May 2010 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

The path to FREEZE... Woohoo!
by Joshua A. Andler 21 May '10

21 May '10

Hey all, We're roughly 6 weeks behind the proposed schedule... not good, but could be worse. If we stick to it, things could shape up nicely. A quick update... here is the one thing that MUST be done before moving to Freeze... posting of an "alpha" tarball. The following outstanding issues HAVE to be addressed to not be cut (and most unfortunately have not been addressed fully during Frost): *Jon's swatches MUST be initially editable in the F&S dialog. *Jon's new Input Devices dialog needs whatever polish to be good enough (I saw regressions from 0.47 mentioned recently in the tracker). *Jon's "UX" work (specifically UI placement needs to be settled). *Tavmjong's LinuxFund text tool work (we'll take what we can get, great progress has been made!). *Felipe Sanches' color management work. The "not real" (device) cmyk thing MUST be addressed prior to release. I'm not saying to remove, but perhaps disable, it is a part of the SVG spec, but it's not how the CMYK workflow actually works. Now is the time to bring up other possibly blocker bugs. Please speak up... things that can be fixed in point releases and that aren't critical/high priority should not be brought up. Cheers, Josh

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Re : Re : I suck at Perl (or check-markup)
by Nicolas Dufour 21 May '10

21 May '10

>De : Lucas Vieites <lucasvieites@...400...> >Would it work to use the < and > entities in the original strings? The original string is already "<width>x<height>". intltools extract it as "<width>x<height>" to the pot file, which is the correct behavior. The issue is due to the check-markup perl script, which detects "invalid" markups in the translated strings (or markups which are not correctly closed, etc.). And <width> and <height> are not allowed by the script... Regards. -- Nicolas

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I suck at Perl (or check-markup)
by Ted Gould 21 May '10

21 May '10

Hey, So I was trying to make a release but the check-markup script is failing because of the strings "<width>x<height>" which it thinks is a tag. I tried fixing the check-markup script to ignore this, but well, read the subject :) Could someone who knows Perl help out here? Here's the output: perl ../po/check-markup ../po/*.po br.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "Bountañ war ar Vent a rank bezañ arventennet evel <width>x<height>" fr.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "Imposer la dimension doit être défini sous la forme « <width>x<height> »" ja.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "サイズ強制は <幅>x<高さ> のように設定してください。" nl.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "Dimensies forceren moet ingesteld worden als <breedte>x<hoogte>" ru.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "" make[1]: *** [distcheck-hook] Error 1 Thanks, Ted

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Coding style question
by unknown＠example.com 19 May '10

19 May '10

Hi all, Is it good practice to start class member variables with an underscore? The reason I ask is for ambiguity in a function in a class that is derivative of SPObject. class SPObject has member "repr". So now if I subclass from that and add a method to my class like "sp_do_something(XML::Node repr)", there is an ambiguity in the method. Perhaps underscoring the class member variables is better... Ciao, Johan

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Snapping options anomalies? - Selector tool
by Mihaela 18 May '10

18 May '10

What is the policy on snapping nodes to stuff when dragging the whole object (Selector tool) VS snapping only nodes to stuff (Node tool)? There are some things I'm confused about, some of them might be bugs, others might just be my misinterpretation. Enable "Snapping nodes or handles" and try to snap cusp or smooth nodes using Node tool to a guide, everything works as expected, they snap and the tooltip is correct. If I convert a node to Symmetric it snaps to the guide but the tooltip says "Cusp node to guide". If I convert a node to Auto-smooth it snaps to the guide but the tooltip says "Smooth node to guide". Now with the same setting (Snapping nodes or handles) use Selector tool to move the object around and snap it's nodes to the guide. Snapping sharp cusp nodes works and the tooltip is correct. Snapping cusp nodes that were converted from smooth (so their handles are collinear) doesn't work, even if you move a handle just a bit so handles aren't collinear. Symmetric nodes don't snap. Auto-smooth nodes don't snap. When I add the "Snap to smooth nodes" into play then smooth nodes snap to the guide when using Selector tool, but the tooltip says "Cusp node to guide". It's the same with symmetric and auto-smooth nodes - they snap but the tooltip says cusp. No snapping occurs if I use "Snap to cusp nodes" instead of "Snap to smooth nodes" when trying to snap smooth, symmetric or auto-smooth node using Selector (cusp nodes snap correctly even without this option). It's the same when I want to snap to paths or path intersections (Selector tool), I need to have "Snap to smooth nodes" enabled to do it with nodes that aren't obviously cusp. When snapping to path intersection is on, when trying to snap to a cusp node the tooltip says it's snapping to "path intersection" instead of "to cusp node" and it happens with "Snap to cusp nodes" disabled. Unrelated to this but related to gradients snapping - when creating a gradient start stop snaps but the gradient can't be created. You have to click next to the snapping point and not directly on it to make it work. Is this expected? This is all tested on 9425 but some of it behaves the same in 0.47. Mihaela

