November 2008 - Inkscape Devel

handling of bugfixes for particular cases
by Thomas Holder 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi, I just fixed bug #190424 and #168777. These are about incorrect font size when creating text in a document, that has a viewBox attribute. My patch does not fix the lack of viewBox handling in general, but only for text tool. Actually Inkscape needs a proper generic implementation of viewBox handling I think, but this is probably a larger piece of work. I'd like to know how our policy is for such cases. Go for the easy fix now, and revert it once the proper general fix is done? Or postpone the whole issue until it is properly fixed? Thomas

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mingwm10.dll
by bulia byak 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

As of rev 20252, Inkscape on Windows won't start claiming it needs mingwm10.dll. I found it in MinGW and copied it to the build dir, then it worked fine. Just a heads-up for those who work on Windows build, you may need to include this file in your lists. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape does not render Khmer script correctly
by Khoem Sokhem 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Hello List members, I have a problem with Inkscape in Ms Windows. but in Linux (openSUSE 11.0) it renders Khmer script correctly. For more detail about this please take a look at my previous bug at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168926. and please see the screen shot of wrong rendering in Ms Windows at: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10578823/Inkscape_on_Windows.png P.S. I have the same problem with Inkscape and Gimp in Ms Windows. and I think that Inkscape and Gimp use the same rendering engine, this is jus my idea :). Does any one have problem the same to me? I hope hear from you soon. Best wish, Khoem Sokhem

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Recent Documents List
by Josh Andler 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

I have to say that I like the Recent Documents from Inkscape being listed in my Gnome recent documents list. However, what I didn't expect was that when I cleared Gnome's recent documents that it would also clear the list within Inkscape. Is there any potential way for us to work around this or does this come with getting the integration? Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Create Plug-In for Flow-Chart drawing
by Mirko Marschew 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

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Create Plug-In for Flow-Chart drawing
by Mirko Marschew 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Create Plug-In for Flow-Chart drawing
by Mirko Marschew 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

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Changing the gtk2 theme for a self-built OSX nightly
by AndreBerg 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, I followed the advice from http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX and compiled the latest revision for OS X (downloaded yesterday). As far as I can tell it's working well. It's just that my self-built version uses a somewhat strange gtk theme where only the sliders are looking Aqua-like. The latest available prepackaged nightly build for OSX uses a theme that is much nicer and I would like to change the theme for my self-built version to look like the prepackaged build. Is there some way to do that? Here is a screenshot of the prepackaged built (both run with latest XQuartz): http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7527/inkscapeprepackagednighfm6.png Pre-Packaged Nightly and here is one of my self-built version: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7348/inkscapeselfbuilthq4.png Self-Built Nightly They look similar but the theme of my self-built version lacks the finesse of the other theme and looks kinda clumsy... I suspect it's a build setting somewhere I couldn't find. So if anyone knows something, please speak up... Thanks for listening. André -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Changing-the-gtk2-theme-for-a-self-built-OSX-nightly-… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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make check?
by Aurélio A. Heckert 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi all, I want to code with TDD, but before i need to use that. I try the "make check" and that uses CxxTest, but the result is far from what i was waiting... See the end please (before that was only compiling outputs): g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/python2.5 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -DRELAYTOOL_CRYPTO='static const int libcrypto_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libcrypto_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DRELAYTOOL_SSL='static const int libssl_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libssl_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DHAVE_SSL -I/usr/include/libwpg-0.1 -I/usr/include/libwpd-0.8 -I/usr/include/poppler -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -D_REENTRANT -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I../cxxtest -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp -MT libnr/test-nr.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o libnr/test-nr.o libnr/test-nr.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po In file included from libnr/test-nr.cpp:366: ././libnr/nr-point-fns-test.h:22: warning: floating constant exceeds range of 'double' In file included from libnr/test-nr.cpp:428: ././libnr/in-svg-plane-test.h:18: warning: floating constant exceeds range of 'double' In file included from libnr/test-nr.cpp:13: ././libnr/nr-compose-test.h:33: error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class make[2]: ** [libnr/test-nr.o] Erro 1 make[2]: Saindo do diretório `/opt/inkscape-svn/src' make[1]: ** [check-am] Erro 2 make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/opt/inkscape-svn/src' make: ** [check-recursive] Erro 1 There is no testing dots with Fails and Errors marks. There is only a compilation error trowing. :-( What is wrong? The unity testing infrastructure is really working? Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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Automated transparency removal for EPS export
by Marco Steinacher 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Dear Inkscape Developers, I use Inkscape regularly to edit figures for scientific publications. Because I like to use transparency effects but many journals only accept EPS files for publication, I ran into the well-known "transparency and PostScript export" problem. First I used to remove the transparency by hand as described in the "Tips and Tricks" tutorial [1]. This has been a hard job and sometimes it is virtually impossible. To facilitate this task I have automated this workaround (removing transparency by adding shapes covering the overlapping areas with the corresponding mixed color). So far I am quite happy with that solution, although it obviously does not work for gradients etc., and I would like to include it in the official Inkscape version. In this regard I have a few questions to you: 1) Are there any general objections to add this code to Inkscape? 2) Where would you place this function in the UI? (For my personal use I have added the item "Remove Transparency" to the Path menu, which probably is not appropriate.) Related to this question is the question how to deal with the limited ability of this approach in order to not confuse or annoy users (e.g. when they use it with gradients). 3) Where would you ideally add the code for this feature? Currently I have added four functions sp_remove_transparency*() to splivarot.cpp. I chose this file because of the relation to sp_selected_path_intersect(). Also, I have copied some code from sp_selected_path_boolop() to get the intersection shapes and I suggest to put the common code in a more generic boolean operation function in order to avoid duplicate code. I'm looking forward to receive your comments and thoughts. Thanks, Marco [1] http://www.inkscape.org/doc/tips/tutorial-tips.html

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