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New extension: Multi-page PDF export
by unknown＠example.com 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi, I've written an extension to save the layers of an SVG file to a multi-page PDF. You can find it at https://github.com/wvengen/inkscape-addons Would someone be willing to either give me a wiki account, or update the extension repository page? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extension_repository Cheers, - Willem

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trunk vs. experimental: Snapping with alt-drag
by Johan Engelen 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi Diederik, all, There is a discrepancy between experimental and trunk with regards to snapping when alt-dragging. When the grid is enabled, alt-dragging should move the selection in grid-spacing steps. But when the movement is less than one grid-spacing, there is no snapping. Diederik, can you look into this? Thanks, Johan

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Fwd: 0.48.5 packages needed
by Liam White 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Oops, forgot to add the mailing list when sending this message. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liam White <inkscapebrony@...400...> Date: Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.48.5 packages needed To: Krzysztof Kosiński Here is the Windows portable version: http://goo.gl/hdrLXB I think we need to get this signed by a PortableApps person, but there's the base installer. On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...972.....> wrote: > The Windows installer is up at sourceforge.net, and the tarballs are > at Launchpad. We still need the portable version and the Mac bundle > before we can announce the new release. Anyone up for it? > > Regards, Krzysztof >

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Save a copy of the current document with all converted into curves leaving original untouched and get measures of all objects
by Nadie Nathing 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Hi! I'm making an Inkscape extension that does this: 1-. Save a copy of the current document in a folder as .ai with all objects converted into curves (leaving the current document with text, spirals, polygons...) 2-. Take the measures of the bounding box that appears when I select all objects and save it to a file. 3-. Call an executable in the system path. I'm using Inkscape nightly build.

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New swatches dialog and questions
by Tomasz Boczkowski 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Hi! I'd like to post a video of a new swatches dialog[1]. It displays color swatches and patterns as preview tiles divided into palettes. The palettes are read from .gpl and .svg files in stock directories. One category "Current document" is special, as it shows paint servers from currently opened document. The dialog allows applying swatches to fill and stroke. It is also possible to create new swatches based on current object solid fill or stroke. New pattern can be created by invoking "object to pattern" command from add menu. How do you like it? I still have some issues to be implemented and I'd like to ask you some questions about it. 1) I would like to implement modifying existing patterns. My original idea was to create new dialog "swatch properties". Now I think using existing "object attributes" and "object properties" dialogs would be simpler and more versatile. After clicking a modify button a popup will appear [2]. Each option would show appropriate dialog. The content of the property dialogs is based on current selection, and there is no option to display the properties of arbitrary objects. I have two possibilites: * set selection to swatch element (having solidColor, gradient or pattern tag). Selection API allows it, but only visible objects are selected in inkscape so far. * modify the property dialogs to enable editing arbitrary objects by adding a setObject(SPObject *) method. Which of the options is favourable? 2) The dialog should enable removing swatches. I think placing, rather long, implementation of this feature in swatches dialog class might not be the best solution. Where else can I place the code? 3) Old swatches dialog supplies an "auto" palette. It consists of swatch objects from current document that have "obs:swatch" attribute defined. The new one displays all swatches from current document. Should I keep the the palette? Regards, Tomasz [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/80f9r6ct9w2fktx/swatches-dialog.mpeg [2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/hn8cqvu64ke364b/modify_swatch.png

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Large filter areas
by Niko Kiirala 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

8.7.2014 8.52 kirjoitti Michael Grosberg <grosberg.michael@...400...>: > > Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...360...> writes: > > > > > We could do three things > > a) put in some logic to arbitrarily stop rendering an effect when the > > dependent area crosses some threshold > > b) use stacked box blur instead of true Gaussian blur (though I doubt > > it would be faster) > > c) speed up the existing Gaussian blur implementation - it shouldn't > > be that slow > > > > Regards, Krzysztof > > If it's OK to contribute my two cents as a user, I would prefer loss of > quality in the work area over a slowdown. If for example zooming in to a > blurred shape would make large chunky pixels visible, that is still better > than having to contend with a slow system. So if you have a way of replacing > the blurred object with a static bitmap instead of having to recalculate > the blur every time the display changes, that would be acceptable. > I'm talking about the work area display only, of course, not bitmap export. > > BTW, I've been working with Inkscape in a production environment for years > but lately I've upped my usage even more and I'm using it almost all day. > Even though I have the latest version of Illustrator installed I still vastly > prefer Inkscape - it is so much easier to work with. It's likely quite a forgotten thing, but filters as they stand, do contain a crude method along these lines. If you go into settings, you can drop the filters rendering quality, which will limit the rendering resolution when editing. You will get quite notable artifacts, but it's vastly faster in many cases. There are a couple quality settings available in the filtering code. It could be useful to look into those and see if there's some better default combination than what we have now.

