WEBFORM live bookmarks / rss
by pbhj
Message from Inkscape submission form
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name: pbhj
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submitted the following:
RSS feed, great!
No <link> in page header makes it v.hard for Firefox users to add a livemark though.
<link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" title=\"inkscape news\" href=\"/inkscape.rss\" />
Cheers
pbhj
16 years, 10 months
Inkscape 0.43 mini-status
by Jon A. Cruz
I *believe* that we're in hard freeze and about set to do a Pre1.
Translators should look into the file attached to RFE 1247694 "No
((parenthesis)) in menu labels.", and see if it should be applied or
not.
I think we've got a pending item still with Scislac updating the
Calligraphy tutorial.
There are a few translation patches that still need to be applied. I
should be able to get to those tonight.
17 years, 4 months
Useful info for potential Mac users
by William Swanson
Hi,
I have a few friends who use Macs, and the X11 requirement seems to be a
real tripping point for them when installing Inkscape. One friend figured it
out and wrote up the following instructions:
"If you are running later than OS X Tiger 10.4 you will need to download the
X11 software from Apple at
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11formacosx.html. Or, if you already
have OS X Tiger, you will need to insert your OS Disc #1 and run a Spotlight
search in the CD for "X11User.pkg". Once you find and install that file,
start another search for "X11SDK.pkg" and install that. Once you have both
of those installed (with the OS Disc inside your drive), take out the disc,
run the inkscape.dmg install file, and X11 will pop up. It might take a
minute or two the first time you try, but it will load."
I am not a Mac user, so I can't evaluate these directions myself. Perhaps
someone using a Mac could verify them and put them on the website where
folks downloading the .dmg will see it. Making this information more readily
to Mac users should reduce the "I can't get Inkscape to work" troubles they
seem to have.
-s_tec
17 years, 4 months
patch: crash on layer delete
by Ralf Stephan
Hello,
regarding the recent 'crash on layer delete' I propose
a patch that at least handles the simple case of that bug.
As this is not my field, I'd ask you to review it.
The idea is to setCurrentLayer() after the layer is deleted,
and not before. setCurrentLayer() emits the layerChanged signal
which is listened to by the layer selector widget.
ralf
--- verbs.cpp~ 2005-10-31 10:03:13.000000000 +0100
+++ verbs.cpp 2005-10-31 12:18:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -1123,11 +1123,11 @@
if (!survivor) {
survivor = Inkscape::previous_layer(dt->currentRoot(), old_layer);
}
+ old_layer->deleteObject();
+ sp_object_unref(old_layer, NULL);
if (survivor) {
dt->setCurrentLayer(survivor);
}
- old_layer->deleteObject();
- sp_object_unref(old_layer, NULL);
sp_document_done(SP_DT_DOCUMENT(dt));
17 years, 4 months
Re: [Clipart] clipartbrowser 0.41
by Greg Steffensen
Ok, the clipartbrowser cvs module is now synched up again with the latest
tarballs, and the cannonical download location for releases is now
http://www.python.org/pypi/clipartbrowser
(it used to be on Berlios). If you download a release (they work better than
ever :), install using "python setup.py install" (assuming you have the
dependencies met). The "easy_install" method mentioned earlier works too.
Greg
On 9/20/05, Greg Steffensen <greg.steffensen@...400...> wrote:
>
> I didn't explain the technical situtation with the install method very
> well. Basically, if I write a file "setup.py" that defines certain
> information, users should be able to execute "python setup.py install" to
> install the program correctly, and I should be able to execute commands
> "python setup.py bdist_win" to create actual win32 EXE files containing
> pretty automated installer GUIs. In addition, users will be able to install
> the way I described in the release email as well. In general, setup.pyuses the "setuptools" which are the successor to the "distutils", which is
> the distribution/installation tools included with python. I'm still not
> certain whether I should use the setuptools or the older distutils, and am
> figuring stuff like that out, but they're both supposed to be the
> python-friendly replacement for Makefiles, and I'm trying to reorganize the
> code to do stuff the "correct" way.
