March 2018 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape no fonts
by Sam 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Hi guys, I try to run Inkscape 92.3 on OpenSuse 42.3 with snapd, but there is no fonts. It is running but i only see small square boxes. Can anybody help me? Tnx Sam

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Inkscape 0.92.3 bugfix release
by Bryce Harrington 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Inkscape 0.92.3 is a maintenance release resolving numerous bugs and making this the most stable release of the series. To download the latest packaged version of Inkscape visit: https://inkscape.org/release/0.92.3/ (Note: A build of 0.92.3 is not currently available for MacOS. The project welcomes additional contributors with MacOS expertise.) Among the most reported bugs addressed were: * Blank pages being output when printing multiple copies of a document * The inability to cancel during the export of large files * Application crashes caused by dragging a path at a cap or line join * Keyboard shortcut problems on non-Latin keyboard layouts Also a few performance improvements and usability enhancements of note: * New SVG export options from the command line * Support for right-to-left text * Improved ellipse controls * Multi-line text support for the PDF+LaTeX export * New render tile preferences for performance tuning * Better startup performance for many Windows users Find out more about the release at: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2018/03/22/announcing-0923-release-inkscape/ Inkscape 0.92.3 -~= Released 2018-03-11 =~- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Release Highlights | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Inkscape 0.92.3 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, but it also brings some small new features, like being able to set an ellipses' radii numerically in the tool controls, or switching the writing direction from left-to-right to right-to-left. Windows users will be happy to learn that the long startup times many of them were seeing could greatly be reduced. A new rendering option with an adjusted default value can vastly improve performance when working with filters. Many of the bug fixes address important functionality, like printing issues, crashes with the node tool or problems with keyboard shortcuts. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Improvements | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Command line usage ================== Three new command line options controlling page size are supported when exporting in SVG format: • --export-area-drawing (feature requests in bug #1597921 and bug #1722844) • --export-area-page while using --export-id • --export-margin Text tool ========= Support for switching between RTL and LTR writing directions has been added (on narrow screens, find it by unfolding the overhang menu for the text tool's tool controls by clicking on the triangle at the far right). Circle/ellipse/arc tool ======================= New fields for setting vertical/horizontal radius (Rx/Ry) were added to the tool controls bar. (Bug #1181127) PDF+LaTeX export ================ Support for multi-line text with basic support for line-spacing attribute was added. (Bug #771959) Please note: • Currently only the line-spacing of the top level text element is considered, i.e. all lines in one text element share the same line spacing. • LaTeX is much more clever with respect to line spacing, so layout might not always be exactly the same as in Inkscape. • Make sure to use a continuously scalable font in LaTeX, otherwise results might be unexpected. Preferences =========== A new renderer option called "Rendering tile multiplier" was added. Making this value larger can speed up drawing, if you have large areas with complex filters in your drawing or work a lot with high zoom levels on filtered objects. Making the value smaller can make zooming and panning in relevant areas faster on low-end hardware (if there are no large filtered areas on the visible part of the canvas). The default value makes your screen consist of about four tiles that are rendered independently, if you're not using a hidpi screen (which requires more tiles). For a more detailed explanation, see: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/211#note_62157385. Startup Performance =================== The first start of Inkscape on Windows is much faster now. This is the result of improvements in fontconfig 2.13.0, a third party library which handles font related tasks for Inkscape. One of the tasks is creating an index of all fonts available on the system which is much faster now. If the new indexing causes any issues (i.e. fonts or glyphs not available that could be used before) make sure to let us know or report the issue directly to the fontconfig project. Extensions ========== Extensions on Windows can now make use of Tkinter, without requiring users to install it themselves. Tkinter provides functionality for creating interactive graphical user interfaces. This is used, for example, by the TexText extension that renders mathematical LaTeX formulas to SVG (feature request at bug # 1735451). +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Regression Fixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Potentially missing command line output in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows 7. (Bug #1714278) • Extensions in the 'Raster' submenu relying on ImageMagick were broken and caused crashes in Inkscape 0.92.2 on Windows. (Bug #1720330) • gcodetools were creating wrong orientation points since the dpi change had been made for Inkscape 