July 2007 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

PDF import extension
by Miklós Erdélyi 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

On 7/12/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote: > I see poppler >=0.5.5 is required. Is there a important reason why > 0.5.4 won't be enough? Unfortunately the newest version and 0.5.4 aren't compatible on the API level, eg. they have the Parser class with different constructors defined. That's why we need the newest one and cannot support older versions. > As for the cairo-based import, is there something special to do to > get it? I have cairo 1.4.6 and it works perfectly for the PDF export > (I mean, as well as on other systems) but I don't have any PDF import > in the Open/Import dialogs. The cairo-based import also needs libpoppler and in addition to that the libpoppler-glib and the cairo-svg packages. miklos

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Exporting svg into png.
by Tomasz Kobiela 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hi. Maybe it isn't bug or it is allready solved but I have problem when exporting svg into png. When I export my logo or any artwork with blur effect it cut it. For example i made circle with blured border (or stroke) and I export it to png but after export i see cuted blur to non blured stroke. I need to make four aditional shapes arrange them so my circle is in the center, export them and then cut my circle in gimp. I would like to see in next release a support for exporting blured shapes without cuting them.

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Fwd: PDF import extension
by bulia byak 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

On 7/12/07, Miklós Erdélyi <erdelyim@...400...> wrote: > Sorry for that :) mental said that I should enable by default the > native PDF import. The one which worked for you and which reproduced > text by glyphs is the cairo-svg-surface based one (actually it was a > quick hack to get it working in Inkscape). Now the other one which now > spews out the debug info is the not-yet-finished native one which will > import text and gradients properly (soon...now it's only good for > importing shapes). Well, then, unless someone complaints, I think I'll make the cairo-based one the default _for now_. When your native one with gradient support matures, we'll switch it back. For text however, as I said before, it would be nice to have both options and to be able to choose when importing. Sometimes it is more important to have text as text; sometimes it is more important to have it look right. Realistically, Inkscape won't have support for embedded SVG fonts any time soon, and this means these two goals will remain mutually exclusive until then. So, can you implement such an option? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Changes in building
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Just wondering if there have been any recent changes in the way Inkscape is built, particularly in Windows. For some odd reason, Eclipse CDT suddenly thinks that Inkscape.exe is not a recognized executable when it comes to debugging. It was fine for many weeks before this one. Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks! Gail

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PDF import extension
by MenTaLguY 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Since everyone else seems to be having success with the PDF import, and since poppler is a C++ library, it seems possible that the heap corruption is the result of a C++ ABI mismatch between the build of poppler you have installed and the version of g++ you are compiling Inkscape with. Could you try installing a recompiled poppler and see if that makes a difference? -mental

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[Fwd: [ inkscape-Bugs-1752331 ] Live effects causing problems on Windows]
by Ted Gould 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

I thought we fixed the thing on win32 where the command prompt pops up. Did I regress that with my changes? --Ted -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: SourceForge.net <noreply@...34...> To: noreply@...34... Subject: [ inkscape-Bugs-1752331 ] Live effects causing problems on Windows Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:30:06 -0700 Bugs item #1752331, was opened at 2007-07-12 04:23 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by buliabyak You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1752331&group_… Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Extensions Group: Win32 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) >Assigned to: Ted Gould (gouldtj) Summary: Live effects causing problems on Windows Initial Comment: I was testing one of the latest windows development builds (Inkscape 0.46dev+devel, built Jul 11 2007) and I noticed something pretty odd with the new live effects. Basically, it works by calling the effect repeatedly as you make changes. However on windows this involves opening a dos window for python to run each time, which happens 4 to 20 times a minuet, which is darn annoying... oh, and the other problem it has, is when changing a value by using a spinbox, it seems to lose control and it will keep registring the same event so the value will change to the min/max value of the spinbox depending on which arrow you press. These two bugs combined lead to a lovely loop of open an effect, say jitter nodes dos window opens change value of spinbox by using arrow loop * 100(0)? incress spinbox value by 1 open dos window to rup python interpreter, stealing focus and on top close python window, retuning focus to UI incress spinbox value by 1 open dos window to rup python interpreter, stealing focus and on top close python window, retuning focus to UI end loop... Update Inkscape UI tomh (hicks . kingtom (at the google mail place) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1752331&group_…

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preview checkbox, again
by bulia byak 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Ted, Yesterday for the first time I tried live-update effect on a large slow document (about 1Mb with lots of blur etc). It was a torture. I could not even adjust the number of paragraphs because it froze on every change for a long time. You made the effects themselves asynchronous - that is nice. But in situations like this, the actual effect run takes only a small fraction of the total time; a lot more time is spent by Inkscape itself on saving and then reloading the large file. And since Inkscape itself is not asynchronous at all, this freezes everything including the effect dialog. Sorry for pounding on it, but I think I've proven enough by now that the checkbox must be there and off by default :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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W3C SVG tests and Inkscape
by Tavmjong Bah 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi, For fun, I ran Inkscape in batch mode over the W3C SVG test files. You can see the results at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/W3C_SVG/htmlInkscapeHarness/full-index.html Tav -- Tavmjong Bah A Guide to Inkscape http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/

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Async script extensions
by Ted Gould 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hey all, So I've finally got my work on switching the scripting extensions over to being a call with parameters instead of a parsed string on the command line. At the same time I've made them asynchronous, which has some nice side effects. Basically, this all involved reworking large portions of the scripting code -- which brings the possibility of breaking things. Two areas in specific that I'm worried about: -- win32. Some of the functions I've used had notes on what does and doesn't work on win32, but the documentation was sparse, and I'm concerned it was incomplete. -- internationalization. I know we've had problems in the past with this code and different locales of filesystem and UI. I believe I kept all that code in place -- but history means that those with the complex setups should be extra observant when noticing how their SVN builds run. So other than those concerns, enjoy everyone. I hope this will add a lot of usability to the scripts, especially some discoverability to the parameters. Have fun, Ted

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text case effects
by bulia byak 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

A group of new effects in the Text submenu performs various case conversions on selected text objects: converting to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Sentence case, Title Case, as well as flipping case (switching uppercase to lowercase and back) and rANdoMiZInG cAse. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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