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Re: [Inkscape-user] Why Bazaar?
by Carl Symons 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:00:37 -0400 > From: John Culleton <john@...1668...> > Subject: [Inkscape-user] Why Bazaar? > To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: <201004061200.37373.john@...1668...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Why oh why do we need yet another depository program? I can handle svn. I > can even handle cmake, though it is a pain. But why not make the nightly > update of Inkscape 48 available as a plain old tar ball? > > The leaders of this project need to understand that users like me use a lot > of open source software, Open COBOL, Tiny COBOL, Gimp, Scribus, Gvim, > Mozilla in all its variants, Tcl/Tk and so on. Most of these projects stick > to the familiar ./configure, make, make install sequence. Scribus just to be > difficult insists on the cmake route, and I have finally puzzled that out. > I can handle svn (replacement for cvs) with a little help. But what is > Bazaar (perhaps bizarre would be a better name) and who else uses it? > Bazaar is a distributed version control system that offers many features that are anti-bizarre. For a software development project--particularly one that is physically dispersed and has multiple levels of commit privileges such as most open source projects--Bazaar offers substantial benefits. The Canonical/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/?buntu crew has moved most revision control to Bazaar...because bzr makes it easy for marginally-techies to contribute. This site explains further...http://jam-bazaar.blogspot.com/2007/10/bazaar-vs-subversion.html The leaders of projects are not in cahoots about what system to use for versioning, make-ing, etc. There is no FOSS governing body dictating tool selection. And for every "user like me", there are many users not like you that also have preferences. "Scribus just to be difficult..." Well probably not "just" with the intention of being difficult. It might have something to do with--make is Unix-ish, while Scribus is cross platform. Many users of open source software run on platforms other than ...N*X. Many M$ Office users have abandoned Publisher in favor of Scribus. Chin up, John. These technical details are part of the FOSS fun. 8^) Carl

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Text Rasterisation
by Andreas Neustifter 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Hi! I didn't find anything on the Interwebs, so I resort to here: I have a Inkscape document that has several texts in in and most of them are properly (as text) output to PDF. But there are some that are rasterised and I do not get it why this is so. I have cleaned up the XML and even if I copy the XML style attribute from a properly rendered text to a rasterised one it gets rasterised. Any hints? Thanks so much, Andi

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Why Bazaar?
by John Culleton 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Why oh why do we need yet another depository program? I can handle svn. I can even handle cmake, though it is a pain. But why not make the nightly update of Inkscape 48 available as a plain old tar ball? The leaders of this project need to understand that users like me use a lot of open source software, Open COBOL, Tiny COBOL, Gimp, Scribus, Gvim, Mozilla in all its variants, Tcl/Tk and so on. Most of these projects stick to the familiar ./configure, make, make install sequence. Scribus just to be difficult insists on the cmake route, and I have finally puzzled that out. I can handle svn (replacement for cvs) with a little help. But what is Bazaar (perhaps bizarre would be a better name) and who else uses it? I guess I will wait for the official release of Ink 48. (Grumble) -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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ping
by nestor 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

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Potential Summer of Code students
by Joshua A. Andler 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hello Students, Short and sweet message. Please do not forget that you only have until the 9th to submit your GSoC proposals... Cheers, Josh

