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A better LaTeX equation renderer
by Dylan Thurston 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hello, I was annoyed that the LaTeX equation insert mechanism didn't provide a way to control the size of the equation. This makes it needlessly difficult to match the size of the text in the body of a LaTeX document. So I modified that extension. Attached is a revised version that: (a) Allows scaling by a specified factor; (b) Allows typesetting non-equations; (c) Allows customizing the preamble to the LaTeX document; (d) Properly scales the input using the 'viewBox' attribute, rather than relying on the structure of the document; and (e) Uses pdf2svg ( http://www.cityinthesky.co.uk/pdf2svg.html ) rather than pstoedit. On point (e), pdf2svg seemed more reliable to me, though YMMV. I can easily switch it back to pstoedit, although it's harder to control just where the resulting formula ends up. For point (c), I was annoyed by the very limited UI options: it seems hard to either embed newlines in the preamble or give a sufficiently large input area. Is there any hope of fixing this? I could, I guess, have different input boxes for different lines, but that's really horrendously clunky. Any comments are welcome. Of course I'd like to see a version of this in the next release, if possible. Best, Dylan Thurston Assistant Professor, Barnard College

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ui improvements
by Alexandre Prokoudine 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, At the risk of starting a holy war... :) A blueprint by Oliver Jan Krylow: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/ui-improv http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/UI_improvements We have a bunch a blueprint in the queue. Would be nice to go through them and at least comment in a sensible way so that there was feedback. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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SVG media type registration
by Tavmjong Bah 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, The media type registration (MIME) for SVG: image/svg+xml is finally being registered. As part of this registration, information on how SVG content is tagged by clipboards is required. For example, the Windows Clipboard Name is "SVG Image". Can someone tell me how Inkscape tags SVG content on the clipboard for Windows, MacOS, and Linux? As far as I can tell, Inkscape copies the entire SVG content is copied as text. Thanks, Tav See: "Additional information" in http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/publish/mimereg.html

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Increasing performance through OpenCL
by Abhishek Sharma 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi all, Previously I was discussing on lib2geom the concept of applying OpenCL based refactoring on the code(lib2geom initially). Then on suggestions of some developers I have moved from lib2geom to inskcape on an overall to increase the performance of inskcape in any possible manner. Some earlier suggestions included, Parallelizing the rendering of cairo based implementation. I would love to move forward in the area, but I will be needing some push(in terms of startup) to get started. Like the first and foremost question that lies ahead of me as a wall is, "What is the area of the code that is possible to be parallelized and how much can it affect the performance??" Second question is, What approach should be taken to parallelize the stuff?? Most serial algorithms when implemented in parallel totally change their appearance. So will that be OK or not?? There are other hurdles but it would be better to first proceed forwards with snacks and then go the main feast. I hope the developers will mark their attention to this and kindly come to start this discussion. A hearty Thank You to all the inkscape developers. -- Abhishek Sharma

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comma bug
by Axel Huizinga 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, looks like a bug to me but I'd like to get some comments before reporting. When I add a drop shadow in my de locale environment on XP even after setting inkscape up to use en the stdDeviation and colorMatrix alpha values are set with comma instead of dot. This causes firefox not to display the object any more. Cordially, Axel

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Text Dialog Not Grabbing Font, Style, Size
by MilesTogoe 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

This has been a recurring problem for us since about vers .45: select a block of text, click on the font dialog toolbar (or choose in menu) - when the dialog appears, font is blank, size is blank, style defaults to normal. edit the text and click apply and get an unexpected font in return. clicking on it into rotation mode sometimes helps pop up with font info or rapid clicking to get it into edit mode sometimes helps - but this is too cumbersome are we missing something or does this need work ?

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interview
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi, Just in case not everyone follows news, there is an interview with Inkscape developers and contributors published a week ago: http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=24 Many thanks to everyone who agreed to participate. If you find any reviews of the new version (like e.g. http://www.timteatro.net/2010/08/19/review-of-inkscape-0-48/, but could be smaller) in any language, please let me know: I'd like to quote/link to some of them from a news item at inkscape.org. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Elegant work - thank you
by Joshua Facemyer 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

In case anyone on this list didn't see it, I thought this was a great endorsement posted to the Inkscape Users list. JF -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Inkscape-user] Elegant work - thank you Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:21:15 -0700 From: Carl Symons <carlsymons@...400...> Reply-To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Yesterday, I led an orientation for a small group of beginners from an Native American community in the US. They all wanted Inkscape loaded on their new computers. It is a wonder-full, wonderful application. This Native American nation's (Coastal Salish) heritage and culture is loaded with arts, in particular totem-like images where Inkscape excels. These students were already making exceptional images after just a few hours. One girl did a piece with one star, Ctrl-D-ing, tweaking and arranging the copies. She was gone into the timelessness of creativity. > From the mailing list today came my discovery of F11 and F12 toggles. Simple, but functions I didn't know about or even realize I wanted. I am amazed at the quality and thoughtfulness of Inkscape. So this is a note of thanks to everyone who contributes to Inkscape. You touch lives in unimaginable ways. Carl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Cloned Tiles interface rework proposal
by Valerie 04 Sep '10

04 Sep '10

Congratulations on another terrific release! I hope you’re all taking a well-deserved break. In the meantime, I wanted to discuss whether it’s possible to rework the Tiled Clones interface, mainly to address the following issues: - Location: Tiled Clones is too powerful a tool to be hidden in Edit. Proposal: move Tiled Clones to Object, and have it open a dialogue like Fill, Align etc rather than a floating box (Ctrl + Shift + C). - The interface: the current interface is very powerful, but it feels like staring down a math/geometry class. :P Separating Tiles and Rotate and adding a preview area using simple examples would be nice. - “How do I make it rotate around This point?” Have the option to select an on-screen guideline, like how it works with filters and LPEs. For rotations, you select an angled line. Now, I’m assuming that most uses of tiled clones would fall into a few major categories: - Tiles: including simple symmetry and various tiles options. - Radial Clone: flowers, laces, round borders, clocks, gears... - Objects Along Path: Like Pattern Upon Path, except for objects. Example: a line of trees bordering a curving river and fading into the background. So, long-story short, my proposal for more user-friendly Tiled Clones interface: http://a.imagehost.org/view/0611/Tiles http://a.imagehost.org/view/0362/Radial Options that I’ve missed will of course have to be added back in. Thoughts?

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Free Desktop Release
by Martin Owens 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hey Inkscapers, Firstly, congratulations and thank you all so much for Inkscape 0.48 I was just looking at this page here: http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en And I have to say I'm fairly disappointed that Inkscape as a project caters so poorly to educating Free Desktop users about how to get Inkscape for their platform. It's not just that there isn't a download for Ubuntu or Fedora directly, but because it doesn't even have an apt link or a ppa for where you can get the latest Inkscape release. This causes major headaches for us trying to support Ubuntu: like Mozilla who recommend Ubuntu users upgrade their version of Ubuntu by downloading tar-balls, it's annoying, confusing for users and a it's maintaining the myth that FOSS is for geeks. If you'd like some help with the preparation of the page and publishing for various platforms, I'd be very happy to lend a hand. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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