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fontproblem 0.36cvs win32
by unknown＠example.com 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi, I have a svg file that looks different in sodipodi and inkscape. The current inkscape doesn't show the correct font. Look at the pics in the attachement. This file was written in Webdraw and by hand. And yes I can change the font-attributes with the dialog. I have inkscape 0.36cvs on a win2K and gtk runtime 2.2.4.1. Thanks, Adib.

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Re: Planning for 0.37 goal
by bulia byak 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

One dialog we'll likely need soon is the Layers. Ask Mental when he thinks the code will be ready for creating a UI. As for the grid dialog, why separate dialog? Is it so big and complex it won't fit into the Grid tab of the current ctrl-shift-d dialog? -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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saving files
by Robert Crosbie 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

I have fixed the problem with the save dialog dropping back a directory each time you "Save as", but it seems the system module is not saving the the docname, docbase and a lot of other attributes to the file. This means that inkscape keeps prompting you for the file name to save as every time you save. Opening a file that alrady has the sodipodi:docname tag doesn't seem to have the same problems. Perhaps someone who is familiar with the open/save modules could have a look at it. Ted maybe? Cheers, Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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Re: Inkscape and Glade? [was Re: [Inkscape-devel] keyboard issues]
by bulia byak 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

First, a disclaimer: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BuliaByak Now, I have no experience with either Gtkmm or Glade, and I don't know much of C++, but whatever makes the life of developer easier is great IMHO. From what I see on screenshots, Glade is a really nice thing, and I like the general approach of creating interfaces in a declarative manner (in XML) with code being generated automatically. Currently my experience with Inkscape's UI code is rather horrible, and whatever helps us to make it saner should be seriously considered. In fact, I'm afraid to even think about DialogsReorganization until we have some nicer tool for dialog layout. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Planning for 0.37 goal
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Currently we have 'Convert to Gtkmm' as the goal for 0.37. However, I think this is a bit ambitious for us to do at present. I'd like to propose we reduce the scope of the Gtkmm work for the next release. Instead of converting the entire codebase, I'd like to suggest we focus on creating one Gtkmmifying dialog, such as Nathan's grid dialog or perhaps implementing Tom Ingham's new object properties mockup (opinions?) This would allow us to put more focus into doing the C++ conversion in an orderly fashion. I think if we start converting to C++ willy nilly we may get ourselves into a royal mess, but if we focus on subsystems serially, one at a time, we can achieve better quality. How does this sound? Bryce

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DOM SVG Canvas
by Ian Grant 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

I want to write a mapping/GIS application. I was hoping to find an 'SVG canvas' library that I could use to render the graphics. Librsvg is not ideal because it simply renders the entire SVG document at once. Rather I am looking for something that watches a DOM tree and renders changes as they occur. Do Inkscape or sodipodi have any such internal structure, or could they be used as a basis for such a thing? Seems like people are going to be writing a lot of low-level SVG rendering code otherwise.

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BORKEN merge
by MenTaLguY 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Just a quick heads-up; I've merged the "BORKEN" UI branch to HEAD. It still needs a lot of refinements, but I think it's far along enough now to merge. Have a look at Bulia's recent post and on the Wiki for more stuff we can do. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] keyboard issues
by bulia byak 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

> bb> 3. Several people suggested that making keyboard shortcuts user-modifiable and providing "profiles" imitating other vector editors. This is an attractive idea but there are some issues. I added a > bb> brief overview of this to the KeyboardShortcutsToDo. > it would be a great feature. OK, so whoever is not busy coding (and especially fixing bugs) at the moment could start working towards this. Please pick your favorite non-Inkscape vector app and make a list of its shortcuts and corresponding functions. Please also categorize each function into one of the following groups: 1. There is a corresponding function (with the same or different shortcut) in shortcuts.c (i.e. this is a global verb in Inkscape). 2. There is no such function in shortcuts.c but such a function is listed on the KeyboardShortcuts wiki page (which tracks all shortcuts currently implemented in Inkscape). 3. There's no such function in Inkscape, but it would be relatively straightforward to implement it. 4. There's no such function in Inkscape, and it's not clear how to implement it (i.e. we don't have such a tool, or palette, etc.). Please use Wiki for creating your lists. You can link them from under "Interface discussions" on the Wiki front page. > corel has something similar in its coreldraw > and corel photopaint - but you can switch not only shortcuts but also > a layout of toolbars to imitate illustrator or photoshop > (respectively). That's I don't see how to do. (Especially given that Illustrator and Photoshop do not have a fixed layout.) And in any case, right now the dialog layout is very rigid and messy in the code ("boilerplate"), so this has to wait until we switch to something more flexible (Glade?). -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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big dialogs upgrade
by bulia byak 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Today's a big day: finally I made all dialogs unsinkable, defocusable, closeable, and remembering position across sessions. Well, not exactly all, because I decided that a number of dialogs can be simply removed so I did not bother upgrading them. See the new wiki page: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DialogsReorganization for my plans on what to do with what dialogs. COmments are welcome as always. So, please test the latest CVS and report any problems. There are probably quite a few of them because there were lots of changes in lots of files. Other wiki pages created or updated today: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TextUsability - specific ideas for the text tool and dialog http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SecondaryToolbar - this is what's brewing inside BORKEN, and it's cool! http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PreferencesDialog - we need a big and impressive Preferences dialog, so add your ideas on what to put there http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KeyboardProfiles - the discussion on keyboard profiles is now on a page of its own. Please be more active on the Wiki. All these pages and others will benefit from your input and ideas. Also, please test drag tolerance that I added yesterday. You may need to remove old ~/.inkscape/preferences file for the new ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml to work reliably (I could not find how the old file can break things, but looks like it does sometimes). -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Re[2]: [Inkscape-devel] key bindings and documentation
by Yemu 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

JP> Okay, so I created some SVG keys. Man, it is amazing the bugs you find JP> when trying to design something simple like keys in Inkscape. JP> Anyway, please look over and make suggestions. Otherwise I will try and JP> use the wiki to add PNGs or GIFs of the keys to the keybinding page as JP> soon as possible. GULP. I've never tried that before, but hopefully can JP> conquer that task. hi jonathan! i made some changes to your keys. use them if you like (keys are little lighter and "less round") best regards yemu

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