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Useful functions
by Josh Andler 10 Dec '11

10 Dec '11

Hey All, I stumbled across some videos a while back relating to some plugins for Illustrator that provide some pretty cool functionality and wanted to share, I just don't believe I did on the list (hopefully I'm not repeating). Do we have an appropriate page in the wiki for me to add them or does anyone think it would be more appropriate to just add a number of RFEs to the tracker? This first one shows some pretty useful color functionality you normally see associated with raster apps but is stuff that would rock to have for use in the vector space. Yes we have extensions that provide some of the functions, but they're destructive effects. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRthJrsYepg This live half-toning stuff is definitely sweet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLOVqTE9Zy8 When we finally get to a point where we can produce proper PDFs for print, this would be some fantastic functionality to have (especially with the costs of home printing supplies). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnGgtQAXf8U Just thought I'd share... Cheers, Josh

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Next release check-in...
by Josh Andler 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Hey all, Anything in particular people are looking to add or refactor which they haven't discussed yet? Development has greatly slowed and I am curious if it's related to lack of interest, time, or people not wanting to hold up a possible release by adding new features. Note, a release is unfeasible at this time anyway, so we're really still game for new code currently. Related to this, Tavmjong's gradient mesh branch is pretty nice (and still has bugs) atm... if anyone is interested in helping out with it, please let him know. It would be awesome if we could see that work stabilized and available in the next release. Just checking in... Cheers, Josh

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Introspection
by Stefan de Konink 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

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new color / System Palette
by GiveLifeCS 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Hi, I am Gabriel Vano the creator of Givelife color system GiveLife Color System put online the second product , the Color / System Palette in RGB ,more biggest of the world with 5101 shades of Color. I belive that this tool is very important and beneficial to help the Designers in General , saving time and to forget about having to create your own Color Palette , because with this Color Palette the Designers can find the most desirable shades of Color. This Color System has been tested by Designers demanding and the conclusion of all them is very clear ,it is a key tool of color. Currently this Color Palette is by default in the Operative System "Asturix" that the new version Asturix 4(Distribution of Linux), will be online in a week more or less for this reason I send an e-mail to all the developers of Inkscape to study the possibility to put it, by default in Inkscape. the type of the RGB is "SRGB". if you visit the website you can download the Color palette for Inkscape I am sure that this tool will be very ussefull for all the users of Inkscape. also the type of the licence is creative commons "CC" BY-NC-ND. I wait for your comments greetings Gabriel Vano http://www.givelifecolorsystem.com http://givelifecolorsystem2.blogspot.com/

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Bug report
by Stefano Galli 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Dear All, I'm a very satisfied user of Inkscape. I use MAC OS and passing from snow leopard to Lion OS I've found a problem of some file visualization. It happens that exported files in Pdf from Inkscape, if I use some gradient, this gradient is not well displayed on Anteprima software on Mac running Lion, while it is well displayed in Snow Leopard OS. Also the pdf files are well displayed on Acrobat Reader in both Snow Leopard and Lion. I've already reported the bug to the MAC people but I would like also to tell this to you if you have any solution also to suggest to the MAC people. Of course I can send every kind of example, screenshots and files also. I hope to get a reply. Thank you. Best Regards, -- Stefano Galli

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Cleaning up Inkscape's SVG output.
by Tavmjong Bah 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi, I have just checked into trunk some of the fruits of Abhishek's GSOC project to improve Inkscape's SVG output. Abhishek wrote the core routines to which I added a variety of utility functions. This code can result in cleaner and smaller SVG. It does the following things: For a given element (<rect>, <path>, etc.) it checks: 1. That all attributes are valid.[1] 2. That properties are appropriate.[2] 3. That properties are useful.[3] What Inkscape does when it finds a problem is controlled by settings under the "SVG output" section of the Inkscape Preferences dialog. For each of the above cases, you can independently: 1. Print out warnings to the console (if running Inkscape from the command line). 2. Delete the invalid or not useful items. In the dialog, you can choose when Inkscape should test the SVG: 1. When reading files. (If this option is enabled at start-up, files Inkscape uses internally like icons.svg will also be checked.) 2. When editing files. (Mostly useful for debugging Inkscape.) 3. When writing files. This code has been test on a variety of SVG files but it will need much broader testing. The default preferences are set to do nothing so as to avoid the risk of damaging files. Please take your favorite SVG files and compare the visual output when the "Remove" and "Writing" boxes are checked in the Inkscape Preferences dialog. Also, compiling the code under Windows and OSX needs to be checked. Tav [1] Only elements in the SVG name space are tested. [2] The SVG specification explicitly allows styling properties such as 'font-family' on most SVG elements (e.g. <rect>) but there a many cases where they are of no use. [3] A property is useful if it changes an inherited or default value.

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Regressions after r10326 (initial merge of the cairo-rendering branch)
by ~suv 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Since we don't have a dedicated thread for regressions introduced with the initial merge of the cairo-rendering branch and I don't want to mix it with reports about merge of the rendering cache or the removal of libnr, I'm starting a new thread forwarding related confirmed reports in the bug tracker which haven't been mentioned on the list before: Bug #845153 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/845153> "radial gradients not rendered correctly" Bug #837066 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/837066> "Bucket Tool regressions with Cairo renderer" Bug #814179 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/814179> "CMS tab: Yellow and Cyan colors are swapped" Bug #805392 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/845153> "Circle resizing do not preserve stroke width" ~suv (trying to work around the flood of bug mails to developers and the apparent inability of gmail's web interface to filter on custom mail headers [1] ;) ) [1] List of custom mail headers in bug tracker e-mail notifications to allow filtering on assignee, status, importance, tags etc.: <https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/Subscriptions#Bug_mail_headers>

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Make script?
by Martin Owens 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

> On 27 November 2011 00:18, Mark Voorhies <mark.voorhies@...2508...> wrote: >> Do we have an inkscape make script to convert inkscape-svg to >> plain-svg when compiling/building programs that include svg files? > > Is this what you're looking for? > > inkscape --export-plain-svg=stripped.svg inkscape.svg Yes and in a way no, you see having inkscape are a build dependency would probably be considered unacceptable for most build servers, or at least slow down the processing of package building enough for it to be not useful. I'm imagining something light and probably Independent. Perhaps even a script to automatically limits any xml structure to a set list of needed namespaces would be quite cute.

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Make script?
by Martin Owens 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

Hey guys, Do we have an inkscape make script to convert inkscape-svg to plain-svg when compiling/building programs that include svg files? I just noticed that many of the svg icons shipped with Ubuntu have inkscape and sodipodi references. Could we help to make sure that inkscape-svg is more like sources and plain-svg is compiled? Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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how to query current color on code level?
by Aapo Rantalainen 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hi, how I query current color (color of the selected object), fill or stroke, on code? I.e. color of the box in left-bottom-corner "Fill:". I have read the code (version 0.48.2) and tried this: SPDesktop *_desktop = SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP; guint32 color = sp_desktop_get_color(_desktop, true); printf("selected color: %6x\n",color); But it is always returning 'ff0000'. ** I have found the place which writes text (but not the value) for the tooltip: ui/widget/selected-style.cpp:195 __color[i] = (i == SS_FILL)? (_("Flat color fill")) : (_("Flat color stroke")); And value is on ui/widget/selected-style.cpp:979 g_snprintf (c_string, 64, "%06x/%.3g", color >> 8, SP_RGBA32_A_F(color)); But I do not see is this correct place at all for accessing it. -Aapo Rantalainen

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