July 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Current Bug Hunt tally: 294/500
by Tavmjong Bah 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Hello, Here is the current bug hunt tally. Let me know if you think I've made a mistake. To more properly give credit where it is due, I've tried to include the name of the person who supplied the fix to a bug; e.g. if a patch was submitted, the patch author gets credit. Current total is 294/500. Tav Scoring: Low: 3 pts Med: 6 pts High: 9 pts Critical: 12 pts Double if over one year old. Only fixes to "true bugs" (i.e. no website/translation/docs/etc. bugs). Pts BugID Fixer Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 372122 theAdib SVN build not working under win32 3 372372 Penner Error while opening dxf file. 3 337357 Rintel [PATCH] GCC 4.4 compilation & start fix 3 340257 ScislaC segfault on startup in nr_object_ch... 12 179373 van Lierop canvas doesn't totaly refresh when resizing 12 167762 van Lierop guides move after page resize 6 218090 theAdib crash on 32-bit file encounter (TIFF) 3 319550 Kosinski call to wrong C++ delete 3 374968 Holder rotation center gets moved 12 167525 van Lierop moving mouse results in high CPU usage 3 375245 helix84 /bin/bash: ./i18n.py: /usr/bin/python... 12 166029 van Lierop No access to marker options when st/pt none 3 375499 Holder paste into rotated or skewed groups broken 3 376064 Holder viewBox ignored on import 12 167651 Holder problems with "Zoom when window is resized" 6 193339 Kiirala Filter effects not updated "live" for images 9 372412 Jaspervdg Crash with filters 3 242105 Jon A. Cruz Version en Espanol para Mac 3 215906 JiHO User-installed fonts unavailable (OSX) 3 263932 Laibow-Koser Print preview Mac OS X 12 214186 van Lierop Assertion failed when aligning 3 379665 Shlomi Fish make install fails due to dup "default.svg" 6 179866 Holder Reverse path does not reverse nodetypes order 6 381374 Jon A. Cruz Problem compiling 'gchar* profile_path() 3 371893 van Lierop guide anchor always shown 9 380141 Jon A. Cruz [OSX] missing ~/.config 3 382394 Chris Morgan Patch: environment variable override for prefs 6 168422 van Lierop Windows XP: window opens about 20px low 9 380934 van Lierop SVN: multiple instances - gradient tool crash 9 381357 val Lierop inkscape closes wrong window and 12 168180 Jon A. Cruz svg version attribute 3 377357 Kris Error in message (web-set-att.py, ...) 3 348611 JazzyNico Measure Path off my a small amount 3 380199 JazzyNico Exporting to XAML doesn't use culture ind... 6 372171 Preben S Rendering errors in color management 18 168161 bulyiabyak font name dropdown steals focus, ... 3 388125 ~suv pngs (OSX) 18 168484 theAdib Relative links use "\" in win32 platform 9 239430 van Lierop linked offset ungroup issue 6 386069 JazzyNico Embed extension fails 3 325145 Espertino Select tool mouse pointer usability 3 340311 Stefan pdf export omits some elements 3 375771 openSUSE Initialize all fields in newPoly() 3 387446 Alvin Penner Extension deprecation warnings 3 389780 Preben S Low precision in HPGL output 6 392647 Nico Lest win32 builds change links between SVG.. 3 391307 JazzyNico SVG and media output not working on Windows 3 375975 van Lierop Circles smaller than grid width not drawn 3 391923 Preben No scaling in hpgl output

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Strange fill/stroke settings in freehand tools after fresh install
by Maximilian Albert 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

Hi, after freshly installing Inkscape (rev. 21524), the Pen/Pencil tools produce lines which are filled black but don't have any stroke. This is very counterintuitive. The small info field in the toolbar (on the right hand side) displays "Fill: None, Stroke: Black (000000/1)" (these are indeed the values specified in preferences-skeleton.h for the freehand tools). However, both in the Fill & Stroke dialog and in the Preferences it says: "Fill: Unset, Stroke: Unset", and this probably explains the strange appearance of the drawn lines. What's happening here? Why are the values in preferences-skeleton.h not correctly taken into account? I think this should definitely be fixed before 0.47. Max

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Bug hunt, etc.
by Tavmjong Bah 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

Hi, I haven't seen any bug hunt scores. Are they posted somewhere other than the developer's mailing list? I think having the scores on the developer's mailing list helps stimulate bug fixing as it makes the release more real. I can help with this if given a bit of guidance. I also am having a hard time keeping track of all the details of the release as most are buried in old emails. I propose creating a wiki page listing things like: Release wardens Schedule Bug hunt details Splash screen contest Release candidate builds I can put this together too. Tav

