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download page
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

Hi to all. I made some html edit in the spanish page http://inkscape.org/es/descargas/ -top three logos- My cuestion is: Is convenient update it in english, or because not only translate work, need revision? Maybe need to roolback to previous version and update in testing... Regards, Jabier.

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inkscapeforum.com submenu in website
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Whats the opinion to give this link in a visible way? inkscapeforum.com Regards, Jabier.

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info to devel groups
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi to all. This dates make me read the past year. My first project, except some extensions, bspline&spirolive[0] date form near september of 2012. There is some contributions from this year, and want the next year could continue: * Temporary helper path re-added to live effects [1] * Multiple path parameter editing on live effects [2] * Improved perspective_path LPE [3] * Improved Laticce LPE [4] * Fix to translate shapes whith LPE applied in trunk [5] * Changes to the lpe system whith two patch to select best, this make no strange results in LPE effects in nested groups, one patch perserve shapes but the behabiour is not perfect and the other convert this to paths but work "perfect" [6] * Retain the last applied "stroke" to the pen and pencil combo box improved whith the help of Krzysztof [7] * Bend from clipboard, this applied a bend effect to the strokes whith the shape in "stroke combo". I`m not so happy with this, but ... [8] * Live effects applied to mask and clips [9] [0] https://code.launchpad.net/~inktxof/inkscape/bspline+spirolive [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1246550 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/609839 [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1068987 [4] https://code.launchpad.net/~inktxof/inkscape/lattice2 [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1247324 [6] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1242170 [7] https://code.launchpad.net/~inktxof/inkscape/lastApplied [8] https://code.launchpad.net/~inktxof/inkscape/bendFromClipboard [9] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1241902 Maybe i could get reviews and make "alive" some of my work. Special thanks to su_v that make a lot of this work be real with her encouragement. GoodYear by the way! Regards, Jabier.

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Website tarball icons
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi to all. In the page http://inkscape.org/en/download/source/ there are two tarball icons. I think they are too big, maybe can be reduced 60-70% and change the tool box by a sigle item like a nut or a partial wrench, because there are too much detail for a icon in the, beatiful, tool box. Maybe this icons are beter at start instead the end. Regards, Jabier.

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Faces of Inkscape Users
by Martin Owens 23 Dec '13

23 Dec '13

Hi Inkscapers, Did you know the new website has the ability to edit your profile and add a photo? So far and rather excitingly we have 543 registered accounts to the inkscape website and some have added their pictures: http://imagebin.org/281976 [1] I'm asking inkscape board members and other developers to upload something for themselves, a photo, a little bio if you have one. I want to make a page of "Inkscape Developers" and "Inkscape Board" to give a view of the humans behind the project but I will need more data. Edit now: http://inkscape.org/person/edit/ Thanks guys! Best Regards, Martin Owens [1] For now this page is super users only: http://inkscape.org/person/faces/ I've not finalized the view.

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My login on the inkscape.org site
by Leo Jackson 22 Dec '13

22 Dec '13

Martin, Happy Holidays! I use to have access to the inkscape site to do edits, and now I reregistered with lajjr user name if you can please upgrade it so I can help on the website again. I was working on the Develop => Debugging page and anything else that is possible. Also If someone already completed that then can I get a list of tasks please? Thank You Regards, Leo Jackson

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recognizing rectangles, lines, etc. in 2geom, like "isrect()"???
by mathog 21 Dec '13

21 Dec '13

This is sort of a follow up question to my previous one about circles. Is there in 2geom a set of methods along the lines of: isRect(path) isTriangle(path) isLine(path) which return true if the path has the specified geometry? I need the first one and don't want to reinvent the wheel. Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Proposal for release plan
by Bryce Harrington 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Hi all, Josh and I have been discussing plans for the upcoming release; below is what we've come up with so far. This is loosely based on past 0.4x plans. I'll follow up this email with explanations for the major differences. Meanwhile, feedback would be appreciated. # Period Tasks Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Open development. Triage and prioritize bugs report this year Itemize regression bugs found since last release 2. Chill. Development focuses on wrapping up Disable features that aren't finished Identify 'make distcheck' issues Identify any critical OSX/Win32 packaging issues P Identify remaining writing needed for Release Notes. Regressions Bug Hunt: 500 points H Update tutorials and other docs 3. Frost. Experimental Branch is forked B Mainline Branch focuses on stabilization B Only production-ready code committed to Mainline B Post inkscape-0.91-pre0.tar.gz Finalize any major changes to platform packaging P Release Notes should be >90% filled in. Inkscape must pass >90% of 'make distcheck' Start an About Screen contest A General Bug Hunt: 1500 points H Post additional inkscape-0.91-pre*.tar.gz releases Packagers test creating pkgs of the -pre* releases P 4. Feature Freeze. Stable Branch is forked from Mainline B Regular development resumes on Mainline. B Avoid major refactorings on Mainline. B Only bug fixes committed to Stable Branch. B Bug fixes are cherrypicked from Mainline. B Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck' String Freeze No further string changes allowed on Stable Branch. T Finalize tutorials to be shipped with release Finalize other docs included in the release Finalize about screen A Finalize Release Notes except Known Issues Translators work on translations. T Recruit Release Wardens for Hard Freeze 5. Hard freeze. Only Release Wardens can commit to Stable Branch B Cherrypick bug fixes from Mainline to Stable B Complete any late work under advisement of Wardens Focus on release-critical bug fixing. Finalize all extensions Finalize codebase translations T Finalize Known Issues section of Release Notes Finalize packaging scripts Post additional inkscape-0.91-pre*.tar.gz releases 6. Release. Post inkscape-0.91.tar.gz Post packages Post official announcements Plan 0.91.1+ release(s), if needed 7. Open development.

