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Join the 1.0 About Screen Art Contest!
by Maren Hachmann 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

Hello Inkscape Community, it's that time again! Starting October 7th (today) through November 17th we are accepting submissions for the About Screen Contest for Inkscape 1.0! This is your opportunity to contribute to this major milestone for your favorite vector graphics editor! The contest winner's artwork will be showcased in the 'Help > About' menu entry in Inkscape. You can use the current Beta version to play with the new features and to make your artwork be a good representation of what Inkscape 1.0 can do! Learn more about the contest here: https://inkscape.org/community/about-screen-contests/ Good luck to all - and, of course: Draw Freely :)

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new forum is open!
by brynn 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '19

Hi Friends, As far as I can tell, the new forum is officially open! I've blocked new registrations on Inkscape Community, with a banner on the index page linking to the new forum. brynn

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gradient bug?
by hjenkins 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

To reproduce: 1. Make multiple polygons, with different positions. 2. Select all of them. 3. Add a gradient. 4. Add a direct repeat to the gradient The repeat only appears in one of the polygons, although the non-repeating gradient appears in all polygons. The expected behaviour would be for the gradient to repeat in all the polygons. Sequentially deleting the gradients reveals that there is in fact a separate gradient for each polygon, although they all have identical co-ordinates. Examples attached. Inkscape 0.92.4 Debian Buster

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Fonts
by Freddie Hignojoz 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

Hi I’m new to Inkscape, and so far I must say it’s great, however, I’ve been trying to figure out how to download free fonts into the program. I’ve followed a lot of steps and it’s in my fonts control panel but do not show up in Inkscape. Please help Thank you Sent from my iPhone

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inkscape0.48.5 extensions gcodetools
by nicos＠systeman.com 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

Hi, I am trying to use inkscape 0.48.5 with gcodetools extension. before using this inkscape version I installed 0.92 but I had problems saving in gcode and after reading some documentation I installed 0.48.5. on version 0.92 gcodetools, library you could choose the tool to use,depth,speed… with 0.48.5 I didn't manage to do that. for every assignment I would like to use tool,depth and spped can you help! Thanks

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Inkscape booth at Kielux - help present Inkscape in Kiel!
by Maren Hachmann 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

Hi, I'm looking for a second person to staff the Inkscape booth in Kiel at Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage on September 20th and 21st this year. As I'm also presenting at and co-organizing the event, it would be really good if there were someone else who can help, even if only for a few hours. You don't need to be an expert in Inkscape, but you should bring some motivation and enthusiasm for the program and its capabilities. More info about the event is available at: https://kielux.de There will also be some very interesting talks and workshops, and you'll have direct access to Inkscape stickers (at least those are planned) and fresh info about the latest developments :) If you'd like to join me, please reply to this email! Hope to hear from you Maren

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Re: Can't install inkstitch extensions
by Andrew Kurn 11 Jul '19

11 Jul '19

> > Subject: [Inkscape-user] Can't install inkstitch extensions > > I have no success installing this. I am running the latest version of > Windows 10 X64. Any advice? This is too sparse. Please supply the text of error messages and context: what you were doing when it failed. Otherwise, no-one will have a chance of solving this one. Andrew

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Can't install inkstitch extensions
by Norm Gensel 11 Jul '19

11 Jul '19

I have no success installing this. I am running the latest version of Windows 10 X64. Any advice?

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Join us in 10 hours for the July Vectors Meeting!
by Ryan Gorley 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

Hello All, Please consider yourself invited to join our Vectors Team meeting tomorrow (perhaps today for some). Details are here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/119 On the agenda is ratifying a process for selecting our Vectors Team Organizer. If you want someone who sends out reminders a little earlier than this, here is your chance to help make that happen! ;) I hope you can make it! Ryan

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Test
by Steve Litt 05 Jul '19

05 Jul '19

Test 20190704_1710 -- SteveT Steve Litt July 2019 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

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Re: Making Inkscpe SVGs accessible to screen readers
by Jonathan Busby 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

