Hi Alexandre,

thanks for the feedback, I was wondering if some of the features I was
reading about were actually going to be included as there wasn't any
sign of them in the devel version of Inkscape.  I will refine my ToDo
list based on your comments and then send it back in to the group.

Regards,

John


On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 14:54 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> 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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