February 2010 - Inkscape Devel

Selecting Clipped Objects
by Alex Leone 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi everyone, I spent a lot of time this weekend trying to wrap my head around how an object gets selected to no avail. My goal is to fix this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/365458 Currently selection of clipped objects is horribly broken - see http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31755891/clip-selection-bug.ogv Anyway, can someone explain: 1. What handles click events on the canvas 2. Where is the logic that decides what gets selected >From what I can tell, display/sp-canvas.cpp:1505 sp_canvas_button (GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventButton *event) handles click events. Within this function I don't see any calls to anything that resembles "is this point within this object". Help! Thanks! - Alex

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Text dialog
by Diederik van Lierop 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Yay, I just noticed this: "Fundraising goal: $1300 – Raised to date: $1,415" on http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/inkscape/ Will this finally bring us user friendly sub- & superscript capabilities? Diederik

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Newsforge?
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage#Online_Articles_a… contains * [http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/214206 newsforge article] When I follow that link, it appears my ISP redirects the newsforge domain to a Yahoo search with the message, "Sorry, 'www.newsforge.com' does not exist or is not available." Can anyone else reach the newsforge server?

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SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking
by Felipe Sanches 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

let's unblock it! SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/1620238/SourceForge-Removes-Blanket-…> on Monday February 08, @12:12PM Posted by ScuttleMonkey <http://slashdot.org/%7EScuttleMonkey/> on Monday February 08, @12:12PM from the power-to-the-people dept. government <http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=government> Recently there was much gnashing of teeth as SourceForge (who shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) started programmatically blocking users in certain countries<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/25/1854241/SourceForge-Clarifies-Denial…>to comply with US export restrictions. Thankfully they didn't let it end there and have found a way to put the power back in the hands of the users<http://ow.ly/14U1k>. *"Beginning now, every project admin can click on Develop -> Project Admin -> Project Settings to find a new section called Export Control. By default, we've ticked the more restrictive setting. If you conclude that your project is *not* subject to export regulations, or any other related prohibitions, you may now tick the other check mark and click Update. After that, all users will be able to download your project files as they did before last month's change."*

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Broken Links in Wiki Gallery list
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

On http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries the following links are broken with the noted result: I'll be commenting out each reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries unless someone can tell me who to contact to fix the site. 404 - File or directory not found. Simondebelem http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Simondebelem http://www.wrzs.igk.pl/simondebelem/simondebelem.htm Piotr Kosmala http://www.insert.waw.net.pl/vector/firecat_large.jpg Henrich Fichna http://haef.szm.sk/ This webpage is not available. Slightly Weirdly http://slightly.weirdly.net/illustrations_vector.php Inkscape animations http://www.revis.co.uk/site/?q=taxonomy/term/7 Haypo http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Haypo http://www.haypocalc.com/perso/image/vache_qui_rit.ico.png Tribal tattoo drawn in Inkscape http://dump.c7.se/tribal.png freewaydesign http://www.freewaydesign.com/ Topological images http://aumat.unipv.it/~arecchi/miatesi.pdf Oops! This link appears to be broken. Cal Russell-Thompson http://clik.to/cal Andy's Blog http://blog.die-scheiss-kiste.de/wordpress/ Jon Campbell http://www.joncampbell.ca/inkscape/gallery.php Larry's Main Entrance http://www.protemporeevents.com/larrys/ jhuss's artwork http://jhuss.com/category/arte/ OrganicaDTM Studio's gallery http://blog.organicadtm.com/wp-gallery2.php Parked Jiije artworks by jiije http://www.jeromehouix.info/ picturi,reproduceri,portrete http://www.pictura4.1gb.at/ portrete la comanda in creion http://www.pictura4.1gb.at/portrete_in_creion_pe_hartie.html Cedric Gemy http://www.ndparking.com/le-radar.com Fred's SVG Wallpapers http://f-r-e-d.org/ Brain Cud http://www.braincud.com/ CejasBravas TV serie webpage http://cejasbravas.com/

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Inkscape Brasil Galeria inaccessible?
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/InkscapeBrasil/.Galeria responds: This webpage is not available. in Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 unknown (36714) In fact, http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/ responds the same. I'll be commenting out the reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries unless someone can tell me who to contact to resurrect the site.

