August 2008 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] svn-19741 node tool crash
by Jon A. Cruz 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

On Aug 20, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Docsonic wrote: > > I just updated svn to 19741 and it has an odd crash situation - > > If I open a document or create new and add objects, I can > manipulate the > objects with either the select tool or the node tool with no problems. > However, if I convert any object to a path and select the path with > the node > tool, Inkscape crashes as soon as I click on the path. > I also tried drawing a rectangle, converting to a path and > selecting with > the select tool. Then I chose the node tool so that the path nodes are > displayed and I tried rubberbanding 2 of the nodes. The moment I > let go of > the mouse button, Inkscape crashes. > > This is in WinXP SP2 I was chasing this down the other night with a few others. We narrowed it down to only happening when -O2 was used with the build, but not -O0. In other words it was only showing up with optimizations on. Maybe that will give someone a hint for reproducing and/or fixing.

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GSoC mentor (Ted Gould) not responding!
by Jasper van de Gronde 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

I sent my mentor (Ted Gould) two reminders for filling in the final mentor evaluation (one on Aug. 22 and one last friday) and it seems he hasn't started the evaluation yet. And I also haven't heard from him. I did get a reply to a (much) earlier message on the 24th stating that he had some e-mail trouble. So I suspect that he might simply not have received the reminders. Is there anyone who can contact him directly? Or perhaps the project administrator can do something? Jasper van de Gronde

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SVG Open trip summary
by Jon A. Cruz 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

I've just posted a summary of some things from SVG Open. http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2008/08/svg-open-summary.html Read and discuss. :-)

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Filters Effects "proposal"
by Xavier Araque A.|Rendergraf 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

Greetings. I am making use of the dynamic filters in Inkscape are very good. When I am working with this tool you accustom I am confused and I believe that it would be necessary to identify the aim of each effect, in my case I have put a mark of black color in the end, also is possible to put icons to hide these effects, to block and to erase. Here I leave an image them of the idea that I can give. http://img26.picoodle.com/data/img26/3/8/29/f_propuestam_b653b85.png I even believe that groups can be done of filters, but that idea will be more ahead. Thank you very much by everything. Xavier Araque -- .Xavier Soluciones Linux. http://rendergraf.wordpress.com Telf.: +58 416 1027262 Linux counter: 292510 Si te lo cuentan lo olvidas,si lo ves lo entiendes,pero si lo haces lo APRENDERAS!!

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KDE and SVG
by Jon A. Cruz 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

One SVG Open presenter's overview and his presentation: http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2008/08/svg-in-kde.html The paper is decent, but doesn't give justice to the demos he actually gave live.

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Font-related crash with chinese environment (#261475)
by Luca Bruno 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hi, a serious bug was reported in debian, as inkscape is almost unusable in chinese environments (http://bugs.debian.org/487623). Forwarded to our bugtracker, the crash seems to be triggered by a particular translation in the open file dialog, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/261475 but happens in other situations too and is related to font handling. I've made a patch to prevent the crash, but I wasn't able to find what's the real issue between pango and inkscape with LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8. Some more details and the actual patch are available in the bug report. I'll commit the patch in a few days, just because I'd like someone else more familiar with libnrtype/Font* code to inspect what's really going wrong there instead of just fixing symptoms... So please have a look at it ;) Cheers, Luca -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Luca Bruno (kaeso) : :' : The Universal O.S. | lucab (AT) debian.org `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 3BFB9FB3 `- http://www.debian.org | Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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Status: Inkscape Spell Checking
by Jason Beaudoin 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hiya! I have been using inkscape more and more over the last year, and appreciate the fine work you all have done. Thank you. I'd like to join in on the fun, and have found myself really craving spell checking support in inkscape. I have poked around sourceforge, archives, and summer of code project information, and it appears that some work on this has been done, but it isn't complete. So my question: what is the state of spell checking support (wrt to development), and where do we need to take this to make it as functional as one would expect? I'm willing and interested to step up to this work. regards, ~Jason

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fwd: promoting SVG
by Felipe Sanches 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

yes, we can start a thread there. But we should keep updating people here at inkscape-devel about what we are planning for the contest. I would pay $150 for half of the first prize if we decide that it will be a vinyl cutter. Anyway, I heard that maybe mozilla guys still didnt answer maybe because there is a mozilla meeting this week and everybody may be busy attending speaks and meeting mozilla people in person. Maybe we should wait to see whether we get some Mozilla funding after the event is over and this guys go back to "processing e-mail inbox" mode. Juca On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Patrick <optomatic@...584...> wrote: > Hey Juca > > Thanks for the great tutorial! > > I am looking forward to doing my own experiments(after I learn javascript!) > > Would it be wise to move this thread to the user list? There must be many > more people there, perhaps we could get more sponsorship. I need some > guidance on buying a cutter. At $300+ we have a long way to go to finding > enough support to buy one plus shipping. If a vinyl cutter is the way to go > we need to find an economical model(that is still good quality) and more > financial support. > > Thanks again-Patrick > > P.S I did not find any reasonably active SVG mailing lists, is there such a > thing? > > > > Felipe Sanches wrote: > >> I have just created a tutorial here: >> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SVG_with_javascript >> >> Juca >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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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Node tool issue in nightly builds?
by john cliff 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hi guys, Had reports from the inkscape forum that people were still seeing crashes in the nightly builds in the node tool, which seemed to be fixed in the SVN builds I was making, just tried the latest (Inkscape19750-0808250930.7z) and have confirmed that it does crash for me still. Anyone got any idea whats up with it? Cheers John

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show/hide other layers like in GIMP
by RRH 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hi all! Currently in SVN wersion a new feature concererning the layer menu appeared. Namely: show/hide show/hide other layers. In my opinion this is a half success. Layer menu should have features like in GIMP and its comfort. Sometimes I have to switch off visibility of great numer of layers. This is not comfortable doing it by hand. In GIMP using Shift key we have opportunity to hide/show layers. Shouldn't it be in Inkscape? One combination: Shift+click on eye icon, shows/hides others; Shift+click on padlock icon, locks/unlocks other layers. None menu is needed. I'd love to see this feature soon, but this is opinion only a humble Inkscape user. :) What's your view? regards, Wojciech (Voytech) Ryrych from Poland ps. sorry for my English

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