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Libre Graphics Meeting
by David Neary 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hi all, A few weeks back, I sent a call to arms for a conference I'm organising with David Odin in Lyon next March. Since then, a lot's happened - we've confirmed the dates and location - CPE Lyon, the 17/18/19 March 2006. And we've started assembling a line-up. The main purpose of the conference is to get the developers of different projects in the same place, and talking. The other main purpose of the conference is to have the developers of those projects meet their users (and vice versa), and in general to chill out, maybe get some work done, and have a good time. Jon Phillips will be giving a talk on Inkscape, OpenClipart and creative commons, someone from Blender will be coming to present Project Orange (I hope), and there will also be presentations of Scribus from mrdocs and MrB, and the GIMP, although I don't know by whom yet. The current plan is to have 2 very light days of presentations on Friday and Saturday, and to consecrate Sunday completely to impromptu BOFs, hackfests, demos, brainstorming sessions, whatever happens. Should be fun, and I'd really like to see a good showing for Inkscape. Can people interested in attending please add their names to teh GIMP wiki at http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/LibreGraphicsMeeting (we'll have a better site soon). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary bolsh@...85... Lyon, France

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clipartbrowser 0.41
by Greg Steffensen 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

I'm releasing another version of the clip art browser. Lots of bug fixes, some performance improvements, code cleanups, and a new installation procedure (yes, yet another). Installation is now 3 steps, and hopefully easier than ever: 1) Satisfy the dependencies of Python 2.4 and PyGTK 2.6. 2) Download and run the following script, which installs the python setuptools: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py 3) Run "easy_install clipartbrowser" As you can see, I've switched the installation system from Makefiles to the python setuptools. The setuptools are still under development (they're apparently going to be included in python 2.5), and I'm still very much learning how to use them, so the packaging isn't as polished as it needs to be, but this makes installation a breeze. Eventually, it should allow arbitrary python dependencies to be intelligently installed as well using the same process. I'm still working on getting this integrated back into the Inkscape effects menu, that's next on the list. As always, feedback greatly appreciated. Greg

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Inkscape on past, actual and future releases of tux magazine
by Guillermo Movia 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

The Tux magazine (www.tuxmagazine.com) of october, begins with a three number series of lessons of graphic design with Inkscape. I think this is a good new. Guillermo

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localization problems
by Arpad Biro 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Hi, After installing Inkscape from current CVS, the following menu entries appear in English in my (otherwise) localized environment: _Edit _View _Layer _Object _Path _Text Effects _Help File/_New File/Open _Recent Help/Tutorials The rest of the UI appears localized. Could someone please test this on his localized system? Arpad Biro __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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In the press
by Nicu Buculei 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Do you remember some week ago when an editor requested screenshots for a Romanian computer magazine? I just saw it in the stands and purchased one: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2005/09/inkscape-in-press-mylinux.html -- nicu

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Hard Freeze Lifted: insufficient stability
by Peter Moulder 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Existing show-stoppers will take sufficient amount of time, and will involve sufficiently non-trivial bug fixes, that it is more productive to lift the hard freeze for the moment. However, the feature freeze remains. Currently, our best plan for making a release soon involves backing out (or at least disabling) the following changes: - SPDesktop C++ification. This transformation was too rushed; has introduced at least two show-stoppers. Clean-up changes are good, but should be done cautiously, e.g. by breaking into small changes that can each be verified with reasonable confidence. The SPDesktop change has demonstrated itself not to be safe, so we'll back it out. - Connectors. Michael is now back from overseas and can work on this, but its current state (with crashes) isn't releasable. - menus.xml. Introduces menu localization problem. It has been useful in allowing ppl to play with the menu layout, but there's no particular reason for the functionality to be in the released stable version: it is currently for experimenters rather than customizers, as the file format still doesn't handle when menu items get added or removed from the default menu layout (e.g. new or changed functionality). Most remaining bugs are either not regressions (so don't present a reason not to replace 0.42.2); or are platform-specific (so I can't test whether they're regressions or not, and we could consider updating inkscape on other platforms in any case); or have a priority number lower than about 7 so I've assumed they aren't show-stoppers. (I forget whether I've looked at all priority-7 bugs or not.) pjrm.

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Webform/Contact
by Wolfram Quester 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Hi, I'm happy about the new webform, it seems to become quite accepted. I wonder however if people will perceive the link if the topic moves out of the first news. Wouldn't it be better to add a "Contact" item in the menu in the Developer section? Especially now as the mails are directed to the developer's ML? With best wishes, Wolfi

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WEBFORM submission form with subject
by Caliga 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Caliga email: inkscape@...985... submitted the following: there you are. (if this will work ;) BTW, how can a set of colors be copyrighted? i know pantore is a registered trademark, but there\'s nothing special in a set of colors. also, cliparts may contain all of the pantone colors without a problem. why shouldn\'t a palette? maybe you should not name it pantone. but if i got that right, gimp also uses it!?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] FOP (SVG2PDF)
by Bob Jamison 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Tom Epperly wrote: > > What does this mean? > > [epperly@...1015... fop-0.20.5]$ ./fop.sh master.fo -pdf output.pdf > [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser > [INFO] FOP 0.20.5 > [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser > [INFO] building formatting object tree > [INFO] setting up fonts > [INFO] [1] > [ERROR] Could not load external SVG: The current document is unable to > create an element of the requested type (namespace: > http://www.w3.org/2000/svg, name: flowRoot). > [ERROR] Error while creating area : No ImageReader for this type of > image (file:BabelShowcase.svg) > [INFO] Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer > [epperly@...1015... fop-0.20.5]$ > I would suggest "flattening" a copy of the svg document by converting the difficult parts such as text, to Paths, then saving as "plain svg". See if that works. Isn't <flowRoot> new to SVG 1.2? (still a draft, not a spec yet). If so, there are likely few renderers that support it. Bob

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] WEBFORM
by Cory Sytsma 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I've attached the file, so you guys can do with it what you'd like. If attachments don't make it through the listserv, let me know, and I can paste the contents into an email I did put a request into Pantone, asking about including a color swatch with Inkscape, in the same way that Illustrator and others have Pantone palettes. We'll see what they say. -Cory -----Original Message----- From: Ralf Stephan [mailto:ralf@...748...] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:56 AM To: Cory Sytsma Cc: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] WEBFORM Nicu: > Bryce Harrington wrote: > >Thanks, although to our knowledge the Pantone colors are not > >legally > >redistributable, so I don't think we can include them in Inkscape. > >You > >might want to doublecheck this fact though, just in case... > > but is not possible to use the swatch is some way, like change the > name of individual colors and the name of the set and use it like > that? maybe change the order of colors? does not suffice because there is now something like a copyright on collections. this was introduced to protect the database industry, and forced on the int'l community. OTOH, I fail to see any problems with, say 75% of the colors, without any name. ralf

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