January 2015 - Inkscape Devel

Another Kaleidoscope video
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

Hi to all. A new video for LPE Rotate Copies whith the Kaleidoscope feature. Now focused in a simple path and live editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE Regards, Jabier.

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Hard Freeze for 0.91
by Bryce Harrington 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

4. Feature Freeze √ Stable Branch is forked from Mainline √ Regular development resumes on Mainline. √ Avoid major refactorings on Mainline. √ Only bug fixes committed to Stable Branch. √ Bug fixes are cherrypicked from Mainline. √ Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck' String Freeze √ No further string changes allowed on Stable Branch. √ Finalize tutorials to be shipped with release √ Finalize other docs included in the release √ Finalize about screen √ Finalize Release Notes except Known Issues √ Translators work on translations. √ Recruit Release Wardens for Hard Freeze 5. Hard freeze. √ Only Release Wardens can commit to Stable Branch Cherrypick bug fixes from Mainline to Stable Complete any late work under advisement of Wardens Focus on release-critical bug fixing. Finalize all extensions Finalize codebase translations Finalize Known Issues section of Release Notes Finalize packaging scripts Post additional inkscape-0.91-pre*.tar.gz releases Inkscape has completed Feature Freeze and String Freeze, and is now moving to Hard Freeze. Translators, thanks for your efforts. If there are any late translations please coordinate with Jazzynico, and submit them to him for committing. We're down to the wire though so don't delay! Developers, at this point only Josh and I should be committing to the tree. We'll accept patches if they're either a) obviously safe and a useful fix, or b) more complex but fix a particularly severe bug. In either case, please make sure the fix is already applied to the 0.92 branch, and then send Josh and I a backported patch ready to be landed on 0.91. Josh will follow up with our evaluation of blocker bugs. Things actually look to be in fairly good shape. If anyone has a bug they want to raise as a blocker, now's the time to do it! Since we're in a new stage of the release, I'll cut one last pre-release tarball. Bryce P.S. We're also going to need to do some marketing work to publicise the release, and I'm thinking we should establish a formal marketing team. I'll try to organize something soon; if you're interested in joining early, or have ideas to consider in the meantime, please shoot me an email.

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New feature for Copy Rotale LPE Kaleidoscope.
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

Hi to all. I Just finish a new effect in the middle of rotate copies LPE. Is called Kaleidoscope. Here is the branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/copy-rotate-lpe-improveme… And, as usual, a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo Best, J.

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Help/advice needed with crash on bitmap paste/import (embed) on OS X >= 10.9
by su_v 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

Current 0.91.x and trunk packages for OS X are affected by a rather critical issue on OS X 10.9 Mavericks and 10.10 Yosemite: * Pasting a bitmap image from the clipboard, or importing it via 'File > Import' with default import options (embed, resolution from file) crashes the application. [1] * Oddly, it seems that if the build has debug messages (to stdout) in the source code related to retrieving the image resolution from file, the crash no longer happens.[2] * First observed by testers of experimental osxmenu builds back in Nov 2013 (osxmenu is always quite up-to-date with trunk at any time). The debug messages had been committed in the osxmenu branch and I haven't seen new feedback about the same type of crashes with osxmenu builds. [3] * One tester of 0.91 pre-release and trunk snapshot builds reported OTOH that this type of crashes stopped after rebooting and switching to a different user (same system otherwise) - see comment 10 in bug 1398521 ([1]). * The crashes never reproduced for me on OS X 10.7.5 (build system for current available packages). How to proceed? This crash occurs in a very basic feature, and can get easily disruptive for Inkscape users on current OS X. Should we ship the upcoming stable release package with the debug messages applied as part of packaging (maintaining the diff in 'packaging/macosx')? Regards, V [1] Related bug reports: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1398521 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1410793 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413478 [2] Diff applied to custom test builds (reportedly don't crash): https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1410793/comments/7 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/magg5vw5j3y1y3u/AADgl_FtaO2ZLKAVOOgO2EsMa/Inksca… [3] Backtrace of debug build by an early tester of osxmenu (at the time on Mavericks) - Nov 22, 2013: https://gist.github.com/su-v/cd4ef1cc1c4832f07989 I noticed 'val=NaN' on this line: https://gist.github.com/su-v/cd4ef1cc1c4832f07989#file-crash-mavericks-impo…

