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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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forum guidelines/rules 2nd draft review
by brynn 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Hi again, I made the edits requested from the first review. And those gave me some other thoughts. I added a couple of new "wrinkles" to the prerequisites for moderator section, and for the duties and responsibilities. For the change in prerequisites, I thought it couldn't hurt to encourage wider participation in the community, just by adding that language, but it's not a strict prerequisite. For duties and responsibilities, the ability for a moderator to choose what they want to moderate is already allowed for the gallery moderation. So that's not a stretch. The reason for adding it is that it might encourage someone to help out (with approving new messages), if they otherwise didn't want to feel obligated to get involved in a behavior issue. New version: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20Ru… Thanks again for any comments, suggestions! brynn

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General Purpose Python Scripting for Inkscape.
by Frank Martínez 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Hi Guys, Inkscape is amazing!, I am a professional software developer, I have been working in an embedded scripting plugin for Inkscape, I started doing it for my own purposes (designing electric guitars and CNC parts) And now I have complete support for python scripting inside inkscape. I will release the code as open source in Github or Gitlab as soon as I can write some documentation. The attached screenshot shows how it looks. The plugin has its own code editor with syntax highlight, compilation check, and run. It uses only python and gtk3, my working environment is Linux Mint, I am not sure if it will work out of the box in windows or mac yet, but i am pretty sure it will run in all platforms eventually soon. The scripting environment gives full access to the svg document, xml manipulation and also Object Oriented wrappers (mainly for path creation and manipulation). Full python environment is also available. The scripting code is stored inside the document (<script> tags) and you can import external libraries too of course. I hope some contributions will make the project better with time. This is not a macro system, you can not record actions or invoke GUI actions, you can just write scripts inside the document and manipulate the document itself, move, transform, change attributes, create objects etc.. from python scripts. All your feedback will be welcome and I will be very pleased if the project result useful for the community. Cheers, Frank. -- Frank D. Martínez M.

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Building from source: exxtensions not found
by Frank Martínez 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hi Guys, I am trying to build inkscape (trunk), but it fails because no extension files are found. .... can't open ./../share/extensions/webslicer_create_group.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/webslicer_export.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/whirl.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/wireframe_sphere.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/xaml2svg.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. ../src/preferences-skeleton.h:26: warning: unterminated string literal ../src/preferences-skeleton.h:499: warning: unterminated string literal xgettext: error while opening "../share/extensions/convert2dashes.py" for reading: No such file or directory ERROR: xgettext failed to generate PO template file. Please consult error message above if there is any. ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. Can you point me in the right direction to include the extension files? Thanks, Frank. -- Frank D. Martínez M.

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Mission
by Andrew Kurn 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

While viewing those videos about fund-raising, one point stuck in the back of my mind. Make sure you know who your target audience is. Inkscape has bothered me a little bit by being neither quite fish or fowl. It tries to be friendly to the artist, but it forces him to learn a lot about the nature of SVG. In fact, its founding principle seems to be to use SVG as its internal representation. (Is there a mission statement?) I happen to like it, but that's because I'm a professional programmer, so formal languages are my bread and butter. But, if /I/ am the target audience, then the direct manipulation of XML is too weak for my taste. (I use Emacs. My favorite scenario would be to squirt the XML over to Emacs, edit, and squirt it back. . . . (with some indication of what is selected, but that's for another thread.)) So that's the conflict. That is, it seems to me that the goal of making it friendly to the artist and friendly to the programmer are in conflict. Maybe you can do both. Andrew

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rules and guidelines for new forum - first draft
by brynn 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

Hi Friends, As it turned out, only me and a couple of other people were interested in drafting the rules and guidelines for the new forum. So we can get more eyes on it, and possibly more professional opinions about it, I'd like to ask the community to have a look at it. I have no background in writing such documents, so it's purely a layperson's whack at it. I feel quite confident about the contents, based on my years of experience in Inkscape forums. But the format of the document, and possibly some of the language might need some technical advice. So any an all comments and suggestions about the format or language are very welcome. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20Ru… (I've left it locked to editing, so everyone sees the same doc, for this first review. Then I'll unlock it afterwards.) Thank you very much, brynn PS - I'm also posting about this in the forums.

