August 2009 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Quick File Import Test
by Tavmjong Bah 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

Hi, I just did a quick File Import Test. I did not test all possibilities. Here are a couple problems: 1. .wmf There are two options. One via Uniconverter and the other from GDK. Do we need both? 2. Images in PDF appear to be imported upside down. Tav

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From *.o compilation to Inkscape.exe
by Yann Papouin 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hi, In Build.xml there is three main steps: 1. Compiling *.cpp into objects 2. Linking *.o into static libinkscape.a 3. Compiling and Linking "Main" with libinkscape.a Actually I'm using the IDE Code::Blocks (with the same mingw compiler) to debug inkscape and I'm able to do the same things that the Build.xml does. My problem are these three steps, I would like to create Inkscape.exe without having to create a static library because with the -g parameter linking in (2) and (3) took so long !!! So I tried to bypass the "libinkscape.a" creation but it's not working. Someone already did this before ? Yann.

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removed files from trunk/share/extensions still present after svn update/make/make install
by ~suv 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

When updating Inkscape to the most recent SVN revision I use: | svn update | make | make install and then build the application bundle for macosx. When files are removed from trunk/share, like recently some extensions (in rev. 22049), those files still exist in 'Build/share/inkscape/extensions' and are not removed when I do 'make' and 'make install' after 'svn update'. Do I have to manually clean the Build/share directories when updating from SVN, or is there a make target that specifically does this instead of the overall 'make clean'? The issue has come up before with packages for win32 which included long gone extension files. On a side note - the build date (shown in the about screen) also doesn't update with every make/install/package cycle - though the revision number is always correct. tia, ~suv

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STL Containers related question...
by Arcadie M. Cracan 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hello all, I have an issue with STL std::map. Here's a quick description. I have a member in SPConnectorContext structure that is a map: std::map<SPKnot* , ConnectionPoint> connpthandles; Having the following code in a function produces a sigfault: cc->connpthandles[knot] = it->second; where cc is a pointer to SPConnectorContext. I have also defined a local variable std::map<SPKnot*, ConnectionPoint> cph_clone; and the following instruction executes all right cph_clone[knot] = it->second; It seems that somehow the connpthandles map gets scrambled or improperly initialized. I don't know why this is so. Any help is welcome. Regards, Arcadie

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GSoC 2009 - Nearing the end
by Joshua A. Andler 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hey Mentors, As you are probably aware the "soft" pencil's down date for the students was yesterday. The more firm date being next Monday, the 17th. They will technically have up until the 24th to get the finishing touches on things as far as grading is concerned. Please talk to your respective students to ensure that you can provide the best mentoring possible for the time they have left and to see what the community can do, if anything, to help them succeed. CCing the devel-list so people know that we're near the end. Cheers, Josh P.S. To the list members... the projects will get merged in when we get 0.47 out the door... so if you're itching for the new features, look at this as a booster shot to help make 0.47 happen that much sooner. ;)

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Inkscape Wiki: please restore Release notes/0.46
by ~suv 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Some mishap seems to have wiped out the release notes for Inkscape 0.46. Does anyone have access to a backup and knows how to restore it? Having the release notes available is helpful to answer questions on <https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape> and for bug triage as well. tia, ~suv

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Build still broken...
by Tavmjong Bah 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Still no joy in Mudville. After seeing failures in a variety of different ways with each new check-in, the build is stuck on box3d.cpp: box3d.cpp: In function ‘Inkscape::XML::Node* box3d_write(SPObject*, Inkscape::XML::DocumentTree*, Inkscape::XML::Node*, guint)’: box3d.cpp:281: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ ./xml/xml-forward.h:23: error: forward declaration of ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ box3d.cpp: In function ‘Geom::Matrix box3d_set_transform(SPItem*, const Geom::Matrix&)’: box3d.cpp:342: error: cannot convert ‘Inkscape::XML::Document*’ to ‘Document*’ for argument ‘1’ to ‘Persp3D* persp3d_create_xml_element(Document*, Persp3D*)’ box3d.cpp: In function ‘SPGroup* box3d_convert_to_group(SPBox3D*)’: box3d.cpp:1382: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ ./xml/xml-forward.h:23: error: forward declaration of ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ box3d.cpp:1395: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ ./xml/xml-forward.h:23: error: forward declaration of ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ box3d.cpp:1421: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ ./xml/xml-forward.h:23: error: forward declaration of ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ Tav

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Measure Path extension and transform attribute
by Nicolas Dufour 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi, I'm trying to fix bug #308183 (Measure Path text shifted when used with a copied object, https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/308183), related to measure.py extension: "Some objects (stars, spirals, circles, but NOT rectangles and freehands) have a transform attribute (translate) when copied. When using Visualize Path>Measure Path, the text gets this attribute, which is thus applied twice (one on the object and one on the text). That's the reason why the text appears shifted on the canvas." Does someone know why this transform attribute is copied from the original shape to the generated text? Removing it in measure.py resolves the bug and doesn't seem to break something else (the text is linked to the object with xlink:href). But it's in the code from the beginning... Thanks! -- Nicolas

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inkscape is getting good but heavy and slow
by solaris manzur 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

hello folks, inkscape is getting slower more and more, the same in windows, please be carefull with this, i do not want to have another windows vista case, please play attention to my word, i just want free software to be the best around the world thanks for listening

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Adobe Illustrator Export
by Tavmjong Bah 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi, Unless anybody objects, I am going to remove AI export support from Inkscape. At the moment it doesn't work in SVN. I have a fix but: 1. The quality of the export is poor. 2. It only supports up to Adobe Illustrator 8.0 (released in 1998). 3. Versions of Illustrator from 10.0 (2001) support direct import of SVG. Tav

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