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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Let's encrypt: is this possible?
by Martin Owens 08 May '17

08 May '17

On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 10:54 -0700, Victor Westmann wrote: > When I go to inkscape.org on the chrome browser on an Android phone I > get this message (please check file attached). > That's why I asked. Thanks for checking this Martin. Ah I see, there are a couple of reasons for this. Most of them as that ssl is garbage for how many new crypto types you need to either switch on or switch off. So the error appears to be that one of the leafs being used in our SSL chain (AdTrust AB) is SHA1, which is just nuts, no leaf should be using SHA1. But this also explains why many SSL checkers I've run the site through give it a clean bill of heath. Our Cert is fine, but AdTrust's is out of date. :-( Are there any volunteers to help with this problem? Martin,

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Need help re-writing Eggbot extension
by D.W. Burger 08 May '17

08 May '17

I hope this is the right place to make this request. If not, maybe someone can point me to a better venue. I'm a non-programmer with an idea that I need help with. I want to use the EiBot Board from the Eggbot to construct a polargraph using 2 stepper motors and 1 servo that will be controlled from within Inkscape. The original Inkscape extension is written in Python and actually produces some readable output on a prototype polargraph I've constructed (see photo below). I've taken a look at the original Python script and have identified the key statements for moving the pen around. Anyone interested in helping with this? Thanks! Dave

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Inkscape Hackfest: Paris edition: June 27th — July 1st
by Tavmjong Bah 07 May '17

07 May '17

Hi all, The Paris hackfest is a go with board approval and a confirmed host (thanks Mc!). The hackfest dates are June 27th through July 1st. The first four days will be for hacking with a meeting with local Inkscape users on the fifth day (TBA). The hackfest will take place at Carrefour Numérique². This is a Fablab/hackerspace located inside Paris's excellent modern science museum. They use Inkscape all the time (and love it!). See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2017 for more details. Everyone in the Inkscape community is invited to attend! Financial support is available to Inkscape developers based on the number of years activity and number of commits to the source code. Support for others active in the Inkscape community (translators, documenters, etc.) will be handled on a case-by-case basis. For more details, see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2017_Attendees If you plan on attending please add your name to the above page or send me an email. The page has been seeded with those who have already expressed an interest in attending. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Paris! Tav

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Please migrate to GitHub/CMake
by Ivano Arrighetta 07 May '17

07 May '17

Hello there. My name is Ivano Arrighetta and I'm Italian. I would like to suggest to migrate to GitHub for version control, and to use CMake for creating build projects for Windows and Mac OS, other than Makefiles for *nix. GitHub also offers a WebSite builder and a Wiki for each repository, other than an issue tracker. I'm pretty sure everyone would benefit from this. Bye, Ivano.

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Week commits
by Jabier Arraiza 07 May '17

07 May '17

Hi all. This week do some changes to LPE and merge two branches: With the changes to LPE we have too much better response from effects, reducing to minimun the need to write on the parameter data and reshow the parameter widgets. The two branches: First of all sorry for not wait enought for a aprove check but I have a goal in a new branch in development to organice the code in LPE part of inkscape and want this merged to it. The first branch allow store the default parameter for each new live effect. I attach a screenshot time ago. The second branch is a refactor to fillet/chamfer LPE based in a new way to store data for each node in a pathvector. Specialy thanks Nathan and Tweenk for his help in development. This new way for fillet chamfer is not backward compatible, this is the reason for merge "too early" and dont launch it in 0.92. My apologyes for the problems can happends with old files. Please convert to path our previous fillet/chamfer works prior update trunk. Usage feedback are welcome ;) All the best, Jabier.

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Hackfest possibility - Paris Please Respond ASAP if interested!
by Tavmjong Bah 06 May '17

06 May '17

Hi, Marc has been looking for free spaces in Paris to hold a hackfest. He's found what looks like an ideal spot: Carrefour Numérique² located at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (an excellent modern science museum) in northeast Paris. http://www.cite-sciences.fr/fr/accueil/ http://www.cite-sciences.fr/en/explore/learn/carrefour-numeriqu e2/ There are Inkscape users there and they've even written their own in- house Inkscape plug-ins to drive their CNC machines. They've hosted other open-source groups including a monthly Blender users group and twice-a-year Ubuntu parties. They can offer us a "Numeric classroom" with five tables with power and wired Internet connection from May 29th to June 2nd. The question is, is there sufficient developer interest to pursue this? Please respond if you can attend. If there is enough interest I will present this option at the board meeting Friday. Tav

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Fwd: Re: Let's encrypt: is this possible?
by Miguel Lopez 06 May '17

06 May '17

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Let's encrypt: is this possible? Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 13:51:36 -0400 From: Miguel Lopez <reptillia39@...3425...><mailto:reptillia39@...3425...> To: Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...><mailto:doctormo@...400...> Oh, ok. I never really paid attention to that as I rarely go there due to academic reasons, and I thought it didn't do this since someone brought this topic up. I guess all is clear now. On 5/6/2017 1:50 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > On Sat, 2017-05-06 at 17:43 +0000, Miguel Lopez wrote: >> Is it a option to automatically redirect to https? > It already does this, try and go to http://inkscape.org > >> On 5/6/2017 1:30 PM, Victor Westmann wrote: >>> Thank you Maren and Tobias >>> For pointing this out. I was not so sure. Sometimes I am visiting >>> the inkscape website and I noticed it points to the http version >>> instead of the https one. >>> Great to hear this. I rest my case. :)

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board meeting today?
by brynn 05 May '17

05 May '17

Hi Friends, Is there a board meeting today? Thanks, brynn

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website moderation policy
by brynn 02 May '17

