December 2008 - Inkscape Devel

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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CMake status
by Henning Meyer 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

I'm new to the list. But I'd like to see a cmake-build solution. It's more flexible and easier to maintain on multiple platforms. Also it would be easier for me to integrate additional libraries for testing-purposes ;-) > The problem we had with cmake was that it puts obj files in some special dir that is long, and then creates a commandline like: > g++ verylongpathlisting/blah.o possiblyevenlongerpathname/blah2.o ... > such that the cmdline is too long to work with windows/g++ > I don't know your MinGW environment, but this problem is known and seems to be solved here: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.make-execvp

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CMake status
by Krzysztof Kosiński 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

This was raised in another thread, but I think this issue is fairly important - what is the status of CMake? Having three parallel build systems (homebrew buildtool, autotools and CMake) is at least awkward. I understand that migrating to CMake would allow us to remove the Windows build system. On the other hand, figuring out how to compile Inkscape on Windows using MinGW and MSYS would do the same. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CMake-status-tp21209331p21209331.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Inkscape in the press: downloads of the year, the 30 best free programs
by the Adib 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

All, there is this link to the german c't computer magazine, titeld as above http://www.heise.de/software/download/special/downloads_des_jahres/50_1 Happy new year, Adib. ---

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2Geom Progress
by Joshua L. Blocher 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

I'm going to take a random stab in the air and say we are about 70-75% complete with the Conversion to 2Geom. Things that still need done: - NRRect/NR::Rect need converting to Geom::Rect or Geom::OptRect - Filter needs to be moved out of the NR namespace maybe namespace Inkscape{ namespace Filter{ }} - sp-gradient.cpp & sp-pattern.cpp have deeper than normal libnr connection functionality will have to be moved out of NR or replaced - Include 2geom files instead of libnr files, simple replace and see if it compiles - Integer versions of Rect , Coord , etc Please see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CheatSheetForConvertingto2geom for a general guide for converting. If you have problems or questions please feel free to ask on here or in the channels on Jabber or IRC. Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow

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does not load/create preferences in linux
by the Adib 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Hello all, I am trying to extend the preferences by an /i18n/language entry in order to switch the user-interface language by inkscape preference settings. But using the svn devel it does not load /save the user default preferences in the /home/user/.inkscape directory .!? When I delete the .inkscape directory I expect that inkscape recreate the whole structure from scratch. But this is not the case. The version 0.46 does so. Any thoughts ? Adib. ---

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How can I get a text bounding box in a python script?
by Bernd D. 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hello, I try to write a python script that help drawing diagrams (i.e. syntax diagrams). A node in this typ of diagram, is a rectangle with rounded edges and a centered text caption in it. In the script, I need the bounding box of the text, for the calculation of the correct node rectangle size, to hold the whole text in it. But how can I get the bounding box? Is there somebody that can point me to a solution? Best regards, Bernd

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SVG Fonts and PDF import
by Krzysztof Kosiński 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

I understand that there's now some support for SVG Fonts thanks to Felipe Sanches' GSoC project. I would be great if the people responsible for the PDF import plugin added support for PDFs with embedded fonts (i.e. different than those installed in the system). This way I could open LaTeX documents in Inkscape without text breakage. Also of use would be an export option that embeds all fonts in the SVG (with a checkbox specifying whether to embed entire fonts or the subsets used in the document), so that fancy text could remain editable in portable documents. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SVG-Fonts-and-PDF-import-tp21209580p21209580.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Crash in console mode resulting from rev. 20388
by Jasper van de Gronde 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Inkscape suddenly crashes for me when using the command line export functionality (in some cases at least). It seems to crash in SPDesktop::doc2dt, probably due to a null-pointer dereference. This function is called from sp_item_i2d_affine now, since rev. 20388. And this was also one of the few revisions since I last updated, so it could very well have to do with this revision. My guess is that there simply isn't any instance of SPDesktop when Inkscape is used as a command line executable. So possibly the error isn't in sp_item_i2d_affine as such, but rather in the fact that it is being called at all. If anyone with a bit more understanding of this area of the code could have a look that would be great.

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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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