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Early freeze
by bulia byak 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi all, for previous releases, we had a two-stage freeze: first, feature freeze (no new features, only bugfixes), followed by full freeze for a short time and then a release. This time, I propose that we start even earlier with an even milder freeze: a _refactoring freeze_ which blocks any wide-ranging, deep-going refactorings that are not focused on adding a specific feature or fixing a specific bug. In particular, this means no lib migrations, no rewriting and rearranging code "for general correctness", and no 2geom syncs "just in case" until the release. I realize this is all done for good reasons, but experience shows that each such wave of changes brings bugs that keep popping up long after the wave has passed. So, if there are no objections, let's finish and commit any refactorings that are pending, and set a date after which we will only be allowed to commit focused, easily testable features and bugfixes. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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circle and polyline elements
by Alexandre Prokoudine 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, Some of our extensions create polyline (WMF importer, IIRC) and circle (create_from_triangle.py) elements which are not directly supported, thought rendered in Inkscape. I wonder what the plan for suporting them is, because right now when you have e.g. a circle element, you cannot edit it and you cannot even change its style. Alexandre

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No blur on zero area bbox items
by unknown＠example.com 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi all, In Jabber someone mentioned that no blur is applied on horizontal and vertical lines. I tried and it is true. I think it is caused by a 'zero area' geometric bbox for horizontal and vertical lines. Could someone with more knowledge of the whole filter rendering chain look into this? I think sp-item.cpp, line 648, "SPItem::GEOMETRIC_BBOX" should be changed to the bbox calculation including stroke width. Thanks, Johan

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LinuxFund work 2009 wiki page
by Milosz Derezynski 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hey, Just a quick note that I've created a wiki page for the LinuxFund proposal, which is explicitly meant for everyone to add comments or discuss propositions. The page can be found here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LinuxFund2009_1 Cheers, M. -- Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months. [Bitte beachten Sie, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.]

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Problem with our stream writing
by Jon A. Cruz 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

I was tracking down bug #340451 and it turns out to be more pervasive than I thought: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/340451 The problem is that things are casting 16-bit Unicode values to bytes by chopping all but the last 8 bits. I'm going to be working on fixing this, but it is such a fundamental issue that I'm surprised we're not seeing more issues. Also I'll need to test a few more things and make sure I don't break more than I fix. In the Java world they address this by having a very explicit difference between characters and bytes. Bytes are 'byte' and handled by "OutputStream"s whereas characters are 'character' and are handled by "Writer"s. So I'll just get some tests fixed and then clean up with proper transformations. If anyone can take a look for things that might be a problem, related bugs, things I should test, etc. that would help. Thanks.

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[FWD: [Inkscape-docs] Inkscape File formats]
by unknown＠example.com 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] Inkscape File formats
by Alexandre Prokoudine 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:42 AM, John & Melonie Curwood wrote: > results. some file types I could load or save in my Ubuntu Linux > version of Inkscape but not in the Windows version. Yes, e.g. EMF is not supported on Linux. > 1) is there a plug-in that is needed for the .dia file type? You need Dia installed. http://live.gnome.org/Dia > 2) why are some formats only able to be saved or opened in the linux > version of Inkscape? Because the rely either on applications or API available on just one platform only. > Are there certain components or plug-ins that are installed with the > linux version that aren't with the windows version. Yes. The version 0.46, for instance, isn't shipped with UniConvertor which is used for opening CDR (v0.47 will). > I can send through a list of the file types in particular if that helps. Please do :-) Alexandre

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Google's Summer of Code 2009
by Joshua A. Andler 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hey all! Our application for this year's GSoC has been submitted. Last years info page has been rolled over to this year with a few minor updates. If people would like to take a look and perhaps edit the page as they see fit that would be excellent. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2009 As soon as there is any further info or news I will keep the list up to date. Cheers, Josh

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Batch conversion from raster to verctor (PNG/JPG to PDF/SVG)
by Chris Cinelli 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi everybody, I am trying to improve the quality of printing of some low-resolution raster pics. I tried autotrace that has the ideal interface for me (i.e. "autotrace infile.jpg --output-file outfile.pdf"). However the quality is really low (especially on photos) because it generates random triangles and leave white spaces. I am very satisfied with Inkscape's quality using the item in the menu: "Path - Trace Bitmap." (multiple scans - Colors after adjusting some options). I wonder if I can convert the pictures that I have (they are in JPG but I can convert them to PNG) in PDF (or SVG) through some command line options or a batch script (that I don't have idea if it exists and how it works). The process should run on a OpenSolaris box that has not any X client configured. Is this feasible or I need to mess up with Inkscape's source code? Best, Chris

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Kernel Unit Length in Lighting Effects
by Ivan Louette 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hello Working on filters for one moment now I was asking myself if there are any progresses (or projects) about implementing Kernel Unit Length in Lighting Effects. Following this Niko Kiirala tutorial http://fedev.blogspot.com/2008/07/filter-effects-lighting-effects.html "Kernel Unit Length is not yet used in Inkscape. It is used to make the result resolution-independent. Now that it isn't used, with high zooms you can see odd plateaus forming." If that's not so important in daily web graphics, from an illustrator point of view that's a problem not only for zooming but also for scaling up some effects or using wide blurs as basic composites for lighting. Thanks for any info and thanks for so much fun with filter effects ! ivan

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