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About Inkscape description text
by jiho 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hello everyone, As I mentioned earlier, I updated Inkscape description at Apple downloads. The description was taken from the text on the main page of the site and now that I played a bit with it and compared it to other software, I tend to find it quite verbose and technical. This text is what people will copy paste to describe Inkscape (as I did) and does not look to appealing to me. For example I don't think there is enough emphasis on the UI which is one of Inkscape greatest strengths while some very basic things (shapes, paths, etc) are mentioned while they can be considered self evident. Would a rework of this text be acceptable or has it already been reworked many times and this is considered final? How do you want Inkscape to be perceived: as a UI on top of SVG or as a vector editor that happens to use SVG as its format? More specifically about Apple Downloads, I just thought I would let you know that their staff updated Inkscape description. Now Inkscape has a nicer screenshot, a more detailed description and is classified as Imaging and 3D rather than under the more abstract "unix & open source" label. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/inkscape.html However, since I submitted it, it is listed under my name (but links to www.inkscape.org). This is obviously wrong (I don't want people thinking that Inkscape is my project, by any means!) and I tried to correct it by adding "Inkscape Community" as my company name. I hope they will update the description soon. For 0.46, the best thing will probably be to open an Apple account under the name "Inkscape Community" and then I'll delete Inkscape from mine. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Strings in python extensions
by Bill Baxter 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Has anyone noticed that the type=string variables passed to python extensions have literal quotes in them? For instance the number nodes (dots.py) example doesn't really work in the latest snapshot I downloaded because the sizes are getting set to things like '"20"' instead of just '20' --bb

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Extension execution on Windows crashes update
by unknown＠example.com 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Some time ago we reported that executing extensions on Windows crashes Inkscape. Today I read the Bill Baxter was actually able to run some extension, so I tried again. The LaTeX extension still crashes, Path-along-path too. But the grid extension does not crash. Details: I am building Inkscape with a slightly modified build.xml so Inkscape always starts with a console window, to easily see debug info. I am going to try without console window now, to see whether that matters. In any case, execution of the grid extension did not spawn a new console window, nor did it pass focus to the already existing console. Later, Johan

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CMYK imput problem
by momo 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

The CMYK color input behaves strangely: in the Fill and Stroke panel, when I try to change the color percentages in the CMYK tab by entering numbers on the right of the color mixers, these numbers are somehow recalculated on the fly and already entered amounts change. Here's an example: C 0 I change it into 44 M 27 jumps to 0 Y 61 jumps to 47 B 60 jumps to 71 And so on... It is almost impossible to input a CMYK color. Even entering CMYK color amounts with the help of the color sliders (for example MAGENTA) leads to subit changes in other colors (CYAN, YELLOW and BLACK). Molumen

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Placment of guidelines
by David Christian Berg 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Hey Inkscapers! I've done some draft yesterday and was using guidelines, something I don't do very often... Well, first of all, I would like guidelines to be selectable and then placeble via the tool bar (everything but the x or y position should be greyed out). However, if this seems to hard to do, quickly, I think it would make sense to at least allow the same number of digest after the point in both, the guideline dialogue (currently 2) and the tool bar coordinates (currently 3, which I of course prefer). Greetings from Spain! David

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CMS color selection including CMYK
by Jon A. Cruz 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Well.... I was finally able to get the initial cut of supporting icc-color() in. It should support most color spaces including CMYK. At the moment it will only be active for colors with an icc profile already set. There are some problems with the Lab and YCbCr color spaces. So far I've tested RGB, CMYK and Grayscale successfully. To test just build the latest, have a <color-profile> in your SVG and set the color in the SVG. So if you have a <color-profile> element with a name attribute of "cmyk", then you would just need to set fill:#ff00ff icc-color(cmyk, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

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build.dep
by Bob Jamison 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi all, Most of you never use the win32 stuff. So you probably have never seen the build.dep file. This file is a list of dependencies for each .cpp file in the inkscape source tree. This is purely withing the Inkscape tree. Buildtool does not walk out to list the system dependencies. It can be quite interesting. I put a copy on the server here, in case anyone is curious about dependencies in general, or their file in particular: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/build.dep Later, all! bob (ishmal)

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Mesh Gradient export from Laidout
by Tom Lechner 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi, I've been working on an export of patch gradients (aka mesh gradients) from my program Laidout to SVG. It currently basically follows Bulia's approximation method here: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-gradient-mesh-experim… The final steps of growing the boundary of the patch so the edges do not introduce transparency, and the blurring is a bit haphazard. My question is this: What is the relationship between "blur radius", the 0..100 blur slider in Inkscape, and SVG's stdDeviation? I've tried using various static values, but there doesn't seem to be a very satisfactory one. A sample exported file is here: http://www.tomlechner/randompics/test-colorpatch.svg Tom ----------------------- http://www.laidout.org http://www.tomlechner.com

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keys and mouse reference
by bulia byak 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

I decided to remove the feature that I myself added several versions ago: keys and mouse reference as an SVG file. Since most Help menu items are now URL links, so is this one, linking to this version's current chart at: http://inkscape.org/doc/keys046.html The old SVG chart was not very convenient to use, and it was getting more and more difficult to fit all keys into one screen. The only problem with this change is that for now, we're losing translated version of the chart. However the only two translations were doc/keys.fr.xml and doc/keys.de.xml, both quite out of date. However we can still use them by linking the corresponding HTML files from the main (English) chart. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Announcing Raster Effects (via ImageMagick)
by Christopher Brown 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Dear fellow Inkscape users, My Google Summer of Code project is now in SVN. My project is "Raster Functionality in Inkscape," which involved integrating ImageMagick libraries into Inkscape, in order to manipulate bitmaps from inside Inkscape. You'll have to install ImageMagick with Magick++ support (which is default) in order for these new extensions to work. They can be accessed under the sub-menu "Raster" in the extensions drop-down menu. The code is not quite in its final state--I am still perfecting and smoothing it out--but it's functional and I'd love to get feedback from all of you, especially from Windows users (because I have not tested it on that OS yet). Thank you all, -Christopher Brown

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