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DBus api signals
by cabieces julien 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Hi, I have to produce a "plugin" for Inkscape. Python extension functionnalities are not enough for what I want to do so I came to try the DBus Api. With this one, I can communicate from my plugin to Inkscape but not in the other way. The only implemented signal is "ObjectMoved" but I need to know when Inkscape modifies a node, adds an attribute or things like that. I look after the dbus extension code and it seems that the signals that I want are described in proposed-interface.xml and are not yet implemented. Is there any way to achieve what I want to do? Is there further development forecast for dbus extension? Is this possible to propose eventually patch? Thanks for the reply

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Rack gear extension
by braingram 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

I wrote up a quick rack (linear) gear extension yesterday. https://github.com/braingram/inkscape_rack_gear I would like to add this to the inkscape extensions repository (on the wiki) and ask for any feedback. Thanks!

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GSoC 2013: Unit Handling
by Matthew Petroff 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hello, My name is Matthew Petroff, and I am an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University majoring in Physics and Computer Science. I've used Inkscape for about six years, and have also created SVG files by hand. I've been involved with FOSS for a few years now, namely Hugin [1] and, more recently, FontForge [2], mainly as a builder. For Google Summer of Code, I would like to improve unit handling in Inkscape. It is my understanding that Inkscape's current unit handling is scattered across the code base in various locations, and from personal experience, I know Inkscape's unit handling could use improvement. To start, I would refactor all of Inkscape's unit handling into one centralized location. I would then extend this unit handling to allow for easier use of "real" units, e.g. millimeters, both on the document wide level and for individual objects, as has already been outlined in a blueprint [3]. Thoughts? -Matthew Petroff [1] http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://fontforge.org/ [3] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/BlueprintRealUnit

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi there, I removed those c++11 parts now and went on with c++ifying the SPEventContexts. These were even easier to convert, I should have started with them. As far as I can tell, Inkscape did not get any slower and memory consumption even decreased a bit. At least that's what /usr/bin/time -v inkscape -z share/examples/car.svgz -e car.png says. Btw, I found a little mistake in the source code: src/widgets/sp-attribute-widget.cpp:262:15: warning: use of logical '&&' with constant operand [-Wconstant-logical-operand] if (flags && SP_OBJECT_MODIFIED_FLAG) ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ src/widgets/sp-attribute-widget.cpp:262:15: note: use '&' for a bitwise operation if (flags && SP_OBJECT_MODIFIED_FLAG) ^~ & src/widgets/sp-attribute-widget.cpp:262:15: note: remove constant to silence this warning if (flags && SP_OBJECT_MODIFIED_FLAG) ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maybe one of you can correct that as I don't have write access. Markus

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question about memory leaks
by insaner 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

i wrote up a patch ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1092374/comments/11 ) for https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1092374 but as you can see from the comment (hopefully not the patch itself) i dont have much experience with c++, gtk or inkscape programming, so i really want to avoid the potential of having created a memory leak with that. if someone could take a look and enlighten me a bit i would appreciate it. last thing i want is to be making inkscape a slow hog through my little fixes -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/question-about-memory-leaks-tp4966734.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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message for tavmjong
by insaner 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

hi tavmjong, i saw the awesome work you did on http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/12104 so i thought you would be the guy to request a look at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168960 (and if possible, https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1064717 as well.. ) i included there a link to how gimp seems to do it.. but i just realized its not quite all there, so i looked up a little more info and found these as well: http://fossies.org/linux/misc/gimp-2.6.12.tar.gz/dox/fonts-commands_8c_sour… http://fossies.org/linux/misc/gimp-2.6.12.tar.gz/dox/gimp-fonts_8c_source.h… hope this is of some help. it would be a great feature to have for those of us who have fontforge open while working on a huge inkscape project that at times requires a refresh of the font list. thanks in advance -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/message-for-tavmjong-tp4966720.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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make dist fails
by Ryan Lerch 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

HI all, Sorry if this is a noob question, but i am trying to build the tarballs for inkscape from trunk, and am running into issues. When trying to run "make dist", I get the following errors: make dist-bzip2 dist-gzip dist-zip am__post_remove_distdir='@:' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/.../source/inkscape' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `mkinstalldirs', needed by `distdir'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/.../source/inkscape' make: *** [dist] Error 2 is there a "mkinstalldirs" target? cheers, ryanlerch

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Wiki account
by Sebastian Götte 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hi, could I get a wiki account? I want to explore options how to make it possible to use Inkscape as an electronics CAD program (schematics/circuit board design) and would like to write a blueprint about that. Regards, jaseg/Sebastian

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Layout compute question, Mark, nonspacing, Hebrew
by mathog 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

In one test case for Hebrew the word "Shalom" was split so that the first two characters were colored black, the second two green. This test cases uses the Hebrew vowels which are Mark nonspacing characters, other than the coloring, it looks like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Shalom.png There are 2 such vowels on the first character position (furthest right), and one on the third character position. After this SVG is read in, when it is written out the 4th character (05dc) is eaten on the output. The debug method was enabled and it shows the problem (below), where for the first span all 4 of the UTF codes are present, but there are only 3 glyphs where there should be 4. The second span is as it should be. The layout code is migraine inducing, but perhaps one of you can suggest at least approximately where within it this glitch might be found? In particular, is there, by any chance, a calculation somewhere that assumes there is at most one Mark nonspacing glyph per spacing glyph? ==== span 0 in para 0 (direction=rtl) in source 0 (type=0, cookie=0xbacd900) in line 0 (baseline=51.748989, shape=0) in chunk 0 (x=347.181641, baselineshift=0.000000) font 'Ezra SIL SR' 40.000000 upright normalweight x_start = 197.656250, x_end = 143.437500 line height: ascent 42.929688, descent 16.152344 leading 0.000000 direction rtl, block-progression ttb ** characters: 0: '�' 0x05e9 x=0.000000 flags=15b4 glyph=0 1: '�' 0x05c1 x=0.000000 flags=000 glyph=0 <--- Mn 2: '�' 0x05b8 x=0.000000 flags=000 glyph=0 <--- Mn 3: '�' 0x05dc x=-27.968750 flags=414 glyph=2 ** glyphs: 0: 262 (175.546875,0.000000) rot=0.000000 cx=0.000000 char=0 1: 344 (169.687500,0.000000) rot=0.000000 cx=27.968750 char=0 <-- missing a glyph here 2: 287 (143.437500,0.000000) rot=0.000000 cx=26.250000 char=3 ==== span 1 in para 0 (direction=rtl) in source 1 (type=0, cookie=0xbacd970) in line 0 (baseline=51.748989, shape=0) in chunk 0 (x=347.181641, baselineshift=0.000000) font 'Ezra SIL SR' 40.000000 upright normalweight x_start = 143.437500, x_end = 103.515625 line height: ascent 42.929688, descent 16.152344 leading 0.000000 direction rtl, block-progression ttb ** characters: 4: '�' 0x05d5 x=0.000000 flags=414 glyph=3 5: '�' 0x05ba x=0.000000 flags=000 glyph=3 6: '�' 0x05dd x=-13.515625 flags=414 glyph=5 ** glyphs: 3: 263 (133.828125,0.000000) rot=0.000000 cx=0.000000 char=4 4: 280 (129.921875,0.000000) rot=0.000000 cx=13.515625 char=4 5: 288 (103.515625,0.000000) rot=0.000000 cx=26.406250 char=6 Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Inkscape 49 date/description.
by john Culleton 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

I hear mention of version 49, which is not out yet. Is there a ETA on this version? Is there a document that describes the new/changed features? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Preferences::Observer and coding-style
by Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

I'm preparing my first set of patches and fixed a bug, but I want to discuss some coding style. Inherit from Preferences::Observer is the only way to watch for preferences notification? You guys seem to use a mix of OO-patterns and sigc combination. What is the preferred? -- Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira https://about.me/vinipsmaker

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Bitfields in SPStyle
by Krzysztof Kosiński 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Revision 12297 changed several bitfields in SPStyle to bool and unsigned int. This means that the size of every SPStyle object will increase by at least 16 bytes. What is the motivation for this change? Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński

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Symbols UI Changes
by Martin Owens 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hey devs, I'm going to be making two changes to the UI for symbols. 1. Firstly, we move the Symbol to Group and Group to Symbol out of the Object menu where it's out-of-context and into the symbols UI itself. This means the 'Current Document' symbols will be visible when you add and remove symbols. (I'll also be fixing it so the Symbol to Group works on the symbol selection and not just a use element) 2. The second piece is to move the two preferences out of the symbols UI and into the Inkscape preferences. Edit > Preferences > Interface > Symbols. I'm interested in ideas where best to place these in the existing tree. Diagram: http://imagebin.org/254989 Please do let me know if you see any problems with the plan. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Paste attributes
by Martin Owens 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hey devs, I've been tracking this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1107924 Dragging symbols to the document 'pastes' them in. The 'use' element created points to the symbol definition. But it also adds width="1" height="1" to the element which is erronious. sp-use.cpp sets width and height to 100% (1.0 + SVGLength::PERCENT) and I thought that might be the culprit, but it's not effecting these use elements. So I traced the copy process, outputting the xml at each step through the copy process. The use element created and passed around never has a width and height attribute and setting one gets overridden. So I'm at a loss, the element from the paste process acquires attributes by some magic I can't yet trace. Any help understanding what's going on would be great. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] G_BEGIN_DECLS
by Markus Engel 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

The first answer here describes the use of extern "C" quite well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1041866/in-c-source-what-is-the-effect-of -extern-c It is used to prevent name mangling so you can link together e. g. c object files and c++ object files. I think in Inkscape it isn't necessary at all as the c++ compiler is used for all the compiling. Markus

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Preserving shapes better when deleting nodes
by Alexander Brock 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hi, I've been using Inkscape quite a while now for tracing cartoon-like images. The paths usually end up having way too many nodes which is a problem for the vinyl cutter I use to plot these images. I tried using the simplify path tool but it makes the path usually too simple and changes the overall appearance. Therefore I use the path tool (F2) to select unneeded nodes and delete them, but this leads to curves which poorly resemble the original curve, so I have to adjust the curve by hand which consumes a lot of time since I have to clone the path first so I can see the original shape and adjust the simplified curve to fit it better. I made some examples, see attachment demonstration.svgz. I also formulated a target function for minimizing the distance between two curves and calculated the partial derivatives of this function. I'm pretty confident I will be able to use a gradient based method for finding the two control points which lead to minimal distance between the original curve and the new one. Thoughts? Sincerely Yours Alexander

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G_BEGIN_DECLS
by Arshdeep Singh 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

I was studying the code structure in ' gimpcolorwheel.h ' . I see 'G_BEGIN_DECLS' which is a miscellaneous macro : https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.33/glib-Miscellaneous-Macros.html#G-BEGI… Is it used only for the files that are C based and compiled using a C++ compiler ? What is its relevance with the given file ? Thankyou for the help. -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC13: Text Tool Improvements
by Valerie 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

