March 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

infinite loop by referencing
by unknown＠example.com 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi all, I just added an infinite loop testcase to our testsuite. The essential SVG part looks like this: <g> <rect id="rect1" style="fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1" width="491.42856" height="357.14285" x="137.14285" y="169.50504" filter="url(#filter1)" /> </g> <defs> <filter id="filter1"> <feImage xlink:href="#rect1" /> </filter> </defs> Note how rect1 refers to filter1 that refers to rect1... I don't know how Inkscape should handle this. Already a warning is reported: ** (inkscape.exe:2592): WARNING **: More than 32 iteration while updating document 'D:\gsoc-testsuite\tester\.\testcases\basic\infinite-loop-01.svg' But no further action is taken, so this warning is spammed until the program runs out of memory and aborts execution. Any ideas how to solve this? cheers, Johan

2 1

New book about Inkscape
by Cédric Gémy 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

lo guys,just a message to tell you that a new book about Inkscape is published in France. I hope everyone will like it and that is will be useful. After Yemanja's, tav's plus the one we've done thanks to flossmanuals last summer, available documentation is growing. !beer inskcape :) pygmee http://www.amazon.fr/Inkscape-efficace-R%C3% A9ussir-dessins-vectoriels/dp/2212124252

3 3

Re: [Inkscape-devel] [libcroco-list] Generic cascading in libcroco
by bulia byak 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Thomas Wood <thos@...45...> wrote: > I'd be really interested in getting some patches from you guys. I tried > retrieving diffs from your SVN server, but it didn't want to co-operate. Here are my fixes collected. Others in src/libcroco may be useful too, but it's too far into the night right now to look into them closely... Here are the comments (sorry for profanity but i was very angry to have to fix that bug :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r14470 | buliabyak | 2007-03-14 21:42:54 -0300 (Wed, 14 Mar 2007) | 1 line Changed paths: M /inkscape/trunk/src/libcroco/cr-tknzr.c gosh, what shitty coding - reading delimited string failed when it was at the very end of buffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r14469 | buliabyak | 2007-03-14 20:55:00 -0300 (Wed, 14 Mar 2007) | 1 line Changed paths: M /inkscape/trunk/src/libcroco/cr-declaration.c even if one declaration is broken, try to still read all others per http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#declaration; fixes bug 1266843 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r14467 | buliabyak | 2007-03-14 20:52:02 -0300 (Wed, 14 Mar 2007) | 1 line Changed paths: M /inkscape/trunk/src/libcroco/cr-tknzr.c typo fix from libcroco list -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

1 0

Inkscape Export to "JavaFX 1.0 FXD/FXZ Content file" format
by Sergey Esenov 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi, all Last year Sun Microsystems released JavaFX Production Suite (together with JavaFX 1.0) which have Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Illustrator CS3 plugins for exporting graphical assets into JavaFX format. The output (.fxz) is a ZIP archive containing 'content.fxd' file representing vector graphics picture in JavaFX format. Optionally, this archive may contain images and fonts referenced by the 'content.fxd' file. The content file can be viewed in netbeans IDE (JavaFX plugin should be installed!). The netbeans has UIStub generator for building a JavaFX class based on content.fxd and users may manipulate graphic objects by changing object properties, moving them, animating, making them visible/invisible and so on. The objects you want to control in JavaFX should have special prefix in naming of Inkscape "id" attribute like "jfx:object_name". Others will be anonymous in JavaFX. I propose that this plugin for Inkscape be used. It is based on the work of B.Jamison, S.Neto and J.Clarke for JavaFX Export (javafx-out.h, javafx-out.cpp). My updates to it were posted a few weeks ago. Personally I consider the "FXD/FXZ Content file" format more useful and I am going to use this actively in future projects, which explains my motivation. Implementation. ---------------------- The implementation is obvious: scan the object's tree and write the corresponding JavaFX constructs. The output has all attributes embedded in line therefore the information about gradients, filters and clip-paths are stored (only pointer information) and then used when actual graphic objects in the scene are built. Embedded images are decoded and external images are copied into the output ZIP archive automatically. Fonts should be handled in the same way (any volunteers!?). Like Illustrator plugin I always try to recognize simple objects (circles, ellipses, rectangles) behind the paths to reduce the output size. As a zip library implementation I used http://www.nih.at/libzip. Actually I am working with Linux, openSUSE 11.1 distribution, where this library is known as libzip1. It seems that Ubuntu distribution supports it as well. The Windows platform is also supported: http://www.nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00009.html While I might agree that introducing a new dependency into inkscape may not be welcomed, my attempt to use inkscape/src/dom/util/ziptool.[h,cpp] was unhappy: extremally slow! (~ 30 secs on some pictures). Testing. ----------- It is checked on the following pictures: http://chrisdesign.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/simple-metal-orb-using-gradient… -- gradients http://howto.nicubunu.ro/shiny_web_buttons_inkscape/ -- gradients, embedded images http://openclipart.org/people/Chrisdesign/Chrisdesign_Golden_mask_Tutancham… -- large picture with clip paths and I have used this simple tutorial to check clipping mask handling http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/07/12/screencasters-episode-064-bitmap-ma… Installation. ---------------- The installation is simple if you are able to build svn version of inkscape on your platform. 1. Make sure you have libzip1 + libzip-devel packages installed in your system. Or you should have this installed from sources. See the reference above for instructions. 2. Get SVN version of inkscape: svn co https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk inkscape 3. Copy 'javafx-fxz.h' and 'javafx-fxz.cpp' from attachment into 'inkscape/src/extension/internal' 4. Create build directory: cd inkscape mkdir build 5. Add 'javafx-fxz....' entries just above 'javafx-out' entries into po/POTFILES.in src/Makefile.in src/extension/internal/Makefile_insert src/extension/internal/CMakeLists.txt src/extension/init.cpp and in the last file (init.cpp) put just before "Internal::JavaFXOutput::init();" line the following... Internal::JavaFXZ::init(); 6. Go back into inkscape (top) directory and do ... ./autogen.sh cd build LIBS="-lzip" ../configure --prefix=/opt/inkscape or CFLAGS="-g -O0" CXXFLAGS="-g -O0" LIBS="-lzip" ../configure --prefix=/opt/inkscape if you want to build inkscape with debug information then make && su -c "make install" 7. Use /opt/inkscape/bin/inkscape executable and enjoy! Of course, I am interested if some person(s) from development team might review the code and make a decision. Anyway I hope it will be useful. Cheers, Sergey

