August 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Update French translation
by Frederic Rodrigo 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hi, I have updated the French translation. Thank to the helpfull Peter Moulder Fred.

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svgs2pdf?
by Bryce Harrington 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

It occurred to me that for presentation purposes, it would be very handy to be able to generate one PDF file from a set of SVG's. Anyone know of a mechanism for doing this? Bryce

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Weirdness with new fileopen dialogue and gdb
by Carl Hetherington 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hi, I've just been trying current CVS with gdb, and I find that starting inkscape under gdb and then choosing File->Open results in Program received signal SIG32, Real-time event 32. 0x40c772e1 in sigpending () from /lib/libc.so.6 #0 0x40c772e1 in sigpending () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x40c773a7 in sigsuspend () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x40131258 in pthread_getconcurrency () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #3 0x40130ac5 in pthread_create () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #4 0x4109ab41 in ?? () from /usr/lib/./libgthread-2.0.so.0 #5 0x08b09bd8 in ?? () #6 0xbfffd600 in ?? () #7 0x40b6de80 in g_static_private_free () from /usr/lib/./libglib-2.0.so.0 #8 0x40b6e0ec in g_thread_create_full () from /usr/lib/./libglib-2.0.so.0 #9 0x41081ef6 in link_thread_io_context () from /usr/lib/./libORBit-2.so.0 #10 0x41081961 in link_exec_command () from /usr/lib/./libORBit-2.so.0 #11 0x41081fe5 in link_set_io_thread () from /usr/lib/./libORBit-2.so.0 #12 0x4107c6a5 in ORBit_ObjectAdaptor_set_thread_hintv () from /usr/lib/./libORBit-2.so.0 #13 0x411843a3 in bonobo_poa_get_threadedv () from /usr/lib/./libbonobo-2.so.0 #14 0x41184506 in bonobo_poa_get_threaded () from /usr/lib/./libbonobo-2.so.0 ... Does this happen for anyone else, or is it a quirk of my system? Thanks Carl

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compiling inkscape
by Martin Wiebusch 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hi, I would like to contribute to the inkscape development, but I have problems compiling the cvs checkout. I got the checkout with the command cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@...54...:/cvsroot/inkscape co inkscape running the autogen.sh script gives the following output > 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 2.2.3) > checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... yes (version 0.31.1) > > Running aclocal-1.7 ... > Running autoheader ... > Running automake-1.7 --add-missing ... > configure.in:25: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found > Please fix the error conditions and try again. The file ltmain.sh is nowhere to be found among the downloaded files. What am I doing wrong? Martin.

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Coordinates in SVG file do not match display.
by Dave Cole 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Sorry if this has been reported before, but since sourceforge do not allow the public to search their mail archives, or google to index their archive I have no way to check... I have been using the most excellent Inkscape to draw some simple graphics that I then load into the Gnome canvas - I am using my own (simplistic) Python code to parse the SVG via sax, and end up loading all of the coordinates into CanvasBpath shapes. The problem I have is that the coordinates bear little relationship to those inside Inkscape. It appears that Inkscape is internally doing an invisible translate and scale to make the paths appear on the page. This is befuddling not only me, but my code as well. I end up with with coordinates in paths that are off the page while clearly the entire document is on the page (inside Inkscape). Note also that I always ungroup all objects whenever I scale or translate in Inkscape to avoid the creation of a transform attribute. Should there be some way to get Inkscape to "normalise" object coordinates so that they match the size of the document? After all, the is what is being displayed. - Dave -- http://www.object-craft.com.au

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new document template
by bulia byak 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

* The new empty document created when you launch Inkscape or use File > New is now based on a template instead of being hard-coded into the program. If you want your new documents to have different initial zoom, window size, page border, metadata, etc., just save a document with the desired settings (it may contain some objects, too) as default.svg in your share/templates directory (typically /usr/local/inkscape/share/templates on Linux, $INKSCAPE_DIR\share\templates on Windows). Later I will make File > New a submenu listing all svg files in templates dir, so that one can have more than one template and choose among them (Ctrl+N will always run default.svg). Now, Mental, you can add a default layer into the default.svg, to get layers going.

