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Flood fill suggestion - Bound threshold
by microUgly 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Some of the stuff I do with the calligraphy tool has gaps between sections I would like to colour. Visually the gaps don't bother me, but I can't use Flood Fill when the area isn't properly closed. It would be nice there was a threshold where we could say that gaps of a certain size should be considered closed. I imagine it would be like a thickness to the paint where if it's very thick it can't flow through a small gap. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Flood-fill-suggestion---Bound-threshold-tf3822118.htm… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] The death of PyXML
by Aaron Spike 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Justin Barca wrote: > My software project also relies on PyXML, and it is because of this > dependency that I can use it in the creation of extensions. I find it > puzzling that an internal python library for something as important as > xml proc just went to the wayside. Can you explain to me what > happened with this project ? Are there major bugs with it right now ? > If necessary, I hope the conversion to another xml api can be done > with regular expressions or other string processing. Yeah, I think I kinda talked you into PyXML. Though you can certainly write extensions for Inkscape without it. I had no idea that people would let something so important, ie one of the only python libraries that supported some of the more advanced XML features, go defunct. PyXML was not internal to the python distribution. It was an extension layer on top of the core DOM functionality available in the python distribution. I don't know what happened to PyXML. I asked several acquaintances who are closer with the Python community and no one knew. Everyone I spoke with is quite happy with the ElementTree api that is now part of the standard Python 1.5 distribution. ElementTree looks reasonable to me, but again like the core dom module in the standard library it doesn't support functionality that is important to me especially XPath. Thankfully I think I may have found the best of both worlds in lxml. Someone has implemented the popular ElementTree API on top of libxml2 and extended it by exposing libxml2's support for XPath and other technologies that are important for working with XML. Could one convert the code from PyXML to lxml using regex and string processing, I suppose. The translation is pretty simple. You could probably do a 1:1 substitution automatically. For me it is going to be easier to edit the relatively few scripts in the Inkscape distribution by hand. And that will help me learn the API a bit better. This is how I translated the XML portion of gear.py: With PyXML: path = points_to_svgd( points ) # Create SVG Path for gear gear = self.document.createElement( 'svg:path' ) style = { 'stroke': '#000000', 'fill': 'none' } gear.setAttribute( 'style', simplestyle.formatStyle(style) ) gear.setAttribute( 'd', path ) # Embed gear in group to make animation easier: # Translate group, Rotate path. g=self.document.createElement('g') g.setAttribute( 'inkscape:label', 'Gear' + str( teeth ) ) t = 'translate(' + str( self.view_center[0] ) + ',' + str( self.view_center[1] ) + ')' g.setAttribute( 'transform', t ) self.current_layer.appendChild( g ) g.appendChild( gear ) With lxml: path = points_to_svgd( points ) # Embed gear in group to make animation easier: # Translate group, Rotate path. t = 'translate(' + str( self.view_center[0] ) + ',' + str( self.view_center[1] ) + ')' g_attribs = {'inkscape:label':'Gear' + str( teeth ), 'transform':t } g = inkex.etree.SubElement(self.current_layer, 'g', g_attribs) # Create SVG Path for gear style = { 'stroke': '#000000', 'fill': 'none' } gear_attribs = {'style':simplestyle.formatStyle(style), 'd':path} gear = inkex.etree.SubElement(g, 'svg:path', gear_attribs ) I think I'm going to hold off on the full conversion until I get more feedback from other people in the community. I would especially like to hear from our Mac OSX users and packagers about how easy it would be to distribute and install lxml with Inkscape. (Jiho could you please give it a try?) Some version of lxml has been available in Ubuntu universe since at least Breezy. Is lxml available for other distros? Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] LGM Videos?
by Plinnell 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

> Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:23:46 -0300 > From: " Aur?lio A. Heckert " <aurium@...400...> > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] LGM Videos? > To: "Inkscape Development Mailing List" > <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: > <94d573740705290823r52f25b5fgd07241b900fd8ee3@...401...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi! > > I see great titles on LGM WebSite, but where are the > videos? I can't go to Canada... :.( > > That is the only one i found: > http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=lgm+inkscape > > There are a LGM video download center, like FISL? > ( http://torrents.softwarelivre.org ) > > Videos for the World! :-) > Aurium > Hi, http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2007/program.html Enjoy, Peter

