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Email Address
by Martin Owens 30 Nov '13

30 Nov '13

Hey Devs, I'm trying to think of a good email address for this kickstarter persona. I'm thinking that funding@...1478... or some other special email address would be ideal. We can decide where to route emails from there. Do you have any good ideas for some authoritative email addresses like this? Or a better suggestion for this one? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Questions from InfoWorld.com
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hi, Paul Krill from InfoWorld.com is preparing an on-line presentation of SVG tools. He has indicated that he wants to include Inkscape in his presentation and has contacted us through the Software Freedom Conservancy. I volunteered to answer his questions. I could use some help (and some feedback). I hope to be able to send him a reply in the next day. His questions are indicated by *'s with my tentative replies following. There are a couple of places I could really use some help as indicated. Thanks, Tav * What is the purpose of Inkscape? What are its main functions? Creating vectorized drawings, from serious artwork to technical illustrations. A good summary of Inkscape functions can be found at: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/about/features/ (We will be going live with a new website in the near future.) Inkscape provides an easy to use interface for creating complex drawings. While Inkscape supports most of the SVG 1.1 standard, knowledge of the standard is not directly required. * What does Inkscape do that other SVG tools do not? [HELP WANTED (I don't have Illustrator or CoralDraw to compare it to). Tracing? Tiling? File format support? Command-line conversion between file formats?] Inkscape has a well developed plug-in system that allows users to extend Inkscape's functionality in many unique ways. One area that has been particularly popular is directly driving plotters and engravers including the "Egg-Bot". See: http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/tinykitlist/171-egg-bot * Who developed it? A team of volunteer developers. The original developers were mostly artists who were looking for a tool that allowed them to create the art they envisioned. * Is Inkscape an open source or commercial product? If it is commercial, can you provide a price range per-seat? Open source. It can be downloaded from: http://inkscape.org/download/ * How important is SVG, from your perspective? Originally SVG was chosen as the native file format for Inkscape as it is an open standard. In a more general historical perspective, SVG did not gain the popularity on the Web it deserved due the lack of support in Internet Explorer and due to Adobe losing interest after purchasing Macromedia (i.e. Flash). The inclusion of SVG as part of HTML5 and the addition of SVG rendering support in IE9 has resulted in a dramatic increase in interest in SVG. Adobe is once again on board and sees SVG (and HTML5) as the future. SVG is starting to appear on major websites such as this graphic from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/20/movies/among-the-oscar-conten… * Can you provide some screen shots or URLs with visuals of Inkscape? Certainly. [HELP WANTED, I assume that he'll want something he can use on his website.] See: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?lang=en * I understand from a user of Inkscape that it has not been upgraded in a while. Are there any plans to upgrade it soon? We will have a major upgrade in the very near future. Inkscape's rendering engine underwent a complete rewrite resulting in a significant speed up in rendering complex drawings while reducing memory use. There were a number of regressions that have had to be dealt with. We are down to a small number of blocking bugs (one?). Tentative release notes for the upgrade can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.49 * Who is your employer and what is your title there? I am self-employed as a writer and software developer. I represent Inkscape in the W3C SVG working group.

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Trunk r12812 building on Windows for anybody?
by mathog 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

There seems to be a build problem right now on Windows with r12812. bzr update rm build.dep rm -rf build g++ buildtool.cpp -o btool btool stops here: compile src/xml/simple-document.cpp compile src/xml/simple-node.cpp compile src/xml/subtree.cpp ##### Target : link ##### link objects and library to create executable --- link / rc --- link / link Make error line 437: LINK problem: mingw32-g++: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory Is a new devlib needed? My system is currently at 47. If that is the problem, could we please have a small revision of btool so that it checks the devlib number and emits a useful error message if the needed version is not present? Thank you, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Questions from InfoWorld.com (Tavmjong Bah)
by Jelle Mulder 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

