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win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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object-edit.cpp:842: error: `isfinite' undeclared in namespace `std'
by Jeremy C. Reed 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Building inkscape-0.41 on NetBSD 1.6.2_STABLE with GCC 3.3.3. I receive this error: if c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/pkg/include/freetype2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -I/usr/pkg/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/pkg/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/pkg/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/pkg/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 -I/usr/pkg/include/glib/glib-2.0 -I/usr/pkg/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/pkg/include/libxml2 -I/usr/pkg/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/pkg/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/pkg/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/pkg/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/pkg/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/pkg/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/pkg/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/pkg/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/pkg/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/pkg/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/pkg/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/pkg/include/freetype2 -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -O2 -s -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/pkg/include/freetype2 -MT object-edit.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/object-edit.Tpo" -c -o object-edit.o object-edit.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/object-edit.Tpo" ".deps/object-edit.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/object-edit.Tpo"; exit 1; fi object-edit.cpp: In function `void sp_spiral_outer_set(SPItem*, const NR::Point&, const NR::Point&, unsigned int)': object-edit.cpp:842: error: `isfinite' undeclared in namespace `std' gmake[2]: *** [object-edit.o] Error 1 Any ideas? (Please carbon-copy me on replies.) Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

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custom palettes and swatches
by Nicu Buculei 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I found I can define my own palette, either in ~/.inkscape/palettes/ or system wide in /usr/share/inkscape/palettes/ and it will be loaded in the swatches dialog. So I made a Gnome HIG palette (attached), which can be used when creating icons. If you think it is useful enough, you can add it to the other default palettes. -- nicu GIMP Palette Name: Gnome HIG # 234 232 227 Basic 3D Hilight (#EAE8E3) 186 181 171 Basic 3D Medium (#BAB5AB) 128 125 116 Basic 3D Dark (#807D74) 86 82 72 3D Shadow (#565248) 197 210 200 Green Hilight (#C5D2C8) 131 166 127 Green Medium (#83A67F) 93 117 85 Green Dark (#5D7555) 68 86 50 Green Shadow (#445632) 224 182 175 Red Hilight (#E0B6AF) 193 102 90 Red Medium (#C1665A) 136 70 49 Red Dark (#884631) 102 56 34 Red Shadow (#663822) 173 167 200 Purple Hilight (#ADA7C8) 136 127 163 Purple Medium (#887FA3) 98 91 129 Purple Dark (#625B81) 73 64 102 Purple Shadow (#494066) 157 184 210 Blue Hilight (#9DB8D2) 117 144 174 Blue Medium (#7590AE) 75 105 131 Blue Dark (#4B6983) 49 78 108 Blue Shadow (#314E6C) 239 224 205 Face Skin Hilight (#EFE0CD) 224 195 158 Face Skin Medium (#E0C39E) 179 145 105 Face Skin Dark (#B39169) 130 102 71 Face Skin Shadow (#826647) 223 66 30 Accent Red (#DF421E) 153 0 0 Accent Red Dark (#990000) 238 214 128 Accent Yellow (#EED680) 209 148 12 Accent Yellow Dark (#D1940C) 70 160 70 Accent Green (#46A046) 38 199 38 Accent Green Dark (#267726) 255 255 255 White (#FFFFFF) 0 0 0 Black (#000000)

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What are your development tools?
by Felix Rabe 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Hi everybody, As I have some time until July for "doing nothing" a few hours a day ;) , I'd like to volunteer for doing something, ie. Inkscape things. I'm learning C++ currently (Stroustrup's book). I use Ubuntu Linux on i386 and did quite some programming using Python and PyGTK in the last few months. What is needed / do you use aside from cvs, g++ and a text editor? (And what text editor, as I used Emacs, tried Vim, and use gedit currently. No flamewars please, I'm glad there are so few of them here :o) , just "I use editor foo (because ...)".) Do you use Valgrind, any test suites, gdb / ddd ... ? Where do I start to learn how to use them? Also, do you recommend some literature / books, as I did not (and most probably will not) study computer science? (I have a "Design Patterns", Gamma et al, here.) I have a small budget for good material. I also wonder about more exotic things - do you print out code you wrote for review (my printer doesn't work atm), do sports, drink coffee (I'm not going to do that, just wondering), gather regularly on Jabber - anything that might be of interest in terms of a programmer's life and how to get / remain productive. Thanks for any answers, Felix