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L-system extension quirk
by Hildegard Bingen 10 Mar '19

10 Mar '19

I've been experimenting with the L-system extension and wonder if someone could help me to understand why + supposedly means "turn left" and - means "turn right." When I draw a figure, the opposite happens. Is this an error in the Help section, an error in the program, or am I not understanding something? I've tried to find information about this online with no luck. Thanks!

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new post - wish list
by Andrew Kurn 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

I would like to post a wish list item. I'll tell you the topic. You tell me whether I can post it to the new forum (possible?) and whether I should (advisable?). The current user interface for drawing and editing splines (Bezier) is bad. I like the Gimp one much better, but partly because I'm used to it. We can go into detail, but this introduces the topic. Let's improve the spline interface. How to do it? Andrew

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New Parametric SVG Extension
by Frank Martínez 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

Hi Guys, There is an old project for parametric svg here: https://github.com/parametric-svg/ That project is not maintained anymore and it is almost dead. But the general idea is very attractive and useful, so I have developed an Inkscape extension to support this kind of parametric stuff here: https://github.com/mnesarco/inkscape-parametric The main differences with the mentioned previous project is that this is actually an Inkscape extension, it works directly inside inkscape and the scripting language is plain old python. I hope you can find it useful, any comments and suggestions are welcome. Cheers, Frank (mnesarco) PS: This project does not depend on the parametric-svg previous project and they have no relation other than the same concept. -- Frank D. Martínez M.

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Gradient banding workaround
by Thorsten Wilms 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Hi! I recently worked on a piece that made the gradient branding problem that plagues not only Inkscape painfully ... visible. A Launchpad bug about this dates back to 2008; here's a new one by yours truly, with example: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/154 On this list, I'd like to describe a workaround and ask if anyone can think of an improvement (on Linux, no proprietary software). I tried Inkscape, Imagemagick's convert (internal or using rsvg-convert), rsvg-convert directly, resvg's rendersvg. Also Firefox and a random Webkit-browser. Banding in all cases. convert allows 16 bit per channel (or more), but it made no difference to the result (I suspect the delegates never actually delivered 16 bits). In contrast, Chromium renders gradients in a way that appears perfectly smooth here (to my eyes, on this display). On close inspection, there's dithering at work. A way to get the rendering out of Chromium, without even worse acrobatics like taking a screenshot or printing to a file: Use a "wrapper.html" containing something like this: "<img src="in.svg">" Chromium then offers "Copy image" on right-click. The result can be pasted from the clipboard. With xclip, directly to a file: xclip -selection clipboard -target image/png -out > out.png Or in GIMP: using "Paste as" -> "New Image" (Ctrl-Shift-V). Is anyone here aware of other (libre) software that delivers results as good or better than Chromium? Maybe someone knows enough about using Chromium headless to tell me how I could automate the process? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/

