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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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Mission
by Andrew Kurn 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

While viewing those videos about fund-raising, one point stuck in the back of my mind. Make sure you know who your target audience is. Inkscape has bothered me a little bit by being neither quite fish or fowl. It tries to be friendly to the artist, but it forces him to learn a lot about the nature of SVG. In fact, its founding principle seems to be to use SVG as its internal representation. (Is there a mission statement?) I happen to like it, but that's because I'm a professional programmer, so formal languages are my bread and butter. But, if /I/ am the target audience, then the direct manipulation of XML is too weak for my taste. (I use Emacs. My favorite scenario would be to squirt the XML over to Emacs, edit, and squirt it back. . . . (with some indication of what is selected, but that's for another thread.)) So that's the conflict. That is, it seems to me that the goal of making it friendly to the artist and friendly to the programmer are in conflict. Maybe you can do both. Andrew

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rules and guidelines for new forum - first draft
by brynn 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

Hi Friends, As it turned out, only me and a couple of other people were interested in drafting the rules and guidelines for the new forum. So we can get more eyes on it, and possibly more professional opinions about it, I'd like to ask the community to have a look at it. I have no background in writing such documents, so it's purely a layperson's whack at it. I feel quite confident about the contents, based on my years of experience in Inkscape forums. But the format of the document, and possibly some of the language might need some technical advice. So any an all comments and suggestions about the format or language are very welcome. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20Ru… (I've left it locked to editing, so everyone sees the same doc, for this first review. Then I'll unlock it afterwards.) Thank you very much, brynn PS - I'm also posting about this in the forums.

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L-system extension quirk
by Hildegard Bingen 10 Mar '19

10 Mar '19

I've been experimenting with the L-system extension and wonder if someone could help me to understand why + supposedly means "turn left" and - means "turn right." When I draw a figure, the opposite happens. Is this an error in the Help section, an error in the program, or am I not understanding something? I've tried to find information about this online with no luck. Thanks!

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new post - wish list
by Andrew Kurn 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

I would like to post a wish list item. I'll tell you the topic. You tell me whether I can post it to the new forum (possible?) and whether I should (advisable?). The current user interface for drawing and editing splines (Bezier) is bad. I like the Gimp one much better, but partly because I'm used to it. We can go into detail, but this introduces the topic. Let's improve the spline interface. How to do it? Andrew

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New Parametric SVG Extension
by Frank Martínez 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

Hi Guys, There is an old project for parametric svg here: https://github.com/parametric-svg/ That project is not maintained anymore and it is almost dead. But the general idea is very attractive and useful, so I have developed an Inkscape extension to support this kind of parametric stuff here: https://github.com/mnesarco/inkscape-parametric The main differences with the mentioned previous project is that this is actually an Inkscape extension, it works directly inside inkscape and the scripting language is plain old python. I hope you can find it useful, any comments and suggestions are welcome. Cheers, Frank (mnesarco) PS: This project does not depend on the parametric-svg previous project and they have no relation other than the same concept. -- Frank D. Martínez M.

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