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Announcement: Scribus 1.3.6 released
by Christoph Schäfer 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.6. This version is another major step on the way to the next stable release 1.4. Compared to the work on Scribus 1.3.5, the development of Scribus 1.3.6 was focussed on stabilising the code base, and especially on weeding out issues that were mostly due to the porting of the code from Qt3 to Qt4. Almost 150 bugs have been fixed since the release of 1.3.5. In addition, Scribus 1.3.6 provides some minor enhancements: - New Scripter functions - Usability improvements - Translation updates - More colour palettes - Updates to the documentation - Build instructions for OpenSolaris The Scribus Team considers this version to be quite stable and ready for many real-world use cases. However, since there are still some annoyances that prevent us from releasing version 1.4, more cautious users may want to prefer to stick with the officially stable version 1.3.3.14. The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and improvements in a new experimental branch. Once tested and confirmed as working flawlessly, they will be backported and become part of the 1.4 milestone. ==Important Information== Please note that we have branched our code repository: - 1.3.7svn code (the next iteration of the development version and probably the last before the release of 1.4) is available from the "Version135" branch: (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/branches/Version135/) - trunk (=experimental) is now versioned 1.5.0svn (svn://scribus.info/Scribus/trunk) and continues to undergo heavy changes. Please use this branch for testing only! The Scribus Team recommends that all distributions package Scribus 1.3.3.14 as "Scribus" or "scribus". We recommend the additional packaging of 1.3.6 only if it is marked as a development version and can be installed alongside an existing Scribus 1.3.3.14 (for example as "scribus-ng"). An important reminder: If you are working with 1.3.3.x and decide to implement some design features available in 1.3.6, you should only work with a copy of your file, since once it is saved in 1.3.6 format, you will not be able to open it again with 1.3.3.x. Similarly, if you are working with a team, try to make sure that all team members use the same Scribus version -- this will avoid many headaches and extra work. ==Primary Download Location== Windows and Mac OSX installers, as well as the source code are available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel OS/2 installers will be added soon. ==Further Download Options== - Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net - Fedora 11 and 12 RPMS: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs - openSUSE 11+ and SLED RPMs: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs - Mandriva 2010 RPM: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/Mandriva_2010/ ==Source Verification== 7z: MD5: 2b2e52c5a06e190b0f5651b1f75d5065 SHA1 5f2fa179c4393a0393e1ec4f6e92dfd410f83d72 tar.bz2: MD5: 2d653c8371d198b5d8321e9ba5e0142d SHA1: 35ceba09bea73b3cb10f38dddc5bc24185df794e DMGs: MD5: 5c4122b7656cead6b07aefe4362edc3a SHA1: 9a3770585d24fb5dae697ce05f0f86d17196be24 Win32: MD5: e714b1de4ed61130cf889170a605eb21 SHA1: d060ad76591ceab0505e7af913b07e136a112250 ==Credits== The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting (Norway) for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. We are also grateful to Linux New Media (Germany) for sponsoring. Moreover, the Scribus Team is pleased to name Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio (Germany), Serenity Systems (USA), Vectorportal (Russia) and Marabu-Druckfarben (Germany) as Special Supporters. Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this important release. ==About Scribus== Scribus is an award-winning, cross-platform Open-Source page layout application with a focus on high-quality and commercial-grade PDF and PostScript output. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus runs natively on Mac OS X, OS/2, many forms of UNIX and Windows 2000/XP/Vista by now. Underneath a user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK colour, spot colours, separations, ICC colour management, printing marks and versatile PDF creation, including PDF/X. Encouraged by professionals and beginners alike, the Scribus Team, supported by a large and constantly growing number of enthusiastic contributors from all over the world, is dedicated to improve "one of the most powerful and useful open-source projects out there" (TechRepublic). ==Links== - Scribus Website: http://www.scribus.net - Scribus Wiki: http://wiki.scribus.net - Scribus Developer Blog: http://rants.scribus.net/ - Bugtracker: http://bugs.scribus.net - Scribus General Mailing List: http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus - Scribus Development Mailing List: http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus-dev

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tracing
by unknown＠example.com 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hello I have a problem with tracing. I want to trace with centerline so I get a single line which I can edit. That is not possible with podtrace (or is it?) Autotrace seems te do the job. To get that working with Inkscape I must install Autotrace and its GUI Frontline. But although autotrace has a win binary, I can't find a win binary of Frontline. Any ideas? Greeting Jos

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Fonts question
by Drew Leske 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hi all, apologies if this is the wrong place or has been asked before. I looked through the archives, and my searches on Google were fruitless. First of all, I am loving Inkscape. It's amazing. Second, I'm having trouble with fonts. I have a downloaded font Lacuna (http://www.glashaus-design.com/), a really nice free font. The problem is that it comes in two styles: Lacuna Regular and Lacuna Italic, and I can't figure out how to make those two fonts appear as one typeface with two styles. In practical terms: I'd like to select not "Lacuna Regular" or "Lacuna Italic", but "Lacuna", and then have regular by default and the italic style if I hit ctrl-I. Right now to get the true italic font I have to select it from the drop-down list of fonts; if I use ctrl-I I get the faked-out italic instead of the true style. I have tried messing with the fonts.scale file so that Lacuna Regular and Lacuna Italic both appear to be styles of the family Lacuna, instead of two different families, but Inkscape did not pick this up. Any suggestions? Thanks, Drew.

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ungrouping a bunch of 3d boxes delete all of them
by Grant Edwards 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

I've got a drawing in which a handful of 3d-boxes are grouped (and I'm not sure how that happened). I want to ungroup them, but when I select the group and do object->ungroup, all of them just vanish. AFAICT, they've been deleted. If I do edit->undo, the group returns. How do you ungroup a group of 3d-boxes? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I guess it was all a at DREAM ... or an episode of gmail.com HAWAII FIVE-O ...

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Screen capture and deckle edge.
by Peter Flynn 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Terry Brown wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Michael Moore wrote: > > >>> >>> Is there an easy way to create a deckle edge border around a >>> >>> graphic? > > > > Draw a rectangle. Use Object to Path to make it a path. > > If you have effects working (see the Wiki if not) use Add Nodes to > > add a bunch of nodes, say at least 20 to a side. So if your side is > > 200 units long have it add nodes every 10 units. I can get that far, although when I click on Add Nodes (even with Preview checked), I don't see anything happen. > > Then just apply the Radius Randomize effect. I can't find this. Do you know what menu it's in? There is no sign of it in the Extensions menu (v0.47) ///Peter

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