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Exporting a SVG to PS causes excessive blurriness
by Jevon Wright 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Hi everyone, I am trying, but struggling, to find a solution to bug #585286 [1], where exporting a SVG containing a transparent PNG to PS causes excessive blurriness. This is a major bug for me. I've done as much research as I can do on this bug. After delving through the code base, I think this bug is related to bug #427226 and bug #208217 - apparently Postscript does not support alpha transparency [2], which I think is what is causing the rasterization, and I think it is happening within Cairo. However, it still supports clipping and masking, so as far as I can tell this should be technically possible! An alternative is simply to increase the resolution of the forced rasterization, but I can't find anywhere in the code to increase this. Would this be part of Inkscape or Cairo? I've tried using Cairo 1.10.0 with no effect. If anybody has some knowledge of Inkscape/Cairo and can suggest some solutions or even ideas, I would be most grateful. Thanks Jevon [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/585286 [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_%28graphic%29#Transparency_in_Pos…

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LaTeX vs. other forms of TeX.
by John Culleton 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

There is a presumption that the de facto version of TeX is LaTeX. However the latest work in TeX is centered around non-LaTeX versions such as XeTeX and Luatex. Some of us prefer our TeX without the excess baggage of LaTeX. So I wonder if it would be practical to have the Inkscape output of TeX text in e.g., pdftex format as well as LaTeX format? This output would be both less verbose and more flexible in e.g., paper sizes. -- John Culleton, Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/

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adopted extensions in point releases
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hi, We have a number of adopted extensions shipped with Inkscape. One of them is JessyInk, which, IIRC, was updated at least twice since we added it -- once in August and yesterday. Both are bugfix releases. Do we update code for the upcoming point release? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Crop tool should be straight forward to implement, thoughts?
by Andy Fitzsimon 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

G'day everyone, I had a thought after some observation and while it wouldn't look good on our already crowded toolbox, it should be fairly easy to implement a crop tool. In practice its just applying parent group to all things then a clippath and finally a resize page to contents command which we already have the code for... Also, it would be easy to have a rule that crops from the selection (if things are selected) by skipping that last resize page and only grouping the already selected stuff.. maybe attached as a mode of the default selector tool from the parent toolbar My thinking is that right now creating clippaths is a weird concept for new-to-vector users, but almost everyone gets the idea of cropping This could be a very achievable GSOC feature if someone is willing to mentor it.. Personally, I can see how much simpler it would be rather than drawing rects and making a weird selection every time i want to crop. to new users, this workflow is not obvious What are the thoughts here? -- Andy

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changing textnodes with dbus?
by unknown＠example.com 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hello, I would like to change the text of textnodes with the dbus api. Is it possible, or does it require changes to the dbus implementation? -- Joakim Verona

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Help needed in fixing line positioning bug.
by Tavmjong Bah 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Hi, I've found a problem with line positioning in text objects after a line is deleted. When I first saw this bug I though I might have introduced it with my recent work on text but it turns out that it predates the work. In any case I've investigated the bug and have narrowed down the problem but I don't know how to fix it. Here is how to reproduce the bug: 1. Create some multiline text. 2. Remove one of the middle lines including the new line character. 3. Save the file then look at it in a web browser or with the XML Editor. The lines will be shifted down one unit of line-height. Here is what I have found: When you delete a new-line: sp_te_delete calls delete_line_break and then te_update_layout_now. The latter calls SPText::rebuildLayout() which loops over the tspans, calling tspan->attributes.setFirstXY(anchor_point). The values of anchor_point are correct and Inkscape displays the tpans correctly but the x and y attributes as shown by the XML Editor are not updated. It is as if the x and y attributes are being updated in a copy of the tspans. What needs to be done to get the tspans in the tree update correctly? Tav

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inkscape feature : fullscreen + scripted button
by audrey samson 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX apologies for Xposting XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX hello all, i am working on a performative installation in which inkscape is used. the idea is that people can draw on the screen (in inkscape) and a constantly refreshing screengrab is streamed to a server (in pure data) which displays it on a webpage. this page also displays a performer in australia. both 'screens' (australia + touchscreen in amsterdam) are communicating together through drawing/touch. what i am missing in inkscape for all this to run smoothly is: 1) full screen option (not even showing the menu bar 'File', 'Edit', etc., *only* the canvas). 2) a graphical button (i.e. filled green circle) which, when 'pressed', will 'save as' (to record the current vector drawing to a folder with a numerically incrementing filename), 'select all', 'erase', 'return pointer to paintbrush tool option'. the situation is that i have very little time to figure this out and i can imagine that for some people on this list this is rather easy to implement. therefore i hope that someone out there has a bit of time and perhaps an inclination to work on this. there is of course budget for this and proper credits to the programmer/developper and promotion of inkscape project will be included in the project documentation. the project runs on nov. 6th. (thus very quick deadline). you can contact me @ this email address or on irc.indymedia.org #etc. i tried to join #inkscape but i cannot post. much appreciated! audrey samson ideacritik.com

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missing file 'application/editor.h', Windows, rev 9830
by Alvin Penner 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

attempting to compile for the first time, Windows XP, rev 9830, I get the error message: C:\InkscapeBZR>btool #################################################### # BuildTool v0.9.9 #################################################### ######## PARSE : build.xml snip ##### compile the source to .o --- compile / cc cc : compile of build/obj/ui/view/edit-widget.o required by source: src/ui/v iew/edit-widget.cpp ============ cmd ============ mingw32-g++ -c -Wall -Wformat -Werror=format-security -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast- dget -Isrc/util -Isrc/widgets -Isrc/xml src/ui/view/edit-widget.cpp -o build/obj /ui/view/edit-widget.o ============================= Make error line 299: problem compiling: src/ui/view/edit-widget.cpp:51:32: fatal error: application/editor.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/missing-file-%27application-editor.h%27%2C-Windows%2C… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Adding Nodes in 48
by Martin Owens 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Got 0.48 with 10.10 and now I can't add nodes to paths by double clicking. Although I did finally work out how to work the pressure sensitivity dialog and turn my wacom on. Have the node adding feature been removed? Martin,

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New translatable Keys and mouse reference
by Nicolas Dufour 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Hello, A "Keys and mouse reference" translation system is available in the inkscape-docs project as of revision 385 (see https://code.launchpad.net/inkscape-docs). The new keys.xml has been almost entirely docbookified in order to make its conversion to PO easier, and the resulting HTML file is slightly different than the current one (new external CSS, some style changes, and strict XHTML 1.0). I didn't wanted to change its aspect too drastically, and thus only fine-tuned some styles in order to (hopefully!) improve the overall readability on most browsers (tested with Opera 10.63, IE8 and Firefox 3.6.10 on Windows XP, and Firefox 3.6.10 on Ubuntu 10.04). Don't hesitate to comment. To add a new translation, copy keys.pot (from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape-docs/trunk/files/head%3A…) to LANG.po, translate (only 939 strings...), and attach the PO file to a bug report, send it to the translators' list, or commit it if you have the appropriate rights. Then update the UI translation file to redirect the link to the new HTML file on the website. BTW, we currently use keysVERSION.html (keys048.html) and thus it would be straightforward to use keysVERSION.LANG.html (keys049.sk.html...). But we could also choose keys-VERSION-LANG.html (keys-049-ja.po). Any preference? or another idea? Regards. -- Nicolas

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