August 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

A bug when opening postscript files from Matlab
by Antoine Sirinelli 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

Hi, when I try to open postscript files from Matlab, I have some trouble with the text. The figure is fine but each text area is followed by a strange character : a little square. It appends for either traditional postscript files and Level 2 ones. The little squares are not visible if I print the figure (via lpr) or I visualize it (via gv). You can try with these two figures : http://monte-stello.com/~antoine/inkscape/bug.ps (Level 1) http://monte-stello.com/~antoine/inkscape/bug2.ps (Level 2) Antoine

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Message dialog
by Bob Jamison 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

You might have noticed the DebugDialog, which is found from the View/Messages... menuitem. It is a trivial text window, whose only current purpose is to catch g_log(), g_message(), g_warning(), etc messages, and print them in the GUI, instead of writing to the terminal. While Linux users might not consider this exciting, this will hopefully be a benefit to Win32 users. On Windows, that extra DOS console window popping up can be a terrible annoyance. So it is turned on by default on Win32, and can be turned on for other platforms by setting dialogs.debug redirect="1" Of course, if we control our log messages, this dialog will not see any usage at all. Hopefully, though, this can serve an alternate purpose as a text output for script engines. One thing I have noticed, is that Gtkmm and Glibmm might not be using glib to print their messages. This could be a problem. The same applies to other libs like Boehm-gc. I hope that we do not need to redirect stdout/stderr to catch this information also. If someone knows how to catch Glibmm messages, please let me know. Bob

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] randomized star
by bulia byak 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

> I was sure I'd want at least 36 (360 degrees) and > that I'd be happier to have 100, but I cannot imagine I'll ever need > as much as 1024. They do have their uses. Stars with hundreds of rays can give interesing texture effects, especially since we don't yet have blends. And randomization of such stars is even more interesting: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.40-CVS-linux-randomize.p… P.S. Bryce, could you please link the front page randomized stars announcement to this screenshot?

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wiki spam
by Bryce Harrington 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

banned "britney.bizrate.com" from posting to the wiki (more pureteenz hentai spam). Also added a filter in wiki.pl to block postings of that link. Bryce

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Re: Connection test file
by Peter Moulder 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

[Background for inkscape-devel readers: Ted found that when the connected-to object was a <rect>/SPRect, updates to the connector positions seemed to lag by one move. I found that <text> behaved similarly, but that no other elements had that problem. I also found that if the connected-to object was in a group, then moving the group doesn't emit a `transformed' signal. In the case of clones (SPUse), it's unclear whether the clone should move in parallel with the move of the containing group. As a user I'd have expected the clone to move, but if I think about the SVG representation then the current behaviour makes sense, in that having the clone move in parallel with group moves would involve changing the transform on the clone.] Ted's rectangle test case now works. Text also now works, but not through any work of mine. (I'd guess because someone recently made sp_text_set_transform essentially a no-op.) I haven't yet addressed the case of connecting to something that's inside a group (that the other object isn't in). > It might be interesting if you posted these observations [about why > <text> and <rect> had the problem and no other shapes] to the list -- > I'd be curious if there was a good reason for this. In the case of SPRect, the problem was that its bbox is calculated from its SPShape information, but sp_rect_set_transform modified only the SPRect-specific data, it didn't call sp_rect_set_shape to update the SPShape data. The fix options were either - Provide an SPRect-specific bbox method rather than inheriting SPShape's implementation. - Add a call to sp_rect_set_shape from sp_rect_set_transform. I decided to do the latter, in case there were any other users of the SPShape information that would otherwise lag. pjrm.

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how to stop wiki spam:
by bulia byak 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

2 ideas: - allow only registered users to post external links - make it possible to lock and old page so it's still there but not editable anymore How difficult is this?

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grids, spacing and zoom
by Robert Crosbie 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Using 0.39 stock. I noticed that if I show grid and scroll up through grid spacings, the grid will sometimes visually jump to a smaller size. Same thing with increasing the zoom. likewise with decreasing the spacing and zooming in but the grid spacing will jump to a larger size. I was trying to come up with a repearable process for displaying this, but it seems that paper size, zoom level and grid spacing are all dependent on each other to reproduce it. Check out this image and the difference between a grid spacing of 5 and 6 mm. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie/ink_grid.png Is there a relationship between the grid display and the zoom level? Shouldn't the grid be set in relation to the document/paper? Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ Don't just Search. Find! http://search.sympatico.msn.ca/default.aspx The new MSN Search! Check it out!

