March 2010 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Yet another GSOC 2010 Aspirant
by Abhishek Sharma 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hello all, I am a student aspiring for GSOC 2010. To begin with, I would like to mention that I had used inkscape previously for creating games, amongst which one was ECG simulation. As far as developing for inkscape is concerned i would honestly admit i have no experience. I have a good knowledge in GUI development in JAVA and QT. With my skill set(mentioned in my resume), I am not sure as to what task could be assigned to myself. Although I would like to mention that in my previous works and projects I was always unaware of the technology used, yet I was always able to complete them successfully because being a Software Engineer it is my belief that everything is achievable if the problem definition is clear. With this I would request the mentors to kindly go through my resume(please do not just reject my approach to you just because I am new to inkscape development). Waiting for your response. Attached with this you shall find the resume. Thanking You. Yours sincerely, -- Abhishek Sharma B-Tech Information Technology Indian Institute of Information Technology(Amethi Campus)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Intel Aqua packaging
by Stuart Edwards 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

On Mar 22, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Wolf Drechsel wrote: >> Sorry, I was under the impression that you are using Mac OS X 10.5 >> Leopard, not Snow Leopard. >> >> Yes, the lack of MacOSX10.4u.sdk is obviously significant for the >> available xcodeproject of the application launcher. Please be aware that >> the release version 0.47 was not built on Snow Leopard, nor are the >> current development snapshots built on Snow Leopard. I.e. you are trying >> to do something new that seems to require part of the packaging modules >> to be modified and updated to run on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. >> >> I recommend to file a bug report, detailing the SL related errors you >> see when trying to package the application. Please include all relevant >> information about your OS and Xcode version. >> >> The GTK+/Quartz (so-called "Aqua") version will also require changes to >> both the build scripts and the launcher scripts - but this should be >> handled in a separate bug report, similar to the one Wolf filed for >> removing the code launching X11 on Tiger [1]. >> >>>> Do you have an up-to-date and complete Xcode installation? >>> AFIK -- 3.2.1 >> >> Did you check if MacOSX10.4u.sdk is available as optional install for >> Xcode 3.2.x? > > Hi, > > that's what I found in another context: > >> You missed simply to install 10.4u-sdk when installing xcode. >> It is not default, just additional install for crosscompiling. you're right - didn't expect to need it -- > > (was here: > http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15697&sid=4e4a4b850057802bd0d0… ) > > And be sure to use gcc-4.0 - they say more recent compilers wont work. Not sure how to do that .......... see my other Q to ~suv > > Greetings, > > Wolf Stu

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Looking for bug to fix and GSoC
by Valentin JANIAUT 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hello everybody, I am a young student in a French University (4th year). I am actually following a master degree about Image Processing. I am strongly interest to join Inkscape developer community through Google Summer Of Code. Indeed, my studying field is close to some technologies used by Inkscape, and I'd like to improve my skills. I am also a happy Inkscape (basic) end-user since 2 years now. But before, I would like to check that I am able to be a good developer for you. So I compiled the code last night, and I am checking for some easy tasks to do. This will be a good way for me to understand a little bit how the code is working. I saw the Janitor tasks on the wiki[1] and naturally the bug list from launchpad[2]. Do you have any recommendations for me ? I actually found two interesting bug I will have a look for. This is actually not bug but features requests. First of all : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171099 . Users are asking for an option to display printer boundaries. This is something I regularly missed with Inkscape when I want to print some document. Sometimes I have some bad result, because the print area is too small for my printer. And secondly, https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171117 . Users are asking for an "Ungroup All". Sometimes when I import some Open Clip Art files, I would like to ungroup all before I start to work. So I think it can be useful. I also thought about another features. I did not see it on Inkscape wiki or Bug tracker but, I probably missed it. I would like to have some easy way to upload a svg file to the Open Clip Art library. Because I am using this wonderful resources regularly, and I like to share my creation easily on this website. I also started to think about a project for GSoC, I saw a mail about Cairo rendering. I would be quite interest in this idea, since I am working with Cairo for one of my project in my university. Feel you free to give me any suggestions about these ideas. Best Regards, [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkscapeJanitors [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs Valentin JANIAUT UTBM Student : http://www.utbm.fr/ LinkedIN : http://www.linkedin.com/in/valentinjaniaut Homepage : http://www.valeuf.org/

