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Adding clippaths to the Ps/Pdf exporters
by Ulf Erikson 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hi, I am in need some advice and suggestions from an extensions expert.. I would like to improve the pdf exporter by handle clippaths (and maybe later masks), but I am having a hard time figuring out how I best can go about to add such features. ( There is no code for this in the postscript exporter that I can copy :-) Should it be possible to continue using a "print" extension or do I need to start use an "output" extension for this? I understand that an output extension is handed the full document tree at once. A print extension on the other hand is given a single path at a time together with the needed style, transformation matrix, bounding box, and so on. But I don't see if and how a print extension can get information about the needed clipping path. If there is no information about the clippath available for print extensions would it be okay to add this (by changing the interface)? Is it then better with a new set_clippath method or an extra clippath parameter for the fill and stroke methods? Ulf

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features proposition
by Bertrand Haut 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hello, I've just discover inkscape (trying to escape from xfig), It's great but I still have two suggestions : - the possibility to adapt only some of the properties in the Fill and Stroke window. I've two curves : solid and dashed. I select the two curves, adapt the width, press enter. The two curves have now the same width (Good) but the dashed is now solid (Bad). It would be great if only the properties that have been modified by the user where adapted. - The most important thing for a graphic editor is the facility to insert the result in LaTeX (ok, it's a personal opinion). It is already possible to save as "LaTeX with PSTricks macros" but with this option it is not possible to include LaTex code (such as $\frac{a}{b}$) as text in Inkscape and have it interpreted by LaTeX. The idea is to seperate the figure in two : on one side all the text objects and on the other side everything else. The rest is exported in an eps file. The text objects are inserted in a .tex file which includes the eps. Something like : \begin{picture}(0,0)% \includegraphics{the_eps_file_with_everything_except_texts.eps}% \end{picture}% \begingroup \setlength{\unitlength}{0.02bp}% \begin{picture}(47600,21050)(0,0)% \put(11700,7000){\makebox(0,0)[c]{\strut{}The_first_text_object}}% \put(13200,9700){\makebox(0,0)[c]{\strut{}The_first_text_object}}% (...) \end{picture}% \endgroup \endinput With this, the user has only to include a .tex file to have the graphics and all the text objects interpreted by LaTeX. I assume this should not be too complicated. The export in eps is already done. It remains to access the position and the text of all text objects to write the .tex file. Maybe I can work on this second suggestion. The question is where should this be done ? Inside inkscape or in a external program which work on any .svg file and use Inkscape to make the export in eps ? -- Bertrand Haut ICQ 48978874

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Extensions under Windows (was: eps import?)
by Ulf Erikson 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Peter Fischer wrote: > under Windows XP. The extension-errors.log says for "EPS Input" that "gs" > is not found. There is usually no "gs" to be find in the path under Windows, you have "gswin32.exe". Try change share/extensions/eps_input.inx to reflect this. It looks like you will need "pstoedit" and "skconvert" too, and there is even a shell script used (try change "sk2svg.sh" into "sh sk2svg.sh"?). Many of the other external input/output extensions seem to be equally flawed. It doesn't look like installing the extra software and put it in the path is enough to enable extensions under Windows. What is the best way to fix this? Always use double .inx files? (Like the old pdf_output_on_win32.inx which also uses a .bat instead of the .sh). Or maybe use perl or python instead of shell scripts? What about the different dependencies? (gs vs. gswin32.exe)

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WEBFORM would like to translate news to French
by v1nce 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: v1nce email: vincent.pennec@...400... submitted the following: Hi, the title says all. there were french translations of the news in the past, but I didn\'t see anything new for some few weeks (months?). So if the current translator agree and if you think I can help, I \'m your man See U V1nce

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eps import?
by Peter Fischer 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Dear inkscape developers, I excessively searched the forums for my question but found no complete answer. So I hope you don't mind me asking you directly. The problem is importing eps into inkscape under Windows XP. The extension-errors.log says for "EPS Input" that "gs" is not found. Since I already have gs installed, I additionally put it into PATH but that didn't help. Could you tell me what to do to get the extension (and the others, too) work? Is it sufficient to install the applications and put them into PATH or does inkscape need libraries (dlls under windows)? If yes, where to get them without recompiling? Or do I have to recompile inkscape for extending it? You would greatly help me if you could explain me how the extension mechanism works so that I can install the necessary extensions. Thank you in advance if you took the care for reading this and Best regards, Peter.

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0.44.1 status
by MenTaLguY 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Okay, last night I merged pretty much everything I wanted to get in for this release. Does anyone else have stuff they want to slot in for 0.44.1? Now's your last chance. Once the last of that stuff is in, we'll notify the translators mailing list so they can get any translation issues sorted. Meanwhile, we test, validate some of the packaging changes which were comitted, and once they're finished we can tag and release. Do you think we should do any 0.44.1 prereleases to get wider testing? -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!
by Donn 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Thanks for the info. I have moved to kubuntu 6.06 and someone has kindly made a .deb file so I am in 0.44 heaven now. The thing I get from this thread is that Linux distros move so quickly, they are having their libraries and other wobbly bits coded so rapidly that it's impossible to keep pace with them all, let alone just one of them. This is due to the obviously limited resources and voluntary nature of those (like you guys) writing OSS applications to run on Linux. In an ironic way this speed of improvement of Linux is a strength for Windows. I demonstrate this by means of Inkscape 0.44 and how one can with relatively no trouble develop for Windows and release any old time and users like me can pick up the binary and run it. No mess. No fuss. That's the contrast for me I suppose. I'll stick with Linux thanks :) That means sticking with these weird version situations. I wonder if the situation will ever reach a balance, where the vital libs don't move so quickly because they are finished, done, complete and so Linux won't change so massively internally and will approach a kind of binary stability like win has now? Perhaps I've got the wrong idea completely! Anyway, thanks for your time. D.

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09 Aug '06

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] release notes (again)
by radar.map35＠...8... 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi all > Hi, > > Just another reminder to all committers: please don't forget to update > release notes for all notable changes (whether it's new UI, new > features, or just notable code changes). In particular we need entries > for: > > - new PS/PDF fixes and capabilities by Ulf > > - the rendering quality/speed patch by Jasper > > - all work done so far on filters by Niko and Hugo > > I may have forgotten or missed something. > > Thanks! > > Yes please, Good release notes are good basis for the documentation team and help writing fast and precise infos for users. Cedric (pygmee)

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