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[Fwd: Re: Multiple Pages in SVG 1.2 + Hyperlinking]
by Jon Phillips 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

Here is the reply from the SVG list on multiple pages. Please post any thoughts on multple pages in Inkscape to this list. Jon -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Craig Northway <craign@...512...> > To: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...>, www-svg@...157... > Subject: Re: Multiple Pages in SVG 1.2 + Hyperlinking > Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:49:16 +1000 > > Jon Phillips wrote: > > >I'm trying to figure out how to implement Multiple Pages in Inkscape > >(www.inkscape.org), and wonder if there is a good way to allow for > >hyperlinking between pages, and thus to make pages individual documents > >that can be linked together by a master docuent using the current > >syntax, > > > ><pageSet> > > <page> > >  > > </page> > > > > <page orientation="90"> > >  > > </page> > > > > <page> > >  > > </page> > > </pageSet> > > > >If the above <page>...</page> could be: > > > ><page xlink:href="page3.svg" /> > > > >or > > > ><page xlink:href="fallCatalog.svg#page3" /> > > > >That would be brilliant for implementation, as SVG files with multiple > >pages would become huge. Also, by having multiple pages as multiple > >files, this could allow for easier reusability between > >documents/presentations/animations/slide shows. > > > >Comments or feedback? > > > >Jon > > > > > > Jon, > > Why can't you just do this > > <page> > <use xlink:href="somefile.svg#page3/> > </page> > <page> > <use xlink:href="someotherfile.svg#page4/> > </page> > > Where in somefile.svg/someotherfile.svg there is something like: > > <g id = "page3"> > ... > </g> > > or > > <svg id ="page3"> > ... > </svg> > > It seems to me that you suggestion is fairly redundant, or have I > misunderstood? > > It's also intended that paginated documents, particularly large ones, > should have streamedContents (section 9.2 1.2 in the current > specification) set to "discard" to facilitate implementations destroying > data from the previous page after rendering. So the size of the document > won't be as much of an issue for the renderer, providing content > generators take heed of this suggestion. > > Craig -- Jon Phillips USA.PH.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu/) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu/)

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Inkscape Status 8/15/2004
by Bryce Harrington 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

We've hit the hundred mark both for the devel and user mailing lists. Welcome, new people! :-) Bryce Statistics Nov 15 May 15 Jun 15 Jul 15 Aug 1 Aug 15 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 1028 928 845 844 774 (68.5%) (92.7%) (93.4%) (94.0%) (94.0%) (94.6%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 36 41 33 17 53 (99.6%) (99.8%) (99.8%) (99.8%) (99.9%) (99.7%) Total SF Page Views * 475,000 616,263 741,681 838,154 900,566 Total SF Downloads * 27,400 34,015 39,359 44,068 47,278 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 * 7,333 7,946 9,034 9,382 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 74 87 93 112 114 Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 189,116 280,263 264,418 273,381 276,437 Code lines 147,471 210,119 192,240 199,473 200,684 Comment line 16,757 40,620 41,926 42,411 43,558 Blank 25,886 34,677 35,422 36,717 37,425 Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 4,544 15,170 15,217 16,117 16,358 Lines of content in website: 1,173 6,008 6,372 6,784 6,953 7,106 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 18,638 17,176 17,854 19,096 19,665 Minutes since last ChangeLog mod: 360 * * 54 30 * Bugs open/total: 9/15 57/365 63/401 73/496 103/548 110/568 Features open/total: 18/18 183/238 210/285 242/331 253/347 266/361 Patches open/total: 1/ 6 4/ 83 5/ 88 8/110 6/117 5/120 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 3391 5549 6314 6,528 6,822 Inkscape-devel membership: 49 78 84 95 98 104 Inkscape-announce membership: 9 43 53 60 65 74 Inkscape-user membership: 71 76 90 98 109 Num Translations : 32 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 40.5% 43.8% 44.9% * - Statistics unavailable

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Two patches waiting in Bug Tracker
by Dominic Battre 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

Hi. Can one of the gurus have a look and comment on the patches I have uploaded for these bugs? [ 995588 ] zero-length line with stroke:black problem http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=995588&group_id=93… [ 995582 ] newline inside of a <text> element is not stripped http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=995582&group_id=93… Dominic

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