April 2019 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

First Inkscope Video Podcast is live!
by C R 30 May '19

30 May '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J1r8a0emYc Future podcasts will be shorter, but hey, at least all the technical difficulties were edited out. :) Enjoy! -C

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Repairing a pixellated drop-shadow gradient
by Peter Flynn 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

I have inherited a vector PDF and an SVG file of a logo made from outlined letters with a gradated drop-shadow (see http://xml.silmaril.ie/downloads/letterlogo.png for enlarged PNG fragment). When the logo is enlarged (eg for use on a poster), the drop-shadow shows up pixellated. Both files exhibit the identical problem. When edited, the drop-shadow is indeed made up of pixels. I assume in my ignorance that it was passed through some software at some stage in its past which concretized the drop-shadow as graded pixels. How would I go about removing the drop-shadow entirely, and replacing it with one of identical color and extent, but done in such a way as to withstand enlargement without deterioration? Peter

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Fundrasing for FOSS Projects - meetup this saturday
by Bryce Harrington 11 Apr '19

11 Apr '19

Reminder: Tomorrow (Saturday) is our fundraising meet up. Come join us to learn about fundraising for free and open source software projects, and bounce ideas around. If you're interested in new ways to help move Inkscape forward, or looking for a good opportunity to get involved in open source, this may be an excellent chance! See below for specifics. Bryce On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:52:10PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Topic: Fundraising for FOSS Projects > When: Sat, Mar 16th 19:00 UTC to 21:00 UTC > Where: chat.inkscape.org in channel #collaboration_space > > This Saturday, Michèle and I will be watching and discussing a series of > videos on fundraising for open source projects. Afterwards, we can > bounce ideas around for how to improve Inkscape's funding. > > Please join us, we'd love the company. :-) > > > For links to the videos, and some tentative plans for future topics for > Watch Parties, please see: > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_Classes > > Bryce > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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The Great Inkscape Bug Migration has Begun!
by Ryan Gorley 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Hello All, We're excited to announce the beginning of our bug migration from Launchpad to GitLab! This is a great way for veterans and rookies alike to improve Inkscape for all. To add a little excitement we're tracking migrations, publishing a leaderboard, awarding achievements and issuing prizes to top contributors. Learn more by visiting: http://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration. Thanks for joining the cause! -- P.S. Special thanks to CR, Terry, and all who put this event together.

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April Vectors Meeting - Tomorrow - Please Join Us!
by Ryan Gorley 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hello All, Tomorrow (Saturday, April 6) we will be having our monthly Vectors Meeting at 08:00 PST (Time Conversion <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…>) on the Vectors channel of chat.inkscape.org. There are several important topics to discuss, and new contributors we hope will come and introduce themselves. See the full agenda here <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/114>. Feel free to add items you feel like we missed. At the beginning of each meeting we vote on those topics we'll focus on during our 1 hour. I hope to see you all there! Ryan

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call for volunteer moderators, new forum, next steps
by brynn 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hi Friends, I posted messages in the forums last week, but I just realized I didn't post on the mailing lists. Since the Rules and Guidelines are essentially finished, the next step is to select moderators for the new forum. If anyone is interested in helping to moderate, please contact me. You can reply to this message on the list, or you're welcome to contact me privately, if you prefer. The Rules section of the Rules and Guidelines explains what the job of a moderator is. I think it will eventually appear on a new Forum Team on the website's Teams page, but it's not there yet. Meanwhile, it's here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20Ru… Not the meeting coming up this weekend, but next month's (May) meeting of the Vectors team, we'll be discussing plans for an opening of the new forum. At the moment, I'm thinking a month or 2 after the next hackfest would be good for the opening. The hackfest is end of May/beginning of June, so maybe July/August would be good for the forum opening? That's just a very rough guess at this point, and we'll finalize that at the May meeting. All best, brynn

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