0.92. (Bug #1680760) • Regression on 0.92.2 makes it impossible to fill a powerstroke shape (Bug #1715433) • The preferences dialog was tiny by default. (Bug #1360213) • Node handles no longer get too large when selected, and they also revert back to standard size when deselected. (Bug #1568644) • Export to .odg (Open Document Drawing) works again on Windows. (Bug #1654034) • Inkscape no longer freezes when trying to import clipart from OpenClipart when the openclipart.org server takes too long to respond to requests. (Bug #1745521) • Text that is written in vertical direction now has its marks (e.g. accents) on the correct side again. (gitlab commit 2abe0bb6) • The 'Clone original' path effect works again to fill a path with a PowerStroke applied to it (useful for drawing cartoons) (Bug #1715433) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Important bugfixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • Fix crash when attempting to drag path at cap or line join. (Bug #1691406) • Inkscape process did not exit cleanly on Windows. (Bugs #1412365 and #1715339; also causing #1714278) • File extension was sometimes omitted when adding saved files to Windows' list of "recently used documents" resulting in unusable links. (git commit 4d599528) • Do not crash on systems with illegal fontconfig configurations. (Bug #1716516) • Resolve issues when attempting to save files to non-existing directories. Could happen for shortcuts.xml and when setting the autosave location manually. (Bug #1719629) • Allow cancellation of bitmap export. (Bug #1195929) • Fix issues with PDF+LaTeX export: wrong stacking of text/graphics, missing pages in PDF output. (Bugs #771957, #1417470) • Fix shortcuts not working as expected when a non-latin keyboard layout is the primary keyboard layout on a system. (Bugs #1226962, #1730246, #1734308) • Printing multiple copies of the document resulted in one copy and many blank pages. (Bug #490866, #1733424) • Fix export area when exporting single objects to SVG using the --export-id command line switch. (Bug #1306662, #1707368) • Fix DXF output and Windows vector print scaling for documents with a custom view box. (Bug #1672066) • Invalid output generated from extensions no longer makes Inkscape crash. (gitlab commit 608fa56e) • The Ruler Live Path Effect now shows correct measurements in the default template (and other non-px-based templates), too (Bug #1460858) • The Document Properties dialog now has a more compact layout, so all items should be accessible on smaller screens (Bug #1510831) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | More bug fixes | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ There were even more issues fixed than those listed above, but these probably only affect a small portion of users, or are relevant for development and packaging only. For a complete list, visit our launchpad bug tracker and see the commit history on gitlab (all changes from August, 6th 2017 until release date). +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Translations | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ The following UI translations received updates: • French • German • Icelandic • Italian • Korean • Spanish • Ukrainian The following installer translations received updates: • Korean Contributing to interface translations ====================================== Want to help with translations? Learn how to help at: https://inkscape.org/contribute/translations/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Documentation | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Documentation Relaunch ====================== The Inkscape documentation repository, containing the man page, the keyboard shortcut list as well as the tutorials and their respective translation files, has been almost completely refactored (Java has been dropped in favor of Python), and was updated to work with git and gitlab. Documentation Updates ===================== The man page and the keyboard shortcut list have been updated. Where to find recent documentation ================================== Continuously updated man page (for command line usage), keyboard and mouse shortcut list, tutorials and translation statistics for the various parts of the Inkscape project are available on the inkscape.org website: • Man page • Keyboard shortcuts • Tutorials • Translation statistics for Inkscape 0.92 series / development branch Tutorials, as always, are also included with your Inkscape installation. Contributing to documentation and documentation translation =========================================================== Contributions to the documentation translations, as well as improvements to its contents, are welcome at the inkscape-docs repository. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Known issues | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ • DPI Change: known issues with 'Scale elements' option (Bugs: 1653230,1653236,1654342,1654796,1654880,1654903,1655005,1655053,1660228) • DPI Change: Default grids in documents created with Inkscape 0.91 don't scale correctly. (Bug #1653893) • Line height: Changing "baseline spacing" stops working. (Bug #1707808) • Renderer: Artifacts in Gaussian blur effects with default quality settings. (Bug #1656383) • Node editor: Deselecting selected nodes of complex paths takes a long time. (Bug #1652100) • Performance: Using the objects dialog at least once in your Inkscape session slows down actions such as duplicate and delete for files with many objects. (Bug #1431274) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For information on prior releases, please see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape

