November 2008 - Inkscape Devel

lpe-hatches
by jf barraud 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi all, I've just added a new lpe to fill a shape with rough hatches. It's still at an experimental state. As usual, I'm in trouble with the parameters. They are purely technical atm, i.e. they are the onesI used in the code to control the shape of the hatches. But what is technical-oriented is generally not user friendly (in particular, I was not able to supply tips for some of them). Please try it, and suggest user firendly parameters (from which the technical ones would be deduced). Ah, and yes, bending needs improvement, and growth has no effect atm... Anyway, I hope you'll like it ;-) jf.

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Number in circle effect
by Mihaela 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

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verbs and the undo stack
by Felipe Sanches 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

I am not so sure about the mechanics of the undo stack and the meaning of verbs. I have coded an improvement to the user interface for embedding color profiles in a document and I have used the sp_document_done call. The patch is attached. Could anybody review it? It adds a "remove" context menu option in the "Embedded color profiles" box that appears in the "Color Management" tab in "document settings" dialog. Undoing and redoing works ok, but I am not sure aobut the verbs. I expected it to call the update() method onde the user press CTRL+Z or SHIFT+CTRL+Z so that my widgets would be properly updated. Juca

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[PATCH] JavaFX exporting
by Silveira Neto 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Changelog: * Public attributes instead of private functions, so can externally use them. * Sanatize also '#' character. * Removed a compilation warning on sanatize(). Todo: * There's some wrong strings for i18n. * The attribute 'name' from the class JavaFXOutput. * Strange black stroke to be fixed. * Gradients are not been correctly applied.

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Craft Robo can cut directly from inkscape?
by stuart 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi... Been talking to Lucille across the pond and understand that people are cutting directly from inkscape to Craft Robo paper cutters using (I believe) the Craft Robo 5.1 software package. As I have not heard anything about this here (support for non standard Graphtec cutter protocols) I assume the Craft Robo 5.1 software package uses a Craft Robo USB driver that identifies and interprets the Post Script output (nuts, should have ask Lucille how inkscape was setup) of inkscape. Anyhow, if true, this would be great for Craft Robo users. However, I doubt that Wishblades (North American versions of Craft Robo) cutters will benefit. The old blue and new pink Wishblades identify them selves differently and have not (in the past) worked with the Craft Robo software. Doesn't seam fair as the old blue Wishblades are no longer supported by Xyron going forward into Windows Vista from what I understand. Yeah, I'm going to buy more stuff from Xyron, NOT! You can still cut from inkscape to a Wishblade but you will need to in Linux, have Python and Glade installed and use that Python script we've talked about here on this list (I'll have to look up the URL if people are interested). So, are there still people interested in porting that Python script to windows? I've tried, but haven't been able to figure out how to create a USB driver under Windows. From all that I have read, Windows is a real mess when it comes to creating USB drivers (i.e. you can find companies that will do it but they charge $1000s, ouch...)

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Marker direction regression
by Jasper van de Gronde 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Running the rendering tests this week I encountered a regression in how markers are oriented. If anyone touched this code lately, perhaps it's good to go back and have a look. The relevant bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/299414 Overview of rendering tests: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] restrict Inkscape open/save dialog boxes
by Bob Jamison 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Stan, Likely the best way would be to not try to modify Inkscape (might take a lot of work and time), but rather to run Inkscape in a chrooted "jail" directory, so that only the directory you want presented to the user is the one that exists, as far as the running Inkscape is concerned. http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Jtd7y_HjVJAJ:www.linux-mag.com/id/1230… This is similar to how FTP servers export a given directory, but prevent access to an entire server. Sorry about the url. Couldn't get TinyURL working on it correctly. bob (ishmal) -----Original Message----- >From: Stan <stan@...2079...> >Sent: Nov 17, 2008 10:19 AM >To: Inkscape Devel <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >Subject: [Inkscape-devel] restrict Inkscape open/save dialog boxes > >Sorry my previous question about kiosk mode was misleading. We already >have a kiosk mode (the window manager is configured to only allow the >browser). I was asking what would be the best way to limit users to one >directory in the Inkscape dialog boxes. We don't want them to be able >to browse the file system. > >Thanks, > >Stan > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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restrict Inkscape open/save dialog boxes
by Stan 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Sorry my previous question about kiosk mode was misleading. We already have a kiosk mode (the window manager is configured to only allow the browser). I was asking what would be the best way to limit users to one directory in the Inkscape dialog boxes. We don't want them to be able to browse the file system. Thanks, Stan

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restrict directory access in kiosk mode?
by Stan 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

What is the best way to restrict opening/saving files to one directory in kiosk mode on a Linux console? I can edit and recompile if necessary. Thanks, Stan

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Difficulties in backtracing a crash on XP
by Diederik van Lierop 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Hi, Bug 292077 is giving me quite some difficulties in pin-pointing it. It crashes Inkscape, but I can only reproduce it on Windows (not on Linux), and only when I'm _not_ running gdb. To make things worse it even requires quite some patience to reproduce it. How does one find the cause of such a bug? I've tried attaching gdb after the crash (is that possible at all?), and sprinkled around lot's of std::couts, but I didn't get any closer. I could use some pointers here :-( Apparently it only crashes when snapping is enabled, but it looks like it's not the snapping code itself that's crashing. The bug report is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/292077 It's been around at least since v0.46, according to this report. Thanks, Diederik PS: If you want to have a try at reproducing it yourself, then please use revision 20049 or older. Newer revisions snap less often and are therefore more difficult to break.

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