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Failed to execute helper program in Windows Builds
by Render 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Currently in the development builds editing an bitmap externally by right-clicking the image causes inkscape to return the following message: Failed to execute helper program: (Invalid Argument) Would it be possible to select gimp.exe itself rather than just gimp? Just calling gimp seems to be something associated with Linux. Scribus exhibits this same behavior, but you can navigate to the helper program itself and then everything works fine.

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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

Hi there, I tried to post on the same subject in the past, but it I didn't get any working suggestion/consideration back. I'm running version 0.46 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. When I write Arabic into the text tool I get a disconnected Arabic letters. It happens also if I copy a connected Arabic letters from outside Inkscape: when I copy the connected text it gets disconnected. 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. Any clues??? I rely on Inkscape very much. Thanks in advance guys! Best, Boutros

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC Idea: Inkscape API Improvement
by Josh Andler 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Krzysztof, Please know that anything Jon or Ted discuss is not as short sighted as you seem to think. I won't say that all ideas they have are perfect, but at the very least, they've probably put more thought into it than you're giving them credit for (and no offense, probably more time and thought than you have). I have to put forth that it seems like you are a little too quick with dismissing the input of others. Given that you have applied for SoC, I have to ask... will you be able to really take advice from a mentor as seriously as you should? On Apr 1, 2009 5:58 PM, "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: Ted Gould wrote: > > I think that makes sense. One thing that I think would be interesting > for... We would have to roll back most of the C++ conversion in order to do that, and go back to plain GObject. I don't think that's possible. I think the best solution would be to use SWIG (an automated binding generator). Jon suggested using XForms over DBus, but I think that's just too complicated to be feasible. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GSoC-Idea%3A-Inkscape-API-Improvement-tp22760803p2283… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________...

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Icons for "align nodes horizontally" and "align nodes vertically" are swapped
by worms invasion 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Hello, This has been going on for a while I think in current SVN and is still present in r21009 (win32snapshot)... The "align nodes horizontally" function is assigned the "align vertically" icon, and vice-versa for the "align nodes vertically" function.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] State of the Icons
by Guillermo Espertino 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

> > Would it be possible to commit the finished versions of both Tango (art > > libre) and Tango Colors icons in SVN? > See above, discrete icons are needed. I will make them the default for Linux > once I get them. Thanks for your answer. Let me get this straight. There will be two sets and the tango will be used in linux? The ability of changing the theme using a custom file won't come back? What happens to people who wants default icons in Linux, or people who wants Tango in Windows, for example? Gez.

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Wiki main page & delete access
by Krzysztof Kosiński 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

I already mentioned this here but I didn't receive an answer. Can I receive the credentials necessary to delete pages and edit the main page on the wiki? For example, the main page has a lot of links in WikiWords, which are pointless in MediaWiki, and it has links to pages that are outdated and no longer useful, even confusing. I'd like to fix that. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wiki-main-page---delete-access-tp22859628p22859628.ht… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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gdl summer of code
by Johannes Schmid 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi! Someone on #gnome-hackers pointed me that you will probably have a student working on gdl to split it out again as a library. While I really appreciate that work I would be even more happy if you could contribute this work upstream. Also gdl spent a rather unmaintained time development seems to speed up again now, mostly based on the work of Joel Halsworth from the Lumiera fame (www.lumiera.org). Patches and documentation improvements landed in trunk in the past weeks. I would like to avoid duplicated work here. Of course the ultimate long-time goal remains to push gdl to gtk+ but before it would be great if all project using it would use the version that ships with GNOME and constribute to this. This will save work for all of us and lead to a better result. Thanks a lot, Johannes (the quasi gdl maintainer) P.S: I am not subscribed to that list so please CC me.

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Affine Transformations in Python
by G33K 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, I' d like to ask if there is perhaps some sort of affine transformation library available to the Inkscape Python scripts? So far, I only found the file simpletransform.py, which is quite useful, but not very comprehensive. The transformation stuff already has excessive support in the Inkscape C++ code. Are there any Python bindings for that? Right now, I am primarily interested in getting pretty constructor functions for defining rotations and scaling, without having all the mathy matrix clutter in my code. If none are available, I could add those to simpletransform.py myself. Cheers, Gerrit -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different

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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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