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sp_document_new
by De Winne, Joris 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Hello, I'm trying to create a viewer based on the inkscape SVG viewer. I based my viewer on the code in inkview.cpp. But during execution I always get a segmentation fault when I call sp_document_new. I create a LayoutRenderer and on that object I call the function renderLayout. Here's some part of the code I use: LayoutRenderer::LayoutRenderer() { changed = false; uriLatest = "latest.svg"; vector<string> result; vector<string>::iterator it; result = Util::putFileInVector(uriLatest); latest = ""; it = result.begin(); while(it != result.end()) { latest += *it + "\n"; it++; } Inkscape::GC::init(); setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, "C"); if (result.size() > 0) { changed = true; } } void LayoutRenderer::renderLayout() { cout << "Start rendering \n"; GtkWidget * w = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); cout << "Created new window\n"; SPDocument * doc = sp_document_new (uriLatest.c_str(), TRUE, TRUE, false); cout << "Created new document\n"; GtkWidget * view = sp_svg_view_widget_new (doc); cout << "Created new view\n"; cout << "rendering created objects \n"; sp_svg_view_widget_set_resize (SP_SVG_VIEW_WIDGET (view), FALSE, sp_document_width (doc), sp_document_height (doc)); sp_document_ensure_up_to_date (doc); sp_document_unref (doc); gtk_widget_show (view); cout << "rendering add to container\n"; gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (w), view); gtk_widget_show (w); cout << "Start rgoing to main loop\n"; gtk_main (); } The function gtk_init (&argc, (char ***) &argv); has been called prior to all the rendering calls. This is the output I get: Start rendering Created new window Segmentation fault Any help is welcome? Thnx, Joris - - - - - - - DISCLAIMER- - - - - - - - Unless indicated otherwise, the information contained in this message is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and/or attachments is strictly prohibited. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Furthermore, the company does not warrant a proper and complete transmission of this information, nor does it accept liability for any delays. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the message. Thank you.

