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text editing???
by Carlos \"Guâno\" Grohmann 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hello, I am using the August 30th build (as with the more recent ones I can't save as PS/EPS, it closes the program), and there is something that I think is wrong with text editing: If I have a long one-line text, and hit <enter> in the middle of it, I end up with two separate block of text, no longer one text. If I have a multi-line text (sometimes the <enter> works..), and hit <backspace>, to make it onle line again, it just deletes a whole line!! what is this? cheers carlos -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano Visiting Researcher at Kingston University London - UK Geologist M.Sc - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil Linux User #89721 - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ _________________ "Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --The winning entry in a "What were HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke Can't stop the signal.

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Import/Export of bitmaps
by Peter Hillier-Brook 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Could someone offer guidance as to why a bitmap (PNG) measuring 600 x 350 px becomes 640 x 373 px after a round trip through Inkscape 0.45? I'm running on Windows XP SP2 and my objective is to add some drawing elements to a bitmap image (in their own layer(s) and within the dimensions of the bitmap). The original image was created at 96dpi, however it appears to "grow" on import to Inkscape. Inkscape preferences are also set to export at 96dpi, resulting in the over-sized new bitmap. Thanks for any pointers. Peter HB

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Selecting objects with same stroke-paint and/or same stroke-style
by Akki Nitsch 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hi everyone, can anybody tell me if there is a possibility to select objects like curves and lines by their stroke-paint and/or their stroke-style? Is such a feature available or planed? The reason why I'm searching for this feature is this: I'm a technical writer and sometimes I've got to put technical drawings from CAT-systems into my documentations. I've read in the inkscape-roadmap that their is a dxf-import/export planed for version 0.51 and it would be nice to work with this files in inkscape. The lines in this documents have got different colours and different strokes that have got different meanings - in most cases i put all this colours into black for printed documentation - the meaning of the colours isn't important at most places and its easier to read than all lines are black. To still keep the information in that drawings (this is useful in some cases) i differ the width of the stroke e.g. all red lines -> 0.25mm, all green lines -> 0.21mm … In Illustrator this is possible by selecting all objects by stroke-paint and stroke-style. Well, than this feature doesn't exists I'll post this suggestion into the developer-mailinglist. It would be great than this actions would be available at the same time with the dxf-import/export. Regards Akki Nitsch ############################################ The freedom of meaning one thing and saying something different is not permitted. E.W. Dijkstra Andreas "Akki" Nitsch, Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Goethestr. 11 36329 Romrod akki@...2368... Mobile: 0171/ 54 12 63 1

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PostScript LanguageLevel
by Johan Vromans 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

Hi, PostScript/EPS export uses PostScript level 2 and (sometimes) level 3 operators. According to the EPS specification, a LanguageLevel comment is then mandatory. However, Inkscape does not provide one. -- Johan

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Export to .AI format?
by unknown＠example.com 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

I am a new Inkscape user, so please forgive me if this has been discussed before. I have a design I would like to export for others who use Adobe Illustrator, preferably in a way that preserves the layers. Does any such extension exist? Thanks, KT The design in question has a lot of detail and color separations: http://www.threadless.com/submission/137866/Fire_Elemental?streetteam=Keter

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Re: [Inkscape-user] contribute to graphics research!
by Sara Su 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hi bulia, Joshua, and all: I apologize for my delay in replying to your messages. I just got back from the UIST conference, where I met many UI researchers -- and fellow Inkscape users. Thanks for your enthusiasm about the undo-saving feature! We would like to release the code for this for all the reasons you mentioned: to comply with the GPL, to get users across platforms, and ultimately to contribute to the Inkscape project. [We'd also welcome help identifying and fixing bugs. :)] What is the best way to do this? As the number of files touched is small, perhaps the fastest is to post these on our website, then work on adding the changes to the SVN trunk. Thanks for your invitation to do so. Sara > Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:52:04 -0300 > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] contribute to graphics research! > To: "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, > "Inkscape List Devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > > (forwarding this to devel list as well) > > This sounds like a very nice addition. We (developers) actually were > thinking about adding something like that, as an option. Would you > consider adding your patch to the SVN trunk so it becomes part of the > official Inkscape releases? For users, persistent undo is an important > enough feature by itself, with or without helping your graphics > research :) And if you keep working on it to add more features like > selective undo, this is much better to do in the main trunk.

