September 2009 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Win32 libs update request - was Re: Inkscape0.47pre2
by Preben Soeberg 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

> -----Original Message----- > From: Preben Soeberg [mailto:prsodk@...400...] > Sent: 04 September, 2009 20:32 > To: 'J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...' > Subject: RE: [Inkscape-devel] Win32 libs update request - was Re: > Inkscape0.47pre2 > > ... > > > > > > It has been much improved, but bug > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284546 is still there, though > > > it does not appear quite as easy as before. > > > > > > Couldn't the THROW_CONTINUITYERROR at line 355 in > > > src\2geom\path.cpp be commented out, as suggested long time > > > ago. That would help a lot. > > > > We should definitely not remove THROW_CONTINUITYERROR ! It means there > > is a real problem that Inkscape/2geom should not ignore. > > I think what causes the problem in this case is adding a line segment > > with 'invalid' points (like infinity). Perhaps adding a simple check for > > that in the callygr tool will fix this issue. > > > > Ciao, > > Johan > > Yes, it's a dirty workaround I suggested, but it works. > I commented it out and have been using it like that for 8 months now with > only minor problems. These minor problems consist in, that when I > calligraphic-trace and move the pen too slow, the trace is aborted, but > without the crash. > > I don't have time to try to look for a way to fix it (for the next week or > so). I hope somebody else is trying. > > Preben

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Dots with Pen and Pencil tool broken?
by Tavmjong Bah 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Hi, Drawing dots with the Pen and Pencil tools seems to be broken with 0.47. Does anybody else see this? (Hold Ctrl key down while clicking with the mouse.) Tav

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[Fwd: Inkscape manual page translations]
by Joshua A. Andler 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hey all! helix84 came to me with a question that I do not have an answer to and have been unable to get one so far (6 weeks later now). With that, I will get this question out to our translators and developers in general to see if anyone in our community knows or can find out. Please read below. Cheers, Josh -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: helix84 <helix84@...2235...> Reply-to: helix84@...2235... To: Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> Subject: Inkscape manual page translations Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:47:33 +0200 Hello, I believe you're the release warden for 0.47. Can you help me with the following issue? I translated the inkscape.pod file to Slovak and I'd like to see it included in 0.47. 1) I'm not sure where to add it so it will build (because I don't understand autotools very well) 2) I can't get it to build correctly and I have this problem with the existing French manpage, too I tried it on Ubuntu 9.04: pod2man -u --center=Inkscape inkscape.sk.pod > inkscape.sk.1 man -l inkscape.sk.1 With the -u option it munges the non-ASCII characters, without it it adds A~X sequences. When I did a normal make, inkscape.fr.1 was created but this has the same problem - note the A~X sequences. I noticed the utf8-to-roff filter in the makefile but I don't know how to use it. Anyway it seems it's used for the French file in the makefile so it probably doesn't work. Regards ~~helix84

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.47pre2_2 win
by Alvin Penner 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Lawrence_T wrote: > > I'm trying to down load your pre2-2.exe I would suggest just trying the download again. It happens sometimes that the download is incomplete, best thing is to retry... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Inkscape-0.47pre2-tp25110580p25278475.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Bye bye for now Whiteboard
by Joshua A. Andler 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hey All, First off, I am sorry for those who this change may break the build for temporarily (possibly win32 & osx, but hopefully neither). If you've built with the whiteboard flag in the past, I'm sorry, but it is advised to make clean and build again without the flag as it no longer exists. As discussed previously, I have gone ahead and removed the whiteboard configure flag prior to the release of 0.47. For those who don't know, this was done because the whiteboard has not worked for some time, people still ask how to make it work, distro's build packages with the flag, and a number of other related issues continually arise. In other words, it will save us a lot of "user support" time. Hopefully one day someone will take the time to properly fix things so that it is more robust and far less fragile than it was. Until then, it would be appreciated if the flag is not added back into trunk. For the record, the flag was mainly commented out in this commit, the only piece that was actually deleted was 2 lines in configure.ac's echo statement. Those were lines 1011 & 1012: Enable Inkboard: ${with_inkboard} Enable SSL in Inkboard: ${with_inkboard_ssl} By the way, yes, this is also an indication that I'm back and will continue helping us to push to get this released as soon as we can. Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape logo on a book cover
by mail＠...2227... 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi all, i need some help. I wrote a book and now i would like to put the inkscape logo on the cover of the book. Is it allowed to do so? What do i have to observe? My second question: I would like to put the program on an CD with the book. Can i do this too? Thanks for your help. Sincerely Uwe Schoeler

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Fwd: Radial gradients in SVG Full
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

