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Mac-OS
by Jabier Arraiza 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

What about to put in Mac download page is abailable by Macports with some info? Cheers, Jabier.

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Recent icon changes
by mathog 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Hi All, Some time between revisions 15016 and 15387 there were substantial changes to the two rows of icons at the top (the ones just below the file/edit/view/etc.). I'm not a fan of the new ones. 1. The new icons are larger than the old ones, which is a waste of space. Possibly not an issue if you are using a huge screen. However, I tend to work on small monitors, and Inkscape already uses up a lot of real estate around the drawing, leaving in some cases (my laptop, for instance) a pretty tiny window showing the drawing. My largest display is 1280 x 1024 and with the new larger icons even at full width the "Move patterns" icon is cut off. 2. The object rotate and mirror icons, which were previously excellent, showing transforms of a dark triangle to a grey one) have been replaced with generic looking fuzzy arrows. The rotate 90 degree icon could be the "undo" icon, or vice versa. Double headed arrows like those used for symmetry operations are more commonly used to indicate either sliding or scaling in the direction indicated. I much (much, MUCH) prefer the older ones. 3. The red handles on the new scissors icon draw my eye. When I look at that row for an icon now my eyes go there first, even when I know that isn't the icon I want. Probably this is because the red handles really stand out when compared to the other icons. Not sure what the proper design term is, but the icons should all have the same "visual weight" to avoid this, and for me the scissors is "heavier". 4. Now that I look more closely, there are size changes on the icons on the left and right too. The image in each icon is the same size, but each is now surrounded by a lot more white space. Again, that is a waste of screen space. If I adjust a copy of 15016 so that the select arrow (top of left column) is in the same place as for a copy of 15387, and the bottoms of the outer windows are in the same place, in the older one the last tool visible is the text icon, whereas in the new one it is only the spiral icon. That is, there are 4 less tools shown in the same space. The same problem applies on the right, where again there are 4 more icons visible in the older version than the new. Sometimes less is more. For drawing programs like this I want the tools and such to take as little space as possible away from the drawing. These need to be big enough to read, but not any larger than that. (Note, the older version was running on Windows and the newer one on Linux.) Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Uploads and Caching
by Martin Owens 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Dear release developers, This is a note about large uploads such as new inkscape releases. The web server's caching will kick in on the first download of a file, so make sure you hit the download button and wait for it to completely download before announcing. I think this release is hitting our servers hard, we have a 20% Bad Request ratio at the moment. This is one small behavioural thing that really helps cut down the amount of work the server needs to be. Martin,

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Inkscape 0.92 is Released!
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

