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Using multi-path objects with the "Pattern along path" or "path along path" effects
by Tony Vigil 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Currently, only a single path can be placed along the path in a single instance of the effect. Will either effect ever be able to place an object (with multiple paths) along a path? Perhaps even turned into a stroke style??? The reason I ask is that it would be very nice to be able to create brushes (objects with multiple paths) that could be placed along a path. Here is an example of what I am talking about... http://soundnvision.homestead.com/files/brush_along_path.png The steps required to make the various shades of my example brush follow a single path is very time consuming. After I trace the bitmap, I need to include a bounding rectangle with each object that makes up the different shades of the brush so that each element is placed relative to all other elements along the same path. Then, each element is placed along the path separately. You can't edit the original path and have ALL of the elements respond accordingly. Therefore, you must start the process all over again if you don't have the original path placed exactly as as you need based on your brush shape. Best case scenario... this effect becomes a stroke style that can be applied to any object (i.e. rectangles, ellipses, text, spirals, etc.), not just path objects. The only other place I've ever seen this type of tool is in Microsoft Expression. Inkscape's path effect comes close, but doesn't quite hit the mark. - Tony

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student project : distortion envelope tool
by Steren Giannini 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hello, It is now official for the administration of our school, we are starting working on the "distortion envelope tool" at the end of december. Our official "tutor" from the dev team is Johan Engelen. The school is only interested in observing how we manage to organize our project alone and if we meet the requirements. I'll be the project leader, we are 6 in the team and we will be working for 5 months. (from 4 to 8 hours a week) We are before all inkscape users and we are very exited to build something for it. The goals are : - create the distortion tool engine for paths (using lib2geom, and path effects) - create the tool's UI - extend path effects to groups for the distortion tool and others (path along path for example) Of course : - SVG compliant - The original object is saved. If the project goes well, the goals could be extended. We'll see with Johan. (nb : Yesterday, I was thinking about path effect on clones, path effect on texts...) Bye, Steren

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Automatically set Z-order
by bulia byak 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

On Nov 13, 2007 2:21 AM, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:43 -0400, bulia byak wrote: > > I dunno about Gimp, but Inkscape extensions are pretty easy. This one > > however is a bit cumbersome because Inkscape does not pass to the > > extensions the bboxes of the selected objects. (I proposed to add this > > to the extensions API; Ted, is there any reason why you don't want to > > do this?) > There is no reason that it hasn't been done other than time. I guess > that, and deciding a format for it, but I think we've discussed that too > (I'd have to go through my mail). This should be a pretty easy task for > someone who wants to do it. There is already a loop going through all > of the selected items, you'd just need to find the bounding boxes and > add that to the parameter list. Will it require any changes in the existing extensions? I think it should be done before 0.46 then, because it will make a lot of different extensions easier, and the API changes should be done as early as possible. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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dirty on load
by bulia byak 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

This is one of the most annoying and visible recent bugs - right after clean start, the empty document is dirtied and it asks if I want to save it upon quitting. The undo stack is empty however. Can anyone please look into it? I think it's pretty recent. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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12 Nov '07

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tweak tool screenshots
by bulia byak 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.46-tweak-path.png http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.46-tweak-color.png enjoy -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape profiling: Inkscape::FontLister::FontLister question
by John Bintz 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi, all. I'm experimenting with profiling Inkscape in Valgrind looking for potential slow spots in the code, and had a question for those with more knowledge of the font loading code. One of the first places in the initialization code where I think there could be a speedup is in Inkscape::FontLister::FontLister. This method calls font_factory::Styles once for each font family that is returned by font_factory::Families. In my test run of opening and closing Inkscape with 142 font families returned by font_factory::Families, running Inkscape::FontLister::FontLister took just over 20% of the total runtime. If there were some way to cache this font information between runs of Inkscape and only update it if the fonts on the system have changed, or if there was a way to push back the loading of fonts to later in the program execution -- say the first time someone viewed the Text toolbar or something similar -- I think it might speed up startup time in Inkscape. Anyone willing to help me take a look into this to see if this will work? Thanks, John

