August 2007 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

liboil dependency?
by MenTaLguY 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hi guys, Would anyone have a problem with adding a dependency on liboil? If not, I'd like to get it into the Windows bundle before I commit anything that requires it. -mental

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Odd size of imported bitmaps
by Dan H. 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hello, I've imported a 400x400 pixel TIFF image into an inkscape drawing, and it comes out as 112.89 x 112.89 mm, which translates to a resolution of roughly 90 dpi. Where does this number come from? Shouldn't inkscape honour the dpi information that is embedded in the TIFF image? Alternatively, for images that don't have a "built-in" resolution, inkscape should ask for a "native" size of the image or use a changeable default resolution. Also I noticed that some imported images have width and height xml attributes while others don't. All this came to my attention when I worked with a SVG file with 20 imported images of about 10MB each (TIFF uncompressed) which bogged down my computer. I tried substitutung the TIFFs with scaled-down (by .25) working copies, which worked fine for those images that had width and height attributes (the others came out a fourth of the size), I'm just wondering how Inkscape arrives at the "native" size of an image, and I wanted to know if others agreed with my notion that in a vector drawing program the resolution of imported bitmaps was of high importance. It would also be nice if Inkscape could somehow reload image properties if the original bitmap had changed (by scaling or cropping, for instance). Thanks, --Dan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Curve Stitching first steps
by unknown＠example.com 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hey Josh, (CC to devel) The pentool bug is a good one :), yep I only thought of using the node tool for editting paths doh! Stacking is definitely planned. But... at this moment it will not help you a lot. The problem is that the path-along-path effect has its inputs switched around: path-along-path: svgd input = path to put something along (can only be one path, probably cannot contain gaps or anything) parameter input = path to put along the other path The stacking will work like this (because this is simple to implement [1]): output of one effect goes to the *svgd input* of the next one. As you can see, this will not function as desired for stacking curve stitching and path-along-path. "So why is path-along-path made this way? It is also not handy for applying it to groups!" The problem now is that only the svgd input can be editted on-canvas. The parameter paths cannot. So imagine having that fish bend along a curve, and then not being able to nicely edit that curve :S On-canvas editting of path parameters has very high priority on my list, but it is not so easy. This curve stitching thing was really easy to implement (just look at the code), and it seemed fun :-) Cheers! Johan [1] probably I should also add a method to pass the result of an effect as path parameter; it will start looking like the whole filter thing then. Perhaps it is better to make the SVG2 vector effects first. ________________________________ From: Josh Andler [mailto:scislac@...400...] Sent: donderdag 30 augustus 2007 2:57 To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) Subject: Re: Curve Stitching first steps this is beyond cool... is it in the plans to stack LPEs at some point? Just wondering. :) Anyway, this is basically effect lines (with the exception of being able to "path on path" with the lines)! Woohoo! And it seems like this should really be helpful with one project in particular that I have occasionally thought of working on. I'll have to play with it a bit. 1 bug I found - on the object that has the two 2 node lines, select it and change to the pen tool. You'll see that it shows the ends of all the "stitch" lines as if they can be worked with using that tool (which doesn't work). 1 easy to reproduce crash - with either stitched object, use the node tool and select one of the two subpaths and hit Shift+R. Boom! (shift+r reverses paths) On 8/29/07, J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... <mailto:J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... <mailto:J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> > wrote: <<curvestitch.svg>> The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments: curvestitch.svg Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] translation not working
by unknown＠example.com 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

See the mailmessage below from the translator list. const EnumData<NR::FilterPrimitiveType> FPData[NR::NR_FILTER_ENDPRIMITIVETYPE] = { {NR::NR_FILTER_BLEND, _("Blend"), "svg:feBlend"}, ... }; Does this kind of C++ initialization work for translations? Perhaps the locale has not been set correctly when the _("Blend") is called at the start of the program? Probably we should switch to the N_() thing and do the real translation every time when the data is needed. Regards, Johan > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexandre Prokoudine [mailto:alexandre.prokoudine@...400...] > Sent: donderdag 30 augustus 2007 9:08 > To: Inkscape Translators; Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan); Nicholas Bishop > Subject: translation not working > > Hi, > > As of revision 15936 I'm experiencing a quite weird thing: > part of translated messages doesn't show up as translated. > > On this screenshot you see bottom part of Fill and Stroke dialog. > > http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/9/8/29/f_messagesm_281ac67.png > > "_Blend mode" (Режим) and "B_lur" (Размывание) show up as > translated (coming from > src/ui/widget/filter-effect-chooser.cpp), but names of blend > modes (src/filter-enums.cpp) like "Screen" --- don't. > > Same thing with names of live path effects. They reside in > src/live_effects/effects.cpp and being translated still don't > show up as such. > > Any idea why? Am I doing something silly? > > Alexandre >

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Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape is a staff pick at Apple downloads
by jiho 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

