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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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non-Unicode symbol fonts do not work on Windows. Bug 165665. Do we need the flag USE_PANGO_WIN32 ?
by Alvin Penner 09 May '15

09 May '15

ref : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/165665 I believe this bug can be fixed by disabling the flag USE_PANGO_WIN32 in line 19 of src/libnrtype/FontFactory.h. When I do this on Windows XP, I gain about 35 new fonts. Not all of these new fonts are useable, but the most interesting ones, such as CommercialPi, Symbol, Technic, Webdings, Wingdings, MonoType Sorts, TechnicLite are working well, both in Inkscape and in IE9. This is a Windows-specific bug which hides symbol fonts, and does not occur in Gimp 2.6 on Win XP. As far as I can tell, the Gimp source code does not contain any analogue or equivalent of the flag USE_PANGO_WIN32. Would there be any objection if I disable this flag, or does it serve a specific purpose that is essential? tia - Alvin Penner -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/non-Unicode-symbol-fonts-do-not-work-on-Windows.-Bug-… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Rendering cache committed
by Krzysztof Kosiński 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hello I committed the rendering cache work in revision 10579 of trunk. If you encounter serious problems, you can turn off caching completely by defining the environment variable _INKSCAPE_DISABLE_CACHE. For example, run inkscape as: $ _INKSCAPE_DISABLE_CACHE=1 inkscape By default, each drawing will use up to 64 MB of memory for rendering data. It can be set in the "Rendering" page of the preferences (renamed from "Filters"). As usual, problem reports are welcome. Regards, Krzysztof

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Building .app on Mac OS X with Macports
by Frank Schima 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

I'm trying to build inkscape 0.48.2 as a Mac .app application using Macports. I'm on Mac OS X 10.7.3 with Xcode 4.2.1 and Macports python 2.7.2 with numpy and lxml. According to the wiki page [1], I should use the osx-app.sh shell script to create it. So I attempted to run the script as stated in the wiki but it did not work for me, saying that it wants the python modules directory to be specified. $ pwd /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_graphics_inkscape/inkscape/work/inkscape-0.48.2/packaging/macosx $ ./osx-app.sh -s -b /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_graphics_inkscape/inkscape/work/destroot/opt/local/bin/inkscape -p ../../Info.plist CREATE INKSCAPE APP BUNDLE Python modules directory not specified. Python modules can be downloaded from: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Python-packages.dmg So I next attempted to specify the python directory. $ ./osx-app.sh -s -b /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_mports_trunk_dports_graphics_inkscape/inkscape/work/destroot/opt/local/bin/inkscape -p ../../Info.plist -py /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages CREATE INKSCAPE APP BUNDLE Directory does not appear to contain the i386 and ppc python modules: /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages Python modules can be downloaded from: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Python-packages.dmg I tried the download link but that does not resolve. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, and more importantly how I can build inkscape as a Mac .app with Macports? Cheers! Frank [1] <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX>

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Complete removal of libnr
by Krzysztof Kosiński 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Hello all. Revision 10589 removes all trace of libnr from Inkscape's code, which was a major refactoring goal. This is a rather big change and might break various things. Here is a short summary of the changes: 1. NRRect was replaced by Geom:Rect and Geom::OptRect as appropriate. 2. NRRectL was replaced by Geom::IntRect and Geom::OptIntRect as appropriate. Note that the semantics of Geom::IntRect's contains() function for points are slightly incorrect at this time, as max() will be considered part of the rectangle even though it should not be. This doesn't cause any obvious problems for now. 3. SPItem bounding box methods were rewritten. There are now methods for bounding boxes in 3 different coordinate systems: - visualBounds(), geometricBounds(), bounds() - bounds in the item's own coord system - desktopVisualBounds(), desktopGeometricBounds(), desktopBounds() - bounds in desktop coordinate system (origin in bottom left, but user-editable in the future) - documentVisualBounds(), documentGeometricBounds(), documentBounds() - bounds in SVG coordinate system The "geometric" version returns the object bounding box as defined by SVG (does not consider stroke, filters, clipping paths, masks, etc.). The "visual" version considers all of this to return the bounds of the area affected by the object. The legacy "approximate bbox" was removed. 4. NRActiveObject was used only by SPAction. SPAction was converted to GObject and NRActiveObject listeners were replaced by signals. Some changes to verbs were made along the way. 5. nr-point-fns.h was used by some things in the gradient editor and was replaced with code using Geom::LineSegment. Regards, Krzysztof

