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Prerequisites for using Inkscape UI free, GSOC 2018
by Kuntal Majumder 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Hi, I am Kuntal, some of the people might know me from IRC. I was looking into the GSOC 2018 ideas list. Loved the idea of making Inkscape go UI free [1]. I would love to give it a try, I have used CMake to compile programs in past, but never wrote a CMakeLists file. I was also working on my own build system [2], which is currently not that nicer, well I am yet to learn how to write parsers, :P. Also whenever I used Inkscape, I used to jump to and fro from Inkscape to Calculator to get the correct ratios, wouldn't that be better if we can put expressions inside text-boxes and they evaluate by themselves. If the previous mentioned idea is viable for GSOC, I would love to pitch for it. Thanks Kuntal (hellozee) [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code#P5._UI-Free_I… [2] https://github.com/hellozee/Cook

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Eager Python Developer - GSoC
by Tonya Sims 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Hello everyone! My name is Tonya, I'm a junior to mid level Python developer and plan on applying for GSoC I downloaded Inkscape on my Mac and played around with it. A very cool application! What are your most urgent needs? Are your extensions built in Python? I was trying to brainstorm some ideas for a new extension and may need more time unless there's something you could suggest? Also, I'm learning Django and could help out with the website, let's say a new bug tracking system (not that you need one) but just brainstorming. Anyways, looking forward to everyone's replies and will start working on my application. Cheers, Tonya Sims

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Hackfest update
by Máirín Duffy 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hi everyone, I wanted to give you a heads up about a couple of things regarding the hackfestsite - - Onthe Monday, Red Hat is also going to host a SpinachCon event on the other side of the space we'll be in. It's a 4 hour event (from 1-5 pm IIRC) where free software projects can come and have their software usability tested. The organizers (including Deb Nicholson) would be more than happy to test Inkscape as part of the event if there's any interest in that. If there are specific components you'd like tested, I can help create a testing plan. - There may be another co-hosted event in the morning on Monday, still sorting the details out. - On the Tuesday and Wednesday, Red Hat is also hosting an event that will involve a workshop and hacking on amedical image processing system that we're working on with Boston University and Boston Children's Hospital. It's a really cool project. If anyone attending has an interestin learning more, you are more than welcome to get involved. I don't expect either event to be disruptive to the hackfest; it's a large space and we have two floors and a variety of different areas to work inand a lot of seating. I just wanted to let you know ahead of time, especially in case you wanted to take advantage of SpinachCon testing.If you have a preference towards the type of space you'd prefer (large conference room with door; open meet up space; lounge-y type area with couches and tables and chairs) I can note in our reservation now that's the part we'd like for the Inkscape hackfest; if you're not sure I can give youa tour when you get here on the Monday morning and we can figure out which end of the office to claim. Cheers, ~m

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Any Python GSOC projects?
by Mihaela 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

