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swiss publishing days 2015 in Bern: slides, including those from Libre Graphics talks, available for download
by "Christoph Schäfer" 15 Nov '15

15 Nov '15

Hi all, The slides of the talks during the "swiss publishing days 2015" in Bern are now online: http://swiss-publishing-week.ch/winterthur_n.php?t=Teilnehmer-Seite&read_gr… The most interesting talk with respect to Libre Graphics, was the one by Beat Kipfer (http://swiss-publishing-week.ch/dynpg/upload/imgfile1855.pdf) on Scribus, GIMP and Inkscape. He erred in several aspects, as those who can read German will certainly discover, but I was there and corrected the errors on the spot. Most importantly, though, Beat praised all three projects for their reliability and their longevity. According to Beat, they are worthy competitors to Adobe CC. It was also remarkable that one participant stood up during the Q&A session, and said (in German, of course): "I'm still an Adobe customer, but I'm about to leave the company's products, because their priority seems to be to find ways to suck their customers dry without even bothering to fix existing bugs. We should applaud and support the efforts of the Open Source community, because without them, there wouldn't be any competetion at all". The audience reacted with a long applause (and if you know the Swiss, this was a truly amazing reaction). The slides of the presentation by Holger Everding (FreeColour) and I on the advantages of a vendor-neutral and CIELAB-based colour standard are also there: http://swiss-publishing-week.ch/dynpg/upload/imgfile1973.pdf, as are the slides of my talk on open file formats (http://swiss-publishing-week.ch/dynpg/upload/imgfile1858.pdf). Please don't bother downloading the latter, because I only used the slides as a visual introduction to what I said and demonstrated with real files (e.g. showing the content of an ORA file in Ark). Christoph

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couple of patches in need of testing: window icon, and auto font-refresh
by insaner 14 Nov '15

14 Nov '15

Hi all, I have a couple of patches I would like some testing done on, especially if you are a non-linux user (I can only do linux testing here) and/or a dev that can tell me any issues with the code that I am not seeing. window/task bar icon missing when installed in non-standard location https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1516238 font dialog doesn't refresh to show newly installed fonts https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168960 The patch to be tested for the font-refresh bug is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168960/comments/9 And if you can tell me how to get the fontlist to refresh in a non-linux (fontconfig) system, that would help me fix that issue for others too. -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/couple-of-patches-in-need-of-testing-windo… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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SPKnot, KnotHolderEntity, and KnotHolder
by Papoj Thamjaroenporn 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

Dear Inkscape-devel, Can someone explain to me the relationships between SPKnot, KnotHolderEntity, and KnotHolder? The code seems a bit confusing to me in terms of how they are related to each other. What I have collected so far: SPKnot is a like a UI element. It has properties like style and color and signals when events are triggered. KnotHolderEntity is like the manager of SPKnot, allocating and storing pointer to SPKnot to allow SPKnot object to outlive the scope of the entity. It also manages connections between signals that SPKnot emits and receivers for those signals. KnotHolder aggregates KnotHolderEntity, with a few functions that iterate through the list of these entities to do certain things like handling events and knot update by calling methods that have been implemented in SPKnot already. My questions are: Why is SPKnot named with the SP prefix? From SPObject documentation, all SPObject is supposed to be representable as a node in SVG. There is no notion of “knot” in SVG 2 as far as I know, and the class didn't even inherit SPObject. In terms of Model-View-Controller design pattern, I see SPKnot as the Model and KnotHolderEntity as the Controller, handling the Model creation and events handling. But instead, event handling resides partly in SPKnot itself and partly in KnotHolder, which confuses me in terms of the design of these classes. Is the main purpose of KnotHolder really just for aggregating KnotHolderEntity in a list? I might be missing something, but I don’t see why we can’t move handler methods all into KnotHolderEntity, following MVP pattern. Knot events are handled individually after all. What are these PatternKnotHolderEntityXY / Angle / Scale? They seem to do something specific to patterns but instead of seeing their implementations in their own classes, I see declarations and methods about them implemented in KnotHolder and KnotHolderEntity instead. Can we factor these out somewhere, like how LPETangentToCurve defines their own KnotHolderEntities in their own source file? Overall, I’m skeptical most about the implementation of KnotHolder. It can be much simpler — just an aggregator of KnotHolderEntities. Right now, it seems to have unrelated functionalities that obscure the purpose of the class. I’d love any additional documentation about this if anyone can point me to it. I don’t see much on the generated Doxygen doc and in the source files. Thank you. Regards, _______________________ Papoj "Hua" Thamjaroenporn papoj@...3117... <mailto:papoj@...3117...>

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Spary tool and transparent area ?
by Ivan Louette 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

Is there a way to spray only over transparent area ? (i. e. inverting "Spray only over non transparent area") ivan

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Any Inkscape gurus here got any game / animation experience?
by Philip Rhoades 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

People, I am going to develop an Open Source interactive game for designing the neural architecture of a VERY simple alien organism - for research purposes. I am thinking that Inkscape is a sort of (more complicated) version of the interface that that would be required. During the game, after a bit of design, the alien organism should animate to some extent (depending how good the design is) because of the nerves interacting with the muscles and other cell organelles - which all correspond to SVG objects - is this a sensible method of proceeding? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil@...1587...

