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Fwd: Simple Addition
by Martin Owens 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

> Actually it might make sense to make it a preference. Something like > specifying what happens to the other layers when one is selected > exclusively. That's a good idea in and of it's self, make the two things distinct functions and together they make a powerful control. So one idea is to have a slider bar to change which layer is selected. And the second idea is to be able to set some how what happens to other layers and the current layer such that it should be possible to make the current layer visible, the next and previous layers semi transparent and all other layers invisible. this would also be very cool for doing tracing and a bunch of other things. >> >> I wrote the barcode plugin, I can't Imagen it'd be too much more difficult. > > Ah, I didn't realize that was you. Yes, this one should be much easier :) > Yes the barcode wasn't that hard to be honest I translated my perl barcode stuff to python. > Are you planning on using the SVG animation elements or Javascript? > > Also, from the SVG perspective there is a good group of people who talk > about SVG related issues over here: > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ I'm planning on creating a python based plugin which will look at each of the objects in each root layer and allow you to combine them into a complete animation using svg animation (not javascript) primary support is just the path and transofrm animations and maybe style. I'll make it so you should be able to select the timing between each frame ect. I'm posting this to the inkscape devel list for you guys to shoot down as many as the silly ideas as possible so we can come up with some nice improvements. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape staff-picked at Apple again
by jiho 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Hello, Just a quick note to let you know that, after changing Inkscape description text at Apple, the project gained a little visibility (it was marked as updated) but also changed location (moved from Unix & Open source to Imaging & 3D) and lost its staff-picked status. As of today, Inkscape has been staff-picked again and, maybe more importantly, is back in the top ten most popular applications in its new category (it is number 6): http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/index_top.html There is no indication of how the "popularity" is judged but since the list features old and new items, staff-picked as well as non- staff picked items etc. my guess is that a simple metric such as the number of clicks on the download link or the number of visits to the product page is used. This is all very good news for Inkscape and 0.46 promises to be a really big hit. Congratulations to everyone. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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SCALE Papers or BOF
by staff-gmail 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

All those thinking of going to SCALE - it would be great to have a paper submitted, but if no one is up for that, we should plan on at least a BOF on all the new cool features that will be in .46 that should be out by then. At any rate we should coordinate and then let Gareth know.

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Case sensitive font selection field
by momo 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Hi, While working with some text in Inkscape, I found an unpleasant behaviour of the text selection field (the field above the font selection drop down menu): it is case sensitive. When I type "Arial" in it and hit enter, the selected text's font is changed to arial as it should. But if I type "arial" or "ARIAL", then I get a warning that the font is not found/installed. The expected behaviour is that no matter what case I enter in (like aRiaL) it must find the font I'm looking for (this is the behaviour of Illustrator, Indesign, Corel, Photoshop, Openoffice and many other programs). Although it is not a real bug, it is IMO a usability issue. By the way, I'm on Windows XP sp2. Is it the same on Linux? Mac? And should I fill a feature request or a bug report? Thanks! Molumen

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need help
by Elisha 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

When I try to make some effects with windows version, inkscape stop and give this error message- http://www.pisga.org.il/inkscape/inkscape.jpg Elisha

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docking for extensions
by Alexandre Prokoudine 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

Hi, What do you think about docking floating extensions dialogs (i.e. dialogs with "Floating" option enabled)? When you have several of them around and you need them all the time, docking them would make sense. Alexandre

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BIg slowdown using Tweak tool -- sp-item.cpp
by John Bintz 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

Hi, all. It looks like a change that occurred in rev. 15821 has caused some big performance issues when using the Tweak tool. In sp_item_update, this block of code is called with every update: if (item->display && item->display->arenaitem) { NRRect item_bbox; sp_item_invoke_bbox(item, &item_bbox, NR::identity(), TRUE, SPItem::GEOMETRIC_BBOX); NR::Maybe<NR::Rect> i_bbox = item_bbox; nr_arena_item_set_item_bbox(item->display->arenaitem, i_bbox); } and this is making the Tweak tool very slow to respond. Is there a better way of computing the SVG bounding box for the Arena item on an as-needed basis, rather than with every update? Also, I looked at other places that used item->display and that seems to be a linked list instead of just a single item. Thanks, John

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PDF import extension
by Miklós Erdélyi 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hi, the cairo-based simple PDF import extension has been in trunk for a while (well, for a week or so :) ). Now I have committed a preliminary version of the native libpoppler-based one to trunk (you can activate it by uncommenting the line Internal::PdfInput::init() in src/extension/init.cpp). I did commit this unstable version because I need your help regarding a strange bug. When a PDF document is opened Inkscape crashes with segmentation fault, giving the following backtrace: #0 0xb6ebeb46 in malloc_usable_size () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #1 0xb6ec0ecd in free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb6ec283f in malloc () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0xb70844b7 in operator new () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #4 0xb70845ed in operator new[] () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #5 0xb71719d2 in PDFDoc::checkFooter (this=0xa6c5700) at PDFDoc.cc:248 #6 0xb7171e90 in PDFDoc::setup (this=0xa6c5700, ownerPassword=0x0, userPassword=0x0) at PDFDoc.cc:185 #7 0xb71721c5 in PDFDoc (this=0xa6c5700, fileNameA=0xa6c56c8, ownerPassword=0x0, userPassword=0x0, guiDataA=0x0) at PDFDoc.cc:102 #8 0x08594ec7 in Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfInput::open ( this=0x8857030, mod=0x8861350, uri=0xab497e4 "/home/shudo/tiger.pdf") at extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:51 Please test whether the same thing happens on your system also (note: PDF import is not yet available on Windows) and tell us if you have any ideas regarding the solution to this problem which sets back the further development of the import extension. Thank you, miklos

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] contribute to graphics research!
by bulia byak 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

(forwarding this to devel list as well) This sounds like a very nice addition. We (developers) actually were thinking about adding something like that, as an option. Would you consider adding your patch to the SVN trunk so it becomes part of the official Inkscape releases? For users, persistent undo is an important enough feature by itself, with or without helping your graphics research :) And if you keep working on it to add more features like selective undo, this is much better to do in the main trunk. On 10/5/07, Sara Su <sarasu@...1814...> wrote: > Hello inkscape-users, > > I am a graduate student in the Computer Graphics Group at > MIT, and we are researching ways to visualize the editing > history of graphical documents. We want to test our > software prototype (built on Inkscape) on a diverse sample > of illustrations, and we need your help! Please see our > webpage for details: > > http://csail.mit.edu/~sarasu/history > > If you could spare 10 minutes, we would be grateful for your > help. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions > regarding this work. We will keep you posted on cool > features (e.g. selective undo) that grow out of it. > > Thanks in advance! > > Sara > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Tabbing in Docked Dialogs (0.45+Dev, Sept 6 Release)
by Tony Vigil 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

Using the tab key while editing parameters inside docked dialogs in the development version doesn't work as expected. Tabbing still cycles the object selection as though the canvas has focus. This can lead to very unwanted results if you enter data, tab to the next parameter, enter more data, then hit return. Is this tabbing behavior while in the docked dialogs intentional? - Tony

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