>
> Greg
>
> On 9/20/05, Greg Steffensen <greg.steffensen@...400...> wrote:
> >
> > Hey, yeah, this is kinda what I was referring when I said that the
> > packaging isn't as polished as it needs to be. For what its worth, most of
> > the changes (bug fixes, performance improvements) actually are committed to
> > CVS; I just didn't commit commit the change in the install method simply
> > because I was having trouble figuring out how to get files like COPYING,
> > NEWS, etc. included using that method, and I didn't want to put a totally
> > messed up version into CVS. Basically, I actually really released more on a
> > whim, not because I'd worked everything out, but because I'd gone too long
> > without releasing code, wanted people to know that work was ongoing. So, at
> > a minimum, I should have indicated that this was definitely a development
> > release.
> >
> > So, solutions... in terms of where formal releases (formal tarballs)
> > should go, I actually think the python package index is definitely the
> > correct place... its now the "official" place where the python folk
> > reccomend that python projects be listed, and it will offer a number of
> > technical advantages, including publication of new releases, and
> > installation automation. I'm very happy keeping CVS at Inkscape though (not
> > that PyPI offers CVS anyway), and treating the code as a subproject of
> > Inkscape. But as long as it offers the ability to be installed standalone as
> > well, I'd like to make standalone tarballs available from PyPI. In general,
> > I'm learning more about python, and am trying to make my practices for
> > installation, etc. match accepted practice.
> >
> > I'll try to get CVS synched up with the current state of the project
> > very soon; I'm still having some trouble with the python installation tools,
> > and have sent an email to their mailing list for advice, but haven't heard
> > back yet. Once I know how to get the documentation files included, and where
> > to put the main install file (setup.py), I'll get that committed and CVS
> > will contain the official version of the code gain. Again, I would have
> > waited until this was done to release, but just felt bad about having gone
> > too long without releasing already, and was overeager to get something out.
> >
> > Anyway, does this cover the stuff you were concerned about? If not, let
> > me know. Also, you may recall that someone posted a link to a mockup for a
> > very similar project that they'd found, and I replied that this was "very
> > depressing" :). I used that mockup to develop version 0.4, and emailed
> > the designer (as the community suggested); he's finally written me back, and
> > said he's interested in contributing, which rocks. Later,
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On 9/19/05, Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> wrote:
> > >
> > > <offlist />
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 05:20 -0400, Greg Steffensen wrote:
> > > > I'm releasing another version of the clip art browser. Lots of bug
> > > > fixes, some performance improvements, code cleanups, and a new
> > > > installation procedure (yes, yet another).
> > > >
> > > > Installation is now 3 steps, and hopefully easier than ever:
> > > >
> > > > 1) Satisfy the dependencies of Python 2.4 and PyGTK 2.6.
> > > >
> > > > 2) Download and run the following script, which installs the python
> > > > setuptools:
> > > >
> > > > http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
> > > >
> > > > 3) Run "easy_install clipartbrowser"
> > > >
> > > > As you can see, I've switched the installation system from Makefiles
> > >
> > > > to the python setuptools. The setuptools are still under development
> > > > (they're apparently going to be included in python 2.5), and I'm
> > > still
> > > > very much learning how to use them, so the packaging isn't as
> > > polished
> > > > as it needs to be, but this makes installation a breeze. Eventually,
> > > > it should allow arbitrary python dependencies to be intelligently
> > > > installed as well using the same process.
> > > >
> > > > I'm still working on getting this integrated back into the Inkscape
> > > > effects menu, that's next on the list. As always, feedback greatly
> > > > appreciated.
> > > >
> > > Greg,
> > >
> > > I thought we were going to do the next release from Inkscape CVS? What
> > > you have done is a non-standard release of the project now that we
> > > consolidated the code into Inkscape.
> > >
> > > Also, you have now used a non-standard approach to packaging which
> > > then
> > > again breaks what users and developers are use to.
> > >
> > > The major thing though is that we were going to do a solid release
> > > which
> > > means you need to involve the people who would contribute to this in
> > > the
> > > release to help smooth out the bugs.
> > >
> > > Instead, now you have released from another location thus confusing
> > > users and developers more. The problem with this is that it is not
> > > pro-community.
> > >
> > > Anyhow, I'm curious what you think and also want to get these things
> > > on
> > > track with the community.
> > >
> > > It is so great that you are rocking these changes and I'm so proud of
> > > what you are doing so I don't want to dismay you, but really I think
> > > the
> > > next release has to be really on track with the community and we
> > > should
> > > coordinate it, push it out through the sourceforge system we have in
> > > place, and push the press release globally.
