September 2004 - Inkscape Devel

not a bug report
by Stevie J 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

Hi there, I've just recently downloaded the latest Windows build of Inkscape. I found it easy to install, easy to use, powerfull and it let me draw exactly what I wanted to easily and quickly. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone involved in the development, you guys done good!!!! :-) Cheers, Steve ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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--disable-gc
by MenTaLguY 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

I've introduced a --disable-gc ./configure option to aid in debugging. It disables the garbage collector completely and does not link the executable with libgc at all. note: The same heap corruption is still happening in this build, so this categorically rules out libgc as part of the problem. However, I am leaving --disable-gc in CVS as it is still helpful when debugging (it's not the default; you will have to specify it). Just be aware that a --disable-gc build will leak memory, since it is generally not freed. -mental

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Improvements in command-line PNG export
by bulia byak 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

* You can now specify the background opacity (--export-background-opacity or -y). * If no background color (-b) or background opacity (-y) specified, the values from the document (sodipodi:namedview) are used. * You can now export an area corresponding to a single object by specifying the ID of the object with the --export-id or -i switch, for example: inkscape -e mypath.png -i path966 mydoc.svg * When exporting with -i, you can add --export-use-hints or -t to tell Inkscape to use the filename and DPI export hints stored for that object when it was last exported from the GUI. For example, inkscape -i path966 -t mydoc.svg will export path966 to the PNG file with the same filename and resolution as you used for exporting it from wihtin Inkscape, so you don't need to specify them on the command line. These changes (see the man page for full details) allow you to easily script exporting parts from complex documents and to better integrate GUI editing with command-line use.

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default template
by Jon Phillips 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

I was just trying to design a default template and wonder if the best place for default templates is in our share folder, a folder (on my install by default that is installed here: /usr/local/share/inkscape and is owned by root:root with 755). Thus, only non-root user can put files into these folders like templates, tutorial, etc. I wonder if we are placing these files in the proper location. Should we not be installing them in the user's home preference folder: ~/.inkscape Even if we don't install all these files here, then we should definitely read for existence of these folders and files, and most importantly templates/default.svg from the user readable/writable preferenes folder. Do you all agree with me? Many users will not have root access, and that is bad for user preferences to be changed at that level. What if we had multiple users on a system, aka, a school that uses Inkscape. Then each user could not have their own preferences for default templates, etc. Jon -- Jon Phillips KOREA.PH.010.3140.7483 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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Trace dialog
by Bob Jamison 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

I started a small dialog that sets the parameters of tracing. All it does at the moment is set the brightness threshold for black&white conversion. Others controls will come later. You might try playing with it, using /share/clipart/tux.png. Bob

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Various publications about Inkscape.
by Jon Phillips 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

That is great...can you place these onto this page on the Inkscape wiki. We try to collect press! Thanks for finding these! http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ArticlesAndPresentations Also, Ted and others that have been presenting, please put up your presentations and where...MRDOCS...you presented haven't you? Jon On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 20:11, Gazal, Geraud (MED) wrote: > Hi all, > > www.linuxgraphic.org is a French web site dedicated to graphic creation > under linux (strange, isn't it ?). > * Yesterday it has published a small tutorial (in French) dedicated to > inkscape users (but applicable to any graphic creation app, I think) : how > to have a 'mirror effect'. Quite nice. I will ask the site if they are ok if > I translate this doc in English and then make it available from the inkscape > website. > The tutorial is there : > http://linuxgraphic.org/section2d/articles/miroir_Inkscape/index.html > * They've also announced the release of Open Clipart 0.06 on the main page. > > Linux+ (http://www.lpmagazine.org/en/modules/news/) European (Polish) > magazine translated and published in French, English, German, Spanish and > Czech has issued an article on Inkscape too. I have the French version. I'll > produce a sum up + translation in English on mailing list. > > > > Regards, > > Matiphas > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user -- Jon Phillips KOREA.PH.010.3140.7483 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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man page source?
by bulia byak 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

I want to update the man page. Which file to edit? Inkscape.pod seems much more editable, but inkscape.1.in is more recent in the CVS, as pjrm changed it directly: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/inkscape/inkscape/inkscape.1.in?rev=1… So, which one is the real source?

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TAGS broken
by bulia byak 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Generating tags does not work recently: inkscape/src $ make tags make: *** No rule to make target `refcounted.h', needed by `TAGS'. Stop. Can anyone please look into it? I need tags for editing but I don't know where to look.

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Delay on scripting support
by David Turner 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

Unfortunately, I've unexpectedly had to move house, so I haven't been able to get time to adding scripting support. I had hoped to get to it before now, but I haven't. I'm leaving the country in three days for a month, and I won't have access to a compiler. I'll be unsubscribing from this mailing list after I send this message. I hope that when I get back, my life will settle down a little and I'll be able to hack on Inkscape some more. Sorry for dropping the ball here. -- -David "Novalis" Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 <insert dark NIN lyrics here>

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Line reported to be longer than I expected
by bulia byak 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

> The line is reported to be 2mm longer than I expected (402mm), even > though it touches the bottom and top of the page perfectly, the page is > reported to be exactly 400mm high. Is this a bug or a feature? It's a bug. Lines' bboxes extend beyond line ends by the line width. This is because the bbox is now calculated simply by adding half the stroke width to all 4 sides of the without-stroke bbox, but in this case (for unclosed horizontal line) it should be added only to the top and bottom. It is a very difficult bug to fix because we currently have no code to reliably determine how far the stroke of a given shape extends, which may be affected not only by stroke width but also by (as in your case) shape orientation and closeness, join and cap types, and miter limit. Anyway, I think we don't yet have this in our bug tracker, so please submit it (with my comments).

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