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[RESEND] Re: slow, sluggish drawing with pencil & calligraphy tool solved
by Bryce Harrington 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@...62...> ----- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:23:21 -0800 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@...62...> To: bryce@...961... Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details The original message was received at Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:44:02 -0800 from static-50-53-76-183.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net [50.53.76.183] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> (reason: 550 unknown user) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mx.sourceforge.net.: >>> DATA <<< 550 unknown user 550 5.1.1 <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>... User unknown <<< 503-All RCPT commands were rejected with this error: <<< 503-unknown user <<< 503 Valid RCPT command must precede DATA Reporting-MTA: dns; vinyl.outflux.net Arrival-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:44:02 -0800 Final-Recipient: RFC822; inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mx.sourceforge.net Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 unknown user Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:23:21 -0800 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:43:52 -0800 From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> To: Yale Zhang <yzhang1985@...400...> Cc: Eduard Braun <eduard.braun2@...173...>, inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] slow, sluggish drawing with pencil & calligraphy tool solved Hi Yale, Thanks for working on this problem, it seems to be one of our top blockers for the 0.93 release at the moment, so your work is very much appreciated. Can you update me on how things are going right now? Are there particular things you're stuck on? I probably don't know enough to offer advice myself but maybe can suggest someone that can. If the issue looks like it can't be solved quickly, perhaps for testing purposes it might help to add one or two environment variables to turn on/off pieces of the UI or codebase that are causing problems. So if someone testing the renderer can do without the toolbar, they can disable it at runtime? Something like that? In the coming weeks I'd like to produce a testing build of Inkscape, so if there are some (ugly) ways to enable testers to work around the performance bug that would help. Bryce On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 02:51:43AM -0800, Yale Zhang wrote: > Thanks, I couldn't find it because I was expecting the status bar to be > drawn by Cairo. I tried to increase the priority of UPDATE_PRIORITY & > SP_UPDATE_SELECTION_PRIORITY, but couldn't do so without causing the ruler > & status bar updates to starve. > I conclude that UPDATE_PRIORITY cannot have any higher priority than > GDK_PRIORITY_REDRAW. Even when those priorities are the same, the status > bar will always get drawn before canvas because SPDesktopWidget:: > setCoordinateStatus() is called before SPCanvas::addIdle(). > > > I've pushed my changes (I did some git resets instead of revert so it's > diverged). Hopefully now, you can approve? > Sorry about the back and forth over the rulers & status bar not updating. > Shouldn't have been greedy about reducing latency by 2ms by setting > UPDATE_PRIORITY = GDK_PRIORITY_EVENTS :) > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Eduard Braun <eduard.braun2@...173...> wrote: > > > Am 15.02.2018 um 12:23 schrieb Yale Zhang: > > > > I've updated my custom cross compiler to use MSYS2 packages and finally > > saw the lack of rule/status bar updates. Unfortunately, it had nothing to > > do with using MSYS2. I just didn't look hard enough earlier :( > > The earlier versions (including the binaries) did suffer the problem but > > only when dragging large rectangles. Plus I had _INKSCAPE_DISABLE_CACHE=1, > > making the problem less noticeable. > > > > So now I know what's wrong. The ruler update priority is G_PRIORITY_LOW = > > 300, while UPDATE_PRIORITY in SPCanvas::addIdle() is GDK_PRIORITY_EVENTS = > > 0, so it's no mystery who loses. > > > > Changing UPDATE_PRIORITY back to GDK_PRIORITY_REDRAW + 10 fixes the > > problem. But the ~10ms less latency for immediate drawing (#3) now is > > reduced because a ~2ms delay is added between SPCanvas::addIdle() and > > SPCanvas::paint(). > > > > Of course, this is perfectly usable, but I have an itch to further > > improve. That 2ms latency is gone if I disable the status bar, so I'd like > > to do the status bar updates after SPCanvas::paint(). > > > > But I can't find where the status bar is being drawn. Do you? > > And also, what is SP_DOCUMENT_UPDATE_PRIORITY and > > SP_DOCUMENT_ROUTING_PRIORITY in document.cpp? I don't know if those need to > > be rebalanced. > > > > > > The coordinates are updated by calling "SPDesktop::set_coordinate_status" > > in "desktop.cpp" (which calls "SPDesktopWidget::setCoordinateStatus" in > > "desktop-widget.cpp"). > > > > > > > > -yale > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:30 AM, Eduard Braun <eduard.braun2@...173...