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Two small errors in 'Basic' tutorial
by Karl Ove Hufthammer 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

I'm currently translating the 'Basic' tutorial, and found two small errors: One place it says: The commands to open dialogs are all in the Dialogs menu [...] There are no such menu (anymore). And near the top it talks about the 'Help | Keys and mouse' menu-item, but the rest of the menu-items are written with a '>', e.g. 'File > New'. It should be changed to be consistent. (Personally I prefer a '|' everywhere. But perhaps there are style guidelines for this in GNOME?) -- Karl Ove Hufthammer

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New language
by Arpad Biro 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hi, A new translation file, nn.po has been committed. I also modified (inserted the "nn" language ID) configure.in and po/Makefile.mingw. Please let me know if something else needs to be done. Arpad Biro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Article mentioning Inkscape
by Bob Jamison 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

I noticed another mention of Inkscape here: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/214206 Bob

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heartfelt thanks for creating inkscape (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:38:55 -0400 From: Phil Shapiro <pshapiro@...467...> To: <bryce@...1...> Subject: heartfelt thanks for creating inkscape thanks a megabyte for your visionary work in creating inkscape. i discovered this amazing software last week and have been talking it up on various national email lists i'm on. (see below a message i sent this evening to the list of Community Technology Centers' Network - CTCNet), one of the largest nonprofit organizations working to bridge the digital divide.) CTCNet's annual conference is going to be in cleveland in june, 2005, in case you (or any of the othe inkscape developers) might be in the area at that time. it's likely more than 1000 technology access activists will be attending this conference. stephen quinn is the wonderful person organizing this conference. squinn@...468... thanks again. you've inspired many by creating inkscape and your creation will unleash a river of artistic creativity by many who cannot afford a commercial vector drawing program. - phil shapiro arlington, virginia ----- Forwarded message from Phil Shapiro <pshapiro@...467...> ----- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:33:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Phil Shapiro <pshapiro@...467...> Reply-To: Phil Shapiro <pshapiro@...467...> Subject: [CTC] become known for teaching open source graphics software To: "" <ctcmembers@...468...> hi everyone - is your organization doing cool things with low-cost or no-cost graphics drawing software, such as http://www.inkscape.org? if so, one way to get public visibility for your pioneering work is to create some tutorials or articles for the graphics section of about.com. see http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/nosearch/blucsubmit.htm for example, tap into the creative talents of youth or adults at your center to create some beautiful art using inkscape. then use camtasia studio 2 (for windows) to create some narrated flash tutorials explaining how others can use the drawing tools in inkscape to create their own drawings. in these tutorials explain both the technical use of the drawing tools and explain artistic tips and techniques. people will be very grateful to learn both kinds of knowledge. create these tutorials in english and spanish, but also in vietnamese, amharic and korean. place these tutorials on the web and link to them from your organization's web site. submit them to the about.com graphics web site. after about.com accepts your submission (they probably will if has merit), send out a press release that your organization is helping to teach the world how to use open source drawing software. is there a journalist who would find it interesting to write a story that explains how the youths and adults at a nonprofit organization are creating knowledge to help unleash creativity and empowerment for people worldwide using no-cost software that anyone can use on donated computers? yes, i think there is. would a television station find it easy to do a news story where there is readily available, beautiful graphics that is an integral part of a story of community members teaching each other things? yes, it would. - phil what kind of art can you create with vector drawing programs? this gallery shows some nice examples. http://www.eazydraw.com/gallery.htm macromedia flash. adobe illustrator and macromedia freehand are all vector drawing programs, too. for extra credit points, organize a community event at a community meeting place (outside of your own site) where a no-cost workshop explains how to use a no-cost drawing programs. an appropriate title for such an event would be: "drawing the community together." would local civic leaders take notice of such a workshop? yes, they would. -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro@...467... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog) http://guitarlessons.blogspot.com/ (guitar lessons) "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@...468... with the message: unsubscribe ctcmembers youremailaddresshere ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro@...467... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog) http://guitarlessons.blogspot.com/ (guitar lessons) "Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Navigating on the canvas and other things
by bulia byak 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

> >> It's crutial that it zooms in, right where the cursor points! > > > > Sure. I just don't have a wheel mouse otherwise I would have fixed > > this long ago. > > How do you survive? Tablet + pen :) Actually, the funny thing is that I did put in the code for mousewheel to zoom into cursor point, and I have no idea why it does not work. It's very simple, see the sp_desktop_zoom_relative_keep_point() call in src/event-context.cpp line 517. The same function works OK for zooming by middle-click (see line 380), it does zoom into cursor point. Maybe the event->scroll.x/y fields are bogus for a wheel event. If someone can have a look at it for me that would be nice.

