November 2009 - Inkscape Devel

Spell checker?
by Nicolas Dufour 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi, The spell checker menu entry is missing in the 0.47pre4 package installed with Karmic (not tested on win32). See https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/91015 Is it a last minute change or a last minute issue? Regards, -- Nicolas

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Quicktorials - ID
by Robert Martinez 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi there, I need advice! I'm working on a new system that can provide free software GUI applications (like Inkscape, Scribus, GIMP, ...) with video tutorials directly linked to the GUI. Short: you click on an unknown button - and a browser pops up and shows what it does (html5/ogg-theora). My question concerns the identifier that links the functional part of the application to the video: How do you think such an ID should look like? You can also have a look at http://wiki.quicktorials.org to see what ideas were raised so far, or you can see the website in its early stage http://quicktorials.org. I would love to see a a standard that is easy to use by any project! Greetings from Germany, Robert

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inkview not in the svn source
by mail＠...2227... 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hello all, im wondering because inkview is not in the svn. Will inkview be in the final version 0.47 Sincerely, Uwe Schoeler

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File Export (Save-As) Tests for v0.47
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, I've tested all the various file export options under the Save As command. Would the relavent experts for each type please review my comments/questions below? All test were done with Fedora 9 Linux and 0.46+svn updated within the past couple of days. Thanks. Tav General comment: I am having trouble getting Uniconvertor to work from within Inkscape. It won't process files with text (error message about not finding correct font). Files without text produce SVG output (Uniconvertor 1.1.4), independent of which file type is selected. Or error message about not finding SVG file in /tmp (Uniconvertor 1.1.3). I may have screwed something up but Uniconvertor does work when used via the command line (as in "uniconv test.svg test.plt") to directly convert SVG files to other types. Does anybody have it working from within Inkscape under Linux? File Format: .ai: Missing. Failed to load message in extension-errors.log (same error for DXF and ESPI). Works in v0.46. .dfx: Generic AutoCAD export failed to load (see .ai). Plotter version updated. Question: what is the target if the "ROBO-Master output" option is not checked? .emf: Does this still only work on Windows? Uses Uniconvertor. .eps: This is using the same export dialog as PS. Is this appropriate given that the bounding box is handled differently? Speaking of which, while the specifications do say the bounding box should be the smallest rectangle that fully encloses the drawing, it is a common practice (and very useful in scientific work) to define the box to be bigger than the drawing. In reading the specification, it seems to me, that they were more concerned that the bounding box takes into account stroke width, etc. than in prohibiting bounding boxes larger than the drawing size. I think it should be left up to the user to decide this. In the past "Canvas" has been used to refer to the entire drawing area while "Page" has been used to refer to the SVG specified drawing area. The dialogs and command line options should use "Page" wherever "Canvas" is used. .fx I see small bugs in gradients and displaying a pattern. .gpl OK. .hpgl I see bugs in object transformations. Uniconvertor as of 1.1.4 also generates .hpgl files. Uniconvertor doesn't handle Inkscape circles. .odg. Small translation problems. .pdf. Generally OK. Bug in patterns made from a group of objects drawn off the page. Export dialog almost the same as for EPS and PS but small differences in wording and in order of options. Should match with EPS and PS dialog. .plt Uses Uniconvertor. Tool tip etc. state it is AutoCAD plot file... but this is really, as far as I can tell, just HPGL. .png Duplicates "Export Bitmap" menu entry but without handling Filtered objects. .pov Broken in v0.47. Extra lines are added to object descriptions. Works in v0.46 (some paths missing). .ps See EPS and PDF comments. .sk1 Uses Uniconvertor. .svg OK .svgz Broken in v0.47. Works in v0.46 .tex PSTricks OK, PSFrag needs work-around due to Cairo font subsetting. .xcf OK .wmf Uses Uniconvertor. .xaml Objects translated wrong (could be xaml input problem). .zip OK.

