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NEW: faster blur
by bulia byak 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I committed the patch by Jasper which implements a faster blur algorithm, so now the Gaussian blur must be noticeably faster in the SVN trunk. Everyone using gaussian blur, please test the new code with regard to: - any especially bad artefacts? (as before, lowering quality in Preferences > Filters introduces some artefacts, but they look reasonable, I think even nicer than with the old algorithm) - how much faster it is on your images? (test on different zooms and with export; we need some estimates to put into the release notes) - is the range of quality/speed settings adequate? or would you like to have a still faster/lower quality step? - any other problems? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: misc stuff
by bulia byak 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

Here are some things that were added to SVN since 0.45 but not yet announced here: * Smart redraw: With complex images and/or on slow computers, you may have noticed that Inkscape redraws the screen image in horizontal strips, and these strips are painted sequentially top to bottom. Now this direction is automatically changed based on where your mouse cursor is. In particular, if mouse is closer to the bottom of the area to redraw, strips will be painted in the bottom-to-top order. This significantly improves the responsiveness and interactivity in some situations. For example, when you are node-editing the bottom part of a complex path, the entire path needs to be redrawn on each change, but now this redraw starts from the bottom and therefore the you see the effect of your changes at once - i.e. while screen redraw may still lag behind your mouse movement, this lag is less noticeable. * If the selected object(s) have gradient in fill or stroke, the selected style indicator in the bottom-left corner of the editing window now displays a live gradient preview prefixed by R or L to indicate Radial or Linear gradients (instead of displaying "L Gradient" or "R Gradient" text labels as before). Also, this and other similar widget now use italic font face to indicate None and bold to indicate Unset. * In Gradient tool, when you have one of the gradient handles selected, its style (color and opacity) is reflected by the selected style indicator (left of the statusbar) and the Fill&Stroke dialog. Previously, opacity of a gradient handle was reflected as fill-opacity and stroke-opacity; now it is reflected as master opacity (the "O:" spinbutton in the selected style indicator, the "Master opacity" slider in Fill&Stroke). This makes it much easier to view and change opacity of gradient handles using only the selected style indicator in the statusbar. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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[Fwd: Re: Inkscape and OLPC]
by Jon Phillips 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

Yes, here's a developers response about the system and general testing requirements (anyone got a spare kid? Jon Cruz?) ;) Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: James Cameron <quozl@...1662...> > To: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> > Cc: devel@...1312... <devel@...1312...>, Bryce Harrington > <bryce@...961...> > Subject: Re: Inkscape and OLPC > Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:14:34 +1100 > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:04:20PM +0000, Jon Phillips wrote: > > I'm not so familiar with all the drawing capabilities for the device > > yet, but seems like an Inkscape-like app would be excellent (but > > possibly too complicated). Our canvas is great ;) > > There is a mouse touchpad. There will be a drawing or writing touchpad > either side. There are two mouse buttons, left and right. The screen > is 1200x900 pixels, 200DPI, colour or monochrome, and windows take up > the whole screen usually. > > If you have a spare 5 to 9 year old, sit them in front of Inkscape and > ask them to do something. You'll rapidly learn what they need. I've > only used Inkscape for half an hour, so I'm not able to comment on it. > > I've tried a B-test-1 laptop unit with build 239 and Tux Paint on a two > year old. That seemed to work well. "yum install tuxpaint". > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Paint > -- 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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LGM brochure
by cedric GEMY 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Already told abouton IRC but I'm working on Inkscape 2 pages for LGM brochure that will be distributed with the canadian well-known Grafika magazin (4000 ex there). In order to Illustrate, we'd need the best design have ever been made with Inkscape, with reproduction permission for free (please). You can send me files or links as soon as you can. pygmee

