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Re: [Inkscape-user] Continue with the bridge version of the logo
by Guillermo Espertino 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

> Any volunteers to do the cleanup? I did some changes, but I found some problems too. Different browsers render text differently, and not all systems have the freesans font used. A solution would be to convert every text to paths, wich increases the size of the file but renders correctly. Opera (for linux at least, what I tested) has problems with gradients to alpha, apparently. Here are my adjustments. Maybe some of them will have to be rolled back to the previous version (the title part) if we'll stick with the text not converted to curves. -Tweaked the bridge. A lot. Joined paths, corrected some shapes, removed strokes, cleanup. -Joined the semi-transparent white outline of the bridge. cleanup -Removed the clip from the sun. cleanup and cut to keep only the visible part. -Joined the outline of the text (looks fine in inkscape, not in browsers... maybe it has to be undone) -Joined the land in one single path. -Joined the clouds (were groups of circles) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v4.png (PNG - Size optimized for IE) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v4.svg (inkscape SVG - Layers) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v4-plain.svg (plain SVG) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v4-plain-notext.svg (plain SVG - text converted to paths) The big problem here is the text part. As far as I could see, every browser seems to render it diferently. The one that has the text part converted to paths renders fine in browsers, but is quite large. Maybe some guy with better knowledge than me about SVG can do a manual cleanup of the result and reduce the size (inkscape uses to leave some unnecesary style definitions) ideas? Regards, Gez.

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Inkscape mini-conference?
by Niall Mansfield 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

I'm a long-time Inkscape user, and we use it in the production of many of our books. The UKUUG (the UK's Unix and open systems User Group) runs two technical conferences a year. This summer, the group wants to get as many different free software projects involved as possible. The venue is already booked and most of the arrangements are made, so adding extra tracks or mini-confs is easy. Possible Inkscape-related ideas: - an Inkscape developers summit. We can provide a dedicated meeting room. - a separate "mini-conf" running alongside the UKUUG conference. - an InkScape track within the main conference. - a "Getting started with Inkscape" tutorial for newbies, or an advanced tutorial? If you've any ideas, or would just like to bounce ideas around, give me a shout. More info: Conference wiki: http://summer2009.ukuug.net/ (very basic so far) A5-sized call for participation: http://summer2009.ukuug.net/download/summer-cfp-a5.pdf Venue: The Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, B3 3HG Dates: Friday-Sunday 7-9 August 2009 If you're interested, subscribe to the Summer Conference mailing list: http://lists.ukuug.org/mailman/listinfo/summerconf -- Niall Mansfield UIT Cambridge Ltd. England

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Continue with the bridge version of the logo
by Andreas Neumann 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi SVG Open organizers and Inkscape users, As per the voting on doodle (http://doodle.com/g6q8szftsz3cnrg5) it seems like most people prefer the Golden gate theme. I personally prefered the "Mountain/Sun" scheme, but I think the bridge theme is nice as well and we should now continue to improve it. Thank you all of the involved Inkscape and SVG Open people for your contributions and congratulations to Jozef for winning the voting. The latest version (with some minor improvements, thanks Frank!) can be found at http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v3b.svg Things that should be changed: * The text on the bottom/right should be changed to "Mountain View CA, USA, Oct. 2-4 2009" - not that it is "Mountain View" (two words) and we should more clearly indicate that it is located in the US. If we use an abbreviation for October than it should still fit * Export into plain SVG * Cleanup of the code (size reduction) * Test if the text/fonts render correctly in all systems and browsers * Make sure it renders correctly in all browsers (currently the hills render as black in my Opera on Linux for some reason? Gradient or filter problem?) * potentially add some SMIL (e.g. moving clouds) for smil-enabled browsers (please do it subtile) * Make a PNG version for IE Any volunteers to do the cleanup? Jeff - you already did it last time? Thanks and all the best, Andreas

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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.19 Announcement and OCAL10K Goal Exceeeded
by Jon Phillips 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

