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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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Difference difference
by Brynn 30 May '16

30 May '16

Hi Friends, It seems like I should know the answer to this. But I don't recall hearing about it. Starting with these 2 rings, which have fill and no stroke: http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/diff1.png I duplicate both, and then Difference. At 100% zoom they look ok. But zoom in (in this case, all the way, for best view) and you can see that the Difference wasn't correct. http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/diff2.png It's not a huge amount, but I would expect there shouldn't be any difference at all. This on Windows 7, 64-bit, sp1, Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit, exe installer. Is that a bug? Or is there some reason it's expected not to be precise? Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] New video three features.
by Jabier Arraiza 25 May '16

25 May '16

A old post.. sorry for the late. Not sure if reply at time. Is dificult add mass to pencil tool. In eraser tool is only activate a widget but pen tool work totaly diferent. Cheers, Jabier. El lun, 07-03-2016 a las 13:45 +0000, Todor Imreorov escribió: > Hi Jabier, > I noticed that there is now a "Mass" value in the eraser tool. Would > it be > possible to also add it to the PENCIL tool? It would make things > much > better for me if we had that feature for the pencil tool as well! > > Kind regards, > Todor > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz < > jabier.arraiza@...2982...> wrote: > > > > > Hi, here are my last video. Is a kind of showcase of three > > features: > > > > * Eraser tool with no width now in trunk. > > * Randomize color extension now with a limit slider, also in trunk. > > * Optional auto fill Delaunay triangles with color and thin stroke > > in > > the same color. The code of this are in this bug:https://bugs.launc > > hpad > > .net/inkscape/+bug/1553497 > > > > Anyway, there is better/faster ways to make Delaunay based in a > > image. > > So this is just a example. > > > > http://jabiertxof.marker.es/2016/03/no-width-eraser-mode-limit-rand > > om.h > > tml > > <http://jabiertxof.marker.es/2016/03/no-width-eraser-mode-limit-ran > > dom.html> > > > > Cheers, Jabier. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > >

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Inkscape crashes when importing an image
by Sridhar M A 24 May '16

24 May '16

I am using inkscape on my debian system. On one machine, it crashes when I try to import an image or drag and drop it from a file manager. I am attaching the log captured in a terminal. This happens with all images---type, size, color. My installation details: $ apt-cache policy inkscape inkscape: Installed: 0.91-9 Candidate: 0.91-9 Version table: *** 0.91-9 800 800 http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 600 http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Sridhar

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Drawing display
by Olivier BATARD 22 May '16

22 May '16

Hello, I’m running inkscape 0.91 with XQuartz 2.7.9 on mac OS X 10.11.4 I’m having a problem. When I create a new document, I select a shape like ellipse, I draw but nothing appears on the screen, the shape won’t draw. The outline is by default, black on white. Can anyone tell me what’s going on ? Thanks ! Rodolphe.

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New feature to eraser tool
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 22 May '16

22 May '16

Hi to all. A new feature born in Hackfest 2016 thanks to the idea of Martin Owens to improve the eraser tool. This is a 0.93 feature. Here are the video: http://jabiertxof.marker.es/2016/05/new-eraser-mode -in-inkscape.html And here the branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/clip_eraser Cheers and dance!

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] New feature to eraser tool
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 22 May '16

22 May '16

Hi Todor. Yes it could be implemented. Maybe... Bye and thanks for the link. El dom, 22-05-2016 a las 15:50 +0100, Todor Imreorov escribió: > Do you guys think that this: > http://imovethings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/feature-proposal-vector-era > ser-that.html?m=1 > Could be implemented? It would certainly maje the eraser tool way > more > powerful > On 22 May 2016 13:15, "Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz" <jabier.arraiza@...3208... > r.es> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Martin: > > > > El dom, 22-05-2016 a las 00:58 -0400, Martin Owens escribió: > > > > > > This looks really good Jabier, > > > > > > Thank you so much for spending the time on the feature. > > > > > > My main question is: does this feature work on the selected items > > > or > > > on > > > all items in the layer? I noticed the code loops through all > > > items to > > > apply the clip mask. > > If no selection, use bounding box of the eraser tool -red- > > contained > > items, if there is selection use only selected items, retaining > > selection after it. > > > > I also think it works throught layers, but not tested yet, maybe > > need > > to switch 2 or 3 lines from current layer to top most. > > > > > > > > (at some point we should look at the speed of the eraser tool, > > > because > > > it's a bit slow even on fast machines (I mean the apply speed, > > > not > > > the > > > drag speed)) > > Not sure about the speed, I try it in a very slow machine in the > > video. > > I think I can speed a bit I need to put time marks to get the > > slower > > processes. > > > > > > > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > Cheers, Jabier. > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------- > > Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees > > who > > bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition > > of MDM > > restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only > > the > > apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data > > untouched! > > https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > >

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custom grids ("outside the box")
by Brynn 19 May '16

