- Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Contributing to Inkscape
by Valerie 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

I'd love a circular distribution, they're currently a pain to do. The main issues you'll have to solve are: 1. How do you define the rotation center? - This could be solved via a drop-down, like for example, "Rotation center: [Of top object]" 2. How do you define where the rotation starts and ends? 3. How do you position objects in-between? Define angles? If you already have a UI in mind, we'd love to hear it. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:50:22 +0100 From: Denis <declara91@...400...> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Contributing to Inkscape To: inkscape-devel@...460... Message-ID: <4F55DDDE.5000209@...400...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi inkscape devs, I'm a bachelor student in computer science, and I would like to contribute to inkscape as part of a porject for a course I'm taking. The requirements are to add a feature to an open source project written in c++. The feature I had in mind for now, is to extend the Align and Distribute panel, by allowing also circular distributions.

4 4

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Contributing to Inkscape
by Valerie 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Awesome! It seems we pretty much have the UI then! 1. Radial align as a new tab in the Align dialogue. 2. Relative to: - Objects center - First circle selected - Last circle selected - First arc selected - Last arc selected 3. Distribution types: Angular distribution: - Even distribution along circle/arc - Objects distributed at regular intervals as defined by the angle of the chosen arc Radial distribution types - Inside Circle - Along Circle - Outside Circle (with circle being either the circle selected, or in the case of "relative to objects center", defined using the object edge closest/furthest from the object center) I don't suppose we could add an "align along path" feature while we're at it? (hahah, one thing at a time...)

4 3

Contributing to Inkscape
by Denis 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Hi inkscape devs, I'm a bachelor student in computer science, and I would like to contribute to inkscape as part of a porject for a course I'm taking. The requirements are to add a feature to an open source project written in c++. The feature I had in mind for now, is to extend the Align and Distribute panel, by allowing also circular distributions. Let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions. By the way, I'm currently getting a lot of namespace errors while compiling using gcc 4.6.3 on arch-linux 64bit. Is there a patch out there to correct those errors, or do I have to manually edit all the affected files? Thanks, Denis

3 3

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Shape resize origin
by Valerie 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

You can snap the cross-hair around, but beyond that, no. There's a pretty cool blueprint for the feature you're describing though: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/transformation-anchors ---------------------------- Message: 6 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:42:10 +0100 From: Yann Papouin <yann.papouin@...400...> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Shape resize origin To: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <CAFkfGVC2pvHNb--706UB_L06dCzZowg_o4r4NJ16=QsJEaJhKw@...401...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi everyone ! I'm wondering if there is a way to resize a shape from it's cross center (the one set by the cross) like it can be done with the Mouse+Shift combination but by using the edit box of the toolbar (I need to increase the radius of a circle with precise value) ? If not, a tool to select the relative point to resize would be nice: [image: Images int?gr?es 1] About this, is there a way to reset the cross center to the shape barycenter ?

1 0

Shape resize origin
by Yann Papouin 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Hi everyone ! I'm wondering if there is a way to resize a shape from it's cross center (the one set by the cross) like it can be done with the Mouse+Shift combination but by using the edit box of the toolbar (I need to increase the radius of a circle with precise value) ? If not, a tool to select the relative point to resize would be nice: [image: Images intégrées 1] About this, is there a way to reset the cross center to the shape barycenter ?

2 1

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Powerstroke cusps
by Valerie 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

> Thanks for telling me; please a bit of patience for the fix. :) > Powerstroke is not meant to be used on groups (yet?)... No problem, just testing things out to see what works and what doesn't. :) I don't think many people would want to apply powerstroke on a "group", per se, rather people may want to select a large number of existing strokes and be able to apply powerstroke to all of them at once. Basically, place the lines first, define the shapes later. > > It's best to try a build after rev. 11046. Awesome, thanks!

