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02/25 IRC Meeting Agenda
by Josh Andler 25 Feb '12

25 Feb '12

Hey all, Here is a slightly modified agenda for the irc meeting in ~2 hours. Sorry that the formatting is probably not ideal, it's my first shot as this is the first official meeting that I can remember in the past 8 years. Just a reminder, the meeting is scheduled for UTC 02/25 0800. *Inkscape 0.48.3.1 packaging *Inkscape 0.49 -Remaining refactoring goals --Handling of svg:switch not as a kind of group, but as a "transparent" element that is effectively replaced by the best choice in the SP tree --SVG 1.1 fallback for flowtext (probably depends on the above) --UI & Document coordinates --Markers matching stroke by default (user preference vs current default behavior) --Better architecture for LPEs (similar to SVG 2.0 vector effects) --User visible version numbering -Status -Release Plan *GSOC 2012 -Focus -Goals -Mentoring -Getting new students *SVG2 -Implementation strategies --Fallback support for older versions of the spec and inkscape specific features (markers inheriting properties for example) -Low hanging fruit -Most important features to our userbase --Helping Tavmjong with the Mesh branch -Initial Vector Effects support (non-destructive boolean ops might be a good target) *CSS3 support *Javascript support *Membership changes on the Inkscape Board *What we need in upstream libraries (including 2geom) *Old/unfinished code -Lessons learned -Cleanup *Release schedule moving forward -Fixed schedule -Schedule timing -Developer needs -Translator needs *Platform specific issues (and responsibilities) *Regular IRC Meetings (monthly is ideal, quarterly would be as a good minimum) Looking forward to seeing whoever shows up. I want to have these meeting be painless, but this initial one might be a little more in-depth given that it's our first and we probably have a bit to share/discuss and document. I will try to keep us focused if we stray. Cheers, Josh

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2/25 IRC Meeting Agenda (draft)
by Josh Andler 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hey all, I just wanted to send out a draft agenda for the upcoming irc meeting and also seek feedback about what others would like to add to the list. I will send out a finalized version a couple hours before the meeting time. Just a reminder, the meeting is scheduled for UTC 2/25 0800. *Inkscape 0.48.3.1 packaging *Inkscape 0.49 **Status **Release Plan *GSOC 2012 **Focus **Goals **Mentoring **Getting new students *SVG2 **Implementation strategies **Low hanging fruit **Most important features to our userbase *CSS3 *Javascript *Membership changes on the Inkscape Board *What we need in upstream libraries (including 2geom) *Old/unfinished code **Lessons learned **Cleanup *Release schedule moving forward **Fixed schedule **Schedule timing **Developer needs **Translator needs *Platform specific junk (OSX, Windows, etc... and yes, it's junk and unless people are going to contribute code, we won't stay focused on it too long) Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape 0.48.3.1
by Ted Gould 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hey, So if you're on these mailing list, you know the deal :-) There are a couple build fixes in this update. Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.3.1/ Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.48.x/0.48.3.1 MD5 Sums f0fcc02088cc643634806064e7ab4ec3 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2 3e956cd9cf6cf0a22b64a821f5a4084d inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2.asc ccf8ccd9e66199badb8c35ea3851a888 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz aded57e1a851a5f3d763fd892c085fe1 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz.asc b1bbe021af4eab8a4c6bb2e4833c6eaf inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip d9f81d36f1e5a9679911dbc12d53d2b9 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip.asc SHA1 Sums 23344555a1b5cc7909ad01d926cfaddb67bfbde9 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2 780bf43ce5148df35420926702b05afadfade239 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2.asc 9a09a97d184e09c2ee7f9956bfe073b7313e919e inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz c8b963d43f56fb7bf42e9474b1b0de7d91be3433 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz.asc b6de562e8c11442afb3d67a59d4d6f82f0c6edd6 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip a17c423b151110d2dab6fd770beb20aaf134caa4 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip.asc --Ted

