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wiki administration
by John Cliff 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hi Guys, We really need to do something with regards to the wiki making it harder to sign up spam accounts, we seem to be getting a couple of dozen of junk accounts a day, with most days having no new legit accounts. I dont want to stop people being able to sign up easily, but at the same time, the way we currently has it seems to be balanced all wrong. Who is it that has admin rights for stuff like wiki extensions and the base settings? Cheers John

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layer styles?
by Michael Grosberg 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

I'm working on a technical drawing which is made up of a large number of objects, with a rather limited number of basic styles (this is common in engineering - drawings have layers with a different line style for each layer). So, I created a layer for each style: one layer for dashed lines, one layer for shapes with white fill and no stroke, etc. As it turned out, it was difficult to just draw all of the shapes of one style and then move to another, as they had to interact. So, as I was moving across the drawing and adding shapes, I had to continually set the style to match the current layer I was drawing in. What I really wanted was something like Photoshop's "layer style", Or layers in CAD drawings, where whatever you draw on a layer receives the same style. I was able to do this using the XML editor by copying and pasting the style attributes of existing shapes into the layer nodes, and unsetting the fill and stroke for new shapes. Whatever I drew after that received the layer style. Now my question is this: Is there a mechanism in place to do this without editing the XML? If not, do you think there should be? I think it would be useful.

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pdf import again: poppler native vs. poppler cairo
by the Adib 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Hello All, as the problem is still there I would propose following intermediate solution: currently in the codebasis there is also an pdf import via poppler-cairo. This one is disabled. I would like to enable this as an additional pdf import possibility. We have to decide later when it comes to the release which one to integrate into the release. so we can test in parallel the two options. we have a big tester basis (compared to separate launchpad branch) we get the possibility to switch to an tested poppler-internals independent solution (while using poppler) I there is no big NONO I will go forward and enable this within the next days. attached the patch that is needed for this (tested on windows, should work on Linux) regards, Adib.

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0.47 support status
by Alex Valavanis 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Just wondering what the official position is on the 0.47.x branch. A number of bug reports have been filed recently about build failures with recent versions of Glib, Poppler etc. At the moment, we list 0.47.x as being supported [1], but as far as I know, we have no plans to backport any fixes for the build failures, so it isn't actually usable on current linux distros. As such, would it be appropriate to "retire" the branch and encourage users to upgrade to 0.48.x? Cheers, AV [1] https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.47.x

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Rename 'Vacuum defs'
by John Smith 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Is there a more user friendly way to describe the 'Vacuum defs' function ? How about we rename something like 'Document Cleanup' ? Maybe even a dialog with checkboxes and explanations of the various options: Cleanup and remove the following unused definitions from this document * Unused gradients * Unused color profiles * Unused patterns * Unused markers * Unused scripts * Unused clipping paths * Unused filters etc

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libvisio is available
by Alexandre Prokoudine 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Hi, During this GSoC a LibreOffice student and her mentor implemented support for VSD, binary Microsoft Visio documents, that Microsoft never bothered to publish a specification on. The student managed to do far more that she expected and ended up with a nice C++ library for parsing VSD called libvisio that supports all geometric primitives, formatted text, embedded stencils, all kinds of fills and strokes etc. The long story is here: http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=41 Now, the short story is that the libvisio library (currently at v0.0.7) has a tool called vsd2xhtml which converts VSD to SVG documents and embeds them into XHTML documents. So it looks like it's possible to write an extension for loading VSD directly to Inkscape. Otherwise you have to do some text editing to get an SVG out of that XHTML. Howevere there is a party trick involved. Since VSD files are often multipage, the convertor dumps every page into same XHTML file one by one. So if someone decides to have a go at it, I think it would rather be loader similar to our PDF loader which provides preview for letting a user to choose a page for importing. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Inkscape PRO
by Felipe Sanches 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

This is an output extension for color separation. I have a feeling that it is somewhat inadequate, but I'm unsure. Maybe the color experts here can give us a hint. JonCruz?! http://www.cimcomunica.com/site2/ Felipe Sanches

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GTK+ 3 regression bug tag
by Alex Valavanis 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

I've added a tag "gtk3-regression" that can be added to any bug reports that describe issues that only occur in the experimental gtk3 build. Cheers, AV

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C++ string conversion
by Jon Cruz 09 Jun '12

09 Jun '12

Hi, I finished a simple writeup of converting C strings to C++ strings for our codebase. A couple of people asked me for this, but I thought it might be more generally useful. A shorter summary probably will be appropriate to get on the wiki at some point, but for now http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2012/06/refactoring-c-to-c-part-2-strings.…

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GtkObject stuff
by Alex Valavanis 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Hi All, I've created a branch at lp:~inkscape.dev/inkscape/gtk_object_removal [1] in which I have started trying to rebase SPCanvasItem on GObject rather than GtkObject. I don't really know what I'm doing with Glib/GObject so I have made some (un)educated guesses about how to replace bits of the functionality! The code compiles and gets rid of a huge number of the remaining GTK+3 build errors, but there are major runtime issues (lots of crashes & Glib warnings). Please could someone who knows about Glib memory management take a look at this and give me a couple of pointers about what I'm doing wrong? Am I completely on the wrong track here? Thanks, Alex [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/gtk_object_removal/chang…

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