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Inkscape 0.46 About Screen Contest - Developer choosing time
by Josh Andler 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hello all! Community voting results for the about screen contest: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16414256/ As it goes, the developers are now choosing from the top 3 to decide which one best fits the upcoming release. If you click on the thumbnails of the about screens, on the page you are then taken to, there is a download link on the left to obtain the SVG files. Since I know that would be everyone's first question. ;) I imagine the decision can be made in 3 days so we can then request/discuss/make tweaks shortly thereafter. Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Attaching parasite information to an object (or group)
by khiraly 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

On sze, 2008-01-16 at 22:03 +0000, john cliff wrote: > if you add an attribute in the inkscape namespace such as > inkscape:whateveryouwant i believe it shouldnt get lost. I have read a bit of svg specification, and I have found what would be standard compliant. An container element (like 'g', the group) can have a <title> and a <desc> element. I have added this to my group, and inkscape preserves it. However, inkscape also adds an additional id to the <desc> which I dont think so is permitted. So when i copy my group, it becomes like this: <g id="g7890"> <desc id="desc9">this is my component</desc> <path id="path7884" d="M 168,215 L 397,215" style="fill:none;fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1" /> <text id="text7886" y="264" x="217" style="font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1;font-family:Bitstream Vera Sans" xml:space="preserve"><tspan y="264" x="217" id="tspan7888" sodipodi:role="line">component's name</tspan></text> </g> If somebody are interested, here is a bit more information about this: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/struct.html#DescriptionAndTitleElements I tried validate my svg document through validate.w3.org, but there are many errors, so I cant be sure if it is valide or not. The question is: Is it permitted and desirable to attache an id tag into a title or desc element? So which one is preferred?: <desc>this is a description</desc> vs. <desc id="desc9">this is a description</desc> And the latter is still valid svg? Best regards, Khiraly

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Attaching parasite information to an object (or group)
by khiraly 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hi! Right now im developing a little extension, and I have a problem what I could not get workaround. I hope someone more knowledgeable can me give a hand. Im implementing cross referencing in inkscape (it can be found on many schematics), please take a look at this example: http://khiraly.googlepages.com/crossreference.png The problem is, when a group (or object) is copied, all the ids got a new random string, so it cant be determine the original ids or the original component's type. All the component is similar (from a svg point of view) so it consists lines and texts. So Im looking forward to attach infos to an svg group, which persiste, when the group is copied. Im interesting in any method, like defining a css style, adding a parasite information, or rename the resulting group's id back to its original form plus a random character. Can anybody help me here?

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missing verbs
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hi, Every time I start Inkscape from console I see this: $ inkscape Unable to find: FilePrintDirect ** (inkscape:26549): WARNING **: Unknown verb name: FilePrintDirect Unable to find: ToolCalligrphic ** (inkscape:26549): WARNING **: Unknown verb name: ToolCalligrphic Unable to find: ToolCalligrphic ** (inkscape:26549): WARNING **: Unknown verb name: ToolCalligrphic Unable to find: ToolCalligrphic ** (inkscape:26549): WARNING **: Unknown verb name: ToolCalligrphic Unable to find: EditCloneOriginal ** (inkscape:26549): WARNING **: Unknown verb name: EditCloneOriginal Unable to find: EditCloneOriginal ** (inkscape:26549): WARNING **: Unknown verb name: EditCloneOriginal Unable to find: HelpKeys ** (inkscape:26549): WARNING **: Unknown verb name: HelpKeys Is it normal? Alexandre

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remove fedisplacementMap ?
by Felipe Sanches 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

feDisplacementMap seems to be so useless if we dont have feImage that I think we could hide it from users while we dont have feImage Juca

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min/max values
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hi, One of quite annoying usability issues is that in many cases min/max values are unknown and/or unpredictable. Few examples: - all LPE options - Gaussian blur - 0 to 100,0 of what - pixels? A hint for them could include the missing bit of information, e.g. "... (0 to infinity)." Should we be trying to fix those? Alexandre

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"Ask a Question" on help menu
by Felipe Sanches 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

I suggest that we add an entry on the help menu that links the user to the "ask a question" page at launchpad Juca

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disable some filters
by Felipe Sanches 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

we need to find out a way to hide some filters from the ui because they are not implemented yet. These filters are feFlood, feTile, feImage and feComponentTransfer feImage is only partially implemented. I wrote the patch that is attached to this email. It seems to work, but it crashed once when I tried to add a primitive to an opened SVG that contained one of these four filter primitives. Maybe we should instead let these 4 primitives listed on the combobox but display a message saying that they are part of the SVG specs but not implemented yet. Juca

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Impossible to correctly scale LPE stitch subcurves?
by unknown＠example.com 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hello all, I am trying to fix transformation behavior for LPE (translation, scaling, rotation). I think I found a fundamental problem. Take Stitch Subcurves. Let's say we are stitching between a straight horizontal line, and a line in the shape of: _________________ / / / For equidistance stitch spacing, the stitch start points would be: ____o_____________o / / / o o__________o___________o Note that the distance is taken *along* the length of the line, not just the distance in the x-direction as this would not work in general Now, after scaling in the Y direction: ____o_____________o / | | | | | | / / o o__________o___________o

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Fixed size Export Bitmap dialog
by Tavmjong Bah 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, I just noticed that the Export dialog is now fixed in width. This, in my opinion, is a not a good change as one cannot now expand the dialog to show the entire file name path. This means having to click on the file name and use the arrow keys to get to then end to customize the file name, a real pain if doing lots of exporting from one file. Tav

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