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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Synthesized font faces.
by Jelle Mulder 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi all, From a designers point of view I would stay away from generated faux font styles as far as possible. There is a reason why not all fonts have these styles that often go beyond the humongous amount of work that needs to be put into creating a font. If a designer really wants to screw up a font creators work, they can use stroke thickness, skew, stretch or even envelopes. But any experienced designer not satisfied with the look of a font will normally find himself exactly that one that fits his desired balance of whitespace and content. It's part of the skill of a designer to find the correct font that supports the design and typography. Font design itself is a work of dedication and skill that has always been beyond me and goes well beyond what normally meets the eye at 14px. Having tools like Fontforge really didn't do font design all that good if I have a look at modern fonts with their horrible flows, kerning, baseline shifts, corrupt edges and what all more. It's often like everyone with a camera being a photographer or everyone that knows how to push buttons in dreamweaver calling themselves web designer. As long as Inkscape doesn't really support CMYK, Hexachrome, Spot colours and the like, it can never be considered a truly professional tool for print. SVG supports named colours that might be used to simulate spot colours, but it is a rather small palette and the SVG standard just doesn't support anything but sRGB really. Pantone will not give a license to Inkscape for free I gather as they make a living on this and a good one. Color support can only be done using Inkscape namespaces with the sRGB equivalent in the style or attributes next to it and is dependent on output devises as well. Would be a hell of a lot of work to figure out even a few color profiles and quite some wasted resources for the one who does that. Maybe some university might be interested in doing that or some very progressive printer with deep pockets? The latter at this moment not available in Europe at least or will be hard to find. It's a massacre at the moment. If I would like to see anything in SVG 2.0 it would be arbitrary color spaces. Some way to define a color and it's sRGB equivalent in XML and link that up to the SVG file, like is being done with @fonts. @colorProfile or so. I convert the colors in Coreldraw from a Inkscape PDF export. The only reason I still use it and am bound to Windows. My 2 Feng, Jelle

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BUG #1060837
by Arshdeep Singh 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Related to bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1060837 How to re-create the scenario being talked about in the bug report. All I get their is A(Alpha) value for my inkscape. The bug mentions the word 'ink'. I am guessing it refers to matching the printed colours and the colors on your monitor, as its a matter under the CMS (Color Management System). As an artist, I haven't worked on very high profile projects such that minor color chnages would make a huge impact so I am totally oblivious to the whole CMS thing. -- demicoder

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GTK Adjustment
by Arshdeep Singh 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

What are the page increments and page size arguments in: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.5/GtkAdjustment.html#gtk-adjustment-new Thanks -- demicoder

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Help with CubicBezier in a closed Geom::Path::const_iterator
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Hi. I have a problem. Its this: T get the last subpath of a Geom::Path::const_iterator whith a this options: end_open(), end(), end_default(), end_closed() and this subpath is not degenerated at the end. But never get a CubicBezier from the last subpath. Anybody can help me? Thanks in advance.

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docks and toolbars redesign proposal
by Alexandre Prokoudine 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Hi, Someone posted this on deviantART and then on our G+ page (in comments): http://bassultra.deviantart.com/art/Inkscape-Redesign-345519518 Personally, I don't like the split Fill'n'Stroke dialog much, but bringing dialogs' buttons closer to the docks area makes sense to me. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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boost incompatibility
by Isobel Knowles 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Dear all, I have discovered that inkscape 0.47pre4 to 0.48.4 are incompatible with boost versions greater than 1.45.0. The most noticeable symptom is that text is not rendered properly. This is because it is heavily clipped. The effect is similar to that described in the (dismissed) bug 875469. To demonstrate this bug, compile inkscape with boost 1.46.0 or above and run it. Pick the text tool, click anywhere on the canvas and start to enter some text. Only the bottom couple of rows of pixels of each character are displayed. If you convert this text to a path it displays properly. Another way to demonstrate the bug is to take some text and put it on a curved path. As you modify the nodes of the path it is possible to see the text rendered inside a staircase-like set of clip rectangles. This problem affects inkview as well as inkscape. I am compiling with gcc 4.4.7 and configuring it like so: CC="gcc" CXX="c++" CFLAGS="-O3 -fstack-protector-all -march=i486" \ CXXFLAGS="-O3 -fstack-protector-all -march=i486" \ LDFLAGS="-fstack-protector-all" ./configure I have tried different versions of all the dependencies of inkscape, including C compiler, libraries and kernel, and the bug is independent of everything but the version of boost. At this stage I have not tried compiling with a lower optimisation level, so it is possible this bug only comes out of the woodwork with -O3. Equally, it is possible this bug only appears on 32-bit platforms. Yours, Is.

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PR for shortcuts
by Alexandre Prokoudine 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi, Since 0.49 is shaping up so well with regards to polishing, I'd like to mention yet another thing. A while ago I discovered that several of our long-time users who have been with us since forever didn't even know that we have one-key shortcuts for tools. I mean, for real. People who do real design with Inkscape and are mostly happy with it were quietly complaining that there were no simpler shortcuts. Imagine my surprise :) Since 0.49 now shows F* based shortcuts, how difficult would it be to patch it to show alternative shortcuts as well, after a "," character? Or would it be too confusing? P.S. I've seen this complaint many times before: people were asking if there was a way to configure Inkscape to use some one-key shortcuts for tools. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PR for shortcuts (John Smith)
by Jelle Mulder 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi all, As the discussion on short-cuts is popping up. If it would be possible to do so... can Shift+Delete be mapped to remove selected and copy to clipboard? It is a quite common operation that I miss in Inkscape. Shift+Insert instead or additional to CTRL+V would be welcome too. Having multiple mappings to one tool/task? Cheers, Jelle

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ruler coordinate system: scaling and offset
by vaifrax 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi, I implemented an idea how to temporarily solve bug #170049 [1] for many users: In short, I added scaling and offset for the ruler display and cursor position status display without affecting any of the internal coordinates. This allows to define an inverted coordinate system and does not need document versioning. However, precision might suffer and units are not saved in svg as they are displayed by the rulers. Unfortunately, almost nobody seems to test this or give any feedback. I would appreciate to hear your opinion or have people test the patch. Cheers, vaifrax [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049

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Standard A4 Format
by Axel Richter 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hey Devs, how can i set the standard A4 Paper to my wished paper? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Axel Richter

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