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[ inkscape gallery ] "resume" -for all users-
by davide|inkscapegallery 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello again, i'm sorry i couldn't keep you updated about the inkscape gallery developement but the days i spent here on the list were really useful and i had a work a lot to do what these speeches suggested me to do. I would like to keep track of what happened in the days when we talked about inkscape gallery in various threads in this list that maybe caused troubles to the user who didn't want to read thousands of mail. So: when i came here for the first time inkscape gallery was a project for an inkscape made drawings gallery on the web in an advanced state but still not completely grown. There were a narrowed layout, a bunch of features but it needed content organization and a couple of improvements in both layout stuffs and features. Many of you gave impressions, suggestions even critiques and this was exactly what i needed to come back working to make inkscape gallery better. So what i did in these days? 1)When i left the list i announced the svg upload and the user picture features were added. But then i realized that we needed to work on the content organization, to decrease the scrolling need, to make lighter pages to not overload the cms and the webserver and to decrease the amount of javascripts that were going to slowdown all the site navigation. If you go now to see inkscape gallery you will see: 2)a splash page, bilingual with two main access links, giving you two ways to start using inkscape gallery; 3)"quickstart" and "enter the website". 4)You find a sort of "user guide" with many useful information (i hope...) in pdf linked in a RTFM! button. 5)You don't see the button menu in the splash page but you may show it just by clicking on the + icon in the main menu area. This feature is being used in most of the site sections, to avoid long page scrolling where we thought that the buttons menu was not necessary. 6)We have new blocks called "pop" in some sections. They are showing the most viewed images in the last days. 7)We have a list of avatars (not yet, really...but the tool is there), and we'd like to launch the website with an avatar contest too. You may add your pictures (inkscape made!) to attend to this contest. You may vote on images to make us easy to choose which to include. (we will use all of them in the first stage!). 8)If you see the artists section you have a shortened version of the user profile page. This is meant to hide empty fields and to keep the section meaningful. Please use the "who am i" description field when you create account, cause i think it's nice to have an short user description. I'm not saying that is perfect now, i have a long list of fixes and improvements still pending, i will put this online in the forum. This is the time when we'll look around for someone who'll help us in maintaining and improving the website. We are good in webdesign and we know drupal quite well, but we aren't php developers, and this is what will give us the chance to significantly improve inkscape gallery in the future. So, hope to see all of you in inkscape gallery 'cause the development is over for now, we're in production and we'll go online on monday 11 February. hope to be ready... Da. http://test.inkscapegallery.net http://www.inkscapegallery.net

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Pixel font in Inkscape 45.1
by Roune Linus 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, I'm attempting to user a TrueType pixel font called SuperText which can be found at: http://www.dafont.com/supertext.font …but Inkscape is unable to display it and resorts to changing the font to BitStream Vera Sans instead. Now I've managed to get other pixel font to display nice and crispy like Pixel Arial 11( http:// www.dafont.com/pixel-arial-11.font ) and others some of which I've needed to convert with FontForge to truetype font. So the question is why does SuperText not render even though it's truetype? Thanks, Linus

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modify context menu
by PilarPP 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

I would like to know if it's possible to modify the options of the context menu when there is an element selected. I would like to add a new custom option. I would like to know the way to do it. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/modify-context-menu-tp14434682p14434682.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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How do I import svg vector graphics from Inkscape into Flash ?
by Arni Ingason 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi Can anyone help me with this? How do I import svg vector graphics from Inkscape into Flash Regards Arni

