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Envelope extension fix
by Tavmjong Bah 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hi, As I reported earlier, the Envelope extension (AKA Summers Night) is broken in 0.44 and 0.45. I finally got time to look at it an the fix is trivial, just deleting a line. Three other lines can also be deleted as they are no longer necessary. It was due to a flip in the y coordinate. Patch attached. Tav

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User Interface for Inkscape 0.5
by Esteban Barahona 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

images are more understandable that words: current ui: http://www.zensui.org/img/Inkscape-default.png proposed ui: http://www.zensui.org/img/Inkscape-clean.png // note that: This change is based on a pure 2Desktop not 3Desktop... ie: not Xgl with "not-necessary" effects... Since a page is a container/box for information (in this case an image) and Inkscape uses standards (SVG, XML) it is apropiate that: Inkscape uses a simplified W3C box model. in the clean/proposed version of the ui (which is color-coded) the following new/changed paremeters are: Background Color = black // Width = variable /* this can be 2 values, width and height ...but they're better as variables */ Border Color = green Border Width = 2px (this paremeter is optional, or can be user-selected to Zero width) Border Height = 2px Box Color = white Box Width = 1000px // aka "page" width Box Height = 700px // aka "page" height favorite-most-used way-of-measure = pixel (...or milimeter, etc) I know Java and some C++ so I can help with some code too... any feedback about the User Interface/Interaction for the new milestone of Inkscape?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] User Interface for Inkscape 0.5
by Esteban Barahona 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

2007/2/6, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...123...>: > > (...) > > I have a hard time understanding what you are about. > Please try to explain in detail what the changes are you want > and why you think they should happen. > Thorsten Wilms, I want the shade effect of all "pages" to go away, to make more clean the interface.

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Windows packages needed
by Bryce Harrington 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

We've got linux and osx packages, so it'd be great to get the win32 packages up soon. I think that's pretty much the only thing remaining for completion of 0.45. Thanks, Bryce

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Release announcements
by Bryce Harrington 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hi all, Rejon and I have sent out announcements to the various (English) sites we normally notify, but if you know of more places - especially non-English sites - please send them a copy of the announcement too. There are a number of translations of the release announcement available here: http://wiki.inkscape.org:8080/wiki/index.php/ReleaseAnnounce045 Thanks, Bryce

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Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.
by Jon Phillips 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Draw Freely: Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release February 5, 2007 - The Inkscape community today announced the newest version of its cross-platform open source vector graphic drawing software, Inkscape. Inkscape 0.45 features a new Gaussian Blur SVG filter. Sponsored by Google's Summer of Code program, Gaussian Blur allows you to softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects, including shapes, text, and images. This enables a wide range of photorealistic effects: arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows, glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other objects to achieve the "feathered mask" effect. Numerous other new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug fixes have been included. A history dialog allows you to browse your change history. Many new extension effects are added including Pattern along Path and Color Effects. There are performance improvements to rendering speed, on the order of 2-3% in general, and up to 5-10% for drawings using heavy transparency and/or radial gradients. Compositing quality is also improved through the removal of banding seen in gradients. The Inkscape community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The project is now working on the upcoming 0.46 release which will focus on the initial stages of adding SVG animation support, increasing the apps PDF functionality, and other refactoring tasks. On a global scale, Inkscape is pushing for version 0.50 to have full compatibility with SVG Mobile/Tiny. Then, the ultimate large goal is to get to Inkscape 1.0 which will be a fully W3C SVG 1.1 compliant application. The more help the project receives, the faster the aforementioned goals will be accomplished. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.45: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes045 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's ([[W3C]]) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, <nowiki>PostScript</nowiki>, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully [[W3C]] compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from <nowiki>C/Gtk</nowiki> to <nowiki>C++/Gtkmm</nowiki>, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process. Press Contact Jon Phillips jon@...235... +1 510.499.0894

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User Interface Feature Request
by Esteban Barahona 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi, Thanks for all the Inkscape developers! If I have to chose just one app in a "dumb terminal" it will be Inkscape! As Interaction/Interface Designer in training, I have one trivial (I guess) feature request for the next major (a là Mac, ie: 3.1 to 3.2) release: current: http://www.zensui.org/img/Inkscape-default.png (proposed) simplified W3C box-inspired edition: http://www.zensui.org/img/Inkscape-clean.png note that the box can use this user configurable names (parameters in code?): background = black border = green content = white the border can be excluded to avoid "feature cripple". Thanks/Metta ^_^ -- http://www.zensui.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Build System
by Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

For all the use I get out of inkscape, I'd like to pitch in with this. I figure it would be a good way to get my feet wet, and I've been hawking this list long enough. The most coding I've done is some really basic php scripting, but I'm somewhat familiar with the basics, so if someone would tell me what to do, I'd be happy to pitch in. I've really no clue where to start. > I'm going to chime in here. > The main reason I picked Cmake was the Build syntax looked > considerable less painfully then most of the other systems out > especially when compared to the Auto* build system. Secondly it is > cross-platform on all the major platforms that we wanted to support > *nix, Windows, MACOSX, and many others as well. And the thrid reason > was I wanted to see if i could do it with a small project looking to > hopefully build enough knowledge to attempt something like Inkscape. > > I think a Handful of dedicated People could have all of the build > system converted > in a week or two at most. With only one or two working part time on it > the outside of a month. And that is people with no knowledge of how > Cmake build system works. If we could borrow some experts from the > Scribus team or some other Cmake knowledgeable group it would go much > faster. > > I'm of course willing to help to convert to whatever system we decide > on, but Cmake would be my choice. Whatever help I can give. It should > be noted that i have piss poor access to web for the time being and > the foreseeable future. > > > Joshua L. Blocher > verbalshadow >

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Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release
by Bryce Harrington 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely. The Inkscape community today announces the newest version of its vector graphic drawing software. Inkscape 0.45 features a new Gaussian Blur SVG filter. Sponsored by Google's Summer of Code program, Gaussian Blur allows you to softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects, including shapes, text, and images. This enables a wide range of photorealistic effects: arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows, glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other objects to achieve the "feathered mask" effect. Numerous other new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug fixes have been included. A history dialog allows you to browse your change history. Many new extension effects are added including Pattern along Path and Color Effects. There have been performance improvements to rendering speed, on the order of 2-3% in general, and up to 5-10% for drawings using heavy transparency and/or radial gradients. Compositing quality is also improved through the removal of banding seen in gradients. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.45: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes045 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape ============== Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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Crash handler locks X
by Daniel Pope 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Sometimes Inkscape crashes while performing an operation that grabs the X pointer. It displays the crash handler window but the Ok button can't be clicked. In fact the entire X session is locked. I have to log into a tty and kill either Inkscape or the WM to be able to continue. Of course we don't crashes to happen, but I wonder if calling XUngrabPointer() in the crash handler would prevent them freezing my desktop? Dan

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