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newbie question...
by Nathan Rollins 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

I have a CG rendering that I want to create a jagged edge along one side - like this: cid:image002.png@...2944... (well, this shows 2 sides; and I will just need the right side.) I created this example with Snagit and I am usually content with the results. But today I am in need of a much larger image: ~10k x 6.6k (pixels) and Snagit just can't cut it. I can create a path that sorta looks like what I want, but I am not sure how to use layers and transparency, etc. to get what I need. This might be a lot to ask through a forum. If so, please feel free to direct me to a tutorial, or some other lesson / resource. Any hints or tips? Thanks a lot! -Nate

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SVG 2 Requirements
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Hi, As most of you probably know, Inkscape uses SVG as its native file format. The specification directly influences how easy some features can be implemented by Inkscape (think arrowhead color matching stroke color). The SVG working group is almost finished going through the request for changes to the specification for SVG 2. This is your chance to influence the next version of the spec. See my blog post for more details: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=375 Tav

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Inkscape 0.48.3
by Ted Gould 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Happy to announce the 0.48.3 release of Inkscape being out the door. Of course this is only the source release, binaries will be along shortly. You can find the LP milestone here: https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.48.x/0.48.3 Which reports 68 bugs as Fix Released, from 18 different assignees. Both impressive numbers. There are files on that page but also at SourceForge here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.3/ For the paranoid I've also included hashes of the files on my system, love you paranoids! == MD5 == 9038961369c4f8b63e900ca4bfa4da61 inkscape-0.48.3.tar.bz2 4b88d6220b491e94366c2365b90d36cc inkscape-0.48.3.tar.bz2.asc 4623e6be4d4553d7c871b26454de88db inkscape-0.48.3.tar.gz c97bb53225556cf704ca1d2cad4b654f inkscape-0.48.3.tar.gz.asc 2669679a121def72577184c8691f4209 inkscape-0.48.3.zip cedf6bc858ff63d54c0659eaabd2ddba inkscape-0.48.3.zip.asc == SHA1 == 7de7f5cb28d7407a891f02a3cfcfbff962bc3f9f inkscape-0.48.3.tar.bz2 531349ebbcbde497b419b86b14b8f4588e5f592b inkscape-0.48.3.tar.bz2.asc 937c1376bb0d9c00b22b88525826257d67ce237b inkscape-0.48.3.tar.gz e90e00e75a1af5ec0ef9736ebcff843e5def9a5b inkscape-0.48.3.tar.gz.asc 048e65843d61a70858966068a1c98f3e3a8667b6 inkscape-0.48.3.zip eb65f197135c48acfa274f3a16a93761c30b3562 inkscape-0.48.3.zip.asc --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Re : Inkscape 0.48.3
by Johan Engelen 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

On 16-2-2012 19:32, Nicolas Dufour wrote: > Hi, > > > >> De : Josh Andler<scislac@...155...> >> Ted and all contributors that made this happen, thank you for all your >> work! Windows& OSX packagers, please do your magic. :) > > I'm not the Windows packager, but wanted to compile and test it on XP. And unfortunately, the current revision doesn't compile correctly and returns the following error: > > Make error line 302: problem compiling: src/color-profile.cpp: In static member function 'static std > ::vector<Glib::ustring> Inkscape::ColorProfile::getBaseProfileDirs()': > src/color-profile.cpp:824:5: error: 'cmsUInt32Number' was not declared in this scope > src/color-profile.cpp:824:21: error: expected ';' before 'pathSize' > src/color-profile.cpp:826:46: error: 'pathSize' was not declared in this scope > > IIRC we've already had that kind of issue with the trunk on Windows, and thus I guess backporting the fix would solve the issue. Oh wow, that is very unfortunate :-( Should be fixed now. -Johan

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Inconsistent behaviour?
by Philip Rhoades 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

People, If I create a few objects - rectangles and ellipses - and then select the whole group and rotate it - these two operations behave differently - they should do the same thing?: 1. Clicking on the "Rotate 90 Clockwise" tool button 2. Clicking "]" six times - (2) does what I want - (1) appears to be rotating the individual objects? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@...2067...