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[Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Can`t build inkscape from cvs]
by MenTaLguY 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

-----Forwarded Message----- From: Makurin Roman <koshka_enott@...473...> To: Inkscape User List <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-user] Can`t build inkscape from cvs Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:52:52 +0400 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I can`t build inkscape from cvs on my gentoo box. Here my configuration: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/gcc-3.3.4-r1 sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040619 x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.4 dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.4.3 Any advice ? - -- Registered Linux User: 355904 ICQ: 105266647 JID: drolyk@...189... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBtzHufAZCWBpz4kRAqo8AJ9/6GYlf2mdKYWB3PA71PZWyxlu3QCeN9N1 h0sO2HO7knxDOz5YdyRowNg= =hn1s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Make fails - freetype problem?
by MenTaLguY 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 07:21, John Mellor wrote: > Well, thanks for that, but does anyone know how to fix it? Am I the only > one with this problem, and if so why? I uninstalled my freetype2 and > installed the latest - 2.1.9 - from source and the error is the same. > Do I need an older freetype2 or what? For now, probably. I'm using version 2.1.5. IIRC, the fix, basically, is to include <ft2build.h> before any other freetype headers ... however, I am not sure whether that will break the build with older freetype versions. :/ -mental

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Gtk2.4/gtkmm2.4 file dialogs
by Bob Jamison 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hi all. I started on a new pair of file dialogs, using the new Gtk2.4 stuff for which we have been waiting. Here is a screenshot of a File Open dialog with Gtk::FileChooserDialog. http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/filedialog.png I haven't committed it yet, but it is mostly done. It just needs some tweaks. If this works well enough, then we can throw away the buggy Win32 dialogs in the next few days. Any opinions? Bob

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Preview for image import
by Bob Jamison 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Alan Horkan wrote: > >Is Inkscape genrating that preview from scratch or displaying a thumbnail >already created by another application? > >- Alan > Inkscape is its own renderer! :-) Actually, I thought that I would have a little bit of fun with SVG. I made a tiny SVG template that is dynamically filled in with the image (scaled to fit with its aspect) , the rectangle around it, and the text that indicates its size. The svg preview displays it as though it is an SVG file. Here is the snippet of code that does the trick, if anyone would like to see it. Just match up the %s's and the %d's with the printf() below it, to make sense of it. Bob ======== SNIP SNIP SNIPPITY SNIP ======== //Our template. Modify to taste gchar *xformat = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n" "<svg\n" "xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"\n" "xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\"\n" "width=\"%d\" height=\"%d\">\n" "<image x=\"%d\" y=\"%d\" width=\"%d\" height=\"%d\"\n" "xlink:href=\"%s\"/>\n" "<rect\n" "style=\"fill:none;fill-opacity:0.75000000;fill-rule:evenodd;" "stroke:#000000;stroke-width:4.0;stroke-linecap:butt;" "stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1.0000000;" "stroke-miterlimit:4.0000000;stroke-dasharray:none;\"\n" "x=\"%d\" y=\"%d\" width=\"%d\" height=\"%d\"/>\n" "<text\n" "style=\"font-size:24.000000;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;" "fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1.0000000;stroke:none;stroke-width:1.0000000pt;" "stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1.0000000;" "font-family:Bitstream Vera Sans;\"\n" "x=\"10\" y=\"26\">%dw x %dh</text>\n" "</svg>\n\n"; //Fill in the template gchar *xmlBuffer = g_strdup_printf(xformat, previewWidth, previewHeight, imgX, imgY, scaledImgWidth, scaledImgHeight, fName, rectX, rectY, rectWidth, rectHeight, imgWidth, imgHeight);

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Navigating on the canvas and other things
by unknown＠example.com 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Hi Inkscape folks, I'll skip the part, of thanking you for the great software in my emails from now on (I haven' in most so far...). I want to make point out that inkscape has become my favourite vector graphics program... just for one last time :) So anyways, I could be writing this each time I use it... and of course each time I use it, there are things that I like to complain about. Don't take it personally or anything, I just believe that pointing out what I don't like will eventually help improving the software. Well... navigation. I always liked the navigation in inkscape. I was very much used to it and know it from other programs. The mouse wheel scrolls up and down, when holding ctrl (or is it shift?) left and richt, for alt it is zoom in and out. Now I have been using autoCAD for a while, and while I first was very much annoyed with it's behaviour, I now think it's superior. It's simple... the mousewheel zooms by default. I zoom out turning it towards me and in, rotating it away. It's crutial that it zooms in, right where the cursor points! Well... to navigate on the canvas you zoom out, drag the canvas (pressing middlebutton) and zoom in. This is very efficient, and the best way to navigate on the canvas, I have used so far, as soon, as one is a little used to it. Also compare RFE [ 950537 ]. What do you think? Is the rendering to slow, maybe? Has any of you experience with this kind of navigation? And: could it be implemented, either as default (it's a very good default!) or as an option? Also: should I file an RFE? Other problems: - How do I add a pattern. The only way I have found so far is to import an image... that is kinda stupid. the pattern dialog has to allow one to import a new pattern. - Inkscape crashes on me frequently (mostly while trying to copy objects)... I can't tell the reason, and I don't care too much, since I have wonderful backups. But opening these backups is quite complicated... could inkscape ask, if I want to restore the files, when I restart it? - And, of course: How is the progress on text editing? I think text is the weakest part of inkscape atm. Take care David

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