May 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Looking for autopackage maintainers (again)
by Mike Hearn 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hi, As the latest nightly build break shows, I'm not plugged into Inkscape development enough to keep the specfiles accurate. In particular the packages broke because I was still trying to copy the lib directory which no longer exists. Maintaining these specfiles is trivial. If somebody wanted to take them over I'd be happy to help and also happy to continue running the nightly build system. If anybody is interested please let me know. thanks -mike

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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.13 Announcement
by Jon Phillips 04 May '05

04 May '05

May 4, 2005 UTC - Release 0.13 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now available for download on-line as an individual package consisting of 3459 images submitted by over 200 artists from around the globe. This release also marks the start of the community-based "Planet Open Clip Art Library." Visit http://planet.openclipart.org to read about the various developers, artists, and contributors. If you would like to join the community, please submit your RSS feed URL and optional hackerogotchi link using the new feedback form on the project's main page. In preparation for the continually warming weather (in some parts of the world), the project is calling for submissions themed around "Summer" during the month of May. Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.13.2/openclipart-0.13.2.tar.bz2 http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.13.2/openclipart-0.13.2.tar.gz http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.13.2/openclipart-0.13.2.zip The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used freely for any use. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.

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Fresh reinstall errors?
by Kenney Phillis 04 May '05

04 May '05

i'm very new to this, and i figure the eror i got is a here: the error log i got... this isn't very helpful, but it's on windows, and it shouldn't give me these errors... i just ran the installer fresh... filename of "Inkscape-0.41-1.win32.exe". Extension "AI Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: absolute string: /usr/bin/perl Extension "AI Output" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: pstoedit Extension "Dia Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: dia description: In order to import Dia files, Dia itself must be installed. You can get Dia at http://somesite.com Extension "EPSI Output" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: ps2epsi Extension "EPS Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: gs Extension "GIMP Gradients" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: plugin location: path string: gimpgrad Extension "Grid" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: plugin location: path string: grid Extension "Postscript Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: pstoedit Extension "Sketch Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: skconvert Extension "SVGZ Output" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: gzip Extension "Text Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: absolute string: /usr/bin/perl Extension "Windows Metafile Input" failed to load because a dependency was not met. Dependency:: type: executable location: path string: wmf2svg -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: 5/2/2005

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Updated spanish translation
by Lucas Vieites 03 May '05

03 May '05

Hi, I'm attaching an updated spanish translation. It's not complete, but I'll finish it once it has all the new changes in it. I'm having trouble with a word: Unclump. The complete string is: "Unclump objects: try to equalize edge-to-edge distances" and several others. Can someone explain this to me or even better, send a screenshot before unclumping and after unclumping so I can see the effect. Thanks -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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Inkscape on DeviantArt
by Joshua A. Andler 02 May '05

02 May '05

This is a follow-up to a post made back in January regarding Inkscape's presence on DeviantArt (DA)... Over time, more and more artwork is being submitted to DA that was created using Inkscape. Since we had initially started the "Inkscape" group/account on DA, we quickly realized that there are two groups of people that have exclusive needs to be met. 1) The DA Inkscape artists needed a hub to share work, talk inkscape, have friendly competitions, etc. & 2) The developers and new users of Inkscape need a place to view/show a gallery of quality images made in Inkscape by the DA community. The problem with having one account is that it DA has policies such as restricting the use of favorites from members of a group, which given the mutually restrictive needs (due to their policies), we needed a separation of interests. So... onto the announcement. http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/ is now *the* place for all DA Artists that are Inkscapers to gather for all of the fun. We currently are in need of an Avatar, DevID, and website button... which is where the first contest comes into play... all the details can be found at http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/4986039/. http://inkscape.deviantart.com/ is now for official use by the Inkscape project for a showcase of work from the community as well as for official announcements and such. Feel free to drop by there to see art done by fellow inkscapers in the favorites (http://inkscape.deviantart.com/favourites/). If you have previously watched the "inkscape" account, there's no need to stop watching as you'll get announcements about new releases through it. But, you will definitely want to watch "inkscapers" (http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/) to become a part of the DA Inkscape community and to join in on the fun. Happy Inkscaping and Draw Freely! -Josh/ScislaC-

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plan for Postscript import
by MenTaLguY 02 May '05

