December 2005 - Inkscape Devel

Newbie Q: Compile Error
by Chris Share 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hi, I'm new to Inkscape. I'd like to compile the program on Windows. I've followed the instructions on the website however I'm getting the following error: $ make -f Makefile.mingw copy config.h.mingw config.h make: copy: Command not found make: *** [config.h] Error 127 Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Cheers, Chris

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The calendar contest on deviantART
by Joshua A. Andler 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

I propose we give a crazy extension to it or put it on hold. My thought is that we can aim for the calendar to be ready for the middle of '06. We could then make it an 18-month calendar that will go through the end of '07. Doing this will give everyone time to work on new pieces and refine older ones. We'll also get better quality entries and hopefully people will get other great features to work with in the interim as well. I don't think that just extending it for a shorter period of time will do anyone any good. If we're going to associate Inkscape with any fund raising merchandise, we should aspire to give people their moneys worth. Any thoughts? -Josh

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inkboard on OS X?
by MenTaLguY 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hey, dumb question. I know the Jabber library we're using isn't portable to Windows, but does it work on OS X? -mental

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Community support for creating PDF Export/Import feature
by Bryce Harrington 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Brandon Sanders when he visited OSDL about a conference he's organizing. He's also a long time Inkscape user and fan. Brandon's also involved in IBESI, an org that helps ordinary people create and run R&D projects. He's been looking for good guinea pigs. It struck me that this could be one way to meet our PDF export/import needs. It seems to fit Brandon's model very well. The community needs this feature badly, and users may be willing to fund development if there's a solid plan and concensus. Anyway, to keep this email short, I'm going to gloss over a lot of details and just post the link: http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingConsensusPoll PLEASE, if you are interested in Inkscape PDF, do this: 1. Go to the above page 2. Vote "NO" (since there's no proposal yet) Once we get 20 people participating, we can move to the next step (see the page for details). Bryce

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Volunteers needed, was Re: [Inkscape-devel] SVG Filters
by bulia byak 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

On 12/10/05, Edward Flick <eddy@...690...> wrote: > Hello everybody, > I haven't said anything in a while, and I have a quick question. I was > looking into implementing SVG Filters several months ago, when you guys > said I might want to wait until Inkscape got Cairoized. Well, so I > fell out of touch for a while, and now I'm just wondering where > Inkscape's Cairoification is at. I love inkscape and one of the only > shortcomings that I continously run into is the inability to create real > soft drop shadows, halos, embosses, and other raster effects. So are we > almost cairoized, or do we already have plans for imlementing SVG filters? Cairoization has seen no progress so far, in part because cairo turned out to be very slow, even slower than we are at the moment. Also we all wait for Xara renderer sources to open, with the hope to borrow some of it to Inkscape and/or to Cairo. I completely sympathize with your plea for blurring. I'm in desperate need for it too. Moreover I think that the gaussian blur filter will be THE most important feature added to Inkscape during its existence. It will at once trancend the limits of a "vector editor". I even looked into the possibility of enabling blurring in our renderer. This seems doable. I didn't move on with that, in part because of the unclear prospects of our renderer and whether it will be replaced by anything. However apart from renderer, filter support needs a lot of new code at the SVG level. And this is what we can start doing now, it won't be lost in any case. We'll need to add an SPFilter object and make it implement the SVG specification for the svg:filter element, and we also need CSS support for specifying filters. This is all pretty straightforward - a lot of the logic can be borrowed from SPGradient which has a similar mode of operation. I hereby call for volunteers for the SPFilter task. You won't see immediate result from this yet, but it's a good task for novices who want to learn a large and important part of the codebase. (For one thing, you are unlikely to break anything by adding it :) If and when the SVG/CSS support is ready, I will probably be tempted to add a quick and dirty blur support to the renderer, no matter whether it's going to be replaced later or not. So - any takers? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Save and Open as .ZINK (was zip with images)
by Pim Snel 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hi, I enhanced the first extension, which was able to save a zip archive with svg and images, with an extra extension which is able to read the archive instantly. I changed the zip-extention to .zink which is of course a combination of Zip and Inkscape. The output extension creates a zip and makes all image hrefs relative. The input extension does the reverse: it unpackes the zip and before printing the doc to stout it replaces all image hrefs with the exact path of the temp dir. The svg in the archive is named content.svg so its easy to open. Of course a file with metadata can be packed be also, but I wanted quick results and I don't really know what to store in such a manifest because everything is said in the svg. It works rather smooth. You won't notice that this is not the native file format. You can open a .zink make changes and click CTRL-S so it save the .zink-file again. Please download and test it on different platforms. http://facility.lingewoud.nl/hacks/inkscape_save_and_open_as_zink/ You can also download the example .zink which you must be able to open after installing the extensions. Hope you like it. Pim -- Lingewoud B.V. | Tel. +31 418 663963 Maasdijk 4 | Fax. +31 418 663053 5328 BG Rossum | pim@...982... The Netherlands | www.lingewoud.com

