May 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

marker news
by bulia byak 06 May '04

06 May '04

I fixed marker previews. Now all markers (no matter where they come from, i.e. both from the current document and from markers.svg) are automatically shown with their icons in the start/mid/end menus in the Fill&Stroke dialog. No need to provide a preview object in markers.svg; that file needs only contain the markers themselves in <defs>. Simarilius wrote a small tutorial on how to create new markers. It's in share/tutorials/making_markers.svg. It's not in the menu because it's supposed to be temporary until we have a GUI facility for doing the same in a convenient way. I also tweaked markers.svg: provided 3 coordinated sizes for most useful markers, removed some not-so-useful ones, and generally cleaned them up. I would add more markers, but the menus become difficult to handle when they grow too long. What we need instead is a palette-like widget where marker icons can be shown in several rows/columns. _________________________________________________________________ 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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Bliss: A nice article on-line about Inkscape and friends
by Peter Linnell 06 May '04

06 May '04

Hi all, Just a quick note with a link about an article why FLOSS coder code: http://niyam.com/gnulinux/lfy/fy/FY-monthly-col.php?article_body=FYmay2k4.h… Very well written in my opinion, by an ex Editor of PC World and well-known tech writer in India. Enjoy, Peter

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removal of private-fonts and libarikkei
by MenTaLguY 06 May '04

06 May '04

Just a heads-up that I've removed the "private-fonts" private font installation facility. Anyone who had needed it in the past it will probably find their system's native font management facilities easier and more flexible at this point. Fontconfig has brought unix font management a long, long way. Also of note, libarikkei has been removed from the tree as it is no longer used. -mental

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] [patch] Fix the relocatable build
by bulia byak 05 May '04

05 May '04

>Having said that, you now have to remember that you can't use the C >preprocessor to build paths anymore. Here is a patch to fix the CVS >relocatable build. Thanks, applied. Please always put patches to the tracker, for they can be easily lost in the mailing list. _________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] removal of nr_arena_item_new()
by bulia byak 05 May '04

05 May '04

> > I removed nr_arena_item_new() today and replaced it with calls to > > NRArenaWhatever::clear() static members. Now opening any file with text crashes with multiple asserts: File display/nr-arena-glyphs.cpp line 761 (?): Assertion NR_IS_ARENA_GLYPHS_GROUP (gg) failed File libnr/nr-object.cpp line 55 (?): Assertion nr_type_is_a (((NRObject *) ip)->klass->type, tc) failed Mental, please do not commit changes without doing at least basic "runs and loads" type tests. One thing which would be very easy for you to do is to collect a number of various files (including tutorials, keys.svg, etc) in a directory and, when you're about to commit, run "inkscape *" in that directory to make sure it loads them OK. _________________________________________________________________ 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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compiling problem
by David Christian Berg 04 May '04

04 May '04

Probably I'm just missing some sort of libary or something, but I can't tell. Can anyone tell me, how to fix this problem (see below), without manually copying those files? Thanx in advance David ./autogen.sh --------------------------------------------------------------------- I am testing that you have the required versions of libtool, autoconf, automake, glib-gettextize and intltoolize. This test is not foolproof, so if anything goes wrong, see the file HACKING for more information... checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... yes (version 2.59) checking for automake >= 1.7 ... yes (version 1.7.9) checking for glib-gettextize >= 2.0.0 ... yes (version 2.4.1) checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... yes (version 0.30) configure.in: installing `./install-sh' configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs' configure.in: installing `./missing' configure.in:5: installing `./config.guess' configure.in:5: installing `./config.sub' Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL' configure.in:25: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' libtoolize: copying file `./config.guess' libtoolize: copying file `./config.sub' libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: copying file `./ltoptions.m4' libtoolize: copying file `./ltsugar.m4' libtoolize: copying file `./ltversion.m4' libtoolize: copying file `./libtool.m4' Copying file po/Makefile.in.in Please add the files codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4 progtest.m4 from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory or directly to your aclocal.m4 file. You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/. patching file po/Makefile.in.in ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- and for make: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 63 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/david/develop/inkscape-20040503/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/develop/inkscape-20040503' make: *** [all] Error 2

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Further Ideas for the UI
by Danni Coy 04 May '04

04 May '04

Just something that popped into my head over night. Basically I am thinking of a way of creating composite shapes by dragging other shapes onto a receptive shape. The default action would be Union, but Intersection and Difference should should be available through modifier keys. The internal representation would be non destructive until convert to curves is used. NODE_EDIT mode would allow the component objects to be edited. Also is anybody working on Layers or an Object Manager. -- I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini. -- Alexander Woolcott

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Greetings [Small Changes - were to submit]
by Danni Coy 03 May '04

03 May '04

I have added a few behaviours to Inkscape (basically workflow speedups): 1) In SELECT mode double clicking on an object brings that object into NODE_EDIT mode. 2) In NODE_EDIT mode double clicking on anything but a knot changes to SELECT MODE 3) Double clicking on a knot in NODE_EDIT mode deletes that knot. Behaviours I plan to add: 1) Double clicking on line segment between to knots adds a point where clicked. 2) CTRL + SPACEBAR + DRAG OBJECT creates duplicate of object in new location. 3) ALT + SPACEBAR + DRAG OBJECT creates a clone of object in new location. Anyway I was wondering how to submit the changes I have made. Thanks Danni

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Re: inkscape 0.38.1 patch
by Bryce Harrington 03 May '04

03 May '04

Thanks Tomasz, this sounds very cool, and something many have needed. I've posted it to the Inkscape patch tracker. In the future please feel free to post there directly; the developers check it often. :-) http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604308 Someone will test out the patch and add it to the codebase soon, or provide some feedback to you if they have questions. Bryce On Mon, 3 May 2004, Tomasz Maka wrote: > > Hello, > > I have written a patch for inkscape 0.38.1 for different > paper sizes (30 schemes) and orientation (portrait, landscape). > > grab it here: > > http://clay.ll.pl/repository/inkscape-0.38.1-paper_size_orientation.gz > > Hope you like it... > > > greets, > tomek > >

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Greetings [Small Changes - were to submit]
by bulia byak 03 May '04

03 May '04

>I have added a few behaviours to Inkscape (basically workflow speedups): >1) In SELECT mode double clicking on an object brings that object into >NODE_EDIT mode. >2) In NODE_EDIT mode double clicking on anything but a knot changes to >SELECT >MODE Fine with me. I think that makes sense. >3) Double clicking on a knot in NODE_EDIT mode deletes that knot. What's wrong with the current ctrl+click that does the same? >Behaviours I plan to add: >1) Double clicking on line segment between to knots adds a point where >clicked. I would prefer that to also be ctrl+click so that its meaning would be "toggle node on/off". However it's not too straightforward algorithmically. We have had plans to add this for a long time, but currently the plan is to switch the nodepaths to a new representation (being worked on by njh and fred) and then add some advanced functions such as adding node in arbitrary position and dragging a bezier by any point on the curve. If you can do any of this right now, of course, it would be great. >2) CTRL + SPACEBAR + DRAG OBJECT creates duplicate of object in new >location. >3) ALT + SPACEBAR + DRAG OBJECT creates a clone of object in new location. Why not just spacebar for copy (as now) and alt-spacebar for clone? >Anyway I was wondering how to submit the changes I have made. Please submit a patch to the tracker. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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