As far as the text-tool drop-down is concerned, I totally think it should steal the interface Krita uses to manage paint modes. Mock-up: http://i49.tinypic.com/eq1fep.png Fonts would be stored in categories, and within categories, you can check a box to make the font appear in the "favourites" category on top. Uncheck to make it disappear again. This could solve pre-rendering issues: fonts will only render once you open a category. I'm not a font expert so I don't know how they should be categorized though. I'm aware that Inkscape doesn't have that widget, but it totally should, especially for managing the fonts drop-down. It's really handy for managing the dozens of modes in Krita, I just have 5~6 favourites and I can ignore the rest, but still access them easily on the rare occasions when I need them. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:10:58 +0200 From: Stojan Dimitrovski <sdimitrovski@...400...> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC13: Text Tool Improvements To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <CALTcmgnhPXwOv+9tFNO3A+7G7nK7sYOw2V1u1euT2LMhCuVtvA@...401...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello everyone, I'm Stojan Dimitrovski, a sophomore from Macedonia. I'm currently studying Computer Science at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. I am considering applying for Inkscape on GSoC13. I have a few ideas on improving the current text tool, particularly its user interface and some of its underlying features and implementation. Here are some of those ideas: - Typefaces' names should be rendered in the glyphs they describe if such exist. Example: Helvetica should be rendered in Helvetica, Garamond in Garamond, etc. Icon typefaces are rendered by the fallback GUI typeface on the system. - There should be a live preview / comparison of typefaces interface which will allow for a better and faster typeface selection. Inspired by typeface pickers like the one in TypeKit or similar. - There should be a character-preview of a typeface, which will show all of the glyphs in a typeface that are defined for it (and make it easy for those glyphs to be inserted into text). This is primarily useful when using icon typefaces (like Font Awesome from Twitter Bootstrap fame). - Improved handling of different variants, weights, styles of typefaces. (Current implementation is a bit flaky handling this.) - Implement a system for SVG font typesetting (actually be able to use the SVG fonts to render text inside Inkscape). - Improve the SVG font interfaces, they really need some love. I'd like to hear your suggestions and comments before I embark on doing mockups of the interface and thinking about the implementation. I should also mention that I'm fluent in the technologies that Inkscape uses, especially in GTK+ (2, 3), GObject, GLib, C / C++. I have general knowledge of the SVG standard. I've been using Inkscape since version 0.45 and have an understanding of its features and workflow. The free-software movement, communities and development philosophies are not new to me. Regards, Stojan Dimitrovski

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Questions about Share / Icons
by Martin Owens 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

I'm looking at the icons in the inkscape trunk branch and have a few questions: 1. Do we need png and svg versions of the same icons? Don't all target OSes support svg now via gtk? 2. Is pango_icons.svg used at all? I can't see a reference to it in the code. Even though the icons in the file are nicer than those in inkscape IMO. Are these transitional? 3. Where is the swatch/color picker icon currently used for the the symbols icon. I wanted to change the symbols dialog icon. Make something better, but can't find it in the icons.svg or any of the other files. 4. The filter effects icons, are these temporary placeholders? is anyone working on better replacements? 5. OCAL doesn't seem like an icon, is it here because there's no other place for it? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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GSoC13: Text Tool Improvements
by Stojan Dimitrovski 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hello everyone, I'm Stojan Dimitrovski, a sophomore from Macedonia. I'm currently studying Computer Science at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. I am considering applying for Inkscape on GSoC13. I have a few ideas on improving the current text tool, particularly its user interface and some of its underlying features and implementation. Here are some of those ideas: - Typefaces' names should be rendered in the glyphs they describe if such exist. Example: Helvetica should be rendered in Helvetica, Garamond in Garamond, etc. Icon typefaces are rendered by the fallback GUI typeface on the system. - There should be a live preview / comparison of typefaces interface which will allow for a better and faster typeface selection. Inspired by typeface pickers like the one in TypeKit or similar. - There should be a character-preview of a typeface, which will show all of the glyphs in a typeface that are defined for it (and make it easy for those glyphs to be inserted into text). This is primarily useful when using icon typefaces (like Font Awesome from Twitter Bootstrap fame). - Improved handling of different variants, weights, styles of typefaces. (Current implementation is a bit flaky handling this.) - Implement a system for SVG font typesetting (actually be able to use the SVG fonts to render text inside Inkscape). - Improve the SVG font interfaces, they really need some love. I'd like to hear your suggestions and comments before I embark on doing mockups of the interface and thinking about the implementation. I should also mention that I'm fluent in the technologies that Inkscape uses, especially in GTK+ (2, 3), GObject, GLib, C / C++. I have general knowledge of the SVG standard. I've been using Inkscape since version 0.45 and have an understanding of its features and workflow. The free-software movement, communities and development philosophies are not new to me. Regards, Stojan Dimitrovski

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GSoC 2013 Idea Discussion
by Arshdeep Singh 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hello all, I am currently pursuing my undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Engineering at Delhi Technological University , New Delhi , India and am looking forward to be a part of GSoC 2013. I have been using software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop since before high-school. With the interest I had in programming and algorithms, I always wanted to contribute to such software programs. FOSS caught my attention in my second year of college and I began delving into Inkscape as it provided me an opportunity to get inside the workings of a real software almost similar to Illustrator. I have fixed one bug till yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/773288 *I intend on implementing a Recolor Artwork Tool that shall allow: *1) Managing Color Themes with one go. 2) Enable editing many objects' colors on-the-go (simplified interface). This site should give some idea about what I have in mind- http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Thankyou to ScislaC for pointing this site out and lessening my burden of explaining what the tool would do. The credit for the idea goes to Inkscape's developer wiki which urges the contributors: '*Don’t please the artist—BE the artist'* and in my view, this tool shall be a boon to all of Inkscape's heroes, our artists. I have played around the gimpcolorwheel.c file and studied Cairo's drawing structure to paint the entire Hue Wheel in my experiments. A screenshot (result) is attached for the mentors' and advisors' perusal. Also, I have added a 'Recolor Artwork' option in the 'Object' Menu to house the final tool widget. As an almost rookie for such a project, I hope the discussion with people adept with industry methods and experience in digital designing will definitely help me chalk out finer details of how to structure the tool keeping in mind the intricacies of Inkscape's codebase. Thankyou for your time. -- Arshdeep Singh(demicoder) Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Fwd: [Inkscape-docs] Hello!
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hello, Please make a wiki account for this guy :) Alexandre ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jiabao Wu <jiabao.foss@...400...> Date: Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] Hello! To: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> Cc: Inkscape Docs Team <inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Yeah, I kind of meant how to get a wiki account that can edit it. :P Also I was wondering if I should use this mailing list if I make a change or does the wiki show the team where the changes have been made automatically. But mainly need help with the account :D thanks! On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jiabao Wu wrote: > > Hi Alexandre, > > > > Thank you for your message. What is the process I should follow for adding > > or changing documentation on the inkscape wiki? > > It's the first time I hear about some sort of a process for the wiki :) > > You'd need a wiki account, though -- of that I'm quite sure :) Can't > recall who has the admin access at the moment :( > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-docs mailing list > Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs -- Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Fix for "easy-fix" bug "Tweak tool using wrong cursor", a few beginners questions
by Christoffer Holmstedt 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

I have pushed a fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/587729 to http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~christoffer-holmstedt/inkscape/lp587729-tweak-… 1) What do I do now as I don't have commit rights (I assume) to inkscape.dev? 2) During compilation of my changes I got an error "pixmaps/cursor-tweak-move-in.xpm:38:35: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]" for all my added cursors but I couldn't see any difference between my cursors and the original ones. I assume that I get the same errors during a full compilation for all cursors but I might be wrong here. 3) I added "--fixes lp:587729" to my bzr commit command but when I pushed to launchpad the status of the bug wasn't changed automatically, I expected it to change to "Fix committed". What is expected behaviour? Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Preserving shapes better when deleting nodes
by pennec victor 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

By the way, at the same time if someone could have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170441 = Simplify selected nodes it would be great. thx.

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GSoC 2013
by Arshdeep Singh 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hello all, I am currently pursuing my undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Engineering at Delhi Technological University , New Delhi , India and am looking forward to be a part of GSoC 2013. I have been using software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop since before high-school. With the interest I had in programming and algorithms, I always wanted to contribute to such software programs. FOSS caught my attention in my second year of college and I began delving into Inkscape as it provided me an opportunity to get inside the workings of a real software almost similar to Illustrator. I have fixed one bug till yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/773288 *I intend on implementing a Recolor Artwork Tool that shall allow: *1) Managing Color Themes with one go. 2) Enable editing many objects' colors on-the-go (simplified interface). This site should give some idea about what I have in mind- http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Thankyou to ScislaC for pointing this site out and lessening my burden of explaining what the tool would do. The credit for the idea goes to Inkscape's developer wiki which urges the contributors: '*Don’t please the artist—BE the artist'* and in my view, this tool shall be a boon to all of Inkscape's heroes, our artists. I have played around the gimpcolorwheel.c file and studied Cairo's drawing structure to paint the entire Hue Wheel in my experiments. A screenshot (result) is attached for the mentors' and advisors' perusal. Also, I have added a 'Recolor Artwork' option in the 'Object' Menu to house the final tool widget. As an almost rookie for such a project, I hope the discussion with people adept with industry methods and experience in digital designing will definitely help me chalk out finer details of how to structure the tool keeping in mind the intricacies of Inkscape's codebase. Thankyou for your time. -- Arshdeep Singh (demicoder) Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Request for http://wiki.inkscape.org account, update to CompilingUbuntu wiki page
by Christoffer Holmstedt 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