I was advised by Maren Hachmann that I should continue my thread on the new Inkscape Users mailing list. The full archived thread can be found here : https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/inkscape-user/thread/CAJc06ShUYM… . Here are my last two posts : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 10:01 PM brynn <brynn(a)frii.com> wrote: > Too bad that JAWS program doesn't have a free version. Have you found any free > screen readers? If there is, I wouldn't mind diving into this, code and all. Sorry for the belated reply. I found "NVDA" : https://www.nvaccess.org/download/ . It's free to use, but not open source and it only runs on Windows. It's better than nothing though :) Regards, Jonathan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 3:39 PM Arlo Barnes <arlo.barnes(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:30 AM Jonathan Busby <jonathanbusby(a)gmail.com> = wrote: >> >> I've been trying to make SVGs exported from Inkscape accessible to >> screen readers for an article I'm editing on Wikipedia. > > Just making sure you know that Wikipedia thumbnails to PNG, so unless you= are directing people to the file itself (which you can, Wikimedia Commons = is for many purposes) semantic contents will not come through in an article= . Of course, WP itself has accessibility guidelines... > Thanks for the heads up :) Fortunately, the SVGs created using Inkscape which I've uploaded to Wikimedia are not in thumbnail form on the articles pages where they appear, at least, I don't think they are. Regards, Jonathan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any help would be appreciated. Thanks and regards, Jonathan

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Curso de formación de instructores.
by Lic. Liliana Sanchez. 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

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Inkscape not "High DPI Aware"
by jeffrey.gerber＠gmail.com 20 Jun '19

20 Jun '19

I've just installed Inkscape for the first time (on Windows 10) and discovered the toolbars and buttons are so tiny they're unrecognizable and unusable. This is due to Inkscape not being "High DPI Aware" (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/hidpi/high-dpi-desktop-app…). The temporary solution is to right click the Inkscape icon, choose the "Properties" context menu item, then choose the "Compatibility" tab. Click on "Change High DPI Settings" and in the group box "High DPI scaling override" check the check box "Override high DPI scaling behavior." In the drop list select "System (Enhanced)". Click the "OK" button. Now relaunch Inkscape and the compatibility mode will take effect. Not sure how to file a bug on here but perhaps one of the developers can?

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High DPI Export From Inkscape
by David Paul 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Hello, Can someone tell me what the maximum image DPI is from Inkscape version 0.92.4? I have been able to export at 1,200 DPI, but can't at 3,000. Well, it eventually will, however, the image colors are way off. Some history on this problem. I have a web graphic I'm trying to turn into a 10ftx3ft banner. Graphic was created in Inkscape as an SVG file. Ideally, they'd like 300dpi to print this banner. This has worked in the past, however, my computer was updated to Mac OS Mojave and the latest version of Inkscape won't export correctly at the 3,000 DPI. This worked on the version of Inkscape I had installed on Mac OSX 10.11, sorry, I don't know what that version was. Probably 0.91 Basic question, is how to export high DPI images. Seems to have an issue with applied filters. Current image is 10 inches x 3 inches to obtain the correct effect from the filters. Thank You *David Paul* *P.S. Large fonts are used due to my poor eyesight.*

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upcoming opening of new Inkscape forum
by brynn 09 Jun '19

09 Jun '19

Hi Friends, The Inkscape website will be opening a new forum in August 2019. The primary purpose of the forum will be providing support for Inkscape, but it will serve the whole project and community, in whatever way it can. It will function in much the same way that InkscapeForum.com (http://www.inkscapeforum.com/index.php) and Inkscape Community's forum (https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?action=forum) currently do. Concurrently to opening the new forum, Inkscape Community's forum will essentially close. All of its forum traffic will be diverted to the new forum (although its tutorials and other resources will remain available). Since the Inkscape project has lost contact with the owner of InkscapeForum.com we assume it will remain open. Please make plans to change your forum bookmarks, and to visit the new forum in August. If you're not already registered on the Inkscape website, you will need to register. Once you're logged in to the website, you're also logged in to the forum. We will be thrilled to welcome you, and to provide the same quality of support you're accustomed to! Here is the link to the new forum. Although please note that posting will not be allowed until August. But you can look around and see everything about how it works, except for posting a message. https://inkscape.org/forums/ If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. All best, brynn

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forum rules finalized, message posted
by brynn 09 Jun '19

