September 2004 - Inkscape Devel

RE: [Inkscape-devel] critical bug in displaying
by Joshua A. Andler 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

I can confirm the painful slowness of zooming on it. Win32 .39 is what I tested in... (will test in that newest autobuild shortly) Anyway, it brings my system to it's knees... refreshing the doc isn't so bad, but when you zoom... man. -Josh -----Original Message----- From: inkscape-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Aewyn Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:11 AM To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] critical bug in displaying On Tuesday 14 September 2004 20:06, bulia byak wrote: > > As I wrote it was one 16x28cm rectangle with 0.5 point > > width, with dotted line (it is the first on the list). > > > > I think it is nothing extreme (so no 0.01 fine dotted) > > > > And yes, it is extremly slow. But now I realized, that > > zoom is very fast while the zoom <=100. Very very fast. > > But, when zoom is 101% it will be very very slow. > > Either something is wrong with your system, or we're > talking subjective. Can you devise a numerical measure of > this "very very slow" so I could reproduce it and > compare? On my system, it's quite fast. Not lightning > fast, but certainly good enough to not be annoying. One of this rectangle takes 2 seconds to draw. Ctrl+D four times, so 5 of this rectangles takes 10 seconds. I attach the svg. But this appears above 100% zoom. Bye, Aewyn

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Strange behaviour, not existing items
by Lucas Vieites 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

Hi, I'm taking a look at a drawing Kees Cook mentioned some months ago: http://www.wherearewe.co.nz/svg/world.svgz I was trying to clean it up a little and I found that when I ungroup some of the groups they split up in a group of 4 objects, when I ungroup that group I get one figure and 3 invisible objects. I tried to change the colours, but it doesnt affect them. When I click the "Adjust selection to window" button it zoom out very much so I only see the complete drawing very small. What are these "invisible" things? Thank you, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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Transforming and duplicating objects
by cedric 14 Sep '04

14 Sep '04

Hi, Being documenting the Transform Dialog, I just thought about few Illustrator and QuarkXpress interesting relative to tranformation : 1. Object duplication while resizing, moving or rotationg by using Alt-key. This key is already use but we may be able to use another (Ctrl+Alt). This is not necessary but can avoid few steps. Or when using a transform Dialog, the Ctrl+D shortcut allows to repeat the last one several times (very useful). 2. In the same maneer, QuarkXpress allows in its Duplicate & Move dialog to make copy of the selected object. Copy may take the Move parameters. In Inkscape this could be a field for numbers of copies+Copy Button placed in the Transform dialog. This is very great to get easily very regular-spaced objects, whatever they are. 4. I don't know why there is no "Constrain" checkbox in the Scale tab, because this options is available via keyboard when scaling with the mouse. 3. I don't really understand what does the "Relative" Checkbox. I did some tests but the result is the same in any cases. I don't know if it's planned, and if it's difficult, but most part for it seem to alrady exists. PS : News on User Manual (temporary on http://www.le-radar.com): File/Edition available in english (readers needed) Fichier/Edition/Vue/Objet disponible en français Thanks to Thiago working on pt_BR translation.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Freetype2/win32 conversion
by Bob Jamison 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Jon A. Cruz wrote: > Bob Jamison wrote: > >> It works! Please try downloading this version: >> >> (it was an error in FontFactory initializing the wrong font >> engine on Win32. Not FontInstance's fault) > > > > Hmmm... was it the kind of thing that might have been caught sooner if > variables/structs in question were set to initial values such as null? > > I would say that it was a subtle error, though after you notice it, it is obvious, like "why didn't I see that?" In FontFactory.cpp, there were #ifdef switches, like this: #ifdef WITH_XFT ...code... #endif #ifdef WIN32 ....code... #endif Its structure should have been like in FontInstance.cpp, #ifdef WITH_XFT ...code... #elif defined(WIN32) ...code... #endif ...since the definitions are not mutually exclusive. Thus the font server was being set to win32 in FontFactory, and FT2 was being called in FontInstance. Obvious -after- you see it. I'd say that this was 2/3 of the problem, and the wrong fontconfig DLL being called by Inkscape was the other 1/3. Bob

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Various publications about Inkscape.
by Bob Jamison 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

Felix Rabe wrote: > Bob Jamison wrote: > >> "gtkmmuebersetzung" ? >> "gtkmmkonversion" ? >> "das gtkmmtrickfensterumsetzung" ? > > > Very Simple (TM) ;) > GTKmmifikation > > - Felix > That is -too- easy. Isn't that how it is spelled in Kanada? :) Bob

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temporary about screen
by Andy Fitzsimon 13 Sep '04

13 Sep '04

G'day, Here's a new possibly temporary screen for the about page. I'll whip something nicer up closer to the release date .. any guess on when that is ? Have a great day - andyfitz ( brisgeek )

