- Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Trunk glitch? and guide lines
by Robert McKay 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

Monday 22 June - 10:08:27 PM Don't really know how to communicate with the developer group(s) on these user boards, which I do glance at now and then, and being in the midst of 'the important work' I must learn more about that a little later. Though a new and often searching user, I do already very (very) much appreciate this Inkscape thing, and want to assist in the developments to whatever extent I might. Two things so far: Loaded in the Trunk version on the 20th to see what that was like, and then put the stable version back in today. (Mint 17 operating system) Changed back for just the one reason really, the Trunk no longer contained 'delete all guides' in the edit menu. I use the 'objects to guides' quite a bit to guestimate reasonable seeming perspectives, particularly when the piece is simple enough not to bother with a paper drawing or a Sketchup model first. (Those sudden nests of guide lines, only loosely related to any real vanishing points, sew confusion onto next uses unless I can keep dismissing them wholesale.) ... That 3D emulator-or-possibly-actual-tool, that is there among the available functions; I've had to tag that one for some future study session. Speaking of the guides, though the labelling and information options are pretty darned useful for getting precise with, it would also be good to be able to push guides around their rotation points by eye, as well as with the deg. entry. (Even though that protractor tool is a completely fine little gem.) ...*Wait*, let me try something here....OH MY GOD, control shift gets little rotation arrows showing and going with stepwise changes, and then shift by itself allows for smooth rotation.*Inkscape Are The Best!* I also think it would be useful to be able to pin different groups of guides to given layers. - Probably also a feature already available and awaiting discovery eh? One last other thing to mention, very minor really, about that Trunk version. A single straight line will not be blurred unless it is manipulated first, though even a very subtle bending was enough to do the trick. As arrow-straight lines are pretty much a wierd and overpowering spice within the 'loosley suggestive' styles of drawing anyway, I found this one by fluke. And it was late at night, and I was tired, so, I am not really sure... The line vanished and an empty selection box grew around where it had been as I increased the blur number. (drawing effects such as pencil and sketch seemed disabled too, but by then I had made a decision and went to bed.) Thanks again folks, for this Inkscape thing. It's a starred line-item on my volluntary payments wishlist.

2 1

bug report: path omitted in rendering to pdf
by Blahde Blah 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

V wrote: >Increase the stroke width, or remove the stroke altogether to work >around a cairo bug (cairo >= 1.12.4) which omits objects with small >stroke-widths when exporting to PDF: Thanks very much. That workaround did it for me. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium

1 0

Inkscape Tools and Functions Interactive Treemap
by C R 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hey everyone. I'm presently developing a system to make it easy to treemap hotkeys and functions of a software package. I'll be posting the code on github and offering it under the GPL. As an initial development example, I'm using Inkscape. I have a mockup of (kinda sorta) what the resulting page will look like (all code will be HTML5 and javascript). The sample is here: http://www.opendesignstudio.org/inkscape/samples/inkscape_tools_treemap_moc… I was wondering what everyone thought of the idea, and the organisation of the information with regards to inkscape tool functions. Any additions or changes to the information? Additionally, I'll be providing the construction files for all the alternative inkscape icons in this chart to anyone who would like to use them, for whatever purpose. After I do a complete keyset of Inkscape in this manner, I'll be doing one for GIMP, Scribus, and *gulp* Blender. I'd also like to add a "quiz" feature that pops up flashcards of the keys to use in a sort of hotkey-calisthenics program. All this is to make people faster at using Inkscape and other software. Thanks for your input! -C

