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Website Down
by Martin Owens 01 Aug '15

01 Aug '15

Dear inkscape devels, docs and users, OSUOUL had a major database error (they accidentally dropped all their databases from their master database). They're restoring currently from a backup from two weeks ago, so any changes to the website in the last two weeks will need to be recreated. We do have content backups (cms etc) which we do each night, so if you've written something recently and would like content from the backup let me know. We don't keep backups of user registrations or uploaded gallery items so those in the last two weeks are gone. Like last time I swapped the database to a read only sqlite db from April. So at least the website shows base pages, there's still some errors since I really didn't expect database fallback to be a huge part of what we had to deal with but it's something we may want to improve if we think osuosl's database is likely to have problems again in the future. Thanks for your attention. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Cleanup on SF
by Martin Owens 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

Hi Bryce, I'm cleaning up the sourceforge project, I've managed to get a lot of stuff but the files are causing some issues. Could you see if you can delete the old folders with your account? we have everything backed up. Martin,

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Inkscape windows installer 0.48.5 still goes to Source Forge downloads page
by C R 29 Jul '15

29 Jul '15

Was recommending a user try the previous version for his needs, but I refuse to send anyone to Sourceforge. Is the legacy windows installer on Inkscape.org somewhere? The installer listed on this page still goes to sourceforge: https://inkscape.org/en/download/windows/ Thanks. -C

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Possible bug in rotation toolbar icons
by MichaelGrosberg 27 Jul '15

27 Jul '15

Something I noticed lately: You've got these four icons in the toolbar, two for rotation (CW and CCW), and two for flipping (vertical and horizontal). The way they work is inconsistent if you select several objects: The rotation icons rotate each object separately on its own center. The flip icons flip all objects together along a shared center. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but I thought I should at least bring it to your attention. As a user I'd prefer all four icons to work on all objects together, not individually. Cheers, Michael

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mirror symetry
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 26 Jul '15

26 Jul '15

Your designs not symetric? Change it with this branch ready to review by you https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/mirror-symetry-lpe -improvements Is a 3 files diff of 400 lines. You Like it? The original code is from Maximilian Albert, Johan Engelen and Abhishek Sharma but is updated to fusion paths and ability to fix the direction X,Y or free. No video but very useful. If you like it... Maybe you want get crazy...Similar but more complicated is the option "Fusion Paths" in "Rotate Copies" de Maximilian Albert y Johan Engelen. This allow kaleidoscope works without masks, clips or clones. https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/copy-rotate-lpe -improvements Now I have 3 videos: The first is "Fusion Paths" aka Kaleidoscope whith live editing the path in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE The next is a kaleidoscope effect but in a group: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo And for the last, Kaleidoscope go to Fusion Paths allowing sections of the effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpI8gRbkTu4 See you!

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Bend from clipboard
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

As is well know im a fan of Creature House Expression skeletal strokes. Here is my FAR FAR FAR away implementation. https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/bendFromClipboard Is only 167 lines, you are welcome! And a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owBLWJ2RvLA J.

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Transform by two nodes
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Ivan Louette a great typo designer and svg filter creator ask to me for this effect. Is done, only need your review. https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/transform_by_two_poin ts #MakeIvanHappy A video working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21C3tsYdBEI

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Interactive pencil smooth
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Hi devs! Here are a very tiny and basic branch ready for review. With it you can smooth pencil strokes with the slider at any moment. https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/simplify-lpe-pencil -toolbar/+merge/252223 Cam'on is only 219 lines most of them svg from a new icon! A video working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDef4hU4tNc

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removal of "tidy_operator_styled_whitespace"
by Marc Jeanmougin 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Hi all, when looking at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1477723 (Cannot style spaces in text + Styling spaces moves them to next tspan) that a friend mentioned to me*, i found the cause of it in a very old function: tidy_operator_styled_whitespace <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/src/tex…> This function is one of several that try to "tidy" text trees, doing the following transformations (or attempts to do so**) : abc def -> abc def abcdef ghi -> abcdef ghi This transformation is exactly what should not be happening in my case (there is imo no reason for not being able to style spaces, especially when doing so changes space width), so *I plan to remove it entirely.* Does someone have any objections? I'm not that familiar with text styling code or with the reasons that prompted this particular set of tidying operators, and it seems that these date back from "revno 1", which explains i'm not as confident with removing it as if it had been introduced a few months ago. Thanks for any advice, -- Mc *He had several lines with different styles, using spaces for indentation, and was unable to put all the spaces in the same style so that lines would be aligned, i guess that's a legitimate example of why people should be able to style spaces ** It also causes the displacement mentioned in the report, but that can probably be cured

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] 2 new pages for website, another 1 planned
by Martin Owens 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 10:00 -0600, Brynn wrote: > Hi Friends, > We have 2 new webpages for the website, should anyone have any > comments or suggestions. Also, they are ready to be translated. > > 1 -- In the Contribute section: > https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/to-do-list/ Community To-Do List. This > is a list of jobs that are needed by all parts of the community. It's not > about new features or bugs, but for jobs that definitely need to be done, to > move the project forward. > If anyone has any jobs like this, which they would like the wider > community to know about, you're welcome to add them to the list. If you > don't have edit permissions on the website, you could either request to > have, or contact the website team to have your info listed. This pages looks great. A good addition to the website. > 2 -- In the Learn section: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/animation/ > Animation. This is to help answer the many questions which are posted in > forums and elsewhere, about animation and Inkscape. > While I searched (and researched) quite diligently, and also had > help from Maren, there may be some apps out there that I didn't find. > Especially I feel like I might not have covered the Scripting and Markup > section very well, since I have barely a general grasp of that area myself. > So any comments or suggestions will be very welcome. While the Learn menu doesn't contain any other specific topics, I'm willing to see where this topic goes. If it's good at reducing the questions about animation then I say we keep it as an exception. Otherwise we should think about a topics section as we perhaps link parts of the manual in (much later! maybe next year) > Next I'll be working on a page for a curated list of Inkscape > extensions ("curated" meaning that I'll attempt determine which versions of > Inkscape each extension works on, which come with Inkscape/which need to be > installed, and including current download and contact info for each, etc.). > Eventually we hope to have them all on Add-ons page > (https://inkscape.org/en/download/addons/) but for now, they will just be > listed in a table, maybe something like the table on the To-Do List page. > If anyone has any comments or suggestions about that, I will welcome > them :-) This is a great start Brynn, and looks like lot of hard work on your part. Thanks a lot for putting together and doing the research on these items. Crafting website content can be quite a bit of research and a tiny bit f writing to do it well and I think you have done it well here. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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