May 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

crash in hmm dunno
by David Christian Berg 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I have the latest debian package, but dunno what that is... can't you put something in the about dialog, so that I know... I never remember this terminal stuff. Anyways, I get a crash when I try to copy a text with a gradient fill. That is strange on the one hand and annoying on the other. I hope it's an easy to fix or fixed already. David

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math operation in dialogs
by David Christian Berg 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

just wondering if I should file a bug, or if it's so simple that I don't need to. Especially in the guides and the positioning dialog it would be helpful to be able to put mathimatical stuff in there. Imagine you have a guide at 45.6 and want one 7 mm further to the right, you'd just type 45.6+7 and there you go... even more important is something like dividing by 2 or 3, I need that quite often. Btw: Since my laptop was for repair, I used CorelDraw, and I think for basic vector editing and layouting inkscape is by now better than Corel. That is something! Which also brings me to one other thing I'm missing: Baseline Grid. Even for simple flyers and brochures it's nice (or rather necessary) to have. CorelDraw just pissed me of for not having it! I got my laptop back, with working ethernet card, Yeah!! Take care! David

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crazy idea: map ourselves
by Kees Cook 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

After working on this locale stuff, I got curious about where everyone else lived who working on inkscape. I found a nice (but large) SVG of the world (http://www.wherearewe.co.nz/svg/world.svgz), and I wanted to map everyone's names onto it. Can everyone who's interested in appearing on such a thing send me their long/lat (or an address I can go convert). I think it would be cool to see an "about" screen (or even a "users of inkscape" map) that shows what a diverse set of places we come from. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Clone command
by bulia byak 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

>Bulia...this is an awesome feature. I wish the keyboard shortcut was >easier to do with one hand. Most keys are already taken. Feel free to propose another shortcut. >Also, I think there should be another feature that should be added >called EXPAND, which allows for selected cloned objects to be made into >complete copies of the referenced image. Better "Unlink clone". Also a command to look up a clone's original. >Also, markers applied to the original do not apply to the clones. Yes. Please file a bug. _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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new autopackage patch available
by Mike Hearn 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Hi, I've added a new patch with misc fixes/improvements to the relocatable build in the patch tracker. Apply at your leisure. By the way, autopackage 0.5 is now out. If you could link to these URLs from the website that would be great: The package: http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/inkscape-0.39cvs.package A page explaining what to do in friendly terms: http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/ Linking to both would be fantastic. If any users wish to follow the progress of Inkscape but not have to compile every day, this is a great way to track the project (it's what I've been doing). thanks -mike

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Win32 Frequent Crashes
by bulia byak 31 May '04

31 May '04

>The crash that I reported on 30 May with bitmap images is occuring more >generally. Can someone with Win please confirm: > >1. Draw any object with bezier or freehand tool. >2. Select object. >3. Extend object with any control handle to or beyond edge of screen (not >the canvas). >4. Inkscape freezes. Does not happen on Linux, and looks like this old bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=852976&group_id=93… Or is it different? If it is, please localize when it started happening. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] unicode mapping for symbol fonts
by bulia byak 31 May '04

31 May '04

> > > Part of the reason for the gradual approach is that > > > there are a lot of > > > (potentially important) minor tweaks in libnrtype > > > (e.g. the special > > > unicode mapping Lauris added for "symbol fonts" for > > > Lilypond-generated > > > SVG); we want to understand all the code we're > > > replacing so we won't > > > have regrets later. Perhaps this can explain http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=937347&group_id=93… ? _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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News from the Scribus front
by Peter Linnell 31 May '04

31 May '04

Hi all, A quick note to let you all know the following: We are planning a 1.1.7 release towards the end of the next week. Interesting for Inkscape users: 1) a whole bunch of new gradient features which match closely to Inkscape output. e.g. mulit color gradients, free radial gradients, free linear gradients and transparency adjustable within each gradient color. Tomorrow's CVS will have the missing controls in place. The toughest part is getting acceptable PS,PDF output. 2) Much improved Inkscape > Scribus importing. Franz has killed a couple more import bugs with colors. Gradients should match up almost perfectly now. 3) Scribus now has a new EPS/PS importer which can import EPS or PS as vector or outlines and edit them natively in Scribus and/or export as SVG. This relies on Ghostscript, so the newer GS, the better. We hope all the inkscape devels / hard core users get a chance to play, test and report anything amiss. Franz specifically mentioned he worked on this to match up to Inkscape output. http://bugs.scribus.net is our tracker, which is being upgraded as I write. We expect it back up tomorrow. Next up is the text import ;) Enjoy, Peter

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SPSelection changes
by MenTaLguY 31 May '04

31 May '04

Just a quick note that I committed my work of a couple weeks ago to switch SPSelection to work with SPObjects in general, not just SPItems. This has little practical use right now, but it'll be important later for the new layers/document tree dialog. -mental

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unicode mapping for symbol fonts
by MenTaLguY 30 May '04

30 May '04

Sorry for the late reply; I haven't had time to do much Inkscape stuff this week. On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 05:22, fred wrote: > > That's about right; the plan is: > > ok. currently trying to do classes for 3) for typeset, > to test code in isolation before hitting libnrtype. That makes sense. Good job. ^_^ > > Part of the reason for the gradual approach is that > > there are a lot of > > (potentially important) minor tweaks in libnrtype > > (e.g. the special > > unicode mapping Lauris added for "symbol fonts" for > > Lilypond-generated > > SVG); we want to understand all the code we're > > replacing so we won't > > have regrets later. > > good you tell me that! where is it located? i can't > find it I'm not totally sure either; I only remember it from discussion on the Sodipodi list when Lauris comitted it. Basically, in the case of "special" symbol fonts, they may or may not have a unicode map. Different programs tend to generate SVGs that expect either: * Unicode codepoints are mapped directly to font glyph indices or * the font glyph indices are mapped into the Unicode private use area so we needed to cover both cases. I think part of this code is in e.g. nr_typeface_ft2_lookup, but I will have to admit an incomplete understanding of what it is trying to accomplish. IIRC there are actually three private use areas in Unicode: * Private Use Area: U+E000 through U+F8FF * Supplementary Private Use Area A: U+F0000 through U+FFFFD * Supplementary Private Use Area B: U+100000 through U+10FFFD It looks like the code only concerns itself with the first two, although the range for the second looks wrong. The mapping logic appears to be: 1. if the unicode codepoint is anywhere above U+F0000, subtract 0xf0000 and map directly to a font glyph index or 2. if the font has no unicode table, subtract 0xe000 from the codepoint and map directly to a glyph font index or 3. if the font has a unicode table, but the codepoint is in the (first) private use area and the font provides no glyphs in that area, subtract 0xe000 and map directly to a font glyph index or 4. otherwise, let freetype do the codepoint -> glyph mapping as it normally would I don't think that logic is entirely correct (in particular #1 and #2 seem deeply wrong to me), but due to differing expectations by SVG creators, I think we do indeed need to do something special with symbol fonts and the private use areas. (this may mean needing to subclass or wrap a Pango backend) > from what i see, pango shaper fill the > x_offset/y_offset/width of the glyphs in the geometry > element. width is meant to be the advance (ie > kern_glyph tweaks these values by adding/substracting > the kerning). i'm not 100% sure of what i said, tho. > after having a look at the GPOS/GSUB/JSTF tables of > the OpenType spec (which pango partly implements) i > fear there may be more complex stuff going on. Indeed.. essentially the "actual" advance is very context-dependent. (a simple example for western languages would be where the same font glyph is used for both the composing and non-composing versions of a diacritical character) -mental

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