-----Original Message----- From: Jarosław Foksa [mailto:jfoksa@...400...] Sent: dinsdag 14 april 2009 19:20 To: ryrych@...400... Cc: Inkscape dev Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] a few issues
On 04/14/2009 05:26:05 PM, ryrych@...400... wrote:
If I remember correctly there was available many LPE in dev
Inkscape,
but they disappeared somewhat. I especially pay attention
on envelope,
which was very helpful. I'm lack of it. I had to use GIMP to use perspective on shapes, save them to png and then trace them in Inkscape which was a little tricky. I hope guys you restore
adequate
LPE or some perspective tool for users. :)
In order to enable "experimental" LPEs in Inkscape from SVN please remove "#ifdef LPE_ENABLE_TEST_EFFECTS" line and following "#endif" in src/live_effects/effect.cpp file. I remember Johan mentioning that those LPEs were commented out because they are not ready yet and probably will not make it into 0.47, so use them at your own risk... Envelope LPE is too crashy to be usable, perspective path LPE has seen some interesting improvements recently; it's fun to play with, but it might be a bad idea to use it for serious work.
Indeed, I disabled many LPEs, because they lacked usability or good testcases (or were broken). We should really prevent releasing Inkscape with an LPE that we 'have' to change in the future, in order to stay compatible with old versions. The risk of a 'not-so-well-thought-out' LPE is quite a bit higher than normal SVG! (I myself am guilty of making such LPEs).
In any case, it is good to hear that you are missing the Enveloppe LPE. I think that gives people extra motivation for getting the LPE in to 0.47.
Ciao, Johan