09 Jun '19

Hi Friends, Since we've had a volunteer to hear escalated complaints re the CoC (thanks C R !!), I was able to finalize and post the forum rules and guidelines. I made the sticky forum post about this. If anyone has any comments or suggestions about what I wrote, please let me know and I'll edit it. https://inkscape.org/forums/forum-news/forum-rules/ (Note that you can't post in the forum yet.) All best, brynn

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Vectors Meeting (T-Minus 10 hours)
by Ryan Gorley 08 Jun '19

08 Jun '19

Hello All, It's that time of month <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…> when we get together and discuss Vectors items. On the agenda are team elections, LGM, fundraising, the new forum, and more. The location is the #team_vectors channel of our chat. For more details visit: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/119 Come join us! Ryan

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Making Inkscpe SVGs accessible to screen readers
by Jonathan Busby 07 Jun '19

07 Jun '19

I replied but the mail server rejected the message because it had a zip attachment. Here's a link to the zip archive on my Mediafire account : http://www.mediafire.com/file/u55y9fs15d4y13f/acessible-SVG-test.zip/file Thanks and regards, Jonathan On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 10:27 AM Jonathan Busby <jonathanbusby@...155...> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:11 PM Steve Litt <slitt@...2357...> > wrote: > > If I understand you correctly, you already have this text visible on > > the picture and able to be selected (how?). > > The text in the accessibility modified file is visible, but it's not > selectable. > > >Once you can select it, > > copy it from the SVG and paste it into a window whose job it is to feed > > text into a text-to-speech program. > > The original, "non-accessible" file, has selectable text, but only via a > CTRL-A, a CTRL-C and a CTRL-V. But its text is quite ugly and garbled when > pasted. > > I've tested the original, "non-accessible" SVG file with JAWS > <https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/?utm_term=jaws%20s…> > and it reads the file pretty decently, but it doesn't even read *anything* > from the "accessible" SVG file. > > I'll attached the original SVG, the screen reader accessible SVG that I > attempted to create and the "diff -Nau" between the two files. > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > > Thanks and regards, > > Jonathan >

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Launch Ikscape with default theme
by jEsuSdA 8) 06 Jun '19

06 Jun '19

Hi! I still making an Inkscape course documentation and I need to do some screenshots. I want the screenshots be as Inkscape default appearance, but I can't do that cause my desktop (Debian GNU/Linux + XFCE) is configured with an icon theme. This theme. So, when I launch Inkscape it looks great with these nice icons, but it is not a good idea to teach newbies using Inkscape screenshots that does not looks like his running inkscapes. How I can start Inkscape ignoring my environment icon theme. Thanks a lot!

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Making Inkscpe SVGs accessible to screen readers
by Jonathan Busby 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

I originally posted this question to the Inkscape Community forums here : https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1705.0 . I've been trying to make SVGs exported from Inkscape accessible to screen readers for an article I'm editing on Wikipedia. I've been using the following article as a reference but I'm still not sure if what I'm doing is correct : https://css-tricks.com/accessible-svgs/ . Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan

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Re: [Inkscape-user] First Inkscope Video Podcast is live!
by C R 30 May '19