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Summer of Code Update
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Hi all! Thought it might be a good time for an update on Summer of Code proceedings. Essentially, my approach so far has been to tackle a bug or two, as suggested by Richard way back in April, before moving on to the interface redesign. I chose "[ 1243190 ] SVG Text: tRef Elements do not work" to work on first because it should give me a hands on feel for text in SVG and help me become familiar with certain aspects of the Inkscape architecture. After this bug, I may choose another or dive into the UI stuff; it depends on how long this one takes. Gail

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Eclipse Tutorial
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Better late than never, I would like to finally create my promised tutorial on how to set up building and debugging with Eclipse under Windows. A couple of questions first: (1) I made an account for the wiki, but I'm not sure if I need some kind of special permission to edit the main page <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape> in order to add my new page. Or maybe one of you guys has to just create the page for me and I can start editing it? I would call it "UsingEclipse" probably, and put it in the Dev Documentation under General. (Although I am only doing Windows, somebody could add information related to Linux and Mac later on.) Let me know how that all works... (2) I'm hoping images can be uploaded directly to the wiki (for screenshots). If not, then let me know what most people do to get around this. Gail

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] The death of PyXML
by Aaron Spike 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Terry Brown wrote: > Not sure if it's adequate, but Python 2.5 has moved most of the > ElementTree DOM library into the standard Python libraries, which > would have the advantage of not being a separate dependency. Not having an external dep would be fantastic. But right now I'm calling the lack of advanced XPath support a debilitating inadequacy. Thus far all my knowledge of ElementTree is academic, it could very well do more than the documents I've read give it credit for. I think ElementTree's inclusion in the python standard library is another vote in favor of lxml actually. Because more people will be familiar with the api and with lxml we get the added features in addition. Aaron Spike

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The death of PyXML
by Aaron Spike 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

PyXML died a neglectful death a ways back now. I failed to notice. And I was too much in denial to listen to the many many kind individuals who tried to tell me. We've been relying on PyXML for the python extensions. Now we need to replace it. I'm sure anyone who has ever worked with extensions will be happier when it is gone. The major requirements I can think of are: - Unicode support - Excellent namespace handling - Excellent XPath support (more than just basic support, many XPath features are too useful to be without) - documentation for new extension devs - in distribution or easy to obtain anything else? If I was left to my own devices and I had to do something right now, I would start with LXML. (Not a big vote of confidence that the front page of the website is offline http://codespeak.net/lxml/ check the google cache :-)) LXML uses the ElementTree api as much as possible, this API is coming standard with python 2.5 so I expect people will be getting familiar with it. It is a wrapper around libxml2 so it has a lot of power behind the scenes (adds things like xpath and xslt support). I'm not sure how things sit with the easy to obtain issue, but there are binaries available for win32. Not sure about OSX. And everyone on linux compiles everything anyway. :-) Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] change the Inkscape Application
by Maulik Gordhandas 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hi, I am going through the source code of Inkscape and making a list of files which need to change. I would be happy to start the rebranding effort. I am not very familiar with hard-core programming. Though i will try my level best.. Maulik

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Reduce compilation times?
by Maximilian Albert 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Hi everyone, I find myself recompiling a lot recently. ;) Maybe this is a stupid question, but are there any secret make targets or switches to the configure script that can be used to only compile a 'minimal working part' of Inkscape that still allows me to test my new code? It would be awesome if I could save at least some of the time I currently spend waiting for the compilations to finish. Or are there other ways to speed the whole process up (other than bying a faster computer :))? Thanks a lot, Max P.S.: I read about someone using distcc but at home I don't have another machine around and I haven't yet tried to get it working with one of the computers at university (I'm not sure how to do that anyway).

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] selection problem
by momo 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Hi, I can confirm that behaviour, but I really don't have a clue on how to reproduce it, as I didn't manage to find a stable way to make that happen. While all the functionalities of Inkscape are still functional (I can save, open files, change document properties, switch between instruments etc...), it looks like the drawing area is blocked so I cannot select, draw, etc... Saving the file, closing Inkscape and reopening the file always resolved the problem. I still see that behaviour in the latest SVN versions, so if I find a way to reproduce it I'll file a bug report. Molumen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georg P. Israel" <info@...1744...> To: <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:14 AM Subject: [Inkscape-user] selection problem > Dear All, > > it seems that I have from time to time the problem that I can't select > my drawing objects anymore! > Just for your information, I am using Inkscape Version 0.45.1 on M$ > Windows XP. > I can double click on them, but nothing gets selected. > The only way to select them is by opening the XML tree viewer and > selecting the item there. > > Does anybody know how to overcome this issue?? > > Best regards > > Georg P. Israel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > I'm protected by SpamBrave http://www.spambrave.com/

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