March 2008 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Official Inkscape 0.46 OSX package for Tiger (10.4) users
by Michael Wybrow 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello OSX Tiger users, I have posted an Inkscape 0.46 package for Tiger (10.4.x) users: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/Inkscape-0.46-2.TIGER.UNIVERSAL.d… This package was built complete from a PPC 10.4.11 machine, and since I do not have access to an Intel Mac running 10.4.11 it has not been tested on Intel hardware. If you have an Intel 10.4.11 machine, could you please let me know if the package works for you? Apologies for the initial lack of Inkscape 0.46 package for Tiger users. Producing packages for older OS releases is always more difficult when the Inkscape Mac developers are no longer using that OS for their normal builds, and building Universal packages, even more so! (Our CompilingMacOsX wiki page is currently out of date, but will be shortly updated to reflect the steps used to build these official packages.) Cheers, Michael

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no native windows dialog on pre4-2
by Mihaela 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Open and import dialogs are "old" style on pre4-2 on winXP. Is that expected?

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NEW : LPE for groups
by Steren Giannini 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello, We are proud to announce our first contribution to inkscape : Live Path Effects for groups. You can already test it from svn trunk. In a word, you can now add a LPE to a group of paths. For most LPE, the effect is applied recursively (try sketch, curve stitching or gears) but for Bend Path the result is more powerful : the distortion applies on the whole group. You can edit original path of the group by double-clicking on the group (as usual). A path with a LPE can be part of a group with a LPE, this is a sort of of "LPE stacking". You can make groups of groups, it will work (There is one known bug when using bend path, we will fix it very soon). You can apply definitively the effect with "Convert Object to path" We will soon make that when ungrouping, the effect is copied to each item in the group I will update the ReleaseNotes as soon as possible. We are currently working on LPE stacking (a simple UI is done, the engine is in a good way) and on an envelope deformation effect (it uses LPE PointParams for control points). Bye Steren for the "PI:Inkscape" team of Ecole Centrale de Lyon.

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GSoC test suite proposal
by Jasper van de Gronde 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

I just created a Wiki page with my proposal for the GSoC [1]. I have attempted to incorporate most of the comments I received so far, with emphasis on getting the unit tests in shape. I would appreciate any further comments. For one thing, I named the page ...-blueprint, but I haven't created an actual blueprint yet, mostly because the page is worded more like a proposal than a blueprint (and I'm not yet that familiar with the blueprint feature). Would it still be desirable to have a blueprint for this proposal? [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TestSuite-blueprint BTW, I omitted all non-technical information (like my previous experience) from this Wiki page, it obviously will be part of the proposal I will submit.

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Win32 pre4-2 (minor error fixed)
by rygle 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hi, For Windows users, the Win32 0.46pre4 has been updated to pre4-2 due to a missing file error. My apologies. You'll find pre4-2 on the Sourceforge server here; http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… This version is already quite stable, but please it for any further bugs and report to https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ If there are no other major problems, we will move to a stable release early next week. Note, there are some known issues that won't be fixed for 0.46.0, as per the readme; * (LP: #180890) Blend modes do not work correctly over transparent backgrounds. A workaround is to place an opaque rectangle underneath the bottom-most layer. * (LP # 202704) Blur and other filters are very slow when applied to an object with transform= attribute with rotation or skew. To avoid this slowdown, either do not rotate/skew objects you use with filters, or apply filters only to paths (but not shapes to text) because paths, by default, get no transform= attribute when you rotate or skew them. * Windows printing has two known issues. In both cases the workaround is to print to bitmap (Print -> Rendering -> Bitmap). - (LP # 205732) Blurred objects are misaligned when printing. - (LP # 208217) Masked objects disappear when printing. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Win32-pre4-2-%28minor-error-fixed%29-tp16370629p16370… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Don't forget to Vote!
by Aaron Spike 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Voting is open for Inkscape committee member until Friday, April 4th. Voting is Cool! Vote now! (Voting is open to everyone listed in AUTHORS.) The nominees are: Peter Moulder Bulia Byak Johan Engelen Merry Voting! Aaron Spike

