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Power Stroke discussion
by unknown＠example.com 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hi all, This summer, Zhenfeng will work on a new "variable stroke width" LivePathEffect, called "Power Stroke". Now that Zhenfeng has started his GSoC, I'd like all who are interested to join the discussion on this page: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PowerStroke#Discussion_at_LGM_20 10. Already I got some great input at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels last week. More input is always welcome. Thanks a lot! Johan

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Proposal to create "Inkscape translators" team in Launchpad
by Lucas Vieites 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hi, I'd like to propose the creation of a Launchpad team called "Inkscape Translators" in the same way the "Inkscape Administrators" and "Inkscape Developers" exist in order to centralize the efforts of all us translators. Comments? -- Lucas Vieites Blog: http://blog.codexion.com/

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SPObject counting clones
by unknown＠example.com 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hi all, Is the number of times an spobject is cloned (svg "use") counted? It would be a really great help in fixing a bug. So what I'd like to have is: SPObject obj; obj->clone_count or something similar. Thanks, Johan

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Preferences help
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Could someone who understands preferences please look at bug #583593? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/583593 I am clueless. Thanks, Tav

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attributes.h
by Alex Leone 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hi all, I've been working on the document properties dialog, which uses RegisteredWidgets (essentially wrappers that link a gtk widget to an XML attribute, so changing the widget changes the XML), and I've noticed that the code doesn't really use the attribute constants in attributes.h. My question: instead of using straight strings, for example "inkscape:document-units", should the code be using sp_attribute_name(SP_ATTR_INKSCAPE_DOCUMENT_UNITS) - Alex

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Report from LGM 2010
by Tavmjong Bah 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hello, As I am sitting on the train returning from LGM 2010, I thought I would give you all a summary of the conference. There where many nice talks and it was great to finally meet many Inkscapers who I only knew by name. There were also very nice endorsements of Inkscape. The Fedora design team made a big point of expressing how much they LOVE Inkscape. Inkscape appeared all over the place at the conference, from designing icons to designing fonts. I am sure I have forgotten somethings as my memory needs a serious upgrade... so other Inkscape attendees, don't hesitate to correct me. Here is a summary of talks by Inkscapers about Inkscape or other topics. Friday: Jasper van de Gronde: Diffusion curves (gradients defined by values specified along the defining paths). Felipe Sanches (JucaBlues): GNU LibreDWG to read DWG files from AutoCAD. Saturday Jakub Steiner: Icon Workflows with Inkscape. Alexandre Prokoudine: Digital photography workflow on Linux with darktable. Andy Fitzsimons: Inkscape for everybody. Elisa de Castro Guerra: Workshop for Inkscape beginners (in French and English). Sunday John Phillips: Aiki framework. As a side note, he used Inkscape for his presentation, putting all his slides on one page and then zooming in and out on individual ones. Other Inkscapers present included Ivan Louette, Gemy Cedric, and Johan Engelen. My only critique is that it would have been nice to have had a demonstration of some of the new features of the upcoming Inkscape release. The list of other interesting talks is long. You can look at the website for a list of talks and the videos of all the talks should be online soon if not already. Some of the crowd favorites were the talk by the NodeBox2 group and the talk by Tom Lechner who showed a very impressive demonstration of putting images on a sphere and then unwrapping it. During the talks and at informal gatherings, there was quite a bit of discussion about what users need from Inkscape. Here is a list of requests: 1. Hyphenation support in the text tool. 2. Faster loading/displaying fonts in the menu. 3. Command line interface without opening the GUI. 4. Trapping for commercial work. 5. Fixes for bugs #167809 (Linked offset performance issues) and #270983 (Terrible performance node editing even in outline mode). In general there is a desire for more SPEED! 6. Shortcuts in tooltips (especially for tools). 7. Don't muck up imported SVG, e.g. turning ellipses into paths. This is important when planning to animate things. Many people design with Inkscape and then use Scribus for preparing files for commercial printing. Members of the SVG working group were present which lead to a number of useful discussions. They will hold a working group meeting tomorrow. Here are a number of topics that were covered: 1. Support for multipage documents. The proposal for multipage documents has been dropped from SVG 1.2 due to many negative comments. The proposal was too complicated for simple uses and not sophisticated enough for advance uses. If we push, a simplified version could be added to SVG 2.0. 2. Support for patterns along paths. Coming out of the discussion on Power Strokes lead by Johan Engelen, Doug Schepers of the SVG standards group expressed a great interest in pursuing this as it would allow some LPE like effects to be animated. Doug, in general, would like to see greater ability to edit/animate SVG. 3. Support for diffusion curves. 4. SVG Fonts: Firefox and IE at the moment don't have any interest in supporting, preferring to focus on WOFF implementation. It was pointed out by several people that SVG Fonts are much more useful for artistic purposes as one can imagine animating the glyphs or adding special effects to them. 5. Increasing the bit depth for some of the filters to avoid artifacts (e.g. the displacement filter or lighting filters). There is a need to balance requirements for small devices (small memory) with the need for large ones (smooth/accurate displays) but perhaps a compromise could be made (I've suggested adding an optional second byte to the bump maps). 6. Standardizing layers (Inkscape currently uses tagged groups for layers). Other SVG news is that Adobe is again interested in supporting the standard and that IE9 will support all of SVG except SVG fonts and filters. Finally, the SVG working group really stressed the need for community participation, especially from Inkscape. I have volunteered to help represent Inkscape in the group. So let me know on this list or off of any thing you want raised with the group. You can also join the SVG mailing list (www-svg@...157...). Jasper is already a member and I just joined. One of the more interesting talks was about trying to develop Open Source tools for fashion design. It seems that there is a need to develop adjustable patterns for those who don't have the petite bodies the industry designs towards. The industry just scales up the patterns for bigger women, leading to poor fit. After hearing the talk, someone has already created an Inkscape extension to help with the work. See: http://www.sew-brilliant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Projects Finally, several venues for LGM 2011 have been proposed. The leading candidate seems to be Ho Chi Min City, Viet Nam. Montreal is also a possibility. Felipe was encouraged to think about Brazil for 2012. Tav PS. Thanks to Jasper for reading a draft of this summary and making many corrections.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Re : Re : I suck at Perl (orcheck-markup)
by Preben Soeberg 31 May '10