2 1

Precise Pressure
by Martin Owens 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hey all, A user asked me to test precise for tablet functionality since Oneric was a wipeout for artists. It looks like it's fixed in gimp and the data in inkscape's tablet tools looks good... but inkscape doesn't seem to be using it. Did someone switch it off? Martin,

2 1

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape tiling interface redesign proposal
by Valerie 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Awesome! Thanks for informing me! I've edited the wiki to make all the old images appear there. And thanks for providing the code too, I'm still rather unfamiliar with editing wikis! I'll re-add the description for the "Exclude tile exterior" feature tomorrow. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:52:02 +0100 From: Kris De Gussem <kris.degussem@...400...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape tiling interface redesign proposal To: inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <CADfUNqfuJ1BLsi9v47VuP1Tzg95rEi=-x3+y4fromKOY_W4Arw@...401...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 2012/3/5 Valerie <valerie_vk@...36...>: > Some time ago I was thinking up possible new interfaces for Inkscape's > > tiled clones function, and had compiled them here for now: > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tiling_tool Thanks for the update. Please note that image uploading on the wiki is again possible (I checked by uploading one of your linked images). Regards K.

1 0

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape tiling interface redesign proposal
by Valerie 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

> My thoughts are that this is some very interesting work. Do I understand > correctly that your idea is to create (pretty advanced) guides on-canvas > depending on the select symmetry, and use those to define the base tile? > And then you want to be able to differentiate between "exterior" tiles > and "interior" tiles, with the "exterior" tiles tiling only so much that > they form a one-tile thick border around the tiles? Exactly! Of course, you can toggle on and off whether to delete tile "exteriors" for non-edge tiles. The "delete tile exterior" is mostly for the advanced seamless designs, not if you just want to toss around a few bubbles. > Have you thought about the interaction with things like random > displacements (and non-constant displacements). I admit I haven't thought that far... I'm not an expert in tilings, and even less in tiling algorithms, so I've never thought beyond "this connected to that." I guess it's possible, there are two separate options you can tick after all: - Make seamless tile - Exclude tile exterior as needed So, you could in theory tick the second box, and Inkscape will cut out the edges but still apply all the position and size transformations as needed. So the result doesn't need to be seamless. > Have you seen this java applet - designed to explore penrose tilings. > Its not guide based in the same way as yours but instead you manipulate > exemplars and see the result. You can see the interdependence and how > your guides might correspond to edges on these tiles. > Not sure if useful to you or not ? > http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/software/penrose/ Thanks a lot for the link! That's actually a really good reference for how "guide points" are supposed to look (though... the tiles are different). In my version you can also create a guide point and drag out a segment, the both of which show up in other relevant sides. The idea is that they help create absolutely smooth transitions: just create a node on the guide point, and snap the node's handle to the edge of the segment guide. Repeat with the node's counterpart. Smooth transition! One thing that's bugging me is that users who don't want to create seamless tiles will probably want a generic rectangle tile to which they can apply any transformation they want, just to see which looks most interesting. But if you want to create a seamless tile, you have to define a specific guide from the start... Unless I just make guides and transformations to later apply independent. If you then apply a different transformation, that won't end up with a seamless design, that's your problem?

1 0

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape tiling interface redesign proposal
by Valerie 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Some time ago I was thinking up possible new interfaces for Inkscape's tiled clones function, and had compiled them here for now: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tiling_tool Recently I've been giving some more thoughts to creating seamless patterns, in particular the "edge scenarios" of normal tiling. A lazy person (like me) would probably find it a pain in the neck to make new tiles for the edges and have to realign everything. What if you could define those edge scenarios in a single basic tile? In my tiling tool proposal, I proposed tile guides where you can add "guide points" and "guide point pairs" along the boundaries. Guide points drawn on one side will automatically appear on all the other relevant sides so you know where to connect. http://postimage.org/image/ae0dae6mh/ http://postimage.org/image/kqmnwh05l/ When you have nodes located on a guide point, applying "fuse tiles" automatically connects these nodes to the corresponding nodes on the next tile. So what if we make it so that all parts of the pattern Outside the basic tile gets cut away as necessary according to these guide points? Edge tiles however will retain the original extremities. The result: http://www.freeimagehosting.net/5e38w This concept can also be applied to radial tiling, for both rotation and resizing tiles: http://www.freeimagehosting.net/sbhmo I don't believe I've seen a program where you can easily create seamless tiles for all the different wallpaper groups, and this certainly makes things a little easier. Thoughts?

4 3