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inkscape-0.91pre4 source tarball
by Bryce Harrington 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

Download it at: https://inkscape.org/en/download/ Tagged on the release branch as: INKSCAPE_0_91_PRE4 This likely is the last pre-release before our official release. There are a few more remaining changes that Josh and I are aware of, but nothing to cause undue delay. Hopefully the release will be finalized within the coming week. Please make sure any bugs you find are properly recorded in the bug tracker[1]. If you find particularly serious issues, please also make sure the issue (and any work-arounds) are detailed in our Release Notes[2], and hopefully we can tackle them in future point releases. Packagers, if you haven't already I recommend using this release as an opportunity to try out the new package upload system on the main website. Make sure to set your uploads as Mirrored, so we can start utilizing the new mirroring service. Please see Martin's tutorial posted on Dec 31st, and contact him directly if you need permissions or help uploading. One of the major remaining tasks we have is to write up release announcements. The drafts are being developed here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=AnnouncePlanning091 It needs formal and informal announcements written. To see what we need to make it look like, see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=AnnouncePlanning046 In particular we'll need to identify a few volunteers to send the notices out. I can take care of a portion of the notifications but there's quite more to do than I'll have time for, and so would appreciate any help. Bryce 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ 2: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91#Known_issues

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-0.91pre3 Windows builds
by the Adib 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Johan, if you confirm that the win64 binary 0.91pre4 on sourceforge is fine. (take the ...win64.7z) Then please upload the provided cairo files to the devlibs64 on launchpad. Best regards, Adib. -- On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> wrote: > I did not build the devlibs. > > -Johan > > > On 20-1-2015 20:53, the Adib wrote: > > Johan, > > if you build the devlibs and you use the same compiler version as > described I will be happy to recompile using your libs. I am afraid in > mixing libs created using different gcc versions. > > Also could you pls doublecheck if there is any other library where dll > and lib/include mismatch. > > Regards, > > Adib > > Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2015 schrieb Johan Engelen : > >> Sorry for the problems. >> >> -Johan >> >> >> >> On 20-1-2015 20:17, the Adib wrote: >> >> I published the windows binaries on sourceforge. The win64 ones contains >> the cairo lirary provided by Partha. >> >> Within the next few days I can only check my mails rarely. >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> >> Adib. >> >> Am Montag, 19. Januar 2015 schrieb the Adib : >> >>> I just replaced the dll on my computer with the given dlls: >>> - pdf reports cairo 1.14.1 >>> - there is no crash for printing >>> >>> >>> So far this looks promising :-) >>> >>> I do not know how abi compatible gcc4.9 and gcc4.8 are, Partha do you >>> have any chance to recompile using gcc4.9 sjlj (as mentioned here >>> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_64-bit >>> ) >>> >>> Many thanks. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Adib. >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I have rebuilt cairo from git (cloned today). If someone can help me >>>> put the files in devlibs, it would be much appreciated. >>>> >>>> http://www.partha.com/temp/cairo-git.7z >>>> >>>> Built with gcc 4.8.1 sjlj 64bit. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Partha >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:07 PM, su_v <suv-sf@...58...> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Independent of how the devlibs64 arrived at the current inconsistent >>>> > state - I'd like to remind again that inkscape (trunk, 0.91.x) with >>>> > unpatched cairo 1.14.0 is quite unstable (random crashes with data >>>> > loss). So before the missing files get committed to >>>> inkscape-devlibs64, >>>> > now, I'd recommend to thoroughly test a local inkscape build with >>>> cairo >>>> > 1.14.0, and patch cairo if needed. For further details, see e.g. this >>>> > earlier message: >>>> > http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/32980381/ >>>> > >>>> > Additional notes: >>>> > AFAIU the cairo bug is not a platform-related crash limited to OS X >>>> > (some linux distros already include the same patch from cairo git >>>> master >>>> > with stable cairo 1.14 packages, others may have bug reports pending >>>> > with the same patch proposed): >>>> > >>>> > - Related cairo bug reports (same backtrace after crash): >>>> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85151 >>>> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85591 >>>> > >>>> > - Debian: >>>> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766479 >>>> > >>>> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/c/cairo/cairo_1.14.0… >>>> > - Fedora: >>>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1152451#c3 >>>> > - Arch Linux: >>>> > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42596 >>>> > >>>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=package… >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Regards, V >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On 2015-01-18 20:03 (+0100), Partha Bagchi wrote: >>>> >> If your runtime is bundled with 1.12.16 and you built against 1.14.0 >>>> >> then how did it function? It should have crashed I think. >>>> >> >>>> >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 1:21 PM, the Adib <theadib@...400...