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GTK+ 3 in devlibs?
by Alex Valavanis 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi All, Is there a way of adding GTK+ 3 (and compatible libs) in Devlibs without breaking GTK+ 2 compatibility? As far as I know, there isn't a way of testing GTK+ 3 experimental builds in Windows. Presumably, DLLs have some sort of equivalent to SO-naming to allow multiple ABI-incompatible versions of a library to be provided? Cheers, AV

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removing/adding childs in _build(...)
by Johan Engelen 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi all, For backwards compatibility with old-style guides, we want to convert the old-style guides to new-style in sp_namedview_build. Removing the old-style guides from XML and adding new ones works fine, however, this is not represented at all in the SPObject tree. After removing the old-style guides, the SPObjects are still in memory and hooked up to namedview. Also, adding new guides to XML does not create SPObjects belonging to them. This all works fine outside sp_namedview_build (the mechanism is used in hundreds of places in the code), but for some reason does not work within sp_namedview_build. Is that expected behavior? Where should we move the conversion code to? Cheers, Johan

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mpath animateMotion (message resent)
by unknown＠example.com 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

This message resent due to html formatting issues..... I have a situation with using the animateMotionelement. Somehow the path to follow seems off. For example. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>  <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" > width="744.09448819" height="1052.3622047" id="svg2" version="1.1" inkscape:version="0.48.3.1 r9886" sodipodi:docname="New document 1"> <defs id="defs4" /> <sodipodi:namedview id="base" pagecolor="#ffffff" bordercolor="#666666" borderopacity="1.0" inkscape:pageopacity="0.0" inkscape:pageshadow="2" inkscape:zoom="0.35" inkscape:cx="-262.14286" inkscape:cy="514.28571" inkscape:document-units="px" inkscape:current-layer="layer1" showgrid="false" inkscape:window-width="1680" inkscape:window-height="995" inkscape:window-x="0" inkscape:window-y="0" inkscape:window-maximized="1" /> <metadata id="metadata7"> <rdf:RDF> <cc:Work rdf:about=""> <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" /> <dc:title></dc:title> </cc:Work> </rdf:RDF> </metadata> <g inkscape:label="Layer 1" inkscape:groupmode="layer" id="layer1"> <path sodipodi:type="arc" id="big" sodipodi:cx="367.14285" sodipodi:cy="333.79074" sodipodi:rx="132.85715" sodipodi:ry="115.71429" d="m 500,333.79074 a 132.85715,115.71429 0 1 1 -265.71429,0 132.85715,115.71429 0 1 1 265.71429,0 z" style="fill:none;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:2.0999999;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-opacity:1;stroke-dasharray:none" transform="matrix(0.80424543,0,0,0.80424543,45.656955,42.48392)" inkscape:label="#path2985" /> <path sodipodi:type="arc" style="fill:none;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:2.0999999;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-opacity:1;stroke-dasharray:none" id="small" sodipodi:cx="404.28571" sodipodi:cy="765.2193" sodipodi:rx="58.57143" sodipodi:ry="58.57143" d="m 462.85714,765.2193 a 58.57143,58.57143 0 1 1 -117.14286,0 58.57143,58.57143 0 1 1 117.14286,0 z" transform="matrix(0.56870733,0,0,0.56870733,37.222609,150.03348)" inkscape:label="#path3755"> <animateMotion dur="6s" repeatCount="indefinite" rotate="0" > <mpath xlink:href="#big"/> </animateMotion> </path> </g> </svg> Why does the small ellipse not follow the path of the larger one?

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mpath animateMotion
by unknown＠example.com 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

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Regression in Filters Blend mode
by Ivan Louette 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Inkscape 0.48+devel r11799 (on Kubuntu 12.04) is unable to apply Blend to an object laying on top of another (on the same layer) despite my template which specify enable background:new It's a fairly new problem because I use the same template with previous rev on 12.04 without problems ivan

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question about filter/arithmetic
by pennec victor 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Hi, I hope it's ok to post the following test case to get your opinion. It's about filter/arithmetic. I don't get the same result in inkscape and in squiggle (and for me both look wrong) final filter in inkscape (0.48.3) "does nothing" the result looks 99% like the initial background squiggle is better you see the diagonal but not all pixels are black I expected every pixel at the top right above the diagonal in final image would be black (as in the included png) because in the top right r image (=g image =b image) > r background so lighter (image,background) = image so k2 * lighter (image,background) + k3 * image with k2 = 1 and k3 = -1 = lighter (image,background) - image = image - image = 0 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>  <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="1.1" width="210mm" height="297mm" id="svg2" 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style="font-size:26.65829849px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Nimbus Mono L;-inkscape-font-specification:Nimbus Mono L"><tspan x="201.89806" y="28.043221" id="tspan3870">background</tspan></text> <rect width="159.99998" height="159.99998" x="197.14323" y="60.933994" id="rect3889" style="fill:url(#linearGradient3891);fill-opacity:1;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:0.002116;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:bevel;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-opacity:1;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0" /> <rect width="160.00011" height="160.00015" x="15.837464" y="50.905853" id="rect3910" style="fill:url(#linearGradient3912);fill-opacity:1;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:0.00549126;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:bevel;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-opacity:1;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0" /> <text x="416.18378" y="243.75751" id="text3926" xml:space="preserve" style="font-size:26.65829849px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Nimbus Mono L;-inkscape-font-specification:Nimbus Mono L"><tspan x="416.18378" y="243.75751" id="tspan3928">result</tspan></text> <text x="131.42857" y="279.50504" id="text3946" xml:space="preserve" style="font-size:48px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Nimbus Mono L;-inkscape-font-specification:Nimbus Mono L"><tspan x="131.42857" y="279.50504" id="tspan3948">Lighter</tspan></text> <path d="M 361.18412,307.15363 C 179.92756,210.18279 179.92756,210.18279 179.92756,210.18279" id="path3992" 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Mono L;-inkscape-font-specification:Nimbus Mono L"><tspan x="439.14066" y="534.1272" id="tspan4691">!= Expected</tspan></text> <text x="415.90714" y="321.99515" id="text4705" xml:space="preserve" style="font-size:48px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#f64a00;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Nimbus Mono L;-inkscape-font-specification:Nimbus Mono L"><tspan x="415.90714" y="321.99515" id="tspan4707">OK</tspan></text> <text x="479.18304" y="428.90924" transform="scale(0.77351912,1.2927929)" id="text4851" xml:space="preserve" style="font-size:10.02463627px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#f64a00;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Nimbus Mono L;-inkscape-font-specification:Nimbus Mono L"><tspan x="479.18304" y="428.90924" id="tspan4853">in Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886 </tspan><tspan x="479.18304" y="441.44003" id="tspan5969">it looks like the background </tspan></text> </g> </svg> Thank you