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Large filter areas
by Diederik van Lierop 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Hi ppl, It's no surprise that filters can make Inkscape crawl, and I ran into that while digging into this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/827192 In this case though, the area to be filtered measures 18416 x 17524 pixels, which is a bit too much for just on screen display. Is there any way to work around this? Can't we set an upper limit on the area, in order to keep Inkscape somewhat responsive? If it takes a few seconds that's OK IMHO in such extreme cases, but at least the user should be able to trust that Inkscape will recover. Diederik

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requesting wiki account
by Brynn 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Hi Friends, I've been given edit privileges at inkscape.org from Martin Owens. I want to re-organize and edit some of the community info, including Inkscape forums, tutorials and galleries. I came across info about forums, tutorials and galleries in the "old" wiki, and wanted to know about incorporating it into the new inkscape.org. He suggested that forums, tutorials and galleries probably don't belong in the wiki anyway, and said I should delete them, if I can get access to the wiki. He said the wiki (an updated and current wiki) should only contain development, design, code, etc., anyway. (Also told me to email this mailing list to ask for a wiki account.) So assuming you all are in agreement with him, I'm asking for access to be able to edit the wiki. I'll be glad to do any tedious, menial work that might need to be done there, to bring it up to meet the current needs of the community -- if anyone can tell me what kind of work that would be. Should I get access to the wiki, I would be at your disposal. Maybe most of you probably don't know me, but I've been a moderator at InkscapeForum.com for a few years, and nearly a year ago, opened a new Inkscape website (http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php). So I'm fairly well connected to the user community....at least those who post in forums. Thank you very much, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 98, Issue 4
by Jelle Mulder 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Ehm,.. not Inkscape related really, but I am looking for a C++ programmer to earn a few thousand euro's with a probably fairly easy task. (my estimate is a week part-time). I thought someone here might be interested and it would sort of indirectly help the project as well by supporting my favourite programmers. I hope not with a weeks delay though, don't want to interrupt what's going on here. If interested, send me your rating fee and we'll pick it up from there. There is some time pressure on it, so if you don't have time the coming few weeks, state it clearly in your e-mail. I may have other tasks later for the same or other clients as well. Cheers, Jelle

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GSoC Project Update
by Krzysztof Kosiński 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Hello The midterm evaluations are near due, so here's a public update on my GSoC project. The schedule this year was very bad for me, and dealing with university stuff ate most of my time in the first half of the project, so I didn't do nearly as much as I hoped for. I have however made a prototype CGAL-based implementation of boolops. It is available in 2Geom trunk; you have to have CGAL installed, its headers available in your default include path, and set the CMake option CGAL_TOYS=ON to compile it. Saying "sudo apt-get install libcgal-dev" suffices to satisfy the first two requirements on Ubuntu 14.04. The results of playing with this toy are rather disappointing. CGAL produces visibly imprecise results even for simple shapes (see attached pictures), and for some inputs (e.g. when sliding two bananas over each other so that they nearly match) it crashes with an assertion. It seems that its boolean operation algorithm for Beziers is of very poor quality. This means I will have to write the boolops code from scratch. I've found a MIT-licensed Objective-C library that implements boolops on Bezier paths, which may serve as an inspiration. https://bitbucket.org/andyfinnell/vectorboolean During the remaining time before midterm, I'll work on path-related APIs in 2Geom. This will be useful when implementing boolops, and will allow us to get rid of ugly ancient stuff in Inkscape, such as SPCurve. After the midterm, I will have to complete a final assignment at the university, and should have much more time to get useful work done in the second half of the project. Regards, Krzysztof

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