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Generating User handwriting fonts
by Swayamjeet Swain 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Hi, My name is Swayamjeet Swain, am from IIT ROORKEE, India. I am wishing to apply for GSOC 2019 and have been working quite a bit towards it. I have been using Inkscape quite extensively, especially for CNC and plotting tasks and have been making extensive changes to the current Hershey's text extension available in Inkscape. I have indeed expanded it to take in whole PDF documents and generate single line texts and tweaked the fonts library to make my handwriting's unique font. (Fun part is that I submit my practicals and college assignments by using a plotter which I made and generating gcodes for these single line fonts, as the fonts we generally use are incompatible (no one writes like that).) I am adept at python,c and c++ , and I am looking forward to make a project which can generate handwriting fonts after taking in written alphabet's image from the user. But I am indeed a bit unsure if this is an acceptable project to be included as an feature or am I moving towards making another extension (and if that too works). I have already built Inkscape and have been going through the code. Please suggest how I should proceed. Thanks Swayamjeet (Swayne) IIT Roorkee P.S. This mail feel like bursting a big bubble. Thanks to the other aspirants for the confidence.

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Language port : Hindi Can we remove fuzzy comments?
by Abhay Raj Singh 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Hello, I am Abhay Raj Singh ( rathod_sahaab ) a gsoc aspirant from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur I was porting Inkscape to Hindi as it is my mother tounge and also I am very familiar with English. My Question is can we remove fuzzy comments if we are sure about given phrase's translational validity?? Thankyou

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Board meeting Friday Mar 1st at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for Friday, Mar 1st, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings We'll be going over recent activities with infrastructure transitions and sponsors, discuss expansion of staff for Board duties, and final prep-work for the upcoming hackfest in Pasadena. Agenda: ------- * Infrastructure ** Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inkscapeofficial/ ** mailman3 status ** Wiki migration ** Weblate service deployment * Sponsorship ** Using gitlab issues for tracking ** Renewal of old sponsors ** 2 new bronze, 1 gold, 1 tbd ** SFC bookkeeping is still slow ** Sponsor acceptance policy ** Sponsor soliciting / outreach * Should we set up some new teams under delegation from the board? ** Funding - Fundraisers, merchandising, sponsorship management, etc. ** Accounting - Travel & other reimbursements ** Legal - Trademarks, etc. * Hackfest [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x/ SCALE] ** Review agenda *** Ideas to present to Bradley? ** Calls for donations * Hackfest [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] ** May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) ** Next steps for organizing it * GSoC ** Mentors needed ** Guiding prospective students ** Project ideas list ** Development starter docs * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- == Hackfest LGM Saarbrucken == ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote for funds for stickers for the two 2019 hackfests [bryce] === Merchandise Sales === ♢ ACTION: Email Bryce with evaluation/details about hellotux.com merchandise service, for preparing board vote [crogers] ♢ ACTION: Board vote on hellotux.com [bryce] === Bug Tracker Transition === ♢ ACTION: Write up an orientation web page for new bug triagers, for gitlab migration [Mc] == Inkscape 1.0 alpha release == ♢ ACTION: Check in with people doing test case conversion [Tav] ♢ ACTION: ping jimmac/barbara about the symbolic icons for adding the theme to Inkscape [scislac] ♢ ACTION: Plan video for Inkscape 1.0 release [crogers] === Inkscape 1.0 Release === ♢ ACTION: Brainstorm plans for 1.0beta / 1.0 commemorative merch [crogers, tedg] === Sponsorship Management === ♢ ACTION: Find out about the new event insurance from #conservancy [tedg] ♢ ACTION: Generate summary of our financial situation [bryce] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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Option to refresh fonts without relaunching
by Abhay Raj Singh 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hello, I am Abhay Raj Singh ( rathod_sahaab ) from NIT Hamirpur, India. I am a regular user of inkscape. I have experienced that after installing fonts we have to relaunch inkscape to get them in out list and this disrupts the workflow. I was wondering if I could add the feature to refresh Inkscape's fonts or does the feature already exists??

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Interested in project : Refactoring
by TEJ SHIRISH SUKHATME . 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hello, I am Tej Sukhatme, from BITS Pilani, India. I would like to apply for GSOC 2019 under the project idea of refactoring the code for Inkscape. I have already cloned the repositories and built Inkscape on my computer. I know C as well as C++, so I guess I have the skills needed, However I couldn't find any bugs or anything of that sort on the issues list on GitLab. I need a little help as to how should I move on and help with the refactoring( basicaly, where/how should I start?). Also I have no idea as to how I should write my application for GSOC 2019, so help in that respect will also be appreciated. p.s. Can I also get the email address of Tavmjong Bah, so that I can ask for further help as he is a potential mentor for this project. Thanking you. Yours faithfully, Tej Sukhatme.

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At all on rocket chat inkscape-user
by unknown＠example.com 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

I just thought of something. If we have a few years of using chat.inkscape.org with people jumping in every now and then to ask questions, and then someone joins and types `@all hello here's some spam!` We'd be emailing all the people who ever joined the chat and didn't leave the room (which I figure would be everyone) Is there a way to turn off the @all functionality for #general and #inkscape-devel (except maybe for the admin?) Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Fw: [Inkscape-user] forum guidelines/CoC/complaints
by brynn 17 Feb '19

17 Feb '19

Just forwarding to the Devel list, for wider audience. Thanks, brynn -----Original Message----- From: brynn Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2019 10:31 PM To: Inkscape User Community Subject: [Inkscape-user] forum guidelines/CoC/complaints Hi Friends, I've previously volunteered to lead an effort to write the rules and guidelines for the new forum. Except for the rules about selecting staff and staff responsibilities, I think the community CoC should suffice. So I was just reviewing it. One thing specifically that I would like in the forum rules is a clear and concrete method where members can file a complaint and have it fairly heard and settled. In the CoC, apparently all that's available is contact Krzysztof Kosiński: tweenk.pl@...2620... Unless the complaint is about a moderator, in which case members are supposed to contact the Board. First question - Why is it a different process for complaints about moderators? 2nd - Can I at least say that Krzysztof Kosiński has some training and experience in conflict resolution? Or do we have other community members with such qualifications, who could do this for the forum? All best, brynn _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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need advice
by TEJ SHIRISH SUKHATME . 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Hello, I am Tej Sukhatme, from BITS Pilani, India. I am new to development in general and want to start with developing inkscape. What are your suggesti0ons ? Which bug should i start with? and how do I go about understanding the codebase? I currently know C++ and little of GTK+. What else do I need to know? Thanks

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why are circles often represented as two arcs
by bryan rasmussen 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

As per the subject line I often notice that what comes out of inkscape and other svg capable editors uses paths to represent circles and other simple shapes. I suppose this is for some reason of code optimization (i.e code optimization in the editor not in the output SVG). Can anyone shed any light on this? Mvh, Bryan Rasmussen

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forum rules and guidelines
by brynn 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Hi Friends, As the new forum is rapidly being finished, it's probably a good time to formalize the rules and guidelines for it. If anyone is interested in helping to draft this document or documents, please reply here. Once we have a group, we'll decide exactly how we want to handle this. When we started on this a couple of years ago, we used FramaPad, which allows users to edit documents live. I found it had the basic features that we needed. Or I think there are other similar types of sites. Although I'd be just as happy to be more old school, and exchange ODT or DOC files. But we can decide as a group. There aren't really any requirements to participate. Just care about the forum and how it functions :-) All best, brynn

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