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W3C SVG tests and Inkscape
by Tavmjong Bah 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi, For fun, I ran Inkscape in batch mode over the W3C SVG test files. You can see the results at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/W3C_SVG/htmlInkscapeHarness/full-index.html Tav -- Tavmjong Bah A Guide to Inkscape http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/

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Async script extensions
by Ted Gould 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hey all, So I've finally got my work on switching the scripting extensions over to being a call with parameters instead of a parsed string on the command line. At the same time I've made them asynchronous, which has some nice side effects. Basically, this all involved reworking large portions of the scripting code -- which brings the possibility of breaking things. Two areas in specific that I'm worried about: -- win32. Some of the functions I've used had notes on what does and doesn't work on win32, but the documentation was sparse, and I'm concerned it was incomplete. -- internationalization. I know we've had problems in the past with this code and different locales of filesystem and UI. I believe I kept all that code in place -- but history means that those with the complex setups should be extra observant when noticing how their SVN builds run. So other than those concerns, enjoy everyone. I hope this will add a lot of usability to the scripts, especially some discoverability to the parameters. Have fun, Ted

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text case effects
by bulia byak 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

A group of new effects in the Text submenu performs various case conversions on selected text objects: converting to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Sentence case, Title Case, as well as flipping case (switching uppercase to lowercase and back) and rANdoMiZInG cAse. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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spirals
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi, A question in a design forum on drawing exact logariphmic spirals in One Well Known Application :-) triggered my interest to a way doing same thing in Inkscape. In fact Inkscape operates in other terms than all the geometric sources I read so far overnight. Divergence (or Linearity) sounds very much like Ratio, but 1,618 simply won't work for any amount Turns I've tried :) Apparently , if I divide Turns by 0,618 and input the result into Divergence, the resulted spiral will look pretty close to a Fibonacci spiral, but not exactly it. This brings me to a point we I don't quite understand what I'm doing :) Does Inkscape simply lack documentation to help people do the calculations? Can Inkscape make it easier for users by providing presets that would lock existing Spiral tool's options to some ratio so that one could pick, say, hyperbolic or archimedean or logarithmic spiral and draw as many turns as (s)he wishes? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] noob. Can someone help me build/run?
by Joshua A. Andler 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hey xl cheese, I'd recommend doing a clean checkout again from "https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk" instead (note the inkscape at the beginning). That will ensure you won't run into the issue a few of our devs recently have. Also, since you're on Ubuntu, I'd recommend pulling up a terminal and doing "sudo apt-get build-dep inkscape" which will pull down the dependencies for you. I will be honest that I can't offer anything good advice-wise in trying to get eclipse to work as I've never used it. Gail, do you want to chime in? However, if you want to know the standard way to build (again in a terminal), after the initial checkout or when I make clean I do this: "svn up && ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && sudo make install". Then I just typically do "svn up && make && sudo make install" after that. I also CCd the devel-list as well to get others input to perhaps help with Eclipse (and it's a good place to ask development related Qs in general)... Hopefully the above is at least a little helpful for you... Cheers, Josh xl cheese wrote: > I want to dust of my programming skills and thought I'd play with inkscape > in my spare time. > > Trying to use Eclipse on a Ubuntu 7.04 system. > > I did this command to copy the svn locally: (/home/wes/inkscape) > svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk > inkscape > > Now that I have the source code how do I make it run in Eclipse? > > So far I have created a new project called WesInkscape in the dir > /home/wes/inkscape/src I can't seem to build it or run it. > > The inkscape wiki page for eclipse doesn't help. > > Thanks. > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migrati… > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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smaller commands toolbar
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi, The "Make commands toolbar smaller" option from Preferences dialog seems to make the opposite effect: the toolbar is smaller when the option is disabled. Is this intentional? Am I the only one to see it? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Selector keybinding change
by Diederik van Lierop 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Molumen wrote: > A similar and IMO more intuitive functionality is implemented in Corel > Draw. > There you can select the nudge distance, how far will an object move > when you click on the cursors. That would be great! Maybe we could also have an additional checkbox to link the nudge distance to the grid-spacing. I'm an engineer and I _love_ grids ;-) Diederik

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Selector keybinding change
by bulia byak 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

* Draging the scale handles with Alt now scales selection by an integer factor, i.e. up to 2, 3, 4, etc. times the original size or down to 1/2. 1/3, 1/4, etc. of the original size (in any of the two dimensions independently). This replaces the old and rarely used "slow" scaling mode with Alt. Admittedly this use of Alt is not very consistent with others - I would prefer to use Ctrl for that but it's already used for preserving ratio. At least, this mode is much more useful than the Sodipodi-era, very counterintuitive old "slow" mode where a move of the mouse pointer resulted in 1/10 of the displacement. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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moves
by bulia byak 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

1. I moved the 3D box tool back under Rect on the toolbar - it's definitely one of the shape tools and most logically belongs with other shapes. 2. I moved the filter effects dialog to Object menu under Fill and Stroke, instead of the Effects menu. The two kinds of "effects" are confusing enough as they are, even without further confounding them by placing them into one menu. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Getting the GdkWindow in which a verb was invoked
by bulia byak 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

On 7/9/07, Chris Adams <oneseventeen@...400...> wrote: > Ironically I prefer Inkscape on Windows, there's a couple of things > (like trying to select an object that is behind another object via the > alt key) that don't work for me on my Ubuntu laptop see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_to_make_Alt.2Bclick_and_Alt… -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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