March 2006 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Freehand/Calligraphy-tool cursor problem
by Adrian Gongea 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

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New Computer interface technology
by unknown＠example.com 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Hello ! Just seen a new computer interface technology directly from "spaceship enterprise". ;-) http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/ Please watch the movie and throw your mouse out of the window. Greetings vonHalenbach

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OpenDocument. Was: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop PSD 6 format Spec / Gimp XCF format Spec
by Boudewijn Rempt 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Okay, so it turned out that I was still subscribed under an old email address, but my mailers sends everyone with the current one. Anyway, my fault, and I would like to thank Manish for helping me out of my bewilderment. What I wanted to propose & work on after my 1.5 release is the following: Cooperating on get an OpenDocument specification for layered raster images done and into the OASIS OpenDocument standard. Krita would use that format for its native format, of course, as all of KOffice is moving to OpenDocument. OpenDocument automatically means some choices are made for us: a zip file store, a certain layout inside that store, and xml main document and resources for the binary data. Those choices may not be the best possible technical choices, but Krita already uses a similar mechanism and it seems to work. And since the Gimp and Krita have a different set of capabilities, we'd have to make a flexible and complete specification, one that includes all possible (possibly uninvented as yet) color models, adjustment layers, paths (which Krita doesn't have) and so on. I would really like to cooperate on this, since a standard used by one application isn't a standard at all and since it would mean much better interchange of documents than would be possible through either Photoshop (ancient version 6 or reverse-engineered later versions) or XCF. I'm prepared to do most of the writing & nagging of David Faure about procedures and guidelines, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to do it all on my own. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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zoom buttons in the status bar invisible on OS X
by jiho 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

hi all, recent changes (I believe those made to the swatches panel) induced a change in appearance of the status bar. OSX windows decorations hide the zoom buttons. it was corrected before but the buttons are hidden again in today's svn. thank you in advance for us poor OS X users who do not have control over the window decorations style :-) in addition I had the impression that the panels were under the status bar and not above in some fairly recent svn builds. personally I preferred that but I can just be inventing this... (the drag and drop from the panels is great BTW) JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Re: OpenDocument. Was: Photoshop PSD 6 format Spec / Gimp XCF format Spec
by Thomas Zander 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

On Friday 03 March 2006 22:31, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > I wonder why OASIS picked to only use compressed XML as a medium: > -it will also not work well for video data, BTW. > -OpenOffice.org Base already failed to deliver robust solution because > 100% of the data has to be processed on loading/saving (unless it's > stored on the server). This has nothing to do with the chosen file format and everything to do with the implementation. Zip is block based and you can do partial (un)compression. XML need not be parsed 100% for it to be usable. There are applications that can read some items from a huge XML without parsing all, or even most of it. I know this for a fact, I wrote a few. In short; these worries should not effect the standardization efforts. -- Thomas Zander

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Problems building Inkscape on MacOSX
by Andrius Ramanauskas 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hi, I tried to build Inkscape on Mac OS X 10.4, did everything as described on wiki, it seems as everything succeed, but I get an error "You cannot open the application Inkscape.app because it may be damaged or incomplete" while running .app file. Maybe anyone has run into similar problems and knows a quick solution? Thanks, Andrius

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WEBFORM Inkscape and LaTeX presentations
by Leland McInnes 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Leland McInnes email: leland.mcinnes@...456... submitted the following: I have created a simple system to allow users to create presentation style templates in Inkscape which can then be converted into, and used as, style templates for presentations in LaTeX. This provides a simple to use system for creating great looking, customised, PDF presentations. You can find the software at http://jedidiah.stuff.gen.nz/lpd.html.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problems building Inkscape on MacOSX
by Ben Fowler 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

On 3/6/06, Andrius Ramanauskas <knutux@...400...> wrote: > I have already found out that /MacOS/Inkscape file is missing in > Inkscape.app, and copying this file from installed Inkscape.app (0.43) > helps. The file you want should be on the path src/inkscape . (See previous). Whilst your approach eliminates one source of errors, I can't conceive how a successful build could fail to produce an executable. (You are using the same compiler as you used for Fink? If not your project will not link - this is noted on the wiki page. You can find details in previous posts to this list and/or the bug tracker). If the script is not copying the file, then there has to be something wrong with it, or the instructions for its use. I don't deny that there is still some little room for improvement, and any comments you have will I am sure be taken most seriously. > So I can now successfully contribute to the project. But had no time > yet to investigate the cause of this problem with missing file. O.K. I have to admit that most the time I run the unpackaged executable, and have the support files installed with 'make install', like any other Unix. However, it is rather fine to have a double-clickable bundle that starts X and launches Inkscpae! Ben > On 3/6/06, Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...> wrote: > On 3/4/06, Andrius Ramanauskas <knutux@...400...> wrote: > > > > I tried to build Inkscape on Mac OS X 10.4, did everything as > > described on wiki, it seems as everything succeed, but I get an error > > "You cannot open the application Inkscape.app because it may be > > damaged or incomplete" while running .app file. > > Maybe anyone has run into similar problems and knows a quick solution? > > This may not be very helpful ... > > I compile Inkscape most days, and the process WFM, but I don't normally > build the .app and .dmg. However, the last time I did (which may have > been on Panther), it worked as > per the documentation. So I haven't any insight into 'similar problems' > and don't know a 'quick solution'. > > The error message means that the .app bundle was not made in its > entirety, and I would suspect the package creation script, > packaging/osx-app.sh or the documentation, but as I said above, > don't take this too literally, as the process did work when I tried it. > (If you are able to identify what is going wrong, I am sure that someone > would be keen to fix the script or the docs). > > If you are raring to run Inkscape, and believe that you have a perfectly > formed executable, then you can start X by hand and (provided that you > have installed the share files and so forth - which you won't have done if > had configured with > > --enable-osxapp > > ), you can start Inkscape by hand with a command line like: > > /Volumes/Ben//PROG/SF/INKSCAPE/inkscape-J/Jaguar/src/inkscape > > and it will work. > > Otherwise someone will have to upload (or create on sourceforge) a > deliverable. The Inkscape.app is 93 MByte, and the .dmg (which is > compressed is 22 MByte).

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Finances
by Bryce Harrington 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Hiya all, Just FYI, We've received a surprising number of donations lately - surprising in the sense that we don't really solicit donations. I guess people just love Inkscape *that much*. :-) Anyway, for the record here's a breakdown of what's been received recently: Mar. 3, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $18.06 USD Feb. 27, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $3.59 USD Feb. 18, 2006 Transfer Bank Account $2,000.00 USD # Google SOC Feb. 13, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $8.48 USD Feb. 13, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $18.26 USD Feb. 8, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $3.59 USD Jan. 2, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $18.06 USD Jan. 2, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $8.38 USD Balance: #2,474.99 USD Bryce

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Inkscape mentioned on the GNOME 2.14 Release Notes
by Lucas Vieites 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Hi, you can see that Inkscape is going to be mentioned on the GNOME 2.14 Release Notes here: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/C/ -- ¡No olvide visitar nuestra tienda On-line! <http://www.asixinformatica.com/tienda> =================================================== Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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