> > > wrote: > > > >> Am 14.02.2018 um 11:09 schrieb Yale Zhang: > >> > >> Good, we're getting closer to the same page. Can you please tell me which > >> of my commits did you include in your testing? If dragging is still > >> lagging, it sounds like you didn't take change #2 (priorities). You > >> complained it didn't help or made things worse, but it should be quite the > >> opposite. > >> > >> > >> As I wrote: I checked out 0bde236 and built the resulting code. It should > >> therefore have contained all you latest (public) changes. > >> > >> > >> Let me get the MSYS2 headers & libs and do a build to rule out any > >> library issues. > >> > >> > >> This would certainly help... Even though you keep telling me the stock > >> builds *should* behave differently with your changes - they don't. If > >> you're able to test yourself we'll probably safe ourselves some back and > >> forth as seeing is believing. ;-) > >> > >> > >> "warn me next time it's not relocatable" - I think all you have to do to > >> relocate was regenerate immodules.cache & loaders.cache. I wonder how the > >> release packages of Inkscape & Gimp avoid this problem. > >> > >> > >> Ah, if they contain absolute paths that might have been it. As for the > >> release packages: they contain relative paths in imloaders.cache (MSYS2 > >> contains a relocation patch for gdk-pixbuf2). Earlier versions (built wit > >> devlibs) included the loaders in libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll to work around > >> this (it's a built option) > >> > >> > >> > >> Yes, my version should be quite fast, but it has little to do with the > >> GDK optimizations. You should see the same benefits with vanilla GTK > >> (GTK_CSD=1). For the optimized version, there should be no performance > >> difference for GTK_CSD because I force the rendering code path to what > >> GTK_CSD=0 uses, plus some optimizations. > >> > >> "I'm not able to resize the Window" > >> Sorry, I forgot to mention it has my optimized, but work in progress > >> libgdk-3-0.dll. Please roll back to the stock version > >> (libgdk-3-0.dll.orig). The optimized one keeps a persistent Cairo Win32 > >> surface for window updates, but resizing isn't handled. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Eduard Braun <eduard.braun2@...173...> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> I was now able to build 0bde236 > >>> > >>> - With the status bar visible I'm getting super fast redraws of the > >>> status bar with some occasional redraws of the rulers but everything else > >>> is locked when moving a rect. > >>> - With the status bar hidden I'm getting more redraws now and also > >>> infrequent redraws of the whole UI, however moving the rect is still > >>> extremely sluggish. > >>> - With the status bar and rulers hidden moving the rect has a usable > >>> redraw speed, rest of the UI (now only values in select toolbar I guess) > >>> update infrequently. > >>> > >>> Comparing with your build linked before (warn me next time it's not > >>> relocatable, I had to move it to C:\Users\Yale\inkscape.gmesh ;-) ) there > >>> are some grave differences: > >>> > >>> - Redraw is in fact much faster with your version - are these the > >>> gdk changes? Or are we really on to something fundamental? > >>> This is also true for GTK_CSD=0! > >>> - Also the rest of the UI is updated much more frequently, even with > >>> the status bar visible > >>> - In your version I'm not able to resize the Window (or rather I can > >>> but the parts that were not shown initially are not redrawn and only show > >>> some graphical garbage. Is this related to you gdk changes? > >>> > >>> > >>> Am 12.02.2018 um 13:57 schrieb Eduard Braun: > >>> > >>> Am 12.02.2018 um 13:12 schrieb Yale Zhang: > >>> > >>> Eduard, please pull change #2 (fix priority inversion) before the > >>> immediate rendering changes. Without it, the lack of status bar & ruler > >>> updates are expected. > >>> > >>> > >>> I think we're running in circles here... Most of my comments (as well as > >>> yours regarding direct drawing) referred to #3. > >>> The only issue I had with #2 was that Rulers seem still to be updated > >>> with a high priority and prevented the canvas to redraw (in stock MSYS2 > >>> builds and therefore with CSD=0). > >>> > >>> > >>> Yes, I am using CSD=1 in my testing (for both optimized & original GTK). > >>> But CSD isn't the actual reason for performance difference. It's because of > >>> the rendering code path CSD=1 uses (draw to CPU memory buffer, then send to > >>> UpdateLayeredWindow()), vs CSD=0 (draw directly to GDI device context - > >>> surprisingly this is slower until my optimizations). > >>> > >>> > >>> Please note that CSD=0/1 in our stock MSYS2 builds makes a *huge* > >>> difference. If that is really not the case for your custom builds we might > >>> want to start looking into that, too. Maybe we're facing at a more > >>> fundamental difference. As MSYS2 is the official way to get GTK+ for > >>> Windows nowadays such a difference might be very relevant for many projects. > >>> > >>> Are your cross-compiled libraries using mingw-w64? Which OS are you > >>> using btw? (I'm usually testing on Windows 10 - I'd not be surprised if > >>> there's some major difference compared to e.g. Windows 7 wrt to the low > >>> level drawing functions). > >>> > >>> I'm very interested in testing your GDK-modifications and see how they > >>> behave with the MSYS2 builds, so if you could drop a patch somewhere that > >>> would be much appreciated! > >>> > >>> I did get an error from the CI build after the multithreaded