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Locking in Users, Was: Website Feedback
by Martin Owens 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Dear Erlönd Everaert, I'm the Inkscape Website Administrator, I'm not a lawyer and you should certainly seek legal council to get to know Free Software more and how it can help you do what you want to do. I'm sending this to the greater inkscape user community for feedback. Inkscape is Free Software licensed under the General Public License version 2. This comes with all the freedoms you need to present Inkscape to your customers, but it also stops you from removing Freedoms from your customers too. Everyone, you, your customers and anyone else MUST continue to have access to the software and it's code. This doesn't mean however that you couldn't present the most useful template, even default template with logos and such to customers. You can do that. But customers would be free to take your template apart and extract their copyright/artwork from the template too. My best advice, honestly, present your customers with the best experience. Make it the most convenient and easiest to use without making efforts to manipulate your customers into locking them in. Those locks will stop more customers from using your company than you'll get from stopping someone who goes with a competitor. Of course as the company with the best Inkscape workflow all worked out, your company will always be the most convenient place to have the work done and our large community will always respect a manufacturer that respects their customers. Kind Regards, Martin Owens One of many Inkscape contributors On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 08:07 +0000, Anonymous User wrote: > Dear, > > We would like to use your software. We still have some questions. > > We are looking for a software that our costumers can use to draw > their patch panels and send them to us so we can make them. The only > thing we want is a locked file where our logo will be visible so > customers won't go to other companies. Is this possible and how? > > Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, > > Erlönd Everaert > Employee at Livepower/AV-Maatwerk > ______________________ > E-mail: erlondeveraert@...9... > Mobile: +32472197548 > > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/erlondeveraert > > > LIVEPOWER BELGIUM

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Barcode Extension plugin
by Alex 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

Hello, how to add "whitespace guard mark" (>) at the end of barcode? I need guard mark for EAN-13 barcodes. Regards, Alex

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Hackfest in Three and a bit weeks
by Martin Owens 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Dear developers, The 2018 Inkscape hackfest will begin in three weeks. If you are coming, please add your name to the Attendees page right away: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Attendees I'm hoping that both Alex Valavanis and Krzysztof can come to the hackfest and we hopefully will resolve anything to do with funding at the meeting tomorrow. If you think you might come, but aren't sure yet, please add yourself with a MAYBE tag to the list, so I know if the even is going to be as small as it looks like it's going to be. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Hackfests!
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Hi Inkscapers, As you hopefully are aware, Inkscape will be having our main 2018 hackfest in Boston at the end of March and a mini-hackfest in Seville at the end of April (at the Libre Graphics Meeting). All members of the Inkscape community are encouraged to attend! Financial support is available based on past contributions to Inkscape (see "Attendees" page below for details). Please add your name to the "Attendees" page if you are thinking about attending. While you can "walk-in" at LGM, we'll have to provide a list of who is attending the Boston Hackfest to our hosts before the hackfest starts. Even if you can't attend, you can still propose topics for discussion/work on the "Topics" page. And you can contribute financial support at: https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/hackfests/ Here's a list of relevant web pages: Boston Hackfest: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018 http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Attendees http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Topics Seville Hackfest: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM_Attendees http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM_Topics Hoping to see you at one of the Hackfests, Tav

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