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Filters top-level menu?
by Felipe Sanches 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Felipe Sanches > <felipe.sanches@...400...> wrote: >> svn update; make; sudo make install >> >> And I still have the filters submenu inside extensions top level menu. >> And the list of pre-built filters does not appear at the filters top level menu. > > ah - and let me guess - the menus are not in English? Yes, they are in brazillian portuguese. And I guess prokoudine uses russian... Juca

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Filters top-level menu?
by bulia byak 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

I think filters are sufficiently complex, different from everything else, and have enough support in Inkscape now, so they deserve to be treated more like a top-level entity. In particular, I propose to add a new menu, Filters, before Effects. It would contain: - All the submenus with preset filter that are now in Effects > Filters. Ivan Louette is working on a huge and exciting expansion of that hierarchy, adding lots of powerful new filters. It's obviously too deeply hidden now, it deserves more visibility as one of the most important 0.47 additions. - The "Filter Effects..." dialog command which I propose to rename to "Build Filters" or "Filter Builder" or something like that. The current name is not very descriptive and even a bit misleading due to the word "effects" which refers to too many too different things in Inkscape (once again, let me reiterate my old wish: rename "Effects" menu to "Extensions", that is what they are!). The typical workflow would be to first choose one of the presets, then if needed, go to the Filter Builder to adjust the preset or start a new filter from scratch. - The Remove Filter command. Thoughts? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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"no color swatch" resizing bug
by Felipe Sanches 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Revision 20710 by JonCruz broke resizing of "no color swatch". I dont know how to properly fix that. Could you please take a look at that, Jon? Juca

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Interpolate filters
by Mihaela 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

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Compiling svn on Opensuse 11 64 bits
by Lucas Vieites 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Hi all, I am slowly becoming desperate. I have been trying to compile from svn the same way I always have: svn update autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/var/opt/ --with-perl --with-python --with-xft --enable-lcms --enable-inkboard --with-gnome-vfs make make install But now I have a new machine: a dual core 64 bit AMD running OpenSuse 11.1. When running ./configure ...... it keeps complaining about: ------------------------------ checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape ------------------------------ I have already installed all packages I thought might be useful: ------------------------------ # rpm -qa | grep png libpng-devel-1.2.31-4.35.1 libpng12-0-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1 libpng-devel-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1 latex2html-pngicons-2002.2.1-604.27 libpng3-1.2.31-4.35.1 libpng12-0-1.2.31-4.35.1 ------------------------------ But still no luck. Is the configure script looking for libpng's devel files somewhere strange? Thanks for your help, -- Lucas Vieites

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Building ubuntu/debian package from svn
by Kalman KHIRALY 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Dear list, Im trying to build a .deb package to test out the greatest and newest feature of inkscape. I have read this documentation: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingDebian I have downloaded the daily snapshot: http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/inkscape-current.tar.bz2 I followed the steps without success. I suspect, the documentation is outdated. There is no debian/ directory in the inkscape source. The inkscape does not use autoconfig but cmake if I see it correctly. So creating the debian/ directory using the dh_make command, and building the package fails. (make[1]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.) So can somebody direct me to an updated documentation? How can I create a proper debian/ directory, and building the package with help of this directory? Using this command: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot In summary a step-by-step tutorial would be really helpful! Im using ubuntu 8.10 currently. Thank you in advance, Khiraly

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Corel DRAW-like Snapping
by Krzysztof Kosiński 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

The current snapping mechanism is next to unusable when there are many places where a given thing might snap. The approach of snapping everything-to-everything is fundamentally wrong, because it simply doesn't work for many snapping points. I have a different idea, inspired by Corel DRAW, where snapping is much more useful than currently in Inkscape: 1. When snap is enabled, the Select tool displays a highlight and some text describing the snappable thing over which it hovers. The things that are highlighted are the same that are enabled in the snap toolbar. 2. During a subsequent drag the snapping point that gets highlighted is chosen as the only snapping point for the dragged object. Otherwise the object doesn't snap when moving. This way we don't have to snap everything to everything, because we know one of the points the user intends to snap. If someone could give me some pointers about how to implement it, I could work on this, because it's the only feature that I found really lacking when I switched to Inkscape from Corel DRAW.* I like my drawings to be perfectly aligned :) Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński *) fortunately the ability to easily specify alpha for gradient stops was more important :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Corel-DRAW-like-Snapping-tp22007175p22007175.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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fonts & printing to pipes questions.
by stuart 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi... I tried to search through the forum but I'm a newbe w.r.t. the proper terms and had trouble with my key words. Going on, at one point I remember being able to cut from inkscape sessions which included text objects. But now it's not working. I think the problem is with the post script files generated by inkscape. I am using a (little known?) utility called graphtecprint that I've modified for my own purposes. I am familiar with what it can do. Looking at the inkscape generated post script output I am sure graphtecprint can not handle a section of the post script file which starts with "/sfnts [". This is followed by several thousand bytes of what looks like pure hex (in ascii format). What I need are the cutting commands! I need inkscape to output instructions to cut the letter "A" just like it outputs instructions to cut a box or a circle. ---------- Another subject, printing to pipes. This feature saved me a lot of time and made placing utilities like graphtecprint between inkscape and the physical world easy. With out the inkscape printing to pipes feature I have to first print to a file. Are there any plans to put this feature back into inkscape? ...thanks

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Unable to convert "14,800000" to number
by the Adib 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

I get this error when I use the filter effect drop-shaddow using the dx, dy spin-control. g_ascii_strtod does not convert correctly. reding src/fixes.cpp it states: /* * until 2004-04-22, g_ascii_strtod could not handle having a locale-based * decimal separator immediately following the number ("5,4" would * parse to "5,4" instead of "5.0" in fr_FR) * * This is the corrected function, lifted from 1.107 gstrfuncs.c in glib */ So the question is: how to convert strtod locale independent? Adib. ---

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Themable icons wiki page
by Krzysztof Kosiński 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

I created a new wiki page that lists all the icons used in Inkscape and their proposed names. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Themable_icons It would be great if someone could send me the Tango theme for Inkscape as discrete 24x24 PNGs, or a monolithic SVG with IDs corresponding to the icon names in that list. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Themable-icons-wiki-page-tp22004008p22004008.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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