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Windows build issues
by Kris De Gussem 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Header adaptations in r10986 break windows building. One of the modifications in src/extension/implementation/implementation.h is the culprit. ------------------------------- Make error line 289: problem compiling: In file included from c:\devlibs/include /sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:8:0, from src/extension/implementation/implementation.h:16, from src/extension/implementation/implementation.cpp:16: c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal_base.h:48:11: error: 'size_t' does n ot name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal_base.h:97:3: error: 'size_type' does not name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal_base.h:241:11: error: 'size_t' does not name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal_base.h:263:3: error: 'size_type' doe s not name a type In file included from src/extension/implementation/implementation.h:16:0, from src/extension/implementation/implementation.cpp:16: c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:33:11: error: 'size_t' does not na me a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:34:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does not name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:99:11: error: 'size_t' does not na me a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:100:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:276:11: error: 'size_t' does not n ame a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:277:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:359:11: error: 'size_t' does not n ame a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:360:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:430:11: error: 'size_t' does not n ame a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:431:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:515:11: error: 'size_t' does not n ame a type c:\devlibs/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/signal.h:516:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does no t name a type -------------------

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Inkscape 0.48.3.1
by Ted Gould 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

Hey, So if you're on these mailing list, you know the deal :-) There are a couple build fixes in this update. Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.3.1/ Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.48.x/0.48.3.1 MD5 Sums f0fcc02088cc643634806064e7ab4ec3 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2 3e956cd9cf6cf0a22b64a821f5a4084d inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2.asc ccf8ccd9e66199badb8c35ea3851a888 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz aded57e1a851a5f3d763fd892c085fe1 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz.asc b1bbe021af4eab8a4c6bb2e4833c6eaf inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip d9f81d36f1e5a9679911dbc12d53d2b9 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip.asc SHA1 Sums 23344555a1b5cc7909ad01d926cfaddb67bfbde9 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2 780bf43ce5148df35420926702b05afadfade239 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2.asc 9a09a97d184e09c2ee7f9956bfe073b7313e919e inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz c8b963d43f56fb7bf42e9474b1b0de7d91be3433 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz.asc b6de562e8c11442afb3d67a59d4d6f82f0c6edd6 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip a17c423b151110d2dab6fd770beb20aaf134caa4 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip.asc --Ted

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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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libvisio is available
by Alexandre Prokoudine 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Hi, During this GSoC a LibreOffice student and her mentor implemented support for VSD, binary Microsoft Visio documents, that Microsoft never bothered to publish a specification on. The student managed to do far more that she expected and ended up with a nice C++ library for parsing VSD called libvisio that supports all geometric primitives, formatted text, embedded stencils, all kinds of fills and strokes etc. The long story is here: http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=41 Now, the short story is that the libvisio library (currently at v0.0.7) has a tool called vsd2xhtml which converts VSD to SVG documents and embeds them into XHTML documents. So it looks like it's possible to write an extension for loading VSD directly to Inkscape. Otherwise you have to do some text editing to get an SVG out of that XHTML. Howevere there is a party trick involved. Since VSD files are often multipage, the convertor dumps every page into same XHTML file one by one. So if someone decides to have a go at it, I think it would rather be loader similar to our PDF loader which provides preview for letting a user to choose a page for importing. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Circular Arrangement
by Valerie 07 May '12

07 May '12

Nice proposal! I just find the use of arrows for "bounding box" confusing. For me, arrows refer to a Direction, so my first impression is that you're choosing the direction for a transformation, except that doesn't make sense here. There's a really nice existing blueprint for anchor points here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/transformation-anchors For the sake of the future interface consistency, I'm wondering if that arrow-less grid shouldn't be used instead, though maybe in a bigger version. A mouse-over will pop up descriptions like "Use objects' lower-left bound." Another question is... how does this feature handle it if you want all the objects to Just touch the guide edge, but you don't rotate the objects? Basically, for an object on the upper-right, the lower-left bound should be used, while for an object on the lower-left, the upper-right bound should be used (which isn't quite an accurate way of putting it either, since the object doesn't necessarily touch the circle that way). See what I mean? Something like "Objects to touch circle's inner edge" (or just "Touch inner edge") and "Objects to touch circle's outer edge." Then again, if anybody needs that, they could submit it as a feature proposal later. I really look forward to the feature, rotational arrangements are a pain to do right now (I can never remember how to use that tiling interface). So thanks in advance!

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