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Re : Re : I suck at Perl (or check-markup)
by Nicolas Dufour 21 May '10

21 May '10

Comments removed from Makefile.am and patch committed in revision 9438. A huge thanks for your patch and explanations! Regards, -- Nicolas

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The path to FREEZE... Woohoo!
by Joshua A. Andler 21 May '10

21 May '10

Hey all, We're roughly 6 weeks behind the proposed schedule... not good, but could be worse. If we stick to it, things could shape up nicely. A quick update... here is the one thing that MUST be done before moving to Freeze... posting of an "alpha" tarball. The following outstanding issues HAVE to be addressed to not be cut (and most unfortunately have not been addressed fully during Frost): *Jon's swatches MUST be initially editable in the F&S dialog. *Jon's new Input Devices dialog needs whatever polish to be good enough (I saw regressions from 0.47 mentioned recently in the tracker). *Jon's "UX" work (specifically UI placement needs to be settled). *Tavmjong's LinuxFund text tool work (we'll take what we can get, great progress has been made!). *Felipe Sanches' color management work. The "not real" (device) cmyk thing MUST be addressed prior to release. I'm not saying to remove, but perhaps disable, it is a part of the SVG spec, but it's not how the CMYK workflow actually works. Now is the time to bring up other possibly blocker bugs. Please speak up... things that can be fixed in point releases and that aren't critical/high priority should not be brought up. Cheers, Josh

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Re : Re : I suck at Perl (or check-markup)
by Nicolas Dufour 21 May '10

21 May '10

>De : Lucas Vieites <lucasvieites@...400...> >Would it work to use the < and > entities in the original strings? The original string is already "<width>x<height>". intltools extract it as "<width>x<height>" to the pot file, which is the correct behavior. The issue is due to the check-markup perl script, which detects "invalid" markups in the translated strings (or markups which are not correctly closed, etc.). And <width> and <height> are not allowed by the script... Regards. -- Nicolas

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I suck at Perl (or check-markup)
by Ted Gould 21 May '10

21 May '10

Hey, So I was trying to make a release but the check-markup script is failing because of the strings "<width>x<height>" which it thinks is a tag. I tried fixing the check-markup script to ignore this, but well, read the subject :) Could someone who knows Perl help out here? Here's the output: perl ../po/check-markup ../po/*.po br.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "Bountañ war ar Vent a rank bezañ arventennet evel <width>x<height>" fr.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "Imposer la dimension doit être défini sous la forme « <width>x<height> »" ja.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "サイズ強制は <幅>x<高さ> のように設定してください。" nl.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "Dimensies forceren moet ingesteld worden als <breedte>x<hoogte>" ru.po: parsing error for `<width>x<height>': #. i18n. Description duplicated in a fake value attribute in order to make it translatable #: ../share/extensions/webslicer_create_rect.inx.h:12 msgid "Force Dimension must be set as <width>x<height>" msgstr "" make[1]: *** [distcheck-hook] Error 1 Thanks, Ted

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Coding style question
by unknown＠example.com 19 May '10

19 May '10

Hi all, Is it good practice to start class member variables with an underscore? The reason I ask is for ambiguity in a function in a class that is derivative of SPObject. class SPObject has member "repr". So now if I subclass from that and add a method to my class like "sp_do_something(XML::Node repr)", there is an ambiguity in the method. Perhaps underscoring the class member variables is better... Ciao, Johan

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Snapping options anomalies? - Selector tool
by Mihaela 18 May '10

18 May '10

What is the policy on snapping nodes to stuff when dragging the whole object (Selector tool) VS snapping only nodes to stuff (Node tool)? There are some things I'm confused about, some of them might be bugs, others might just be my misinterpretation. Enable "Snapping nodes or handles" and try to snap cusp or smooth nodes using Node tool to a guide, everything works as expected, they snap and the tooltip is correct. If I convert a node to Symmetric it snaps to the guide but the tooltip says "Cusp node to guide". If I convert a node to Auto-smooth it snaps to the guide but the tooltip says "Smooth node to guide". Now with the same setting (Snapping nodes or handles) use Selector tool to move the object around and snap it's nodes to the guide. Snapping sharp cusp nodes works and the tooltip is correct. Snapping cusp nodes that were converted from smooth (so their handles are collinear) doesn't work, even if you move a handle just a bit so handles aren't collinear. Symmetric nodes don't snap. Auto-smooth nodes don't snap. When I add the "Snap to smooth nodes" into play then smooth nodes snap to the guide when using Selector tool, but the tooltip says "Cusp node to guide". It's the same with symmetric and auto-smooth nodes - they snap but the tooltip says cusp. No snapping occurs if I use "Snap to cusp nodes" instead of "Snap to smooth nodes" when trying to snap smooth, symmetric or auto-smooth node using Selector (cusp nodes snap correctly even without this option). It's the same when I want to snap to paths or path intersections (Selector tool), I need to have "Snap to smooth nodes" enabled to do it with nodes that aren't obviously cusp. When snapping to path intersection is on, when trying to snap to a cusp node the tooltip says it's snapping to "path intersection" instead of "to cusp node" and it happens with "Snap to cusp nodes" disabled. Unrelated to this but related to gradients snapping - when creating a gradient start stop snaps but the gradient can't be created. You have to click next to the snapping point and not directly on it to make it work. Is this expected? This is all tested on 9425 but some of it behaves the same in 0.47. Mihaela

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Tool Order
by Tavmjong Bah 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi, I propose to change the tool order to move the spray tool down and the text tool up a bit. The spray tool is quite neat but I can't imagine using it more than the text tool! The specific order would be: Selector Node Tweak Zoom Rectangle Box Circle/Ellipse Star/Polygon Spiral Pencil Pen Calligraphy Text Spray Eraser Bucket Fill Gradient Dropper Connector Tav

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gradient mesh
by sid datta 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi, Are we still waiting for the SVG standards before we can implement gradient meshes ? I have a ( pretty simple and obvious ) method of rendering gradient meshes that is simpler than blurring multiple beziergons and is quite fast ( 100 ms in Java rendering 500x500px approx ), I was wondering if we start putting a basic gradient mesh in inkscape and we can conform/export to the SVG format when it comes out. I believe we are trying to get a triangle gradient primitive approved from SVG. Do we have any plans of getting a quadrilateral primitive ? It will be more accurate for gradient mesh. This paper I found explains some quadrilateral rendering techniques : http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/publications/papers/quadrendering.pdf Thanks -Sid

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Export Page to PDF
by Mihaela 17 May '10

17 May '10

When exporting to PDF with the Page option it appears correctly in PDF readers, you only see the page area, but when you import the document back into Inkscape the objects outside the Page area are still there. Is this what it's supposed to work? I'd expect that everything outside the Page area gets discarded. Mihaela

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NEW: Pseudo unified console / GUI app on Windows
by Krzysztof Kosiński 14 May '10

14 May '10

Hello Starting with revision 9251, it's possible to open cmd.exe, type "inkscape" while having Inkscape's installation directory in PATH, and get a working console-mode executable. This is done by shipping a slightly modified version of the well-known inkscapec.exe helper, renamed to inkscape.com and placed in the same directory as inkscape.exe. This approach looks a bit hacky, but it's used by several of Microsoft's tool that also implement both GUI and command line mode. Regards, Krzysztof

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Bug Hunt Complete! - 381/300
by Joshua A. Andler 13 May '10

13 May '10

This list contains fixes between 5/3 @ 1:39pm PDT - 5/13 @ 3:39am PDT. Only fixes to "true bugs" (i.e. no website/translation/docs/etc. bugs). Pts BugID Fixer Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 573512 JazzyNico Export XAML with matrix 12 220711 JazzyNico Inkscape export to XAML produces invalid XAML 9 519408 JohanEngelen Crash while saving opened PDF 6 446723 UNKNOWN Preferences: numeric precision tooltip error. 9 578990 UNKN (J.E.)? a line with self defined marker crashes... 6 488747 Chris Morgan Windows installer problems 0.47 6 489022 Chris Morgan Windows Uninstaller Doesn't Work 3 485027 JazzyNico Export to Gimp XCF returns deprecation... 9 463602 Kosiński crash when node-editing pattern-filled object 6 572906 JazzyNico Export invisible layer in XAML 6 516462 JazzyNico XAML error when I set Object Properties 18 282421 JazzyNico Save As XAML Inkscape crashes after five... ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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LGM 2010 registration
by Alexandre Prokoudine 08 May '10

08 May '10

Hi, Registration at Libre Graphics Meeting has been open for quite a while now: http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/signup.php If you intend to come, my advice would be to book flight and hotel *now*. Hotel prices seems to be quite high in Brussels, so make sure you really can't or don't want to cluster before you book :) If you intend to give a talk, please submit your proposal here: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2010/Submit_Talk Cheers, Alexandre

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icon-names.h
by bulia byak 05 May '10

05 May '10

This file explains itself thus: * This file exists for several reasons: firstly, it contains all the icon names * in Inkscape, so it can serve as a reference to themers. Secondly, using * macros instead of strings avoids typos. Thirdly, we can change names * to conform to external icon sets / specifications without changing any code. Let's look: - Before, all the icon references were also in one place - in verbs.cpp, where they were adjacent to other verb metadata and thus easier to understand. - Before, to add a new verb with an icon, I had to add icon ID in one place. Now I have to add icon ID _and_ the define name. How is this better for typos? - icon-names.h is "code" just as well - at least if you change it, you have to recompile. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re : [Inkscape-translator] Re : 0.48 About Screen Contest - Developer voting time.
by Nicolas Dufour 04 May '10

04 May '10

Hi, > De : Clytie Siddall <clytie@...2346...> >> On 28/04/2010, at 6:40 AM, Nicolas Dufour wrote: >> I suggest that we don't translate the about screen for this version. >> The "Draw freely" text is not easy to change in the selected screens >> without damage, and I feel it is really unnecessary. > > I disagree. "Draw Freely" in English is completely > meaningless to speakers of many languages. If it's the motto of Inkscape, then > we need to translate it. Otherwise, why use it? Please see (and comment) https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/463814. The "Unimount" about screen is a typical case. "Draw Freely" is very well integrated in the drawing and will be very difficult to translate. Translating it will change the text length (or if we want to keep the same length, change to text size) and may not be as nice as the original screen with some translations. Regards, -- Nicolas

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0.48 About Screen Contest - Results
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '10

04 May '10

It appears that #2 is the winner. Here is a version w/ the spray tool and the newer logo. Let's figure out what else needs to be changed. Cheers, Josh

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Bug Hunt Update - 285/300
by Joshua A. Andler 03 May '10

03 May '10

This list contains fixes between 4/22 @ 2:28pm PDT - 5/3 @ 1:39pm PDT. Only fixes to "true bugs" (i.e. no website/translation/docs/etc. bugs). Pts BugID Fixer Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12 165529 Jaspervdg border around bitmap object in exported png 3 425202 JazzyNico Script messages not translated 6 553911 Jon Cruz Inkscape hangs when selecting CJK fonts in... 6 569885 JazzyNico No opacity value in XAML export 6 427514 Jon Cruz two inkscape instances will mirror data in... 12 169009 Jon Cruz Icon Preview only works with the first window 9 463602 Kosiński crash when node-editing pattern-filled object 3 571196 JazzyNico Extension floating point default value and... 12 307654 Max Albert 3dbox inside scaled groups, translation broken ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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py2geom
by unknown＠example.com 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hi all, Although py2geom (python functions of 2geom) is still in development and not fully functional, I'd like to discuss how to include it in Inkscape. Should we include it in our releases, or should users install it by themselves? (note on Windows, py2geom is 16MB large; I do not know why it is so large). Cheers, Johan