The wiki states that I should send an email to the dev list if I want a wiki account, so here is that email . I just followed the compiling instructions at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I had to install the package "autopoint", which is not listed on that wiki page, to get the autogen.sh script working. Anyone running Ubuntu Raring that can confirm that it's the same for later releases than 12.04? Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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GSoC 2013 - Embedding of license and attribution metadata
by Christoffer Holmstedt 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi I'm studying Master in Software Engineering at Mälardalen University in Sweden and looking in to the possiblities of participating in GSoC 2013. I've used Inkscape for several years as a user and want a deeper understanding of how c/c++ is used in larger projects so I feel that Inkscape can be a good project for me. Enough about me for this time, as Johan Engelen posted in an earlier conversation [1] I will try to spend my time fixing bugs instead of "fine tuning" my GSoC application. So to my suggestion and questions. For the last weeks I've been in contact with Jonas Öberg a Shuttleworth Fellow running the project "License and attribution metadata" [2,3]. With start from the 1st of June 2013 they will begin their work of developing a library for storing license and attribution metadata in digital works. My suggestion for GSoC 2013 is to use that library in Inkscape. There are both benefits and problems that comes with trying to use a library while it's still in alpha/prototype stages so what do you think about this? 1) Is this work of any interest? 2) What do you think about developing the additions to Inkscape as GSoC project in parallell with creation of a library for this? [1] http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Guides-Improvement-and-GSoC-2013-td4966479… [2] http://jonasoberg.net/post/40518443141/embedded-metadata-for-digital-works [3] http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/jonas-oberg/ Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Displayig a Tool in the Menu
by Arshdeep Singh 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hello all, I have also assigned a ' Shift+Ctrl+R ' , shortcut to the new widget I linked with the 'Recolor Artwork' entry. Till this blossoms into a possible new tool, the ad-hoc :D ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Displayig a Tool in the Menu To: Jon Cruz <jon@...18...>, inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Hi all, I was successful in showing the custom widget in the menu of *Object. *I used the *fillstyle* widget as an instance to test my code. Screenshots are attached. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> wrote: > *came to you for advice. > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...>wrote: > >> I had added that Jon. Only then I cam to your for advice. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Apr 14, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Arshdeep Singh wrote: >>> >>> > Thankyou Jon. Actually I've done this a number of times. Adding >>> > >>> > registerFactory("RecolorArtwork", &create<RecolorArtwork, Floating >>> Behavior>); >>> > >>> > gives an error saying that RecolorArtwork was not defined in the scope. >>> > >>> > Complete Error: >>> > Make error line 301: problem compiling: >>> src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp: In con >>> > structor 'Inkscape::UI::Dialog::DialogManager::DialogManager()': >>> > src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp:108:51: error: 'RecolorArtwork' was >>> not declare >>> > d in this scope >>> >>> Might only need to add the #include for your new header. >>> >>> Similar to line 27: >>> >>> #include "ui/dialog/fill-and-stroke.h" >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Arshdeep Singh >> Third Year, Computer Engineering >> Delhi Technological University >> Ph: +91-9654115614 >> https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home >> > > > > -- > Arshdeep Singh > Third Year, Computer Engineering > Delhi Technological University > Ph: +91-9654115614 > https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home > -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Open Clip Art Spring 2013 Activity
by Jon Phillips 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Heya guys, can you help spread the news on the main page of the Inkscape site about the new openclipart spring2013 push? I uploaded a flower. http://openclipart.org/detail/176886/detailed-super-flowerz-by-rejon-176886 Also, anyone on the list interested? Let me know if I can help get anyone interested. Cheerz! Jon -- Jon Phillips 王✳ http://fabricatorz.com ✳ skype: kidproto ✳ irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) ✳ +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Displayig a Tool in the Menu
by Arshdeep Singh 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hi all, I was successful in showing the custom widget in the menu of *Object. *I used the *fillstyle* widget as an instance to test my code. Screenshots are attached. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> wrote: > *came to you for advice. > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...>wrote: > >> I had added that Jon. Only then I cam to your for advice. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Apr 14, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Arshdeep Singh wrote: >>> >>> > Thankyou Jon. Actually I've done this a number of times. Adding >>> > >>> > registerFactory("RecolorArtwork", &create<RecolorArtwork, Floating >>> Behavior>); >>> > >>> > gives an error saying that RecolorArtwork was not defined in the scope. >>> > >>> > Complete Error: >>> > Make error line 301: problem compiling: >>> src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp: In con >>> > structor 'Inkscape::UI::Dialog::DialogManager::DialogManager()': >>> > src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp:108:51: error: 'RecolorArtwork' was >>> not declare >>> > d in this scope >>> >>> Might only need to add the #include for your new header. >>> >>> Similar to line 27: >>> >>> #include "ui/dialog/fill-and-stroke.h" >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Arshdeep Singh >> Third Year, Computer Engineering >> Delhi Technological University >> Ph: +91-9654115614 >> https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home >> > > > > -- > Arshdeep Singh > Third Year, Computer Engineering > Delhi Technological University > Ph: +91-9654115614 > https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home > -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Cairo compositing in handles
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

>From similar input in IRC: Hi to all, i have a cuestion to developers. Anybody know if there is actual work for give Cairo compositing to the overlay lines? I see some similar in actual build with the handles in pen tool. I'm working in this direction with the help of Gez and don`t want to duplicate works. Hi, Jabier.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Displayig a Tool in the Menu
by Arshdeep Singh 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Hi all, I have been successful in making a menu-item in the *Object* Menu of the name *Recolor Artwork*. Just as an exercise I have copied the Fill and Stroke .cpp and .h files and translated the entire dialog to under the name *RecolorArtwork* rather than *FillAndStroke*. Logically this should mean that the entire dialog box shall now be replicated under the pseudonym of * RecolorArtwork*. To add a menu-item I edited the *menu-skeleton.h* file's variable * menus_skeleton[]. * I added " <verb verb-id=\"DialogRecolorArtwork\" />\n " under " <verb verb-id=\"DialogFillStroke\" />\n " This handles the display part of the task. Now what remains is linking the action and verb. I added a enum value: *SP_VERB_DIALOG_RECOLOR_ARTWORK* in *verbs.h* and in *verbs.cpp * I added: *new DialogVerb(SP_VERB_DIALOG_RECOLOR_ARTWORK, "DialogRecolorArtwork", N_("_Recolor Artwork..."),* * N_("Description of Recolor Artwork..."), INKSCAPE_ICON("dialog-fill-and-stroke")), * This links the verb *SP_VERB_DIALOG_RECOLOR_ARTWORK *and * DialogRecolorArtwork. * In the same file *verbs.cpp*, I added: *case SP_VERB_DIALOG_RECOLOR_ARTWORK:* * dt->_dlg_mgr->showDialog("RecolorArtwork");* * break;* in the function: * * *void DialogVerb::perform(SPAction *action, void *data) * * * which launches the appropriate dialog or rather it should. Sadly this is not the case ? Can someone please help me point out the what am I missing out ? -demicoder On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> wrote: > Thankyou for the information. :) > > I managed to find the 'display' part of the menu-items in " > menus-skeleton.h " . > > SYNTAX in MENU-SKELETON.H - > > " <submenu name=\"" N_("_Object") "\">\n" > " <verb verb-id=\"DialogFillStroke\" />\n" > > verb-id attaches the action to launch the menu-item. I am unable to figure > out where establish this verb-id and requisite action. > > It shall be really helpful if you could point me in the right direction ! > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Arshdeep Singh wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > I have made a small widget that is populated in a page in a notebook in >> a panel. Right now, for experimental purposes it contains only a GTKButton. >> How can I make it appear in a menu like Fill and Stroke ? >> > >> > Fill and Stroke is created under Object->Fill and Stroke >> (Shift+Ctrl+F). >> >> >> We're trying to focus on a more logical approach, rather than physical. >> In that direction we set up verbs and actions then just get those placed >> into the menus. >> >> Actions are a GTK+ concept >> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/GtkAction.html >> https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/unstable/classGtk_1_1Action.html >> >> Then we have a higher-level concept of a 'verb'. Verbs, aside from >> predating GtkAction's addition to Gtk, are not tied to a specific Gtk >> window but apply per document. We also have helpers that can get a gkt >> action from an inkscape verb. >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Arshdeep Singh > Third Year, Computer Engineering > Delhi Technological University > Ph: +91-9654115614 > https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home > -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Grids - new coordinate system
by Johan Engelen 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Hi all, We have to change the coordinate system used by grids in XML. I think it is the only thing left that has the inverted coord-system in XML. I changed it in the guides improvements branch, and it works fine. The only problem is: grids of old files will show wrong, they are not "upgraded" to the new format, because there is (yet) no way to distinguish old-style from new-style grids. How should I go about this? It is relatively easy to fix it manually for each file, but I understand it is an annoyance. Cheers, Johan

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Displayig a Tool in the Menu
by Arshdeep Singh 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hi all, I have made a small widget that is populated in a page in a notebook in a panel. Right now, for experimental purposes it contains only a GTKButton. How can I make it appear in a menu like Fill and Stroke ? Fill and Stroke is created under Object->Fill and Stroke (Shift+Ctrl+F). -- demicoder

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Introducing myself and GSoC 2013 student participation
by Jiabao Wu 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hello, Thanks to you all and the rest of the Inkscape community for making such a great project. I am a masters student at Australian National University. I am currently part of a course on FOSS run by Andrew Tridge and Bob Edwards.This boosted my huge enthusiasm in contributing to the FOSS community and the software I use. For this course I will be making a report on the study of the Inkscape(inc. culture, governance, etc), as well as a report of my work. The experience from my Bachelor of I.T left me feeling like I didn't know very much about real software development. Studying your project has really helped to open my eyes and I want to contribute as much as I can. I sent my first patch recently to fix the too small default window size, which is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/830663. Thanks to ~suv and JazzyNico for testing it. It has not been accepted and is still being discussed. I am looking forward to more recommendations and suggestions on how I can improve the patch. At the mean time, I will try to fix more bugs and send more patches. Finally I greatly enjoyed my short time with inkscape and hope to participate in GSoC as well. Cheers, Jiabao

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apply and remove transform ?
by Bric 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

I am certain this question has been asked; i found discussions online but no viable solution. Is there a command to "solve" the transform derivation (or shift), store the derivation as constants, and remove the transform directive? This KIND OF happens with paths, when you "simplify path". But that's a big "kind of": "simplify path" actually removes nodes. I'd like to keep all my nodes but get rid of the "transform" attribute (after integrating and hard-coding its effect, in constant values). Possible? Please help! thanks!

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Compile Errors
by Arshdeep Singh 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hi all, I added a new .cpp file in the ' ...\inkscape\src\ui\dialog ' directory. For reference I was using the fill-and-stroke.cpp for creating a GUI for my code. I named the tool say 'XYZ'. Upon compiling XYZ.cpp along with inkscape the following errors cropped up: Make error line 301: problem compiling: src/ui/dialog/xyz.cpp:31:1: error: 'XYZ' does not name a type. Can someone help me in understanding why this cropped up ? I am deriving a class of the name XYZ under the UI->Inkscape->Dialog namespace. Also, in fill-and-stroke.cpp: FillAndStroke::FillAndStroke() : UI::Widget::Panel ("", "/dialogs/fillstroke", SP_VERB_DIALOG_FILL_STROKE), _page_fill(Gtk::manage(new UI::Widget::NotebookPage(1, 1, true, true))), _page_stroke_paint(Gtk::manage(new UI::Widget::NotebookPage(1, 1, true, true))), _page_stroke_style(Gtk::manage(new UI::Widget::NotebookPage(1, 1, true, true))), _composite_settings(SP_VERB_DIALOG_FILL_STROKE, "fillstroke", UI::Widget::SimpleFilterModifier::BLUR), deskTrack(), targetDesktop(0), fillWdgt(0), strokeWdgt(0), desktopChangeConn() What do the highlighted text accomplish ? -- demicoder