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New OSX compile problems
by Jon A. Cruz 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I'm trying to start building Inkscape on OS X. I'm on Tiger, and setup with fink unstable. I've gotten to the link, where things are failing. Any ideas? g++ -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded- virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -I/sw/include - D__LONG_DOUBLE_128__ -g -O0 -o i\ nkscape --export-dynamic main.o -Wl,-bind_at_load -L/sw/lib libinkpre.a application/libinkapp.a dialogs/libspdialogs.a trace/ libtrace.a svg/libspsvg.a widg\ ets/libspwidgets.a display/libspdisplay.a helper/libspchelp.a libcroco/libcroco.a libnrtype/libnrtype.a libnr/libnr.a livarot/ libvarot.a ui/view/libuiview.a\ ui/libui.a ui/dialog/libuidialog.a ui/widget/libuiwidget.a extension/ libextension.a extension/implementation/libimplementation.a extension/ internal/libinte\ rnal.a extension/script/libscript.a xml/libspxml.a util/libinkutil.a io/libio.a inkjar/libinkjar.a libinkpost.a debug/libinkdebug.a -L/usr/ X11R6/lib /sw/lib\ /libgtkmm-2.4.dylib /sw/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.dylib /sw/lib/ libatkmm-1.6.dylib /sw/lib/libpangomm-1.4.dylib /sw/lib/ libglibmm-2.4.dylib /sw/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.dy\ lib /sw/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.dylib -lXrandr -lXinerama -lXext -lX11 - lXcursor /sw/lib/libatk-1.0.dylib /sw/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.dylib /sw/ lib/libpangoxft-1.0\ .dylib /sw/lib/libpangox-1.0.dylib /sw/lib/libxslt.dylib /sw/lib/ libxml2.dylib -ldl /sw/lib/libsigc-2.0.dylib -lpng -lz /sw/lib/ libpopt.dylib -lXft -lXrende\ r -lfontconfig /sw/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.dylib /sw/lib/ libpango-1.0.dylib -lm /sw/lib/libgobject-2.0.dylib /sw/lib/ libgmodule-2.0.dylib /sw/lib/libglib-2.0.dy\ lib /sw/lib/libintl.dylib /sw/lib/libiconv.dylib -lfreetype /sw/lib/ libgc.dylib -lpthread /usr/bin/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _locale_charset /sw/lib/libiconv.dylib(localcharset.o) definition of _locale_charset /sw/lib/libintl.dylib(localcharset.lo) definition of _locale_charset /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols: typeinfo for Atk::Implementor typeinfo for Gtk::Bin typeinfo for Gtk::Dialog typeinfo for Gtk::Object typeinfo for Gtk::Widget typeinfo for Gtk::Window typeinfo for Gtk::Container typeinfo for Glib::ObjectBase typeinfo for Glib::Object typeinfo for Glib::Interface typeinfo for Gtk::CellLayout typeinfo for Gtk::TreeModelColumnRecord typeinfo for Gtk::ComboBox typeinfo for Gtk::Box typeinfo for Gtk::VBox typeinfo for Gtk::FileChooser typeinfo for Gtk::FileChooserDialog typeinfo for Gtk::HBox typeinfo for Gtk::HandleBox typeinfo for Gtk::MessageDialog typeinfo for Gtk::Adjustment typeinfo for Gtk::CheckButton typeinfo for Gtk::CellEditable typeinfo for Gtk::ToggleButton typeinfo for Gtk::Entry typeinfo for Gtk::Button typeinfo for Gtk::Editable collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2

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Building inkscape under cygwin.
by Franz Haeuslschmid 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hello, I'm lately trying to compile inkscape using the latest edition of cygwin. However the build process is permanently aborting: make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/d/Src/inkscape' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/d/Src/inkscape/src' depbase=`echo object-edit.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`; \ if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/opt/cxclient/usr/X11R6/include -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -DXTHREADS -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/home/haeuslsc/local/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/home/haeuslsc/local/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/gtk-2.0 -I/home/haeuslsc/local/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/home/haeuslsc/local/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/home/haeuslsc/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/opt/cxclient/usr/X11R6/include -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/home/haeuslsc/local/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/home/haeuslsc/local/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I../cxxtest -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -MT object-edit.o -MD -MP -MF "$depbase.Tpo" -c -o object-edit.o object-edit.cpp; \ then mv -f "$depbase.Tpo" "$depbase.Po"; else rm -f "$depbase.Tpo"; exit 1; fi object-edit.cpp: In function `void sp_spiral_outer_set(SPItem*, const NR::Point&, const NR::Point&, unsigned int)': object-edit.cpp:846: error: `isfinite' undeclared in namespace `std' make[2]: *** [object-edit.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/Src/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/Src/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any ideas? Franz.

