May 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

RE: [Inkscape-devel] re: bitmap as patterns
by bulia byak 26 May '04

26 May '04

>Does it mean this could also be a beginning state to add clip and mask on >the >shapes and path, such as described at >http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/masking.html ? No, masks are an entirely different thing which we need to support. Here you just change a shape which has a bitmap pattern fill, though this may give results similar to masking for the bitmap. _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/

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Richard M. Stallman On Tuesday, June 8 will give a speech at Portland State University
by Bryce Harrington 25 May '04

25 May '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:34:08 -0700 From: Christine Moore <cem@...367...> Subject: Richard M. Stallman On Tuesday, June 8 will give a speech at Portland State University On Tuesday, June 8, Richard M. Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, will give a speech in Lincoln Performance Hall at Portland State University: "The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System." He will discuss the purpose, goals, philosophy, methods, status, and future prospects of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by an estimated 17 to 20 million users world wide. There will be a question-and-answer session afterwards. The event begins at 7:00 PM, and will last approximately three hours. Lincoln Hall is located on the Portland State University Campus in Portland at the corner of Broadway and Market Streets. Feel free to let your friends and acquaintances know about this. Please do not RSVP to this. ------- End of Blind-Carbon-Copy

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Fw: Re: [Passepartout] PPT + Inkscape
by Bluefuture 25 May '04

25 May '04

--------- Original Message -------- Da: passepartout@...273... To: \"passepartout@...273...\" <passepartout@...273...> Cc: \"Dylan VanHerpen\" <dvanherpen@...210...> Oggetto: Re: [Passepartout] PPT + Inkscape Data: 23/05/04 22:32 Dylan VanHerpen <dvanherpen@...210...> writes: > Fredrik, Hey, I\'m just half the development team :-) > I\'m impressed with the functionality already present in Passepartout, > and anxiously waiting for the next update. Like others, I\'d like SVG > support, truetype font support and better type handling. TrueType support is being worked on. Type handling? > I\'ve also been using Inkscape, which already is very useable for > single page layouts (especially when the Pango conversion is > completed with the next release). It seems to me that Inkscape and > PPT complement each other rather well. > What would you think about combining the strengths of both efforts, and > developing PPT as a layout module for Inkscape? Inkscape seems to be > further along in terms of font handling (Pango), vector graphics and > object layering (with alpha-blending). Combining the two would make for > a kick-ass DTP solution with a great universal document format. Collaboration with Inkscape has been suggested before and it certainly makes a lot of sense, though I don\'t think merging the programs is a good idea. Inkscape seems to have a very nice version of the gnome canvas, more capable than the vanilla version, which I\'m not even sure has a maintainer. I don\'t know if Pango has much to do with the font support in Inkscape. Inkscape can convert fonts to Beziér curves. I don\'t think it could do that without reading the font files. We\'d like to know how it manages to find out what font files correspond to which fonts in X. We haven\'t been in touch with any of the Inkscape devs though. -- Fredrik Arnerup <e97_far@...270...> http://www.stacken.kth.se/~foo/

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] error with compiling current snapshot :-(
by bulia byak 25 May '04

25 May '04

I get the same error. Fred, please fix as it's in your file. >libinkpre.a(sp-typeset-utils.o)(.text+0x2862): In function >`pango_text_chunker::pango_text_chunker[not-in-charge](text_with_info*, >char*, double, int)': >/home/artemio/Documents/build/inkscape-20040524/src/sp-typeset-utils.cpp:857: >undefined reference to `pango_ft2_font_map_new' >libinkpre.a(sp-typeset-utils.o)(.text+0x2903): In function >`pango_text_chunker::pango_text_chunker[in-charge](text_with_info*, char*, >double, int)': >/home/artemio/Documents/build/inkscape-20040524/src/sp-typeset-utils.cpp:857: >undefined reference to `pango_ft2_font_map_new' >libinkpre.a(sp-typeset-utils.o)(.text+0x3d71): In function >`pango_text_chunker::SetTextWithAttrs(text_with_info*, int)': >/home/artemio/Documents/build/inkscape-20040524/src/sp-typeset-utils.cpp:1200: >undefined reference to `pango_ft2_font_map_create_context' _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium 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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error with compiling current snapshot :-(
by Artemio 25 May '04

25 May '04

g++ -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -o inkscape --export-dynamic main.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libinkpre.a dialogs/libspdialogs.a xml/libspxml.a svg/libspsvg.a widgets/libspwidgets.a display/libspdisplay.a helper/libspchelp.a libnrtype/libnrtype.a libnr/libnr.a livarot/libvarot.a extension/libextension.a extension/implementation/libimplementation.a extension/internal/libinternal.a inkjar/libinkjar.a libinkpost.a /usr/lib/libxml2.so -lpthread /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.0.so /usr/lib/libatkmm-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libpangomm-1.0.so /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.0.so /usr/lib/libsigc-1.2.so /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so -lm /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lpng /usr/lib/libpopt.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXft -lX11 -lXrender /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz libinkpre.a(sp-typeset-utils.o)(.text+0x2862): In function `pango_text_chunker::pango_text_chunker[not-in-charge](text_with_info*, char*, double, int)': /home/artemio/Documents/build/inkscape-20040524/src/sp-typeset-utils.cpp:857: undefined reference to `pango_ft2_font_map_new' libinkpre.a(sp-typeset-utils.o)(.text+0x2903): In function `pango_text_chunker::pango_text_chunker[in-charge](text_with_info*, char*, double, int)': /home/artemio/Documents/build/inkscape-20040524/src/sp-typeset-utils.cpp:857: undefined reference to `pango_ft2_font_map_new' libinkpre.a(sp-typeset-utils.o)(.text+0x3d71): In function `pango_text_chunker::SetTextWithAttrs(text_with_info*, int)': /home/artemio/Documents/build/inkscape-20040524/src/sp-typeset-utils.cpp:1200: undefined reference to `pango_ft2_font_map_create_context' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/artemio/Documents/build/inkscape-20040524/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/artemio/Documents/build/inkscape-20040524' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- Artemio.net ::: world's official Artemio resource ::: http://artemio.net [local time 21:23:55 (GMT +3) 25 May 2004] [system uptime 1 hr 32 min]

