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Vectors Meeting - Tomorrow - Possible Postponement
by Ryan Gorley 04 May '19

04 May '19

Hello All, Due to the certificate error on chat.inkscape.org, some individuals may be scared away from participating in our meeting tomorrow. I'm going to keep an eye on it, but if the error isn't resolved in the next couple hours I'm going to suggest we postpone our meeting one week. I'll update everyone on the status a little later. - Ryan

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How to know viewbox parameters on save
by Ole Ersoy 02 May '19

02 May '19

Trying to figure out whether there is a deterministic way to save an optimized SVG such that we can match the viewbox parameters perfectly with the containing HTML elements width and height parameters. For example if we have a div element like this: <div style="width: 100px; height:100px"> <svg> ...</svg></div> How do we save an SVG so that it gets a viewbox that will fit perfectly inside the div when we inline it as shown above? Also asked the question on SO, but I'm hoping there is a more straight forward way to do this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55958117/setting-the-viewbox-so-that-th… TIA, Ole

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Repairing a pixellated drop-shadow gradient
by Peter Flynn 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

I have inherited a vector PDF and an SVG file of a logo made from outlined letters with a gradated drop-shadow (see http://xml.silmaril.ie/downloads/letterlogo.png for enlarged PNG fragment). When the logo is enlarged (eg for use on a poster), the drop-shadow shows up pixellated. Both files exhibit the identical problem. When edited, the drop-shadow is indeed made up of pixels. I assume in my ignorance that it was passed through some software at some stage in its past which concretized the drop-shadow as graded pixels. How would I go about removing the drop-shadow entirely, and replacing it with one of identical color and extent, but done in such a way as to withstand enlargement without deterioration? Peter

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Fundrasing for FOSS Projects - meetup this saturday
by Bryce Harrington 11 Apr '19

11 Apr '19

Reminder: Tomorrow (Saturday) is our fundraising meet up. Come join us to learn about fundraising for free and open source software projects, and bounce ideas around. If you're interested in new ways to help move Inkscape forward, or looking for a good opportunity to get involved in open source, this may be an excellent chance! See below for specifics. Bryce On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:52:10PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Topic: Fundraising for FOSS Projects > When: Sat, Mar 16th 19:00 UTC to 21:00 UTC > Where: chat.inkscape.org in channel #collaboration_space > > This Saturday, Michèle and I will be watching and discussing a series of > videos on fundraising for open source projects. Afterwards, we can > bounce ideas around for how to improve Inkscape's funding. > > Please join us, we'd love the company. :-) > > > For links to the videos, and some tentative plans for future topics for > Watch Parties, please see: > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_Classes > > Bryce > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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The Great Inkscape Bug Migration has Begun!
by Ryan Gorley 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Hello All, We're excited to announce the beginning of our bug migration from Launchpad to GitLab! This is a great way for veterans and rookies alike to improve Inkscape for all. To add a little excitement we're tracking migrations, publishing a leaderboard, awarding achievements and issuing prizes to top contributors. Learn more by visiting: http://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration. Thanks for joining the cause! -- P.S. Special thanks to CR, Terry, and all who put this event together.

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April Vectors Meeting - Tomorrow - Please Join Us!
by Ryan Gorley 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hello All, Tomorrow (Saturday, April 6) we will be having our monthly Vectors Meeting at 08:00 PST (Time Conversion <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Vectors+…>) on the Vectors channel of chat.inkscape.org. There are several important topics to discuss, and new contributors we hope will come and introduce themselves. See the full agenda here <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/issues/114>. Feel free to add items you feel like we missed. At the beginning of each meeting we vote on those topics we'll focus on during our 1 hour. I hope to see you all there! Ryan

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call for volunteer moderators, new forum, next steps
by brynn 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hi Friends, I posted messages in the forums last week, but I just realized I didn't post on the mailing lists. Since the Rules and Guidelines are essentially finished, the next step is to select moderators for the new forum. If anyone is interested in helping to moderate, please contact me. You can reply to this message on the list, or you're welcome to contact me privately, if you prefer. The Rules section of the Rules and Guidelines explains what the job of a moderator is. I think it will eventually appear on a new Forum Team on the website's Teams page, but it's not there yet. Meanwhile, it's here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20Ru… Not the meeting coming up this weekend, but next month's (May) meeting of the Vectors team, we'll be discussing plans for an opening of the new forum. At the moment, I'm thinking a month or 2 after the next hackfest would be good for the opening. The hackfest is end of May/beginning of June, so maybe July/August would be good for the forum opening? That's just a very rough guess at this point, and we'll finalize that at the May meeting. All best, brynn

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forum guidelines/rules 2nd draft review
by brynn 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Hi again, I made the edits requested from the first review. And those gave me some other thoughts. I added a couple of new "wrinkles" to the prerequisites for moderator section, and for the duties and responsibilities. For the change in prerequisites, I thought it couldn't hurt to encourage wider participation in the community, just by adding that language, but it's not a strict prerequisite. For duties and responsibilities, the ability for a moderator to choose what they want to moderate is already allowed for the gallery moderation. So that's not a stretch. The reason for adding it is that it might encourage someone to help out (with approving new messages), if they otherwise didn't want to feel obligated to get involved in a behavior issue. New version: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20Ru… Thanks again for any comments, suggestions! brynn

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General Purpose Python Scripting for Inkscape.
by Frank Martínez 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Hi Guys, Inkscape is amazing!, I am a professional software developer, I have been working in an embedded scripting plugin for Inkscape, I started doing it for my own purposes (designing electric guitars and CNC parts) And now I have complete support for python scripting inside inkscape. I will release the code as open source in Github or Gitlab as soon as I can write some documentation. The attached screenshot shows how it looks. The plugin has its own code editor with syntax highlight, compilation check, and run. It uses only python and gtk3, my working environment is Linux Mint, I am not sure if it will work out of the box in windows or mac yet, but i am pretty sure it will run in all platforms eventually soon. The scripting environment gives full access to the svg document, xml manipulation and also Object Oriented wrappers (mainly for path creation and manipulation). Full python environment is also available. The scripting code is stored inside the document (<script> tags) and you can import external libraries too of course. I hope some contributions will make the project better with time. This is not a macro system, you can not record actions or invoke GUI actions, you can just write scripts inside the document and manipulate the document itself, move, transform, change attributes, create objects etc.. from python scripts. All your feedback will be welcome and I will be very pleased if the project result useful for the community. Cheers, Frank. -- Frank D. Martínez M.

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Building from source: exxtensions not found
by Frank Martínez 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hi Guys, I am trying to build inkscape (trunk), but it fails because no extension files are found. .... can't open ./../share/extensions/webslicer_create_group.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/webslicer_export.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/whirl.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/wireframe_sphere.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. can't open ./../share/extensions/xaml2svg.inx: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/intltool-extract line 212. ../src/preferences-skeleton.h:26: warning: unterminated string literal ../src/preferences-skeleton.h:499: warning: unterminated string literal xgettext: error while opening "../share/extensions/convert2dashes.py" for reading: No such file or directory ERROR: xgettext failed to generate PO template file. Please consult error message above if there is any. ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. Can you point me in the right direction to include the extension files? Thanks, Frank. -- Frank D. Martínez M.

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