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forum rules and guidelines
by brynn 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Hi Friends, As the new forum is rapidly being finished, it's probably a good time to formalize the rules and guidelines for it. If anyone is interested in helping to draft this document or documents, please reply here. Once we have a group, we'll decide exactly how we want to handle this. When we started on this a couple of years ago, we used FramaPad, which allows users to edit documents live. I found it had the basic features that we needed. Or I think there are other similar types of sites. Although I'd be just as happy to be more old school, and exchange ODT or DOC files. But we can decide as a group. There aren't really any requirements to participate. Just care about the forum and how it functions :-) All best, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Fw: forum guidelines/CoC/complaints
by brynn 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Thanks Bryce. > IIRC he had felt we needed to have a specific name included in the CoC to make the role concrete, and was willing to serve as that name. Well that's a good sign that he's probably willing to continue in that role. But I will definitely contact him privately to confirm. If anyone else in the community has some kind of experience with this, and might be interested to help.... I guess at this point, please just keep it in mind. Once I hear from Krzysztof, we'll know whether we need to recruit someone else. Thanks again, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Bryce Harrington Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 5:57 PM To: brynn Cc: Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fw: [Inkscape-user] forum guidelines/CoC/complaints On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 01:28:32PM -0700, brynn wrote: > Just forwarding to the Devel list, for wider audience. > Thanks, > brynn > > -----Original Message----- From: brynn > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2019 10:31 PM > To: Inkscape User Community > Subject: [Inkscape-user] forum guidelines/CoC/complaints > > Hi Friends, > I've previously volunteered to lead an effort to write the rules and > guidelines for the new forum. Except for the rules about selecting staff and > staff responsibilities, I think the community CoC should suffice. So I was > just > reviewing it. > > One thing specifically that I would like in the forum rules is a clear > and concrete method where members can file a complaint and have it fairly > heard > and settled. > > In the CoC, apparently all that's available is contact Krzysztof > Kosiński: tweenk.pl@...3368... Unless the complaint is about a moderator, in > which case members are supposed to contact the Board. > > First question - Why is it a different process for complaints about > moderators? The board has a higher level of authority and power to deal with structural or staff problems than the CoC contact point does. > 2nd - Can I at least say that Krzysztof Kosiński has some training and > experience in conflict resolution? Or do we have other community members with > such qualifications, who could do this for the forum? Could you email him offlist and ask first? I don't know if he has training in this area myself. IIRC he had felt we needed to have a specific name included in the CoC to make the role concrete, and was willing to serve as that name. It would certainly be useful to know if there are other community members with training/experience in this area, and if they'd be interested in serving in a formal role with the project. With the new forum coming online, this could be a convenient point in time to transition if it makes sense. Bryce

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[RFC] for all users of perl extensions on Windows - perl vs. wperl
by Patrick Storz 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Hi all, we're currently considering to change the default interpreter executable for perl extensions on Windows from "perl.exe" to "wperl.exe", see [1]. In case any developers/users of perl extensions on Windows are reading this, please let us know if this is a change you'd welcome or if this has the potential to break your extension / current setup. For everybody unaware of the difference between perl and wperl: On Windows there's a fundamental distinction between console applications and "GUI" applications. The former are always attached to a console window and will start one if necessary (i.e. you'd see a console window pop up while running the extension), which is also the case for "perl.exe". "wperl.exe" on the other hand is compiled as a "GUI" application and doesn't require a console. The downside is that "wperl" only exists on Windows (there's no such distinction on other OSs) and might not even be available in some perl distributions. In any case the interpreter executable can always be customized as described in the Wiki article [2], so you'll always be able to set the interpreter of your choice. This also allows you to test this change ahead of time and give feedback. Cheers, Patrick [1] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/46 [2] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extension_Interpreters

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forum guidelines/CoC/complaints
by brynn 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Hi Friends, I've previously volunteered to lead an effort to write the rules and guidelines for the new forum. Except for the rules about selecting staff and staff responsibilities, I think the community CoC should suffice. So I was just reviewing it. One thing specifically that I would like in the forum rules is a clear and concrete method where members can file a complaint and have it fairly heard and settled. In the CoC, apparently all that's available is contact Krzysztof Kosiński: tweenk.pl@...3368... Unless the complaint is about a moderator, in which case members are supposed to contact the Board. First question - Why is it a different process for complaints about moderators? 2nd - Can I at least say that Krzysztof Kosiński has some training and experience in conflict resolution? Or do we have other community members with such qualifications, who could do this for the forum? All best, brynn

