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attention windows packagers
by bulia byak 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

There are two issues that must be addressed in the next prerelease. 1. We need GTK at least version 2.10.7. Reason: in that version they fixed bug which causes a pretty bad crash in Inkscape: 374378 Crash as GTK tries to blink cursor in defocused spinbutto... Take the latest from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.10/. 2. We really need to package numpy (numeric python) with python on windows, otherwise the perspective extension does not work. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Xara and Inkscape comparison on Linux ActionShow
by MenTaLguY 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:10:01 -0600, Aaron and Sarah Spike <spike@...749...> wrote: > The ability to draw those outlines will also be useful for blurred > objects and objects that have live path effects applied. :-) One thing we will need to be aware of, though, is that the render-only-the-displayed-portion-of-the-path optimizations apply only to NRArenaShape, not SPCanvasBPath (which is currently what we have to use for "annotations" like nodes and these hypothetical outlines). Kind of a shame since the two classes do essentially the same thing, and one of the reasons I think the canvas code needs to have the two layers unified somehow. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Xara and Inkscape comparison on Linux ActionShow
by bulia byak 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

On 1/25/07, Aaron and Sarah Spike <spike@...749...> wrote: > The ability to draw those outlines will also be useful for blurred > objects and objects that have live path effects applied. :-) Yes, and it's been in a todo list for a long time as well. Should not be terribly difficult though, we already have the necessary building blocks, just combine them. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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INX definition of description text
by unknown＠example.com 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Clearifying labels in an extension's UI are now defined in INX like: <_param name="cmdlinename" type="description">The description</_param> The external program, e.g. python, is called with a list of commandline options, among which: --cmdlinename="The description" I think this is not desired and that there are no cases where this cmdline option is actually used. funcplot.inx for example has a huge description parameter. The description isn't really a parameter; should we recode this to enable a syntax like: <_description>The description</_description> Or <label> or something else. (underscores to make it translatable, which is sometimes not necessary, e.g. in the case of funcplot.inx's help function listing) The easier solution is to add a check whether the param is a description and not add it to the cmdline. This would also benefit the notebook parameter whose cmdline text is also often superfluous (the cmdline specification of which notebook tab was selected). Implementing this is peanuts. Ideas? Johan

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Numerical input of node coordinates
by Aron Stansvik 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hello Inkscape developers. I recently started looking at how to add support for numerical input of node coordinates when editing a path, and it seems it will be a bit trickier than I initially though. My first question is how would you want this feature to work? There are two approaches that I can see: * Inputs in node editing tool bar - Values are updated while dragging a node? - Values are updated when a node is released after dragging? * Inputs in a dialog - Dialog is shown when double clicking a node? - Dialog is shown by pressing a button in the tool bar? After mentioning this on IRC, it seems the first approach is the favored one. So a couple of questions regarding this approach: 1) What's the best way to make the node editing tool bar aware of what goes on in nodepath.cpp (node selected, moved, N of selected nodes et.c.). Can I fire off signals and the tool bar will see them? The approach that the select tool bar uses to get notified of object modifications does not really seem to work for this (though I'm not sure). 2) Is it really important that the input values are updated _while_ dragging a node (like with object dragging), and not when dragging stops? (Latter seems easier to implement). Any advice and pointers from people more familiar with this part of the Inkscape code is appreciated, since this is my first stab at hacking Inkscape and I might be poking at the wrong places. Best regards, Aron Stansvik PS. ACSpike on IRC suggested that bbyak is probably the man I'm after. You there bbyak? :) DS.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.45 Release Plan
by Arpad Biro 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hi, > 2. For committing translations during the Hard Freeze, Aaron and I > would like to have an official Translations Integrator to handle > committing of all the translation patches. Arpad, do you have time > to take this role again this release? If not, then Cornelius, would > you be willing to take the role? OK for me. Still better would be to have both of us (Cornelius and me) in that role... Arpad Biro ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367

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+ Inkscape::SVG::PathString
by MenTaLguY 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

I've noticed a number of places in the codebase where people have been painstakingly building SVG path strings by hand. There had to be a better way. And now there is: Inkscape::SVG::PathString. It accumulates SVG path operations and is convertable to a Glib::ustring. Inkscape::SVG::PathString str; str.moveTo(0, 0).lineTo(100, 0) .lineTo(100, 100).lineTo(0, 100) .closePath(); return str.c_str(); (You don't have to do all the operations in one go, but you can if you want.) Check out the before and after of using it in sp-ellipse.cpp: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/sp-ellipse.cp… So, the next time you're tempted to break out a raw SVGOStringStream (or worse, sprintf) to build a path string, consider SVG::PathString instead. -mental

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Path optimizations?
by MenTaLguY 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Now that we've got all our path building going through one class (SVG::PathString), we've got the opportunity to do some syntactic optimizations if we want -- for instance, using H or V instead of L for axis-aligned segments. Think that's worthwhile? Any other optimizations you all would like to see? -mental

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Fwd: SVG icon proposal
by ryan lerch 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

just checked it up, and yes they did decide on a winner: http://svglogo.com/finalists.html cheers, Ryanlerch On 1/23/07, Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 08:45 +1000, ryan lerch wrote: > > on a somewhat different note, a couple of months back, rejon and > > myself whipped up a few idea for an SVG logo that could be used on the > > web similar to the RSS feed icon and such.... > > The ideas can be viewed on the openclipart libarary... > > > > http://openclipart.org/cchost/media/files/ryanlerch/1029 > > > > cheers, > > > > ryanlerch > > Didn't stelt and SVG crew come up with a final winner in that SVG logo > debate? Stelt, maybe you can comment... > > Jon > > > On 1/23/07, Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:25:22 +0100 > > > > From: J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... > > > > To: fede.caceres@...400..., inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] SVG icon proposal > > > > > > > > Federico Caceres wrote: > > > > > You will find a preview of the icon along with an icon ".ico" > > > > > file available for download at the following address: > > > > > http://fredpyo.pandela.net/inkscape/index.htm > > > > > > > > I like it :) However, I would remove 'inkscape' to make it more generic. > > > > Maybe add a little color? > > > > > > I must agree, Text in an icon is not generally a good idea. > > > > > > The icon does have the advantage of looking quite simliar to those used by > > > Adobe Illustrator (although there is some reserve snobbery and some wont > > > like it for the same reason). > > > > > > The 16x16 size is unusable, it would be better to have a different simpler > > > icon for that size. > > > > > > -- > > > Alan > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > -- > 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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command line operation to reduce document boundry
by ryan lerch 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

i am wondering if there is a command for the inkscape command line that allows an svg's document boundry to be reduced to fit tight around all the elements. If there is not one, it sure would be handy for us over at the openclipart library... cheers, ryanlerch

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