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Improving the diff-ability of inkscape
by Yannik Völker 12 May '13

12 May '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 First of all: I am not exactly shure if this belongs into -user if it should be put into the dev mailing list please tell me to do so Today I ran some experiments on collaborative work Inkscape. I put a file in a simple Hg-repository, created two branches, made some changes to each of them and afterwards tried to merge them back together. while doing so I ran into 3 Problems: The first one can't be changed by Inkscape: when you add objects to the same layer in both branches you need to tell the diff tool to insert them after each others so no big deal The second one is that Inkscape saves the zoom and view position; while its a bit annoying and i don’t relay see the advantage of saving those its easy to resolve. The third one is the reason for this mail: the svg format was designed not to waste too much bandwidth for path definitions (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html#PathDataGeneralInformation) so it was allowed to put skip some whitespaces, have relative and absolute formats and so on. While its not necessary to use it Inkscape actually uses some of those optimizations for size. That is where it gets problematic: No line based diff algorithm will ever be able to understand d="M 94.560583,882.94114 202.33942,447.30755 149.72092,186.54185 C 322.59461,172.3981 497.26518,91.769646 666.84911,199.34693 l 44.50099,59.86379 6.19919,124.61 -138.89214,182.52301 - -292.02038,376.68278 z" it would be way better if Inkscape would save all the commands in their own line with the correct command in front so you can put other lines in between without breaking everything: d="M94.560583,882.94114 M202.33942,447.30755 M149.72092,186.54185 C322.59461,172.3981 C497.26518,91.769646 C666.84911,199.34693 l44.50099,59.86379 l6.19919,124.61 l-138.89214,182.52301 l-292.02038,376.68278 z" would allow adding a point to the line by just adding a line without creating a huge diff. Additionally it would be good to never use relative coordinates (l) as changing one point would change two lines otherwise Please note that this suggestion is for the so-called Inkscape-SVG only (as that is the one people will use to work ), it should obviously be optimized as much as possible in the plain svg format. - -- Yannik Völker -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRilZAAAoJEDqk81AiCyXKzNwQAJP2BwXDVJ0ASIc+0Pw6TjsW yF3s6nGm4/5cWHbXXDUosCJNu4VH9bccFyEfwfoUHgPXoPWM7XQJWF+Imj+W5rTJ XfrCEyrLC/8fcqZpS301vfjv0492J4UZi+mMuIVVQQwa3djCISDg3GQHkOgiEPxw Gu7KJSDGvmct6sW+vKsErHLBgjh+NeE8d8ySEIXXryEi5boBO3+4Ai9IVEfkOCs7 qvDIXgmkePaLvFukLnAvOVJxSeXnTFRyQyozX5IQE+M7tTL6HQKf7qhDTXuJOkuJ tSdoCIcTE4Ksy0h+7wRgvZ/+rMcle+cZg9gt8YzAypsdSewLYDLljM0geIAfkxvp K8eVZs6f7Fmsqzb/hlVZrQLzb/oA+WR7iLcWuKGa3dtIYR1udvTA+UYzUNvjXn4t p50eqZ4a4yreg34GsM9dOuvEcy2RrVzvRxX0+Y5whzvx1ndj+XJwmrudOykfyip6 Xg6o9wtqYN4FCnEPTwcixUSl3uyCUN0QnjJtZLwlL6wSvOTJyCedsGv5Sh3lrIMr UUnK6kQoGKlmvWBdXB3eBqTJSUUC+NZdPZMCXD0TEm04SdaYS1901JpTyJMT0TXU NFz42yVz/pbU5y/j/zMDLhrmdPeAmDMqazyqwEXRTBOaxFvec/upyixuwNRPqsDO bpx80Tt5vkz4YA5+MT/W =o356 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Noob question about shapes
by Arlo Barnes 09 May '13

