November 2004 - Inkscape Devel

Inkscape Status November 15, 2004
by Bryce Harrington 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Statistics Nov 15 May 15 Oct 15 Nov 1 Nov 15 ========== ====== ====== ====== ===== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 1028 687 684 636 (68.5%) (92.7%) (95.2%) (95.2%) (95.6%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 36 124 62 14 (99.6%) (99.8%) (99.3%) (99%) (100%) Total SF Page Views * 475,000 1,339,114 1,487,659 1,758,321 Total SF Downloads * 27,400 63,869 69,078 80,152 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 * 11,465 11,849 12,162 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 74 124 125 126 Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 189,116 303,783 306,602 307,747 Code lines 147,471 216,027 217,198 217,982 Comment line 16,757 52,421 53,262 53,491 Blank 25,886 41,872 42,699 42,829 Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 4,544 16,841 16,841 16,974 Lines of content in website: 1,173 6,008 7,840 8,121 8,382 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 18,638 22,459 18,977 19,735 Bugs open/total: 9/15 57/365 135/653 104/683 102/733 Features open/total: 18/18 183/238 263/406 279/426 291/448 Patches open/total: 1/ 6 4/ 83 7/126 7/130 7/137 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 3391 7,860 8,279 8,613 Inkscape-devel membership: 49 78 109 108 117 Inkscape-announce membership: 9 43 98 113 124 Inkscape-user membership: 71 138 144 157 Num Translations: 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 35.0% 38.5 38.4 * - Statistics unavailable

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0.40pre3
by Ted Gould 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hey everyone, I'm pleased to announce that 0.40pre3 is now in Sourceforge for your testing pleasure. It seems that the major crash bugs are not present at this point, this may be the last pre-release. Get your bugs in now! https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Enjoy, Ted

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"Art Tips for Programmers"
by Bryce Harrington 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

There's a post on Slashdot right now asking about "Art Tips for Programmers" with a link to the Open Clip Art Library. Add your comments here: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/016244&tid=152&tid=156&tid=4 Bryce

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Spanish po update
by Lucas Vieites 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, I'm attaching another update of the spanish po file 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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GC debugging
by MenTaLguY 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I've comitted some code which lets you select the GC implementation at runtime for debugging purposes. Basically, you can set the _INKSCAPE_GC environment variable to one of the following values: * enable - use the normal garbage-collected allocator (default) * debug - track additional debugging information[1] and detect certain types of heap corruption[2] * disable - use standard malloc in place of the GC allocator[3] _INKSCAPE_GC=disable mostly replaces the --disable-gc ./configure option, which has been removed. -mental --- [1] for example, you can trace the path of references from an object to a GC root, to debug problems like an object mysteriously not getting collected [2] it can't detect all corruption, but makes an honest effort [3] it will leak memory fiercely, of course, since memory allocated with the standard allocator isn't automatically freed, but it's helpful for debugging sometimes

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Win32 cross-compile problem
by Jon A. Cruz 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Well.. I tweaked a .pl file to use the xcc version of one tool, but now I'm hitting another issue cd ~/Win32/inkscape/ make -f Makefile.mingw make -C po -f Makefile.mingw make[1]: Entering directory `/home/joncruz/Win32/inkscape/po' make[1]: `all' is up to date. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joncruz/Win32/inkscape/po' make -C src -f Makefile.mingw make[1]: Entering directory `/home/joncruz/Win32/inkscape/src' i686-pc-mingw32-dllwrap --output-lib=inkscape.la \ --def=inkscape.def --driver-name=g++ \ -o inkscape.dll libinkscape.a -L/target/lib -lgtkmm-2.4 -lgdkmm-2.4 -lglibmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6 -lpangomm-1.4 -lsigc-2.0 -lgtk-win32-2.0 -lgdk-win32-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangowin32-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lxml2 /target/lib/iconv.lib -lfreetype6.dll -lfontconfig-1.dll -lpng -lpopt /target/lib/zdll.lib -lgc -mwindows -lws2_32 -lintl /usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--base-file' /usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information collect2: ld returned 1 exit status i686-pc-mingw32-dllwrap: g++ exited with status 1 make[1]: *** [inkscape.dll] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joncruz/Win32/inkscape/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 So... anyone have ideas on making it hit the proper version of ld?

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extensions on Win32
by John Cliff 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi guys, Having got the svg input fixed i've been looking to see if i could get output working too. In looking into it have found that currently the extensions stuff doesnt work on windows. For some reason the popen call in script::execute is refusing to open the pipe. I've tried the exact same code in a standalone program and it works absolutely fine, so am a bit stumped as to what it is. I've had a dig through our sources and the include files, and I can't see anything thats overriding it. If any of you have any ideas, I'd welcome the input. The only other issue I can see with it is some hard coded /tmp/ strings for the temporay files, which need to use the g_whatever call to get the temp directory instead. Cheers John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Couple of import/export bugs
by miriam clinton (iriXx) 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

While having my first play with Inkscape yesterday i noticed that while its possible to save to an .ai Illustrator file, and an .eps, this can only be effectively used for print really. In Illustrator, all text and objects appear selected and grouped when the item is open, and then when ungrouped, text is not editable on the path - you can pull the text all over the place in single letters but its not possible to re-word it. Once I'd saved in Illustrator I couldnt re-open the file in Inkscape at all. I'd be more than happy to test these problems as I've got both apps at the ready. best, mC~ -- 99% of aliens prefer Earth --Eminem www.iriXx.org www.copyleftmedia.org.uk

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auto-increment object id's?
by Jay Vaughan 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

hey, i use inkscape a lot - it is my primary svg editor - and i'm very impressed with it. but there's one thing that frustrates me, and that is the way it handles auto-id assignment. ideally i'd like to be able to select a group of objects, set the ID property of one, with a -1 at the end, and have the rest all be enumerated based on the first one.. is there any way to tell inkscape to use specific id's for objects, and auto-increment properly? i've dl'ed the code and had a look at the sd-object "sp_object_get_unique_id" function, but it doesn't look to me as if theres' an 'easy' way to get it to handle auto-increments properly without majorly restructuring things .. anyone got clues? -- ; Jay Vaughan

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Good news (but could be better)
by Alan Horkan 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Although Inkscape did not win this years Linux Journal Readers Choice Award in the best Graphics category it did get a mention as having received the most write in votes which bodes well for next year. Sincerely Alan Horkan Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org

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