September 2012 - Inkscape Devel

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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How to use a custom GTK theme with Inkscape und Ubuntu 12.04
by unknown＠example.com 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Hello, i read an article about using custom GTK themes with GIMP (http://apfelnase.de/2008/11/20/gimp-back-in-black/ ). How to do this with Inkscape? Cheers Eckhard.

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Packaging for OSX
by Gellule Xg 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

It looks like I may be able to package Inkscape in a dmg. The procedure is refreshed version of https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/inkscape-quartz It has been compiled on Moutain Lion (64 bits) from trunk. You should be able to give is a spin from: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49834266/Inkscape.dmg Let me know if it works for you and/or if it is worth pushing this further. Regards, -Gellule

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Inkscape Board - election results
by Josh Andler 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hey All, I'm happy to announce that Tavmjong Bah & Johan Engelen have been elected and have accepted their positions on the board. A few people had voted off-lists, however, it does not affect the results in the end (they actually had more votes including those). So, to Johan & Tav, congratulations and welcome aboard! :) Cheers, Josh

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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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Swatch/Palette border
by John Smith 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

Recently committed some options for the Swatch/Palette border (Swatch/Palette popup menu Border->None/Solid/Wide). I think there is a good case made (both user acceptance and better distinction) for setting the default border to solid black in the below bug report. Any interest in changing the default border ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171177

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HELP CODE UNDERSTAND
by Arshdeep Singh 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

In my courageous attempt at fixing bugs I came across this snippet where the variable setProgramatically eludes me: void RegisteredCheckButton::setActive (bool b) { setProgrammatically = true; set_active (b); //The slave button is greyed out if the master button is unchecked for (std::list<Gtk::Widget*>::const_iterator i = _slavewidgets.begin(); i != _slavewidgets.end(); ++i) { (*i)->set_sensitive(b); } setProgrammatically = false; } Please help. Found in file <registered-widget.cpp> -- demicoder

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Method to get from (font,string) to exact width?
by mathog 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Well, hours later, and I still couldn't figure out where Inkscape hides its table of fonts/font properties. Another one of those cases where it is faster to write something from scratch than to figure out where it is buried in existing code. The attached small test case does the desired sort of calculation and works on both linux and Windows (mingw, with devlibs32 installed for freetype and fontconfig.) The first time it ran on Windowx XP it took about 30 seconds, presumably because it was making the font cache. Subsequent runs were fast. Found the cache file(s) in: C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\<username>\Apps\Temp\fontconfig\cache Strange file names, starts with a long string of hexadecimal characters and then ends in ".cache-2" or ".cache-3". Today's was 456KB and one from two days ago was 935KB. Not sure which other application made the older one, nor why that one was twice as large. Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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