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Stickers are here! ... now what?
by C R 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

The stickers arrived today. They are of acceptable quality, but I think 300dpi is a little low quality for stickers this small. Also I think the cutting machine had some ink residue, because the border of stickers are a bit dirty on the cut. So, who wants/needs stickers? I have a request for a sheet of the coffee and sheet of the ice cream already. Did we have any solid plans for these yet? See attached for samples.

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Re-Posting Graphics Tablets
by Martin Owens 09 Dec '17

09 Dec '17

Dear Devs, There's a new fund going towards the development/maintenance of tablet drivers for linux (outside of wacom). It was posted to Libre Graphics World: http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/digimend-project-revived Would it be ok to post to inkscape.org? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Branch for high DPI monitors needs testing.
by Tavmjong Bah 07 Dec '17

07 Dec '17

Hi, If you've got a high DPI screen, please test the High DPI canvas branch: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/tree/hidpi_canvas https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/137 There are a couple of minor problems that I know about (see merge request). If no other ones are found, I'll merge the branch in the next week. Thanks, Tav

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[MR159] Convert to curves, bollops, union, combines... dont worry is not path
by Jabier Arraiza 07 Dec '17

07 Dec '17

Hi all, I just add a branch[1] to merge that, by converting to paths previouly: Allow boolops operation in shapes and clones Allow convert to stroke in shapes and clones Allow convert to curves in shapes and clones Allow combine with shapes and clones I want to know if is correct merge it. The 4 operations are descructive by default, so I dont see any problem to convert to path and allow finish the operation wanted by the user. [1] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/159 Thanks for take time trying to undertand me. Jabiertxo.

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Spin slider widget: Opinions needed!
by Tavmjong Bah 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

Hi, I've been looking into replacing the Gimp Spin Slider widget (e.g Blur/Opacity in the Fill and Stroke dialog). The widget is licensed under GPLv3 and is the only reason Inkscape as a whole is licensed under GPLv3 rather GPLv2.. The board sometime ago agree that being a GPLv2 program was desirable (I don't remember the exact reasoning). A normal Gtk Spin Slider (aka Gtk::SpinButton) has an option to show the "progress" of slider, that is the percentage (defined in some arbitrary way) between a minimum and maximum value. This in Gtk 2 is shown as a solid blue bar with width proportional to the value that covers the widget from top to bottom. In Gtk 3 the solid blue bar is replaced by a thin blue bar at the bottom of the widget. As far as I can tell, the Gimp version of the slider makes three changes: 1. It allows for a label inside the widget. This is a nice space saving feature. The widget handles changing the label text from black to white as the progress bar moves across the label. 2. It allows for a non-uniform scale by adding a "gamma" factor. 3. It adds the ability to drag the progress bar to change the value. If one drags from the top (down arrow cursor) the change follows the cursor directly. If one drags along the bottom half (double headed cursor) the change is finer and relative to the current value. I've always found that dragging the progress bar to be a bit awkward. One problem is that one can not start the drag at the far right of the widget as that area is reserved for typing a value directly in. Also, the different functionality of starting the drag in the top of the widget vs. the bottom of the widget is confusing. Since I am rewriting this widget, I can adjust it to what people want: * Do you want the progress bar? * If so, should it be the full height of the widget (quite a bit more complicated)? * Do you want to be able to drag the bar? With one/two methods? * Any other changes? Thanks, Tav

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Wiki access
by Moritz 'Morty' Strübe 03 Dec '17

03 Dec '17

Hey there, I want to see whether I can do some optimization with the extension interface. My first idea is to have a two pass approach. First see whether the plugin only changed node attributes, and only replace the whole tree when nodes were added/removed or reordered. If this works, it would at least make JessyInk usable on large files. If that works out, I think there are some other low hanging fruits that can be picked. Anyway, as I know that I often do drive-by wiki editing I'm requesting wiki access right away. :-) Cheers Morty

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this friday, December 1st, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting + Preparations for 0.93 + Merchandise sales + Hackfest + Other Business

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volunteer moderators needed
by brynn 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Hi Friends, If anyone is interested, we still need more moderators for the website gallery. It doesn't usually take very much time. I'd estimate no more than a half an hour per week. (Preferably spread out 5 or 10 minutes each for 3 or 4 days per week. But at this point, once a week would help.) And Martin has built us a wonderful system where the burden of deleting an image or removing member doesn't fall all on one person. Typically it takes 2 moderators to decide the fate of a reported image or member. If interested, please visit this page, (https://inkscape.org/en/*moderators) and click the button which I think says something like "Join this team." After that, I'll contact you with details to get you started. All best, brynn

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Mattermost site down
by brynn 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Hi Friends, I've been trying to visit the Vectors team Mattermost site since last night, but it seems to be down, or offline, or "not responding" as the error message says. Just wanted to find out if there's going to be a meeting next week, or when. Or has the team moved somewhere else? Thanks, brynn

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I need to hire a developer for some custom programming with Inkscape
by Dean Loew 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Hello all. I need a much-simplified, bare-bones version of inkscape for a small home school project I am starting. Our students will write handwritten essays / short answers, and submit those homework images (they are jpgs, gifs, etc). I need a program to help "mark up" those images, and then save the image, and store the grades in a MySQL database. *"Marking up" the image:* - I need to quickly be able to add grading marks to the image, such as "SP" (spelling error), "GR" (grammar error). I can easily add these marks now by adding custom symbols to inkscape and then dragging them onto the image. But, I would prefer instead to be able to this via custom tools in the toolbar. - Whenever I add one of these marks, I want to subtract the appropriate number of points from the "perfect score" (e.g. every time I add an "SP" for a spelling error, the grade goes down by 1 point, etc). So, there needs to be shown a little box with the current score. - If I make a mistake and add one of those marks by accident, and delete it, the score goes back up. - I need to have the screen split into two parts (with two images showing): the top image is the student image being graded; the bottom image is the "official answer" (also an image). - I need to have a little list of images to correct - that is, a list of all images that need to be corrected. As I click on the list, it will load that student image. - When an image is done being graded, there will be some simple button to "Save" - All unnecessary options and features will be disabled (or at least hidden) - unnecessary tools, the main menu, toolbars, etc. I want a very simple interface. *MySQL*: - The list of images needs to be loaded from the database. - When each image is done being graded, the score needs to be stored in the database; the next student image in line needs to be auto-loaded, etc. Thanks! Dean

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