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by Leo Jackson 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Hello Everyone, Sorry for being away from the project for awhile I was recuperating from injuries from being hit by a car. My dumb luck I guess, I hope I am still allowed to help on the project pickup where I was. Inkscape, Inkscape-web, and bugs etc. Please tell me if I am allowed I see I am still on inkscape devel member, and the Inkscape-web. Inkscape bugs. I still have wiki access, and most of the access is still in place. Regards, Leo Jackson

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development of website?
by Jared Meidal 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Hi, I know the website has had a development project for a while. Is that a project that will go live this year? Is it more web support needed that is holding it up? --Jared

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Regression in rev. 12399
by Eric Greveson 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

Hi Alvin, After updating to the latest Inkscape trunk, I've come across a regression - boolean operations on paths no longer work correctly. It appears that revision 12399 (Shape calculations - do not quantize the coordinates) is the culprit. I believe this commit attempts to fix the issue of path coordinates being rounded (and hence losing precision) - however, it looks like the boolean operation algorithms rely on this rounding to work correctly, and now fail with certain path data. I've attached an example of an SVG file with two paths. If you "select all" and then perform a "Path/Difference" operation, it produces the expected result in 12398. If you perform these steps in 12399, both paths disappear. (If the attached file gets stripped out for some reason, it's also available at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3442233/boolean_regression.svg). I can understand how this error went unnoticed in simple tests - I tried drawing a couple of rects and doing a "difference" operation and it worked fine. Must be dependent on the exact shape of the path, perhaps my example file contains coordinates that give the difference algorithm some headaches due to floating-point precision issues (numbers being squared etc) that the coordinate rounding hides. I guess the best option for now would be for someone to back out revision 12399. Alvin, hopefully my example SVG will allow you to find the source of the bug! Best, Eric

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Inkscape logo on the wiki
by Krzysztof Kosiński 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

The wiki still has the extremely old and ugly logo instead of the Tango one. (The new one is attached.) Does anyone know who has or can give access to the Mediawiki server, so that the logo may be finally changed? This is not a trivial thing, as I'm sure the old ugly logo is still being downloaded from the wiki and reused by third parties as our "official" visual identification. Regards, Krzysztof

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[GSOC] Less than three weeks till midterm evaluations!
by Tavmjong Bah 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

Hi, I just want to send out a reminder that midterm evaluations are less than three weeks away (due at latest August 2nd). It has been great to watch the development process on inkscape-dev! I've seen recent emails from the Recolor and Template projects but am longing for progress reports from the other projects. Students: Now is the time to make sure you and your mentor are on the same page in terms of midterm goals. Tav

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[Templates] translation of xml data
by Jan Darowski 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

Hi! I'd like to ask, if any one of you have any ideas how should be some additional data inside .svg files kept to enable easy translation? I mean info about the template (name, description etc) and probably, later on, some field names for procedural templates. Is there any recommended mechanism for translation of this data or should I think of something new? Another related question: is adding template info into metadata element ok or should I add a new one? I'm asking these things because it's pretty important to set it now correctly as later on it will be difficult to change anything. Regards, Jan Darowski

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HTML color code for white to black colors
by Javier Garcia 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Hi, Im missing the HTML color code for white to black in the color bars when hovering them. Regards Javi

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Move Align to Selection
by Martin Owens 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

I've been looking at the align-and-distribute code and want to clear it up for use with my new functionality. My idea is to move the core function into selection like this: Selection::align(Geom::OptRect bbox, AlignSide align, bool as_group); That way align-and-distribute can specify the bbox from all it's options and other functions can align selections. It should reduce repetition and allow my code to call more directly into the effective code without navigating the ui specific code. I'd like your thoughts before I spend some time on this refactor. It might also be worth moving distribute too, I have some great UI ideas for how to do distribute with knot handles too. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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[Metadata GUI] Discussion about improvements
by Christoffer Holmstedt 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

As some of you know I'm working on improving attribution and license features in Inkscape. I've the basic functionality for the backend (modifications in the XML structure) done and have focused on learning Gtkmm the last week. I wanted to show a mockup with Gtk but I was not able to finish it today so I made a drawing of how I want it to be so the discussion can get started. Any suggestions are welcome. ### Current functionality Metadata GUI consist of two "pages" in the document properties tab/notebook view, "Metadata" and "License". ### Limitations Only one entry can be modified from the GUI. With addition of extra metadata elements as child elements for different SVG-elements there must be a way to modify multiple metadata tags. ### Goals Main goal is to give the user an overview of all the metadata included in the document open i Inkscape. ### Discussion In the attached image I've the basic structure on how I envision this GUI could look like. To the left a list view of all metadata elements available, similiar to the XML editor. The right pane include all the settings [1]. The right pane has at the top a preview "image" of the part affected with the current license/attribution information. So in the image I have made a collage of a "car" and a "sun". In the image I've selected the metadata element for the car so only the car is visible in this preview image. This makes it easier for the user to understand which part of an image is affected by the current attribution and license information. As this GUI is very heavy on forms it's hard to copy and paste the information between different objects and could be very cumbersome. Therefore I have added the two options "Copy" and "Append/Paste". This would copy the entire object's metadata to the clipboard and be available to append/paste in another object (instead of copy-pasting ~15 different fields one at a time). License information can be moved to a dropdown/EntryCompletion option instead of a separate notebook tab. (License would also need one Entry field for the URI that is not in the image). Any comments, ideas or thoughts about this are appreciated. [1] In the image I've only drawn "title" and "Creator" but the real thing would include all options available now from the "Metadata" and "License" tabs. Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Regarding Correct Way to get/set SPObject Style Properties
by Arshdeep Singh 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hello , This is regarding using the functions in style.h to change the fill color of the object currently selected on canvas. I used the following code: void FillNStroke::funcRecolor() { g_printf("Fetching....\n"); SPDocument *document = sp_desktop_document(desktop); Inkscape::Selection *selection = sp_desktop_selection(desktop); GSList const *items = selection->itemList(); for (GSList const *i = items; i != NULL; i = i->next) { SPObject *obj=reinterpret_cast<SPObject *>(i->data); SPStyle *style = sp_style_new_from_object(obj); style->fill.setColor(1,0,0); g_printf("%s",obj->getId()); } } Nothing seemed to work. I found snippets like these in the code: getRepr()->setAttribute(key, NULL, false); On following these lines, I tried setting a red color to all selected objects using getRepr()->setAttribute("style-fill", "#FF0000"); Again nothing works. Could you please gimme a reference to how to use these functions in the right way ? What should be the way if I need to change a specific property of the style of the object ? An example would really be very helpful. Thanks Arshdeep -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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