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node sculpting behavior
by Brynn 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Hi Friends, When I first started using Inkscape, which was version 0.44, node sculpting had a different behavior than it has now. I want to ask if it would it be possible to provide the previous behavior, as an option, perhaps using key modifier, or option on the control bar? I'll try to describe, with attached screenshot (sculpt2.png). You can see that dragging the right end node, with Alt key results in the nodes wider apart in the middle, and closer together on the ends (no matter whether I dragged from the right or left side, the result is the same). I'm not sure exactly in which version this changed. But previously, dragging the same right end node would result in nodes wider apart, the closer they are to the node being dragged. Since I can't show an example, imagine it's the same right end node, and it would behave much like a rubberband...or elastic string -- stretched more near where the force is applied, and less on the other end. And so the nodes would be progressively closer together, the further they were away from the node being dragged. One thing I used to like to do, was find an end node of a spirogram. Select all nodes except the other end, then Alt + drag the first end, and it would unravel the spirogram from one end to the other. One of the first images I ever made with Inkscape is also attached, the unravelled spirogram. You just can't do that anymore, with Inkscape, afaik. To be honest, I loved that old behavior and used it a lot. I haven't found many uses for the current behavior. I guess it can make a good bell curve. But I think both behaviors are useful. Would it be possible to provide this optionally? If so, I'd like to make that a feature request. (Unless it already is??) Thank you very much, brynn

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The unit of stroke width in Inkscape UI, and 'px' unit
by Papoj Thamjaroenporn 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Dear inkscape-devel, Quick question: what is the unit of the stroke width in the Inkscape UI? I am talking about this seemingly unit-less number: When looking at StrokeStyle, it seems to match ‘px’ (SVG user unit). If this is indeed a 2 px width, shouldn’t we add the unit after the number like showing units after W, H, X, Y to make everything clearer in the UI? Regards, _______________________ Papoj "Hua" Thamjaroenporn papojt@...3117...

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Brand new crash with text blocks
by Ivan Louette 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Hi ! I lack of time to fill a bug because I must leave now (otherwise I will do it in the evening). With the last yesterday trunk Inkscape crashes if I try to change the font size to a bigger one which exceeds the size of the text block. For example in attached file. I use this kind of feature daily and never had this crash before yesterday. ivan On Kubuntu 14.04 64 bits

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] batch able to ungroup PDF objects and change colors from RGB into CMYK with lookuptable
by Maxence MELIN 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Nobody has any idea (or existing scripts to share) to begin the script I need ? De : Maxence MELIN Envoyé : mercredi 2 décembre 2015 10:16 À : 'inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net' Objet : batch able to ungroup PDF objects and change colors from RGB into CMYK with lookuptable Hi ! I am a beginner with Inkscape but I know it's very powerful ! I have a RGB PDF file with grouped objects and I want to develop a script that : - is able to process several PDF files (e.g. all PDF in a folder) - ungroup the objects of each PDF file - convert RGB PDF to CMYK PDF using a txt lookup table where I can set myself the values (I don't use a lot of colors but I have to get precise CMYK values) I have no idea how to begin such a script, somebody can help to get me started ? Thanks ! Max

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Extended xml editor
by A Sedlak 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Does anyone know how to implement extended xml tag editor in inkscape? Before several years I wrote system for embroidery pattern generator from svg based on private xml tags, but simple XML editor included in inkscape makes it cumbersome. Some very basic functionality of this stitch generator can be seen at: https://youtu.be/VKle5ApsMnA Editor should have functionality very similar to interface of external scripts but before showing dialog, it should first collect actual data from svg by calling proper extension script method (eg .getparams() ) and prepare file similar to inkscape dialog definition file.inx with <param name= ... > and then dynamically generate dialog to allow user modify sewing parameters, after that call classical extension .effect() method to do changes in svg. I want to implement it but I'm totally lost in inkscape source code. I think that all functionality is already somewhere in inkscape but I need someone to show me the way. Tony

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Next Inkscape board meeting.
by Tavmjong Bah 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Hi all, The next Inkscape board meeting is schedule for December 4th at 20:00 UTC/Noon PST/21:00 CEST: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=4&yea r=2015&hour=20&min=00&sec=0&p1=0 All member of the Inkscape community are welcome to participate. We meet on the #inkscape-devel IRC channel on Freenode. For more details see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Tav

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Lock guides branch
by Jabier Arraiza 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Hi to all. I just propose to merge the lock guides branch. ¿Any one want review it? https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/lock_guides This allow to lock a guide in the guide dialog. This is part of a future work using gides. In my mind I want to link optionaly a guide to a item or maybe more than one. If this guide is linked, only show if the element/s is selected. Any one think is a bad idea because it add a extra level of complexity on guide usage to the benefits it have? Anyway is not a blocking thing to my proyect but it benefits a lot of it. If any one is interested in the secret proyect, is a LPE applied to groups, this lpe lock for the crossing guides and slice the content of the group into sliced subgroups. Cheers, Jabier.

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Potrace
by Jabier Arraiza 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Hi to all!!! I notice in Debian stretch no trace bitmap option showed in the menu if Potrace aren't instaled. ¿Maybe is beter show it always, and if selected, fire a warning message? Cheers, Jabier.

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batch able to ungroup PDF objects and change colors from RGB into CMYK with lookuptable
by Maxence MELIN 02 Dec '15

02 Dec '15

Hi ! I am a beginner with Inkscape but I know it's very powerful ! I have a RGB PDF file with grouped objects and I want to develop a script that : - is able to process several PDF files (e.g. all PDF in a folder) - ungroup the objects of each PDF file - convert RGB PDF to CMYK PDF using a txt lookup table where I can set myself the values (I don't use a lot of colors but I have to get precise CMYK values) I have no idea how to begin such a script, somebody can help to get me started ? Thanks ! Max

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Feature proposal to src/extension/internal/grid.cpp
by Timo Korthals 01 Dec '15

01 Dec '15

Dear devs, because of the lack of the feature, that gids can be created just in px-units, I patched (from my pov) a nice feature into "src/extension/internal/grid.cpp". My question regarding this feature on stackexchange [1] has some pretty high interest. You'll find the patch attached to this e-mail and a brief documentation to this feature here [2]. Would be nice to see something like this (or similar) in the near feature. Greetings, Timo [1] http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/21611/drawing-grid-in-inks… [2] http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/63799/15720 -- Timo Korthals, M.Sc. Universität Bielefeld AG Kognitronik & Sensorik Exzellenzcluster Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) Inspiration 1 (Zehlendorfer Damm 199) 33619 Bielefeld - Germany Office : 3.037 Phone : +49 521 106-67368 eMail : tkorthals@...3296... Internet: http://www.ks.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/

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