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y-axis direction and origin
by Thomas Holder 05 May '18

05 May '18

Hi all, I took the liberty and assigned bug 170049 "Inverted ruler co-ordinate system" to myself. I used the patch from 2010 as a starting point, fitted it to the current code base and made it user configurable. It's been a while (7 years) that I last contributed to Inkscape development. What's the current development process? Do you guys do code review? How do I submit a pull request to the gitlab repository? I'm not a project member yet (my username is @speleo3). Thanks, Thomas

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Inkscape Vectors Meeting - This Saturday
by Ryan Gorley 05 May '18

05 May '18

Hello All, This is just a friendly invitation to join the Inkscape Vectors meeting this Saturday. All are welcome to participate by video/voice/chat. Details can be found at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/57 Come with your ideas and enthusiasm. I look forward to seeing you there! -- Ryan

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Board meeting Friday May 4th at 10am Pacific
by Bryce Harrington 04 May '18

04 May '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this Friday, May 4th, at 10am Pacific in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: ------- * LGM Debrief * Future meetings/hackfests. + [https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2018 GUADEC 2018] - July 6th-11th (Ameria, Spain) GTK conference + [http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/ LGM 2019] - May 30th-June 3rd (Saarbrucken, Germany) Proposed. (About two hours by train from Paris.) + SCALE * Sponsorships * Merchandise sales + Spreadshirt [cr] + Evaluate self-serve merchandise sales - spreadshirt, cafepress, Golden Ribbon, Think Penguin or similar [Mc] * Action items * Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ------------------------------- === LGM Hackfest 2018 === ♢ ACTION: LGM 2018 reminder email [Tav] ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote on a sponsored dinner at LGM 2018 [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Clarify funding rules to include contributors to inkscape-web, 2geom (maybe more?) [Tav] === Outreachy === ♢ ACTION: Initial planning/contacts for Outreachy [bryce] Transcripts of previous meetings: --------------------------------- http://alpha.inkscape.org/board/meetings/transcripts/ Bryce

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Performance issue with gtk3 (especially on Windows)
by Eduard Braun 03 May '18

03 May '18

(I'll split this from the previous thread "slow, sluggish drawing with pencil & calligraphy tool solved" which became quite lengthy with a title not really matching the topic anymore) Hi all, I did not have a lot of time to follow up on this lately but I've got some great news I want to share with you regarding the performance issues we were seeing in Inkscape master (especially on Windows due to extremely poor GTK3 rendering performance which got even worse when drawing native window decoration, i.e. GTK_CSD=0). Turns out a patchset for cairo (see [1]) greatly reduced the latency of the rendering pipeline giving Inkscape a huge boost. I just built Inkscape with the patched cairo and performance with GTK_CSD=0 is now even slightly higher than with GTK_CSD=1! Also the blocking behaviour is completely gone (i.e. UI always redraws properly with current unmodified master). Performance with master/gtk3 is still *a lot* lower than with 0.92.x/gtk2, so I hope we can continue to improve Inkscape code (Yale's changes already looked very promising and I think they were not directly related to the changes in cairo, i.e. could improve performance even more) and maybe even GTK3 code (there are some very recent developments [2] which might result in a completely overhauled OpenGL based backend for win32!) but with today's success I finally feel we have a realistic chance to make the next Inkscape fun to work with on Windows! Best Regards, Eduard [1] https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/pull/3675 [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/105

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Location path for an imported figure
by David Carrasco de Busturia 02 May '18

02 May '18

Dear All, I am finding `Inkscape` a really good tool for importing `PDF` or `EPS` scientific plots into a blank page, and then place arrows on top of the graphs, text, make scientific drawings assemble them in the desired location and then save as a unique PDF page that can then be included as a unique `figure` in a `latex` document. Let's imagine an inkscape project that has assembled 10 plots, imported from these folders: /path1/plot_1.pdf /path2/plot_2.pdf ... /path10/plot_10.pdf We already know that in /path1/ there is also the python, gnuplot, etc source code that produces the PDF plot, for instance: /path1/plot_1.py /path2/plot_2.gnu etc Most of the times I need to continue working over the original PDF plots that I once imported into a inkscape project I made back in time. For example, change the scale and the title of the plots, and so on. In other words, I need to go to the original source code (gnuplot, python, etc) that produces those plots that have been assembled in the inkscape project. In these situations, while having the nice inkscape project in the screen with all the plots 1 to 10, it is quite hard to remember where is the location of the original PDF plot. As far as I am concerned, there is no option in the inkscape interface that allows you to know which is the original location path of the PDF plot that was once imported into the inkscape project. The closest solution I could find is the following: every time I import a new PDF of EPS, I right click and and create a link which is basically a copy-paste of the location path of the figure. This solution is quite tedious and most of the times one forgets to create the link. Once the image is imported, the next natural step is to resize it and locate in the desired place, and it is very easy to forget to create the link. For instance, if this multi PDF plots assemble project was made in Latex, the location path of all the plots would be perfectly identified, i.e. in the `\includegraphics` line. I am sure there are more than one user that misses this feature. I was wondering if it is possible to check an option in the importing process that would allow to automatically write the location path of the figure somewhere. Or any other strategy that would automatically write the location path every time a plot is imported. Would this be very costly ? Thanks a lot for all your help, All the best, David

