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NEW: flood fill
by John Bintz 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Inkscape now has a very rudimentary flood fill tool. It works by performing a bitmap-based flood fill on a rendered version of the visible canvas, then tracing the resulting fill using potrace and placing the traced path on the canvas. You can access it by the paint bucket icon in the toolbar. It places the rendered path onto the current layer, so you can have a layer on top (in my case, "Inks") and select the layer below ("Colors") and do the fills so that they always appear below the inks. This tool is in a very basic state, and there are issues with rendering accuracy and memory usage. Some improvements that I can see being done are: * If the [Ctrl] key is held down, clicking on an object changes the fill color to the current fill color, and [Shift]-[Ctrl] changes the stroke color to the current stroke color * A way to either manually or dynamically increase the resolution of the rendered version so that the accuracy of the flood fill is better Try it and let me know what you think. Thanks, John

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Checking in...
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Thanks for the reply; my fears are put to rest ;) I will resend the message when I get back home (assuming it is still in my sent box), this time with links. I'm currently in Montreal competing in CS Games! Cheers everyone! Gail bulia byak wrote: >On 3/10/07, Gail Banaszkiewicz <gbanaszk@...1686...> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I posted a reply about the 3D tools idea a while back with some >> screenshots. I think the message had to go through the moderator >> because the two images were slightly higher than the max. Since then, >> I have not received any messages from the mailing list. > >I didn't see that message in my mailbox - can you please resend it? I >think it's better to post screenshots to some web site and include >links to the mail. > >> My question is has something gone wrong for me? > >Nothing whatsoever :) > >> Or has activity been >> low? I have not even seen my own message make its way back to me. I >> also couldn't see the archives off the web page. > >I'm also seeing few messages recently - this may be a lull in >activity, or it may be some problems with the sourceforge server (such >things happened before). > >-- >bulia byak >Inkscape. Draw Freely. >http://www.inkscape.org >

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Checking in...
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Hi everyone, I posted a reply about the 3D tools idea a while back with some screenshots. I think the message had to go through the moderator because the two images were slightly higher than the max. Since then, I have not received any messages from the mailing list. My question is has something gone wrong for me? Or has activity been low? I have not even seen my own message make its way back to me. I also couldn't see the archives off the web page. If you reply, please reply to me directly as well as the list just in case something is messed up. Thanks so much! Gail

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LeTeX-Export
by Frank Lanitz 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hi List, I was reading about, that the export to LaTeX/pstricks of inkscape doen's work very well. I also tried to export some small pic with an up2date svn version of inkscape, but my LaTeX-file failed to compile wtih the same problems. Are there any patches inside the queue to fix the problem? Frank

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Cairo-1.4.0
by Bob Jamison 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hi, Everyone, I noticed that cworth uploaded the cairo-1.4.0 release yesterday. So I made a mingw build of it here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/cairo-1.4.0-mingw.7z ..and I made an Inkscape build with it here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0703071310.7z Also, I added it to the lib bundle and uploaded that one also: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/gtk210-070307.7z Cairo is the -only- difference this time, so this is not worth a download for that alone. If you already have the latest bundle, just get Cairo. This is for people who might be downloading the bundle for the first time. Enjoy. bob

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Soc for multipage support
by cedric GEMY 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Nice to find that, but i just wonder why a multipage would only be export in separate EPS files and not also in PDF why would allow to do nice Presentations wih Inskcape. pygmee

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Selector's scale handle modifiers
by bulia byak 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Currently, when you scale an object by its scale handles in Selector, you can use the following modifiers: Ctrl+mouse drag scale preserving aspect ratio Shift+mouse drag symmetric transformation (around center) Alt+mouse drag slow movement The "slow movement" mode with Alt simply scales the object by 1/10 of your mouse movement, the goal being increased precision. This mode is inherited unchanged all the way from Sodipodi. In my opinion, however, it is weird, counterintuitive and not at all useful. It also has no analogs in other tools. So my question is, will anyone complain if I remove the "slow movement" mode? On the other hand, one useful thing that's missing is the ability to scale the object to 2, 3, 4 and 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 etc of its current size. (This is possible from keyboard by Ctrl+> and Ctrl+< but not by mouse). So I'm thinking about enabling the Alt modifier to do this "quantized scaling". Among other things, this would enable the often needed transformation: flipping an object around one of its bbox edges (by Ctrl+Alt+dragging a side handle). Thoughts? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Google Summer of Code Ideas
by Eric Wilhelm 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

# from Thorsten Wilms # on Thursday 08 March 2007 01:43 am: >- you would loose flexibility. changing anything about the perspective >would require you to start over. Ah, and here I thought it was 2007 or something. Silly me. I would really like to see cooperating programs define workflows that automatically update when the source data changes rather than the export, import, redefine dance. In the short term, simple 3D operations in inkscape will work, but I think it wants to be a 2D tool. --Eric -- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com --------------------------------------------------- >From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Mar 08 02:33:47 2007 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:33:41 +0100 From: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...123...> To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20070308103341.GB4623@...1413...> References: <20070307201334.GB15938@...961...> <c360db7d0703080108m5dcfcb6cq69acbe6fac0447a0@...401...> <20070308094313.GA4623@...1413...> <200703080208.51958.ewilhelm@...970...> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200703080208.51958.ewilhelm@...970...> Priority: normal X-Mailer: Mutt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Report problems to http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Google Summer of Code Ideas X-BeenThere: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list Reply-To: t_w_@...123... List-Id: <inkscape-devel.lists.sourceforge.net> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel>, <mailto:inkscape-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=inkscape-devel> List-Post: <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> List-Help: <mailto:inkscape-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel>, <mailto:inkscape-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:33:47 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:08:51AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Thorsten Wilms > # on Thursday 08 March 2007 01:43 am: > > >- you would loose flexibility. changing anything about the perspective > >would require you to start over. > I would really like to see cooperating programs define workflows that > automatically update when the source data changes rather than the > export, import, redefine dance. So would I. But it's not given, hence my bullet point. > In the short term, simple 3D operations in inkscape will work, but I > think it wants to be a 2D tool. Paper is 2d. Designers and illustrators have been constructing drawings from 3d grids, boxes and spheres since ages. -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Creature Illustrations: http://www.printfection.com/thorwil

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Mentors for Inkscape GSoC?
by Bryce Harrington 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi all, The application is in, and once we're accepted, we will need to identify mentors. Would you like to be included in this list? If so, please drop me an email! I would especially like to encourage new developers and students from past years to consider becoming mentors. It's a great experience and a fun way to help see your ideas for improving Inkscape take shape. All you need is adequate knowledge of the inkscape codebase, and time to answer questions. Interested? Shoot me an email. Bryce

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PyXML dependency problem
by Bob Jamison 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi all, I was doing my periodic shopping for updates to the various libs that we use for Inskcape/win32, when I saw this disturbing page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6473 We are already using an older version of Python because of this. Is there another python XML parser that we can use? bob

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