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Re: Exhibitor Kit
by John Taber 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

Gareth J. Greenaway wrote: > Thanks for your continued patience. > Attached you will find the exhibitor packet for the Inkscape booth. > If you have any questions please don't hestitate to ask. Hi Gareth, Will the booth have a sign for Inkscape or do we need to bring one? Thanks for everything. John

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] SCALE Booth
by Ted Gould 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:56 -0700, John Taber wrote: > Ted Gould wrote: > > We have the booth, with a table on one side, chairs on the other. On > > the backdrop they gave us we get something white, perhaps butcher paper. > > We then point the projector at that surface. > > Actually a white poster board works better, the harder smooth surface > reflects better (or could use one of the nice wood framed white boards I > can bring, and you can write on it like a smartboard) - in fact > sometimes it looks like a flat plasma display. That sounds great! That way we have someplace to write "INKSCAPE" too :) > On the table we have two computer for people to use Inkscape, one of > which is attached to the > > projector so that people can see what that person is doing. Then, when > > we want to run demo's we're already set up, and we have "live art" on > > the background without having to get it printed. > > Two questions - 1) is anyone willing to have their computer be pounded > on by the public? 2) Having our display depend upon computers means > machines always have to be there - since there's only a few of us, what > about the times we aren't there ? or want to go to lunch, bathroom, > etc..... I think the only session that I'm 100% out on is the last session on Saturday, I have to leave early. I want to see the keynote on Sunday, but that is before the exhibition floor opens anyway. Any other presentations would be fine, but there is nothing I need to see. So, if it's you and me, we can go to the bathroom :) I've also got another friend who may come, not an Inkscape or Linux person, but just loves conferences. We'll see how that pans out. I'm still trying to convince the Wacom rep for LA that he should loan us tablets for the computers. Then people would only be beating on those :) Otherwise, I think it would be wise to pick up some cheap USB keyboard/mouse combos. I don't personally have a desktop, I think that would be better. I'll ask around if I can find some to borrow for the weekend. I don't think we need anything that modern. > Having done a bunch of these, live art is cooler, hanging art is more > initial work (getting posters printed) but a whole lot easier at the > conference. I've usually done a combination with live only for a > certain period. I never knew what sales guys meant when they complained > that shows were exhausting until I did a few. That's why walking away > to go have lunch, attend a session, etc makes it a lot more fun. I think that it is feasible. If nothing else I can open some entries from OCAL, and turn on the node editor so it looks like I know what I'm doing ;) Or, we can just put up the about screen when people aren't using the computer. --Ted

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reminder: relnotes
by bulia byak 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Developers, please find time to browse http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes and fill in (or remove) the placeholders. If you don't do it now you will forget the relevant details by the time of the release! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Qudos!
by David Bower 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

I don't think anyone's already pointed it out, but Inkscape's been mentioned on iStockPhoto! The article can be read at http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=156 (it is only a brief mention, but a mention's a mention, isn't it?!) Keep up the good work! Dave.

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Snapping guides lines to objects...
by Jiri Tyr 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hello, I would like to use Inkscape for serious work and I'm missing one think, is it snapping guides lines to the objects. It is very importent think if you want to draw some object in similar possition to the other object. Please try to add this imporvement to the next version. Btw. I have to say, that Inkscape looks very interesting. Best Regards, Jiri Tyr

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scripting bug
by Mathew James Oakes 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

osx 10.3.9, python 2.3, Inkscape 0.4.3 (Inkscape_20060120.dmg) installed PyXML-0.8.4 successfully nothing happens when you go: File >> Execute Python in the script dialog starting inkscape from command line gives only this error when that command is executed: interpretScript: error starting Language '(null)' I do other python stuff, and was looking forwards to generating complex artwork from algorithms in a form that was human editable later. cheers Mat

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Standalone GTK+ v2 installer (or project?) for OS X
by Nathaniel Gray 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hello Inkscape Devels, First, thank you for your work on Inkscape! It's a really great project that I've been following closely for quite a while now. This is a message I posted to the Gimp.app forum at http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3554123 It concerns Inkscape as well as Gimp.app, and I hope you'll give the idea some consideration. If you have comments, please CC me, as I don't receive normal list mail. Thanks, -n8 By: Nathan Gray - n8gray Standalone GTK+ v2 installer (or project?) 2006-02-02 01:09 Hi, First of all, thanks for all the great work you've done building Gimp so the rest of us don't have to! There are now a number of projects that package a gtk+ application into a "standalone" OS X app. For example, Inkscape and GIMPshop both build standalone OS X apps based on the methods you developed for Gimp.app. The technique of taking all the dependencies and stuffing them into your app bundle is adequate for getting a single app working but it leaves much to be desired when multiple apps are using those same dependencies. You end up with multiple copies of some pretty big libraries lying around taking up space on disk and in memory. In order to minimize this wasted space, support files (like header files) are left out, leading to the current problem where OS X users aren't able to build plugins without descending into the seventh circle of Fink. As a solution to these problems, I would like to suggest packaging a complete install of gtk+ and its dependencies separately from Gimp.app. It would mean that installing Gimp.app would become a two- step process instead of a one-step process, but the OS X community as a whole would see a tremendous benefit. There are lots of other great gtk+ apps out there that could reach a broad audience on OS X if it was only easier to just install them! The only sensible way to achieve this is if there's a fast, simple way to install gtk+ and its dependencies. Some of you may be thinking "well what about Fink and DarwinPorts?" The fact is that neither of these is a satisfying solution. The "stable" branch of Fink is terribly out of date and the "unstable" branch (like DarwinPorts) requires hours of building from source to get gtk+ installed. And either solution involves lots of futzing with the command line. If you've come to OS X from linux that seems simple, but for most OS X users it's a major turn-off. Anyhow, I hope you'll consider this proposal seriously. I honestly believe it could open the door for lots of great gtk+ apps to be ported to standalone OS X apps. I'm going to post the same message in the Inkscape forum, so maybe both projects can work together. Thank you, -n8 -- >>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------> >>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->

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Couple things (noticed a patch and have an idea)
by Joshua A. Andler 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Not sure if anyone saw it go into the tracker, but, when going to snag the undo history diff from the patch tracker I saw that there is a patch to do color cursors that support transparency. Would someone that knows more c++ than myself be willing to review it? Man oh man is this release cycle shaping up to be the most improved so far. Anyway, the idea that I have is that if we don't actually use any gtk+ 2.8 features, that we should use the last 2.6 lib bundle we had for win32 building to release win9x compatible builds again (in addition to the 2.8 builds for 2000/xp). I know that there have been good bug fixes in gtk since then, but if we can still technically produce the builds I think we should try. I honestly don't think having two windows builds would be a bad thing, the same way that we will post packages for different distros. If others are okay this idea, I will even offer to produce those 9x compatible builds for the releases until we're no longer able to. Any thoughts? -Josh

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Win32 .zip Feb 2
by Andreas Baitis 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

To whom it may concern, The Win32 Zips dated Feb 2 seem to be corrupted. I was trying to spread the word, but couldn't. Andreas Baitis

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project page bug
by Ralf Stephan 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

Hello project admins, the main SF project page http://sourceforge.net/projcts/inkscape still lists as Operating System: All 32bit MS-Windows (95/98/NT...). Please do something about it, ralf

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