June 2012 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

0.47 support status
by Alex Valavanis 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Just wondering what the official position is on the 0.47.x branch. A number of bug reports have been filed recently about build failures with recent versions of Glib, Poppler etc. At the moment, we list 0.47.x as being supported [1], but as far as I know, we have no plans to backport any fixes for the build failures, so it isn't actually usable on current linux distros. As such, would it be appropriate to "retire" the branch and encourage users to upgrade to 0.48.x? Cheers, AV [1] https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.47.x

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Rename 'Vacuum defs'
by John Smith 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Is there a more user friendly way to describe the 'Vacuum defs' function ? How about we rename something like 'Document Cleanup' ? Maybe even a dialog with checkboxes and explanations of the various options: Cleanup and remove the following unused definitions from this document * Unused gradients * Unused color profiles * Unused patterns * Unused markers * Unused scripts * Unused clipping paths * Unused filters etc

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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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Inkscape PRO
by Felipe Sanches 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

This is an output extension for color separation. I have a feeling that it is somewhat inadequate, but I'm unsure. Maybe the color experts here can give us a hint. JonCruz?! http://www.cimcomunica.com/site2/ Felipe Sanches

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GTK+ 3 regression bug tag
by Alex Valavanis 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

I've added a tag "gtk3-regression" that can be added to any bug reports that describe issues that only occur in the experimental gtk3 build. Cheers, AV

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C++ string conversion
by Jon Cruz 09 Jun '12

09 Jun '12

Hi, I finished a simple writeup of converting C strings to C++ strings for our codebase. A couple of people asked me for this, but I thought it might be more generally useful. A shorter summary probably will be appropriate to get on the wiki at some point, but for now http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2012/06/refactoring-c-to-c-part-2-strings.…

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GtkObject stuff
by Alex Valavanis 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

Hi All, I've created a branch at lp:~inkscape.dev/inkscape/gtk_object_removal [1] in which I have started trying to rebase SPCanvasItem on GObject rather than GtkObject. I don't really know what I'm doing with Glib/GObject so I have made some (un)educated guesses about how to replace bits of the functionality! The code compiles and gets rid of a huge number of the remaining GTK+3 build errors, but there are major runtime issues (lots of crashes & Glib warnings). Please could someone who knows about Glib memory management take a look at this and give me a couple of pointers about what I'm doing wrong? Am I completely on the wrong track here? Thanks, Alex [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/gtk_object_removal/chang…

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Quick ! Teams, please confirm LGM 2013 dates proposal
by Louis Desjardins 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

To all teams, Hi all ! After our unanimous call for next LGM to take place in Madrid, we now need a quick go-ahead for the dates ! The proposal is April 10-13 (Wednesday-Saturday) Please voice any concern about those dates or your clear approval asap. Many thanks !!! Louis -- Louis Desjardins libregraphicsmeeting.org +1 514 994 9351 (Cell) +1 514 934 1353 ext. 121 (Montréal) HAE / EDT GMT -5

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Regarding variable thickness lines
by Sharad Dixit 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

hi, I am new to inkscape development . I'm not sure I have all the definitions perfectly clear, but I'll try to explain my query as well as I can. Is this functionality already exist in inkspace i.e to create a line of variable width which would allow us drawing curves but where each node could have its width set so that the line width changed from node to node. I've also tried a couple of other vector graphics programs, such as Illustrator and Xara but this functionality doesn't exist. Thanks a lot -- Sharad

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Pass original file path to script extension
by Gerrit Karius 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hello everyone, I'd like to reference external svg files in my document and process them via an extension. I know that Inkscape will not render them, but I am using an external call to the Apache Batik framework which can resolve external dependencies. The problem is, extensions are called on a temporary copy of the current document (usually in some temp folder), so all relative path references are broken. Is there any way to make an extension call on the original file, or somehow pass that file reference to the extension as a parameter? I only found this forum thread where people are guessing that this is not possible:http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1156 Does anyone of you devs know a workaround? Many thanks in advance,Gerrit

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