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NEW: style swatches and labels
by bulia byak 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

* The somewhat cryptic "F:" and "S:" labels in the selected style indicator (at the left end of the statusbar) and in tool's style swatches are now spelled out as Fill: and Stroke:. We believe this makes the interface, even if less space-efficient, a bit more friendly for newbies. [[Note that I'm still not completely sold on this idea, but decided to try it out. Please voice your opinions.]] * The style swatches at the right end of object-creating tools' control bars now open the Preferences page of the corresponding tool when clicked. Also, now these swatches display a tooltip explaining its purpose (e.g. "Style of new rectangles", "Style of new calligraphic strokes", etc.) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: grouping a single object
by bulia byak 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

In previous versions, Inkscape didn't allow you to group a single object. Yet in some cases, this operation is useful (for example, to blur the clipped edged of an object). So now this limitation is removed. Let me know if you find any problem with this. The only "problem" I'm aware of is that now, if you press and hold Ctrl+G, you will end up with a very deeply grouped object :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: style swatches and labels
by Vladimir Savic 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

On Friday 16 February 2007 17:08:42 Emanuele Aina wrote: > Vladimir Savic suggerì: > >> You can just middle-click the swatch to remove fill/stroke. > > > > Hmmm.... I've been using this great app since .40 version, but have never > > thought it is possible acheiving it this way?! Great for this feature > > exists, but I really think it would be much more obvious doing color > > discarding like I've described. Just my thoughts. Corel does it in > > similar fashion, but somehow different, Illustrator isn't worth > > mentioning at this particular topic. As of Freehand, I have no clue > > what's their way of dealing with it. > > Oh, I' didn't know of the middle-click behavior too. :) > > Maybe we can add a pseudo-color which removes the fill/stroke if dragged > on the style indicator? > > Corel used to do so and used a blank swatch with a black X drawn inside. Please read further discussion on this topic. There are interesting new facts mentioned. Vlada

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Accessing Inkscape API in external scripts
by Aurélio A. Heckert 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

Hi, >From the thread about the Script Window i start to think how to access the Inkscape API in external scripts. I don't know if you already write something about this, but, if you don't may it help... My idea is to say in the XPI "this script uses the Inkscape DOM" and the inkscape will talk with the script all the time, allowing this to use the inkscape like the user does... The Inkscape must listen the commands from the script output and write an feedback in a pipefile for the script know what happens. A sample bash script to fill in red an rectangle with id rect2: #!/bin/bash pipe=$1 echo 'selectElementById rect2' testError "$( cat $pipe )" echo 'setAttribute fill="red"' testError "$( cat $pipe )" I write 2 scripts to see if it's possible. inkSimulator.sh will do what the Inkscape must to do and externalDOM.sh will test it. See the simulation output: ___________________________________________________ $ ./inkSimulator.sh The user has cliqued on the "External DOM Test" efect. The interface is disabled for the user interaction... All the readed DOM commands gets an error response <error num>|<error text> No error returns something like this: 0|Ok Trying to set the attribute fill... Outch! I recived the error 2: Ups... no element selected Trying to get the rect4... Outch! I recived the error 1: The id rect4 do not existis Trying to get the rect2... Yeah! I recived the error 0: Ok, element rect2 selected Trying to set the attribute fill again... Yeah! I recived the error 0: Ok, attribute fill="red" seted in rect2 Nice! The "External DOM Test" ends. ___________________________________________________ I'm sending this scripts attached in the ink-dom-external-proposal.tar.gz to you see the code, if i was not clear. (English is not my language :-) ) It is a good idea? I think it can be easy to write scripts... 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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NEW: batch export and slicing
by bulia byak 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

* Batch export: The Bitmap Export dialog (Ctrl+Shift+E) got a new checkbox, Batch export all selected objects. This checkbox is available when two or more objects are selected. If it is checked, instead of exporting selection as a whole, Inkscape exports each selected object separately into its own PNG file. This uses each object's export hints (i.e. export filename and DPI) if they are remembered from a previous export; otherwise, the filename is created from the object ID and the DPI is 90 pixels per inch. Caution: Unlike regular export, batch export overwrites all existing PNG files without warning. This makes it possible to implement all kinds of image slicing and automated export scenarios. For example, if you are working on a web site design, you can create a separate "export" layer. In that layer, "slice" your web page image into separate areas by creating invisible rectangles with no fill and no stroke. Select each rectangle (by Tab/Shift+Tab, or by switching to Outline mode where even an invisible rectangle can be selected by clicking on its outline) and export it into the corresponding filename (which gets saved as that object's export hint). After that, if you do any changes to your graphics, it's very easy to reexport all the slices: just switch to the "export" layer, select all in that layer (Ctrl+A), and export with the Batch export selected objects checkbox on. This functionality replaces the "groups to pngs" extension which I'm going to remove. If you know of any reason why it should stay, please speak up. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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pstricks export: inkscape 0.45+devel
by Richard Henwood 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hi Folks, I would like to have pstricks export prompt me to 'export text as path'. This would allow me to export text as text - and hence use latex annotations in my inkscape drawing. I've checked out and compiled inkscape 0.45+devel on my suse 10.1 machine (64bit). There is apparently some loss of functionality (bug?) in pstricks export since my previous version of inkscape: pstricks doesn't appear to be including text during output. I can reproduce this problem by: 1. start inkscape. 2. use the text tool and type some text. 3. save to filename as pstricks. 4. examine the filename to see it is empty apart from headers. I appreciate that this is the devel package - but thought that if this section of the code was currently in development, some kind sole might give my give my feature request some consideration at the same time! best regards, richard,