19 May '16

Hi Friends, I have a couple of questions about custom grids. I'm more or less familiar with the various extensions, and the 2 regular grids (rectangular and axonomic/isometric). But I was thinking about a couple of....well, probably silly things....but very unusual grids. One thing I want is the axomonic grid, but rotated around....I think would be 30 degrees, so that if you use it to draw a hexagon, the 2 vertical sides are horizontal. And the tiny triangles point up and down instead of side to side. Or a rectangular grid rotated 45 degrees. So instead of tiny squares, it's tiny diamonds. And the other thing I was wondering. Would it be possible, somehow using Guides, to make a grid like that, or even with a star shape? For example, see http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/sg.png. There I made 3 stars, centered on the same spot, each 50 px larger (or smaller). Then I used Object to Guides. But this would be a tedious process, to say the least, to make a page-size grid. Plus, for the star shape, it makes 2 guides for each of the 5 sides. I understand why, it's just that makes it even more work, to deal with the extra ones....if you were actually considering doing it with guides. Questions: 1 - Would making, let's say an a4 page-size grid, using guides, start to create performance issues, like it would if you used paths? 2 - Otherwise, would making this kind of grid require an extension, or other coding? 3 - Or is there any other way to get an unusual grid like these examples? I mean, a grid that can be snapped to. I realize I could get a photo or other image of a grid and import it. But it wouldn't be snappable. Thank you very much :-) brynn

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ImageMagick vulnerability
by Brynn 10 May '16

10 May '16

Hi Friends, I know Inkscape does not use or depend on ImageMagick. But a lot of graphics or graphics-related apps do use it. So just in case anyone hasn't heard about this, I wanted to share. http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05/easily-exploited-bug-exposes-huge-n… I don't think the Inkscape website gallery uses IM, does it? (I learned about it because I use a Coppermine gallery on Inkscape Community, and CPG uses IM.) All best, brynn

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combine paths within a group
by Brynn 02 May '16

02 May '16

Hi Friends, I needed to add some new paths to existing paths which were in a group. And I hate nested groups. So rather than group the new path with the original group, I decided to combine the new paths with one of the paths inside the group. And I found that combining the new paths to the paths inside the group, removed the new compound path from the group. Should that happen? Steps: 1 -- create 3 paths (or create 1 and duplicate twice) 2 -- place the 3 paths side by side (with or without space between) 3 -- group those 3 paths 4 -- draw a new path 5 -- drag it over beside the left path 6 -- with the Node tool, select the left path and the new path 7 -- Path menu > Combine 8 -- deselect all 9 -- switch to Selection tool and select the group Notice that the original Group of 3 is now a Group of 2. The newly created compound path has been ejected from the Group. The same thing happens if you enter the group before combining. Should that happen? I don't know why Inkscape should assume that I don't want this new path in the group anymore. I can't say for a fact that this is different behavior than in the past. But it seems like it is. If this is expected, why? If not, this is on Windows 7, 64-bit, sp1, with Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit (exe installer) and 64-bit (7z version). Should be reported? Thank you very much :-) brynn

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erase
by Joanne Rancourt 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

I have a logo that I created in 2010 when I was confortable using inkscape. I have not used it for a while but would like to delete the date on it and keep the rest. A lovely user of this forum did it for me once but do you think I can find the file ? of course not, lol. Is there any way I can just use a shape, circle perhaps, in white and lay it over the date so it will not show ? I could then save it as a jpg rather than a png and use it. thanks for any advice,Joanne

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Inkscape Hackfest News
by Martin Owens 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Inkscapistas, Sorry for the delay everyone, but the news is ready to be published: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2016/04/16/what-happened-hackfest-2016/ You may share the link around. Click on photos, especially the one with all hackers which is actually an embeded svg with hover css. There's still some issues with the CSS on these news pages and the manual process of including images wasn't great. But I wanted to get this news article out before our next hackfest ;-) If anyone would like to clean up the css, I'll be happy to take a patch. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Hackfest News
by C R 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

Thanks for the update! The interactive picture additions are really cool too! -C On 28 Apr 2016 4:31 am, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...155...> wrote: Inkscapistas, Sorry for the delay everyone, but the news is ready to be published: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2016/04/16/what-happened-hackfest-2016/ You may share the link around. Click on photos, especially the one with all hackers which is actually an embeded svg with hover css. There's still some issues with the CSS on these news pages and the manual process of including images wasn't great. But I wanted to get this news article out before our next hackfest ;-) If anyone would like to clean up the css, I'll be happy to take a patch. Best Regards, Martin Owens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Filters -> Color -> Greyscale default values
by Sophoklis Goumas 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hello. I've messed a little bit with Inkscape's: Filters -> Color -> Greyscale values and now I'm looking for the default ones. Would anyone care to share them, please? And, shouldn't there be a button to RESET those values to the default ones, what do you think? Thanks in advance, Sophoklis

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Website access in China - Fix applied
by Martin Owens 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

