July 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Thoughts about Patterns
by cedric 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Hi everybody, Working on the Edit Menu part of the Manual (done but in french only, english version on CVS before end of July), i've made different tests on clone and patterns. These are great functionnalities. One may find pattern samples in the joined file. May be it could be incorporated as a library (the same way markers did). I leave it to our great developers. But, if alloweded, some things appeared to be difficult for me : - first of all : when creating many patterns, it is hard to remember the creation order, so that i've been 'confused' in the fillsettings dialog. Because there is no preview of the pattern in the dropdown menu, one may wish to name the pattern without using XML editor (some don't like coding!! or don't understand SVG at all) : may be the best could be to make a dialog appear to enter a name just after using the Edit/tile command. - second : The original object is set to rect filled with the pattern. It is OK, but often, i don't need it anymore in the drawing. It could be hidden. - third : (and it is not due to pattern filling i think but) but when a pattern is not used anymore, it is automatically cleared from defs. But should I always really want to remove it ? The autoClean functionnality is very good, but we may find rules about its use. I will now be working on a Symbol (clone) Library. I'll see from Sodipodi, I guess they've done may things this way since few months. Thanks a lot. Cedric

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Compiling libGC with c++ support
by Steven P. Ulrick 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Hello, Everyone :) While attempting to update Inkscape from CVS, I discovered the new dependency on libgc. I eventually found what I think is the right package: libGC-0.3-1.tar After untarring it, I ran ./configure --help, and I found nothing about how to compile libgc with c++ support. I proceeded to read README and INSTALL in the libGC directory, and I found nothing helpful. I then checked the Inkscape news groups, where I found references to the new libgc dependency, references to compiling with c++ support, but nothing about HOW to compile with c++ support. My next step was to subscribe to this list and ask this question :) I am running Fedora Core 2 with all official updates installed. This is a full installation, not an upgrade, and I chose to install EVERY package. Also, the prefix that I am attempting to compile libgc for is the same one that I am compiling Inkscape for: /usr If I've left anything out, please let me know, and I'll be glad to provide that information. For your information, I had been successfully compiling Inkscape on this system up till and including my last attempt preceding the addition of the libgc dependency. Oooops, almost forgot the error message I get when I attempt to configure Inkscape. I got the exact same message before and after my attempts at installing libgc: checking for GC_malloc in -lgc... no configure: error: libgc (the Boehm Conservative Collector), built with C++ support, is needed to compile inkscape In conclusion, my installation of libGC appeared to succeed, but since I didn't know how to build it with C++ support, I got the error message quoted above. Anyway, let me know if you need any more information on this. Steven P. Ulrick

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To outline?
by Karl Ove Hufthammer 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

I've looked, but couldn't find where the message 'Select some paths to outline.' is used in the UI. The translators comment says that '"to outline" means "to convert stroke to path"'. Isn't this the same as the 'Convert stroke to path' command? The reason I'm asking is that I'm wondering what words to use in my translation. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer

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Two small errors in 'Basic' tutorial
by Karl Ove Hufthammer 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

I'm currently translating the 'Basic' tutorial, and found two small errors: One place it says: The commands to open dialogs are all in the Dialogs menu [...] There are no such menu (anymore). And near the top it talks about the 'Help | Keys and mouse' menu-item, but the rest of the menu-items are written with a '>', e.g. 'File > New'. It should be changed to be consistent. (Personally I prefer a '|' everywhere. But perhaps there are style guidelines for this in GNOME?) -- Karl Ove Hufthammer

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New language
by Arpad Biro 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hi, A new translation file, nn.po has been committed. I also modified (inserted the "nn" language ID) configure.in and po/Makefile.mingw. Please let me know if something else needs to be done. Arpad Biro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Article mentioning Inkscape
by Bob Jamison 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

I noticed another mention of Inkscape here: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/214206 Bob