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API churn
by MenTaLguY 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

Just a heads up that I'm dropping quite a bit of new code on the tree tonight; I've been rewriting more code to take advantage of the garbage collector, and in the process I ended up gutting and rewriting the GC wrapper API. To summarize real quickly: Inkscape::GC::Object<> -> Inkscape::GC::Managed<> Inkscape::GC::FinalizedObject<> -> Inkscape::GC::Finalized Inkscape::Refcounted -> Inkscape::GC::Anchored Inkscape::Refcounted::claim() -> Inkscape::GC::anchor() Inkscape::Refcounted::release() -> Inkscape::GC::release() One important change is that the three GC classes no longer inherit from one another. So you will need to derive from Managed<>, and then also from Finalized or Anchored if you require features added by either one of those classes. -mental

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[thimo@...153...: Bug#261848: inkscape: segfaults on startup (Alpha)]
by Wolfram Quester 21 Aug '04

21 Aug '04

Hi alltogether, I received the attached bug report for the debian package of inkscape, ver 0.39. Can someone comment on this? I ask here berfore I submit it to the tracker because I'm not sure if it's my package or inkscape. The other bug referenced in the report is available at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=187196 With best regards, Wolfi ----- Forwarded message from Thimo Neubauer <thimo_at_debian_dot_org> ----- X-Original-To: wolfi@...33... Subject: Bug#261848: inkscape: segfaults on startup (Alpha) Reply-To: Thimo Neubauer <thimo_at_debian_dot_org>, 261848@...499... Resent-From: Thimo Neubauer <thimo_at_debian_dot_org> Original-Sender: Thimo Neubauer <thimo@...500...> Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@...501... Resent-Cc: Wolfram Quester <wolfi@...111...> Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:33:01 UTC Resent-Message-ID: <handler.261848.B.109102783927786@...499...> X-Debian-PR-Message: report 261848 X-Debian-PR-Package: inkscape X-Debian-PR-Keywords: From: Thimo Neubauer <thimo_at_debian_dot_org> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@...499...> Resent-Sender: Debian BTS <debbugs@...499...> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de Package: inkscape Version: 0.39-1 Severity: important Even before showing the first window inkscape runs into a segfault. This is the backtrace: riff /home/thimo> gdb inkscape GNU gdb 6.1-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "alpha-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/debug/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/bin/inkscape [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 16384 (LWP 11392)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 11392)] 0x0000020000a3cba8 in g_type_is_a (type=540847136, iface_type=4835814432) at gtype.c:2730 2730 gtype.c: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden. in gtype.c (gdb) bt #0 0x0000020000a3cba8 in g_type_is_a (type=540847136, iface_type=4835814432) at gtype.c:2730 #1 0x0000000120095a34 in sp_object_repr_build_tree () #2 0x0000000120050690 in SPDocument::collectOrphans () #3 0x0000000120050e98 in sp_document_new () #4 0x0000000120054efc in sp_file_new () #5 0x000000012004f078 in sp_main_gui () #6 0x000000012004ed50 in main () (gdb) It seems a bit like #187196 but all my other Gnome-programs work fine. Additionally, the inkscape package from testing (0.38.1-4) starts without problem but runs into another segfault on exit, but also inside libgobject-2.0.so.0. I can't really tell if it's inkscape or glib but at least the different behaviours of the inkscape versions seem to suggest that inkscape at least takes part in the problem. If my assumption is wrong, feel free to reassign the bug :) Tell me if you need more information. Cheers Thimo -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: alpha Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-1-generic Locale: LANG=de_DE@...502..., LC_CTYPE=de_DE@...502... Versions of packages inkscape depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6.1 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-3 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.4-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.0-4 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-6 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-1 Type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxml2 2.6.11-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information ----- End forwarded message -----

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Linux Format UK Article
by Plinnell 21 Aug '04

21 Aug '04

Hi all, I wanted to let you know the Sept issue Linux Format UK has published a very nice review of Linux drawing applications, as well as a short tutorial for both Inkscape and Scribus. Inkscape 0.38 got 8/10 overall and tied with OO draw to top honors. Overall a very positive review. Ease of use got 9/10. Many of the comments on missing features are already in 0.39 or are on the 0.40 roadmap. Summing up, they said: "The future of Inkscape looks bright, especially if planned cooperation with Scribus and the GIMP comes to fruition, which would finally realise the concept of a full-spec graphics suite to Linux....The crucial omissions are support for PDF and EPS formats, though getting around this is not too onerous with a little help from Scribus." If it is available locally it might be worth getting. Enjoy, Peter

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Fwd: [Inkscape-devel] randomized stars
by bulia byak 21 Aug '04

21 Aug '04

> I don't see that we need this custom RNG thing. Storing the generated > random number with the star gives us portability and more. What is non-portable about this simple formula? Depending on a system-provided RNG, on the other hand, may result in different rendering on different platforms or lib versions. > For example, the seed can be controlled independently of tip position, > allowing smoother variation of the output function and easier to get > back to "that one half a second ago" without needing exceptional mouse > stability: can use a "lower-geared" widget (less rapidly changing as a > function of mouse position) or keyboard. This seems to require some extra UI, and I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. > Much less importantly: I'd guess that there can be consistency problems > with using tip position to seed the RNG, due to different floating point > behaviour on different machines (and even with different compiler or > compiler flags). When computing the unique int, the coordinates are rounded to approx 1/1000 of px, which is likely to protect it from rounding errors of any kind.

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