2 1

bug report: path omitted in rendering to pdf
by Blahde Blah 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hi, all, I'm a happy, long-time user of inkscape. Thanks for all your efforts over the years on this wonderful open-source project. This email is to report a bug in pdf rendering, which occurs in both the stable version and, as shown below, in the version compiled from the latest sources. $ /usr/local/bin/inkscape --version Inkscape 0.91+devel r14210 (Jun 22 2015) $ /usr/local/bin/inkscape --export-pdf=b.pdf b.svg $ ls -l b.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 bcrowell bcrowell 857 Jun 23 05:42 b.pdf The file b.svg, which I've pasted into this email below, contains a single object, which is a moderately complex filled path. When I export to pdf, the resulting file does not contain any rendering of the object (as you can see from its small size in the listing above). Rendering to a bitmap works correctly, and rendering of filled paths does normally work, of course. The bug seems to depend on something specific about this particular path. I don't know whether this is a bug in inkscape or in cairo. The version of cairo on my system appears to be 1.13.0, based on the existence of this file: /var/cache/apt/archives/libcairo2_1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb Regards, Ben ================================== b.svg ========================================================= <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>  <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" sodipodi:docname="b.svg" inkscape:version="0.48.4 r9939" sodipodi:version="0.32" id="svg2" height="297mm" width="210mm" version="1.1" inkscape:export-filename="/home/bcrowell/Documents/writing/books/physics/share/mechanics/figs/cm-examples.png" inkscape:export-xdpi="300.09366" inkscape:export-ydpi="300.09366"> <defs id="defs3" /> <sodipodi:namedview inkscape:window-y="0" inkscape:window-x="0" inkscape:window-height="996" inkscape:window-width="1278" inkscape:current-layer="layer1" inkscape:document-units="px" inkscape:cy="671.87269" inkscape:cx="190.88077" inkscape:zoom="1.4939973" inkscape:pageshadow="2" inkscape:pageopacity="0.0" borderopacity="1.0" bordercolor="#666666" pagecolor="#ffffff" id="base" showgrid="false" inkscape:window-maximized="0" /> <metadata id="metadata4"> <rdf:RDF> <cc:Work rdf:about=""> <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" /> <dc:title /> </cc:Work> </rdf:RDF> </metadata> <g id="layer1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" inkscape:label="Layer 1"> <path id="path2125" d="m 254.41718,413.88701 -1.46414,0.17338 -2.77415,0.96325 -1.38708,1.38708 -0.57795,1.0403 c -0.3856,0.97285 -0.64198,1.76746 -0.92471,2.73563 l -0.13486,1.67605 -0.0963,2.06135 -0.52016,1.38707 -0.0193,-0.0193 -0.13486,0.30824 -1.31001,-0.17339 -0.0771,0.0771 -2.60077,0.84766 -4.87403,3.44843 -4.00711,4.31535 -5.16301,7.16656 -4.31535,6.02993 c 0,0 1.15442,-1.4394 -4.58506,4.87403 -5.73947,6.31343 -3.15945,8.61144 -3.15945,8.61143 l 1.13663,4.02638 2.02282,7.74451 2.87048,7.45553 2.29253,6.3189 0,6.02993 1.13663,5.72169 2.60077,4.8933 3.14019,4.87403 0,3.44843 0.57795,3.15945 1.0981,1.0981 4.58506,-0.17338 7.72524,0.46236 2.09988,-0.21192 0,-0.0385 0.32751,0 1.63752,-0.17338 -0.25045,-0.96325 0.28898,-0.57795 -0.28898,-0.86692 0.86692,-0.57795 -0.86692,-0.84766 -3.15945,-1.15589 -5.74096,-2.58151 -1.13663,-1.15589 -2.87048,-6.01067 -1.44487,-7.4748 -1.71458,-4.58506 -0.28897,-5.163 -0.57795,-4.60433 0.11559,-0.38529 -0.0578,-0.0193 0.42382,-2.31179 0.28898,-2.3118 c 0,0 0,-4.74991 0,-5.18227 0,-0.43236 -0.13485,-2.60077 -0.13486,-2.60077 l -0.57794,-5.47124 0.59721,-1.31002 -0.0771,-0.7706 1.71458,-3.44842 2.87048,-4.00711 3.44842,-2.3118 3.7374,-5.163 2.58151,-2.29253 1.4256,-3.7374 3.15945,-3.71814 2.29253,0.28898 8.61144,0.55868 6.60787,0.86692 8.03349,-0.28897 7.45553,-0.28898 2.50445,1.05958 5.24006,-0.7706 4.5658,-0.90546 0.3275,-0.80912 -4.60432,-0.28898 -4.58506,-0.57795 -4.02637,-0.86692 -3.42917,-0.55868 -5.18227,-1.1559 -3.71813,-0.86692 -2.29253,0 -4.02638,0.57795 -6.3189,-1.42561 0.28897,-0.86692 1.44488,-0.28898 0.28897,-0.57795 -0.28897,-1.71458 c 0,0 0.84766,-2.29125 0.84765,-4.87403 0,-2.58277 -2.57022,-4.59107 -3.71813,-5.45198 -0.10304,-0.0773 -0.33528,-0.13644 -0.48163,-0.21191 l -0.94398,-0.23118 -2.35032,-0.26971 z" style="fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:0.03082392pt;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1" inkscape:connector-curvature="0" /> </g> </svg> ____________________________________________________________ Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. Check it out at http://mysecurelogon.com/password-manager

2 1

Objects/Layers/Sets dialogs
by Tavmjong Bah 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

I've got a few questions about the Objects, Layers, and Sets dialogs: * Does the Layers dialog have any functionality that isn't supported by the Objects dialog? * Can the Layers dialog be removed (or merged with Objects dialog)? * Does anybody understand why the Objects dialog slows down Inkscape (bug 1431274)? * What is the purpose of the "domino" like icon in the Objects dialog? Is it just to open the color dialog? Is there an easy way to close the color dialog once open? Is it really useful to be able to open the color dialog from this dialog? * In the Sets dialog, what is the purpose of "Items"? It seems like an unnecessary layer between the set name and the objects in the set. Thanks, Tav