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word and letter spacing
by Aewyn 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hi, I promised, that will help you to solve the firing printing issues, but I have very much work now. I will, I think it is very important, but now is more improtant question: word and letter spacing (tracing) I think this is base. Without it there is no vector drawing suite. Anyone works on it? Is any technical issue, that balk it? If the answers are no, please help me providing any existing info about it. I would like cut this problem shortly. I can code just a little bit, but I will do anything to complete this. Sorry for harrassing you, but I start to work with inkscape, and it -unfortunately- is not an appropriate tool yet. I'd like to help you, I think there is no too many issues to be a very powerful tool. letter and word spacing are such issues. Thanks, Aewyn

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X11R6.8.0 Release Official Announcement (plain text) (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Leon Shiman <leon@...531...> To: xorg@...330... Subject: X11R6.8.0 Release Official Announcement (plain text) [the PDF version isn't readable on all readers it seems. here's plaintext] X.Org Foundation Announces X11R6.8 Release of the X Window System _________________________________________________________________ The X.Org Foundation Release Officially Introduces State of the Art Technologies to the X Window System Brookline MA, September 9, 2004 - The X.Org Foundation today announced the second release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in January of this year. The new X.Org release, called X Window System Version 11, Release 6.8 (X11R6.8) builds on the work of X.org X11R6.7 released in April. X11R6.8 combines the latest developments from many people and companies working with the X Window System and an open X.Org Foundation Release Team. The X Window System X11R6.8 release can be found at ftp://www.x.org/pub and at mirror-sites worldwide. About this Release: In response to user and application developer demand, X.Org's X11R6.8 brings forward widely anticipated fundamental facilities through this release. They include the first official X Window System Release support for: - Translucent windows - Window animation, window decorations like shadows - Support for accessibility applications - Support for 3D immersive user environments like Looking Glass(1) and Croquet(2) - Support for large scale display walls using DMX(3) These new facilities, some of which are still considered experimental, and so not enabled by default, have been under development for several years. Once completed and deployed, they will enable X Window System desktop projects, such as Gnome and KDE, to greatly extend their visual user interface vocabulary while still ensuring uncompromised support for existing applications, even surpassing current state of the art in competing window systems. These facilities will enable easy implementation of thumbnailing, screen magnifiers for accessibility, translucent windows, menus, drop shadows, and even integration of conventional applications into 3D immersive environments. They are the result of open collaboration within the freedesktop.org community, desktop projects, and the X Window System user and developer communities. For some illustrations visit http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/X11R68ScreenShots. Features also included in this release are updates and fixes to: FreeType2, Xprint, Xaw ( new PrintShell class), Mesa, DRI, driver rotation support, Render ( New Trapezoid Extension ), many driver updates, and a broad range of fixes and enhancements. About participation and membership in X.Org Membership in the X.Org foundation is free and open to all participants. Active participants in the further development of the X Window System are invited to visit: http://www.x.org/XOrg_Foundation_Membership.html to complete a membership application. Participation in the Foundation's Sponsor Group is also available to those who wish to financially support the activities of the X.Org Foundation. Current Sponsors include Hewlett Packard, IBM, ICS, Sun Microsystems, Shiman Associates, and WRQ. About the X.Org Foundation X.Org Foundation L.L.C. is a Delaware company organized to operate as a scientific charity under IRS code 501(c)(3), chartered to develop and execute effective strategies that provide worldwide stewardship of the X Window System technology and standards. The group is currently managed by its Board of Directors that includes: Stuart Anderson (Free Standards Group), Egbert Eich (Novell), Jim Gettys (HP), Stuart Kreitman (SUN Microsystems), Kevin Martin (Red Hat), Jim McQuillan (Linux Terminal Server Project), Keith Packard (HP), and Leon Shiman (Shiman Associates). The website for the X.Org Foundation can be found at http://www.x.org/. About The X Window System The X Window System provides the only common networked windowing environment bridging the heterogeneous platforms in today's computing. The X Window System is one of the most successful open-source, collaborative technologies developed to date and is the standard graphical window system for the Linux® and UNIX® operating systems. The inherent independence of the X Window System from the operating system, the network and the hardware, as well as its successful interoperability, have made it widely available and deployed with more than 30 million users worldwide. All major hardware vendors support the X Window System and many third parties provide technologies for integrating X Window System applications into the networked computer or personal computer environments including Microsoft Windows®, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS® X. Further, thousands of software developers provide X Window System applications, and with the continued growth of Linux and the emergence of Mac OS X, the number of users is growing rapidly. Community Response: "This release of the X.org server incorporates a number of extensions that were developed in consultation with experts in the field," said Bill Haneman, Sun Microsystems, GNOME Foundation board member and member of the FSG Accessibility Workgroup. "This new release removes a number of significant accessibility roadblocks and facilitates considerably improved support for onscreen magnifiers, screen readers, and other assistive technologies." "As one of the original founding members of the X Window System project, HP is pleased to be supporting the X.Org Foundation as a continued sponsor. With the second X.org Foundation release of the X Window System, we once again demonstrate the power of the open source development model to deliver true innovation and value to our customers," said Martin Fink, vice president of Linux, HP. "Open source takes a giant leap into the future with the new X Window System release and Croquet working together," said Alan Kay, Senior HP Fellow, HP Labs. "If anyone doubts the quality of 'Open Source' they only need look to this new release of X," said Peter Winston, President of leading UI development company Integrated Computer Systems (www.ICS.com) and member of X.org. With tens of millions of Linux and UNIX developers around the world relying on the X Window System, X.org has created a new version which users can depend upon and that addresses the new needs of a changing market. The additions of translucent windows and support for large scale display walls will be especially well received by our core customer base of developers building homeland defense applications." "LTSP relies heavily on the X Window System and we are inspired by the continuing development and community involvement that has gone into the latest X.org release." -- Jim McQuillan, LTSP project leader. "Novell welcomes the rapid progress of the X.Org Foundation. We are pleased to support the new release of X.Org in the next SUSE LINUX product offering, which will enable technology enthusiasts to benefit from the latest enhancements in Linux windowing technology, and we will continue to actively contribute to the project." -- Chris Schlaeger, VP R&D SUSE LINUX at Novell "Red Hat is proud to contribute to development of the X Window System technology and standards through continued involvement in and support of X.org's efforts. Red Hat plans to include the X11R6.8 release in the the open source Fedora Core project and upcoming releases of Red Hat Desktop." -- Havoc Pennington, desktop technical architect and engineering manager. "X11R6.8 contains essential features which provide the underlying foundation for the Project Looking Glass 3D window system, such as the Composite and Damage extensions. These timely and well implemented features have significantly accelerated our development effort." -- Deron Johnson, Sun Microsystems, Project Looking Glass. "As the former X.org chair, and current chair of the X.org Sponsor's Group, I'm very pleased to see the X.org Foundation produce the 6.8 release of X11, which includes contributions from many different groups, with different interests and goals, but with a common interest in and focus on advancing the X technology. I believe that as long as that common focus continues, this Foundation and their releases will be of great value to the broad community of X technology users." -- Steve Swales, Senior Manager, Platform Globalization Engineering; X.Org Sponsor Board Chairperson, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "R6.8 rocks! Now Qt/X11 can natively support almost everything developers have come to expect from our Windows and Mac OS X versions", says Matthias Ettrich, Director of Software Development at Trolltech, a cross-platform GUI tool vendor, "Kudos to the X.org team." Notes to editors: (1) Project Looking Glass: http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/ and https://lg3d.dev.java.net (2) Croquet Project: http://www.opencroquet.org/ (3) Distributed Multihead X Project: http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ (4) The Mesa 3D Graphics Library: http://www.mesa3d.org (5) Direct Rendering Infrastructure: http://dri.sourceforge.net/ (6) The Freetype Project: http://www.freetype.org (7) The Xprint Project: http://xprint.mozdev.org/ UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac OS is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other company names are trademarks of the registered owners. --------------- For questions, please contact: Leon Shiman, for The XOrg Foundation, at: Shiman Associates Inc (00)1.617.277.0087 leon@...532... _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@...330... http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