30 May '19

> > > > >> At first I thought the sound is bad, the video is bad, and > > >> there's no focus. > > > > > > > > > At first I thought... Well, he's right about the sound, but the video > > > isn't bad, and podcasts are all nattering on about something of > interest to > > > a niche target audience. > > > > > You say "All podcasts are like this," but please! -- they don't > have to be. > I think what you want is a documentary... we could do that, if we had the time/money/resources. But obviously no one wants to hear about that again. ;) It's important to know what podcasts are like, lest we order the vegan platter and bemoan its lack of meat. > Yes, indeed, I thought these guys have a terrific amount of experience > with Inks, designing, implementing, debugging. They will now impart > some gems of wisdom. > > Nyet. > The title of this initial introductory podcast is "Casual Inkscape Chat", not "Everything You Might Want to Know about Inkscape at Any Level of Monotonous and Very Specific Detail". That's the NEXT episode. ;) They talk about everything except. Jeepers. > Chastisement accepted. I feel we've somehow wasted your valuable time here. ;) > > > I think that last bit should be the title of our next podcast. Inside > > > jokes are often part of what makes FLOSS grouo projects fun after all. > > > > > I have mixed feelings about inside jokes. They're fun sometimes, > but they do tend to exclude people . . . > That would be true if we didn't explain the jokes to anyone who asked, or somehow limited people from joining to be in on them. That was explained in the nattering, by the way, including ways to join in the fun, keep the community friendly and active, and gain a reputation for being absurdly resillient to major problems like funding issues. > > >> It left a lot of questions unanswered: What's a hackfest? > > >> > > > > > > Good idea for a podcast. I had the same question from my mum. "Is it > where > > > you learn to hack?" XD > > > > > > I have abundant footage to clip together to help explain. Esp of the > one > > > in Kiel. > > Awwww, don't dodge the question. Tell me in less than 50 words. > I get the feeling that podcasts are not a format you enjoy... Maybe one of the many tutorials about hackfests, or some googling around for articles would be better. Podcasts are mostly freeform Q&A, and can be 30minutes to many hours. They are a good platform to discuss things on-camera with little editing needed. The idea is that since we don't have time for a documentary, let's just talk with eachother on camera and see where it goes. Podcasts let you listen in on a regular unscripted conversation with people in the project on particular topics. They are a great community building tool because unlike a documentary or tutorial, you get to know what people in the project are like. You get to be in on those jokes, and the more you watch, the more you feel like part of the community. It's not a format for 50-words or less people. Gotta have more patience to get the payoff of podcasts. > I would have guessed that it's basically a social occasion, but > the podcast exclaims loudly that everyone worked very hard. > When people in our community (and sometimes outside) do great things, in this case, fly potentially thousands of miles to work all week full time on Inkscape together, we tend to shout their praise from the rooftops. We also release summary articles in our newsfeed about exactly what happens at the hackfests, including what was acomplished. If the loud exclaiming is getting to you, I recommend spending time elsewhere. We congratulate eachother a lot. Not just because it's richly deserved, but also because it's motivating and encouraging to hear it from your friends and community members. > OK, what were you doing? > I hope this level of detail satisfies: https://inkscape.org/news/2018/09/20/inkscape-hackfest-kiel-2018-what-happe… I spent quite a bit of time making stickers, taking/editing photos, writing the article and also capturing video for later use (part of my own hackfest activities prior to, during and after the event). The pictures are nice, but video can be much better to relate the feeling of what it's like to work together face to face with people you work and chat with over the internet every day to make Inkscape better, support eachother and yes, have a bit of fun too. You can, for example see people writing extensions to use Inkscape for 3D printing, and making projects with it. You can see the joy and excitement of getting something to work which didn't before, and the further thrill of releasing it to millions of users so they can experience the same joy of using it. You can also see the kinds of machines people work on, and collections of stickers and totems folks have. > > > > > > What's multi-page support supposed to do? > > > > > > > > > Well, it's one of our most requested features apart from CMYK. Maybe it > > > would be good to do an episode on most requested features, what they > do for > > > the non technical among us, snd what it would take to get them > implemented. > > > > > Shucks. > > You dodged this question too. > Did I? I said it's one of the most requested features. However, let's ignore convention and assume that a quick internet search would not turn up a wealth of information on a "most requested feature"... Multi-page support basically boils down to having a mechanism for creating/exporting multi-page documents. People have written extensions to use the layers dialog for this, however it really should be in Inkscape proper, and have it's own dockable dialog for determining things like whether the pages are facing (organised into spreads), or just appended one after another. This is useful for, well creating multi-page documents... yea. Hey! Great! > > I know right? Mesh gradients have been there for... years actually, thanks to the hard work of Tavmjong. These are the sorts of announcements we could put into a podcast, for those patient enough to listen to them. There's also our news feed which is getting a lot more love recently due to our outreach efforts, and formation of the Inkscape Vectors team (which was also nattered about). > > > Nope. No one has time to do a complete overhaul of anything right now. > A > > > stable and improved Inkscape is what will be delivered. Overhauls will > need > > > to wait past 1.0 realease. > > Well, this is how people get dragged in. I suppose if I want it > changed I'll have to write it myself. > Possibly. That, of course will take patience as well. > . . . although, you know, I'd like to get some assurance that my > version will get into the source tree. How to get that? > Recommend using gitlab to create your own branch with the code modifications. Once you've tested it and it's reliably working, you can submit a merge request. The code will then be reviewed, and modificaitons suggested. As far as "assurances", absolutely not. This is a project where we work together. It takes time, effort and patience on everyone's part to get stuff stable and make sure everything works together. No project will promise to patch in arbitrary code before it's made. You could, of course make it for yourself, submit patches, and consider eventually making it into trunk a bonus. That may be worth it to you at the very least. Indeed, that's how a lot of folks get interested in Inkscape development. They want it, they make it, and they decide to share the results. Well, of course, it /is/ a labor of love. It's good of you not to > be (too) offended. But, it isn't that much harder to do a good job: > more succinct, more focused. > Podcasts are unscripted. If you want something scripted, podcasts are likely not the format for you. We figure a podcast was a good format for reasons previously stated in this reply but also it's better than waiting until we have time to reherse, script and produce the masterpiece you're after. Something is better than nothing. > > Good journalism. Did you take journalism in high school? > Nope. Just 15 years of experience creating content for an obscene quantity of commercial products, websites, and yes, Inkscape too. :) If you want the original 2 hour video clip which I've trimmed down, that can be arranged. Maybe then you'll appreciate more the work that went into just this first episode. I don't expect an improvement in the sound, actually, as long as > people are using their own mics at home. Oh, well. > Martin's mic was hitting the sound ceiling excessively. That's probably fixable in the mic settings of Ubuntu, so the bar is low to make at least that improvement. I did normalise the sound from the entire video so it wasn't blowing your ears or speakers out each and every time Doc said something. So even there, there's something to be greatful for. ;) Nothing I can to about the sound ceiling in post, though. Just need to reduce mic sensitivity for the next one. That was actually the least of the technical problems Ryan, Tim and Martin ran into recording this. Seriously, if you saw the original, it's clear there was a LOT of patience involved in just recording it. > PS, the bad quality video was edited down a ton by some maniac, to exclude > > all the technical difficulties which the audience would otherwise have to > > sit through. So one could simply be happy about that fact, and enjoy > > listening to largely off > > -the-cuff banter from our intrepid team of strangeoids on this their very > > first podcast attempt. > > > > Can I get a huzzah? > > > > -C > > Hurrah! (I hope it's the same thing.) > Works for me. :) -C

