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Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in Montréal Announced
by Louis Desjardins 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hello all, Our 1st press release is out now! Hope to see you in Montréal! Louis LGM 2007 organiser * * * ENGLISH VERSION * * * FRENCH VERSION BELOW * * * Artists and Developers Ally to Boost Open Source Graphics Software. Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in Montréal Announced Issue date: 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 Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 4—6, 2007 at École Polytechnique de Montréal. 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/ - 30 - Source: LGM 2007 organisation Louis Desjardins EMAIL louis [dot] desjardins [at] gmail [dot] com * * * FRENCH VERSION * * * ENGLISH VERSION ABOVE * * * Une rencontre internationale stimulante entre les arts graphiques et les logiciels libres. Le Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 débarque à Montréal. Date de diffusion : 12 février 2007 La deuxième édition du Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) se déroulera à Montréal, au Québec, les 4, 5 et 6 mai 2007 à l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. Le succès retentissant du premier Libre Graphics Meeting à Lyon, en France, l'année dernière, a convaincu les développeurs des meilleurs logiciels libres dans le domaine des arts graphiques de renouveler l'expérience. Le LGM est un moment privilégié au cours duquel développeurs de logiciels libres, utilisateurs et créateurs professionnels venus du monde entier se rencontrent. C'est l'occasion pour eux de tracer les lignes directrices des développements futurs de ces logiciels au travers d'une réelle collaboration entre les gens du métier et les concepteurs. Ces échanges soutenus permettent d'enrichir et de développer l'écosystème en pleine évolution que constituent les logiciels libres de la chaîne graphique. Cet écosystème est constitué de logiciels libres tels : * Blender, un modeleur tridimensionnel * Scribus, un logiciel de mise en page de niveau professionnel * GIMP, un logiciel complet de manipulation d'image * Inkscape, une application de dessin vectoriel au format SVG * Krita, un logiciel de création d'images peintes ou dessinées de manière « naturelle » * la graphothèque Open Clip Art, une vaste collection d'images qui peuvent être utilisées librement * et d'autres encore... Pour Louis Desjardins, organisateur de la conférence et professionnel des arts graphiques depuis 20 ans, « le LGM est une démonstration éclatante de la maturité des logiciels libres, même sur le plan professionnel. Je n'ai jamais vu une aussi étroite et amicale collaboration entre ceux qui utilisent les logiciels et ceux qui les créent. » Ayant vécu de l'intérieur la révolution numérique dans les arts graphiques, du montage traditionnel des textes photocomposés à l'essor considérable de la publication assistée par ordinateur (PAO), Louis Desjardins ajoute : « Nous voyons maintenant arriver les logiciels libres dans un secteur qui a toujours été traditionnellement fermé ». Plusieurs compagnies et organismes soutiennent d'ores et déjà le LGM. Elles se montrent ainsi convaincues de l'impact positif du LGM sur l'évolution des logiciels libres présentés à la conférence. En soutenant le LGM, les organisations démontrent leur volonté d'appuyer la communauté du libre. Elles obtiennent en retour une visibilité médiatique des plus recherchées. Cette année, un espace leur sera notamment réservé dans la brochure du LGM qui sera entièrement conçue et réalisée à l'aide de logiciels libres. Les conférences seront l'occasion de démonstrations, de présentation des avancées techniques récentes et de discussions sur des sujets plus généraux tels que les formats de fichiers ouverts. Des sessions de travail plus informelles permettront également aux développeurs et utilisateurs de travailler de concert sur des objectifs communs. La participation des professionnels des arts graphiques aux travaux du LGM est fortement encouragée, elle est même essentielle. Un appel à contribution est donc lancé. Les personnes intéressées peuvent soumettre un résumé d'au plus 2 paragraphes de toute présentation qu'elles souhaiteraient faire. Toute proposition sera considérée : contribution à un projet, démonstrations par des utilisateurs experts, discussions techniques, présentations d'expériences en entreprise, etc. Renseignements et inscription : http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/fr - 30 - Source : L'organisation du LGM 2007 Contact : Louis Desjardins — courriel : louis [point] desjardins [à] gmail [point] com -- Louis Desjardins Mardigrafe inc. T 514 934 1353 F 514 934 3698 http://www.mardigrafe.com

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NEW: GNOME-VFS from Open/Save/Export
by Jon Phillips 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

