August 2011 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Mesh update
by Tavmjong Bah 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Hi, At last weeks SVG Working Group meeting it was resolved that meshes be accepted as part of SVG 2.0. It was decided that meshes should be treated as geometric primitives if defined outside a <defs> section and as a paint server if defined inside. I've put my code into a branch that can be obtained at: bzr branch lp:~tavmjong-free/inkscape/mesh It must be linked against Cairo trunk. I've made a few changes since the SVG WG meeting. The attribute 'stop-path' has been rename 'path' at the WG's request. The code now handles 'stop-opacity'. There are five example SVG files in the share/examples directory (their names all begin with "mesh") including one that shows the effect of setting an opacity of less that 1 on two corners of a patch. The examples can also be seen at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/MESH/Mesh_Inkscape.html Note that there is no ability to edit the meshes, it only handles meshes used as gradients, and that there are frequent crashes (possibly in the cairo code). Tav

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SVG to PNG
by Laurent 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

Hi, I use Inkscape on a GNU/Linux server with no graphical user interface in order to convert "large" SVG files generated by a software of mine to PNG. Actually Inskcape is the only software I've found that is able to manage the SVG TextPath correctly, even imageMagick does not process TextPath. I would like to know if some of you know a way to speed up the loading process of Inkscape (I believe it loads tons of things even if it's used to "only" convert files in command line) or if some of you know another software able to convert SVG files containing TextPaths quicker than Inkscape.... Any idea ? Thank you -- Laurent

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bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock "(remote lock)":
by Alvin Penner 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi, I just committed a change to my Inkscape repository, rev 10525. When I try to push it, I get the message: C:\Users\Alvin\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeBZR>bzr push lp:inkscape Connected (version 2.0, client Twisted) Authentication (publickey) successful! Secsh channel 1 opened. bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock "(remote lock)": any ideas? Alvin Penner -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/bzr%3A-ERROR%3A-Could-not-acquire-lock-%22%28remote-l… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Build times
by Jasper van de Gronde 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

What kind of build times do you get when doing a complete clean build? And on what kind of machine? Currently I'm only working on a notebook (three years old, and lets just say I bought it for the daylight readable screen and light weight, not its performance) and frankly this is starting to be a nuisance. Usually a complete build takes about six hours or so, but recently it took as much as ten hours... (Probably because part of the time I was also doing something on the side, but still.) As a stop gap measure I've now started using ccache, but obviously that doesn't help much when doing normal builds. So I'm beginning to consider buying a new machine and am wondering what sort of improvement I can expect from what kind of machine (using a complete clean build as a kind of benchmark). BTW, I'm running Windows with btool so this is without making use of both cores of my machine. If anyone has any tips for building Inkscape on Windows using two cores, I'd love to try it out and see how much of a difference that makes.

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Last call for GSoC Doc Camp
by Jon Cruz 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

In case we have people interested, the GSoC applications for Doc Camp end this Friday https://sites.google.com/site/docsprintsummit/

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CLang build errors (again)
by Campbell Barton 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

tried building with clang again and now there is an error in: /dsk/src/inkscape/src/color-profile.cpp http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/inkscape_clang.html Any ideas on how to fix? (ignoring non-POD element type's, I know about those) A while back I was told I had to commit changes to 2geom elsewhere, what repository does this use? -- - Campbell

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Mesh Gradients
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Hi, We'll be discussing Advanced Gradients in today's SVG Working Group meeting. As an experiment, I've made a modified version of Inkscape that can read in the proposed syntax for Mesh Gradients and display the meshes. You can look at the results at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/MESH/Mesh_Inkscape.html Tav

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