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Stroke color
by Romain Thouvenin 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hi devel, If I remember well, when I was using CorelDraw, a right click on a color of the palette was the action to change the color of the stroke of an object. I find it more logical than Shift+click, since you have two things to paint, and two buttons on the mouse ; and why Shift rather than Ctrl or Alt ? So I thought it would be a good idea to enable right click to paint the stroke, since it isn't used. Of course, we would keep shift + click until another better use is found, since many users are used to this. If you think it is a relevant feature, then I would agree to implement it. It would be my first coding contribution, an occasion to put the hands in the code, and learn about glib, which I don't know at all. What do you think ? Romain

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Inkscape #1 Project
by Spyros Blanas 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

In the latest SourceForge.net site-wide email, Inkscape is rated as the #1 project! (Rating is based on project activity.) Judging from recorded stats in these e-mails alone, this is the first time we reach the top. (Inkscape had however reached #2 when preparing for the 0.44 release.) Congratulations to everyone involved! - Spyros Blanas

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PRESS RELEASE: Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 Announced
by Jon Phillips 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in MontrÃ©al. Announced 12 February, 2007 - Building on the overwhelming success of last year's Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France, key Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce the second Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Canada, May 6, 2007 at Ãcole Polytechnique de MontrÃ©al. This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics application developers, users and professional artists from all over the world meet to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects together, with the goal of increasing interaction between developers, professional graphics artists and print professionals to improve the steadily expanding FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as Blender - a 3D creation application, Scribus - a professional grade page layout application, GIMP - a versatile and mature image editor, Inkscape - a user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for SVG, Krita - a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application, Open Clip Art Library - a large public domain collection of freely available artwork, and many other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing. According to Louis Desjardins, a 20 year veteran of pre-press and print production and organiser of the conference: "LGM is a sure demonstration of the maturity of free and open source applications - even at a professional level. Not only that, never before have I seen such a close and amicable working relationship between the users of this kind of software and those who create it." Having experienced the whole evolution from camera ready galleys and manual stripping to the advent and evolution of DTP, he states: "We are now seeing Free Software emerge in a domain which was more or less closed before." Numerous companies and organisations are showing their support of LGM by means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a clear positive impact on the evolution of the projects present at the conference. LGM audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum. Sponsors have the opportunity to show their support to the community and get appropriate web and media exposure. This year they also have the opportunity to advertise in the LGM Brochure which will be entirely done using FLOSS. The conference offers presentations of various Free/Libre Open Source graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general issues such as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming sessions and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and to work on common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world. LGM 2007 is putting out a call for participation, sponsorship, and discussion. The call for participation includes the submission of at most 2 paragraph presentation abstracts by interested projects and individuals. All types of presentations will be considered, including topics as diverse as collaboration, power-user art techniques, engineering talks, graphics business best practices, and other relevant topics. Official website http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Source LGM 2007 organisation Press Contact Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins@...400...

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PRESS RELEASE: Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 Announced
by Jon Phillips 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in MontrÃ©al. Announced 12 February, 2007 - Building on the overwhelming success of last year's Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France, key Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) graphics projects are pleased to announce the second Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), to be held in MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Canada, May 6, 2007 at Ãcole Polytechnique de MontrÃ©al. This year's LGM provides a venue where FLOSS graphics application developers, users and professional artists from all over the world meet to discuss collaboration, outline the future of the projects together, with the goal of increasing interaction between developers, professional graphics artists and print professionals to improve the steadily expanding FLOSS graphics' application ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of open source projects such as Blender - a 3D creation application, Scribus - a professional grade page layout application, GIMP - a versatile and mature image editor, Inkscape - a user friendly, yet powerful vector drawing application for SVG, Krita - a rapidly maturing "natural" painting application, Open Clip Art Library - a large public domain collection of freely available artwork, and many other projects focussed on graphics creation and editing. According to Louis Desjardins, a 20 year veteran of pre-press and print production and organiser of the conference: "LGM is a sure demonstration of the maturity of free and open source applications - even at a professional level. Not only that, never before have I seen such a close and amicable working relationship between the users of this kind of software and those who create it." Having experienced the whole evolution from camera ready galleys and manual stripping to the advent and evolution of DTP, he states: "We are now seeing Free Software emerge in a domain which was more or less closed before." Numerous companies and organisations are showing their support of LGM by means of sponsorship. They are convinced that LGM has a clear positive impact on the evolution of the projects present at the conference. LGM audience is increasing rapidly as we gather momentum. Sponsors have the opportunity to show their support to the community and get appropriate web and media exposure. This year they also have the opportunity to advertise in the LGM Brochure which will be entirely done using FLOSS. The conference offers presentations of various Free/Libre Open Source graphics projects, technology previews and talks on general issues such as open file formats. There will be informal brainstorming sessions and time for artists and developers to meet face to face and to work on common goals, which is a characteristic of the FLOSS world. LGM 2007 is putting out a call for participation, sponsorship, and discussion. The call for participation includes the submission of at most 2 paragraph presentation abstracts by interested projects and individuals. All types of presentations will be considered, including topics as diverse as collaboration, power-user art techniques, engineering talks, graphics business best practices, and other relevant topics. Official website http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Source LGM 2007 organisation Press Contact Louis Desjardins louis.desjardins@...400...

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