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Next release?
by Dave Crossland 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi! Does anyone know when the next release will be? -- Cheers Dave

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Vacation
by Josh Andler 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hey all, I'll be on vacation through the 5th and will be without net access for the last 7 days of it (and limited until that point). Just don't want anyone to think I'm intentionally being unresponsive. Cheers, Josh

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Retire Gradient Editor
by John Smith 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

I propose we retire the Gradient Editor dialog before 0.49 Any objections or concerns ? For retiring: * Old, not maintained code with many bug reports still piling up * Almost all functionality is available in the Gradient toolbar / on-canvas editing now For keeping: * Can be used to edit gradients in the document but not used on-canvas. Here is the bug tracking the gradient editor retirement https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/950677

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Backwards compatibility issues of using a new SVG attribute for representing guides
by Samuel Chase 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hello Everyone, I'm working on improving the usability of guides as a GSoC project. My mentor (Johan), suggested that henceforth "inkscape:guide" be used instead of "sodipodi:guide" as the SVG attribute for representing guides. In my branch one of the things we worked on was to change the co-ordinate system used by guides from desktop co-ordinates to document co-ordinates. Snapping, general guide operations etc. seem to be working properly after the co-ordinate change in my branch. A problem arises when a user opens an SVG that has "sodipodi:guide" using a build of Inkscape that uses "inkscape:guide" as the attribute. What should (ideally) happen in this situation? Johan suggested the idea of creating an extension script that transforms between new and old guides. The user will be made aware of this extension when an incompatibility is detected. Samuel

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LPE: Curvature normal (request)
by Simon A. Eugster 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hi Devs, hi Maximilian, I have a wish for a new path effect – or a modified one, since it is quite similar to the Ruler effect (that's why I CCed Maximilian who wrote it). It should act like a ruler (i.e. draw lines perpendicular to the path in regular intervals), *but* their length should correspond to the curvature, showing how much the curve is bent (second derivative). Example image: http://granjow.net/uploads/bugs/curvature-normal.png For Bézier curves this could be done analytically, but I would wish it to be numerically (i.e. the derivative over some distance like 10 page pixels). The use case I have in mind is bow making, to visualize irregularities in how the bow bends. Best explained in an image, here in the first post: http://www.fletchers-corner.de/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17924&start=75 But obviously that's not the only thing one could use it for :) Could you do this? It would be absolutely great (… at least for bowyers :D) to have this in Inkscape! Simon

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OCAL upload in Inkscape
by Jakub Jankiewicz 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hi all We are working on Upload to Open Clipart Library API, it's correctly on our dev server and we'll move it to live, when we will have clipart remix option, and we do some test. We are working with ImageBot and they are the first one that use the API on their site (there is Edit button on their site that got to theirs), on their dev servers. Do you want to implement OCAL Upload to Inkscape? If so I can give that person(s) access right now to dev server (it's not protected we only don't publish it's url publicly), or they can wait until it will be live. I can send working php example that upload to OCAL from different domain, (probably we will need to tweak API a bit to fit non www application), I can send this code to person that will want to implement this, the code for now it's only documentation (but it's very simple and short). Regards Jakub Jakiewicz -- www: http://jcubic.pl twitter: http://twitter.com/jcubic blog: http://jcubic.wordpress.com

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Mac .app bundle creation?
by Dave Crossland 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hi! I'm hoping to make a totally self contained .app bundle for FontForge on Mac OS X. I wonder who makes the .app build for Inkscape, and if they'd be interested in helping me with this? :-) -- Cheers Dave

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Should Inkscape
by Martin Owens 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

Hey guys, I'm trying to use inkscape to moc up something quickly, but it's getting in my way. It keeps on trying to snap to anything and everything when I don't want it to EVER snap anything to anything, in fact I'd love snapping to go away as it's hard enough to draw with a touchpad without having inkscape making my nodes go to the wrong places automatically. I just looked at the inkscape prefs, there's no kill snapping option. I guess I'll have to go in and disable it via code, unless anyone has any suggestions? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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New extension: svgtextext_to_pdflatex
by Håkon Marthinsen 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi everyone, I have just made a new Inkscape extension. See https://launchpad.net/svgtextext-to-pdflatex The purpose of this Inkscape extension is to export Tex Text objects as real LaTeX code, not just paths. This way, the typeface can be changed from the LaTeX document without having to regenerate all the Tex Text objects inside the figure in Inkscape. It also ensures consistency with the fonts used in the rest of the LaTeX document, and furthermore, it is possible to cross-reference other parts of the document from within the figure. The extension has been tested in Ubuntu with pdf2svg installed. To install it, download the two source files, put them in ~/.config/inkscape/extensions and restart Inkscape. This will add a menu entry to Extensions > Export. Håkon Marthinsen

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Provide simple way to export images optimized for the web
by Maurizio Casimirri 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

I often use inkscape to create website interfaces. But exporting things in inkscape works fine only at 90dpi, when i try to reduce it to 72dpi exported images are stretched accordingly. Rather than change the default export tool, my proposal is to introduce some specific features to export optimized images for the web. I'd like this workflow: - Mark groups/elements for export (very simple: just add an attribute to xml) - Create sprite images - Mark groups/elements to be exported together in a sprite image - See/copy css for sprite image - Select export for the web ... from 'File' menu - In the export dialog select which elements/sprites to export and where - The images exported are optimized for the web using some tool like pngcrush (not only 72dpi) - maybe necessary css code could be exported along with sprites also Implementing something like that and correcting some other little problems should bridge the gap between Inkscape and Ilustrator or other commercial tools in terms of website interfaces design

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