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Fw: Vectors Meeting - SATURDAY!!! - Unencrypted Edition (LOL)
by brynn 02 May '18

02 May '18

forwarding to devel list -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Gorley Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2018 12:58 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Vectors Meeting - SATURDAY!!! - Unencrypted Edition (LOL) Hello All, I apologize for being a little quiet for the last few weeks as I've been trying to catch up with uncompleted work from the joyful distractions of March. I'm sure you've also been busy, and I'm personally grateful for your time and talents. None of us can carry this by ourselves, every small/large contribution is felt and appreciated. We have a lot of ground to cover, but to respect your time I'd like to make an effort to keep our formal discussion to one hour (side discussions can continue afterward of course). Details are here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/57 I'm not the boss! If you feel like there are items that should be added to this meeting for discussion, then please add them, email me, or comment in the issue. Thank you again for your work and willingness! Ryan -- Ryan Gorley Founder + Creative Director https://dijt.co 1.801.999.1530 ×101 1.801.898.7926

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Inkscape on Mac
by Rodney Little 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

I am a Designer and developer who works on Mac. How can I help with getting builds of Inkscape out for our loyal Mac users? Rodney Little

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Spreadshirt absurdity
by C R 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

So the more I use Spreadshirt, the more I see it's not a serious platform for merchandising. If you add a design for a mug, Spreadshirt requires you add the ENTIRE mug category, which contains any number of hidden (and hideous) products which you have no control over. I've confirmed this with Spreadshirt customer service: To add one white mug, you must add ALL mugs. To add one men's shirt, you must add all variations. This makes it impossible to control the quantity of products for a design, so the result is that the storefront gets flooded with a hundred variations of the very few things you set up, and the only way to remove them is to remove the whole category. So, what to do? I see only a few options, and none of them are great: 1. We limit it to one or two generic designs for everything. This is really the only way that makes sense. Anything else is going to have the visitors wading through hundreds of badly auto-designed products that no one will buy. 2. We ditch Spreadshirt, and seek other options. I mean, surely there's better than this out there somewhere. :) If we stay, we risk carefully thought out designs getting lost in auto-gen rubbish, which any online retailer will tell you is death for a product line. Too many options is no options, especially when most of the options look terrible anyway. My 2p -C

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Problems building on Ubuntu 16.04
by mathog 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Upgraded the Ubuntu 14.04 system which had endless build problems to Ubuntu 16.04. It doesn't seem to like 16.04 much better. Different problems, but still problems. Cleaned out the build directory and did: cmake .. which failed at ... WITH_OPENMP: ON WITH_PROFILING: OFF WITH_YAML: OFF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND. Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files: POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIR used as include directory in directory /usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk used as include directory in directory /usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk used as include directory in directory /usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk used as include directory in directory /usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk <SNIP many lines> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! See also "/usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log". This is at revision 15617. These poppler pieces are present ii gir1.2-poppler-0.18 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 ii libpoppler-dev:i386 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 ii libpoppler-glib-dev 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 rc libpoppler-glib4 0.12.4-0ubuntu5.2 ii libpoppler-glib8:i386 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 rc libpoppler19:i386 0.18.4-1ubuntu3.1 rc libpoppler44:i386 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.4 rc libpoppler5 0.12.4-0ubuntu5.2 ii libpoppler58:i386 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 ii poppler-utils 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 What needs to be tweaked to make this work? Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Missed SOC Application(maybe do SOC next year?)
by Alexander Vegas Fairley 22 Apr '18

22 Apr '18

Hey, I missed the SOC application for this year, but I might do most of the pre-reqs anyways and hope to work with you guys next summer perhaps. I've already done a bit of professional software engineering work and academic work and am pretty opinionated about software, but generally prefer to avoid going down the rabbit hole of flame wars if at all possible. For example, I mostly agree with torvalds about C++, but I don't know that it's possible to do a GUI application that is going to work anywhere without at least looking in the direction of Bjarne Stroustroup and forcing a smile. My background is mostly in high throughput web applications, and I worked on an SVG toy application many moons ago when SVG was still a proposed feature in Firefox. While I do find distributed web applications amazing, the fact that I can't really use a computer at all these days without using some uncountable number of distributed web applications, both known and unknown to me is not something I find all that thrilling from a usability point of view. I'v already started in on some of the SOC application stuff(late, I know). I actually can't do a lot of the stuff due to the extreme difficulty of getting an open source engineering workstation that can stand up to my present circumstances, but hopefully between now and next summer that will either change or I'll have easier circumstances. I guess I'll be lurking on the list either way. Nice to e-meet you. Cheers, Alexander

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