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Script to grab outline and create svg files?
by Ferdinand Ramirez 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

I am new to inkscape and would like to know if it is possible to automate the following process to create svg files (I have manually succeeded in it), and if so, what does the script look like and how should it be executed? In the manual process, I perform the following steps to create the svg file. 1) Open inkscape 2) Open File->Document Properties and set size to 1000 x 1000 3) Type t 4) Drag a rectangle (this step and previous step are needed to activate the Append button used in Step 7) 5) Click on Text -> Glyphs 6) Choose Font family, script and range (this is not English, which is why I need this step) 7) Click characters and click append for each character clicked (more than one character is involved, and I click on the character since I use an English keyboard but the language I am interested is not English) 8) Ctrl-Shift-C to grab the outline of the text 9) Save as svg by clicking File->Save As I need to automate this process to create a number of svg files, some of which are formed due to the outline of multiple characters. Thanks, -Ferdinand

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Create outline texts only when saving/exporting?
by Felix E. Klee 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

I am currently comparing Illustrator and Inkscape for creation of SVG documents for the web. What I like about Illustrator is that it is possible to "Save a Copy..." of a document and specify that all texts should be converted to outlines *only for that copy*. So I can have all the texts editable in the document, and only in the end they will be converted to outlines. Is a similar workflow possible with Inkscape?

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Are the performance improvements of 0.49 already in trunk?
by Alexander (AddisMap) 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

We are using Inkscape to edit SVGs generated by the Maperitive OpenStreetMap renderer. Those files are very complex and Inscape is practially unuseable in the latest stable version. We found on http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.49 that there are performance improvements upcoming. So we installed the package from the PPA 1:0.48+devel+10922+30~natty1. Build 10922 is the latest build in the trunk branch as I see. But using this version, there were no performance improvements notable. Are those announce performance improvements already in trunk or do be have to use some other branch? Best Regards, Alexander

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change color of arrowhead
by Peter Schürch 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi, How do I change the colour of an arrow head from black to (e.g.) red? I can change the line colour but it seems not to affect the color of the arrow head. Any ideas are much appreciated ! Peter Inkscape Version 0.48, Windows 7 -- Meier und Partner AG Freiestrasse 26 8570 Weinfelden Tel +41 71 626 51 15 Fax +41 71 626 51 26 p.schuerch@...2929... <mailto:p.schuerch@...2929...>

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Inkscape deletes whitespace from my xml attributes?
by Andi McClure 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

I am using Inkscape 0.48 (on Mac OS X under X11) to create resources for a video game. A feature I am making heavy use of is the ability to add custom attributes to the XML elements within the SVG document-- I have defined a bunch of attributes like polycode:density="" which are meaningless to Inkscape but my game code knows how to interpret, and I add them to the document using Inkscape's "xml editor" window. This works fine but I am having a problem. Some of my custom attributes contain very long blocks of multiline text, specifically they contain scripts written in Lua. What I find is that Inkscape allows me to put multi-line text into an xml attribute; and I can save as many times as I want, and the multi-line text remains multi-line; but when I *open* a svg document in Inkscape, at that time *all multi-line xml attributes in the entire document get collapsed down to single lines*, and the next time I save all of my xml attributes are single line. This is extremely inconvenient, it confuses my source control and also it could break my code at some point. Why is Inkscape doing this, and how do I make it stop? What I've tried so far: I tried setting an xml:space=preserve attribute on the toplevel svg:svg element in the effected document, but this did not help, it did things to the whitespace * between * elements and broke the display in the XML Editor window, but it did not change Inkscape's behavior wrt whitespace in attributes. Previously, I had a problem where at the same point in time that Inkscape is now eating my whitespace (document open), it was also stripping my custom polycode: namespace prefixes. I eventually fixed this by adding a xmlns:polycode="http://msm.runhello.com/local/svg/polycode0" attribute to the top of each document containing polycode: attributes. (The URL listed is not a valid URL, it's a 404.) Looking on the internet, I got the impression that if I can get Inkscape to load a "DTD" for my polycode: namespace, I can mark in the DTD that the attributes for which I do NOT want whitespace eaten are "CDATA" and this is supposed to make Inkscape leave those attributes alone. However, the document explaining this<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256097.aspx> also suggested xml parsers like Inkscape should assume any attribute they do not recognize to be CDATA. Will creating a DTD solve my whitespace problems? How do I get Inkscape to load the DTD? And are there any examples of Inkscape-compatible DTDs of this sort out there, since I do not have experience with DTDs? Thanks all.

