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[Announce] Scribus Team Releases Scribus 1.1.7 - "Alyssa"
by Peter Linnell 05 Jun '04

05 Jun '04

Hi all, The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.1.7. The 1.1.7 release is the most stable, feature complete version to date. This release is mostly a bug fix release intended to allow more extensive testing of the new features recently added for the upcoming release of a stable 1.2 Scribus. Although, marked a developer's release, the Scribus team urges all users and distros to use this latest release. The Scribus Team is also pleased to be chosen by Trolltech as one of their "Cool Applications". We on the Scribus Team are honored to be recognized as such and appreciate the recognition. Also, Franz has provided bzip2 tarballs which shrink the download size by about 30%. Expect to see Fedora/RH and Suse RPMs soon, as well as debs provided by our Debian maintainer extraordinare: Alex Moskalenko At the usual place: www.scribus.net Enjoy!

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Statistics
by Bryce Harrington 05 Jun '04

05 Jun '04

http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=93438 Date Page Views D/L 3-june 13,131 603 2-june 29,206 1,185 1-june 3,808 163 31-may 3,032 167 30-may 2,034 87 29-may 1,896 89 28-may 2,764 167 The D/L numbers don't count the 800 or so from Bob's nightly snapshots, nor people who got it through apt-get, emerge, etc. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Article followup
by bulia byak 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

> > We need more enthusiastic coders! :) > >I'm a coder, and can be enthusiastic from time to time. Great! :) If you want to help, join the jabber chat and discuss what you could do and where to start. _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: pangoification (never dies)
by MenTaLguY 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 14:07, fred wrote: > since you mentioned it, i did a bit of testing with > IBM's ICU. it's quite good, in fact... it does kerning > and deals with opentype seamlessly. might be worth > considering We were actually originally going to use ICU, until I talked us out of it to try pango first (since it wouldn't add any library dependencies). Looks like JonCruz was right, though; I think ICU probably is the way to go. Something we need to look at though is how this will work with Win32 fonts; fontconfig is not an option there. -mental

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Article followup
by bulia byak 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

>than happy to lend a hand. For example, I'd bet an article giving >advice about usability would be well received. An article about >Inkscape internals as they relate to SVG rendering would as well. I >also think a usage-oriented "secrets of Inkscape" article would be >appropriate. So if anyone is interested in authoring an article on any >of those subjects, I would be happy to help in any capacity. I think I might be interested. But not right now, not before 0.39 at least. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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simple idea to hack around hinting for pango and W32
by Nathan Hurst 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

Simply ask pango or whatever to layout text that is say 256* larger font size. Scale the glyphlist back to the correct size. njh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Revisiting ECMA. Seriously, folks. :)
by Bob Jamison 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

I will look at this. However, spec compliance is one of the things we need: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/escript.html Bob Charles Goodwin wrote: >For Vexi (www.vexi.org) we have a very small, efficient JS library that >is far more lightweight than Mozilla Rhino. It's in Java, though, >although GCJ compiles native binaries these days. > >If you were looking for something with less cruft then it could be an >option, but there are caveats. > >Here's what Brian Alliet, the guy who wrote it, had to say: > >(19:23:17) charlieg: balliet: how suitable would the JS engine be for >anything other than ibex/vexi? >(19:23:41) charlieg: specifically, the Inkscape guys want to integrate >an ECMAscript engine to enhance their SVG compliance >(19:24:02) balliet: very suitable. i've always kept ibex specific stuff >out of org.ibex.js >(19:24:48) balliet: does SVG compliance specificly require ECMA-262? >(19:25:07) balliet: that could be a problem since org.ibex.js isn't (and >doesn't intend to be) fully emca-262 compliant >(19:25:53) balliet: however, if they're just looking for something to >get 90% of the way there then org.ibex.js would be fine >(19:26:14) balliet: if they really need full ecma-262 though they'll >have to go with rhino >(19:26:35) charlieg: what are the major compliance obstacles? >(19:27:32) balliet: classes is the biggest one >(19:27:57) charlieg: simply because we don't need them, right? >(19:28:09) balliet: yeah, and they complicate things significantly >(19:28:22) balliet: it would take major changes to org.ibex.js to suport >them >(19:28:36) balliet: then there are lots of other little things that >would require major changes too. like in ecma-262 null isn't the same as >undefined >(19:29:04) charlieg: does rhino do that according to ecma-262, though? >(19:29:17) balliet: yup >(19:29:32) balliet: and its ridiculously complicated as a result of >it :) > >

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Link to my server
by Bob Jamison 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Can someone please remove the link from the "download" page to my server? Since Inkscape was mentioned on /. , my server has been /.-ed. It is a development server at the office, and these 800+ downloads since yesterday are rendering it useless. I have hidden the pages for now, until this is fixed. Maybe someone can upload a recent build to SF.net, and point to that instead? Thanks, Bob

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[Fwd: svgx.org-Open Source Graphics for the Masses]
by JonPhillips 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

-----Forwarded Message----- > From: michael bolger <michael@...20...> > To: JonPhillips <jon@...15...> > Subject: svgx.org-Open Source Graphics for the Masses > Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 18:47:41 -0700 > > Hi Jon, new post at http://www.svgx.org > > Scalable Vector Graphics > and the Open Source Community > -from osnews.com, Bryce Harrington > see; Inkscape SVG Editor and Inkscape Wiki > also; Open Clip Art Library item section; project and tools > "Open Source community is now adopting the SVG format" > > > -also will add additional "permanent" main page link in next several days. > > Cheers > Michael > -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org

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Inkscape Article
by Bryce Harrington 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Here's the article about Inkscape on OS News: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7241 Bryce

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