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Tiger (not leopard) osx Inscape 0.46 package?
by unknown＠example.com 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

(sorry, forgot to put subject line in post) > > I see that a Leopard dmg package for Inkscape 0.46 is posted, but not a Tiger > (OSX 10.4.11) version, and the Leopard package doesn't run on Tiger. > > I won't be upgrading my Macbook to Leopard for a while, if at all, and would > like to upgrade to > the latest Inskcape. > > Is anyone planning to make a Tiger dmg?. > > If not, and the build system is fairly-well automated, I could try to build a > Tiger universal package on my macbook, I have xcode etc installed. > > > Any advice on this? > > duncan >

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NEW: LPE PathParams can link to existing paths
by unknown＠example.com 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

Hi all, Like suggested in another post, I have added functionality to the LPE PathParam. Now, it can also link to another shape/text on canvas. Especially the text is nice. For example: 1. Type text (not flowtext) 2. draw curved path 3. apply lpe-Pattern along path to curved path 4. select text and copy it 5. select curved path and press link to path button in the LPE dialog for the pattern source parameter 6. see what happens. edit the text and see what happens :) Please report bugs to me directly (not in launchpad, because I won't see it). I know deleting of the path to which is linked is bugged; it has not been implemented yet. Yours truly, Johan

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GSoC test suite project
by Jasper van de Gronde 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

I'm interested in improving Inkscape's test framework for the GSoC. I've read the GSoC related documentation. I've also read all the information on testing on the Wiki that I could find and had a look at some of the current unit tests in SVN. Unfortunately I don't have a Linux system set up at the moment, so I can't actually execute 'make check'. So far I've come up with the following draft plan: 1. Make sure the existing tests work on Win32 (and MacOS X). 2. Set up system to rerun tests periodically/when needed. 3. *Possibly* also try generating some historical data (where possible). 4. Implement new tests for (at least): - nr-compose (I already did this locally, at least partially) - livarot (parts of) - sp_svg_... (transform_read/write, read/write_path, etc.) 5. Integrate (existing) SVG conformance tests so that they are also rerun. I will attempt to partially automate this (as far as I understand the current tests are evaluated manually) by storing result images and only asking for human judgement when an image changes. I'm also thinking of a few more advanced ways of automating some of these tests. 6. Add performance information by timing tests (as well as rendering of images, for the SVG conformance tests for example). In short my intention is to create a system which (continuously) keeps track of the status of unit tests as well as SVG conformance and performance of Inkscape. Test results will be accessable online. I also plan to use gcov to keep track of test coverage and if interesting (read: if the tests take long) reduce the number of tests that have to be rerun each time. I'm currently checking whether I can get gcov to work to my satisfaction with Inkscape. If deemed interesting I might also add information from gprof to give a better idea of what parts of the code are interesting to optimize (and keep track of performance over time on a fine-grained level). I already regularly use gprof with Inkscape myself. Is this more or less what was originally intended? In any case, I would appreciate any suggestions and/or information you might have.

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Missing test files?
by Jasper van de Gronde 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

I have been looking at the existing unit tests in the Inkscape codebase, and interestingly enough I've found a few references to test files in the exclude list of build.xml that don't actually exist. In part this is because they refer to automatically generated files from CxxTest unit tests, and some others are probably explained by tests that were converted from Utest to CxxTest. But I have also found a few which I can't explain: - extension/script/bindtest.cpp - extension/script/cpptest.cpp - livarot/Path-test.cpp - trace/potrace/potest.cpp - widgets/test-widgets.cpp - removeoverlap/test.cpp - removeoverlap/remove_rectangle_overlap-test.cpp If anyone knows what happened to these files, and especially if anyone has these files (or of course other test files) still lying around, I'd love to hear about it (and if you do have one, how usable is it). BTW, there are also two nr-compose related test files which are not in the codebase, but I'm afraid that's due to me :) (I still have them lying around and will probably convert them to CxxTest and make sure they end up in the repository.)

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