I'm trying out the bulia-style announcement. I applied a simple patch that allows us to use non-local URIs in addition to local paths via Gnome-VFS by using GTK file chooser on the Open, Save ___, and Export dialogs. This means you can use webdav shares, samba mounts, sftp/ssh shares, now...basically, any backend that gnome-vfs supports, we should be able to use. So, in effect, one could work on files from a bluetooth phone filesystem (if so inclined ;). Before, Gnome-VFS support, Bryce setup as a configure-time option, --with-gnome-vfs, which appears to be turned on by default (even without the configure-time option). And, one could open any URI that gnome-vfs supported from the commandline. So, now we have the added capability So, please test this out. Also, I'm curious if/how this works on Windows and Mac OS X. 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Feature Request, Break a text, lines, words or letters.
by Aaron Spike 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

ValessioBrito wrote: > I request in: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1658585&group_id=9… > > see animation: > http://valessio.ul-jb.org/projetos/inkscape/feature_request/break_text.gif Excellent request. In particular, there are people in the chat channel asking how to break words apart into letters on an almost weekly basis. Break apart mostly does it, but it can get fiddly if there are many wholey letters. Aaron Spike

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Xara and Inkscape comparison on Linux Action Show
by Joshua A. Andler 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

FYI: I'm in the middle of listening, but there is a comparison of Xara and Inkscape. http://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=77 -Josh

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[Fwd: Re: Inkscape and OLPC]
by Jon Phillips 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Sorry to forward a few of these to the inkscape-devel list, but I think its an interesting issue for us to deal with, especially as so many open mobile/ubiquitous devices are on the horizon, plus, it helps us track down memory leaks, etc. Mental, this seems like it might interest you a bit? Also, could some others comment. What are the top five ways we can practically lower these memory requirements? Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: James Cameron <quozl@...1662...> > To: Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin@...237...> > Cc: devel@...1312... <devel@...1312...>, Bryce Harrington > <bryce@...961...> > Subject: Re: Inkscape and OLPC > Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:25:35 +1100 > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:55:25PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > Isn't inkscape still a memory pig? > > inkscape 0.44.1-1 in my tests has 56Mb peak virtual size on startup, and > 76Mb after loading the basic tutorial page. This would be an > appreciable proportion of the currently planned 128Mb on the platform. > > On startup (not on a B-test-1) > > VmPeak: 56068 kB > VmSize: 56068 kB > VmLck: 0 kB > VmHWM: 45420 kB > VmRSS: 45420 kB > VmData: 30068 kB > VmStk: 84 kB > VmExe: 4880 kB > VmLib: 17408 kB > VmPTE: 64 kB > > After loading basic tutorial page (not on a B-test-1) > > VmPeak: 73676 kB > VmSize: 73676 kB > VmLck: 0 kB > VmHWM: 60868 kB > VmRSS: 60868 kB > VmData: 46116 kB > VmStk: 84 kB > VmExe: 4880 kB > VmLib: 17480 kB > VmPTE: 80 kB > > > Can inkscape be tuned to not allocate > > absurd amounts of memory? > > It doesn't seem absurd given the functionality, but I imagine there > might be opportunities to trim. The inkscape developers may know more. > > > I invested in a 512M RAM upgrade just so I > > could run inkscape on moderately complex drawings. > > That seems excessive, and doesn't match my brief measurements. Were you > running other applications at the time? I've assumed the basic tutorial > is moderately complex. I don't know how this would compare to the > drawings used by the target market of 5 to 9 year olds. > -- 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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Inkscape 0.45 crashes during the start on Mac OS X 10.3.9.
by Areozol 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

Hi there, The problem is already mentioned in the subject. For starters, I must admit, that I never had problems with X11 applications, including previous relases of Inkscape. I am using the ibook G4, so it is not related to the Intel architecture. When I start Inkscape 0.45, I have a messeage about long time need for caching the fonts etc., and after clicking "OK" the Inkscape disappears from Dock, and in Console I can see following output: bash: no job control in this shell dyld: /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape-bin Undefined symbols: /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib undefined reference to _FT_Get_BDF_Property expected to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib undefined reference to _FT_Load_Sfnt_Table expected to be defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib Some other people have the same problem on their Macs, and the bugs have been reported on bugtracker here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1654068&group_id=93438&atid=604306 and here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1652913&group_id=93438&atid=604306 Please, fix this bug ASAP, or find some remedy, if this is caused by local settings.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] NEW: faster blur
by bulia byak 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

On 2/11/07, Donn <donn.ingle@...400...> wrote: > I have been doing some icons in the last few days and working with blur as a > drop-shadow quite a lot and I wanted to ask : Is there some way to make a > special case where an object can have a "live blurred clone" attached to it > wherever it moves, rotates or is node-edited or has other objects joined to > it? I am thinking of having a "shadow" that is simply there and is > predictable such that I can focus on the thing at hand, leaving the shadow to > just work. In short -- making the "shadow" a property/attribute of an object. Yes, to an extent, read http://wiki.inkscape.org:8080/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes045#SVG_filters:_G…, blur tips, drop shadow -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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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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