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Re: [Inkscape-user] Python API
by Aaron Spike 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

I think the following email came directly to me but was intended for the list. I invite everyone who is interested in this to also look at the recent thread by Soren on the dev list. Aaron Spike Maarten van der Velde wrote: > Inkscape users, > > In response to Aarons' request, I´ve set up a page in the Inkscape WIKI that > outlines my request. > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/QuickDrawingAPI > > This page is meant as a proposal and a discussion platform for outlining a > "quick drawing API" in Python. The purpose of this page is to summarize the > needs of end-users ("designers") for a collection of Python-functions to > assist in the quick drawing and manipulation of graphical objects on the > canvas. > > This API should help everyday-users to quickly write a script to assist in > the drawing of your works of art. :) > > I´d like to encourage everybody to join the discussion and make changes if > needed in this page. > > Thanks! > > Maarten > > > > On 7/3/09 1:21 PM, "Aaron Spike" <aaron@...476...> wrote: > >> Maarten van der Velde wrote: >>> I hope you don't mind me sending you a personal message. I thought it might >>> get too irrelevant for the email. If it isn't, we can post this message as >>> well. >>> >>> Why would designing the API hold people back? As I understand, it kind of >>> involves listing the functions and the classes that would be usefull, >>> together with the arguments they need, am I right. Can I do this without any >>> real training as a programmer? >> Well, I guess we're equals then, if you have no real training as a >> programmer. :-) >> >> Designing a good API is indeed hard. But if you post it on the wiki and >> ask for feedback, others can comment on good or bad points. >> >> I think desire and need are getting in the way. People who are good >> programmers, probably understand the XML handling or easily learn it. So >> those people most qualified to design an API don't want to because they >> don't need to. Even if the API would make things more convenient it >> isn't a life or death grade need. >> >> You can ask for an API. People do ask. I'm sure I can dig up feature >> requests. But if no one goes through the trouble to specify exactly what >> they want in more detail then the developers can't know what is desired >> or needed. Who would want to take time to code something they don't >> personally need or want if there is a pretty large chance it isn't what >> other people want either. :-) >> >> Without specifying the API its hard to know where your wants sit on the >> continuum between simple and reimplementing all of Inkscape in python in >> order to support all of the SVG spec. If you want simple that's great! >> Its probably doable. But as you get nearer to implementing all of SVG, >> as I said in my last email, I will want to hold out for live access to >> the Inkscape internals. Inkscape has already implemented Inkscape! It >> was an immense task that I wouldn't want to attempt again on my own. >> >> Hope that better explains my thoughts. >> >> Aaron Spike > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Maarten van der Velde > graphic designer > > Powel ASA Klæbuveien 194, NO-7037 Trondheim, NORWAY > Phone: +47 73 80 45 00 - Fax: +47 73 80 45 01 > Direct line: +47 73 80 46 21 - Mobile: +47 48 16 46 21 / +31 (0) 6 30 80 > 95 91 > Email: Maarten.van-der-Velde@...2171... > http://www.powel.com/ > > > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.powel.no > ********************************************************************** > >

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Guides - locking and setting color
by JimmyVolatile 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hi, all. I have trouble finding info on the following: 1. How can I temporarily lock all guides? Is it possible at all? (I keep unintentionally selecting and dragging the guides when I really want to move some of the design elements around.) 2. Is it possible to change the guidelines color? Again, I keep mistaking some of the guides for my design element outlines, which incidentally are both black. Any help will be greatly appreciated. For now, I'll simply stick with showing/hiding the guides whenever needed. Luckily there's a shortcut so it's quite fast. Kind regs, Jimmy Volatile

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0.47 - Testing, Promoting, Sharing, Contributing!
by Donna Benjamin 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hey Everyone! http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/UserStories047 Another Pre-release candidate will be available for testing pretty soon... and efforts are being made to make binaries available for a few different systems. So, as we get closer to release for 0.47 it's even more important to get more stories out there about how people are using Inkscape! Please take a moment to go to the wiki page http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/UserStories047 And give us your story about how and why you use Inkscape - so we can spice up the Media Announcement about the upcoming release! And finally - If you like to help out by making tutorials, and improving documentation, see if you can get new stuff together that focusses on new features and improvements. Take a look over the release notes if you need a refresher! http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47 cheers Donna -- Donna Benjamin - kattekrab.net Inkscape: Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics 0.47 is coming... http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape 0.47pre1
by Ted Gould 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Sorry to be terse, but I'm running late... here is the 0.47pre1 distribution. Lots of great fixes, please test and ensure we have a truly great release! == Download == https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/ (Not there yet, I'm guessing a caching issue on SF's side... I'll be on a plane, but someone e-mail the list if they don't show up in a little while.) == MD5 Sums == f79696d4e8350f8de0d2558865f3009a inkscape-0.47pre1.tar.bz2 8ef7d31a015260f1123688c234661721 inkscape-0.47pre1.tar.bz2.asc 5bb2e12c2c269aeb6e416e8e3ffada76 inkscape-0.47pre1.tar.gz 50d7d3c63e7377fadb3203b0980bc34e inkscape-0.47pre1.tar.gz.asc 2a2f242fcdd3e9e9f41fc7610f55690b inkscape-0.47pre1.zip b5fc9864e25af0ea9032c8c7940be830 inkscape-0.47pre1.zip.asc Hopefully binaries will start appearing shortly. Cheers, Ted