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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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Inkscape praise from forum
by brynn 19 May '19

19 May '19

Hi Friends, Just wanted to share this Inkscape praise in the forum: https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1718.msg11362#msg11362 brynn

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Missing shared library when running Inkscape alpha (Snap)
by Jonas Timothy 10 May '19

10 May '19

Hi, I couldn’t launch Snap version of Inkscape, and when I tried launching from CLI, I got this: $ snap run inkscape inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libdouble-conversion.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any way I could work around this, or should I downgrade to 0.92.4? Jonas -- Sent from Thunderbird<https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/> using Kubuntu<https://kubuntu.org/>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Vectors Meeting - Tomorrow - Possible Postponement
by C R 10 May '19

10 May '19

We are heavily using this chat across all parts of the project at the moment. Do we need to worry about stability? Thanks for any advice. -C On Sun, 5 May 2019, 20:04 Manuel Jesús Recena Soto, <recena@...155...> wrote: > Hello Ryan, > > If you believe this chat service is critical, I suggest you to schedule a > meeting with infrastructure team in order to find a better solution. > > Regards, > > On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 2:02 AM Ryan Gorley via Inkscape-devel < > inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> Hello All, >> Due to the certificate error on chat.inkscape.org, some individuals may >> be scared away from participating in our meeting tomorrow. I'm going to >> keep an eye on it, but if the error isn't resolved in the next couple hours >> I'm going to suggest we postpone our meeting one week. I'll update everyone >> on the status a little later. >> >> - Ryan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing list >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> > > > -- > Manuel Recena Soto > * manuelrecena.com [/blog] > * linkedin.com/in/recena > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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