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[Inkscape-devel] 0.39pre2 (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:05:14 -0700 From: Ted Gould <ted@...10...> To: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] 0.39pre2 https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… It exists, it is alive! It will most definitely not be the final release, but it is a good point to start beating up Inkscape. This is not for general use, but more for people who follow the development of Inkscape (being subscribed to this e-mail list is a good start :) I went ahead and put it in the SF file area with a big nasty note to scare away casual users. I think that it is as good of place as any... thoughts are welcome. --Ted

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experimental CVS ?
by Florent 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Hi, What is the CVS's command for the experimental inkscape ? Sorry, I don't find it... Florent

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Locked objects
by Adam Pearson 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

Hi all I discovered today that you can edit a locked object - size, shape, position colour of fill and stroke, alpha value (but not position), copy ... maybe other things ... while keeping it locked. Just TAB to the object and do the adjustments. Maybe everyone knows this if so my apologies. Regards, Adam

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Pango testing - help needed!
by bulia byak 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

As you know, we recently switched our text system to a new library called Pango. Now that some of the worst bugs and regressions are fixed (definitely not all), and we need your help in testing it thoroughly. 1. Here are the confirmed Pango niceties so far (i.e. what is tested and works): - Text is much smoother. No more ugly autohinting gaps between letters in small sizes. Letters move smoothly when you change letterspacing by Alt+< and Alt+>. - Auto kerning pairs (from the font) now work. For example "AV" will now be kerned together automatically in most decent fonts. - On Windows, non-ASCII text works (tested with Cyrillic). Localized font face names (such as "italic" translated into a local language for Windows fonts such as Arial) are no longer a problem. 2. Here is what SHOULD work now but is not yet tested because we don't speak these languages. This is where we need your help: - Right-To-Left text (Hebrew, Arabic) and BIDI (bidirectional mixed text) seems to work but I'm not sure. - Contextual letterforms that depend on the position in a word and script-specific ligatures (Devanagari) should work. - Chinese and Japanese need testing, especially for how good vertical text works (it is enabled by a button in the Text and Font dialog). 3. And finally the things that don't work (yet): - Symbol fonts seem to have problems, at least the symbol.ttf from Windows. Any help or insights is appreciated. - Fuzzy font matching that worked in 0.38 is not reenabled yet. (No warnings on font substitutions, etc.) Only Italic and Bold faces within a family work so far. This is being worked on. So, grab the latest CVS and play with text as much as you can. We're interested to hear any reports, positive as well as negative. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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compile error: strcasestr undeclared
by Albert 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi everyone When compiling inkscape 0.38.1 in macosx I get this error: nr-type-directory.cpp: In function `bool ink_strstr(const char*, const char*)': nr-type-directory.cpp:302: `strcasestr' undeclared (first use this function) nr-type-directory.cpp:302: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) I'm lost here. If anyone has got through a similar error, please provide hints on how to go through. Thank you. Albert

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Opacity
by ttyS0 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Why default fill-opacity value is 0.75? In W3C SVG Specification default value is 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#OpacityFillOpacityProperty --------------------------------------------------- http://spalah.souceforge.net

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Exporting question
by Daniel Klein 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

I am not a visual person. I am not a designer, not a drawer, not a painter, not a photographer. I'm a man of words, really, if I need to be creative, it's words. Having said that, can I sue you for the time I've lost playing with Inkscape? No? Goddamnit. It's wonderful. Intuitive. The 'everything should be keyboard accessible' philosophy rocks. It has everything. Yesterday I tried, to amuse myself, making a mockup panelling for a comic that I'm working on with a visual artist (you guessed it - I mostly do the words :P).. it's incredible how painful proper layout with CSS can be. As these things go, 'to amuse myself' turned into a holy crusade and I would not rest until I could churn out professional layout mockups by the dozen. So I got Inkscape. The next 2 hours were spent rotating and resizing stars and occasionally saying 'wow'. I shake my angry fist at you all. Now I don't ONLY write here to stroke all of your egos. I have a little problem. Actually I feel ashamed to ask, because I'm sure newbies have stumbled over this a hundred times, but I could find nothing in either the archives nor the Wiki, so I'll ask here and add it to the archives: When exporting my wonderful drawing, I get a certain problem: First couple of attempts, all was black in the png. Now, after making a somewhat more complex .svg, PART of it shows up in the export. Please refer to http://ubermutant.de/~bringa/page1.svg (16k). In this mockup, only the mocked magazine cover on the right hand side shows up in an export. (I needn't mention that you shouldn't look at the content.. this is a mock-up only :P). If anyone could clear this up for me, that'd be great. One could also have some sort of Usage-related FAQ in the Wiki, and this would be a good first item to start with, I think. Daniel

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some ideas...
by Florent 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi all, I think that it could be a good idea to have a "pot of painting" tool. (I would say a tool to create a new object compared to the layouts which surrounds it) I think that the booleans operation should be able to apply on a group of object. And a really thanks to the Inkscape's team to make possible this great SVG editor (and sorry about my wrong english :-) ) A sensitive-all option About the "Gradient Editor", sometime, when I modifie a parameter, it's directly apply to my gradation, and sometime not... Florent http://www.florentgabriel.ouvaton.org/GalerieSVG/Galerie.html

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bezier tool settings
by Albert 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi all Is there any way to adjust Bezier curve helper points so that they remain aligned, i.e. they remain on a straigth line that runs over the central point? In this way, curves don't make sharp turns unless helper points are over the central point. If this is not implemented, I could help with it if someone could point me to the file. I have already done this in a java plugin for ImageJ. Albert

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Sizing :)
by Milen Dzhumerov 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello people :) I have made a logo of a project and now want to use it. But I want it to be 90x90 px and the borders to be a square. The logo now is very big and the size of the document is very big. Is there a way to automatically reduce the size to 90x90 or something near this and to place the object in the center vertically and horizontally.

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