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LPE's: Red line vs. Green line
by Tavmjong Bah 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Why does the Spiro LPE use a green line while the others LPE's use a red line to show the original path? It would be better, I think, if there was consistency between all the LPE's. (I realize that the original path is not very useful for the Spiro LPE.) Tav

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whatever happened to the CAD tools?
by heathenx 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Just curious if anyone was planing on resurrecting the basic CAD tools that we used to have at one time during the 0.47 dev process. Was that just a proof of concept or will they be implemented at some point (0.48 perhaps)? heathenx

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LPEs for 0.47, take two
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hi, Could we possibly try to include two currently disabled LPEs into 0.47? I'm particularly talking about: 1. Mirror symmetrically, which resolves multiple times requested symmetric drawing mode 2. Booloops, which makes Spiro a lot more useful. For now I moved all entries for currently disabled LPEs and the LPE tool itself from POTFILES.in to a newly created POTFILES.ignore so that translators have less problems. Alexandre

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Disconnected Arabic Letters on Mac OS X
by Boutros Saba 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello Folks, Did anybody check that? I have version 0.46. past versions also fail to do the task, when I install them on my Mac OS X 10.4.11. The letters appear but without being connected. Also, when I try to paste text from outside to Inkscape it copies the Arabic text but it disconnects the letters. Any ideas please? Thanks, Boutros

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LPE Effects: Red line
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi, The editable red line showing the original path in an LPE when the LPE path is selected and the Node tool in use is no longer present in 0.46 +svn. Is this by design or is this a bug? I found it quite useful to be able to manipulate the original path and see the effect on the LPE path. Tav

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systemLanguage works, one Tardigrade
by Martin Owens 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hey guys, I remember surprising some of the old Inkscape devs when I confirmed that the systemLanguage attribute does in fact work with Inkscape. (one language at a time). Today I created an svg to sent to a friend who does translations, with notes on what parts of the svg do what. I tested it in eog, Firefox and Inkscape. Inkscape's only bug was that it didn't take into account language variations. So en_GB would show up for en_US in a switch. Eye of Gnome on the other hand did the variations correctly but failed to not render tags with incorrect languages outside of switch tags. Firefox was a complete bust, everything is always English, suspect it doesn't listen to the LANG environment variable. http://divajutta.com/doctormo/multi-lang.svg Best Regards, Martin Owens

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pedro
by Alexandre Prokoudine 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi, Before we hit strings freeze, it would be great to do something about Pedro (XMPP client). I know that this feature is by no means complete and is supposed to be rewritten more or less from scratch, but what we have currently is something optional that is always in English. In my not very humble opinion even such a feature should be localized. Keeping something that is not ready but somewhat available unlocalizable intentionally doesn't really sound wise to me. Could we please have this fixed? Another thing is that some messages are actually marked for translation and don't work. So I'm tempted to move them to POTFILES.ignore, because they don't make any sense to translator at the moment: even if they rebuild Inkscape with --enable-inkboard they can't even check what it looks like. Alexandre