rendering > >>> feature. It doesn't even get past CMake configure stage, so not very > >>> useful. That's because the build server doesn't have the Boost libs (which > >>> I use, not just the headers). > >>> > >>> > >>> I think you looked at the Linux build - Windows CI is "external" via > >>> AppVeyor and has the required Boost libraries. It's just not working in > >>> your branch right now because an upstream update broke updating but I > >>> pushed a workaround for this already in the master branch [1] (that's why I > >>> suggested to rebase) > >>> > >>> [1] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/85d7fa343f477d8f > >>> aae6cbde90ae7a243115fa37 (I messed up the rebase so it's authored by > >>> Tav, sorry for that) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:41 AM, Eduard Braun <eduard.braun2@...173...> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Am 12.02.2018 um 10:15 schrieb Yale Zhang: > >>>> > >>>> "As noted before, when rulers are shown there still is no redraw with > >>>> this change" > >>>> It works for me on Windows with rulers. Could it be some out of date > >>>> libraries? I'm still using a custom built cross compiler & libraries (GTK > >>>> 3.22.26 & glib 2.54.2). I know you're using the MSYS 2 prebuilt libraries. > >>>> I've been wanting to use those too, but how recent are they? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> They are usually the latest available (think of MSYS2's MINGW-packages > >>>> as arch Linux for Windows), right now gtk 3.22.26 and glib 2.54.3. > >>>> > >>>> Aside from disabling CSD they are unpatched. Just to make sure we're > >>>> not comparing apples and oranges: Are you using CSD in your builds or not? > >>>> This switch made a huge difference before, so if you're working with CSD > >>>> enabled this might be the likely explanation why some things work in your > >>>> builds that do not work in the stock builds. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> "It seems that the immediate drawing of the canvas basically disables > >>>> drawing of the rest of the UI" > >>>> > >>>> You scared me, that would be a most grievous mistake. I just tested it > >>>> again and don't see any problem. The rulers and status bar still work when > >>>> dragging an object. Did you build my stream directly or have any other > >>>> non-trunk changes? Sorry to suggest this but here are binaries you can > >>>> test. Maybe try copying the GTK & cairo? libs to your build. > >>>> https://1drv.ms/u/s!AngRQgSreBCehy4R7D3x3Y2vIXPC > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I used https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/78d47938194fc52e > >>>> e085387d9a0dc0753f3ed6d9 as the later commits did not compile for me. > >>>> > >>>> I'll check your build this evening. > >>>> > >>>> We also have CI builds with MSYS2 available: > >>>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/inkscape/inkscape/history > >>>> If you rebase your branch on master your branch will be built, too (as > >>>> long as there are not more errors/warnings preventing the build) > >>>> > >>>> I hope you're not suggesting to forget about immediate drawing and just > >>>> fix the drawing priorities. Using priorities would be easier to break, > >>>> while drawing immediately is fool proof. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I'm just saying that priorities have been tweaked before to make all UI > >>>> update properly and we should aim to retain this state. > >>>> If direct drawing is compatible with this goal (I guess it was in gtk2) > >>>> that's probably fine. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> "Have you published [GTK3] code anywhere? " > >>>> No, I haven't had time yet. I also want to discuss the problem I posed > >>>> on StackOverflow and someone suggested IRC, but that I've never used IRC > >>>> and it sounds very 1990s. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> It's like SMS... it just works (even today)... > >>>> A lot easier than all the modern stuff that claims to be easier than > >>>> IRC. > >>>> > >>>> I've talked to gtk devs on IRC before and it's the easiest way to get > >>>> some interaction (bug reports usually fall into oblivion sooner rather than > >>>> later). > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> BTW, the optimized GTK also disables clearing the region to be drawn > >>>> (gdk_window_clear_backing_region()). > >>>> > >>>> "Is [render cache] always slow?" > >>>> It's only much slower if drawing a big area AND the scene complexity is > >>>> low. For small areas and high complexity scenes, the overhead is much less > >>>> noticeable. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I see... I guess before the low complexity scenes were not that > >>>> important as redraw times were sufficiently fast anyway. > >>>> User reports of slow redrawing usually involve blurs (or less > >>>> frequently other filters). > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> For the multithreaded rendering, it's still a work in progress. AFAIK, > >>>> I've eliminated all the race conditions with ThreadSanitizer, so it should > >>>> be stable. > >>>> I just pushed some further changes to allow the rendering to be > >>>> incremental like it always has been. It should have that -fpermissive > >>>> compile error in sp-canvas.cpp fixed, but you might still need it for other > >>>> files. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I'll try to build this evening. > >>>> As recommended before you could check the CI to make sure your branch > >>>> is properly built, which should help with testing. > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Eduard > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 8:37 AM, Eduard Braun <eduard.braun2@...173...> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi Yale, > >>>>> > >>>>> thanks for continuing to investigate this! Some comments: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Am 09.02.2018 um 16:02 schrieb Yale Zhang: > >>>>> > >>>>> I have an update on my progress. I've made these changes which I'm > >>>>> requesting to be merged from my simdgenius_inkscape branch > >>>>> > >>>>> 1. disable event compression (previously mentioned) > >>>>> > >>>>> 2. fix priority inversion (09f55021, previously mentioned) - without > >>>>> this, dragging objects too fast would cause no redraw. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> As noted before, when rulers are shown there still is no redraw with > >>>>> this change > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> 3. draw immediately (78d47938) this partially reverts Krzysztof's > >>>>> Hack fest 2016 changes like in 0.92. This reduces latency by ~10ms > >>>>> (compare cells G22 and E22 in spreadsheet) > >>>>> > >>>>> I originally wanted to remove backing store and draw directly to the > >>>>> window surface, but I ran into this dilema so I didn't do it. > >>>>> > >>>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48339792/when-drawing-to > >>>>> -a-window-are-the-previous-contents-usually-discarded-and-what > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> While this change does indeed speed up drawing a lot I'm not sure it's > >>>>> for the reason we hope for: > >>>>> It seems that the immediate drawing of the canvas basically disables > >>>>> drawing of the rest of the UI (i.e. rulers, coordinates in the lower right, > >>>>> coordinates in inputs, etc). If I hide all UI elements (Ctrl+F11) I get the > >>>>> same perceived performance even without your code change. > >>>>> > >>>>> While I guess redrawing the canvas is to be preferred over redrawing > >>>>> other UI elements, not redrawing the rest of the UI at all is probably not > >>>>> desirable either. > >>>>> Also it poses the question: Why did gtk2 manage to redraw the canvas > >>>>> *and* the UI and still yield higher performance than gtk3? So I'm not sure > >>>>> we're not still missing the actual regression. :-/ > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> But there is still way more speedup to be had: > >>>>> > >>>>> 1. *rendering cache slows things down 6x!* Compare cells E9 & E10 in > >>>>> the spreadsheet. > >>>>> WTH? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Is it always slow? I guess for something simple like a rectangle it > >>>>> might not improve things, but maybe things start to change as soon as > >>>>> filters are involved (or many nodes or anything else that is not easy to > >>>>> render)? > >>>>> I admit I was not involved when the rendering cache was added and do > >>>>> not know its purpose. I tracked down the commit in which it was added [1] > >>>>> which does not explain anything either, though, so I need to continue > >>>>> digging... If anybody knows where the changes are actually explained some > >>>>> feedback is welcome. > >>>>> > >>>>> [1] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/093f4174abc07b4e > >>>>> a523617fccdd8028f2670fea > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> 2. optimize GDK (maybe it's only slow on Windows) - compare cells J17 > >>>>> and J23 > >>>>> I made 2 changes: > >>>>> a. disabled layered windows - this is almost the same effect as > >>>>> setting GTK_CSD=0. I'm not clear why it speeds things up. I'm guessing it > >>>>> reduces image copying. Layered windows have to draw to CPU memory (GDI > >>>>> DIB), while non-layered windows draw directly to GPU memory (device > >>>>> dependent bitmap)? > >>>>> > >>>>> b. replace surface_content = gdk_window_get_content (window); > >>>>> in gdk_window_begin_paint_internal() > >>>>> with surface_content = CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR_ALPHA > >>>>> > >>>>> why create/delete a surface just to get the type? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Have you published this code anywhere? Also is there any upstream > >>>>> discussion on this yet which I could follow? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> 3. multithreaded rendering - I've updated it to work with trunk, so > >>>>> you can try it. Very little speed up for simple scenes. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Unfortunately the code does not compile for me, excerpt from the error: > >>>>> sp-canvas.cpp:802:22: error: passing 'const boost::shared_mutex' > >>>>> as 'this' argument discards qualifiers [-fpermissive] > >>>>> > >>>>> Do you want us to compile your code with -fpermissive? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -Yale > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Regards, > >>>>> Eduard > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > >>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Inkscape-devel mailing listInkscape-devel@...1901...://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ----- End forwarded message -----

