March 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

release notes reminder
by bulia byak 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Thanks to "speare" (sorry don't know your real name) for the fixes - please do not forget to update the Release Notes for any notable changes you commit: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes047 -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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snapping hints
by Alexandre Prokoudine 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi, Snapping hints are awesome. However, there is one thing that worries me a lot about them: they are constructed with English syntax in mind. I foresee lots of complains from translators, including myself :) Take 'cusp node to cusp node' for example. It's fine for English, but in Russian these two 'cusp node' instances will be in different cases and thus have different case endings --- both 'cusp' and 'node'. Is there something we can do about that? Alexandre

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recent change to packaging/macosx broke
by Ed Halley 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

In a recent commit, the file packaging/macosx/Resources/bin/inkscape was modified to support LaTeX files in the runtime path. This change broke the Inkscape.app invocation, due to a missing quotation mark. Review the delta with the link below. http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/packagin… Also, the new comment above the broken line is not indented in the same way that the other comments are indented. -- [ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist?
by Zulli, Louis P 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Well, there's probably a better way to do this, but adding the line export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin just before exec "$CWD/bin/inkscape" "$@" in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script did the trick. Now I can start Inkscape.app by clicking its icon, without "losing" Render-->LaTeX. Note: I have pstoedit in /usr/local/bin, with latex and dvips in /usr/texbin. Without the added line, the value of PATH is only /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin, rather than the value of PATH in my login shell. Thanks again for the help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis P Zulli" <zullil@...2149...> To: "inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 1:16:55 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist? Thanks, JiHO. Apparently, if I start Inkscape by clicking on the Inkscape.app icon, then my PATH variable is not read. However, if I start Inkscape by typing /Applications/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape in Terminal, I do have Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX (and it seems to work correctly). Now I need to figure out why my first method failed. Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: "jiho" <jo.irisson@...400...> To: "Louis P Zulli" <zullil@...2149...> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 9:01:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist? On 2009-March-05 , at 13:28 , Zulli, Louis P wrote: > I just installed the latest snapshot of Inkscape-20809-10.5-i386.dmg > on my MacBook. There does not seem to be an option for including > LaTeX formulas. With the stable version of Inkscape, I use the > textext extension. However, I thought the ability to render LaTeX > had now been built into Inkscape. > > Am I missing something, or is this feature not available yet? Thanks. I have built this snapshot. I initially saw the same here = no Latex extension. Nothing has changed in the .inx file itself so my best guess is that something changed in the loading of extensions. However, now, after running different versions of Inkscape including the release one, I see the option in the devel version. No idea what happened. One thing I did and you may try, is to open Inkscape.app (right click, show package content). Navigate to Contents/Resources/extensions and open eqtexsvg.inx and remove the lines: <dependency type="executable" location="path">latex</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">dvips</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">pstoedit</dependency> it may be that Inkscape does not find these executables when it checks them before loading the extension, even though they are on your system (but in exotic places such as /usr/texbin or /opt/local/bin). Removing the lines removes the check. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist?
by Zulli, Louis P 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Thanks, JiHO. Apparently, if I start Inkscape by clicking on the Inkscape.app icon, then my PATH variable is not read. However, if I start Inkscape by typing /Applications/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape in Terminal, I do have Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX (and it seems to work correctly). Now I need to figure out why my first method failed. Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: "jiho" <jo.irisson@...400...> To: "Louis P Zulli" <zullil@...2149...> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 9:01:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist? On 2009-March-05 , at 13:28 , Zulli, Louis P wrote: > I just installed the latest snapshot of Inkscape-20809-10.5-i386.dmg > on my MacBook. There does not seem to be an option for including > LaTeX formulas. With the stable version of Inkscape, I use the > textext extension. However, I thought the ability to render LaTeX > had now been built into Inkscape. > > Am I missing something, or is this feature not available yet? Thanks. I have built this snapshot. I initially saw the same here = no Latex extension. Nothing has changed in the .inx file itself so my best guess is that something changed in the loading of extensions. However, now, after running different versions of Inkscape including the release one, I see the option in the devel version. No idea what happened. One thing I did and you may try, is to open Inkscape.app (right click, show package content). Navigate to Contents/Resources/extensions and open eqtexsvg.inx and remove the lines: <dependency type="executable" location="path">latex</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">dvips</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">pstoedit</dependency> it may be that Inkscape does not find these executables when it checks them before loading the extension, even though they are on your system (but in exotic places such as /usr/texbin or /opt/local/bin). Removing the lines removes the check. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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pledgie
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hi, I'm not really best guy when it comes to PHPO and stuff, so could somebody please put the banner from http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926 to our main page to help collecting more money to finance Libre Graphics Meeting? Alexandre

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Creating fonts
by ryrych＠...400... 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

hello :) Guys, can you tell me how to create font with Inkscape? I use SVN version but can't see any menus/option for them. Maybe SVGFonts hasn't implemented yet? I've created my first font (rather vector objects yet) and I'd like to covert it to SVGFont and finally to truetype. How to deal with it? cheers, Wojtek

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Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist?
by Zulli, Louis P 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

I just installed the latest snapshot of Inkscape-20809-10.5-i386.dmg on my MacBook. There does not seem to be an option for including LaTeX formulas. With the stable version of Inkscape, I use the textext extension. However, I thought the ability to render LaTeX had now been built into Inkscape. Am I missing something, or is this feature not available yet? Thanks.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] gdk_pointer_ungrab() not working in middle-mouse-drag
by Ed Halley 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

<message ignored, maybe due to attached patch> For some reason, I've been having a lot of mouse hangups in Node and Pen (Bezier) tools in the SVN. I found it easier to reproduce in some drawings than in others, but I was able to reproduce it even on a blank canvas. Mid-drag, the canvas stops being dragged around, but now all mouse buttons are ignored forever, and the mouse cursor remains in Inkscape's shapes even outside Inkscape's window. Some people say they figured out work- arounds that released the mouse buttons, but none worked for me. (I'm on MacOS X using X11.app.) I found https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/291795 and it seemed similar, so I started trying to determine how the panning feature worked. I appended my one-line patch to that bug report. In essence, some versions of Gdk seem to be unreliable at maintaining the button state while middle-mouse dragging. There is a check for this in the src/event_state.cpp to account for this, and it aborts the drag for safety reasons. But it calls gdk_pointer_ungrab() with a specific time that *should* match the time it was grabbed. In most cases, this appears to work, but not always. http://ftp.moblin.org/moblin/releases/test/alpha1/doc/gdk/gdk-General.html#… I found that giving the generic GDK_CURRENT_TIME is more reliable in actually releasing the mouse, than trying to remember what time was given to the gdk_pointer_grab(). Since this is a safety-oriented release, I think that ensuring the mouse is ungrabbed is more important than the bookkeeping of time values. Any comments? Any reason not to commit the patch? -- [ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

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static compilation
by Bruno Contreras Moreira 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Dear all, I am having lots of trouble to get the dependencies of inkscape sorted in a server, and was thinking of compiling it static in my machine and the just move the binary. Has anybody ever compiled a static binary of inkscape? I haven't seen any such options in the configure script, any help in this direction is welcome, Bruno -- Bruno Contreras Moreira Estación Experimental de Aula Dei /CSIC Av.Montañana 1.005, 50059 Zaragoza (España). Tel:(+34) 976716089 Fax:(+34) 976716145 bcontreras@...2147... http://www.eead.csic.es/compbio

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