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Volunteers needed: 0.91 Release Marketing
by Bryce Harrington 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hi all, As the developers put the final touches on the 0.91 release, it's high time to plan a media blitz to get this announced to all our users. I'd like to recruit and organize a formal team to do marketing for Inkscape. This'll involve writing copy, planning announce strategies, notifying news sites, coordinating with parallel fundraising efforts, and more. We'll be organizing an online IRC meeting soon to coordinate these activities. Sound like fun? Ryan Lerch, Josh Andler, and myself are already signed on; we've been through the release announcement process before so we're old hands. But we're looking for new ideas and fresh blood, so that we can go beyond what we've achieved in the past. Interested? Reply to this email and introduce yourself! Bryce P.S. Inkscape's past marketing teams have left us a wealth of notes we can use to build from. Two items in particular: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Announcing_Releases http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage

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View mode in Inkscape
by Ooker 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Hi everyone, I have an idea: add a view mode in Inkscape. That means with one click, you will hide all menus and panels; another click, everything appears again. Easy come, easy go. This has some advantages: * Load time of Inkscape and Inkview are not so different. * Inkview is lack of feature. Especially zooming. * Easy to modify the svg, instead of viewing it in Inkview or in browers. * Personally, I would like to have a separate app to view it, rather than implement it into browsers. What do you think? -- Ooker.

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Autofill
by Gary Hawkins 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Hi, I wonder if we could have a auto fill option. if the page is set to A4 we create a shape or text or whatever and then select it, then copy it and then have an option to paste as many copies as possible that will fit on the page size for users that don't have a page then maybe they could draw a rectangle the size they want and auto fill could be set to use that size. handy for labels with logos but also for repeat cuts of the same sized objects. Gaz

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Website Menus
by Martin Owens 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Dear Website Users, Some of you may have experienced the menu explosion bug that the website has come down with. I've put in place a fix for both javascript (so it won't cause an infinite loop) and for the menus themselves which were getting progressively worse as the caches refreshed. Please test and don't hesitate to make a bug[1] if you notice anything wrong. Best Regards, Martin Owens [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web

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Live Effects and Images
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Hello, im member from a group of people interested in libre graphics called "Grafica Libre", one member ask me for a new effect. The request is for made triangulation delaunay from a image. I think could be ?easy made from extension -there is existing code- but i want to do from a LPE because: I want to put a KNOT in each extemium of a triangle -shared with continuous triangles- who act as modifier of the final result. The thread[1] give me a brunch of links but to me the one i like more is this[2] I want to put similar controls to the LPE + ability to touch triangles, maybe could remove knots -and triangles- The problem: I ask previusly by IRC about using images in LiveEffect for use in the perspective LPE with something as "original-src", i take a response about in IRC "not a good idea inkscape strore hacked versions of images like illustratos do", but this case is diferent, because only obtain data from the image. So there is a objection about this use? Finaly... There is a multiplataform image libray bundled in inkscape for c++ or python? Regards, Jabier. [1]http://listas.usla.org.ar/pipermail/grafica-libre/2014-November/003912.html [2]http://snorpey.github.io/triangulation/

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Libre Calendar 2015
by Jehan Pagès 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Hello all, I am Jehan, a GIMP developer, and user of Free Software. Anyway, a small non-profit I manage, association LILA, is organizing for a month a calendar sale with several artists using Free Software. http://librecal2015.libreart.info/ The artists are: Patrick David, Aryeom Han, Henri Hebeisen, Gustavo Deveze and Brian Beck (2 photographers, 2 illustrators, a 3D graphics illustrator). All of them use Free Software for their work and all the artworks in the calendar will be released as Creative Common Attribution. A part of the sale profit will go to the artists, and we also want to donate to a selection of Free Software: GIMP, Blender, Inkscape and Scribus. Basically they are some of the main software for Libre Graphics, after all! So if I post here, that's first to promote the project. And second, I wanted to ask the Inkscape project maintainers if that would be possible to relay the funding? A blog post, or a news on the website, or relaying through social networks (I see Inkscape is on Twitter and G+), or any mix of these would be awesome. Thanks, and continue to do a great program, we often use it! In any case, if you like our small project, don't hesitate to go and buy a calendar. :-) Thanks! Jehan Association LILA

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MISTAKE IN WINDOWS TILING
by Fernando Cuesta Núñez 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Hi there: I´ve found a mistake in the Spanish version 0.48.4 r9939 in the window Tiling. In the tab Simmetry at bottom where said *Altura, anchura* it must be* Anchura, altura*. They are changed in the translation to Spanish version. Regards Fernando Cuesta

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about scaling patterns
by Brynn 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Hi Friends, This isn't about a problem I'm having, although the question comes up in a project I'm working on. I'm just curious about this behavior of scaling patterns. If I apply a pattern fill to an object, and I scale that object with either Selection tool or Transform dialog, the pattern is scaled, along with the object. However, if I scale the object by moving nodes, the pattern stays the same size, and just gets different boundaries. So for example, I fill a square shaped, closed path with a pattern. Let's say it's 100 x 100 px. If I scale with Selection tool or Transform dialog, so that the square now is 60 x 60 px, the pattern is scaled proportionally smaller. But if I move the nodes inwards (by 20 px each way), so that the square is now 60 x 60 px, the pattern does not get scaled. Why doesn't the pattern get scaled, when nodes are moved, like it does when scaled with Selection tool or Transform dialog? And I do understand how to edit patterns with the Node tool. So that's not the issue. I just want to understand why one way of scaling, affects the pattern, and another way of scaling, does not affect the pattern. Is it possibly related to a bug? Or if this is expected behavior, I'm just curious why moving nodes doesn't cause the pattern to change. Can someone explain? (just for my curiosity) Thank you very much :-) brynn

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OPERATIONS BOOLEAN WITH TRACKS
by Fernando Cuesta Núñez 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Hello there: I want to make the operation "D*ifference*" with two tracks. One of them is a group created with a clon in mosaic: one straight line 1 x 30 column and turned 6º. The other track is a square that it was converted into an object. If I apply the operation *Difference *the information bar says: one of the objects is not a track and it can't do the boolean operation I don't understand why there is an object different than a track. Thanks in advance. Fernando

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A seamless pattern extension/procedural template update
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hi to all. I made a big update (0.4) to the extension "seamless pattern". Is commited to experimental branch, or you can take from my inkspace[1] to use in 0.48 or up. Also have a you tube video inside the inkspace page. The video has anotations but im not english so any help to improve is welcome. [1]http://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1358/ Regards, Jabier.

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