02 May '17

Hi Friends, I've been helping to test some new moderation features which Martin has been working on (and Maren helping too), for the website. We have realized that (A) we might have different opinions about what the moderation policies should be, and (B) the current CoC might not cover them. But we all agree that the larger community should be involved, if the CoC needs to be edited. For convenience, the CoC says this: "Guidelines for User Submitted Content: Art and other content submitted to the Inkscape website should adhere to the following rules: -- Art must be your own original creation or derived from artwork available under an open licence. We cannot accept submissions that infringe copyrights. -- No nudity or graphic violence. (Note: we may allow this type of content once it is possible to tag it as such, but pornographic and/or illegal material would still be disallowed.) -- No content that is explicitly discriminatory in nature. -- No political agitation or totalitarian symbolism." Up until the moderation features are completed, installed and in use, the policy for images in the gallery has been this. As long as the image doesn't violate those 4 guidelines, it's acceptable, even though it may have nothing to do with Inkscape. After that, the gallery has been relying on a very small upload quota for members, to prevent mass spam attacks. In my opinion, resources uploaded to the website should bear some relation to Inkscape. Or more specifically, those which have no relation to Inkscape should not be allowed. Here's what I propose: >> Images should be made in whole or in part with Inkscape, or depict how >> Inkscape was utilized in user projects (such as a photo of a t-shirt which >> design was made with Inkscape). >> Any other images need to have some relation to Inkscape, the Inkscape Project >> (website, forums, hackfest), vector graphics, or marginally, FOSS. (maybe >> not FOSS?) This would exclude images like these: https://inkscape.org/en/~stacymcgraw@...1081.../%E2%98%85img-0616 https://inkscape.org/en/~KarenFechter/%E2%98%8520160319-150913+1 https://inkscape.org/en/~lgimenezborges/%E2%98%85vklsd https://inkscape.org/en/~Astro.C/%E2%98%85three-musketeers https://inkscape.org/en/~richardkwok0128/%E2%98%85testing+0 The reason I feel this way, is because there must be hundreds, if not thousands of galleries on the internet, where people can upload any kind of random photo. Why should the Inkscape website waste its resources hosting images which weren't made with Inkscape and have nothing to do with it? If the Inkscape website is going to the trouble of creating and maintaining a gallery, it ought to promote Inkscape, vector graphics, and maybe FOSS, almost, if not completely exclusively. My opinion of course ;-) So I propose the following, or something like it, should be the first item in the list of Guidelines for User Submitted Content. No doubt it could be worded better. -- Images must be created using Inkscape, in whole or in part; or depict how Inkscape was utilized for the user's project (such as a photo of a t-shirt which design was created using Inkscape). Or otherwise the image or resource must bear some relation to Inkscape, the Inkscape Project, vector graphics (or FOSS??) Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions on this? Thank you very much, brynn PS - Should this be cross posted to the user list too?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Marketing Inkscape - Survey Preview (Ryan Gorley)
by jelle 02 May '17

02 May '17

Ryan, The interesting thing about SVG is that it can be used for both web and print graphics design without a need for conversion. The main lack for print graphics design are CMYK and spot colour support in SVG 1.1, which if I'm correct should be addressed in SVG 2.0. Unfortunately SVG 2.0 is dropping support for SVG fonts, which would have been the nail in the coffin of PDF otherwise. For a brief moment SVG was bound to be the choice of archiving around the world, but that was not in the interests of the companies that contributed to the standard. Just link your 14 MB hanyul opentype font for those 20 characters of Chinese to load or generate a separate font file for every page rather than embed it into the document (or maybe that can be done using base64 encoding). Sadly SMIL got dropped likewise. CSS animation is the bomb,... duh or javascript (if not blocked by the users that are fed up with agressive ads and CSS bloat). However, the SVG standard still allows to be used for a single document type work flow for all 2d graphics design types. Multi page document types would be a great addition and to my idea could be fairly easily be incorporated by adding objects in page groups like is now done with layers. I guess that having layers and page groups would be more of a hassle as each page would need to have those layers embedded into their group and during saving as standard SVG they need to get separated into single pages as SVG doesn't do multi page docs. It's a pity I'm a lousy coder though if I'd started 8 years ago with it it might have been implemented by now and I been a better coder (I would think). I can imagine that making links to pages and clicking them might unhide this page layer while hiding the active layer. Wonderful visions of multiple documents opened in one instance of Inkscape (joy) that can be tabbed, viewed in multiple open windows so you could select links on the other page etc. CMYK is a nastier problem because as I understand it Cairo (the renderer) doesn't support that. I believe that the only feasible way is to make things in Inkscape, export a bitmap, import it into Scribus (because it doesn't support SVG filters) and have the 32 bit .png be converted to CMYK .tif if you actually need black (~140MB for A4 at 200 dpi). I'm not sure what happens to CMYK info that gets exported from Inkscape to PDF, though my business cards look pretty good, so it may actually retain the CMYK info. It may also have been converted by the printer, but as they were Chinese I didn't discuss much with them. Both aspects have been a long standing wish from the graphics designers user base of Inkscape, but they are considered hard to implement or just not that sexy or both. Personally, I've been using Inkscape for the past 8 years as a single work flow tool to create both print and web graphics. What is lost to many is that this is an enormous time saver for designers and it allows for a higher productivity. Or at least ideally. If anything I consider full CMYK support the main issue. If I only could sent my Inkscape document straight to a output device, I could dramatically cut my production time. In print, where many things need to be completed before the customer enters your office that would greatly improve the usability.

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