5 15

NEW: UniConvertor in Windows bundle
by bulia byak 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

I tried to use CDR import on Windows with UniConvertor and found out that: - you can only install UniConvertor into a separate installed Python, not into Inkscape's own Python, - even if you do that, it won't work because Inkscape insists on using its own Python, even to the point of prepending it to the system PATH, so it is simply impossible to run the separate Python unless you know exactly where it is. For these reasons, I decided that the best strategy would be to include a copy of UniConvertor to our Inkscape Python in devlibs, which I did. I think supporting CorelDraw formats out of the box is an important enough feature to justify a few extra megabytes to the distribution. P.S. Inkscape on Windows compiles and runs fine, except for the missing icons. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

3 10

Windows test builds are broken on http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D
by Mourad Mokrane 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

hi, On http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D, the last 4 build are broken (6.3 Mb in size) Molumen

7 7

no color swatch in the palette:
by bulia byak 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Thanks for adding it! Two comments: - Can we please make the cross black, not red? The red is too bright and distracting. - Dragging this swatch onto canvas objects does not work, sets them to black instead. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

7 9

Little mistake in the wiki regarding the font cache on Windows
by worms invasion 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hello, In the page: http://www.inkscape.org/faq.php#Inkscape_does_not_see_some_of_the_fonts_.28… I think there is a little mistake when it says: This was a bug in versions of Inkscape up to 0.43, caused by using an obsolete font cache. This cache is stored in the file called .fonts.cache-1. This file may be in your Windows folder, or in your Temp folder, or in "My documents" folder, or in the folder listed in the $HOME environment variable. Use file search by name to locate this file. On my Windows XP system, the font cache is called FNTCACHE.DAT and is located in c:\windows\system32 I also have in C:\Program Files\InkscapeDev20090217\inkscape\etc\fonts fonts.conf fonts.dtd I couldn't find a .font.cache-1 file anywhere, and all the references to it point to Linux OSs. Could someone with editing rights edit this particular section of the FAQ? It looks like there is no section regarding the font cache for Linux, maybe that is what is missing or where the confusion lies? Thanks :-)

3 3

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango icons as default set
by Guillermo Espertino 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Plácido Sousa sent an improved version of the current default icon set to the user list. It's a clear improvement over the current, and in my opinion, it should be made the default set since there is no consensus about the Tangoified theme and the default has some evident problems. The proposed set from Sousa is a polished version of the same icons we have now, so the familiarity won't be a problem and the people -like me- who think the current set needs desperately some love will be more comfortable with the new look. What do you think?

1 0

Global 'static' dialogs
by unknown＠example.com 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hi all, Please help me test the dialogs import from OCAL and export from OCAL. I just fixed bug 241390 [1]. Some dialogs are defined 'static', so they are not recreated when opening the dialog more than once. The problem is that they have a parent window defined that links the dialog to a specific SPDesktop. So when the dialog is called from another desktop..., crashes might happen. I am fixing this (making the dialogs non-static, recreating them every time they are needed) for the following dialogs: import from OCAL, export from OCAL, and the new export dialog that is not used at this moment. I cannot test whether these dialogs still work with my fix. I'm very sorry if they are broken now, but I feel this is a very important fix for stability. If it's broken now: let me know, or revert rev 20804 fully. cheers, Johan [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/241390

1 0