June 2004 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

timetable2svg
by Trent Buck 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

Last year I kluged together a C program that makes my school timetable in SVG for me out of a plain text definition. I kluged further to make it do generic tables to help my old one-banana job at Coles. This year I rewrote it from the ground up. It's still very messy, but it does: * Notice when you put one box on top of another * Put cute little pointy bits on all the corners. If you're still reading after fully two paragraphs, here are the links: example input & output: http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~trent/src/src/examples/ sources: http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~trent/src/src/mktable.c http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~trent/src/src/convenience.h http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~trent/src/src/convenience.c instructions: cc *.c -o mktable ./mktable < foo.table > foo.svg HAND -trent -- If it wasn't for C, we'd be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL.

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terminology - help needed
by bulia byak 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

>1. One >2. Two >3. Three ALmost perfect, but unfortunately only works by referring to the original mailing list thread :) >Lose the plurality: command bar, tool control bar, toolbox. I think losing the plurality only makes sense if we combine words into one, e.g. "commandbar", otherwise it's confusing (which command? which tool control?) >1 Main Bar It's not "main" in any reasonable sense imho. >2 Tweak Bar ([Fine] Tuning? Not descriptive enough. >2 [Tool] Options? They're not exactly options; they're controls that make sense for the tool and let you use it. >3. Tool Options bar And 3 is not options either, it has tools themselves. >Calling it the `toolbox' is a bit of a misnomer, since it's not a box >anymore. `Tool Bar' is worse, unfortunately. Yes. >1. "Application Toolbar" (for generally-applicable actions) Maybe, but kinda vague. Don't other bars belong to the same application? > 2. "Modal Toolbar" (the horizontal modal action/option bar) Correct technically, but confusing. A modal dialog is the one which freezes the app; what does a modal toolbar freeze? >3. "Tool Selector" (the vertical tool selector bar) Hmm. "Please select the Selector tool on the Tool Selector." Not gonna work :) >1. "Function Bar" Function or Functions? Anyway this seems to be a close equivalent to "Commands bar". _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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RE: [Inkscape-user] autosave ?
by bulia byak 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

>** ERROR **: file xml/repr-util.cpp: line 382 (int >sp_repr_compare_position(SPRepr*, SPRepr*)): assertion failed: >(sp_repr_parent(first) == sp_repr_parent(second)) >aborting... >Aborted Please try to reproduce it and mark what you were doing for it to crash. At least, which boolean op caused this? >So I'm appealing to anyone who can create an autosave :-) We do have an autosave, it just does not always work :) _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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terminology - help needed
by bulia byak 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

There are going to be three "toolbars" in Inkscape: 1. Under the menu, horizontal, with buttons for common non-tool-specific operations such as Open, Save, etc. 2. Below 1, horizontal, with too-specific buttons and controls (exists now and is called "top panel" or "aux toolbar"). 3. Vertical at the left, with tool buttons. The question is: How to call them? They are all "toolbars" technically but using the word "toolbar" without distinction is going to be very confusing. Even using "toolbar" for 3 only is going to be confusing because people are used to calling "toolbars" any horizontal rows of buttons. So the names need to be unique but at the same time descriptive and short. Most importantly, they must stick. "Top panel" for 2 did not stick, somehow. Here is the best I could think of: 1. Commands bar 2. Tool controls bar 3. Toolbox Any other ideas? _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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autosave ?
by Florent 20 Jun '04

20 Jun '04

hello, I've just got a problem, I worked on a Tux ... just using a boolean operation when ...arg... a bug closed my inkscape window...:-( ** ERROR **: file xml/repr-util.cpp: line 382 (int sp_repr_compare_position(SPRepr*, SPRepr*)): assertion failed: (sp_repr_parent(first) == sp_repr_parent(second)) aborting... Aborted I used the latest version CVS (0.39) and I know ... I use it at my own risk So I'm appealing to anyone who can create an autosave :-) Thanks, Florent