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Re: [Fontforge-devel] Bug report: space size
by unknown＠example.com 30 May '05

30 May '05

On 5/27/05, Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@...128...> wrote: > That looks ok in principle. The space character has a width of 377 > units. The two lines with '74 304 rmoveto' and 'closepath' look strange > and are unnecessary, but I would be surprised if they cause any harm. > You can test this though by removing these two lines and assembling the > font again with t1asm. I added for tests a point to the space character, to see if it helps with the problem. These two lines probably describe that point. > > Another wierd possibility is encoding. Maybe space is not encoded or in > an unsual position in your font, and the application you are using uses > code positions instead of glyphnames. So look out for /Encoding near the > begining of the disassembled file. What does it say there? /Encoding 256 array > > If those ideas don't help, then i am lost. Can you make the font in > question available so that others can have a look at it? > I made a new test font with the space, exported it as pfa and this time it worked. So I exported the original font again in pfa and, as previously, the space width was zero. So the program is able to generate pfa with non--zero space width, but for some reason either it can not do it for a particular font, or the font system does not interpret the particular font file correctly. So I send the original PFA: http://www.iitis.gliwice.pl/~arataj/test.pfa Thanks, Artur

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filter for inkscape and OpenDocument
by Jon Phillips 28 May '05

28 May '05

Heya, I just read your nice interview at groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050130002908154). First of all, this is really exciting, but I wonder if you could write up more about what is needed of Inkscape for this new format. I see in your interview you note that there is a needed filter for Inkscape, but it is not clarified what this means. I'm cc'ing the Inkscape development list about this. I just wonder how this OpenDocument format (the newly standardized open office xml format) relates to Inkscape and what you are asking to be done. Or do you want a filter that say one has an SVG file, then one can convert that to an OpenDocument file. I don't think that would be difficult. But, what about OpenOffice support for the SVG file format? Please copy me and/or the Inkscape-devel list and I will make sure they get the response. Or, please reply to me and the list if you are on Inkscape's list. Thanks, Jon -- Jon Phillips USA PH 510.499.0894 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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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: Nuevos Traducciones de Tutoriales/New Tutorials Translations
by unknown＠example.com 26 May '05

26 May '05

Quoting "R. Alan Monroe" <amonroe@...813...>: > Since it's vector art, couldn't you just put any additional > language texts in the svg file as a tiny micro-paragraph beside > the normal text? You could just zoom in to the alternative texts > or stretch them to read them. I don't think that would really be helpful, but it is an interesting idea. A similar approach would be to put all language texts in the same document (overlaying one another) and use the SVG <switch> element so that only the one matching the current language gets rendered. I'm not sure how well that would work, though, since different languages will have different paragraph lengths and to look nice might require the documents to be relaid-out depending on language (which <switch> can't do). Admittedly, we don't support the <switch> element yet, but it is planned. -mental

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dialogs cleanup
by bulia byak 26 May '05

26 May '05

Before we can think about a release, one thing we absolutely must do is clean up the current mess with dialogs. Everyone who did dialogs recently (and there were a lot) did it in their own incompatible way. (Personally, I attribute this to the lack of attention and leadership from the initiators of the gtkmm transition, but there's no use to argue about that now; let's just fix what we have.) Recently I've been working on the Dialog and DialogManager classes in ui/dialog, and I almost fixed them with regard to things like transientizing, remembering geometry, and F12 behavior. There are remaining issues still but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to fix them. Unfortunately, many dialogs do not use these classes or use them in a wrong way. The old gtk dialogs need not be touched at this time; they are OK as they are, and we can always convert them later. What needs to be fixed urgently is the recenty added gtkmm dialogs, all of which are broken in different ways. The simplest dialog to use as a template is ui/dialog/messages.cpp; another is ui/dialog/memory.cpp. To create a dialog, you need to pass the prefs path (path in the preferences.xml for the dialog settings; make sure it exists in preferences-skeleton.h) and the verb that creates the dialog (make sure it exists in verbs.h/cpp). E.g.: Messages::Messages() : Dialog ("dialogs.messages", SP_VERB_DIALOG_DEBUG) You also need to register the dialog's factory in DIalogManager constructor and to make sure its verb in verbs.cpp does the right thing: case SP_VERB_DIALOG_DEBUG: dt->_dlg_mgr->showDialog("Messages"); break; Also don't forget to remove your own F12 handlers, event handles, transientizing code, title setting, size setting etc. if you have it in your dialog classes. This is all in Dialog now. Not only will this stuff finally work as it must, but this will lead to a significant reducing of code. Here are the dialogs that need to be converted: Align: Unless Aubanel Monnier (who coded it initially) shows up, I think I'll have to take this one. View/Scripts and Path/Trace Bitmap: Bob, these are yours, so please take them. This needs to be done ASAP because currently these two are totally disfunctional - they don't show up when you call them. (This may be because they used ui/dialog code in some partial way and this is now broken after my changes there.) Object/Grid Arrange: John, this one is yours, please convert it - also ASAP because it's broken in the same way as Bob's ones. Object/Swatches and Help/About Extensions: Jon, these are yours. I know you did your own implementation but we now need to unify things. You can move whatever useful code you have into Dialog, but _that_ must be the root class of all dialogs now. No more duplication please. This will also fix the many problems your dialogs now have (such as popping up after being closed when any new dialog is opened). Jon, Bob, John: Please respond to this message with your estimate as to when you will be able to work on this. If you cannot handle this now or in foreseeable future, we'll need to call up volunteers for this work. Of course, please also voice any questions or objections you might have. Oh, and if anyone creates a new dialog now, please use ui/dialog/messages.cpp as a template. Don't copy from any other dialogs until they are fixed. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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translatable strings
by Gazal, Geraud (GE Healthcare) 26 May '05

