Monthly Archives: September 2013

Scanner Modifications to Scan Large Documents

Your average consumer scanner works well for scanning normal printed or handwritten documents, usually anything up to Letter or A4 size. For something a bit larger, say Legal or Tabloid size, one can try to scan the document in segments, … Continue reading

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Finishing Google Summer of Code

I have now merged the second phase of my Google Summer of Code project, unit support improvements, into the Inkscape trunk. Back in April when I proposed this project, I thought refactoring Inkscape’s unit support would be the easier part … Continue reading

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Bug Fixes

I have devoted the past two weeks to fixing bugs in my viewBox based document unit implementation, deciding against implementing the object specific units I mentioned in my previous post. The most serious bug fixed was a bug that caused … Continue reading

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Document and Object Units

I have now implemented pages sizes using real world units as well as document units using a viewBox as described in my previous post. Although it is mostly working, there are a few known bugs when changing the document unit, … Continue reading

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