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Easy testing of Inkscape builds on Linux with Autopackage
by Bryce Harrington 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

Hi Guys, One of the cool new features for this upcoming release is something called 'autopackage', which if it works, promises to make it very easy to install Inkscape on Linux, especially if you're using an RPM-based system. But to make sure this works we need folks to test it out. It's easy to do so. Here are some screenshots so you can see what it'll look like: http://autopackage.org/gallery.html First, download this file: http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/inkscape-0.39cvs.package Next, follow the four steps on this page: http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/index.html Finally, write down anything that you find confusing or have problems with during the installation or while using the program, and put your feedback into the bug tracker for Inkscape. (See Report Bugs on the Inkscape website.) Note that each day you can re-run the .package file to update to the latest and greatest inkscape code. Thanks, Bryce

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Re: [Clipart] [Fwd: SVG Open 2004 - Paper Acceptance]
by Bryce Harrington 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Congrats Jon, sounds like it's going to be a very interesting paper. :-) Bryce On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jon Phillips wrote: > Arg...I though I'd be online all the time once in Korea, but just have > now found a place to get wireless. I'm forwarding my acceptance to > SVGOPEN (its at the bottom of the email). > > Here are the comments from the reviewers: > > > It sounds great to have a paper about content generation. Many SVG > papers are about applications, not art. It would be good to hear about > any other artwork collections and how their communities contribute and > describe the experience with the SVG community so far. Suggestions for > increasing knowledged about this project would be good too. > > > > SVG is a lot about sharing kowledge and artwork. The Open Clip Art > Library, as the abstract suggested, a combination of high quality > artwork and RDF metadata, is a very welcome contribution for both the > Open Source and SVG community. I am myself a regular user of Open Source > software and appreciate the steady progress of Open source graphics > applications. Keep up the good work and looking forward to your > presentation in Tokyo! > > > I will start working on this paper later in the summer, but it is good > to know that we have promotion for our coming work... > > Jon > > > -----Forwarded Message----- > > From: Jun Fujisawa <fujisawa.jun@...150...> > > To: jon@...87... > > Subject: SVG Open 2004 - Paper Acceptance > > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:00:57 +0900 > > > > Hello Jonathan, > > > > SVG Open 2004 Reviewing Committee is happy to inform you that your > > abstract has been accepted for the presentation. > > > > "Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library" > > > > Please login with your account to see the feedback from the reviewers. > > Our apologies for the delay of notification. > > > > <http://www.svgopen.org/2004/login.do> > > > > For the preparation and submission of final paper, please follow the > > instruction on the Presenter Instructions page. > > > > <http://www.svgopen.org/2004/presenter_en.html> > > > > Thanks and looking forward to meet you at the conference. >

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Docking
by Adam Pearson 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Hi all Using Gimp 2 on Windows XP, I "undocked" the tool options palette by mistake - how can I re-dock this? Note that on my (XP) display, there is no double line at the supposed docking position at the foot of the box (if you follow me!). I would send a screen shot but I think attachments are stripped by the list server? Adam

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svg_annotate (and announcing SVG::Metadata 0.05)
by Bryce Harrington 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Since adding metadata to your SVG files is cumbersome, especially when you have a lot of files, I've written a script 'svg_annotate' to perform this work. This script is now included within SVG::Metadata, and takes advantage of its data structure. You can download it from CPAN, here: http://search.cpan.org/~bryce/SVG-Metadata-0.05/ The README has instructions for installing it. Briefly: $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ su # make install You will probably also need to install XML::Twig. You can also get this from CPAN and install it the same way as above: http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIROD/XML-Twig-3.15.tar.gz Then, to use svg_annotate to add metadata to all files under directory 'my_art': $ svg_annotate -a "My Name" my_art/ This will add metadata to any files that don't already have it, including setting the license to Public Domain and the title to "My Name - <filename>". (You can override this if you want; see the manual page for svg_annotate on CPAN). Let me know if you run into issues. Bryce

