July 2010 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

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: [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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NEW: mouseover cursors in Selector
by bulia byak 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Selector tool has a new mouse cursor (arrow with an open hand) for when your mouse is over a selectable object, and another (arrow with clinched hand) for when you're dragging an object. This improves precision of selection and UI consistency (previously, the mouse cursor over a selectable object was different across platforms, e.g. hand icon on Linux or four-way arrow on Windows). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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"close all curves" extension
by Alexandre Prokoudine 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi, Do we want this extension in the bundle? http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=37 By the way, the very same guys implemented an absolutely amazing extension that creates Gcode (Computer-aided manufacturing, or CAM data) out of Inkscape drawings: Main English page seems to be http://kalyaev.com/2010/20100423/gcodetools.html They have a bzr repo here: https://launchpad.net/gcodetools Unfortunately there is less information in English than in Russian. But you can look at pretty pictures :) http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=34 Alexandre

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Status of dbus awareness
by Kent Tenney 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Howdy, I just built the inkscape trunk from bzr and ran this script #!/usr/bin/python import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() inkdoc1 = bus.get_object('org.inkscape', '/org/inkscape/desktop_0') doc1 = dbus.Interface(inkdoc1, dbus_interface="org.inkscape.document") im = doc1.image(100 ,100, '/home/ktenney/Firefox_wallpaper.png') Which worked on a dbus branch a while back. Now it starts inkscape, but does not place the image - was the dbus code merged? - if so, how do I enable/use it? - if not, where is dbus capable code? Thanks, Kent

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LPE PowerStroke
by unknown＠example.com 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

Hi all, Because my GSoC student had no progress at the midterm evaluation deadline, I decided to fail him for GSoC. But since I was screaming so loud at LGM that this summer we would have a PowerStroke LPE, I couldn't escape coding it myself. Too bad, I should have applied for GSoC as a student myself... For those interested: I think the PowerStroke LPE is ready for some playing and testing. You have to build Inkscape 0.48+devel with experimental LPEs enabled. [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.49#PowerStroke http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png Cusp nodes behave funny. To see clearly what happens, you have to apply a stroke to the path, and no fill. I do not yet know whether I am going to take the effort to properly handle cusp nodes... ;) I know it is buggy, so please only mail *ideas* for improvement, etc. thanks! Johan [1] You have to build Inkscape with "#define LPE_ENABLE_TEST_EFFECTS", otherwise the LPE won't show in the LPE dialog. (uncommenting line 9 in src/live_effects/effect.cpp will do the trick)

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NFTDialog : I need a tutor in order to check my code
by Albin Manoël 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi developers, Thanks to Jasper van de Gronde and Jon Cruz for their answers on : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:NewFromTemplateSpec This weekend, I made some *GTKmm code* in order to design the NFT Dialog. The window is fully functional, but I need more informations about how can I read informations from an SVG file, how to generate a preview image and a lot of other stuffs. I give you my dirty code.* Please affect me a tutor*. See ya ! :-)

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Fwd: Re : Inskape 0.48pre1 - Error message when saving as wmf
by Igor Novikov 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:14 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > 2010/7/8 Nicolas Dufour <nicoduf@...48...>: > > 1. Removing the Uniconvertor scripts from the devlibs. UniConvertor > import or export scripts warn users to install UniConvertor manually (and > give the site address) when the libs are missing. (Note to self: fix the > gettext import bug in uniconv_output.py...). > > I think that will be perceived as a regression. Lots of formats that > used to work will suddenly stop working. We had a lot of pain with > displaying messages like this - most people simply perceive any such > message as an error and complain or give up without reading. Those who > read it and act on it will be a minority. > >From other side a lot of win32 users ask us "Why you announce XXX feature but i have not this in Inkscape?". We cannot synchronize our project development cycles, it's normally. But we could provide for user a way updating UniConvertor. External UniConvertor installation is a best solution because current bundle updating is a task rather for programmer than for conventional user/designer. > What's such a big problem with including a new UC into devlibs? > Actually there are not impossible tasks. It's just a subject of additional development time and resulted bundle size. Latest version has several new native extensions and more complex structure. And in next versions we will add new native resources because users ask for more and more complex features. As a simple solution we can provide for users an Inkscape-0.48-with-UniConvertor.zip archive with Inkscape installer, UniConvertor MSI and small REAME file inside. To simplify UniConvertor download the best way is not a message "You need downloading from bla-bla-bla site..." but just a button "Download" which opened browser on required page. Last option is for those users who download Inkscape exe installer only. Another valuable reason is planned preferences for translation. We are going provide a lot of translation options (we already have the code but we still not expose it as a command line options) and naturally such preferences could be managed better from GUI than command line. So we will add preferences dialogs for each format into UniConvertor. It's not an easy task so for Inkscape team will be better utilizing ready dialogs from UniConvertor than creating the same but on Inkscape side. And as I have wrote UniConvertor translation progress dialog would be also a good additional feature for Inkscape. Regards, Igor Novikov sK1 Project http://sk1project.org

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