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[Inkscape][Devel][Windows][MinGW][Bazaar on Cygwin]
by Mathieu Gueydan 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Hello everyone, I spent some time to build Inkscape on a windows, using his wiki : wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows As it was pretty hard and I had to "fix" (I mean to work around) many issues (7 in fact), I summed up everything in order to ease the way for people that would have the same problem. Everything is written here : http://mathieugueydan.blogs.centraliens-marseille.fr/archive/2014/10/30/bui… Keywords are : - Bazaar on Cygwin, no file fetched - as.exe crash 0xc0000022 - gettimeofday(timeval*, NULL)' is ambiguous - error executing 'bzr revno - Python crash (Oxc0000022) - <cxxtestpart>, problem: - <msgfmt> problem:

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Inkscape in print workflows: Feedback from a conference in Switzerland
by "Christoph Schäfer" 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Hi Inkscape developers, This is my first posting to the developer list. Some of you may know who I am, others won't. I'm a member of the Scribus development team, and I recently enjoyed the privilege of being invited as a speaker to the "swiss publishing days 2014" in Winterthur/Switzerland (http://swiss-publishing-week.ch/index.php). In terms of Open Source software, there was a talk about Scribus and another one about Photoshop alternatives (Photoshop Elements and GIMP). There was also a Mac + Eizo screen for everyone to use, which was especially set up to test PS, PSE, and GIMP, as well as Scribus and its PDF export with Acrobat. Please note that this was a commercial event, and its main sponsor was Adobe! Also note that it was for the first time in the history of the conference that alternatives to Adobe's traditional domains were being presented. What I found astonishing was that while *everyone* knew about GIMP and many were aware of Scribus, *no one* had ever heard of Inkscape! Now they have, and they're definitely interested ;) Many of the very nice people from Swiss training companies I talked to are more than eager to provide training, given Adobe's stranglehold and its new licensing scheme. In the case of image editing, enough companies have already switched to GIMP, which is why offering GIMP trainings is already profitable. Interest in Scribus is growing, too, especially since the quality of its (print) PDF export has been there for everyone to test. At lunch during the conference, I was approached by a pre-press engineer, colour management and Adobe-certified Acrobat/InDesign/Illustrator trainer who was asking questions over questions. He approached me again during dinner, and because he had so many questions, and I had to bring my laptop to the table, so he could play with Scribus. His verdict (after 3 hours): "Once you have polished this ("this" being Scribus 1.5.0svn), Adobe and other vendors won't be amused." He also played with the stable Inkscape branch and was very impressed by its features for creatives. However, and this is something he rightfully noted, at least the printing business needs reliable PDF export, including CMYK and spot colours, colour profiles and font embedding. He said to me that, unless Inkscape embraces the PDF requirements of the printing industry, it will never been taken seriously, SVG::Print notwithstanding. What Inkscape needs is colour-managed PDF export and support of some print-specific PDF versions, especially PDF/X-*. It also needs to support CMYK and spot colours in PDFs. (Not my judgement; his!) This posting isn't meant to criticise your fantastic work. I only intended to make you aware of the issues that still exist in professional environments when it comes to replacing AI. In terms of features Inkscape is already able to compete with AI, and sometimes it's even better. It's just that PDF thingy that prevents Inkscape from being used by the majority of pre-press professionals. Kind regards, Christoph

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[karen@...3057...: Org Application period open for Google Code-in]
by Bryce Harrington 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