02 May '05

I've been examining our options for importing postscript without requiring a bajillion evil dependencies, and I think I've arrived at a plan. 1) write a postscript to SVG converter in Postscript and use that for our Postscript importer 2) write a bare-bones standalone Postscript interpreter (doesn't need to implement any rendering, just provide a dummy postscipt device) and ship it with Inkscape Until #2 is finished, we can run the converter using Ghostscript, which is still two fewer dependencies than before. I've got prototypes for both #1 and #2 in CVS in the module 'ps3convert'. The prototype interpreter is written in Ruby and isn't really functional yet, but the converter (currently encapsulated in the ps-svg shell script) already works for the basic stuff. Running the converter: ./ps-svg blah.ps > blah.svg Caveats with the converter: * it's a proof-of-concept; hence the code is horribly ugly * it doesn't yet do text, gradients or clipping paths * the image in the output SVG appears above the top of the page, so you have to scroll up to see it Also one last caveat: I'm not promising any timetables on this stuff. So don't bug me to finish it. You'll probably find giving me patches to be the more productive alternative. -mental

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Inkscape HelpWanted page
by Bryce Harrington 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi guys, I've started a new wiki page 'HelpWanted', to list tasks where help is needed. This is similar to but different from the InkscapeJanitors page in that HelpWanted is focused on non-coding work needed. In particular, I've listed a bunch of Wiki update tasks that I think should be done. Please take a look and see if there's areas you can put in a few spare cycles. Also, don't be shy about adding other non-coding tasks needed that you know of! http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HelpWanted Bryce

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Project Stats May 1, 2005
by Bryce Harrington 01 May '05

01 May '05

Statistics Feb 15 Mar 15 Apr 15 May 1 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== 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 18,321 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 169 173 177 177 Lines of Code in src/: 333,139 342,852 340,515 342,061 Code lines 234,651 241,177 238,522 239,571 Comment line 58,239 60,354 60,382 60,652 Blank 46,859 47,978 48,152 48,393 Lines of Docs in doc/: 26,848 26,848 26,848 26,848 Lines of content in website: 9,776 10,067 35,937 36,590 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 24,925 25,900 26,363 26,981 Bugs open/total: 155/972 182/1047 194/1126 209/1173 Features open/total: 370/579 397/ 619 429/ 671 437/ 699 Patches open/total: 5/167 7/ 173 5/ 186 8/ 204 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 10,312 10,868 11,368 11,656 Inkscape-devel membership: 151 158 166 170 Inkscape-announce membership: 169 177 189 193 Inkscape-user membership: 193 220 234 235 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.8 45.0 47.5 45.3 * - Statistics unavailable

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Slashdotted!!!
by Jon A. Cruz 01 May '05

01 May '05

Just a quick note to let everyone know that Firefox's SVG support just got picked up on Slashdot http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/01/1738202&tid=154&tid=…

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crash: ungroup tutorial
by unknown＠example.com 01 May '05

01 May '05

While I've been working with the tutorials I've experienced a few chrashes so I've decided to start running with gdb to capture backtraces. Open tips and tricks tutorial. select everything Ctrl+A click the ungroup button a few times. segfault. Starting program: /usr/local/bin/inkscape [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1223995264 (LWP 21644)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1223995264 (LWP 21644)] 0x0812d60d in sp_selection_ungroup () at selection-chemistry.cpp:569 569 if (strcmp(SP_OBJECT_REPR(group)->name(), "svg:g") && strcmp(SP_OBJECT_REPR(group)->name(), "svg:switch")) { (gdb) bt #0 0x0812d60d in sp_selection_ungroup () at selection-chemistry.cpp:569 #1 0x082ad6ff in sp_action_perform (action=0x863a270, data=0x0) at helper/action.cpp:135 #2 0xb75c02a6 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #3 0xb75ae736 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #4 0xb75bfc5a in g_signal_emit_by_name () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #5 0xb75bee9c in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #6 0xb75bf126 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #7 0xb790e655 in gtk_button_clicked () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #8 0xb7a73bdc in gtk_toggle_button_get_inconsistent () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #9 0xb75c02a6 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #10 0xb75ae9c9 in g_cclosure_new_swap () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #11 0xb75ae736 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #12 0xb75bf651 in g_signal_emit_by_name () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #13 0xb75bee9c in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #14 0xb75bf126 in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #15 0xb790e5c5 in gtk_button_released () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #16 0xb790f383 in _gtk_button_paint () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #17 0xb79d49fe in _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 Aaron Spike

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