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disabled viewbox attribute for symbols when using cairo export
by Christopher Dyck 24 Apr '11

24 Apr '11

Hi, I have a question about the handling or not-handling of the viewbox attribute in symbols when using cairo export. I tried to export a map from openstreetmap to pdf and got http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2504/thghng78_png.htm as result. So I took a look in the code and stumbled over the following lines, which disable the viewbox attribute for symbols completely. ---- src/extension/internal/cairo-renderer.cpp #391 // apply viewbox if set if (0 /*symbol->viewBox_set*/) { ----- Perhaps this is related to this fixme comments --- src/sp-symbol.cpp #144 /* fixme: We have to take original item affine into account */ /* fixme: Think (Lauris) */ ---- So my question is: Is this still needed or is it possible to activate symbols viewboxes again?

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ligatures
by Alexandre Prokoudine 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

Hi, Can anybody say why exactly ligatures are lost when individual changes are applied to one of the letters? Like e.g. applying a different color. See attach for illustration. The newly released cyrillic version of free/libre Lobster font apparently revealed lots of horrible things: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648155 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648157 Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Cairo branch builds on win32, what next?
by Jasper van de Gronde 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

I just committed a patch that completely removes the win32.cpp/.h that were causing build problems (and apparently weren't used anymore). Apart from ripping out some printing related code that wasn't used anymore this also removed the is_os_wide function. Although this function is in principle unrelated and could have been kept, I decided to get rid of that as well. This means that any remaining support for Win9x/ME that depended on this is now gone (as far as know we didn't support those windows versions anymore anyway, so it was just extra baggage). So, what next? I might have encountered a pretty serious regression in text rendering, but I haven't looked deeper into that yet. (And it might be known already or it might be something specific to my set up.)

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Usability development help for Inkscape available
by Aslak Karsi 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Hello We are a group of five students from Finland, studying at University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science. We are currently working on a project assignment to offer help in usability development for an open source software project of our choice. Past few weeks we have been familiarizing ourselves with Inkscape and its community and now we would like to offer our work resources for your use. We have already figured out a few ideas of what we could do for the Inkscape project: * Heuristic evaluation * Usability testing * Prioritization of usability related bugs on the buglist To produce as useful results as possible, we would like to hear your ideas. How do you feel about the tasks suggested? Is there some specific part of the software we should focus on? Any ideas and feedback at this point would be greatly appreciated. Project leader Aslak Karsi Marko Arffman Matias Patosalmi Jouni Rissanen Matti Siipola

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ANNOUNCE: Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 Montreal Needs Your Sponsorship, Presentations, and Registration
by jon＠...235... 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

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synfig + i18n
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

Hi, Synfig Studio team has been repeatedly asked to make localizations available on Windows, but the person who does the builds right now isn't very much Windows savvy. They rely on GTKmm and gettext as well, and use NullSoft installer. If anyone has packaging knowledge and is willing to help fellow free graphics software developers, please ping me for contacts. Additionally, and this is, well, just my humble (yeah right :)) wish is that we (Synfig and Inkscape) should cooperate as projects. We don't have the manpower to do animation, and they don't have the manpower to do better SVG importing (they don't have SVG _ex_porting yet, AFAIK). Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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New SpinButtons with math ops
by Johan Engelen 17 Apr '11

17 Apr '11

Hi all, The last few days I added functionality to spinboxes: you can now type simple math expressions, like 100+20, 55*2, these kind of things. The code to add this functionality was taken from Gimp, very nice! You can try it out in the transform dialog for example. Works also in the toolbar, but... see below. It also works with units. You can write things like "2 cm", and it will be converted to whatever unit you have selected. Or you can write "(2 * 2 cm)*5 + 3 in". Toolbar spinboxes also have this functionality, but lack the unit stuff. (where it would be really convenient :( I will not work on this unit functionality in the toolbar. Maybe someone else can work on C++-ifying the "ege action" stuff and widget/toolbar.cpp, a first step on the way to getting there. In all C++ UI stuff it is easy to add, and let me know if it is missing somewhere. Ciao, Johan

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Weird text problem in Cairo branch
by Jasper van de Gronde 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

The attached SVG (which I just made using the cairo branch) has three text objects. One with "$x$", one with "$y$" and one with "$z$" (without the quotes obviously). In 0.48 this shows up just fine, but in the Cairo branch only some of the characters are shown (those that are shown appear to be complete). In particular, for most fonts only the x and the z appear (so no dollar sign or y), and for some fonts (like Times New Roman) all characters disappear... Is this a known problem? Can anyone reproduce the problem? Any ideas on fixing it?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Mockup for Improvement of Fill and Stroke Dialog
by Valerie 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

To be quite honest, I really want to be able to use stroke styles more effectively, but there's something I find extremely annoying about having to open such a huge tab just to get an arrow on one end. For that tiny arrow I have to temporarily hide a third of my workspace, often covering part of the lines I'm working on (and I have wide screen). I forgot if this has ever been proposed, but could there ever be a checkbox in tool options or on the side of the tool control bar, where you can click and add options onto the tool control bar? What I'd like to have is a simple set of three drop-downs + dash: [ ] [ ] [ ] Dash: [ ] The drop-downs only show a visual preview of the markers, not the names. I know many people Don't want it, but want options completely different from what I want, thus the toggling options, like "Visible buttons" in Libre Office and other office programs. Can this be achieved simply in GTK right now?

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Libre Graphics Meeting 10-13 May
by Donna Benjamin 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Hello Everyone! The 6th annual LGM is just a few weeks away in Montreal! http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/ The call for speakers is open! http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/submit-talk/ and the pledgie call for funds to cover travel costs is too. http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610 Can you please help spread the word about the pledgie campaign? Blog, Dent, Tweet, Facebook, Mailing lists - anywhere you can think of... and please feel free to just forward this mail on. Here's a code snippet to put on your blog: <a style="border-style:none" href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610"><img src="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/donate/pledgie_banner.png"></a> The libre graphics community itself has been one of the biggest sponsors of our main event. It's a fantastic way for all the users of free graphics tools out there to make a contribution too... but not if they don't know about it. We need your help. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/ http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610 -- Donna Benjamin Libre Graphics Meeting, Montreal 10-13 May, 2011 http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/ -- Donna Benjamin - kattekrab.net Inkscape: Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics http://www.inkscape.org

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