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compile error
by 明天 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

when I compile inkscape， make error line 0 ： cannot open the file 'C:\devlibs\lib\pkgconfig\gtkmm-2.4.pc' for reading. what I can do ? thanks

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compile error
by 明天 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

when I compiling inkscape

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Offering for the showcase
by Mike 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Hello, all, My name's Mike, and I have been an avid Inkscape user for several years. For a year as a web designed I used Inkscape almost exclusively despite the fact that my station was equipped with Adobe Illustrator. I also love and support open source projects, so I figured the two fit. I'll spare the rest of my intro and get to the point. Recently Pi Mu Epsilon, a national mathematics honor society of which I am a member, announced a seal redesign contest to commemorate their centennial in 2014. Each chapter in the country could submit a design. This last month in Pittsburgh, at Mathfest, the four national semifinalists were unveiled, and mine, created entirely using Inkscape, was one of them. I have it attached as an SVGZ file. I wanted to share and offer it as a possible showcase addition. You will notice that I left many of my alternative design elements present in the file, but if you export the page at 300dpi you will see what I submitted to the contest. Thanks very much, Mike

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Inkscape docs moved to Launchpad
by Nicolas Dufour 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi all, Inkscape's doc stuff (mainly tutorials po files) has just moved from the old Sourceforge svn to Launchpad. The project url is: https://launchpad.net/inkscape-docs. Feel free to use it if you need to report a bug or request (you can still use the translators list, of course!) The maintainer and driver of this project is the Inkscape Administrators group, and the trunk owner is the Inkscape Developers group. In order to get a local checkout of the files, please use the following command: # bzr checkout lp:inkscape-docs You can create a local branch instead, but I suggest that you use a checkout so that using it is as easy as is was with svn. Please refer to the wiki (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_Bazaar) if you need some details about bazaar (just replace lp:inkscape with lp:inkscape-docs). Could someone with the appropriate rights freeze "https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/doc-docbook/ on Sourceforge"? Regards. -- Nicolas

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] opening .cdr file
by Guillermo Espertino 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

> Hi, I need to open a .cdr file, the file was created in CorelDraw GS X5. > Inkscape can't open it. Do you have any tip/trick? Ask the guy who gave you the file to save it in an older version that Uniconvertor can manage or even better, in a format better suited for exchange (SVG or at least PDF). That's probably the same they would ask you if you send them a Corel Draw X5 file and they would have Corel X4. And, as a personal remark, I think it's more reasonable to ask closed source software to have good support of files that have open specifications than expecting free software to support closed source formats. ;-)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problem with Nautilus
by Guillermo Espertino 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

As far as I can remember, that problem was caused by a bug in the creation of thumbnails. If it's that, you can temporarily fix it by deleting the .thumbnails folder and de-activating thumbnail generation from nautilus preferences. Nautilus is pretty clumsy when it comes to thumbnail creation. Even in newer versions you'll find some problems with that (for instance, browsing a folder with SVG documents with several embedded images - the new inkscape's default - will freeze nautilus until thumbnails are ready, and file limits specified in the preferences don't seem to apply).

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opening .cdr file
by Lucas Mongiat 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

I pasted below the error message UniConvertor failed: Cannot list directory /home/lucas/.uniconvertor:[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/lucas/.uniconvertor' ignoring it in font_path Cannot list directory /home/lucas/.uniconvertor:[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/lucas/.uniconvertor' ignoring it in font_path /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/utils/locale_utils.py:9: DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is deprecated. Use the subprocess module. from popen2 import popen2 No plugin-type information in /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/plugins/Filters/__init__.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/__init__.py", line 82, in uniconv doc = load.load_drawing(input_file) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/io/load.py", line 364, in load_drawing return load_drawing_from_file(file, filename) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/io/load.py", line 337, in load_drawing_from_file doc = loader.Load() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/plugins/Filters/cdrziploader.py", line 54, in Load doc = load.load_drawing_from_file(cdrfile, cdrfile.name, doc_class = self.doc_class) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/uniconvertor/app/io/load.py", line 346, in load_drawing_from_file raise SketchLoadError(_("unrecognised file type")) app.events.skexceptions.SketchLoadError: unrecognised file type

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opening .cdr file
by Lucas Mongiat 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi, I need to open a .cdr file, the file was created in CorelDraw GS X5. Inkscape can't open it. Do you have any tip/trick? thanks L

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Clip selection glitch & another minor bugs
by Karlisson 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Congrats for Inkscape 0.48! I've tested the new features and the old ones, specially, searching for bugs. Great work. But bugs like this are still alive: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/365458 And this https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/486404 I know there's more serious bugs to solve, but these little glitches (that few cares about, I presume) are very bad for the user experience. It's like a costumer entering a new and shiny shop of broken/scratched products that a sharp eye customer won't buy, so he never returns. That makes me think if all the features are really tested before being released. []'s -- Karlisson M. Bezerra http://nerdson.com/ -

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funding inkscape developement
by Drechsel Wolf 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello everybody, probabely there are lots of thoughts on this, so I'd be grateful for some hints: I do have some very special wishes on inkscape developement: # Improving the Mac OS X integration # implement a routine which counts the number of objects surrounded by another object: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/621627 Esp. the first has hardly moved forward during the last year, since I've started watching it. Is there a way of funding a special developement, which obviously does not attract a lot of attention? Inkscape is free - alternatively I'd to pay 1000s of Euros for a "professional" product - with all its disacvantages. So I'd be happy to donate a number of Euros - and probabely some other people as well - to pay somebody to get special work done, which would not be done otherwise. Is there a mechanism for that? - Could there be one? - Maybe some young person would be interested to earn a small sum, learn and get experienced - and get some work done within a professional environment? - Or is that idea completely against the spirit of open source? Have a nice weekend! Wolf

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