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Vectors: Join chat.inkscape.org + Saturday meeting
by Ryan Gorley 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hello Vectors (and all), With the generous help of Manuel Recena we have deployed https://chat.inkscape.org! This is the shiny, new, /public/ home for Vectors discussions/meetings. It is also a home for other project contributors. Please come and check it out! No registration is necessary to view conversations, but to join in, one needs to follow these steps: 1. Navigate to https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors (or any channel) 2. Select the "Sign in to start talking" button at the bottom: 3. Then on the sign-in page, follow the "Register a new account" link beneath the login button: We have a meeting scheduled for this Saturday (time <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…>, agenda <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/72>). Because we had a scheduling mix-up last month, it will be good to catch up. I aim to keep the official meeting to an hour. On the agenda are the Inkscope podcast, Kiel download, the website rebuild, and other stuff as we have time. If there's anything you're working on and would like to share/discuss it, please let me know and I'll get it added. I'm grateful for the many ways you all contribute and I hope I can see you there! - Ryan

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wiki page about coordinate frames
by Thomas Holder 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Hi, I'd like to add this scheme to the wiki: http://www.thomas-holder.de/tmp/inkscape-frames-of-reference.svg However, uploading SVG is not permitted, I'm getting this error: "Upload warning: .svg is not a permitted file type. Permitted file types are png, gif, jpg, jpeg." I've found two wiki pages which address coordinate systems: - http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CoordinateSystems Old (2005), but mostly correct - http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/UI_and_Document_coordinates This one is linked from the Main page but was deleted!? My questions: 1) can SVG upload be enabled? 2) do you know other relevant wiki pages about the topic? Thanks, Thomas

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"Perspective path" LPE
by Thomas Holder 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Hi, Does anyone know how the "Perspective path" LPE is supposed to work? Is it functional? I already asked Jabier, but he also doesn't know. I'm asking because it uses hard coded desktop coordinates that I would fix if I knew how to test it. This LPE is in the LPE_ENABLE_TEST_EFFECTS section. If nobody knows if/how it works, then I suggest to remove it. Implementation: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/blob/master/src/live_effects/lpe-persp… Thomas

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Location path for an imported figure
by David Carrasco de Busturia 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

Dear All, I am finding `Inkscape` a really good tool for importing `PDF` or `EPS` scientific plots into a blank page, and then place arrows on top of the graphs, text, make scientific drawings assemble them in the desired location and then save as a unique PDF page that can then be included as a unique `figure` in a `latex` document. Let's imagine an inkscape project that has assembled 10 plots, imported from these folders: /path1/plot_1.pdf /path2/plot_2.pdf ... /path10/plot_10.pdf We already know that in /path1/ there is also the python, gnuplot, etc source code that produces the PDF plot, for instance: /path1/plot_1.py /path2/plot_2.gnu etc Most of the times I need to continue working over the original PDF plots that I once imported into a inkscape project I made back in time. For example, change the scale and the title of the plots, and so on. In other words, I need to go to the original source code (gnuplot, python, etc) that produces those plots that have been assembled in the inkscape project. In these situations, while having the nice inkscape project in the screen with all the plots 1 to 10, it is quite hard to remember where is the location of the original PDF plot. As far as I am concerned, there is no option in the inkscape interface that allows you to know which is the original location path of the PDF plot that was once imported into the inkscape project. The closest solution I could find is the following: every time I import a new PDF of EPS, I right click and and create a link which is basically a copy-paste of the location path of the figure. This solution is quite tedious and most of the times one forgets to create the link. Once the image is imported, the next natural step is to resize it and locate in the desired place, and it is very easy to forget to create the link. For instance, if this multi PDF plots assemble project was made in Latex, the location path of all the plots would be perfectly identified, i.e. in the `\includegraphics` line. I was wondering if it is possible to check an option in the importing process that would allow to automatically write the location path of the figure somewhere. Or any other strategy that would automatically write the location path every time a plot is imported. Would this be difficult to implement ? Thanks a lot for all your help, All the best, David

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Shop
by Jabier Arraiza 24 Sep '18

24 Sep '18

If we want feedback about shops we can ask to Sven about this one: https://www.redbubble.com/es/people/dillerkind/works/34076967-blade-girl-9 Regards, Jabier.

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Hackfest summary is complete please review
by C R 23 Sep '18

23 Sep '18

Okay, I've cobbled this together about as best I can. :) https://inkscape.org/en/news/2018/09/20/inkscape-hackfest-kiel-2018-what-ha… That means there are probably errors and omissions. If you find either, please let me know. :) Back to the video stuff! -C

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Inkscape g+ feed, moderator still blocking me. Also posted this:
by C R 23 Sep '18

23 Sep '18

Mr. Grady is still on the offensive, and is getting defensive too. He says: "Please folks, I don't care who someone is. If someone is engaging in discussions, especially helping a new Inkscape user learn and your only contribution is to troll the person offering the help, expect to at least have the posts deleted. If that's kind of your modus operandii around here, then you'll eventually get kicked." Of course, still denying his role in the issue. I'm still blocked, and see nothing but excuses from Mr. Grady, still treating our Inkscape feed like his personal property. Solutions? Thanks for the attention to this matter. -C

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Your hackfest experience.
by C R 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

Hey folks. I'm going to do a writeup of the hackfest to accompany and help finish the video content. If each of the hackfest attendees could answer these questions for me, I'll combine all of it into the hackfest summary. 1. What did you work on during the Kiel hackfest? 2. What do you consider the best benefit to being at the Kiel hackfest this year? 3. What were the most fun things or things you most enjoyed about the hackfest? 4. Did your hackfest activities extend beyond the hackfest? 5. Did the hackfest increase your motivation to work on the Inkscape project? 6. Anything else you'd like to include. :) Thanks for your comments. I'll begin posting video content this week, (3-4 videos in total), witht he goal of releasing the hackfest summary first, so the sooner everyone responds to this information, the sooner I can put it together with some accompanying photos into a complete summary. Thanks for you help, and it was super cool to be able to hang out with all of you. Last week. -C

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] RFC: stroke-alignment property for SVG and Inkscape
by Alexey Murz Korepov 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

2015-08-26 12:16 GMT+02:00 Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...360...>: > Just to bring others up-to-date. We discussed 'stroke-alignment' > yesterday at the SVG WG meeting (conveniently located in Paris). The > feeling was that the initial allowed values should be 'left' and > 'right' as it is easy to define how these values work for paths that > contain overlapping loops. The values 'inset' and 'outset' are more > complicated and require finding path intersections, something that the > browsers don't need to do (yet) for any other purpose. In https://www.w3.org/TR/svg-strokes/#issue5 described an issue: > How does this apply to open path segments? How are end caps handled? Adobe Illustrator applies stroke alignment property only for closed paths, if path becomes open - Illustrator immediately removes this property and applying center alignment. Can we standardize same behavior in Inkscape for solve this issue? -- Best regards, Alexey Murz Korepov. Email, Jabber: murznn@...400...

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Inkscape Hackfest Summary - How do I make a new article on the Inkscape website?
by C R 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Never done this before... Is there a way to publish markdown and pictures to a news story on the website? I can then link to it in a G+ press release. Thanks. :) -C

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