June 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Font Size
by Ted Gould 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

After a little investigation yesterday, I think that the style test is failing when trying to set "font-size" to "0". I think that after it goes through all the style code it comes out as "0px". Is this correct? Is this a problem with the test? --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-tracker] [ inkscape-Bugs-1116480 ] eat memory with patterns
by MenTaLguY 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:48 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > (Also the symptoms -- amount of leakage being related to > > screen area -- are consistent with leaking bitmap memory, > > which we never allocate with the collector.) > > As said before, 20% is here: The question is, why isn't that 20% being collected? The most obvious thing would be that, since the XML nodes are also refcounted (via Inkscape::GC::Anchored), that there is either: 1) improper refcounting by SPObjects which reference the XML nodes 2) SPObjects being leaked while they still reference XML nodes Either one would result in pinning the XML nodes so they could not be collected by the collector. There are also other, more esoteric possibilities (but those wouldn't generally be so consistent). If it were #1, you could expect to see most (rather than a smaller percentage) of the leaked memory coming from the GC heap. Since we are seeing a lot of leaked memory from conventional malloc(), that tends to suggest that garbage-collected memory is being pinned by references from the leaked conventional objects -- i.e. scenario #2. -mental

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0.42 and Mac OS X DMG
by Jon Phillips 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Hello, I'm curious as to the state of the MAC OS X DMG of Inkscape? I would like to make the push to get a working Mac DMG of Inkscape out as part of 0.42. Many people I know in academia want to use Inkscape in the classroom. I also can't bear to watch my gf use Illustrator in all its clunkiness on her new mac -- honestly, it is bloated and is useless without the tracing feature. I'm always shuttling fixed images back to her so she can use in her work. Anyhow, I see the wiki page on Compiling OS X is quite full of a lot of comments, but no clear answer to the OS X package. http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CompilingMacOsX Basically, I would like for our next release to come out with inkscape-0.42-mac-ppc.dmg at sf.net. Therefore, people will be able to download and be happy in mac land. Obviously, this will require X11 (unless someone wants to port it to aqua...hahahahah...just kidding). Please update me! 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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Compiling with extension support
by Lucas Vieites 27 Jun '05

27 Jun '05

Hi, I'm testing out the .42 version for translation consistency but I can't get it to compile the extensions. I have read Aaron's doc on dependency: http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/depends.php I have the packages mentioned there but still the ./configure script says at the end: Use Xft font database: yes Use gnome-print: no Use gnome-vfs no Use openoffice files: yes Use MMX optimizations: yes Use relocation support: no Use Python extensions: skipped Use Perl extensions: skipped I still don't have the "Effects" menu Am I missing some step here? Thanks, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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Tests failing
by Ted Gould 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

I almost have distcheck passing... but now this test is failing, I'll start looking into it, but if someone knows what's wrong, please do say. --Ted Testing style... sp_style_new, sp_style_write_string...Assertion `streq(str0_all, str0_all_exp)' failed sp_style_merge_from_style_string(whitespace, ifset...OK sp_style_merge_from_style_string(whitespace, always...Assertion `streq(str0_all, str0_all_exp)' failed sp_style_merge_from_style_string("fill:", ifset)...OK sp_style_merge_from_style_string("font-family:", always)...Assertion `streq(str0_all, str0_all_exp)' failed sp_style_merge_from_style_string("fill: ", ifset)...OK sp_style_merge_from_style_string("font-family: ", always)...Assertion `streq(str0_all, str0_all_exp)' failed sp_style_merge_from_style_string(":none", ifset)...OK sp_style_merge_from_style_string...Assertion `streq(str0_all, str0_all_exp)' failed style: FAILED (4/9 tests passed) FAIL: style-test

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gtk-wimp being hacked on
by Colin Marquardt 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

Hi, FWIW, dom is hacking on gtk-wimp and also has some suggestions for GTK/Gnome application writers: http://www.advogato.org/person/cinamod/diary.html?start=55 Cheers, Colin -- [00:37:14]<QuoteMstr> I'm trying GNU Emacs 21.1 now. [00:43:27]<QuoteMstr> AARAGH [00:43:35]<QuoteMstr> I have broken my vow to give up IRC! [00:43:35]<-- QuoteMstr has quit

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Google SoC and mentors
by David Yip 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

Hello all, First, I apologize if this message is misdirected. I've seen Summer of Code-related topics in this list before; however, I also know that John Cliff is the point of contact for SoC proposal discussion, but I'm not sure if he is also involved in mentor assignment. With that said, I'm interested in how mentor assignment will occur -- will there be a separate list, one-to-one correspondence, or some other method? My project proposal involved the integration of Inkboard's code with Inkscape's main trunk, along with a few extensions to the idea. I would like to clarify required and optional deliverables and agree upon scheduling, etc. Thank you, David Yip

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about dialog
by MenTaLguY 26 Jun '05

26 Jun '05

One of the complaints I've been seeing about the about dialog contest is that our list of credits is so long, and it's getting hard to design around. It's only going to get longer with future releases. Maybe we could move the credits outside the splash image itself. What about e.g. a vertically scrolling sidebar? Any other ideas? Thoughts? -mental

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Re: Google Summer of Code proposals
by Greg Steffensen 25 Jun '05

25 Jun '05

Thanks to all the reviewers; I'm still waiting to hear, but I'll contribute work on OCAL integration even if mine is not accepted, and hopefully other extension work too. I noticed that the PSF will encourage its accepted applicants to keep a blog about their projects; Inkscape might want to do that too. Greg

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Creating custom objects
by SJ H 25 Jun '05

25 Jun '05

I've written a plugin for Skencil that allows LaTeX text objects to be included and rendered, and am assessing the viability for doing something similar in Inkscape. I've seen the extensions description from last year, but none of the extension objects there really seem to meet the need. What I'd be looking for is creating a new type of object that retains its identity as an object so that the text can be edited again. So I'm interested in whether there are examples of something conceptually similar having been done already. Basically, the mechanism I'm looking for would allow an extension/plugin to: - create a new object that can be later modified as an object (including after being saved and opened again) - accept user input for parameters that can later be changed - run an external program when an update is made - import an external file to replace the current object curves (I' Once those things can be done, having a latex object is fairly trivial. I'd appreciate if someone could point to where to look for examples of extensions that do these things under inkscape.

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