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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Official Inkscape PPAs
by gespertino＠...400... 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hi. Thanks for setting the PPA! Is it possible to change the name of that builds from inkscape to something like "inkscape-devel" so it doesn't replace the stable build from repos? Inkscape is one of the main tools in my pipe and I give it a heavy daily use, so I cannot afford to have an unstable inkscape, but I don't want it to keep me from testing the new stuff! Being able to install both versions would solve the problem. Thanks in advance Gez.

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New Measurement Tool in Inkscape
by Felipe Sanches 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hello, I'd like to let you all know that I have been working on a new tool for measuring objects in Inkscape. Here is a screencast of the tool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZKnxTO11xE But if you checkout the development code from Bazaar , then you'll see some new things that were implemented in the tool after recording the screencast (i.e. the tool now displays angle info also). Happy Hacking, Felipe Sanches PS: If you find bugs prease report them and assign the bugs to me at Lauchpad bug tracker.

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Serious error with Wacom stylus on XP
by Preben Soeberg 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

"Stylus entered coordinates are wrong." Reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/797519 This error is a showstopper. There is likely also a problem with the Wacom mouse, but I cannot test this, as mine is broken. Regards Preben

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Use of MINGW64 (minor)
by Bruno Winck 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi Everyone, I am on the process to resume my work on Inkscape I did about css. I was using svn, now I have a new computer so I start again fresh with bazaar, so far so good. Since its running Windows 7 x64 I decided to give a try to mingw64. Compiling btool went fine, however when running it allocated 4 gig of memory and stalls. A quick look didn’t help figure out what could be the cause and now I revert to x32. Now I wonder what is the ground of using btool today. Is it still a necessity ? Other projects compile both on Windows and Linux without any specific tool. It would also help to benefit from a real incremental build. Any ideas of what was already tried around btool ? Also if there is already some ideas of having Inkscape addins let me know. I would like some ability to add attributes to svg files like scripts or rdf attributes. -Bruno Bruno Winck Email: <mailto:bwinck@...2633...> bwinck@...2632... Blog: <http://www.kneaver.com/> http://www.kneaver.com/blog Kneaver Corp <http://www.kneaver.com/> http://www.kneaver.com/ Twitter:http://twitter.com/kneaver <skype:brunowinck> SKYPE:brunowinck PH: +1 (415) 749 5850 CELL: +1 (415) 513 3160 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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A bug it would be nice to have fixed for 0.48.2
by Josh Andler 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

If anyone is willing to look into this, it appears JazzyNico did some good leg work in helping to identify the cause. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/631444

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CMake update
by Joshua Blocher 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

oops didn't send it to the list as well Campbell, Thank you for picking support for the cmake build up. Johan and I authored most of the system but I had given up on getting it to link properly and than went on hiatus from working on Inkscape. And that is where things have sit until today. > - Options from configure's --with/--without This I don't agree with. Cmake should detect all optional libs and use them by default if available. At the end of the configuration generation it should tell the developer what libs are not being used. Similar to what KDE's Calligra does currently. For Experimental features I'm find with this. Thank you again for picking this up if you need anything feel free to ask. I'm going to test this soon. Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow

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Official Inkscape PPAs
by Josh Andler 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hey All, I just wanted to tell everyone about the creation of two PPAs that we created for Ubuntu users. One is for the current stable/supported release of Inkscape (not populated yet). https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/stable The other is a nightly/trunk PPA for our testers and those who just want the newest features right away. https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/trunk We owe a big thank you to Alex Valavanis and Cafuego for doing all the hard stuff. Cheers, Josh

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CMake update
by Campbell Barton 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi Dev's, Over the weekend I found inkscape's cmake files were not working and took the time to update them, * What Works * - building on linux - auto-detecting libs - basic installation - generating config.h, inkscape-version.c - all source & headers listed in CMakeLists.txt * Whats needed * - Inkview target - Options from configure's --with/--without - a CMake module FindDBus.cmake, probably other libraries which are optional too. - CMake currently doesn't install translations, hicolor/icons, or man pages. Probably you already discussed this when first adding CMake but I checked on build times and IDE integration. Including all source files in the CMakeLists.txt files is important for IDE's mainly so they are aware of the headers. I double checked inkscape's source loads in QtCreator/Netbeans & Eclipse. To ensure cmake doesn't get out of sync with the source there is a script which parses the CMakeLists.txt files and makes sure file lists are value and don't miss any newly added files. ./CMakeScripts/cmake_consistency_check.py While a time test at this point is not quite fair, since cmake misses translations & linking inkview I ran one all the same :). Not including configure times and built with "time make -j6" on a 6 core system. cmake: 3min, 38sec. automake: 5min, 56sec. So writing to say the cmake files are (basically) working and if you're a developer who likes fast builds and IDE integration, this part works now. If there is some especially important thing I miss out, let me know and Ill try add it. If other devs want to add support for OSX/Windows, link inkview... etc, that'd be great too. -- - Campbell

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Help regarding libcroco node-iface structure
by Abhishek Sharma 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hello everybody, I am a student selected for GSoC 2011 in inkscape and have undertaken the CSS standardization project. I am currently converting libcroco to be in sync with inkscape's version of libcroco. Now I also have to deal with the tests already provided with libcroco. Test #(1-4) went perfectly, but in test #5 I have to modify the code so that it used the new libcroco function. In that test, initially there was xmlNode and xmlDoc from where we were getting data for instance in one function we had *CRXMLNodePtr a_node = xmlDoc->children*. But libXml has been removed and we do it some other way. This is what I need help in. May anybody please throw some light as to what do we use for initializing parameters for libcroco parsing as in what are the initial values of CRNodeIface and CRXMLNodePtr. Please help. -- Regards, Abhishek Sharma

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [CREATE] LGM2012 in Argentina?
by Josh Andler 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

If Felipe is in, I must make it a priority to attend. Perhaps we could also organize the proposed inkscape dev sprint for it as well. Cheers, Josh On Jun 12, 2011 7:23 PM, "Felipe Sanches" <juca@...2270...> wrote: > I would certainly attend LGM in Argentina! And I guess that Aurelio Hackert > (Inkscape developer), Joao Bueno (for sure!), Rodrigo Pitanga, Farid > Abdelnour, Nara Oliveira, Valessio Brito and Karlisson Bezerra are some of > the members of the brazilian libre graphics community that would probably > attend also. > > cheers, > Felipe Sanches (Juca) > Inkscape developer > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Dave Crossland <dave@...1555...> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I was running a bunch of libre font workshops in Argentina last month, >> and Fundacion Gutenberg was one of the institutions who hosted me in >> Buenos Aires. >> >> http://www.fundaciongutenberg.edu.ar/ >> >> The staff there are extremely enthusiastic about libre graphics, and >> made a serious comment about offering to host LGM 2012 if there was >> interest in the community. >> >> Is there such interest? >> >> -- >> Cheers >> Dave >> _______________________________________________ >> CREATE mailing list >> CREATE@...626... >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create >>

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Connector Tool
by Josh Andler 12 Jun '11

12 Jun '11

Hey All, It would be really nice if someone would look into some of the issues with the connector tool, especially since they keep adding up and rarely get redued. It seems that at this point it is unmaintained and unfinished, which to me puts it in the same category as the our disabled technical/lpe tool. Meaning that if it doesn't see love by the time we're wrapping up 0.50 (or whatever that version will be), I personally feel that it should be disabled at that point and will request a vote. I know people have used it, it's cruft is in their documents, but if it's not going to be given a serious go, it makes no sense to have it. Just wanting to bring the issue up with plenty of notice. Cheers, Josh

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Make errors (WPG and EMF)
by Nicolas Dufour 12 Jun '11

12 Jun '11

Hello, The trunk and 0.48.x branch don't compile on Windows XP with the current revisions due to the following make error: Make error line 299: problem compiling: In file included from c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGraphics.h:29, from c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/libwpg.h:35, from src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:51: c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGString.h:41: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGString.h:45: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type In file included from c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGBitmap.h:30, from c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGPaintInterface.h:30, from c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/libwpg.h:36, from src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:51: c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGRect.h:50: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGRect.h:51: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type In file included from c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGPaintInterface.h:30, from c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/libwpg.h:36, from src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:51: c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGBitmap.h:53: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGBitmap.h:56: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type In file included from c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGPaintInterface.h:31, from c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/libwpg.h:36, from src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:51: c:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1/libwpg/WPGBinaryData.h:52: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp: In member function 'virtual SPDocument* Inkscape::Extension::Internal::WpgInput::open(Inkscape::Extension::Input*, const gchar*)': src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:72: error: 'input' was not declared in this scope src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:78: error: 'olestream' was not declared in this scope src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:79: error: type '<type error>' argument given to 'delete', expected pointer src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:84: error: 'input' was not declared in this scope src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:88: error: type '<type error>' argument given to 'delete', expected pointer src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:97: error: 'input' was not declared in this scope src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:97: error: 'output' was not declared in this scope src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:98: error: type '<type error>' argument given to 'delete', expected pointer src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:104: error: 'output' was not declared in this scope src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:105: error: 'input' was not declared in this scope src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp: At global scope: src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:66: warning: unused parameter 'mod' src/extension/internal/wpg-input.cpp:66: warning: unused parameter 'uri' The branch also show an error with emf-win32-inout.cpp: Make error line 299: problem compiling: src/extension/internal/emf-win32-inout.cpp: In member function 'virtual SPDocument* Inkscape::Extension::Internal::EmfWin32::open(Inkscape::Extension::Input*, const gchar*)': src/extension/internal/emf-win32-inout.cpp:2356: error: invalid conversion from 'int (*)(HDC__*, HANDLETABLE*, const ENHMETARECORD*, int, LPARAM)' to 'int (*)(HDC__*, HANDLETABLE*, ENHMETARECORD*, int, LPARAM)' src/extension/internal/emf-win32-inout.cpp:2356: error: initializing argument 3 of 'BOOL EnumEnhMetaFile(HDC__*, HENHMETAFILE__*, int (*)(HDC__*, HANDLETABLE*, ENHMETARECORD*, int, LPARAM), void*, const RECT*)' Not problem when compiling on Ubuntu. Regards, -- Nicolas

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Build problems with r10266
by Tobias Ellinghaus 11 Jun '11

