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Heading towards 1.2 - Scribus Status Update
by Peter Linnell 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Hi all, I wanted those on the list to get an update on the road to 1.2, as well as add some relevant tidbits to the world of Scribus. 1. If you have not visited the http://www.scribus.net web site recently, we are pleased to have Petr Vanek join the Scribus team. He is concentrating on adding more cool features for the scripter. He has created a nice font preview plug-in. You can download tarballs, Fedora or SuSE 9.0 RPMS from http://www.scribus.net 2. There is an Irix build for Scribus available on http://www.nekochan.net It would be good to know if anyone has tried Scribus on Irix. Screen caps would be welcome. 3. Bug Tracker - The bug tracker has been a great success there have been currently 324 bugs have been posted and over 225 are closed. Of the remaining open bugs, 76 are feature requests. 18 of 19 crash bugs have been closed. 4. Seeking a Mandrake volunteer. If there is someone interested in building Mandrake RPMS which can be hosted on www.scribus.net, please contact me off-list. 5. Thanks to Alex Moskalenko - there are now updated Scribus 1.1.5 Debian packages and nightly cvs builds for Debian. 6. The Scribus team has been invited by Linux User magazine to exhibit again at the London Linux expo in April. Come meet us there. details: http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk 7. Gimp2-pre4 was just released. GIMP 2.0 is close :) You can now edit images within Scribus directly with the GIMP. Today's cvs has a new for selecting external tools, so you can choose between GIMP 1.2.x or GIMP 2.0pre.x This also allows you to have your choice of Ghostscript versions. More news and a mini how to for having parallel installs of Ghostscript coming soon. 8. Inkscape On-Line meeting. Developers from the Scribus team and the Inkscape Team met on-line a few days ago. Many good things are already coming from the meeting. Franz has added some fixes for making text import better from Inkscape SVG files and the Inkscape team is working on support for Open Type fonts, which Scribus already has. With a note of thanks to help from Patrick Smith aka Bandi Pat aka Magic Page for his help,I have built gpg signed Fedora-1 and SuSE 9.0 RPMS for Inkscape 0.37. You can find links on the http://inkscape.org home page. Cheers, Peter

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RE: patch
by bulia byak 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

>cut= cuts a polygon (ie a filled path), along another >path, not necessary closed. for example, do a circle, >a path making a wave over it, and cut => the circle is >split in above wave and under wave. in illustrrator >10, it's called "divide objects below" (it's a shame >it can't operate on shapes created via the >pathfinder). of course, it's a minor change from the >intersection/difference combo Yess! That's what is really needed - sorry in my haste I did not check it properly. Indeed it works and is very useful. I will add it to the menu as Divide (Ctrl+/). It needs one fix: the command must be undone in one step. Now it needs two ctrl-z to fully undo it. >slice= cuts a path into pieces (ie strokes, not filled >paths), with one cut at each point where it intersects >with the cutting path. the rect you give in your >example is a "bad" example, because it's a path >arranged like "topleft corner -> bottomleft >->bottomright ->topright ->topleft", so it has 2 >intersections with the oval, and the path is cut in 3 >pieces (maybe the first and last part should remain >glued, tho, since the path is supposed to be closed). >sort of a razor tool. OK, now I understand. Maybe this can be useful too. I think this should be called "Cut Path" in the menu. Besides, I think this command must also remove the fill, if any is present, from the result, otherwise the result looks very strange and bug-like. Since this command is supposed to work on fill-less paths, I think it's logical if it removes fill from the path it cuts. Also, this command must also be fixed with regard to undo (this one requires 3 undo steps!). Perhaps you'll just have to remove extra calls to sp_document_done. I will now commit your patch with menu commands added and with my compilation fixes, and you'll be able to work from CVS to fix the above problems, OK? _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [OT] Re: Inkscape inclusion on w3 svg site
by Jonathan Phillips 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Yes, one of our developers is creating one. I thought it was up on the sf.net site, but looks like it is not. I will forward to our developers. Jon On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 02:45, Tobias Reif wrote: > P.S. > > Something else: > > I'm on Suse 9.0. There is a Suse RPM for Inkscape 0.36 on > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 > > Will there be one for 0.37 and releases after that? > > TIA, > Tobi > > On Wed 2004-03-03 Jonathan Phillips wrote: > > I gave your RFE a looksy and mentioned to the other developers. > > > > Jon > > > > > > On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 01:31, Tobias Reif wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > On Tue 2004-03-02 Jonathan Phillips wrote: > > > > Could someone add Inkscape to this page as an acceptable SVG editor. > > > > This site drives traffic in a major way and we've identified being > > > > on this list as highly valuable. > > > > [...] > > > > Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community > > > > with 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. > > > > > > Given that there hasn't been any reaction to my RFE > > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&atid=604309&aid=848230… > > > since more than three months I didn't even bother trying it out. > > > > > > Tobi > > -- > > Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...> > > -- Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...>

