use it or not? In Gnu/Linux and *BSD (*nix) world it's easy to install but windoze is biggest problem.. Tuukka.

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convention for XML names
by MenTaLguY 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Although it's not crucial, could we settle on using XML names that adhere to a specific convention? I'm a little worried that having: inkscape:one-thing inkscape:another_thing inkscape:YetAnotherThing as element/attribute names in the same SVG file, while permissible, looks unprofessional. I personally favor using lowercase words separated with dashes (-). -mental

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