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inkscape-devel님, 1:1 전화영어 시범강의 및 영어 메일 서비스 신청 안내 드립니다.
by 이인구 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

온라인코리아의 2005년 12월 9일자 Happymail입니다 위에 있는 [Happymail 입장하기] 버튼을 클릭하시면 팝송과 영어유머등의 내용을 보실 수 있습니다. inkscape-devel님 안녕하세요? 전화를 이용해서 강사와 1 : 1 로 외국어 학습을 할 수 있는 Online Korea 어학원 이라고 합니다. 저희 회사에서는 외국어(영어,일어) 능력 향상을 위해 매일(월-금), 영어유머와 생활에 필요한 회화, 그리고 팝송과 영어뉴스 등을 무료로 보내 드리고 있어요. 이와 같은 내용의 서비스를 받아보기 원하시면 ≪ olk3@...1102... ≫로 "yes"라는 제목의 메일을 회신하여 주시기 바랍니다. 그리고, 저희 전화 외국어 강의에 관심있는 분들을 위해, 무료 시범강의를 청강하실 수 있도록 하고 있으니 무료 시범강의를 원하시면 아래의 시범강의 신청하기를 클릭하신 후 신청 폼을 작성하셔서 보내 주시면 담당 강사께서 inkscape-devel님이 원하시는 시간에 전화하여 무료 시범강의를 진행하여 드리겠습니다. [1:1 전화영어 무료시범강의 신청하기] 이 내용이 불필요한 정보였다면 정말 죄송하게 생각하며 정중히 사과 말씀을 드립니다. 감사합니다. 발송자 : 온라인코리아(이인구) 사업자 번호 : 214-04-35713 TEL : 02-588-0048 주 소 : 서울시 서초구 서초동 1355-8 E-mail : olk3@...1102... ▣ 본 메일의 수신을 원치 않으시는 분들은 【수신거부】를 하여 주십시요. ▣ 온라인코리아에 대해 궁금하신 분은 【Q&A】를 이용해주십시오. ▣ 언제나 행복을 전하는 Online Korea가 되겠습니다.

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NEW: Translatable .inx files
by Ted Gould 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Okay, I figured out the intltool magic, and the user viewable strings in the .inx files should be placed inside the .po files. I can't figure out how to make my Inkscape run in a different language, so I can't test to make sure that they show up translated. But, I believe that they do. The strings definitely show up in the .po files. -- Translators -- If someone could go through their translation and make sure that all the GUI is translatable. I think this was the large set of strings that couldn't be translated. As far as I'm aware the entire interface should be translatable. -- Extension Authors -- The inx files now support having an underscore in front of anything user viewable. So an attribute like "description" now also supports "_description". I've changed all the ones in CVS. --Ted PS - I'm really behind on the list, if you expected a reply from me on something, I hope I'll get to that today. Sorry.