11 Jun '11

Hello, i have issues compiling inkscape on Debian/sid, gcc 4.6.0. I have enabled dbus and get the following error: CXX extension/dbus/document-interface.o ./document.h: In function 'void document_interface_update(DocumentInterface*, GError**)': ./document.h:99:13: error: 'SPRoot* SPDocument::root' is private extension/dbus/document-interface.cpp:979:40: error: within this context extension/dbus/document-interface.cpp:979:44: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct SPRoot' ./document.h:46:8: error: forward declaration of 'struct SPRoot' ./document.h:99:13: error: 'SPRoot* SPDocument::root' is private extension/dbus/document-interface.cpp:980:40: error: within this context extension/dbus/document-interface.cpp:980:44: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct SPRoot' ./document.h:46:8: error: forward declaration of 'struct SPRoot' ./document.h:99:13: error: 'SPRoot* SPDocument::root' is private extension/dbus/document-interface.cpp:984:40: error: within this context extension/dbus/document-interface.cpp:984:44: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct SPRoot' ./document.h:46:8: error: forward declaration of 'struct SPRoot' ./document.h:99:13: error: 'SPRoot* SPDocument::root' is private extension/dbus/document-interface.cpp:985:40: error: within this context extension/dbus/document-interface.cpp:985:44: error: invalid use of incomplete type 'struct SPRoot' ./document.h:46:8: error: forward declaration of 'struct SPRoot' make[3]: *** [extension/dbus/document-interface.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/houz/download/inkscape/inkscape/src' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/houz/download/inkscape/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/houz/download/inkscape/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 Do you need any additional information? Tobias

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Depixelizing Pixel Art
by Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

Hi, FYI: http://www.scribd.com/doc/56137278/Depixelizing-Pixel-Art "We describe a novel algorithm for extracting a resolution-independent vector representation from pixel art images, which enables magnifying the results by an arbitrary amount without image degradation. Our algorithm resolves pixel-scale features in theinput and converts them into regions with smoothly varying shad-ing that are crisply separated by piecewise-smooth contour curves" Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Avaailable build for Slackware.
by John Culleton 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

The latest build for Slackware is 48.1. It requires updates of a dozen libraries newer than what comes with Slackware 13.37. The first library I tried, GTKMM was not available from its home site. So----what about Inkscape 48? will it work with the older libraries that come with slackware 13.37? How far back in the Inkscape line do I have to go to find a version that will work with the libraries in Slack 13.37? Typically the libraries date back to Oct 2009. -- John Culleton

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Save a copy in current dir?
by Johan Engelen 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hi all, I'd like some usabilty input for this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/791098 It requests an option to have the Save a Copy dialog always open in the current document's directory. The Save As... dialog already has this option (preferences > save). Should I add an option below the Save As... dialog option in the preference dialog, or should I use the same setting for both dialogs? The reason I ask, is that I am a little afraid of adding yet another option... Thanks for advice :), Johan

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Large but small change heads-up
by Jon Cruz 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Hi, I just wanted to toss out a heads-up on change 10254 that I just pushed to trunk. It removed the outdated/unsafe SP_DOCUMENT_DEFS() macro, and changed about 58 files. Most of those were just a few lines, however, so it should not cause any major conflicts. However if anyone has some pending work, now might be a good time to re-sync from trunk so as to avoid potential extra steps being needed when committing.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.48.2 ... coming soon
by Daniel Macks 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:49:23 -0700, Josh Andler wrote: Hey all, > > Apparently there is an exploit in the gtk we ship with 0.48.1. Given > that the recently updated devlibs required modifying trunk to compile, > it seems logical to just ship out the fixes that have landed in the > 0.48 branch since .1 was released. Do you have a link for this exploit? Trying to decide how to prioritize pushing this update when it's released (and also see if any other things with "their own" libgtk have an affected version). dan -- Daniel Macks dmacks@...2516...

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Inkscape 0.48.2 ... coming soon
by Josh Andler 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

Hey all, Apparently there is an exploit in the gtk we ship with 0.48.1. Given that the recently updated devlibs required modifying trunk to compile, it seems logical to just ship out the fixes that have landed in the 0.48 branch since .1 was released. In keeping things up to date and all of that fun, the 0.48.x branch is currently upgrading on lp...so I just wanted to give a heads up to everyone on that (it will just be like when we upgraded trunk). It should hopefully be done in a few hours. If anyone has and questions or concerns, please let me know. Also, if you know of any "must have" fixes which don't already exist that you think should make it, please let me know. Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Merge] lp:~valavanisalex/inkscape/fix-792263 into lp:inkscape
by Jon Cruz 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

On Jun 3, 2011, at 3:52 AM, Alex Valavanis wrote: > Alex Valavanis has proposed merging lp:~valavanisalex/inkscape/fix-792263 into lp:inkscape. > > Requested reviews: > Inkscape Developers (inkscape.dev) > Related bugs: > Bug #792263 in Inkscape: "Do not include individual GTK+ headers" > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/792263 > > For more details, see: > https://code.launchpad.net/~valavanisalex/inkscape/fix-792263/+merge/63364 > > I've gone through the code and replaced all gdk/gtk headers with generic headers in preparation for an eventual move to gtk+ 3. See http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html#id1391340 for details. > > I have made sure that the code compiles with GTK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES defined. > > It's quite a big diff, affecting many files so I don't feel comfortable committing it to trunk straight away. Please could someone take a look, and consider merging? > > Thanks Ah, yes. The change-to-really-slow-down-compile-time-and-break-modularity include mess GTK has doubled down on. :-( Thanks for slogging through the effort to get this together. I'll be going over it and hopefully getting it in soon. (I know I'd been procrastinating since the poor architectural choice has just grated on me, but we do need to get this resolved). BTW, we only just this past few weeks bumped Inkscape up to require GTK 2.20 for building, so it might be a fair bit more before we make a 3.x push overall. The header fix does help, though.

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How to get path label/id
by Skinner, Ralph 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hi, I'm writing a Live Path Effect, and I'm trying to get the label and/or id of the path to which the effect is being applied. I tried this in the 'doEffect' method: Effect::doEffect_pwd2 (Geom::Piecewise<Geom::D2<Geom::SBasis> > const & pwd2_in) { LivePathEffectObject *myLPE = (LivePathEffectObject*)this->getLPEObj(); myLPE->defaultLabel(); ... ...but of course this returns the label of the path effect, not the path itself. Any suggestions? Thanks! "Misys" is the trade name for Misys plc (registered in England and Wales). Registration Number: 01360027. Registered office: One Kingdom Street, London W2 6BL, United Kingdom. For a list of Misys group operating companies please go to http://www.misys.com/corp/About_Us/misys_operating_companies.html. This email and any attachments have been scanned for known viruses using multiple scanners. This email message is intended for the named recipient only. It may be privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the named recipient of this email please notify us immediately and do not copy it or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. This email does not constitute the commencement of legal relations between you and Misys plc. Please refer to the executed contract between you and the relevant member of the Misys group for the identity of the contracting party with which you are dealing.

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Win32 devlibs update req
by Josh Andler 30 May '11

30 May '11

Can someone please update the win32 devlibs to the most recent versions of released libs? Specifically the gtk & glib portions are what would be helpful if possible. If this isn't very doable due to that flickering bug that was experienced, has anyone filed any bugs upstream about it? Cheers, Josh

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[Fwd: [Bug 629363] Re: inkscape 0.48 crashes in sp_stroke_style_line_update() when drawing with opened "Fill and Stroke" dialog]
by ~suv 26 May '11

26 May '11

Anyone willing/able to investigate this issue? It has been reported for - gentoo / amd64 - Mac OS X 10.6 (64bit) Backtraces are available in the bug report. ~suv -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Bug 629363] Re: inkscape 0.48 crashes in sp_stroke_style_line_update() when drawing with opened "Fill and Stroke" dialog Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:21:56 -0000 Unfortunately inkscape 0.47 can no longer be build with an up-to-date libpng. So I have the problem of neither beeing able to use 0.48.1 (because of the crash) nor 0.47 (because of the building troubles). Can we as users somehow be of any more help to identify the bug? Thank you very much. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Inkscape Bug Team, which is subscribed to Inkscape. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629363 Title: inkscape 0.48 crashes in sp_stroke_style_line_update() when drawing with opened "Fill and Stroke" dialog

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Textbox with coloured background?
by Drechsel Wolf 25 May '11

25 May '11

Hi everybody, I searched lists etc., but didnt find an answer to a quite trivial question: I need a text box with a coloured background. It should surround the text in a adjustable distance; the background should expand when more text is typed into the text box. Sorry to bore you with such a stupid thing - cant belive this "feature" really is for the wishlist? Greetings, Wolf

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Print output of hairlines or single pixel vector lines
by Ashmi Shah 24 May '11

24 May '11

Have you developed capability to output hairline design for laser vector cutting and cutting wood on CNC wood routing machines? There is a large user base waiting to hear from you. Thanks. -- ashmi

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Win32 build broken?
by Nicolas Dufour 24 May '11

24 May '11

Hi, Apparently there's something broken in the current win32 build with the new devlibs r22. Without the devlibs installed (or in a different location), Inkscape returns an error message stating that libgcc_s_slj-1.dll can't be found, and then exists. With the devlibs installed, Inkscape launches as expected. Reproduced with the modevia's file (10216) and a local build (10215). No problem with the trunk revision 10204. Regards. -- Nicolas

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Merge Please
by Martin Owens 21 May '11

21 May '11

Can I get a merge for bugfix 781244 please? It's a small commit. https://code.launchpad.net/~doctormo/inkscape/bugfix-lp-781244 Martin,

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Papercuts
by Aleksandar Kovac 21 May '11

21 May '11

Big thanks everyone for checking out and adding to 'Them Cuts'. Yes, alex valavanis (quite a few alexes here, :).. That is exactly how i feel the 'papercuts' are. Also, thats why i did not want to 'contaminate' the bug db before you girls and guys see it. Papercuts not really being bugs in a programming sense and all... is it ok then to add these to launchpad using 'papercut' tag? Aleksandar Kovac On May 20, 2011, at 22:44, Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...400...> wrote: > Maybe it would be worth us adding a "papercut" tag for the Inkscape > bug tracker to indicate bugs that are: > > a) Easy to fix (presumably) > b) Easily noticed > c) Annoying, rather than serious > > It should be possible to fix a lot of these problems quite quickly, > and they would help improve the user experience a lot. > > AV > > On 20 May 2011 14:10, Aleksandar Kovac <alex.open.design@...400...> wrote: >> Hi everyone! >> >> Long ago I have mentioned a little observation process with a few Inkscape >> users and mentioned some 'papercuts' that showed up. >> As I have mentioned it before, papercuts are not quite bugs, so I have >> started to enter them in a somewhat structured manner at >> http://cuts.thinking-garment.com/. >> A bloggish, hideous website with bad humor on top and a missing search >> function, among other things. >> Time permitting, I will continue to add more from the notes I made way back. >> Of course I will try to see if they still apply to newer Inkscape versions. >> >> I hope this is useful in some way. Please feel free to suggest how/where/why >> this could be more useful. >> >> Excuses for being so dreadfully slow. >> >> Alex >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! >> Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its >> next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran >> developers boost performance applications - including clusters. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing list >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> >>

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more uses for D-BUS
by Alexandre Prokoudine 21 May '11