Dear Inkscape Users and Developers, After a lot of backwards and forwards between osuosl and fastly.net we have put in place a solution for our website's access in China. The problem was that our chinese visitors would be able to get the website, but not any of the media (or downloads) because of their great firewall. The solution was a CNAME from media.inkscape.org to fastly and some special dns configuration which I barely understand to solve the issue with access to fastly caches. (I copied and pasted what people said in two tickets and acted as a manual ticket express for the professionals) This solution is now live and I invite people in China to test the website and please report back if they can see any issues. (and also if they would like to translate pages) :-) Best Regards, Martin Owens

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erase?
by ToddAndMargo 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi All, Since I am running Scientific Linux 7.2 (RHEL clone), I am probably not running the latest Inkscape: $ rpm -qa inkscape inkscape-0.48.4-15.el7.x86_64 I tried Inkcape out to create a graphics for a tech manual. I managed to find everything I need in DuckDuckGo (Google without the spying). I was impressed. One thing I never figured out (and had to use GIMP) was how to erase a section. All the stuff I found on the web made no sense to me and I couldn't find things. Exactly how to I erase something? (I don't mind over writing with a while brush, as I did in GIMP.) Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Revolving / Bending a Rectangle Around a Cylinder
by Ole Ersoy 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi, I'm reviewing the following Adobe Illustrator Logo tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxF7xXt5Oss In it he uses a 3d tool to bend a rectangle around a cylinder. I was wondering if Inkscape has a similar tool / extension? TIA, Ole

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Hackfest: Summary
by unknown＠example.com 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi everyone, the Inkscape Hackfest in Leeds ended yesterday evening. A summary of the Hackfest activity is available at https://plus.google.com/+inkscape/posts/1xZ5aDyCMU2 Many of the Inkscape developers who attended the Hackfest will also be attending the Libre Graphics Meeting in London (starting tomorrow, see http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2016/ for more info). There, they will meet up with users, user interface experts and people whose code Inkscape is using (in the form of shared libraries). You can still join them there, it's not too late ;) Thank you all for your support for the Inkscape project, Kind regards, Maren

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More Hackfest Updates!
by Maren Hachmann 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Hi again, the Inkscape developers have published a summary of their work on Hackfest Day 2 in Leeds here: https://plus.google.com/+inkscape/posts/ENoe5dPEYNe If you're curious how this translates into code, just take a look at the long list of new commits to the Inkscape development branch made since the Hackfest started (the commit messages may seem cryptic, but the shear amount should tell you something about how hard they're working!): http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/changes If you haven't yet, you might want to support their efforts and future hackfests by making a donation: https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/hackfest-2016/ Kind regards, Maren

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Bug report to EPEL on revision
by ToddAndMargo 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Hi All, $ rpm -qa inkscape inkscape-0.48.4-15.el7.x86_64 I requested from EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) that they update Inkscape. If anyone wants on the Cc: list, it is over at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326441 -T

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about spam?
by Brynn 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Hi Friends, I was just looking at a message that looks like it was sent to 3 Inkscape mailing lists. But it looks quite spammish. I'm just curious how spam in the list is handled. It *could* be spam only for me, that was made to look like it's from the Inkscape lists, to fool me. I don't know much about mail headers and such, but it does look like it was sent to the lists, to me. I won't say exactly which message, in case it's not spam. But how is spam kept out of a mailing list? Thanks, brynn

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First Hackfest update
by Maren Hachmann 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Hi everyone, for those who are as curious about what's going on at the Inkscape Hackfest in Leeds as I am, Inkscape's Hackfest hackers have posted an update at Inkscape's google+ page: https://plus.google.com/+inkscape Cheers, Maren

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screen shot?
by ToddAndMargo 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Hi All, $ rpm -qa inkscape inkscape-0.48.4-15.el7.x86_64 I take it there is no "screen shot" utility built into Inkscape. Just use GIMP? Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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PAP distortion
by Brynn 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

Hi Friends, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this. But I'm hoping someone might know some trick that I haven't heard (or maybe heard but forgot). Using Pattern Along Path LPE, where there's a sharp corner or tight curve, the pattern becomes distorted. Please see screenshot http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/PAPdistort.png. I've corrected some of it by adding nodes near the sharp points. See http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/PAPdistort1.png. Is the only solution to convert the PAP to path, and manually delete the misshaped circles, then replace with individual circles, at or around the points? Thanks for your help :-) brynn

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New extension: isometric projection converter
by Jeroen Hoek 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hello, I have created an extension for Inkscape that transforms a flat two-dimensional object to one of the three visible sides of an isometric projection: https://github.com/jdhoek/inkscape-isometric-projection I was drawing some woodworking plans using an isometric grid, and wanted a way to transform an object drawn in 2D to the top, left-hand side, or right-hand side of an isometric projection. Learned a bit about affine transformations along the way too. The utility methods in simpletransform.py where really useful! Thanks for providing these. Should I add this extension to the list at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extension_repository ? -- Kind regards, Jeroen Hoek GPG: 44D4 1D39 535A 1F9A 9509 92C5 A7A8 B913 D40D D022

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