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Maximize problem on a laptop screen (too many tools' icon)
by khiraly 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi! My laptop has a 1280x800 screen, and a regular gnome environment (regular Ubuntu 7.10 installation). I have two panel, one at the top of my screen and the other at bottom (tasklist). The problem is, that inkscape has a file menu, a global toolbar, and a tool's toolbar, and the tools' icon(the vertical one at the left). Overall, the inkscape windows is heigher as available screen (so screen_height - (top_panel+bottom+panel)). So when i want to maximize inkscape, it does not do anything. It could be wider (horizontally), but pressing the maximize button cause losing the left and right windows border (about 3-4px), and nothing else. I think that 1280x800 is fairly common resolution amongst the 15,4" laptops. Is it a known problem? Or better it is dependent of the window manager? (i will try on xp too, in the next days). The inkscape 0.45 does not suffer this, because, there was fewer tool (no 3D tool for example). If I undock the icon bar (at the left), it maximizes correctly. Tried searching on launchpad, but didnt find a bugreport about this problem, but Im remembering discussing this problem in the past (having inkscape problems on small resolution). Do somebody remember such a discussion, or bugreport? Best regards, Khiraly

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fonts disappear in OSX
by churro 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

I am using OS 10.4.11, Inkscape .45. I started working on a file and used a specific font. Then I discovered that my effects are not working, so I had to download a newer build of Inkscape from http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/ along with the python packages. I reinstalled Inkscape and got the effects working, but when I opened my old file, the fonts have changed to something generic, and I cant get them to go back to what they were! I rolled back to the older version on Inkscape, but that did not fix the problem. All my previous work with that font got messed up (I still have the original files in hopes of getting this to work.) Does anyone know how to get my fonts to work again? 2nd part of the question: And if I get new fonts, how do I add them to Inkscape running on OSX? Thanks for your help -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/fonts-disappear-in-OSX-tp15281559p15281559.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by Nick Steklov 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

I also installed Blender on my mac recently... I am still trying to remember everything I did since the last time it worked. I'm going to convert my fonts when I get home tonight, but in the meanwhile I would be more than happy to do anything I can to help figure out why the fonts worked in the past and not any more. I have more files with that font, which I have not touched for at least a month. Also would it be helpful if I did a clear reinstall of Inkscape to last year's build? Is there anything else on my system besides the Inkscape.app which needs to be removed for a clean uninstall? The reason I ask is because every time I dragged and dropped Inkscape.app into the trashbin and then installed another Inkscape dmg, it seemed to remember my previous settings, such as "Open recent" would show all the recent docs I worked on. On Feb 5, 2008 2:44 PM, Gail Carmichael <gail.banaszkiewicz@...155...> wrote: > jiho wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with this suitcase thing you > >> mentioned. Normally I would be able to look it up and learn about it > >> etc, but unfortunately I have a heavy course-load for the semester > >> and probably don't have the necessary time to devote to it. I am > >> cc'ing the devel list in case anyone else has the knowledge to have a > >> look. Still, we should try to determine for sure if it could be an > >> issue with my code, and I can (hopefully) fix that if it is. > > > > Well something changed recently apparently. I hope that with the help > > of Nick you'll be able to reduce the time frame of occurrence of the > bug. > > Ok, here's my theory: Part of the design of my work was to not show any > fonts in the UI that pango could not recognize, so if that's the case, > that's why it's not showing up at all now. This is because everything > goes through pango at some point so you ended up being able to select > fonts that weren't usable. What's really interesting is that Nick was > previously able to use these fonts even if they don't work with pango > (assuming that is truly the case). Maybe there was a roundabout path > available before that has been cut off now. Not sure if restoring that > path is really desirable, as we seem to have decided to restrict > ourselves to supporting what CSS and pango support (at least for now). > Anyone have any opinions on this? > > Gail >

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Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by jiho 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

