February 2005 - Inkscape Devel

Saving as pov
by Lucas Vieites 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Hi, I've been trying to render the exported pov files from simple svg images but I keep getting errors. I'm using povray 3.6 to render the attached pov file, generated from the attached svg file. I'm also attaching the output ;-) Thanks for your help, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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resource leaks on Windows
by bulia byak 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Today we have found and patched a number of GDI resource leaks. This will likely fix the bug where using text tool eventually caused Inkscape to freeze with endless "SaveDC failed" and "RestoreDC failed" messages streaming to the console: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1070816&group_id=9… Everyone who has ever experienced it (and everyone else using Windows), please test a CVS build dated later than today and report your results.

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doxygen updates
by Kees Cook 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Okay, the website doxygen should update every night around 3am Pacific time now. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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close confirmation fix
by unknown＠example.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

FWIW, forgot to mention that I think I fixed the close confirmation dialog last night. Try it out and see if it works as expected..

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Setting physical resolution and exporting documents
by unknown＠example.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Hello! I would like to set the physical resolution of a document to export it as an EPS file at a given resolution. However, I have not found setting of the resolution anywhere in the program. In the "print" menu there is a physical resolution option for the printed images, but it did not work for the EPS files. Another problem is exporting of the documents. It is possible by renaming the file by "save as", and so to export a document without changing its name a double rename is needed, what might be error prone. Thanks, Artur Rataj

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Inkscape status 2005-02-15
by Bryce Harrington 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Project Status Tuesday, Feb 15, 2005 Today at work after our all-hands meeting, one of the marketing guys named Carl grabbed me. He'd just upgraded to SuSE 9.2 but knew that we'd just released 0.41, and SuSE only had 0.39. We downloaded and installed the Autopackage version. I gave him a quick tour of the new features. When we got to the color trace function he slapped me on the shoulder, "My god, that's _exactly_ what I've needed!!" He loaded up one of the OSDL member logos and vectorized it with the color trace tool. We get these logos in every format known to mankind, and scaling them can be a real challenge sometimes. This week I've been showing off all sorts of things to people... The new inkscape.deviantart.com. I showed daj's "Rockin' in the Free World" to a professional musician. ScislaC's 'Gaze' astounds _everyone_ who sees it; this is without a doubt the most advanced piece of art ever done with Inkscape/Sodipodi/Gill (we have *got* to encourage Scislac to teach us all the tricks for how he was able to *do* that!) I also of course have to brag about the KDE 3.4 SVG Wallpaper contest, and that of the top 4, half are known to have been done with Inkscape (including the winner). The thing I point out to people at work is that despite how great Linux is technically, there are many, many people who "judge a book by its cover" and consider only how the thing looks. Like buying a car based on its paint job and leather upholstry instead of its engine. But graphical tools like Inkscape are enabling artists to give Linux that beauty, to make it visually as well as technically attractive. In the stats below, the most obvious thing is the sudden jump in linecount. No surprise there - this is all the new code such as gtkmm that finally got greenlighted to go into the codebase. Hopefully over the next few months we'll see the linecount reduced as this new code replaces the gobs of repetitive old code currently in there. The mailing list numbers show that we've gained a number of new members. (Welcome aboard!) Of course, anyone on Jabber or IRC recently will have already noticed the nice jump in activity, both with usage questions and with development work. Things seem to be going quite well! Statistics Jan 1 Jan 15 Feb 1 Feb 15 ========== ===== ====== ===== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 598 570 569 569 (95.8%) (96.0%) (96.0%) (96.04%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 45 59 * * (99.8%) (99.6%) * * Total SF Page Views 2,213,324 2,283,160 2,296,458 2,296,458 Total SF Downloads 110,182 114,695 115,645 115,645 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 14,291 14,634 15,108 16,448 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 149 151 156 169 Lines of Code in src/: 321,883 323,251 323,324 333,139 Code lines 227,114 227,965 227,872 234,651 Comment line 56,048 56,308 56,438 58,239 Blank 45,398 45,664 45,624 46,859 Lines of Docs in doc/: 17,901 17,901 17,918 26,848 Lines of content in website: 9,234 9,328 9,486 9,776 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 21,030 20,931 23,576 24,925 Bugs open/total: 135/829 145/858 148/917 155/972 Features open/total: 340/514 353/530 352/556 370/579 Patches open/total: 5/145 6/148 7/154 5/167 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 9,450 9,625 9,975 10,312 Inkscape-devel membership: 132 131 143 151 Inkscape-announce membership: 147 155 166 169 Inkscape-user membership: 172 177 181 193 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 43.7 42.0 44.7 47.8 * - Statistics unavailable

