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illustrator import with image support
by Tuukka Pasanen 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

hi, I've been improving ill2svg.pl script like it supports embbedded images export from illustrator file. It only works with 16bit images (24 also i guess). Naming policy is kinda stupid right now starts from 0.png to xx.png until all the images are exported. If you have such files please test it and let me know. There is 2 files: ill2svg_image.pl is the script ill2svg_image.diff is diff file to current CVS situation. You also need ImageMagick perl module! Check from http://www.cpan.org how to get it from CPAN if you don't have it. test usage (linux): Download ill2svg_image.pl chmod +x ill2svg_image.pl ./ill2svg_image.pl image_file.ai > image_file.svg inkscape image_file.svg test usage (windows): Haven't done this;) Would be something like this perl ill2svg_image.pl image_file.ai > image_file.svg start inkscape Tuukka

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Re: [Inkscape-user] New user happy with inkscape!
by Ted Gould 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 06:13, Henry House wrote: > I used to use A. Illustrator years ago before I used Linux. Ever since then > I have been dissatisfied with the various Free vector drawing applications > available for Linux. I just started using Inkscape yeterday and I am very > impressed! There are keyboard shortcuts for most operations! The boolean > operations (union, divide, etc) work! (The lack of such has been a major > impediment to my use of other vector drawing applications.) Great to see that you enjoy using it. > My only major > problem so far has been that the selected object is difficult to see because > the selection indicators do not contrast strongly with their object or > follow their object's path outline. Hmm, which version of Inkscape are you using. Bulia changed the selection markers so that they are complete inverses of what is under them - so they should be easier to see. I'm pretty sure this was in the 0.38 release. > Question: is there anything equivalent to wireframe view that shows object > without fille and stroke? Not currently. > Another question: is there anything analogous to the layer feature of the > GIMP? I am interested in making certain object read-only and showing or > hiding them on demand. There will be preliminary support in the next release, but should have good support in the release after that. Right now, many of the underpinnings are there, but there isn't a user friendly way to use it. So, it's definitely in the works. --Ted

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Inkscape 0.39pre3
by Ted Gould 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

Has been put on to Sourceforge (actually it happened last night, but I forgot to write the e-mail :) This signals the feature freeze for 0.39, and the start of bug fixing. Hopefully they'll all be easy and we should have a pre4 here shortly ;) http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.39pre3.tar.gz?downlo… Testing of this release is strongly encouraged (along with bug reporting) so that we can find all the bugs and release a very stable 0.39. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306 --Ted

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Re: illustrator import with image support
by Ted Gould 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

Hey guys, I don't know that it is obvious from Tuukka's e-mail, but this is something that we really need user's help on. The problem is that most of the developers don't use Illustrator (they use Inkscape :) ) so we don't have a good collection of Illustrator files to test this out with. I'm convinced that we have lots of users that use both Illustrator and Inkscape, or used Illustrator in the past. This makes having Illustrator import capability very important. So, seriously, if anyone has any Illustrator files, please test them against this Perl script. Don't think that someone else will do it. --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape Text Rendering Strangeness...
by Daniel Taylor 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 03.07.04 23:25:20: > On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 13:10, bulia byak wrote: > > Your script adds newlines between <text> and <tspan>. Within <text>, > > whitespace is meaningful and is displayed as text. Note that Inkscape, > > when creating <text>, does not leave any extra whitespace inside. > > Also note that these documents all specify xml:space="preserve", which > affects the way SVG interprets whitespace ("preserve" causes text to be > treated in the same way as HTML's <pre> tag does). Thanks for the responses, they have helped! I have since fixed the bug by switching to a different XML renderer that doesn't add all that extra whitespace. Because the output is rather ugly, I may write my own output module at some point, but for now this solution works. I'm glad it wasn't a problem with Inkscape ;) > As far as I can tell, in this example Inkscape is correct -- if librsvg > is not respecting xml:space, then that is a librsvg bug. Ok, I've given the librsvg developers a heads up about the issue, so hopefully it will be fixed at some point :) ________________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt neu bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://freemail.web.de/?mc=021193

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Inkscape Text Rendering Strangeness...
by Daniel Taylor 03 Jul '04

03 Jul '04

Hello! I know it's been quite some time since I wrote to this list, but I've been monitoring it and reading up on what's going on. I just used the latest autopackage nightly to get up to date with Inkscape-0.39 and I'm impressed, with both Inkscape and Autopackage! Lately I've been quite busy making working on a project of mine called SVG-Utils, which is basically a collection of scripts to manipulate SVG files, and a Python library to manipulate and create SVG files on the fly. I've yet to make an official release, but we are in the bug testing phase as I type this. You can read more about the project on this site: http://programmer-art.org/?page=svg-utils One interesting bug that has cropped up occurs when I use the library to output some text and tspan elements. As an example I have included the original file, the output of svggrayscale.py, Inkscape's saved version of the output, and a fixed version of Inkscape's output. It seems to be adding extra text XML elements (tabs, newlines, spaces) when loaded in Inkscape, so the text displays with an offset to the right. At first I thought it was a problem with SVG-Utils, but librsvg 2.7.2 renders the output from svggrayscale correctly, so now I'm not sure. I hope you could look into this issue and help me to understand why it is happening. textest.svg is the original textest-bad.svg is the output from my svggrayscale.py script textest-bad2.svg is textest-bad.svg saved through inkscape textest-bad3.svg is textest-bad2.svg with the spacing fixed through Inkscape's XML editor Thanks, Daniel G. Taylor ________________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt neu bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://freemail.web.de/?mc=021193

