July 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Using imagemagick or graphicmagick as importer
by Tuukka Pasanen 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Hi, I've been playing around about idea to provide support for Image/Graphicsmagick in inkscape. So we could import 88 Vector- and Imageformats used (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/formats.html or http://www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html) but i been wondering should it been done like ill2svg or something deep cutting in inkscape code? Problem is that SVG output of programs isn't so good it should be. So what do you think? is this just a stupid idea? Tuukka ps. ImageMagick provides C++ bindings.. i think graphicmagick does also;)

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Request for Adobe Illustrator files
by Tuukka Pasanen 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Hi, Sorry about cross-posting.. but if anyone got AI files laying around (And have screenshot but it not must) that he/she could send me it/them to test ill2svg.pl. One could do it by Email (straight to me) or send URL to file (if file is bigger than 2M). I promise to use them only for testing ill2svg.pl script.. you can also create such documents if you have Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator. Thanks, Tuukka

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0.39 Release
by Bryce Harrington 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Bulia has announced and finalized the 0.39 release, and Ted has established the release branch. What this means: * Packagers, please download the tarball and begin making packages * We will put out an announcement within a few days, once we've got some key packages up there. * We are in Release Phase. You can commit to CVS HEAD openly, but try to limit work to bug fixing for a couple days, just in case. * Users, please download and try out the packages as soon as they're ready. Let the packagers know of successful / unsuccessful installs. Congrats everyone! Bryce

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no wimp please
by bulia byak 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

0.39 is up on SF. Whoever will be doing the windows package, please do not include gtk-wimp. The reason is that it gives me a lot of warnings about missing MS Sans Serif fonts. All these warnings flood the console window which therefore always jumps to the top and makes the program almost unusable. This is on windows 98. Normal builds without gtk-wimp work OK. I mentioned this on jabber but just want to reiterate. It's a nice thing but needs more testing before we can use it.

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Linux Format Magazine has an article on Inkscape
by Alan Horkan 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Linux Format Magazine has an article on Inkscape http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ It has a strange lead in, I think they must have a regular section for the Gimp or something because of the way it is presented in relation to the Gimp. I only very quickly skim read the article (I'm not currently gainfully employed and have only pennies to my name) but it seemed favourable overall. I noted in particular that he found the user interface to be friendly. He mentions the Boolean operators and quotes one of the developers as having said that in the last while 'inkscape has improved 100%' (or suchlike). The article was written by Michael J. Hammel who appears to also be the author of "Essential Gimp for Web Professionals" and owner of the site http://graphics-muse.com/ and this page http://freshmeat.net/~mjhammel/ (his connections to the Gimp would explain the odd context of the Inkscape article). Perhaps someone might contact him and encourage him to write more about Inkscape. (Recommend some topics and I might try my hand at writing an article about Inkscape if I had a place to start). Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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OSX Compiling howto
by Kees Cook 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

If you need to run "./autogen.sh": fink install automake1.8 autoconf2.5 Otherwise: fink install \ intltool \ glib2 glib2-dev glib2-shlibs \ gtk+2 gtk+2-shlibs gtk+2-dev \ libpng3 libpng3-shlibs \ libtool14 libtool14-shlibs \ libpng-shlibs \ libsigc++12 libsigc++12-shlibs \ popt popt-shlibs export CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include export LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib # Run ./autogen.sh here if things break below... ./configure --prefix=/sw echo "#define ENABLE_NLS" >> config.h make make install -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Adobe SVG Viewer 1.0 problems
by Alan Horkan 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

I had a problem getting _any_ of the SVG files from OpenClipart.org to display and thought I had stumbled on to a huge problem. Much later I realised that problem only effects Adobe SVG Viewer version 1.0 and updating to Adobe SVG Viewer version 3 made the problem seem to go away. After a lot of trial and error I was able to get the documents to display by removing the non-essential parameters from the opening <svg> tag Sample from OpenClipart.org Balloon_01.svg: <svg id="svg548" sodipodi:version="0.32" width="400pt" height="400pt" sodipodi:docbase="/home/nicu/svg_gal/happy/" sodipodi:docname="/home/nicu/svg_gal/happy/baloon1_01.svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> After even more trial and error I was able to narrow it down to just this line, the removal of which allows the file to display correctly: xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" it can also be fixed by changing it to xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" Which looks to me more likely to be strictly valid and correct and I hope is the actual fix. Could someone please tell me if it is correct so because having gone to all the trouble of figuring out exactly what the problem was I'd like to finally submit a patch of my own to Inkscape (and then get back to poking holes in the Standard SVG). Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Italian translation
by unknown＠example.com 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Hi! I'm a "new" user of inkscape and I saw that the italian translation is not complete, there many words/expressions that aren't translated. I would to translate... But, what have I to do?? Is the first time that I work on a project and I'm not a programmer :-)) Let me know, Sergej Ps: greetings from italy Pps: forgive my english! __________________________________________________________________ Tiscali ADSL Senza Canone, paga solo quello che consumi! Non perdere la promozione valida fino al 19 luglio. Per te gratis il modem in comodato e l'attivazione. In piu' navighi a soli 1,5 euro l'ora per i primi tre mesi. Cosa aspetti? Attivala subito! http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/prodotti/640Kbps/

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export issues on windows - Bug 990349
by John Cliff 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Hi folks, Bulia got me looking into ai import yesterday, and led me to realise that the import/export stuff seems pretty broke here on win. the import/open dialogs dont show anything but svg and bitmap formats, and the save as lists 3 formats which dont seem to work (svgz, ai, and epsi) The real problem is the latter as they still appear in the file type selector, and give all the right indications of having worked, but dont actually create any files. So you can think you've saved something when you havent. Saving to one of them then closing the doc causes my inkscape to crash. If anyone out there can confirm this on a windows box, I'd appreciate it. If we can confirm this isn't my box then I think we need to do something about it before cutting 0.39. Easiest is to simply add some lines to makefile.mingw to delete the extensions which are broke on windows so they dont get installed when you do make dist. This would eliminate the appearing to work while not really, and the crash bug. Cheers John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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inset path destroys clones.
by Christophe Combelles 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Hello, I don't know whether it is a bug : - create an object (say, a square) - clone it with Alt-D - move the clone to see both objects - select the first original object - apply an "inset" or "outset" on it --> the clone disappears. with 0.39 pre4 on debian sid regards Christophe Combelles PS : please note I'm not subscribed to the list.

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