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Well, no, on linux, sorry. But I don't quite get the problem. There are lots of people who seem to have managed to make a recent version of gcc work on mac os. Of course you'd have to recompile all the necessary libraries from scratch when switching to a compiler with a different abi. As far as I understood that, Apple switched from gcc to clang because newer version of gcc are gplv3? Is Inkscape compilable with clang? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: suv@...2204... [mailto:suv@...2204...] Im Auftrag von ~suv Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. April 2013 19:33 An: Markus Engel Cc: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree On 2013-04-11 19:25 +0100, Markus Engel wrote: > Yes, I just used this "polymorphic function pointer" > std::function<SPObject* ()> for the factory, this can be replaced by a normal function pointer. > Then there's one nested exception and some nullptrs. > Btw: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14153725/installing-gcc-4-7-1-on-os > -x I'm using gcc 4.7 for compiling Inkscape and it just works fine. On OS X? (Note: one main issue is with g++ and different versions of libstdc++, and incompatibilties with shared libraries/frameworks compiled with the system compiler. Ask the darktable team about details - myself I'm not an expert on this area) > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Alex Valavanis [mailto:valavanisalex@...400...] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. April 2013 18:30 > An: Markus Engel > Cc: Inkscape Devel List > Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree > > Sounds great! Is there any way to avoid C++11 for the moment though? > As I understand it, there isn't a suitable version of GCC available on > OS X yet. > > On 11 April 2013 16:57, Markus Engel <p637777@...1081...> wrote: >> Hi there, >> now I finally managed to get rid of the GObject type system and >> merged all the virtual pads with their classes. It should work quite >> well, although I still have to figure out what to do with those >> "rdf:RDF" and > "inkscape:grid" >> nodes. If you want to try it, please add a CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11" to >> your configure line ;). >> Who of you is currently working on the guides-improvement? Is there >> any special reason why you use "g_object_class_install_property" >> instead of "normal" properties? >> >> Markus >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> -------- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of >> advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes >> APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. >> Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. >> Get a free account! >> http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing list >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of > advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs > for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. > Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. > Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi there, now I finally managed to get rid of the GObject type system and merged all the virtual pads with their classes. It should work quite well, although I still have to figure out what to do with those "rdf:RDF" and "inkscape:grid" nodes. If you want to try it, please add a CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11" to your configure line ;). Who of you is currently working on the guides-improvement? Is there any special reason why you use "g_object_class_install_property" instead of "normal" properties? Markus

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Inkscape helper apps.
by john Culleton 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

I am asking this question on the devel list because those who know the answer are likely to hang out here. I know the helper applications like Scribus, Gimp, TeX and Java are needed to use the full power of Inkscape: Scribus for CMYK conversion, Gimp for extended manipulation of bitmap images, TeX for the Latex extension, and Java to support Jessylink. Am I missing any helper apps here? I would include both those called by Inkscape itself and those external to Inkscape but also considered very helpful. What about Imagemagick, Ghostview etc? Since I use Slackware linux I have a pretty complete set of helpers already. But what about the Windows and Mac users? -- John Culleton Wexford Press

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Yes, I just used this "polymorphic function pointer" std::function<SPObject* ()> for the factory, this can be replaced by a normal function pointer. Then there's one nested exception and some nullptrs. Btw: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14153725/installing-gcc-4-7-1-on-os-x I'm using gcc 4.7 for compiling Inkscape and it just works fine. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alex Valavanis [mailto:valavanisalex@...400...] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. April 2013 18:30 An: Markus Engel Cc: Inkscape Devel List Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree Sounds great! Is there any way to avoid C++11 for the moment though? As I understand it, there isn't a suitable version of GCC available on OS X yet. On 11 April 2013 16:57, Markus Engel <p637777@...1081...> wrote: > Hi there, > now I finally managed to get rid of the GObject type system and merged > all the virtual pads with their classes. It should work quite well, > although I still have to figure out what to do with those "rdf:RDF" and "inkscape:grid" > nodes. If you want to try it, please add a CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11" to > your configure line ;). > Who of you is currently working on the guides-improvement? Is there > any special reason why you use "g_object_class_install_property" > instead of "normal" properties? > > Markus > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of > advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs > for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. > Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. > Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Hi there, now I finally managed to get rid of the GObject type system and merged all the virtual pads with their classes. It should work quite well, although I still have to figure out what to do with those "rdf:RDF" and "inkscape:grid" nodes. If you want to try it, please add a CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11" to your configure line ;). Who of you is currently working on the guides-improvement? Is there any special reason why you use "g_object_class_install_property" instead of "normal" properties? Markus

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how do I get the original object's details from get_arenaitem(desktop->dkey)
by insaner 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

I'm working on https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/816496 and I have managed to narrow down the offending lines (1113-1114) in sp-item.cpp arenaitem = SP_ITEM(l->data)->get_arenaitem(desktop->dkey); arenaitem->setOpacity(1.0); but I dont know how to go from the arenaitem to the original item to get the correct opacity it should be set to (instead of triggering a full redraw.. not that I would know how to do that either) any help would be greatly appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.n6.nabble.com/how-do-I-get-the-original-object-s-details… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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GSoC 2013 student participation
by Damjan Velickovski 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hello, I'm Damjan Velickovski (dummyan) and I want to apply for this year GSoC on this project. I study Computer Architectures and Networking at St. Cyril and Methodius University. This year I became interested in computer graphics and that's the main reason why I choose Inkscape, also the fact that is a well established vector drawing program. Our faculty program emphasise programming in java, so my knowledge of C++ is intermediate. But I already started learning those things that I can do in java but not in C++ and I sure learned new things as well. My key objective with this participation is to sharpen up my programming skills, learn how to work in team and of course make a contribution to the open source community. I use linux about 6 or 7 years and I think it's finally time to pay back some of my moral debt :) I have read the blueprints and their comments and I haven't really decided for what to apply. These are some of them that seem interesting for me: - <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/non-advanced-filters-ui> <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/non-advanced-filters-ui>A filter effects dialog for non-advanced users with higher level abstraction of effects<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/non-advanced-filters-ui> I see that this blueprint already have an assigner, but no work is done and seems to be halted. If you are Felipe "Juca" Sanches, please reply and tell me what are your opinions about handling this to student. If there is no reply I will contact him on the email address provided on launchpad. - Named color swatches dialog <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/named-color-swatches> - Geometric & Tech Drawing<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/tech-drawing> It seems to me that this one have great deal of coding and polishing. Can anyone explain briefly what has to be implemented in order to achieve this? So please post your thoughts. Share some previously GSoC experiences, where students fail most, what is essential to the job, in what way should I construct the application for GSoC. PS I have read the wiki page and I contributed my first patch and after my exams week is over I will try to solve more bugs. Thanks for reading, and best regards!

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Glyphs that return no vertical extent information???
by mathog 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

In trying to clean up my libTERE text reassembler code so that it works properly with R->L languages like Hebrew I found that the Hebrew glyphs mostly contain no useful vertical extent information, even though this information is present for English language characters. Here is the code (in C, this is not strictly a part of Inksape, but is used by it): int TR_getadvance(FNT_SPECS *fsp, uint32_t wc, uint32_t pc, int load_flags, int kern_mode, int *ymin, int *ymax){ FT_Glyph glyph; int glyph_index; int advance=-1; FT_BBox bbox; glyph_index = FT_Get_Char_Index( fsp->face, wc); if (!FT_Load_Glyph( fsp->face, glyph_index, load_flags )){ printf("DEBUG TR_getadvance 1\n");fflush(stdout); if ( !FT_Get_Glyph( fsp->face->glyph, &glyph ) ) { printf("DEBUG TR_getadvance 2\n");fflush(stdout); advance = fsp->face->glyph->advance.x; FT_Glyph_Get_CBox( glyph, FT_GLYPH_BBOX_UNSCALED, &bbox ); printf("DEBUG TR_getadvance bbox.ymax/ymin %d,%d\n",bbox.yMax,bbox.yMin);fflush(stdout); printf("DEBUG TR_getadvance glyph metrics height %d vertbearing Y %d\n",fsp->face->glyph->metrics.height,fsp->face->glyph->metrics.vertBearingY);fflush(stdout); if(ymin && (bbox.yMin < *ymin))*ymin=bbox.yMin; if(ymax && (bbox.yMax > *ymax))*ymax=bbox.yMax; if(pc)advance += TR_getkern2(fsp, wc, pc, kern_mode); FT_Done_Glyph(glyph); } } return(advance); } When the font is "Century Schoolbook L", for instance all Hebrew strings trigger a series of these output lines: DEBUG TR_getadvance 1 DEBUG TR_getadvance 2 DEBUG TR_getadvance bbox.ymax/ymin 0,0 DEBUG TR_getadvance glyph metrics height 0 vertbearing Y 0 and ymin,ymax are returned as zero. So far only one tested font actually had this vertical extent information for these glyphs - Verdana. The glyph does eventually render OK in Cairo, but not being able to figure out the vertical extent of the bounding box really makes it difficult to reassemble complex text into <text><tspan> structures! Is there some trick for pulling these vertical extent values out when the font itself appears not to hold them? Perhaps a function that will calculate them from the glyph instead of reading them from the font? The only other approach I could think of was to fall back to looking up the vertical extents for some glyph that does have these values, like "A", and applying them for the missing Hebrew glyph. That would be a terrible approximation, but better than saying the vertical extent is zero! Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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GSoC 2013
by Josh Andler 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hey All, We've been accepted again this year as a mentoring organization. If you are interested in mentoring please apply at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/inkscape and if you are a student interested in participating with our organization it is recommended to get in contact with us sooner rather than later. For more information on participating with our organization as a student please visit: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_Of_Code We're looking forward to another great summer and hope you will join us! Cheers, Josh

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new .48 XAML output not compatible with silverlight, PathFigureCollection not supported in silverligth 5
by Damian Hallbauer 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hello, Thanks for your continued development on Inkscape. Due to all the format wars this the best and only tool i can use for my self-funded Silverlight game. But I'm having a problem. We have been stuck using version .47 and it was crashing allot randomly, but the xaml worked, in WPF and silverlight. finally got .48 to work, it is stable, but i get a problem, its now using PathFigureCollection for any simple path. here is the issue i am stuck with now. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11331549/why-does-this-xaml-path-crash-s… . MSIE wont draw it. Could you please revert so that the XAML does without the Figures= ? Or set it as an option if you are taking it somewhere needed?. So far i see only one object in the collection anyways. I just downloaded the latest daily build from Skydrive and still see the Figures.. This may affect RT, phone 8 and other developers. Another smaller issues i have: -thinner line weight on paths do not show in xaml. ( this worked in inkscape .47) i work around it by scaling 10x more on my drawing, then import at 0.001 scale. -groups do not show in xaml( this is still broken but i just ungroup for now) we only use simple paths, layers, strokes, and sometimes groups. if my game makes any money after this 4+ years development i will donate. Yours, Damian Hallbauer

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preview in filter extension
by TimeWaster 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

hi list, i am trying to program a python filter extension and i need to know if the script is called for preview or for the live run. i already found out that the script is called when the preview checkbox is checked and when the apply button is pressed, but i found no differences in the data delivered to the script when called. in the c++ code both calls are different, but from the python side they seem to have the same effect. are there any differences? or is there any other way to determine what was clicked? thanks in advance, TimeWaster -- Save a printer manufacturer. Print this e-mail unless it's really necessary not to do so.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Okay, so here's my branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~engelmarkus/inkscape/cppify Markus

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Extrangle [Y] coordinate in a Geom:Point generated with controlPontPosition::selectAll
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Hi to all. Posted in IRC, no rsolve. New attemt, maybe this is a better plaze for this type of cuestions. Im attemting to fit identical, the position of 2 Geom:Points, one generated by Inkscape::UI::controlPontPosition::allNodes() and a cast to Inkscape::UI::Node->position() and the other with first_segment()->initialPoint(). The values need to be the same but one return 154.13750999999999, 406.75175261718755 and the other 154.13750999999999, 645.61042999999995. Whith other node/segment the values are -74.927954, 664.71799261718752 and -74.927954, 387.64418999999998. The value with initialPont is similar -rouded- than in the SVG. I test to pass to the other desktop->w2d,desktop->d2w, and normaliza(), with no luke. What im doing bad? By, Jabier.

