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Using xpath in Inkscape code?
by unknown＠example.com 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

I would like to be able to select nodes using XPath: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/798640 I naively assumed this would be trivial but when I dig in the code it doesn't seem like it is. In particular it is not immediately obvious how to convert between Inkscapes DOM model and libxml2:she model. The simplest way I can think about now is a workaround involving loading the file with libxml2, and find the nodes in that tree instead. I can't be the only one wanting to do things like this. I'm obviously missing something, right? -- Joakim Verona

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Code Walk Through
by Jeremy Villalobos 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

Hello: I am a new developer. I have dowloaded Inkscape source, compiled it, and have browsed the code with Eclipse (my favorite IDE). My end goal is to collaborate to add open_cl to Inkscape to make it superfast ! For now, I would like some guidence about the code. Is there a code walk-through either presentation style on youtube or a guide (link) ?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Font fall back support for inkscape
by gespertino＠...400... 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

>> Instead, the list should be parsed and each character in the text should be displayed using the first font in the list which is >> a) available >> b) has a glyph for that character > > Interesting. I doubt that Inkscape will ever implement the correct > behavior as it would require that Inkscape be able to do all the book > keeping to know which characters are available in which font. At the > moment we use Pango to come up with the best match for a given font > specification. Getting Inkscape to use the first available font in the > list will be a small step forward (right now it treats a font list as a > single font name and thus won't match anything). I'm not sure if this is completely related to this discussion, but I'd like to leave my 2 cents. Currently inkscape does a rather weird font substitution (at least I, as a user, can't tell how and when it works) and there's no clear indicator of that substitution except the warning icon in the font selector once the text element is edited. In my experience (both with libre and proprietary applications) automatic font fallback has never been completely succesful and frequently it's more problematic than helpful. Manual selection of the replacement is always annoying but at least less dangerous. To make it worse, there's no visual indication that fonts have been replaced in Inkscape, so things can look fine at a first glance when in reality they are very wrong when you sent the artwork to print, exported, etc. Automatic font fallback can be useful for document accessibility, but from a graphic designer perspective it's too dangerous to be considered as a viable option. Since I consider Inkscape a design application I'd say it's more important to actually KNOW that the original font isn't available than finding a quick replacement (which potentially could completely destroy the original design because the character set isn't complete, metrics don't match or simply its style is different). IMO the ideal solution would be the use of embeddable fonts as it was stated before, but meanwhile a safer choice would be to replace the missing fonts using the default (or yes, using some font replacement technique) but making it visually clear the the fonts used in the document aren't the originally assigned, using some highlight or visual cue of some kind. But anyway, before speaking about how fonts have to be replaced, Bug #168658 should be addressed since it's too dangerous for artwork integrity.

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Show/Hide objects to export in command-line
by Thibaut Girka 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hi, I'm using inkscape for various projects, and I'm now concerned about automatically rendering graphics for my game project. However, several images are rendered from the same SVG file, with different layers/objects visibles. While --export-id (and --export-id-only) is helpful in some cases, it's not always sufficient. Therefore, I think hiding certain objects with a new command-line option such as --hide-id would be a worthy improvement. Allowing multiple --export-id might be useful too. Regards, Thibaut Girka.

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Collaborative platform for translation "Transifex.net"
by Valessio S Brito 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

Anyone know of an official platform for Inkscape? The Brazilian community was using Pootle, but now we need another platform and service in the cloud; Someone knows something? There is a proposal to use http://www.transifex.net Has anyone used this?

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Guideline snap rotation absolute/relative
by LucaDC 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

In rev. 10303 guidelines shift+ctrl rotation has been changed to consider the guide initial angle as base. The absolute rotation was made by purpose, it was not a bug to be fixed. Guidelines are absolute objects and it was decided to make them snap at absolute angles, regardless of their initial orientation. Also, now a relative rotation is made possible by the new math in input fields feature: just open a guide, then write a +15 in the angle field and it's done. Personally I find the "relative" option of little usefullness. Should I need it, there is already a simple way to obtain it, while I use a lot absolute snapping so I can "recycle" guides already on screen rather than throwing a lot, having to clean them one by one. More: the math needed requires trigonometric functions and this makes me think that repeatedly rotating a guide will inevitably lead to rounding errors so you could eventually end up with a guide not starting from where it was at the beginning. This is a huge problem for technical drawings and would force me to carefully avoid using this function (this means always opening the guide menu and input the desired angle or always start from a vertical or horizontal guide and make a single rotation!). I ask for reverting back to the previous behaviour, please. Or add a different modifier for the two options (but we already know that there are less modifiers than the functions involved with guides...). Regards. Luca -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Guideline-snap-rotation-absolute-relative-tp31850907p… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Official Inkscape PPAs
by gespertino＠...400... 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hi. Thanks for setting the PPA! Is it possible to change the name of that builds from inkscape to something like "inkscape-devel" so it doesn't replace the stable build from repos? Inkscape is one of the main tools in my pipe and I give it a heavy daily use, so I cannot afford to have an unstable inkscape, but I don't want it to keep me from testing the new stuff! Being able to install both versions would solve the problem. Thanks in advance Gez.

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New Measurement Tool in Inkscape
by Felipe Sanches 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hello, I'd like to let you all know that I have been working on a new tool for measuring objects in Inkscape. Here is a screencast of the tool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZKnxTO11xE But if you checkout the development code from Bazaar , then you'll see some new things that were implemented in the tool after recording the screencast (i.e. the tool now displays angle info also). Happy Hacking, Felipe Sanches PS: If you find bugs prease report them and assign the bugs to me at Lauchpad bug tracker.

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Serious error with Wacom stylus on XP
by Preben Soeberg 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

"Stylus entered coordinates are wrong." Reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/797519 This error is a showstopper. There is likely also a problem with the Wacom mouse, but I cannot test this, as mine is broken. Regards Preben

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Use of MINGW64 (minor)
by Bruno Winck 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi Everyone, I am on the process to resume my work on Inkscape I did about css. I was using svn, now I have a new computer so I start again fresh with bazaar, so far so good. Since its running Windows 7 x64 I decided to give a try to mingw64. Compiling btool went fine, however when running it allocated 4 gig of memory and stalls. A quick look didn’t help figure out what could be the cause and now I revert to x32. Now I wonder what is the ground of using btool today. Is it still a necessity ? Other projects compile both on Windows and Linux without any specific tool. It would also help to benefit from a real incremental build. Any ideas of what was already tried around btool ? Also if there is already some ideas of having Inkscape addins let me know. I would like some ability to add attributes to svg files like scripts or rdf attributes. -Bruno Bruno Winck Email: <mailto:bwinck@...2633...> bwinck@...2632... Blog: <http://www.kneaver.com/> http://www.kneaver.com/blog Kneaver Corp <http://www.kneaver.com/> http://www.kneaver.com/ Twitter:http://twitter.com/kneaver <skype:brunowinck> SKYPE:brunowinck PH: +1 (415) 749 5850 CELL: +1 (415) 513 3160 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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