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LinuxFund Text Tool project for Inkscape - up for grabs (it pays)
by Joshua A. Andler 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Hey All, Unfortunately the person who was going to work on our Text Tool project via LinuxFund is either not willing or able to follow through with it. So, that means that there is ~$1,300 up for grabs if you're interested. The gist of the work is to add UI elements for existing functionality (letter kerning, spacing, rotation, etc) and to fix a couple text tool related bugs. The LinuxFund page for this is: http://linuxfund.org/projects/inkscape/ If you are interested in this, serious, and have time available, please email me and I will get you in contact with the person from LinuxFund. Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [PATCH] Grouping when setting mask
by Joshua A. Andler 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:48 +0100, ~suv wrote: > On 4/2/10 20:59, Joshua A. Andler wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 19:10 +0100, Martin Sucha wrote: > >> 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? > > > > Reviewed and tested, looks good by me (and is something I will use). > > Committed in bzr rev 9050. Thank you! > > Is it possible that this patch introduced a big performance loss when > grouping a larger selection of objects? I just stumbled upon this when > clipping ~1800 small objects (created with the spray tool) with a > rectangle using the new feature to group the selection automatically > before applying the clippath to the group: to my surprise this took very > long (~45 seconds) whereas grouping the same selection happens almost > instantaneously in Inkscape 0.47 (~2 seconds). This appears to be accurate... would you mind filing a bug report and assigning to Martin Sucha? Unfortunately, there is no way we can release with this big of a performance hit for such a common task. So if it doesn't get fixed before Feature Freeze I will have to revert it. Cheers, Josh

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My contribution to the Inkscape community
by Diederik van Lierop 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Hey people, For about a year now, a colleague of mine and I have been negotiating with our current employer about the conditions for starting a spin-off company. As of yesterday it finally looks like it's really going to happen; basically all we need now is to have the contracts typed out and signed. I'm very excited about this, but consequently I won't have as much time to spend on improving Inkscape as I used to. I'm not too excited about that part :-(. This is also why I cannot commit to being a GSoC mentor this year. However, I won't quit completely and will still be around. Besides, chances still are that we won't be able to raise enough capital to get our start-up company really flying, in which case I might pick up my Inkscape work again before the end of the year. We'll see. Regards, Diederik

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inkscape.pot
by Alexandre Prokoudine 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

As of rev9207: RN po/inkscape.pot => po/inkscape.pot.OTHER Why? Alexandre

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We are in GSoC 2010!
by Joshua A. Andler 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Hi all, I just wanted to let people know that I received notice that we have been accepted in GSoC again this year! If people would be willing to look over the wiki page and help update and clean up the suggestions, that would be excellent. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_Of_Code Since we've now been accepted, do we have any other mentors besides JonCruz and bulia byak? I need to know this to know how many slots to request and also so we don't mislead potential students on how tight the competition will be. Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape 0.47 OSX Official - Python filters don't work (again)
by André Berg 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hi, I just downloaded the official Inkscape 0.47 release for Leopard/Snow Leopard and while Inkscape itself is running absolutely fast and awesome as soon as I touch anything that runs inkex.py the age old info message about the fantasting lxml2 library wrapper comes up again. Looking into the .app bundle I was surprised to find lxml2 and numpy installations for all (!) major python version going from 2.6 back to 2.3 this time. Hmmmm... so what could be the problem? As we all know resetting my PATH won't (and didn't) work because the bootstrap system just builds its own PATH so what gives? Well, it turns out that this mess is caused by the default Apple X11 running in 64 bit mode and thus all the python stuff included with Inkscape 0.47 is of the wrong architecture. (at least it says that when you remove the try: blocks in inkex.py and let it spit out the real tracebacks). So I guess we need to include python stuff with 64 bit support with the official OSX release. (I tried building a 64 bit Python 2.6.4 myself but sheesh it's hard...) Anyway just thought I'd report this (apologies if it's known already). It's not a deal breaker - Inkscape still rocks. André PS: I am on OSX 10.6.2 and I have MacPorts installed but X11 is the default one. And I can see it's shown as 64-bit app when it runs in Activity Manager.

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Calculating flowRegion dimensions using font-size in pixels.
by Redefined Horizons 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

I'm currently working on some Java code that will export Inkscape ready SVG from an open source mapping application. One of the things I need to do is export map labels. I've been taking a look at how Inkscape represents text labels in its SVG flavor. I'm looking for advice on how to calculate the dimensions of the rectangle element used as the flow region. If I know the height of the font for the text labels in pixels, is there a formula that I can use to calculate the width and height I need for the flow region? Is this calculation dependent on the type of font? (I'm not really worried about getting the flow region a little too big. I'm more worried about getting it too small, and then not being able to see the label in Inkscape.) Thanks for any suggestions. Landon

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