March 2006 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Where has the tool set gone?
by erikhalbert 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I have not seriously played with Inkscape for about six months so I thought I'll do a complete reinstal. My system is Win2000. I cleaned out old copies of Inkscape and brought down Inkscape-0603271700 (43.5M). It appeared to install OK but when I opened it I find that I cannot not use it because the toolset is missing many of its functions. All that is there is: Create rectangles and squares Select and transform Create circles, ellipses and arcs Flip vertically Flip horizontally Edit path nodes and Convert selected object to path This seems so bizarre. Either 1. There is a dialog somewhere that sets up a specific toolset. 2. Something is borked. 3. I am doing something really silly because I've been away from Inkscape too long. I've had a look around and cannot see anything that looks promising. Can someone help me out here. I've been using Inkscape for years so I know how it should behave and it certainly is not doing it now for me. Thanks, Erik

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: paste size
by Martin Owens 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

It would be nice to get more copy paste style elements, or even a copy paste that works with the apple command key instead of the ctrl key. On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:37:57 -0700 , "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...> wrote: >Joshua A. Andler wrote: >> This qualifies as one of those enhancements that I never knew I >> needed. FANTASTIC! This is easily one of the greatest improvements >> I've seen in a while. It has all options I'd need and is everything >> I'd hope it would be. Rock on Bulia! > > >Of course I spoke too soon about all the options I'd need. ;) I thought >of two more size related paste options, what about pasting width or >height and constraining proportions? I know that sometimes I need the >width to match, but need the height scaled proportionally with it (such >as a logo). What are your thoughts on this? > >-Josh > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language >that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast >and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > -- #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::# #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::#

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Bug in the command line interface of Inkscape on Windows 32 platform
by Gilles Foucault 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hello guys ! Thanks to the answer from bulia byak (See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Q:_I.27m_on_Windows.2C_and_comm… ) I compiled Inkscape under MinGW-Win32 using the good options to make the command line interface work under windows, just as Bulia wrote in the FAQ. Now it works as expected. I put my customized build to the following URL : executables only : http://gillou.cjb.net/research/files/inkscape-Win32-CLI-0.43.zip sources and executables : http://gillou.cjb.net/research/files/inkscape-Win32-CLI-devel-0.43.tar.bz2 Makefile rule to transform Inkscape SVG file to EPS format : %.eps : %.svg $(INKSCAPE) --export-eps=$@ $< Best regards, Gilles

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CVS build performance issues with AMD ??
by stinky wizzleteet 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi all, On my laptop medion MD4130, AMD k7, radeon IGP320 I've tried inkscape-LATEST, compiled it with mingw, compiled it in debian(unstable) , but: There is a significant performance loss when moving about a group of elements, moreover, this performance even deteriotates further when one moves the group a couple of times. I have seen this performance issue also in the official build in windows, but I fixed it by moving away the gtk dlls I already had installed. In debian, the official debian deb did not have the performance issue. It leads me to, well, guess that the issue is related to gtk/cairo vs AMD. Help appreciated, sander

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downloads page
by Alexandre Prokoudine 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Greetings, http://www.inkscape.org/download.php still tells people about anonymous CVS access. It would be great if somebody whi has appropriate access to the web-site added information how to grab copy of SVN repository instead. Alexandre

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Font weight and style variants
by Denis Jacquerye 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Inkscape is not handling style variants in any flexible way. Right now it can only handle what style_name_compare() recognizes, everything that does not correspond to that is mixed up. Right now only Regular, Roman, Normal, Plain, Medium, Book, Italic, Oblique, Slanted, Bold, and Caps are understood. Fonts that have Light, Thin, ExtraLight (or its variants), UltraLight, Hair, Demi, Demi-Bold, Semi-Bold (etc.), UltraBold, Black, Heavy, Fat and UltraBlack are not handled properly. These could be added as valid style but that's just part of the problem. Some fonts have non standard style like Contour, Sketch or Bubbly. The font dialog should allow the user to select between the CSS weights of a typeface without having to select the styles. libnrtype/nr-type-pos-def.[cpp|h] seems to have the proper structure for multiple weights. I opened a bug report https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1448618&group_… and made some sample fonts if you want to test multiple weights and styles http://home.sus.mcgill.ca/~moyogo/fonts/test/ Denis Moyogo Jaquerye

