Comments on: Perception Is Everything

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:18:35 +0000

Inkscape is great, but I think it has a way to go in some areas (especially plugin UI). The version number scheme is in the open source way. I think when it’s really great they’ll switch to 1.0, in the meantime it trundles on.

(+ bare in mind they don’t have enough developers to support all the win32 users at the mo, inflating the version numbers will only make this more of a problem).

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:17:07 +0000

@Jacques: Thank you for making me turn back my html_type to text/html… An email has been sent.

By: Jacques Distler

Jacques Distler — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:09:40 +0000

Hmmm. A good tool for tidying Inkscape’s output might yet wean me away from Illustrator.?

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:50:54 +0000

Installed. I also sent you an email last night (from gmail in case you’re spam-filtering)…

By: Sam Ruby

Sam Ruby — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:05:03 +0000

If you add bzr to your list of things to soak in, you can publish your changes in a way that I can pull from you and vice versa.

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:09:12 +0000

@Sam: Yes, I’ve looked at your SVG Tidy script (have downloaded Ruby just for it, actually!). I have zero experience with Ruby atm, but I planned on starting to soak into it a little this weekend if I can find the time – and yes, I’d like to send you back updates (your script crashes on one of my files).

Personally I think the biggest drawback of Inkscape (and Adobe Illustrator) is their crungy output, so your script is definitely a step in the right direction, but I’d prefer these things be built into the tool so that everyone can get the improvements and not just folks willing to download Ruby and run a script on the command-line.

By: Sam Ruby

Sam Ruby — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:35:08 +0000

Do you feel that the clip-art export needs to be built-in to Inkscape?

I’ve been slowly developing a standalone function:

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/02/01/SVG-Tidy SVG-Tidy

Care to collaborate? Even if you only contribute specifications which consist mainly of a snippet of SVG, and XPath expression, and an assertion, that would still be quite helpful:

http://intertwingly.net/code/svgtidy/spec.rb