26 May '05

As you may know, Inkscape strings are facing a small problem : at the moment, the string _"H" is used in different contexts: as an abbreviation for Hue and for Height (see my clumsy patch proposal : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1203796&group_id=9…) After taking a look at different mailing list and at Inkscape's wiki, it appears that the wiki links offers some good indications (cool). See http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/tutorial/html/ch20s03.html in "Same strings, different semantics" But the solution suggested (adding some extra characters) is not really welcome. A much better approach can be foud here : http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html in "Don't use too short messages". So if you are OK with it, I'd be very interested at: - first improve the current state with short strings (XYWH, RGB, RGBA, HSV...): my plan would be creating some xywh_string = _"XYWH", rgb_string = _"RGB"... strings that would be translatable and then pick from those strings in the code replace H by xywh_string[4] or hsv_string[3] depending on the context - then improve our conformance against gnome HIG with : - increase the use of plural syntax (see "Plurals" in gnome-i18n) - improve the way Inkscape manages marked up string (see "Avoid markup wherever possible" in gnome-i18n) It would be a good opportunity for me improving my understanding of the code of Inkscape without the hazard of breaking everything. Regards, Matiphas

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: Nuevos Traducciones de Tutoriales/New Tutorials Translations
by bulia byak 26 May '05

26 May '05

Spanish translators suggest that we include the html/png versions of all tutorials into the Inkscape distribution as well. What do others think? I'm afraid this will blow the size considerably, especially if we include all languages (as we do for SVG tutorials). Maybe it's time to create language-specific distributions, at least for French and Spanish? Does anyone have experience with automating such things? On 5/25/05, jeffrey steve borbon sanabria <jeff_kerokid@...36...> wrote: > yes Bulia We want that- this translations would be > able to access in the inkscape application. Can you > include it on InkScape? > > "Por la libertad del hombre pensante, usemos software libre" > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. > Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: GoToMeeting - the easiest way to collaborate > online with coworkers and clients while avoiding the high cost of travel and > communications. There is no equipment to buy and you can meet as often as > you want. Try it free.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7402&alloc_id=16135&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Path Parsing
by unknown＠example.com 24 May '05

24 May '05

Bulia, this morning there was another path parsing bug in the tracker and so there is another patch. I have a path parsing question that I do not think is answered by the svg spec. All commands may be followed by any number of sets of parameters. So L0,0 3,4 7,2 is actually L0,0 L3,4 L7,2 Moveto implies Lineto. So M0,0 3,4 7,2 is actually M0,0 L3,4 L7,2 How should one interpret this: L0,0 L3,4 L7,2 Z 1,5 It would seem to me that it should be L0,0 L3,4 L7,2 Z M0,0 L1,5 Because Moveto implies Lineto and Closepath should imply Moveto because the spec says that any following commands begin a new subpath at the previous subpaths initial point. Answers? Aaron Spike

