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NEW: more outline mode goodies
by bulia byak 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

* The window title displays "(outline)" next to the file name when that editing window is in Outline mode. * The bug whereby stroked shapes didn't change stroke width when swithing to Outline mode or back is fixed. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Crash after closing Image Properties dialog
by Vladimir Savic 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Reproduce procedure: Import an image and from RMB drop-down menu pick "Image Properties" item. Close the dialog that appeared and click on the image again. Then Inkscape crashes (at least here). Regards, Vlada

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patches in the tracker
by Jon Phillips 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Hi all, could you all take a look at what is in the inkscape patch tracker so we can get some flow through there. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=93438&atid=604308 I closed out my assigned patches which took about 15 minutes. Hopefully a few more people could do this as well. It really helps churn up activity and get more developers attracted to the project. 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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Feature request: DPI value of imported graphic shouldn't be ignored
by Vladimir Savic 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

While doing some graphic design for printing I'm often obliged exchanging pixmap and vector graphics between GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. Inkscape discards DPI of GIMP exported graphics, which is really unintuitive. Drawings that GIMP displays exactly how they were saved previously (I'm referring to format here -- A3, A4, B5 etc.) Inkscape opens at wrong DPI thus they're a few times bigger. Not a big deal when the whole page is exported from gimp (just scale picture at format's dimensions) , but makes things complicated if many smaller components are imported to be assembled in Inkscape. I must write down every single component's width or height and scale it proportionally. Really time consuming... Vlada

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[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-user] Registration Mark]
by Jon Phillips 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Aaron Maxwell <amax@...1548...> > Reply-To: Inkscape User Community > <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Registration Mark > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:59:32 -0800 > > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:52, bulia byak wrote: > > On 11/1/06, Aaron Maxwell <amax@...1548...> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Is there a canned way to make a registration mark in a text > > > field? Obviously, we can just draw a circle and position it around a > > > floating letter "R". Is there a cleaner way to do it? > > > > Yes, just insert the corresponding character by its Unicode code: > > Ctrl+U a e Enter. > > That works wonderfully, thanks. > > -Aaron This would be a killer extension to have.... Make registration marks and/or make crop/cutline marks! Whoa! ACSpike, what do you think? Bulia? Others? 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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NEW: more stuff in Help menu
by bulia byak 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Since none of our standard libs could offer a cross-platform, easily available way to launch an URL in the user's default browser, I looked around and found exactly what we need in Python (which we carry anyway) - the standard "webbrowser" module. So I created some Python extensions to launch various URLs using webbrowser.open calls, and put them into Help menu: - Inkscape Manual links to http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/index.php, do you think we should host a redirect at inkscape.org instead? - Command line options: http://inkscape.org/doc/inkscape-man.html - FAQ on wiki - Release notes for the current version - "Report a bug" page - SVG 1.1 specification at w3.org I tested this and it seems to work well in Linux and Windows. Let me know if you have any problems. Also feel free to suggest other "launch an URL" commands for Inkscape (openclipart? wiki? inkscape.org? Aaron's extension page?) The only change I made in the core of Inkscape was to allow an inx file to specify <effects-menu hidden="yes"/> so that these new extensions don't automatically show up in the Effects menu. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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car.svgz
by Tobias Jakobs 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi, if I try to open the new example car.svgz image Inkscape crashes with this error massage: ----------------------------------------------------- $ ./inkscape ** ERROR **: file sp-object.cpp: line 861 (void SPObject::releaseReferences()): assertion failed: (this->hrefcount == 0) aborting... Emergency save activated! Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it.Aborted ----------------------------------------------------- Regards Tobias

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PDF Export
by MenTaLguY 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

We've got two Cairo PDF exporters right now -- the regular one and the "experimental" one. Which one should we focus on polishing for the 0.45 release? -mental

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NEW: display mode toggle and other goodies
by bulia byak 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

* A new menu command (View > Display Mode > Toggle) and a new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+<keypad 5>) switch the display mode from Normal to Outline and back. * An object with mask and/or clipping path, when viewed in Outline mode, now displays both the object itself and its clipping path and mask as objects, using different outline colors. By default, clippaths use green outlines, and masks use blue. These colors, as well as the colors of the regular object outlines (default black on light background and white on dark background) are now changeable by editing the "wireframecolors" group in the preferences file (~/.inkscape/preferences.xml). * An object with no fill and no stroke, invisible and not selectable by mouse clicking in normal more, can now be picked by a mouse click in the Outline mode using its visible outline. * To cater for specialized uses, such as preparing input for personal media cutters, Inkscape now has an option to start in the Outline mode upon launch. To enable this, add the following line to your preferences.xml file: <group id="startmode" outline="1"/> placing it after the <group id="options"> opening tag. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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dz.po errors
by bulia byak 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

The recently committed dz.po has several errors (unclosed tags, etc). Whoever committed it, please fix, and please never put anything into SVN without running "make" first to make sure the file is clean! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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