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freeze
by bulia byak 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Hi, you might want to have a look at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=910799&group_id=9… This freeze is very similar to the one that was fixed by your patch, the only difference being that it happens on a text object and not on a shape. Maybe you could fix it too, by redoing NRArenaGlyphs the same way you redid NRArenaShape? _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Updated RPMS / SuSE 9.0 RPMS
by Peter Linnell 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Hi all, SuSE 9.0 gpg signed rpms are loaded onto the sourceforge page and I have refreshed the Fedora RPMS to make sure the inkjar option is compiled in. Sorry for the delay, but I did not want to release them until they were done properly. Cheers, Peter

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RE: patch
by bulia byak 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

>multiple undo needed: move the sp_document_done() at >line 412 in splivarot.cpp outside of the loop that add >the subpaths of the result. stupid of me to leave that >mistake... Done, works, thank you! _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls 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: patch
by bulia byak 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Hi, just tested your new commands. I may not fully understand what they are intended to do, but: - sp_selected_path_cut works identically to the old intersection command. What's the point of having it? - sp_selected_path_slice does very strange things. See the attached svg that shows the original objects, the result of slicing, and then the result of attempting to undo that slicing, which requires three undo commands to fully restore the original object. _________________________________________________________________ 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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RE: [Inkscape-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Sodipodi-list] killer feature? a proposal]
by bulia byak 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

>This is a gr8 idea. I've thought often about having tools to mirror >points, apply perspective, add lines of symmetry and then move points in >a shape and so forth. Apply perspective (and, in general, any mesh transformation) is much needed. It will need to wait however for internal restructuring (AST) to finish, if we want the transforms to be fully reversable, otherwise the implementation will be very messy. >It would be very cool to be able to select one or more points and then >have a scale tool to them scale points, or move away from each other. That's easier to implement but less useful. I may do this when I have time. Add a RFE. _________________________________________________________________ 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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[Fwd: Re: [Sodipodi-list] killer feature? a proposal]
by Jonathan Phillips 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

This is a gr8 idea. I've thought often about having tools to mirror points, apply perspective, add lines of symmetry and then move points in a shape and so forth. It would be very cool to be able to select one or more points and then have a scale tool to them scale points, or move away from each other. Check the screenshot. Jon -----Forwarded Message----- From: markus hammer <markush@...258...> To: Sodipodi-list <sodipodi-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Sodipodi-list] killer feature? a proposal Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:58:37 +0100 here a link to how this vertex scale looks like: http://dev.blogdns.net/~smoke/picts/blender_vertex_scale.png -- Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...>

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Announcing The Inkscape 0.38 "BUG HUNT"!
by Bryce Harrington 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

With 0.37 happily out the door, we're ready to kick off the event you've all been looking forward to - yup, the BUG HUNT. Over the past few releases we've closed an insane number of bugs. Out of a total of 187 bugs that have been submitted, only 61 remain open. Particularly, we've been very attentive to close any bug that leads to a crash. No matter how obscure the bug, we don't want Inkscape to crash - ever! But there's a lot of smaller bugs that don't cause crashes, that are no less important to get fixed. Our goal for this release is to close a lot of bugs. Since we usually have focused mainly on the critical bugs, this time let's instead focus on the older bugs, that normally don't get much attention. Let's make our objective for 0.38 to either reduce the number of bugs submitted before the 0.37 release announce on 2/15/04 to fewer than 10, or to reduce our ratio of open-to-total bugs from 30% to 10%. 2/18 Goal ---- ---- 1. Bugs 841633-896992 52 9 2. Open/Total Bug Ratio 33% 10% Now, it may take some time for us to achieve this. If it looks like it's going to take significantly more than a month, then we should do a few 0.37.x point releases along the way. When we've achieved either objective 1 or objective 2, we will release 0.38. I think having a numerical goal will make this a fun release, even though it's just bug fixing, in that our progress towards the goal will be very easy to see. And having two objectives will hopefully help us avoid getting frustrated if we get stuck trying to meet one. A few notes on how to handle bugs. First, when reviewing a bug ask if it really is a feature request in disguise. If so, don't be shy about kicking it over to be an RFE. Second, you may find that the bug is a symptom of a larger underlying problem; in this case, perhaps consider finding some way to address the symptom directly and close the bug, and write up in detail what needs to be done to address the larger problem and submit that as an RFE. Bryce

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