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Wiki and Planet Skins
by ryan lerch 24 Jun '07

24 Jun '07

you may have noticed that the wiki and the planet skins have been changed to come into line with the inkscape website. (im not sure if the wiki skin is the default yet, but if you want to set the skin as your default in users prefs, that will work - the skin is unimaginatively called "inkscape") if there are any problems with these, or you have some suggestions for improvements, feel free to discuss them, and i will try to include them... i intend to try to get the posts on the planet looking a bit better, maybe even displaying them in speech bubbles similar to http://planet.gnome.org/ cheers, ryanlerch

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Automatic engraving?
by bulia byak 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

On 6/21/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote: > See attached .jpg - my thought is that if you could just cover a > picture with some uniform paths (made from stroke to path) and then > have thick/thinning applied to them across a regular grid (red dots) > you could make these engraved style pics with a lot of complexity > and detail very quickly and easily. Obviously my example's just a > simple mock up. I like the idea. All that needs to be done is to combine the trace-background code and the thinning/thickening code. Should not be too difficult to do. The only problem is, with this addition the thinning/thickening functionality certainly breaks the envelope of the Calligraphy tool. It needs at least one more keyboard modifier and some toolbar controls, which simply won't fit into this already overloaded tool. So I'm thinking about breaking this functionality into a tool of its own, for example Shape Morph, which would give me more room to develop it further. Also it will hopefully improve the visibility of this functionality - it seems to me it wasn't noticed enough so far, although it's extremely useful in a lot of ways (not only for engraving, of course). So, any objections to me adding one more button to the main toolbar? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Automatic engraving?
by bulia byak 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

On 6/22/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote: > Hmmm, maybe your thinking of something more dynamic than I had in > mind, I was thinking you would use a menu item to thicken/thin the > selected paths based on the underlying image. That's possible, but I don't like this approach - it's too mechanical, leaving too few room for creativity. Instead, I envision it as a different mode of the thinning/thickening brush where, instead of indiscriminately thinning/thickening selected paths, it does thinning if the background is light and thickening if it's dark, with settable thresholds/force/inversion if needed. This way you can "develop" the background image interactively, emphasizing some of the details and leaving others hidden. What do you think? > But I agree thicken/thin doesn't belong as a subpart of the > caligraphy tool. What about the 'draw using another path as a > guide' mode, does that need more general exposure too? No, that one is definitely part of the calligraphic tool - it draws calligraphic strokes with all the same parameters and modes as usual, except they are guided. The thinning/thickening is quite different from that - it does not draw anything at all. Its only connection with the calligraphic UI is that it uses 10x of the calligraphic pen width as the thinning brush width, but it's a poor UI anyway because it's not very obvious. Having its own toolbar will allow it to have its own width control. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] website, take two :)
by Colin Marquardt 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

"Leandro Regueiro" <leandro.regueiro@...400...> writes: > And why not a link to the translation section on the main page of the project?? I'm not against it, but next to what other link would you put it? Cheers Colin

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Effects error dialog
by Aaron Spike 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Could someone puh-lease help me. I'm translating the python extensions to use lxml and the effects error dialog is really driving me nuts. It is modal and it doesnt' stay ontop of the inkscape window. This makes it the most annoying dialog ever. This is a Win32 problem. I run and effect that generates an error. I switch to a text editor to fix the error. I click back on inkscape and the error windows is below inkscape so I have to minimize all the other windows and then move inscape to the left or two the right to read or close the dialog. To make matters worse the dialog is always placed in the middle of the inkscape window, so I have to move inkscape every time. I tried to hack the dialogs ontop hack for this dialog and failed. Aaron Spike

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Help needed on OS X
by Jean-Olivier Irisson 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Hello all, To solve a bug I need a little help from the community. I would need the output of this command: ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXine* Just copy paste the line above in a Terminal and then copy paste the output back in an email. I would need this information from users with 4 different setups: - 10.3.* (Panther) with X11 installed (X11User package) - 10.3.* (Panther) with X11 and X11-SDK installed (X11-SDK is available in the developer tools, when you install XCode and such) - 10.4.* (Tiger) with X11 installed (X11User package) - 10.4.* (Tiger) with X11 and X11-SDK installed (X11-SDK is available in the developer tools, when you install XCode and such) Thank you in advance for your help. Jean-Olivier Irisson --- UMR 5244 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, 52 av Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France +336 21 05 19 90 http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/

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Rename "Inkscape Preference"
by Maulik Gordhandas 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

Hi, Can anyone tell me how can i rename the "Inkscape Preferences" [dialog & File Men entry] to just "Preferences" Thanks Maulik

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Rename "Inkscape Preference"
by Tobias Jakobs 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

> On 6/19/07, Maulik Gordhandas wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me how can i rename the "Inkscape Preferences" [dialog & > > File Men entry] to just "Preferences" > > grep 'Inkscape Preferences' -r /path/to/source/code > > Then edit the found file and recompile. > > Is it because of HIG incompatibility? > It can't be the HIG, because the HIG suggests "Application Name Preferences": http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-utility.html#prefer… So we should not change that! Regards, Tobias __________________________________________________________________________ Erweitern Sie FreeMail zu einem noch leistungsstärkeren E-Mail-Postfach! Mehr Infos unter http://produkte.web.de/club/?mc=021131

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Link help
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

I added a class called SPTRefReference, similar to SPUseReference. It extends URIReference. When I try to instantiate it in my tref struct's init function (tref->ref = new SPTRefReference(SP_OBJECT(tref));), just as the SPUse struct does, it won't link. Something about missing definition for SPTRefReference's vtable. Anyone know what step I am missing? Probably something small or maybe related to this particular compiler (which I have not used before; at least not on Windows). Much appreciated, Gail

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<use> Element
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Hi all, In my quest to implement <tref> I have been examining the <use> element. In its implementation, there are several members related to the connection it makes to the element it wants to use. I'm trying to sort out which of these is necessary because it seems that there is some duplication. SPUse has the following as members: gchar * href; SPUseReference *ref; sigc::connection _delete_connection; sigc::connection _changed_connection; sigc::connection _transformed_connection; But SPUseReference is in fact a subclass of URIReference. Does having this make the other members redundant to a point? Similarly, SPTextPath uses a subclass of SPUseReference called SPUsePath, which contains all the same sigc::connection stuff that is stored in SPUse. Is it possible that SPUse could strip itself of the connection stuff and maybe even the href (not sure exactly the need for that one) by replacing the SPUseReference with SPUsePath? Most importantly, is there any reason that SPTRef could use SPUsePath to refer to the element it will take character data from? Thanks, your help is much appreciated :) Gail

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