November 2006 - Inkscape Devel

ANNOUNCE 1.3.3.5
by Plinnell 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.3.5 This release is purely a further bug fix release to the recently released 1.3.3.4. In particular, there are more SVG import and rendering fixes, including enhancements to imported text from SVG. There were fixes and improvements in the Story Editor, Undo/Redo and UI translation updates including new Greek and Bretion translations. Some PDF and PSD import improvements were backported from 1.3.4. Scribus now *requires* libtiff and the littlecms libraries. --- With the announcement of 1.3.3.5, the team is officially announcing there will be no more development or bug fixes to 1.2.x series. We now recommend all distributions package 1.3.3.5+ from now on. The Scribus team has announced previously there there will be substantial core code changes in the next 1.3.4 and 1.3.5 releases, so the team has branched 1.3.3 to provide a stable usable version. The upcoming 1.3.4 version will include a completely rewritten text layout engine for more refined glyph and text layout, along with a host of new features including advanced transparency support, image effects and more. The team has decided to migrate QT 4.2.x for version 1.3.5. --- A special thanks to members of the OpenBSD team for working with us to solve some of the issues fixed with this release. The Scribus Team would also like to thank - Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting and Cardia AS for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release.

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new screenshots
by bulia byak 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Those without an SVN build of Inkscape are invited to visit the recently updated gallery of 0.45 screenshots: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/ The exhibits demonstrate the two photorealistic car renditions, a demo of the proposed gradient mesh approach, and a mini-tutorial on creating life-like shading for arbitrary rope-like shapes. All examples use Gaussian blur, and the source files of all examples are in share/examples in SVN. Enjoy! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Help Wanted
by Aaron Spike 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

How would we as a community feel about posting some of the more important todo tasks or good entry level tasks on the inkscape.org news? Aaron

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Autopackage: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8
by Jochem Liem 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Dear developers, I first tried installing inkscape-0.44.1.x86.WONKY.package, but this gave libpng and c-library problems. I installed inkscape200611051452.package, which solves the above problems, but gives the following error: [jliem@...1558... Desktop]$ /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/inkscape & [1] 31989 [jliem@...1558... Desktop]$ /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/.proxy.inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [1]+ Exit 127 /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/inkscape [jliem@...1558... Desktop]$ Is this a bug in the installer, or can I correct this myself (without a root account)? Best regards, Jochem -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jochem Liem =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Work: Home: Human Computer Studies Laboratory Zuiderkerkstraat 3 Informatics Institute 1501 NE, Zaandam Faculty of Science The Netherlands University of Amsterdam Kruislaan 419, Matrix I, Room 2.25 jliem@...1557... 1098 VA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.science.uva.nl/~jliem/ Phone: +31 (0)20 8884 666 (work) Phone: +31 (0)75 6122 972 (home) Fax: +31 (0)20 525 6896 (work) Mobile: +31 (0)6 4321 9992 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Adobe PDF and XML, introducing Mars. Nota Bene: it uses SVG!
by Alan Horkan 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Adobe have announced a project for representing PDF in XML called Mars. They have also announced a project to cooperate with Mozilla on a shared ECMAScipt project codenamed Apollo. (Javascript is formally known as ECMA Script, Adobe/Macromedia has long had a version called Actionscript but I still like the original name Livescript best.) Not so relevant to inkscape at the moment. It also sounds vaguely like they are going to use Webkit (KHTML) but that has even less relevance to Inkscape. The interesting part of all this project Mars relevant to Inkscape can be found buried in the Frequently Asked Questions: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars:FAQ#What_advantages_does_SVG_brin… "SVG is an abbreviation for Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML-based, W3C standard language for describing graphics. Many applications and tools can create or manipulate SVG page contents. SVG page content can also be converted to PDF graphic operators using Acrobat 8.0 Professional and the Mars plug-in." I'd love to give you more details but so far I only know as much as can be seen in the FAQ. http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars:FAQ Looks promising. You might even say it was pretty cool. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ P.S. I know I should probably add this to the Wiki and I probably will eventually but I welcome the help of anyone who wants to do it first or even find better information.

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[Fwd: [Inkscape-tracker] [ inkscape-Patches-1591552 ] stringfix: s/Add Layer/New Layer]
by Jon Phillips 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Should I accept this patch? It is a stringfix for consistency between gimp and inkscape and layers... Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: SourceForge.net <noreply@...34...> > To: noreply@...34... > Subject: [Inkscape-tracker] [ inkscape-Patches-1591552 ] stringfix: > s/Add Layer/New Layer > Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:41:37 -0800 > > Patches item #1591552, was opened at 2006-11-06 18:41 > Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1591552&group_… > > Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, > including the initial issue submission, for this request, > not just the latest update. > Category: None > Group: None > Status: Open > Resolution: None > Priority: 5 > Private: No > Submitted By: Alan Horkan (horkana) > Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) > Summary: stringfix: s/Add Layer/New Layer > > Initial Comment: > stringfix: > > change the menu item from "Add Layer" to "New Layer" > > better consistency with the GIMP and other applications > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1591552&group_… > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-tracker mailing list > Inkscape-tracker(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tracker > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Assign hot keys to specific actions?
by bulia byak 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