The Inkscape project announces a new version 0.92 of its popular vector drawing software. New features include mesh gradients, improved SVG2 and CSS3 support, new path effects, interactive smoothing for the pencil tool, a new Object dialog for directly managing all drawing elements, and much more. Infrastructural changes are also under way, including a switch to CMake from the venerable Autotools build system. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch our showcase at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1hxXt9U4c Download 0.92 from: https://inkscape.org/en/download/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mesh gradients enable artists to create photo-realistic drawings more easily - a feature we would love to see made part of the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard; if you find this feature as cool as we do, please request that your favorite web browser adopts support for it too! Inkscape works closely with the SVG standards committee, and thanks to our many generous donors the Inkscape project sponsors an engineering representative to attend SVG working group meetings over the past few years; a welcome outcome of this participation is the improvement and addition of over a dozen SVG and CSS properties, such as paint-order, white-space, and mix-blend-mode. Live Path Effects are proving to be a vibrant ecosystem in the Inkscape project, and many innovative new ideas have been percolating over the past couple years since our last release. Spiro Live, BSpline, and Roughen essentially provide new drawing modes. The Simplify LPE cleans up vector elements non-destructively by smoothing paths, shapes, groups, clips, and masks. Perspective/Envelope and Lattice Deformation 2 enable artists to interactively deform/transform drawing elements. Other new features enable interactive mirroring, interactive rotation of copies along an arc or circle, and dozens of other additions and enhancements. All software must evolve with the times, and Inkscape is no different. To maintain consistency with the CSS standard, Inkscape's default resolution has changed from 90dpi to 96dpi; Inkscape will detect files created with previous versions and offer to convert them. A number of infrastructural changes are in process to help Inkscape keep up with progress. For 0.92 we are changing to the CMake build system, which builds faster and is easier for developers to work with. (Future infrastructure changes include switching from bzr to git, shifting from Gtk2 to Gtk3, and moving to the C++11 standard.) The above barely scratches the surface of all the new stuff included in this release. For the full story, including examples, screenshots, and videos, please see our detailed Release Notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92 If you're on Linux, you'll soon be able to install Inkscape 0.92 from your distribution via normal methods. We also intend to publish a distribution-independent snap file for Inkscape 0.92. If you're on Windows, we have a set of packages that we hope will let you maximize performance on your platform. For Mac OS X, no packages are available -- our old (X11/XQuartz) packaging was long overdue to be updated to current standards and is no longer being maintained. If you wish to compile Inkscape yourself, then of course, the Inkscape source code is also available from our website. The Inkscape Project thrives due to your support. We are a volunteer-driven community built from thousands of contributions of time, skill, and funds, to create a powerful open source tool that is made available for free to everyone in the world. We invite you to join our community and participate in helping advance Inkscape towards new objectives. Come help us chart out the new directions that Inkscape needs to take! Inkscape is created *by* the community *for* the community. Your donations also help further Inkscape's mission. You can donate to Inkscape's general fund, or target your donation to support our SVG Standards work or Hackfests. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join Inkscape at: https://inkscape.org/community/ Become a donor at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ Download Inkscape at: https://inkscape.org/download/ Watch our showcase at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1hxXt9U4c -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlhsmJMACgkQEaMBVuDmdhHm+QCeKJBSNYW0i4aTNorwr50M1yXG 96AAoL8ZIMCFS3+x44yLOUzkyYsx+jtW =qGwR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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compile error on Windows 10, Inkscape rev 15382, 64 bit
by alvinpenner 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

this is my first attempt to compile a 64 bit version of Inkscape. Previously I had done a 32 bit version on Windows XP using cmake. - running cmake version 3.7.1 32-bit version - devlibs64 uptodate - mingw64 from the file x86_64-5.3.0-release-win32-seh-rt_v4-rev0.7z - the compile step appeared to be successful until the very end... the output is: C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeBZR\build>mingw32-make -j 2 [ 1%] Built target vpsc_LIB revision is 15382 [ 1%] Built target inkscape_version [ 2%] Built target util_LIB [ 2%] Built target gc_LIB [ 2%] Built target cola_LIB [ 4%] Built target avoid_LIB ... [ 26%] Built target pofiles_90 [ 26%] Built target filters_svg_h [ 26%] Built target palettes_h [ 26%] Built target patterns_svg_h [ 27%] Built target symbols_h [ 27%] Built target templates_h [ 99%] Built target inkscape_base [ 99%] Built target inkview [100%] Linking CXX executable ..\bin\inkscape.exe ../lib/libgc_LIB.a(gc.cpp.obj):gc.cpp:(.text+0x4f0): multiple definition of `Inkscape::GC::Core::init()' ../lib/libinkscape_base.dll.a(d010885.o):(.text+0x0): first defined here collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status src\CMakeFiles\inkscape.dir\build.make:201: recipe for target 'bin/inkscape.exe' failed mingw32-make[2]: *** [bin/inkscape.exe] Error 1 CMakeFiles\Makefile2:421: recipe for target 'src/CMakeFiles/inkscape.dir/all' failed mingw32-make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/inkscape.dir/all] Error 2 mingw32-make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... [100%] Built target grid2 Makefile:126: recipe for target 'all' failed mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2 -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/compile-error-on-Windows-10-Inkscape-rev-1… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Fwd: Website Feedback]
by Martin Owens 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

>From the inkscape website administrator inbox:

