September 2007 - Inkscape Devel

ocalfeed error
by Jon Phillips 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Heya bruno, I get this when trying to import clip art using the tag, tree. rejon@...33... ~ $ /usr/local/bin/inkscape /tmp/ocalfeed.xml:86: parser error : Entity 'ldquo' not defined Ray, John: “A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs” (1737) ^ /tmp/ocalfeed.xml:86: parser error : Entity 'rdquo' not defined Ray, John: “A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs” (1737) ^ ** (inkscape:11465): WARNING **: Failed to parse /tmp/ocalfeed.xml ### I believe that you need to set the parser to interpret the special characters correctly, or translate them pre-parse...I can't remember the best way to do it, but have done before on some jabber stuff I did ages ago... Anyone else? Happy late labor day friends... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] NEW: four more modes in Tweak tool
by bulia byak 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

On 9/5/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote: > It is better now, much better! Actually it may be even a bit weak at > high forces, particularly for path tweaking ;) OK, increased it a bit again, try 16005 > Some other points though: > Does the fidelity value have a role for the color changing mode? I > don't see any. Maybe it could be grayed out then. Yes. Or, like I said, just separate path and color tweaking into different tools. I would do that except that I want Jon to make the vertical toolbar clippable first, otherwise it's already too tall. > For this tool I think that the brush radius as well as the forces and > fidelity parameters convey more of a qualitative feel (brush big/ > small, force high/low/medium, fidelity high/low etc.) and the actual > values don't really matter. So maybe the spin buttons could be turned > into sliders, since there is enough space on the toolbar currently. > If you want to keep the quantitative information sliders similar to > those used in for the snapping distance in the preferences could be > used. But I really think that a simple slider, maybe with "clicks" > every 10 steps or so would be sufficient and more appropriate (and it > is an user of Inkscape for precision drawings who speaks!). In fact > that would probably be true for many other spin buttons in other > tools, in the calligraphy tool in particular, but their toolbar's are > already quite full and a spin button is the most space effective widget. Agreed, but this needs some support from Jon too. Jon, can you implement a way to optionally represent the spinbutton toolbar control as a slider? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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mid release tarball
by jtaber 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

There's been a lot of great changes (image magik stuff, tweaking, dockable dialogs ....) - since there may not be an official release for several months - what about a more or less stable tarball (and maybe ubuntu pkg) - for many users to try out and give feedback - akin to a Ubuntu alpha release.

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paste lpe?
by bulia byak 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Johan, can you implement a "Paste path effect" verb, so that the LPE of the copied object is applied to selection (which may include multiple paths)? It would make using LPEs much more convenient. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape has a default theme on OS X
by jiho 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Hello everyone, As of revision 16000 (yes I like round numbers, I think I also did commit number 15000!), development versions of Inkscape have a default GTK theme on OS X (no more of these ugly dark grey windows!) It is probably impossible for GTK to reproduce Aqua exactly, hence the theme does not aim at being an Aqua clone as other themes tried (and in my opinion, did not succeed). It rather tries to "fit" correctly with the rest of the interface. The theme is based on Clearlooks-Quicksilver which already features light gray colors, menu and text highlights and a smooth 3D feel. Further improvements were added such as: - aqua scroll-bars - Lucida Grande font - highlight and scroll-bars colors that use Mac OS X Appearance settings (aqua vs graphite, or blue vs grey vs graphite vs...). However you need to restart Inkscape for colors to change after you changed them in OS X preferences. In addition, Inkscape won't override the local theme preferences you may have in a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (so if you want to see the theme in Inkscape, temporarily move this file somewhere else). Some screenshots: - With OS X blue and blue highlights (OS X default) http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue.png - With OS X blue and orange highlights (subtle changes) http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_blue_orange.png - With OS X graphite and silver highlights (my personal favorite) http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_graphite.png - And the old look, just to compare http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/inkscape_old_look.png There is probably room for improvement: the scroll-bars tips are not perfect, the text and background highlight colors can be differentiated (as in OS X), the icons are still gnome defaults and so on and so forth... but well I hope that this is at least better than before. NB: there is a devel build, on modevia, for you to test this out: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D sorry, only for Intel... the direct link is http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-16002-i386.dmg Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Inkscape is a staff pick at Apple downloads
by jiho 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Hello everyone, Looking for something else I just passed cross this on Apple's site: Inkscape is marked as staff pick by Apple currently. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/index_sp.html I don't remember that it was before so that's great news, given that the interface is X11 (which Mac users typically don't like), and not very pretty by default (which mac users usually care much about). However it seems to be a little lower in the most downloaded counts: it was in top 10 and is now 17. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/index_top.html But no doubt that the 0.46 release will bring all that up. Congratulations anyway. I've some GTK themes which look OK when integrated with OS X. Now if someone could tell me how to use GTK2_RC_FILES I'll be glad to try and use them in Inkscape. Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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"make check" tests
by Jon A. Cruz 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Guys, We need people to start running "make check" again, and trying to keep things up to date. If invoked from the src directory, it can check the main code without running through some of the other things such as translations. Anyway, I just fixed style-test.h so that the tests should compile again. Running it does show a lot of problems with attributes, though.

