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How does font size work?
by Tobias Ellinghaus 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

Hi, in IRC there was a discussion about the font size setting and I have to admit that I don't understand it. The tooltip says the value is in pt, which (according to the CSS specs) is 1/72th of an inch. Inkscape now uses a DPI of 96 to convert to/from pixels. When I type some text in 72 pt and then select the object the control bar tells me it's size was 6.72 mm, which would be 0.264566929134 inch [0] and that is 25.4 pixel [1], which is what I can see in the XML being stored. The part I don't understand is how that value relates to the initial 72 pt? And is it a coincidence that the final result of 25.4 is the conversion factor inch/mm? Some clarification or links to documentation would be appreciated. Tobias PS: Would it be possible to fix the font size box to show "nice" values and not some rounded numbers? Maybe just storing the pt value typed by the user along the converted px value and showing that? Or doing it the right way and putting the pt verbatim into the SVG as it used to be done? Currently it's really hard to do any serious work that involves text. [0] 6.72 / 25.4 = 0.264566929134 [1] 0.264566929134 * 96 = 25,3984251969 ~ 25.4

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Competition News
by Martin Owens 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Dear Inkscapers, A competition to design a t-shirt has been announced: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2016/02/18/fossasia-and-openclipart-t-shirt-de… I'd like to use this as a test of our media handling network capabilities. If you look after our facebook, twitter, google+ deviantArt accounts, please post the news above and send me a personal email when complete. (some of these accounts are in the shared password file, but I'm interested in people's ability to post news) Website and Mailing Lists have been completed. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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unable to commit to lib2geom, or maybe just confused
by alvinpenner 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

I was attempting to correct a minor logic error that was causing LP Bug 1545632 see : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1545632/comments/2 - so I did a bzr pull on lib2geom in order to synch. - I got an error message saying the branches had diverged and I could not pull - so I did a 'bzr pull lp:lib2geom --overwrite' - this 'worked' but now the version-info is wrong: C:\Users\Alvin\AppData\Roaming\lib2geom>bzr version-info revision-id: git-v1:8c1148600de95edb26f6d6fd45c849a62ed77b88 date: 2016-02-10 23:24:32 -0800 build-date: 2016-02-18 07:37:01 -0500 revno: 2499 branch-nick: lib2geom According to : https://code.launchpad.net/~lib2geom-hackers/lib2geom/trunk the correct version number is 2483 on Feb 5, not 2499 on Feb 10. - also the committer is git, not sure why So now I am reluctant to proceed any farther because I do not know which version is correct, I will make the appropriate change in Inkscape trunk instead. confused, Alvin -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/unable-to-commit-to-lib2geom-or-maybe-just… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Web Chat Review
by Martin Owens 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Dear Users and Developers, I've put together an integrated tutorial for the irc chat on inkscape.org and I'd like a few users and support contributors to give it a review: https://inkscape.org/en/*users/chat/ You should see a few things are different now: * You must be logged in to use the chat, previously you could be anonymous. You even must have an email configured, so facebook and twitter logins must update their user profile before chatting. * There is the above guide which add the can_irc permission to a user's account. Confirming they've seen every page (I shorted it to 4 pages). * There's a new IRC bot that offers these new commands: - webbot: whois [username] ; will tell you who a user is and a link to their website profile, in case someone joins the chat asks a question and then leaves without waiting. - webbot: tell [username] [msg] ; will send an alert to the user with a possible response. The default for website message alerts is to email them too. So you can respond to someone who just left. - Get Latest Art ; a bit of fun to return the latest item in the Artwork category on the live site. Returns the link. - If you want further integrations between irc and the website, this is now possible. (maybe good for meetings in the future) I'm hoping these tools will allow users to feel comfortable chatting with us and also provision support contributors with what they need when in chat. The exact text of the above tutorial is up for review here. Please let me know your suggestions by email on list. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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updated to rev 14658, problem in the make
by mathog 18 Feb '16