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include inkscapec.exe ?
by Alvin Penner 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Will the program inkscapec.exe be included in the Windows distribution of 0.47? http://kaioa.com/node/63 This would be useful for those who are tracking bugs in Windows. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/include-inkscapec.exe---tp23632618p23632618.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Reducing the number of control/tool bars
by JiHO 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi everyone, With the new snap control bar, Inkscape is becoming quite plump above the waist. Combined with labels that are longer in many other languages than they are in english, this does not leave very much space to draw in the end. See this example in french on a 1280*800 display (i.e. not the smallest around) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1047321/inkscape/fat_ui.png The width is about half-drawing/half-palette, and, more importantly, the height cannot even accommodate all the tools even in this fully maximized setting. The snap control bar is not very wide but control bars do not seem to be dockable one next to each other. They apparently need to be on top of each other. Is that specific to my version of GTK or a known limitation? Now my real questions: what do you think about removing some of the toolbar items and reducing the number of control bars to two, as before? Do we really need buttons for new document, save, print, etc. when all of them are readily available in the menu and have standard, well known keyboard shortcuts? Having the snap controls in the toolbar make sense because the expose functionality that is more difficult to get to otherwise. But for the rest... My opinion would be: item status why? new remove present just a cm above, in the file menu; well known shortcut open remove idem save remove idem print remove idem + less frequently used import ? export ? undo remove present to reach in the edit menu; very well known shortcut redo remove idem copy remove idem cut remove idem paste remove idem zoom . . align keep it is inkscape specific except maybe: layers ? there is the layers' dropdown already for easy access global prefs remove if users really need to get to the global preferences often enough that it requires a button here, it's probably that there is a deeper problem. Plus this would reduce the confusion between the two because of their very similar icons (as was mentioned earlier on the list). doc. prefs keep Removing that would make enough room to fit the snap bar next to the main control bar. If GTK can't do it dynamically, it would need to be hardcoded, for now. These changes might seem to be at the detriment of beginners, but once again they target: - functions that are similar in most software, so for which the keyboard shortcuts are easier and more efficient to learn - functions that are easily available in the menu. Navigating to a menu is not that tedious especially when the menu is just a few pixels above the tool bar button. I looks like a bad habit carried over from some windows programs rather than like a real design decision on the part of the linux desktops. Plus, other apps (like the gimp) don't have buttons for such things and I haven't heard anyone complaining (about that part of the UI at least ;) ) I hope it is not too late to mention that. I think if change ever happens, it should be before 0.47, before people get exposed and used to a more cluttered UI. Thanks in advance for your comments. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Inkscape 0.47 About Screen Contest - Voting Time
by Joshua A. Andler 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hey All, The submission portion of the contest has concluded and it is now time to vote. Things have been simplified this go 'round. Voting will ONLY take place on deviantart, and everyone gets only 1 vote. http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/24960257 Cheers, Josh P.S. This simplification this time was to reduce unnecessary administrative overhead... sorry, no exceptions.

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Interface buglets
by Tavmjong Bah 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi, Here are a few interface buglets in 0.46+svn: 1. "Duplicate Current Layer..." has "..." but doesn't open a dialog. 2. Icons for flipping/rotating are not being taken from icons.svg. 3. "Extensions" sub-menu items still use "Effects". 4. "Guide around page" should be "Guide Around Page" for consistency. 5. "Display Mode" radio buttons are not updated if one uses "Toggle". 6. "Display Mode->Toggle" only toggles between "Normal" and "Outline, this isn't very clear from the menu. Tav

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Export to Open Clip Art LIbrary?
by Tavmjong Bah 29 May '09

29 May '09

Does export to the Open Clip Art Library now work? It was disabled in 0.46. If it doesn't it should probably be disabled again or if it does, then it should be mentioned in the release notes. Tav

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Node tool behaviour VERY different from 0.46 - bug 379817
by worms invasion 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi devs! Thanks a lot for all the good work and awesome features, and the bug fixing! Re. bug fixing before 0.37, could anyone take a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/379817 , which makes a lot of usual operations impossible now (or very very painful to "fix"). Inkscape shouldn't, I think, "draw" paths in a different manner in 0.47 compared to 0.46. Thanks in advance!

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.47 builds on mac
by Alexandre Prokoudine 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi, I'm not really a Mac user :), but every time we release .47 we hear "but it doesn't look native on Mac". So, did anybody try to finally build Inkscape with native GTK+ port for Mac? Are we ready to release Inkscape for Mac that way? Alexandre

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Font selection broken on windows
by Mourad Mokrane 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hi, the font selection dropdown doesn't work on windows, at least in Inkscape21345-0905140303 on Windows Vista. When the dropdown is opened, an inkscape.exe task appears on the taskbar as if the process was running outside of the Inkscape main window. Selecting fonts has no effect on the typed text. Molumen