21 May '11

FYI: https://github.com/jave/inkmacs "When a dbus link is established from an emacs buffer to an Inkscape desktop, it is then possible to call inkdoc or inkverb methods on Inkscape. The inkverb-* methods are interactive and theres a lot of them. So ‘m-x inkverb-calligraphic-prefs’ in a buffer using inkorg-minor-mode for example, will bring up the calligraphy preference ui. The inkverb-* methods are mostly ui related and take no arguments. The inkdoc-* methods are related to object creation and manipulation and are not (yet) declared interactive. Finding the right Inkscape operation in Emacs can actualy be much more efficient than using the menus in Inkscape. Especialy if you use some M-x booster such as Anything or Icicles." Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Inkscape Papercuts
by Aleksandar Kovac 20 May '11

20 May '11

Hi everyone! Long ago I have mentioned a little observation process with a few Inkscape users and mentioned some 'papercuts' that showed up. As I have mentioned it before, papercuts are not quite bugs, so I have started to enter them in a somewhat structured manner at http://cuts.thinking-garment.com/. A bloggish, hideous website with bad humor on top and a missing search function, among other things. Time permitting, I will continue to add more from the notes I made way back. Of course I will try to see if they still apply to newer Inkscape versions. I hope this is useful in some way. Please feel free to suggest how/where/why this could be more useful. Excuses for being so dreadfully slow. Alex

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inkscape tables extension
by Alexandre Prokoudine 20 May '11

20 May '11

Hi, FYI, a new project, just have been published: https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape-tables/ "This Inkscape extension provides table support for Inkscape. This is one of the features that are present in Corel Draw but are not present in Inkscape. So, just install this extension and you will have table support in Inkscape" Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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deviantArt Stash comes to GIMP and Inkscape
by Martin Owens 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hey Art Lovers! Please help me spread the good news if you can... I’m please to announce that version 1.0 of the deviantArt stash plugins for Inkscape and Gimp are released. This is a BIG deal and I’m very excited because not only do we have this functionality, but we have it FIRST, before proprietary software package. That’s right, the stash API was only announced last week and here I am giving you the keys to brand spanking new functionality right from within your favorite art creation applications! We can do something with art that no other software can do today… send your artwork (with or without sources) directly to your deviantArt account… then once uploaded it can (at your option) open up the web browser so you can look at the artwork, send your friends a link or publish it further in your main galleries. Read more... http://doctormo.org/2011/05/19/deviantart-plugins-released/ Martin Owens

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user question
by Drechsel Wolf 19 May '11

19 May '11

Sorry everybody, yes, this is no question for the developer list - but as I'm not subscribed to any user forum, maybe somebody could drop me a quick line. How can I change any node to a corner node, not using the menu, but with a keyboard shortcut or a <key>-click combination? Thanks and greetings, Wolf

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Another compiling error
by LucaDC 19 May '11

19 May '11

Windows XP, rev 10208. Make error line 300: problem compiling: src/ui/dialog/glyphs.cpp: In constructor 'Inkscape::UI::Dialog::GlyphsPanel::GlyphsPanel(const gchar*)': src/ui/dialog/glyphs.cpp:458: error: 'class Gtk::Button' has no member named 'set_can_default' Make error line 300: problem compiling: In file included from src/color-profile.h:12, from src/widgets/sp-color-icc-selector.h:13, from src/widgets/sp-color-wheel-selector.cpp:13: c:\devlibs/include/lcms.h: In function 'void* _cmsMalloc(size_t)': c:\devlibs/include/lcms.h:1410: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false src/widgets/sp-color-wheel-selector.cpp: In function 'void handleWheelStyleSet(GtkHSV*, GtkStyle*, void*)': src/widgets/sp-color-wheel-selector.cpp:141: error: 'gtk_widget_get_allocation' was not declared in this scope -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Another-compiling-error-tp31646481p31646481.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Inkscape meeting at Libre Grapics Meeting
by Jon Cruz 11 May '11

11 May '11

I just wanted to drop a quick note that the Libre Graphics Meeting has scheduled a general Inkscape team meeting for today at noon (two hours from now). To try to be inclusive (especially since not many Inkscape contributors made it to Montreal this time) I'll be on IRC throughout the meeting and try to bridge some of the questions and conversation. I would encourage any who are able to get on our IRC room and ask as well as answer questions, goals, etc. Thanks.

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Compile error on XP
by Preben Soeberg 09 May '11

09 May '11

Cannot compile r10198 on XP. Error message: Make error line 300: problem compiling: src/xml/rebase-hrefs.cpp: In function 'void Inkscape::XML::rebase_hrefs(SPDocument*, const gchar*, bool)': src/xml/rebase-hrefs.cpp:255:37: error: cannot convert 'std::string' to 'const gchar*' for argument '1' to 'gboolean g_path_is_absolute(const gchar*)' src/xml/rebase-hrefs.cpp:256:41: error: cannot convert 'std::string' to 'gchar*' for argument '1' to 'gchar* g_strdelimit(gchar*, const gchar*, gchar)' src/xml/rebase-hrefs.cpp:284:88: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'gchar*' src/xml/rebase-hrefs.cpp:284:88: error: initializing argument 1 of 'gchar* g_strdelimit(gchar*, const gchar*, gchar)' Preben S

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Complie error
by Tavmjong Bah 09 May '11

09 May '11

Hi, Just tried to compile Inkscape trunk on my spanking new laptop (replacing my 6.5 year old one). It failed in 2geom with an error from the boost library. I used Fedora 15 beta which has boost 1.46 and gcc 4.6. The error message is: In file included from 2geom/transforms.cpp:37:0: ./2geom/transforms.h: In member function ‘S& Geom::ShearBase<S>::operator*=(const S&) [with S = Geom::HShear]’: ./2geom/transforms.h:59:9: instantiated from ‘void Geom::TransformConcept<T>::constraints() [with T = Geom::HShear]’ /usr/include/boost/concept/detail/has_constraints.hpp:42:98: instantiated from ‘const bool boost::concepts::not_satisfied<Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::HShear> >::value’ /usr/include/boost/concept/detail/has_constraints.hpp:45:31: instantiated from ‘boost::concepts::not_satisfied<Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::HShear> >’ /usr/include/boost/mpl/if.hpp:67:11: instantiated from ‘boost::mpl::if_<boost::concepts::not_satisfied<Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::HShear> >, boost::concepts::constraint<Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::HShear> >, boost::concepts::requirement<boost::concepts::failed************ Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::HShear>::************> >’ /usr/include/boost/concept/detail/general.hpp:50:8: instantiated from ‘boost::concepts::requirement_<void (*)(Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::HShear>)>’ 2geom/transforms.cpp:121:120: instantiated from here ./2geom/transforms.h:212:77: error: invalid initialization of reference of type ‘Geom::HShear&’ from expression of type ‘const Geom::HShear’ ./2geom/transforms.h: In member function ‘S& Geom::ShearBase<S>::operator*=(const S&) [with S = Geom::VShear]’: ./2geom/transforms.h:59:9: instantiated from ‘void Geom::TransformConcept<T>::constraints() [with T = Geom::VShear]’ /usr/include/boost/concept/detail/has_constraints.hpp:42:98: instantiated from ‘const bool boost::concepts::not_satisfied<Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::VShear> >::value’ /usr/include/boost/concept/detail/has_constraints.hpp:45:31: instantiated from ‘boost::concepts::not_satisfied<Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::VShear> >’ /usr/include/boost/mpl/if.hpp:67:11: instantiated from ‘boost::mpl::if_<boost::concepts::not_satisfied<Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::VShear> >, boost::concepts::constraint<Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::VShear> >, boost::concepts::requirement<boost::concepts::failed************ Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::VShear>::************> >’ /usr/include/boost/concept/detail/general.hpp:50:8: instantiated from ‘boost::concepts::requirement_<void (*)(Geom::TransformConcept<Geom::VShear>)>’ 2geom/transforms.cpp:122:120: instantiated from here ./2geom/transforms.h:212:77: error: invalid initialization of reference of type ‘Geom::VShear&’ from expression of type ‘const Geom::VShear’ ./2geom/transforms.h: In member function ‘S& Geom::ShearBase<S>::operator*=(const S&) [with S = Geom::HShear]’: ./2geom/transforms.h:212:80: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type] ./2geom/transforms.h: In member function ‘S& Geom::ShearBase<S>::operator*=(const S&) [with S = Geom::VShear]’: ./2geom/transforms.h:212:80: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type] make[3]: *** [2geom/transforms.o] Error 1 Any clues? Tav

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Recent surge of spam in the wiki
by ~suv 04 May '11

04 May '11

In recent weeks, Inkscape's Wiki is increasingly targeted by (presumably) spam bots which create a new user and a new page with spam (including uploaded images) [1]. 1) Could the wiki use tighter rules for the creation of new users (captchas?) that can't be exploited as easily as apparently the current configuration? 2) Who does have admin credentials to change the current wiki configuration? 3) Who else does have admin rights to clean up (delete pages, block user accounts)? At the moment, it seems as if 'Legio noctis' is the only one with sufficient admin rights who cares and cleans up from time to time, but if the spam surges as it has in recent days, maybe this clean-up task could be shared by several users, or even done by a script? ~suv [1] <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebot…>

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Gtk3 and libgdl
by Joel Holdsworth 04 May '11

04 May '11

Hi All, I'm interested in upstreaming libgdl so that we can remove it from the inkscape codebase, but I notice that GDL has now been ported to Gtk3. Are there any plans in motion to port inkscape to Gtk3. Or is this something I could consider involving myself with. Best Regards Joel Holdsworth

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Upstreaming Inkscape's libcroco
by Joel Holdsworth 01 May '11

01 May '11

Hi Inkscape Devs, I've decided to take it upon myself to try and get Inkscape's libcroco pushed upstream. I've been doing some web searching about the previous discussions that have gone on about it: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/libcroco-list/2007-February/msg00000.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/libcroco-list/2009-March/msg00001.html https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/123799 https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/inkscape/+bug/648246 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572454 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252510 I've been doing some work pulling out the differences between inkscape and upstream crocco into a series of tidy patches. The main differences are the libxml split-out, fixes for compiler warnings, and a couple of minor bug fixes. But as you know the main issue is about splitting out libxml, and I see that this has already been attempted here:http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=129078 Do anyone know anything about the status of this patch? Was is rejected for some reason? Best Regards Joel Holdsworth

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New Gallery Dialog
by Andrew 29 Apr '11

29 Apr '11

Hi Guys, So I have been doing a lot of work on the Gallery dialog (the OCAL dialog is still in progress ;] ) and I have finished! Again I was wondering whether I could get some testing, especially on some different platforms. You will find the dialog in File > Gallery Thanks! Diff on trunk: https://code.launchpad.net/~and471/inkscape/gallery/+merge/58442/+preview-d… Branch: bzr branch lp:~and471/inkscape/gallery Screencast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKMxkk_pobA Blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/gallery -- Andrew