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Fix for Font Name Case bug #1818885
by Thomas Worthington 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

I've put a diff that fixes this bug at http://www.tww.cx/downloads/fontcase.diff I'd love to say that there must be an easier way but instead I'd like to say that the person that defined the C++ string class without case-changing functions should themselves be strung up! The method used needs to be checked by someone who actually knows C++ to see if it will handle non-ASCII font names. I don't have any such fonts to test it with and I'm not sure enough about how C++'s toupper function works on unicode to even guess whether it will work or not. The diff file also adds some comments to toolbox.cpp. Thanks to Gail for pointing me in the direction of that file, BTW, it would have taken me even longer to come up with a fix without her quick reply to my query. Finally, the diff file has some changes to a pair of makefiles which are a mystery to me; I never touched them, Gov'nor! Thomas

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adding templates
by Alexandre Prokoudine 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi, How do we decide if we add new templates? http://understandinglimited.com/2007/10/29/inscape2fontforge/ sounds like a perfect candidate to me :) Also, do we have any policy regarding new extensions - which ones we can bundle with the package and which ones we can't? Alexandre

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Non-programming tasks
by Joshua A. Andler 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hey all, It seems like a good time to discuss non-programming related items given the icon conversation. I figure we can get some thoughts out on the list and work from there. Basically, let's try and free the people who program from the tasks that the rest of us can do. ;) It's common for people to say "well if I could program I'd...", well, if you can't, but want more programming done on inkscape... here's your chance! The website: Realistically, we should probably have 2 or 3 volunteers that will agree to submit at least 1 news item per month. Bryce shouldn't be the only one. ;) It seems like it should be a fairly minimal commitment. I'm willing to fill one of those spots myself. I'll throw together something before the end of the week that talks about the persistent undo history that the MIT students are working on, and link to their page. Bryce, are you even still interested? On top of that, do you have the time? Either way, it is not difficult to find a couple news worthy items per month. Any other takers? Tutorials: Ryan Lerch and myself started to do some tutorial work for this development cycle a while back. I haven't contributed to this for a couple months as it seemed like there were still a number of changes going on at that point (plus a very busy schedule on my end). Luckily, it appears things are slowing down now on both fronts, so it seems like an opportune time to pick this back up. It's good for us to have more tutorials that focus on using features of inkscape (such as the in-progress clipping/masking/patterns tutorial), rather than tutorials for doing a particular task (easter egg). Do we have any volunteers to help us with tutorial writing/updating? Current discussion and drafts can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TutorialUpdates-0.46 Also, as for tutorial localization and to attempt simplifying our files and the process for translators, I know there was discussion in the past about po2xml. Can anyone enlighten me on if this has change has been done? I've not updated my checkout of the tutorials in quite a while. If not, is this a huge task? Will there be any changes in formatting or the process for tutorial writers? Screenshots: Okay, do we think that artsy screenshots are in order yet? I have one that utilizes a number of filters, but a key piece of filter rendering is not correct (it's using turbulence). I also have an in-progress one that I'm using some filters on, but more importantly going to town with live path effects. Curve stitching is turning out to be my favorite feature in this dev cycle. :) The About screen: I just want to follow up on this. I know we're most likely not ready to go for it yet (as there are a number of filter bugs remaining). But I am just wondering if we think we're getting closer. Also, did Jon Phillips want to host this via ocal or create? Or are we going deviantART again? Just want to coordinate. Bugs & Feature Requests: Another area that generally needs attention is our bug and rfe trackers. It is always a big help if people can go through bug reports & feature requests and try to close duplicates, reproduce bugs, ask for more information where necessary, etc. Unfortunately, people submit items without searching the trackers first, so duplicates are quite common. Also, it's common that people will file a report and the issue is resolved in a development cycle, but they never come back to say that the issue has been fixed for them. Another common issue is anonymous bug reports. These get reported and never followed up on by the original poster as there is no way for us to contact them (these are fairly common to get fixed, but we don't get confirmation from those people). Anyone interested in helping with these that doesn't have access, please let us know. Thank you all for your time. -Josh P.S. Unrelated, is the 3d box tool not going to be activated for the next release?

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