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Talks at LGM : deadline extended to March 1st
by Marc Jeanmougin 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hi all, just a friendly reminder that you are encouraged to submit talks about Inkscape for LGM at https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/program.html , the deadline was just extended to March 1st. Don't hesitate to mention here if you already plan to talk about some particular topic, maybe we could coordinate talks :) Thanks everyone ! -- Marc

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"Getting Started with Development" instructions
by Maximilian Gaukler 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hi everyone, I am about to update the "getting started" instructions for new developers: https://inkscape.org/develop/getting-started/ If you have any further suggestions, feel free to answer. I'd like to consolidate all changes into one big edit because every change needs to be translated. Here's my list of changes: - git SSH -> change to HTTPS (as discussed a few months ago) - "Install build dependencies": replace old "apt-get" instructions with the new script from inkscape-ci-docker. Download and run the script to install all requirements: wget -v https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-ci-docker/raw/master/install_dependenc… -O install_dependencies.sh bash install_dependencies.sh --recommended - "/usr in the example" -> "in the example, it is installed in inst/ inside the source folder" - "Versions <= 0.92" -> remove from tutorial, move to Wiki remove mentioning of autotools, as CMake is now the default - do not mark optional arguments with "[ ]" so that copy-paste into the shell works. Also, omitting some of these arguments (e.g. ccache) will horribly slow down compilation, so they aren't truly optional. Instead, just add a note that these arguments may be omitted. - after changes are published: remove redundant info from the Wiki page https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=CompilingUbuntu Have a nice weekend, Max

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Re: [Inkscape-vectors] LGM: About two weeks left for entering your talk/workshop submission!
by Maren Hachmann 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

Hi Elisa, thank you :) for organizing and for the invitation. There's going to be an Inkscape Board Meeting next week Friday evening at 19:00. I think the Rennes Hackfest will be a topic on the agenda then. Would you or Cédric maybe have time to join the Board for a bit of planning? Maren Am 01.02.20 um 16:47 schrieb Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra: > Hi all, > > I'm Elisa from LGM team Rennes. > About the hackfest Inkscape, you are all very welcome :) > And just to infom you that before LGM there is already a hackfest about > KDEnlive. > If you want to work with them is some unexpected aspect, is just to > inform you :) > > And yes, there is place for two hackfest. > > Regards, > Elisa > > Le sam. 1 févr. 2020 à 13:11, Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de > <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> a écrit : > > Hi everyone, > > this is a reminder that you can still submit a proposal for a talk, > lightning talk, hackathon, Birds-of-a-feather meeting or workshop for > this year's Libre Graphics Meeting. > > LGM will take place in Rennes (Brittany, France) from > May 26-29 2020. > > The deadline for your submissions is February 17th. > > More info about your submissions: > https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/program.html > > Info about the venues: > https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/venue.html > > The main focus of this year's event is 'Getting Things Done'. > > The organizers explain that this "means explaining how you manage to > attract more contributors, how you manage the tasks of development, > fixing bugs, the general directions that you want to take your project, > and how you interact to accomplish this. You might even talk about ideas > you have but have not yet implemented. Part of Getting Things Done means > sharing ideas and methods with each other and with artists." > > They are looking for: > > " > * Presentations attracting new contributors to projects > * Information about how your project "gets things done" > * Productive workshops to improve and extend software > * Technical presentations and workshops for developers > * Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools > " > > There's also an Inkscape Hackfest planned to take place either during, > before or after LGM, so stay tuned ;-) > > Maren > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Vectors mailing list -- inkscape-vectors(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-vectors@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-vectors-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-vectors-leave@lists.inkscape.org> > > > > -- > -- > Elisa de Castro Guerra > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >

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LGM: About two weeks left for entering your talk/workshop submission!
by Maren Hachmann 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

