February 2011 - Inkscape Devel

LGM for Inkscape
by Louis Desjardins 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Hi guys, Please let me know what Inskscape team needs and expects at LGM this year. We are planning the schedule, the talks, the panels, the teams' meeting and the among-teams' meetings. I need your input. Few words will do ! Thanks ! Louis

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Weird object
by Adrian Knoth 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi! First, my apologies for not using a better subject nor going through all 3k bugs on launchpad. The problem in question is so weird that a dev probably knows best if it has already been reported. OTOH, I tried the latest bzr checkout, and it's still there, at least to some extend. Originally, all happened on 0.48 (Debian experimental) Steps to reproduce: 1. Open the attached svg. The line end markers in the right column usually don't stop at the circle, they end somewhat inside. (at least with 0.48, the bzr version opened it correctly) 2. Press ctrl+z (undo) to move the end markers to the right position. 3. Save, close and re-open the file: it seems step 2 never happened, everything is exactly how it was at step 1. Even weirder: Select everything and try to duplicate it or copy&paste it to a new document: the whole layout is completely ruined. Likewise, simply calling ctrl+g (grouping) on the objects make the arrows in the right column move. Does this happen on other systems, too? Do you see the culprit or can link it to an existing bug report? TIA

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eps / pdf export
by Michael Palmer 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi, if I understand the issue correctly, the eps and pdf export was switched in the transition from version 0.46 to 0.47. In my experience, the new eps export doesn't work well, producing larger files and also converting some vector elements to raster in an unpredictable way. The new pdf export seems to produce less rasterization but produces very large files that take a long time to render in a pdf viewer. I suppose there was a reason for this transition, maybe gradients, transparency and such. However, where these features are not required, the old export routines seem to work better. Also, the old eps export could be used with LaTeX' psfrag mechanism, whereas the new export cannot do this. So, my question is, could we have the old eps export back - as an additional option, or maybe as a user-installable extension? Thanks for consideration, best. Michael PS I attach 3 examples. ec046.pdf was produced via eps export in version 0.46 and epstopdf. The two other files were produced from the same svg in version 0.47, either directly to pdf or via eps export and epstopdf.

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Updated 2geom -- what changed?
by unknown＠example.com 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Hi all, I just updated our copy of lib2geom to the latest trunk version (bzr 10025). This greatly helps in improving Inkscape and lib2geom together. What changed in lib2geom since the last time we updated? Quite an important name change has happened: Geom::Matrix is now called Geom::Affine (to be found in affine.h instead of matrix.h). Some bugs were fixed (but were backported to Inkscape often too), and there are some other name changes. See the list below. I have not done extensive tests, Inkscape seems to build fine, runs ok, and what I tested (spiro LPE) works fine too. If there are any troubles, let me know. Cheers, Johan _______________________________________________________________________ Relevant changes to lib2geom since last update: Geom::Matrix --> Geom::Affine <2geom/matrix.h> --> <2geom/affine.h> Geom::Interval::extendTo --> expandTo Geom::Line::setBy2Points --> setPoints Geom::Line::origin(Geom::Point) --> setOrigin Geom::Line::versor(Geom::Point) --> setVersor Geom::Matrix::without_translation --> Geom::Affine::withoutTranslation Geom::EllipticalArc::rotation_angle --> rotationAngle Geom::EllipticalArc::large_arc_flag --> largeArc Geom::EllipticalArc::sweep_flag --> sweep _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] bzr rant... Was: Updated 2geom -- what changed?
by Krzysztof Kosiński 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Oops, replying to the list. W dniu 13 lutego 2011 17:36 użytkownik Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> napisał: > Well, sure, but the point is 12 seconds is hardly a show stopper(*). I suspect that people sometimes forget to do their bzr work in a share repository directory, so that making a branch takes much much longer. 12s is also acceptable for me. I updated the Bazaar tutorial on the wiki a bit, it now recommends first doing a checkout and working like in SVN. I also added some information on Git-style branches. > (*) that said, if I know my change is a one liner that's going to take me only a couple of minutes, I'll often work right in the trunk branch, pull, change, commit, push. In this case I would just work in a checkout. $ bzr bind :push $ bzr update ... do work ... $ bzr commit > Usually the trunk hasn't changed in 3-4 minutes. If it has, then I can rename my trunk branch, pull a fresh trunk, merge my changes and push, but usually the initial attempt to push from the trunk works. If the trunk has changed, you can use the 'bzr rebase' command from the bzr-rewrite plugin, so that your changes come at the end. Regards, Krzysztof