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Inkscape(Quartz) crahes sometimes when opening files
by Janosch Peters 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi there, Im trying to get the native (non-X11) inkscape version working. I first tried the version from macports. However, it crashed about half of the time when I wanted to open an SVG file. I then tried to compile it manually following the instructions on the inkscape wiki http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX. The section where it says "Building Aqua from scratch, 2010". Unfortunately, I get the very same error. More or less every second time I open a SVG file inkscape crashes. See the console output and the crash report below. I only postet the part of the crash report which looked relevant to me. If you need more detailed logs, let me know. The X11 version runs fine, by the way. Except that there are other bugs making copy & paste unusable. cheers, Janosch Console output: ====================================== Janoschs-MacBook:Inkscape.app jp$ Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape Setting Language: de_DE.UTF-8 cp: /Users/jp/Code/inkscape/myproject/packaging/macosx/Inkscape.app/ Contents/Resources/etc/pango/pangox.aliases: No such file or directory /Users/jp/.inkscape-etc/gtkrc:56: Clearlooks configuration option "menuitemstyle" is not supported and will be ignored. /Users/jp/.inkscape-etc/gtkrc:57: Clearlooks configuration option "listviewitemstyle" is not supported and will be ignored. /Users/jp/.inkscape-etc/gtkrc:58: Clearlooks configuration option "progressbarstyle" is not supported and will be ignored. (inkscape-bin:1725): Gtk-WARNING **: Das Symbol »object-visible« konnte nicht gefunden werden, ebenso wenig wie das Thema »hicolor«. Möglicherweise müssen Sie es installieren. Sie können sich eine Kopie herunterladen unter: http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases (inkscape-bin:1725): Gtk-WARNING **: Vorgegebener Überwachungstyp für lokale Ordner konnte nicht gefunden werden (inkscape-bin:1725): Gtk-WARNING **: Vorgegebener Überwachungstyp für lokale Ordner konnte nicht gefunden werden (inkscape-bin:1725): Gtk-WARNING **: Vorgegebener Überwachungstyp für lokale Ordner konnte nicht gefunden werden (inkscape-bin:1725): Gtk-WARNING **: Vorgegebener Überwachungstyp für lokale Ordner konnte nicht gefunden werden Emergency save activated! Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it. Segmentation fault ====================================== Apple crash report: ====================================== Process: inkscape-bin [1725] Path: /Users/jp/Code/inkscape/myproject/packaging/macosx/ Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape-bin Identifier: inkscape-bin Version: ??? (???) Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: bash [1643] Interval Since Last Report: 61812 sec Crashes Since Last Report: 7 Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 0 sec Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 7 Date/Time: 2010-04-30 13:14:31.535 +0200 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) Report Version: 6 Anonymous UUID: 8600E840-20FE-4E65-9021-C6EDDD9FA609 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000ffffffff Crashed Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x9392f68c objc_msgSend + 28 1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96800772 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 466 2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96801acc CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 844 3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96802aa8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88 4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96b212ac RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283 5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96b20ffe ReceiveNextEventCommon + 175 6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96b20f39 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 106 7 com.apple.AppKit 0x94da46d5 _DPSNextEvent + 657 8 com.apple.AppKit 0x94da3f88 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128 9 libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0179f207 poll_func + 135 10 libglib-2.0.0.dylib 0x01cf728f g_main_context_iterate + 799 11 libglib-2.0.0.dylib 0x01cf76e7 g_main_loop_run + 439 12 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x013c4a44 gtk_dialog_run + 420 13 inkscape-bin 0x000a7b1a inkscape_crash_handler(int) + 3162 14 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94a002bb _sigtramp + 43 15 libobjc.A.dylib 0x9392f689 objc_msgSend + 25 16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96800772 __CFRunLoopDoObservers + 466 17 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96801acc CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 844 18 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96802aa8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88 19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96b212ac RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283 20 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96b20ffe ReceiveNextEventCommon + 175 21 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x96b20f39 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 106 22 com.apple.AppKit 0x94da46d5 _DPSNextEvent + 657 23 com.apple.AppKit 0x94da3f88 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128 24 libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0179f207 poll_func + 135 25 libglib-2.0.0.dylib 0x01cf728f g_main_context_iterate + 799 26 libglib-2.0.0.dylib 0x01cf76e7 g_main_loop_run + 439 27 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x014495c1 gtk_main + 177 28 libgtkmm-2.4.1.dylib 0x00eff50b Gtk::Main::run() + 27 29 inkscape-bin 0x00004eba sp_main_gui(int, char const**) + 1146 30 inkscape-bin 0x001f9912 Inkscape::NSApplication::Application::run() + 178 31 inkscape-bin 0x00003861 main + 353 32 inkscape-bin 0x00003076 start + 54 ======================================

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.48 About Screen Contest - Developer voting time.
by Valessio S Brito 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

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First core contribution: undefined reference to Class::method()
by Aurélio A. Heckert 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi all, I'm a extension developer but i want to collaborate with the core. I'm not skilled in C++ and GTK but i'm reading a lot. I create some long running extensions and will be cool if i can show the percentage and what it is doing while the user wait. So, i want to replace the current simple Gtk::MessageDialog by an Inkscape::Extension::WorkingDialog. I did my first test code, compiled it, but the make fails on linking. I already refered the new class files on this files: src/extension/CMakeLists.txt and src/extension/Makefile_insert But i run "./configure && make" and still getting this error: /src/extension/execution-env.cpp:82: undefined reference to `Inkscape::Extension::WorkingDialog::hide()' Please, see my .diff and error.txt attached files. PS: i'm thinking in open a pipe to the extension set the percentage and description text. Thanks! Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://SoftwareLivre.org/aurium Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Windows 7: a new era of restrictions." http://windows7sins.org Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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0.48 About Screen Contest - Developer voting time.
by Joshua A. Andler 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Here are the results from the About Screen contest on DA, follow the link to see what the community has voted for. http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/blog/31821956/ All Devs (yes that includes Translators too), please chime in with your opinions, votes, as well as any comments on modifications that may need to be done. Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Cairo rendering proposal
by bulia byak 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Jasper van de Gronde > In any case, you're definitely right that it would add complexity, and it is > by no means meant as /the/ solution, but I do think we can and should > consider some alternatives other than our way and the Illustrator way. A simple and relatively cheap method, similar to your proposal, which I for some time was thinking of trying, would be to start by testing, from top to bottom, if any object in the repaint buffer covers it completely and has no opacity and filters; if yes, then discard objects below it and render only from this object up. However, to be of any use, this method must be used with our current buffered redraw, where the probability of an object to cover the entire strip buffer is significant. With the Illustrator method, this optimization would only work if some object covers the entire screen, which is much less probable. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Setting kerning for all the characters
by David Marín Carreño 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hello all. Currently, while using keyboard shortcuts for setting the kerning of characters, I have realized that this setting is stablished in a character-by-character pattern. I have seen that, in the resulting SVG file, the kerning is set using the attribute "dx" for the tag "tspan", specified for each character in the string. Can I change the "default" kerning between all the characters of a text or text block with a single action, or with a single tag or attribute in the file? Thanks a lot. David Marín Carreño

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Cairo rendering proposal
by Krzysztof Kosiński 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hello Here's my Cairo rendering proposal. I made it public so that all people can comment. http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2010/tween… I also have some doubts whether cairo-gl surfaces can be created on all platforms. It looks like only EGL and GLX is supported. An additional problem is that GtkGLExt, which I'll need to use to create cairo-gl surfaces for onscreen drawing, doesn't work on OSX. However, there are Quartz surfaces in Cairo, which we might be able to use in the Aqua port. Regards, Krzysztof

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Ubuntu devel builds
by unknown＠example.com 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hi all, I'm having a hard time finding how to install 0.48dev on Ubuntu (without compiling it myself). Where should people find this info, and please add the link to the "development versions" section here http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en. Thanks, Johan

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Help. Can't reopen edited SVG files
by Brian Lake 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Any idea why I can't repoen a file? I clicked "Save As" and named it transparent.svg. Help! Thanks! Brian Lake

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print colors
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Hi, There still seems to be Print Colors view mode. Have we actually reached final agreement if we a) need it and b) want it where it is now? Same about the dialog it comes along. Alexandre

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Text toolbar
by Jon Cruz 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

I have two problems showing up on the new text toolbar. On Ubuntu 8.10 I get no combo boxes showing up at all for the font family and size. On Ubuntu 9.10 I am getting all fonts warned as not being on the system and that they are ignored to not crash pango. I'm poking around at the 8.10 one to see if there's anything I can pinpoint as the cause. For the 9.10 problem, I was thinking there is a better chance that others might be seeing the same issue.

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Legacy Icons
by Joshua A. Andler 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Is there a reason we still have the "legacy_icons.svg" in the repo (in share/icons)? Cheers, Josh

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node tool testing
by bulia byak 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Krzysztof, I finally found time to test the new node tool. Overall it feels great, but of course I found many small and not so small things to fix :) #1 is my personal pet peeve, if you can't see it please just give me pointers to the code which passes events up and I'll have a look myself. I'll probably have more as I do more testing, but here's the fist batch: 1. Bug: Middle-button dragging and Shift-middle button zoom rubberband still do not work. Are you using a mouse with a middle button to test? They work in Selector but not in Node. 2. Lost feature: when rotating/scaling nodes by keys and one node is mouseovered, it is used as center of rotation and scaling. 3. Lost feature: when ctrl+alt+dragging a node, it should slide along the handles _and their perpendiculars_. 4. Lost feature: when ctrl+alt+dragging a node, and it has a linear segment on one side, it should slide along the continuation of that segment. 5. Lost feature: node sculpting. Will you work on it, or do you want me to work on porting it? 6. Bug: select a single node and rotate it by [] with or without Alt: it rotates around some random center far away, instead of around itself. 7. Lost feature: When rotating a handle with Ctrl, it now snaps to the original position and 15 deg increments from that original position. The previous behaviour was: snap to origin, its opposite and perpendicular, to vertical/horizontal, and to 15 deg steps from vertical. This is much more useful because more often, I use Ctrl to snap it to vertical or some simple angle like 60 deg. 8. Lost feature: create a cusp node next to a linear segment; press Shift+S; it becomes semismooth, aligned with the segment (correct); now press Shift+S again; old behavior is to make it fully smooth, extending the second handle, but your tool does nothing. 9. Lost feature: Rotating a handle with Shift before allowed to rotate the second handle by the same angle, thus rotating a cusp node as a whole; now it does nothing. 10. Suggested feature: now that we can edit multiple paths, Ctrl+A when nothing selected should do the same in Node tool as in Selector, instead of doing nothing as now. 11. Performance: Create a path with thousands of nodes (paste text, convert to path, combine), select it in Node tool: notice how slow it all becomes, freezing for many seconds, as you simply move your mouse over the path. My guess is that it calculates something on each motion event and does not cache the results. The old tool also wasn't very snappy in such situation but it was much better, only freezing for a couple seconds at most with the same file (test it!) partly because it cached the livarot representation of the path it used for proximity/over the path calculations. 12. Lost feature: the statusbar used to say how much total nodes are there ("2 of 5 nodes selected") and, for a single node, its type (smooth, cusp, auto). For multiple subpaths it said e.g. "2 of 9 nodes selected in 2 of 3 subpaths". Now it only says "Selected 2 nodes" (which is also a wrong word order, suggesting an action instead of a state). Could you please just copy this part from the old node tool? 13. Suggested feature: now that we can select multiple objects, the statusbar hints must reflect that, in the same way as subpaths, e.g. "2 of 9 nodes selected in 2 of 3 subpaths in 1 of 2 selected paths", or simply "2 of 9 nodes selected in 1 of 2 selected paths" if there are no subpaths involved. 14. Bug: when dragging a node handle, statusbar erroneously says "Move by" instead of "Node handle:" as did the old tool. 15. When mouseovering a node, it says "click to select" even if it is already selected. I'd like to copy this from the old tool as well, which suggested various modifiers for dragging instead. 16. On the node deletion discussion, I found the current behavior satisfactory: if you Del, you get curved approximation; if you Ctrl+del you get linear segment from linears. I think this is logical (unless I miss something). 17. UI suggestion: since the show/hide seltrans handles button belongs to visualization, it should be moved to the right end of the controls bar, next to node handles and node outline toggles. 18. Crash: draw a path; draw a path and apply it as mask; draw another and apply as clippath; go to node tool; enable both mask and clippath editing; drag a mask node; drag a clippath node; drag a node of the path itself; undo 4 times - crash. 19. UI bug: create with Pen a Spiro path; now switch to Node tool - the green outline of the source path is visible always, even when "show outline of path" toggle is off and "show path parameter" was never pressed. Also, as we discussed in the summer, I suggested a purple color for LPE parameter paths, so they are not confused with clippaths. 20. Crash (somewhat hard to reproduce): With Pencil in Spiro mode, create a path with just two nodes (click, click). Now create a curved doodle path (unrelated bug in Pencil: you need to deselect first path before drawing second, otherwise they will become joined!). Now select both paths, go to Node. Select the end node of the linear path and start node of the curved path. Mouseover the latter and press Shift+J. Then press Ctrl+Z while still mouseovering the joined node. Crash: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Inkscape::UI::NodeList::closed (this=0xbfffe3dc) at ui/tool/node.cpp:1060 1060 { (gdb) bt #0 Inkscape::UI::NodeList::closed (this=0xbfffe3dc) at ui/tool/node.cpp:1060 #1 0x085fc574 in Inkscape::UI::CurveDragPoint::_getTip (this=0xb8d57c8, state=4) at ui/tool/curve-drag-point.cpp:152 #2 0x085fadc1 in Inkscape::UI::ControlPoint::_updateTip (this=0xb8d5790, state=4) at ui/tool/control-point.cpp:470 #3 0x085fb914 in Inkscape::UI::ControlPoint::_setMouseover (p=0xb8d5790, state=4) at ui/tool/control-point.cpp:460 #4 0x085fc122 in Inkscape::UI::ControlPoint::_eventHandler (this=0xb8d5790, event=0xaf56a80) at ui/tool/control-point.cpp:411 #5 0x085faad8 in Inkscape::UI::ControlPoint::_event_handler (event=0xaf56a80, point=0xb8d5790) at ui/tool/control-point.cpp:298 #6 0x0824dd28 in sp_marshal_BOOLEAN__POINTER (closure=0xb5c0270, return_value=0xbfffe80c, n_param_values=2, param_values=0xad41600, invocation_hint=0xbfffe6b0, marshal_data=0x85faac0) at helper/sp-marshal.cpp:352 #7 0x0056a072 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #8 0x0057f7a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #9 0x005809b8 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #10 0x012b38ee in gtk_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #11 0x081c66df in emit_event (canvas=<value optimized out>, event=0xb8d57c8) at display/sp-canvas.cpp:1348 #12 0x081c68e3 in pick_current_item (canvas=0x985c060, event=<value optimized out>) at display/sp-canvas.cpp:1491 #13 0x081c9431 in sp_canvas_motion (widget=0x985c060, event=0xaf58340) at display/sp-canvas.cpp:1603 -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Bug Hunt Update - 216/300
by Joshua A. Andler 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

This list contains fixes between 4/14 @ 11:15am PDT - 4/22 @ 2:28pm PDT. Only fixes to "true bugs" (i.e. no website/translation/docs/etc. bugs). Pts BugID Fixer Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 479964 Johan Engelen "Fit Page to Selection" doesn't take arrow... 3 429776 Johan Engelen Axonometric grid unusable when spacing set... 3 554734 JazzyNico inconvenient default path for extension... 12 165529 jaspervdg border around bitmap object in exported png 3 530790 Jon Cruz Compiler warning: function returns random... 3 439270 ycswyw javafx save with errored call to function path 6 455302 jaspervdg Filter: Ink bleed with bad results 12 208768 Kosiński Bézier tool behaviour changed with 0.46 3 401567 JazzyNico Render>Grid doesn't render the horizontal... ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Confirmation of rendering problem needed
by Jasper van de Gronde 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

It's regarding this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/455302 I recently commited a fix, but now it appears there might be a new problem with this filter. It doesn't look directly related to the fix to this particular bug, but it perhaps it has something to do with one my other fixes (or someone else's). Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the problem, so I'd like to know who CAN reproduce it (and how). If you can reproduce the problem any information that might help pin down the exact revision in which the problem was introduced would help. (Obviously it's also interesting if you CANNOT reproduce the problem.)