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fw: Re: [Passepartout] PPT + Inkscape
by bulia byak 25 May '04

25 May '04

>> Collaboration with Inkscape has been suggested before and it >> certainly makes a lot of sense, though I don't think merging the >> programs is a good idea. >> >Would you like to share your reasons why not? One reason is that we must stay within SVG, which does not have very good text support. So a DTP app can hardly be embedded into Inkscape. The other way round (embedding SVG into a DTP format and thus Inkscape into a DTP app) seems more feasible. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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FASD project: Online survey launched
by unknown＠example.com 25 May '04

25 May '04

Dear Open Source developer I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate. You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it. With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development. With many thanks for your participation, Benno Luthiger PS: The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/. We have set up the mailing list fasd@...363... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list. _______________________________________________________________________ Benno Luthiger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 8092 Zurich Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch _______________________________________________________________________

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usability stuff
by bulia byak 24 May '04

24 May '04

* The per-object selection cues can now be displayed in any tool, so that you can see what is selected at all times. You can switch these cues on or off for each tool in the Preferences dialog (the default is on for all tools). Also, the cues can now be displayed either as dashed bounding boxes or as diamond marks in the object's top left corner. * The dropper tool now works always (previously it only worked in conjunction with the Fill and Stroke dialog). Click to set the fill color of selection, Shift+click to set the stroke color. Also, dropper can pick either the visible color (without transparency) or the actual object color (including transparency), depending on a preference setting. It also displays the color under cursor in the status bar. Feedback welcome. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Linux "DCO"
by Bryce Harrington 24 May '04

24 May '04

At work we just had an informal presentation about the new "Developer's Certificate of Origin (DCO)" that Linus is adopting for Linux (see http://osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2004/2004_05_24_beaverton.html). Basically, what I took from this was that the reason for this is because the Linux development process includes integration of patches submitted by various developers that are integrated by "lieutenants". In this process, the identity of the contributor can be lost if the lieutenant just takes the code into their own patchset. Interestingly, this wasn't driven by the SCO lawsuit - apparently it's been on Linus' todo list for the past year but hadn't bubbled up to the top until now. I had wondered if it had something to do with OSDL, but it turns out it doesn't; Linus just wanted OSDL to 'lightening rod' questions from reporters, and OSDL has offered to help with some kind of bk tool for databasing the contributor info, but that's still in the abstract at this point. This process may be useful for other projects if they have a similar development model to Linux. Being able to trace the origin of all code contributions can be critical if the project ever runs into legal questions at some point. For Inkscape, though, I think our processes are already sufficient. Because we use the patch tracker for externally contributed patches, we have a Sourceforge ID associated with each patch; we have cvs history for all direct contributors. Up 'til now we've allowed non-logged in patch submissions, however for traceability purposes I've disabled this. Our processes for updating Changelog, AUTHORS, and the release notes, also ensure that pretty much all non-trivial changes get documented. I know we sometimes get patches to the mailing list or to individuals; it would probably be wise to adopt the practice of encouraging these individuals to submit it to the patch tracker -- otherwise make doubly sure to record their name and email in the patch tracker and/or Changelog. Disabling the anonymous patch submission will also ensure we always have the ability to re-contact the patch submitter for questions or whatever, which I think is a benefit in and of itself, but if anyone has concerns about this, lemme know. Most of the anonymous submissions so far have been translations (mainly the Catalan and Japanese translations.) Bryce

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Re: [OSNews-Crew] Article about Inkscape (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 24 May '04

24 May '04

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 19:44:41 -0700 From: Eugenia Loli-Queru <eugenia@...358...> To: osnews-crew@...358... Cc: bryce@...260... Subject: Re: [OSNews-Crew] Article about Inkscape Thanks Bryce, it will go live in 1,5 weeks (I will be on holidays this wek). The article's format looks great. thx, Eugenia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...260...> To: <osnews-crew@...358...> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 2:43 PM Subject: [OSNews-Crew] Article about Inkscape > Hi, > > There have been a few mentions of Inkscape recently on OSS sites like > LWN (in a review of diagramming tools for Linux), and on the OSNews site > (in an interview of KDE and Gnome artists), but to date there haven't > been articles about Inkscape itself. > > I'm submitting the enclosed article for your consideration to publish on > OSNews. In addition to giving an intro into Inkscape itself, it takes > the reader through the process of how a new feature is added to a > project like Inkscape, to give some insights into the mechanisms of Open > Source. > > Bryce > > P.S., a few months after this goes live on OSNews, we would like to also > post this at the Inkscape site for historical/informational purposes.

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