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PS and EPS input with pstoedit
by jiho 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hi everybody, There were several discussions in the past about dropping the requirement for sketch in PS and EPS input. pstoedit can be used instead, with its plot-svg backend (which is free, don't confuse it with the non-free "svg" backend). I produced a patch to do this, which waited in the tracker for a time. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1629798&group_id=93438 I just committed it today (r15046) to see what happens. Apparently it has been used in Fedora's Inkscape for a while so it should be quite safe. However it still causes warning messages to appear and some strange zooming behavior depending on the source of the EPS/PS file. I would appreciate feedback and advise on this. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Debian package of Inkscape and printing with CUPS
by Daniel James 21 May '07

21 May '07

Hello, We ship the Inkscape 0.44 package from Debian Etch in the 64 Studio creative distro, and lately the printing support for local CUPS printers seems to be completely broken. There has also been a Debian bug opened, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423952 Does anyone have Inkscape printing working on Etch, without resorting to lpr or another old-school method? In 64 Studio, even manually pasting the output of lpstat -p into the Print dialogue box makes no difference, printing just fails silently. Any tips would be greatly appreciated :-) Cheers! Daniel

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LPE in SVG - defs type 2
by unknown＠example.com 19 May '07

19 May '07

I have added another type to the LivePathEffect discussion on SVG representation. See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LivePathEffects_Discussion. FIRST: <inkscape:path-effect xlink:href="x-inkscape-plugin:org.inkscape.effect.skeletal" id="path-effect2"> <inkscape:param name="skeleton" type="path" value="M 0,0 L 2,2 L 4,0" /> </inkscape:path-effect> SECOND: <inkscape:path-effect id="path-effect2" effect="skeletal" skeleton="M 0,0 L 2,2 L 4,0" /> You should be able to infer the type from the specified effect and parameter name. So for the first one, there may be strange bugs when the parametertype is entered wrong! And what if there are two children with name="blah"? While I was coding for some reason I thought there was too much freedom. That's why I came up with the second one. It cleans the SVG up a little aswell. Also, xlink:href="x-inkscape-plugin:org.inkscape.effect.foo" seems overly verbose. The second proposal has a minimal effect specification (probably too minimal). Thanks for all your input and comments. In the meanwhile I will start implementing the second one. If we want to go to the first or some combination or something completely different, at least I have the coding experience of the 2nd one :) Cheers, Johan

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Live Path Effects - how to specify in SVG?
by unknown＠example.com 19 May '07

19 May '07

Hi all, I already have live effects working for a bit (see the live-path-effects branch). Now I want to focus on how to write things to SVG. On the following wiki page, I have put some alternatives that I found in a mail discussion a year ago. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LivePathEffects_Discussion What do you think is the best solution? The defs and <inkscape:patheffect> ones are my favorites. Feel free to svn checkout the branch and play around! (see \share\examples\live-path-effects.svg) Cheers, Johan

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Inkscape Pages on SVG Bug #1657607
by Aurélio A. Heckert 19 May '07

19 May '07

Hi, ther is a proposal for implement pages on Inkscape: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1657607&group_id=9… I put a comment now extending the proposal to add a master page functionality. I thinck it is very very important for an serious multi-page layout tool. The Milestone 15 - Inkscape 0.49 is seted to implement the multi-page proposal: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap#Milestone_15_-_Inkscape_0.4… Is the bug #1657607 the right place to comment the multi-page behaviour? Thanks, Aurium -- -===================================================- . . Aurélio A. Heckert [ GNU/Linux ] / \ http://www.aurium.cjb.net ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) `-_---" "---_-´ Web Colaborativa: `--|o` ´o|--´ http://www.TWiki.org \ ' / Projeto Software Livre - Bahia: ): :( http://psl-ba.softwarelivre.org (o_o) Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: "-" http://www.colibre.com.br ------------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ( ( ( http://www.midiaindependente.org ) ) ) -===================================================- "Se conhecimento é poder, que país governado por industriais dará a verdadeira educação? Cuidado com o feedback da miséria!" Tet Ramon "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson

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patch #1721693 for bugs #1718405 #1718934 #1720822 submitted
by yossi farjoun 19 May '07

19 May '07

Hi, I just submitted a patch that fixes three bugs relating to saving documents in latex/pstricks format. it would be great if someone could apply this patch in svn. Thanks Yossi.

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patch 1717987 for bug #1640346
by yossi farjoun 18 May '07

18 May '07

The patch fixes the non-compiling \rotate{90} command in a save-as pstricks of a "landscape" document. This makes many lines irrelevent, so I removed them too. I hope someone could test this patch and then perhaps accept it. Thanks, Yossi.

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More LGM Blog Posts
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 16 May '07

16 May '07

I wrote about a few of the LGM talks on my new blog (http://compscigail.blogspot.com/). I may write about a couple more, but I don't have as exciting notes about the others I attended because they were mostly visual. Enjoy, and please leave a comment :) Gail

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How to implement layer flipping
by Gerrit . 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hello, I would like to use Inkscape to draw animation frames. I have set up every frame as a separate layer. Now I'd like to be able to "flip" between layers for quickly checking the animation. This means that there would be an "up" key which makes the next layer active and visible and all others invisible, and a "down" key which makes the previous layer active and visible and all others invisible. My best bet was that I could change the active layer and visibility in a Python script with the attributes inkscape:current-layer="layerX" and style="display:none". Would that work? How could I trigger a script with a single keystroke? And would it be an efficient way of implementing this? On Aaron Spike's site it said that the entire SVG is written to a file when it's passed to Python. However, I'd need to flip frames back and forth every second if I want to check the animation. Also, does Inkscape parse and reconstruct the entire document when Python has changed something, or is something like a diff applied? Are there other easy ways of implementing this flipping in the C++ code? Any inputs on this will be appreciated Gerrit _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/

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Inkscape 0.45.1. for Mac OS 10.3
by jiho 14 May '07

14 May '07

Hello everybody, As promised there is now an official release of Inkscape version 0.45.1 compatible with Mac OS 10.3 (Panther). It as available for download at SourceForge, as usual: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=93438&package_id=99112&release_id=495106 Future releases should stay Panther compatible as long as there is someone to test them on this operating system. Thanks again to John Faith for his work and to Areozol for initiating the process. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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