June 2006 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Forum - pictures upload
by momo 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi! Just wanted to ask about the inkscape forum: when will there be a possibility to upload pictures to phpbb directly? Thanks Molumen

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Inkscape Announces 0.44 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org
by Jon Phillips 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Inkscape Announces 0.44 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org The Inkscape community today officially released the latest version of its vector graphic drawing software. Inkscape 0.44 adds many new features, is faster and more usable, better supports SVG, is translated into more languages (17 on last count), and adds a lot of polish and refinement. Major new features include Layers dialog, support for clipping and masking, improved PDF export with transparency, configurable keyboard shortcuts, innovative "node sculpting" capability in Node tool, and the Outline mode. Significant gains are achieved in performance, especially in screen rendering and Node tool. Noticeable user interface changes include docked color swatches, interactive style indicator in the statusbar, a redesigned preferences dialog, a text toolbar, and new icons. Our SVG compliance has also taken a step forward, with the added support for the <switch> tag and ICC color profiles for images. This release also includes hundreds of smaller features, usability enhancements and bug fixes. For several releases, a collection of extension effects was shipped with Inkscape, but the Effects menu to access them was turned off by default. With this release, it has become mature enough, with effects working out of the box on all platforms, so this menu is enabled. The Inkscape developer community would like to thank Google for their sponsorship of five students to work, during the summer of 2006, on several Inkscape development efforts: SVG Filters, Inkboard protocol, PDF export with Cairo, and memory optimization. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.44: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's ([[W3C]]) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully [[W3C]] compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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New translations we need?
by Bryce Harrington 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

The translation team has made some amazing progress for 0.44! Many translations are now at >98%, which is great. So next is to ask what other translations would be worth increasing in level? I looked at the GNOME translation statistics to use as a guide. Here are the languages that GNOME has at 50% or greater: bg, ca, cs, de, en_CA, en_GB, es, fi, fr, nb, ne, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ru, sk, sr, sv, uk, vi, zh_CN, and zh_TW Of these, we have some at >80% already. The ones in Inkscape that are not at 80% are: bg, en_CA, en_GB, fi, nb, ne, nl, pl, pt, pr_BR, ru, sk, sr, sv, uk, vi Since pl, pt_BR, ru, sr, and uk are between 60-80%, they seem like they should not be hard to boost to at least 80%! en_CA and en_GB ought to be fairly easy too. If anyone knows a speaker of one of these languages that might be willing to volunteer to do Inkscape translation work for 0.45, please consider talking to them about this. It would be quite a victory if we could get these languages covered! Bryce

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Building 0.44 on Debian (Was: Re: 0.44 Release tarball)
by Michael Moore 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

On 6/23/06, Terry Hancock <hancock@...1624...> wrote: > Michael Moore wrote: > > > I got it to build on Ubuntu 6.06 following the instructions at > > > http://inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu It took FOREVER > > > to compile, well, 20-30 minutes. Far longer than the other > > > non-trivial code that I've compiled, such as Vim. Is this normal? > > > > Did use the instructions with "apt-get build-dep inkscape" ? > > As I posted earlier, this might work with Ubuntu, but it does not > work with Debian proper. At this time you get: I didn't touch the Debian compiling wiki page, but looks like someone else had the same idea. It did work for Ubuntu though. > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Build-dependencies for inkscape could not be satisfied. By Debian proper do you mean Sarge or Etch? Are all updates applied? I might be able to look into this. > I suspect this is due to a package conflict in one of your deps, though > I haven't figured out how to get apt to tell me exactly what the problem > is. Yeah, that sounds right. Which repositories do you have enabled? I'm not sure if Debian has the same terminology, but I have my Ubuntu looking in main, Universe and Multiverse. If the Debian box is just looking in main and Inkscape requires something in Universe (or equivalent) that may be why. Thanks, -- Michael Moore ------------------------------- www.stuporglue.org -- Donate your used computer to a student that needs it. www.ubuntu-utah.org -- In Utah? Interested in Ubuntu? Come join us.

