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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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Help required changing style attributes from a Python extension.
by Jon 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

I am attempting to implement the full International Orienteering Federation mapping standards (ISOM:2000 and ISSOM:2007) within Inkscape. So far, I've created a GIMP palette containing the standard colours required, using this across the bottom of my Inkscape window. I've also written an extension to generate the required point symbols and produced many of the required fill patterns, incorporating them into patterns.svg. I'm not happy with modifying patterns.svg as this is one of the standard files provided with Inkscape. I've seen the way that the X-moto extensions use dialog boxes for changing .jpg and .png block textures and would like to do something similar for my svg patterns, but this is a medium-term objective. The remaining symbol type that I'm looking to implement is the lines. Different line styles from simple continuous lines of a given width and colour to complex dashed lines with superimposed symbols at regular intervals are required. Given the examples available in the current Pattern along Path and Scatter extensions, the creation of the superimposed symbols isn't seen as a problem. The problem that I'm having is in what should be a simple task - that of changing the style attributes of an existing line. I can create new dash styles by editing the preferences.xml file in my personal user area but, for many reasons, do not see this as as a realistic option and not one that could be distributed to other users. I've been trying to write a simple Python extension that will take a selected line or number of lines and replace the style of the original with a different set of style attributes without changing its path. I've looked through the currently distributed Python extensions for clues as to how to do this, but have not been successful. I've even started looking at the 1000+ page Python 2.6.4 online manual (is this the version of Python implemented in Inkscape?) but this hasn't really helped, although I've picked up some pointers for better Python coding. I'm assuming that there is a subroutine in one of the 'helper' files - inkex.py, pathmodifier.py, ... etc. that would help with this but haven't determined which one it could be. I would be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction. Jon

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Node tool selection with tablet
by Alexander Roalter 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Yesterday I pulled a new bzr checkout from Inkscape and compiled it, but found the following problem: When in node tool mode (F2) and selecting some nodes by dragging a rectangle over them Inkscape doesn't get the mouse up event and continues to draw the rectangle as I move the (now free floating) pointer around. If I press again on the tablet, the rectangle becomes fixed, and nothing is selected; the rectangle stays as grahical debris, and everything else is as if I didn't select anything. Using the normal mouse works as before. I use the tablet (XInput) in Screen Mode. In the previous version (pulled roughly one week ago) it worked as expected. I'm not too bazaar-savvy to go back and check out when it did change (in svn I could simply revert, but how to do it in bzr?) -- cheers, Alex

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