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Compiling new files
by Arshdeep Singh 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Hi people, If I want to add custom .cpp and .h files to the make list, how can I accomplish that ? -- demicoder

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tablet input is laggy for Windows x64
by Yale Zhang 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

Inkscape developers, I'm using a custom Windows x64 Inkscape build and I'm getting huge lags (1/2 second or more) when drawing with my Wacom Intuos 5. Rather than submit a bug report and waiting, I want to debug and fix it, if possible, myself. Can someone give me a clue how to approach this? I was thinking of recording time stamps for input events in the event handler functions (e.g. sp_dyna_draw_context_root_handler() ) but if the input event handler isn't the bottleneck, I could measure time stamps of when the strokes show up on the screen, but in which function would I find that? Also, I don't think the processor is a bottleneck because I looked at the CPU usage when rapidly scribbling and it only uses 1/2 the throughput of 1 core. Also, is anyone out there interested in Inkscape for Windows x64? I know the extra memory available doesn't help much, but believe that there should be a speed boost from the extra 8 registers and SSE2. If there is demand, are there any build issues that I can help with? I think I read from previous posts that the main work was to switch to MingW64. I'm currently cross compiling Inkscape on a Linux host. Yale

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Windows 16-bit colordepth memleak
by Johan Engelen 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Hi all, A colleague today found Inkscape later than 0.48.2 unusable because of a huge memleak. He was using it in 16-bit (remote desktop). We found that on Windows 7, Inkscape 0.48.4 and trunk are unusable because of very rapidly increasing memory usage it quits because of no more available memory. Steps to reproduce: 1. set Windows color-depth to 16-bit 2. start Inkscape 3. zoom in and out repeatedly (mousewheel) 4. watch the used memory increase very rapidly in the task manager Might be easy to fix this, perhaps some of the blitting/display code assumes a 32-bit buffer? I've added it to the know issues for 0.48.4 and 0.49. (I remember that earlier versions of Inkscape would not even start when using 16-bit colordepth.) Thanks for looking into it! Cheers, Johan

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Right to left language support, is this intended or a bug?
by mathog 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

Here is a test file: http://saf.bio.caltech.edu/pub/pickup/hebrew_decorations1.svg It starts with two Hebrew sentences (R->L) and ends with the English word "overline" (L->R). It is all overlined (text-decoration.) So the text is supposed to look like this: __________________ --3--><--2--<--1-- The first Hebrew sentence is longer and the second one has two words of three characters each. (No browser I tried rendered this correctly, hence the long verbal description.) Anyway, when an attempt was made to print this to an EMF file this is what was observed: 1. Each Hebrew character was sent as its own string. 2. In "style" both "direction" and "block_progression" computed values were set to 0. 3. The one English word was sent as a string (not character by character). Again, the direction and block_progression were set to 0. Naively for this sentence I expected to see two calls to PrintEmf::text(), the first with all of the Hebrew and text direction nonzero, and the second all English and direction zero. Only the second part of that was correct. Before I try to "fix" it - is the current character by character behavior for R->L text intentional? (Not having tried to fix it yet, it could well be that this is a side effect of some of my changes.) On a related note elsewhere, for instance, when rendering text to the screen, Inkscape leaves mixed L->R,R->L tspans in one piece - and then does some very strange things when one tries to navigate with the arrow keys within them to edit the text. Would it perhaps not be better to break up all mixed direction tspans that hit TNG compute into 2 or more tspans, each of which is either all R->L or all L->R characters, and for good measure, has the direction="rtl" and "ltr" tags set to match? Doing it the current way all sorts of other pieces of Inkscape have to know about bidirectional text. Without the tags being set other code cannot in general determine the tspan direction quickly - put 20 leading and trailing spaces around the core text, and the direction is not determined until something other than a space is encountered. Reduce all such tspans to homogeneous pieces in the TNG compute code and the rest of inkscape only needs to know how to handle the extra direction information for each tspan - which is much simpler to deal with than bidirectional text. Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Problem with scale/rotate as root
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Hi. In a debian testing box amd64, i have a problem running inkscape as root user, when select 2 or more nodes of a path, no handles to scale/rotate/skew show. Is the correct behabiour? By.

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For prospective GSoC students
by Johan Engelen 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hi all, If you are thinking about applying for GSoC this year, but you do not have Inkscape-development experience, you are probably thinking: how to start? For this, we have created the "easy-fix" tag in our bug tracker. Have a look here for some (probably) easy to fix bugs, that do not require extensive knowledge of Inkscape's codebase. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs?field.tag=easy-fix Ciao, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problem with the tarball source on website
by Jon Phillips 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Yes let's push through a point release with a couple of back ported fixes. 6 months until release and 3 years after major release is too long guys! While everyone is enjoying their weekends, there are people who really need inks cape. Sciscla do you also do the packaging? Who handles that? Jon On Mar 31, 2013 2:13 AM, "Michael Lyons" <mdl0394@...400...> wrote: The tarball located here: http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en (This is the direct download link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.48.4.tar.gz) Has a syntax error in the file desktop-widget on line 252, there is an added comma before the semi-colon. This bug was not present in the bzr, so I assume it accidentally got added sometime before balling it up for release. Mike Lyons -- Michael Lyons - Sent from Computer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel(R) Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/12124-176961-30367-2 _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Inkscape 0.49 Release? Is Inkscape Development Frozen?
by jon＠...235... 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Hey dudez, long time no rejon ;) Over at my company http://fabricatorz.com we are pushing on new changes to Open Clip Art Library (OCAL). One thing that is really important is to get a new version of Inkscape out so that the most popular Inkscape downloaded Windows has working OCAL import working. How close is the release? How can we help and/or accelerate it? Who is in charge of releases now? Also, checking out http://inkscape.org I notice no news in about a year now on the main page of the site. Let's make some big news!!! I hope everyone is truly well! Don't forget about Open Clip Art Library! We even have some new code for an updated site over at github: http://github.com/openclipart Cheerz! Jon -- Jon Phillips 王✳ http://fabricatorz.com ✳ skype: kidproto ✳ irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) ✳ +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing)

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Guides Improvement and GSoC 2013
by Michael Lyons 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Hey guys, I would like to work on improving the guides system in inkscape, including adding a dialog listing current guides, and allowing for easier adding/removing/editing of guides. I have never worked with open source software before, but I have used inkscape from a user point of view for a number of years, and hope that gsoc will be an entry point for contributing to the project. I know that gsoc has not announced their accepted organizations yet, but I wanted to get started as soon as possible (to hopefully increase my chances of acceptance). I have a couple of questions real quick: The project seems to have been started by a user a while back ( https://code.launchpad.net/~john-glassmyer/inkscape/guides-improvement), but he didn't take ownership of the spec, so I assume that this project is still available to work on? Also I understand that inkscape has a "two patches" rule before a user is given commit rights. How big do these patches have to be, and should we try to relate these patches to the project we are looking into proposing or is it better to try to fix a bug that is listed as more important? Thanks! Mike Lyons mdl0394@...400... mdl7240@...2960...

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Problem with the tarball source on website
by Michael Lyons 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

The tarball located here: http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en (This is the direct download link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/inkscape-0.48.4.tar.gz) Has a syntax error in the file desktop-widget on line 252, there is an added comma before the semi-colon. This bug was not present in the bzr, so I assume it accidentally got added sometime before balling it up for release. Mike Lyons -- Michael Lyons - Sent from Computer

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optional.hpp???
by mathog 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Spent some time today using valgrind to squish some preexisting bugs that were affecting the experimental text-decoration draws. This is not a lot of fun, since under valgrind it takes almost 4 minutes before inkscape will accept input events well, and 20 seconds or so for it to shut down again. Anyway, so far, I found that sp_style_read_itextdecoration in style.cpp was broken several different ways and so rewrote it. That made text decoration turn on reliably. (Not render perfectly, that is another problem.) Will post the fix for style.cpp in bug 172133 later. I am currently stuck on another front. These two issues: ==4258== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==4258== at 0x810F401: SPClipPath::show(Inkscape::Drawing&, unsigned int) (optional.hpp:273) ==4258== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==4258== at 0x810F617: SPClipPath::setBBox(unsigned int, Geom::OptRect const&) (optional.hpp:273) are in "optional.hpp" which is apparently a file transiently created during the build and then deleted. Talk about a moving target! Which files are the basis for the creation of optional.hpp? Other than dropping print statements into the basis files, how does one go about debugging a transient file like this? Is there some way to get a listing of "optional.hpp"? Line 273 is not very helpful without the corresponding source code. Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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AutoExport Script
by Xander Pirdy 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Hi all. I wrote a small script to help me automatically export portions of an svg file as individual images. I posted about it on the [inkscape forum]( http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=13682), and was recommended (by Jelle fwtw) to post it here. The script can be found at https://github.com/oxalic/AutoExport. Basically it takes an svg file, finds any groups that are named with a form of "prefix:name", and exports those as "name.png" "name.eps" and "name.svg". The script should be fairly well documented and very easy to extend. It is nice because it would be fairly simple to incorporate prefixes in the filenames, and it can export nested things (I use it to export both compound images, and scheme images in chemistry). It is a bit hackish (take a look at how I had to implement the export to plain svg's!), so if y'all have any suggestions or comments I'd love to hear them. Also more about my use case etc, the readme should cover most questions.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

> In this case I think the third question is pretty clearly "it helps a lot". Getting answers on the first two takes a bit of end-to-end measurements in full use cases. If you happen to have some ideas on how to check this for the change, that would be helpful. If not, then it is something that we should look into overall anyway. > > One interesting point is that developer intuition is wrong 80% of the time when it comes to performance and optimization. So we need to get some actual measurements set up on the code. Well, currently I'd expect the time for creating new objects to have increased a bit as for every step down the inheritance hierarchy, one more new and delete have to be executed. Calling virtual functions on these objects shouldn't take longer, although I don't know what happens under the hood of these casting macros. So I think we should measure the time it takes to load a big document and construct the object tree. Actually, I have never been working on such a complex project and so profiling didn't matter to me, so I don't have no experience with that. If you have any further suggestions, please let me know... Markus

