October 2007 - Inkscape Devel

Case sensitive font selection field
by momo 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hi, I posted this a couple of weeks before but never got a reply... So I'm reposting it once again: While working with some text in Inkscape, I found an unpleasant behaviour of the text selection field (the field above the font selection drop down menu): it is case sensitive. When I type "Arial" in it and hit enter, the selected text's font is changed to arial as it should. But if I type "arial" or "ARIAL", then I get a warning that the font is not found/installed. The expected behaviour is that no matter what case I enter in (like aRiaL) it must find the font I'm looking for (this is the behaviour of Illustrator, Indesign, Corel, Photoshop, Openoffice and many other programs). Although it is not a real bug, it is IMO a usability issue. By the way, I'm on Windows XP sp2. Is it the same on Linux? Mac? And should I fill a feature request or a bug report? Thanks! Molumen

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Inkscape0710230156 crash on start
by momo 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Today's Inkscape0710230156 crashes on start and shows an error (see screenshot attached). Last build (from October 18) works ok. WinXP sp2 I will test latest Inkscape0710231722.7z and report.

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Tablet issues
by Docsonic 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Ok, this is getting silly.... Bulya, I deleted the wiki entry on removing the GTK path, here is why... When I deleted the GTK path(s), the tablet mouse worked perfectly in Inkscape, however I later discovered that the pressure and tilt did not (also in Gimp). So, I uninstalled all GTK programs and reinstalled GTK 2.10.13. I also uninstalled Inkscape and reinstalled 0.45-1 then copied over Inkscape-dev from October 18th. Now the mouse returned to its previous behaviour so (just to be sure) I reinstalled the Wacom drivers (latest) and no change. So, to summarize - With gtk paths, mouse doesn't work but pressure/ tilt does. Without GTK paths mouse does work but pressure/ tilt doesn't. There must be a way to fix this as so many people have it working but removing GTK does not work for me, especially as Gimp makes far more use of pressure and that also fails with no GTK. As Gimp is also affected it must be due to GTK so for now I am going to have to give up on this one but I will post on the GTK forum to see what happens there. Thanks, Tony -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tablet-issues-tf4677139.html#a13363318 Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Testing needed on OS X Intel
by jiho 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hello everyone, I would need someone with a 'virgin' system on an Intel machine to test the latest dev build. By 'virgin' I mean: - without Fink or MacPorts or a custom installed python - without modifications to ~/.macosx/environment.plist (- without modifications to ~/.bashrc -- this one should not be a problem but who knows) - without the python modules that were distributed previously alongside Inkscape or in the dev builds repository Basically this means that if you just install regular mac applications by drag and drop and never bothered to install Python for Inkscape, you are the one I need ;) I made some modifications to Inkscape so that the python modules that Inkscape uses for the "Effects" are directly integrated inside the application and work out of the proverbial box. So I need you to download and install (drag-and-drop, as usual) this: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-16250-i386.dmg Run it, draw something with the calligraphy tool for instance and apply two effects to it: - Color > any color effect - Generate From Path > Intrude Extrude Halo Both should work with no additional work. If your system is not as virgin as I described but that you still want to help, it is possible. You only need to remove the python packages you could have installed previously, to be sure these do not come into play here. You need to remove the folders _xmlplus, lxml and numpy from /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/ 2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages and then follow the steps described above. If you have Fink/MacPorts with python or a custom python install from MacPython however, this change won't affect you since Inkscape will use your newer python install and discard the pre-compiled python modules which are made for the system install of Python. You still need to install lxml and numpy via Fink/MacPorts or by compiling them from source. Please report here your success or failure. If someone could forward this to Inkscape-testers to which I am not subscribed it would be nice. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Pencil weight
by Donn 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hi, Not sure whether to ask this here or in users... I sketch a cartoon (with the mouse) and I like to use the single path line (pencil) tool to do it -- mainly because I can clean the lines quickly. If I use the calligraphy tool it;'s nice, but hard to tweak. I have found that the freehand line tool in Sodipodi actually works far better for this. It has a "weight", a slowness to it that produces fantastic lines and curves and with only a few nodes to tweak. Naturally, the rest of Sodipodi is in the Dark Ages and I prefer Inkscape, but that single tool is more useful in the older app. I see that Calligraphy has a 'weight' setting, and this does help, but is there some way to weight the freehand line tool in Inkscape? \d -- "Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators." -- Richard Dawkins

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Student project
by Steren Giannini 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hello, We are a team of five french students from the "Ecole Centrale de Lyon" (an engineer high school, see www.ec-lyon.fr). Our programs are quite general, we attend programming lessons but we are not informatics specialists In second year, we have to work on a professional project for five months (officialy 4 hours a week, but... we can spend much more time). I thought it would be a good idea to help developing inkscape. The only things the school demands is a tutor (in our case, from the dev team) and requirements. The tutor will be here to help on specific technical questions, to check the progress of the project and to validate goals. I have been using inkscape for two years for serious projects. And I am currently working with both the stable and the svn version (on ubuntu and windows) I've found some some projects from the wiki that could fit with what we have to do : - the perspective tool ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PerspectiveObject ) - the add/substract node tool ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/NewTools ) - Inkscape / GIMP raster graphics Editing Integration from GSoC 07 Thanks for your response Steren

