inkscape gallery [48 hours later...]
by davide|inkscapegallery
i'm here to inform you about the inkscape gallery's two days in the
"official world"...
I didnt' receive feedback about my previous mail, but i didn't ask for
this, i was only giving news indeed.
Now i would like the inkscape user's list to come back talking about
inkscape gallery (i will label it just IG starting from now...).
I learned so much in the few days in this list and i think the
improvements we provided are mostly related to the speeches we had here
and i would like to thank you again, even if i cannot do this for each
user personally, this is my way to tell how precious was your help.
But this is done, we're online now and we have to debate about the
present and the future of IG...
I would like to see many of you posting drawings, cause we're
registering many visitors from all the world and we are really happy
about this, but we have still a few (i'm giving a special thank to those
ones...)users and drawings on the website.
I mean, i know i have to be patient...nothing happens just in one day,
but i'd like to involve many of you in this moment, because we have to
start thinking about the future of IG and we'd like this list, and
anyone interested in, to have a leading role in the development.
As you may know we are a small company and i love to say that this is
just one of the opensource project we are planning...
but obviously, we can't do this without help, and mainly this is not a
closed project, this is a work done in the inkscape and opensource
software growing purpose. And more, this is done to give the best place
to share knowledge, drawing skills, tricks, projects for everyone who
uses inkscape.
IG is just at the beginning , i keep working adding features, (see this:
http://inkscapegallery.net/en/node/142 for the comment notification
feature) and fixing some stuffs, trying to enhance IG knowledge and
google visibility.
We could imagine many improvements, now we have two test environments,
and someone already made something.
Patrick wrote the code for the licenses validation that is another
important improvement in IG and i like to thank him in this list, 'cause
he's young but really skilled and he deserves our congratulations.
We bought the .com, .it and .org inkscapegallery domains too, and they
will work in one or maybe two days.
So, i will like you to be the leader in the inkscapegallery growing
process and in its future development.
My work will be the organization, maybe the supervision (i'm still
trying to figure out why didn't i seriously study english...) but you
will be the one in charge...if you'd like to.
Thanks,
Da.
http://inkscapegallery.net
15 years, 3 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by jiho
On 2008-February-05 , at 16:27 , Gail Carmichael wrote:
> Hey JiHO (I am not on the user's list):
yes, this is why I figured I would include you personally in the email.
> Can you send me the file in question? I am very curious to know if
> this is Mac only or Windows and Linux too. Did you try it out
> yourself?
Nick, can you do that please? Ideally you should send:
- the original files where the fonts used to display fine (apparently
you made a backup if I understand you correctly)
- the files that show the problem
- the font(s) used in those files. The fonts live in /Library/Fonts
or /System/Library/Fonts or /Users/yourname/Library/Fonts
Even zipped, all this together may be big. If you have facilities to
upload it somewhere and send the link it would be nice, otherwise...
well make several zip files ;). Please send the attachment to Gail and
me only (no attachments to the list) but keep posting follow ups to
the list (as I did on this one), so that people know something is
happening and the final fix can be found later.
> jiho wrote:
>> On 2008-February-05 , at 08:02 , churro wrote:
>>> I am using OS 10.4.11, Inkscape .45. I started working on a file
>>> and used a
>>> specific font. Then I discovered that my effects are not working,
>>> so I had
>>> to download a newer build of Inkscape from
>>> http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/ along with the python
>>> packages. I
>>> reinstalled Inkscape and got the effects working, but when I
>>> opened my old
>>> file, the fonts have changed to something generic, and I cant get
>>> them to go
>>> back to what they were! I rolled back to the older version on
>>> Inkscape, but
>>> that did not fix the problem.
>>
>> Could you perform these little tests, with the document that has
>> the generic font and on both version of Inkscape:
>> - select the faulty text, open the xml editor and check what the
>> font attributes are (name, weight etc.)
>> - check wether you see the font in the text and font palette (even
>> if it's not used in the document)?
>> - if you see it, what happens when you select the text and apply
>> this font?
>>
>>> All my previous work with that font got
>>> messed up (I still have the original files in hopes of getting
>>> this to
>>> work.) Does anyone know how to get my fonts to work again?
>>
>> Font got reworked between those two versions and the library that
>> deals with fonts was also updated, but all that should have
>> improved compatibility, not the contrary. Gail, could you look at
>> that please?
>>
>>> 2nd part of
>>> the question: And if I get new fonts, how do I add them to
>>> Inkscape running
>>> on OSX?
>>
>> All depends on the format of the font. If you get a ttf font in a
>> regular format (ttf extension) Inkscape should be able to see it.
>> Inkscape has issues with fonts in the dfont format and with
>> Microsoft Font Suitcases (no visible extension). If you install the
>> font on your Mac the regular way (double click and click install),
>> Inkscape should have acces to it. To force the refresh of the font
>> library on startup, delete a file via a command in Terminal:
>> rm ~/.inkscape/.fccache-new
>> Inkscape will rebuild the font cache on next startup.
>
JiHO
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http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
15 years, 3 months
external CSS
by Alexander Roalter
I've done some digging, and I saw external CSS support was already
planned for two consecutives 'google summer of code', though it is still
not possible using them in inkscape, be it classes or even getting them
to display properly.
I've attached three files, one being the original file with the style
attributes inline, it shows quite well in inkscape, the other two being
a css file and a svg file with references to this css file. When I open
the latter, only a black shield is displayed, as no style information is
loaded.