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Inkscape Website (Help needed)
by Ian Caldwell 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hello Folks, It's that time again, I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! I am writing to you all in an urge to complete the new website within the next couple of months. I know we have all been busy with the holidays and what not. Here's a brief update on that status. The website in regards to the design elements have been completed almost all the bare bones pages have been completed and implemented into the design. The design can be seen at dev.inkscape.org . and of course the code can be viewed at https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape-webadmin . The backend code has been partially implemented however a lot is still missing such as user accounts login etc and a web based editor. I'd like to take a moment to thank Chris Morgan for porting over all the pages an Hinerangi Courtenay for the actual design as well as the various others. I can't name everyone in this email but it's definitely been a team effort. On that note there's still a lot to be done. Here's what I think our best plan of attack is. I think our best plan of attack is to take the current site and all of it's factors and put it into a solution such as pinax ( http://pinaxproject.com/) Using pinax allows us to make a custom website without having to have all the components of a CMS but it allows us to easily implement various things with little effort such as account management profiles etc and web based editing. Overall it shouldn't be too much work but we need someone with python/django experience to port our current code/design elements to pinax. >From there once it's implemented we will then of course need the various translation teams to finish translating the content and to port over the rest of the news. So today I am looking for anyone with django/python experience to contribute to getting this website finished. I need people who are motivated and willing to push forward and get this done in the least amount of time possible. If you're willing to contribute or have any further questions on the inkscape website please feel free to reply to this email or to me directly via email or irc (msg inc) Also if there is a company that would like to sponsor development of the website or put in hours. We're willing to list you as a contributor on the website development page. In the past this project has kind of been put a little bit on the back burner due to everyones time constraints which is completely understandable but any help we can get would be great. Thank you, Ian Caldwell

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Participation at SCALE 10x
by Jon Cruz 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hi guys, Just putting out a general call for anyone who would like to help us man a booth at SCALE 10x this year. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x I know Josh and I will be there, but if anyone else can spend a little time in the booth that would be a big help. The conference has given us a set of free full access passes for that. If anyone is interested in helping, just drop me an off-list email. I'll get you the instructions (which basically cover registering up to the point of paying, then sending me the registration number to finish on my side).

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New Inkscape website?
by Antonio Roberts 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

I remember awhile back a new website was being constructed that looked very finished. What ever happened to it? Ant -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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Embedding fonts.
by john Culleton 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

The Wiki describes how to create "SVG Fonts" which are embeddable. But the description is down at the source code level. Is there/will there be a high level facility whereby the user can insert text in a particular font and size and then translate that text into an embedded font? I know about outlining a font, but that technique renders the text unreadable to web crawlers. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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a question about path
by Auguste Pop 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi, I'm not a native speaker of English, I'll try to explain my question clearly. We can draw an ellipsis in inkscape, and rotate it. When we save it as svg, it is saved as a path, which uses elliptical arc command inside the its d attribute. So, i think this save operation is lossless. We can draw a rectangle in inkscape too. After intersecting an ellipsis with a rectangle and saving the file as svg, we can find out that the intersection is also saved as a path. However, the elliptical arc command is no long inside the d attribute of the path element. The path is depicted by lines and cubic Bézier curves. Mathematically, an elliptical arc can not be losslessly transformed into a polynomial curve. So, this save, or intersection, operation is not lossless. My question is, how good the approximation would be? Do we have any control over this, like we do in simplify? Best regards,