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Stroke paint >Pattern
by Ted Gould 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 11:56 -0400, bulia byak wrote: >On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:47:47 +0100, Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...659...> wrote: >> Looking at it from the interface perspective, I'd call it a brush. > >Yes, that's the best term. > >> You >> could convert an object into a brush, just like you can now convert an >> object into a pattern. > >And adjust things like spacing, rotation, randomization... > >> Once you has a brush you could then use it on an >> object as another property (fill, stroke). > >I don't think it can be used on fill, only on stroke. Actually, brush >strokes will be their own kind of objects (implemented as SVG <g> with >extension attrs) so they won't have any fill. I was curious if this functionality could be implemented using markers. Perhaps subdivide the path and place the "brush strokes" on the nodes so that you'd get a brush effect kinda like GIMP. It might be difficult to do brushes that change over time though... --Ted PS - Took this thread to devel, it was on user.

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Re: [cairo] The Great API Shakeup (fwd)
by PLinnell 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

> Message: 9 > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [cairo] The Great API Shakeup (fwd) > From: MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> > To: Craig Bradney <cbradney@...242...> > Cc: Inkscape ML <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:51:30 -0500 > > <snip> > > I'd strongly recommend you folks put someone on the cairo mailing > list as an interface, since feedback from a project like Scribus > that is actively using cairo will be helpful to them. > > -mental > Done.

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[cairo] The Great API Shakeup (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

This last weekend, several cairo developers happened to be in the same physical room, (as part of XDevConf[*]). We took advantage of the opportunity and had a very productive meeting last night in which we tried to discuss as many open API issues as possible. The following people were involved in this ad-hoc meeting: Kristian Høgsberg, David Reveman, Keith Packard, Owen Taylor, Carl Worth The meeting was also attended by Jim Gettys and Bdale Garbee, without whose support we could not have been productive. Kristian took some good notes on the discussion last night, which we'll be cleaning up and sending out as a bunch of separate proposals to the list. Hopefully this stream of little proposals will be easier to digest than one giant summary of the meeting. And, this way any sub-discussions that spin off should be easier to manage. We'll include "API Shakeup" in each of the proposals, and we'll try to tie them into existing open threads as appropriate. Each mini-proposal will be followed up with a patch proposal to implement the change, (and each patch must include documentation). Then, of course, once any new discussion settles down, we can start committing all of this stuff. The scope of the changes means that all existing cairo-using code will have to be updated, (eg. we have a proposal that changes cairo_create). So, the breakage will be a bit painful. But hopefully, the work needed to bring forward any single piece of code will actually be quite minor. As this process wraps up, we'll pull together a single-source guide on what people need to do to get their code updated. Anyway, this should be a lot of fun. And we should have an easier-to-use, and less warty API when we're done. If anyone has pet peeves regarding API issues in cairo, this will be the time to bring them up, because we won't want to go through many more break-every-application changes again for quite some time. -Carl [*] X Developers' Conference http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XDevConf _______________________________________________ cairo mailing list cairo@...278... http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo

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[Fwd: Translation update - spanish]
by Lucas Vieites 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Previous message got rejected due to .zip attachment, I'm attaching it in tar.bz2 format now, cheers. --------- Mensaje reenviado -------- >De: Lucas Vieites <lucas@...212...> >Para: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >Asunto: Translation update - spanish >Fecha: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:24:05 +0100 > Hi, I'm attaching an updated es.po file. A couple of fuzzies and >untranslated were left behind (a total of 4-5). > > By the way, I was invited today to give a "hands-on" tutorial on >Inkscape at a free-software meeting next month in Extremadura, a region >in Spain that started to develop their own Debian-based Linux >distribution ("Linex", www.linex.org) for use in schools and local >administrations. Any suggestions? > I was planning to do a quick tour through the tutorials included in >Inkscape and a few live demos. > > > Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Asix Informática <info@...212...> http://www.asixinformatica.com/ Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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