18 Feb '16

Hi, On a Ubuntu box just did: bzr update make it ran through configure (with no obvious problems) and began compiling but failed with: make[3]: *** No rule to make target `2geom/viewbox.cpp', needed by `2geom/viewbox.o'. Stop. The file 2geom/viewbox.o is still there from the last build a month ago. There is no viewbox.cpp in the 2geom directory. Just me? How to unjam this? I think it was at 14619 before the update, and it built with no issues. Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Feedback needed: Fallback for 'arc's line join.
by Tavmjong Bah 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Hi, The currently specified fallback for the 'arcs' line join is a 'miter' join. It has be noted that this is not a very good fallback. I've implemented three different alternative fallback strategies in trunk as part of the 'Join Type' LPE in trunk. The SVG WG has agreed to change the fallback to one of these depending on user input. Here is your chance to help influence the SVG 2 specification! For a quick introduction, see: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN_STUDY/#arcs To test: 1. Create a path with a number of corner nodes. 2. Open the LPE dialog (Path->Path Effects, CTRL-SHIFT-7) 3. Click on the '+' button, select 'Join Type', and click the 'Add' button. 4. Increase the 'Line width' to some number (~20 to ~100) 5. Select the various "Extrapolated arc" 'Join' types. 6. Move the handles around and observe the line join shape. Note: There are a number of bugs, for example, setting the Miter limit doesn't always work. Also, if the radius of curvature of the path is very small you might get strange artifacts. For this exercise, please ignore these. Thanks, Tav

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C++11 configure fix
by Krzysztof Kosiński 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

If anyone has a distribution that requires C++11 to compile against gtkmm, please test this fix: https://code.launchpad.net/~tweenk/inkscape/cpp11-configure-fix Best regards, Krzysztof

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Travis CI + Inkscape
by Krzysztof Kosiński 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

https://travis-ci.org/tweenk/inkscape/builds/109310104 The build takes 15 minutes with Clang and 21 minutes with GCC, so we have considerable headroom (the limit for OSS projects is 50 minutes). I have the dependencies figured out for OSX, but a configure fix is needed, because the glibmm shipped by homebrew is already C++11-only. Best regards, Krzysztof

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Create releases more regularly
by Sebastian Zartner 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Hi there, I initially asked at inkscapeforum.com<http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=15755&p=63224>and was told to better post my request to this mailing list. I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to create releases more regularly. Currently there are many months or even years between each release of Inkscape. Bug fixes should get out more quickly and it should be possible to try out new features of upcoming versions. Most users don't have the possibility to build Inkscape by their own, so they have to wait for the next release. Unfortunately the provided development downloads are not synchronized, hosted on different third-party web sites and out of date (currently especially the Windows version). So I suggest to create a (more or less) fixed fast release cycle for normal releases (e.g. every two or three months) and periodically (e.g. every one or two weeks) create alpha versions. Alpha versions should be built (maybe even automatically) for all supported OSes and hosted directly on inkscape.org. Sebastian

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Scribus 1.5.1 released
by "Christoph Schäfer" 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