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Launchpad mails
by unknown＠example.com 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi all, Today, I decided to change my main launchpad email address back to something that I read. Can someone tell me how to stop receiving general Inkscape Bug Team mails? (the mails that say: "You received this bug notification because you are a member of Inkscape Bug Team, which is subscribed to Inkscape.") If this is not possible without leaving the Bug Team, I'm forced to set my mailaddress back to the spam address. Thanks, Johan

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Issues with SVG
by John Coppens 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hello people. I've started using SVG for some of the graphics on my pages, and encountered some problems - probably due to ignorance... but not for lack of trying to find answers: 1) If I 'embed' an SVN image in a page, and want to use it as a link to somewhere else, I find that the image isn't sensitive. I'm using Firefox 3.6 - I thought embedding was ok for the majority of browsers? 2) If I define the size smaller than the original image, I get scrollbars in Firefox. I thought SVN was scaleable? Or are the images only scaleable to larger sizes - never seen that mentioned... I'd appreciate pointers to documentation for either or both issues. Thanks John

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Ruler LPE giving new rendering result
by Jasper van de Gronde 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

If you wrote the Ruler LPE or know what it's about, please have a look at its rendering test (still in SVN), it produces a new result that is clearly different from the old (regression?). For more info on the rendering tests (and where to get them), see the Wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Testing_Inkscape#Rendering_tests

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How to access viewport dimensions?
by Jasper van de Gronde 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

I've fixed Inkscape to actually respect the filterUnits (and primitiveUnits) propertie(s), but now I need to be able to access the viewport dimensions for the filtered object... As far as I have been able to find this is only available reliably from SPItemCtx. But for a filter I need to access this not for the filter itself, but rather for the filtered object... Any help would be appreciated. Getting this right would fix the following bug btw.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/229246

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Advertising at StackOverflow
by Manuel Strehl 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Hello, Disclaimer: *This is no advertisement.* If it doesn't get clear from the following, I'm in no way associated with the owners of StackOverflow.com. (I mention this, because after reading the mail again, it could be interpreted the wrong way.) The Q&A platform StackOverflow offers open source projects free ad space to recruit new developers [1]. The method is quite simple: If you want to have an ad there, place it as answer to the question linked as [1] and hope for other people to upvote it. After a certain threshold of upvotes it gets published for free on stackoverflow.com. Since Inkscape hasn't got an ad proposal there, yet, I thought I'd suggest one. It must be 220px x 220px and GIF or PNG, and my suggestion is [2]. If noone on the list objects (especially against using the Inkscape logo) I'd upload the proposal to meta.stackoverflow.com during the weekend. If there are suggestions for other banners, mine can easily be exchanged afterwards. I write this mail just because I don't want to do the ad kind of behind the back of the Inkscape developers. By the way: What would be your suggestion for the backlink the ad should point to? The wiki? The Inkscape homepage? Cheers, Manuel [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31913 [2] http://static.manuel-strehl.de/StillImage/inkscape_promo.png

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still trying to build 0.47
by Britton Kerin 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

I'm working against a clean debian stable environment now, I think. The current problem appears to be with an undocumented dependency on ImageMagick (I think on an old version of ImageMagick). ImageMagick doesn't show up in this list: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Dependencies The build finally dies like this: Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.47/src' g++ -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp --export-dynamic -Wl,-z,relro -o inkscape main.o libinkscape.a dom/libdom.a libcroco/libcroco.a libavoid/libavoid.a libgdl/libgdl.a libcola/libcola.a libvpsc/libvpsc.a livarot/libvarot.a 2geom/lib2geom.a libinkversion.a -pthread -L/home/bkerin/opt/gnome_clean/lib -lgtkmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6 -lgdkmm-2.4 -lgiomm-2.4 -lpangomm-1.4 -lglibmm-2.4 -lcairomm-1.0 -lxslt -lxml2 -lsigc-2.0 -lgtkspell -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lpng12 -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -lpng -lz -lgomp -lpopt -laspell -pthread -L/home/bkerin/opt/gnome_clean/lib -lgnomevfs-2 -lgconf-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -L/home/bkerin/opt/gnome_clean/lib -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lz -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -L/home/bkerin/local/lib -lfreetype -lz -lMagick++ -lWand -lMagick -lgc -llcms -lpoppler -lpoppler-glib /usr/bin/ld: warning: librt.so.1, needed by /home/bkerin/opt/gnome_clean/lib/libgthread-2.0.so, may conflict with librt.so.19 /usr/bin/ld: warning: librt.so.1, needed by /home/bkerin/opt/gnome_clean/lib/libgthread-2.0.so, may conflict with librt.so.19 libinkscape.a(addNoise.o): In function `Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::AddNoise::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)': /home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.47/src/extension/internal/bitmap/addNoise.cpp:29: undefined reference to `Magick::Image::addNoise(MagickLib::NoiseType)' libinkscape.a(channel.o): In function `Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::Channel::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)': /home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.47/src/extension/internal/bitmap/channel.cpp:32: undefined reference to `Magick::Image::channel(MagickLib::ChannelType)' libinkscape.a(levelChannel.o): In function `Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::LevelChannel::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)': /home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.47/src/extension/internal/bitmap/levelChannel.cpp:33: undefined reference to `Magick::Image::levelChannel(MagickLib::ChannelType, double, double, double)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.47/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.47' make: *** [all] Error 2 I know I've seen that librt error before as well, though I don't recall what the fix was or if it was needed. Britton

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GSoC Entry - Inkscape Export Pane
by Alex Trujillo 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hey folks; I had submitted a second proposal last Friday, and though I was very busy this weekend, I now have found the time to ask for input on the new one. I noticed nobody replied to my earlier message, so I'll just reintroduce myself. I've been using Inkscape for years, and have done a fair amount of work in it. This alone doesn't qualify me for application to the GSoC, so I'll just leave this link to Nanoblok, a project I've worked on for quite some time, to demonstrate my ability to write JavaScript: http://code.google.com/p/nanoblok/ I know Inkscape has the capability to use JavaScript extensions, and I've noticed a couple of files written in that language in the source, but I most likely won't be using that when working with what I want to do, and I recognize this. What I want to do is, well, to enhance the export system of Inkscape, make it more intuitive and integrated by merging the Export As and Save As dialogs together into a single pane, with selection features that were developed for the bitmap exporter also being able to work with vector export / saving. One problem with the current system this would solve is that Save As might make the user feel they can reload using that format and not lose anything, whereas the only original document with all their settings and information would be an Inkscape SVG. So, by labeling all other formats, both bitmap and vector, as Export, and placing them under a single dialog, there is less confusion, as well as the opportunity to more easily add additional formats and functionality. This is all illustrated and detailed here, in the following public Google Doc: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcePN-K69iVuZDI2ajlmYl85MzM2Yzg1Y2pkOA&hl… At any rate, let me know what you think of this! - Alex

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Misaligned PDF export
by unknown＠example.com 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hello all, Please see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/562592. There is a pretty important bug in the PDF export. Currently, paths with transparency are misaligned. Does someone know more about this? I've already done some digging, but I'm stuck. I'd greatly appreciate someone else's help. Thanks, Johan

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GSoC - Improve GUI for transformation center
by Zhenfeng Zhao 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi, I have submitted the proposal for the Transformation Anchor project. I am interested to know what you think about the idea and plan, and maybe consider to add some more details to it. The proposal is in the link: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AWmM5r2Vt9WZZHBxaHpwdl81NDJnZmdjaDloag&hl… Thank you. Zhenfeng.

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Bug Hunt Update - 165/300
by Joshua A. Andler 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

This list contains fixes between 4/7 @ 2:22pm PDT - 4/14 @ 11:15am PDT. Only fixes to "true bugs" (i.e. no website/translation/docs/etc. bugs). Pts BugID Fixer Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 555488 Johan Engelen PDF + LaTeX export doesn't work with text... 18 168275 Johan Engelen wrong PDF export with rectangles 6 479964 Johan Engelen "Fit Page to Selection" doesn't take arrow... 24 334800 Jon Cruz Input device configuration not saved on... 3 456248 JazzyNico SVG with media output fails with special... 6 196195 Jon Cruz Input devices dialog strangeness 6 166659 Johan Engelen Bounding box does not include long miters 3 362271 JazzyNico solarize on raster effect ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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inkscape devels for windows on modevia
by Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hi everyone. I upload inkscape builds for windows to modevia from time to time and i'm glad to do this. No doubt about that. But I'm on vacation from 22. of April till 16. of May and i'm not able to upload these builds during this time. Can someone do this during my vacation? He or she must have access on modevia.com to do this. I can try to do this, but i'll travel through Florida and i don't know if i can establish a reliable internet connection. So it would be nice if someone could do this during my vacation. Sincerely UweSch

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assertion violation in new inkscape build
by Britton Kerin 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

I got an assertion violation in a build of the latest inkscape: $ inkscape Assertion failure: mark.c:642 assertion failure Aborted (core dumped) 134 $ No luck googling this error text as far as I could tell. I'm not even sure which package mark.c is in, it doesn't show up anywhere in inkscape or any of the many dependencies I needed to build. The inkscape link ended up looking like this: $ ldd $(which inkscape) linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7fbb000) libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb7c68000) libatkmm-1.6.so.1 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libatkmm-1.6.so.1 (0xb7c23000) libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb7bd9000) libgiomm-2.4.so.1 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so.1 (0xb7b62000) libpangomm-1.4.so.1 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libpangomm-1.4.so.1 (0xb7b34000) libglibmm-2.4.so.1 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb7adb000) libcairomm-1.0.so.1 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libcairomm-1.0.so.1 (0xb7aba000) libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb76fd000) libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb766a000) libatk-1.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb7650000) libgio-2.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xb75b7000) libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb7592000) libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb7578000) libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb756d000) libpango-1.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb752a000) libfreetype.so.6 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb74b9000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb748a000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb745f000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb7422000) libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb741f000) libxslt.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1 (0xb73e9000) libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb72b0000) libcairo.so.2 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb7241000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb723b000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb7237000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb715f000) libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb713b000) libgsl.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgsl.so.0 (0xb6fad000) libgslcblas.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgslcblas.so.0 (0xb6f7b000) libgomp.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1 (0xb6f74000) libpopt.so.0 => /lib/libpopt.so.0 (0xb6f6b000) libgnomevfs-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0 (0xb6f10000) libgconf-2.so.4 => /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4 (0xb6ede000) libgc.so.1 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgc.so.1 (0xb6e9f000) liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0xb6e6b000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6d7d000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6d57000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6d4a000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d31000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6bd5000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6bd1000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb6ae2000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2 (0xb6ace000) libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xb6ab5000) librt.so.19 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/librt.so.19 (0xa829c000) libbn.so.19 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libbn.so.19 (0xa8246000) libbu.so.19 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libbu.so.19 (0xa8205000) libtcl8.5.so => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libtcl8.5.so (0xa80de000) libsysv.so.19 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libsysv.so.19 (0xa80dc000) libopenNURBS.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libopenNURBS.so.0 (0xa7d3f000) libpixman-1.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xa7d08000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xa7ce2000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xa7cd9000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xa7cca000) libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xa7cc7000) libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xa7cbe000) libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xa7cbb000) libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xa7cb8000) libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xa7cb3000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xa7ca9000) libdbus-glib-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 (0xa7c8d000) libdbus-1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 (0xa7c55000) libgnutls.so.26 => /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 (0xa7bb7000) libavahi-glib.so.1 => /usr/lib/libavahi-glib.so.1 (0xa7bb4000) libavahi-common.so.3 => /usr/lib/libavahi-common.so.3 (0xa7ba8000) libavahi-client.so.3 => /usr/lib/libavahi-client.so.3 (0xa7b98000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xa7b94000) libORBit-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 (0xa7b40000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fbc000) libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xa7b3e000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xa7b26000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xa7b23000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1 (0xa7b09000) libtasn1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3 (0xa7af9000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /home/bkerin/local/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xa7af5000) libgcrypt.so.11 => /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xa7a8d000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xa7a88000) Britton

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how do you guys use Boehm with gtk?
by Britton Kerin 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

I've tried pretty hard in the past to come up with a combination of gtk and Boehm that works, but I never got stable results. I'm really curious what combination of Boehm features and glib/gtk features you are using? I guess that since you don't require specially built glib/gtk you aren't using the allocator specifiers or build-time allocation settings of glib? Perhaps you use Boehm only for your own glib-independent memory pools? One of my dreams is to have a nice garbage-collected C development setup, but it seems to require every library to be rebuilt of LD_PRELOAD'ed in some tricky way... I'd love to know roughly what you've done. Thanks, Britton

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Improved boundingbox calculation
by Guillermo Espertino 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Please, don't forget bug #365458. I guess it's somewhat related and it's extremely annoying. 0.47 was released with that important regression, it would be great if it's reverted in 0.48.

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How to fix Wacom stylus in Inkscape 0.47-3 on Windows
by Jon Cruz 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Just wondering if our Win32 guys have seen this about issues with Tablets on 0.47. http://www.anthonywyatt.com/blog/2009/11/29/how-to-fix-wacom-stylus-in-inks… Do we have all this covered now, or not?