Additionally to getting inkscape to at least display the SVG correctly,
I'm still pondering on how to implement the creation of the file in
inkscape, there should be some possibility to apply a certain style
(defined in a css file) to a path, so I wouldn't have to change the SVG
file later to apply all styles.
At the moment, it would suffice to get Inkscape to display the files
correctly, as I still do some tidy-up with the resulting SVG files, so I
can also replace the style commands with the correct class definitions...
--
cheers,
Alex
15 years, 3 months
Interested in helping on os x
by carl olsen
I'm very interested in contributing to the project. I have
intermediate programing experience, but need someone to mentor me. I
pick this stuff up pretty fast so I just need to get in touch with
someone who knows about developing on os x and can tell me what to
work on.
15 years, 3 months
Broken dependency of 0.46-pre1 ubuntu package
by khiraly
Hi!
Bryce: your ubuntu build has somewhat broken dependency.
In gutsy, the libpango1.0-0 version is 1.18.2-0ubuntu1, and
your package requires >= 1.18.3.
Can you fix this, either provide the compiled libpango1.0-0 package,
or point people to the right direction.
Thank you in advance,
Khiraly
15 years, 3 months
inkscape gallery release on monday 11 February
by davide|inkscapegallery
Hello,
i'm here to announce the release of inkscape gallery on day 11 of February.
This is a pre-release, i will inform only the inkscape's communities
about that and then, maybe day 28 (it's the nois3lab birthday..) we'll
go trying to involve a bigger amount of interested or just curious users
and some web magazines, large community websites etc...etc...
We'd like you to share this good new everywhere you want, we also need
you to spread the inkscape gallery knowledge to let it grows fast.
I'm really grateful for the contributions i've received here in the
inkscape's user list, i know that many of the last improvements i made
were coming from suggestion and even critiques you gave to me.
So i hope you will be happy and "proud" as i am, we share a beautiful
attitude that is our option for opensource and free software i also hope
to share with you the wish to make inkscape gallery great.
Go to spread your vector graphics in inkscape gallery!
Davide
http://test.inkscapegallery.net
http://www.inkscapegallery.net
15 years, 3 months
[ inkscape gallery ] "resume" -for all users-
by davide|inkscapegallery
Hello again,
i'm sorry i couldn't keep you updated about the inkscape gallery
developement but the days i spent here on the list were really useful
and i had a work a lot to do what these speeches suggested me to do.
I would like to keep track of what happened in the days when we talked
about inkscape gallery in various threads in this list that maybe caused
troubles to the user who didn't want to read thousands of mail.
So:
when i came here for the first time inkscape gallery was a project for
an inkscape made drawings gallery on the web in an advanced state but
still not completely grown.
There were a narrowed layout, a bunch of features but it needed content
organization and a couple of improvements in both layout stuffs and
features.
Many of you gave impressions, suggestions even critiques and this was
exactly what i needed to come back working to make inkscape gallery better.
So what i did in these days?
1)When i left the list i announced the svg upload and the user picture
features were added.
But then i realized that we needed to work on the content organization,
to decrease the scrolling need, to make lighter pages to not overload
the cms and the webserver and to decrease the amount of javascripts that
were going to slowdown all the site navigation.
If you go now to see inkscape gallery you will see:
2)a splash page, bilingual with two main access links, giving you two
ways to start using inkscape gallery;
3)"quickstart" and "enter the website".
4)You find a sort of "user guide" with many useful information (i
hope...) in pdf linked in a RTFM! button.
5)You don't see the button menu in the splash page but you may show it
just by clicking on the + icon in the main menu area.
This feature is being used in most of the site sections, to avoid long
page scrolling where we thought that the buttons menu was not necessary.
6)We have new blocks called "pop" in some sections. They are showing the
most viewed images in the last days.
7)We have a list of avatars (not yet, really...but the tool is there),
and we'd like to launch the website with an avatar contest too. You may
add your pictures (inkscape made!) to attend to this contest. You may
vote on images to make us easy to choose which to include. (we will use
all of them in the first stage!).
8)If you see the artists section you have a shortened version of the
user profile page. This is meant to hide empty fields and to keep the
section meaningful.
Please use the "who am i" description field when you create account,
cause i think it's nice to have an short user description.
I'm not saying that is perfect now, i have a long list of fixes and
improvements still pending, i will put this online in the forum. This is
the time when we'll look around for someone who'll help us in
maintaining and improving the website. We are good in webdesign and we
know drupal quite well, but we aren't php developers, and this is what
will give us the chance to significantly improve inkscape gallery in the
future.
So, hope to see all of you in inkscape gallery 'cause the development is
over for now, we're in production and we'll go online on monday 11 February.
hope to be ready...
Da.
http://test.inkscapegallery.net
http://www.inkscapegallery.net
15 years, 3 months
Pixel font in Inkscape 45.1
by Roune Linus
Hi,
I'm attempting to user a TrueType pixel font called SuperText which
can be found at:
http://www.dafont.com/supertext.font
…but Inkscape is unable to display it and resorts to changing the
font to BitStream Vera Sans instead. Now I've managed to get other
pixel font to display nice and crispy like Pixel Arial 11( http://
www.dafont.com/pixel-arial-11.font ) and others some of which I've
needed to convert with FontForge to truetype font. So the question is
why does SuperText not render even though it's truetype?
Thanks,
Linus
15 years, 3 months
