October 2010 - Inkscape Devel

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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OpenMP fix
by Krzysztof Kosiński 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

I just discovered that OpenMP support (used to parallelize Gaussian blur) is not functional on Linux and OS X because of a missing AC_DEFINE. Here is a patch that fixes this problem. Admins: please apply to 0.48 branch also. Regards, Krzysztof

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Poppler internal API problem
by Krzysztof Kosiński 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

We are still using the internal Poppler API to import PDFs. This is very bad, since the internal Poppler API is not stable, and will keep breaking. (We already don't build with poppler > 0.12.1) How about using the public Glib API to render to a Cairo SVG surface instead? This is how pdf2svg works, and to be honest I had to use that utility several times to augment Inkscape, because it handles text much better. What are the advantages to using internal Poppler API directly? Regards, Krzysztof

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re ndering arcs - Bug 653315
by Alvin Penner 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi, I wonder if anyone could point me to the general location of the code that is responsible for converting a circular arc to its corresponding cubic Bezier approximations for the case where the arc has no sodipodi attributes. I know that the file src\sp-ellipse.cpp does this if sodipodi attributes are present, but it appears that the non-sodipodi case is handled separately. This is in reference to LP Bug 653315, which points out some rendering problems in this case. tia, Alvin -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/rendering-arcs---Bug-653315-tp29894997p29894997.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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How to include examples in an Extension?
by Pieter Barendrecht 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Hi all, I'm currently working on an expansion of the L-System Extension (just for fun, getting to know XML and Python). I implemented an extra parameter "Factor", such that the fractal scales with each level. More info about this at the Inkscape Forums: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6411 The thing is, I would like to include some examples in the extension. I thought of a drop-down menu (an "enum" type), with entries like "Koch Snowflake" and "Pythagoras Tree". |<param name="Examples" type="enum" _gui-text="Examples:"> <item value="Koch_Snowflake">Koch Snowflake</item> <item value="Pythagoras_Tree">Pythagoras Tree</item> </param>| When the user clicks on such an entry, appropriate values should be assigned to the fields (e.g. Axiom="F", Rules="F=F+F+F", Factor="0.5", etc.). I wondered whether this is possible using XML, or the Relax NG schema language? So to be clear, the GUI-part isn't a problem. The UI looks like this at the moment: http://www.redpanda.nl/ExamplesInkscape.png However, the "auto-assign" function needs to be implemented yet. Thanks, Pieter

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0.48.1 next week
by Alexandre Prokoudine 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi, We were planning to release 0.48.1 around October 25. Are there any issues of satble version somebody is working on or planning to work on in the coming days? Do we have Windows and Mac packagers at the ready for that? Do you know of any reason we should postpone this point release? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Filters Not Saved with PNG
by Jasper van de Gronde 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Chris Lilley wrote: > On Saturday, January 16, 2010, 10:32:16 PM, knowone wrote: > ... > k> How can I save the file as PNG with the drop shadow intact? > > Make sure you are exporting as PNG. Do not 'Save As' Cairo PNG. > > (I came across this a couple of days ago, and the symptom was that blur filters were not being applied. Also, the pixel dimensions of the two methods differ, if the graphic bleeds over the edge of the 'page'). Can someone tell me why we have a non-vector format in the save as list? One that seems redundant and apparently with less functionality than the normal export. Is this for testing purposes?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.48.1 next week
by ~suv 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

[ this time sending reply to the list ;) ] On 31/10/10 20:46, ~suv wrote: > On 31/10/10 19:40, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: >> On 30/10/10 19:12, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: >>> 2010/10/28 ~suv <suv-sf@...58...>: >>>> On 28/10/10 16:04, Tavmjong Bah wrote: >>>>> 1. It is no longer possible to scale/rotate patterns used to fill text >>>>> (related to changing the snap point for text?). >>>> >>>> Reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.0 and 0.48+devel r9860 on OS X 10.5.8 >>>> Possibly not implemented in the new node tool? >>> >>> Pattern editing is seriously broken at the moment, sorry :( >>> I will investigate ways of mitigating this in a few hours. >> >> Looks like I have fixed it. As a bonus we get multiple shape editing >> (e.g. editing 4 rects and 2 ellipses at the same time) for free in the >> node tool. The shape tools still can't handle many shapes at once >> though, and there are no multi-shape features. >> >> See rev. 9867 in trunk, 9708 in stable. > > I still don't see any pattern handles for text objects filled with a > (stock) pattern in r9867 [1]. This worked in Inkscape 0.47 by selecting > the pattern-filled text with the node tool and allowed to scale and > rotate the pattern. It works when selecting the text with one of the shape tools, which was unexpected to me, but it allows to change the knots of the pattern. > Could you maybe take a look at (just reported) bug #669162? Besides the > missing feature in the new node tool, it can also cause Inkscape to > crash after trying to stamp paths while dragging a node or its handle. ~suv

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.48.1 next week
by ~suv 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

[ back to the list ] On 31/10/10 21:29, Tavmjong Bah wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 20:55 +0100, ~suv wrote: >> [ this time sending reply to the list ;) ] >> >> On 31/10/10 20:46, ~suv wrote: >>> On 31/10/10 19:40, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: >>>> On 30/10/10 19:12, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: >>>>> 2010/10/28 ~suv <suv-sf@...58...>: >>>>>> On 28/10/10 16:04, Tavmjong Bah wrote: >>>>>>> 1. It is no longer possible to scale/rotate patterns used to fill text >>>>>>> (related to changing the snap point for text?). >>>>>> >>>>>> Reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.0 and 0.48+devel r9860 on OS X 10.5.8 >>>>>> Possibly not implemented in the new node tool? >>>>> >>>>> Pattern editing is seriously broken at the moment, sorry :( >>>>> I will investigate ways of mitigating this in a few hours. >>>> >>>> Looks like I have fixed it. As a bonus we get multiple shape editing >>>> (e.g. editing 4 rects and 2 ellipses at the same time) for free in the >>>> node tool. The shape tools still can't handle many shapes at once >>>> though, and there are no multi-shape features. >>>> >>>> See rev. 9867 in trunk, 9708 in stable. >>> >>> I still don't see any pattern handles for text objects filled with a >>> (stock) pattern in r9867 [1]. This worked in Inkscape 0.47 by selecting >>> the pattern-filled text with the node tool and allowed to scale and >>> rotate the pattern. >> >> It works when selecting the text with one of the shape tools, which was >> unexpected to me, but it allows to change the knots of the pattern. >> > > Krzysztof, thanks for working on this! > > One problem, it seems to fill up the <defs> section with hundreds of > patterns. Does anybody else see this? Confirmed: when using a shape tool to scale or rotate a pattern of a text object tons of patterns definitions with 'patternTransform' are created. Does already happen with Inkscape 0.47 (using the node tool) and 0.48 (using one of the shape tools) when transforming a pattern of a text object. ~suv

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Text import extension does not load in Ubuntu
by Alex Valavanis 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi everyone, I'm helping to maintain the Ubuntu package of Inkscape. I mentioned in bug #479944 that the text import extension does not load in Ubuntu. I'd be grateful if anyone can offer any extra debugging assistance with this - I can't see any obvious reason why the extension does not load. As I mentioned in comment #7, extension-errors.log doesn't report any problems. Thanks, Alex

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