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0.47 App Icon Proposal
by Jakub Steiner 04 May '09

04 May '09

I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2]. The icon feels close to being native on all the major platforms. The added high detail icon will make the Mac OS X builds feel less alien on that platform too. cheers [1] http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/inkscape-app-icon-proposal.zip [2] http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_v… -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...400...> http://jimmac.musichall.cz

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DeviantART & Wacom Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, One of the last major contests held on DA was won by an Inkscape user. There is something to be said for both people's creativity and their tools of choice. :) So, if you'd like a chance to win a brand new Wacom Intuos4, money, some proprietary software that you can throw in the waste bin ;), and all that fun stuff, check out: http://news.deviantart.com/article/76573/ And yes... my recommendation is to use Inkscape. Cheers, Josh

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Time for Frost
by Josh Andler 03 May '09

03 May '09

Hey all, Please don't forget that the frost phase is beginning today according to the proposed schedule. Any issues with this need to be raised immediately. Otherwise, excpect the bug hunt and about screen announecements tomorrow. :-) Cheers, Josh

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Snapshots not updating
by Render 02 May '09

02 May '09

I noticed that the snapshots located http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=99112 indicate that the windows dev version is 21259, but when you open up the development version it indicates rev 21210 from Apr24. Just thought I would let you know

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save as convert text to path loses content
by Jeremy C. Reed 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Using inkscape 21256 from yesterday's snapshot. Doing a save as to save as PDF and selecting convert text to path makes me lose my content. Only part is rendered in the resulting PDF. I see this in multiple SVG projects. If I don't check that, the resulting file appears to be a bitmap. Now I realize that in that case the fonts where I added an outline using object Stroke are the ones that don't look good. The others look fine and pdffonts show me those are embedded. (That success is only without using convert text to path.) I found: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/295138 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/284680 Inkscape has warnings: (inkscape:19722): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to find default local directory monitor type (inkscape:19722): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_grab_default: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_CAN_DEFAULT (widget)' failed ** (inkscape:19722): WARNING **: Ignoring font without family that will crash Pango Maybe they are related. It would be nice if above WARNING would say what font has the "without family" problem. Any ideas for this? As a workaround I may reopen in old 0.46 and save as PDF there. (I am using later development code due to can't change fill color in 0.46 version.)

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Tr : Re : rendering quality for filter etc.
by Ivan Louette 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

I tried the three filters versions on Batik and they render and export correctly. ivan ----- Message transféré ---- De : Ivan Louette <ivan_louette@...48...> À : the Adib <theadib@...1439...>; inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel@...838...ourceforge.net> Envoyé le : Mercredi, 29 Avril 2009, 19h14mn 56s Objet : [Inkscape-devel] Re : rendering quality for filter etc. Perhaps linked to the problem I have with my latest filter which is intended to draw dark or black edges on pictures. It renders well in Inkscape, Opera and Firefox, but export to png is bad and never gives correctly the dark lines. I join you a file with three filters samples to apply to the embedded pictures. ivan ________________________________ De : the Adib <theadib@...1439...> À : inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Envoyé le : Mercredi, 29 Avril 2009, 1h53mn 25s Objet : [Inkscape-devel] rendering quality for filter etc. There is this issue 322116 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322116 "PDF export does not use the highest quality for rasterized filters" The reason for this issue is that each nr_arena_item checks the preferences for the filter quality even for off screen rendering. This is wrong behaviour. During png export there is a sequence like this save, set ... rendering ... restore. This changes for a short moment the preferences. This is also not good style. (remember a background task renderin to png - in future) I developed a patch that is attached to the issue in launchpad. Attached patch puts render quality properties to nr_arena. You can do now "nr_arena_set_renderoffscreen(arena)" for an offscreen arena in order to get highest accuracy. please review! Adib. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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rendering quality for filter etc.
by the Adib 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

There is this issue 322116 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322116 "PDF export does not use the highest quality for rasterized filters" The reason for this issue is that each nr_arena_item checks the preferences for the filter quality even for off screen rendering. This is wrong behaviour. During png export there is a sequence like this save, set ... rendering ... restore. This changes for a short moment the preferences. This is also not good style. (remember a background task renderin to png - in future) I developed a patch that is attached to the issue in launchpad. Attached patch puts render quality properties to nr_arena. You can do now "nr_arena_set_renderoffscreen(arena)" for an offscreen arena in order to get highest accuracy. please review! Adib.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] geometry constructions tool/lpe (plus three questions)
by Maximilian Albert 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi all, > Do we have a decision whether we ship 0.47 with GC tools enabled? I'd vote for leaving them out. Although it may look like the geometriy tool is just a step from being finished and perhaps it's already of use for some people, some important things still need to be added before it is truly usable. These involve coding on a fundamental level as well as some careful design decisions, and it is likely that this will entail (considerable?) changes in some of the GC LPEs, too. IMHO it would be advisable to not make these in a rush while releasing 0.47. In this context, I'd once again like to sincerely apologize that my work is still unfinished. Unfortunately, due to sad personal circumstances related to my family it is likely that I won't be able to participate in Inkscape development anytime soon (I can't predict yet how long that may be, I'm afraid), and this post is just a rare occasion since by coincidence I caught a glimpse of Alexandre's question. I will join you again as soon as I can manage, promise! Perhaps I'll be able to do an occasional bug fix during the release process (although frankly speaking I doubt it). While I'm at it, here is one question and two random comments that occurred to me recently: 1) I seem to recall that there is an online tutorial on scientific poster creation with Inkscape. Does someone happen to have a link at hand? 2) The default value of the "Smoothing factor" in the pencil tool is 4, but this often produces paths with a huge number of nodes. Wouldn't something like 25 or 30 make more sense? BTW, does the number of nodes depend on how quickly the line is drawn? 3) After a fresh installation all lines drawn with the pen/pencil tools have no stroke but are filled, which is very unnatural for freehand lines. On the other hand, the defaults in preferences-skeleton.h are set the other way round. Are these settings discarded, and why? Best regards and good luck for the release of an awesome 0.47! Max

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spray tool in next release ?
by Cédric Gémy 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

lo i'm guessing if it would be possible to plan an integration of the spray tool, soon. It usable now, and last fixes will be done in the next 2 weeks, which is inkscape planning too. If you want to try and give your opinion : http://svn.eclair.ec-lyon.fr/svn/pi2010_inkscape pygmee

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Spray tool almost complete
by Pierre-Antoine MARC 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi there, Spray tool is almost complete and you can download it on svn.eclair.ec-lyon.fr/svn/pi2010_inkscape. We had some difficulties to merge it with the official trunk recently, so it is not up to date (it's a version from 2 weeks ago). If someone knows how to fix this... The single path mode may only work if you convert the object to a path... Otherwise, everything works fine. Give it a try and tell us what you think! Pierre-Antoine

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