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Inkscape project status
by Bryce Harrington 24 May '05

24 May '05

Project Status Sunday, May 15, 2005 Coding activity appears to have picked up quite a bit over this past month, with 20,000 lines of code added. Looks like there's also been a surge of code documentation activity, with 7,000 lines added, or a 10% increase from what we'd had. Very cool! I hear SourceForge is getting ready to roll out their new statistics system, but apparently this hasn't happened yet. ;-) We're going to continue in development mode for the remainder of the month, and then around June 1st will enter into a bug fix mode to start preparing for a release. We've got over 200 bugs open. I'm not sure what we should set as a goal for the release, but hopefully we can knock that count down significantly. Statistics Feb 15 Mar 15 Apr 15 May 15 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: * * * * * * * * Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: * * * * * * * * Total SF Page Views * * * * Total SF Downloads * * * * Total Freshmeat URL Hits 16,448 17,186 17,930 18,691 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 169 173 177 181 Lines of Code in src/: 333,139 342,852 340,515 373,651 Code lines 234,651 241,177 238,522 259,984 Comment line 58,239 60,354 60,382 67,053 Blank 46,859 47,978 48,152 53,244 Lines of Docs in doc/: 26,848 26,848 26,848 26,848 Lines of content in website: 9,776 10,067 35,937 39,865 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 24,925 25,900 26,363 27,052 Bugs open/total: 155/972 182/1047 194/1126 208/1196 Features open/total: 370/579 397/ 619 429/ 671 442/ 712 Patches open/total: 5/167 7/ 173 5/ 186 11/ 221 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 10,312 10,868 11,368 11,897 Inkscape-devel membership: 151 158 166 173 Inkscape-announce membership: 169 177 189 197 Inkscape-user membership: 193 220 234 242 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.8 45.0 47.5 47.0 * - Statistics unavailable

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Inkscape crashing on "open file" on Mac OS X
by Marcus Silva 23 May '05

23 May '05

When I am running Inkscape in GNOME on my Mac (installed through fink), I cannot open any files unless I specify files from the command line from the --file option. If I try to use the "open file" dialog, inkscape freezes, eventually a dialog box opens up saying that Inkscape encountered an error, but that is also frozen, and if I am lucky another dialog opens up giving me the option to force quit (i guess this is a GNOME dialog box). Using the "kill" command works otherwise without a problem. 1 - Start Inkscape in GNOME running on fink 2 - Click "File Open" Icon OR 1 - Start Inkscape in GNOME running on fink 2 - Go to "File" menu, and click "Open" The odd thing is that this only happens when I run Inkscape from GNOME (within Xnest, or when running X11 in full screen mode). If I run Inkscape with quartz-wm, no GNOME, things work fine (except, of course, that drop down menus appear behind the windows). Has anyone encountered this before? Marcus

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LaTeX Export
by Michael Forbes 23 May '05

23 May '05

I have attached my initial draft of a LaTeX export internal extension I wrote. It currently uses PSTricks so is very similar to the PostScript extension. It currently does not implement gradients, transparency, text, images and has some problems with unit conversion and seems to be rotated awkwardly. Can anyone pitch in with some of these problems? -Michael Forbes ------------------------------------------------------------ Student System Operator binx.mbhs.edu BEN Manager http://ben.mbhs.edu BNC Internet Division http://bnc.mbhs.edu MBHS Webmaster http://www.mbhs.edu BlazerNet President http://blazernet.mbhs.edu Computer Team Co-President http://computerteam.mbhs.edu MBLUG President http://mblug.mbhs.edu ------------------------------------------------------------

