November 2003 - Inkscape Devel

Inkscape Release 0.35
by Bryce Harrington 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Inkscape 0.35 is released and kicking. Grab the files here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 This is the first release of Inkscape, and it's a great start for the project. Recent additions include new keyboard shortcuts, alternate node joining method, ability to apply text to multiple text objects, an Open Recent menu item, and more. The codebase has also been modified to allow it to be compiled with either the gcc or g++ compilers. See the Release notes for more info: http://www.inkscape.org/release_0_35.html Please download the code, try it out, and report any bugs found to the Inkscape bug tracker. Congratulations to the dozens of people who have helped put this release together and get this project off the ground.

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Win32 build
by Mael 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Hello, I managed to build inkscape cvs on win32 (with Msys/MsysDTK/MinGW) A screenshot : http://195.221.122.126/tmp/inkscapewin32.png The configure.in doesn't care about win platform (Unfortunetely I don't know much about autoconf/automake) so I had to change some settings, and did a couple of modifications to Makefile and to some sources (if someone want more details ask me). Also Inkscape crashes if the latest libxml2 dll (2.6.2) is used I've not done too much tests: some icons seem to vanish, a test export to png was successful.. I'm not skilled enough to maintain a win32 port but I really hope someone will :-/ M

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] more keys
by bulia byak 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Bryce, please test CVS now to see if kp-arrows work for you both with and without shift, in selector only (if it works I will fix node editor too). -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/

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two patches
by Robert Crosbie 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

I submitted two patches to the tracker: [ 840504 ] Remove kde option from configure This removes the --with-kde option from configure. [ 840506 ] Remove icon hash from sp_icon_new_full See text for full explanation but this will fix the bug "Using Object Transformations twice crashes Inkscape" and possibly other untracked/undiscovered mysterious crashes. This is probably a better fix than the last one I submitted, which hasn't been applied anyway. I see this as the first step in removing the sp_icon routines and replacing them with gtkIconfactory. Patch [ 840443 ] Removes icons from dialog tab headers. (not mine) may also have the side effect of fixing "Using Object Transformations twice crashes Inkscape", but there are other parts of inkscape that call sp_icon_new that are still trashing memory all over the place but just haven't been noticed yet. Cheers, Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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Patch: 840443 Remove Icons from Tab headers
by T Ingham 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Hello all, A pet peeve of mine, I have successfully removed the icons from the tab headers in Object Properties and Transformations dialogs. The patch available at: ( http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=840443&group_id=93438&atid=604308 ) thanks for your time and patience, -Thomas

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Binary rpm
by Bryce Harrington 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

I noticed no one had uploaded a binary rpm of the 0.35 release so far, so compiled one on a Mandrake 9.0 system. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] transient dialogs
by Cezary Biele 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

bb> Please test the CVS HEAD with this change and report any problems you may bb> have with this dialog (ctrl-shift-f). If there are none, I will make all bb> other dialogs and the toolbar transient too. at last! it works great for me! please add other toolboxes. best regards yemu

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export without antialiasing
by Yemu 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

i ve been talking on the jabber with nathan yesterday about exporting without AA, and he told me to try to remove "ifs" from libnr/nr-svp-render.c (make them always true) which should remove antialiasing globally i did remeve them, recompiled and here are the effects: - icons and all objects in document look ugly :-) no antialiasing :-) - exported png at high resolutions (i.e. 600dpi) look good. objects look ok, text looks a little bit worse, but is acceptable (you can check example here: http://www.yemu.website.pl/test3.png) concluding: maybe it would be possible to add an option to export dialog (no-antialiasing -EXPERIMENTAL) or something like that. best regards yemu ps. i've just checked out cvs and i must say InkScape rulez!

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I'm new here and I'd like to wish you best of luck with InkScape
by Alan Horkan 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

I'm new here and I'd like to wish you best of luck with InkScape, it really sounds like a good idea. Firstly congratulations on choosing a name I can immediately pronounce, that is not an acronym, that I'm not embarassed to admit I use or say out loud and that does not feature an over abundance of G, Q, or K that seem to plague so many other projects (I'm sure you all can guess the ones I'm talking about). I found out about Inkscape from a story on Gnomedesktop.org which from the various posts I'm sure you are well aware of but I think it might be worth linking from your news page (and this mail did invite suggestions http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3434272&forum_id=360… ) I'm also having minor difficulty downloading this file, I only get the top chunk http://www.inkscape.org/mockups/export_dialog_02.png Which leads me to my next point, the Export Dialog. Rather than make specific criticism of each approach I would put it to you that it would be best to use a standard Save Dialog with an additional "Options..." Button. The Options button would prompt uses to change the export settings, these should probably also be available through some sort of Import/Export preferences dialog. Why do it this way? Other programs do it this way but more importantly that that I can promise you that users will not want to change the export settings each and every time, and being able to set them once (or just once for the current session or project) and keep reusing the same settings until you feel the need to change them and keep them out of your way. (This is an approach I have been advocating quite strongly on the Gnome usability list mailto:usability@...45... so that when the GTK File Open Save As dialog gets redesigned that developers will have a clear and standard way to extend it rather than cluttering the dialog with all manner of new features.) The website says "We aim for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc." I hope you will also aim for a user interface similar to those programs, except of course when there is a clearly better alternative. You'd be amazed how lost I feel in Sodipodi as it does(/did) not have a menubar or document toolbars. Keeping the interfaces similar makes it much easier to reuse existing books tutorials and other resources already targeting the dominant software and also helps kill off the distasteful "marketable skills in the workplace" crap that I'm forced to admit happens all too often. I'm a fan of portable cross platform software - who know what Operating System we'll be running in 5 years, but I'd like to still be able to use my favourite software - but at the same time I encourage you to not just get involved with Gnome and try to follow the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) where you think it is appropriate but also help push for changes and more flexability where you really dont think the Guidelines are appropriate. I wish you the very best of luck with InkScape and I hope you can make the most of its potential and satisfy so many potential users out there. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ PS I've subscribed to the list digest so that I can lurk and I'm fairly busy at the moment, but if you would like me to try and respond more promptly please CC me in your replies.

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OSX Patch
by T Ingham 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

I had mistakenly thought that my patch to remove the malloc.h includes ( replacing them with unistd.h ) had been applied. It hasn't, and I'd like to know if anyone else has trouble making without the includes to malloc. If this is not the case ( meaning no problems ) then can we get the cvs updated so I don't have to apply the patch myself every time I update :) Thanks, Thomas

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