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Project Status May 31, 2004
by Bryce Harrington 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Project Status Tuesday, June 15, 2004 The past two weeks have seen a great deal of progress on a number of important efforts, the most notable one, of course, is the Pango conversion. Several people have been hard at work researching, implementing, and testing this out, but the major thanks go to Fred for his patch that gets us much further along than we had expected for this release. Additionally, pattern fills were introduced, orphan collection was created to garbage collect leftover gradients/markers, and there was additional experimentation and changes to how inserted images are handled to make them more useful and usable. Mental has been working on C++-ifying a lot of code, most notably the sp_object_* to SPObject::*. Ted has introduced a number of improvement to the file dialog and file handling, adding better support for other file formats like EPS. Ishmal has introduced his EMCAScript code into the main codebase and is working on hooking it up for use with SVG files. Peter is working on fixing the units to be more sensible (px, pixel, etc. are proving to be rather confusing). More details on these changes are in the ReleaseNotes in Wiki and will all be included in the 0.39 release. There have also been a number of noteworthy non-coding events for Inkscape the past two weeks. An article by Bryce about Inkscape was published on OSNews earlier this month. It was picked up by Slashdot and other sites, and brought in a good bit of traffic. Several people are helping to move the nightly snapshots to less bandwidth-sensitive machines. The Open Clip Art Library has been picking up a lot of new contributions from artists, and is currently focusing on better capturing the metadata in the SVG files. Cedric has expressed an intent to develop an Inkscape Manual, based on the manual he had written for Sodipodi. This will nicely augment our tutorials, providing a more advanced reference for knowledgeable users. Rejon will be giving a presentation on Inkscape and OCAL at the SVGOpen. Whew! And there's probably a lot more that I forgot! As you can see, it's been a very actively busy couple of weeks and tons of stuff has been achieved. Now that the Pangoification work is looking like it will be done soon, it is time to think towards making a freeze and working towards packaging the 0.39 release. We probably need another week or two for further code settling and bug fixing, and probably a week-long freeze prior to the release. So that suggests a late-June/early-July timeframe for the release, but we'll see how things come together. Statistics Nov 15 Jan 15 Mar 15 Apr 15 May 15 May 31 Jun 15 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 1928 * 1164 1028 1035 928 (68.5%) (86.1%) * (91.7%) (92.7%) (92.7%) (93.4%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 321 90 31 36 110 41 (99.6%) (97.5%) * (99.8%) (99.8%) (99.4%) (99.8%) Total SF Page Views * 126,500 * 330,000 475,000 521,500 616,263 Total SF Downloads * 5,735 * 17,250 27,400 29,600 34,015 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 2,958 4,670 6,000 * * 7,333 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 33 50 70 74 77 87 Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 166,914 177,286 183,694 189,116 190,764 280,263 Code lines 133,150 138,457 143,662 147,471 148,770 210,119 Comment line 12,468 15,584 16,041 16,757 16,880 40,620 Blank 21,929 24,061 24,931 25,886 26,113 34,677 Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 3,000 4,434 4,540 4,544 4,571 15,170 Lines of content in website: 1,173 2,885 5,087 5,414 6,008 6,228 6,372 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 11,284 14,840 15,461 18,638 16,300 17,176 Minutes since last ChangeLog mod: 360 6 0 11 1 1889 2 Bugs open/total: 9/15 74/160 43/244 47/322 57/365 68/381 63/401 Features open/total: 18/18 104/120 151/184 173/213 183/238 195/256 210/285 Patches open/total: 1/ 6 4/32 6/ 45 5/ 72 4/ 83 5/ 85 5/ 88 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 * 3070 3710 3391 5241 5549 Inkscape-devel membership: 49 64 75 77 78 82 84 Inkscape-announce membership: 9 22 35 41 43 47 53 Inkscape-user membership: 71 69 76 * - Statistics unavailable

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