Hello Tav, I happen to know these other tools really well, but there is not that much Inkscape can do that the others cannot. That said,.. these are the most important aspect why I started to use Inkscape almost exclusively. ** Some other things Inkscape does that the others do not. *** Inkscape uses SVG as it's native file format. This ensures a minimum of fuss in publishing documents on-line. It has the single widest support of the SVG 1.1. standard of all authoring tools you may find. Some of the tools in Inkscape are without equal. The filter editor allows you to create effects that other tools cannot hope to accomplish simply because their native file format is not SVG. There are always conversion steps you have in other authoring applications that you will not have using Inkscape. Errors therefore are confined to browser or viewer implementation. Though some of the basic functions in Inkscape are a bit Spartan, it often is at the more complex things you can do with vector graphic that Inkscape can do things nothing else can out of the box. No other authoring tool will allow for editing the code directly, through an XML editor, nor does any other authoring tool allow you to add scripts in your SVG code, both in Inkscape and outside it, which will be negated by the editor and left alone during the parsing of the drawing. You can often take arbitrary code generated by other authoring applications or even hand coded SVG and happily edit the file in Inkscape and save it back without it being messed up by the editor. Very few other applications are as forgiving accepting drawings from other applications and then being able to edit them.

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Windows devlibs
by Josh Andler 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

Is http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Dependencies#Distros up to date for the Windows devlibs? I'm mainly wondering why pango, gtk+, and gtkmm appear to be so outdated. Cheers, Josh

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[tony@...3057...: URGENT: please remove Google Checkout links from your site ASAP]
by Bryce Harrington 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

Is anyone able to edit the current site? If so, we should switch off the google checkout links. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Tony Sebro <tony@...3057...> ----- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:34:57 -0500 From: Tony Sebro <tony@...3057...> To: inkscape@...3057..., Inkscape Board <inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: URGENT: please remove Google Checkout links from your site ASAP Hi, all: I note that you still have a Google Checkout link on the Inkscape website (specifically, on your "Donate to Inkscape" page). As was announced a few weeks ago, Google is sunsetting their Google Checkout service as of tomorrow (November 20) [1]. To avoid creating problems for your donors (and for Conservancy), I ask that you please remove any Google Checkout links from your website immediately. Thanks! Best, -Tony [1] for more information on Google's time frame for shutting down Google Checkout, please refer to: https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449?hl=en-GB -- Tony Sebro, General Counsel, Software Freedom Conservancy +1-212-461-3245 x11 tony@...3057... www.sfconservancy.org ----- End forwarded message -----

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possible bug
by TimeWaster 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

hi, i think with the change from inkex.unittouu to Effect.unittouu in inkex.py (r12722) was a bug introduced (regression). am i right that a user unit is equivalent to a pixel? if yes, the actual implementation is converting to *something* but not to user units. i think the code should look like this (or the method should be renamed to something other than *touu): if u: try: return retval * self.uuconv[u.string[u.start():u.end()]] except KeyError: pass else: # default take document unit return retval * self.uuconv[self.getDocumentUnit()] can somebody confirm this? its also the same with uutounit, it should be: def uutounit(self, val, unit): return val / self.uuconv[unit] regards, TimeWaster -- Save a printer manufacturer. Print this e-mail unless it's really necessary not to do so.

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PDF X series.
by john Culleton 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

When I create a book cover using the perfect book cover template I still need to convert it to either PDF X/3 or PDF X/1-a:2001 format for the printer. Today there is no way to do this in Inkscape. I must import it into Scribus 1.5.0 or Adobe Acrobat just for the conversion. Are there any plans to add this feature to Inkscape? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Devlibs, GTK3, latest TDM-GCC
by Johan Engelen 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Hi all, To the devlibs gurus: what is the status of GTK3 devlibs and, can we try and make them compatible with the latest TDM-GCC? It'd be nice to be able to use the latest gcc so we can use more C++11 in the future. I'm not sure how much help can I can provide, but if supplied with sufficiently detailed instructions, I don't mind compiling a lot. Cheers, Johan

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Branches: open them up !
by Johan Engelen 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Hi all, Please open up your branches for commits from others. It is kind of annoying not being able to help...... Thanks, Johan

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