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Improved boundingbox calculation
by unknown＠example.com 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi all, I just committed an improved bbox calculation when SPItem::RENDERING_BBOX precision is requested. Now it correctly includes stroke endcaps. This fixes an important bug: when creating a pattern from selected objects, the bbox calculation was not accurate enough for paths with butt caps. This meant it was not easy to make a pattern of a plus to create a hatch fill pattern. (the plusses would not connect with each other) Now this works as easy as it should. I have also increased the precision of the bbox calculation for fitting the canvas to the selection and for turning the selection into a marker. Note that the improved RENDERING_BBOX calculation takes more time than before (in fact, RENDERING_BBOX used to be the same as APPROXIMATE_BBOX). Ciao, Johan

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bzr repo format
by Kees Cook 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

Hi, I'd like to upgrade[1] the inkscape bzr repo to the latest format version. Is anyone using bzr that is too old to handle the 2a format? -Kees [1] https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/+upgrade -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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GSoC 2010, pen tool and layers dialog
by Matthew Todd 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Hello, My name is Matthew A. Todd. I am a second year computer science student at UCSD interested in working on Inkscape as part of Google Summer of Code. During my use of Inkscape previously, I had wanted a couple of changes/feature additions. I would like the chance to add these features, with some help, as my project in GSoC. I'm posting here for feedback regarding my ideas. I don't have enough experience to know how long it would take to implement them. I don't even know if others besides myself would even find such functionality useful. First idea (pen tool): I primarily use the pen tool, and would like to add the following to it: When drawing a curve, often times I place a node then decide I want to move the node's position. In Adobe Illustrator, this is accomplished by simply pressing a key (the space key.) I would like to add this ability to Inkscape. Currently, this is already possible through the use of the arrow keys. But allowing the user to move the node with the mouse would increase ease of use because the user wouldn't have to take his or her hand off the mouse. Also it would allow him or her to move the node more quickly. And he or she could still use the arrow keys if desired. Because the arrow keys method already exists, adding the use of the mouse is by no means of high importance. But several times I have desired such functionality. Second idea (layers dialog): I find the layers dialog to be a little cumbersome. Its not possible to simply move layers up and down by dragging them. Instead an user has to click a button or press a key combination. I think adding this small feature will increase ease of use because then the user doesn't have to click multiple times if there are many layers. He or she could simply just drag the layer to the desired location. The layer dialog doesn't show what is in a layer. So currently, the only option is to hide all other layers, which still isn't a great solution. Adding the ability to inspect items in a layer and move them in z-order or perhaps even move them to other layers, would make layers work better. I'm thinking of something would look like a tree view. Again, I came over from Adobe Illustrator, so my idea of what it would like is similar to how Illustrator's layer dialog, but it need not be. Thanks, Matthew A. Todd

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Intel Aqua packaging
by ~suv 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

On 8/4/10 13:40, Lloyd Sargent wrote: > Okay, I went back and looked at the build info and I've found two problems: > > #1. > <...> > The following build commands failed: > ScriptExec: > ProcessPCH /var/folders/D+/D+KS42xe2RWRN++1YwAjD++++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.Xcode.501/SharedPrecompiledHeaders/ScriptExec_Prefix-fufpslfnljyhqverjsxrfdvyqeus/ScriptExec_Prefix.pch.gch ScriptExec_Prefix.pch normal ppc c com.apple.compilers.gcc.4_2 > ProcessPCH /var/folders/D+/D+KS42xe2RWRN++1YwAjD++++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.Xcode.501/SharedPrecompiledHeaders/ScriptExec_Prefix-ewyzzpalxmpnnsapxxvoyqkdnuir/ScriptExec_Prefix.pch.gch ScriptExec_Prefix.pch normal i386 c com.apple.compilers.gcc.4_2 > (2 failures) See my earlier answer to Stuart: On 22/3/10 14:00, ~suv wrote: > Yes, the lack of MacOSX10.4u.sdk is obviously significant for the > available xcodeproject of the application launcher. Please be aware that > the release version 0.47 was not built on Snow Leopard, nor are the > current development snapshots built on Snow Leopard. I.e. you are trying > to do something new that seems to require part of the packaging modules > to be modified and updated to run on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. > > I recommend to file a bug report, detailing the SL related errors you > see when trying to package the application. Please include all relevant > information about your OS and Xcode version. I'm not familiar with Xcode projects and don't know what changes are needed to compile 'ScriptExec' on Snow Leopard. Earlier in this thread it was mentioned to use gcc 4.0 instead of gcc 4.2 when employing the MacOSX10.4u.sdk on SL, but I don't know which changes you'd have to make to which files to change the compiler for the Xcode project only (you don't want to downgrade the compiler when building MacPorts or Inkscape itself). Looking at your error messages I see two issues to be addressed: 1) carbon vs cocoa (i.e. has anyone tried to create a new application launcher - ScriptExec - based on a current version of Platypus that might build with the 10.5 or 10.6 SDK?) 2) Universal build for PPC/i386 as target? (i.e. do we need 'ScriptExec' to be built Universal on Snow Leopard, and if so, does it need to support PPC - considering that SL doesn't run on PPC arch - or should the (platypus) launcher application be built either as Universal i386/x86_64 or as x86_64 only on Snow Leopard?). > #2 > > cp: /opt/local/etc/pango/pangox.aliases: No such file or directory > > Which makes sense as I have no pangox.aliases... what package would > this be from. I've built and installed pango, so that's not the problem... Has been answered in this thread already: the file is installed by pango when compiled with support for the X font backend. AFAICT the file is not needed when using Inkscape with GTK+/Quartz and both the packaging scripts and the application launcher script put inside the application package will have to be adapted to not look for this file when building/launching Inkscape without X11: On 22/3/10 14:00, ~suv wrote: > The GTK+/Quartz (so-called "Aqua") version will also require changes to > both the build scripts and the launcher scripts - but this should be > handled in a separate bug report, similar to the one Wolf filed for > removing the code launching X11 on Tiger. ~suv

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Hello Inkscape Developers
by Peter Boström 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Hello! I thought I'd finally send out a word or two and introduce myself. My name is Peter, I'm a second-year computer-science student at the Royal Institute of Technology here in Sweden. I've been programming casually for a few years before school, but most things I've done have either been simple or been abandoned. Though as a last-year project for high school, I made a simple fast Guitar-Hero clone in C. I'm also currently working on a game with a friend, which is slowly coming together. I'm making a proposal with Google Summer of Code to create a new New-From-Template dialog. I think Inkscape has a good interface, and it's one that I'd definitely want to help improve. Without previous experience with the code base, it's also a project that I find feasible to finish. A template menu, I think, is a good thing, so it's a part that I'd want to keep. I just think it needs to become structured into categories as well. So if you just need a static template for a CD, you can go to New.. -> Covers -> CD. In case this proposal gets accepted, I'd want to regularly provide something for feedback, either from this list or a mentor, wherever suitable. I think the interface is important, so this needs to be something that everyone would find easy to use. Also, I'm very interested any ideas you may have. (: Best to mention: I submitted a patch that resolves the following wishlist ticket: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/43730 This patch reports export results to the main window status bar. To have it report properly, I had to change sp_export_png_file's return type, as suggested, to an enum. It now returns EXPORT_OK, for a successful export, EXPORT_ERROR=0 for an error, and EXPORT_ABORTED for a canceled overwrite. I think it's a good change, because it makes this dialog more verbose. I hope you agree. Existing code checks for a false value, if(! sp_export_png_file...), which still works, same as before. I'd be happy to answer any and all questions you might have! Best regards - Peter Boström

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Intel Aqua packaging
by ~suv 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

On 8/4/10 05:50, Lloyd Sargent wrote: > 1. Macports installed at /opt/local > > 2. DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH was uncommented. > > With the above I get the same error as the OP (worse I had to make sure > the 10.4 SDK was installed). > > So something else is going South. Any suggestions? I don't know what error you are referring to - it might help if you attach the crash log / console messages (but I haven't built the +quartz version myself nor am I using Snow Leopard - which I assume you do since you mention the 10.4 SDK optional install?) ~suv

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Mac OS X: osx-dmg.sh - osascript: dmg_set_style.scpt
by Wolf Drechsel 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Hello everybody, I tried to dmg inkscape 047 X11 - but ended up with an image, which contains a link to /Applications and a folder called "Contents" - which seems not to be a .app bundle. When running the osx-dmg.sh, I get the message: osascript: dmg_set_style.scpt: No such file or directory In fact, the dmg_set_style.scpt cannot be found on my machine, it looks as if it were contained by earlier source packages and dropped recently. Could somebody be so kind and mail me the script - or - in the case - guide me to another solution of that problem. Yours, Wolf

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Document versioning (was: Coordinate system fix)
by Krzysztof Kosiński 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

W dniu 6 kwietnia 2010 18:31 użytkownik bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> napisał: > 2010/4/6 Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>: >> W dniu 6 kwietnia 2010 15:33 użytkownik bulia byak >> <buliabyak@...400...> napisał: >>> This sounds inevitable, but rather hairy. Why have both >>> inkscape:version and inkscape:document-version? Can you get what you >>> need with inkscape:version only? >> >> 1. Document version changes must be atomic, because the upgrade is >> conducted only one time for each type of defect. This means >> inkscape:document-version (or inkscape:document-format) can change >> several times between two releases. > > But why can't we just fix ALL the defects we find between 0.47 and > 0.48 and have just two states of upgrade for <=0.47 and for >=0.48? The upgrade procedure must run exactly once for any document. This means that if we introduce a change in the interpretation of XML between revision FOO and FOO+1, then FOO+1 must perform the upgrade on documents saved in FOO and earlier, but it must also be smart enough not to upgrade documents saved with FOO+1. That's true regardless of how many defects are fixed in each version or how many document formats there are. This means the version number must be accurate down to a single revision, which is a bad idea for reasons I've already mentioned. If we have only the bare version number (e.g. 0.47 or 0.48), then anything saved in FOO+1 or later cannot be opened until we make a stable release. It would be possible to have the document format version number equal to the Bazaar revision in which it was first introduced. However, this would complicate working on the backwards compatibility fixes in branches. I think a simple number increasing from 1 would be the best way to go. This is hairy, possibly tedious to implement, etc., but at the same it's the long-term solution. Regards, Krzysztof