Hi everyone, this is a reminder that you can still submit a proposal for a talk, lightning talk, hackathon, Birds-of-a-feather meeting or workshop for this year's Libre Graphics Meeting. LGM will take place in Rennes (Brittany, France) from May 26-29 2020. The deadline for your submissions is February 17th. More info about your submissions: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/program.html Info about the venues: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/venue.html The main focus of this year's event is 'Getting Things Done'. The organizers explain that this "means explaining how you manage to attract more contributors, how you manage the tasks of development, fixing bugs, the general directions that you want to take your project, and how you interact to accomplish this. You might even talk about ideas you have but have not yet implemented. Part of Getting Things Done means sharing ideas and methods with each other and with artists." They are looking for: " * Presentations attracting new contributors to projects * Information about how your project "gets things done" * Productive workshops to improve and extend software * Technical presentations and workshops for developers * Showcases of excellent work made using Libre Graphics tools " There's also an Inkscape Hackfest planned to take place either during, before or after LGM, so stay tuned ;-) Maren

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Re: File formats for 1.0
by Maren Hachmann 25 Jan '20

25 Jan '20

Hallo Christoph, Am 25.01.20 um 01:02 schrieb "Christoph Schäfer": [...] > What about Ghostscript and the Document Liberation import libraries > (libcdr etc.)? Inkscape is using libcdr and libvisio, and ghostscript, too, for imports, as well as poppler. However, it previously used Uniconvertor for those specific versions mentioned below - I can only assume that that was for a reason, I never needed any of them. >> >> Specifically, we're asking about opening: >> >> * Adobe Illustrator 8.0 and below (UC) (*.ai) (I think those could >> be renamed to pdf and would then open, but I have no example files >> to try it out) > > I can test some of those with the latest Inkscape beta. However, > those are basically PostScript files, so everyone else who wants to > test may need to rename the extension to *.ps (if at all). > Ghostscript should be able to handle most of them. Also: What about > PDF-based *.ai files created with later versions of Illustrator? I > have some tough test cases here. Yes, Marc said that in the gitlab issue, too (although he wrote eps, which was what I found elsewhere, too). So that part can probably be solved by documenting it, thanks! >> >> * Corel DRAW Compressed Exchange files (UC) (*.ccx) >> >> * Corel DRAW 7-X4 files (UC) (*.cdr) [cdr imports, but this >> specific version?] >> >> * Corel DRAW 7-13 template files (UC) (*.cdt) > > I have CD v. 11 installed, probably also v. 9 on one of the VMs in my > VM zoo. Note that the differences between CD versions can be > enormous. I've also an (now expired) test version of the current CD > on my laptop, but there may be some sample files, installed with the > software, that can be used for testing. Those versions of which you already know that libcdr can handle them do probably not need extensive testing (only for bugs, maybe, but not for 'if'). Do you know if the version numbers mentioned above are known to not import with libcdr? That would then have been the reason for using Uniconvertor for them. >> >> * Computer Graphics Metafile files (UC) (*.cgm) > > That's a tough one, because it allows for many variations and > parameters (a bit like TIFF for pixel images). However, I think I > still have my test suite created for Scribus's CGM importer. ;) I suspect it won't work at all with current Inkscape beta, but it would be good to have confirmation. >> >> * Corel DRAW Presentation Exchange files (UC) (*.cmx) > > See my remarks regarding CD above. > >> >> * HP Graphics Language Plot file [AutoCAD] (UC) (*.plt) >> >> * Dia Diagram (*.dia) > > Dia files should be straightforward, as it is a FLOSS programme and > available for every distro. IIRC, the format is also XML-based. Ah, yes, I think that only requires one to install Dia... Mmh. Now I have installed it, but it still doesn't work. But at least Dia seems to export to SVG (and even different types of that). >> >> Please reply at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/1213 if >> you can help with any of these. >> >> (we need the info for the file bindings and for the release notes) >> >> Hope someone can help, Maren > > I'd be glad to but need some more info regarding the use/non-use of > GS and the Document Liberation libraries. I can always cross-check > with the import results in LibreOffice and Scribus 1.5.x-dev. Thank you for your help, Christoph! Maren > > Christoph >

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File formats for 1.0
by Maren Hachmann 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