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Favorite Inkscape book?
by Patrick 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hi Everyone I want to buy an Inkscape book to learn more about it and to use as a reference book. Does anyone have a favorite? Thanks-Patrick

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A call out to all inkscape artist!
by Jason Brower 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Greetings! My name is Jason Brower and I have come up with an idea to create an avatar making program for linux. All the artwork is done in Inkscape and I was hoping to get some help from artists to make my program amazing! A video of our project in action... http://brower.homelinux.org/nifty.ogg Our Launchpad site where our alpha release of MeMaker is kept. http://launchpad.net/memaker/ Our Standards page that is being created to give artists an understanding of what we need(still being worked on). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/memaker I would love to help anyone get started adding artwork to this project. If you saw before we have a small amount to help everyone get an idea. But the truly clean artwork await for you to complete! :D Thanks for listening! If you want to become more involved drop me a line! Jason Brower PS: I have a special interest in this guy's icons and would love to have the sources or if he would like, he can submit his own theme set himself. :D http://alischan.deviantart.com/art/Icons-41190267

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No more PHP 4
by Aaron Spike 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

Php4 has been removed from the Inkscape VM. Please report any problems with any Inkscape websites as soon as possible so that we can fix them. Thanks, Aaron Spike

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convert .svg or bitmap to .dxf
by Elwin Estle 15 Oct '07

15 Oct '07

I know that there is at least one utility that will convert .dxf to .svg. However, is there one that will convert going the other way, from .svg (or a bitmap) to .dxf? I am looking for something open source, if possible. I have found a couple of shareware windows only programs. The end goal is this: To be able to scan something, convert it to a .dxf file which will then be converted for a Trumpf laser cutter to cut that shape out of sheet metal. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/index.html

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Re: [Inkscape-user] The StoryBoard Prototype
by Sara Su 13 Oct '07

13 Oct '07

> I can indeed see a "history"-list that I can use to undo > to a certain level, but should there also be a visual > storyboard somewhere? Hi Maarten. Thanks for trying our build. It currently includes the history-saving feature. The storyboard-drawing is work in progress, and since it's changing daily, we haven't released it yet. We're asking for your help getting a diverse sample of undo-lists so we can see where the storyboard breaks and design it to be useful to more users. > Also, the prototype version has the tendecy to crash much > more as the regular build. Has anyone else noticed this > behaviour? Can you describe the conditions under which it crashes? It would help us identify the bug if you happened to notice, for example, what tool you were using at the time. Cheers, Sara

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Where is the 3D Box Tool?!
by marc0047 12 Oct '07

12 Oct '07

I just downloaded Inkscape 45.1 for Mac (X11), but can't seem to find the 3D box tool... Anyone know where it is? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Where-is-the-3D-Box-Tool-%21-tf4610970.html#a13167825 Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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ruler, grid and dimensions
by Renato Serodio 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Hello there, I've started using Inkscape a while a go, as an Xfig replacement. I'm quite dependent on the grid and rulers, and am a bit puzzled by Inkscape's ways - unfortunately, I couldn't google anything useful out of the net. So, I was wondering whether someone would care to comment on the following points: 1. is it possible to make the vertical ruler conform to the internal coordinates, ie, I tend to use the XML editor to make corrections, and it would be useful to have the ruler conform to these. 2. can the grid also conform to these coordinates? I put a box on (0,0) using the XML editor, but the grid lines don't match the box edges 3. can it be that the ruler and grid don't match? When I pull a guide, I see that the cursor coordinates match the grid line, but not the ruler tick - say, 100 in the grid and cursor, 98 in the ruler. Looking forward to any comments, Renato

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pdf-input.cpp:544: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope
by Jeff Kowalczyk 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

I'm using a new Gentoo 2007.0 ~x86 system, and building inkscape from svn gives the following errors. What package (cairo, poppler) could be contributing to the build problem? I didn't see a config option to supress PDF features (temporarily, so I can build inkscape) In file included from extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:26: extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.h:107: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'CairoOutputDev' with no type extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.h:107: error: expected ';' before '*' token extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In constructor 'Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::PdfImportDialog(PDFDoc*)': extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: expected type-specifier before 'CairoOutputDev' extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: expected `;' before 'CairoOutputDev' extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In destructor 'virtual Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::~PdfImportDialog()': extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:301: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:302: error: type '<type error>' argument given to 'delete', expected pointer extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In member function 'void Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::_setPreviewPage(int)': extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:544: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope make[2]: *** [extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2/work/inkscape-0.45.2/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2/work/inkscape-0.45.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 Cairo and poppler are built as follows: x11-libs/cairo-1.4.10 USE="X glitz opengl svg -debug -directfb -doc -xcb" 0 kB app-text/poppler-0.6 USE="jpeg zlib -cjk" 0 kB app-text/poppler-bindings-0.6 USE="cairo gtk qt4 -qt3" 0 kB Thanks,