09 May '13

OK, should work now. And now working off mailing list rather than forum. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:42 PM, <inkscape-user-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net>wrote: > Thank you for posting to the Inkscape User's list. However, due to > problems with spam, the list members have closed the list to posting > from people not subscribed to the list. Please join the list, and > re-send your email. Sorry for the trouble! > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Arlo B." <arlo.barnes@...155...> > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: > Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 23:01:55 +0200 > Subject: Re: Noob question about shapes > I did not trust myself not to flub the path, so I googled for > 'parametric egg' (because I had previously messed around with > Extensions>Render>Parametric curves) and got > http://bsidneysmith.com/images/writings/2006-2010/egg%20equation.jpg > which I entered - and got half an egg. Oh well. I copied it and joined > the two paths (Which reminds me: If I want to make alterations to a path > symmetrically, is there an easy way to do it or do I have to figure out > what the reflected coordinates would be? No, never mind, I will ask that > in a new thread as the red text tells me to). Just thought this might > help / interest somebody. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > -Arlo James Barnes

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Problem with drawing - bkacp square on export
by Johan Vromans 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hi, I'm using Inkscape 0.48.4 on Fedora 17. I have a drawing that I save in SVG format that I want to embed in an OpenOffice (LibreOffice) text document. When imported in OpenOffice, I get a black rectangle covering part of the drawing. It does not matter whether I save in Inkscape SVG or plain SVG. When I use display (from ImageMagick) to show the SVGs, I also get the black rectangle. In FireFox, both SVGs show fine. When I save in OpenOffice Draw (ODG) format I loose all texts in the image. Help is appreciated. You can find the drawing and sample dislay in http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/uploads/3C1j41IOGG39BYF99PyBAiaw.zip Thanks. -- Johan

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Stroke Dialog
by Martin Owens 08 May '13

08 May '13

Hey Users, I was doing a bit of design for the symbols dialog when I got distracted and had a few ideas about the stroke dialog. In any case, the ideas kept nagging until I wrote them down and I've put them here in the wiki for discussion: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Stroke_Dialog I will NOT be working on this yet as I'm currently working on symbols. But I would still like to hear your ideas about how to make our dialogs smarter, smaller and smoother (the three sm'ers of design ;) Best Regards, Martin Owens

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discrete color scale object becomes continuous in eps export
by unknown＠example.com 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

dear all, I have a inkscape problem that I do not understand. An object showing a discrete color scale is converted to a continuous scale in the eps export. here is the example file http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~muthers/exchange/drawing.svg this is the exported file http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~muthers/exchange/drawing.eps any help is appreciated! inkscape version is 0.48.4 on arch linux. cheers, stefan

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DBus api signals
by cabieces julien 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi, I have to produce a "plugin" for Inkscape. Python exception functionnalities are not enough for what I want to do so I came to try the DBus Api. With this one, I can communicate from my plugin to Inkscape but not in the other way. The only implemented signal is "ObjectMoved" but I need to know when Inkscape modifies a node, adds an attribute or things like that. I look after the dbus extension code and it seems that the signals that I want are described in proposed-interface.xml and are not yet implemented. Is there any way to achieve what I want to do? Is there further development forecast for dbus extension? Is this possible to propose eventually patch? Thanks for the reply Julien

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Text to path in a circle
by Javier Garcia 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hi, I'm using text to path to put text around circle, in the outter part. It works ok, but how can i put the text in the inner part of the circle? 0.48 Javi

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Base layer color.
by john Culleton 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Quick question: Is the base layer of a new Inkscape document by default white or by default transparent? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Trying to create a rubber stamp effect
by Javier Garcia 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi, I have found this tuto about creating a rubber stamp effect: http://howto.nicubunu.ro/rubber_stamp_inkscape/ It says I should do an intersection between the image and the calligraphic drawing, but for me it doesn't work.., I mean, Inkscape doesn't do any intersection..Of course I select both objects before trying the intersection. I attach a file. 0.48 Javi

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Importing graphs from Excel
by Jurgen Gaeremyn 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hello list, for an article I need to edit a graph made in Excel (2007). This is my current workflow: 1. In Excel: Print to PDF (using Cute PDF) 2. Open the PDF file in Inkscape The big caveat is: text items don't behave well at all. They are really naughty :p -> when changing fonts or size, the spacing doesn't adapt (so text gets squashed when a bigger font is chosen) -> certain text elements that don't belong together, all of the sudden become one item (f.e. the scale items and the R² text, but the ² is a different text block) Currently, the only solution I see, is retyping all the text manually. Obviously, this is quite a waste of time. I hope some of you know a better solution for this... Thanks, Jurgen.

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