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lgm
by Alexandre Prokoudine 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Hi, Who is going to LGM this year? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Curve sketching--Cornucopia
by Ilya Baran 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hi, A while ago I asked the Inkscape list whether there was interest in an implementation of my curve sketching algorithm (see the thread at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=24902605). There seemed to be interest and I wrote a cleaner (and much faster) version, although this took longer than I anticipated. There are still a bunch of improvements possible, but at this point it's quite usable. The code and a windows installer for a demo binary are available at http://code.google.com/p/cornucopia-lib/ and there's some documentation. I am completely unfamiliar with Inkscape's codebase, so the integration would need to be done by one of the Inkscape devs. As a proof-of-concept, however, I wrote a very crude replacement of the bezier_fit_cubic_r call with a call to Cornucopia in the pencil tool (patch attached--of course, you have to build and link to Cornucopia to try it). For the real thing, I'd need to find a better mapping from the "smoothness" slider in Inkscape to my myriad of parameters. Is someone interested in working on this? I would, of course, help in what way I can (although I'm pretty busy these days and my response latency may be high occasionally). Thanks, -Ilya

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Curve sketching--Cornucopia
by Ilya Baran 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hi, Ok, I understand about LPE's now. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> wrote: > On 25-4-2011 10:25, Ilya Baran wrote: > > ... > > For the real thing, I'd need to find a better mapping >> from the "smoothness" slider in Inkscape to my myriad of parameters. > > What would be the minimal amount of parameters for your fitting? If we > decide to replace the current fitting with yours, it is easy to add > parameters to the toolbar. My implementation essentially exposes almost every magic constant in every algorithm as a parameter, so there are 30 or so. There are parameters that specify what kinds of primitives (arcs, lines, clothoids) and transitions are preferred, and the rest mostly tradeoff accuracy vs. simplicity and quality vs. performance. For a real UI, therefore, I think that one or two sliders (the quality vs. performance slider is probably optional) and some buttons for choosing the curve type should be sufficient. Thanks, -Ilya > Ciao, > Johan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise > Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been > demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE > containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain > from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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disabled viewbox attribute for symbols when using cairo export
by Christopher Dyck 24 Apr '11

24 Apr '11

Hi, I have a question about the handling or not-handling of the viewbox attribute in symbols when using cairo export. I tried to export a map from openstreetmap to pdf and got http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2504/thghng78_png.htm as result. So I took a look in the code and stumbled over the following lines, which disable the viewbox attribute for symbols completely. ---- src/extension/internal/cairo-renderer.cpp #391 // apply viewbox if set if (0 /*symbol->viewBox_set*/) { ----- Perhaps this is related to this fixme comments --- src/sp-symbol.cpp #144 /* fixme: We have to take original item affine into account */ /* fixme: Think (Lauris) */ ---- So my question is: Is this still needed or is it possible to activate symbols viewboxes again?

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ligatures
by Alexandre Prokoudine 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

Hi, Can anybody say why exactly ligatures are lost when individual changes are applied to one of the letters? Like e.g. applying a different color. See attach for illustration. The newly released cyrillic version of free/libre Lobster font apparently revealed lots of horrible things: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648155 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648157 Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Cairo branch builds on win32, what next?
by Jasper van de Gronde 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

I just committed a patch that completely removes the win32.cpp/.h that were causing build problems (and apparently weren't used anymore). Apart from ripping out some printing related code that wasn't used anymore this also removed the is_os_wide function. Although this function is in principle unrelated and could have been kept, I decided to get rid of that as well. This means that any remaining support for Win9x/ME that depended on this is now gone (as far as know we didn't support those windows versions anymore anyway, so it was just extra baggage). So, what next? I might have encountered a pretty serious regression in text rendering, but I haven't looked deeper into that yet. (And it might be known already or it might be something specific to my set up.)

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Usability development help for Inkscape available
by Aslak Karsi 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Hello We are a group of five students from Finland, studying at University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science. We are currently working on a project assignment to offer help in usability development for an open source software project of our choice. Past few weeks we have been familiarizing ourselves with Inkscape and its community and now we would like to offer our work resources for your use. We have already figured out a few ideas of what we could do for the Inkscape project: * Heuristic evaluation * Usability testing * Prioritization of usability related bugs on the buglist To produce as useful results as possible, we would like to hear your ideas. How do you feel about the tasks suggested? Is there some specific part of the software we should focus on? Any ideas and feedback at this point would be greatly appreciated. Project leader Aslak Karsi Marko Arffman Matias Patosalmi Jouni Rissanen Matti Siipola

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ANNOUNCE: Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 Montreal Needs Your Sponsorship, Presentations, and Registration
by jon＠...235... 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

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synfig + i18n
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

Hi, Synfig Studio team has been repeatedly asked to make localizations available on Windows, but the person who does the builds right now isn't very much Windows savvy. They rely on GTKmm and gettext as well, and use NullSoft installer. If anyone has packaging knowledge and is willing to help fellow free graphics software developers, please ping me for contacts. Additionally, and this is, well, just my humble (yeah right :)) wish is that we (Synfig and Inkscape) should cooperate as projects. We don't have the manpower to do animation, and they don't have the manpower to do better SVG importing (they don't have SVG _ex_porting yet, AFAIK). Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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New SpinButtons with math ops
by Johan Engelen 17 Apr '11

17 Apr '11

Hi all, The last few days I added functionality to spinboxes: you can now type simple math expressions, like 100+20, 55*2, these kind of things. The code to add this functionality was taken from Gimp, very nice! You can try it out in the transform dialog for example. Works also in the toolbar, but... see below. It also works with units. You can write things like "2 cm", and it will be converted to whatever unit you have selected. Or you can write "(2 * 2 cm)*5 + 3 in". Toolbar spinboxes also have this functionality, but lack the unit stuff. (where it would be really convenient :( I will not work on this unit functionality in the toolbar. Maybe someone else can work on C++-ifying the "ege action" stuff and widget/toolbar.cpp, a first step on the way to getting there. In all C++ UI stuff it is easy to add, and let me know if it is missing somewhere. Ciao, Johan

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Weird text problem in Cairo branch
by Jasper van de Gronde 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

The attached SVG (which I just made using the cairo branch) has three text objects. One with "$x$", one with "$y$" and one with "$z$" (without the quotes obviously). In 0.48 this shows up just fine, but in the Cairo branch only some of the characters are shown (those that are shown appear to be complete). In particular, for most fonts only the x and the z appear (so no dollar sign or y), and for some fonts (like Times New Roman) all characters disappear... Is this a known problem? Can anyone reproduce the problem? Any ideas on fixing it?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Mockup for Improvement of Fill and Stroke Dialog
by Valerie 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

To be quite honest, I really want to be able to use stroke styles more effectively, but there's something I find extremely annoying about having to open such a huge tab just to get an arrow on one end. For that tiny arrow I have to temporarily hide a third of my workspace, often covering part of the lines I'm working on (and I have wide screen). I forgot if this has ever been proposed, but could there ever be a checkbox in tool options or on the side of the tool control bar, where you can click and add options onto the tool control bar? What I'd like to have is a simple set of three drop-downs + dash: [ ] [ ] [ ] Dash: [ ] The drop-downs only show a visual preview of the markers, not the names. I know many people Don't want it, but want options completely different from what I want, thus the toggling options, like "Visible buttons" in Libre Office and other office programs. Can this be achieved simply in GTK right now?

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Libre Graphics Meeting 10-13 May
by Donna Benjamin 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

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Updated proposal: Implement KML SVG translation
by David Xiong 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Hi, Thank you for the comments on my proposal. I have replied to the comments below my proposal, as in the forwarded email in the following. I have revised my proposal based on the comments that I got and some resources that I read further. It can be found in: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/ywxiong/… <http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/ywxiong/…>Thank you. David. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <no-reply@...2613...> Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:21 AM Subject: [Inkscape] New public review on Implement KML SVG translation (david_xiong) by david_xiong To: yunwxiong@...400... Hi, david_xiong has left the following public review at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/ywxiong/…: Hi, I will add the following comments or changes. 1. Reply to comments on my proposal Re: *Jasper* The benefit is that the implementation would allow conversion between SVG and KML. Then, the SVG file made by a user can be viewed in Google Map/Earth, after converted to KML. Scenarios that Tavmjong Bah mentioned are good ones where it may be useful. Re: Tavmjong Bah It sounds great, if there are a group of people extending SVG for mapping purposes. I will try and contact them, and see how they solve these problems and what features they provide. Your second comment is particularly useful. I will take these scenarios into account. I agree, instead of pre-processing the data, or cropping some data off, we can store them in SVG too. The SVG would not show certain data from KML, but can keep them. As this SVG is modified and converted back to KML, the KML is updated without losing data. I agree that this is a better way to deal with some different entities in SVG and KML. 2. Found a resource I found on Inkscape idea page that tbrugz mentioned his SVG to KML convertor in Java. It seems useful to look at. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/kml-svg-translation *********** 2010-08-12 - tbrugz Hi, I´ve developed an initial converter from SVG to KML in Java. It currently converts polygons, given the output "bounds" (north, east, south, west). Infos and hg repository is at https://bitbucket.org/tbrugz/kmlutils/. Feel free to improve on it *********** 3. Change to my proposal Tasks added to the plan: l Contact a group of people extending SVG for mapping purposes, and see how they solve these problems and what features they provide. l Review the Java SVG to KML convertor written by tbrugz. If some methods are useful, rewrite the Java code to be C++. A task listed in the proposal needs to be changed. Original: 2. write the logic to eliminate the unused element --- two way Change to be: Check and see whether or not certain KML data can be converted to be SVG entities. If convertible, convert them. If not convertible, store them in SVG file as KML entities. Then, these data are ignored by Inkscape, but would still exist in the KML converted back. As this SVG is modified and converted back to KML, the KML is updated without losing data. Greetings, The Google Open Source Programs Team --- You are receiving this message because you are participating in Google Summer of Code 2011. To stop receiving these messages, go to: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/google/gsoc2011.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Mockup for Improvement of Fill and Stroke Dialog
by Andrew 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

Hi again :) Okay so after previous feedback, that the comboboxes for the fill type and fill rule were not optimal (i.e. it is quicker to click a button than select something from a combobox), I have ammended the mockups, adding back in the buttons. I also corrected some padding in places, where I seem to have gone a bit mad with it :) Please see the two mockups here http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Fill_and_Stroke_Dialog_Re-Design#My… Again I really do welcome feedback, positive or negative :) -- Andrew

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Howto - linker dependent linker flags in makefile - help needed
by the Adib 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

