January 2017 - Inkscape Devel

Wiki account request
by Tim Sheridan 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

Hi, Could someone please add an account for me on the wiki (user: Tghs, email: tghs atttt tghs dotttt net). Cheers, Tim

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MacPorts Inkscape Install
by PipingDesignCentral . 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

>From a recent instruction: **If you have MacPorts installed you can build the X11 version using **sudo port install inkscape **or the Quartz version using **sudo port install inkscape +quartz I tried the latter after installing MacPorts and it seems to be hanging at 'Building gtk2' after 30 minutes. I must have done something wrong. Any advice? Paul [ Dozens of command lines not pasted below ] ---> Attempting to fetch gtk2-2.24.31_0+quartz.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from https://packages.macports.org/gtk2 ---> Attempting to fetch gtk2-2.24.31_0+quartz.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from http://sea.us.packages.macports.org/macports/packages/gtk2 ---> Attempting to fetch gtk2-2.24.31_0+quartz.darwin_16.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/gtk2 ---> Fetching distfiles for gtk2 ---> Attempting to fetch gtk+-2.24.31.tar.xz from https://distfiles.macports.org/gtk2 ---> Verifying checksums for gtk2 ---> Extracting gtk2 ---> Applying patches to gtk2 ---> Configuring gtk2 ---> Building gtk2

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ImageMagick-7
by Ken Moffat 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

As I mentioned last year, ImageMagick has moved onto -7. The -6 version is in maintenance mode. Much of the structure has changed, which appears to mke changing the programs which use it complex, but the headers and libraries themselves can be installed in parallel. Unfortunately, the main pkgconfig files have the same names, so if you install both versions then the pkgconfig file will be whichever version you installed last. I've been asked if you guys have any development patches to support ImageMagick-7 ? But maybe I should just ask if you have any plans to eventually support the newer version ? For the moment, I suspect the answer is no - and after looking at the code I wouldn't achieve anything in a month of sundays. So, for my own purposes I have a cunning plan : sed the Makefile in inkscape to add '6' to all the pkgconfig filenames, and then sed all users (inkscape, possibly some others) to add the 6 to the names. Dunno if I'll manage it, but it looks possible. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods

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Board Meeting @ Friday Jan 6 (TODAY)
by Bryce Harrington 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Sorry for the late notice. While officially our monthly meeting was last Friday, many couldn't attend and we mostly focused just on the release. So there's interest in having another meeting today, Friday the 6th of January, on #inkscape-devel, at Noon Pacific. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings All in the Inkscape community are welcome to attend. Agenda: * Merchandise sales (Spreadshirt status) * Sponsorship levels (web page needed) * Inkscape forum followup * Next hackfest * 2017 budget Thanks, Bryce

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Inkscape 0.92.0 now available on MacPorts
by David Evans 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Inkscape 0.92.0 is now available via MacPorts both as an X11 build and as a native Quartz build. If you have MacPorts installed you can build the X11 version using sudo port install inkscape or the Quartz version using sudo port install inkscape +quartz For those who want to follow development toward 0.92.1, an inkscape-devel port is also available which builds a recent snapshot from the lp:inkscape/0.92.x release branch. The current version is 0.92.0 bzr 15301. Let me know if you have any questions, issues or comments or you can file a ticket at https://trac.macports.org/ Regards, Dave Evans

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Mac-OS
by Jabier Arraiza 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

What about to put in Mac download page is abailable by Macports with some info? Cheers, Jabier.

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Recent icon changes
by mathog 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Hi All, Some time between revisions 15016 and 15387 there were substantial changes to the two rows of icons at the top (the ones just below the file/edit/view/etc.). I'm not a fan of the new ones. 1. The new icons are larger than the old ones, which is a waste of space. Possibly not an issue if you are using a huge screen. However, I tend to work on small monitors, and Inkscape already uses up a lot of real estate around the drawing, leaving in some cases (my laptop, for instance) a pretty tiny window showing the drawing. My largest display is 1280 x 1024 and with the new larger icons even at full width the "Move patterns" icon is cut off. 2. The object rotate and mirror icons, which were previously excellent, showing transforms of a dark triangle to a grey one) have been replaced with generic looking fuzzy arrows. The rotate 90 degree icon could be the "undo" icon, or vice versa. Double headed arrows like those used for symmetry operations are more commonly used to indicate either sliding or scaling in the direction indicated. I much (much, MUCH) prefer the older ones. 3. The red handles on the new scissors icon draw my eye. When I look at that row for an icon now my eyes go there first, even when I know that isn't the icon I want. Probably this is because the red handles really stand out when compared to the other icons. Not sure what the proper design term is, but the icons should all have the same "visual weight" to avoid this, and for me the scissors is "heavier". 4. Now that I look more closely, there are size changes on the icons on the left and right too. The image in each icon is the same size, but each is now surrounded by a lot more white space. Again, that is a waste of screen space. If I adjust a copy of 15016 so that the select arrow (top of left column) is in the same place as for a copy of 15387, and the bottoms of the outer windows are in the same place, in the older one the last tool visible is the text icon, whereas in the new one it is only the spiral icon. That is, there are 4 less tools shown in the same space. The same problem applies on the right, where again there are 4 more icons visible in the older version than the new. Sometimes less is more. For drawing programs like this I want the tools and such to take as little space as possible away from the drawing. These need to be big enough to read, but not any larger than that. (Note, the older version was running on Windows and the newer one on Linux.) Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Uploads and Caching
by Martin Owens 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

