October 2009 - Inkscape Devel

Issues with SVG precision number writing
by Jon A. Cruz 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

In fixing bug #399604 I discovered that our writing of numbers with specified precision has a few bugs in it. Given that we've come close to a release without people explicitly noticing I think we are OK for the moment. However we really should look into that and see what we can do as far as fixing proper support for edge cases. If people can take a look at that, it would be quite helpful. There is an appropriate unit test source file in our tree: svg/svg-length-test.h The function that has issues is unsigned int sp_svg_number_write_de( gchar *buf, int bufLen, double val, unsigned int tprec, int min_exp ); Note that it did not used to have that bufLen parameter, and that even at the moment it is unused. I'll be adding a few test cases in there, but if others can also contribute we can stabilize things much quicker. Thanks

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daily updates testsuite
by unknown＠example.com 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi Niko, It is awesome that you are doing daily testsuite updates on your website [1]! Thanks a lot! Anybody care to write a newsitem about this on our website? I have two requests: 1. Are you using perceptualdiff? There are many 'new' entries in the list. This means that the resulting file is different from the reference when compared byte per byte. But I'd rather see the result of a visual comparison, using perceptualdiff [2]. perceptualdiff "runtests.py --compare-png=perceptualdiff" 2. I'd like to see the svn revision number below the date; so that we know exactly with which Inkscape version the test was done. Again, I'm very happy to see the results updated every day! Ciao, Johan [1] http://auriga.mine.nu/inkscape/ [2] http://pdiff.sourceforge.net/

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Inkscape Portable
by Joshua A. Andler 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hey All, Chris Morgan has submitted a patch for packaging a portable version of inkscape. There is one thing which is additionally distributed with these builds that I feel I should ask the group about. There is a help.html file for the portable version which has a button for donating to support portableapps.com. Attached is an image of the page. Optionally we could otherwise just link to it being hosted on portableapps.com, but it does seem like people would probably be more comfortable if it were officially supplied by the project. Opinions? Cheers, Josh

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"Draw freely" font
by Johan Forsberg 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hello, I'd really like to provide translated versions of the 0.47 about screen and I have decided that I'd like to use the nice handwriting style font used in previous screens instead of the one I used originally (this was In fact my original plan). Does anyone know what the font is called and where to get it? I'm assuming it's free to use for this purpose... /Johan (a.k.a "sko")

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missing release notes, help needed
by bulia byak 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

For most missing/cryptic/inadequate descriptions I was able to get them into shape myself, but for these two sections I just don't have enough information: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47#Document_Propert… http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47#Object_Propertie… Please fill these out in detail, using full sentences, describing all aspects and controls and behavior, in a way everyone can understand. This _is_ important. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape Website
by Chris Morgan 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hey guys, I decided to post this as a new topic rather than taking the InkscapeForum.org one further off-topic. I've pretty much finished my theme for the website, and it's available for viewing at http://inkscape.chrismorgan.info/. I'll be setting up content as I get to it (i.e. soon). Other theme submissions are welcome, email them to me and I can set them up there. Josh Andler said he would talk to Ian about getting me Drupal access on inkscape.org - I don't know who Ian is or anything about that, but it could help with testing :-). I'm happy to work with it on my server though, it can be transferred without much trouble. Unless I hear about a inkscape.org-hosted Drupal site very soon I'll just continue working on my copy. My work is mainly based on this<http://duckgoesoink.deviantart.com/art/Inkscape-Website-entry-front-81779014> submission<http://duckgoesoink.deviantart.com/art/Inkscape-Website-entry-main-81779682>by duckgoesoink. Is she/are you subscribed to this list, or does anyone know how to get in contact with her? I'd like to put a credit link in the footer. -- Chris Morgan <chris.morganiser@...400...> I don't need a quote in my signature. It's hard enough surviving as it is without having to find a meaningful quote. Will you forgive me? Or don't you read this bit?

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how to solve flow text issue?
by the Adib 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Bulia, what is your opinion how this issue should be solved? I would be willing to code and test according to a plan. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/167335 theAdib. ---

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InkscapeForum.com for offer to Inkscape.org
by microUgly 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

If you don't know, I run www.inkscapeforum.com--a relatively successful phpBB forum for Inkscape users. I created the forum because I knew there was demand and at the time I knew I could devote a lot of time to make it successful. But I was never fond of the idea that a single person would have ownership of the data accumulated from the community. I wanted to offer ownership of the forum to Inkscape.org. Ideally this only needs to go as far as knowing that if I were hit by a bus, someone could step in and take over. I don't know how things are ran on the inkscape.org site, but I would be offering the entire setup to be hosted by inkscape.org (if possible). I would happily continue to moderate, and administer the board if appropriate access were given. And I would redirect inkscapeforum.com to the new domain, or change it's name servers. Anyway, discussion open. Would Inkscape.org be interested in adopting the forum? The forum won't be shutdown regardless of the answer. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/InkscapeForum.com-for-offer-to-Inkscape.org-tp2467341… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Save As option?
by bulia byak 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

I missed the discussion of this new option but, honestly, I don't understand it from the tooltip and the Release Notes (which I edited some, but still). What is "current working directory"? For an average Windows user this does not make much sense I guess. They just click icons. Can you explain it in more functional terms? The tooltip explains what happens for previously saved or not saved documents. But both these are for this checkbox on, right? What if it is off? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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URGENT FOR ALL DEVS
by Joshua A. Andler 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Aurium (and EVERYONE else), People who do not have explicit permission to commit right now need to please respect the rules during release and NOT make commits until the announcement has been made that trunk has opened up again for general development. Aurium, I am going to back out your recent change (not the Authors one) as we are beyond Feature freeze & in String freeze. Cheers, Josh

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