Hello developers, we run into a little problem while dealing with upcoming gcc 4.6 compatibility. Any help for a "good" solution appreciated. Full story below. Thanks, Adib. -- There should be linker flags leading by "-Wl" curently there is not such option. Gcc fails builing without. But under OSX a native apple darwin compiler is used that do not know this option. I modified makefile to test for osx: src/Makefile.am: ... if PLATFORM_OSX inkscape_LDFLAGS = --export-dynamic $(kdeldflags) $(mwindows) else inkscape_LDFLAGS = -Wl,--export-dynamic $(kdeldflags) $(mwindows) endif ... and conficure.ac: ... dnl ****************************** dnl MacOS X dnl ****************************** AC_MSG_CHECKING([for OSX platform]) if test "x$build_vendor" = "xapple" ; then platform_osx=yes else platform_osx=no fi AC_MSG_RESULT([$platform_osx]) AM_CONDITIONAL(PLATFORM_OSX, test "$platform_osx" = "yes") ... But we should test for linker not a gnu linker. There is such test in aclocal.m4: ... # _LT_PATH_LD_GNU #- -------------- m4_defun([_LT_PATH_LD_GNU], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([if the linker ($LD) is GNU ld], lt_cv_prog_gnu_ld, [# I'd rather use --version here, but apparently some GNU lds only accept -v. case `$LD -v 2>&1 </dev/null` in *GNU* | *'with BFD'*) lt_cv_prog_gnu_ld=yes ;; *) lt_cv_prog_gnu_ld=no ;; esac]) with_gnu_ld=$lt_cv_prog_gnu_ld ])# _LT_PATH_LD_GNU ... So the question is how to modify those files that gnu linker is checked and in case on gnu linker we put "-Wl" in front of those linkre oprtions? Thanks for patience, Adib.

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Updated Cairo branch
by Krzysztof Kosiński 10 Apr '11

10 Apr '11

Hello I have updated my Cairo branch today, as a step towards merging it. There is one new regression, namely feImage does not handle aspect ratio. It will be fixed before merging. IIRC, there is a problem with CMS output, the editing controls are not using custom XOR blending, and there are build failures on Windows. Does anyone remember any other bugs? Regards, Krzysztof

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GSoC - any other mentors?
by Josh Andler 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

Hey all, At this point we have more proposals than mentors, and our lowest turnout for mentors since we've been participating in GSoC. If you're interested in mentoring, please log in to melange and visit http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/inkscape to request to become a mentor. Cheers, Josh

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Quadratic beziers?
by Blue Bomber 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Done anyone know if Inkscape supports quadratic splines, or only cubic? Thanks! Mike

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Faster rounding, might break?
by Jasper van de Gronde 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Johan mailed me a link to this site: http://stereopsis.com/sree/fpu2006.html Based on the routine proposed there I just implemented faster rounding in Gaussian blur (the IIR code uses it extensively). In my tests this speeds up blurring by about 10-20%, not insignificant for such a small change. However, the procedure does make use of the internal representation of a double, so I'm a little worried about it breaking on different architectures. If you use a non-Intel architecture it would be great if you could try out the Gaussian blur currently in bzr (it's rev. 10144) and see if anything goes wrong.

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gtkmm 3.0 is out
by Alexandre Prokoudine 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

FYI: http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2011/04/06/gtkmm-3-0-0/ Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Keyboard shortcuts suggestion
by Mike 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

I'm probably not the first to suggest this, but why not offer a set of keyboard shortcuts that corresponds (more or less) to the default shortcuts used in Adobe Illustrator? I've worked with Illustrator for years and the shortcuts are second nature to me; I'd like to use Inkscape but learning another set of shortcuts is not exactly appealing.

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Gsoc 2011 proposal - Implement KML-SVG translation
by David Xiong 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hi, I am applying to Gsoc 2011. I have submitted the proposal on line at: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/ywxiong/… The proposal is pasted below too. Would you kindly share any comments? I look forward to talking with the mentors of this project. Thank you. *Proposal:* *Implement KML SVG translation* Both SVG and KML are XML format data which can be used to present marks/paths/polygons/images on map shaped display. They have so many elements in common. SVG format is used on INKSCAPE but KML can be displayed on Google earth. It would be nice to have a tool to convert the two types of data files. Hence it can increase the popularity and generality of INKSCAPE. Since both of them are XML, the best way to transfer the two types of files is to utilize the xsltproc command within the libxslt library. This command reads and converts a defined XSLT transformation template to the desired XML format. The libxslt library has already been implemented and widely used in inkscape. Hence the task in this project is to implement the transformation template of XSLT file. However, there are a few things which need to be brought to our attention before getting started on the XSLT transformation template. 1. Both KML and SVG data can be compressed for saving space. To deal with compressed files, there is an existing library “zlib” in inkscape. It can be used to compress/decompress files to generate a proper format. 2. SVG data displays in 2 dimensions while KML is 3D. SVG data contains graphic effects such as filter, and animation, which is difficult to be represented in KML files. This means only partial information of the source file can be converted to the result file, such as points, images, polygons and lines, etc. 3. The speed of the xsltproc command is relatively slow when processing large data files. If possible, we need to implement some pre-processing logic to the conversion tool to improve performance. *Background and skills* *1. *Development experiences of GPS product for sail boats. This project was done in C++/MFC in windows and embedded c on a pre-designed portable device. The software on Windows could load KML files which contain the sailing waypoints info and it calculates the best sailing routes based on the waypoint info. The software could also send the KML waypoint info to the device via Bluetooth. This project involves the KML parsing, writing and processing. So, I have strong skills in XML and KML. I have done similar KML parsing in C/C++ before. I used Gzip for unzipping binary KML. This project seems relevant and achievable with my skills and experiences. *2. *Game development I worked as Software Engineer with a local company that is a leading game studio (Top 50 in the world) for over 2 years. They are very large games (e.g. NBA 09 Wii, FIFA 10) uses very similar architecture design with Inkscape. It uses C++ and makefile. After browsing Inscape source code, I found similar points to my experiences: - C++ Many years experience. - CMakeLists Research on digital image processing, using open source libs ITK and VTK which are using CMake and CMakeList. - XML GUI approach Experience from work. The internal build tools I used is a wxWidget application which loads the pre-defined XML format gui data. - Wxwidgets - Knowledge of SVG, a type of XML. Feel comfortable working on SVG, e.g. primitives, different shapes, text and fonts. Knowledge of SVG, KML, and open source development from both work and school. *Project goal* KML SVG translation via XSLT - For use of Inkscape with Google Earth or Maps Implement a XSLT template which could convert some useful info between KML and SVG, my current thought is like this: KML < ---- > SVG Points < ---- > circle/dot Lines < ---- > path Polygons < ---- > path Screenoverlay < ---- > image Implement C++ object to do the pre-processing to get rid of any unused nodes or elements, this could increase the performance of the xsltproc in the later step. Implement GUI for this tool. If I have time left, add the support for KMZ and binary SVG by using zlib. Quoted info form Inkscape wiki: Develop a translation (likely XSLT) between KML and SVG so KML files or icons can easily be created, edited, or viewed in Inkscape and for use in Google Earth or Maps. This becomes another piece in utilizing Inkscape's SVG editing capabilities in the geographical community ("geo" Inkscape). Several of us have discussed this as a potential Google Summer of Code project. I would be happy to serve as a mentor. *Implementation planning:* The general approach is to define a XSLT transformation template to convert between KML and SVG. Tool xlstproc will be used from libxlst which is in Inkscape code base already. Defining the convertible element list is the first thing. Eliminating unused nodes in the pre-processing step will increase processing speed or reduce the time. Design .inx files to create the GUI module. Tasks break-down: 1. define our convertible element list between KML and SVG 2. write the logic to eliminate the unused element --- two way 3. implement the template for each pre-defined elements. --- two way Write an internal extension for translating between KML and SVG Use source code in src/extension/internal/ as examples. Study XSLT, libxml2 and libxslt, and review existing code that currently uses them. Write .xsl templates for XSLT to store KML data and be ready to convert to SVG. Use /src/io/doc2html.xsl as an example. Conversion between .xsl templates and SVG. 4. GUI implementation Review existing input extensions (extension system) Study GTK+ and gtkmm source code. (I have done C and GTK+ before, so it should be quick.) Write .inx files with parameters to create GUI automatically 5. testing and bug fixing. 6. adding support for KMZ or binary SVG if have time *Schedule:* Assuming there are 14 weeks: Week 1-2: Communicate with mentor Learning code base and background Week 3: Define our convertible element list between KML and SVG Week 4-6: 2. write the logic to eliminate the unused element --- two way 3. implement the template for each pre-defined elements. --- two way Week 7-9: 4. GUI implementation Week 10-11: testing and bug fixing. Week 12-13: 6. adding support for KMZ or binary SVG Week 14: Debug and documentation *Inkscape Questions* I knew about Inkscape when I had a couple of SVG files to view. After that, I did lots of designs for better quality printing. It is very useful and free. It does many things that Illustrator can do. *About Yourself* · What is your name, email address, and irc nickname? My name is David Xiong. Email address: yunwxiong@...400... · Describe any plans you have over the summer in addition to GSoC, such as classes, a summer job, vacation plans, master's thesis, etc. No classes. Hope to get this project then I could focus something I am interested in. · What programming projects have you done so far? A lot projects from both school and work. From work, GPS project on the window and embedded system. Console game development, NBA live 09 Wii, Fifa 10 PC/PS2/PSP. · Have you worked on other open source projects before? If so, please list and describe what you did. not contribute, but have a lot experience with open source libs, such as ITK/VTK, zlib, NEMA lib, avrlib, Blackberry SDK, iphone SDK. I just work on my interests and my own small projects, such as developing tool in C# using ITK/VTK, zlib, Nema, libxml for the sailing software. My small games/apps on blackberry or iphone. · Please list other projects you are applying to for GSoC. One more Inkscape project. Best wishes, David.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Cursor Inkscape
by Fantomas 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

http://www.codexion.com/files/sample_crosshair_cursor.png Yes, this is what it seems. the arrow is the cross that extends to the ruler. similar to the guide lines but dynamically linked with the cursor. very sorry for the bad English... >>>>> > > >>> Hello, >>>>> > > >>> Inkscape can be set as the cross cursor in Corel? >>>> > > >> Could you please elaborate on your idea? >>> > > > >>> > > > Can and we do not know how to set the Cross Hair Cursor. >>> > > > With Corel menu Workspace / Toolbox / Pick tool - Cross hair cursor. >> > > >> > > I'm sorry, but you will have to try to explain once again. Please >> > > don't expect everyone to have Corel DRAW. > > > > If I remember correctly - it's been years since I used Corel Draw - it has > > an > > option to draw a cross-hair cursor, meaning two perpendicular lines that > > extend > > to the edges of the canvas. This is a CAD feature, that help you to gauge > > visually where the cursor is relative to some existing canvas object. > > > Hi, > I remember having used that cursor mode before I switched completely to > Inkscape. It looked something like this mockup: > http://www.codexion.com/files/sample_crosshair_cursor.png > > > >

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OpenClipArt importing parse error
by Will Clayton 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Not sure how to go about getting help on this so I am posting here. Inkscape Version: Inkscape 0.48.0 r9654 Problem: Open Clip Art import/search dialogue results do not appear. Error Message: On console, I see the following when searching for "router": % inkscape http://openclipart.org/media/feed/rss/router:1: parser error : StartTag: invalid element name <!doctype html> ^ http://openclipart.org/media/feed/rss/router:1: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document <!doctype html> ^ Suspicion: It would appear that the Open Clip Art web server does not like Inkscape's ":1:" being appended to the query. Reproducibility: Click File > Import from Open Clip Art Library > [Enter search term] > [See no results] Visiting those URLs in a browser show's this error coming back from Open Clip Art's server. Removing the :1: seems to alleviate the problem.. Is this addressed in another release of Inkscape?