Dear release developers, This is a note about large uploads such as new inkscape releases. The web server's caching will kick in on the first download of a file, so make sure you hit the download button and wait for it to completely download before announcing. I think this release is hitting our servers hard, we have a 20% Bad Request ratio at the moment. This is one small behavioural thing that really helps cut down the amount of work the server needs to be. Martin,

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Inkscape 0.92 is Released!
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jan '17

04 Jan '17

The Inkscape project announces a new version 0.92 of its popular vector drawing software. New features include mesh gradients, improved SVG2 and CSS3 support, new path effects, interactive smoothing for the pencil tool, a new Object dialog for directly managing all drawing elements, and much more. Infrastructural changes are also under way, including a switch to CMake from the venerable Autotools build system. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch our showcase at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1hxXt9U4c Download 0.92 from: https://inkscape.org/en/download/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mesh gradients enable artists to create photo-realistic drawings more easily - a feature we would love to see made part of the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard; if you find this feature as cool as we do, please request that your favorite web browser adopts support for it too! Inkscape works closely with the SVG standards committee, and thanks to our many generous donors the Inkscape project sponsors an engineering representative to attend SVG working group meetings over the past few years; a welcome outcome of this participation is the improvement and addition of over a dozen SVG and CSS properties, such as paint-order, white-space, and mix-blend-mode. Live Path Effects are proving to be a vibrant ecosystem in the Inkscape project, and many innovative new ideas have been percolating over the past couple years since our last release. Spiro Live, BSpline, and Roughen essentially provide new drawing modes. The Simplify LPE cleans up vector elements non-destructively by smoothing paths, shapes, groups, clips, and masks. Perspective/Envelope and Lattice Deformation 2 enable artists to interactively deform/transform drawing elements. Other new features enable interactive mirroring, interactive rotation of copies along an arc or circle, and dozens of other additions and enhancements. All software must evolve with the times, and Inkscape is no different. To maintain consistency with the CSS standard, Inkscape's default resolution has changed from 90dpi to 96dpi; Inkscape will detect files created with previous versions and offer to convert them. A number of infrastructural changes are in process to help Inkscape keep up with progress. For 0.92 we are changing to the CMake build system, which builds faster and is easier for developers to work with. (Future infrastructure changes include switching from bzr to git, shifting from Gtk2 to Gtk3, and moving to the C++11 standard.) The above barely scratches the surface of all the new stuff included in this release. For the full story, including examples, screenshots, and videos, please see our detailed Release Notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92 If you're on Linux, you'll soon be able to install Inkscape 0.92 from your distribution via normal methods. We also intend to publish a distribution-independent snap file for Inkscape 0.92. If you're on Windows, we have a set of packages that we hope will let you maximize performance on your platform. For Mac OS X, no packages are available -- our old (X11/XQuartz) packaging was long overdue to be updated to current standards and is no longer being maintained. If you wish to compile Inkscape yourself, then of course, the Inkscape source code is also available from our website. The Inkscape Project thrives due to your support. We are a volunteer-driven community built from thousands of contributions of time, skill, and funds, to create a powerful open source tool that is made available for free to everyone in the world. We invite you to join our community and participate in helping advance Inkscape towards new objectives. Come help us chart out the new directions that Inkscape needs to take! Inkscape is created *by* the community *for* the community. Your donations also help further Inkscape's mission. You can donate to Inkscape's general fund, or target your donation to support our SVG Standards work or Hackfests. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join Inkscape at: https://inkscape.org/community/ Become a donor at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ Download Inkscape at: https://inkscape.org/download/ Watch our showcase at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1hxXt9U4c -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlhsmJMACgkQEaMBVuDmdhHm+QCeKJBSNYW0i4aTNorwr50M1yXG 96AAoL8ZIMCFS3+x44yLOUzkyYsx+jtW =qGwR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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compile error on Windows 10, Inkscape rev 15382, 64 bit
by alvinpenner 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

this is my first attempt to compile a 64 bit version of Inkscape. Previously I had done a 32 bit version on Windows XP using cmake. - running cmake version 3.7.1 32-bit version - devlibs64 uptodate - mingw64 from the file x86_64-5.3.0-release-win32-seh-rt_v4-rev0.7z - the compile step appeared to be successful until the very end... the output is: C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeBZR\build>mingw32-make -j 2 [ 1%] Built target vpsc_LIB revision is 15382 [ 1%] Built target inkscape_version [ 2%] Built target util_LIB [ 2%] Built target gc_LIB [ 2%] Built target cola_LIB [ 4%] Built target avoid_LIB ... [ 26%] Built target pofiles_90 [ 26%] Built target filters_svg_h [ 26%] Built target palettes_h [ 26%] Built target patterns_svg_h [ 27%] Built target symbols_h [ 27%] Built target templates_h [ 99%] Built target inkscape_base [ 99%] Built target inkview [100%] Linking CXX executable ..\bin\inkscape.exe ../lib/libgc_LIB.a(gc.cpp.obj):gc.cpp:(.text+0x4f0): multiple definition of `Inkscape::GC::Core::init()' ../lib/libinkscape_base.dll.a(d010885.o):(.text+0x0): first defined here collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status src\CMakeFiles\inkscape.dir\build.make:201: recipe for target 'bin/inkscape.exe' failed mingw32-make[2]: *** [bin/inkscape.exe] Error 1 CMakeFiles\Makefile2:421: recipe for target 'src/CMakeFiles/inkscape.dir/all' failed mingw32-make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/inkscape.dir/all] Error 2 mingw32-make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... [100%] Built target grid2 Makefile:126: recipe for target 'all' failed mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2 -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/compile-error-on-Windows-10-Inkscape-rev-1… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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