As heathenx remarked Begin forwarded message: > From: heathenx <heathenx@...400...> > jiho wrote the following on 8/29/2007 9:37 AM: >> Looking for something else I just passed cross this on Apple's site: >> Inkscape is marked as staff pick by Apple currently. > [...] > i saw this on their web site: > > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/inkscape.html > > "Note: On start-up, it will take a couple of minutes before the > main window appears (while the > application builds the font cache.)" > > ...a couple of minutes? are you serious? i don't use a mac but is > this what some of you go through? The text there is quite scarce and not very well formulated: About Inkscape A vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Note: On start-up, it will take a couple of minutes before the main window appears (while the application builds the font cache.) I tried to re-submit Inkscape as an Apple download, with updated information and a new screenshot but it is only at the end of this process that I realized that this would submit Inkscape under my name and developer ID. They will probably discard my request anyway, since Inkscape is already there, but it would be nice to know: - who subscripted as Apple Developers under the name "Inkscape developers" and hence posted Inkscape for the first time? - could this person update the information on the site. I can provide the information I wrote (taken from the front page an release notes), so it'll just be copy-paste, and here is my screenshot: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape.png Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Gradients.
by Tomasz Kobiela 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hi, I wonder why gradients in inkscape doesn't look smooth. When I look on them I see that they compose from regular lines. Can't gradients look so smooth like in photoshop or gimp ? --- Kind regards. Kobi.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] SPAM-LOW: Attempting first build
by joel＠...1709... 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

I suspect that this is a bleeding edge problem, because the OCAL dialogs are under active development. Hopefully these problems will be resolved within a day or two (although you may be unlucky and run into some new ones - there's maybe 25% chance of that). Welcome to inkscape! Best regards Joel ---------------------------------------- From: Dan H <dunno@...1090...> Sent: 28 August 2007 10:03 To: inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: SPAM-LOW: [Inkscape-devel] Attempting first build Hello people, I've finally decided to take a jump into the cold water and fetch a SVN copy of inkscape. Don't know yet if I'm actually going to contribute or if I just want something to complain about. Anyway, make fails with some error (quoted below) and I'm wondering if I just happen to have fetched a broken bleeding-edge source tree, or if something else is going wrong. Maybe someone could point me at the latest version that built fine so I can "downgrade" to it via SVN. BTW, I know what the error means; it's just that I'd like to start out with a known-good source tree rather than trying to hunt down errors in an unknown project. Here's the error: ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h:247: error: expected class-name before '{' token ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h: In constructor 'Inkscape::UI::Dialog::FileListViewText::FileListViewText(guint, Inkscape::UI::Dialog::SVGPreview&, Gtk::Label&, Gtk::Button&)': ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h:250: error: class 'Inkscape::UI::Dialog::FileListViewText' does not have any field named 'ListViewText' make[2]: *** [file.o] Error 1 Thanks, --D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Attempting first build
by Dan H 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hello people, I've finally decided to take a jump into the cold water and fetch a SVN copy of inkscape. Don't know yet if I'm actually going to contribute or if I just want something to complain about. Anyway, make fails with some error (quoted below) and I'm wondering if I just happen to have fetched a broken bleeding-edge source tree, or if something else is going wrong. Maybe someone could point me at the latest version that built fine so I can "downgrade" to it via SVN. BTW, I know what the error means; it's just that I'd like to start out with a known-good source tree rather than trying to hunt down errors in an unknown project. Here's the error: ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h:247: error: expected class-name before ‘{’ token ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h: In constructor ‘Inkscape::UI::Dialog::FileListViewText::FileListViewText(guint, Inkscape::UI::Dialog::SVGPreview&, Gtk::Label&, Gtk::Button&)’: ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h:250: error: class ‘Inkscape::UI::Dialog::FileListViewText’ does not have any field named ‘ListViewText’ make[2]: *** [file.o] Error 1 Thanks, --D.

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#inkscape-user-support channel
by Vladimir Savic 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

There are many users that come on #inkscape irc channel to ask user questions. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to open another channel for user questions? That way we (users) will not bother developers if they don't want to be disturbed. And questions will be more on-topic that way. We can then track down frequent FAQ and move them to inkscape wiki. Of course providing basic informations to newly appeared users where to find documentation - like wiki, address of faq, location of keybindings file etc. Thanx in advance, Vlada

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Slower snapping between 0.45 and devel
by jiho 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hello everyone, I noticed a non negligible difference in responsiveness between Inkscape 0.45 and current devel version on a "complex" (4000 objects) drawing... in the wrong way unfortunately (current devel is slower than 0.45). Since disabling snapping altogether in devel remedies to the slowness I think it involves snapping. I tried to test both version with the same parameters and selected these options (and only these): 0.45 snap nodes to objects snap to objects paths snap sensitivity 10 devel snap nodes snap to paths snap sensitivity 10 And the devel version is still slower than the released version. In fact it will hang for a little while (like 1-2 sec with 100% CPU usage) before first moving the objects, subsequent movements being a little bit faster (but still slower than 0.45). Here is the file on which I remarked it, for you to test: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/slowSnapper.svg try selecting the text objects at the bottom and moving them for example. Since I know the snapping code is begin worked on now, I thought I would report this. Thanks in advance for any improvements. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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