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Bug Hunt Update - 93/300
by Joshua A. Andler 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hey all, Here is the current Bug Hunt scoring. I'm starting the count as of 3/29. Following past traditions, here is how it works: Scoring: Low: 3 pts Med: 6 pts High: 9 pts Critical: 12 pts Double if over one year old. Only fixes to "true bugs" (i.e. no website/translation/docs/etc. bugs). This list contains fixes between 3/29 - 4/7 @ 2:22pm PST. Pts BugID Fixer Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 520532 Kosiński Single app for GUI and console mode on Windows 12 215020 Kosiński Win32 - DOS/Command window pops up when... 12 168557 Jon Cruz Fill & Stroke dialog randomly stops updating.. 9 544833 Jon Cruz Crash in SVG font editor on "New" 6 541956 Kosiński comandline option don't work on win xp 6 522327 Daniel_J Inkscape 0.47 fails to build with GCC 4.5 3 554109 Kosiński unwanted printout of PYTHONPATH (Win32) 12 167455 Kosiński WinXP2: Command line file names not current... 9 551433 Kosiński inkex.py not found for extensions in user's... 6 553911 Jon Cruz Inkscape hangs when selecting CJK fonts in... 6 556233 Jon Cruz 'Rows and Columns' dialog fails when used... 3 548918 Alvin Penner HPGL output scaling incorrect 6 512447 Alvin Penner save as in DXF format fails in 0.47 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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GSOC proposal - Improve GUI for transformation center
by Zhenfeng Zhao 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hello, I appreciate all suggestions and technical details from you as to the “transformation anchor” project. I have summarized them into a proposal in the following. There is plenty of information for the project goal and plan. Later discussion, confirmation on tasks, and further input may help me to keep in the right track in the implementation. So far, the project and its tasks seem clear enough to me. And, according to my experience, I can see that this project can be done. As well, if there is any time left (I guess there would be), I would like to work on adjusting origin of document coordinates, and allowing math operations for spin boxes. The beginning of April is often the busiest time for students in Canada. It will be much better in the summer (May to August). Last year, I completed a 10+ page proposal for Gimp in the last day. This year, I am slightly earlier, after talking in Inkscape mailing list for half a month. Your feedback will be welcome and important. Then, I will submit the proposal very soon, or I will revise it there. Thank you very much. Regards, Zhenfeng. GSOC proposal - Improve GUI for transformation centers >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> PROJECT SUMMARY (a longer abstract) There are some existing issues with selecting and modifying the transformation center. This project focuses on improving and modifying GUI for transformation centers to solve existing issues and enhance precision and flexibility. In the three month GSOC period, first I will discuss with Inkscape designers and decide a GUI mockup as an implementation guide. With the further analysis and detailed plan, possible refactoring will be done. A control of precision of moving the transformation center will be implemented. Center coordinates would be set numerically. There will be a 9-button-matrix widget that is used to quickly move the center to 9 positions, and a separate tab in the Transform dialog, for adding XY fields using a couple spin-buttons for X and Y. Then, the linkage between the 9-button-widget and the spin-buttons can be done. Another relevant projects will be analyzed and implemented (i) adjust origin of coordinates of document, and (ii) allow math operations (sum, substraction, multiplication, division) inside the spin boxes for Height, Width, X, Y. All implementations will be tested and ensure accuracy, flexibility, and robustness. All code produced will follow the Inkscape coding style. Documentation will be done during coding. BACKGROUND AND SKILLS I am interested in working on the "transformation-anchors" project in GSOC this year. Inkscape is one of my favorite open source software. I have similar work before, to have the default rotation center to be the geometric center of all shapes. Anchor coordinates are a part of the object (drawing) attributes. It can be adjusted, so that geometrical transformations, rotation, translation, scaling, and shearing, can be performed with the updated center. The following is a few points about my background. · Master student in Computer Science (GPA: 4.0/4.0) in Canada, thesis: medical image processing and 3D reconstruction. · Successfully completed GSOC 2009 for a Gimp project, Advanced GUI for brush dynamics. · Four years full-time work experience in programming and architecture · Played key roles in technology R&D and innovation in image processing, vector graphics, 3D modeling, and CAD I have developed vector-based graphics editors both from scratch and on existing large applications. One of them is for a leading manufacturing company in Canada. For example, a graphics editor uses customized XML formats, have OOP architecture design to deal with all shapes/primitives using object classes (e.g. rectangle, ellipse, closed-path with arcs and lines, curves), and allow SVG and DXF (Solidworks drawing file) import and export. I have used Inkscape and SVG at work for one year (e.g. for SVG work, and GUI and HCI design example). One of my contributions for this software is to replace the previous raster based image editor with vector based editor using custom XML format. Every year, hundreds of customers use it for industrial designing, including NASA, Boeing, Google, Microsoft, MIT, US Army, GE, GM, Lockheed Martin, and many more. The company can product near anything that is made using the software. Meanwhile, the R&D goal was to provide the software that reflects what products can be made. Therefore, it is high level quality software that provides flexibility and precision. A few highlights of my work: · Completed the release of version 3.1 within 1.5 months of hire, with minimal input · “accomplished tasks the first day that took half a month before; amazing” – President · “The good news is, you are on the top.” – Chairman, in a review for R&D team performance Besides this software, I have developed dozens of image and video editors. When I worked as Lead Developer with 2D-3D Video Inc. for two years, I worked on image processing, and video editing software, and 2D to 3D image/video conversion. I have led the development of 3D movie player on iPhone/iPod Touch, and LG 42-inch 3D TV. The technology is used to convert image or video and generate 3D viewing effects without 3D glasses required. Sample work: 3D face of Barrack Obama. It is converted to 3D photorealistic view using a single 2D still face photo. http://www.2d-3dvideo.com/3Dphotos/BarrackObama.wmv Other: http://www.2d-3dvideo.com/NewSite/SchoolPhoto.wmv http://www.2d-3dvideo.com/3Dphotos/Couple.wmv http://www.2d-3dvideo.com/3Dphotos/33framerotation24degree.wmv http://www.2d-3dvideo.com/IDcards/male130BG40deg.wmv In my Master thesis research, I have had two publications, and will have couple more soon. I have developed new algorithms and techniques in image segmentations, interpolations, 3D reconstruction, and missing structure generation. Since the work deals with different shapes, it has a vector graphics sense. I used XML to store and process 3D structure and wireframes. Technically, I am good in C++. I have done some work using the following. XML: I have used it for many projects, using C++, Python, C# and Java. Libraries used: .NET, DOM, JDOM, Minidom. It is used in my thesis and each of my jobs at work. SVG: I have written a SVG viewer before. GTK+: I have experience with it in the Gimp GSOC project. Git and SVN: I used it at work before. Bazaar: I tried it, and it is very similar with SVN and Git. PROBLEMS AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN A well designed GUI and interaction of transformation anchor manipulation is very important for Inkscape. Currently, the rotation center (in an example of transformation) can be dragged freely. However, where it is dragged to cannot be precisely defined, except eye-balling roughly. There needs to be new UI facilities with an intuitive design that allows the precise adjustment of the center. This precision control is expected to be useful to many Inkscape users, such as Xfig users. In the Transform dialog, XY fields need to be added as a separate tab. A 9-button-matrix widget, which is intuitive and helpful to users, will be implemented to assist moving the center among nine locations easily with one click. To prevent errors or misleading, there should not be center of rotation and anchor as two different entities. A single tool should be used, which is marked by the cross. Then, all transformations should refer to it. Since this object exists in the code, a list of better UI facilities can be added to move it. As well, the cross can be automatically saved into SVG for each object. A simple test was done to confirm this. The center of rotation, marked as cross, can be moved to a different location. It is saved for the object, so that when closing and reopening this SVG file, the cross (center of rotation) stays where it is left. In the SVG, the fields or attributes of the path object shows: inkscape:transform-center-x="7.6874748" inkscape:transform-center-y="-3.2402241" / Another quick test was done for moving the transformation centers. - For rotate and skew, different centers will give different results. - For scale, moving the center gives the same results, with the same transform values. - Transform using handles is correct. A simple drag keeps the center as it was, and Shift+drag scales around the rotation center. Obviously, there is an issue in the consistency with scaling. It does not work correctly if scaling by numbers. Selector toolbar, or the mouse tool in the top left interface, uses the top right corner, while Transform scales around the geometric center. The correct way is to use rotation center for scaling, with X/Y in selector toolbar displaying the coordinates of the center. The above issues will be fixed. The UI needed for rotation center XY coordinates is a couple Gtk-Spin-Buttons for X and Y plus a unit selector, defaulting to the document units. Since there is already the unit selector for X, Y, Height and Width, it may be used without writing a new one. After the 9-button-widget is used to move the X/Y coordinates, the spinbuttons should be updated to reflect the selection of one of nine anchors. Hence, the linkage is required for the 9-button-widget and the spinbuttons. It was pointed out that there were two other relevant projects related to this one: - adjust origin of coordinates of document - allow math operations (sum, subtraction, multiplication, division) inside the spin boxes for Height, Width, X, Y. I believe that it would be more beneficial if I work on this two during GSOC. The main focus of the project is on transformation centers, and the above two will be analyzed and planned, when transformation center tasks are half way through. I will propose another implementation plan for them, with a reasonable class structure design/rewrite. I will work on the two after completing the transformation center project. If there is no time to finish all of these in three months, I will try to make sure on-going work is easy to do. After the three months of work, I may be interested to continue contribution. At some point later, it may become clear what can be done, when unknowns are solved. It was suggested that the math operations can be taken from GIMP 2.7.0+. It can be done easily with my previous experience in Gimp contribution. Taking code from open source is something that I have done for many times, both for Master thesis and at-work programs. Recently, I took some open source code of spline interpolations into my thesis. Translating math operations into C++ is doable too. I do porting of different languages on daily bases. TASKS AND TIME TABLE Goal: Improve GUI for transformation centers for precision and flexibility 1. Communication. May 10 – May 20. Communication with the mentor. Code review on relevant source code, class structure. 2. Studying. May 21 – May 25. Study Inkscape development workflow, coding style, committing process. Study libraries required. 3. Reaserch. May 26 – June 6 Analysis of the architecture. Discuss and decide a GUI mockup as an implementation guide. Get familiar with sample SVG files and GUI mock-up that Pajarico has. Preparing a list of implementation. Intuitive GUI design. 4. Coding and implementing. June 7 – July 17 Possible refactoring. Precision of center moving. Fix the issues for scaling around different centers. Allow setting the center coordinates numerically Add 9-button-matrix widget Add XY fields in a separate tab of the Transform dialog Implement XY coordinates UI, a couple Gtk-Spin-Buttons for X and Y. Ensure the linkage between the 9-button-widget and the spinbuttons. Display coordinates and values, take XY input from users, and allow undo and redo 5. Second stage implementation. July 18 – July 31. Further analysis of two relevant projects: 1) adjust origin of coordinates of document 2) allow math operations (sum, substraction, multiplication, division) inside the spin boxes for Height, Width, X, Y. Have another implementation plan for them, with a reasonable class structure design/rewrite. Implement them. 8. Overall debugging, code optimization and further improvements. August 1 - August 10. 9. Further optimization. August 11 - August 15. 10. Documentation and clean up. August 16 - August 20. REFERENCES AND LINKS: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_Of_Code https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/transformation-anchors http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2010/inkscape https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkscapeInvariants http://inkscape.org/bzr.php Note: I am also interested in a few other interesting projects: - Power Stroke - Modulated width stroke LPE. - xar-to-svg converter - Converter for Xara Xtreme to Inkscape - KML SVG translation - For use of Inkscape with Google Earth or Maps >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Problem of chatting in IRC
by Zhenfeng Zhao 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hi, I have a question about chatting in IRC. In windows, it did not work for me. So, I just tried XChat in Linux. Now I can see other people chatting in the channel. But I cannot send messages there. I have changed it to utf-8. #inkscape :Cannot send to channel Charset changed to: utf-8 Still, it shows: <ZZF_> hello * #inkscape :Cannot send to channel Also, some more messages below... Can anyone told me how to fix it, in order to chatting in the channal? Thank you. <ChrisMorgan> That is probably all you need, but if you need more, you could create a rectangle the size of the whole thing and apply it as a clipping mask. <ChrisMorgan> (Then everything else would need to be in a group) <kn100> so in other words there's no way to hide overflow at the design stage without changing how i work with the tool? * troy_s has quit (Quit: Leaving.) * vlada has quit (Remote host closed the connection) * Justicejr (~Justicejr@...2337...) has joined #inkscape <ZZF_> hello * #inkscape :Cannot send to channel Regards, Zhenfeng.

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Coordinate system fix
by Krzysztof Kosiński 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hello In revision 9288 I fixed the inverted coordinate system bug, starting from a patch by Thomas Holder. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049 While this is a rather invasive change, fixing bugs caused by removing the coordinate inversion is simple (often it boils down to tweaking a single line of code), so I think we'll manage to fix any remaining regressions before the release. Regards, Krzysztof

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC: KML <-> SVG Translation
by sjatkins＠...2336... 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Oh dear, I really am no good at mailing lists. I accidentally emailed this to Krzysztof instead of the mailing list. Sorry! On 06 April 2010 at 17:49 "Krzysztof Kosiński" <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote: > 2010/4/5 sjatkins@...2336... <sjatkins@...2336...>: > > Then, develop a command-line app that will actually do the conversion. I'll > > be > > using C++. I haven't decided on an XML library yet - any suggestions? > > You should use libxml2 and libxslt - that's what Inkscape uses. > However, it might be better to write an internal extension rather than > a separate command line application. Look at src/extension/internal/. > You can also consider using XSLT. Thanks, that's really helpful - I wasn't sure where in the codebase to look. Making it an internal extension does sound much better than an external application. I'm not very familiar with XSLT, and it's probably better to stick with C++ as I know it better. > > Once the command-line program is working, I'll start on giving it a GUI. I > > can't > > seem to find anything about what UI library Inkscape itself uses - can > > anybody > > tell me? > > It uses GTK+ and gtkmm. Again, look at existing input extensions - the > extension system should satisfy your GUI needs. You just put the > parameters you need in an .inx file and the GUI is created > automatically. > > Regards, Krzysztof I think I might not need to add a GUI if I do this as a extension, but if I do I'll use the extension system like you suggest. ~Sam

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GSoC: KML <-> SVG Translation
by sjatkins＠...2336... 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hi everyone, I'm interested in applying to create an KML - SVG converter. KML and SVG are similar enough that it makes sense for there to be a way to convert from one to the other. My plan would be: >From now until the end of week 1 or 2: Study both formats and work-out the equivalents between KML and SVG. I know there are features of KML - namely, placemark descriptions, which will not convert directly to SVG. There are probably other features too. I'll try to deal with these in any time I have remaining at the end. I'll also need to work out a way to convert the coordinates systems, and deal with sizing the image - using the KML coordinates, the image would be very small, in a very large document. Then, develop a command-line app that will actually do the conversion. I'll be using C++. I haven't decided on an XML library yet - any suggestions? * Plan the structure of the program. * Focussing first on KML -> SVG, gradually add tags to convert, and check they work correctly. * Once KML -> SVG works, add SVG -> KML. Should be a case of reversing the existing conversion functions. * Write some usage documentation. Once the command-line program is working, I'll start on giving it a GUI. I can't seem to find anything about what UI library Inkscape itself uses - can anybody tell me? It would be better to use the same one, to make maintenance easier. The GUI will send commands to the command-line program, to keep the two separate, and so that Inkscape itself can use the command-line one at some point if needed. * Design the UI. * Implement it. * Write some user documentation. Deliverables: * A command line program that can convert SVG to KML, and back, successfully. * (Probably) A GUI to go with the command-line program. If I get time: * Allow importing/exporting as KML from within Inkscape. * Find ways of handling 'placemark' KML elements, and any others that do not convert easily to SVG, so that a user can convert to SVG, edit, and convert back, without losing anything. Possibly by including hidden elements in the SVG, or using comments. ----------------------- Is this a decent plan? Is there anything I've missed? ~Samuel Atkins

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Remove Inkview?
by Krzysztof Kosiński 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hello https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape/+bug/278001 Inkview is large (8MB) and doesn't do much. Does anybody use it? I think it should be removed. This would reduce the size of binary packages as well as installed size somewhat. Regards, Krzysztof

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Question on Frost - is this a known issue?
by Jason Smith 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

I am new to Inkscape, but have been involved in some open source projects (mainly Java-ish stuff). I downloaded the latest Windows release and tried it out. I am wondering if this is a known issue, since it is so badly broken. (Inkscape April 3 drop, Windows Vista) I am trying to use a Wacom Bamboo tablet. Inkscape looks like it recognizes the tablet, but I can't seem to get it to work with the caligraphy tool. My tablet works with 0.47, after some fiddling. Additionally, there are two GUIs for setting up input hardware now. The old one looks like 0.47, and the new one looks very cool, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to make it work. And keep in mind, it could be user error - I am new to Inkscape. But I am thinking that a Wacom Bamboo tablet should "just work" with a drawing application... Sooooo... are the hardware input dialogs still "in-work"? If not, I'll be happy to provide details and screen shots. I just don't want to clutter your bug tracking system before checking. Thanks! Jason Smith

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Inkscape - GSoc Application
by shruthy r 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Hi Everyone, I'm a third year electrical engineering student at National University of Singapore looking forward to participate in Google summer of code 2010. I noticed that Inkscape was accepted as a mentoring organization. After looking at the project ideas, I decided to go ahead with the exercise. I downloaded Bazaar for windows, as my laptop supports only Windows OS. I have gone through the basic bazaar tutorial. I would like to know what else is expected out of a typical applicant. Kindly help out, Thanks a lot, Shruthy.