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new forum, what happened? make a plan?
by brynn 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Hi Friends, As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I've lost my patience over this whole "new forum" issue. I've been given the impression that we're (as a community) going back into limbo with the forum situation, and holding our breath that there are no more black eyes resulting from the lack of (effective) management of InkscapeForum.com. I don't understand why. Why risk yet another black eye? Do most people just not realize everything that's happened due to the lack of effective management, over the years? Or everything that could still happen? Shall I elaborate? Or maybe most people just don't care, since they don't use forums anyway? What yet needs to be done to make the new forum live and close the old one? To me, it has all the features it needs. As far as I know, the only thing that's still needed is load testing (lots of users at the same time). If we can start it within 6 months, I'd like to propose that we make a concrete plan (as much as possible, given that this community doesn't function well with deadlines). Of course I'd be glad to help create such a plan. If it requires more than 6 months more work, I would propose installing a php forum (SMF or phpBB) and start it right away. Then some day, if the Django-integrated forum is ever ready, we can switch over to it. Thanks for any clarity on this issue. All best, brynn

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internship using Inkscape
by brynn 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

Hi Friends, I've offered to make this post for someone who is offering a paid intership with their company, using Inkscape. They didn't want to subscribe to the mailing list just to make one post. But they've posted in the forum. So if anyone is interested, please see this message: https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1518.0 All best, brynn

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Different Behaviour on .PDF export
by xadaux daux 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Hello, How to know if is it posible to make work pdf export via command line as in previous versions. Now Inkscape exports all the content on each layer when exporting id items and generates pdf's which mismach the document height and width. I've lost in new command line options :S Any clue? Thanks!

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Inkscape 0.92.4 bugfix release
by Bryce Harrington 20 Jan '19

20 Jan '19

Inkscape has launched version 0.92.4 with increased stability. This update delivers some notable performance improvements for filter rendering, saving and moving paths (with a live path effect), and the measure tool. Download Inkscape 0.92.4 packages here: https://inkscape.org/release/ The key improvements in this version will enable Inkscape users to do or experience the following: * Align multiple objects as a group relative to a single object * Write image data to standard output * Experience extensions working faster within complex documents * See improved speed when deselecting a path with many nodes * Ungroup text elements won’t result in changed font size of children * Able to print and / or print correct paper size with printers (especially Canon, EPSON, Konica Minolta) * See improved performance of the measure tool when grids are visible * See proper opacity of partially transparent embedded bitmap images in PDF export * Able to Shift/Ctrl-click on control handles of shapes without crashing * Build Inkscape with up-to-date poppler library 0.72.0 – useful for Mac users building with Homebrew Translation and documentation updates ------------------------------------- The Icelandic and Brazilian Portuguese user interface (UI) translations have been updated. Inkscape’s Ukranian and Hungarian documentation translations have also been revised in this version. Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- There is always room for developers, especially those who can help with the following: * Package version 0.92.4 for Mac * Prepare the upcoming Inkscape 1.0 to be usable on MacOS * Help with programming a great UI for some of the new features in 1.0 * Help fix bugs and implement new features * Wrangle Python Head here https://inkscape.org/contribute/ to find out more about joining the ranks. Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors to help complete documentation and other elements of the project that are translated into many different languages. The project is seeking support with interface, documentation and other content translation. If you would like to contribute, head to https://inkscape.org/contribute/translations/ Another great way to help Inkscape is through Vectors, who are the marketing, outreach, and promotion team for Inkscape. Designers, artists, marketers, writers, and anyone enthusiastic about bringing Inkscape to more people in more places, is welcome to join. Inkscape alpha version 1.0 seeking testers ------------------------------------------ As the project advances towards an alpha release of version 1.0, the Inkscape teams are seeking developers interested in testing the alpha ahead of release. Download 1.0 alpha at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0alpha0/ Report new issues in Inkscape's Inbox: http://inkscape.org/inbox Watch Inkscape.org https://inkscape.org/ and social media channels for the latest details on the progress of the 1.0 development work. Mac OS: Inkscape needs your help -------------------------------- As few Inkscape volunteer developers use Mac, the project needs someone who knows how to automatically package a .dmg file, to enable Mac users to test the alpha version, along with Mac equipment to run continuous integration jobs. If you're interested in working on this, please introduce yourself on one of our discussion channels, and keep an eye out for other Mac volunteers to work with on this important task.

