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Inkscape 0.46
by Bryce Harrington 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

The Inkscape 0.46 release has been tagged and a tarball is in the process of being created. The next step will be packaging and finalizing PR materials. Thank you everyone for your hard work in producing this release. We will be embargoing PR announcements until March 24th, to provide the Windows port with additional time to identify fixes to some critical bugs, so please hold off from publicizing this release for now. Bryce

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NEW: visual bbox enlarged for filters
by bulia byak 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

The visual bounding box (which is the default bounding box type used by Inkscape) of an object with a filter applied now includes the expanded area of the filter. For single blur filter (such as the blur you apply with a slider in the Fill and Stroke dialog), this expands the bounding box by 2.4*radius; although theoretically, blur is infinite, this is the distance at which the opacity of the object drops below the perceptibility threshold of our renderer. For all other filters, the area is expanded by the relative amounts you specify on the "Filter general settings" tab of the Filter Effects dialog. Only visual bounding box is affected; if you use geometric bounding box, you will notice no change in most cases. However, the Export bitmap dialog always uses the visual bbox for selection export area; this means that you can now export a blurred object to bitmap without any clipping of the blur. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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GSoC '08 proposal
by Miklós Erdélyi 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi all, In the last two years I have participated in GSoC working on Inkscape's PDF export/import features. This year I would like to participate again, wrapping up these :) My project proposal would be based around the previous two summer's work, mainly improving the PDF import and export extension. Regarding PDF import I propose: - to establish an embedded font framework, - to implement CMYK support as soon as we decide how we're going to need it :) - to fix bugs related to the PDF import extension (free time activity?). The embedded font framework for the PDF importer would allow importing of text as either text, either path or as text with embedded SVG fonts. Using embedded SVG fonts could join Juca's SoC project of implementing this crucial missing feature in Inkscape. Some of the design work of this framework has already been done. Regarding PDF export I propose - to incorporate Cairo's user font support (soon to be released) to export SVG fonts, - to optimize the renderer for the now-improved Cairo PDF backend, - to fix various stuff related to not passing the SVG 1.1 test suite either due to missing stuff in Inkscape (like not handling the preserveAspectRatio attribute for svg:pattern and other elements) or due to bad implementation of the Cairo-renderer for PDF export, - and to fix bugs in LP in connection with PDF export. What do you think about these? Which ones are worth a SoC project? I would appreciate any suggestions :) Best regards, miklos

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lib2geom integration - team effort possible?
by unknown＠example.com 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hello all, it seems there is quite a bit of interest to work on lib2geom integration. If I count well, there are 4 (Daniel Kraft, mgsloan, Marco Cecchetti and me). How much work do people think it will be? Perhaps we can use this many people working on it, but maybe it's hard to split it up in 4 well defined areas. On the other hand, with 4 people the chances of completely switching to 2geom are greatly increased. Searching for NR::Point gives 3000+ hits and NR::Matrix 1000+ hits... (only a few hits are from libnr). So just replacing libnr types with 2geom types is 4000 places that need to be checked; most of them just need a short glance I guess, but still. I like the team approach a lot, but don't know how to split up the work. Njh mentions that perhaps it is inefficient to initially split things up. Regards, Johan

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Bugfix Patch for the Print Dialog
by joel＠...1709... 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi All, I've just fixed a very minor problem with the print dialog which allowed it to fall underneath the inkscape desktop window in Win32. I've already applied the change to trunk, but I'm just wondering should this fix be applied to the 0.46.X series of branches? If so, can someone do that for me. Thanks Joel

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Toolbar problem: action missing
by unknown＠example.com 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

I had troubles with the toolbar, so I decided to get a clean svn checkout, get the latest devlibs and do a clean build. Still I get the following warnings when starting Inkscape: (inkscape.exe:43288): Gtk-WARNING **: ZoomIn: missing action ZoomIn (inkscape.exe:43288): Gtk-WARNING **: ZoomPage: missing action ZoomPage (inkscape.exe:43288): Gtk-WARNING **: ZoomNext: missing action ZoomNext (inkscape.exe:43288): Gtk-WARNING **: ZoomPage: missing action ZoomPage (inkscape.exe:43288): Gtk-WARNING **: DialogFillStroke: missing action DialogFillStroke (inkscape.exe:43288): Gtk-WARNING **: DialogText: missing action DialogText (inkscape.exe:43288): Gtk-WARNING **: DialogAlignDistribute: missing action DialogAlignDistribute And the toolbar is not populated with all buttons (it stops after "zoom to fit drawing in windows"). I downloaded the latest build from inkscape.modevia.com which does not show these warnings. Does anybody have an idea what is wrong on my end? Thanks alot, Johan

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Fwd: [CREATE] Inkscape coordinator for LGM travel costs needed
by Plinnell 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [CREATE] Inkscape coordinator for LGM travel costs needed Date: Monday 17 March 2008 From: "Louis Desjardins" <louis.desjardins@...400...> To: "Create List" <create@...626...> Hi Inkscape team! We need one person per team to act as a coordinator to gather the names and needs of the Inkscape people going to LMG this year. The task is simple, yet it takes someone who has time to do it. 1st round : gather the names and approximate cost for travel to Wroclaw (transport only, economic) and put that on a calc sheet. Send it to kamila giedrojc at gmail.com and cc to me. 2nd round : gather the names and real costs as we are approaching the LGM and also help get the complete banking info and full name and address of participants. The sooner the better. This helps us have a fair idea of the total needs for this year's LGM. So who will that be this year is up to you guys! Please find out asap and let us know who that person will be! Thanks and hope to see you at LGM this year again! Louis Desjardins -------------------------------------------------------

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Re v 17971 libnr build failure - patch
by Krzysztof Kosiński 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

nr-matrix-scale-ops.h was converted to be 100% inline, yet the rule for nr-matrix-scale-ops.cpp was not removed, causing a build failure. Index: src/libnr/Makefile_insert =================================================================== --- src/libnr/Makefile_insert (revision 17971) +++ src/libnr/Makefile_insert (working copy) @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ libnr/nr-matrix-ops.h \ libnr/nr-matrix-rotate-ops.cpp \ libnr/nr-matrix-rotate-ops.h \ - libnr/nr-matrix-scale-ops.cpp \ libnr/nr-matrix-scale-ops.h \ libnr/nr-matrix-translate-ops.cpp \ libnr/nr-matrix-translate-ops.h \ Regards, Krzysztof (Chris) Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rev-17971-libnr-build-failure---patch-tp16208029p1620… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] FOREIGN:Re: Re v 17971 libnr build failure - patch
by Aaron Spike 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote: > It would be nice if a GSoC student would convert our building to CMake............ Is this something we as a project would like to do? I know Josh Blocher has started working on this and I'd like to help him, but I've been a little short on time lately. Aaron Spike

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CNET uses Inkscape for NCAA tournament brackets
by Bryce Harrington 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

"Inkscape is an easy program to use; the only big problem I encountered involved aligning copied brackets." "Inkscape is a vector graphics editor, which means that images and objects can scale easily, so team names and brackets can be resized as you like. The SVG file is included in a downloadable ZIP file on the template product page. Inkscape also exports PDF files, so I created a printable version of the bracket if you want a down-and-dirty printout for brainstorming upset picks or tracking winners. The PDF file is also included in the downloadable ZIP." http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9897368-12.html

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