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Funding budget for improve text-block
by David Marín Carreño 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hi, all. I'm using Inkscape in a new business I am working on, and I have discovered some blocking-features that are missing (at least, I have not found them in the 0.47 version of Inkscape: - Vertical alignment property for a text block, so text can be shown at the top, the bottom, or centered. - Kerning adjustment for texts. - Tracking adjustment for texts. - Word-spacing adjustment for texts. My new project really need these features from Inkscape, so we'd like to provide funds for the project so they can be included as soon as possible. As we are currently in the process of getting funds from investors, I'd like to know what would be the approximated budget for implementing these features, and how log it would take (approximately). Thank you very much for your kind support, and for creating Inkscape. -- David Marín Carreño stylomate.com

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Release Notes
by Joshua A. Andler 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hey All, Please do not forget to update the Release Notes as PART of your adding or changing features process... Krzysztof, Coordinates change needs to be added. Jon, Glyph dialog needs to be added. Can anyone else think of other items that still haven't been added? Cheers, Josh

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Potential Summer of Code students
by Joshua A. Andler 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hello Students, Short and sweet message. Please do not forget that you only have until the 9th to submit your GSoC proposals... Cheers, Josh

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Reducing dependency on SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP
by Jon Cruz 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

On Apr 3, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Jon Cruz wrote: > Now, it is true that these meta components are dependent on an SPDesktop. However, they do not need to depend on "fetch the desktop pointed to by the global variable held in a known location". Instead it is easy to apply dependency injection (though we probably want to stick with manual instead of framework driven). The *KEY* yet subtle difference here is in changing things away from "a dialog reaching out and grabbing the global pointer desktop" to instead have "a dialog uses the desktop that is handed to it" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_Injection > > Now, I should probably point out that we are *very* close to having those. That is, with just a bit of refactoring we can reach successful dependency injection on the dialogs and panels. There is an update on this point. In cleaning up the Fill & Stroke dialog so I could get rid of the copy-n-paste extra class (along with the plethora of rogue tile bug pattern occurrences) I was able to convert it to be properly dynamic and work nicely no matter if it were floating or docked, single or multiple. (This happened to also fix bug #270623 ""Fill and Stroke" panel is mirrored between open windows") I now have that tracking extracted into a stand-alone class, and have already reused it in a different panel. That new code is at src/ui/dialog/desktop-tracker.h src/ui/dialog/desktop-tracker.cpp Aside from fixing the immediately visible problems such as bug #270623, other improvements also happened as a consequence of the change. One of these is that prior to this a change in one view of one document would cause a cascade of event processing in all other dialogs for all views in all documents. Things had been all wiring themselves to the global inkscape application instance and listening for changes there. After switching to the new DesktopTracker the updated dialogs only are invoked when their specific desktop has a change (in selection, pertinent contents, document reload, etc). And of course there is the added benefit of getting things a little more multithreading friendly. That will be good too. So far I've not gone out to switch all of our dialogs over to this paradigm. Krzysztof expressed proper concern that we might expose some latent bugs in the process of switching. Since we are very close to 0.48, we should probably only change code that is actively being worked on, so we touch only things that we are looking at and are observing the behavior of. Oh, and if anyone does happen to be working in any code that happens to use SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP or SP_ACTIVE_DOCUMENT, one minor tweak with a lot of benefit would be to make sure those are only used at the top of a function and are stored to a local variable. Then the function can work against that local variable and gain a bit of safety. And that will make a latter pass to switch things cleaner that much easier. Thanks.

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Adaptable UI problems
by Krzysztof Kosiński 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

I have some doubts about the adaptable UI feature. Part 1: UI issues - The UI mode selection combo box (called "Task" for some reason) has usability problems: 1. it jumps around when changing mode, so every time I change it, I have to find it again to try another mode; 2. when the main commands toolbar is vertical, it causes a very large horizontal padding on it, even when it's hidden in the overflow menu. - Tearing off toolbars does not adjust their size to fit the controls. If I tear off a toolbar from a small window, I get a toolbar with an overflow menu. If I tear off from a maximized window, I get a toolbar with lots of unused space. This makes tearing off highly useless. - Toolbars can be torn off but can't be attached in a location different that the original one. This is because they use GtkHandleBox, for which the docking position is fixed. At the same time GDL has a widget named GdlDockBar which sounds like a true dockable toolbar (but it might as well be something else, I don't know). Part 2: UxManager class - UxManager::setTask: Magic constants in switch. - UxManager constructor: "tags" is created but doesn't do anything. - What is the point of having several desktops attached to one UxManager? Part 3: util/ege-tags.h, util/ege-tags.cpp - ege-tags.h: It supposedly implements http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/ResourceTagging but at present I don't see any place in Inkscape that could make use of tagging. - Even if the aforementioned specification was good, the UxManager class apparently tries to do two completely unrelated things: manage external resources and change the UI mode. - TagSet: if I understand correctly what this class attempts to do, it should use std::tr1::unordered_map<Tag, int> with appropriate hash and equality predicates instead of the combination of std::vector<Tag> and std::map<std::string, int>. Part 4: other problems - toolbox.cpp:1578: code related to changing the UI layout uses a switch to assign function pointers. Polymorphism should be used instead. Regards, Krzysztof

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GSoC Entry - Inkscape Web Exporter
by Alex Trujillo 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hey folks. I've been using Inkscape for years, and I couldn't think of a better project to join for my first GSoC. I've written up a proposal on an exporter of vector graphics for various web standards. I have experience using those various web standards over the years, most of which are documented on Google Code. I just wanted to run this by you guys before I submitted it, since I've read something to the tune that some of the best proposals have come from those who have sought community support. Here's the link to the proposal on Google Docs (as a public document) http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcePN-K69iVuZDI2ajlmYl85MjhjaHhyYnhndw&hl… Nanoblok is a project I've been working on my own for a while: http://code.google.com/p/nanoblok/ My personal website, where I have a great deal of graphics I've made in Inkscape: http://infokraft.org/ I even have an Inkscape tutorial on there I did not too long ago! Well, please lend me your questions and comments! - Alex

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Filter effect and blur background
by Jasper van de Gronde 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

(This is regarding "discontinuities" appearing in blurs, when using BackgroundImage.) Ivan Louette wrote: > Thanks Jasper ! > > Try Yann's file I sent back ; it breaks some times and sometimes not... > > ivan I have indeed been able to reproduce the problem, and found a few copy-paste bugs in Gaussian blur (which normally wouldn't be triggered, and as such went unnoticed) in the process. But the real problem seems to be with the way in which the background image is accessed. In essence the background image doesn't take the area enlargement into account that is needed to correctly render the blur. To properly fix this would probably require a few more changes than I'm comfortable with at this stage in the release cycle, and could take a while anyway, so I've filed a bug (+associated rendering test): https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/554649

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC - transformation anchors - before apply
by Zhenfeng Zhao 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hello, Thank you for all feedback a few days ago. I basically have some understanding about the project, which may allow me to start the proposal. In this weekend, I will write a proposal for the project, "Transformation anchors", with all information that I have got, and my ideas in planning. Should I submit it or send it to the mailing list for some feedback first? I will put some responses below... On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:01 PM, < inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:18:02 +0100 > From: Pajarico <pajarico@...400...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC - transformation anchors - before > apply > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: > <ad4dc3fc1003261218k7b012d82o5b3d93308cfdcab5@...401...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, I'm the author of the specification. > @Z. Zhao > > I am interested in working on the "transformation-anchors" project in > GSOC this year. > > Good to hear! Welcome. If something on the spec is not clear just ask > on this mailing list. I'm not a coder but I might be able to help you. > I have the original SVG files of the GUI mock-up in case you want to > play with them. > > Hello Pajarico, It is a pleasure hearing from you. I would love to play with SVG files and GUI mock-up that you have. It would be great, if you can share them with me. Thank you. > For your consideration: there are two other projects related to this one: > * 1) adjust origin of coordinates of document > * 2) allow math operations (like sum, substraction, multiplication, > division) inside the spin boxes for Height, Width, X, Y; and now I > would add center of transformations. > Doing everything in just one run might be too much but try to keep them in > mind. > > > These projects seem very relevant. I definitely will consider them into the plan. I see the possibility to work on these after completing the transformation anchor project, perhaps one or both of them. If there is no time to finish all of these in three months, I will try to make sure on-going work is easy to do. After the three months of work, I may be interested to continue the work, if I have time. Basically, I will do some planning that includes all these relevant tasks. At some point later, it may become clear what can be done. > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:09:30 +0300 > From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> > > On 3/26/10, Pajarico wrote: > > > * 2) allow math operations (like sum, substraction, multiplication, > > division) inside the spin boxes for Height, Width, X, Y; and now I > > would add center of transformations. > > Just steal code from GIMP 2.7.0+ :) > > Alexandre > > Cool. I guess I can do that. Stealing from open source is something that I have done for many times, both for Master thesis and at-work programs. Recently, I took some code for spline interpolations into my thesis. Taking code from Gimp should not be too difficult to me. Translating it into C++ is doable too. I do porting of different languages on daily bases. Regards, Zhenfeng.

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XDG User Dirs
by Krzysztof Kosiński 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hello While taking a stab at fixing the command line on Windows, I can also implement the XDG User Dirs specification, using relevant GLib functions. However, there is a slight problem with this: we currently look for user data (palettes, extensions, etc.) in the user's config directory, not in the data directory. The default user config directory on Unix is ~/.config, while the default user data directory is ~/.local/share. Is it OK to look in .local/share? We can automatically create a README in the config directory on the first run that tells the user to move his datafiles to ~/.local/share/inkscape. Regards, Krzysztof

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New memebr and a bug (maybe)
by CoD 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hello, I'm a 31 years old developer from Italy and I've been using Inkscape for years. I've just subscribed to this mailing list and.. yeah... I'm already here with a bug report :P Recently I experienced a strange behaviour with KDE 4 preview system and svg/svgz files saved with the last version of inkscape (both stable and devel version) so I decided to contact you. I hate duplicate/unclear bug reports so I would like to discuss this thing a bit with you before filing a bug to launchpad. So, let's try to explain what I've found System: Kubuntu 9.10 with KDE 4.3.2 Inkscape: devel version and 0.46 (See below) Reproducible: yes These are the steps I did: 1) I drew a simple icon with inkscape (a circle and a polygon) 2) I save it as svg or svgz (get the file here [1]) 3) The preview on my kubuntu 9.10 looks crazy (get the preview here [2]) as if nodes position has been screwed 4) I open the svg file with Inkscape 0.46 5) I change the color of an element and save again 6) The preview still looks crazy 7) I open the file again with Inkscape 0.46 but this time I move the polygon around, then I place it in the old position and save 8) The preview looks perfect, as if nodes position has been restored (get the file and the preview here [3][4]) I can't really understand what's going on here but seems that KDE 4 has troubles when previewing svg/svgz files saved with inkscape > 0.46 This happens also using ksvgtopng to convert an svg file to a png Could this possibly be related to bug 170049 [5] ? If you need more experiments just ask :-) Thank you Claudio Canavese (CoD) 1: http://cod-web.net/inkscape/devel.svgz 2: http://cod-web.net/inkscape/devel.png 3: http://cod-web.net/inkscape/046.svgz 4: http://cod-web.net/inkscape/046.png 5: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049

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Curve Sketching
by Ilya Baran 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi, I've developed an algorithm for fitting smooth curves (the curves are like in Spiro, but piecewise-linear curvature) to user sketches. I'm thinking that this could be useful in Inkscape as a replacement or alternative to the current pencil tool algorithm. Compared to existing stuff, the benefit is that the curves are usually much nicer, the drawback is that it's a complicated algorithm and is slower--fitting a curve of moderate complexity will likely take about 1 second. Would the Inkscape devs be potentially interested in including this functionality? I'm looking into rewriting my research prototype to be faster, cleaner, more robust, and to remove proprietary dependencies. I can write the library that does the fitting, but I'm unfamiliar with Inkscape's code base, so I'd need help integrating it in. The time frame is that I'd likely be done with the library by the middle of summer. My paper with details and comparisons to existing methods (including Inkscape) at the end is at http://www.mit.edu/~ibaran/curves/ The reported timings can probably be improved by close to a factor of 2. Thanks, -Ilya

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Curve Sketching
by Ilya Baran 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi, Josh, Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go back on-list to avoid redundancy. > Hi, > > Off-list reply... > > Thanks for your interest in Inkscape! I will leave it to people more > familiar with our internals and the pencil tool to respond regarding > possible integration. :) > > After watching the video, I can say there is definitely an interesting > feature of your little demo app (besides the smoothing). That is the > reshaping of sections of paths based on where the beginning and end of a > stroke intersect with it (rather than node editing as Inkscape > requires). Yes, this is oversketching--it's not a new idea, but I haven't seen it implemented well in a full product (and my implementation in the prototype is not great either). Integrating this feature into Inkscape would be to a large extent a UI issue--and I'm not the best person to figure those out :) > Without having read the paper, what does this implementation look like > in terms of number of nodes/points created? We currently have a > smoothing option for the pencil tool, and when you choose to make it > smoother, it reduces the number of nodes used (and also reduces > accuracy). Yes, in producing the Inkscape examples, I tried tuning the smoothing option as well as I could. The central idea of my algorithm is to solve a global optimization problem explicitly minimizing the number of curve segments, subject to accuracy constraints, so in general it produces relatively few segments. The examples in the paper have the curve segments color coded, so you can see exactly which ones are produced. > Are you at all familiar with lib2geom? It is the geometry library that > Inkscape uses. In terms of curve fitting, I believe that would actually > be the project to integrate that piece into (since we could then utilize > it)... http://lib2geom.sourceforge.net/ I've briefly looked at the source code on SVN, but that's the extent of my familiarity. As far as I can tell, it's based on these S-basis things, to which I haven't been able to find a great introduction--I think I understand them well enough to conclude that converting my splines to this representation (approximately) should be relatively painless. Regardless, I want my library to be standalone (and I need, for example, Eigen for high-performance linear algebra--so I'll use it for vectors in general to make my life easier), but if it makes sense to interface with Inkscape through lib2geom, then that's the way to go. > I'd recommend checking out lib2geom if you have a chance, compiling it, > and checking out the many "toys" that it has... your demo video feels > somewhat like the toys that they create (basically the proof of concept > before things are attempted in Inkscape). Will do. -Ilya

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Moving ahead in inkscape development..
by Abhishek Sharma 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hello all, I had previously introduced myself as a GSOC 2010 aspirant. I am devoting myself to the idea of c++ifying(in Object Oriented manner) the inkscape code. For that I am trying to move into the code and traversing, but due to its vastness am facing problems in it. I got hold of a very old bug, "Y Scale inversion" -> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049. As i have seen the heat on this, this bug is of a very wide scope and so can actually help me to involve myself with *much* of the inkscape codebase. So it is my urgent and honest request to inkscape developers as well as corresponding GSOC mentors to just direct me as to where in the code I should start tracking and removing the bug. I will be glad. Thanking You. Yours sincerely, -- Abhishek Sharma B-Tech Information Technology Indian Institute of Information Technology(Amethi Campus)

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Filter effect and blur background
by Yann Papouin 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hi, Please first take a look at this picture composited in photoshop: http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blur-background.png I tried to reproduce the same effect in inkscape easilly, and i made it by using a copy of the picture, bluring it and applying a mask with a shape to simulate the effect: http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blur-background-fakebymask.svg It's ok now, but I thought about filter effects (background image can be used as a connection link in the filter editor) and saw this: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html#AccessingBackgroundImage On http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Filter_Effects there is a note about this property "There's no GUI for setting the enable-background property. This property has to be set on some parent layer of filtered object to make Background Image and Background Alpha input images work." Does the background image support is implemented? Do you think that the same effect can be achieved with filters by applying the effect on a shape (that will blur its background content)?

