June 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

0.39 Release?
by Bryce Harrington 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

How do people feel about timeframes for doing a release? Also, looking at our current bug list, how much bug-fixing attention is needed? Bryce

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RE: [ inkscape-Bugs-973768 ] letterspacing broken
by bulia byak 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

>- at some point, 'apply' a text style from the dialog; in the course of >action, the >Name() function is called on the font_instance instance that's going to be >used >for the text. this function was unsetting the size field so that it doesn't >appear in >the font descr Good catch. I did not guess that Name was the culprit so tried to work around it instead. Meanwhile, I have now used pango_font_description_better_match() in font selector where it matches the style of the text with the list of fonts it has in the dialog. I assume this is what Pango also uses internally when selecting a font that matches a description, and therefore we won't have any more bugs like the one where the actual font of the selected object and the font highlighted in the list are different. However this is only a beginning: we have Pango fully working, but the way it works does not satisfy me. The font_describe function in particular is buggy: for example it returns "italic" for an "oblique" font and seems to completely disregard condensedness. In fact this kind of problems is what I expected from it, and now I want to bring back my "manual" fuzzy match mechanism and embed it into the new system because it worked quite satisfactorily before. Below is an outline; any comments are welcome. The main idea of my fuzzy matcher is its reliance on font names to fugure out font features. Yeah, this is ugly, but it's really the only sensible way. For many features, there are no bits in the font itself that we can query, or they are not present in all formats, or they are simply not set (most common). So the way we'll do font matching is basically by doing a lot of string parsing and comparisons. Here's what we'll need: - A new font_description struct (or class) that will hold the family name, the standard weight/style/stretch/variant bits, and the exact face name. The bits are filled in by parsing the face name, but the face name may contain more style descriptions (e.g. "Outline" or "Alternate" or "Swash Caps") that we need to store too. - Each font_instance will have a member font_description that is filled in when it's created. - The data in font_description is filled in from PangoFontFace which in turn is got from PangoFontFamily in FontFactory. That's the only place where we can get this information about a font installed in the sysrtem, because here we can call get_face_name on the face and parse it - we can't do that with a PangoFont, and font_describe is useless. - A function that creates a font_description from CSS style. Fills in all the bits and, possibly, sets the face name too from the -inkscape-face: extension CSS property which we will need if we really want to support arbitrary fonts beyond the limitations of CSS. (This may wait, but the infrastructure to support -inkscape-face: will be in place.) - A function that returns the best match font_instance from a FontMap and font_description. Does this by searching through all famililes and faces in the map and finding the best one, using all of the information in font_description including the one that Pango ignores. (This is more or les how the old nr_type_directory worked.) The last two functions will be used everywhere to get from a CSS style to font_instance, instead of the current Face(descr). That's how I see it at the moment. Comments welcome. _________________________________________________________________ Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers! http://youroffers.msn.com

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Installing Inkscape on a Win machine
by bulia byak 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

>The bug is not present in builds up to and including 0406131800. >It is present in builds 0406140200 and beyond. Yeah, that's useful, but by backtrace I actually mean a GDB backtrace as described here: http://inkscape.org/report_bugs.php However for this to work you'll need a build compiled with debug info. If you don't compile your builds I wonder if we can provide unstripped auto builds for windows? (ishmal? mrchapp?) _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail 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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19 Jun '04

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versions of tutorial-basic
by Arpad Biro 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Hi, Currently we have 2 different French translations of tutorial-basic.svg. I would like to ask those who speak French to compare them and tell us which one of those seems to be better. The versions are: Yves Guillou's version: http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/inkscape/inkscape/share/tutorials/tutorial-bas… Cedric Gemy's version: http://www.le-radar.com/mm/sodipodi/xml/tutorial-basic_fr.svg As you can see, currently Yves' version is in CVS. Cedric's letter on this subject: http://sf.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4523725&forum_id=36054 Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Installing Inkscape on a Win machine
by bulia byak 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

>Has anyone else experienced this crash? It has been present for several >days >now. I am using Win2000. I don't have a crash on this file in win98. If you could create a backtrace that would be really helpful. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Sigc++ and GtkMM
by Bob Jamison 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

While trying to compile a test class with GtkMM2.4, I noticed that configure.in tests for GtkMM2.4, but not for SigC++2.0, which is its dependency. I modified the test to allow both or neither. However, after noticing a lot of Sigc1.2-dependent code in our source, I commented the tests out altogether. Since GtkMM is still "new development", should be not go with 2.4, and avoid a later upgrade? Swallow the pill now, rather than later? Just wondering. :) Bob

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Installing Inkscape on a Win machine
by bulia byak 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

>I just tried opening the help/keys file using the June 15 build on win200 >and got the crash. I've also had some semi-random crashes working on my >own files. The June 4 build doesn't seem to have any of these problems. The bug is here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=973828&group_id=93… Please attach any relevant information there. _________________________________________________________________ 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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Installing Inkscape on a Win machine
by David Christian Berg 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Hi guys, since I'm working with Linux, I'll never have to personally, but inkscape has become my favorite graphics tool, and I need to share files with win users. Now since svg isn't supported that much, I thought, the easiest solution might be to just have the win users install inkscape... how hard is this? I mean including installing gtk. I hope this is real simple and you can point me at some howto. Also I wonder if there'll be work done on the ps export soon. Though I really am looking forward to pangoisation being finished, I really need a proper export of transparency for ps, to make pdfs for sharing, instead of pngs, since pngs are huge, for A3 or A4 posters since I need at least 300 dpi. Any chances, I will see something like that soon? David PS: The Scribus import filter isn't good enough for my posters... so using Scribus for export is ruled out. -- Otto von Bismarck once remarked: “A fool learns from his experience. A wise person learns from the experience of others.” If so, how to define President George W. Bush, who is not even able to learn from his own experience?

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behaviour
by Néstor Díaz Valencia 18 Jun '04

18 Jun '04

Hello everyone, I am having big slowdowns when editing and zooming an svg I create from zero, using inkscape 0.38. Moving the canvas is slow. Zooming in or out is really slow. Selecting nodes is very very slow, and it takes time for inkscape to reflect the changes. It has gradients with more than two stops. In a last editing also some elements or atributes has disappeared, lucky I saved a copy before further editing. It happened when I delete a colour from a 4 colours gradient. The three version I had has grown in size dramatically though i didn't add many elements more: lives.svg=13k lives2.svg=28,8k (this is the version that lost stuff) lives3.svg=48k Should you follow my case for bughunting or do you think it's been solved in the cvs version? just to let you know: Néstor ps: I can send the svgs.

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