November 2008 - Inkscape Devel

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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Tablet stopped work in Dev builds
by microUgly 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

I just downloaded the Oct 24 Windows build and found that my tablet isn't working properly with it. I can move the cursor with tablet pen, but when I press on the tablet nothing draws. I tried toggling the "Use pressure" button. My tablet still works fine in 0.46 and was working in an earlier build I was using last night (I don't think it was more than a week or two old). Let me know if you require a bug logged for this. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tablet-stopped-work-in-Dev-builds-tp20171213p20171213… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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LPE dropdown box (was : NEW: LPE Interpolate)
by Steren 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

>> The LPE choose dropdown box is getting really huge now. Who wants to >> make mockups of what is a better system for applying effects? > > What about just a hierarchical menu with submenus, similar to the Effects menu? I think this is an issue that needs more to be discussed before coding anything (search for filters ?) Here is a first draft for LPE submenus, please comment and modify : =Artistic= // Everything that changes the path style (on a visual point of view) Freehand Shape Interpolate Sub-Paths Pattern Along Path Sketch Stitch Sub-Paths =Create= // create a very different path Gears Spiro spline ? VonKoch =Path Tweak= //small modifications Knot =Distort= // change the path shape Bend Envelope Deformation Lattice Deformation Perspective path =Technical= // tools for tech and serious drawings Angle bisector Boolops Circle (center+radius) Circle through 3 points Construct grid Mirror symmetry Offset Parallel Perpendicular bisector Ruler Rotate copies Tangent to curve

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using inkscape -> plotters in windows...
by stuart 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Hi... First, how do you people do this? Window drivers are a nightmare! For instance, where do they start and where do applications end? People are talking about HPGL, SVG ... I just when round and round w/the Graphtec drivers for their C200-20 and C100-20 plotters. I am convinced they not only control the plotters but also translate depending on the application. That is, I have been told, that printing from Word using the graphics found in the Word's WordArt feature can actually cut on a Graphtec Craftrobo. How would this be possible unless the driver were also translating the output of the Word application. Guess I'm really asking, in windows, using inkscape, is the accepted "go-between" format between application and drivers PostScript? So, if anyone dares to write a windows driver, they can at least count on that much? Also, I understand that the "pipe the output feature" of inkscape was recently broken (during a revamping). Is that true? Has it been fixed? ...thanks

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NEW: Converting text to path produces a group
by bulia byak 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Converting a text or flowed text to path (Ctrl+Shift+C) now produces a group of paths, one path for each glyph of text, instead of a single monolithic path as before. Apart from easier manipulation, an additional advantage is that if your text contained styled spans (i.e. fragments with different color, opacity, or other properties), these styles will be preserved by the corresponding glyph paths after converting to paths. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Gradients disappearing
by Jasper van de Gronde 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Running the rendering tests again this week I encountered a regression in the rendering of filters-comptran-01-b (from W3C SVG test suite). This test contains four rectangles with the same gradient, one without any filter and three with three different component transfer filters. Last week the four rectangles in the filters-comptran-01 test were still rendered with the wrong colours, but they were rendered. This week two of them are not rendered anymore... As far as I can tell the component transfer code wasn't touched during that time though, so I have absolutely no idea why this suddenly happens. Now the question is, should a bug be reported? And if so, what is this the actual bug? As far as I can tell feComponentTransfer isn't supposed to work anyway, so filing a bug seems a bit pointless at this point. However, as it doesn't appear to be related to a change to the component transfer filter it might actually be an unrelated bug in disguise. So, any ideas on what could be causing this?

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CharTypes.h et al
by Michal Svoboda 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Hello, for the second day I'm trying to compile inkscape and growing more and more desperate. Compilation fails with: In file included from extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.cpp:19: extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.h:32:23: error: CharTypes.h: No such file or directory In file included from extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.cpp:20: extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.h:29:24: error: goo/gtypes.h: No such file or directory extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.h:30:20: error: Object.h: No such file or directory (and ~3 more pages of induced errors). I've tried to google and stuff, but to no avail. What do I need to have installed to get those header files? (I've seen that they come with xpdf, but that's not quite it - and they don't get installed to /usr/include anyway.) So either some horrible hack is required on my part or these include files come with something very basic that is auto-assumed, and nobody bothers to check for it in ./configure. Can someone shed some light into this? Thanks, Michal

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intltool
by Diederik van Lierop 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Hey people, Just a quick note: to run ./autogen.sh succesfully with latest revision, I had to update intltool to v0.40.5. This was the error I got before updating: Running intltoolize --copy --force --automake ... cp: cannot create regular file `po/Makefile.in.in': No such file or directory intltoolize: cannot copy '/usr/share/intltool/Makefile.in.in' to 'po/Makefile.in.in' Please fix the error conditions and try again. Fedora 9 is still only at v0.37.1, so I had to manually copy some files from the Fedora 10 preview release. Diederik

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New snapping features
by Diederik van Lierop 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi all, In the latest revisions you will notice that Inkscape now has a snapping tab in the preferences dialog. It contains some non-document specific settings, such as for example the snap indicator toggle. There are some new parameters too though: 1) You can now specify the snapping delay (as promised a few weeks ago) 2) I've added a slider which controls which type of snapping Inkscape will prefer. When multiple snap solutions are found, then Inkscape can either prefer the closest transformation (when the weight-slider is set to 0; this is the old mode), or prefer the node that was initially the closest to the pointer (when the slider is set to 1). The way Inkscape calculates the preferred snap has been improved too, which should lead to more predictable snapping 3) There's a toggle to force Inkscape to only try snapping the (source) node that is closest to the mouse pointer, à la Coreldraw. When this mode is enabled a snap indicator will shortly be shown at that node. This will give you maximum control of the snapping which is useful for more complex drawings with many nodes. Have a try and let me know what you think of it.... Diederik

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Bug in SVN with certain HID devices
by Omar Chanouha 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hello Everyone, I did an SVN yesterday and after compiling I got this error: ERROR:preferences.cpp:488:Inkscape::XML::Node* Inkscape::Preferences::_getNode(const Glib::ustring&, bool): assertion failed: (pref_key.find('.') == Glib::ustring::npos) After further investigation, I realized that the pref_key my program was crashing on was that of my keyboard/mouse: Liteon Microsoft Wireless Reciever 700 v2*.*0 When I removed the assert from the code the program started properly. I believe the assert is checking to make sure that the first instance of a period is coming at the end of the pref_key, or that one does not exist? Either way, why are you checking for this? Why does it matter? Regards, Omar

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