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rubberband selection broken?
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi, At least as of CVS HEAD rubberband selection seems to be broken. I.e. if I press Shift and start selecting objects, partially added objects don't get added to selection. Am I the only one to experience this? Should I go straight to bugtracker? Alexandre

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NEW: more commands in the selected style indicator, misc
by bulia byak 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

More commands in the selected style indicator (right-click menu): ** "White", "Black": Sets the fill or stroke to the corresponding color. (This may be removed when we have a color palette in the main interface, but for now these are very useful.) ** "Copy color", "Paste color": Copies or pastes the fill or stroke color (when it's color) to/from the system clipboard, as text in the #rrggbb format. ** "Swap fill and stroke": Exchanges fill and stroke (both their types and colors, if any). Also: * By popular demand, in Pen tool, if a new path is being drawn but not yet finished, Ctrl+Z cancels that unfinished path (i.e. does the same as Esc), instead of undoing the previous action. * In Node tool, the ! key inverts node selection in the current subpath(s) (i.e. subpaths with at least one selected node); Alt+! inverts in the entire path. (This is similar to how these keys work in Selector, with current subpath(s) instead of the current layer.) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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i18n-able docs
by Alexandre Prokoudine 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, Is there any reason to keep i18n-able files keys.xml, keys.fr.xml etc. in 'docs ' directory of HEAD branch instead of doc-docbook branch? Alexandre

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Retention of modified rotation centres
by John Cliff 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi all, I've just commited some code that makes inkscape retain the centre of rotations location after you move it so that next time you come back to it the centre is where you put it. Allows you to do things like this: http://rapidshare.de/files/7501289/JCB_demo_XVID.avi I'm looking at adding a way to make it return to being centred, Scislac suggested ctrl+click, which unless anyone has any other suggestions is the way I'm gonna go. cheers Sim __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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white border around images
by John Taber 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

I've noticed I get a white border around png images that are opened and then copy and pasted into an inkscape drawing (I don't think the images themselves have the border - I've trimmed them in Gimp) - not sure what is causing this - any ideas how to fix ?

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Inkscape-0.42+0.43pre3-1.dmg fails on OSX 10.3.9/X11
by Rasca 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Hi, I tried the package Inkscape-0.42+0.43pre3-1.dmg on a MacOSX machine with OSX 10.3.9 and X11 installed from the OSX Cdrom. Sad, but it doesn't launch. When I try to use the command line, then I see that the binary is missing a dynamic library (libXinerama.1.dyn) which seems not to be included in the apple X11 distribution. Any ideas? If you have the solution please add also a README to the *.dmg to point to this. I'm sure I'm not the only one.. thx + cu rasca PS: same for the previous version Inkscape-0.42+0.43pre2-1.dmg

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Win32 Text
by Joshua A. Andler 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Since Richard's recent changes with the text stuff on win32, the text rendering is horribly broken for some reason (text is basically microscopic). I didn't want to throw this in the tracker yet, because we'll be hit pretty hard once .43 releases (but will do so if I don't see a response within a few days). I did have Aaron confirm it as well, so I know it's not just my box. Richard, I know you said it doesn't affect you, but if it's affecting the two of us, something is definitely not right. Do you have something different lib-wise by chance? -Josh

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WEBFORM How to draw or insert a 9X9 grid Sudoku table
by Henry Kwok 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Henry Kwok email: hklksk@...1078... submitted the following: Enter your message or news here. Dear Sir I could not find any instruction from \"Help\" or your website about how to use Inkscape to draw or insert a 9x9 grid Sudoku table with number text written on the lines between each cell. Can you please advise me on this. Thanks With regards Henry Kwok

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canvas: backing store, etc
by unknown＠example.com 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

bulia's work with canvas has inspired me to take a look at canvas code myself, and I've noticed one area where we could probably do better is to start using a persistent backing store for the canvas widget. Of course, X is supposed to provide that (although in XFree86 the backing store facility has been broken for years). So, I don't know -- is this something we should bother with ourselves, or rely on X to fix it eventually? It looks like we don't get a backing store on Windows either, though. Also, I think I've found another reason (besides cache effects) why increasing the tile size beyond 1M decreases painting performance: there is an optimization in the tile code such that if the entire tile is empty, it gets drawn with a rectangular fill instead of a blit. The larger the tile size, the less likely the optimization is to be employed. Probably also one of the other reasons why Lauris went with the small tile size (though as bulia has demonstrated, it was TOO small). I wonder if there's a way to take advantage of this optimization without having to re-tesselate for every single tile? Nathan suggested keeping a BSP once, which would be one option, but I'm not sure how to (efficiently) get there from livarot. Ideally, we should be able to tesellate once for the entire viewport, and then selectively blit/fill regions of that. -mental

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svn's branch-merge to mitigate deps; cairo, gtkmm 'trainwreck'
by Jeff Kowalczyk 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

First, my sincere thanks to the Inkscape developers. You've developed a remarkable program in a very short time. The future ubiquity of SVG on several platforms owes a huge debt of gratitude to Inkscape and the people behind it. I noted the recent concern about which versions of various libraries (gtkmm, etc.) Inkscape should target for maximum benefit. See "newest gtkmm needed to compile HEAD" and "train wreck...") As a Gentoo user (i.e. self-imposer of trainwrecks), I periodically compile Inkscape-cvs against very recent gtk gtkmm, cairo etc. Anything older than the latest Ubuntu seems positively fossilized to my biased point of view. When I see mention of various cool features that developers have running in a private sandbox, I think it speaks to Inkscape's extreme need for a source repository that provides better support for branching and merging. I think Inkscape needs to migrate its source to subversion, and let the various devs maintain according to their interest: short-lived feature branches, long-lived maintenance branches, and convenient build bundles (svn:externals), to push the bleeding edge and still satisfy the slower pace of disto compatibility. Inkscape has a primary role to play in the SVG revolution on the GNOME and KDE linux desktops; it can't afford to lag behind the recent graphics libraries on which Cairo is being developed. At the same time, Inkscape needs to build packages for distros (and platforms) in various degrees of stability and vintage. Subversion could facilitate things the Inkscape developers are already trying to do. Using svn:externals, bundles could be maintained that would provide every conceivable combination of dependency, and a high probability of build success. A simple 'svn switch' would allow one to try out that latest cool feature mentioned one the mailing list, and come back to a safer branch without hassle if the feature isn't fully cooked. Just my $0.02, Inkscape is an amazing program with equally admirable community effort behind it. Keep up the good work.

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