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Some insight into crash in EAN13 barcode generator
by Daniel James 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Hi all, I was excited to see the barcode generator plugin in Inkscape 0.46, finally I can make my own EAN-13 barcodes for book jacket designs :-) I ran into this bug though, while testing 64 Studio 3.0 beta 3, which is Ubuntu Hardy LTS based. The Inkscape package is the same binary as in Hardy. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape/+bug/334073 I think I found the cause, a bug in the plugin. If you select Barcode Type as EAN13 and enter 13 digits into the Barcode Data field, which is correct according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Article_Number you get the error as shown in the Launchpad ticket. If you enter any number of digits other than 12 or 13, it warns: Can not encode '97819050823' into EAN13 Barcode, Size must be 12 numbers only No barcode was generated However if you enter the first 12 digits of an ISBN-13, Inkscape will generate a bogus EAN-13 barcode, which will probably not scan in book stores because it has the final checksum digit missing. I think there's been a mix-up between 12 digit UPC barcodes and 13 digit EAN-13 barcodes used for book ISBN's. Sorry if this is too obvious and you knew about the problem already. If anyone has a barcode scanner available, I would love to do some quality control testing on this feature, because once it's printed on the back of the book, it's too late to change :-) Cheers! Daniel

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Readability of user visible messages
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Hi, It would be great if somebody for whom English is a native language could go through user visible messages and take care of those unclear of them. I'm specifically referring to live paths effects, which is full of things that are difficult to understand. For instance, Celtic Knot has two options: "add stroke width to interruption size" and "add other's stroke width to interruption size". And we still have a lot of places where it's not clear in what units of measure the function works. "Fuse nearby ends" in Pattern Along Path LPE is one of them. Varios SVG Filter primitives too... Would be great to have that sorted out before strings freeze. Alexandre

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UI ideas for quadratic and elliptic curves?
by bulia byak 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Krzysztof is working on Node tool as his GSoC task, and as part of the refactoring we may be able to add support for editing quadratic and elliptic segments in paths. Is anyone aware of how other software supports these beasts from UI viewpoint - what handles are used and how? Any pointers will be appreciated. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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obsolete files in Windows nightly builds
by Alvin Penner 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

just writing to raise the visibility of Bug 382583. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/382583 there are some obsolete files in the current windows nightly builds, which are causing startup problems. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/obsolete-files-in-Windows-nightly-builds-tp24090538p2… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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cannot import PNGs
by Benjamin Huot 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Inkscape 0.47pre0 r21549, built Jun 13 2009 on the Mac cannot import PNGs like previous versions

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NEW: PLT importing/exporting
by Alexandre Prokoudine 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Hi, As of revision 21530 thanks to UniConvertor 1.1.4 our beloved Inkscape now can open and save PLT files that are used in plotters. Please test :) Alexandre

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question: sp_document_maybe_done
by Felipe Sanches 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

what is the difference between sp_document_maybe_done and sp_document_done ? Juca

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po files update and string freeze date
by Lucas Vieites 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Hi, I was browsing the svn tree through the web (to get the last es.po file) and I saw that 14 hours ago there was an update to "inkscape.pot" but the last "make inkscape.pot && update_po_files.sh" was three weeks ago. Now, I know that this is done regularly to keep the po files merged but, as release date approaches maybe it would be a good idea to run the script more often (at least after every update of the main pot file). Also, the RoadMap here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap has no dates but I remember having seen a roadmap with dates. Does that still exist? or was it my imagination? It would be nice to have a dated roadmap (even with approximate dates) in order to plan translation updates. Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-translator] Where to start
by Alexandre Prokoudine 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Marcin Floryan wrote: > The first thing to do is to look for other translators and get in > touch. You can try: Lauris Kaplinski That was a very sensible joke :))))))) Alexandre

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undo history
by Felipe Sanches 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches@...400...> Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape 0.47pre0 To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> yeah, but you could accidentaly hit a key and unintentionally destroy work. There is no "undo my mistaken undo-history-edit"... On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Steven M. Ottens <steven@...2202...> wrote: > although I would love some smart multi-level tree-undo structure > which remembers at what point in history you deviated and allows you > to go back to the branch point and gives you the choice to either > follow the 'new' history or the 'old' history *), I've never seen > that in practice and everyone who uses multiple undo for a while > knows that if you go back in history and change something, you're > 'past future' is lost. > > So merely giving a warning that changing something once you went back > in history will be beneficial for a small number of people, but > hugely annoying for the majority. In my opinion you should either > produce a nice multi-branch undo history (with very interesting UI- > challenges) or leave it as it is. I am aware it is a bit harsh, but > IMHO no-one who is doing serious design work with inkscape will be > surprised by this behavior, because there is no multi-branch-undo in > any (vector)drawing program. > > Correct me if I'm wrong. > > Steven > > *) If inkscape would have it, it would be a killer feature, I'd love > to help to do the UI-part of it, the programming part has to be done > by different minds though > > On Jun 12, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Felipe Sanches wrote: > > > hmmm... cool! > > but I see an issue there... > > > > if you select a "past revision" and edit it, every future revision > > (relative to it) is lost. > > It should either branch the history or warn the user that some work > > will be definetly lost. > > > > Juca > > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, john cliff <john.cliff@...400...> > > wrote: > > do you mean the undo history? its in SVN under edit>undo history... > > > > 2009/6/12 Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches@...400...>: > > > > > >> > > >> Some time back, someone from some university developed an undo > > system > > >> for Inkscape. Would that be included in the final release? > > > > > > Probably not. I havent seen it in our svn repository, so it wont > > be in our > > > release. > > > And it can't be added now in the middle of a release process. > > > > > > Juca > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- > > > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > > > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > > > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > > > server and web deployment. > > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- > > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > > server and web deployment. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- > > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > > server and web deployment. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ > > businessobjects_______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-user mailing list > > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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