> > >
> > > Without these procedures, honestly, it is not very likely that others
> > > will help on development nor use your work.
> > >
> > > So, lets talk some more and sort these things out.
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jon Phillips
> > >
> > > San Francisco, CA
> > > USA PH 510.499.0894
> > > jon@...235...
> > > http://www.rejon.org
> > >
> > > MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto
> > > Jabber Chat: rejon@...896...
> > > IRC: rejon@...897...
> > >
> > > Inkscape (http://inkscape.org)
> > > Open Clip Art Library ( www.openclipart.org<http://www.openclipart.org>
> > > )
> > >
> > >
> >
>
17 years, 4 months
a couple of "effects"
by unknown＠example.com
Yesterday at Bryce's prompting I wrote a little effect that makes the
selected objects a <marker /> in the <defs /> of the current document.
Inkscape doesn't really seem to deal well with this but there is some
code there to work with if anyone has ideas on how it could be used. I
think Bryce made some modifications to his copy as well. Because there
is a lack of interactivity you must position the connection point of the
marker at (0,0). And there are likely a few other nuances I haven't
thought of yet.
http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/inx/makemarker.tar.gz
I also wrote a python script that embeds images in SVG because I didn't
feel comfortable editing the perl script. It functions as an effect and
can be called from the effects menu. If objects are selected it will
only replace the images in the selection, otherwise it should replace
the images in the entire document (although in retrospect I didn't test
that, oops). Hopefully this effect will be obsolete soon and we can have
"embed all" in a menu and "embed" in the images' context menu.
http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/inx/embedimage.tar.gz
Aaron Spike
17 years, 4 months
Additional info regarding Inkscape CVS compile error
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello, Everyone
For the past few days, I had been getting error messages like this when
running "make" on Inkscape from CVS:
file=./`echo it | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
&& rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file it.po
it.po:1989: message catalog has plural form translations...
it.po:10: ...but header entry lacks a "plural=EXPRESSION" attribute
it.po:1989: message catalog has plural form translations...
it.po:10: ...but header entry lacks a "nplurals=INTEGER" attribute
make[2]: *** [it.gmo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/steve/CVS/Assorted-CVS-Modules/inkscape/po' make[1]: ***
[all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/steve/CVS/Assorted-CVS-Modules/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2
For a while, I tried going back to old revisions of the *.po file that
"make" seemed to choke on. Sometimes I would get the same error, but
on a different *.po file. In each different error message, the numbers
next to the name of the *.po file that was compiling when "make"
crashed was different.
Here is a new error message. Now "make" is choking on sr.po. I
haven't seen it bomb on that one before:
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/steve/CVS/Assorted-CVS-Modules/inkscape/po'
file=./`echo sr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
&& rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file sr.po
sr.po:3224: format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr' for argument 1 are not the same
sr.po:4774: format specifications in 'msgid' and 'msgstr[0]' for argument 1 are not the same
/usr/bin/msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
make[2]: *** [sr.gmo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/steve/CVS/Assorted-CVS-Modules/inkscape/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/steve/CVS/Assorted-CVS-Modules/inkscape'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Further, I noticed the following in the output for "configure":
Running aclocal-1.7 ...
Running autoheader ...
Running libtoolize --copy --force ...
Running automake-1.7 --add-missing ...
Running autoconf ...
Running glib-gettextize --copy --force ...
Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Running intltoolize --copy --force --automake ...
patching file po/Makefile.in.in
Hunk #4 FAILED at 95.
Hunk #5 succeeded at 194 (offset 15 lines).
1 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file po/Makefile.in.in.rej
This is the error that I posted that I referred to in the response to
Erik's "What is happening?" message. I have reported this to the list,
but no one apparently has seen it yet, or has knowledge about the
possible cause.
So that you can get all of the information that I have sent to the list
about this problem, here is a link to my original thread in the
archives:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8808340&forum_id=3...
As always, if you need any more information, let me know.
Oh yeah, I said it elsewhere, but I am attempting to compile this on
Fedora Core 3.