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

> As such, we should make sure that we don't break the expected behaviour of GObject objects. Well, what is the expected behavior? At the moment, the GObject type system is only needed for those casting macros that can easily be replaced by dynamic_casts and for object instantiation. Reference couting can be replaced by using shared_ptrs. Ive got some code here where I already replaced the factory and the macros and it works, but theres quite a lot left to do. As soon as the factory is replaced, the SP classes can simply be combined with the corresponding C classes, removing GObject from the derivations. This is not possible now because g_object_new doesnt fill in the vtable but its own type information. Markus Von: Alex Valavanis [mailto:valavanisalex@...400...] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. März 2013 18:15 An: Martin Owens Cc: Inkscape Devel List; Markus Engel Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree My main concern about this kind of approach is that we're hovering between two different object systems. SPObject itself is actually derived from the GObject class structure. However, this patch switches to C++-style inheritance. As such, we should make sure that we don't break the expected behaviour of GObject objects. Really, I guess it would be good to derive SPObject from Glib::ObjectBase (I.e. use the c++ bindings from upstream) so that we can lose the need for GObject-style inheritance. AV On 28 Mar 2013 16:52, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400... <mailto:doctormo@...400...> > wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 16:59 +0100, Markus Engel wrote: > Okay, > so here's my branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~engelmarkus/inkscape/cppify Thanks Markus, Looking at the changes, the scope and breadth of files changed indicates that we should deal with merging this branch quickly. I'm tempted to merge it and deal with the fallout, but I'd like to hear from other devs. Martin, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

@Johan: > Just remove the "sp_classname_" part, but keep the rest untouched. I changed the names back to the original ones. @Martin: > Markus - Are you happy to wait with your cleaning branch for 0.49? Maybe we need some bug fixing help for 0.49 to get it out the door and speed that up? Well, It's not me to make that decision as I don't know exactly what you have planned. But I don't think there are too many changes to the SPObject tree so merging my branch afterwards shouldn't be a problem. What I did there was like tons of (ide-assisted) copy'n'paste... I'll have a look at the bugs registered and see whether I can be of any help. Markus

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Win32 broken after r12251
by Nicolas Dufour 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Hi, Compiling Inkscape r12251 (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/12251) on Windows XP returns the following error message. Alex, could you please take a look? ---- Make error line 301: problem compiling: src/registrytool.cpp: In member function 'bool RegistryTool::setStringValue(cons t Glib::ustring&, const Glib::ustring&, const Glib::ustring&)': src/registrytool.cpp:55:19: error: variable 'Glib::ustring keyName' has initializer but incomplete type src/registrytool.cpp:71:5: error: 'gunichar2' was not declared in this scope src/registrytool.cpp:71:16: error: 'keyw' was not declared in this scope src/registrytool.cpp:71:70: error: 'g_utf8_to_utf16' was not declared in this scope src/registrytool.cpp:72:16: error: 'valuenamew' was not declared in this scope src/registrytool.cpp:72:54: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'const struct Glib::ustring' src/registrytool.h:25:11: error: forward declaration of 'const struct Glib::ustring' src/registrytool.cpp:73:16: error: 'valuew' was not declared in this scope src/registrytool.cpp:73:50: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'const struct Glib::ustring' src/registrytool.h:25:11: error: forward declaration of 'const struct Glib::ustring' src/registrytool.cpp:86:56: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'const struct Glib::ustring' src/registrytool.h:25:11: error: forward declaration of 'const struct Glib::ustring' src/registrytool.cpp:88:77: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'const struct Glib::ustring' src/registrytool.h:25:11: error: forward declaration of 'const struct Glib::ustring' src/registrytool.cpp:98:16: error: 'g_free' was not declared in this scope ....

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Oh I see it deleted my attachment... But when my patch is uncompressed it doesn't like it either, as it's too big... Here's a link then: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37427492/virtual_pads.patch Markus

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C++ification of the SPObject tree
by Markus Engel 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Hi, I'm new here ;) . As I really like Inkscape I thought I'd help out programming. In order to gain some insight I started with a janitorial task, I put the virtual function calls in the SPObject tree into C++ classes. I found the procedure of porting the tree to C++ described in the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CPlusPlus This works quite well. In the attached patch you can find those "virtual pads". At the moment I'm turning all the other functions into real member functions and I'm playing around with a new factory that is independent of glib. Tell me what you think about it. Markus

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Something special about Cairo glyph draws?
by mathog 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

There is something strange going on related to glyph draws through Cairo which I have not been able to figure out. Hopefully fresh eyes will spot the problem. In drawing-text.cpp this is the code that outputs the series of glyphs which put text on the screen, slightly modified to put a line over the glyphs (my changes all start at the first character on the line and end with "//"): Geom::Affine aff; // bool aff_set = false; // for (ChildrenList::iterator i = _children.begin(); i != _children.end(); ++i) { if(!aff_set){ // aff = g->_ctm; // aff_set=true; // } // DrawingGlyphs *g = dynamic_cast<DrawingGlyphs *>(&*i); if (!g) throw InvalidItemException(); Inkscape::DrawingContext::Save save(ct); if (g->_ctm.isSingular()) continue; ct.transform(g->_ctm); ct.path(*g->_font->PathVector(g->_glyph)); } // draw a rectangle over all of the glyphs, tsp_width_adj has the correct value if(aff_set){ // ct.transform(aff); // ct.rectangle( Geom::Rect(Geom::Point(0.0,0.0),Geom::Point(tsp_width_adj, 0.1)) ); // } // The strange thing is that the rectangle draw results in an XOR against the underlying glyphs. (Overlaps are not filled.) The reason this is bizarre is that when the code is modified so that the glyphs overlap each other (easy to do, just change the "g->_ctm" in ct.transform() to "aff") the glyphs do not XOR against each other. Use a string like "XO" to see this. Instead they just draw over each other, as one would expect for all of these draws. I thought the XOR might have something to do with the ct.rectangle() call, so made an alternate version where the rectangle is first converted to a (closed) PathVector "rectpath" and then this is done: ct.transform(aff); // ct.path(rectpath); // Unfortunately, this also had the XOR effect. I am puzzled. Where is the XOR effect coming from? More to the point, what is special about the glyph paths so that if they overlap there is no XOR, but a glyph and a rectangle or another path do XOR? By placing a DEBUG print statement at the top of _renderItem() one can see that this method is called twice for every string (actually <tspan>) in the document which is updated/changed. I suppose the XOR effect might have something to do with that, but it does not really make sense either, since the glyphs are drawn as many times as the overlapping line. Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Crediting Tango icons for Inkscape
by Peter Uithoven 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Hi Inkscape Developers and Designers, I'm involved with the application VisiCut, an opensource and more userfriendly application to talk to Lasercutters. http://visicut.org/ One of the things I'd like to do is introduce better icons. I really like you guys work on the Tango icons for Inkscape. So I'd like to properly credit the authors / designers. Could you guys help me out on how to do that? At the moment I would use: Tango Icon Library 0.8.90 (tango) link: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library license: Public Domain Inkscape (inkscape) link: http://www.inkscape.org/ license: GPLv2 I found the icons in the Open Icon Library<http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/>, but it's a bit unclear which icon is from which source. Great work on Inkscape btw, I'm involved with Fablab Amersfoort<http://www.fablabamersfoort.nl/nl> and it's one of the tools we advocate. Thanks in advance, Best regards, Peter Uithoven

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Gtk+ backend target
by Alex Valavanis 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi All, Why do we explicitly check for the Gtk+ backend target in configure.ac? The resulting $gtk_backend_target variable isn't used anywhere except for deciding whether to link the -lX11 library or not. In fact, this seems unnecessary too, because gtk+ reports whether it needs -lX11 via pkg-config so we should pick up the dependency automatically. Our method of checking the backend target isn't supported by gtk+ 3 in any case, so can we get rid of the test? AV

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Suggestion of Recolor-Artwork Tool.
by Arshdeep Singh 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Dear devs, Need some advice on my suggestion of recolor-artwork tool based on Illustrator's similar tool. *Advantages of the tool: *1.) Lets you manage interdependence of colors. For example, you select a circle and a rectangle respectively colored RED and ORANGE. For some reason you want to port the whole 'tone' to something cooler. You select the two objects on the canvas, lock their nodes on the color wheel and rotate the rays of the objects to the blue wedge area of the wheel. Now with a single step you can manage the color tones and relationship of different objects. This should prove very beneficial for designers/artists. *My Blueprint: *[image: Inline image 1] *Steps:* 1.) Get the colorwheel drawn using the source files "gimpcolorwheel.c" as reference. 2.) Get the GUI for selected objects (based on the XML Tree) [First prototype will only handles solid colors] 3.) Functions for locking the nodes, rotation, dragging etc. Any inputs / advice / suggestions are heartily welcome. -- demicoder

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Symbols Dialog
by Tavmjong Bah 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi, I've checked into trunk a Symbols dialog. A description of the dialog can be found on a Wiki page at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog There are still some issues that need to be resolved. They are listed in Wiki page. Tav

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documentation on the Perl component?
by Bric 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

I can't find any documentation on the Perl component. When I compiled 0.48.4 I used --with-perl, which looked promising. How do I use this component? thanks

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units (revisited)
by Bric 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi Not sure if this belongs to the "devel" mailing list (maybe tangentially, if it leads to enhancements?) I know this has been addressed before, but I couldn't find the final resolution to all the questions (here's a related post that doesn't seem to clinch it: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10646) I have the same problem: via the command line I'm getting one type of value, but in the SVG document a different value is listed. COMMAND LINE: inkscape -f doc.svg --query-x --query-id=rect4487-1-7 139.43438 inkscape -f doc.svg --query-y --query-id=rect4487-1-7 128.13251 WITHIN THE SVG DOCUMENT: <rect id="rect4487-1-7" ry="0.53296167" height="1.0654094" width="10.142718" y="72.914459" x="79.345848" style="fill:currentColor" /> Also, within the svg doc, the dimensions are: width="315" height="206" And thus the above can't seem to account for the discrepancy, by means of origin position adjustment (width - x, height - y) So far, it looks like different units are used. thanks