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Set enable-background by default
by Ivan Louette 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

It's easy ! Create a template and place it in Inkscape templates directory. I did it and even replaced my default template with it. ivan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Re : Filter effect and blur background
by Yann Papouin 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Wow, amazing, no layer tricks, really thank you Ivan http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blurbackground-4.png http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blurbackground-4.svg Why "enable-background:new" is not set by default ? 2010/3/31 Ivan Louette <ivan_louette@...48...> > Try this one. It only uses one layer set on "enable-background:new" as > indicated by Niko > > ------------------------------ > *De :* Yann Papouin <yann.papouin@...400...> > *À :* Ivan Louette <ivan_louette@...48...> > *Cc :* Niko Kiirala <niko@...1267...>; > inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > *Envoyé le :* Mer 31 mars 2010, 10 h 01 min 02 s > *Objet :* Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : Filter effect and blur background > > Thank you Ivan, your template is exactly what I want (but I didn't change > the layer blending mode, it must be normal to work properly) > See a preview here: > > http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blurbackground-2.png > http://ftpmerou.free.fr/inkscape/blurbackground-2.svg > > Artifacts can be annoying but it might be fixed later, maybe they are due > to the IIR Filtering method added in 2007? > > By the way, the layer with the "background property" cannot be renamed, > changes are not made in the svg. > >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : [Inkscape-translator] Frost is upon us
by Lucas Vieites 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Thanks, for both the updates and the tip on the new location. I had overseen it completely. 2010/3/30 Nicolas Dufour <nicoduf@...48...> > Hi, > > >De : Lucas Vieites <lucas@...1852...> > > Could someone please run the "update_po_files.sh" script in the "po" > folder so that we can complete our translations? > > Done in bzr revision 9260. > Please note that Inkscape translations files have moved to bzr: > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/files/head%3A/po/<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Einkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/files/head%3A/po/> > > Regards, > -- > Nicolas > > > > > -- Lucas Vieites Blog: http://blog.codexion.com/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CGM file import
by Igor Novikov 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Sorry I forgot attaching translation result. I hope it's the same as designed :) Regards, Igor Novikov sK1 Project http://sk1project.org On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Willem Langenberg <cwlangen@...2327...>wrote: >> >>> Sorry, I forgot to attach the file. Here it is. >>> >>> >>> >>> Willem >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> *From:* Igor Novikov [mailto:igor.e.novikov@...400...] >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:28 PM >>> *To:* Willem Langenberg >>> *Cc:* inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >>> *Subject:* Re: [Inkscape-devel] CGM file import >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi Willem! >>> >>> I'm sK1 Project leader and consequently UniConvertor project maintainer. >>> Please send me directly attached CGM file. We will check this issue. >>> >>> Now we are preparing UniConvertor 1.1.5 which is designed as a >>> stand-alone >>> application for win32 platform and contains a lot of improvements since >>> last version. >>> I hope we will fix this issue before release. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Igor Novikov >>> sK1 Project >>> http://sk1project.org >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Willem Langenberg <cwlangen@...2327...> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Inkscape developers: >>> >>> >>> >>> I have been trying to import a CGM file (file attached) into Inkscape >>> (one of the listed file formats), but I get a python.exe error message >>> saying: *uniconverter failed, cannot load plugin module cgmloader.* >>> >>> >>> >>> What does this mean? How can it be corrected? >>> >>> >>> >>> Willem Langenberg >>> >>> Long Mountain Research Inc. >>> >>> 11439-56 Avenue >>> >>> Edmonton, Alberta >>> >>> T6H 0Y1 Canada >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >>> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >>> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >>> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Inkscape-devel mailing list >>> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >>> >>> >>> >> >> >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CGM file import
by Igor Novikov 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

I have checked the file. The problem cause was an absence of font engine in old UniConvertor versions. We have refactored sK1 and UniConvertor code base and font engine now in common sk1libs package. These changes will be in UniConvertor 1.1.5. So just waiting for the release. Thank you for provided sample. It allows us improving some CGM filter related issues. Regards, Igor Novikov sK1 Project http://sk1project.org On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Willem Langenberg <cwlangen@...2327...>wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to attach the file. Here it is. > > > > Willem > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Igor Novikov [mailto:igor.e.novikov@...400...] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:28 PM > *To:* Willem Langenberg > *Cc:* inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > *Subject:* Re: [Inkscape-devel] CGM file import > > > > Hi Willem! > > I'm sK1 Project leader and consequently UniConvertor project maintainer. > Please send me directly attached CGM file. We will check this issue. > > Now we are preparing UniConvertor 1.1.5 which is designed as a stand-alone > application for win32 platform and contains a lot of improvements since > last version. > I hope we will fix this issue before release. > > Regards > > Igor Novikov > sK1 Project > http://sk1project.org > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Willem Langenberg <cwlangen@...2327...> > wrote: > > Inkscape developers: > > > > I have been trying to import a CGM file (file attached) into Inkscape (one > of the listed file formats), but I get a python.exe error message saying: > *uniconverter failed, cannot load plugin module cgmloader.* > > > > What does this mean? How can it be corrected? > > > > Willem Langenberg > > Long Mountain Research Inc. > > 11439-56 Avenue > > Edmonton, Alberta > > T6H 0Y1 Canada > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > >

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CGM file import
by Willem Langenberg 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Inkscape developers: I have been trying to import a CGM file (file attached) into Inkscape (one of the listed file formats), but I get a python.exe error message saying: uniconverter failed, cannot load plugin module cgmloader. What does this mean? How can it be corrected? Willem Langenberg Long Mountain Research Inc. 11439-56 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T6H 0Y1 Canada

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Compiling errors
by Elie MICHEL 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hello world, I'm new ! I don't know if it's the best place to ask this, but I'm new on this mailing list and I'm French so...I have to concentrate myself to read en write. I'm sorry if I do some spellings... But my problem is that I have a problem when I want build Inkscape on my PC (with Windows 7). I follow these instructions : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Win32Port But the last act (C:\src\inkscape\trunk> btool) don't work :( I can see a lot of errors like that : ============ cmd ============ mingw32-g++ -c -Wall -Wformat -Werror=format-security -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast- align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -O2 -mms-bitfields -fopenmp - DVERSION=\"0.47+devel\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_INTL_REDIRECT_INLINE -DHAVE_SSL -DREL AYTOOL_SSL="static const int libssl_is_present=1; static int __attribute__((unus ed)) libssl_symbol_is_present(char *s){ return 1; }" -DPOPPLER_NEW_GFXFONT -I. - Ic:\devlibs/include -Ic:\devlibs/include/gtkmm-2.4 -Ic:\devlibs/lib/gtkmm-2.4/in clude -Ic:\devlibs/include/glibmm-2.4 -Ic:\devlibs/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -Ic:\ devlibs/include/glib-2.0 -Ic:\devlibs/lib/glib-2.0/include -mms-bitfields -Ic:\d evlibs/include/sigc++-2.0 -Ic:\devlibs/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -Ic:\devlibs/inclu de/giomm-2.4 -Ic:\devlibs/lib/giomm-2.4/include -Ic:\devlibs/include/gdkmm-2.4 -Ic:\devlibs/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -Ic:\devlibs/include/pangomm-1.4 -Ic:\devlib s/lib/pangomm-1.4/include -Ic:\devlibs/include/gtk-2.0 -Ic:\devlibs/lib/gtk-2.0/ include -Ic:\devlibs/include/gtk-2.0 -Ic:\devlibs/include/pango-1.0 -Ic:\devlibs /include/pango-1.0 -Ic:\devlibs/include/pango-1.0 -Ic:\devlibs/include/cairo -Ic :\devlibs/include/cairomm-1.0 -Ic:\devlibs/lib/cairomm-1.0/include -Ic:\devlibs/ include/atkmm-1.6 -Ic:\devlibs/include/atk-1.0 -Ic:\devlibs/include/gtk-2.0 -mms -bitfields -Ic:\devlibs/include/gtk-2.0 -Ic:\devlibs/lib/gtk-2.0/include -Ic:\de vlibs/include/ImageMagick -Ic:\devlibs/include/ImageMagick -fopenmp -D_MAGICKDLL _ -Ic:\devlibs/include/libxml2 -Ic:\devlibs/include/freetype2 -Ic:\devlibs/inclu de -Ic:\devlibs/include/cairo -Ic:\devlibs/include/poppler -Ic:\devlibs/include/ gc -Ic:\devlibs/include/libwpg-0.1 -Ic:\devlibs/include/libwpd-0.8 -Ic:\devlibs/ include/libwpg-0.1 -Ic:\devlibs/include/libwpd-0.8 -Icxxtest -Ic:\devlibs/python /include -Isrc/bind/javainc -Isrc/bind/javainc/win32 -Isrc -Isrc/2geom -Isrc/2 geom/numeric -Isrc/application -Isrc/bind -Isrc/debug -Isrc/dialogs -Isrc/displa y -Isrc/dom -Isrc/dom/io -Isrc/dom/odf -Isrc/dom/util -Isrc/extension -Isrc/exte nsion/implementation -Isrc/extension/internal -Isrc/extension/internal/bitmap -I src/extension/internal/filter -Isrc/extension/internal/pdfinput -Isrc/extension/ script -Isrc/filters -Isrc/helper -Isrc/io -Isrc/jabber_whiteboard -Isrc/jabber_ whiteboard/dialog -Isrc/libavoid -Isrc/libcola -Isrc/libcroco -Isrc/libgdl -Isrc /libnr -Isrc/libnrtype -Isrc/libvpsc -Isrc/libvpsc/pairingheap -Isrc/livarot -Is rc/live_effects -Isrc/live_effects/parameter -Isrc/pedro -Isrc/svg -Isrc/trace - Isrc/trace/potrace -Isrc/ui -Isrc/ui/cache -Isrc/ui/dialog -Isrc/ui/tool -Isrc/u i/view -Isrc/ui/widget -Isrc/util -Isrc/widgets -Isrc/xml src/xml/subtree.cpp -o build/obj/xml/subtree.o ============================= Make error line 299: problem compiling: cc1plus.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-Werror=format-security" cc1plus.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-fopenmp" cc1plus.exe: error: unrecognized command line option "-fopenmp" Can you anderstand why I can't build it ? I need your help, I thank you if you answer me :)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Compiling errors
by Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Hi, I also build inkscape on windows 7 without any errors. I use last devlibs (from trunk .bzr last version 14) and the mingw Krzysztof prefer (tdm-mingw-1.908.0-4.4.1-2.exe). Sincerely, UweSch W dniu 29 marca 2010 21:17 użytkownik bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> napisał: > I also tried to compile on Windows after some delay and get this: > > and so on. Any quick fix for me? You've run into an exception handling ABI mismatch. Some of your .o files were compiled with a different exception handling model than what your current compiler uses. This should help: 1. Ensure you are using the SJLJ flavor of TDM-GCC 2. Ensure you have the latest devlibs 3. Rebuild from scratch (btool clean) Regards, Krzysztof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel -- Mit freundlichem Gruß, Uwe Schöler

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GSOC spatial indexing - renderer
by Vangelis Katsikaros 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hello I have briefly described in the past my thoughts on how the render can be improved by introducing spatial indexes. The render has to find which shapes intersect with the user's viewport. Currently this is done by a full scan in display/sp-canvas.cpp:871 in sp_canvas_group_render() right? (Krzysztof gave some hints in another thread some days ago). The idea is to implement an index, so that the renderer performs the range query faster than the full scan. Some basic ideas on the project. * The index is going to be a standard one like R-star (used in oracle, postgis, sqlite). * This R-trees can support 3 dimensions without any performance penalty (if the index has many dimensions performance deteriorates and other kind of indexes perform better). If we do this project we can implement a third dimension (time), for future usage, and leave it there until Inkscape goes into animation. * It would be better if the project is hosted in lib2geom. In this way Inkscape's code base undergoes the minimal changes (ideally no more than a few lines of code). * The index should be disk based (so that it can be saved and reused when Inkscape opens the same file again) * There should be a way to identify the shapes of the SVG uniquely (either XML elements or elements from another abstraction Inkscape uses). Can anyone give me some pointers on how I should work for this issue? Any ideas are welcome. Regards Vangelis __________________________________________________ Χρησιμοποιείτε Yahoo!; Βαρεθήκατε τα ενοχλητικά μηνύματα (spam); Το Yahoo! Mail διαθέτει την καλύτερη δυνατή προστασία κατά των ενοχλητικών μηνυμάτων http://mail.yahoo.gr

