Re: [Inkscape-user] contribute to graphics research!
by Sara Su
Hi bulia, Joshua, and all:
I apologize for my delay in replying to your messages. I
just got back from the UIST conference, where I met many UI
researchers -- and fellow Inkscape users.
Thanks for your enthusiasm about the undo-saving feature!
We would like to release the code for this for all the
reasons you mentioned: to comply with the GPL, to get users
across platforms, and ultimately to contribute to the
Inkscape project. [We'd also welcome help identifying and
fixing bugs. :)] What is the best way to do this? As the
number of files touched is small, perhaps the fastest is to
post these on our website, then work on adding the changes
to the SVN trunk. Thanks for your invitation to do so.
Sara
> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:52:04 -0300
> From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...>
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] contribute to graphics research!
> To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>,
> "Inkscape List Devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> (forwarding this to devel list as well)
>
> This sounds like a very nice addition. We (developers) actually were
> thinking about adding something like that, as an option. Would you
> consider adding your patch to the SVN trunk so it becomes part of the
> official Inkscape releases? For users, persistent undo is an important
> enough feature by itself, with or without helping your graphics
> research :) And if you keep working on it to add more features like
> selective undo, this is much better to do in the main trunk.
15 years, 7 months
Favorite Inkscape book?
by Patrick
Hi Everyone
I want to buy an Inkscape book to learn more about it and to use as a
reference book.
Does anyone have a favorite?
Thanks-Patrick
15 years, 7 months
A call out to all inkscape artist!
by Jason Brower
Greetings!
My name is Jason Brower and I have come up with an idea to create an
avatar making program for linux. All the artwork is done in Inkscape
and I was hoping to get some help from artists to make my program
amazing!
A video of our project in action...
http://brower.homelinux.org/nifty.ogg
Our Launchpad site where our alpha release of MeMaker is kept.
http://launchpad.net/memaker/
Our Standards page that is being created to give artists an
understanding of what we need(still being worked on).
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/memaker
I would love to help anyone get started adding artwork to this project.
If you saw before we have a small amount to help everyone get an idea.
But the truly clean artwork await for you to complete! :D
Thanks for listening!
If you want to become more involved drop me a line!
Jason Brower
PS:
I have a special interest in this guy's icons and would love to have the
sources or if he would like, he can submit his own theme set himself. :D
http://alischan.deviantart.com/art/Icons-41190267
15 years, 7 months
No more PHP 4
by Aaron Spike
Php4 has been removed from the Inkscape VM. Please report any problems
with any Inkscape websites as soon as possible so that we can fix them.
Thanks,
Aaron Spike
15 years, 7 months
convert .svg or bitmap to .dxf
by Elwin Estle
I know that there is at least one utility that will convert .dxf to .svg. However, is
there one that will convert going the other way, from .svg (or a bitmap) to .dxf? I am
looking for something open source, if possible. I have found a couple of shareware
windows only programs.
The end goal is this: To be able to scan something, convert it to a .dxf file which will
then be converted for a Trumpf laser cutter to cut that shape out of sheet metal.
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15 years, 7 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] The StoryBoard Prototype
by Sara Su
> I can indeed see a "history"-list that I can use to undo
> to a certain level, but should there also be a visual
> storyboard somewhere?
Hi Maarten. Thanks for trying our build. It currently
includes the history-saving feature. The storyboard-drawing
is work in progress, and since it's changing daily, we
haven't released it yet. We're asking for your help getting
a diverse sample of undo-lists so we can see where the
storyboard breaks and design it to be useful to more users.
> Also, the prototype version has the tendecy to crash much
> more as the regular build. Has anyone else noticed this
> behaviour?
Can you describe the conditions under which it crashes? It
would help us identify the bug if you happened to notice,
for example, what tool you were using at the time.
Cheers,
Sara
15 years, 7 months
ruler, grid and dimensions
by Renato Serodio
Hello there,
I've started using Inkscape a while a go, as an Xfig replacement. I'm
quite dependent on the grid and rulers, and am a bit puzzled by
Inkscape's ways - unfortunately, I couldn't google anything useful out
of the net.
So, I was wondering whether someone would care to comment on the
following points:
1. is it possible to make the vertical ruler conform to the internal
coordinates, ie, I tend to use the XML editor to make corrections, and
it would be useful to have the ruler conform to these.
2. can the grid also conform to these coordinates? I put a box on
(0,0) using the XML editor, but the grid lines don't match the box
edges
3. can it be that the ruler and grid don't match? When I pull a guide,
I see that the cursor coordinates match the grid line, but not the
ruler tick - say, 100 in the grid and cursor, 98 in the ruler.
Looking forward to any comments,
Renato
15 years, 7 months
pdf-input.cpp:544: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope
by Jeff Kowalczyk
I'm using a new Gentoo 2007.0 ~x86 system, and building inkscape from svn
gives the following errors. What package (cairo, poppler) could be
contributing to the build problem? I didn't see a config option to
supress PDF features (temporarily, so I can build inkscape)
In file included from extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:26:
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.h:107: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'CairoOutputDev' with no type
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.h:107: error: expected ';' before '*' token
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In constructor 'Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::PdfImportDialog(PDFDoc*)':
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: expected type-specifier before 'CairoOutputDev'
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: expected `;' before 'CairoOutputDev'
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In destructor 'virtual Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::~PdfImportDialog()':
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:301: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:302: error: type '<type error>' argument given to 'delete', expected pointer
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In member function 'void Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::_setPreviewPage(int)':
extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:544: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope
make[2]: *** [extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2/work/inkscape-0.45.2/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2/work/inkscape-0.45.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Cairo and poppler are built as follows:
x11-libs/cairo-1.4.10 USE="X glitz opengl svg -debug -directfb -doc -xcb" 0 kB
app-text/poppler-0.6 USE="jpeg zlib -cjk" 0 kB
app-text/poppler-bindings-0.6 USE="cairo gtk qt4 -qt3" 0 kB
Thanks,
15 years, 7 months
Text vertical align based on descenders
by Alexander Bonivento
Hello everyone.
I know this is not specifically inkscape related, but i thought maybe
someone here may help.
Please consider this simple code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg id="svg_root" width="26in" height="16in" viewBox="0 0 26 16"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve"
shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision"
image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd"
clip-rule="evenodd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<line id="line_obj" x1="0" y1="8" x2="26" y2="8" stroke-width="0.1"
stroke="#000000"/>
<text id="text_obj" transform="translate(13,8)" style="font-size: 4;
font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;
fill: #FF0000; stroke: none;">for</text>
</svg>
It simply draws a line, and a text "sitting" on it.
Obviously the "f" letter, which is a descender, goes below the line.
Actually the text location (13,8) determines the placement related to
the baseline of the font: i'd like to place at (13,8) the REAL
bottom-left corner of the font. So, simply valign to bottom instead of
baseline, or move up the text item by descender's amount.
I have to do this in scripting, as this is part of a PHP script which
invokes inkscape to manage the SVG file.
I was only able to imagine 2 solutions, but was not able to apply any of
them. So here they are:
1) is there any SVG option, recognized by inkscape as well, that permits
this? In SVG specs i saw the "dominant-baseline" and other baseline
related params, but none seems to have effect in inkscape
2) can you think at any way to calc the descender offset via scripting?
Something like a function:
get_descent(fontfile,is_italic,is_bold,textline)
Which , i thins case, would look like
get_descent("/pathtofonts/times.ttf",1,1,"for")
Hope someone can help in some way, every suggestion will be really
appreciated.
Alex
15 years, 7 months