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Inkscape on FLOSS Weekly
by Jon A. Cruz 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

I just realized we should probably mention that Ted and I are being interviewed today on FLOSS Weekly in regards to Inkscape. http://twit.tv/floss It will be streamed live today at 1:30pm on http://live.twit.tv/ but then will go out on the FLOSS Weekly podcast. That usually goes up around the weekend. Hopefully we can bring a bit of attention for Inkscape, the new release, and just possibly interest a few more users to come in and help with final 0.47 testing and bug fixing.

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Large Blocks of Text
by frank gaude' 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Using 0.47, 0.46-devel, and Ubuntu 9.04, x64, 4GB RAM, it seems that large blocks of text, more than say 500 characters, cannot have drop shadows. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? frank

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spot color
by Terry Brown 21 Jun '09

21 Jun '09

Hi all, I've got a project set up in inkscape, designed for two color (green and black) spot color printing. First I'm going to send a PDF to the printing service and ask if it will work for them. But I'm guessing I may need to cut all the green stuff out of the black stuff for this to work, maybe provide two separate layers, one with the black shades, and one with the green shades. Does it sound likely that I'll need to do this, and if so are there any easy ways to do so, other than a lot of path differencing? And perhaps making the green shapes larger so there's no white where they're supposed to be contiguous with the black? Or is there some easy way around all this I'm overlooking? Thanks, Terry

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color print
by H.Lekin 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hi, I started using Inkscape 6 weeks ago. I went to a print shop to get a color drawing - exported as PNG - printed. On this print, a blue gradient fill turned into a blue to dirty-green fill. Do you have to transform color space afore? How do you usually do this? Convert PNG to TIF, transform RGB to CMYK with embedded profile? Make a PDF/X-3 via Scribus? If via SVG import, how do you handle tranparency? What standard color profile do you use, if you don't know exactly on which machine you are going to print? Or was this color shift just caused by a misconfiguration of Photoshop in the print shop? Thanks in advance for your help. HL

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Segmented circle by default in 0.47
by Steven M. Ottens 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hi all, I'm using the latest build of http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D on windows XP. When I draw a circle it defaults to drawing a segmented circle; it draws a full circle, with the begin and end point on the same place and a line going from those points to the centre of the circle. I need to hit the 'make shape a full circle..' button to get rid of it. Does anyone else have the same problem, if so wouldn't it be better to default to a full circle? Regards, Steven

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Script to gather resources (fonts and images)
by Denís Fernández Cabrera 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Hello all, I have just submitted this as a RFE in the Inkscape Launchpad section [1], but I thought I'd share here too in case someone comes with a quick fix -- perhaps a script that will do the job. The basic idea is, as I detail in the ticket: I have the fortune of working with a printing house that actually uses Inkscape (and Scribus and The GIMP) in they day-to-day. This means that they know the intrincacies of the program and I can send them pure SVGs with the reassurance they will know what they are doing. One of the problems I find, though, is that whenever I prepare a complex design (a poster, or even the layout of a page for simple books) where several font faces and external images are involved it is a real pain to gather all the resources (font files, image files) that I need to send them. Sure, Inkscape can embed images (but this generates huge SVG files and becomes aggravating when an image is used repeatedly in several files). It can also generate PDFs which I can send to them (but sometimes they need to do preprinting and there is no good PDF editor for GNU/Linux, and PDF doesn't support all the features SVG and Inkscape do). Hence I think that an option that parses the SVG file and generates a tarball with the SVG, its associated images and the relevant font faces would be very nice to have. Denís. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/386664 -- Denís Fernández Cabrera mailto://denis@...2650... Gatonegro deseño http://gatonegro.me

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