June 2012 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

GTK+ 2.20 support status
by Alex Valavanis 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hi All, I wondered what people's thoughts are on our support for GTK+ 2.20... A quick check reveals that we now have 100 conditional code blocks to support the obsolete symbols provided by GTK+ 2.20, so it adds a bit of a burden on developers and it makes the code horrible to read in places. Most stable/LTS releases of major linux distros provide newer versions of GTK+/gtkmm than 2.20. The exception is Debian Stable, but that's a pretty special case (i.e., ancient versions of everything!) If we were to drop our support for gtk+ 2.20, the main casualty would be Ubuntu Lucid. However, (a) there are two newer stable versions of Ubuntu and a newer LTS release available, (b) we have already bumped our Cairo dependency to a version that is not in Lucid, and (c) I guess that trunk will inevitably reach the point where we leave some older distro versions behind. So... the question is whether we continue supporting a big chunk of conditional code or whether we drop support for gtk+ 2.20. Any thoughts? AV

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symbolic icons
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Hi, FYI, Tango Art Libre set is getting symbolic version: http://gnome-stereotype.tumblr.com/post/26134120044/next-stop-art-libre Last thing I heard is that GIMP is likely to be using symbolic icons, and this looks like a beginning. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Text in SVGs exported from Sibelius
by Daniel Spreadbury 01 Jul '12

01 Jul '12

Dear Inkscape developers, Sibelius is a Qt-based application that uses Qt's built-in SVG support to export SVG graphics. These SVGs open fine in various web browsers (e.g. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer), but the text does not appear correctly in Inkscape. Please see the attached example. Does this problem lie on Inkscape's side, or on Qt's side? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Spreadbury Senior Product Manager | Sibelius R & D Avid Unit 20-23 City North Fonthill Road London N4 3HF United Kingdom daniel.spreadbury@...2877... t +44 (0)20 7561 7915 | m +44 (0)7990 558997 | f +44 (0)20 7561 7888 Sibelius is Avid. Learn more at www.avid.com <http://www.avid.com/> Avid Technology Europe Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered No.: 2670844. Registered Office: Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver Heath, Bucks SL0 0NH, England

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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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Polar Arrangement - Review
by Denis 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

Hello all, I've recently finished implementing my feature, that is, arrange objects in a circular shape. Here you can find the proposal I wrote before implementing: http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement My source code is available on launchpad at: https://code.launchpad.net/~declara91/+junk/inkscape-denis And for all ubuntu users out there, there is a ppa called: ppa:declara91/inkscape Where I have compiled packages of my branch. The package name is: inkscape-denis I would be great if someone could check my branch out! (And maybe one day, it could be pulled in trunk :D) Thank you in advance, Denis

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How to return an error from an extension
by Gerrit Karius 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hi everybody, After calling an Inkscape extension which generates output on stderr, a little info box pops up that says: "Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected." That's all fine, but how do you actually return an error code from a script? I tried "sys.exit(1)", but that didn't work. Is there an example script shipped with Inkscape that returns an error? Many thanks for an answer, Gerrit

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Inkscape sends print jobs with zero page size
by Daniel J Blueman 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hi Inkscape devs, In the current Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release, when printing without print preview, Inkscape submits print jobs with zero sized media, causing print failure [1]. I have just subscribed the "Inkscape Bug Team"; is there anything else that needs doing to get the bug report into suitable shape? Many thanks! Daniel [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/+bug/975972 -- Daniel J Blueman

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wiki administration
by John Cliff 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hi Guys, We really need to do something with regards to the wiki making it harder to sign up spam accounts, we seem to be getting a couple of dozen of junk accounts a day, with most days having no new legit accounts. I dont want to stop people being able to sign up easily, but at the same time, the way we currently has it seems to be balanced all wrong. Who is it that has admin rights for stuff like wiki extensions and the base settings? Cheers John

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layer styles?
by Michael Grosberg 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

I'm working on a technical drawing which is made up of a large number of objects, with a rather limited number of basic styles (this is common in engineering - drawings have layers with a different line style for each layer). So, I created a layer for each style: one layer for dashed lines, one layer for shapes with white fill and no stroke, etc. As it turned out, it was difficult to just draw all of the shapes of one style and then move to another, as they had to interact. So, as I was moving across the drawing and adding shapes, I had to continually set the style to match the current layer I was drawing in. What I really wanted was something like Photoshop's "layer style", Or layers in CAD drawings, where whatever you draw on a layer receives the same style. I was able to do this using the XML editor by copying and pasting the style attributes of existing shapes into the layer nodes, and unsetting the fill and stroke for new shapes. Whatever I drew after that received the layer style. Now my question is this: Is there a mechanism in place to do this without editing the XML? If not, do you think there should be? I think it would be useful.

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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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