January 2008 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] grids, guides, snapping UI
by Guillermo Espertino 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

I filed a bug related to the "snap guides while dragging" behavior: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181020 Diederik did a great job fixing its behavior, now it is more controllable and does what it should. The problem is that it's not clearly explained what sould it do. In the same bug report Diederik explained why it's not possible to snap to segments atm, so he had to apply the snapping to the points only. Knowing this, the snapping works perfectly. imo, the only thing that should be changed is the checkbox label: "snap guides to points while dragging". As it is disabled by default, people will have to read the label to turn that feature on, so there's no excuses like "people don't read tooltips". About the other Bulia's proposals... I agree. The snapping options should be unified and simplified to make the easier to understand. The features work great, but the UI is slightly confusing. Regards, Gez.

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News from Ecole Centrale de Lyon
by Steren Giannini 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello, We started this week our work on the deformation envelope LPE. After our discussion with Johan, I created pages on the wiki to explain what is planned: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingLivePathEffects#Current_Proje… Please have a look, and don't hesitate to comment. Steren

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WinXP - 0.46dev+devel: Crash on opening files (segmentation fault in msvcrt!_HUGE ())
by Rock Star 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi, in nightly builds (for example 24th of December 2007 and previous) Inkscape almost always crashes when I want to open or import some file. I have filled a simillar bug report, but with segmentation fault in wxvault.dll (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/177618), but it turned out to be connected to EMBASSY software that ships with some DELL computers... Anyway, after uninstalling the software, the program is still crashing, but this time with the segmentation fault in msvcrt!_HUGE(). On my laptop this happens when I want to open or import some file. I click on button, and the program crashes. I can almost always reproduce this crash on my laptop, but some people said that they can not reproduce it (see the bug report). Any ideas what could be wrong here? Thanks, and just wanted to say that 0.46 will be just amazing :) This is a brilliant software. Rok

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File\Import not File\Open
by Alvin Penner 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

My first post to this list, so bear with me. I'm trying to develop an extension to import svg data, a follow-up to Bug #179560. Question: is there any way to specify, inside an .inx file, that it is to be used only on the File|Import dialog and not in the File|Open dialog. My extension, if it works, will be meaningless in a File|Open dialog, because I only want to import one specific path node. Currently the list of available file types in the two different dialog boxes appears to be identical, is this deliberate or accidental? Alvin Penner

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pdf crashes
by bulia byak 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Like others I have been getting intermittent and unpredictable (though quite often) crashes when opening or importing pdf files. I found where it crashes but I have no idea why. So I just commented out one line, which seems to have fixed it for me - likely at the expense of a memory leak. Please test if this fixes the crashes for you. This is the line 711 in src/extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp: //delete pdf_doc; I'm at a loss when it comes to such mysterious crashes - there's definitely no double delete here and nothing obviously fishy. So if anyone can discover the true reason please share it with us. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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default metadata in prefs?
by bulia byak 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Can someone please explain to me why we need 2 new pages in prefs for default metadata and license? What's wrong with just changing the metadata and license in an empty document and saving it as a template? Saving as a template is not obvious? OK, just make it more obvious. Add a "save template" command for example. This solution is bad because it unnecessarily duplicates some very heavy pieces of UI, clutters the preferences, and generally makes the program look clunkier and less clean. It also utterly confuses the concepts of document preferences and program preferences, which should be kept as separate as possible. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] pdf crashes
by Guillermo Espertino 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

PDF/AI import is working great since Rev. 16995 and I had no more crashes or problems saving the imported file. I can only add that import works much faster too, which is very good. Cheers, Gez.

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gdkmm-2.4 -- where do I find this
by Justin Gedge 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

I'm trying to compile inkscape on an older OS [RHEL4]. missing gdkmm. don't know where to find this and google turns up references to gtkmm. Any ideas where to find this? -jmg

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Cairo pdf output flips text
by Bill Baxter 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Is it known that Save As... PDF via Cairo flips text upside down? This is on a Win32 snapshot from a day or two ago. Also why is PDF via Cairo output so slow to render in Acrobat? It renders so slow you'd think it was an ultra hi-res bitmap. But the size of the file, and zoomability, say otherwise. --bb

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2 silent data loss bugs when out of disk space -- milestone?
by Tom Davidson 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi all, I'm new to bug triaging, and I came across (and confirmed in today's SVN under Fedora Core 6) a couple silent data loss bugs in the tracker. Both are caused by full disk/partition situations: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167801 svg file truncated when target partition is full https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168510 svg files, preferences.xmlsaved as 0 bytes if /tmp is full Wasn't sure whether these should be milestoned, so thought I'd bring them to the list's attention... -Tom

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