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SVG that doesn't display in Inkscape.
by Lee McLain 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Hi all, I just downloaded from the Creative Commons website their logos in SVG format and I cannot get them to load properly in Inkscape 0.38. I view them just fine in GQView, so I know that they are there, but I get a blank screen in Inkscape. http://creativecommons.org/presskit/ Any ideas what's going on? Thanks, Lee McLain

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ANNOUNCE: Open Clip Art Library 0.04 Release
by Bryce Harrington 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Release 0.04 of the Open Clip Art Library is now available for download from the OCAL website: http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/ This release represents over 600 separate images thanks to a number of artists. The theme of this release is 'Summer'; please see the RELEASE_0.04.svg file for examples of summer contributions. :-) All of the clipart in the package are attributed as to their author, and all images are placed in the Public Domain, allowing use for any purpose without restriction. Our goal is to do for vector art what Wikipedia has done for reference information. We want to build the biggest and most open collection of free vector art in the world. So if you find these images of use, please consider contributing back and help us fill in the gaps. For details, see: http://www.openclipart.org Our next release will be in late July. In addition to building up the library further, we will be focusing on categorization. Bryce

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Screenshot Needed
by Bryce Harrington 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Does anyone have a good idea for a new screenshot for our Freshmeat page? http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/inkscape/ IIRC, we generally change them each release, and try to make it something that reflects the newly added feature(s). It would be great if someone could work up a really artistically attractive one for this release! :-) If you've got something good, post it here. I think Ted has updated the screenshot before, so I think he may be the one that'll select what goes up. Bryce

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Project Status 2004-07-01
by Bryce Harrington 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Project Status - Thursday, July 1, 2004 We're in the final stages for the 0.39 release. Development work is tapering down as feature implementation work is completed or wrapped up for the release. We will be gradually "freezing" development, as follows: * June 28 - 'Feature chill' - no new features are started. Developers start wrapping up feature work and focusing on bug fixing. * July 5 - 'Feature freeze' - only bug fixing to occur after this point. Our goal is to eliminate critical bugs. * TBD - 'Hard freeze' - short period with no changes except under careful change control. We test the releases, and once we get one all we really like... * Release You can notice the fruits of the recent code cleanup in the reduction of code lines, while increasing comment line counts. The bug ratio, at 19%, has remained consistently low since our bug hunt; our feature ratio has also remained fairly constant since the start of the year, at around 75%. We've begun tracking stats on translations in this report; we hope to see both the translation ratio and the total number of PO files grow higher. Statistics Nov 15 Jan 15 Mar 15 May 15 Jun 15 Jul 01 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 1928 * 1028 928 930 (68.5%) (86.1%) * (92.7%) (93.4%) (93.4%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 321 90 36 41 43 (99.6%) (97.5%) * (99.8%) (99.8%) (99.8%) Total SF Page Views * 126,500 * 475,000 616,263 678,767 Total SF Downloads * 5,735 * 27,400 34,015 36,979 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 2,958 4,670 * 7,333 7,615 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 33 50 74 87 91 Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 166,914 177,286 189,116 280,263 261,927 Code lines 133,150 138,457 147,471 210,119 190,519 Comment line 12,468 15,584 16,757 40,620 41,422 Blank 21,929 24,061 25,886 34,677 35,134 Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 3,000 4,434 4,544 15,170 15,201 Lines of content in website: 1,173 2,885 5,087 6,008 6,372 6,581 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 11,284 14,840 18,638 17,176 16,600 Minutes since last ChangeLog mod: 360 6 * * * 28 Bugs open/total: 9/15 74/160 43/244 57/365 63/401 88/452 Features open/total: 18/18 104/120 151/184 183/238 210/285 222/307 Patches open/total: 1/ 6 4/32 6/ 45 4/ 83 5/ 88 6/ 91 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 * 3070 3391 5549 6033 Inkscape-devel membership: 49 64 75 78 84 87 Inkscape-announce membership: 9 22 35 43 53 58 Inkscape-user membership: 71 76 84 Num Translations: Translated: 338 Fuzzy: 288 Untranslated: 349 Total number of PO files: 32 Ave Translation Ratio: 35.8% * - Statistics unavailable

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