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Can't get Flash export running
by unknown＠example.com 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hello, i updated the swf_output.inx to get the Flash SWF export extension running with Inkscape 0.48.1 on Linux ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extension_repository#SWF_output ): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <inkscape-extension xmlns="http://www.inkscape.org/namespace/inkscape/extension"> <_name>SWF Output</_name> <id>org.inkscape.output.swf</id> <dependency type="extension">org.inkscape.output.pdf</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">pdf2swf.sh</dependency> <dependency type="executable" _description="swftools must be installed to run; see http://www.swftools.org/">pdf2swf</dependency> <output> <extension>.swf</extension> <mimetype>application/x-shockwave-flash</mimetype> <_filetypename>Flash SWF (*.swf)</_filetypename> <_filetypetooltip>Flash movie shape</_filetypetooltip> </output> <script> <command reldir="extensions">pdf2swf.sh</command> <helper_extension>org.inkscape.output.pdf</helper_extension> </script> </inkscape-extension> But it does not appear at the "Save as" dialogue at the filetype box. When i delete these lines at the swf_output.inx: <dependency type="extension">org.inkscape.output.pdf</dependency> <helper_extension>org.inkscape.output.pdf</helper_extension> it appears but it did not work because the exported file is now a SVG and not a PDF. Any hint what's wrong? Cheers Eckhard.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Cursor Inkscape
by Fantomas 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Can and we do not know how to set the Cross Hair Cursor. With Corel menu Workspace / Toolbox / Pick tool - Cross hair cursor. >> Hello, >> Inkscape can be set as the cross cursor in Corel? > Could you please elaborate on your idea? > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Regarding GSOC 2011 - Project Continuing C++ification
by Abhishek Sharma 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Hi everybody, It feels pretty nostalgic to be back to coding for inkscape after the last gsoc year. Last year along with Jon Cruz, we achieved some of object oriented build up in the codebase. This GSOC as well I would wish to continue on the same. I'll be glad to have community's views over this years milestone. As in what code customizations and cleanup and further enhancements are supposed to be done this year. I will be delighted to have responses over this. -- Regards, Abhishek Sharma

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Setting margins in "Resize page to drawing or selection"
by Martin Sucha 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hi, I needed to add a margin around my drawing and noticed that setting the margin in Document Properties/Resize page didn't work, so I went ahead and looked into the code. I just commited a fix (r10145). Another weird behaviour is that when using the "Resize page to drawing or selection" for the second and subsequent times, only one margin is updated after clicking the button even though I change values in all four (the others are reverted to their remembered values). Any ideas what may cause this? Thanks. Regards, Martin Sucha

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Multipage support as a GSoC project?
by gespertino＠...400... 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

> So, yes, we could implement a "simple" fix that lets users specify a > font size in points. We could even just use the SVG unit pt, as that is > also defined as an "appropriate" multiple of px. And perhaps we should > do this if people find it useful. But I think it would give the wrong > impression (that you were actually using an absolute unit) and it could > lead to weird issues once Inkscape will let the user specify the > coordinate system (do we then stick to the somewhat arbitrary scaling > factor or do we want true points?). I admit that it's a slightly > academic debate, but still, what's the point if you're not really using > points? As I see it, we already have real world units in inkscape UI everywhere, all of them assuming a resolution of 90dpi. People is using those "real world units" based on that: the default document is A4, if inches or centimeters are selected as default units for the document, that's what the user gets in inkscape. Of course it's a problem when you want to take the artwork created in Inkscape to other applications (for instance Scribus, which apparently uses 72 dpi for imported SVGs) I'm aware that adding that option (real world units in the type dialog assuming 90dpi) won't be a good long-term solution, but I'm sure it will be well received by a lot of people as an acceptable interim solution. Type size in pixels was reported as a bug several times. Probably people working for web don't care, but designers creating brochures, posters and things that have to end up printed, are more used to DTP points than to any other unit for type. With that change things will be better for that part of the userbase, and won't be worse for anybody, since the real units confusion is already installed with the current implementation in most of the tools.

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Multipage support as a GSoC project?
by Jason Creighton 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hi All, I'm a student considering applying to GSoC for Inkscape, and I'm wondering how you guys feel about multipage support as a project. I asked about this on the IRC channel and it was pointed out to me that multipage support was dropped from SVG 1.2, so the state of this in the SVG standard is kind of up in the air. Is the lack of an official standard a show-stopper? If not, is this even something you'd like to see worked on at this time? Or are there other, more pressing, features or issues that you'd prefer to see applications on? Thanks, Jason

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[PATCH] Setting grid origin has no effect (bug #561503)
by Jason Creighton 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi, I've been looking into the cause of this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/561503 As far as I can tell, the bug is exposed when the spinboxes are initialized in CanvasXYGrid::newSpecificWidget(). (display/canvas-grid.cpp). Starting on line 732 or so, there is a series of calls to setValue() on the origin x/y and the spacing x/y RegisteredScalarUnit instances. These calls to setValue() end up setting the setProgrammatically flag to "true", which is supposed to be immediately cleared in the on_value_changed callback, *BUT* for the origin boxes, the on_value_changed callback is never called, and the flag never gets cleared. The initial value of the spinboxes is "0", and we're setting them to their default of "0", so my guess is that GTK doesn't bother to call on_value_changed in the case that the value hasn't actually changed. So then when the user changes the widget for the first time, it has no effect because the first call to the on_value_changed callback only clears setProgrammatically instead of actually doing anything. I wasn't totally sure about the best way to fix this. It's not clear to me why Scalar::setValue() doesn't just do a "setProgrammatically = false" after the call to the widget's set_value(). It seems like it would be simpler and more robust than clearing it in each callback. However, I assumed that there was some sort of reason I couldn't see for leaving it up to the callbacks to reset it, so my (attached) fix is to make Scalar::setValue() not do anything at all if the new value is the same as the old value. This fixes the issue at hand, however, as su-v pointed out to me on the IRC channel, it seems odd that this isn't a more widespread problem. What about all the other spinboxes that default to zero? I'm not familiar enough with the codebase to know why the bug was only exercised in that particular area. As an aside, what do you guys use to debug Inkscape? I tried just using gdb, but I found that setting breakpoints changed the behavior of the program (!), so I ended up just printing to stdout with debugging info, which is quite tedious. Cheers, Jason

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Multipage support as a GSoC project?
by gespertino＠...400... 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

I'd add hyphenation to the Text items. And the ability to specify in points instead of pixels at least the size of the type.

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Doxygen cleanup
by Jon Cruz 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

First of all, is anyone using our doxygen docs, or does anyone care about the format? Our current usage is a bit inefficient, so I've been thinking of cleaning it up a bit. First on the hit list are those annoying "@brief" instances. Or config file has this: > # If the JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF tag is set to YES then Doxygen > # will interpret the first line (until the first dot) of a JavaDoc-style > # comment as the brief description. If set to NO, the JavaDoc > # comments will behave just like regular Qt-style comments > # (thus requiring an explicit @brief command for a brief description.) > > JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF = YES So that means instead of : /** * @brief XML - prefs observer bridge * * This is an XML node observer that watches for changes in the XML document storing the preferences. * It is used to implement preference observers. */ We can do: /** * XML - prefs observer bridge. * * This is an XML node observer that watches for changes in the XML document storing the preferences. * It is used to implement preference observers. */ The key point is to just have a single period so that the first sentence *is* the brief description. No need for additional work or @ tags.

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proposal to enhance the python extensions
by Mark Schafer 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hi everyone, I've been lurking on this list and making extensions for Inkscape in python. (I'm also keen on the dbus scripting but I use windows so no good for me right now...) I have had difficulty understanding what some of the extensions do and in writing my own I have discovered the notebook tab. I want to suggest using the notebook tab at the top of each extension to help document how they work. Here is a screenshot of a suggested UI from my Lasercut box extension. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33807726@...2603.../5569339514/ Extra tabs could break up the info for clarity and show data like author,url, etc So I propose: - supply a template for people writing extensions to use as a starter - and some docs/tutorials on making extensions in python - modify the existing extensions included in Inkscape to follow this guideline - maybe fix broken extensions if there are any (I haven't tried every one) But I don't want to do something the dev team thinks is a waste of time, and I am unsure of the translation issues with such an approach. Any thoughts ? Mark...