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heartfelt thanks for creating inkscape (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:38:55 -0400 From: Phil Shapiro <pshapiro@...467...> To: <bryce@...1...> Subject: heartfelt thanks for creating inkscape thanks a megabyte for your visionary work in creating inkscape. i discovered this amazing software last week and have been talking it up on various national email lists i'm on. (see below a message i sent this evening to the list of Community Technology Centers' Network - CTCNet), one of the largest nonprofit organizations working to bridge the digital divide.) CTCNet's annual conference is going to be in cleveland in june, 2005, in case you (or any of the othe inkscape developers) might be in the area at that time. it's likely more than 1000 technology access activists will be attending this conference. stephen quinn is the wonderful person organizing this conference. squinn@...468... thanks again. you've inspired many by creating inkscape and your creation will unleash a river of artistic creativity by many who cannot afford a commercial vector drawing program. - phil shapiro arlington, virginia ----- Forwarded message from Phil Shapiro <pshapiro@...467...> ----- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:33:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Phil Shapiro <pshapiro@...467...> Reply-To: Phil Shapiro <pshapiro@...467...> Subject: [CTC] become known for teaching open source graphics software To: "" <ctcmembers@...468...> hi everyone - is your organization doing cool things with low-cost or no-cost graphics drawing software, such as http://www.inkscape.org? if so, one way to get public visibility for your pioneering work is to create some tutorials or articles for the graphics section of about.com. see http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/nosearch/blucsubmit.htm for example, tap into the creative talents of youth or adults at your center to create some beautiful art using inkscape. then use camtasia studio 2 (for windows) to create some narrated flash tutorials explaining how others can use the drawing tools in inkscape to create their own drawings. in these tutorials explain both the technical use of the drawing tools and explain artistic tips and techniques. people will be very grateful to learn both kinds of knowledge. create these tutorials in english and spanish, but also in vietnamese, amharic and korean. place these tutorials on the web and link to them from your organization's web site. submit them to the about.com graphics web site. after about.com accepts your submission (they probably will if has merit), send out a press release that your organization is helping to teach the world how to use open source drawing software. is there a journalist who would find it interesting to write a story that explains how the youths and adults at a nonprofit organization are creating knowledge to help unleash creativity and empowerment for people worldwide using no-cost software that anyone can use on donated computers? yes, i think there is. would a television station find it easy to do a news story where there is readily available, beautiful graphics that is an integral part of a story of community members teaching each other things? yes, it would. - phil what kind of art can you create with vector drawing programs? this gallery shows some nice examples. http://www.eazydraw.com/gallery.htm macromedia flash. adobe illustrator and macromedia freehand are all vector drawing programs, too. for extra credit points, organize a community event at a community meeting place (outside of your own site) where a no-cost workshop explains how to use a no-cost drawing programs. an appropriate title for such an event would be: "drawing the community together." would local civic leaders take notice of such a workshop? yes, they would. -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro@...467... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog) http://guitarlessons.blogspot.com/ (guitar lessons) "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@...468... with the message: unsubscribe ctcmembers youremailaddresshere ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro@...467... http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog) http://guitarlessons.blogspot.com/ (guitar lessons) "Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Navigating on the canvas and other things
by bulia byak 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

> >> It's crutial that it zooms in, right where the cursor points! > > > > Sure. I just don't have a wheel mouse otherwise I would have fixed > > this long ago. > > How do you survive? Tablet + pen :) Actually, the funny thing is that I did put in the code for mousewheel to zoom into cursor point, and I have no idea why it does not work. It's very simple, see the sp_desktop_zoom_relative_keep_point() call in src/event-context.cpp line 517. The same function works OK for zooming by middle-click (see line 380), it does zoom into cursor point. Maybe the event->scroll.x/y fields are bogus for a wheel event. If someone can have a look at it for me that would be nice.

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[Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Can`t build inkscape from cvs]
by MenTaLguY 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

-----Forwarded Message----- From: Makurin Roman <koshka_enott@...473...> To: Inkscape User List <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Inkscape-user] Can`t build inkscape from cvs Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:52:52 +0400 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I can`t build inkscape from cvs on my gentoo box. Here my configuration: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/gcc-3.3.4-r1 sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040619 x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.4 dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.4.3 Any advice ? - -- Registered Linux User: 355904 ICQ: 105266647 JID: drolyk@...189... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBtzHufAZCWBpz4kRAqo8AJ9/6GYlf2mdKYWB3PA71PZWyxlu3QCeN9N1 h0sO2HO7knxDOz5YdyRowNg= =hn1s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Make fails - freetype problem?
by MenTaLguY 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 07:21, John Mellor wrote: > Well, thanks for that, but does anyone know how to fix it? Am I the only > one with this problem, and if so why? I uninstalled my freetype2 and > installed the latest - 2.1.9 - from source and the error is the same. > Do I need an older freetype2 or what? For now, probably. I'm using version 2.1.5. IIRC, the fix, basically, is to include <ft2build.h> before any other freetype headers ... however, I am not sure whether that will break the build with older freetype versions. :/ -mental

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