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Missing nightly builds for Linux&MacOS
by Jiri Klement 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi, I've found a little error in inkscape website. On page http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en in section Compiled packages should be nightly builds, but nightly builds are available only for Windows, other systems have only compiled stable versions. -- Jiri

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] mass conversion to Geom::Point
by Diederik van Lierop 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Op Di, 12 augustus, 2008 01:11, schreef J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...: > Often it is not needed to add to_2geom/from_2geom, so please don't! > The conversion goes automatically between NR::Point <=> Geom::Point and > NR::Matrix <=> Geom::Matrix. > Only ambiguities need a little more guideance: > void some_function(NR::Point nr) > Geom::Point geom; > Geom::Point ambiguous = nr - geom; > What about methods that require parameters by reference for getting data both in and out? Will the implicit casting work correctly for those too? Maybe I should just try that myself; there are quite some snapping calls requiring Geom::Point& (without being const). It would be great if I could just pass a NR::Point. So far I've used dummy variables for that. It's quite cumbersome indeed to transfer everything to 2geom. Last weekend I had a shot at the snapping code, but I have caused some regressions which need to be fixed first. I guess Johan could still use some additional hands. Regards, Diederik

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Spray tool discussion
by Pajarico 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Here is the example showing how limits+randomness work: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Spray-tool-attributes01.png I took my ideas and ideas from Steren. This hopefully resolves my issue with the concept of "randomness" which wasn't clear to me exactly how it should act (even when I was convinced that I wanted such parameter). The mechanics for the rest of attributes (S, L and O) and dimensions (rotation and scale) is exactly the same. Note that when randomness is set to 0, the value is always |(max-min)|/2 (it's an absolute value for cases where min>max). I've to revamp a bit the toolbar for this tool, since with these changes some of the buttons can be scrapped (like scattering radius). It lacks a way to select an original for spraying it. I thought about a button "pick original" in the main toolbar. When pressed the cursor changes to the normal arrow to click on an object/group and from then on that's the original (in clone mode all of the clones are linked to it, in the other two modes the object is just used for spraying but not linked to the sprayed items). Any (better) ideas? Another issue: clones inherit attributes so is not possible to set these parameters. Un less there is a way to make clones where the only feature inherited is the shape. Regards.

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mass conversion to Geom::Point
by unknown＠example.com 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hi all, I just started mass converting to Geom::Point, but then it struck me that this will conflict with many changes other people are creating. So I think it is best not to mass convert. It is the same with whitespace things. Let me know what you all think. NR::Point contains cast methods, so Geom::Point and NR::Point are interchangeable in 90% of the cases. It would help a lot if you'd just change NR::Point to Geom::Point in a line you are editing. Thanks! Johan

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Test suite directory structure
by Jasper van de Gronde 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I've been talking to Johan about the directory structure used by the rendering tests (in gsoc-testsuite/tester/testcases). The following directories currently exist: - basic: a few tests that test Inkscape's SVG rendering capabilities (four of them are really quite "basic", the fifth is perhaps not very "basic") - bugs: some tests from bug reports - complex: currently just an LPE test - svgtestsuite-1.1: a selection of tests from the W3C SVG test suite If anyone has any suggestions for restructuring basic/complex, that would be great, they seem a bit awkward. The original idea was that basic just tests general SVG features.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Spray tool discussion
by Pajarico 10 Aug '08

10 Aug '08

Hi again. I just uploaded the GUI for the advanced options: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Spray-tool-ui02.png Is a bit over the top and some of the combinations may not have a lot of sense in the end. Some explaining: - The checkboxes allow the change of the attributes. Is one is not activated it means the sprayed items will have that feature the same as the original, unaltered. In the case of spacing (which is not an attribute) I don't know how this should work. - Scale allows any value, positive or negative, as this will allow the motif to be bigger or smaller than original. - Rotation (and Hue) are always positive and the min can be higher than the max. Why you ask? because if this is not allowed, some configurations will be unavailable. If you want items to be rotated between 15-345º (a margin of 330º), you would use min=15º and max=345º. But what if you want them rotated on the other sector (345-15º=30º)? In that case you would use min=345º and max=15º. - X and Y spacing are there but I'm not sure of what units to use. Should it be a % of the stroke width on each axis? What behavior do people expect for spacing? I can't make my mind right now. - The color variation is activated independently for the stroke/fill for each HLSO attribute. With the intention of making the color selection easier and faster, I've placed two color swatches (on the min and max columns) so the user can call the color selector and pick the color or insert values manually. Again, for the same reasons, the min value can be higher than the max. - I'm not exactly sure how "use lightness from background" and "tablet pressure" does interact with the rest of the settings. My idea is that these two should vary the attribute between the set limits. But randomness doesn't make much sense when using a tablet or the lightness since you would want that attribute to be controlled and not random. Maybe the Randomness spinbox should be deactivated when "use lightness..." or "tablet" are checked. Regards. PS: I think my HD is dying :(

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Inconsistency of rotate/flip buttons behaviour
by Mattias 10 Aug '08

10 Aug '08

The rotate left/right and flip horizontal/vertical buttons are so close to each other on toolbar but behave different on multiple selected objects. When selected multiple objects and rotating, all objects rotate around their centre. To have them rotate as one, you first have to group them, rotate, ungroup. When flipping multiple selected objects, they already flip as group and see no option to flip these by themselves. I think these should behave similar. Most of other programs treat selection as group, and this is what I first expected of Inkscape. But considering the fact that grouping and rotating is quite easy, so having these actions both per object would make these actions more general and therefore more useful. And to mention, I would only file a bug, no actual coding yet, Inkscape codebase is a lot like Chinese for me (refering to something ultimately complex). Also, thanks for this good program Mattias

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POVRay and JavaFX output
by Bob Jamison 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Although I really didn't want to do more work on those two outputs, I was curious how 2geom's transforms worked, so I spent the day updating POV and JavaFX output. Ok, I think that -this time- I am finished with the javafx stuff, and I'll let someone take it from here. Here is how our svg Tiger renders in javafx: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32_inkscape_org/jfxdump.png I tested the POV output on POVRay 3.7a, and it seems to work fine. It is recoded to be recursive rather than iterative. Some POV users needed it to preserve groups, so this should help. bob

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pdf import crash
by Mihaela 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

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Easier unit testing on Windows
by Jasper van de Gronde 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

You can now run 'buildtool check' or 'buildtool dist-all-check' to run the unit tests (or build everything and run the unit tests). The dist-cxxtests target is gone.

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