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WEBFORM Problems
by ric smith 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: ric smith email: ric@...1150... submitted the following: I need help getting Inkscape running on my machine. I can seem to fine a person to contact. Can you help? ric

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gtkmmified preferences dialog
by Marco Scholten 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

I have just committed a patch for the gtkmmified preferences dialog it's not finished but it's ready to replace the old dialog. Todo: -Enable opening of dialog by doubleclicking toolbar buttons. -Add access keys to all labels and widgets (HIG chapter 10) -Add icons to the pagelist -Fix bitmapoversample (add to preferences-skeleton.h) -Change dialog title to Inkscape preferences (HIG chapter 3) -Move menu entry for inkscape preferences from file to edit menu. (HIG chapter 4) -Add dialogs.showclose preference -Investigate this http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14240882 About Adding access keys to all labels and widgets, this would break all translations so i'd like to know if we really want this before i go ahead and do it. I'd welcome any comments on the dialog and the todo list. -- Marco

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Free advice from librsvg developer
by Alan Horkan 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Inkscape and SVG filters http://www.advogato.org/person/cinamod/diary.html?start=95 - Alan H. P.S. Possibly the shortest email you'll ever see from me.

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portuguese brazilian trans of tutorials
by Gustavo Rahal 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Hi I would like to start the translation of some of the tutorials to pt_BR. Is there anybody already working on it? Thanks Gustavo

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object style minibar
by MenTaLguY 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

I've been pondering the object style minibar, and come up with a variation on the current idea. It's not a huge difference. Basically fill and stroke get their own square areas, and stroke is a thick outline rather than a solid box. That way it's immediately clear which is which. The boxes are divided diagonally -- the upper right side of each box is the paint with full opacity, and the lower left side is the paint with the actual opacity, over a checkerboard. The absence of a fill or stroke would be represented by the traditional red-on-white slash, and probably unset by a question mark or something (to match the fill and stroke dialog). I think I'd also like to see the traditional red-and-white slash in the fill and stroke dialog as well... There's a mock-up attached. Comments/critiques? -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-user] snapping to objects?
by MenTaLguY 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:55 +0100, Stephen Winnall wrote: > On 5 Jan 2006, at 01:52, mental@...3... wrote: > > > > > Any chance you could post the version of the document with the > > hairline (or even just a simplified document that shows the > > problem) so I could examine it to confirm my theory? > > The following minimal SVG demonstrates the problem. I actually tidied > up the coordinates in the semicircle's path with the XML editor so it was > clear that the objects were mathematically contiguous: Inkscape itself was > not so precise. Sorry I took so long to get back to you; I've been swamped for the past week. Thank you very much for taking the time to put together a minimal example of the problem. I can see it is indeed the rendering issue I suspected; the hairline is an artifact of an antialiasing technique used by Inkscape and many other vector graphics renderers. Essentially, a shape partially covering a pixel is simulated by making that pixel semi-transparent. This looks acceptable in most cases, but there are a few cases it behaves badly for -- exactly adjacent edges, for example. Here's the deal: when the border between the two shapes doesn't fall exactly on the boundary between pixels (this is why zoom or scrolling can make a difference), you end up with one shape covering part of a pixel, and the other shape covering the remainder. Shape A: Shape B: +---+---+ +---+---+ |AAA|...| |...|BBB| |AAA|...| |...|BBB| +---+---+ +---+---+ Obviously, if we overlap these, we should get a pixel whose color is 50% A and 50% B, right? +---+---+ |AAA|BBB| |AAA|BBB| +---+---+ Well... problem is that by the time they're combined, the renderer has already flattened these partially-covered pixels into flat pixels with transparency (alpha). The information about which portions of the pixel are covered by which colors is lost. Using only the alpha information, if you composite A at 50% alpha, and B at 50% alpha, you get a pixel whose color is 25% the background color, 25% A, and 50% B (assuming B is "above" A in the stack). Hence, a one-pixel seam of 25% background color shows through... There are better antialiasing methods available which don't exhibit this problem, but they are less often used because they are generally slower (so are likely to see the problem with other renderers too). We can't really do anything about how it'll appear in other renderers, but Inkscape should probably implement one of the better antialiasing methods as a special "high-quality" rendering mode. -mental

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WEBFORM Wrong year !
by Frederic Grosshans 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Frederic Grosshans email: frederic.grosshans_web@...1148... submitted the following: Just to tell you that the \"happy new year\" news should be dated january 1, 2006 and not 2005. And by the way, thanks a lot for your fantastic software, I really enjoy using it ! Fred

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compliling errors in MEPIS/Debian libgc needed
by ggg9127 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi All, Trying to compile Inkscape, using MEPIS version 3.4-2, (which is the most current version). I managed to install the libpng and also zlib but then on trying once again to configure I am told that libgc is needed. I downloaded and unzipped these files (binaries, no?) but what do I do with them? I am kind of new at this. Can anyone help? I have used Inkscape in Windows but want to migrate. Thanks so much. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

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Trouble on sourceforge.
by Lucas Vieites 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi, is anyone else having trouble using the sourceforge patch tracker? I'm trying to upload an updated translation but I keep getting "forgotten" by SF. When I log in I can perfectly access and edit my personal details, but when I go to the Inkscape project page and try to upload a patch I keep getting the warning that I must log in and I can't upload a patch as anonymous user. Should I send the file to the list? Arpad? Cheers, -- ¡No olvide visitar nuestra tienda On-line! <http://www.asixinformatica.com/tienda> =================================================== Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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compiling Inkscape
by Greta Gramig 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi All, Trying to compile Inkscape, using MEPIS version 3.4-2, (which is the most current version). I managed to install the libpng and also zlib but then on trying once again to configure I am told that libgc is needed. I downloaded and unzipped these files (binaries, no?) but what do I do with them? I am kind of new at this. Can anyone help? I have used Inkscape in Windows but want to migrate. Thanks so much.

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