January 2011 - Inkscape Devel

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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pdf import again: poppler native vs. poppler cairo
by the Adib 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Hello All, as the problem is still there I would propose following intermediate solution: currently in the codebasis there is also an pdf import via poppler-cairo. This one is disabled. I would like to enable this as an additional pdf import possibility. We have to decide later when it comes to the release which one to integrate into the release. so we can test in parallel the two options. we have a big tester basis (compared to separate launchpad branch) we get the possibility to switch to an tested poppler-internals independent solution (while using poppler) I there is no big NONO I will go forward and enable this within the next days. attached the patch that is needed for this (tested on windows, should work on Linux) regards, Adib.

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Usability development help for Inkscape available
by Aslak Karsi 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Hello We are a group of five students from Finland, studying at University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science. We are currently working on a project assignment to offer help in usability development for an open source software project of our choice. Past few weeks we have been familiarizing ourselves with Inkscape and its community and now we would like to offer our work resources for your use. We have already figured out a few ideas of what we could do for the Inkscape project: * Heuristic evaluation * Usability testing * Prioritization of usability related bugs on the buglist To produce as useful results as possible, we would like to hear your ideas. How do you feel about the tasks suggested? Is there some specific part of the software we should focus on? Any ideas and feedback at this point would be greatly appreciated. Project leader Aslak Karsi Marko Arffman Matias Patosalmi Jouni Rissanen Matti Siipola

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Compile error (color-profile.cpp)
by Marcin Floryan 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi! Did anyone bump into this compile error - I was just trying do do a clean compile of latest inkscape from bzr trunk. color-profile.cpp: In static member function ‘static std::list<Glib::ustring> Inkscape::ColorProfile::getProfileFiles()’: color-profile.cpp:758:34: error: ‘sanitizeString’ is not a member of ‘Inkscape::IO’ make[3]: *** [color-profile.o] Error 1 Did I miss something? Cheers, Marcin -- Marcin Floryan http://marcin.floryan.pl/ Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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C++ificiation and GTKMM
by Abhishek Sharma 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hello everyone, C++ification of inkscape has been a long term planned goal for inkscape. To the same accordance I would like to ask a few questions: 1. Does the dependency on GObject need to be removed?? The current code is huge and based on GObject as inheritance, increasing the complexity further. But if we wish to use the functionalities of GTK+ and remove GObject from the picture, wouldn't it be possible and feasible to instead use GTKMM to suffice for the same??? 2. While c++ifying what is going to be the fate of the inkscape's own implementation of garbage collection?? 3. What are your views regarding GTKMM to be introduced in the codebase for c++ification?? Expecting replies from the developers. Thank You. -- Abhishek Sharma

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Update Cairo to 1.10.2 to fix bug
by unknown＠example.com 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hi all, (best wishes for the new year!) Cairo 1.10.2 has been released, and a bug concerning Inkscape was fixed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/665628 It is a pity it is just too late to include in 0.48.1 Krzystof, can you update Cairo in the Windows devlibs when 0.48.1 is done? Thanks, Johan

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Inkscape 0.48.1 Source Packages
by Ted Gould 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hey all, I finally found the time to make all of the source packages for 0.48.1, sorry about the delay. They're uploading to Source Forge here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.1/ As per-usual please don't do mass announcements of the release until packagers for the various platforms have a chance to build installable images and upload them. Here are the hashes for the paranoid :) == MD5 == 430fa43bba96ba19a98acdd163fd86d5 inkscape-0.48.1.tar.bz2 5f744c9da0e51069994d9b6ea1e5f953 inkscape-0.48.1.tar.bz2.asc 3c179eb998d49d1c312822e15773bf6d inkscape-0.48.1.tar.gz 2df7c0bf0096b2eab0e2a79ac71328ab inkscape-0.48.1.tar.gz.asc 331fab5a407a4b016eaa35bd61eac872 inkscape-0.48.1.zip f974e2ac553571261207ec960d5b75ed inkscape-0.48.1.zip.asc == SHA1 == 9727ed11cef31c2790bf2affbddf6a6ef352753f inkscape-0.48.1.tar.bz2 e578a31f3ef37df72cb90599e3399afff9c764e5 inkscape-0.48.1.tar.bz2.asc a43467119925aee70d1d63d746f9846abb4dea91 inkscape-0.48.1.tar.gz 09bb42eabd4401e7eb4aa639393465abc916ebe5 inkscape-0.48.1.tar.gz.asc 6ae30c4d70e506e4b6437b27d88ea24404420b92 inkscape-0.48.1.zip 596e1a55486ee36afb2b28177061f12909a8b99e inkscape-0.48.1.zip.asc Thanks all! --Ted

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Upgrading Inkscape's 2geom
by unknown＠example.com 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hi all, Now that 0.48.1 is 'out', shall I try and upgrade our 2geom copy? I am in a situation this month that I have time to do mindless search&replace operations, which will be necessary to do the 2geom upgrade. Cheers, Johan

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Poppler issues *again*
by Josh Andler 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hey All, As we know, I like my distro to be bleeding... With libpoppler 0.16.0 we're again broken with compilation. I really think that we need to work on a proper solution for this because it seems like every 6 months we have to add additional checks to compensate for how things change. Also, I noticed that libwpg 0.2 isn't detected either, I tried mucking w/ configure.ac and had no success. Cheers, Josh

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Broken document created.
by Martin Owens 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hey guys, I was doing a teaching session on Inkscape for the Ubuntu User Days a few days ago. As with almost every show-and-tell, something went wrong. This was Inkscape 0.47 for Ubuntu 10.10 and the document that I created from scratch caused inkscape to crash. What's interesting is that the image was saved by the crash protection save feature. And although the image can be opened by gnome and seen in firefox, opening it in Inkscape 0.47 causes it to crash again. I'd like to know if the crash still exists in Inkscape 0.48, which unfortunately isn't available for Ubuntu yet. If it still exists, I'll report a bug and we'll get it nailed. If you're interested in what I did to cause the problem, it's all recorded in the live session: http://livestre.am/AWfN Crash is at about 00:37:10 Best Regards, Martin Owens

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