31 May '10

> From: Krzysztof Kosiński [mailto:tweenk.pl@...400...] > > W dniu 30 maja 2010 14:33 użytkownik Preben Soeberg <prsodk@...400...> > napisał: > > Now at devlibs rev. 17, still having the same problem: > > > > Make error line 452: <msgfmt> problem: po/fr.po:18690: keyword "msgctxt" > > unknown > > po/fr.po:18690:8: parse error > > po/fr.po:18695: keyword "msgctxt" unknown > > po/fr.po:18695:8: parse error > > ... > > > > I'm not near a computer for the next week or so. > > I think you have an obsolete version of gettext tools installed in > your MinGW directory, or somewhere in your PATH before the devlibs > bin/ directory. Make sure that the msgfmt.exe from devlibs is first in > your PATH. > Thanks, that solved my problem. I just managed to test it, before I leave for the train. Regards Preben

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Re : Re : Re : I suck at Perl (orcheck-markup)
by Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com 30 May '10

30 May '10

Hi, if i try to update the de.po with "msgmerge -Uv de.po inkscape.pot" on Windows, i get a different error message: ----- inkscape.pot:18745: Schlüsselwort »msgctxt« ist unbekannt inkscape.pot:18745:8: parse error ----- Keyword »msgctxt« is unknown So i get at least 104 Error messages. Can someone fix this problem? Sincerely, UweSch > De : Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@...2349...> > À : Nicolas Dufour <nicoduf@...48...> >> Another check-markup related issue: [it doesn't support msgctxt >> lines] > > It's past my bedtime, so I haven't tested interesting cases > yet, but try the attached patch. Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. But the error message is different now: ... fr.po: parse error; may be a bug in po/check-markup: #: ../src/ui/tool/transform-handle-set.cpp:479 ... And the fuzzy lines are now correctly ignored. Regards, -- Nicolas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel -- Mit freundlichem Gruß, Uwe Schöler

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Diffusion Curves
by Jasper van de Gronde 30 May '10

30 May '10

For those interested in Diffusion Curves, more information can be gotten at the Inkscape wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Diffusion_Curves This includes some early thoughts on syntax and a link to a very (very) basic implementation (purely raster based). (Feel free to add your own ideas and suggestions.)

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Talk at EuroPython 2010
by Hannes Hochreiner 29 May '10

29 May '10

Dear all: Harald Armin Massa was so kind as to invite me to give a talk at EuroPython 2010 on JessyInk. The talk will focus in particular on the Inkscape extensions I wrote for JessyInk. As such, I thought it might be a very good opportunity to promote Inkscape, provide people with an introduction to writing Python extensions for Inkscape and to present new features or plans that concern Inkscape's extension facility. Therefore, I would like to ask for your input: *) What are the most essential points that have to mentioned when it comes to Inkscape extensions written in Python ("inkex" and install dirs come to mind)? *) Are there any (Python) extensions that demonstrate interesting / unusual / particularly helpful patterns that would be helpful for someone looking to develop new extensions? *) Is there any page / tutorial / other place (irc?, this mailing list?) that you would like to have mentioned where developers can get help when they have an extension related problem? *) Are there any new features or exciting plans for the future of the extension facility that I should tell people about? If you can think of anything else, feel free to let me know. Cheers, Hannes

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