June 2016 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

new extension
by ugajin 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

A new Inkscape extension, which lets you create multiple guides via a simple dialogue, has been added and can be download here: https://inkscape.org/en/download/addons/

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guides... extension update
by ugajin 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

The latest version of guides... has been uloaded. It includes a feature for switching between operating modes. In addition to Custom mode the user can now select the Target operating mode. In target mode guides are drawn to a selection target, or to the page as the target. Target mode can be used to draw perpendicular guides only. Enjoy! -u

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guides... update
by ugajin 06 Jun '16

06 Jun '16

The update has now been released and uploaded here: https://inkscape.org/en/download/addons/. Improvements include a new UI, with better options for removing guides, and increaed x, y step value range. Enjoy. -u

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Web Chat Review
by Martin Owens 01 Jun '16

01 Jun '16

Dear Users and Developers, I've put together an integrated tutorial for the irc chat on inkscape.org and I'd like a few users and support contributors to give it a review: https://inkscape.org/en/*users/chat/ You should see a few things are different now: * You must be logged in to use the chat, previously you could be anonymous. You even must have an email configured, so facebook and twitter logins must update their user profile before chatting. * There is the above guide which add the can_irc permission to a user's account. Confirming they've seen every page (I shorted it to 4 pages). * There's a new IRC bot that offers these new commands: - webbot: whois [username] ; will tell you who a user is and a link to their website profile, in case someone joins the chat asks a question and then leaves without waiting. - webbot: tell [username] [msg] ; will send an alert to the user with a possible response. The default for website message alerts is to email them too. So you can respond to someone who just left. - Get Latest Art ; a bit of fun to return the latest item in the Artwork category on the live site. Returns the link. - If you want further integrations between irc and the website, this is now possible. (maybe good for meetings in the future) I'm hoping these tools will allow users to feel comfortable chatting with us and also provision support contributors with what they need when in chat. The exact text of the above tutorial is up for review here. Please let me know your suggestions by email on list. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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