March 31, 2009 - Release 0.19 of Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org), containing over 12,000 high quality scalable vector graphics (SVG) files released into the public domain by over a 1000 artists, is now available for download and use. In celebration of this accomplishment, since OCAL��s last release happened in 2005, and March being 5th anniversary of the Open Clip Art Library (OCAL), the OCAL community set a goal to achieve 10,000 uploaded pieces of vector graphics. The project achieved this with the 10,000th submission from user Boobaloo who uploaded a graphic of an onion. The project congratulates Boobaloo for uploading the 10,000th upload. Also, project congratulates all artists who have uploaded in this anniversary OCAL10K sprint. The project congratulates Nicu who personally crossed the 500 clip art upload barrier and now has 696 pieces of clip art uploaded to the system. All efforts towards the OCAL10K goal helped boost the site��s registrations and focus on releasing monthly packages once more to make this project a flowing river of clip art uploads. Since all contributions to the project are released into the public domain via the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication, anyone may use the Open Clip Art Library files for any use including collections, to make money, and to generate compositions. However, the community encourages anyone who uses the clip art to provide attribution back to the original clip art in the form of a link or to announce the use of the clip art in some form. For the month of April in lead up to the annual Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 in Montreal, May 5-9, 2009, the Open Clip Art Library is setting a goal to achieve 12,000 pieces of uploaded clip art related to spring time, release the 0.20 package of clip art, and to update the site��s software to ccHost 5. The projects asks all who are software developers comfortable with PHP and MYSQL, to consider joining the project now ti help with three critical tasks of adding rendered thumbnails, update the site software to ccHost 5, and to help roll-out our latest software theme. Highlight * An offline HTML gallery to browse through the thumbnails of all clip arts * Over 4,000 new cliparts as compared to release 0.18. * 10,000th upload by Boobaloo: http://openclipart.org/media/files/boobaloo/11895 * Refocused Development around three critical tasks * Call for Participation toward April goals of 12,000 uploads about spring * Call for Participation towards Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 ** http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/ Downloads * http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.bz2 * http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.tar.gz * http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.19/openclipart-0.19.zip Press Kit * Logos: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/about * All Clip Art: http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art About Open Clip Art Library Founded in 2004 from Inkscape, the open source drawing tool, the Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration. Help by submitting artwork today or join the IRC channel or the mailing list to find out about e.g. web development related contributions: http://openclipart.org/discussion For More Information: http://www.openclipart.org.

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[Fwd: Re: Logo for SVG Open 2009]
by Andreas Neumann 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Here is one quite nice entry to the discussion - from Lucas Franco (Argentina) - thank you Lucas! * I personally like the upper version better * I like the rays around the SVG sun * the Beziér handles are too much for my taste and reduces readability? I don't know ... Andreas

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Logo for SVG Open 2009
by Guillermo Espertino 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi. I took the Jozef's banner and did some minor adjustments. It looked very good but, in my opinion, had some minor defects (like some overlappings that could be avoided, some elements too close or too big and things like that. I also added a gradient on the buildings shadows. Here's the file. http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/255376/20092803_01_svgopen2009v3b.svg Gez.

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Release of JessyInk 1.0.0!
by Hannes Hochreiner 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Dear all, after some time in beta, heavy testing and a lot of very helpful feedback from the community, I am glad to be able to release version 1.0 of JessyInk today. I consider this to be the first feature complete and stable release and I hope you'll have fun playing with it. It is available for download either from launchpad (https:// launchpad.net/jessyink) or from GoogleCode (http://code.google.com/p/ jessyink/). JessyInk is a JavaScript that can be integrated into an Inkscape SVG image. When loading the image in a browser, JessyInk turns every layer of the image into a slide of a presentation. Using the JessyInk extensions, different transitions, effects and auto-texts (such as slide numbers) can be assigned. Other features of JessyInk include an index sheet mode and support for a master slide. Special thanks go to Marcel Rouweler and heathenx for their feedback and testing efforts as well as Ted Gould for integrating a patch required by JessyInk into Inkscape. Cheers, Hannes

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Poll on SVG Open 2009 header graphics
by Andreas Neumann 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hello, I put up a poll online about the SVG Open 2009 header graphics. Please note that none of the entries is final and modifications could still be made. It is just important to find out which header graphics is in favour and can be finalized. Participation link: http://doodle.com/g6q8szftsz3cnrg5 <http://doodle.com/g6q8szftsz3cnrg5> Please vote until April 1. Thanks, Andreas

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Logo for SVG Open 2009
by Jon A. Cruz 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Hello all, I just wanted to put out that SVG Open 2009 is looking for header graphics for their new website... which is about to go live. SVG Open 2008 had a subtle header with outlines of the castles in Nuremberg, so is probably not good for this year's conference in California. If anyone is interested, this is a great opportunity to showcase both SVG and Inkscape. I believe that the site will be able to serve SVG directly for browsers that support it.

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How to make a mask?
by Paul Bolger 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

I've been trying to work out how to produce a mask, to be used for compositing an image with ImageMagick by a CMS. What I need is a white background and a rounded border (with a stroke of one or two pixels), then with the middle punched out so an image on the layer below shows through the hole. I've tried making three layers, one solid white, one with a rounded rectangle with rounded corners with a transparent fill, and a copy of the previous with no stroke but with a solid fill, and tried various combinations of 'mask' and 'clip' but I can't seem to find it. Can someone help me before I resort to chucking it into Photoshop and cheating? Paul Bolger

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