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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Choosing an Open Font for Inkscape "Draw Freely"
by Jelle Mulder 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hello All, From the list my personal favorites are, "Nothing you could do" At first glance there are quite some flaws to it, kerning isn't all that great for instance and the word spacing needs some toiling. But I like the dynamics of it, the weight goes well with the weight of the INKSCAPE font and logo and the sheer clumsiness of it appeals to the text "Draw Freely" as it expresses the idea of having no strings attached. It is a fairly unkempt handwriting style rough and raw like I could have written myself as a scribbled note. To my idea that is an important message to convey and none of the others make up to that as they are too tidy and constructed. There are some similar fonts that however don't have dynamics compatible with the logo and this one does. "Seaweed Script" A well constructed script, good kerning and as such giving a more professional aura. The weight again is compatible with the current INKSCAPE text and the weight of the logo. The dynamics are also compatible with the composition of the logo, but it lacks the concept of Draw Freely to me, for the fact of being so constructed and slick. In general most of these fonts have rather poor kerning and that is the main difference with many of the proprietary fonts and why people still pay for them. Typography is an art that not that many master and the sometimes years of toiling that goes into getting a font done right isn't often valued. Using proprietary fonts as such isn't quite such an issue to me for that reason, same as using copyrighted images would be. The users of Inkscape do intend to make a living of their creativity as well and are not just creating content under CC license are they? That said however, using proprietary fonts might lead to IP issues and as such using an Open font might be a good idea. My two cents. Cheers, Jelle

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Status: Inkscape-Web to Git
by Martin Owens 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

Dear Developers, I'm testing the new launchpad git beta with the inkscape-web branch, to give me a taste of the issues we might have moving inkscape proper. You can find the new git branch here: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape-webadmin/inkscape-web/+git/inkscape-web Even with my 1k commits for the website, there was an error with the fast-export | fast-import method when one file 'text.svg' was moved to 'document.svg' and 'plain.svg' was moved to 'text.svg' in the same commit. The order of the move is important in the output and in this case it was wrong. Saving the output of fast-export to a file and then editing the text by swapping the lines was enough to get it working. There was also issues with it's end state. It thought all files had been deleted and also untracked. Adding them all back in fixed it without commit, although there were still some old files it thought had been deleted now when they had been deleted much earlier. You can see the transition commit from the link above. There are some scripts we use in utils which will need porting and the git tree will come into effect when we upgrade the website to 1.4 and the live and staging branches are pulled up to trunk. Then I don't have to somehow transition every branch and I can turn them into git /branches/ and keep it tidy. For now the inkscape-web project will continue to be configured for bzr, but I ask people keep their branching to a minimum until the upgrade. Maren is the only person with an open branch right now other than trunk staging and live. That'll still be accessable, but we should consider closing it one way (merge) or another (close) Any questions about the process? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Reminder! Last day to Vote
by Tavmjong Bah 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Today is the last day to vote for the new Inkscape board members. Tav

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Gimp Export as SVG as a text layer
by Jabier Arraiza 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Hi to all. Im currently improving the Gimp plugin "Export as SVG" to export layers as text. Attached are two files, one whith a Generated SVG output and the other a log whith a crash when try to select the red string text whith the text tool. Also is more than a crash, because freeze my sistem -debian stable- and force me logout. Maybe could be a header removed from SPItem there is here previously? Thanks in advance for our help, best regards, Jabier.

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Question about bug
by Jabier Arraiza 09 Sep '15

09 Sep '15

Hello! The bug is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1242170 The two proposal fixes, a bit outdated need a decision about it: The problem is: Lpe dont work on grouped shapes The fixes proposals also fix the problem of use diferents LPE inside the same tree group. Proposal A *Cons: Convert shape elements to paths. Proposal B *Cons: Some bouding box problems on LPE with shapes Star, Ellipse and Spiral whith a LPE dont be affected by group LPE. The cuestion: Is mandatory keep the sapes as shapes or can be converted to path - maybe only if inside a group, maybe in all cases, like in 0.48 Surre the code needs review, is a old code but I need to get feedback about direction. Thanks in advance, Jabier. PD: If anyone want to try the patches ping me and update it to work whith current trunk

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Board Elections: only a few days left - cast your vote now!
by Maren Hachmann 05 Sep '15

05 Sep '15

Hi devs, just a reminder: If you're in the AUTHORS file, you should have received a voting token from SFC (or maybe two mails, with the same token). If you haven't voted yet, you should do that right now, as there are only a few days left (until September 10th - but I'm unsure of the time zone that applies, so don't wait until the last day!). If you have not received a voting token, but are certain that you should have, please contact the elections committee ASAP via inkscape.elections.committee@...3261... so that we can ensure that your vote is counted, too. Kind regards, Maren

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Bug: Pattern disappears on high zoom-levels or bitmap export
by slub＠...173... 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

Hello, I'm using lithographic patterns from the USGS in my project. Download can be found hier: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/si-geology/resources/illustrationgraphics-resourc… One of the patterns is used in the attached file. If you open this file an zoom into the filled object, the pattern disappears at zoomlevel 3000%. Also the pattern is not exported to PNG in "higher" resolutions (say 2000px width) This behaviour crashes my project completely :( Is there a solution? Greetings Slub

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css layers
by Simon Klemenc 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

Hi there, Please excuse if this has already been discussed, i could not find anything similar in the archives. So, I have a proposal, as svg natively does not really support "layers" but inkscape seems to mimic layers by adding a group with custom xml-attributes. How about trying to be closer to native svg/xml standard and have something similar to a "layer" (common fill, stroke,... attributes) solved by using class-attributes? Currently to me there seems to be no way to list all objects belonging to a group except for the xml-editor. That makes it really hard to use, but anyhow i saw there is an object manager coming in 0.92 With the current design i can't guess a way to have groups of objects being on different layers. Patterns for example could have pieces on a layer to cut, a layer to mark and so on... What do you think? best regards, Simon -- simon klemenc mail: simon@...3270... web: www.booya.at

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Meassure tool
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Hi to all. I have in mind work on meassure tool. The goal is: * Allow reposition of meassure * Store the last meassure start/end point to redraw it on tool reload. * Make it optionaly visible in others/some tools and maybe editable * Convert to Gides * Snapping, not sure is a good idea, but need to learn more about snapping. Tell me if anybody want discuss about. Also ping me if anyone want help in any part. All the best, Jabier.

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State of cxxtest -> Google Test transistion?
by Olof Bjarnason 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

I'm interested in the state of the transition from cxxtest to Google Test framework. 1. How many % of all tests have been re-written to use Google Test instead of cxxtest? 2. Does make test run Google Test suite or cxxtest or both? 3. Is the Google Test framework software included in the repository or a dependency? If the latter, what package? I guess what I'm looking for is a wiki page with the general status / how to details on this refactoring effort... I wouldn't mind spending some time helping on this as a way to learn about Inkscape's source/architecture, and Google Test framework. Cheers /Olof

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