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Running the build on mac
by Elizabeth Kirby 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

Hi all, I'm trying to get inkscape to run on the mac. I downloaded a zip of the code (recently) & installed a handful of packages using ports. There was one dependency that I couldn't get to resolve using any ports package, which is libsoup. I installed it using brew & then the code will compile. It will run, but not correctly. I put in a symlink from /usr/share/inkscape to my build tree share directory & it does load the items on the right & left sides, but without any of the images that tell what they are. I would rather not have a symlink in /usr/share, but instead just have the build read from the build tree. Are there any people developing on mac out there that can share their configuration & settings & tell me what parameters need to be set & where? Thanks, Beth

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [googlefonts-discuss] Re: Variable Fonts support in Inkscape
by Felipe Sanches 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

2018-03-06 17:49 GMT-03:00 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@...3544...>: > FreeType/FontConfig/Cairo/Pango stack has more or less full variable > fonts support now, Inkscape needs to be updated to make use of the > support already available in all these libraries. > > https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2018/01/03/more-fun-with-fonts/ Wow! This is super cool! I specially loved the CSS animation of the weight of the text when the cursor hovers over a button. This seems to replace Tav's opentype features selector via a GTK font-selector dialog. It also seems that we could have the innitial variable fonts support in inkscape basically hooking up to this newly improved GTK dialog. Naturally, that would require Inkscape to rely on a pretty recent version of GTK.

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Inkscape PGP signatures and SHA256 checksums?
by Tom Spettigue 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

Hey guys. I was wondering if you guys provided PGP signatures of your guys' installer files? If so, I couldn't find the site, it'd be nice to have links to the pgp signatures and pgp signing keys right there on the download page. If you guys don't have this, it'd be a great way for us to verify that the installers that we download are genuine. SHA256 checksums (for users who understand hashing, but not PGP) would be pretty rad, too. -- Tom Spettigue Advent Information Systems, L.L.C. 1607 Capitol Avenue, Suite 220 Cheyenne, WY 82001 Mobile: (307) 298-0299 Email: tom@...3644...

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [googlefonts-discuss] Re: Variable Fonts support in Inkscape
by Felipe Sanches 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

I left this aside for the past 6 months and recently got back to looking at it. I think the most trivial thing would be to populate the font-styles combo-box with named instances. This would be almost not perceptible by the users, but would enable variable fonts' instances to show up there just like their non-variable counterparts do. Then there's the customization aspect of varfonts. For that, I think the bare minimum would be a bunch of sliders for selecting the coordinates of each variation axis. I feel that there must be something better than that form a user experience perspective, but I'm still not sure what would that be, so I'd leave it for a second iteration of the UI. Also, since one can get a multitude of combinations within the designspace, I think it could be practical to adopt a UI workflow similar to that of color gradients, in which once a user-defined instance is applied to a text chunk, that instance is added to a pool of var font instances that can be reused in other chunks of texto within the document. A shared varfont would then, upon tweaking of its design space coordiantes, affect all portions of the document where it was used. Finally, and this is not a varfont specific issue, I feel the urge to improve the basic text support in Inkscape in general. Yes, I know this is a somewhat vague statement. The overall direction I'd like to follow, though, would likely be something similar to the insightful ideas that are expressed in this article: https://medium.com/@getflourish/the-anatomy-of-a-thousand-typefaces-f7b9088… cheers, Felipe Sanches 2018-03-06 11:27 GMT-03:00 Pathum Egodawatta <pathumego@...400...>: > Hi Filipe! > > Hope you are doing well. Thanks for taking this on! would be aweosme to > have the VF support. > > Whats new in this? I would love to know more about the UI interactions and > tooltips. > > Cheers, > Pathum > > On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 1:18:41 AM UTC+5:30, Felipe Sanches wrote: >> >> I'm working on implementing Opentype Variable fonts support in Inkscape >> (based on a mix of pango and harfbuzz APIs). >> >> While testing the current pango-based text handling implementation in >> Inkscape I tried to edit some arabic text (with several ligatures, >> naturally) and I ended up finding a crasher bug. I have just reported it at: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1694323 >> >> I'll be using this thread to liberally report ongoing progress on this >> effort. >> >> happy hacking, >> Felipe Sanches >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Fonts Discussions" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to googlefonts-discuss+unsubscribe@...3168... > To post to this group, send email to googlefonts-discuss@...3168... > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/googlefonts-discuss. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/googlefonts-discuss/89f8f75b-071b-4c26-85f5- > 5232780a9d0d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/googlefonts-discuss/89f8f75b-071b-4c26-85…> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] inkscape-0.92.3pre0 source tarball now available
by Martin Owens 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

On Sun, 2018-03-04 at 11:32 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Yes, still upload the end-user downloadable content to the website. > We have mirroring and caching set up there. > > Feel free to also copy the source tarball to the website. A bit unfair to ask Eduard to do this, if the website isn't letting you deploy files easily, then that's a tooling issue we can fix. But I can't fix it if the social protocol is to not ask for help and instead figure out a technical workaround. Regards, Martin, Website guy who can help

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