November 2006 - Inkscape Devel

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

2 1

Status of inkboard feature
by Denis Leroy 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

What is the status of the inkboard feature ? Is it considered stable ? More importantly, is it considered safe (from a security standpoint) ? We had requests in Fedora to have the feature enabled and so am doing some testing on my side. It was originally turned off because it was pretty unstable and would often crash in the loudmouth library, but that was a while ago... thx! -denis

8 10

Difference between inkview and inkscape -s?
by Tim Dwyer 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Hi All, In the past I have found inkview to be a very handy tool for quickly looking at svg, but lately it seems horribly broken (see bug 1592467). Then I discovered that "inkscape -s" seems to be more or less the same thing... but it doesn't crash. What's the difference between inkview and "inkscape -s"? Do we really need the maintenance and bloat of two separate binaries? Sorry if I've missed any on-going discussion on this. Thanks heaps Tim

3 5

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problem with the Latex Formula module
by Stéphane Gimenez 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Sorry, my first message was meant to be addresed to the list. > >Could you try with the latest svn version of the extension script and > >give us feedback? > > > >http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/share/ex… > > > It is better, I have now a window message :) : > > dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened. […] Yes, it's better! Now I guess you got this message because the formula input you gave to the extension was either not valid LateX, or it became invalid because of a shell expansion which occured when the script was called by the extensions manager (this is a bug). Can you try with a simple "$ \cos(x) $" LaTeX input? To know how your imput will be expanded you can use the following shell command: $ echo -E "$$\cos(x)$$" 8012\cos(x)8012 For example '$$' is expanded to the pid of the processus. As a workarround, try not to use '$' or '$$' but '\(' and '\[' instead to enter math mode. Stéphane. PS: I'll also try to improve error reports when the given input is not valid LaTeX.

3 6

Secondary toolbar size?
by Andreas Nilsson 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Dear Inkscape developers. Myself and some other folks are currently working on some icons for Inkscape [1], but have ran into some issues. Apparently my build (13378 ...the latest one I got to work) wants to use 16x16 images for the icons in both the topmost (although the ones it gets from the desktop theme is 24x24) and the secondary toolbar. The tools toolbar however still use 24x24 images (and that is the correct behavior I suspect). However, other peoples toolbars use the 24x24 size (and so did mine until recently), this leads to the problem that I don't know what size to aim at. If I use 24x24 images for the toolbar, they get blurry on my system, and if I use 16x16 it gets blurry on others. What is the correct size used by these toolbars, and is there some way I can have icons in several sizes? The several sizes issue is even more troublesome, as the icons from the tools toolbar gets all blurry in the undo history dialog among other places [2]. 1.http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/inkscape-icons.tar.gz 2. http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/inkscape-iconsizes.png - Andreas

4 10

New C++ find dialog
by Johan Engelen 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Hello all, (this is about the current SVN-trunk version) I've been busy implementing the find dialog as a c++ dialog (ui\dialog\find.cpp). I hope it inspires others to spend some off-time on implementing the other old (non gtkmm) dialogs! It's pretty lame work though. Maybe good work for new people to get started? But very very unexciting I guess. But refactoring is a noble cause! (Mail me if you need help) If you have time to test the find dialog for bugs, please go to src/verbs.cpp:1618 and remove the comment //. I know the UI is not what it should be. When I tried adding the HSeparator as in the old find dialog, Inkscape would crash so I gave up on the issue at the moment. Thanks, Johan

1 0

markers in arena shapes?
by Bryce Harrington 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Mental or Bulia, I've got a question... In looking at where marker stuff is hooked in I notice a lot of stuff in nr-arena-shape.cpp, which appears to be special casing marker elements as shape children. I'm attempting to add some documentation, but it's a little confusing to me. Could either of you explain what the design intent is for this? In particular, I'm wondering why markers have this special case; it feels like an odd fit in nr-arena-shape since everything else is so generalized, and I'm wondering if there could be a way to generalize the markers so no special case is needed for them? Bryce

4 7

g2png
by bulia byak 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Hi Cedric, you have committed the "g2png" extension. It has many problems. 1. It wasn't added to Makefile.am and so ignored during installation. 2. We don't use capital letters in filenames so G2Pngs.py had to be renamed to g2pngs.py. 3. The python file had some French Unicode symbols on which my Python interpreter choked. Please translate the comments to English. 4. It was added to a "Recursive actions" submenu which makes little sense from the user viewpoint. I changed that to "Export". 5. It has a wrong copyright statement. You are not Aaron Spike, are you? :) 6. The URI should also be changed - don't use org.ekips, use org.inkscape or your own domain. 7. Most importantly, this extension just goes and exports ALL groups in the document, recursively. This does not seem to make sense to me. In most documents, it results in an awful lot of pngs, most of which are not needed. To be useful, instead, it should just export _all selected objects_ (not just groups!) without any recursion. Correspondingly, rename it to "Export selected objects" or something like that. 8. It ignores the filename and resolution hints stored for objects, always exporting them at the default resolution with the filename from the id. This is not acceptable. See the man page for how to use export hints. I have fixed problems 1 to 4 in SVN, but the rest are for you to fix. I'd suggest that you should have submitted this as a patch to our patch tracker, or at least have it discussed on the list, before committing to SVN. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

3 2

PDF Output Atlas
by Aaron Spike 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

I think it is generally agreed that PDF output is the last outstanding blocker on the release process. Anyone who can spare a few cycles to help perfect PDF output will be much appreciated. It would be nice if the wise could supply some commentary on the state of PDF output to taper off the learning curve for newcomers to the field (like myself). As I sit here staring blankly at the files in src/extension/internal, I could really use an atlas that explains which files are important to pdf output, which particular effort they are part of, how they relate to each other, and where my effort should be focused. http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/exte… Thanks, Aaron Spike

1 0

Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: RadioButtons for extensions (.INX)
by Johan Engelen 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:41:16 +0000 (GMT) > From: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> > > > Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:23:31 +0100 > > From: Johan Engelen <goejendaagh@...1571...> > > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: RadioButtons for extensions (.INX) > > > > I've added radiobuttons to the parameter types for > extensions :) They are > > called: 'optiongroup'; English is not my native tongue > which makes it often > > difficult to come up with a label..., please rename if desired. > > A developer example is available as a placeholder until a > real extension > > uses it. > > Have you seperated the option group concept from the > imlementation as a radio list? I've thought about that (since the last discussion about enums), and it is the reason that the syntax is exactly equal to enums. I think it is safe to answer 'Yes'. (I will rename <item> to <option>) > For example you might want to take the same options and > reformat them as > drop down list rather than a radio list depending on how much > space you > have available or how important that option really is. Yes that is possible (for example: if the number of choices is more than 3, display dropdown, otherwise radiobuttons. However I must say that at this moment I prefer to give full control to the extension developer.

2 1