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http://www.ufowebfactory.net/ seems to be having a problem
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

http://www.ufowebfactory.net/download/free-svg_en.htm responds: CakePHP Rapid Development Missing controller You are seeing this error because controller DownloadController could not be found. Notice: If you want to customize this error message, create app/views/errors/missing_controller.thtml. Fatal: Create the class below in file : app/controllers/download_controller.php <?php class DownloadController extends AppController { var $name = 'Download'; } ?> I'll be commenting out the reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries unless someone can tell me who to contact to fix the site.

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r9059/60: pencil tool sometimes fails when node snapping to grid is active
by ~suv 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

One of the changes in recent revisions 9059 or 9060 makes the pencil tool act strangely with default snapping settings (global node snapping enabled) while a grid is visible and set as active snapping target: it seems as if some key press or release events don't get processed immediately. To reproduce: draw freehand curves with different mouse speed and timing of left-mouse-button-clicks. Sometimes neither the path outline while dragging nor the finished line when releasing the left mouse button are visible, yet the starting point is picked up for and added to a later drawn curve. It does not happen with no grid visible nor when global snapping is disabled. This is reproducible with my usual preference settings as well as with a default (new) preferences.xml file. I haven't seen it in earlier revisions <= 9058, but can reproduce it with Inkscape 0.47+devel r9060 and r9061 on OS X 10.5.8 ~suv

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performance 047 vs. 046 Mac OS X 10.4
by Wolf Drechsel 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hello friends, after having built 0.47 for Mac OS X 10.4, I got the feeling that it is quite a bit slower than 0.46 was. Now I tried to verify that suspicion (all done on a G4, 1350MHz, 960MB RAM): Launching inkscape + X11: 047: 27s 046: 17s Opening a very tiny SVG file (3350B), inkscape already open: 047: 4s 046: 2s Opening a more complex SVG file, inkscape already open: 047: 5s 046: 4s Importing a pdf file with lots of text, than selecting all and ungrouping all the contents (time is just for the ungrouping): 047: 16s 046: 8s Probabely this is just an issue of my home brew thing - but maybe this is an issue which is more easily noticeable on such a slow machine like mine. So I'd be grateful if people on other platforms would cross-check that. In the case it is a general issue it may be well worth to put some effort in fixing it in 048. Greetings, Wolf

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Exchange position of two objects
by Nicolas Dufour 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, Roland Meub has posted a patch to implement this nice feature (see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171944). It compiles and works correctly on Ubuntu 9.10, and the only glitch I've found is related to 3Dbox (unexpected translations). Could a C++ expert review this code and commit? Regards, -- Nicolas

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file format
by mahesh kumar 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

hi, can anyone help me on how the file format for inkscape was made? on which basis, and how to build it and all... pls, give me some suggestions on its basics. i want to build a new file format of a pagination application. It will be very helpful if you suggest me... thank you.... regards, -- mahesh kumar

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Node tool committed to trunk
by Krzysztof Kosiński 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

The new node tool is now in the trunk - please test and report any bugs. I made a few last minute improvements inspired by the discussion. New features are listed in the release notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.48#Node_Tool I also made a new icon for the spray tool. It's much better than the old one, but there's still something not quite right with it. Regards, Krzysztof

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] pixelsnap
by Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, I'm Bryan, the original author of pixelsnap. I'd be keen to have PixelSnap included in the official Inkscape repository, and to do whatever's necessary for that purpose (I don't mind releasing it under GPL, either -- I just like the MIT license because it's short & sweet) Just a brief rant on why I think PixelSnap is a useful part of a digital artist's workflow, even if they know inkscape's tools: I'm a fairly technical user of Inkscape, but in spite of the great work done on snapping & grids recently (kudos to the people involved with that!), I've still found the "right" way to be a bit of a pain in the backside. The reasons Rob gives below are two good examples. Another big reason why the "right" way is often unworkable is the fact that odd-width strokes are offset by exactly 0.5 pixels. I understand the reasoning for this, but it means you have to have 2 pixel-sized grids, one pixel-aligned, and one mid-pixel-aligned. Also, you have to keep the grid on permanently while editing for the "right" way to work, unless you want to go back and edit all your vectors later on. I don't find it very easy working with grids all over my work. Sometimes I don't want stuff to snap either -- I only want vertical & horizontal lines to snap-to-pixel. I'd also rather set up meaningful grids for my artwork -- i.e. grids for layout purposes, not grids to overcome the shortcomings of my screen. Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > On 1/13/10, Rob Antonishen wrote: >> The biggest benefit is when working with existing images that were not >> necessarily drawn to pixel snap. >> >> Or after rescaling images and resnapping the elements to the nearest >> pixel. > > Exactly :) > -- Bryan Hoyt, *Web developer* — Brush Technology *Ph:* +64 3 942 7833 *Mobile:* +64 21 238 7955 *Web:* brush.co.nz

