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svg_annotate (and announcing SVG::Metadata 0.05)
by Bryce Harrington 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

Since adding metadata to your SVG files is cumbersome, especially when you have a lot of files, I've written a script 'svg_annotate' to perform this work. This script is now included within SVG::Metadata, and takes advantage of its data structure. You can download it from CPAN, here: http://search.cpan.org/~bryce/SVG-Metadata-0.05/ The README has instructions for installing it. Briefly: $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ su # make install You will probably also need to install XML::Twig. You can also get this from CPAN and install it the same way as above: http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIROD/XML-Twig-3.15.tar.gz Then, to use svg_annotate to add metadata to all files under directory 'my_art': $ svg_annotate -a "My Name" my_art/ This will add metadata to any files that don't already have it, including setting the license to Public Domain and the title to "My Name - <filename>". (You can override this if you want; see the manual page for svg_annotate on CPAN). Let me know if you run into issues. Bryce

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Project Status May 31, 2004
by Bryce Harrington 16 Jun '04

16 Jun '04

Project Status Tuesday, June 15, 2004 The past two weeks have seen a great deal of progress on a number of important efforts, the most notable one, of course, is the Pango conversion. Several people have been hard at work researching, implementing, and testing this out, but the major thanks go to Fred for his patch that gets us much further along than we had expected for this release. Additionally, pattern fills were introduced, orphan collection was created to garbage collect leftover gradients/markers, and there was additional experimentation and changes to how inserted images are handled to make them more useful and usable. Mental has been working on C++-ifying a lot of code, most notably the sp_object_* to SPObject::*. Ted has introduced a number of improvement to the file dialog and file handling, adding better support for other file formats like EPS. Ishmal has introduced his EMCAScript code into the main codebase and is working on hooking it up for use with SVG files. Peter is working on fixing the units to be more sensible (px, pixel, etc. are proving to be rather confusing). More details on these changes are in the ReleaseNotes in Wiki and will all be included in the 0.39 release. There have also been a number of noteworthy non-coding events for Inkscape the past two weeks. An article by Bryce about Inkscape was published on OSNews earlier this month. It was picked up by Slashdot and other sites, and brought in a good bit of traffic. Several people are helping to move the nightly snapshots to less bandwidth-sensitive machines. The Open Clip Art Library has been picking up a lot of new contributions from artists, and is currently focusing on better capturing the metadata in the SVG files. Cedric has expressed an intent to develop an Inkscape Manual, based on the manual he had written for Sodipodi. This will nicely augment our tutorials, providing a more advanced reference for knowledgeable users. Rejon will be giving a presentation on Inkscape and OCAL at the SVGOpen. Whew! And there's probably a lot more that I forgot! As you can see, it's been a very actively busy couple of weeks and tons of stuff has been achieved. Now that the Pangoification work is looking like it will be done soon, it is time to think towards making a freeze and working towards packaging the 0.39 release. We probably need another week or two for further code settling and bug fixing, and probably a week-long freeze prior to the release. So that suggests a late-June/early-July timeframe for the release, but we'll see how things come together. Statistics Nov 15 Jan 15 Mar 15 Apr 15 May 15 May 31 Jun 15 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 1928 * 1164 1028 1035 928 (68.5%) (86.1%) * (91.7%) (92.7%) (92.7%) (93.4%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 321 90 31 36 110 41 (99.6%) (97.5%) * (99.8%) (99.8%) (99.4%) (99.8%) Total SF Page Views * 126,500 * 330,000 475,000 521,500 616,263 Total SF Downloads * 5,735 * 17,250 27,400 29,600 34,015 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 2,958 4,670 6,000 * * 7,333 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 33 50 70 74 77 87 Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 166,914 177,286 183,694 189,116 190,764 280,263 Code lines 133,150 138,457 143,662 147,471 148,770 210,119 Comment line 12,468 15,584 16,041 16,757 16,880 40,620 Blank 21,929 24,061 24,931 25,886 26,113 34,677 Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 3,000 4,434 4,540 4,544 4,571 15,170 Lines of content in website: 1,173 2,885 5,087 5,414 6,008 6,228 6,372 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 11,284 14,840 15,461 18,638 16,300 17,176 Minutes since last ChangeLog mod: 360 6 0 11 1 1889 2 Bugs open/total: 9/15 74/160 43/244 47/322 57/365 68/381 63/401 Features open/total: 18/18 104/120 151/184 173/213 183/238 195/256 210/285 Patches open/total: 1/ 6 4/32 6/ 45 5/ 72 4/ 83 5/ 85 5/ 88 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 * 3070 3710 3391 5241 5549 Inkscape-devel membership: 49 64 75 77 78 82 84 Inkscape-announce membership: 9 22 35 41 43 47 53 Inkscape-user membership: 71 69 76 * - Statistics unavailable