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Fwd: Re: Inkscape 0.92pre5 released
by Miguel Lopez 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.92pre5 released Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 01:35:59 -0500 From: Miguel Lopez <reptillia39@...3425...><mailto:reptillia39@...3425...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...><mailto:bryce@...961...> Right now, I am testing a bug with the Rotate Copies feature, and I'm gonna file a report on that soon. So, there is going to be a little change, but that's not too much. I'm gonna also look at gradient mesh. Will file a bug report soon. Well, I checked gradient meshes, and it looks like there's gonna be a few more work to do. Yep, I will file 2 bug reports as soon as possible. I wish I can do more, but being fatigued everyday does not help things. Other than that, the difference between .92 and .91 is huge. I hope to see more focus on gradient mesh, and experimental forms of gradient somewhere between .92, and .94. Instead of a gradient mesh, I wish we can define gradients based on points, and lines. That would also open avenues to gradient textures/procedural textures, and would hugely benefit vector-based interior design. On 12/30/2016 3:37 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > The 0.92pre5 source package and Windows packages are now released and > can be downloaded from the Inkscape website: > > https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions > > Thanks to everyone that contributed fixes and translation updates, > packaging, and work on the marketing/outreach preparations. > > My hope is there will be no further changes between pre5 and the final > release. Please download and test this release candidate as if it was > the official 0.92.0 release. What we're looking for are issues that are > a) so severe that we need to put off the release, or b) issues caused by > recent changes that can be trivially fixed (e.g. one-liner patches that > are obviously correct). > > Barring any last minute issues, things look good for finalizing the > source package this weekend and announcing the 0.92 release early next > week. > > We'll plan on doing a point release in a month or two. This will > include both translation updates and bugfixes. > > To everyone that has contributed to the changes in 0.92: Great work! > The release is just days away. :-) > > Bryce > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Inkscape-devel@...941...rge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Inkscape 0.92pre5 released
by Bryce Harrington 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

The 0.92pre5 source package and Windows packages are now released and can be downloaded from the Inkscape website: https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions Thanks to everyone that contributed fixes and translation updates, packaging, and work on the marketing/outreach preparations. My hope is there will be no further changes between pre5 and the final release. Please download and test this release candidate as if it was the official 0.92.0 release. What we're looking for are issues that are a) so severe that we need to put off the release, or b) issues caused by recent changes that can be trivially fixed (e.g. one-liner patches that are obviously correct). Barring any last minute issues, things look good for finalizing the source package this weekend and announcing the 0.92 release early next week. We'll plan on doing a point release in a month or two. This will include both translation updates and bugfixes. To everyone that has contributed to the changes in 0.92: Great work! The release is just days away. :-) Bryce

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Board Meeting @ Friday Dec 30
by Bryce Harrington 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Hi all, We'll be holding an Inkscape Committee meeting this Friday the 30th of December, on #inkscape-devel, at Noon Pacific. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings All in the Inkscape community are welcome to attend. Since I suspect many people are on vacation this week, we'll play the agenda by ear, but give focus to issues relating to the release and current status of Spreadshirt. Thanks, Bryce

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0.92 release status (and 0.92.1 planning)
by Bryce Harrington 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

Hope everyone is having a great holiday! We're nearly done with 0.92.0 - great work everyone and thanks especially to everyone fixing up bugs and updating translations. Final RC will be cut Wed the 28th. Translation updates are ok to continue landing until then. Bug fixes please check with me and expect some friendly pushback. :-) I'd like the final RC to be identical to what we release, so we don't release with anything untested. So ideally there should be NO changes after the 28th. In practice some minor polish is probably acceptable; but if there are any significant changes we'll need to do further RC's. The 0.92.0 release will happen this weekend or very early next week, assuming we don't need further RC's. We need short turnarounds for packaging so we can get announcements out swiftly. I think we can do it. We can start planning for a 0.92.1 release. There's a healthy amount of energy going into bug fixing right now, and our users will appreciate if we continue. Some fixes will need string changes, so I'll propose we also encourage translation updates. I would like to shoot for early February with this release. Additionally, a focus for 0.92.1 could be on bug management tools. I.e., warning dialogs, workarounds, and bug reporting helper scripts. Josh mentioned that having a button to reset old prefs could work around some mesh problems, and I'm betting there's more we could do like that. Bryce

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