February 2004 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Strange bug in Windows build?
by unknown＠example.com 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hi Bob, yes I have a german system where numbers are represented like 1.234,56 or 1234,56. But I wonder that sodipodi didn't had this problems at all. Adib. Bob Jamison wrote: > taraben.a@...50... wrote: > >> Hello Aki, >> >> welcome in the club. >> I had exacly the same "feature". Already posted this to this >> mailinglist including screenshot. >> The thing is that sodipodi runs smoothly. >> >> Adib. > > > Adib, > > You might try a nightly Win32 build. We have worked > on this some already. It is in the process of being > fixed, but most of the problem should be gone > by now. > > The problem was, in some locales, floating point numbers > were formatted as 123,456 instead of 123.456 . > The SVG spec explicitly requires '.' . > So we are going through the code and looking for places > where numbers are formatted, to make sure they > are converted in a Locale-independent manner. > > I think this is -mostly- fixed already, so you might > want to check it out. > > > > Bob > -- WIGE DATA GmbH Wiesenring 11, D-04159 Leipzig, Germany Adib Taraben Electronic Engineer PHONE +49 (0)341 - 46 21 222 FAX +49 (0)341 - 46 21 400 E-MAIL taraben.a@...50... INTERNET www.wige-data.de

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Announcing Inkscape 0.37 Release
by Bryce Harrington 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

A new version of Inkscape is now available for use. Inkscape 0.37 includes many major new features, numerous bug fixes, and extensive codebase cleanup. Briefly ======= * New functionality: boolean operations on paths, dynamic and linked offsets, path outlining, standalone SVG viewer, drag-and-drop, letter-spacing. * More convenient editing: top panel, new color widget, 256x zoom, snapped rotation with Ctrl everywhere, selecting within groups, lots of new shortcuts, and more. * Interface and usability: saving view with the document, zoom history, fullscreen, hide/show all open dialogs, smarter export dialog, helpful statusbar, and much more. * Inkscape internals: built with C++, brand new classes for points, rects, matrices, and URIs, massive cleanups. * Last but not least: tutorial for new users, keys and mouse reference, Inkscape User mailing list, hassle-free Windows builds. More Detailed Info ================== Release Notes http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes037 Screenshots http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php Download From ============= http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 RPM, Debian, Windows, and source versions are available. Please visit http://www.inkscape.org to learn more, join our User Mailing List, chat with the developers, and submit your ideas for making Inkscape the leading SVG-compliant vector graphics tool.

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Strange bug in Windows build?
by "Áki G. Karlsson" 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hi I cannot keep my mouth shut anymore about this. It is probably some problem with my system if nobody else has noticed it ( I could not find anything similar in the buglist ). I am using WinXP (Home) and have always had this same problem with Inkscape, right from the first release. It has thus been unusable for me at work ( I have it on a linux box at home and it works fine there ). The most recent build I have is Bob Jamison's windows build called Inkscape 0.37-20040210. I have several of the GNU libraries installed in PATH, but none that I know of in system32. The thing is that if I use the freehand tool ( or any other tool than the predefined shapes ), as soon as I release the mouse button the shape literally goes haywire, that is, it becomes a big spindly mess. I set up four jpegs to show this effect. Here's one showing drawing with the freehand tool ( http://www.hi.is/~akig/inkscape1.jpg ) And here's after I release the mouse button ( http://www.hi.is/~akig/inkscape2.jpg ) Here's one showing a star *after* I've released the mouse button ( http://www.hi.is/~akig/inkscape3.jpg ) And here's what happens if I convert it to a shape... ( http://www.hi.is/~akig/inkscape4.jpg ) :( Hope this is just me and nothing serious... Best regards Áki

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Mandrake RPM package (preliminary)
by Bryce Harrington 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

I've done a first cut at a Mandrake RPM package. There's nothing Mandrake-specific except the name, so in theory this would work for any RPM-based system. http://bryceharrington.com/inkscape-0.37-1.mdk90.i586.rpm Note that this is an i586 arch build instead of i386 or i686 as planned; I'm building the latter two presently and will upload them when they're done. The thing I need some feedback on is that I specified the Requires parameter listing out what appear to be the dependent libs & etc. I need to know if you try this rpm on your system and it reports that it won't install due to dependency issues. (The adventurous are encouraged to try --force and --nodeps to see if the rpm will work anyway.) Here's an SRPM, too: http://bryceharrington.com/inkscape-0.37-1.src.rpm Bryce

