November 2007 - Inkscape Devel

DOM for scripting?
by Terry Hancock 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi all, About a year ago, I posted regarding a Python graphical scripting tool I was working on. I got sort of hung in the middle, because I started with Skencil, then started looking at Inkscape. Inkscape was simpler in one respect because the SVG representation is easier to manipulate, but it's harder to integrate the plugin because I couldn't (easily) *use* Inkscape from the script. For example, it would be nice to be able to select and skew an object using Inkscape's selection and transformation tool rather than having to compute and apply the transformation at the point level within my program, but that would require a way to call that tool from the Python script. In Skencil, by contrast, this is relatively simple to do, because the Skencil API is completely accessible to scripts and plugins. The downside is that Skencil uses an internal Python object model for the drawing which is not easily serializable. Thus, for example, it is very awkward to keep a library of drawing components available for my program to manipulate. When I brought this up on inkscape-user, I was told that a DOM API would (at sometime) be made available which would solve this problem (although now that I think about it, "document" doesn't really fit, though "object model" does -- this may've been a miscommunication?) I have recently seen "DOM" mentioned in the inkscape-devel archives, but that seems to be a different concept -- the idea of a DOM to describe the SVG file being manipulated, not the Inkscape application doing the manipulation. I didn't have a pressing enough need for the tool I was writing to plow through this obstacle, so I wound up setting it aside, thinking that it might prove easier later anyway. So I'd just like to ask if functionality like this already exists in Inkscape, is on an existing roadmap, or if this is something I ought to place as a feature request? Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock (hancock@...1838...) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com

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Inkscape Contract Programming
by Michael Yinger 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

First, I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum for this kind of question. I've been getting up to speed on Inkscape and Scribus. I'd like to get up to speed much faster and would be happy to pay someone to help me do that. If you are interested please email me at myinger@...1835... -- Mike Yinger

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Inkscape crash under FreeBSD
by Zlog Vladimir 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

# Inkscape is crashing when I want to change the color for the background of the first page. ################ HOW TO REPRODUCE ################ - run inkscape - go to File -> Document Properties - at first tab(Page) in General go to choose a new color for the background; - at Background Color Window in Wheel tab write/paste a value for RGBA textfield. - then try to change the alpha opacity and you will get the following message: "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now." ################ Uname -a ################ FreeBSD dexter.lab.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Nov 14 21:06:54 EET 2007 root@...1836...:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEXTER i386 ################ gdb message ################ ... ... ... symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 0x29b01100 (LWP 100048)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... #######-----> Important message Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread 0x29b01100 (LWP 100048)] 0x2978cb17 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7 I will attach two snapshot's of the screen and if you will need i will attach at your request inkscape.core because these one has 55mb. Thank you. Regards Zlog Vladimir

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Broken linux build
by Denis Leroy 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

/src> svn diff selection-chemistry.cpp Index: selection-chemistry.cpp =================================================================== --- selection-chemistry.cpp (revision 16550) +++ selection-chemistry.cpp (working copy) @@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ #include "selection-chemistry.h" -//# +#ifdef WIN32 #include <windows.h> -//# +#endif +

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XICC support
by Jon A. Cruz 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

I finished getting base XICC support in. It works for me with two monitors, including changing dynamically as profiles are attached or removed or as windows are moved across displays. Give things a run through and see how it goes.

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Width control in Bend Path LPE
by unknown＠example.com 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, Before I leave on a trip for a couple of days, I decided to add width control to bend path. See the picture showing bits of two screenshots. One editing the bend path as usual, and one editing the width of the path. Already works quite nicely! This is sort of a test to see how the UI should be for "1D" path parameters (path parameters for which e.g. only the y value matters, like functions: y = f(t) ) For those not convinced of 2geom power: I did this within half an hour....... (so probably many bugs here!) Happy bending! Johan

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PixbufError
by unknown＠example.com 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, Who, on Linux, can reproduce this bug? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1679218&group_i d=93438&atid=604306 And who can't :-) 1. touch test.jpg 2. open inkscape and browse to test.jpg in the open file dialog. Either you should see: ** Message: Gdk::PixbufError in SVGPreview::showImage which is good. Or you see something different, which is what I am seeing and is not good. Trying to track down this weird strange bug, Johan

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Debugging Inkscape on windows
by unknown＠example.com 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I have just written an account of how I fixed a bug: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/DebuggingTips#Example_of_how_to_ fix_a_bug I hope you can get some tips from that page that help tackle bugs faster. Moreover, if you have any, add your tips aswell! Cheers, Johan

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compatibility with azerty keyboard
by Tomas Fiers 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, The keyboard shortcut for rotating an object are '[' and ']'. I'm using an azerty-keyboard (I live in Belgium) but somehow 'alt+[ or ]' doesn't work. I've been searching to change the key bindings for this, but I didn't find any reference to it. I hope someone over here knows a solution. Greets, Tomas P.S. This is a resend, I sent my previous without a subject.

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Weird issue saving in PDF
by Jaime Martínez-Figueroa 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi I'm using both Inkscape 0.45.1.1 and a snap from this monday in Win32 (but with older snaps was the same). There is a huge difference when saving in PDF files, other users reported an issue with the size of the files but the biggest difference is the quality, with 0.45.1.1 the PDF file is vectorial (~18kb) and with the snap it's a bitmap (~315kb)! BTW, the source SVG was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:YamahaMotorCo.svg Please note that I tried replacing the new libcairo2.dll with the older file and the result was the same. Best regards -- Jaime F. Martínez Figueroa Electronics and Computer Science in the way [P!]Wack in the net, visit http://alumnos.elo.utfsm.cl/~jmartinez/ meatPixel at http://meatpixel.net

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