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Masking problem
by Hago Ziegler 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hi, I try to use the possibility to mask objects. As I read, the normal way is to select the object to be masked, select a second object above, which will be the mask, then: Object > mask > set. I did this, but as result, the object below just disappears. Please see the demo at: http://www.hagoschaos.de/test/test.html What am I doing wrong? Or am I misunderstanding the way this function works? Some help please. I used a two hours ago downloaded Inkscape 0.44 Regards, Hago

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did you get donation?
by Benjamin Huot 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Thanks for the Mac Intel version. I sent you a monetary thank you through Sourceforge. It looks like it went through, but I would like confirmation that you can access it. Paypal didn't list it as going to Inkscape specifically unlike the Gimp project does when you send money to Gnome for Gimp. It does list me on the page of contributors to Inkscape under benhuot.

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Commenters needed for PR work!
by Bryce Harrington 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hi all, We have begun the PR efforts for the Inkscape 0.44 release! Already, stories are appearing on Freshmeat, Slashdot, Digg and other news sources. We need your help! As you're browsing news this weekend, keep an eye out for Inkscape stories, and take a minute to add your comment, answer questions, etc. You can start at Digg... http://www.digg.com/software/Inkscape_.44_Released Looks like we need to get the story boosted up to about 100 for it to appear on the home pave. :-) Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-user] 0.44 Release tarball
by George Reilly 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

A 2.5-year-old laptop with a 1.3GHz Centrino and 1.25Gb RAM. Not cutting edge, but not too feeble. I haven't compiled very much under Linux on it, but I've compiled a lot of Windows code on it. Compiling Inkscape from scratch was way longer than I expected. I looked at the system meter a couple of times and the CPU was maxed. /George -- /George V. Reilly mailto:george@...634... http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "j michaelson" <jmichaelson@...155...> > To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] 0.44 Release tarball > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:36:41 +0100 > > > hi george, > > what are your system's specs? > > john m. > > > > > On 6/23/06, George V. Reilly <george@...634...> wrote: > > Nice! > > > > I got it to build on Ubuntu 6.06 following the instructions at > > http://inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu > > It took FOREVER to compile, well, 20-30 minutes. Far longer than the > > other non-trivial code that I've compiled, such as Vim. Is this normal? > > > > -- > > /George V. Reilly george@...634... > > http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog > > > > > > Aaron Spike wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Packagers start your engines. I've uploaded a tarball for the 0.44 > > > release. Thank you everyone for all of your hard work. > > > > > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.44.tar.gz?download > > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.44.sig?download > > > > > > Enjoy. > > > > > > Aaron Spike

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autopackage flaky
by Benjamin Huot 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

I installed .44pre4 by Autopackage on Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake under KDE with the latest security and stability including kernel updates. When I chose manage 3rd party applications and remove Inkscape like I did for .44pre3, my computer locked up on me and I had to do a hard reboot. After rebooting, I checked then and it no longer appeared in the list under 3rd party applications. Then I changed the .package file to make it executable and then double clicked on it. My screen locked up temporarily as it spent several minutes initializing. Then my dock disappeared. I saw it said it was installing various components and then it said it was done. My dock was still gone! Luckily I was able to log out by right clicking on the desktop. I logged back in, launched Inkscape and it seems to work fine. That is the last time I use Autopackage!!!

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ubuntu palete for inkscape
by j michaelson 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

hello all, as well as this list i also post on the ubuntu-art list. i spoke about the new palete feature in inkscape and asked if an ubuntu scheme could be made for inkscape. someone reckoned that inkscape uses the same palette format as the gimp, is that so? if that is the case there is one already available on this page..... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official is there any chance that the ubuntu human theme could be included in inkcape as one of the optional palettes? thankyou. john m.

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