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new interface of Artemio.net: powered by Inkscape
by Artemio 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Hello, Inkscapers! Yesterday, I re-drawn the interface of Artemio.net completely from scratch using Inkscape. Thanks to the new rectangle tool, it simply was a snap! I just can't believe I could do all the work in minutes. Here is a short article about the new look: http://artemio.net/?p=event&e=2004-06-12 By the way, for Bryce and others: I can send you new screenshots of the development process, and expand my creation article so you can post these instead of the old Arteimio.net design examples. Inkscape is truly amazing. Thank you all, thank you so much! Yours, Artemio. -- KDEvibes: audio environment for KDE -> http://artemio.net/projects/kdevibes [local time 10:25:43 (GMT +3) 12 June 2004] [system uptime 43 min]

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where is GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_UTILITY ?
by Florent 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Hi all, I try to compile the CVS version 20040610 (certainly I'm late) No problem during the './configure' but, at the 'make' : [...] dialogs/dialog-events.cpp: In function `void sp_transientize(GtkWidget*)': dialogs/dialog-events.cpp:153: `GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_UTILITY' undeclared (first use this function) dialogs/dialog-events.cpp:153: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) dialogs/dialog-events.cpp:157: `gtk_window_set_skip_taskbar_hint' undeclared (first use this function) make[2]: *** [dialogs/dialog-events.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/florent/Sources/inkscape-20040610/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/florent/Sources/inkscape-20040610' make: *** [all] Error 2 In my '/usr/local/include' (Linux Slackware), there's 'gtk-2.0/' , 'gtkmm-2.0/' , 'sigc++-1.2/' must I install another library ? Florent

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Some questions....
by bulia byak 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

>Or maybe 'Freeze' (in the hope that Inkscape wouldn't be AI-like) No, "freeze" sound like the computer is about to freeze :) I like "lock" better. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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RE: [Inkscape-user] Some questions....
by bulia byak 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

>Is there a way , in the "Fill & Stroke" display, to set the unit of the >color ? > (for example : #00 to #FF, for that you can use the RGBA field at bottom >0 TO 255 that's what is now used in CVS >or 0% TO 100% that is still possible in CVS, just type in a value from 0 to 1 exclusive (e.g. 0.5) and press Enter, it will be converted to e.g. 128. So this only works for input, but I don't think it's really needed for output. >I don't see options about 'lock an object', is it possible ? "Sensitive" checkbox in Object properties >I think that it could be more convenient, when the user open a svg file via >the main window, and when this window is "not in use", to open this file in >the main window Done in CVS Thanks for your feedback. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: svgx.org-SVG-Metadata-0.01
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

Thanks Michael On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, michael bolger wrote: > Greetings Bryce Harrington, > added at http://www.svgx.org > -hope all is in order? > > SVG-Metadata-0.01 > -from cpan.org, Bryce Harrington > see; Perl Directory at Perl.org & SVG 1.1: 21 Metadata subject: metadata > "Perl module to capture metadata info about an SVG file" > > Thank You > Michael Bolger

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[Clipart] ANNOUNCE: First official release of Open Clip Art Library (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jun '04

13 Jun '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:35:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> To: clipart@...91... Subject: [Clipart] ANNOUNCE: First official release of Open Clip Art Library The first official release package of the Open Clip Art Library is now available in the download section of the website: http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/ openclipart-0.03.tgz This is the "Father's Day, 2004" release. There aren't really any Father's Day type images, though; they're actually all UK road signs. ;-) Nineteen items passed a validation against the OCAL File Guidelines, and these are included in this release. The items that failed were missing RDF metadata sections and did not indicate title, author, and license. A listing of files scanned and a log of the testing results is included for review. A Makefile is included for installation on *nix platforms via the command `make install` as root. `make uninstall` also works. On Windows, users will need to manually install to their preferred directory. While not many items are included in this release, the focus has been to find and establish a process for accepting, checking, and packaging the files. With these in place, future releases will be quicker and easier to put out. :-) Bryce _______________________________________________ clipart mailing list clipart@...91... http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart

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Some questions....
by Florent 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

Hi, In first, thank you for Inkscape and for all your work. I think that you are habit to hear congratulations, so : here are some questions and some suggestions.... Is there a way , in the "Fill & Stroke" display, to set the unit of the color ? (for example : #00 to #FF, 0 TO 255, or 0% TO 100%) I don't see options about 'lock an object', is it possible ? I think that it could be more convenient, when the user open a svg file via the main window, and when this window is "not in use", to open this file in the main window And sorry for my language which I feel very brief, but I'm not really a master with regard to the english language :-/ ... I beg your pardon for that. Florent

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Inkscape object opacity
by Adam Pearson 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Hi all Bear with me if these are dopey questions: Objects appear to have a default opacity (0.75 from the XML editor?) but the item properties dialog box says opacity = 1. So: What is the default opacity and how does one adjust the default? Why do objects that I edit in the XML editor to opacity = 1 still appear on screen as having an opacity? Regards from a puzzled Adam

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