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compile error in ocaldialog.h
by Mason Thomas 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hi, I recently tried to compile from svn sources and encountered the following error: In file included from file.cpp:50: 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 This occurred in a fresh checkout of revision 15977, and also an updated revision 15990. I have successfully built from svn sources many times before, but the last time I did pre-dated the existence of the ocaldialogs.h file. autogen.sh and configure both run fine and don't detect any problems. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mason

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[Florian.Lindner@...1804...: WG: Compiling Inkscape on Solaris/SPARC]
by Bryce Harrington 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

----- Forwarded message from "Lindner, Florian (ITD-P)" <Florian.Lindner@...1804...> ----- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:04:42 +0200 From: "Lindner, Florian (ITD-P)" <Florian.Lindner@...1804...> To: bryce@...961... Subject: WG: Compiling Inkscape on Solaris/SPARC Hi Bryce, I can't post to the mailing list: Failed to deliver to 'inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net' SMTP module(domain lists.sourceforge.net) reports: host mail.sourceforge.net says: 550 Sender verify failed Here's my note to compile Inkscape on Solaris. Regards Florian -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Lindner, Florian (ITD-P) Gesendet: Montag, 3. September 2007 16:00 An: 'inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net' Betreff: Compiling Inkscape on Solaris/SPARC Hi! I successfully compiled Inkscape 0.45.1 on Solaris 8 / SPARC (and Solaris 10) On Solaris 10, some of the changes are not necessary. I made notes during the installation process (sorry, they're in MediaWiki syntax): ==prerequisites and dependancies== (incomplete) compiler: GCC 4.2.1 environtment: PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH * Inkscape 0.45.1 ** Boehm GC 6.4+ (6.4 has buggy GC_INIT, use 6.8) ** LittleCMS ** GTK+ 2.8.0+ *** pango 1.9+ (1.10.x compiles with cairo, 1.9.1 does not) **** glib 2.8.5+ (./configure --with-libiconv=gnu) **** cairo 0.9.2+ (1.0.2 does not compile, use 1.4.10) ***** freetype 2.3.5 (do not install freetype if it's already installed in /usr/local) ***** fontconfig 2.4.2 ****** libxml 2.6+ ******* zlib 1.2.3 ./configure --shared ***** xrender 0.8.3 *** atk 1.9+ (1.10.x is stable) ** GTKmm 2.4+ ** glibmm 2.4+ *** libsigc++ 2.0.12+ ** libpng 1,2+ ** pkg-config 0.9+ ** libxslt ==detailed installation steps== # install pkg-config # install zlib # install lcms # install GC # install libpng # install libjpeg # install libtiff # install libxml2 # install freetype # install fontconfig # install xrender # install cairo # install glib ## cd ~/lib; perl -pi -e 's#/usr/local/lib/freetype.la#/cls/home/mantra/lib/libfreetype.la#g' # install pango # install atk # install gtk+ # install libsigc++ # install glibmm # install gtkmm ==patching Inkscape== If errors occur compiling these files, correct them as follows: * src/isnan.h ** add #include <ieeefp.h> ** comment out # define isNaN(_a) (std::isnan(_a)) ** add instead #define isNaN(_a) (_a != _a) ** comment out # define isFinite(_a) (std::isfinite(_a)) ** add instead #define isFinite(_a) (!isNaN((_a) - (_a))) * src/display/nr-filter.cpp ** add #define round rint * src/display/nr-filter-gaussian.cpp ** add #define INFINITY (__builtin_inff()) ** add #define isinf(x) __extension__( \ { __typeof(x) __x_i = (x); \ __x_i == (__typeof(__x_i)) INFINITY || \ __x_i == (__typeof(__x_i)) (-INFINITY); }) ** add #define isfinite(x) __extension__( \ { __typeof(x) __x_f = (x); \ !isnan(__x_f) && !isinf(__x_f); }) ** add #define isnormal(x) __extension__( \ { __typeof(x) __x_r = (x); isfinite(__x_r) && \ (sizeof (__x_r) == sizeof (float) ? \ __builtin_fabsf(__x_r) >= __FLT_MIN__ : \ sizeof (__x_r) == sizeof (double) ? \ __builtin_fabs(__x_r) >= __DBL_MIN__ : \ __builtin_fabsl(__x_r) >= __LDBL_MIN__); }) ** comment out using std::isnormal; * src/display/pixblock-transform.cpp ** add #define round rint * src/extension/paramenum.cpp ** comment out line 195 combo->set_active_text(Glib::ustring(_value)); * src/libvpsc/generate-constraints.cpp ** add after #include "isnan.h" #define isNaN(_a) (_a != _a) * src/libcola/gradient_projection.cpp ** add #define INFINITY (__builtin_inff()) ** add #define isinf(x) __extension__( \ { __typeof(x) __x_i = (x); \ __x_i == (__typeof(__x_i)) INFINITY || \ __x_i == (__typeof(__x_i)) (-INFINITY); }) * src/widgets/desktop-widget.cpp ** add #define round rint ==edit Makefiles== * src/Makefile ** remove all references to jabber_whiteboard/libjabber_whiteboard.a and pedro/libpedro.a link inkscape with src/Makefile, not with the base Makefile! ==installed versions== (incomplete) * cairo-1.4.10 * fontconfig-2.4.2 * freetype-2.3.5 * gc6.8 * glib-2.8.6 * glibmm-2.4.8 * gtk+-2.8.20 * gtkmm-2.4.11 * inkscape-0.45.1 * lcms-1.17 * libpng-1.2.18 * libsigc++-2.0.17 * libxml2-2.6.27 * libxslt-1.1.20 * pango-1.10.4 * xrender-0.8.3 Best regards Florian Lindner BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausger?te GmbH, Carl-Wery-Str. 34, 81739 Munich Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Rudi Lamprecht Board of Management: Dr. Kurt-Ludwig Gutberlet (Chairman), Dr. Wolfgang Colberg, Jean Dufour, Prof. E.h. Werner Vogt Registered Office: Munich; Registry Court: Amtsgericht Munich, HRB 75534; WEEE-Reg.-No. DE 57986696 This message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain trade secrets or other confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, copy, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message including any attachment or copies thereof from your system. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Crash on Win XP, cannot get backtrace
by Diederik en Rezi 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

Hi Johan, Not only does it crash when starting from within gdb, but also when I start Inkscape directly, without trying to debug it. I guess I was not clear on that. If it were only a gdb issue then I probably wouldn't have bothered ;-). It would be great to know whether it's reproducible, or maybe you are able to get a backtrace. You're programming on Windows, right? I'll try the file on my linux-machine at home and see where it leads to. The file will be sent in a separate mail to you personally, I'd rather not have it published on the mailing list as it's somewhat confidential. Regards, Diederik Op Ma, 3 september, 2007 14:37, schreef J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...: > Diederik wrote: >> When starting through gdb however it also gets stuck, but it >> won't crash. >> How do I get some useful information from gdb to help debugging? >> Currently, I only have "unknown software exception >> 0xc00000fd" at "0x672ddbd9". > > Running inkscape in gdb and then opening a file has been freezing Inkscape > since a long time ago, since January I think (I must admit I have not > tried in over a month, maybe it got fixed accidentally). I do not know how > to fix this, it seems some obscure bug. > A "fix" is to load the file from the command line which did work last time > I tried. > > Can you send the SVG file to me so I can try? > > Groet! > Johan > >

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