June 2011 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Guideline snap rotation absolute/relative
by LucaDC 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

In rev. 10303 guidelines shift+ctrl rotation has been changed to consider the guide initial angle as base. The absolute rotation was made by purpose, it was not a bug to be fixed. Guidelines are absolute objects and it was decided to make them snap at absolute angles, regardless of their initial orientation. Also, now a relative rotation is made possible by the new math in input fields feature: just open a guide, then write a +15 in the angle field and it's done. Personally I find the "relative" option of little usefullness. Should I need it, there is already a simple way to obtain it, while I use a lot absolute snapping so I can "recycle" guides already on screen rather than throwing a lot, having to clean them one by one. More: the math needed requires trigonometric functions and this makes me think that repeatedly rotating a guide will inevitably lead to rounding errors so you could eventually end up with a guide not starting from where it was at the beginning. This is a huge problem for technical drawings and would force me to carefully avoid using this function (this means always opening the guide menu and input the desired angle or always start from a vertical or horizontal guide and make a single rotation!). I ask for reverting back to the previous behaviour, please. Or add a different modifier for the two options (but we already know that there are less modifiers than the functions involved with guides...). Regards. Luca -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Guideline-snap-rotation-absolute-relative-tp31850907p… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Official Inkscape PPAs
by gespertino＠...400... 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hi. Thanks for setting the PPA! Is it possible to change the name of that builds from inkscape to something like "inkscape-devel" so it doesn't replace the stable build from repos? Inkscape is one of the main tools in my pipe and I give it a heavy daily use, so I cannot afford to have an unstable inkscape, but I don't want it to keep me from testing the new stuff! Being able to install both versions would solve the problem. Thanks in advance Gez.

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New Measurement Tool in Inkscape
by Felipe Sanches 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hello, I'd like to let you all know that I have been working on a new tool for measuring objects in Inkscape. Here is a screencast of the tool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZKnxTO11xE But if you checkout the development code from Bazaar , then you'll see some new things that were implemented in the tool after recording the screencast (i.e. the tool now displays angle info also). Happy Hacking, Felipe Sanches PS: If you find bugs prease report them and assign the bugs to me at Lauchpad bug tracker.

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Serious error with Wacom stylus on XP
by Preben Soeberg 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

"Stylus entered coordinates are wrong." Reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/797519 This error is a showstopper. There is likely also a problem with the Wacom mouse, but I cannot test this, as mine is broken. Regards Preben

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Use of MINGW64 (minor)
by Bruno Winck 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi Everyone, I am on the process to resume my work on Inkscape I did about css. I was using svn, now I have a new computer so I start again fresh with bazaar, so far so good. Since its running Windows 7 x64 I decided to give a try to mingw64. Compiling btool went fine, however when running it allocated 4 gig of memory and stalls. A quick look didn’t help figure out what could be the cause and now I revert to x32. Now I wonder what is the ground of using btool today. Is it still a necessity ? Other projects compile both on Windows and Linux without any specific tool. It would also help to benefit from a real incremental build. Any ideas of what was already tried around btool ? Also if there is already some ideas of having Inkscape addins let me know. I would like some ability to add attributes to svg files like scripts or rdf attributes. -Bruno Bruno Winck Email: <mailto:bwinck@...2633...> bwinck@...2632... Blog: <http://www.kneaver.com/> http://www.kneaver.com/blog Kneaver Corp <http://www.kneaver.com/> http://www.kneaver.com/ Twitter:http://twitter.com/kneaver <skype:brunowinck> SKYPE:brunowinck PH: +1 (415) 749 5850 CELL: +1 (415) 513 3160 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A bug it would be nice to have fixed for 0.48.2
by Josh Andler 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

If anyone is willing to look into this, it appears JazzyNico did some good leg work in helping to identify the cause. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/631444

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CMake update
by Joshua Blocher 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

oops didn't send it to the list as well Campbell, Thank you for picking support for the cmake build up. Johan and I authored most of the system but I had given up on getting it to link properly and than went on hiatus from working on Inkscape. And that is where things have sit until today. > - Options from configure's --with/--without This I don't agree with. Cmake should detect all optional libs and use them by default if available. At the end of the configuration generation it should tell the developer what libs are not being used. Similar to what KDE's Calligra does currently. For Experimental features I'm find with this. Thank you again for picking this up if you need anything feel free to ask. I'm going to test this soon. Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow

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Official Inkscape PPAs
by Josh Andler 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hey All, I just wanted to tell everyone about the creation of two PPAs that we created for Ubuntu users. One is for the current stable/supported release of Inkscape (not populated yet). https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/stable The other is a nightly/trunk PPA for our testers and those who just want the newest features right away. https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/trunk We owe a big thank you to Alex Valavanis and Cafuego for doing all the hard stuff. Cheers, Josh

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CMake update
by Campbell Barton 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi Dev's, Over the weekend I found inkscape's cmake files were not working and took the time to update them, * What Works * - building on linux - auto-detecting libs - basic installation - generating config.h, inkscape-version.c - all source & headers listed in CMakeLists.txt * Whats needed * - Inkview target - Options from configure's --with/--without - a CMake module FindDBus.cmake, probably other libraries which are optional too. - CMake currently doesn't install translations, hicolor/icons, or man pages. Probably you already discussed this when first adding CMake but I checked on build times and IDE integration. Including all source files in the CMakeLists.txt files is important for IDE's mainly so they are aware of the headers. I double checked inkscape's source loads in QtCreator/Netbeans & Eclipse. To ensure cmake doesn't get out of sync with the source there is a script which parses the CMakeLists.txt files and makes sure file lists are value and don't miss any newly added files. ./CMakeScripts/cmake_consistency_check.py While a time test at this point is not quite fair, since cmake misses translations & linking inkview I ran one all the same :). Not including configure times and built with "time make -j6" on a 6 core system. cmake: 3min, 38sec. automake: 5min, 56sec. So writing to say the cmake files are (basically) working and if you're a developer who likes fast builds and IDE integration, this part works now. If there is some especially important thing I miss out, let me know and Ill try add it. If other devs want to add support for OSX/Windows, link inkview... etc, that'd be great too. -- - Campbell

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Help regarding libcroco node-iface structure
by Abhishek Sharma 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hello everybody, I am a student selected for GSoC 2011 in inkscape and have undertaken the CSS standardization project. I am currently converting libcroco to be in sync with inkscape's version of libcroco. Now I also have to deal with the tests already provided with libcroco. Test #(1-4) went perfectly, but in test #5 I have to modify the code so that it used the new libcroco function. In that test, initially there was xmlNode and xmlDoc from where we were getting data for instance in one function we had *CRXMLNodePtr a_node = xmlDoc->children*. But libXml has been removed and we do it some other way. This is what I need help in. May anybody please throw some light as to what do we use for initializing parameters for libcroco parsing as in what are the initial values of CRNodeIface and CRXMLNodePtr. Please help. -- Regards, Abhishek Sharma

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