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GSoC 2011 - Mentors
by Josh Andler 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hey all, It appears that Melange's invitation system is not currently working (I can't seem to invite via link_id or email addresses). If you're interested in mentoring, please visit http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/inkscape and apply to be a mentor. Thanks for your time! Cheers, Josh

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Merging the Cairo branch
by Josh Andler 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hey, So, I really think that we should entertain the idea of merging the cairo branch into trunk. The plan has been for us to not release 0.49 until it is ready, so the couple outstanding bugs in cairo shouldn't be a huge deterrent. We could also set up a PPA to produce the trunk builds of cairo & pixman so that fixed libs are easily installable in the meantime (at least for people using debian-based systems). I was talking to John Cliff and he put forth a very good point which is that we really need to get as much testing as possible on it prior to a release. Before it gets asked, yes Jon, color management is broken in it atm. The likelihood of it getting fixed in a branch as opposed to trunk is next to non-existent though... So, would people be okay with a little breakage of existing functionality to get more testing of a cairofied Inkscape? bulia, I included you in the to line here to help gauge the acceptability of this proposal. Cheers, Josh

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GSoC project ideas
by Krzysztof Kosiński 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hello I'm not 100% sure yet whether I'll be able to participate in GSoC 2011, but here are my ideas. They can be used by other potential participants. 1. Selections A lot of functions in Inkscape operate on the current selection. This includes things like moving objects to another layer, creating a bitmap copy, etc. This leads to a lot of unnecessary code duplication when some other function needs to reuse selection-specific logic in a way that is not tied to the UI. It also precludes any useful implementation of scripting (e.g. one that does not need to modify the user's selection every time a script is run). In order to rectify this, we should create an object that represents an arbitrary collection of SVG elements. It would work like the selection we have now, but would not be tied to any UI elements - it would just represent an ordered set of elements that can be passed to functions. 2. Fix flowtext Use svg:switch to fix flowtext. Make svg:switch transparent to the SP tree - e.g. a switch should not have its own SP element, the active part of the switch should be transparently included into the SP tree. This can be accomplished by allowing every object to have more than one representation. 3. Make XML private Discussed before. Was the object of a previous year project, but the main effect of that was mass renaming and moving of code into classes rather than any meaningful improvement in encapsulation. The main thing we need is an ability to create SP nodes. Right now we create XML nodes and rely on SP tree callbacks to construct the SP node for us. 4. Typed XML tree The XML tree stores strings, which is rather wasteful and leads to a lot of boilerplate in SP object implementations. We have enough knowledge about the document at the XML level to know the type of each attribute and CSS property based on its name. Storing parsed values would save space, particularly for embedded images, at the cost of slightly more expensive saving. GVariant could be used. 5. GTK3 compatibility This would involve removal of deprecated code, so that Inkscape compiles with both GTK2 and GTK3. 6. 2geom improvements Move and rewrite code 2geom to the point where it can take over the job of livarot, libavoid, etc. Document the new code and make sure it fits nicely with existing code. The scope of the project could be limited to implementing Boolean operations on paths. 7. Rendering speed improvements Further work on the Cairo branch in several small sub-projects: a) Instead of re-rendering the same pixels every time a new tile of a filter is rendered, cache them until the rendering is done. The implementation could involve allocating screen-size bitmaps for each layer of a filtered object and filling them with data in small increments. b) Render editing controls to a separate image that is composited on top of the drawing, so that what a path outline is highlighted, there is no need to re-render the object under it. c) Render each layer of the drawing to a separate image; alternatively, render 3 images: everything below current layer, current layer and everything above. This would allow the user to give us some hints. Regards, Krzysztof

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Greetings
by Eric Kuzmenko 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hello there fellow inkscape-devel mailing list subscribers, I'm Eric Kuzmenko, a programmer want-to-be. Almost none of you have met me, I just want to establish a position in your community, hopeful I can obtain someone's friendship here. Anyway, I just wanted to state that I am going to attempt to apply for gsoc sometime late next week. I'm currently trying to get a grasp of the gtkmm wrapper in order to press that knowledge to fixing some bugs and getting those two patches in before April 8, though there's a great chance I won't be able to due to the amount I need to learn. Even if I fail to get that far this soon I will continue attempting to help patch up the code during the summer, whether it with gsoc or not, hopefully I can be of some help. If you've read this far then thank you. =)

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Fedora, Open Clip Art Library, and Inkscape
by Tavmjong Bah 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Hi, I just came across this. I don't know anything about how "Import from Open Clip Art Library" works but at least one person thinks it will be broken in Fedora 16 as Fedora is planning on removing gnome-vfs2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-March/149571.html Tav

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GTK3
by Inti Alonso 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Hi, Im a regular Inkscape user, and with all the noise about the coming of the new GTK3, I want to know if Inkscape is already working in the GTK3 port, or when will that happen. I guess GTK3 can bring some improves to or beloved Inkscape.

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[GSoC] SVG + javascript
by Fernando Lucchesi 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hi inkscape-devels, I've been lurking for a while, but didn't introduce myself yet. I'm Fernando Lucchesi, and I am at my third year studying Computer Engineering at Unicamp, Brazil. I am a member of the CS/CE Students' Union of Unicamp(CACo), where my role is roughly to do "graphical stuff", almost always using inkscape. That includes posters[1], t-shirts, etc. Since I rely on Inkscape so much, it was about time I got to contribute with some code. For that, I am willing to participate on this year's GSoC. (I realize that only using Inkscape doesn't mean I can hack it, but it means I want to see it get even better) Last year, I was playing with SVG/JSONP trying to make a widget to show the cafeteria menu[2]. While doing that, I realized that the javascript support could use some love. Searching a little, I've found this blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/scripting-ui So I would like to work at something along those lines. I've chatted a little at the Inkscape Brazil mailing list, and already got some pointers. These are the ideas so far: -Enhance "Object properties > interactivity" by replacing the text boxes with combo boxes containing every javascript function/method available. To do that, it would be necessary to parse both external and embedded scripts. -Open embedded scripts on an external editor (perhaps blocking the svg edition while doing that). It would be a way to follow the unix philosophy of using the best tool for every job (inkscape - graphics; vim/emacs/some ide - code). That script list would be located at "document properties > scripting", under the external scripts. As Aurium pointed out, the name of the tmp file would have to be meaningful not to scare the user, so perhaps using the script id could be an option. Also, the way to create new scripts would be at the same interface, you'd just need to define the script name/id at its creation. -At the same place there could be a list of svg elements using script events. -We could encourage people to use .js files for scripts, since it is good practice to separate the structure from the action (like with html/js). The problem, however, is that by doing that there would be 2+ files instead of a single svg, making the distribution more difficult. As a way to solve that, inkscape could have an option to automatically embed external scripts, so there would be only one file. There should be some config regarding scripts on another server (so you don't save a static version of JSONP data, for example). Then, there would be the opposite direction, taking the embedded scripts out to the corresponding .js files. This wouldn't be restricted to scripts previously inserted by inkscape, but all embedded scripts. The name of each file to be created would be asked, except for those that came from a .js in the first place, since its name would be saved on the tag. Another option is to use the id defined by the other interface instead of asking. So, how could this fit into a GSoC project? (I'm yet to send the 2 patches, but I've already pulled the code from bazaar, successfully compiled it and am having a look at the bugs at launchpad). [1]: http://www.students.ic.unicamp.br/~ra091187/etc/reuniao.png [2]: http://www.students.ic.unicamp.br/~ra091187/teste/bandeco.svg -- Fernando Lucchesi Bastos Jurema UNICAMP - Engenharia de Computação 09 CACo - Centro Acadêmico da Computação Coordenador de Marketing e Produtos - gestão 2010/2011

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Fwd: Inkscape Wiki page CompilingSunSolaris has been changed by Reinhard
by unknown＠example.com 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

This made me wonder (not that I've ever used a SUN operating system, proprietary or open, or probably ever will) if anyone has ever tried to compile Inkscape on OpenSolaris ( http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/ ) or its new fork Illumos ( http://www.illumos.org/ )? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: WikiAdmin - acspike@...34... Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:17 AM Subject: Inkscape Wiki page CompilingSunSolaris has been changed by Reinhard To: NeoPhyte Rep <InkscapeWiki.NeoPhyte_Rep@...2295...> Dear NeoPhyte Rep, The Inkscape Wiki page CompilingSunSolaris has been changed on 14:17, 24 March 2011 by Reinhard, see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingSunSolaris for the current version.

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Brightness and Lightness
by Kris De Gussem 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hi all The latest inkscape.pot update draw my attention on the terms "Brightness" and "Lightness". I supposed they were the same, but according to the filter names "Brightness, custom (color)" en "Lightness, custom (color)" in the menu "Filters" > "Experimental", there is a difference between brightness and lightness. Can anyone explain the difference, if there is any: is it a different concept, related to color space, different mathematical formula, ... ? Thanks a lot. Regards Kris

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Some progress on OSX/aqua, and how to go further?
by Gellule Xg 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi, I have made some little progress in a local branch on an OSX?aqua version of inkscape. I would like to know what the best way is to give these changes back to inkscape. Many patches? A branch on launchpad? Would a branch ~gellule-xg/inkscape/aqua work for now? Can it be made available to others later, before a merge back in master? So far, I have workarounds for: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487144 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/721448 I am also able to get rid of the launcher script used for the X11 version and put the inkscape executable directly in the application bundle. I have also started using ige-mac-integration to determine the correct paths to use throughout inkscape. I am currently working on the relocation of the libraries into the application package, one step before the production of the disk image. Is anyone familiar with install_name_tool and the -headerpad_max_install_name or -headerpad linker flags? I might need a little help there. -Gellule/Julien

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GSoC 2011
by Josh Andler 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hey All, Since we were accepted for GSoC again this year. Is anyone interested in mentoring that has not already stated so? Please let me know either on-list or directly. We can't add mentors yet as they are updating Melange this week, but I just want to get the ball rolling on discussion. Cheers, Josh

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Missing libgomp-1.dll from mingw
by LucaDC 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Recently I get this error when compiling under Windows XP: Make error line 708: copy : file /c:/mingw/bin/libgomp-1.dll does not exist I have a file with the same name under mingw\lib\gcc\mingw32\bin: is it the same that has been moved for some reason? Latest try with rev 10122 (devlibs 21). Regards. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Missing-libgomp-1.dll-from-mingw-tp31202579p31202579.… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Strange crash on startup?
by Jasper van de Gronde 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

After a break of a few months I tried to get inkscape to compile again over the weekend but ran into a strange issue. Inkscape compiles just fine, but if I try to run it it crashes immediately (and yes, I've done several clean builds by now). Unfortunately I'm not at my laptop right now, so I can't give you the exact error, but I'm wondering whether anyone has had a similar issue and/or knows something else I could try. I'm using TDM's GCC 4.5.1 (sjlj, and I have also tried the 64 bit version, but that fails to build inkscape at some point) on Vista, and there are no other mingw installations present (anymore). The source is unmodified, I have updated devlibs and I have done a clean build. I have also downloaded a "nightly" build for a slightly older revision (the latest I could find), and although that worked fine, updating my source to the same revision and doing a clean build of that did not. I've even tried moving my inkscape.exe into the folder of the downloaded nightly build, without success. Interestingly just running inkscape(.com) seems to do nothing... (No crash, no output, no Inkscape, nothing.) The crash is pretty much immediately after startup and seems to come from loading(?) lcms, but according to gdb's backtrace it crashes from some function having to do something with (stack?) frames (sorry, don't have the details with me at the moment). I googled it, and it appears this function is somehow associated with relocation of dll's. So, sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas for what else to try? BTW, I think it could be related to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/453931

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^-, I miss you
by Johan Engelen 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Hi all, I miss our IRC/Jabber bridging bot. Hope whoever managed it, can get it back online in our chat! Many thanks, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] plans on 0.49
by Valerie 20 Mar '11

20 Mar '11

I also think the "sprint" idea is a really good one, while donators vote for "top wanted features" to be coded during the sprint. It could also be helpful to do the following for each feature: 1. Note what needs to be done (what needs to be implemented). This is to give donators an idea of what they're "paying" for (they deserve to know when the feature isn't That simple to code), but also so that potential developers who don't know how to contribute could see the top listed features easily and know where to start. 2. Estimate roughly how much work it'd take (at least try to note if it'd take a long time or just a couple of hours). If you organise a sprint, this means donators will better understand why Feature X hasn't been completed yet (because it takes "1000 man-hours" to finish all the dependencies). 3. Also describe clearly what the feature does and how the user benefits. Inkscape features can be pretty technical (Cairo), but users will understand if you say "You can use it to accomplish [cool effects]/[serious office work]/[compatibility with other software]/etc., or "It will speed up parts of Inkscape by 20%." Or even "doing this will allow us to then implement Feature Y that all of you want." 4. Progress should be documented clearly, like on a blog or such. 5. As an alternative to sprints, some or all developers could agree to all commit to working on the top feature (without meeting up), either periodically or when total donations reach a certain milestone. I'll also mention as a side note that although bounties never worked for Gimp and Inkscape, paid development did work for Krita last year. What they did was get a developer (Lukáš Tvrdý) to develop for Krita full-time during several months thanks to donations. Krita has a blog, so every week work on Krita development, including Lukáš', was documented (when money is involved, transparency is important). You can read the log on krita.org (start from the last page). Lukáš coded and improved several brushes engines, improved speed, fixed lots of bugs, etc. I think anybody who observed the progress will agree that Huge progress was made thanks to that, it was very exciting to read week after week. Of course, it's not an arrangement for everyone, it just happened that a capable developer could be made to work full time on Krita thanks to donations, so it can't necessarily be reproduced for Inkscape. It's just an example of donations that can work, in case you decide not to go for a sprint.