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clone behaviour
by jf barraud 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi, Navigating through bug/wishlist reports, I found this old one<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171993>that was declared invalid, but I'd like to discuss a little more. It's about clones behaviour in general. The 'svg' specification is very limiting with this respect, but I think there are svg compilant ways to get more freedom. What I dislike in inkscape/pure svg clones: -color/style management: it's very difficult to have objects share shape but not color. The parent's color has to be set to 'undifined', hence looking black, which generally means you'll have to hide it (as for custom stroke width, dashes..., they require the svg editor!). Moreover, one might want to have some clones share the fill color but have custom stroke, and/or someother share the stroke color but not the fill.This is doable using intermediate clones, but definitely not handy. -transform management: create an object A, create a clone A' of it, put A' in a group G. Now select A and G and rotate them. A' is rotated twice!!! This is definitely non intuitive, and means you'd better move the parent object to a specific layer and never use it directly in your drawing if you don't want to bump into pretty bad situations. -more generally, making a difference between the parent and the clones will always induce unexpected or non intuitive effects. IMO, parent and clones should be prefectly symetric. One naive way to improve this would be to have our own "inkscape:clone" objects of course, and let them behave exactly the way we want. I'd like to suggest another intermediate option. I think svg clones are mainly disgned for "internal" use. My experience is that each time I had to use them, I indeed did end up putting the parent in a separate layer (at least away from the main drawing) and work with clones only. We could automate this process: When an object is cloned, not only the clone is created, but the parent is also moved to a special hidden layer (or in the defs, why not?, or simply hidden) and replaced by another clone. + all visible instance of the "thing" can be manipulated, grouped, transformed, uniformly. + it makes it possible to let the clone inherit only some style properties of the parent: at creation time, the parent's style would be moved to an "inkscape:default_clone_style" attribute, and the style itself would be set to undefined. Inkscape would compare clone's style to the "default_clone_style" to detect user modified properties, and maintain all style changes accordingly. +finally, it would be so nice to be able, whenever the user attempts to node-edit a clone, hide the clone itself, replace it by a temporary copy of the parent, and transfer the modifications to the parent. Of course, there are issues: in particular, the parent may appear as a reference anywhere else in the document. Changing it's style to undifined might have unexpected results. One solution would be to use an intermediate object: an inkscape special object that would be a linked copy of the parent, but have the style attribute set to undefined, and have the clones point to this linked copy. Ok, this might sound too complex. This can be declined in softer versions: for instance, instead of making this automatic and transparent to the user, we could at least offer the possibility *at least offer the user the possibility to automatically move the parent to a separate layer *when the user attempts to set the style of a clone when it does not make sens, suggest either setting the style of the parent or setting the parent's style to undefined and transfer the actual style to all existing clones. What do you think? Cheers, jfb.

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svg transformations help
by Axel Huizinga 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi to all, while working on a lightweight svg editor implemented as firefox extension I ran into problem and now need some help to understand the fundamentals of nested svg transformations. The basic matrix concatenations work well but when I start to rotate an element which already has a skew transform applied I got it working well only if I prepend the rotation matrix to the transform... so far good but rotate an element which resides inside of a group things get more complicated. I tried with inkscape and found it will apply a matrix and also change the width and height and even the stroke-width of the rect I used for testing like: <g transform="translate(100,100) skewY(10) skewX(25)" id="g15"> <rect id="skewPath23" x="-222.08493" y="237.81218" onclick="incrementTransform(this)" width="138.00793" height="101.14107" transform="matrix(0.8490597,-0.5282969,0.9708449,0.2397086,0,0)" style="fill:#ff0000;fill-opacity:0.5;stroke:#330000;stroke-width:0.35443538" /> </g> works well but how to understand? Is anyone able to explain how this is implemented? Cordially, Axel

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Regressions(?) in rendering tests
by Jasper van de Gronde 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

For some reason the rendering test bugs/bug181995.svg now gives a blur that is wider than it is tall (which is not the intended effect). The normal blur test still passes though, so it might have something to do with transforms. I filed a bug at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/395197 In addition livepatheffect/ruler.svg suddenly renders differently (in a relatively subtle way), someone who knows what the intended effect is should have a look to see what's best (I haven't filed a bug). The results of the latest tests can be found at: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html

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LinuxFund fund raising
by Milosz Derezynski 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hello everyone, Michael from LinuxFund asked me to announce on the list that another $500 have been raised by a donor for my work on the text bugs and new text toolbar. I will be meeting Michael at LinuxTag Berlin end of this week. Regards, M. -- Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months. [Bitte beachten Sie, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.]

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Compiling 21714
by John Coppens 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hi all. Just tried to compile snapshot 21714 and I get this error, very near the end: g++ -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp -Wl,-z,relro -o inkview inkview.o libinkscape.a dom/libdom.a libcroco/libcroco.a libavoid/libavoid.a libgdl/libgdl.a libcola/libcola.a libvpsc/libvpsc.a livarot/libvarot.a 2geom/lib2geom.a libinkversion.a -pthread -lgtkmm-2.4 -lgiomm-2.4 -lgdkmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6 -lpangomm-1.4 -lcairomm-1.0 -lglibmm-2.4 -lxslt -lz -lxml2 -lsigc-2.0 -lgtkspell -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lpng12 -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -lpng -lz -lgomp -lpopt -laspell -pthread -lgnomevfs-2 -lgconf-2 -lgmodule-2.0 -lORBit-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfreetype -lz -lMagick++ -lMagickCore -lgc -llcms -lpoppler -lpoppler-glib libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o): In function `Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfInput::open(Inkscape::Extension::Input*, char const*)': /usr/local/src/graphics/inkscape-21714/src/extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:597: undefined reference to `GlobalParams::GlobalParams()' I've formatted the output slightly to make it more readable. I have: poppler-0.11.1, inkscape-21714. This is a 64 bit machine. The .pc files seem to point to the right lib64. I checked the library with objdump, and GlobalParams::GlobalParams is defined. Can someone indicate me where I strayed? Thanks, John

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Xara 5 Object Gallery
by Ivan Louette 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

I am a very long time Xara user (from the time of the first Corel Xara) and some year ago, before being involved in designing filters for Inkscape I designed a lot of brushes for Xara. Gary Priester who wrote the following tutorial is a good friend and a very kind guy : http://outsider.xara.com/tutorials/june09/ In fact I would attract your attention to what seems to be for me the most interesting novelty in Xara Xtreme 5, the Object Gallery. It's one more step to a smart control of the document structure like they already exist in 3D apps. For example the nicest I know is the one of Cinema 4D. ivan

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for those concerned... :)
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hi, In case somebody missed this, Xara Xtreme 5 is out. Release notes: http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddpdz8pc_0hbjf82hj Speaking of which, are we cutting a beta any time soon? :) Alexandre

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