August 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Possible bug in 0.42
by Lucas Vieites 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi, I did a fresh install of the 0.42 autopackage from http://www.inkscape.modevia.com/ap/inkscape-0.42.x86.package on my Mandriva 2005 LE. I found the following strange behaviour: - I create a new drawing with a circle. - Duplicate the circle and resize it (the width of the stroke resizes also) - Now if I select the second circle and try to set the stroke width to 1 pt by clicking on the up and down arrows of the width field in the Fill and stroke dialog it only increases the width both clicking the up or down arrow. The increment is also not one by one, but it is a geometric increment: 4,1 -> 6,5 -> 10,4 -> 16,6 -> 20, etc I hope you can reproduce this. -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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Request for win32 loudmouth dll
by David Yip 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Oops, forgot this: We need a Win32 Loudmouth DLL for Windows testing. Instructions can be found here: http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Loudmouth_on_Windows Any volunteers? -- David

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Another update of the win32 libs
by Bob Jamison 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

The fine people over at Gtk.org have posted bugfix releases gtk+-2.6.9 and glib-2.6.6. Always interested in bugfixes, I I repackaged the development libs with them here: http://inkscape.org/win32/gtk26-050803.7z Bob

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What about aborting rendering if it takes too much time?
by Marc Weber 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

There are some cases when it takes really long to render the screen area (e.g a wire frame with many lines and viewing the whole page).. Is there any way to abort inkscape? It would be nice to switch to another "quality" of rendering if updating of the screen takes longer than x seconds. Because in some cases you don't know when inkscape will finish and undoing/deleting one step might last a time beeing equally long the only way to get rid of such a situation would be killing inkscape.. It should be no problem to switch back if you like.. What do you think?

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PDF Import?
by Jeff Carr 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I'm new to inkscape; I just ran across it this week. (apt-get it after reading the vector graphic's story). It's really impressive! I spent some time trying to import a PDF. This is a long standing PTA problem that usually has me importing it into the gimp as a tiff. I tried digging farther with my renewed energy and found only dead ends for PDF -> SVG converters. There are some, but they are all proprietary. There is even some site that lets you put your pdf into it and they will mail you a SVG (didn't work for my pdf anyway.) I eventually tried pstoedit: pstoedit -f plot.svg myfile.pdf myfile.svg inkscape myfile.svg Which got close, but lost all the text. What is the current state of PDF or postscript import? Are there some other tricks/tools anyone might recommend? Thanks, Jeff

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Inkscape percentage units
by De Winne, Joris 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hello, Is it possible to pass percentage units for x, y, width and height attributes in the xml svg file. Example of what I would like to do: <svg x="10" y="10" width="250" height="250"> <rect width="100%" height="100%" /> </svg> This would mean that we get a rectangle with width=250 and height=250. the problem is it looks like the inkscape viewer can't work with %. Any solution? 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New binary portability problem identified
by unknown＠example.com 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

inkblotter wrote: > > FC4, 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4smp > gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5) > > In a fresh installation of FC4 (this weekend) I cannot install inkscape > 0.42 in my home directory with this autopackage > > The complaint is: > > Error: Package 'Standard C++ library' was found but was of the wrong > version and the correct version could not be located. > > [IV 3 for @gnu.org/libstdc++] > > > Perhaps if I had let it run as root it might have worked. > > autopackage is way cool but it isn't yet working in FC4 in my home > directory as far as I can tell. It's trying to work.... > > aaron@...749... wrote: > >> Mike Hearn wrote: >> >>> Aaron, can you rebuild the autopackage against *mm 2.4 static libraries >>> and push a -2 release of the package, so users on GTK+ 2.4 systems >>> can use >>> them again? >> >> >> >> Hey, is this one any better? I really don't know how to check. >> >> http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/inkscape-0.42-2.x86.package >> >> Aaron Spike Mike, any idea what this is about? Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New binary portability problem identified
by mike＠...869... 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

> Tried that and I get this "nm: /usr/bin/inkscape: no symbols". Sorry, try "nm -D", or alternatively, "readelf -aW" -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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languages in install
by bulia byak 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Based on feedback so far, we really need the option to NOT install the language files when installing on Windows, so that Inkscape would only use English. I think this should be a pretty simple patch to the nsis installer file, to ask "Do you want to use English interface, or the language of your Windows system (if Inkscape has a translation for that language)". Added bonus if it can detect WHICH language is going to be used. Any volunteers? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Newbie to Developer Process under Windows
by Douglas Neale 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi List, I'm just starting up with the project and want to run under XP. I have been advised that VC++, which I would have preferred, is too difficult to get going. So I started with the 'Compiling Inkscape for the Win32 Platform' document and cannot unpack a downloaded copy of gtk26 with 7-zip. I get the error 'this is not a supported archive' with both gtk copies on the website using either of the 2 available versions of 7-zip. Downloading with IE produces different size files from using Firefox so I'm guessing it's a download problem. Can anyone point me to an alternative source of the gtk26 library, perhaps in a normal zip format? TIA Douglas Neale

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