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NEW: Trace Bitmap dialog redesign and new parameters
by bulia byak 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

* This dialog now provides access to three more tracing parameters: o Suppress speckles: If set, spots or speckles larger than the given size are suppressed in the trace. o Smooth corners: This parameter controls how much smoothing is applied to corners in the traced path. o Optimize paths: If set, trace paths are optimized by joining adjacent Bezier segments with the given tolerance. * The dialog is redesigned to use three tabs: Mode, Parameters, and Preview. The controls are reorganized to be easier to find. Most labels and tooltips are rewritten for clarity. * The trace preview image is made twice larger. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: file name entry field finally fixed
by bulia byak 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

* We removed the "hacked" filename entry field that we had added to the Open and Save dialogs because starting from version 2.10, GTK+ has finally restored this field in their standard file dialog (better late than never!). The standard field at the top of the dialog supports type-ahead find and performs the default dialog action (open or save) by pressing Enter, which means you can now do a quick Ctrl+O, Ctrl+V, Enter sequence to open the file whose path is in your clipboard (this closes a long-standing usability bug). Those who use older versions of GTK are advised either to upgrade to 2.10 or use Ctrl+L to open a pop-up filename box. (Our Windows builds are shipped with GTK+ 2.10.) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Extension Documentation
by Aaron Spike 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Ted Gould wrote: > Yeah! Go Aaron! Well so far I haven't created much new text on the wiki, just moved it around. So let's give a round of applause to the folks that have added some docs recently. Thanks guys. > I actually have looked for that file on more than one occasion. Really, > if someone out there has a mailing list archive... I'd like to update > it with all the new fun things that have been added. Right under my nose the whole time! Sf.net's new interface makes it way easier for me to find things. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11420660 I pasted it to the wiki. This was from a time before extensions had parameters and the autogui. Wow, things have come a long way since 2005-04-07. Aaron Spike

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Clipping & EPS export
by Arnout Standaert 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Hi list, I'm using clipping in some of my graphics and just noticed that the clipping gets lost in the EPS export. In other words, the EPS shows the full clipped object instead of only the unclipped part. This corresponds to bug 1537281 as far as I can see... is there a quick fix for this? Thanks a bunch for any useful tips, Arnout

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Install miseries.
by John R. Culleton 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

I have a Slackware Linux system, at this point release 11. Slackware does not include Gnome. when I attempt to compile Inkscape I get a long list of missing packages. When I attempt to install the precompiled version using: inkscape-0.44.1.x86.WONKY.package things get even worse. Fontconf gets messed up and I have to reinstall Slackware 11 from scratch to straighten things out. Which distro of Linux is Inkscape friendly? I can set it up on a separate partition. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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NEW: color effects extensions
by bulia byak 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Contributed by Jos Hirth, with some changes by me: * Color effects: a new group of extensions in the Color submenu of the Effects menu allows you to adjust all colors of a selection at once. These commands affect both fill and stroke colors, including gradients (but not bitmaps). The commands include Brighter and Darker (adjust brightness by up or down by 10%), Desaturate, Grayscale, Negative, commands for removing or swapping the Red, Green, Blue channels, as well as a Custom command where you can set your own formulas for modifying the color channels. These extensions are a temporary solution; in a future version, similar functionality will be added to Inkscape core. Adjusting gradient colors may be buggy because a gradient is sometimes shared by more than one object. Also, undoing color changes on gradients exposes a bug where an object seems to "disappear"; this is however only a display issue (probably caused by the order in which gradients and their users are restored on undo) not causing any loss of information. Finally, on large documents and large selections with gradients, Python's XPath code may get quite slow. Despite these shortcomings, I decided to commit this, because it's genuinely useful functionality which was so far missing in Inkscape. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Extension Documentation
by Aaron Spike 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

People have been noticing the sad state of Extension System documentation frequently. I think we should change this. I've started reorganizing things on the wiki. I've taken an old mail from Ted and pasted it at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionArchitecture Never seen a clearer description! http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ScriptingHOWTO describes in general terms what is needed to write a script/program in any language that communicates with inkscape as a Script extension. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingAnINX will be home to a description of the INX format. Ted or anybody else do you have the INX DTD that I had worked up way back when? I can't seem to find it. The last step will be to create a page describing the helper modules for extension writers who choose to use python. :-) It is just a start, but I hope we can clear things up and reduce the barriers for contribution. Comments? Aaron Spike

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Help Wanted: Autopackager
by Aaron Spike 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

I took over maintaining the Inkscape Autopackages both to relieve Mike Hearn, who was not an Inkscape developer, and to increase my knowledge in how applications are compiled and packaged on linux. Since then my free time has diminished and my interests have shifted. So I'm looking for an interested group or individual to assume this responsibility. Some knowledge of compiling applications on linux or a strong desire to learn recommended. :-) Anyone? Aaron Spike

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Extensions Repository
by ValessioBrito 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

You it made or it knows an extension for inkscpae? it divulges! - http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionsRepository .ValessioBrito PS: PathDeform is rules! Pretty.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape-user Digest, Vol 6, Issue 30
by ilya y. rostovtsev 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

> Trace Bitmap is actually a wrapper around another tool called potrace, > which can be used from the commandline. While Inkscape adds some useful > capabilities in its wrapper, you might be able to achieve what you need > directly. More info on potrace: > > http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ > > Bryce Thanks, that actually helps quite a bit. Q: Say I have a complex path that needs to be broken up into pieces. I generally copy-paste-in-place and then delete unnecessary nodes that leave me only with the piece that is most curious to my cause. I am familiar with "Break Apart" function, yet it only works for objects which contain multiple disjoint paths. Would be rather nice if I could select necessary points of the path and "extract" them into a new object without using "Cut Path," since it requires another shape to place correctly... -ilya.

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