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pdf import crashing
by MilesTogoe 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

I've had both pdf and ps import crashing - when trying to open file, the pdf import dialog pops up but when I click the program crashes - no message, just completely exits. The same files open okay with GIMP. Anyone else confirm this bug ? running this on Fedora 12 w/ gnome.

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IMPORTANT: Windows compiler change
by Krzysztof Kosiński 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hello I have made a Windows build of Inkscape that does not exhibit this long standing critical bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/173116 However, it requires changing the compiler. To build Inkscape and all other C++ libraries, I used TDM-GCC (a patched build of MinGW) version 4.4.1 with SJLJ unwinding. We don't use exceptions in performance critical code, so bothering with Dwarf2 to get a minimal perf gain while substantially increasing code size doesn't seem worth it. (SJLJ gtkmm is 3x smaller than the Dwarf2 one!) http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/ Therefore, a note to all Windows devs: when you update to revision 9 or later of devlibs, required by revision 9041 of Inkscape trunk, also change your compiler to TDM-GCC version 4.4.1. You can just download the .exe at the top, it contains everything that's required. You will need to rebuild from scratch after this (btool clean). http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdm-gcc/files/TDM-MinGW%20Installer/1.908.0… Install it into C:\mingw, as usual, or set MINGW_PATH to the directory where you installed it before executing mingwenv.bat. Updated instructions for compiling on Windows: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows Regards, Krzysztof

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[PATCH] Grouping when setting mask
by Martin Sucha 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi all, I've implemented feature to automatically group objects when setting clip/mask and it now works for me. (Thanks Krzysztof Kosiński for help.) Could you please review attached patch and commit it if you consider it good enough? Thanks. Best regards, Martin Sucha

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Dwarf2 exception handling on Win32
by Bob Jamison 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi all, For those people who arrived to the party too recently to remember, it was always Mingw's intention to shift to Dwarf2 EH. It was just slow in coming. One of the reasons it took so long was that for a long time, Mingw's compiler was not considered to be a first-class target, but was only a set of patches maintained by Mingw.org itself. Now Mingw -is- a first-class GCC target, and their compiler patches do make it into GCC trunk somewhat faster. Now that DW2 is becoming the default on Win32, shifting back to old SJLJ would be going -against- progress. (And be bad timing, too :-) Anyway, DW2 is what I will be using from now on. bob

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bzr checkouts large and slow + failing to build for ~the last month: cube.obj
by Bernard Gray 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi All, I've been trying to migrate my package building process (for debian sid) for about the last month (on and off ;-) ) but I've encountered one fatal issue, and one pita issue. The fatal one: ... make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share/extensions/Barcode' Making all in Poly3DObjects make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share/extensions/Poly3DObjects' make[5]: *** No rule to make target `cube.obj', needed by `all-am'. Stop. make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share/extensions/Poly3DObjects' make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share/extensions' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle' make: *** [build] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 ... I've got this for the last month - I'm building inside a clean pbuilder chroot, the process has been consistent for the last year or more, spitting out weekly builds. The pita issue - I've followed the instructions for checking out the latest bzr branch (head?) using the command: bzr checkout lp:inkscape - this takes _ages_. It begins with a decent dl rate of ~300KBps, but then drops to ~4KBps for the next 4 hours! Please help :( Bernie (cleary)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.47 X11 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
by ~suv 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