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New contributor (we have new code!) that we need to help
by Ted Janeczko 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Hi, Thank you so much for the very warm welcome! I look forward to working with you and contributing more code upstream! Josh, I subscribed to the mailing list, but for some reason I haven't been getting emails from it... I tried to resubscribe, hopefully that works! Tav, that sounds like a fantastic birthday party! I've done quite a bit of looking into the internal workings of SPObjects when I created the objects dialog, and I think I have a decent understanding of how everything is updated, but it does get very confusing due to gobject obscurities... If it would help out, I can take a closer look into this and start documenting the process so that it will be easier to work with in the future. When I created the objects dialog patch to submit upstream, I went through my code, added comments, reorganized, and fixed as many bugs as I could find. The blurring crash that you're referring to is most likely due to a linked-list error, which I also encountered in my testing and hopefully fixed in the patch. I also reworked styling the buttons, so the up/down arrows should hopefully now have tooltips (although it may still be unclear as to what they do, so a more descriptive tooltip may be needed). The random hiding of objects with drag-and-drop appears to be a weird side effect of the workaround for supporting multiple items. To fix this, I added a flag in the patch which gets set if the mouse-down event occurs over the visible column. When the mouse is released, if this flag is not set the visibility toggle will not be triggered. In my tests, it seemed that only the visibility column was being triggered, so I didn't add flags for the other columns, but they could easily be added if issues pop up in the future. In the latest Ponyscape release, there is an issue with re-selecting items when they've been moved via drag-and-drop that causes a lot of assertion errors (which may be the errors that you were seeing). I store the source SPItems in a vector, which I iterate over and move on a drop operation. I was also using this vector to select the items post-move, but they no longer referred to the correct SPItem (due to how SPObjects are built and moved). In the patch, I now store the ID's of the items before they're moved in a different vector and use that for fetching and selecting the items after the move. Moving items between layers and into and out of groups is currently only able to be done through drag-and-drop... It would be possible to add buttons similar to the XML editor, but that may overcrowd the UI. This functionality could also be added to the right-click menu, which might be a better solution. You can already group and ungroup items using the right-click menu (along with clipping and masking items). If you notice anything else or have any suggestions on improving things, let me know and I'll take a look into it! I am planning on doing the same process of reviewing, commenting, and bugfixing my code before creating a patch for the tags dialog, and will definitely be sure to keep in mind all of the points you brought up about it. In the top revision of Ponyscape I have already added the ability to rename objects in the tags dialog, and I will look into the rest of the items that you have brought up! I may eventually move Ponyscape development into a branch on launchpad... For the time being I am using a repository on a local server, which has been working out so far, but I can definitely see where it would be beneficial to have a public branch as well. Looking forward to working more with the development team! Ted Janeczko On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote: > I'm sending this to you only because I don't know that you've > subscribed to our developer list yet. :) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> > Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:27 AM > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] New contributor (we have new code!) that > we need to help > To: Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> > Cc: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > > > > Hi, > > First, let me say this really sounds great! Welcome Ted! I could have > used Ponyscape a couple of months ago when I was preparing a Pony party > for my older daughter's sixth birthday. The guests played pin the horn > on Fluttershy and the birthday cake was a Pony Carousel. > > Here are some random thoughts: > > Let's be honest, 0.49 isn't going to happen soon. There is no sign that > anybody is tackling the bitmap scaling problem from either the Inkscape > or the Cairo side. And even if Cairo were to have the API's needed today > it will be awhile before there is a Cairo release with them. > > Given that, I don't think we need to be overly worried about changes to > the Inkscape code base. (But I do think new features should be > reasonably complete.) > > I am intrigued by Ted's comment about using an XmlNodeObserver for > handling updates. It would be good to have someone really understand how > updates are handled by Inkscape. When I put in random print statements I > often see the same code being executed multiple times when it should > only be executed once. We seem to have quasi-circular loops going on. > > Playing with the Object dialog in Ponyscape: > > * Blurring an object crashes Ponyscape. > * It's not clear what all the icons are for... no tooltips. What are > the up/down icons for? > * Clicking on the "domino" shaped icon brings up a color picker which I > can't seem to get rid of. I have to restart the program. > * Layers and objects seem to be randomly hidden when dragging them up > and down. > * Can't move objects between layers using arrows. > * Not easy to move objects into and out of groups (like in the XML > editor). > * I see lots of error messages. > > In summary, it's a good start but needs polishing before merging (note: > I haven't tested the patch, just Ponyscape). > > Playing with the Tagging dialog: > > * Needs tooltips or other hints on how to use. > * The items list is auto opened... maybe should also be auto closed? > * Would be useful to be able to rename objects in dialog. > * Might be good to integrate with symbols dialog (create custom symbols > from tagged objects). > > If Ted plans on submitting patches routinely, it might make sense for > him to keep his code repository as a branch of Inkscape. It would make > it easier to follow his work. > > Tav > > > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 00:18 -0700, Josh Andler wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I submitted a new "report" based around a patch submitted from the > > primary developer of Ponyscape (an Inkscape derivative project focused > > on making life easier for artists interested in creating My Little > > Pony fan art). > > > > Check out the first new patch he has submitted upstream at: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1157024 > > > > I've talked with him a bit and he's really doing some good work at a > > rapid pace, but as we know, we don't have the same leeway upstream to > > add features that may change on a regular basis. So, he sees Ponyscape > > as a good testing ground to let things have some time to mature and > > ripen and then he will submit patches upstream. He also doesn't want > > to step on any toes or anything. > > > > That first patch is for a long awaited feature. If others would be > > willing to test and do some code review, it will help us to establish > > a tighter relationship with Ted. He's already met the 2 patch > > requirement and has commit access, but he really wants feedback and to > > get things right before stuff is committed. > > > > My guess is with the amount of divergence and level of changes he > > makes, this patch vs direct commit paradigm might be around for a > > while (he has a lot of irons in the fire for new/improved features). > > My view is that I don't mind doing this side of things provided other > > devs will be willing to help test and give feedback. > > > > Cheers, > > Josh > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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New/Update LPE Sketch
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

The number of lines to draw can be get by tree ways: 1.- Changing the default value when alter the number of lines, im not sure if can be done, but is what like more. 2.-Search in the SVG the value of the widget number of lines in the first filter -last applied- of this LPE 3.-By preferences. I dont like this, not intuitive. Hi, Jabier.

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New/Update LPE Sketch
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

One thing more, maybe the fiter isnt necesary, by adding a button near spiro or in the combobox of siluette near ellipse.triangle in... Whith this combo youu can select for example Spiro+Sketch. Any body want to put name to this? Hi, Jabier.

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New/Update LPE Sketch
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi to all. Im thinking in a aditional LPE based in Sketch LPE. The goal is: A simple LPE whith few widgets maybe only this one: Select the number of lines to draw. When you draw a pen stroke it create this numbrer of lines whith a random seed position of nodes. but cobering all path whith random ofset at start and at end. The finality is made a speed sketch tool, in the current Sketch LPE the calculations to made a rich "Sketch" slow the drawing speed because you neeed a lot of lines to cover the full path. By this way only need to calculate a delimited number of lines. This is like more lines more beauty but more slow, few lines faster redraw. Who thik this feature interesant? think is very easy to make, and it can go whith a filter Sketch layer, to select the number of lines and if you want Spriro or ?BSpline. This aditional live effects are because a live effect in a layer hide the filter effects of his children. But isnt a problem because is only to ?starting sketchs. It can be done in the pencil tool, but with Live Effect isnt "destructive" and maybe user can hide the effect, alter a path is more easy, and maybe more easy to made, but is only my opinion. Hi, Jabier.

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Updates in Bspline branch.
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi to all. Y apply some fixes that Mauro give to me. *Simmetrical, smooth, auto, node toolbar now only give or a 0.3334 weight BSpline or a CUSP node. *Fixed a bad brehaviour continuing existing curves *Pencil mode work in bsline mode *Fixed widgets of LPE Mauro tell me about a problem/feature scaling some nodes and moving them, they reset to original position, it happens in the devel version? Now the widgets work better, i have some problems whith the button widget, some times is necesary press two times to update the scalar list. Mauro, coment me is a good point apply custom weight only to selected paths, whats is the best way to have a vector of selected nodes/points insde a LPE? By, Jabier.

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"superdropper"
by Bric 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi, guys: This just reached a critical "must-express" pressure in my head: I've been periodically, over the last few years, missing this (yet non-existent?) feature for a dropper, in Inkscape (as well as in other image editors). An enhanced version of a dropper, which does the following: It's able to "suck up" the attributes of an object (similar to what it's already doing), and then "drip them out" onto one OR MORE (multiple!) objects, as the user wishes. The sampled (sucked up) attributes could stay in the dropper buffer, indefinitely... until the user replaces them with another dropper "suction". In addition, it would be nice to expand the number of attribute types the dropper can disperse, and, of course, let the user check/uncheck the attributes that are being copied and dispersed. [x] fill [x] stroke color [x] stroke thickness - absolute units [x] stroke thickness - proportional/adjusted to the transform magnification (not sure about this one, just a thought) [x] opacity [x] alpha [x] a variety of other attributes, like roundness, etc. (limited to certain objects, perhaps) [x] funky, crazy user-assigned things, like "reduce to same number of nodes" -- OK, maybe i'm going too far here... [x] I might be missing many many other great additions to this list; i'm sure others would suggest more stuff. ------------------ So... with this superdropper I'd be able to click on a path/object, and then, holding down some drip/endow control key combo (like, "Ctrl+Alt[+click]", or some such) click on object(s) TO WHICH I WOULD PASS these attributes — as many objects as I like, in succession..., without re-sampling (without sucking in attributes) ------------------- It seems like code-wise, it shouldn't be that difficult. -------------------- I was checking out the 0.48 dropper, and it is already capable of copying either the stroke color or the fill color, distinctly, and there's already a button tool bar to go with it. (But it doesn't seem to be able to do a series of "drip-outs" onto many objects.) -------------------- As far as I know this is my original idea, and I'd like to "bequeath" it to Inkscape and other GPL-licensed applications. So, just to be sure no commercial app hijacks this feature (the concept/algorithm) and claims it as its own (and prevents open-source apps from acquiring it), I hereby declare the afore-mentioned feature to be under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, v3, as spelled out by the Free Software Foundation. Again, this is just in case it hasn't been developed yet, although i'm actually hard-pressed to believe that it doesn't yet exist somewhere, and in case there's a looming threat of some commercial-venture grabbing the feature before it gets integrated into some GPL'ed app (hopefully into Inkscape) ------------------------------ Thanks!

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New tools
by Dennis Coyle III 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

I'm not new to programming but definitely rusty. Coming back into it for the first time in c++ has been a bit jarring. I am looking to create a couple tools to experiment with and was wondering the best way to go about it. One will use a lot of functionality of knots but I'm not sure as to how hard it would be to subclass the knot and remove (what I believe is) the element constraint. (tell me if i'm mixing terms here). Any leads to a good subclassing refesher (i.e. what includes I really need in the subclass etc.) would be extremely beneficial. Thanks.

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Spirolive+BSpline insert node fixed
by Jabier Arraiza 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hi to all. Fixed Spirolive+BSpline add node error and others fixings. Uncomented WITH_MESH; By, Jabier.

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mesh branch test
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hi to all, i have some free time while compiling and start testing other branch. I start whith mesh branch. Impresionant. Bravo Tav. Maybe some of your work can used for create a mesh based deformation system for images and all other staff in inkscape. Any other branch sugestions? Hi, Jabier.