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Tool Order
by Tavmjong Bah 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi, I propose to change the tool order to move the spray tool down and the text tool up a bit. The spray tool is quite neat but I can't imagine using it more than the text tool! The specific order would be: Selector Node Tweak Zoom Rectangle Box Circle/Ellipse Star/Polygon Spiral Pencil Pen Calligraphy Text Spray Eraser Bucket Fill Gradient Dropper Connector Tav

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gradient mesh
by sid datta 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi, Are we still waiting for the SVG standards before we can implement gradient meshes ? I have a ( pretty simple and obvious ) method of rendering gradient meshes that is simpler than blurring multiple beziergons and is quite fast ( 100 ms in Java rendering 500x500px approx ), I was wondering if we start putting a basic gradient mesh in inkscape and we can conform/export to the SVG format when it comes out. I believe we are trying to get a triangle gradient primitive approved from SVG. Do we have any plans of getting a quadrilateral primitive ? It will be more accurate for gradient mesh. This paper I found explains some quadrilateral rendering techniques : http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/publications/papers/quadrendering.pdf Thanks -Sid

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Export Page to PDF
by Mihaela 17 May '10

17 May '10

When exporting to PDF with the Page option it appears correctly in PDF readers, you only see the page area, but when you import the document back into Inkscape the objects outside the Page area are still there. Is this what it's supposed to work? I'd expect that everything outside the Page area gets discarded. Mihaela

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NEW: Pseudo unified console / GUI app on Windows
by Krzysztof Kosiński 14 May '10

14 May '10

Hello Starting with revision 9251, it's possible to open cmd.exe, type "inkscape" while having Inkscape's installation directory in PATH, and get a working console-mode executable. This is done by shipping a slightly modified version of the well-known inkscapec.exe helper, renamed to inkscape.com and placed in the same directory as inkscape.exe. This approach looks a bit hacky, but it's used by several of Microsoft's tool that also implement both GUI and command line mode. Regards, Krzysztof

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Bug Hunt Complete! - 381/300
by Joshua A. Andler 13 May '10

13 May '10

This list contains fixes between 5/3 @ 1:39pm PDT - 5/13 @ 3:39am PDT. Only fixes to "true bugs" (i.e. no website/translation/docs/etc. bugs). Pts BugID Fixer Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 573512 JazzyNico Export XAML with matrix 12 220711 JazzyNico Inkscape export to XAML produces invalid XAML 9 519408 JohanEngelen Crash while saving opened PDF 6 446723 UNKNOWN Preferences: numeric precision tooltip error. 9 578990 UNKN (J.E.)? a line with self defined marker crashes... 6 488747 Chris Morgan Windows installer problems 0.47 6 489022 Chris Morgan Windows Uninstaller Doesn't Work 3 485027 JazzyNico Export to Gimp XCF returns deprecation... 9 463602 Kosiński crash when node-editing pattern-filled object 6 572906 JazzyNico Export invisible layer in XAML 6 516462 JazzyNico XAML error when I set Object Properties 18 282421 JazzyNico Save As XAML Inkscape crashes after five... ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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