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layer progress
by MenTaLguY 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

bulia's gotten layer locking/unlocking and show/hide from the layer selector working now in CVS. Give it a spin and see if you can find any remaining bugs~ -mental

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Embedded fonts in SVG files ?
by Paul Libbrecht 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Dear Inkscapers, I wonder how hard it would be to provide a feature to save the fonts along with the SVG documents, and even maybe use them in future usage of this document... Except for the delicacy of font-parsing, it tastes like something that would be useful to all! thanks paul PS: I seemed to notice that InkView didn't support embedded font, at least yet.

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Glue : SVG Support ? Inkscape Sypport ?
by NAGY Endre 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Greetings My goal is to implement in Inkscape the equivalent behaviour of "glue" as found in Visio. In Visio this is exhibited by creating two "lines" and then dragging the end point of one line to coincide with the end point of the other. The behaviour of these "lines" are defined such that when a "coincidence" event occurs the end points are "glued", ie a transformation of one of the lines (e.g a translation) causes the end point of the other line to continue to coincide with the position of the other end point (i.e the end of one line "follows" the position of the other). It would be nice if, within Inkscape, I could specify such behaviour, but its absence would not be fatal because I have other means of specifying the content of the SVG that would be input to Inkscape. Firstly, are there any elements within the SVG specification that would naturally allow this behaviour to be defined?. Unfortunately I am not in a position to specify the glued coordinate as one that is part in a single polyline. I am constrained by a requirement that this behaviour be exhibited between two distinct geometric elements. I initially had in mind providing an identifier for one of the points in one polyline. I could then define a point in the other polyline as a reference to this identifier. But I dont think SVG's element and attribute structure allows this. Secondly, if the SVG specification supported such a semantic, would Inkscape reflect this in its behaviour. That is, if (to take one possible solution) one point were defined as a reference to the other, would Inkscape know to update all points that were defined by reference. Thanks in advance for any assistance Endre Nagy IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The RTA is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the RTA. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient.

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default template + screenshots
by bulia byak 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

Just a quick note that I added an initial layer to the default template. Now new documents will be created with "Layer 1" active. Also the hide/lock buttons now at last look correct (though they are not functional yet). This means that Inkscape's face is now fit for shooting. Please send here (or submit to patch tracker) your screenshots showing the nice things you are doing with Inkscape CVS. The more complex and beautiful is the stuff on your canvas, the better. Show something that not everyone can do! The best shots will be published on the site in time for the 0.40 release.

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Duplicating à la Illustrator
by Paul Libbrecht 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Dear Inkscapers, As the tutorial says.... duplicating is one of the most common operations. In illustrator, I had the habit of doing the following which turned out to be quite useful: select something, then alt-drag it... it'll be duplicating. Actually several other places with a duplication "modes" exist. For example all transformations have a "copy" checkbox... That's particularly nifty when combined with Illustrator's "repeat last command". For example one can easily rotate by 45 degrees with copy, then request repeat-last-command 6 more times to get the objects spread around in all 8th of the circle... Making a horizontal sequence of strokes is another example. How does it sound ? paul

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shortcut for cloning on windows
by Steffen Glückselig 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hello, I've just noticed that cloning is bound to alt+d. Alt will focus the menu-bar, though. So this shortcut is not usable. best Steffen -- Steffen Glückselig Student of Computer Science @ University of Wuerzburg, Germany Home on the web: http://www.gungfu.de/ Blog 'DenkZEIT': http://www.gungfu.de/facts/ Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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utf8-error
by Steffen Glückselig 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hello, When starting Inkscape on WinXP I (always) get the message ** (indscape.exe:3984): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() And a dialog pops up. I cannot read the end of that dialog since it is not resizeable but it starts with my 'My Files' ('Eigene Dateien' - in german) - Directory... best Steffen

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20 Third Party Apps You Can't Live Without
by Jon Phillips 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Cool, Inkscape made the list on osnews.com: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8717 FYI! Our app is publicly known and used! We are currently number 8 on gnomefiles.org as best rated app! Jon

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can't build latest cvs
by Michal Žeravík 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Hi there, I'm getting this during build from latest cvs: if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -MT sp-image.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/sp-image.Tpo" \ -c -o sp-image.o `test -f 'sp-image.cpp' || echo './'`sp-image.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/sp-image.Tpo" ".deps/sp-image.Po"; \ else rm -f ".deps/sp-image.Tpo"; exit 1; \ fi sp-image.cpp: In function `GdkPixbuf* Inkscape::IO::pixbuf_new_from_file(const char*, GError**)': sp-image.cpp:361: error: `gdk_pixbuf_set_option' undeclared (first use this function) sp-image.cpp:361: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [sp-image.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/michal/cvs/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/michal/cvs/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any ideas? Michal

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cannot import raster-images
by Steffen Glückselig 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Hello (again), I am trying to import a jpg-image but this fails. Instead a 'broken image'-image is displayed. This happens when dragging&dropping from explorer, but also when using the import-menuentry. I am using Bob's latest build. best Steffen

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