March 2006 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

win32: separating debug symbols
by Bob Jamison 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi, all, For a while now, there has been a struggle between those of us who want testers to send us full Gdb backtraces, and people who need smaller files to download over their connections. I have been working on a compromise between the two: 1. Separating out the debug symbols into a file named inkscape.dbg, and then stripping inkscape.exe . This takes longer to link, but it preserves all of the debug symbols. 2. For each .exe that we place on a download page, we also provide a compressed copy of its corresponding .dbg file. Now testers do not need to download those many MB of symbols every time, but when a bug happens, they can download the .dbg, do a backtrace, and send the info to us. Now the difference between the 'stripped' and 'unstripped' versions of the builds need only refer to the accompanying DLLs, not the Inkscape executable itself. I committed the makefiles already, and I'm uploading Inkscape0603021243.zip and Inkscape0603021243-dbg.zip. Hope this can help alleviate some of the confusion. I'll post some info on how to use gdb with the .dbg file. Bob (ishmal)

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Save as XCF with layers
by Aaron Spike 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I know this has been mentioned before. Some people think it would be handy to save an SVG file from Inkscape as an XCF maintaining layers. I was going to have together a quick output extension in python and an accompanying script-fu for the gimp to make this happen, but I don't think we have the appropriate export options. It would be really fun to have a single command to export all the layers at once to something like filename-0001-layername.png, but I don't know how widely applicable that would be. According to the man page, --export-id forces the object's bbox for --export-area. I think this makes what I want to do impossible. I would suggest we make canvas size ALWAYS default and add an --export-bbox option. This would mean more typing for the people who already use this functionality, but it would IMHO make more sense overall. Aaron Spike

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OpenType fonts
by James Kilfiger 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

What is the current level of support for OpenType fonts with postscript-like outlines? It seems to be not at all; my font works well in Scribus (1.32, Win32) and other windows applications, but isn't available in Inkscape (recent svn build). Generally what handles fonts now? freetype, Windows, pango or or or own code? James

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Compiling Inkscape in Cygwin
by Sean LeBlanc 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hello, I'm trying to compile Inkscape on Cygwin. I keep getting this during configure: checking for INKSCAPE_CFLAGS... checking for INKSCAPE_LIBS... /cygdrive/c/gtk/lib/ Package gdkmm-2.4 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdkmm-2.4.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gdkmm-2.4' found configure: error: Package requirements (gdkmm-2.4 glibmm-2.4 gtkmm-2.4 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.6.11 libxs lt >= 1.0.15 sigc++-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gthread-2.0 >= 2.0) were not met. Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively you may set the INKSCAPE_CFLAGS and INKSCAPE_LIBS environment variables to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. The odd thing is that I have downloaded gtkmm devel from here: http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/binaries/gtkmm-devel-2.8.3-1.… Thoughts? -- Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc@...210... http://sean-leblanc.blogspot.com/ Because it's there. -George Leigh Mallory

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Color drag-n-drop
by Jon A. Cruz 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

I just checked in a change to make the style minibar a target for color drag-n-drop. You can now drag colors from the swatches palette onto either the fill or stroke indicators to change the current object. Also, this should work with any apps doing a standard color drag-n- drop. I've tried this with The GIMP and also the 'font and colors' preference settings for gedit. I'd be interested in seeing which other apps do and do not work will with this. Also, since I fixed how color is dragged *from* the swatches, other programs should accept colors dragged from Inkscape.

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