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NEW: profiling and simplifying gradients
by bulia byak 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

In Gradient tool: * Moving gradient handles by arrow keys is restored (it was broken for some time) * Press Ctrl+A to select all stops in the selected objects. * When two or more adjacent stops are selected, pressing Ins adds stops in the middles of all selected stop intervals. * Intermediate stops can be mousedragged along their gradient line, within the limits of the adjacent unselected stops (or end handles). * Dragging with Ctrl moves the selected stops snapping them to 1/10 fractions of the available range. * Dragging with Alt moves the selected stops depending on how close each one is to the stop being dragged, using a smooth bell-like curve similar to the node sculpting feature in Node tool. This makes it easy to approximate different gradient profiles; for example, if you have a two-stop gradient that you want to shape according to a curved profile, select both ends of the gradient, press Ins a few times to add a number of intermediate nodes, then Alt+drag a node in the middle to smoothly profile the gradient. * Pressing Ctrl+L with some intermediate stops selected attempts to simplify the selected portion of the gradient, removing those stops that can be removed without too much change in the way the gradient looks. In particular, new stops created by double-clicking or pressing Ins initially do not change the appearance of the gradient, so if you press Ctrl+L, all redundant stops that weren't moved or repainted since creation will be deleted. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Wacom problems
by Joshua Blocher 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

On 10/18/07, Jim Ford <jaford@...1821...> wrote: > Docsonic wrote: > > I just got a Wacom Intuos3 tablet and I am trying to set it up properly for > > Inkscape on Win XP SP2 (fully patched). > > At first pressure setting wouldn't work so I downloaded the latest build > > (Oct 18, 2007) and it works great! However, the mouse doesn't work at all > > properly - it seems to be using the pen settings. I have tried other > > programs (Gimp, Flash etc) to make sure it isn't a setting I have wrong but > > they all seem to work correctly. I do have a profile set up in the Wacom > > prefs for the pen in Inkscape but the mouse is using the default settings. > > > > Has anyone else come across this and if so, what can I do to fix it? > > It's great having the pen but I can't double-click guides with the pen so > > there are times that the mouse is useful. > > Tiresome, isn't it? > > Myself and at least one other user have reported this problem, but have > had no responses from the gurus. I guess it's a 'feature' of Inkscape! > > Jim Ford I don't remember see this on the Inkscape Devel List. So, I'm sending this to there. Just so you know the user list is good but for issues like this the devel list is easier to get responses from the developlers as they watch it all the time. Or filing a bug report with the tracker if it hasn't been done, most bugs get looked at during the release cycle. As to this bug i think this maybe a GTK bug as Synfig has the similar issue of not being able to use the mouse for input when input from a tablet is turned on. Or maybe we not setting it up right who knows. Thanks for the report, Joshua L. Blocher

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Toolbar Issues
by Tony Vigil 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

I just installed Inkscape in my Samsung Q1 UMPC. Inkscape works pretty nicely, but here are a couple issues regarding the main tool bar on the left side. 1) If I undock the tool bar, doesn't stay above the canvas. There should be a means of forcing the tool bar to stay "on top". 2) I can't dock the tool bar along the top with the other tool bars. It would be nice if I could change it from a vertical tool bar to a vertical tool bar. The screen on the Q1 is a tad short to show all of the tools when the tool bar is attached on the left hand side.

