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Inkscape DVCS - was: Re: GSoC 2009 - Project handling in the repository
by Jeff Kowalczyk 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

The GSoC 2009 might present a good opportunity for inkscape to move to a DVCS. Students, mentors and testers would benefit from enhanced branch, merge and branch tracking capabilities at github, launchpad, bitbucket, et al. Jeff

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GSoC, KML-SVG
by Piotr Kopczyński 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Now to the matter. I haven't got a clear idea what to do, I'm not even sure about the guidelines for this task nor have a complete feeling of the goal. On the other hand I have some chances to make a piece of valuable work here. The task was described as "likely XSLT". Fortunately I have the basic understanding of XML and XSLT (I've recently accomplished a subject at my university devoted to XML and XSLT, so I'm quite fresh with it). In addition, I got to like it and feel a need to deal more with such translations. The fact is, I don't know the "XML Schemas" and practical aspects of SVG and KML. I will need some time to get through their documentations. Anyway, both specifications are worth knowing, so I will gladly learn them. I guess the job may be considered as import and export respectively. Importing (KML to SVG) shall be relatively simple and with a small risk of an "out-of-time" defeat. The other direction (export) seems more hard and needing deeper considerations. Of course, the importing part might also need some "parameters" (options in import wizard?). As I am freaky/scarry of not meeting the deadline, I like to find a safe-feeling solution first. An example of such is making a little website for converting KML to SVG using for example Firefox built-in XSL processor (I've used this solution in my last XSLT project, although it didn't involve any SVG rendering). I have then made a silly and tiny web framework (using PHP + .htaccess + mod_rewrite) for passing parameters to the XSLT file (parameters are dynamically inserted into original file as lines with an xsl:param definition each). Thus I could make a small portal driven only by XSLT :-) As this solution is quite comfortable and "recent" for me, I believe "I can make it", and in the meantime we can optionally consider if I will be able to deal with Inkscape internals (that is what I don't know at all, so this may be more risky). That's it for a minimum. I'm waiting for your opinion and expectations. If you agree for solving this task via XSLT, I'm likely to success with it. Piotrekk

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GSoC mentoring
by Josh Andler 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Our requested number of slots for GSoC is currently greater than the number of mentors we have. If I don't see a change in this equation soon, I need to change our request to a lower number. SO... If we have anyone interested in mentoring students this year who is not signed up, please do so asap. If we have anyone that is currently signed up who is willing or able to mentor more than one student, please speak up. Cheers, Josh P.S. Existing mentors, please start reviewing student proposals if you haven't already done so.

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Johan's GSoC App
by Josh Andler 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

I have marked him as ineligible per his desire to not participate this year. This was done to take his proposal out of the ranking queue, so it is more accurate for the students that wish to participate. Johan, we're sorry it wasn't able to work out this year with your schedule, but we all go through busy spells and know it wasn't an easy choice to make on your end. Cheers, Josh

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inkscape.org is offline
by Alexandre Prokoudine 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Hi, inkscape.org is offline for several hours already Alexandre

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Can math support be enabled on the Wiki, please?
by Jasper van de Gronde 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

I would very much appreciate it if math support could be enabled on the Inkscape Wiki. Specifically, I'd like to use it for the Advanced Gradients page. I'm sending it to the list(s) because I have no idea who is "in charge" of the Wiki, so if you do know, that would help as well.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly
by Boutros Saba 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Thanks Bulia & JiHo, Now I'm trying to roll back to previous versions of Inkscape on Tiger (10.4) - and I don't find the versions... any ideas where I can find them. I deleted all the previous versions I had. Thanks & regards, Boutros On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:52 AM, inkscape-devel- request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 00:27:45 -0400 > From: JiHO <jo.lists@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Disconnected Arabic letters on Mac OS X > - Arabic support on Mac OS X is not working properly > To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>, inkscape-devel List Devel > <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <30C8951D-624A-49D1-BC33-0CFD5FA74121@...400...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > On 2009-April-02 , at 13:10 , bulia byak wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Boutros Saba >> <boutros.saba@...400...> wrote: >>> I had a version that worked perfectly. I don't remember which one >>> was >>> it. But when I try to examine the past versions one by one, no one >>> seems to work. It seems that there is something in the system that >>> changed that is affecting the Arabic in Inkscape. >>> I tried rolling back to a previous version of X Server and didn't >>> work too. >> >> Just a guess, this may be related to the Pango library version you >> have installed. Try to upgrade or downgrade it. > > Pango is bundled with Inkscape on OS X so upgrading or downgrading > Inkscape should also upgrade or downgrade pango. > > In X11 (XQuartz) however, there has ben some changes in the font > caching mechanism. I don't know if it could affect this behaviour > precisely. > > Anyhow, before testing a new version of Inkscape and/or X11, you may > want to clear the font cache so that Inkscape rebuilds it on frist > launch (NB: this will make Inkscape's launch time quite long . just > wait). > To do so, remove the directory ~/.fontconfig. One way is to do it in > the Terminal: > > rm -Rf ~/.fontconfig > > be careful with this command, rm -Rf can be dangerous. Basically it > erases recursively everything you give to it. So if you type rm -Rf > ~ /.fontconfig (with an accidental space between the words) it will > read > > rm -Rf ~ > > and that means: erase all of your home directory, where all you files > are. You don't want that ;) > > JiHO > --- > http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Some ideas for Inkscape and William Klingelsmith especially
by Anton Litvinov 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello I would like that some underused possibilities of svg:text to be exposed/implemented in textobject tool (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html) 1) charwidth, to make user able to change the width of gliphs 2) letterspacing and wordspacing 3) higher and lower indexes by means of offsets 4) text-decoration: uderline, line-through 5) text-aligh by textwidth and 6) facilitate users with TeX-formulas input (Abiword guys already have this) What do you think about it? May be my conception of vector drawing tool is too perverse/freaky. PS *whisper* does this desevre to become a GSoC proposal? -- Best regards, Anton Litvinov Yugra State University

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GSoC Idea: Inkscape API Improvement
by Glimmer Labs 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

My name is Soren Berg and I wanted to propose a possible Google Summer of Code project and see what you guys think. I would like to use GSoC '09 to improve the scripting API of Inkscape. This is an area that has seen some major changes over the last few years in terms of extension support and verb passing but I still believe there is room for improvement. The extensions are very useful for making filters but don't (correct me if I'm wrong) really expose any of Inkscape's functionality. You need to use an entirely different set of tools to manipulate the XML data and pass it back. The verbs are very useful for batch processing and similar tasks, but the fact that none of them take any parameters or return results means that they are not ideal for scripting or otherwise interacting with Inkscape in a more in-depth fashion. I wrote a scripting console that exposed many Inkscape functions for programatically creating images and it was accepted for inclusion but it became harder and harder to support, largely because of the lack of any sort of API. It did show some very interesting benefits to controlling Inkscape programatically (like script-fu for the GIMP) though. I know there is some work going on with a Java based API but it seems to be mostly stubs right now. I could start working on this early as well since I have a job that wants to integrate software with Inkscape. What do you guys think? Obviously I haven't fleshed out my plans very much, and that is because I want to get some general feedback on the concept first. Thank you for reading, Soren Berg

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ShapeOpera GSoC
by Stefan Zimmermann 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, I know it's a bit late but is it still possible to work on ShapeOpera for Google Summer of Code? - Stefan

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