Hi everyone, we're looking for people to try and open their legacy Corel, Illustrator and other files with Inkscape 1.0 (or to look things up in the code and tell us if they *should* be working). Previously, these formats were (also) handled via extensions, and uniconvertor was required for it to work. Specifically, we're asking about opening: * Adobe Illustrator 8.0 and below (UC) (*.ai) (I think those could be renamed to pdf and would then open, but I have no example files to try it out) * Corel DRAW Compressed Exchange files (UC) (*.ccx) * Corel DRAW 7-X4 files (UC) (*.cdr) [cdr imports, but this specific version?] * Corel DRAW 7-13 template files (UC) (*.cdt) * Computer Graphics Metafile files (UC) (*.cgm) * Corel DRAW Presentation Exchange files (UC) (*.cmx) * HP Graphics Language Plot file [AutoCAD] (UC) (*.plt) * Dia Diagram (*.dia) Please reply at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/1213 if you can help with any of these. (we need the info for the file bindings and for the release notes) Hope someone can help, Maren

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tutorials for Inkscape website
by brynn 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Hi Friends, I'm brynn and I've contacted most of you before, as much as 5 or 6 years ago, when I was first creating a centralized listing of Inkscape tutorials (on Inkscape Community https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php). Unfortunately, for personal reasons, I'm going to have to close Inkscape Community at the end of this month. However, with help from the Inkscape website team, I've set up a somewhat similar system on the Inkscape website, where we want to make a new collection of tutorials. So I want to invite all of you Inkscape tutorial authors to join us, and make a new collection of tutorials on the Inkscape website. Please visit this new page when you have a chance, and check it out. https://inkscape.org/learn/tutorials/ If you'd like to help, please join us in the Documentation chatroom: https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation. Or repy to the Docs mailing list, if you're subscribed. Or email me at the return address of this message, or use the website PM system (click on my profile, then the envelope icon). All best, brynn

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Inkscape at FOSDEM 2020
by Philip Durbin 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

Hello! My name is Philip Durbin and I'm an open source developer at Harvard who is giving a talk about a project at work (Dataverse) at FOSDEM 2020 in Brussels, Belgium in a few weeks (Feb 1-2) and who would be happy to meet up with other Inkscape users or developers who are also attending. The website is https://fosdem.org/2020/ If you'd like to meet up, please let me know! Thanks, Phil p.s. I'm a newbie when it comes to Inkscape but my kids and I are having a blast with it (on the family iMac with the new 1.0 beta). Check out the kitten my daughter and I drew: http://blog.greptilian.com/2020/01/03/learning-inkscape/ p.p.s. I attended yesterday's Vectors team meeting and wrote up some thoughts at http://blog.greptilian.com/2020/01/05/first-inkscape-vectors-meeting-of-202…

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A Big thank you from a long time inkscape user
by Victor Westmann 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

Hi Everyone, I would like to thank everyone for the hard work you all had during the past 10 years or so. I am an inkscape user since 2007 and I couldn't be more satisfied. This project came such a long way both in the application and in the team structure. I remember we were using mailing lists in source forge. And when our website was not using Django. What makes me the happier is to see that the application now have layers, floating panels, dark theme (spoiler for 1.0 version!), more features, more languages, and it runs on Mac without X11! I got really surprised when I realized that a lot of the feature requests were accepted and even implemented in the project. So thank you very much for caring. And for reaching out. I still feel I don't have a lot of knowledge on the program (yes, this is how I feel) and my time is limited, just like anybody else, but I will do my best to commit to help onboard more users whenever possible. Thank you so much for everyone involved in this project. Inkscape makes the world a better place for everyone. Thanks, Victor

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Possible bug in Inkscape 0.92 Export Plot extension
by G Jenkins 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

Hi folks I'm emailing the developer list to see if I need to submit a bug report for an issue I haven't been able to resolve through the User Forum. I am using Inkscape 0.92 on Ubuntu 18.04.3 to cut vinyl using a Liyu SC631 cutter, connected using a USB port. Before I updated to Ubuntu 18.04.3 I used Inkcut without any problems. I understand that Inkcut is now deprecated so I have been trying to use the Export/Plot extension instead. The issue is that when I do this the cutter cuts an extra, unwanted, line direct from the last point of the drawing back to the origin, spoiling the item being cut. The problem does not occur when I use Inkcut. Is this a case of "operator error", in which case what am I doing wrong, or is it a bug which I need to report? Any replies gratefully received. Gareth

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