*please* don't let it slip again :) Alexandre ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann Date: 2009/8/27 Subject: Radial gradients in SVG Full To: www-svg@...157..., klaus.foerster***uibk.ac.at Hello, (just my personal observations) SVG has already a radial gradient for a long time, a simplified form is available in SVG tiny 1.2 too. I think, this canvas method creates more a cone than a radial gradient. But I'm not sure, because as far as I have seen, it does not define the range for 'w' (omega?) within the formulas (looks like something to fix in the draft). The draft itself claims, that this creates a cone (why do they call it createRadialGradient? This may create some confusion with the SVG radialGradient) To avoid conflicts with the existing radial gradient, one could call it coneGradient ... I think, there are other proposals to improve gradients as well and to allow more sophisticated color distributions. We will see, what will happen. Do you have specific applications for such a cone gradient? Is it of general importance to have such a specific type? Could be interesting to gather a larger collection of different types of specific gradients types to see how to organise this in a useful way... Is it useful for SVG and for authors to create for every specific type of gradient a new element or is there a more generic/elegant method to define gradient like entities with a set of well-considered element+attribute collection? I have several applications for arbitrary color distributions. Up to now it is not trivial to generate an arbitrary distribution using the linear or the radial gradient. And I think, such a cone gradient is just another sample for another specific gradient type - and is typically less useful than the linear and the radial gradient to approximate such an arbitrary distribution with some number crunching. Wouldn't it be more interesting to have a general and simple mechanism to describe a color distribution without the requirement of heavy number crunching for authors? Olaf

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Auto-Palette's (custom swatches)
by Joshua A. Andler 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hey Jon, Would you please go ahead and ifdef out the "auto" palette in trunk as you see fit? Given it's current state, we cannot include it in the upcoming release. Thanks, Josh P.S. I do hope we get to see a more complete version in 0.48 though! :)

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Broken feImage and lib2geom matrix inversion
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hi, I've traced the problem with the broken feImage filter primitive (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/382313 ) to a problem with lib2geom. More specifically, Geom::Matrix.inverse() returns an incorrect matrix. I run this simple test program: #include <iostream> #include <2geom/matrix.h> int main() { Geom::Matrix test_matrix1( 0.003333, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.003333, 0.083333, 0.083333 ); Geom::Matrix test_inverse1 = test_matrix1.inverse(); std::cout << "Test input" << std::endl; std::cout << test_matrix1 << std::endl; std::cout << "Test output" << std::endl; std::cout << test_inverse1 << std::endl; Geom::Matrix test_matrix2( 0.003077, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.003077, 0.076923, 0.076923 ); Geom::Matrix test_inverse2 = test_matrix2.inverse(); std::cout << "Test input" << std::endl; std::cout << test_matrix2 << std::endl; std::cout << "Test output" << std::endl; std::cout << test_inverse2 << std::endl; } The output I see is: Test input A: 0.003333 C: 0 E: 0.083333 B: 0 D: 0.003333 F: 0.083333 Test output A: 300.03 C: -0 E: -25.0024 B: -0 D: 300.03 F: -25.0024 Test input A: 0.003077 C: 0 E: 0.076923 B: 0 D: 0.003077 F: 0.076923 Test output A: 1 C: 0 E: 0 B: 0 D: 1 F: 0 You can see that the first matrix inversion is correct but the second is wrong. This was tested with SVN as of yesterday on Linux. Tav

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[ocal-browser-discuss] Yes, it is still alive!
by EnzoAeneas 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Please check out the two documents/posts and leave comments! http://groups.google.com/group/ocal-browser-discuss/web/plan-for-gui http://groups.google.com/group/ocal-browser-discuss/web/ocal-browser-object… ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: EnzoAeneas <enzoaeneas@...400...> Date: Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:18 AM Subject: [ocal-browser-discuss] Yes, it is still alive! To: ocal-browser-discuss <ocal-browser-discuss@...820...> Sorry, but like many of you I have a job that pays my bills and I haven't had much time to devote to this. But I have not abandoned hope! Here is the direction that I want to take this: Python - gotta love dynamic languages. XUL instead of PyGTK or PyQt. The native SVG support will make things much easier! Plus a declarative UI will be faster to build and debug. Using Mozilla XulRunner as a platform will also give benefits: Settings/preference system including GUI support. SQLite support abstracted by a Storage API. Ability to leverage web-based technologies in conjunction with the native XUL support gives many options for the UI and XML/RDF templating can reduce the amount of code needed to display information about each image. Basic extensions framework allowing for different features to be implemented as pluggable modules rather than new builds. Builtin updates system. With a mature browser component, users can surf OpenClipArt.org and pick clipart to download into their local repository. JSON support, Web Services support, XMLHttpRequest, etc will make ccHost integration much easier. Not to mention, all of the AJAX code out there that manipulates images can be made leveraged for more advanced features because the limitations of the browser sandbox will be lifted for extension code. What cannot be done using the facilities provided by Gecko/XulRunner, can either be done using an appropriate python library or integrating with Java (JavaXPCOM). HTML 5 and Xforms support may yield future benefits. In the end, the progression of the web and related technologies will allow for greater improvements in functionality and implementation. Let me know if you have any ideas. I will try to get a data model and Base API out soon. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ocal-browser-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to ocal-browser-discuss@...820... To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ocal-browser-discuss+unsubscribe@...820...<ocal-browser-discuss%2Bunsubscribe@...820...> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ocal-browser-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

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