Steven P. Ulrick
17 years, 4 months
0.43 status as at Oct12
by Peter Moulder
SPDesktop now looks in good shape, which is good as that initially
looked like the major show stopper. (Fixes thanks to rwst with some GC
work from mental.)
Inkboard
--------
A couple of people have reported either difficulty in connecting: bryce
made a bug report, and sciboy today mentioned similar problems -- see
17:52 and previous at http://inkscape.gristle.org/2005-10-11.txt.
sciboy says that it works if connecting to gristle.org, but that none of
jabber.org, jabber.com, or jabber.org.au work.
Later that day, Michael & sciboy did get a connection. Issues:
- Lots of output on the terminal, should be turned off for general use
before release.
(If these messages are still useful to developers, then wrap the
status messages in a macro or function that does nothing in the main
version but that interested developers can "switch on".)
I wouldn't want to release with these status messages: e.g. because
they mask real errors that we'd want to be reported.
- Michael & sciboy's session got out of sync somehow: at some point
sciboy cleared everything but a star was left on michael's session.
Not a show-stopper: this was the only thing we were aware of being
out of sync.
- Undo is global, i.e. it often undoes what the other person did
rather than what the undoer did. This is a usability problem, but
changing this is non-trivial, so I don't consider this a
show-stopper.
Btw, Michael was using MacOS X, so it seems that libloudmouth works
acceptably there (as well as on Linux/Gnu). I gather Windows still
doesn't work acceptably well, due to threading differences.
sciboy did experience a segfault later in his session with Michael
(18:47 in the gristle log), though he didn't have a backtrace at the
time. My feeling is that if the crash is specific to inkboard then we
not consider it a show-stopper, but just make a note of it in the
release notes.
Connectors
----------
Progress has been made. The bug tracker no longer has any connector
bugs marked with priority >= 8. We still have some strange behaviour.
Michael comments: "The only known connector crash now is the one bryce
reported, which I believe is fixed but he hasn't yet confirmed. I used
to be able to reproduce it, but after fixing some other problems I now
longer can. Once this sp_use_update fix is in that Bulia and I were
just discussing (give me 20 minutes), then I think it's releasable. The
other bugs are related to overlapping objects and are things I need to
rework in libavoid after the release. The one remaining thing I'd like
to look at if it's easy is the slowdown moving endpoints with the xml
editor open."
menus.xml localization
----------------------
In principle fixed (there's one huge menus-skeleton.h string to be
translated), but in practice none of the translations has been updated.
It would be nice if we went back to smaller strings to facilitate
keeping the translations up-to-date (and so that we could re-use the
existing translations).
Personally I'm still inclined to treat this as a show-stopper,
particularly as it looks easy enough to fix.
Other
-----
Sorting bug tracker items
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306) by
decreasing priority shows the following marked at priority 9:
- a text-anchor regression (cyreve, can you comment?);
- the corrupted about.svg problem I posted on just now;
- a bunch of windows-specific bugs that I haven't looked at: I'll leave
these for our Windows devs to decide on;
- "unexpected printout size", where we're wrongly converting to
postscript at 90px/inch or 72px/inch rather than 120px/inch.
Personally I wouldn't let this one hold up the release.
pjrm.
17 years, 4 months
Problem compiling Inkscape from CVS
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello, Everyone
For the past few days, I have been having problems compiling Inkscape
from CVS. First, the error involved pt_BR.po. Now, it is choking on
it.po (other than that, it's the same error):
file=./`echo it | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
&& rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file it.po
it.po:1989: message catalog has plural form translations...
it.po:10: ...but header entry lacks a "plural=EXPRESSION" attribute
it.po:1989: message catalog has plural form translations...
it.po:10: ...but header entry lacks a "nplurals=INTEGER" attribute
make[2]: *** [it.gmo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/steve/CVS/Assorted-CVS-Modules/inkscape/po' make[1]: ***
[all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/steve/CVS/Assorted-CVS-Modules/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2
I have tried a few fresh downloads of Inkscape from CVS, but "make"
crashes on all of them with the same error.
I am running Fedora Core 3, fully updated. When I installed, I
installed EVERY package, so there should be no issues with missing
devel packages.
One other thing: up until recently, I have had no problems compiling
Inkscape from CVS on this computer.
If you need more info from me, let me know, and I will be glad to help.
Steven P. Ulrick
17 years, 5 months