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Changing path libgomp in build.xml
by Jasper van de Gronde 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

I noticed that with the latest TDM MingW libgomp-1.dll isn't in the location where build.xml expects it. But I'm not sure in what version this change (I assume it changed) was made, nor which versions of MingW other developers are using. Assuming that most developers will eventually update their MingW (if they haven't already), I think it would make sense to change it in BZR, or am I missing something? (If no one starts protesting I'll make the change in a day or so.) For reference, the old location was: ${mingw}/lib/gcc/mingw32/bin/libgomp-1.dll The new location is: ${mingw_bin}/libgomp-1.dll

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inkscape project interviewed by packt publishing
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, Since I was communicating with Packt Publishing anyway, they asked me to answer some questions for their round of Q&A re open source projects that they started recently. ~suv actually helped with answers, but didn't want to be mentioned; let's not forget it however :) https://www.packtpub.com/article/q-and-a-with-inkscape Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] plans on 0.49
by gespertino＠...400... 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

> From: Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] plans on 0.49 > > I do have a few questions though. I love the idea to bring developers > together, as I think this could indeed help increase and maintain > motivation, as well as providing a moment to simply "get things done". > However, what kind of numbers and funding are we talking about? If we > want to meet physically the costs could be quite high. (And if we don't > meet physically, then what is the funding for?) That's where linux vendors come in. It's unlikely to fund a sprint with individual donations, but if we can get companies like Google, Canonical, Novell, Red Hat, etc. to get involved, things seem more feasible. Of course we have to do it first, but I'm sure that we have interesting things to offer to those companies: better, more integrated software for something as important as design is undoubtedly something their platforms (and their business) could benefit of. Another option is to organize regional sprints. For instance, it's considerably cheaper (for the physical meeting) if the participants are all europeans, or all north-americans, etc. Of course people from other regions could follow the sprint and collaborate on-line. One sprint could be europe-based, the next in north-america, and so on. I guess that doing it this way costs would be reduced considerably, and people from other areas would still be able to join to the event on-line. I can't talk about numbers because I don't know them. Probably LGM organization could give us some estimations about how much is involved so we can do some calculations and see what's possible and what not. > Also, what you describe still requires quite a bit of organization, how > would you propose to deal with that? (Are you proposing to head up > the operation?) Not being a programmer and living in south america (where a pretty small amount of developers are) makes me a bad candidate for that, I guess. I commit myself to help in whatever is needed to materialize this project, but I'm sure there is a lot of people better prepared for the task than me. I think we should all discuss the organization details. I know it's not something easy to co-ordinate and I didn't think about all the details, but I'm sure that we as community can manage to make it work. > And how do we deal with disgruntled donors? > If we define groups of features/fixes as targets, that's cool for helping > focus donations and such, but afterward I am sure that some things > won't have been addressed and people won't like that if they donated > because of that specific item. > This is of course not "fair", in the sense that we would be (and should > be) clear about how this process works, but human psychology is hardly > ever fair. Well, first we have to define achievable goals. Being too ambitious and making a very interesting list of goals would of course get more funding but it would also increase the chance of disgruntled donors at the end. If the goals of the sprint are manageable and the resources and time are planned correctly, the outcome should be enough to make donors happy. Of course, s**t happens. Things can turn more difficult than expected and some goals could end up unfinished. I guess that commitment from the coders to give those unfinished goals exclusive priority for the next days/weeks after the event should be enough to make donors know that their money wasn't given in vain. I mean, if coders say "I commit myself to make my best to finish these tasks in the defined timeframe or, if it's not possible, in the following weeks" no donors should feel deceived if things don't turn out as expected after the sprint. I think it's just matter of good communication. First of all we should avoid the wrong conception that donors are paying for X feature. Donors would be contributing to make a sprint with specific goals happen and developers involved should commit to complete those goals. Sounds fair enough. :-) Thanks for your comments, Jasper.

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SVG Compositing Specification
by Tavmjong Bah 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi, The SVG Compositing Specification has been published: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGCompositing/ This specification adds quite a few new compositing modes. Note, this is not yet an approved standard but is in the process of "last call" which is a period of time interested persons can comment on the specification. Comments can be submitted until April 12th 2011. Tav

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] plans on 0.49
by gespertino＠...400... 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

A couple of days ago I mentioned to Prokoudine an idea that probably is worth to discuss. It's a known fact that bounties never worked for Inkscape and GIMP, but that doesn't mean necessarily that money wouldn't help. What is needed is to find a different way to use the money that comes from donations and could come from companies (like linux vendors, for instance). This isn't a new idea. It's just a mix of some ideas that already work (crowd funding, GSoC, hacking sprints, etc). Instead of picking individual feature requests, developers could make a list of targets, following project's roadmap. In that point community (and companies interested) could express their needs and wishes, and project active developers could decide if some of those requests fit with the existing plans. Once a targets lists is created and cleaned up, developers should make an estimation of time and people needed to reach those targets. The idea is to group those targets in small "packs" so it's not too ambitious to expect their completion in a limited period of time. Also in that stage would be good to define if more people than the available is needed, and what upstream projects are connected to the planned goals in order to contact their mantainers and communicate what would be needed and in what timeframe. Once that information is ready and available publicly, then money comes into play. People can start to donate and companies could be contacted to get sponsoring. That money wouldn't be used to pay for features. The idea is to organize a hacking sprint, giving developers a chance to meet and more importantly, companies could lend developers who could benefit from having core and active developers in a common physical space to ask them about project particularities. This would be also a good opportunity to document code and details that could be useful for other developers in the future. I think this could refresh the motivation of existing developers and attract new people, while at the same time it could make companies commit to the development of graphic applications. After all, having quality applications is what free operative systems need to reach more people and be more interesting to users, so this could be a good opportunity for linux vendors. I know this is just an idea and it making it work it won't be as easy as talking, but at least I'm interested to know what developers and the rest of the community thinks about it. Is it possible? Could it work for projects like Inkscape, GIMP or Scribus?

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[Fwd: [Merge] lp:~ado-papas/inkscape/bug_167419 into lp:inkscape]
by ~suv 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Anyone willing to help with testing/reviewing? IMHO this would fix an annoying issue with linked offsets. It would be great to have it merged into trunk before another pending merge (gsoc-cairo) possibly requires yet again a rewrite, as well as backporting the fix to the 0.48.x branch for 0.48.2 (if doable). ~suv -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Merge] lp:~ado-papas/inkscape/bug_167419 into lp:inkscape Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:26:38 -0000 From: Adonis Papaderos <ado.papas@...1244...> Reply-To: mp+52899@...2499... To: mp+52899@...2499... Adonis Papaderos has proposed merging lp:~ado-papas/inkscape/bug_167419 into lp:inkscape. Requested reviews: Adonis Papaderos (ado-papas) ~suv (suv-lp) Related bugs: Bug #167419 in Inkscape: "square/circle/polygon/spiral and linked offset misbehaviours" https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167419 Bug #184341 in Inkscape: "Linked offsets ignore clone movement preferences" https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/184341 Bug #239430 in Inkscape: "linked offset ungroup issue" https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/239430 For more details, see: https://code.launchpad.net/~ado-papas/inkscape/bug_167419/+merge/52899 Fix some issues with linked offsets. Changed the rendering of the offset to take into account the transformation of the source object, as is the case with the use element, and copied the move compensation logic from uses to offsets. There is a speed penalty though because of this, since I cannot find a reliable method to predict whether there is a change to the source object data or a transformation applied to it. The second patch removes an optimization I implemented using the transform event, since this event is not emitted on undo and redo actions. -- https://code.launchpad.net/~ado-papas/inkscape/bug_167419/+merge/52899 You are requested to review the proposed merge of lp:~ado-papas/inkscape/bug_167419 into lp:inkscape.

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Extensions - Slider in Int and Float widgets
by Nicolas Dufour 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hello, Revision 10103 adds horizontal sliders to the Int and Float extension widgets in order to make parameters a bit easier to handle. It perfectly fits large numbers (colors or angles related values) but may be less efficient with small range parameters (as in the SVG calendar extension). Thus I've implemented two modes (mimicking the radiobutton parameter), full (default, with slider) and minimal (no slider) that can be used by adding an appearance="<mode>" attribute to the int or float element in the inx file or internal extension structure. The size of the slider is the same for all widgets, 200px (about the same as the sliders used in Gimp). Please test and comment! Regards, -- Nicolas

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plans on 0.49
by Alexandre Prokoudine 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hi, Do we have any plans re 0.49 and GSoC? Do we want releasing 0.49 before work on GSoC projects starts (in case we are accepted) which means end of May? If not, do we want releasing once a year which means 0.49 around August? Would it make sense figuring out now where we are currently and what we could for 0.49? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Command line interface on Windows
by Jason La 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hi Inkscape community, Thanks for the app, it is proving to be very useful. For whatever reason, the .NET framework does not include any kind of SVG handling -- so Inkscape has been endlessly useful. I'm using it for a pretty simple purpose - converting SVG files to PNG or JPEG images. I'm just following the instructions from the FAQ to let the devs of our common usage of the CLI. Thanks again, Jason Jason La Associate Software Developer Tel: 805-898-8508 www.alg.com <http://www.alg.com/> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail may contain confidential, proprietary information of ALG, A DealerTrack Company. It is intended solely for the named recipient(s) listed above and should be maintained in strictest confidence. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this information from your computer and destroy any related paper copies.

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