December 2006 - Inkscape Devel

please test the proposed perspective extension
by bulia byak 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

We have a new Perspective extension in our patch tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1600298&group_id=9… It's very useful potentially, but for some reason, I can't make it work properly, although it reportedly works for the author and another user. I would appreciate if more people could try it out and report their results. Note that to use it, you will need to install Numeric Python: http://numpy.scipy.org (in addition to regular Python). To install the extension, place the inx and py file from perspective_v0.3.tgz into your extensions directory. Please share your experience - thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Bug Hunt for 0.45
by Bryce Harrington 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Unfortunately the numbers haven't changed since the last time I posted them, but here's where we are: 1576258 3 Color artifact in SVN gaussian blur nobody 1612814 3 Guides ans Gridlines vanish on corresp. alpha... nobody 1513218 6 Win32: ask if old menus.xml should be kept when... theadib 1604391 3 MouseWheel NodeSelection > Undo = Floating Node nobody 1572450 3 Dialogs pop up off screen nobody ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 18 I'm a little concerned because we have a *lot* of high criticality bugs that lead to crashes. How can we get more of these closed? Bryce

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Problems with configure file
by Pierre-Luc Auclair 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hi, I'm having problems with the configure file. I tried using --with-xft and --without-xft but it doesn't change a thing. Here's the problem: ############################################################# ############################################################# ## ## Error ## ########### ./configure: line 9675: syntax error near unexpected token `XFT,' ./configure: line 9675: ` PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XFT, xft, xft_ok=yes, xft_ok=no)' ############################################################# ############################################################# ## ## configure file ## ############ # Check whether --with-xft or --without-xft was given. if test "${with_xft+set}" = set; then withval="$with_xft" with_xft=$withval else with_xft=auto fi; if test "x$with_xft" != "xno" ; then PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XFT, xft, xft_ok=yes, xft_ok=no) if test "x$xft_ok" != "xyes"; then PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XFT, fontconfig, xft_ok=yes, xft_ok=no) if test "x$xft_ok" != "xyes"; then if test "${ac_cv_header_X11_Xft_Xft_h+set}" = set; then echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for X11/Xft/Xft.h" >&5 echo $ECHO_N "checking for X11/Xft/Xft.h... $ECHO_C" >&6 if test "${ac_cv_header_X11_Xft_Xft_h+set}" = set; then echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6 fi echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_header_X11_Xft_Xft_h" >&5 echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_header_X11_Xft_Xft_h" >&6 else # Is the header compilable? ############################################################# ############################################################# Thanks, Pierre-Luc

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Update on www.inkscape.org performance issues
by Bryce Harrington 24 Dec '06

24 Dec '06

I've been continuing to investigate the problems we've been having with the website. The root issue is that we get so many hits to our website that it is overwhelming apache. Apache has been hitting its MAX_CLIENTS limit. Unfortunately, simply increasing MAX_CLIENTS isn't doable because we only have 1G of memory available. We've also been maxing out our ip_conntrack_count limit periodically (which is really bad, because it disables all the other sites sharing the box with us at OSUOSL). I've hooked up squid as a transparent caching proxy, which hopefully should help a good deal, as it'll cache our php pages and avoid reexecuting those scripts. Should make the site work faster too. Whether it'll actually solve the problem remains to be seen though, so please let me know if you notice the site down again. Bryce

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Blur Radius Scales
by Daniel Pope 23 Dec '06

23 Dec '06

Hi, last weekend I took a moment to download an SVN build and posted a few observations to the tracker. One particular wishlist item which I suggested was tweaking the blur scale from linear to quadratic, which in my experimentation seemed to give me a much more even control over how much blur to apply, because I was finding the current scale, and certainly the slider, useless for the subtle effects. I've found as I've used Inkscape more over the course of the week that generally the upper 70% of the scale is useless for my purposes. I've uploaded a comparison of the current and my proposed blur scales[1] to the tracker and would like to request comments. Merry Xmas/whatever else you are celebrating, Dan [1] http://sf.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=93438&atid=604309&file_id=20833…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Would it be possible to add support for opacity greater than 100%
by Kevin Baragona 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

It would be a straight multiplier to the alpha of the pixels, just like how (i think) it is now except you could also make something 'more' opaque than normal. This would be useful for say blurred objects that became too transparent. I am pretty sure this would invalidate the css according to w3c but isn't that why there is inkscape-svg and plain-svg? When saving to plain-svg a file with something like 250% opacity, it could be layered like 2 100% objects and a 50% object which I believe would then be ok. Thanks, Kevin

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Layers Opacity %?
by John Bintz 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

I noticed that, while all of the other 0..1 ranges have been changed to 0..100%, the Layers Dialog opacity has not. I have the code to make this change almost ready, but I wanted to ask two things before I committed anything: 1. Since it's close to a release, should I hold off on this change? 2. The Fill & Stroke dialog for Opacity and Blur places the percent signs outside of the SpinButtons, in the labels. Should the Layer Opacity be the same (the label now becoming "Opacity %:") or should it be like the Zoom control (% in the SpinButton itself)? Thanks, John

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[Fwd: SCALE to host Birds of a Feather Sessions!]
by jtaber 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

I don't think many of us were able to submit a paper/full presentation but how about an Inkscape BOF? It would be cool to have a few of us give 15 min demos of how we're using some Inkscape features in our line of work - I'll volunteer to show off how I'm using it with GIS (nodes, layers, potrace). Anyone else interested ? John -------- Original Message -------- Subject: SCALE to host Birds of a Feather Sessions! Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:23:00 -0800 From: Gareth J. Greenaway <g@...1153...> Organization: Southern California Linux Expo To: Gareth J. Greenaway <g@...1153...> “BoF”s are “Birds of a Feather” sessions. They're intended for those who would like to get together with others with interest in a similar subject. Linux Expo of SoCal would like to host your BoF at the Fifth Annual So Cal Linux Expo February 10th & 11th, 2007. The BoF sessions will be 45 minutes to 1 hour long. If you'd like to organize a BoF at SCALE, the Expo will publicize it and host it for you. Please send the following info for consideration to g@...1153...: - Title of the BoF - Brief description of BoF topic - Group hosting the BoF - Contact person for BoF (discussion leader/moderator,etc) Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at SCALE 5x Gareth -- Gareth J. Greenaway | g@...1153... Voice - 877-831-2569 x130 Southern California Linux Expo http://www.socallinuxexpo.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Fwd: SCALE to host Birds of a Feather Sessions!]
by jtaber 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Gareth J. Greenaway wrote: > I think this would make a good BoF, showing Inkscape and SVG in real life > situation so people can see an example of open source in the real world. > > Would someone mind emailing me the details that I had requested for in the > original email and I'll add this idea to the list of potential BoFs for > consideration? Thanks. > > Gareth > If someone else wants to take the lead here, fine. Otherwise, I'll set this up with Gareth. Josh, if you're coming, one of your tablet drawing demos would be great. Maybe someone could show off the gradient, filters stuff. btw, Happy Holidays to all

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Fwd: SCALE to host Birds of a Feather Sessions!]
by Ted Gould 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 09:06 -0800, Gareth J. Greenaway wrote: > I think this would make a good BoF, showing Inkscape and SVG in real life > situation so people can see an example of open source in the real world. > > Would someone mind emailing me the details that I had requested for in the > original email and I'll add this idea to the list of potential BoFs for > consideration? Thanks. John, Do you want to write this up? I'm putting in a vote for you being in charge ;) --Ted

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