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Text vertical align based on descenders
by Alexander Bonivento 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Hello everyone. I know this is not specifically inkscape related, but i thought maybe someone here may help. Please consider this simple code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg id="svg_root" width="26in" height="16in" viewBox="0 0 26 16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve" shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <line id="line_obj" x1="0" y1="8" x2="26" y2="8" stroke-width="0.1" stroke="#000000"/> <text id="text_obj" transform="translate(13,8)" style="font-size: 4; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; fill: #FF0000; stroke: none;">for</text> </svg> It simply draws a line, and a text "sitting" on it. Obviously the "f" letter, which is a descender, goes below the line. Actually the text location (13,8) determines the placement related to the baseline of the font: i'd like to place at (13,8) the REAL bottom-left corner of the font. So, simply valign to bottom instead of baseline, or move up the text item by descender's amount. I have to do this in scripting, as this is part of a PHP script which invokes inkscape to manage the SVG file. I was only able to imagine 2 solutions, but was not able to apply any of them. So here they are: 1) is there any SVG option, recognized by inkscape as well, that permits this? In SVG specs i saw the "dominant-baseline" and other baseline related params, but none seems to have effect in inkscape 2) can you think at any way to calc the descender offset via scripting? Something like a function: get_descent(fontfile,is_italic,is_bold,textline) Which , i thins case, would look like get_descent("/pathtofonts/times.ttf",1,1,"for") Hope someone can help in some way, every suggestion will be really appreciated. Alex

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Inkscape and digitizers
by Alex 09 Oct '07

09 Oct '07

Hello everyone, I have been using Inkscape for quite some time, and I admire this tool. I am not a professional artist, but I often use it for small charts or simple drawings; and to extend my capabilities, I purchased a digitizer. On the Windows version of Inkscape, the digitizer is detected, everything works as expected, except one detail: I cannot use my mouse to do anything but select a new tool or change options in the GUI. I am unable to edit the image itself using the mouse, unless I disable the digitizer. For instance, if I press F1, the selector tool is becoming active, but when I click on an object on the canvas itself - nothing happens; I can only select objects with the digitizer's pen. I haven't found a setting in Inkscape to alter this behaviour (v.0.45.1, built in March 2007). Is this normal behaviour? I find it quite counter-intuitive, because I became quite efficient with using my laptop's touchpad to manipulate objects - and now I cannot do that anymore. Can someone shed some light on the subject? I am also running Inkscape on a Fedora Linux desktop; in that case the digitizer is not detected by Inkscape (nor GIMP), although the driver seems to be installed properly and I can see events coming from the digitizer when I press something on it. The device in question is a Genius MousePen 8x6, with this driver: http://www.stud.fit.vutbr.cz/~xhorak28/index.php?page=WizardPen_Driver Can someone provide any advice about this matter? Alex

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Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] contribute to graphics research!
by bulia byak 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

On 10/7/07, Joshua Blocher <verbalshadow@...155...> wrote: > Almlost all I have to say is it looks awesome! > Unfortunately, since i don't have Windows installed i can't test this. > Since Inkscape is multi-platform program, is there any chance of > getting the source posted on your web page? Actually, as far as I understand it, GPL obliges them to post the source for their version. But I think what we are most interested in is not simply getting the source but getting new active contributors to the development :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Problems with query on texts
by Alexander Bonivento 08 Oct '07

08 Oct '07

Hello. I need to get the geomtery of a text element. Please cosider the following code: ------------ <svg width="26in" height="16in" viewBox="0 0 26 16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:space="preserve" shape-rendering="geometricPrecision" text-rendering="geometricPrecision" image-rendering="optimizeQuality" fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <rect id="textbbox_2_check" x="5.3733333333333" y="11.31" width="15.773333333333" height="2.2966666666667" style="fill: none; stroke: #000000; stroke-width: 0.01" /> <text id="text_2_check" transform="translate(0,0)" style=" text-anchor:start; font-size: 1; font-family: Arial; fill: #000000; fill-opacity: 1; stroke: none;">Text Line 1</text> </svg> ------------ As you can see, there is a simple text and a rect. What i need to do is "fit" the text inside that rect. To do this, i use this file (which is a temp file) to query width and height in order to obtain values to apply the correct scale transforms over it. The problem is that it seems texts are not parsed correctly at all. As far as i know, SVG user units should be 90 for 1 inch. So, doing [query-result]/90 gives me the inches value. Here, the list of query commands performed on both text and rect elements. Below each command, i wrote 3 numbers: [query-result] - [query-result]/90 - inkscape (gui) shown inches value inkscape -I "text_2_check" -W test.svg 419.81271 - 4.6645856666666666666666666666667 - 5.042 /usr/bin/inkscape -I "text_2_check" -H test.svg 87.39 - 0.971 - 0.730 /usr/bin/inkscape -I "textbbox_2_check" -W test.svg 1420.5 - 15.783333333333333333333333333333 - 15.783 /usr/bin/inkscape -I "textbbox_2_check" -H test.svg 207.6 - 2.3066666666666666666666666666667 - 2.307 As you can see, the "textbbox_2_check" values are correct, and query/gui values are equal. But "text_2_check" values are completely different... Why? Is there a way to get the correct width/height of a text element? I really need this in order to make the correct "fitting" scaleratio, but i'm completely lost here. Can anyone help? Thanx in advance. Alex