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Problems with program
by David Moreno da Costa, Duque 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

Greetings Inskcape present an error when I paste, duplicate or any option in my vectorial works. The message presented is: *"Glib-ERROR **: gmem.c:136: failed to allocate 6144 bytes * *Aborting…"* Please help me, because I cannot continue with my project. Thanks for all -- * * *David Moreno da Costa D Estudiante del Programa de Postgrado Doctorado en Química Laboratorio No. 2 Dpto. de Química Orgánica Facultad de Química Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Teléfonos* ***(Secretaria Sra. Rosalba Meza)**: (56-2)-686-44-26* *(Móvil-Personal): (56-09)-9-470-7909 * * *

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Update Cairo to 1.10.2 to fix bug]
by Uwe Schöler 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

Hi there, i've some hardware problems with my computer, so i can't build the windows versions of inkscape with the "old" devlibs to get rid of the GUI issue. Can someone build all (installer, 7z, debug, zip and portable) again with the old devlibs (without GUI error) for 0.48.1 to get it finally published? I hope to get a new computer at the end of next week. The 0.48.1 versions on sf.net are with the GUI error and IMHO we should weight the issues. It's more annoying for the people to "live" with the GUI error than have a problem with PDF export. Who can help here to build new files? Sincerely UweSch -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Update Cairo to 1.10.2 to fix bug > Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:03:27 -0800 > From: Josh Andler<scislac@...400...> > To: ~suv<suv-sf@...58...> > CC: Nicolas Dufour<nicoduf@...48...>, > inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net, > "J.B.C. Engelen"<J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...>, > uwesch@...859..., > Chris Morgan<chris.morganiser@...400...> > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:52 AM, ~suv<suv-sf@...58...> wrote: >> On 7/2/11 11:36, Nicolas Dufour wrote: >> >>>> De : ~suv<suv-sf@...58...> >>>> Any comments from Windows users (Johan, JazzyNico, Uwesch,...)? The >>>> issue is limited to the Windows builds afaict [1] and its impact on >>>> usability seems difficult to evaluate without actually using an affected >>>> build. >>> I'm afraid we're going to have the same kind of reaction we had with the >>> persistent markers with 0.48 on GNU/Linux. The problem with UI issues is that >>> even when they are not severe (here it's just flickering, and doesn't prevent >>> Inkscape from working), they are more visible than PDF export bugs. Frankly (if >>> it's not too late), I'd rather keep the old devlibs for 0.48.1 and start using >>> the new one (and try to find a fix or a workaround) in 0.48.2. >> As far as I know, the 0.48.1-1 packages already uploaded to sf.net >> (installer, archives, debug and portable) have been built with the >> current devlibs (cairo 1.10.2). >> >> Not sure, but it looks like we'll have to bear with the user reactions >> until the next bug-fix release is ready (0.48.2). Or replace the >> uploaded files with new packages (0.48.1-2), built with the old devlibs >> (cairo 1.8.8). The links to the new files have already been spread >> quickly via twitter et al. - replacing the files now could cause some >> confusion for users. OTOH the release wasn't yet officially announced. > I see minimal harm with what has spread via twitter that is not > official. :) If people file bug reports about it prior to official > announcement and say they found out via AwesomeSoftware2011 on > twitter, we just need to tell them to watch trusted people (myself, > joncruz, prokoudine, or any number of others) for *accurate* > information about releases. Confused users that trust third-party > sources instead of trusted/official sources are the least of my > worries and imho kinda deserve the pain they subject themselves to > (like people who get malware infected machines because they pirate via > P2P and such). > > Enough of that mini-rant. :) I think that we should see about > repackaging the win32 versions with the less "annoying" bug for now > until fixed libs are released. Uwe& Chris, do you think you'll be > able to do that? BTW, has anyone checked if it's a known issue > upstream? > > Cheers, > Josh > Ausgehende eMail ist virenfrei. Von AVG Free SB überprüft - www.avg.de Version: 9.0.872 / Virendatenbank: 271.1.1/3439 - Ausgabedatum: 02/12/11 08:34:00

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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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Easter eggs tutorial
by Nicolas Dufour 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hello, We've recently received new translations (Galician and Polish) for the Easter eggs tutorial. It was expected to be released with Inkscape 0.45 (see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes045#Translations.2C_tut…) but I can't find it in versions from 0.45.1 to 0.48.1. And up to yesterday, there was no translation at all for that tutorial. Is there a reason why it exists in inkscape-docs but not in the released versions? Does anyone mind if I add it to the tutorials menu? Regards. -- Nicolas

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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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