On 2008-February-05 , at 21:40 , Gail Carmichael wrote: > jiho wrote: >> On 2008-February-05 , at 19:12 , churro wrote: >>>> - select the faulty text, open the xml editor and check what the >>>> font >>>> attributes are (name, weight etc.) >>> these are the attributes: I'm using Culrz MT >>> font-size:98.06591034px;font-style:normal;font- >>> weight:normal;fill:#ff8080;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width: >>> 1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity: >>> 1;font-family:Curlz >>> MT >> >> This is a (Microsoft I think) Font Suitcase format, which indeed >> causes issues. The strange thing is that it worked in an earlier >> version of Inkscape. I am guessing that the difference actually >> comes from the font itself. When did you start this piece of work? >> Did you upgrade your system or MS Office in between? > > I've never even heard of these suitcase things (I assume you figured > out the format from the file itself and not the above properties). > Hopefully this means that the code I did has not adversely affected > the situation. I wrote it so that it looks for my new information > first, then falls back onto the old tried tested and true way. OK, I did a little research and there's no wonder you never heard of it: it is a mac specific thing. To get a brief overview of font management on OS X (which I've always thought to be very well designed) you can skim over this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25251 http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2024.html The Font Suitcase thing is a format dating back from OS 9 (the original Macintosh system, before it was unixified). This is a weird format, in which the whole font is stored in the resource fork and nothing is stored in the data fork. As a result the file appears to be 0 bytes: $ ll Curlz\ MT -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 root admin 0 Apr 7 2004 Curlz MT nor do they have a file extension. The font information however is just regular true type. OS X (i.e. the unixified version) does not ship with these fonts now (I'm not even sure it ever shipped with some) but supports them for backward- compatibility's sake. The only app I know that ships with such fonts is.... you guessed it: MICROSOFT Office. Well you can't ask them to be good players on a platform which is competing with them, for sure. I don't expect support to appear in Pango anytime soon since the format is deprecated. Anyway, it seems perfectly safe to convert those to regular TTF, no information is lost: it just moves it from the resource fork to the data fork. It just means each user has to do it. PS: I would be curious to know which format Office 2008 uses for its font on OS X. Does someone have info on this? PPS: you may see some work on font suitcases in Pango, but this is not (AFAIK) related to this particular format. It is probably related to the new font suitcase format introduced with OS X, which has the dfont extension and is kind of the contrary: everything is in the data fork and the resource fork is empty of font information. This makes working with this format easier. But it is at the same time quite new so support is not yet perfect. These font cause the typeface bugs on Inkscape/OS X, in which some font faces are available in the menu (bold, semi bold etc) but selecting them does not do anything. >> [...] >> >> Please send this the needed info to Gail too, she's the font expert. > > > Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with this suitcase thing you > mentioned. Normally I would be able to look it up and learn about > it etc, but unfortunately I have a heavy course-load for the > semester and probably don't have the necessary time to devote to > it. I am cc'ing the devel list in case anyone else has the > knowledge to have a look. Still, we should try to determine for > sure if it could be an issue with my code, and I can (hopefully) fix > that if it is. Well something changed recently apparently. I hope that with the help of Nick you'll be able to reduce the time frame of occurrence of the bug. Hope that helps. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Modifying Inkscape source code in order to modify context menu
by PilarPP 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Hello, I am modifying Inkscape source code, in order to add a new option in context menu, but I have a problem because there are many classes and it's difficult to understand the whole functionality from all of them.... To the point: I've developed several extensions in python (.inx and .py files) to draw custom elements. But I would like to add the functionality to modify these elements in a easy way. Then whenever someone selects one of them and clicks the right button, shows up the contex menu with an option to modify the properties of the curernt element. So I don't know wheter there is any function to show the same dialog of the extensions with the elements properties I have selected or I must code new dialogs in c++ through gtk. Furthermore, I wonder how to get the element's attributes when I have it selected: if (sp_destop_selection(desktop)->isEmpty()) { sp_desktop_selection(desktop)->set(item); } Thanks for your help, Pilar. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Modifying-Inkscape-source-code-in-order-to-modify-con… Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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plugin to publish images to Flickr and Picasaweb
by Jayesh Salvi 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hi list, I recently ported the "publishr" plugin I had written for Gimp, to Inkscape. Using this plugin you can save your images to your Flickr or Picasaweb accounts right from Inkscape. Check it out here: http://code.google.com/p/altcanvas/wiki/InkscapePublishr Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Jayesh

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