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Issue tracking for Inkscape moves to Gitlab
by Bryce Harrington 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Hi all, As of this week, the Inkscape project is shifting to Gitlab for issue tracking in place of Launchpad. https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/issues We've been using Gitlab for our code hosting and other purposes for a year and a half now[1], and have found it to be reliable and convenient. We didn't migrate Issue Tracking until now, so we could take time to make sure we had a plan: 1. Going forward, new bug reports should be filed only in Gitlab. 2. Launchpad will remain available as a historical archive of our bug reports. Filing bugs there will remain possible for now, but discouraged. 3. Bugs in Launchpad that are still reproducible in Inkscape 0.92.4 or newer can be re-filed on Gitlab and closed on Launchpad. We are planning efforts to help organize the migration work and keep track of progress. More info on this will be coming soon. Eventually, when the necessary bugs have been migrated, bug reporting in Launchpad will be shut off. We're enthused about this change, and hope you too will find gitlab a more user friendly way to report issues, and we'd love your help triaging and solving Inkscape bugs. Bryce 1: https://inkscape.org/news/2017/06/10/inkscape-moves-gitlab/

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PDF import broken?
by Johannes Bauer 13 Jan '19

13 Jan '19

Hi there, I've been using PDF import to get stamps printed by the German postal service and include them into my custom labels for a while now. Always worked perfectly. Recently I upgraded to Ubuntu Mate Cosmic (Inkscape Inkscape 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11)) and suddenly I noticed that there are some bugs with it. First, when I choose "internal import" when opening the PDF in question, some text (not all interestingly) is messed up and replaced by black diamonds with a while "?" in its center (similar to the character that shows up when there's unknown Unicode characters). When I instead choose the "poppler import" the imported data looks perfect first. However, when I then copy and paste the image into a freshly created Inkscape document, the text becomes very small and messed up. I've a package which includes the original PDF with which I can reliably reproduce the behavior on my system as well as screenshot of how it's supposed to look (looks perfectly in evince), and what the two failure modes look like in inkscape. It's available here: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=23794298134224596755 -- I've never used that hosting service so in case it's junk and you cannot access it, please let me know. If anyone could have an idea on what might cause this, I'd be super interested to know. Thanks a bunch, All the best, Joe

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Setting CSS layer/object blend modes within Inkscape
by Antonio Roberts 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

Hi everyone, I've tried asking this question on the inkscape forum but couldn't find a resolution. http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=34362&p=107468 I'm not sure if I'm not forming my question properly, but here it goes anyway. I'm trying to get inkscape blend modes recognised in Firefox and Chrome but like many I've noticed that the way that Inkscape does it (via filters) isn't recognised in browsers. After some research I've found that blend modes can be set via css https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/mix-blend-mode Amazingly these can be read by Inkscape as well as in a browser! Aside from opening the xml editor and adding in the CSS manually is there any way to set the blend modes using CSS within inkscape? Kind regards, Antonio -- ============================ antonio@...2662... http://www.hellocatfood.com ============================

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Text extensions
by Hildegard Bingen 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

I'm relatively basic Inkscape user trying to learn some new functions. There are two extensions for text that I can't figure out at all: Extract and Merge. I haven't been able to find any directions. Can anyone tell me what these do or where to find information? Thanks!

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Vectors Meeting in 9.5 Hours!
by Ryan Gorley 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

Hello all, This is just a reminder that the Vectors will be meeting in the #team_vectors channel of chat.inkscape.org in 9.5 hours (See time conversion <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…>). There has been new interest expressed in getting involved and a lot of collaboration going on. As always we aim to keep the meeting to an hour. The agenda is not set in stone, so bring the items you're interested in and we'll see if we can remove some blockers for you! Ryan

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