November 2018 - Inkscape Docs

screencasters video tutorials on the website
by brynn 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Hi Friends, Relatively recently, the screencasters.heathenx website was closed. I just found out about it a month or 2 ago. Mark (aka Xav, on InkscapeForum) has acquired copies of most if not all of them. Little by little, he has been uploading them to YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9iOkFutSFbcTCzQlyCr5Ig/videos I think he said he's been adding approx 3 per week. I've just edited the link on the Learn page (https://inkscape.org/learn/) of the website, and added a brief notation about the videos being added to YT. On the Video Tutorials page (https://inkscape.org/learn/videos/), where there was simply a link to that website, I deleted it. The reason I deleted it, is because I don't have time to do this myself. But I recall a year or maybe closer to 2 years ago someone was interested in adding individual videos (links to them, I mean) to that page. So I thought they (or anyone) might like to kind of keep track of what's been uploaded to YT, and choose the "Best of" and add them to the Video Tutorials page. If someone is interested to do this, but they don't already have access to edit the page, just reply to this message, and someone can get you set up to do that. If no on is interested, or has time right now, there are already other videos on the page. So I think it will be ok. But if anyone is interested, the best of those videos would be nice to include there. All best, brynn

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can't download JPG (or see full size)
by brynn 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

Hi Friends, Regarding this image (which isn't flagged yet, because I didn't want it to get deleted before this question is answered) https://inkscape.org/~scramer89@...183.../%E2%98%85grandma-grandpa Mostly out of idle curiosity - it appears to be small, because when I click on it to zoom, it stays the same size (approx 1" x 2" onscreen). But I happened to notice the size is 4032x3024 (I guess is pixels? would be bigger than my screen). So I thought, "what the heck?". Decided to click Download button to see the real thing, and settle the discrepancy. Download button gives 403 Forbidden nginx/1.12.2. Interesting, Full Size button gives same. Should a JPG be downloadable? It seems like it should. But I want to confirm whether it needs a new Issue or not, before I make possibly unecessary work for mods on gitlab. Thanks, brynn

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Website update: current status
by Maren Hachmann 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hi there, Martin, Bryce and Travis from our friendly hosters at OSUOSL have worked on switching the inkscape.org website to the newer version this evening. In some parts of the world, due to DNS propagation, you might not yet see the new page, but you will soon (it looks pretty much the same, though, just the backend is newer). It now features a new shiny django (yay!). Unfortunately, it currently has problems with page edits, news edits and resource uploads. Please hold off editing anything on it, to not lose any work. Martin is working on fixing things, and will let you know when it's good for editing again. Downloads and viewing the pages work as usual (except for viewing pasted texts), so most people won't be affected by the issues. Kind Regards, Maren

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