On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, John & Melonie Curwood wrote:

> After my last talk with Joshua about updating the manual for the .47
> release, I came across the pending release notes for .47. Using these I
> made a list of updates or modifications that should be made to existing
> or new chapters so the manual will line up with version .47.

This is perfectly fine. We reused released notes a lot during 1st
stage of work on the manual :)

>        Interface
>                Update info on toolbars. (new toolbar, toolbars are 
> resizeable...etc)

But make the snapping options toolbar section short there. It's better
to still have a separate section on snapping IMO :)

>        SVG Fonts? (don't know if this would have high enough use to add)

I can add this information, but first we need to be sure that this
will go to 0.47. It looks like this is a broken feature due to some
bugs in a third party library (Cairo).

> Organising Objects
>        Layers
>                Chapter needs updating.

Before you do this, we need to revert a cosmetic change in UI :)

>        Add Chapters For some of the new effects.
>                e.g. Sketch, Hatches, von Koch, Knot, Perspective Paths, Spiro
> Splines, Envelope and lattice deformations...etc

Not all of the ones mentioned in release notes will be in 0.47.

> SVG Filters
>        Maybe talk about new and improved extension in this section. e.g.
> Arrange>Restack, Modify Path>Add nodes, Printing>Add Printing Marks,
> Render>3D Polyhedron, Render>Alphabet soup...etc (Because there are so
> many, I would recommend adding them all under one chapter rather than as
> individual chapters.)

SVG Filters should be separate from Extensions

> Advanced
>        Input Devices/Device Configuration??

Nothing has changed there for 0.47. The new dialog won't be released this time.

>        Updates to the inkscape preferences dialogue??

Yep

>        Colour Management

Didi we have any changes there? IIRC even the Win32 bug wasn't fixed.

> General notes and Topics I'm not sure where to add.
>        Review all chapters for references to the effects/Extensions menu

Yes

>        Linked bitmaps update – where to add – should there be a working with
> bitmaps section, which could include the tracing bitmaps chapter.

Good point

>        Object Properties now include Title/Description/Interactivity
> attributes. - where to add?

I wish I knew. Lemme think more.

>        Note around exporting of blured objects – which should now include all
> of the blur and not accidentally cut it off. (under working with files
> or filters??)

Working with files, in my opinion

Thank you very much for your work!

Alexandre

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