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Board Meeting @ Friday Oct 2nd, 2015
by Bryce Harrington 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi all, We'll be holding an Inkscape Committee meeting this Friday the 2nd of October, on #inkscape-devel, at 1900 UTC (Noon PDT / 9pm CEST) http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings All in the Inkscape community are welcome to attend. Our agenda is open for any new business. Thanks, Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> ----- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:28:13 +0200 From: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...>, inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-board] Proposal for board meeting An IRC meeting is an excellent idea. Any day at noon PDT (9 PM CEST) is OK with me. Thursdays I have an SVG WG meeting at 1:30 PM PDT (10:30 CEST). My agenda items would be: C++11 Hackfest 2016 Paid development Tav On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 12:20 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi guys, > > Now that our board is re-manned, I'm thinking it'd make sense to call > a > meeting on IRC. I don't have anything major to discuss myself, but > I'll bet the rest of you have some good ideas to float. > > How does some time first week of October sound? Thursday Oct 1st? > Or > would the weekend be better? I seem to recall that before we met at > noon pacific time; would such a time be impossible for anyone? > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings > > As far as agenda goes, I don't have anything to suggest - this past > year > we've accomplished so much! I figure we can just play it by ear, and > leave the agenda to "opens". > > Bryce > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ----- End forwarded message -----

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Measure and Spray tool
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 08 Nov '15

08 Nov '15

Hi to all, the spray tool and measure tool improvements are now in trunk, thanks to Nathan Hurst and Mc- for the fast reviews and to all people involved on it. Bug report it! Regards, Jabier. https://www.youtube.com/user/jabiertxof/videos

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Screen tearing on Inkscape (OS X)
by Papoj Thamjaroenporn 08 Nov '15

08 Nov '15

Dear Inkscape-devel, I recently picked up Inkscape again, and there is this screen tearing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing> issue I have seen on OS X, and I am wondering what the causes are and how I may be able to contribute. As far as I understand, screen tearing seems to be an issue specific to GTK2. This happens when I scroll or zoom the canvas, where screen refresh rate is not synced with canvas rendering. This happens either on X-based version (I tried using the official Inkscape app) or Quartz-based version (I tried by compiling the trunk using Quartz variants). I also found that ~suv has this exciting development on native OS X integration with GTK3. The artifacts I have seen are exactly like in this screen recording <https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/4556/> of Inkscape with GTK2 that ~suv posted. So, am I correct to say that GTK3 somehow eliminates this problem, even without native OS X integration? How does it do so? If we stay with GTK2 as of now, is there a way to fix the tearing issue? Regards, _______________________ Papoj "Hua" Thamjaroenporn papoj@...3117...

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Board Meeting @ Friday Nov 6th, 2015
by Bryce Harrington 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Reminder that the meeting is tomorrow at Noon Pacific time. Check your times since daylight savings is in effect. Last month's meeting log is posted here for reference: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/6701/ Bryce On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 08:27:15PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi all, > > Last month's meeting went well, and we decided to have another in early > November at a similar time and place. > > We'll be holding an Inkscape Committee meeting on Friday the 6th of > November, on #inkscape-devel, at 1900 UTC (Noon PDT / 9pm CEST) > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings > > Agenda is: > > * Code of Conduct & Privacy Policy > * Funded development > * GSoC 2016 > * Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement (FSA) > * Hackfest 2016 > * Budget 2016 > * Other business > > Bryce > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Notifying users of nonfatal errors, general interface?
by mathog 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Hi, All, I posted about this back on 2015-03-26 with the title Example of Inkscape handling corrupt input file but there were apparently no responses. So once again, is there an interface in Inkscape where code can push a message for a nonfatal event such that: 1. In GUI usage - a pop up appears with the message. 2. Command line/filter usage - message is sent to stderr Usage example: SVG -> EMF export cannot handle opacity because the output format does not support it. The code currently just drops the opacity property which of course results in output visually different from the original (although all the same elements are there). End users keep tripping over this, example: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1513262 So I would like a warning message to appear. Ideally this would show up in the code as something really simple like this: if(errors_found){ inkscape_display_message(my_message): } and then this function/method would go on and never has to do anything else related to that message. If there is already a function/method corresponding to "inkscape_display_message", what is it called? Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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