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Needing to make a layer or graphics non printable
by Dennis 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hi, I am needing the ability to make a layer non printable. Can some one point me to the right area in the code to possibly activate this feature? I did some searching and found the attribute sodipodi:nonprintable here http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/attributes_8cpp-source.php on line 00037 but it does not seem to work on a layer or graphic when I use that attribute in the xml editor. How can I activate this attribute?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Can't do 2 simple things
by MenTaLguY 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 19:54 +0100, Ulf Erikson wrote: > What about two options that let you "see hidden objects" and "select > locked objects"? That would let you see and select any hidden or locked > objects as if they were normal objects. I like this idea -- it's less of a blunt instrument than "unlock all". -mental

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Inkscape on OLPC?
by Jon Phillips 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Heya, one of my top priority projects at CC now is OLPC. I talked with the pres. of software and content, Walter Bender today and I intro'd myself and mentioned Inkscape, and he immediately said, "Oh cool, I use Inkscape all the time. Want to port it to Sugar?" "Sugar is the core of the OLPC Human Interface. Its goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning." http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar Has anyone tried to build Inkscape with Sugar? Is anyone interested in doing this? It is a cool thing to have happen, as they are needing a drawing program, and this could help us springboard into the process of refactoring and lib'ification more, as the device has memory/space limits and a targeted demographic, kids. I started a wiki page on it for anyone who is interested: http://wiki.inkscape.org:8080/wiki/index.php/OLPC Would anyone like to help? If so, I can possibly get a development system for use/testing, although I believe there is a livecd of current builds (based on fedora core 6) and a test environment that can be run locally... 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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Build System
by Aaron Spike 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

How many of us understand how autoconf and friends work? How many are able to effectively edit and maintain the build process? I spent a few days during the 0.45 dev cycle working to add soft linking for libssl. Most of my time was spent in total confusion. And when I asked around no one among us was able to give much help. I find this a little scary. And I wonder if there isn't a different build system out there that more of us could become proficient in. For lib2geom Verbalshadow decided to give CMake a try. I'm not sure what led to this decision. I think he looked at Scons and a few others first. Maybe because a huge project like KDE is using it. I found out recently that our sister project Scribus is also switching to CMake. You can read their happy rants: http://rants.scribus.net/2006/05/20/cmake-rocks/ http://rants.scribus.net/2006/05/20/cmake-certainly-does-rock/ http://rants.scribus.net/2006/07/16/a-little-help-from-your-friends/ Verbal and I have been pretty able to take care of things with CMake. But I'm not sure I can make a recommendation for or against anything because I really don't know that much about build systems. We also have Bob's build system to consider. I'll let him give you the details. I'd like to use this thread to enumerate our needs for a build system. And I'd like to request some volunteers to help me evaluate any alternatives we find. The general needs I know about are: - maintainable by our team - crossplatform support - availability to our end users Build systems I know of include: - gnu auto* (what is the proper name?) - Bob's buildtool - Scons - Cmake People interested in finding and evaluating a new build system: - Aaron Spike Please add to these lists. Aaron Spike

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Info about source code of 0.45
by Federico 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hello I wanted to know if the present codes source to the address http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/?M=D is the source code of the inkscape 0.45 published in these days at sourceforge. Becouse I succeed to compile this packages under windows correctly while the packakes at the address http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=93438&package_id=99112 not compiling under windows. Federico Naviga e telefona senza limiti con Tiscali Scopri le promozioni Tiscali adsl: navighi e telefoni senza canone Telecom http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/

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Fwd: Build System
by Joshua Blocher 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

On 2/7/07, Kees Cook <kees@...62...> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:12:56PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > I think it would be great to see the following build system problems > > solved: [snip] > > I'll throw in my $0.02 too... If the current build system were replaced, > I'd like to not lose one specific feature: fully parallel builds. At > present, given the "single Makefile in src/", I can actually use all 4 > CPUs to do compiles, etc. I don't want to regress to having a separate > Makefile in every subdirectory. :) I will have to look into this but i don't there will be a problem with using all available processors to compile. As to the seperate Makefiles in every subdirectory they would be a cmakelist.txt but they would all be included into the main cmakelist.txt in the src directory. this can be avoid by setting all the sub-projects in the same cmakelist.txt file but doing this IMO would make the build files a more of a hassle to work with. Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow > > -- > Kees Cook @outflux.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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