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contribute to graphics research!
by Sara Su 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

Hello inkscape-users, I am a graduate student in the Computer Graphics Group at MIT, and we are researching ways to visualize the editing history of graphical documents. We want to test our software prototype (built on Inkscape) on a diverse sample of illustrations, and we need your help! Please see our webpage for details: http://csail.mit.edu/~sarasu/history If you could spare 10 minutes, we would be grateful for your help. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions regarding this work. We will keep you posted on cool features (e.g. selective undo) that grow out of it. Thanks in advance! Sara

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Inkscape has a default theme on OS X
by jiho 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hello everyone, As of revision 16000 (yes I like round numbers, I think I also did commit number 15000!), development versions of Inkscape have a default GTK theme on OS X (no more of these ugly dark grey windows!) It is probably impossible for GTK to reproduce Aqua exactly, hence the theme does not aim at being an Aqua clone as other themes tried (and in my opinion, did not succeed). It rather tries to "fit" correctly with the rest of the interface. The theme is based on Clearlooks-Quicksilver which already features light gray colors, menu and text highlights and a smooth 3D feel. Further improvements were added such as: - aqua scroll-bars - Lucida Grande font - highlight and scroll-bars colors that use Mac OS X Appearance settings (aqua vs graphite, or blue vs grey vs graphite vs...). However you need to restart Inkscape for colors to change after you changed them in OS X preferences. In addition, Inkscape won't override the local theme preferences you may have in a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (so if you want to see the theme in Inkscape, temporarily move this file somewhere else). Some screenshots: - With OS X blue and blue highlights (OS X default) http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue.png - With OS X blue and orange highlights (subtle changes) http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue_orange.png - With OS X graphite and silver highlights (my personal favorite) http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_graphite.png - And the old look, just to compare http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_old_look.png There is probably room for improvement: the scroll-bars tips are not perfect, the text and background highlight colors can be differentiated (as in OS X), the icons are still gnome defaults and so on and so forth... but well I hope that this is at least better than before. NB: there is a devel build, on modevia, for you to test this out: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D sorry, only for Intel... the direct link is http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-16002-i386.dmg Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Styles Panel(Like Freehand)
by seth friedman 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hey everyone, Has there been any work to create a styles panel similar to what freehand has? That would be so useful. Seth

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CMS display adjustment change
by Jon A. Cruz 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hi, I just checked in an update with icc color profiles and setting display calibration. Now upon startup latest SVN Inkscape will search the standard locations for profiles ~/.color/icc /usr/local/share/color/icc /usr/share/color/icc Then under the misc preferences you'll have a checkbox for enabling display calibration, along with a drop-down combo box that allows you to pick between all RGB display profiles found. Give it a rundown and let me know how it's behaving. Thanks.

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Exported gradients and Adobe Reader 8
by Stéphane Mottelet 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Hi all, Last year, I have used Inkscape to make a nice A0 poster with gradients. I exported the original svg to pdf and sent the file to my favorite printing shop. One year later, when I open the pdf file, I don't see the gradients any more. Of course when I open the svg file with Inkscape 0.45 the gradients are here. So my question is : if I ask them to reprint the file (I don't know what is the application they use) will the gradients be printed ? Is there a problem in the way that Inkscape export the gradients which could be broken by recent versions pdf software ? Thanks for your help S.

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Keep Dialogs Open
by D. Jones 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

How do I make the dialogs always stay open so that when I close inkscape and then reopen inkscape the same dialogs that I was using are reopen with a new instance of inkscape. I would like to apply this to the stable and the developement version. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/

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Technical drawing / snapping
by A.J. Carter 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

I'm really pleased to have discovered inkscape recently and it's fantastic that it's free and open source. In the past I've used autodesk autosketch (a cut down version of autocad) for "non-cad" scientific/technical illustrations for publication in papers etc. One feature which I find makes drawing easier is the ability to set snapping constraints, like "endpoint", "midpoint", "centre", "tangent" when both drawing an element and selecting to transform an existing element (the cursor jumps and changes shape to indicate which snap is currently in action). I wondered if any similar feature exists in inkscape, or whether it might be considered for the roadmap? Thanks

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