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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Changes in rendering of lpe tests
by Jasper van de Gronde 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Interestingly, rendering of lpe-knot has changed again. And to be honest the current behaviour looks more logical to me. So could someone (jfb?) have a look again? jf barraud wrote: > IIRC, the lpe-knot reference is correct. > > Cheers, jfb. > > > > 2009/4/1 Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528... > <mailto:th.v.d.gronde@...528...>> > > jf barraud wrote: > > Argh! right. > lpe-knot for groups does not work :-( > > One bug is not directly in lpe-knot, but in the initialisation > of the array parameter in the case of groups (which is wrong in > some cases). > > > So, who is right? The existing reference or the new output? Or neither? > >

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GsoC '09 Proposal
by William Klingelsmith 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hello everyone, Upon reading Alexandre's post about submitting proposals ASAP, I fired off my idea. I would like to use this post to not only introduce myself, but to also share my proposal here. ~proposal~ My proposal for Inkscape and GsoC 09 deals exclusively with altering the existing typographic system in Inkscape. The three primary areas I wish to work on are kerning, tracking, and typeface organization. Kerning, the altering of spacing between a pair of letters to enhance aesthetic appeal, is implemented in Inkscape currently, but the existing system provides several hurdles to the designer. The first hurdle is the speed in which a designer can apply or remove kerning. The current approach using the arrow/alt combination is interesting, but inefficient if the designer needs to apply or remove massive amounts of kerning quickly. The second hurdle is that there is no visual record of how much kerning is applied to a specific area. This can be frustrating if the designer wants to keep track of the changes he/she has introduced. My solution to this first area is the implementation of a dropdown box in the toolbar that appears when the text tool is selected. This tool would remain unusable until the user placed their cursor in between two letters in a text area. When this condition was met however, the box would show the amount of kerning applied at the location of the cursor. Upon clicking the arrow on the dropdown box, a small menu would appear that listed several discrete steps of kerning which could be applied (-25, -10, 0, 10, 25, etc). The addition of this box alone would alleviate most of the problems stated above. The second issue that requires attention is the lack of a tracking system. Tracking is similar to kerning in that it adjusts the space in text. Unlike kerning however, tracking works with multiple words/sentences. Ellen Lupton gives a great example of what tracking is here http://www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/text/tracking.htm. Since tracking is pretty similar to kerning, it could be implemented in a similar way with a similar dropdown box. The box for tracking would become enabled when a designer selected a group of words or the entire text box. The final issue deals with the organization of typefaces in Inkscape. More often than not, a designer has several hundred typefaces installed on their computers. Inkscape's current type selection box indepedently lists all variations of a specific typeface. An example of this would be the presence of Helvetica, Helvetica Semi Bold, Helvetica Black, etc. This current arrangement makes an incredibly long list that the designer needs to troll through in order to find the face they want to use. This could be alleviated by collapsing all of the different weights of a typeface into one designation (in the example I just gave, it would collapse to Helvetica). A small box could be placed next the typeface selection box which contained all of the different variants. This would make it incredibly easy to pick and choose what typeface variant one was searching for. I hope you find this as interesting as I do.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Ubuntu nightly builds
by Guillermo Espertino 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

> Can someone put a link to these nightly Ubuntu builds on our download > page at inkscape.org? I end up searching my mail archive everytime I > want to comment on a bug-report posted by Ubuntu users. Unfortunately the last nightly build in that PPA has a nasty bug in the blur code that makes it almost unusable (it is already fixed in SVN). iirc, the build process had some bug but it will be fixed soon. In that case, a link in the download section would be great. Gez.

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Lib2geom in our wiki
by unknown＠example.com 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi all, At the moment, lib2geom is pretty hidden on our wiki. It is under the heading "Developer Documentation >> Development Discussion". We (lib2geom folks) would like to have it more visible, more easy to find. Perhaps we can make a new header for lib2geom with the links from http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Lib2geom under it? Thanks a bunch, Johan and the lib2geom team!

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Ubuntu nightly builds
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hello all, So I've gotten most of the way on getting a nightly build setup in a Launchpad PPA. It builds for the current, the previous and the next release of Ubuntu. What I'm particularly happy about is the package is "inkscape-devel" so it can be parallel installed with a stable version of Inkscape. Here's the PPA: http://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+archive I'm going to run the script by hand for a couple of days to catch errors but then Cory has graciously allowed me to run it on his server after that so it should become more regular. --Ted

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Feedback for my project idea
by Palak Dalal 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I am thinking about doing a project on reading digits on licence plate of cars from a picture of the car. I have done considerable research on this project which involves both image processing and optical character recognition. Please let me know if you are interested in this project or any other requirements i need to fulfill. Thank You

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[GSOC Propose] Automatic pattern making script
by tera api 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi all, Title: Automatic pattern making script Student: hiroki utsunomiya Abstract: 100% GPL & Python extenstion. Select 3 colors & 1 Click. SVG output. HOMT pattern?: Example site using HOMT pattern (http://www.novemberkou.com/RMGJ/ not my site). I aim at this. (+SVG output) exe application (Incompleteness) & SVG output samples: http://teraapi.com/homt/ Sorry for my bad English. cheers, --- Hiroki Utsunomiya teraapi@...400...

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] more gradients
by Tom Lechner 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Speaking of gradients, just in case you need a bezier mesh math refresher mish mash (so to speak), I wrote one here: http://laxkit.sourceforge.net/html/lotsamath.html I made an svg approximation generator for bezier meshes, loosely based on Bulia's method, which works sort of ok in most cases. Bezier meshes can be made to be conical gradients, but the svg blur technique doesn't do so well for that configuration. Pdf, by the way, natively supports bezier patches, so if such things get in Inkscape, they can at least export naturally to pdf. Compare svg approximation versus actual patch: http://laidout.org/other/exported-svg.png http://laidout.org/other/exported-laidoutpatch.png -Tom > Jasper van de Gronde wrote: > > > > .... but I started a Wiki page on how we could > > approximate more advanced gradients... > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Gradients

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Changes in rendering of lpe tests
by Jasper van de Gronde 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Can somebody knowledgeable in all things lpe have a look at the new rendering results for the "lpe shapes.svg" and "lpe-knot.svg" tests? Links to the SVG files in SVN can be found on the results page: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html The existing references are also in SVN: https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/gsoc-testsuite/tester… (There are a few other "New" results shown on that page, but that's just due to a change in the missing file image, and the references have been updated already.)

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Fwd: Google Summer of Code: Potential Student Applicants: "***Very Important***: Submit your Proposals via the 2009 site *now*"
by Alexandre Prokoudine 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

For your consideration ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vaughan Johnson <vaughan@...2172...> Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:08 AM Subject: [Audacity-devel] Google Summer of Code: Potential Student Applicants: "***Very Important***: Submit your Proposals via the 2009 site *now*" To: Audacity Developers List <audacity-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Leslie Hawthorn, who runs GSoC, just posted to the mentors announce list a msg with subject "***Very Important***: Get Your Students to Submit their Proposals via the 2009 site *now*". If you're planning to apply, go ahead and do so now. This way, you can start to get feedback from us and Google can get an idea of how many students are applying. We fully expect applications to be iteratively refined before the deadline, so don't worry if your application is not complete, submit it now, so we can give you feedback on how best to complete it. The other reason to do so, LH explained, is because it is vital information in considering whether to extend the application deadline, which is under consideration. Thanks, Vaughan

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