On 17/1/10 12:47, Michael Wybrow wrote: > On 11/01/2010, at 11:42 PM, JiHO wrote: >>> On 7/12/09 20:51, Wolf Drechsel wrote: >>>> my attempt in building a 0.47 X11 on Tiger can be visited. >>>> It is PPC only - are there people around who need Tiger-Intel? >> I'd say, post it like that. I don't and won't ever have a Tiger >> machine to test it. The release will be the large scale test I am >> afraid. I agree it should be posted, as a reward for Wolf's tremendous >> efforts. > > I tested Wolf's build on Friday and it worked fine other than the > status bar issue which also occurs on all versions of Inkscape I > tested (though it does go blank moving over the page sliders on 10.4 > but not the other later versions). > > I forgot to write a response on Friday, but you may have noticed that > I compressed it as a DMG and uploaded in to Sourceforge. > > Thanks for all your work on this Wolf, and also ~suv. Much > appreciated. Could the newly uploaded Tiger PPC build please be added to the download page on inkscape.org? ------------ Stable release 0.47 intended for production use is available: * Mac OS X o OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard – Universal .dmg o OS X 10.5, Leopard – Universal .dmg (Please first upgrade X11.app to at least XQuartz v2.1.4.) + o OS X 10.4, Tiger - PPC .dmg [1] (requires Apple's X11 v1.1.3) [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47/Inkscape-0.47-… ------------ ~suv

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How to create group object
by Martin Sucha 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hi all, it may seem to be a stupid question, but I can't find answer anywhere... How can I get SPItem from Inkscape::XML::Node? (or create group object and get xml node from that - I need both) I'm hacking on automatically grouping objects when setting clip/mask (as mentioned in another thread) and I need to create new group, so mask can be applied to the group instead of selected objects. Currently, I know how to create the svg:g XML element, move other objects into it and where to pass reference to the group to do what I want, but it needs to be a reference to SPItem and not Inkcape::XML::Node. Is there any documentation for object tree and xml tree and how do they interact? Thanks. Best regards, Martin Sucha

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Path rendering buggy?
by Jasper van de Gronde 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

I looked into bug #514649 and it looks like Inkscape has some problems rendering the complicated paths in the problem image. Could someone with a bit more knowledge of the path rendering internals have a look at it?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape & Dbus
by Krzysztof Kosiński 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

W dniu 1 lutego 2010 20:28 użytkownik Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology <bryan@...2310...> napisał: > Thanks, Ted, for the update on the DBus stuff. > > Yes, Krzysztof, it would be nice if DBus extensions could work in a similar > manner on Windows. Does DBus actually work on Windows at all? I'd imagine > that even if it did, it would be nice to have a lightweight Windows > alternative for live extensions, so that the Windows people wouldn't be left > out, or required to download (and compile?) extra dependencies. > > Doesn't affect me directly, since I almost never use Windows, but it's nice > to have things work everywhere. > > That said, I plan to factor the PixelSnap code in such a way that it will > work both with & without DBus in exactly the same way as far as possible. > > - Bry There is a winDBus port here. It appears to be maintained. http://sourceforge.net/projects/windbus/files/ D-Bus isn't too large (a few megabytes when unpacked). I'll try to get it working once I'm done with midterm exams (next week). Regards, Krzysztof

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bzr snapshots
by Alexandre Prokoudine 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, Some people have grown to rely on our daily SVN snapshots and win32 builds. Do we have a plan to provide them now that we have moved to bzr? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Assigning bugs to me in Launchpad
by Krzysztof Kosiński 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

W dniu 1 lutego 2010 12:59 użytkownik Hans Meine <meine@...2314...> napisał: > Shouldn't that account be deleted then? (0 karma, only member of inkscape- > developers?) I sent an email about this to LP devs. I noticed that the dead account is the only one popping up when searching for my ASCII-only name, because Launchpad is not smart enough to ignore accents when searching for people. I replaced the "ń" in my name with "n" - the correct account should now appear first. Regards, Krzysztof

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Assigning bugs to me in Launchpad
by Krzysztof Kosiński 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hello I noticed that a few bugs were assigned to somebody with an account called "krzysztof kosinski (krzy-kos)". I would like to point out that it's not me, and I'm not receiving notifications about this. My account is called "Krzysztof Kosiński (tweenk)". Maybe we could put such information here? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Contact_information Regards, Krzysztof

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