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GSoC19 CSS & JS support
by Valentin Ionita 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hey, everyone, I am in need for advice from the developers around. As I have stated several times already, I am looking to apply to Inkscape to GSoC and in order to do that, I have already had a few PRs merged, on translation, packaging and extensions. Some things about me: I am experienced in web development and graphic design and for about two years aware and excited about the open-source community. I am consistently building up my skills and learning in order to contribute from now on to projects that I find exciting and useful. Inkscape is one of those projects, as I have repeatedly used the app to learn design, create graphics and help communities with them. As it us specified in SoC application template on the wiki, I want to introduce my plans for contributing. I want to do mainly two things: improve the CSS support and add JS polyfills. Why two? Because I am capable and they're both in my skillsets. I believe these two are essential because they can be expanded upon. If we get a way of polyfilling Inkscape-specific functionality, I think it's the start for different mesh-gradients development, animations and other 'imported' functionality from other graphics software. This might seem like a lot, especially because they are actually two project ideas but I want you to understand my position. I am a workaholic and I will contribute to Inkscape even if I don't get accepted. However, if I get accepted, that would be an incentive to put in a lot more time into it, making it my main summer activity. As Moini suggested, I have forwarded this message to the mailing list. I'd love some feedback from Tav Have a great Hackfest! Valentin Ionita @vanntile

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Option to refresh fonts without relaunching
by Jabier Arraiza 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

new link: https://www.youtube.com/user/insaner169 -----Originhal Message----- From: Abhay Raj Singh <abhayofficialone@...400...> To: jabier.arraiza@...2893... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Option to refresh fonts without relaunching Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 23:36:00 +0530 Hey Jabier , thanks for help, but the link you provided is not working. Kindly check it once Regards. On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 23:30, Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote: > There is some work years ago from Raphael Rosch, you can contact with > him: > > > https://youtube.com/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fc%2FRaphaelRosch?fbclid… > > Regards. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Abhay Raj Singh <abhayofficialone@...400...> > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Option to refresh fonts without relaunching > Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 17:24:38 +0530 > > 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?? > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Generating User handwriting fonts
by Swayamjeet Swain 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

Hello again, Thank you for responding so soon. I am truly honored to be corresponding with the makers of Axidraw. I had never thought I would be interacting with you while I was making a DIY version of it. And I apologise for coming to the discussion so late, I had been using my version of the multi-line input since a year ago and didn't know active discussion was going on. Well I did read the thread, discussing the upcoming update of Hershey's text. I am attaching the link to the current code and extension files changes I made, to accommodate multi line inclusion, I don't think it will help much but then again it's just sitting in my disk project link - https://gitlab.com/swayne/inkscape_hersheys-text_multiline-input It's a makeshift make. I haven't completely integrated it with the extension, so to make it work you have follow the Readme file. (it's quite easy, bit of copy and paste. I just didn't invest much time to integrate it) Looking forward for the update and also can I send messages directly to this email, windell@...3695...? It will be for getting much deeper understanding of centerline Texts and few doubts which I had faced. Thankyou Swayne IIT ROORKEE P.S. I guess automating the handwriting font generation is a whole new paradigm and needs to be worked on. Tracing the fonts is quite tedious in the current setup. And having single line fonts matching your handwriting will completely change the plotter usages. On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 2:06 AM Windell H. Oskay <windell@...3695...> wrote: > Hi Swayne, > I'm the original author of the Hershey Text extension. I've been rewriting > Hershey Text with some major changes and a new version is almost ready. > (See > https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/merge_requests/25#note_145678292 > for discussion.) > > The changes that are underway do not overlap with the ideas of generating > handwriting fonts from PDF documents, and I expect the current set of > changes to be complete (and ready for you to build upon) by the GSoC start > date. I am not involved with Inkscape's GSoC program, but wanted you to be > aware of other work underway and for you to know that we all welcome your > efforts. > > -Windell > > > On Mar 2, 2019, at 10:20 AM, Swayamjeet Swain <swayam1998@...400...> > wrote: > > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > Windell H. Oskay, Ph.D. > Co-Founder and Chief Scientist > Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories > 1285 Forgewood Ave > Sunnyvale CA 94089 > http://www.evilmadscientist.com/ > > [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 03/03/19, 7:17:15 PM

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Inkscape won a Kopano subscription for OSBAR award: Is there a developer interested in using it?
by Maren Hachmann 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

Hi everyone, I'm following up on this action item from the Inkscape board meeting on Friday: ♢ ACTION: Ask on inkscape-devel@ if anyone would have a use for the license [Moini] So, in short, we won a Kopano Pro 20 users 1 year base subscription , which is kind of a hosted open source groupware solution. (photo with codes obfuscated: https://framadrive.org/s/Sqt9QRernZsQJCk) https://kopano.com/ https://kopano.com/pricing/ As the Inkscape project itself already has its own set of platforms in use, and a time-limited subscription isn't going to help us much, we're looking for someone who can use it. According to Bryce, if someone or even more than one person is interested, we will figure out the details later. If you can use it, please let us know! Maren

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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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