> wrote: >>>> >>> ok, I see. The package -3 I made with the latest devlibs64 >>>> available. >>>> >>> >>>> >>> pls check >>>> >>> >>>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape-devlibs64/trunk/changes/… >>>> >>> >>>> >>> This revision #14 stated to update the cairo to version 1.14. But >>>> it only >>>> >>> updates the development files. >>>> >>> >>>> >>> The file bin/libcairo-2.dll remains untouched. >>>> >>> >>>> >>> So we link against cairo 1.14 but the runtime is bundled 1.12.16. >>>> >>> Remaining is to update the dlls in the bin directory. >>>> >>> >>>> >>> Cheers, Adib. >>>> >>> -- >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:17 PM, su_v <...> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> @AdiB: the two most recent 0.91pre3-x64 msi installers (64bit) >>>> available >>>> >>>> for download still use cairo 1.12.16 (i.e. a cairo version which is >>>> >>>> affected by the cairo bug when printing documents with text on >>>> Windows). >>>> >>>> Do you use up-to-date inkscape-devlibs64? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Installers tested today on Windows 7: >>>> >>>> 1) inkscape-0.91pre3-x64-2.msi (from 2015-01-04) >>>> >>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.91pre3/ >>>> >>>> 2) inkscape-0.91pre3-x64-3.msi (from 2015-01-06) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByQpCQ-C8wR2b09fYkRTSVk5bWM&usp=sha… >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Steps to determine the cairo version used by installed Inkscape: >>>> >>>> 1) open a new document in currently installed Inkscape 0.91pre3 >>>> >>>> 2) save a copy as PS file >>>> >>>> 3) open PS file in a plain-text editor and look in the comments >>>> section >>>> >>>> at the top of the document for the comment starting with >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> %%Creator: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> This comment shows which cairo version was used by Inkscape for PS >>>> >>>> export (i.e. on Windows and OS X, which version of cairo is >>>> bundled with >>>> >>>> the Inkscape package). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Header from PS file created with inkscape-0.91pre3-x64-3.msi: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 >>>> >>>> %%Creator: cairo 1.12.16 (http://cairographics.org) >>>> >>>> %%CreationDate: Sun Jan 18 17:48:47 2015 >>>> >>>> %%Pages: 1 >>>> >>>> %%DocumentData: Clean7Bit >>>> >>>> %%LanguageLevel: 2 >>>> >>>> %%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () () >>>> >>>> %%BoundingBox: 79 438 504 471 >>>> >>>> %%EndComments >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, V >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2015-01-18 14:36 (+0100), the Adib wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Johan, >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Obviously there is a showblocker in the devlibs64: Inkscape >>>> crashes >>>> >>>>> while printing text. >>>> >>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-devlibs64/+bug/1366250 >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Is there a patched cairo source/lib available? >>>> >>>>> Maybe it is also related if lib and exe use compiler having >>>> different >>>> >>>>> exception handling sjlj vs. seh. >>>> >>>>> Are we sure we have the same exception handling on libs and exe? >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> According to the wiki doc we use sjlj compiler: >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_64-bit >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Adib. >>>> >>>>> -- >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:15 PM, su_v <...> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> On 2015-01-17 23:02 (+0100), Partha Bagchi wrote: >>>> >>>>> > Well, I provided the latest builds of all of gtk+ and >>>> friends when >>>> >>>>> I >>>> >>>>> > updated Cairo to 1.4.0. It's possible only the devlibs from >>>> May >>>> >>>>> that I >>>> >>>>> > provided are in devlibs. If you use pkg-config, you should >>>> be able >>>> >>>>> to >>>> >>>>> > tell which versions of glib/gtk/cairo/poppler etc are used >>>> in >>>> >>>>> devlibs. >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Using pkg-config likely won't work - AFAICT the update from >>>> cairo >>>> >>>>> 1.12.16 to 1.14.0 in revision 14 of the devlibs64 did not >>>> include >>>> >>>>> the >>>> >>>>> cairo*.pc files: >>>> >>>>> >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> New Year. New Location. New Benefits. 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Inkscape-0.91pre3 Windows builds
by Josh Andler 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hey All, In an unlikely turn of events, we have an OSX package available and none for Windows yet. Anyone interested in taking this on? Cheers, Josh