The Scribus Team is very pleased to announce the release of the development version Scribus 1.5.1, which is another major step onto the next fully-featured version 1.6.0. In terms of stability, 1.5.1 can be already be regarded as robust. The Scribus Team encourages the wide-spread use and testing of version 1.5.1 in as many environments as possible. User feedback will help us to release a rock-solid version 1.6.0. Most Important Changes ====================== An instantly visible improvement is a new and modern icon set, which almost exclusively uses grayscale variants. Scribus 1.5.1 also provides some exciting new features, the most important of which are: * Support for the CIE L*a*b* and CIE HLC color models, which are also available in the color editor; * Support for SwatchBooker's SBZ file format, which means, among others, that all color palettes from the Open Colour Systems Collection (http://dtpstudio.de/downloads/OCSC_1_0.zip) can be used inside Scribus with their original colour model (CIE L*a*b*) intact. Moreover, Scribus 1.5.1 can now use Adobe Color Book files (ACO), as well as Adobe Swatch Exchange files (ASE). * The import filter for XPress Tags is finally working as expected (some minor glitches notwithstanding) and has been tested with XTG files from XPress 3 to 2015; * Two oft-requested text import filters have finally made their way into Scribus, namely RTF and DOCX; * Scribus 1.5.1 enables applying a background color for selected text and also offers this option for character and paragraph styles; * The ODT importer has been rewritten from scratch and now not only supports more ODT features, but is also much more tolerant with ODT files written by programs other than LibreOffice or OpenOffice. * An experimental version of an import filter for FreeHand files has been added; * PDF import has been massively improved; * The font embedding code, as well as the related user interface, has been completely rewritten; * The Resource Manager for online resources provides a new option to show the licence for the respective resource before downloading. * As of version 1.5.1, Scribus includes two new color palettes, namely CIE LAB and CIE HLC. They are the first palettes in Scribus to use CIE L*a*b* color values, and they refer to affordable color fans that use an open and non-proprietary color model. We plan to use CIE L*a*b* for all of our palettes (where possible) in the future. In addition, Scribus 1.5.1 includes many bugfixes, most of which are related to newly introduced features in 1.5.0. The Scribus Team also subjected version 1.5.1svn to a Coverity scan to detect potential security and stability issues. Many of these have already been addressed in this release. An overview is available here: http://bugs.scribus.net/view_all_set.php?type=1&temporary=y&project_id=1&fi… (reported bugs and feature requests) and here: http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-commit/ (actual changes, including unreported bugs). Caveats ======= * Please note that the online help system hasn't been completely updated yet, and it probably be won't be until the final release of Scribus 1.6.0. * Some newly introduced features since 1.5.0, like footnotes, are "program-stable", i.e., they won't crash Scribus 1.5.1, but not "feature-stable", which means they may sometimes not work as expected for the time being. Primary Download Locations ========================== * Installation packages for Windows, Mac OS X and the source code are available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.1/ * Fedora and CentOS RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs * OpenSUSE, SLED, and SLES RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs * Packaging for other Linux distributions, *BSD, Solaris and OpenIndiana is beyond our influence. We recommend updating the respective repository data on a regular basis. Download Verification ===================== Description File Name Sha256sum Sha1sum Source scribus-1.5.1.tar.xz 77828c0b69b384e53e637587b26b5b54c7231408e126a575014dcde520278267 a30d1d61c8cff148a3b2f9157f9d4e5ea74e9954 Source scribus-1.5.1.7z 5b614d3aeacef9ee2ae88c76ac605e7c5a0f6f71127c627121339a670797ac71 2de3b1645c6e1ed63cd880115a052b3389eb7b3a OS X 10.9/Mavericks or higher, Intel x64 scribus-1.5.1.dmg 41a6d4ab831b1744cc84d91e05f63a20d6ae62bb916cf808641ead5e76343ced 0d6143f6b619a94c0dc6e9805193c72b8e0bf991 Windows 32/64 Bit scribus-1.5.1-windows.exe e77938b6b6def7b7c21fcfc4e4225047cee8bb86a303842f200e9ac8794eb458 45e43409badace1bddea2d9bb758621de19c32eb Windows 64 Bit scribus-1.5.1-windows-x64.exe 8d1065df917745a6e885ee567ac461bb3d4f554d469c7efc60762b76f9a13a98 0fc2f05c2f4cde971420472a8ff580263e65ee1a Linux AppImage scribus-1.5.1-linux-x86_64.AppImage 0a4fb4f3336456dc708d47e25dff2c17ed62b9b1372d09dcdda129ffdb8680bb c8ada38414e8e1c0b91f1439cf0282df48ab8da8 Credits ======= The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. For this release, the Scribus Team takes a deep bow to Dezso Markon for his wonderful artwork. We are grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring. The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg (Germany), Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA), the Newspaper Association of America (USA), Software Consulting Services (USA) and freieFarbe (Germany) as Special Supporters and donors of color palettes and other content since the 1.4.x release, just like we are grateful to the owner of Vector Portal for the permission to distribute some of his work as Scribus Templates. Porting Scribus to OS/2 and eComStation is being supported by Mensys BV (The Netherlands) and Serenity Systems (USA). Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release.

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