FYI if anyone's interested. ----- Forwarded message from Karen Sandler <karen@...3057...> ----- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:55:47 -0400 From: Karen Sandler <karen@...3057...> To: project-reps@...3057... Subject: Org Application period open for Google Code-in Reply-To: karen@...3057... If you were thinking of doing so, now is the time to apply for the Google Code-in. Applications for orgs are being accepted until November 10. It's a great program and a way to engage teenagers in free software. Only projects that were orgs for GSoC are eligible. Let me know if you have any questions about this or need any help! More information is below. karen Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List wrote at 01:36 (EDT): > Hello GSoC Mentors and aspiring GCI Org Admins, > > Earlier today we opened the Google Code-in 2014 Mentoring Org app. > Organizations that would like to apply for GCI 2014 can submit their > application from today until Monday, November 10th at 19:00 UTC. You > can now go to the contest site [0] and Register as an Org Admin. Once > you have created your Org Admin profile you can go back to the > homepage and the Mentoring Org app button will appear for you. > > This year we will have 10-12 open source organizations work with the > students as mentoring orgs. All organizations that have participated > in a previous Google Summer of Code are eligible to apply. This is > not like GSoC, we do not get hundreds of applications from orgs so > don't be scared away by the relatively low number of orgs. The main > thing that we are looking for are orgs that can be patient with the > students and who are interested in helping 13-17 year olds learn > about open source development. > > For some general tips about mentoring for GCI and what to expect you > can check out the new GCI Mentor info [1]. > > Important Upcoming Dates: > > ** Monday, November 10, 2014 at 17:00 UTC - DEADLINE for orgs to > apply as Mentoring Orgs for Google Code-in 2014. > > November 12, 2014 - The 10-12 Mentoring organizations are announced > for Google Code-in 2014 and the orgs can start entering their tasks > into the Google system (the tasks will not be viewable to students > until the contest opens on Dec 1). > > December 1, 2014 19:00 UTC - Google Code-in 2014 contest opens for > students > > January 19, 2015 17:00 UTC - Google Code-in 2014 student work ends > > January 21, 2015 17:00 UTC - Deadline for Mentors to evaluate student > work > > January 26, 2015 - Mentoring Organization deadline for submitting > their 2 Grand Prize Winners > > We hope you will help us spread the word about the Google Code-in > contest so we can introduce more young developers to the wonderful > world of open source. If you will be going to any talks or > conferences aimed at pre-university students in the next month we > would be happy to send you some cool GCI 2014 stickers. Please > contact me directly at sttaylor@...819... if you would like stickers > or if you have any questions about applying to be a mentoring > organization. > > [0] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2014 > > [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/resources/ > mentor-and-orgadmin-info > > Thanks, > > Stephanie Taylor > > Google Code-in 2014 Program Manager > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to gsoc-mentors-announce+unsubscribe@...3168... > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ > gsoc-mentors-announce. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > ----- End forwarded message -----

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New cairo released
by Josh Andler 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Hey all, For those who don't sub to the cairo list, cairo 1.14 has been released which has the downscaling we need available for 0.91. So, any Windows devs want to see about building it and testing for the devlibs? The sooner we can can get on this, the better... http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.14.0.tar.xz Cheers, Josh

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lightweight export svg to pdf
by unknown＠example.com 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Hi, I use inkscape in a image processing script in batch mode where I want to export svg graphics to PDF. Now I want to move this within a web application. Inkscape has a lot of dependences to other packages and libraries and thus is less suitable to install on a web server. Is there are lightweight alternative to convert svg or ai to pdf? Does inkscape use other libs or tools to export to pdf? maybe cairo? Any ideas are appreciated. thanks! best regards, knut

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tesselations
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

Hi to all. Im working in a tesselation code but i dont want to duplicate code, so im trying whith tiled clones. I have this page as reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group#The_seventeen_groups But i think the cloned tiles generated with reset shift, rotation and scale seems wrong. Can any one confirm me if im ok? Attached are a ex/sample of a tile P3M1. Regards, Jabier.

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Multiple difference boolean ops extension
by Ryan Lerch 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

I have hacked up a quick extension[1] to apply a series of boolean ops on a selection of 2 or more objects. Basically, it just takes the top path in the z-order of the selection, duplicates it, and applies a difference between that shape and each of the shapes underneath. I have frequently (in the past) done this by hand, duplicating shapes, applying the op, and repeating over and over again. This is my first attempt at an extension, and i am calling the inkscape binary from the python script so i can use the verbs availble on the command line. However, i'm unsure how to get this result back into the inkscape window that called the extenstion. (currently a new window opens with the temp SVG in it) any thoughts on how to do this kind of thing in a better way? cheers, ryanlerch [1] - https://github.com/ryanlerch/inkscape-extension-multiple-difference

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Patterns affected by LPE
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi to all. Finaly i desestimate LPE on patterns. Maybe i made a metod to convert a object with pattern to a group whith this patttern "merged/flattern" in the future. Regards, Jabier.

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Website Shield
by Martin Owens 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Dear Devs, Here's a video showing the website's next generation front page editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq2EFX9Aw70 I'm hoping this looks good enough to use, other developers, translators etc will be the ones using the widget to keep the website up to date, so please let me know your feedback. Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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A seamless pattern extension/procedural template update
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Hi to all. I made a big update (0.4) to the extension "seamless pattern". Is commited to experimental branch, or you can take from my inkspace[1] to use in 0.48 or up. Also have a you tube video inside the inkspace page. The video has anotations but im not english so any help to improve is welcome. [1]http://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1358/ Regards, Jabier.

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