January 2010 - Inkscape Users

SVG to finally gets some support from MS?
by Michael Grosberg 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

It seems Microsoft has applied to take part in the W3C SVG working group. Could that means they are finally coming around to supporting SVG in IE (after attempting to develop their own web vector format as part of WPF). Details are here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/01/05/microsoft-joins-w3c-svg-working… This could make Inkscape vastly more popular in the near future.

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ACSLogo for mac will do svg
by Elwin Estle 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

I was poking around, looking at computer languages, and I came across this: http://www.alancsmith.co.uk/logo/ It's a logo implementation with turtle graphics capability, and you can export to svg. It will also do movies, check out the gallery page, very interesting stuff.

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Future plans for speeding up Inkscape?
by Linda Walsh 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

I was wondering if anyone was planning on mods to speed up inkscape's interface and 3D ops? I.e. where it "feels" like it could really benefit would be use of 3D hardware acceleration in doing some of it's on-screen rotations and movements. Other areas with more 'niche' or smaller payoff would be using CUDA-based highly parallel processing (I hear that CUDA libs are good at scaling many points in parallel), followed by multiple CPU cores, and use of 64-bit instructions. I think the most bang for the buck and most general would come from using 3D HW accel and moving to the extra memory provided by 64-bit. I know that running out of memory is where Adobe Illus. quickly fails on larger vector drawings, especially in the undo/redo system. It's amazing what Inkscape can do and how easy it is to do thing when it comes to vector stuff, but my version (.47) doesn't seem real stable after I've been running it for a while. All of my long edit sessions in _playing_ with advanced features have ended by it crashing. I wasn't trying to do anything in particular so I don't remember the workflow I did each time, but it was usually after it had been up a while. Only once did I actually get to a point of saving an output w/o it crashing. I'm a complete novice when it comes to computer art/SVG art, so I'd sure I was doing something that was 'unreasonable'... :-) I didn't try to report the bug at the time as I'm sure the developers have their plate full with other problems and since I'm not real familiar with correct operation, I didn't want to be told that I wasn't using the product 'the right way' and by being a beginner, the crashes were due to me trying to do things that I should have done differently (though I tend to believe programs shouldn't crash in such situations, but there could be workarounds that would be known if I was more adept with the program). I can try to report bugs if I'm not made to feel worthless for reporting them if I don't also include fixes for them...like I have got on some projects...(oh the joys of open source projects :-) ). Linda

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Future plans for speeding up Inkscape?
by Josh Andler 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

I feel that Joshua (not me) summed that up nicely. It boils down to that we are an open and welcoming community. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated, and the more info you can provide, the better for experience for everyone. We don't tend to take issue unless you want to complain and suggest how we can do it better. We don't know better than you, and we won't (generally claim to) know what's right. Tell us. Everyone benefits from non-argumentative feedback. Cheers, Josh On Jan 4, 2010 11:30 PM, "Joshua L. Blocher" <verbalshadow@...155...> wrote: > I think the most bang for the buck and most general would come > from using 3D HW accel and movin... Honestly, It is hard to find people who are Interested and have the skills and time to implement it. We are just waiting for the stars to align and the right contributor(s) to show up. > > It's amazing what Inkscape can do and how easy it is to do thing > when it comes to vector stu... 'unreasonable' behavior is the kind that finds bugs the fastest, and provides us with new use cases. Please report your bugs . http://www.inkscape.org/report_bugs.php?lang=en > > I didn't try to report the bug at the time as I'm sure the > developers have their plate full ... I recommend enabling the auto-save feature in Preference it has saved me a few times. > > I can try to report bugs if I'm not made to feel worthless for > reporting them if I don't als... We want and need all the feedback you can give us for Inkscape. If you have issue with any inkscape contributor making you feel worthless for trying to be helpful please let us know, here or on the Devel ML. Appropriate action will be taken. Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email i... Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Making a dial
by Claus Cyrny 03 Jan '10

03 Jan '10

Hi all, I'm about trying to make a dial by following the tips on Tavmjong's web site at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles-Tricks.html but I just can't figure out how to handle the parameters within the 'tiled clones' dialogue. I managed to set the center of rotation, and checked 'exclude' for the columns, but how do I proceed after that? (I selected P1 translation.) For a start, I just wanted to make a dial composed of 4 short strokes, at 0°, 90°, 180°, and 270°, but even this seems to be difficult. Sorry, but the rows/columns part is a bit confusing to me. Can anybody help? TIA, Claus -- - Me on Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/claus_01/> - Me on Twitter <http://twitter.com/claus_01/>

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