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Xarification
by Tobias Jakobs 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

> On 3/23/06, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote: > > - Xara is considerably faster > Xara's renderer is fast, but Cairo with OpenGL is even faster. > But if Cairo gets Xara renderer, it will be just as fast. > Carl Worth (Cairo) talked a lot with the Xara programmers at the LGM. And as far as I know the plan was to make Xara's renderer GPL and then write an Caito backend. > Anyway, so far it's premature, since Xara's renderer is the part which > is not opensourced yet (it remains a binary lib in their source > tarball). > An other reason to use Cairo is, we will get PDF and PS export for free. Tobias __________________________________________________________________________ Erweitern Sie FreeMail zu einem noch leistungsstärkeren E-Mail-Postfach! Mehr Infos unter http://freemail.web.de/home/landingpad/?mc=021131

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Nice Tutorial in Linux Format
by John Taber 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

fyi: This month's Linux Format magazine has a really nice tutorial on Inkscape shapes (becoming a regular feature like their great Gimp tutorial series). Maybe it's just a copy of the existing shapes tutorial (didn't have my laptop with me to compare), but if not, I wonder if there's a way to get permission to put links on the website to the actual articles like this? It's often frustrating to search for documentation and find articles that are months, even years old locked away in subscription only files. Maybe there's a better way to have a linkage between commercial publishers (or even bloggers, the line is blurring) and free software in order to get more how-tos and documentation (some sites do variations on this) One way is to give special promotion on the website to mags that promote the existing tutorials as articles or maybe so many months after publication have excuarticles that become open and part of the software's tutorial or website - this provides magazines with steady stream of great articles, first to market advantage, and exposure on software websites, authors become regular celebrated columnists and even fabulously wealthy on the speaker circuit, and Inkscape and it's users get more freely available docs, everyone wins.

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Inkscape Development
by Dale Harvey 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Hey After a rather long break, I have started again at trying to do some development with inkscape, I was wondering if there was a few quick questions I could ask. debug statements - Im currently trying to get the hang of the code by basically going through and adding debug statements to try and follow the program flow, however g_warning (and g_print/printf/g_debug etc) messages are not being sent to stdout when they are called, I only recieve them after inkscape has been closed, a grep on "g_set_print_handler" gives me nothing back and its supposed to default to stdout, Im assuming the command line interface is interfering in some way but having problems finding how, and how to fix it. complication - compiling the application takes a little more time than is really usable to be developing with, my machine isnt great, 1.6Ghz, 512Ram, but I expect im not compiling it in the right way for development, i tried turning off optimisation with export CXXFLAGS='-g -O0 -Wall' export CFLAGS='-g -O0 -Wall' and trying to use ccache export CXX='ccache g++' the optimization does not seem to have affected much, and using the CXX flag gives me configure errors about not being able to find libraries that are installed. it takes me around 4 minutes to do a make / make install, im not really sure if this is an acceptable / usual time for recompiling. inkboard - after having to give up last time, im going to try finding the bug on my platform with inkboard that I mentioned in http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9660890&forum_id=360… when I left last time, I could invite another user to join an inkboard session, which worked perfectly, however I could not recieve connections, either from another instance of inkscape, or another user. I was wondering if anyone who is working with inkboard had anytime on or after sunday ( any time suitable, I will be making myself permanently free from then on) would be able to join me in the inkscape jabber room, as the problem is quite hard to debug with a single session, that doesnt work. Thanks Dale

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article on Inkscape
by Alexandre Prokoudine 26 Mar '06

26 Mar '06

Hi, Both offline and online versions of popular russian computers magazin "Computerra" now feature a review of Inkscape written by Sergey Tokarev: http://www.computerra.ru/online/files/259519/ It looks like he did his best to present most actual and precise information, but unfortunately in some areas he failed (e.g. he stated that Inkscape's developers are already working on support for CMYK and CIE LAB colorspaces :)). However, Inkscape is rated as best vector graphics editor for Linux that, in case of merging codebase with Xara, will have all chances to be the best free vector graphics editor on all platforms. Btw, he also wrote that the same guy who introduced support for tablets is working on vector brushes now. Is that true? Alexandre

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