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Re: [Inkscape-user] command line fitCanvasToDrawing (~suv)
by unknown＠example.com 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

> Alternative without needing to press any buttons: > > $ inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.pdf -l matplotlibOutput.svg > $ inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.svg --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing \ > --verb=FileSave \ > --verb=FileQuit > $ inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.svg -A prettyfigure.pdf > $ rm matplotlibOutput.svg > > > hth, ~suv That works! Thanks!! The resultant file is also only 30% as big as the original. Hm, maybe that's bad. Has it lost fonts? The GUI popups are funny, but better than fiddling with other methods, so far. (It would be nice if I could tell X11 to set my display for this process to a sort of /dev/nul of X...) Cheers, Chris

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command line fitCanvasToDrawing
by unknown＠example.com 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Matplotlib produces pdf figures whose bounding boxes do not enclose all of the contents of the figure (or, usually, are too big). I thought inkscape could easily solve this problem with: inkscape -f matplotlibOutput.pdf --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing -A prettyfigure.pdf But that leaves the pdf unchanged. Have I made a basic error? Thanks, Chris

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Application Error -- HELP!
by Christen 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Running Inkscape on Windows Vista 32-bit. Previously, I had 0.48.1 installed, but last night when I went to run it, I received a pop-up box with the following message: "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click OK to terminate the application." Thinking that maybe re-installing it would solve my problem, I got online this morning and downloaded the .exe for 0.48.2 and installed it. When I attempted to run it, I received the same message. Can anyone tell me please what is going on, and if it can be fixed? TIA, Christen

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fill&stroke, alignment don't work
by Carl Symons 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819 running on Kubuntu 11.10 none of ctrl-shift-f, right-click fill&stroke, tool bar icon, (menu)object fill&stroke do anything same (lack of) behavior with align and distribute I've reinstalled Inkscape and installed inkscape-trunk. Nothing. Any ideas?

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Simplify inkscape transforms
by Paul Whipp 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

> > For groups, to flatten the transform, ungroup the moved group, and > regroup it (keep the same selection) - it's done rather quickly with > keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+U, Ctrl+G. Watch out for transforms of parent > groups (if nested), though and transforms on parent layers (after > resizing the page or changing its orientation). This works. I already had transforms set to 'optimize' in preferences. Of course I have 60+ groups on an average map so I'll look to scripting this as an extension but you've pointed me in the right direction. Thanks.

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Accessing inkscapeforum.com
by Paul Whipp 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

> > > I'm new to this list which I found after failing to get onto > > inkscapeforum.com (which seems to be dead). > The forum is alive and well - there have been reports though by several > users that they can't access the site without turning off the firewall > of their router. > You could try to access the forum using a web proxy like e.g. > <http://www.webproxy.ca/> > <http://anonymouse.org/> > The forum topic about this issue is: > Problem with router firewall -- DNS misconfiguration?? > <http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5097> Interesting. Thanks for the information I don't have a router firewall and my DNS is fine AFAIK (nothing special setup). The webproxy.ca access does work though. I'm continuing this discussion on the forum via the webproxy.ca provided above. Thanks again.

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Embedding fonts in web svg documents.
by john Culleton 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

In most software (e.g., Scribus, TeX) a font can be embedded in the output document, thus preventing font substitution in a viewer. In inkscape one can simply outline the text, but that makes the text not readable by a web crawler. Is there a way to actually embed a font in an Inkscape svg document intended for web use? -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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