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Mac OS X compiling prob
by Wolf Drechsel 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello everybody, as I'm running into the well-known "gnuplot-inkscape"-bug of 0.46, and unluckily no 0.47 ppc precompiled packages are available, I tried to compile the most recent package myself on Mac OS X 10.4.11 PPC. After "./configure" I run into this error message: configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape But I do have a suitable libpng: port installed libpng The following ports are currently installed: libpng @1.2.38_0 (active) So this may be a path issue - I googled that several people had this problem as well, but couldnt find how to resolve it. Any hint would be appreciated. Greetings, Wolf

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LP: official tag list not accessible for Bug Team members?
by ~suv 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Question to the members of Inkscape Administrators (inkscape.admin): This Launchpad Blog entry [1] describes a management screen for the bug tags that is accessible from the project’s bugs page [2]. Does this still work after the upgrade to Launchpad 3.0? [1] <http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/official-bug-tags> [2] <http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31318614/tag-management-update.png> Members of the Bug Team today have no - not even view-only - access to the list of 'official' and currently used tags not to mention access to manage the lists, whereas the blog entry and other malone bug reports indicate that what we tried to discuss in earlier threads here (how can we get a complete list and coordinate the use of tags to compensate the limited search options) is already implemented in Launchpad - but for members of the "Project Team" only. Can you confirm that this feature is available when you log in as a member of the Inkscape Administrator team? <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+manage-official-tags> give me (as Bug Team member) this error message: | Not allowed here | Sorry, you don't have permission to access this page. | | You are logged in as ~suv. ~suv (frustrated, somewhat ;-)

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Move to Launchpad
by Joshua A. Andler 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hey All, Please be patient while we are preparing to move to launchpad. I am adding in a number of our most active devs to the dev team to hopefully speed things up once things are ready to go. Please DO NOT act on anything until we send out a green light email (will most likely be sent by Ted). If you were not added by me, please just request to be a member of the team, it's nothing personal. :) Cheers, Josh

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Release note for v0.47.
by Tavmjong Bah 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi, I think it is time to start the nagging to get the release notes complete. Here are the things I have noticed missing: 1. Undocumented Live Path Effects Ruler Interpolate subpath 2. Undocumented Extensions Modify Path -> Interpolate Attribute in a Group Web -> JavaScript Generate from Path -> Motion Generate from Path -> Scatter 3. New location of preferences.xml etc. 4. Undocumented Import/Export JavaFX 5. Changes to Tools Sketch mode for Pencil Tool needs expansion. Missing change to Pencil Tool and Pen Tool for dots. 6. SVG Test Suite Compliance Fill out skeleton. 7. Extended input device configuration Does it work? 8. Document Properties Dialog What is purpose of Script tab? Tav

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issues with pdf file size limitation
by Albert Cardona 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Hi all, I am trying to export a large montage of images. The page size is 2148 x 66091 px. The montage contains 4 x 100 images. Inkscape has no problem editing the svg file plus images. But: when I export to PDF, approximately the lower half of the PDF is empty. Why? Or is it just evince not reading/rendering the whole contents? With export to EPS, it's even worse: the page is not read; instead, the original, default A4 page dimensions are used for page. This is inkscape 0.47 as distributed in ubuntu 9.10. Help appreciated. I'd like to print this poster. Albert

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Inkscape 0.47 pre 4, OS X 10.6.1, The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2
by Jmx 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Hello, I'm testing the latest 0.47 pre4 on OS X - 10.5.8 at work and perspective works just fine. But at home i have OS X - 10.6.1 and doing perspective fails and gives this message: -------------------------- The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension. Please download and install the latest version from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/, or install it through your package manager by a command like: sudo apt-get install python-lxml -------------------------- Is something just not finished in the 0.47 or is it something changed in Snow Leopard? Regards :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inkscape-0.47-pre-4%2C-OS-X-10.6.1%2C-The-fantastic-l… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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