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opening EPS, PS and SK files on Ubuntu Breezy (may work on other distros)
by Mathieu Dimanche 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

As asked on the Jabber Conference Room and IRC channel, it seems some people (and I was one of them too) can't open EPS files in Inkscape. I realised that the *.eps option didn't even show up in the masking filetypes during File/open. So I tried to find why and found what to do in order to make this work. Some (All) of these steps can be easily done on every linux distro I think Could someone else try these steps to give feedback ? I don't really know where to say this, so I try here, maybe someone will be kind enough to complete, test and put it somewhere on the wiki for desperate users... mtou --------------------------------------------------------- * In order to be able to open *.eps files, you need gs (ghostscript) installed AND to be able to open *.ps files (as read in share/extensions/eps_input.inx) * In order to be able to open *.ps files, you need pstoedit installed AND to be able to open *.sk files (as read in ps_input.inx) * In order to be able to open *.sk files, you need skconvert, which comes with sketch, which as been recently renamed to skencil I think (as read in sk_input.inx) So, what I done on my ubuntu breezy distro was to install all that was missing in these dependencies. sudo apt-get install gs pstoedit sketch Now, *.eps, *.ps and *.sk filetypes can be opened in the breezy inkscape package. But... some error still occur during the conversion from an sk file to the final svg file. In fact, to open an eps file, we ask gs to convert it to a *.ps file, pstoedit to convert it to an *.sk file and then skconvert (via ../inkscape/share/extensions/sk2svg.sh) to convert it to an *.svg file inkscape can open and edit. the first 2 conversion worked very well, but the last one, using skconvert was broken. The guilty is the sketch version (0.6.15-1ubuntu2 as I speak) which has a broken feature while reading the file and trying to parse the sk file (sketch bug report here : https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1025599&group_…) So I uninstalled the "broken" sketch package, and tried to install the debian unofficial package from http://www.nongnu.org/skencil/download.html Its dependencies were broken because it needed python2.3 and the 2.4 version is already installed on my computer, so I threw it away not to mess up with my libraries. Last thing that could have been done was to compile the last sketch(skencil) version from source So I downloaded the skencil-0.6-17.tar.gz tar ball from http://www.nongnu.org/skencil/download.html copied it in my /usr/src and then untarred it (for ubuntu users : make sure you are in group src to be able to write in the /usr/src directory) then go to the skencil sources directory and try the setup to configure my system lacked python, tcl and tk development packages, so I need to install them sudo apt-get install python2.4-dev tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev after that, when you try to configure (./setup.py configure), it works like a charm you then need to compile (./setup.py build) and install (./setup.py install) if you want to install this in the directory you want (and I highly recommend that no to mess up with the package system), you just need to pass an --prefix option to setup.py when it's fully installed, the skconvert works very well and inkscape load eps, ps and sk files without a hitch ----------------------- For developpers now : The errors reported when the import does not work is really not user friendly When sketch isn't installed, the only thing inkscape tells us is that the tempfile /tmp/XXXXXXsdfgjndrg.svg is not found Could someone look to change the *.inx files to require a _working_ version of sketch and no only the skconvert utility ? Is it hard to do ?

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Image export to EPS: black background
by Tobias Sager 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi all, Inkscape is great! Just finished my master thesis and used it for quite some graphics.. I had one problem though. I have a drawing with a single image on the page. Displays fine. When saving this image to EPS, the image would get a black background. When exporting to PNG and then converting to EPS (GIMP), all works fine. You can get a sample here: http://toe.ch/~tsa/inkscape-image.tar.bz2 Any ideas? Or did I just set a background or anything wrong? Cheers Tobias -- GPG-Key 0xEF37FF28 - 1024/4096 DSA/ELG-E - 16.11.2001 Fingerprint: 3C4B 155F 2621 CEAF D3A6 0CCB 937C 9597 EF37 FF28

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