PIL distributed inside Inkscape (Windows 64 bit)
by Lorenzo Luengo
Hi everyone,
While trying to use the PIL library bundled with the python installation inside the Inkscape directory, for developing a new extension, I got the following error:
>>> import _imaging
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Even though the _imaging.pyd file was present, I was unable to load it into the python interpreter. Then I found that even I downloaded the x64 installer for
Inkscape, the bundled python version was the 32-bit one. After tweaking the windows registry (to make the installer point to the bundled python directory) I
managed to install the x64 version of PIL, still without success because the python interpreter was 32-bit.
After forcing the installation of python 2.6 64-bit version over the bundled version, I had to reinstall on this python environment the PIL and lxml libraries,
and my plugin finally was able to use PIL.
Should this issue be fixed? I mean bundling python 64bit (+libraries) with Inkscape 64bit installer.
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Lorenzo Luengo C.
Ingeniero Civil Electrónico
Cel: 98270385
8 years, 7 months
Save and User Manual
by Roger Sharp
As a Tech Writer, UX tester, and newbie Inkscape user:
Regarding Bit Barrel’s comments, I agree about not having both ‘Save As’ and ‘Export.’ Confusing. Photoshop uses Export for saving pieces of the art such as paths.
Also, the User Manual (or Guide?) looks very good BUT it is not searchable. It would be easy to take the current pages (.html or .xml) and import/convert them into a navigable, searchable compiled Help file (whether Web Help or compile .chm file).
And, even though I’ve set preferences to Remember Last Window Geometry, it doesn’t remember the dialog layout, i.e., Layers Dialog, the Undo Dialog, etc. ( Version 0.48).
Sharpart
8 years, 7 months
Roadmap planning to 1.0
by Bryce Harrington
Several months ago we brainstormed ideas for the roadmap. Everything
people suggested should now be collected here, categorized but not
prioritized or ordered:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap
One thing we seem to be in consensus about is to get releases out more
swiftly. To do this, I think what we should do is a) minimize the
number of objectives for each release, and b) stagger the types of
objectives in each release, so we rotate what team is in the spotlight
each release.
With that in mind, what do you guys think about organizing our next few
releases with the following focii?
Inkscape 0.92 ~ Infrastructure Focus
Inkscape 0.93 ~ Maintenance Focus
Inkscape 0.94 ~ Feature Focus
Inkscape 0.95 ~ Stability Focus
Inkscape 1.0 ~ Documentation Focus
I anticipate we'd pick a couple objectives for each release that are
appropriate to the focus area, plus a smaller, secondary objective
unrelated to the focus.
For 0.92, I'm thinking we've enough in the hopper that we should
expedite it. What do you guys think?
Bryce
8 years, 8 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Website
by Martin Owens
On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 12:27 +0000, Hinerangi Courtenay wrote:
> Martin, any news from Mathew? I was so caught up in my work I lost
> touch a bit with everyone working on the site...sorry about that!
Dear Hinerangi,
>
No more words as of yet. The spring time is always very busy for
everyone :-) but I hope if we're still all here as the year goes on,
we'll be able to spend a bit of time each on the website items.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
8 years, 8 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Website
by Ian Caldwell
any update Courtenay? any drafts? I look forward to seeing what you've come
up with.
Thanks,
Ian
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Hinerangi Courtenay <
hine.courtenay@...36...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Not yet - I was away for a bit, but have been in contact with the web team
> by email, and am back home with the local environment up and running
> (finally). So things will start evolving soon :-)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 13 janv. 2015, at 23:40, Ian Caldwell <inchosting@...400...> wrote:
>
> Courtenay,
> any updates on the mockups?
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Brynn <brynn@...3133...> wrote:
>
>> while on the other hand they
>> > disrespect a professional's time, duplicating work and not using design
>> > feedback and critique to work towards the best solution.
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean? Oh you mean, as opposed to paying
>> someone
>> for graphics?
>>
>> If a competition is the wrong or inappropriate or just not the best
>> approach, it seems like there still should be a way to use the work of
>> Inkscape artists for the website.
>>
>> Thanks :-)
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400...>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 4:41 AM
>> To: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...>
>> Cc: "Gez" <listas@...3059...>; "Hinerangi Courtenay"
>> <nospamunicornus-mailinglist@...36...>;
>> <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Website
>>
>> > On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 23:06 -0700, Brynn wrote:
>> >> Maybe could even have some kind of competition
>> >> for the website graphics?
>> >
>> > Competitions are a difficult problem. In one sense they open the doors
>> > to new artists who lack confidence, while on the other hand they
>> > disrespect a professional's time, duplicating work and not using design
>> > feedback and critique to work towards the best solution.
>> >
>> > With great care should we do such a thing :-)
>> >
>> > Martin,
>> >
>>
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8 years, 8 months
Example of Inkscape handling corrupt input file?
by mathog
Can somebody please point me to an example in Inkscape where code which
is importing from some other format handles an exception and notifies
the user? Ideally this would automagically work with both GUI
interactive sessions (where it would open a pop up dialog and send a
message to stderr) and command line processing (just the message to
stderr).
There are three cases which need to be handled:
1. One or more records were corrupt and were ignored.
2. Unsupported record types were seen and were ignored.
3. Input failed completely because the file was missing
mandatory records.
and in terms of notification, presumably they would all use the same
mechanism. However, in the 3rd case, when a file import gives up how
should it return "nothing" to the program? For the EMF/WMF imports,
since they are creating an SVG and passing that back anyway, it could do
something cheesy like creating a drawing with a text box saying:
The import of file xyz failed
but then the end user has to delete this window, in addition to
dismissing the pop up warning box. Would Inkscape just ignore it
if the returned SVG was an empty string, or would that trigger yet
another set of warnings?
Thanks,
David Mathog
mathog@...1176...
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
8 years, 8 months
Document scale
by Tavmjong Bah
Hi,
I just checked in some code that allows one to change document scale in
the Document Properties dialog. This is a first step. I plan to allow
the user to select User units per display unit (e.g. mm) or display
units per User unit. I also plan an expandable menu that allows setting
the 'viewBox' directly as well as handling the case (hopefully rare)
where the X scale and Y scale differ.
Normal objects on the screen update properly but the editing aids
(nodes, grids, guides) do not. I am not sure what I have to do to fix
this. (The XML is correct but the display is not.)
Feedback welcome.
Tav
8 years, 8 months
Not enough time for trying out Boost or Google Test Framework before Hackfest, anyone else?
by Christoffer Holmstedt
In late february during the IRC meeting about Jenkins and testing of
Inkscape I volunteered to take a deeper look at Boost Test Library and
Google Test Framework, with the end result of two different Inkscape
branches showing the pros and cons of them both. Life AFK has since
then took some unexpected turns but is looking good now for the
future.
The problem now is that I don't have much spare time before the
Hackfest in the end of April to try the testing frameworks out. So if
we want a discussion about the choice of testing framework at the
Hackfest it would be beneficial if someone else could do it.
If nothing else I will try to get back to this issue later this year.
Regards
--
Christoffer Holmstedt
8 years, 8 months
