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Two features I would like
by Carl Hetherington 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Hi, There's a couple of things that would take inkscape from the "interesting" to "useful" stage for me ;-) 1. Arrow heads. It looks like some work has been done on these. Anyone know the current state of play? In a previous message, Bryce discussed how they can be implemented with SVG markers; the message seemed to imply that the rendering support is already there. 2. Export to EPS. For my purposes, this would just have to get paths, text (though not necessarily font information) and fills right. Would there be any objections to a patch for this? Thanks Carl

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exporting page background needed!!
by David Christian Berg 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

I'm kinda angry, cause I messed up 150 A3 color laser prints, 'cause inkscape does not give you the option of not using transparency while exporting. Point is, I made a plakat for a party at my university and when converting a png with transparency to cmyk, the transparency is lost and it's the color as solid. Since I only made the png and was not there when printing I didn't notice that I forgot to put a white rectangle in the background. You see, I actually had encountered about the problem before, but had just forgotten to draw that rect, cause you don't notice the difference in inkscape and don't always think about that kinda crap. It cannot be that hard to make a check box in the export dialog, that allows you to reduce the image without transparency. Gonna file a bug on this. Hope it'll be in 0.38. David

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Release - Need translations
by bulia byak 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

>We need 1 more bug to get to our 10%, and there are two candidates for >being fixed (the more the better though). I think that we'll probably >release at the end of the weekend, or very early next week. If you're >someone who is translating Inkscape, if you could get the translations >in by the end of the weekend I think we can get them into 0.38. I don't >think any strings will be changed between now and then. Also, I've >updated all the .po files in CVS - so they should have all the strings >in them now. Besides, yesterday I finished adding _() to many strings which were not gettextized before, so these are all now in .po and need to be translated. We also have lots of new strings added since 0.37. And if anyone is working on translating tutorials, it would be nice to have some before the release too. To hook up your translated tutorial, you just need to "translate" the corresponding filename in your language's po file, for example: #: src/interface.cpp:684 msgid "tutorial-basic.svg" msgstr "tutorial-basic.ru.svg" and submit the file tutorial-basic.ru.svg with your tutorial translation. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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French translation
by Frederic Rodrigo 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Hi, I have updated the French translation. Fred.

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Spanish translation
by Lucas 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Updated spanish translation. I hope to finish the tutorial translation any time soon ;-)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] L10n question
by bulia byak 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

The current setup with "save as" seems a bit >clunky and I think is confusing to people coming to Inkscape for the first >time. This is such a basic area that it should work easily and intuitively. Please be more detailed. With the recent changes in this area, and with the differences between linux/windows, it's difficult to understand what you are referring to. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32 save as problem
by bulia byak 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

>Are we on the same wavelength? Inkscape has been auto adding extension svg >for ages. For example in build 29 March. It certainly did not do that on Linux until today. So this should have been a Windows-only artefact :) Anyway, the newly added functionality (controlled by checkbox) is the preferred way to do it because it can be disabled, and that preference is saved. If a Windows build does not have the checkbox or does not obey it, please file a bug and/or contact Ted Gould who authored this. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] L10n question
by bulia byak 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

> > Another thing...why do we have extensions in the save and open dialog > > that don't work. Which one does not work? I see three formats there: compressed SVG, SVG with and without extensions. All three work fine. >Agreed. And why do we default to SVG plus extension namespace on "save as", >rather than straight SVG? Because "straight SVG" is for special occasions only. It loses a lot of Inkscape functionality. In fact, it's more of an export than save. Normally, you want to store your Inkscape documents as SVG with extensions, so this is justifiably the default. _________________________________________________________________ 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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RE: [Inkscape-devel] L10n question
by bulia byak 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

>"Extension to save document (%s) was not found." (file.cpp) > >What kind of extension does this mean? As in "Quark extension", >or "file extension"? It's the same as module. Since this message also speaks about filename extensions, it's rather confusing. I changed it to: "No Inkscape extension found to save document (%s). This may have been caused by an unknown filename extension." _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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[Fwd: Re: SVG on the Desktop]
by Jonathan Phillips 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...254...> > To: Christian Schaller <uraeus@...55...> > Cc: www-svg@...157... > Subject: Re: SVG on the Desktop > Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:18:42 +0100 > > > Hi Christian > > On Tue 2004-03-23 Christian Schaller wrote: > > I thought I just point people here to my article on the use of SVG > > in the desktop. It summarizes the work we have done are and are > > doing with utilizing SVG in the Linux/Unix desktop: > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6460 > > Great article, thanks! I mainly use KDE, but perhaps Novell/Suse 10 > will ship with a good GNOME (SVG) desktop :) > > Besides the whole icon business; Are there plans to base the whole > (GNOME) desktop GUI on SVG? When I change the resolution of my screen, > then the size of every icon, text, window frame/decoration, menu, > taskbar, button, etc should stay the same; and I want to be able to > change the size of all this without having to change my screen's > resolution. Non-GNOME apps also would need to use SVG then, so perhaps > SVG needs to be incorporated at the X level? Does xsvg or Cairo help > with that? > > Regarding editor forks: > > "As the first draft of the SVG spec was released, work on another SVG > editor was undertaken - the now well-known Sodipodi drawing > application by Lauris Kaplinski. Sodipodi was partially based on Gill. > Over the next several months, Sodipodi progressed while Gill came to > an end as Raph's attention turned elsewhere." > > This shows that forks and projects which build on the code of others > can be very useful, and can prevent an effort or a code base from > dying. > > "All is not well in the house of roses though and later that month the > Sodipodi development team splits into two groups, and the Inkscape > project is born." > > What's "not well" about this event? The reasons might be incompatible > view and ideas, but the outcome is good as far as I can see. > > "This gives us two SVG editors/Vector drawing applications." > > This is great, no? Users have one more choice, developers who want to > help with creating and evolving an SVG editor but don't fit into the > Sodipodi team/community might find a home in the Inkscape > team/community. > > "Long running disagreements on topics ranging from GUI design, use of > external libraries, project goal and direction, programming language > used, and more resulted in the developers feeling that they would be > happier and more productive if they worked on two separate projects." > > ... thus it's great that they were constructive and active and started > their own project. > > If Sodipodi would die, some of it's efforts and code might live on in > Inkscape (just as some Gill code lives on through Sodipodi if I > understood you correctly). > > Neither Sodipodi nor Inkscape is mature enough yet (both still crash > and disappear from time to time), but I'm confident that they will > continue to evolve and mature and become more complete; competition > might very well help with that :) > > BTW, Sodipodi already is very useful (just remember to save you work > often enough :), and those who use Illustrator to create Linux icons > could check out > http://zeus.qballcow.nl/icons.php > "QNX Gnome Theme 0.3.7 > [...] > I made the whole icons using Sodipodi." > > Pretty cool. > > Something else: > > An SVG-based GUI toolkit might also be an interesting project. People > could for example build scalable interfaces to their Ruby or Python > applications, with SVG. > > Tobi -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...247... http://www.jonphillips.info

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