On 11/7/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > Bryce, the file to edit for remapping keys is called > > share/keys/default.xml. > > Can you put a note about this into the Tips and Tricks tutorial or the > Keys document? OK, I will add a note. As for the .rc file, would anyone object if I just delete it? It doesn't look like it's being used. > Well, units.xml was something Jon Cruz started after I implemented the > units stuff using the units.txt file. The units.txt file is pretty easy > to edit and has worked adequately, but I can see why some people might > want it in xml. Unfortunately, the units.xml stuff never actually > worked, and it wasn't clear what the plan was for making it work, so > it's just been there disabled all this time. JonCruz, will you object to removing units.xml? > Then would it be possible to have a shortcut key that does vertical and > horizontal center alignment? What needs to be done is creating a _verb_ that does this. After that, adding it to menu or assigning a key to it will be trivial. There are many things that Inkscape can do in principle, but not through a verb, and these things should be verbified. By the way, verbification is pretty simple thing to do, so it's a good work for novice coders. Just review verbs.h and verbs.cpp, they're pretty self-explanatory. For example just recently, I verbified the select next/select prev actions, bound to Tab/Shift+Tab, and as a result these keys now work in all tools and not only Selector/Node as before. > Oh, there is also a bug in text centering - write some text, then change > it from left-aligned to center-aligned. The text then moves from its > current position to half its width to the left. This bug has been there > since Sodipodi days... It's not really a "bug". Inkscape just needs to recalculate the anchor point based on the bounding box of the text, in addition to changing alignment. More like a missing feature (worth a RFE). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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GTK+ Quartz Backend on Mac OS X
by Derek Hinchliffe 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi all, Recently I've been playing with compiling Inkscape against the experimental native quartz (Mac OS X) backend for GTK+ [1] and I've had some reasonable success so far. After following the GTK+ build instructions on the Imendio project page, I then compiled all the pre-reqs for Inkscape into a custom prefix (/opt/gtk), and then compiled Inkscape using: CFLAGS="-flat_namespace -undefined suppress" ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk The result is a binary that I can run (using inkscape -g) and doesn't require X11 at all. A screenshot is available.[2] It loads fine, and I can open and edit files. The problems so far: 1. Various visual glitches (eg. some icons in GTK dialogs displaying an ugly yellow, scroll bar glitches, menus not being entirely responsive), 2. Some random crashes when dealing with complex SVGs, 3. Very slow refresh of canvas, which gets painted in gray first, then you can visibly see it paint the canvas on from top to bottom. This happens regularly when interacting or scrolling. Problem 3 is by far the most noticable, and if it wasn't for that (and the odd crash) it would be quite usable! Having no experience with developing Inkscape (and very little with GTK+), can someone give me a clue as to which package I need to focus on to troubleshoot #3? Does Inkscape use Cairo to paint the canvas? Or is it pure GDK? Or cairo via GTK+? You can see I know very little here ;) Anyway the progress so far is impressive, and I don't think it will be too much longer before it would be realistic to start integrating GTK+ further into the OS (eg. using native OSX menu bar, a quartz widget gtk-theme-engine, etc). Cheers Derek [1] http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/ [2] http://www.hinchy.org/inkscape/inkscape-gtk-quartz.png

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Openfontlibrary] Fwd: Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation
by Jon Phillips 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 11:37 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi All, > > Thought this might be of interest to this list :-) Yes, I apologize for cross-list posting, but this is pretty huge news for Inkscape and others... > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alex Hudson <home@...1553...> > Date: 07-Nov-2006 09:33 > Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with > Mozilla Foundation > To: discussion@...1554... > Cc: fsfe-uk@...570... > > > > I'm not sure if people will have seen this with all the other noise > about Novell etc.: > > http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html > > The scripting engine of Flash (which, from what I've been told, is very > much like Javascript anyway) has been donated to Mozilla, and will be > part of their future JS implementation (I gather). > > In other Adobe news, people may have seen that they're building on other > free software like WebKit: > > http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo > > (RIA's == "Rich Internet Applications", FYI) > > .. and Microsoft's XML Paper Specification seems to have scared them > into doing: > > http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars > > While Adobe haven't been terribly free software friendly in many ways in > the past, it does seem like now is an opportune time to talk to them: > they may be becoming more receptive to the needs of the free software > community. > > Cheers, > > Alex. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fsfe-uk mailing list > Fsfe-uk@...570... > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk > > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Command Line version of Inkscape for Windows
by Hugo Ferreira 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, Could someone provide me with an URL (or just send the executable) of a the latest version of inkscape for windows compiled for console use (as seen here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#I.27m_on_Windows.2C_and_command…). The problem is that I'm invoking inkscape from a PHP script with exec() to convert an .svg to .jpg on-the-fly, but since inkscape doesn't hold the console until the conversion is done, most of the times I try to read the file before it has been created. Thanks in advance, Hugo Ferreira P.S.: If anyone know other way of using Inkscape to render .svg to .jpg without calling it from the console, then I would very much appreciate the help! -- GPG Fingerprint: B0D7 1249 447D F5BB 22C5 5B9B 078C 2615 504B 7B85

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