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libnrtype -> Pango replacement plan
by Bryce Harrington 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

One of the tasks for this release was to investigate what tasks would be needed to replace libnrtype with Pango for font handling. I did a bit of looking around to see where libnrtype functions are being called. Here's my first cut at what it looks like might need to be done. Please review and comment on any additional tasks that you think will need to be done: * Add Pango as an optional dependency for Inkscape & test on our various target platforms * Modify widgets/font-selector.cpp to use Pango font new/ref/deref function as a compile-time option * Modify dialogs/text-edit.cpp to use Pango font new/ref/deref function as a compile-time option * Modify display/nr-arena-glyphs to use Pango font functions as a compile-time option * Create replacements for sp-text.cpp and sp-chars.cpp that uses Pango instead of libnrtype as compile time option * Test removal of libnrtype from Inkscape's Makefile & see what it breaks * Make Pango a required dependency for Inkscape & remove compile-time option scaffolding I've added these tasks to 0.43 and made Pangoification the objective for that release. If someone gets around to doing the tasks before that, that'd be lovely, otherwise we can plan on tackling it then. Bryce

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Call For Clipartists
by Bryce Harrington 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

With Myrk's nifty ribbon.svg submission and Simarilius' SVG Signs contribution this morning, we're now officially ready to receive SVG clipart collections for Inkscape. Clipart is extremely important for users of vector art programs, because it can save a lot of time when making certain kinds of drawings, and to provide examples users can start with when making their own creations. I think it'd be most effective (and fun) to leave this process fairly open ended and flexible, since that's how we like to do things in this project. What we plan to do is treat each clipart "collection" as it's own discrete package, that is welcome to set its own rules and conventions as its contributors see fit. We'll distribute a few with Inkscape itself, others can be provided as separate add-ins. So, if you want you can establish your own collection of just your own work, or can collaborate with other users for a group effort. You can set up some organization and standards for quality control or to maintain a theme, or leave it freeform. Whatever works best for you. Let's collect info and ideas about Clipart Collections on this wiki page, to document HOWTO's, ideas, questions, guidelines, etc.: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ClipartContribution If you want to start working on a clipart collection, please feel free to add a link to the appropriate page(s) there. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] ru.po
by bulia byak 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

>>http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RussianTerminology >Mozilla defaults to japanese for that link - is there a way to force >KOI8-R, or perhaps unicode? Just use View > Encoding > Auto-detect > Rusian and Mozilla will currectly show pages in any Russian encodings (provided you have Cyrillic fonts). Of course it would be nice to specify correct encoding for that page explicitly, but I don't know how to do that for one Wiki page (without affecting other pages). _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] ru.po
by bulia byak 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

>Here is russian messages based on inkscape.pot of 0.37 release and messages >from sodipodi 0.33 translation. Thanks! I edited it a bit, fixing some typos and shortening awkwardly long sentences. I also changed a few badly translated terms and started a wiki page for Inkscape's Russian terminology: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RussianTerminology You are welcome to discuss by editing and expanding that page. Please stick to these terms when translating the tutorial. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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guides toggle and other fixes
by bulia byak 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Now: - The | key (Shift+\) toggles guide visibility and snapping to guides (if you need to set them separately, use Document Options dialog) - The # key (Shift+3) toggles grid visibility and snapping to grid (if you need to set them separately, use Document Options dialog) - Both these settings are saved with the document - When a new guide is being created by dragging from the ruler, guide visibility and snapping is switched on - Default showguides (if not set) is on, for backward compatibility - The Document Options dialog now always reflects the current state of these (and other) parameters, so you can press these keys (or edit your namedview in XML editor) and watch the checkbuttons toggle _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/features&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] bug: win32: Saving to wrong location.
by bulia byak 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

>I will look at that one. Looks like it >might be a general bug, not just Win32. I tried to reproduce it in Linux today but couldn't - it works OK here. And I really don't see where in the code might that happen. Bob: saving uses document->uri, which is set by sp_document_create and sp_document_set_uri, but I have no idea how importing can affect it. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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