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Inkscape Project Status
by Bryce Harrington 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Just to give some visibility into some of the work bubbling away these days: Cairo renderer: Bulia has taken point on investigation of conversion to Cairo. Some tough problems have been uncovered but we're gaining a clearer picture of what needs done. Presently this looks like it will require an all at once brute force approach, rather than incremental refactoring. If so, we'll need to reach a decision on how to undertake that while minimizing disruption to SVN HEAD users. Build system: There is definitely a concensus that our current build system sucks. Options include CMAKE, Bob's buildtool, or just a cleaned up automake. We really need to have interested parties mind meld and find a single solution. Version control system: Mental has been experimenting with git and trying to get it to operate with svn. This study is still very early on, but if it works out well, one day we may begin encouraging developers to use git. Bug tracking: I have been experimenting with use of Mantis with the goal of replacing our SF bug tracker. It looks good, but the principle issue is how to migrate the bugs and their history from SF to Mantis. I'm also interested in seeing if it can be combined well with Drupal, maybe along with Pootle. Any drupalheads out there? Manual: We've got a good unofficial non-free manual/book and several [semi-]official incomplete free manuals. There is discussion about if efforts can be combined to produce a good official free manual. Anyway, I've probably missed something, but I think that covers the pending changes that are percolating. Most of these would benefit from discussion, so we can make sure there is a rough concensus favoring the change - so if you have concerns about any of these changes, now's a good chance to bring 'em up. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Project Status
by Colin Marquardt 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

"Leandro Regueiro" <leandro.regueiro@...400...> writes: > If you make a good manual I would translate it. I don't like the idea > of use SVG for docs. Please use another format. SVG can be converted to po with xml2po, so translators would have it as easy as with docbook. (I still like docbook for a task like a manual more.) Cheers Colin

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Re : Docbook usage (was : official inkscape user docs)
by Cédric GEMY 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Yep, i know that Ryan. Docbook is sometimes quite heavy to use. But this is the standard way to do this. All the documentation project use Docbook (see inkscape tutorials for example) because it is precise, XML base, and that we have many commands to transform it in HTML, PDF and many other format. Wouldn't you really like to try again, even if i have to proofread ? I'm also testing some possibilities via OpenOffice since there is a tool to convert ODT to docbook. Atthis time, some tag are missing, but i'm sure we good succeed in this way. Cedric >Im prepared to help work on an _official_ version of the user docs... >IMO, using the SVN and docbook format for developing something like an >entire user manual may be a bit daunting for an artist or a non-dev >type person that may want to contribute to user docs for inkscape - >that is why i suggested maybe using the wiki for a development space >of the docs, (with a strict template structure that would allow for >easy conversion into the docbook format.)

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Solaris 2.8 / gcc-3.2.3 patches commited
by Markus Schwarzenberg 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi, the Solaris 2.8 / gcc-3.2.3 fixes (derived from inkscape-Patches-1370904) are now in svn revision 14251. For details see ChangeLog. The specific platform is detected in configure.ac, and all possibly non-portable changes are guarded by #if defined (SOLARIS_2_8) && __GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__== 2 Markus

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] EPS Transparency support
by bulia byak 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

On 3/1/07, Nava Whiteford <nwhiteford@...1677...> wrote: > The best option appears to be outputing a pdf and using acroread to > convert it to an eps, this then "flattens" the tranparencies, while > keeping them in vector format. I was wondering if anyone else had a > better (and open source) solution to this problem? I think the best open source candidate for implementing this functionality is Ghostscript. Maybe it even already does something like it - try it out. > If I wanted to investigate adding support for transparency flattening to > inkscape where would I start? Does inkscape export to eps natively or is > an external tool used? We export PS/EPS natively. And we really might benefit from adding a flattening code for that export. However, please consider that this code is likely to become quite complex, involving the use of boolean ops etc. (unless of course you will do the simple approach of rasterizing everything with transparency). Will you be able to code this all to a good level of quality, and test and maintain it afterwards? More importantly, is Inkscape the best place for this code? We already export PDF with transparency which fully preserves the intent of the source. I think it is better to use a separate tool (Ghostscript) that specializes in "downgrading" this PDF into less capable formats, perhaps implementing various strategies for that. I think Ghostscript has much more expertise overall than Inkscape in PS/PDF. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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official inkscape user docs
by ryan lerch 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

hi all, i have a query about the _official_ user docs for inkscape. i am wondering if it is being developed actively at the moment, and if it is, how do i help out? i have found bits of information about it on the wiki, however it refers to the docbook files in the CVS. i cannot seem to find these files in SVN. is the docbook stuff ancient history? if so would it be feasable to use the wiki as a collaboration tool for developing the official user docs more? sorry if this is all in the wiki somewhere, but the details (to me at least) seem a bit sketchy and spread out a bit... cheers, ryanlerch

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by Cédric GEMY 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi Alexander >The only way to help people appreciate your work is to get acknowledged ;-) see : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/UserManual >If we take a look at http://www.inkscape.org/doc/index.php?lang=en, we >won't see mentioning User manual by you, only "user manual by Kevin >Wixson" that isn't even hosted at inkscape.org. Trouble is not to know if it is made by me or not. It is to know what the team wishes. Asa far as i know Kevin is not working anymore on this, at least i have no news from him. >I suggest two things: > >1. Host HTML version of your user manual at inkscape.org >2. Fix http://www.inkscape.org/doc/index.php?lang=en to mention a) >availability of docs b) ways to contribute to them. Will be done if neccessary Cedric

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC 2007 is ON!!
by Jon Phillips 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:11 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > It's great to see this program continuing again this year. > > Just to illustrate how huge of an impact this project has had, last > year Google funded two students to work for Inkscape on implementing > 'gaussian blur'. Gaussian Blur is what allows things like drop > shadows, feathering, blurring, etc. This was a very significant and > challenging feature to get implemented, and required a good bit of > effect to get it perfected, but those two students put in the bones > for it. > > To give an idea of how profoundly this has improved Inkscape, take a > look at these examples, that almost seem photorealistic: > > http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-volumetric-light.png > http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-photorealistic-car2.p… > http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-cupoftea.png > http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45363866/ > > Thanks google! It will be exciting to see what advancements this > year's GSoC students will produce. :-) > > Bryce > Heya all, I stubbed out a space on our wiki to brainstorm about good ideas (which some have done on the wiki). Please take a chance to help motivate that wiki page, edit out the old 2006 ideas (as it is currently just that list), and come up with some stellar ideas: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2007 Anyway, the GSoC timeline is coming along quickly....fun!!!! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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scripting interface
by unknown＠example.com 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hello, I try to add some new Python scripts to Inkscape in a project with my students. We need information where the ".inx"-file interface is described. There are other types than only int, bool, float or string to be passed to the script. But we did not find a description how to. Can anyone give us a hint where to find the file format definition of the ".inx" file and where to find some working examples? 2nd question: If anything is detected to be wrong when the script is running, is there a way to inform the user about it? Thanks in advance Werner

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Solaris binary of Inkscape?
by Bryce Harrington 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

There's been a private request from a company needing to run Inkscape from the commandline on Solaris 8. Would anyone be interested in working with this company to complete this port? Let me know and I'll put you in touch. Bryce

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