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Updated inkscape.nsi
by Bob Jamison 23 May '05

23 May '05

I committed the Czech and French strings that Cornelius and Matiphas provided. (Thanks! ;-) Someone might want to check it out in NSIS, if they have time. (I am Unix-only while at the office). Bob

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w32 cvs-version extensions not working, need advise
by Adib Taraben 23 May '05

23 May '05

Hello, I tried current CVS versions from: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/inkscape/builds/ or compiled by my own. But I can not run any extensions. During the startup it says that extensions will be disabled. I use WinXP German and have ActivePerl and Python in my path. PATH=c:\mingw\bin;c:\gtk\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Borland\CBUILD~1\Bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Borlan d\CBUILD~1\Projects\Bpl;C:\Programme\Borland\Delphi7\Bin;C:\Programme\Borland\De lphi7\Projects\Bpl\;c:\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOW S\System32\Wbem;C:\Programme\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Programme\WinCvs 1.3\CVSNT;C:\Programme\doxygen\bin;C:\Programme\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN;C:\Programme\Support Tools\;C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\programme\subversion\bin Any advise how I can track this down appreciated. Thx, Adib.

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Draft news article
by Jonathan Leighton 20 May '05

20 May '05

I just noticed this draft: http://inkscape.org/wp/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=215. It is, in fact, just a copy of the article recently linked on inkscape-user <http://www.glitchnyc.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/technology/opensource/furboa_t…> by Ted. Personally I'm in favour of linking the original in the news, but I think reproducing the entire thing would be overkill. Any thoughts? Jon -- Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/

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Win32, next release GTK with Wimp Theme
by Adib Taraben 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hello, is it possible for the next release to have the Wimp theme in the Win32 packe as the standard-theme ? Thx, Adib. --

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MALLINFO?
by Mike Hearn 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hi, I can't build CVS anymore, autogen says: Running aclocal-1.7 ... Running autoheader ... autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_FORDBLKS autoheader-2.59: Use AC_DEFINE([HAVE_MALLINFO_FORDBLKS], [], [Description]) autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_FSMBLKS autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_HBLKHD autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_UORDBLKS autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_USMBLKS Please fix the error conditions and try again. Does anybody know what I'm missing? thanks -mike

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Printer dialog interface
by Jeremy C. Reed 18 May '05

18 May '05

Please CC me on replies. This is a request. I didn't see anything about in the change log or in the the the RoadMap. Please consider having a friendlier printer dialog. My wife and young children do not know command line Unix. Using a pipe or greater than is not intuitive for them :) Please consider using a printer dialog widget that allows to choose: - print to PostScript file (and a dialog to choose filename.ps) - print to printer (and maybe use parsed printers names found from printcap) - how many copies to print, etc. Please carbon copy me on replies. Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

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GIMP 2.3
by bulia byak 16 May '05

16 May '05

At http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS, one thing jumped on me: - added an option to make the dock windows transient to the active image display I haven't tried it yet, but from the description, this is exactly what Inkscape does for its dialogs. FINALLY. For me, this was by far the worst usability problem with GIMP (and with Sodipodi/Inkscape, until I invented the transientize hack). About a year ago I spent quite some time trying to persuade them that this hack, while being a hack, is still better than no solution at all. Looks like they have finally agreed :) This is big news, even if this option is off by default. At least now we can be telling people that GIMP is not really that much worse than Inkscape, if you know the right option to enable :) It's also good that now that we both implement this behavior, we can exchange the code and fixes, and maybe join our forces to make it less hack-ish and more standard. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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info on extensions
by David Christian Berg 16 May '05

16 May '05

Hey guys, My brother (and also myself) would like to have perspective skewing... Now since I don't know the first thing about programming, he'll do the job, and would like to use extensions for this. Now we don't really get them working (I don't see the extension entry in the menu bar in the first place), I'd like to have some input on how they work, or how to get them running. David

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