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src/render
by MenTaLguY 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

In case you were wondering about src/render -- this is the start of a really simple renderer I'm writing as a side project. No timetable, really; I just need to get it out of my system. Simplicity is the main goal -- it's probably not going to be fast or pretty, but it should work and may provide scaffolding for our future cairo support infrastructure. Right now there are a lot of livarot-isms in the rendering side of things: I think having a second renderer kicking around would help make things more general. Heck, if pluggable renderers come out of this, that would be pretty cool too. -mental

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Re : Various publications about Inkscape.
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Hi all, here is the sum up of the article I've read in Linux+ (French edition, Number 2, September/October 2004) Title : Inkscape, où vas-tu ? (Inkscape, where are you going ?) Author : unknown Sum-up : The article presents Inkscape as a drawing application, forked from Sodipodi (due to divergent goals and opinions about development-process) aiming at offering a free & SVG compliant software. The author points out that : Inkscape is undergoing a Gtkmm'ification' and that its development process is very open, allowing fast and efficient integration of new features (interface, booleans, autopackage) and in line with developers and users (even beginners) needs. He also notes that a clear Roadmap is identified. Open clipart is mentionned as a fast evoluting sister project. Apart from a few small mistakes (example Gtkmm'ification' is not finished) it provides a very positive feedback about the application If some of you can have an access to / afford buying another edition (English, German, Spanish, Polish...) it might be intersting to compare the different versions/translations I can scan and mail the French article to anyone asking for it. Regards, Matiphas PS : I've added a link about the linuxgraphix tutorial in the wiki. I can add this small review if you want.

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