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Inkboard released v 0.2
by Montgomery, Steven S 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

We have released our second version of Inkboard. It implements the following changes: Added: -Initial document sending by instantiating user -Buddy list display and buddy selection in "Share with User" dialog -Sending of user's queue(necessary for chatroom usability in future) -Message filtering to ignore messages from old sessions Fixed: -Reliability of sending circles and other objects All-in-all, it's just more reliable and more usable. Feel free to play around with it and offer any feedback to us. And if you notice any bugs not in the Bug Tracker, please submit them. Thank you, Steven Montgomery

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Multiline Textbox for Extensions
by unknown＠example.com 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Would multiline text input be useful for extensions? I can think of three specific uses at the moment: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1187444&group_id=9… Scala scale descriptions for my fretboard designer. LSystem rules. But all of these could be solved in other ways: line delimiters and extension specific GUIs. Thoughts? Aaron Spike

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extensions
by rm 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

hi, i was thinking it would be neat if you could have an automatic word bubble that wraps around text and objects and grows and shrinks keeping the text centered and everything; does something like this exist already for inkscape? looking at the roadmap, there seems to be plans to make a plugin api: is there a point in trying to implement such a thing before that occurs? thanks rob ---- Robert Melby uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!org!arcsin!rm

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stupid problem creating woven ribbons
by Marcel Partap 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Hey folks, I've just started using this wonderful masterpiece of a drawing tool, but soon ran into a big problem. I wanted to create a web design with interwoven ribbons, and when I saw the calligraphy tool I thought my problems where solved. But one object can only have one z-index, not multiple - which does makes sense, but means the ribbon is either on top of or below another. So I thought, mmh... I might just slice them up in between and give the parts different z-orders, which actually worked. The problem is, I want the ribbons to have an outline, and so the seam has an outline too. And I have no clue how to get rid of that now - and can not continue on my design :( I have posted this on the request feature list already, but sorry I am so eager to get this behind and go on drawing... so I'm wondering what do you devs say about that? ..and thx for such a great program ;) Marcel

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Units of coordinates
by Jogchum Reitsma 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Hi, In Inkscape 0.41 on Suse 9.2, I always set the rulers and everything I can find on measurement to millimeters. Only the cursor coordinates, in the bottom left corner of the main window, is shown in some other unit (100 mm = 125 units). Is it possible to set this to mm's too? Thanks! kind greetings, Jogchum Reitsma

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Tutorial conversion
by bulia byak 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

We started to convert Inkscape tutorials into DocBook, with SVG and HTML (and potentially other formats) generated automatically by XSLT stylesheets. The Basic tutorial in English was the first to be converted; here it is in HTML: http://inkscape.org/doc/basic/tutorial-basic.html (obviously there's no interactivity in HTML, but at least it's now printable). If you want to help, pick your favorite tutorial (drop a note to the devel list first, to make sure it's not yet taken), check out the doc-docbook module from our CVS and follow the instructions in the file README to convert it into DocBook and extract illustrations as separate SVG files. This is simple work but it will be great help to the project, since it will make much easier to update tutorials, translate them into other languages, and write new ones. Oh, and if you want to edit or translate or tutorial, please wait until it's converted and work with the DocBook version. (Better yet, convert it yourself :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tutorial conversion
by aaron＠...749... 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

Now back to the text copying discussion. Everything was going fine for quite some time. Now I find that there are a few paragraphs in the advanced tutorial and in the tracing tutorial that I just can't copy. In tracing I cannot copy "the user will see the three filter options" to the end. In advanced I cannot copy the final three paragraphs of the editing paths section. Is it just me? Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tutorial conversion
by aaron＠...749... 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

bulia byak wrote: > On 4/23/05, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: >>On 4/23/05, aaron@...749... <aaron@...749...> wrote: >>>I guess you must mean select the text inside of the text object, copy, >>>paste. >> >>Not necessarily, just selecting the text object with selector works >>just as well. > > Note that text is often grouped in the tutorials. So if you select a > group, this does not work of course. You need to Ctrl+click so that > statusbar says "Text" and then copying will work. And so it does. The problem here is that there is something fundamental that I don't understand about using the clipboard on Linux. When I used paste in the xterm's edit menu it worked fine. I uploaded shapes.tar.gz to the patch tracker. If there are no objections, I will now start on the Advanced tutorial. I am not a very proficient typist. So if someone would like to do the text work, I would be more than happy to do the graphics. Otherwise I will work through each tutorial in its entirety. Aaron Spike

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Wiki style breakage
by Jon A. Cruz 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

The recent changes (edit 303 of the main page) to the Wiki made it 'break' for me. Basically, the page no longer plays nice with narrow windows. http://inkscape.org/wiki_uploads/WikiAtWork.png Remember, many people don't browse with windows maximized. It's well known in the print world that landscape mode is not conducive to reading (which is why magazines, books, newspapers, etc. avoid it). So be sure to check any style changes with windows both ways. Thanks.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tutorial conversion
by bulia byak 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

On 4/23/05, John Taber <jtaber@...480...> wrote: > Very nice. It makes it even easier for some of us to contribute to the > documentation. > Question: what are you going to use to display the html in Inkscape? gtkhtml? > mozembed? No, Inkscape does not display HTML. In Inkscape, tutorials remain in SVG. The only difference is that now, that SVG is generated from the DocBook source, as is HTML. > And wondering if you had any plans to display the images in SVG as > opposed to PNG - thinking that maybe mozembed might support SVG with the new > SVG rendering in Firefox. Maybe, but this does not make much sense. The idea of the illustrations is that they are interactive - you can drag or tweak anything in a tutorial. Since HTML loses the interactivity anyway, SVG is not any better for illustrations in HTML than PNG. The HTML is mainly intended for printing or away-from-Inkscape reading. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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