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Frost is upon us
by Joshua A. Andler 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hey all, I propose moving to Frost on Tuesday if nobody opposes. To be clear, the main delay in moving forward was an improper usage of Poppler and it blocking us from having "make check" being run. Thank you to Krzysztof for addressing our poppler issue, and Ted for pushing forward with the "check" issues (both make and dist). Given that the main hurdle has been jumped over, I'm comfortable saying that we should push forward to Frost now. We are NOT at Feature Freeze and we don't need to uber-restrict commits yet... but we need to tone down the "radical" nature of commits. Frost will have us achieve: Most development complete. Release Notes should be >90% filled in. Bug Hunt: 300 points Post inkscape-0.48-alpha.tar.gz The following outstanding issues are being actively worked on: *Krzysztof's Node Tool rewrite bugs and issues. *Jon's wicked custom Swatch issues. *Tavmjong's LinuxFund text tool work. The following outstanding issues HAVE to be addressed to not be cut: *Jon's swatches MUST be initially editable in the F&S dialog. *Jon's new Input Devices dialog needs whatever polish to be good enough. *Jon's "UX" work (specifically UI placement should be looked at). *Tavmjong's LinuxFund text tool work (yes it hasn't been committed, but we can only accept so much depending on when code lands). *Felipe Sanches' color management work. The "not real" (device) cmyk thing MUST be addressed prior to release. I'm not saying to remove, but perhaps disable, it is a part of the SVG spec, but it's not how the CMYK workflow actually works. Notes: Tavmjong's work can thankfully be pulled in partially... if we have new and working widgets for the text tool, we should take them when available rather than wait. Jon has put an extraordinary amount of effort into refactoring stuff for the swatches. 0.48 is a multi-point release in that we're anticipating 0.49 dev to be lengthy... if there are bugs (which are committed to be worked on), I'm not against a release with them. No offense, but, we're just like every software vendor out there in this case saying that we know there are issues and are committed to fix them... but feeding our audience takes priority. If you have any issues, comments, or something to address... please speak up! Cheers, Josh

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Feature Suggestion: Automatic layer size adjustment
by Michael Grosberg 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

I think it would be nice if some GSOC student were to work on such a feature: Currently you can't draw outside a layer's boundary, and you have to tell GIMP to adjust the boundary yourself. I think an option can be added that, when set to "on", lets GIMP handle that in such a way: 1. any time a layer is moved, GIMP will after the operation set the layer boundary to include the entire canvas. 2. On save, GIMP will autocrop all layers. what do you think?

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Axonometric grid scaling bug
by Radek 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Hello all, some time ago I've encoutered a bug in inkscape resulting in incorrect updating of axonometric grids. I have fixed it myself, then I've filed a bug report with a patch included: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/429776 Apparently it hasn't been noticed by any of developers, so I decided to try here. I think that this bug is quite severe for the axonometric grid functionality (conditions in which it appears to be working properly are actually a corner case), it makes the feature hardly usable. I hope that someone will take a look at the bug report and commit the fix. The bug has been reported against 0.46, but I can provide a patch ported to 0.47 if it helps. Radek

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GSoC 2010 Cairo canvas
by Krzysztof Kosiński 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Hello all I will limit myself to two possibilities of a GSoC project for this year: Cairo rendering and SP layer improvements. I think they have the biggest potential impact. This mail discusses the first one. In order to use Cairo rendering in Inkscape, we need a Cairo-based canvas widget to replace the current SPCanvas / NRArena. They appear to be originally derived from GnomeCanvas. Canvas widgets are a rather common beast in the FOSS world, so even if we decide none of the existing ones are satisfactory for us, we have a large body of work from which we can derive inspiration. This page has links to several existing canvas implementations. I have not analyzed all of them yet, but will keep you informed about any important http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley/CanvasOverview Here are some requirements for our canvas. 0. Based on Cairo. 1. Model/view split: objects displayed on the canvas can exist without it. 2. Widgetless rendering: it should be possible to render completely in memory, for example for console-mode PDF export. 3. No excessive ties to Inkscape - implemented as a library, perhaps using a few well-defined portions of the existing codebase (e.g. 2geom). 4. Canvas primitives should be sufficient to render SVG. There are many things to discuss, but here's the first one: Tiling reduces the area of the screen that needs to be redrawn, but increases the number of drawing operations. We could instead have a tile-less system that would compute the affected bounding box and redraw it in one go, instead of redrawing many tiles. What do you think? Regards, Krzysztof

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Node tool & hash maps
by Joshua A. Andler 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

I just ran across the following and figured I would pass the link on since it is a comparison of various hash map implementations and their performance. http://incise.org/hash-table-benchmarks.html Are we using unordered w/ integers? If so, we may want to explore other options. Oh, and someone in the notes also pointed out: https://edge.launchpad.net/libmct Cheers, Josh

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GSoC (Student Idea) - Graphical Script Extension Editor
by Andrew Simmons 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hello, I would like to make it easier for Inkscape users to create their own script extensions, especially effects (ie. scripts that operate on the current image). *Ideally* this would involve creating some kind of visual programming language to allow users to drag-and-drop high-level SVG editing commands with intuitive icons into a editor field to create their program - without having to write a single line of code. *Practically* there is no way I could code something so complex in the time-span. Thus I think I should focus on automating as much of the ScriptingHOWTO section as possible. This would (possibly) include: - A graphic tool to generate INX files? - Creating some useful python functions (eg. "addStar()") to allow users to create their script quickly? - An interactive function navigator? Would this be a viable summer of code project? I haven't used GTK+ before nor created an Inkscape extension (yet) Thanks, Andrew Simmons

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GSoC - transformation anchors - before apply
by Zhenfeng Zhao 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hello, I am interested in working on the "transformation-anchors" project in GSOC this year. I am a graduate student in Computer Science in Canada. I knew Inkscape would win GSOC projects this year, as usual. :-) Congrats. I hope it is not too late to say Hi here. Inkscape is one of my favorite open source software. I also have strong interests and work experiences in image processing, image editors. I have developed a vector-based graphics editor from scratch before. That graphics editor uses customized XML formats, have OOP architecture design to deal with all shapes/primitives with object classes, and allow SVG and DXF (Solidworks drawing file) import and export. Therefore, it seems Inkscape GSoC projects are most interesting and relevant to me. The project, transformation-anchors, seems interesting and doable to me. Wiki docs are very helpful. It is impressive that GUI mock-up has already been posted several months before the Gsoc actually starts. I will read and plan in further detail. I have similar work before, to have the default rotation center to be the geometric center of all shapes. Anchor coordinates are a part of the object (drawing) attributes. It can be adjusted, so that geometrical transformations, rotation, translation, scaling, and shearing, can be performed with the updated center. In this project, there will be some GUI modification, e.g. enable and disable buttons, display coordinates and values, take XY input from users, and allow undo and redo. Maybe some nice intuitive and simple designs will help on these. There may be some refactoring to do, but I am not sure. In this stage, I hope to understand more for this project. Please kindly share comments. I will draft a full proposal in about 10 days. Technically, this project seems doable to me. Besides that I am good in C++, which may be a basic requirement, I have done some work using the following. XML: I have used it for many projects, using C++, Python, C# and Java. Libraries used: .NET, DOM, JDOM, Minidom. SVG: I have written a SVG viewer before. GTK+: I have experience with it. It is the most complex GUI widgets that I have used. SVN: I used it at work before. Regards, Zhenfeng. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:12 AM, < inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Send Inkscape-devel mailing list submissions to > inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Inkscape-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: bzr question (Marcin Floryan) > 2. Re: bzr question (Ted Gould) > 3. Re: Inkscape-Aqua for Snow Leopard (~suv) > 4. Re: Inkscape-Aqua for Snow Leopard (Stuart Edwards) > 5. Re: Inkscape-Aqua for Snow Leopard (Stuart Edwards) > 6. Re: GSoC 2010 Cairo canvas (Krzysztof Kosi?ski) > 7. Re: GSoC 2010 Cairo canvas (Krzysztof Kosi?ski) > 8. Re: Hello everybody & GSoC Open Asset Import Library (Carl Worth) > > >

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What about to use translations.launchpad.net? May be useful...
by Aurélio A. Heckert 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi all, What you think about to use the web based launchpad's l10n system? https://translations.launchpad.net/inkscape I think that will be really more ease to get collaboration from our users. Gwibber is using this system. Cool? Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Windows 7: a new era of restrictions." http://windows7sins.org Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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KML import status
by Will Holcomb 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

I was looking through the GSoC possiblities and I'm particularly interested in the KML import project: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/kml-svg-translation I see reference to a project proposal being developed, however the link is now dead: http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/piotrekk/t… Given that project is still open, I assume that the proposal didn't go forward for some reason. I was wondering if anyone had further information as to why. I've been thinking quite a bit about the hyperlocal movement and I've been trying to come up with a reasonable way for users to add more complex structures to maps than what is available in browser-based drawing programs. It seems like this is a strong possibility, is there still interest in developing this feature? -Will

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 46, Issue 37
by Zhenfeng Zhao 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hi Alexandre, > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:26:06 +0300 > > > > I am interested in working on the "transformation-anchors" project in > GSOC > > this year. > > Go bless you for that! Some hardcore XFig users get really hot about > this feature missing in Inkscape. > > It sounds great. Good to know it is important. I have developed a couple of graphics editors that focus on precision and flexibility at the same time. I can see knowing where the center can be moved to is important. > And... You traded GIMP for Inkscape this GSoC? :) > > Thank you for noticing. I can see your emails very often too in Gimp and Inkscape. > > SVN: I used it at work before. > > We rely on bazaar-ng these days, but it bears some resemblance to SVN, > so it shouldn't be a problem. > > Alexandre > > Bazaar-ng seems interesting. I assume that it would be better than SVN, which seems to be used previously. (?) Regards, Zhenfeng.

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experimental LPE
by Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi, in the last couple of testbuilds for windows are experimental LPE's enabled. On Ubuntu there are only a few effects available, but on windows builds are a lot of effects. And many of them let inkscape crash. Why do we have these unstable effects still enabled? Sincerely UweSch -- Mit freundlichem Gruß, Uwe Schöler

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bzr question
by Wolf Drechsel 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi everybody, I tried to update my bzr inkscape sources directory to the most recent state, using sudo bzr pull in the sources directory. What I get is > Format <RepositoryFormatKnit4> for file:///Users/bub/Desktop/ > inkscape/bzr-inkscape-0.47-src/.bzr/ is deprecated - please use > 'bzr upgrade' to get better performance What shall I do? Yours, Wolf

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Inkscape-Aqua for Snow Leopard
by Stuart Edwards 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

There is now a pre-packaged version of Inkscape running native on my MacPro under OS X 10.6.2. That's the good news. The bad news is that there's some more work needed to make it useable. On start up I get the following console messages: 3/23/10 8:51:51 AM defaults[41485] The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleAquaColorVariant) does not exist 3/23/10 8:51:51 AM defaults[41487] The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleHighlightColor) does not exist 3/23/10 8:51:51 AM defaults[41496] The domain/default pair of (.GlobalPreferences, AppleCollationOrder) does not exist 3/23/10 8:51:51 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] Warning: AppleCollationOrder setting not found, using AppleLocale. 3/23/10 8:51:51 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] Setting Language: .UTF-8 3/23/10 8:51:51 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] cp: /Users/stu/inkscape_port/inkscape-0.47/packaging/macosx/stInkscape-aqua.app/Contents/Resources/etc/pango/pangox.aliases: No such file or directory 3/23/10 8:51:51 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] (process:41460): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. 3/23/10 8:51:51 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] Using the fallback 'C' locale. 3/23/10 8:51:54 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] (inkscape-bin:41460): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `object->ref_count > 0' failed 3/23/10 8:51:58 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] (inkscape-bin:41460): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `object->ref_count > 0' failed 3/23/10 8:51:58 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] (inkscape-bin:41460): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'object-visible'. The 'hicolor' theme 3/23/10 8:51:58 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. 3/23/10 8:51:58 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] You can get a copy from: 3/23/10 8:51:58 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases These don't seem to impede the start up process but are mentioned in case they affect something else later. Based on a quick 'tour', the basic functionality of the drawing tools etc seems to be in place. Of course, the two problems discussed in previous threads are still with us - the lack of radio buttons and the non appearance of aqua drop down menu items that have secondary menus associated with them. Another fairly critical item - saving the current document to file - causes a crash at the point where the 'save' button on the file dialog box is activated. This creates a series of console messages: 3/23/10 8:54:15 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] (inkscape-bin:41460): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to find default local directory monitor type 3/23/10 8:54:35 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] (inkscape-bin:41460): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to find default local directory monitor type 3/23/10 8:54:35 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] Emergency save activated! 3/23/10 8:54:35 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. 3/23/10 8:54:35 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org 3/23/10 8:54:35 AM [0x0-0x606606].org.inkscape.Inkscape[41457] with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it. 3/23/10 8:54:45 AM ReportCrash[41535] Saved crash report for inkscape-bin[41460] version ??? (???) to /Users/stu/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/inkscape-bin_2010-03-23-085445_SEsMacPro.crash 3/23/10 8:54:46 AM system_profiler[41538] could not convert interface name If these three items can be fixed, the application would be very useable. Any ideas would be much appreciated. If anyone would like a copy - let me know and we'll figure out how to transfer it - Stu

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