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New contributor (we have new code!) that we need to help
by Josh Andler 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hey all, I submitted a new "report" based around a patch submitted from the primary developer of Ponyscape (an Inkscape derivative project focused on making life easier for artists interested in creating My Little Pony fan art). Check out the first new patch he has submitted upstream at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1157024 I've talked with him a bit and he's really doing some good work at a rapid pace, but as we know, we don't have the same leeway upstream to add features that may change on a regular basis. So, he sees Ponyscape as a good testing ground to let things have some time to mature and ripen and then he will submit patches upstream. He also doesn't want to step on any toes or anything. That first patch is for a long awaited feature. If others would be willing to test and do some code review, it will help us to establish a tighter relationship with Ted. He's already met the 2 patch requirement and has commit access, but he really wants feedback and to get things right before stuff is committed. My guess is with the amount of divergence and level of changes he makes, this patch vs direct commit paradigm might be around for a while (he has a lot of irons in the fire for new/improved features). My view is that I don't mind doing this side of things provided other devs will be willing to help test and give feedback. Cheers, Josh

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First window opens at UL corner of screen (Linux)?
by mathog 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

One of my test machines is Ubuntu 12.04. Workt there id done remotely, over an SSH tunnel to a Cygwin X11 server, which is running on Windows XP. Whenever a new Inkscape window opens on that linux box (not the pop ups, but the first start and new document windows) that window is placed with its upper left corner exactly at the upper left corner of the screen. As a consequence the top and left parts of the window frame are off the screen. This is inconvenient since it puts the majority of the frame controls where they cannot be accessed. (Clicking once on the bottom of the frame shifts it down a couple of pixels, but that is a very inconvenient thing to have to do for every window.) Windows builds do not do this - the whole frame is within the screen when a window opens. Is the behavior seen on linux the result of some munged up configuration on my one machine, or is that what Inkscape is supposed to do on a linux/unix/OS X environment? If so, could the default start position maybe be changed to be 5 pixels down and to the right, so that there is at least a sliver of the top and side frame available to grab? Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Spirolive+BSpline widgets ready
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hi to all. A branch of Spirolive+BSpline is release, changes are: *pencil BSpline mode fixed. *fix crash making cusp nodes whith the node toolbar or shortcut *fix crash when apply BSpline to grpups *right click to close curve dont show menu when are just over the last point *double click on handle to reset default (SBasis point at 33.3334). *snap/steps moving handles with CTRL parametriced by widget. *button widget to reset to defaults *checkbox widget to ignore cusp node when change widgets *scalar widget to change the weight of the bsplines TODO: I couldent update the widget weight value when pressing reset default button, the curve change, the new value of the parameter is saved but the visible value not change, you need to unselect/select the item or unselect/select the BSpline item in lpe list to update. Whith node tool this problem not sucedd. Thanks to ~suv and Johan Engelen to make posibol this updates. Feedback are welcome! lp:~jabiertxof/inkscape/0.49.x+SpiroLive+BSpline

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node operations
by Bric 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hi, (1) Is there any progress on being able to highlight just a subset of nodes and extract that subset as a path? (paste as a separate, "stand-alone" path) (I realize the algorithm may not be straightforward — particularly if one makes some crazy non-continuous node selection — like, selecting every third node (rather than a subpath with all its consecutive nodes), but maybe there's already some default, "make-the-best-guess" function which would take a bunch of such nodes and figure out which ones are sequenced and how (and link them into a path), based on the parent sequences, and for those that it can't figure that out, just leave them disconnected/isolated, and let the user connect them afterwards) (2) alignment operators: it would be nice to be able to align node A to node B. Or, IOW, stipulate that A move to B (its vertical or horizontal value), but B itself not move. Or aligning a set of nodes — A,B,C to node D, where node D doesn't move. (As I understand it now, the vertical/horizontal align function positions all the nodes to some type of averaged value ? )

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latest build Inkscape windows + Open Clip Art works fine
by Xiangfu Liu 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hi I just installed the latest build of Inkscape under my Windows 7. the 'Import Clip Art ...' works fine under latest build. I am think add 2 more urls at the sidebar. the url of that clip art and the author's url, like: http://openclipart.org/detail/629/motobike-by-theresaknott http://openclipart.org/user-detail/TheresaKnott will keep post Xiangfu

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Color widgets hidden
by Jabier Arraiza 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hello to all, im compiling a devel branch and the color dialog is hidden, only shows opacity and blur. https://code.launchpad.net/~jabiertxof/inkscape/0.49.x+SpiroLive+BSpline Any body know whats happend? Hi, Jabier.

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Help need whith branch compile in windows.
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hi to all. Some users have problem with the BSpline and Spirolive branch for windows. Brainless offer to me compile it to windows. Its hard, but finaly hi locate the problem whith some fonts, he think is solved and finaly can make the executable. But other user have the same problem, whith fonts and when open preferences dialog, inkscape crash. I think the problem isnt in the modifications added to the branch... Any body whith knoweledge in windowd, and some english..., could help to me to help this users? Or do directly. Post: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=13496 Thanks, Jabier.

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bunch of pango-warning messages on Windows associated with new(er) devlibs
by mathog 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Upgraded today from devlibs 41 to 45. Rebuilt. When inkscape starts up on windows now it emits the bushel of warnings shown below. Only the last one (about the registry key, which is harmless) is familiar to me. All of the font related ones seem to have come in somewhere between devlibs 41 and 45. These do not appear when a linux build starts, and I know that most of these fonts are not present on my linux test system. How do we make these messages go away? Note, I looked in C:\Windows\Fonts and these messages correspond to font files shown there with a big "A" icon and having the file extension ".FON". These are bitmap fonts which are, I believe, only present for backwards compatibility, in case one needs to run a W95 program or something like that. Apparently these messages tell us that Pango has no idea how to open a .FON file. Surely there is no reason to tell us that over and over though! Is there not some pango configuration parameter that would cause it to ignore files found in the font directory which are not types it knows how to handle? C:\progs\inkscape6>inkscape\inkscape (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "8514oem 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "ASI_Mono 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "ASI_System 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Bookshelf Symbol 7 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "CCLarge 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "CCSmall 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Fixedsys 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Marlett 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Monotype Corsiva 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "MS Reference Specialty 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output . (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "MS Serif 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Palace Script MT 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Small Fonts 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Symbol 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "System 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Terminal 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Terminal Greek 737 (437G) 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly out put. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Webdings 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Wingdings 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Wingdings 2 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "Wingdings 3 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "WST_Czec 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "WST_Engl 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "WST_Fren 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "WST_Germ 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "WST_Ital 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "WST_Span 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. (inkscape.exe:3032): Pango-WARNING **: couldn't load font "WST_Swed 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. RegistryTool: Could not create the registry key 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\inkscape.exe' Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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build errors since last bzr update - new dependency on autopoint
by mathog 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

For branch lp988601 today doing bzr revert bzr update The build procedure was broken: make CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash /usr/local/src/inkscape_lp988601/missing --run aclocal-1.11 cd . && /bin/bash /usr/local/src/inkscape_lp988601/missing --run automake-1.11 --foreign configure.ac:19: required directory ./build-aux does not exist configure.ac:64: required file `build-aux/compile' not found configure.ac:64: `automake --add-missing' can install `compile' configure.ac:20: required file `build-aux/config.guess' not found configure.ac:20: `automake --add-missing' can install `config.guess' configure.ac:176: required file `build-aux/config.rpath' not found configure.ac:20: required file `build-aux/config.sub' not found configure.ac:20: `automake --add-missing' can install `config.sub' configure.ac:22: required file `build-aux/install-sh' not found configure.ac:22: `automake --add-missing' can install `install-sh' configure.ac:38: required file `build-aux/ltmain.sh' not found configure.ac:22: required file `build-aux/missing' not found configure.ac:22: `automake --add-missing' can install `missing' share/palettes/Makefile.am:34: foreach i,$(palettes_i18n: non-POSIX variable name share/palettes/Makefile.am:34: (probably a GNU make extension) src/Makefile.am: required file `build-aux/depcomp' not found src/Makefile.am: `automake --add-missing' can install `depcomp' make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1 Which did not tell me much, so tried ./autogen.sh and that complained about not having "autopoint". OK, install it, even though I have no idea what it might be needed for: apt-get install autopoint ./autogen.sh and autogen.sh ran to completion. Now make works again make clean make The latter is building now, will not know for an hour or so if it succeeds. Conclusion - some change in trunk (merged into lp988601) added a dependency on autopoint. The man page for it says: autopoint - copies standard gettext infrastructure Why do we need that now when we didn't before? Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Question about SPItemCtx
by Alex Valavanis 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

Hi All, I'm a bit confused about the way that SPItemCtx is implemented. I have a few questions: SPItemCtx is defined in src/sp-item.h as follows: /// Contains transformations to document/viewport and the viewport size. class SPItemCtx { public: SPCtx ctx; /** Item to document transformation */ Geom::Affine i2doc; /** Viewport size */ Geom::Rect viewport; /** Item to viewport transformation */ Geom::Affine i2vp; }; As far as I can tell, the only place where an SPItemCtx object is created is in the SPDocument::_updateDocument() function. It is then cast to SPCtx object and sent to the updateDisplay function. Various "update" handlers then retrieve the SPItemCtx data by casting back: SPItemCtx *ictx = (SPItemCtx *) ctx; double const aw = 1.0 / ictx->i2vp.descrim(); This seems a bit weird to me... why not make SPItemCtx a subclass of SPCtx? That way, we wouldn't need to do risky reinterpret_cast<> operations. Any thoughts? AV

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glib 2.36.0 deprecates g_type_init
by Stefan Husmann 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

Hello, in glib 2.36.0 it is no longer allowed to declare g_type_init, the following patch solves this for me in inkscape. diff -Naur orig/src/extension/dbus/wrapper/inkscape-dbus-wrapper.c new/src/extension/dbus/wrapper/inksca pe-dbus-wrapper.c --- orig/src/extension/dbus/wrapper/inkscape-dbus-wrapper.c 2013-03-18 00:08:01.000000000 +0100 +++ new/src/extension/dbus/wrapper/inkscape-dbus-wrapper.c 2013-03-18 00:09:27.000000000 +0100 @@ -95,9 +95,9 @@ DBusGConnection *connection; GError *error; DBusGProxy *proxy; - +#if !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2,35,0) g_type_init (); - +#endif error = NULL; connection = dbus_g_bus_get (DBUS_BUS_SESSION, &error);

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cairo cms @ gsoc 2013
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

FYI https://www.oyranos.org/wiki/index.php?title=OpenICC/GoogleSoC2013#Get_the_… Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Trunk merge into branch request
by Johan Engelen 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

Hi all, If someone remembers how, please merge trunk into this branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/guides-improvements (the last merge was done Feb 11). Thank you very very much, Johan

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Unused header: dom/svg2.h
by Alex Valavanis 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

Seems like nothing includes the dom/svg2.h header. Can I kill it? AV

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the website
by Alexandre Prokoudine 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hello, I've just committed news on GSoC, and here's the output I'm rather concerned about: Warning: post-commit hook failed (exit code 1) with output: ********************************************************************** NOTE: This is an informational message only; your commit has been processed normally. This repository has moved to a new location. This project was upgraded to the new SourceForge platform, so a one-time move of this repo was performed. There are instructions for switching to the new location, including any commits you may have done on this repository after the upgrade, at: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/community-docs/Repository%20Upgrade%20FAQ/ The new repository URL can be found by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/p/<your-project> This repository will soon become read-only. ********************************************************************** Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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by Xiangfu Liu 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Hi I would like to update this page: Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows I meet some error when install the TDM's GCC and compile btool. TDM's GCC needs 'Uncheck' the [Check for updated files on the TDM-GCC server] or it will always install the latest gcc Compile btool also can be done by only g++ buildtool.cpp -o tool Make sure you have correct DEVLIB_PATH and MINGW_PATH Thanks Xiangfu

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