October 2004 - Inkscape Devel

Spanish --> English translation needed
by Arpad Biro 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hi, We have this priority 9 bug regarding SUSE packages: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=995453&group_id=93… Googling for the error message, a Spanish page turned up that may be of some help to us. See the bug comments (link above) for details. Now since I don't speak Spanish, can I ask someone who does to translate the (short) letter on that page? The Spanish page in question is https://listas.linux.org.ar/pipermail/lugar-gral/2004-May/021837.html TIA, Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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10/26 Bug Stats
by Bryce Harrington 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Bug ID Pts Title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1048151 6 Union destroy objects in some cases 984096 9 Assertion failures with calligraphy tool 1045067 3 --without-gui crashes if home dir not writable 1038932 6 Export silently fails when file cannot be created 984854 9 crashes with non-existent gradient in gradient editor 1000350 9 --print option can attempt to open dialogs and segfault 1041757 (dup) undefined symbol: gdk_threads_lock 993294 9 RDF improperly exported with plain SVG 1024915 9 glib-2.5.2: crashes on clicking fill and stroke dialog ======================================================================== Total: 60 Goal: 150pts (40% towards goal)

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Text Options
by Cédric GEMY 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Working on the Text tool part of the user manual, i've just wondered why this tool has to be set in a separate though it doesn't have any options. Would it not be more useable to put this options in the Option Bar ? Cedric

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Call for bug check
by unknown＠example.com 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Can anyone on Windows check the following bugs for me? 925033 win32: non-ascii filenames still don't work 934062 win32: international characters in home path 1052307 Saving fails because of UTF-8 Error In generall, the steps to check these are 1) run a version of Inkscape that is belived to have the bug 2) try to reproduce the bug 3) report if it was reproduceable or not 4) once the bug is being reproduced, update to a version of Inkscape that should have it fixed 5) try to reproduce the bug the same way as worked for step 2 6) report if it is still reproduceable. With that in mind, I mainly need to get people to verify the bug via steps 1 through 3. Getting them checked on Windows 95/98/ME and also on Windows NT/2K/XP is helpful, as they are very different bases. Thanks, Jon

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Bug Stats for Inkscape 0.40 Release
by Bryce Harrington 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Objective: Achieve 150 total points worth of fixed bugs. Gain 3/6/9 points for low/med/high bugs. (Invalidated bugs don't count towards total.) Bug ID Pts Title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1024915 9 glib-2.5.2: crashes on clicking fill and stroke dialog ======================================================================== Total: 9 Goal: 150pts (6% done towards goal)

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Updated spanish translation
by Lucas Vieites 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hi, I'm attaching an updated spanish .po file. (downloaded october 18) -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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Inkscape at Universidad de A Coruña
by Lucas Vieites 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hi, I just found out they're going to talk about Inkscape at the University of A Coruña (in Galicia, Spain) during a few days of free software design tools discussions. More info on: http://gpul.org/node/view/168 Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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cmyk-profile and pdf export
by David Christian Berg 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

Hey Bulia, Mental, Bryce, Alan and all you other active inkscapers!* There's a feature request for cmyk and spot colors somewhere in the bug tracker. However, if you guys could spend some thoughts on how it might be implemented in inkscape that'd be cool. I'm using inkscape for semi professional work (doing work for ESTIEM, which is the European organisation of students of industrial engineering and management, as well as some stuff for our students government...** and usually need the stuff printed by professional printers who are asking for cmyk profiles. Now since the native format of svg just is rgb, I wonder (as I did in the bug tracker) if it is possible to define the colors used in the defs and add a cmyk equivalent in a inkscape tag. The user would manipulate the cmyk equivalent and inkscape would recaculate the rgb value... something like that. Then on ps eps or pdf (see below) export, the cmyk values would be embedded instead of the rgb values. Now concerning pdfs. I tried to import my svg flyer to scribus. That worked fine, really, exept that fonts weren't recognized, but the workaround is to convert them to curves. Now scribus 1.2 really screws up on resizing groups in a way that they exceed the page boundaries... causing me to start all over again a few times. Then -- as I was warned -- gradients with the end points of the object are not exported to pdf and the color output viewed with adobe acrobat afterwards seemed really poor for cmyk. This is why I'm very much hoping for smoothly working pdf output directly from inkscape. That would just be so cool, and for me a lot more important than many other things you can work around (oh well, baseline grid would really (!) help as well -- yes Corel doesn't have it, but that doesn't mean you don't need it :-) --, but other than that inkscape is already such a good app) Ok I know you're busy, but I needed to put this down, because I just talked to another ESTIEM designer about PR stuff and am wrapping up a document where I mention Inkscape (along with Corel and Freehand and Illustrator) as the program of choice for vector editing. Saying this, can I point to some gtk installation tutorial? I know there is a setup now for inkscape, but don't I also need the gtk stuff first? Anyways, take care! David *not sure what I'm so emthysiastic about but I'm in quite a good mood. ** silently I'm hoping to convert all the ESTIEM designers to Inkscape and (in some point in -- the not to close -- future) to Scribus -- oh, btw, Microsoft is one of our three headsponsors :-) Yes, there are nice people at Microsoft, would you have guessed so? But that doesn't always mean the create great software.

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new tutorial
by bulia byak 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

An important milestone has been reached: After the many recent and not-so-recent improvements to shapes (not only stars!) I hereby announce that the four shape tools and the corresponding shape types (rects, ellipses, stars, spirals) are, in my opinion, the first component of the program to reach maturity. In other words, Inkscape shapes are clearly ahead of the competition (and by competition, I don't mean Sodipodi) both in features and in usability, implement everything that I can possibly think of, and are virtually bugless. In still other words, they are ready for 1.0. With that in mind, I decided to document this component painstakingly and uncompromisingly. The new "Shapes" tutorial is larger than either Basic or Advanced; it contains detailed descriptions of shape tools and shape types, many creative tips for using them, and some rather beautiful examples. Enjoy: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/inkscape/inkscape/share/tu… I plan to document other components as they mature. Not-yet mature things will likely either receive a very cursory treatment in the documentation (if absolutely necessary) or not be documented at all. The reason is not only the desire to minimize rewriting as components are cleaned up, but the simple fact that I hate to write about things which are broken. Sorry. I prefer to fix things first :) Correspondingly, the old shape-related sections are removed from the Advanced tutorial. Eventually, the Advanced tutorial will be eliminated, its pieces becoming extended tutorials, each covering a much narrower topic.

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note for all on character encodings
by Jon A. Cruz 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

I've just got a minor note everyone who might deal with character encodings (probably most of us) need to be aware of. We're basically dealing with three different string encodings (not just two). 1) The system/GTK+ encoding, which is UTF-8 2) The locale encoding 3) The filesystem encoding Now, though the latter two could often be set to the same, they do not have to be. I'm going through cleaning up some file operations, and in that it seems that there could be a few subtle bugs hiding here and there, depending on the understanding of encodings and differences. For the most part, we want strings we deal with to be UTF-8 as much as possible. When strings come in or go out through calls that might generate or need something other than UTF-8, we should translat at that point. So we end up needing UTF-8 for all but some filename IO stuff.

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