6 8

New features in Scribus 1.5.1svn -- feedback, testing and bug reports required
by "Christoph Schäfer" 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

Hi all, Not long ago, we released Scribus 1.5.0, and the development of 1.5.1, which will bring us closer to the next stable version 1.6.0, is underway. We have recently added some amazing new features that need feedback and testing from those who are willing to build 1.5.1svn (and a new dependency) from source and to test, namely: 1) Scribus 1.5.1svn comes with a new and modern icon set. It's not 100% complete yet, and you need to turn it on in the Preferences (it will become the default set once it's complete). 2) Scribus can now handle the CIELAB colour space and comes with a new CIELAB colour map for picking colours. 3) Scribus can now import/use Swatchbooker palette files (SBZ), which, together with CIELAB support, means that you can take full advantage of the Open Colour Systems Collection (http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/2015-May/051770.html). 4) Scribus can now import/use Adobe Swatch Exchange files (ASE). 5) Thanks to the release of libfreehand 0.1.1 by the Document Liberation Project, Scribus can now import Freehand files (FH*) to the extent libfreehand allows. To build libfreehand 0.1.1 on Linux, just extract a source archive available from http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/libfreehand, cd into the source directory, run ./configure, make, and (as root) make install, and finally ldconfig, also as root. After that, CMake will detect libfreehand automatically (make sure to delete CMakeCache.txt in the ./Scribus source directory before running your cmake command). Initial tests have shown that it's already working pretty well. The Scribus Team (and I'm sure Document Liberation as well) would be grateful for feedback and bug reports. Thanks, Christoph

1 0

Would you accept patches for a C++ Plugin implementation?
by Sebastian Faubel 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

Hello everybody, I'm working as a contractor for the University of the Arts, London. Currently, we're developing a Semantic Desktop to capture data about the creative process which is currently based on Linux, Inkscape and Zeitgeist [0]. In order to realize pushing events from Inkscape into Zeitgeist, we have currently created a fork and implemented the functionality as an internal plugin. This works well, but requires us to maintain a patched version of Inkscape. When i was starting with the implementation I stumbled across a site mentioned in your Wiki [1], which says: "Plug-in" - a loadable module with a message handler routine that receives messages and that operates on the Inkscape API functions directly. When I was digging in the source code I found some commented-out parts of the software [2] which contained code for those plugins, which seem to be native C++ plugins. It seems to me, that support for native plugins was prepared but never fully implemented. As we'd like to contribute something to your project we'd be looking into developing the missing plugin support. So we're asking: Would you be accepting patches for the C++ plugin support? And may be you know why it was never implemented? Are there any fundamental issues with this? With best regards, Sebastian Faubel [0] http://bitbucket.org/semiodesk/artivity [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/doc/ext… [2] File in repo: src/extension/system.cpp:468

3 5

Mailinglist list on inkscape.org
by Johan Engelen 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Hi all, Today I wanted to direct someone to our mailinglists, and found that on inkscape.org [1] the listing is probably a bit unclear. What I mean is: the actual mailaddresses are not listed. Any reason for that? Would be great if the section header ("inkscape-announce", "inkscape-devel", ...) would be the mailaddress -Johan [1] https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/

3 4

Jenkins is unhappy...
by Maren Hachmann 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi all, I don't know whose task it is now to keep Jenkins happy, but I noticed his desperate message on the tester mailing list - maybe someone would like to help him ;) ? http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34123279/ From: Jenkins (build tester) <inkscape.jenkins@...1410...> - 2015-05-18 20:05:05 Hi Developers, It looks like "bzr up" failed for Inkscape trunk. Please, someone have a look on jenkins.inkscape.org and restart the "Inkscape_trunk_bzr_up" job! cheers, Jenkins Regards, Maren

3 4

please review hackfest article
by Brynn 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi Friends, I thought I'd use the list for you to review the article, before it goes on the website (since apparently there is some urgency, and this will be faster). It's attached. When I first decided what questions to ask, I was asking questions I would be interested to learn, as an Inkscape user. Unfortunately, to meet the requirements for the article, I wasn't able to use much of the information that you all so patiently provided and explained. I really would like to write a much longer article, where much more details are provided. So this turned out to be "the "Readers' Digest" version". Please let me know if any edits are needed. We'll hope to get this up on the live site before the end of the week. It will first be published with 1 photo, but if that group photo shows up, I'd like to edit that in later (assuming that doesn't break any rules for the News articles) (to add a photo later after the article is published). Thank you very much. It was a pleasure getting to know you all a little better, and learning a little more about your programming world. All best, brynn

2 1