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pdf-input.cpp:544: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope
by Jeff Kowalczyk 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Hello all, I've had this question about a compilation error with inkscape trunk on inkscape-users for a few weeks now, and I'm moving it here to inkscape-dev to see if I can get it in front of the right eyes. I'm really missing the fun of running inkscape trunk. I expect this is something specific to my platform (multiple machines running Gentoo ~x86), and not a general problem with the codebase, since I haven't seen other reports of this particular compilation error. There are no relevant Gentoo bugs filed for this issue. If anyone had suggestions on possible problems with or missing dependencies, please let me know. The ebuild I'm using to build /trunk is nearly identical to the working inkscape-0.45.1.ebuild. Maybe I'm missing a recently added dependency. Alternatively, if there's a .configure option that can suppress compilation of this pdfinput extension, I'd be more than happy to use that as a workaround. Thanks, if i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/gtk-unix-print-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I../cxxtest -Wall -Wformat-security -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wno-unused-parameter -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -MT extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.o -MD -MP -MF "extension/internal/bitmap/.deps/imagemagick.Tpo" \ -c -o extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.o `test -f 'extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.cpp' || echo './'`extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.cpp; \ then mv -f "extension/internal/bitmap/.deps/imagemagick.Tpo" "extension/internal/bitmap/.deps/imagemagick.Po"; \ else rm -f "extension/internal/bitmap/.deps/imagemagick.Tpo"; exit 1; \ fi In file included from extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:26: extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.h:40:28: error: CairoOutputDev.h: No such file or directory In file included from extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:26: extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.h:107: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'CairoOutputDev' with no type extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.h:107: error: expected ';' before '*' token extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In constructor 'Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::PdfImportDialog(PDFDoc*)': extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: expected type-specifier before 'CairoOutputDev' extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:279: error: expected `;' before 'CairoOutputDev' extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In destructor 'virtual Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::~PdfImportDialog()': extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:301: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:302: error: type '<type error>' argument given to 'delete', expected pointer extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: In member function 'void Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfImportDialog::_setPreviewPage(int)': extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:544: error: '_preview_output_dev' was not declared in this scope make[2]: *** [extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.cpp: In member function 'virtual void Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::ImageMagick::effect(Inkscape::Extension::Effect*, Inkscape::UI::View::View*)': extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.cpp:107: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' ./util/glib-list-iterators.h: In member function 'T* const& Inkscape::Util::GSListConstIterator<T*>::operator*() const [with T = SPItem]': extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.cpp:188: instantiated from here ./util/glib-list-iterators.h:47: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2/work/inkscape-0.45.2/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2/work/inkscape-0.45.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 ----- # cat /usr/local/portage/media-gfx/inkscape/inkscape-0.45.2.ebuild # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-gfx/inkscape/inkscape-0.45.1.ebuild,v 1.7 2007/04/09 19:47:47 cryos Exp $ inherit gnome2 DESCRIPTION="A SVG based generic vector-drawing program" HOMEPAGE="http://www.inkscape.org/" SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz" SLOT="0" LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2.1" KEYWORDS="amd64 hppa ppc ppc64 sparc x86" IUSE="dia gnome mmx inkjar lcms doc postscript spell wmf" RESTRICT="test" COMMON_DEPEND=">=x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.7 dev-cpp/glibmm >=dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.4 >=dev-libs/boehm-gc-6.4 >=dev-libs/glib-2.6.5 >=dev-libs/libsigc++-2.0.12 dev-libs/popt media-libs/fontconfig >=media-libs/freetype-2 media-libs/libpng >=x11-libs/pango-1.4.0 >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.20 dev-perl/XML-Parser dev-perl/XML-XQL dev-python/pyxml dev-libs/boost virtual/xft gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.0 gnome-base/libgnomeprint gnome-base/libgnomeprintui ) lcms? ( >=media-libs/lcms-1.14 ) spell? ( app-text/gtkspell )" # These only use executables provided by these packages # See share/extensions for more details. inkscape can tell you to # install these so we could of course just not depend on those and rely # on that. RDEPEND=" ${COMMON_DEPEND} dia? ( app-office/dia ) postscript? ( >=media-gfx/pstoedit-3.44 media-gfx/skencil ) wmf? ( media-libs/libwmf )" DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND} sys-devel/gettext dev-util/pkgconfig x11-libs/libX11 >=dev-util/intltool-0.29" src_unpack() { unpack ${A} cd ${S} ./autogen.sh autoconf || die libtoolize --copy --force || die } pkg_setup() { G2CONF="${G2CONF} --with-xft" G2CONF="${G2CONF} $(use_with spell gtkspell)" #G2CONF="${G2CONF} $(use_with jabber inkboard)" G2CONF="${G2CONF} $(use_enable mmx)" G2CONF="${G2CONF} $(use_with inkjar)" G2CONF="${G2CONF} $(use_with gnome gnome-vfs)" G2CONF="${G2CONF} $(use_with gnome gnome-print)" G2CONF="${G2CONF} $(use_enable lcms)" } DOCS="AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README" ----- # emerge inkscape -pv [ebuild U ] media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2 [0.45.1] USE="dia gnome inkjar lcms mmx spell wmf -debug -doc -postscript" I don't turn on postscript because I don't want tcl (via skencil), but there are other dependencies pulled in that could be necessary to avoid the compilation error in pdfinput: # USE="postscript" emerge inkscape -pv [ebuild N ] media-libs/libemf-1.0.3 746 kB [ebuild N ] media-gfx/xv-3.10a-r14 USE="jpeg png tiff" 3,539 kB [ebuild N ] dev-lang/tcl-8.4.15 USE="-debug -threads" 3,550 kB [ebuild N ] media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-r3 USE="X" 259 kB [ebuild N ] dev-python/imaging-1.1.6 USE="X scanner -doc -examples -tk" 426 kB [ebuild N ] media-gfx/pstoedit-3.44 USE="emf imagemagick plotutils" 818 kB [ebuild N ] dev-lang/tk-8.4.15-r1 USE="-debug -threads" 3,263 kB [ebuild N ] dev-python/reportlab-2.1 USE="-doc -examples" 3,227 kB [ebuild N ] media-gfx/skencil-0.6.18_pre20070421 USE="nls" 1,363 kB [ebuild U ] media-gfx/inkscape-0.45.2 [0.45.1] USE="dia gnome inkjar lcms mmx postscript* spell wmf -debug -doc" 0 kB This is with a pseudonym tarball inkscape-0.45.2,tar.gz created from trunk r16262. The behavior has been the same since late september. Thanks again.

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