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Wiki front page link outdated - can't edit
by Maren Hachmann 18 Jan '15

18 Jan '15

Hi Wiki-Admins, we got a bug report in inkscape-web about an outdated link on the Wiki front page, but neither Martin nor I have editing permissions for that page. Could someone update the page for us or give Martin / me editing permission? Page: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape The link which needs to be replaced is in the middle column titled 'User Documentation': http://inkscape.org/doc/ , the replacement is https://inkscape.org/en/learn/tutorials/ . Thank you, Maren

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doxygen document "other directories" is dead link.
by michinari.nukazawa 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

Hello. I build doxygen local file documents from a Inkscape source repository. $doxygen Doxfile Inkscape "other directories" in this document top, is dead link. I want to read those. (document top: ${inkscape local repository}/doxygen/html/index.html ) (other directories: ${inkscape local repository}/doxygen/html/dirs.html ) What should I do to read it? Thanks!

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Tighten up command line options
by Sebastian Zartner 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

The command line parameter list of Inkscape is quite long - 44 parameters to be precise. It splits similar functionality into multiple parameters while it doesn't offer all possible options. On the other side it offers some functions, which may be unnecessary or just too complex. So I suggest to restructure the command line functionality to separate the actual commands from their parameters. A good example for how that works is the git command line tool <http://www.git-scm.com/downloads>. So the commands would be open convert query version help The syntax for 'open' would be open <file path> The syntax for 'convert' would be convert -in=<input file name> -out=<output file name> [-out-type=<outupt file type>] [-edit=<edit function>] [-area=drawing|page|<object id>|<x0>:<y0>:<x1>:<y1>] [-id-only] [-width=<width>] [-height=<height>] [-dpi=<dpi>] [-vacuum-defs] [-background=<color>] [-text-to-path] [-margin] [-ignore-filters] [-version=<file type version>] covering all --export-* parameters and the -vacuum-defs parameter and where the different --export-<file type> parameters are combined in the optional -out-type parameter. -edit replaces --verb by allowing to apply different transformations and filters. (Are there other use cases for --verb than that?) If -out-type is not defined, the type will be inferred from the extension of the file name given in -out. Syntax for 'query' would be query x|y|width|height|all -in=<input file name> [-id=<object id>] covering all --query-* parameters. 'version' and 'help' wouldn't have any parameters and do what --version and --help currently do. --with-gui, --without-gui, --select, --export-use-hints (rather confusing than helping) and --verb-list (needs a different implementation, probably via 'help') and --usage (should be shown in the output of 'help') are removed as they are not needed anymore. --print, --export-area-snap, --export-latex and --shell are not listed, because I'm not sure about their usage. Usage examples: inkscape version inkscape open "/path/to/file" inkscape help inkscape query width -in="/path/to/input file" -id=path1234 inkscape convert -in="/path/to/input file" -out="/path/to/output file" -edit=grayscale,move(1.0 1.0) -vacuum-defs Sebastian

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