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easter egg star tool :)
by Alexandre Prokoudine 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hi, While documenting Inkscape we (well, Joshua) discovered that Shift + mouse drag for handles of Star tool applies different changes depending on particular handle. This is not documented neither in hotkeys cheat sheet, nor in tutorials, not in Tav's book. The middle handle gives larger values, and the periferal handles gives smaller values. This kind of switch is usually achieved by using Alt key in other tools. So, is it an easter egg? :) Alexandre

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NEW: sliders in tool controls
by bulia byak 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Some controls (such as the Width in Calligraphic/Tweak/Eraser tools, Tremor, Wiggle, and Mass in Calligraphic, Threshold in Paintbucket, Tolerance in Pencil) are converted from numeric editable fields into draggable sliders. As these values don't usually require much precision, this makes adjusting them much easier and faster. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Break path at selected nodes
by Stefaan 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

I'd like to bring bug #168589 "'Break path at selected nodes' only breaks a few nodes" to your attention, as no developers are cc'd on it. I attached a patch which I believe fixes the problem. It would be nice if someone could review the patch. Many thanks for making inkscape a very cool piece software, Stefaan https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168589

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Rendering(/verb) tests - comparing output files to reference files
by Jasper van de Gronde 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

To elaborate on what I'm working on, I currently have a tool which can execute Inkscape with some arbitrary command-line and (given what the output file is) compare the output to a set of reference files. If it finds a match it assigns the test the result belonging to that reference file, it can't find a match the test is marked "New". (It can also deal with crashes and so fort. And it can use a tool like perceptualdiff to compare the files.) Currently there are two short-comings: 1. Obviously it needs a bit more automation (you don't want to enter it all manually). Locally I'm doing this using a batch file. Since this isn't portable I'm thinking of either modifying buildtool to be able to do this, or more or less porting my batch file to Python. 2. Comparing the generated files completely automatically to the W3C reference files is practically impossible, because of font differences. This also goes for sharing reference files between different computers. I would definitely welcome some ideas for solving 2. Currently I'm thinking of a combined strategy. First of all the problem can be mitigated somewhat by using --export-id=test-body-content --export-id-only (this makes sure the revision string and the border aren't exported). This doesn't make it easier to compare the output to existing reference files, but does make it easier to share reference files between computers. Going a bit further it would be possible to eliminate all the unnecessary labels from test files. Secondly, there will always be files with text. To prevent those from being a problem I could do roughly two things: - Make sure it is relatively easy to judge the files on your own PC (using some GUI tool that lets you judge the files by clicking on a button for example). - Make some on-line tool that runs the tests and publishes the results. Both have their (dis)advantages. What would people prefer? And what are the possibilities for option 2? (That is, would it be possible to do this on the Inkscape site somewhere? Does SF have facilities for running periodic tests that I could use?)

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Rendering(/verb) tests - where to put them?
by Jasper van de Gronde 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

I'm working on implementing rendering(/verb) tests (getting Inkscape to render SVG files and comparing them to known-good/bad reference files) and was wondering how I could best make my work available. Just putting it in some directory under the trunk does not seem like a good idea (especially at the moment). And if I were to create a separate top-level directory, should it include data files (a selection of the W3C SVG test suite a the moment)?

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Icon loading now fixed
by Jon A. Cruz 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

I've finished up the second round if icon loading cleanup. First was to get things going with stock images http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-Themeable-Stock- Images.html This second pass was to get the newer icon theme (added with GTK 2.6) http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkIconTheme.html That second part allows for the newer theme sets of icons to be loaded. These include the Tango icons. Probably the most important part is this now allows Inkscape to follow a standard look with other apps by using shared icons. In order to do this well we need to use standard names and standard concepts as much as possible. With my recent checkin I switched three icons over to standard, but there are still two main things to do First is to see if we can use any existing standard icons. The base spec with proposed standard icon names is at http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec- latest.html The standard icons out in existing themes, though, don't use all of those. Such themes are usually under /usr/share/icons/* or the equivalent. A few I have here are "highcolor" (the fallback default), "Human" and "Tangerine". The main second thing is to get graphic-app specific icons that are not listed in the default set figured out and assigned names. The Tango project had started this under their Art Libre set. http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet If anyone can take a look through there, that would be a great help. And more importantly if anyone who uses other apps such as GIMP, Krita, Blender, etc. could take a peek at what could be unified that would be a huge help.

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multiple inkscapes on linux
by Mihaela 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

How can I have multiple inkscape versions on the same machine (im on fedora8) and can you choose if those use the same or their own profiles?

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GSoC Surveys!
by Aaron Spike 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Hello GSoCers, We still need surveys from cyreve, pjrm, bbyak, max, ted, and jasper. My internet connection is intermittent this week so if you see these people around please remind them. Remember, these surveys determine whether you get paid, so students, if you or your mentor hasn't submitted a survey yet, make sure it happens. Aaron Spike

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smoothing in Pencil
by bulia byak 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

I have always felt that the Tolerance parameter (now renamed to Smoothing) in Pencil does not provide a wide enough range - small values look almost the same as large. So I have just shifted the range of this parameter so that 1 gives visibly rough and unsmoothed line with many nodes, while 100 gives a smooth line with few nodes. Of course this is all quite subjective, so if anyone can test it out and report if the new range works for them or not I would appreciate that. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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cairo/cmyk, next round :)
by Alexandre Prokoudine 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Hi, Carl Worth has just told me they've got people who could work on CMYK support in Cairo, but they still need someone to tell them what exactly end-user applications want Cairo to do. It seems to me that we want two things: 1) optional output to CMYK PDF/PS/EPS 2) separation preview What Carl now says is: "(1) would probably be a good place to start. But I still have questions about how inkscape would like this to work. Particularly, with regard to what colorspace(s) inkscape would like to use to provide color values to cairo. What colorspace(s) would be used for blending. What to do with source colors from multiple spaces, etc." Do we want to use this chance to wet our toes in prepress waters? ;-) Alexandre

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