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Devlibs 46 too slow
by LucaDC 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

After updating to devlibs r46 moving objects around becomes too slow in my system and Inkscape is nearly unusable even for simple drawings. Open a new document, draw a rectangle and move it around: the lag is huge. Even changings of the cursor when hovering over it are updated with delays of 1 s or more. Moving and snapping guides (not to guides), on the other hand, is very fast. My system is a Pentium 4, 3,2 GHz, 2 Gb RAM with Windows XP SP3. Reverting to devlibs r45 (trunk 12277) gives back the previous (acceptable) response time. I know my system is old, but with r45 it's fine for all my needs. Isn't this terrible performance drop avoidable? Inkscape is already not a jaguar... Regards. Luca -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Devlibs-46-too-slow-tp4966631.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Inkscape performance - two suggestions
by Paul Kallnbach 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Dear list, this is my first contact to the inkscape developer community and I hope my messages is not received as being overly critical or even offending as I'm clearly talking about things I do not fully understand. You're all doing a great job on Inkscape and I l-o-v-e the upcoming 0.49 release! It is no secret that Inkscape suffers some performance issues when editing or just viewing complex svg files, especially at high zoom levels. Particularly there is a noticable lag between a user action (e.g. zooming in) and the start of the rendering process. I'm not an experienced c++ programmer nor do I know much about how Inkscape works internally but I crawled through the code, following the chain of actions Inkscape does, when its processing its user actions and it turned out that commenting out the following lines instantly removes the bespoken delay and thus greatly accelerates the responsiveness of the program for complex drawings: in drawing-item.cpp, line 586 - 589: :572 if (_cached) { if (_cache) { _cache->prepare(); #ifdef WITH_CSSBLEND set_cairo_blend_operator( ct, _blend_mode ); #endif _cache->paintFromCache(ct, carea); if (!carea) return RENDER_OK; } else { // There is no cache. This could be because caching of this item // was just turned on after the last update phase, or because // we were previously outside of the canvas. Geom::OptIntRect cl = _drawing.cacheLimit(); cl.intersectWith(_drawbox); /* if (cl) { _cache = new DrawingCache(*cl); } */ } } else { // if our caching was turned off after the last update, it was already // deleted in setCached() :593 } I don't know much about Inkscapes caching mechanisms but clearly a cache that slows down a program instead of accelerating it is broken. Furthermore this else-statement should be a rather rare exception to be called but the program behaviour indicates its called not only for every object but also every time the canvas is updated, which might indicate a more complicated issue.. I am fully aware that just commenting this out is not a solution to the problem but maybe somebody more experienced could have a look at the functions involved and come up with a more sophisticated solution? The second suggestion I wanted to make is more a design decision I'm afraid. It is about Inkscape interrupting the redraw process (see sp-canvas.cpp, around line 1967) At the moment the redraw is aborted if its not done in less than 1 microsecond, which, at least on my system, almost never happens unless I pan very slowly. The result are very ugly artefacts on the edge of the screen when the user pans/scrolls the canvas (see this screenshot for clarification: http://www.gorilla-computing.de/misc/inkscape_screenshot.jpg). Has ever been considered to increase that limit so Inkscape can actually finish the redraw more often? I experimented around a bit and a value of 100ms seems to do the job just fine - especially with the cache lag gone. And it should still be low enough to process different user input when needed. If it is not possible to hardcode that limit to a sensible value, maybe one could make it a slider in the options->render menu? Thanks for your considerations! Best, Paul

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