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] B-spline help
by Jabier Arraiza Zenoz 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

B-Spline needs a person who speak english and spanish to coordinate the development. If has programing basic is perfect. Now B-Spline team are Arshdeep Singh and myself, and we have problems whith the traslations in between. Anyboy whant to help?

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About splash
by John Smith 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

The "Help->About Inkscape" splash can be slow to render and has given some users the impression that Inkscape is therefore slow. One option is to replace the splash rendering with a static image in release builds. A downside of this is maintaining and adding a ~200Kb image to the package. But at some stage Inkscape may get a startup splash anyway ... Any interest in adding a static splash image ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/253219

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Unified line style interface (was: Powerstroke wrap-up)
by Valerie 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

> or the UI ideas we definitely need for release. Well, at some point I was trying to think up a unified interface for accessing line styles, but it would require a rather big interface change, so I'm not sure anybody would be in favour. (in any case, there is 0 chance of this being implemented anytime soon) Have the rest of you ever used Krita? Krita has two small boxes at the top that when clicked, each opens a window: - One to choose brush engines + edit options + test and create previews - One to access presets It sounds complicated, but it's actually quite easy to use: the presets system works very well, and the brush editing drop-down allows you to access complicated options quickly (then save them as easy-to-access presets). Although the editing window itself is large, it actually doesn't get in the way too much compared to say, Inkscape's fill and stroke tab, because you get it out of the way as soon as you've chosen. The way I see it, while brushes are at the heart of raster drawing programs, line-styles are (more or less) at the heart of illustration programs. I'd envision an interface more or less like Krita's, but with line styles: - A linestyle editing pane, with a list of different engines to the left and options to the right, and a test-pad at the bottom where you can also create previews for new presets - A presets drop-down - (maybe something with fills too, not sure though) The different engines would include: - Plain: normal, boring lines. It's is own "engine" because it's the most commonly used "style." - Dotted lines: here you'll have the dotted lines, markers etc. - Powerstrokes: everything that used to be in the Live Paths Effects pane will be moved here. There could be a visual editor to design and save line styles, basically a horizontal powerstroke to which you add and edit controls. Once you've saved it as a preset, the shape will then be mapped onto any powerstroke you draw. You could also choose "use current clipboard" to map the style of a currently copied powerstroke onto the editor, for saving. - Pattern along Path: Options include 1. Repeat styles 2. Whether to use the original colors of the object or use the fill color and 3. Whether to choose a pattern from a gallery, or use the clipboard. You can easily add new clips to said gallery (so you can make custom vines, chains, etc.), just like with Krita's pixel-brush brush-tip gallery. - Calligraphy maybe? - Line tiling? This is if Inkscape ever adds complex tiling along a line (see blueprint for tiling tool). - Render: specific live path effects, like stroke, etc. The presets drop-down will show all available presets, regardless of engine. It will have a search box for easy filtering. There'd be intuitive names like: - Graph full line single-arrow - Graph dotted line double-arrow - Powerstroke decreasing - Powerstroke increasing - Powerstroke sharp edges etc. (want a graph connector? Type "Gr" and you'll already get the list of graph lines) The tools in the left pane would be separated into line drawing tools (that apply the selected engine) and other tools. You can choose whether you want shape tools to use "plain lines" by default or use the chosen line style engine. To make the whole system even easier to use, the different engines would require more on-canvas editing options. For example, the purple diamond used for powerstrokes right now could be extended to Pattern Along Path to create variations in the sizes of the patterns. If on- canvas editing is too complicated, the editor pane at least could be used to specify and preview the size of the patterns used. If anybody is interested I can try to make a few mock-ups, even if they don't get used.

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SourceForge Upgrade
by Josh Andler 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

Hey All, SF.net is upgrading their site and all projects. I wanted to give a heads up that I've initiated the transition for us and we are in their queue. Hopefully this will not negatively impact our usage of SF, but, it is something they're going to do to all projects that they host. I apologize in advance that they will be notifying everyone with commit access of code access changes, and I'm sorry if they send other emails to everyone else. Hopefully this will all be for the good in the end, as it's going to be mandatory. Cheers, Josh

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