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Tango default poll?
by Mihaela 27 May '09

27 May '09

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Cannot compile on XP
by Preben Soeberg 27 May '09

27 May '09

Got this: cc : compile of build/obj/inkscape.o required by source: src/inkscape.cpp . Make error line 581: problem compiling: src/inkscape.cpp: In function 'gchar* profile_path(const char*)': src/inkscape.cpp:1454: error: 'S_IRGRP' was not declared in this scope src/inkscape.cpp:1454: error: 'S_IXGRP' was not declared in this scope src/inkscape.cpp:1454: error: 'S_IXOTH' was not declared in this scope src/inkscape.cpp: At global scope: src/inkscape.cpp:144: warning: 'bus_handler' defined but not used

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Kill SPIcon patch
by Krzysztof Kosiński 26 May '09

26 May '09

I have a patch that replaces SPIcon with GtkImage, by redefining sp_icon_new and typedefing SPIcon to GtkImage. The amount of changes is rather modest - about 10 files changed. It fixes all icon-related issues I could find but removes support for icons.svg. http://tweenk.artfx.pl/kill-spicon.patch Should I commit this? Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Kill-SPIcon-patch-tp23689610p23689610.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Vectorising Resolution
by Martin Owens 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hey guys, I've tried to use the fill and vectorising tools in inkscape to create vectors from existing bitmaps; but I noticed an odd effect with the path that all requires two simplify node functions to get the path into a manageable state. Are we currently taking into account the resolution of the raster image we are vectoring in order to smooth out the complexities of the pixelisation? The maths need to be able to reduce the noise from the pixel shapes and try and increase the signal from the shape of the image section... although perhaps this is only useful for cartoon type images. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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ENOUGH WITH THE ICONS!!!
by Josh Andler 26 May '09

26 May '09

Sorry about the tone of this message, but... can we stop wasting time and energy on the icons and focus on getting 0.47 out the door? As a (or I believe still the only) release warden for 0.47, I am authoritatively saying, "not this time". My rationale is based on the fact that there are obviously still too many mixed feelings for this change to have been made during the release preparation period. Even after 0.47 is out the door, we shouldn't even bother with a poll until someone adds an icon set chooser in prefs. This way EVERYONE can be happy without having to copy/move files. As a side note... for the remainder of this release cycle... (0.47) How about every time someone feels the need to start or reply to an icons thread, they just go to the bug tracker and try to see if they can reproduce a bug still marked as "New". It's a far more productive use of time and the community will end up appreciating the results MUCH more. Having similar or the same discussion(s) every few months has not changed a thing, nor will it anytime soon. This seems like one of the most ridiculous wastes of resources, to the point that I'm flat out angry rather than aggravated. My wife thinks that we're all nuts with the frequency of these repetitive and non-conclusive discussions. I don't know that I disagree her. :-) Anyways, before I lose my cool and start with the profanity and insults (which I'm on the edge)... let's just be done for now. Sincerely, Josh P.S. If people really want to keep pushing this issue right now, I will have no problem stepping down as the release coordinator and release warden.

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Icon sizes
by JiHO 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi everyone, Trying to sort some bugs on Launchpad I dug into icon sizes a bit. In previous conversations, Jon Cruz specified that Inkscape icon sizes are defined in src/icon-sizes.h: enum IconSize { ICON_SIZE_INVALID = ::GTK_ICON_SIZE_INVALID, ICON_SIZE_MENU = ::GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU, ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR = ::GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR, ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR = ::GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR, ICON_SIZE_BUTTON = ::GTK_ICON_SIZE_BUTTON, ICON_SIZE_DND = ::GTK_ICON_SIZE_DND, ICON_SIZE_DIALOG = ::GTK_ICON_SIZE_DIALOG, ICON_SIZE_DECORATION }; However, those definitions seem to have strange effects in the facts. Namely: - the toolbox has size "LARGE_TOOLBAR" but won't scale to 48 (displays as >~16) or 32 (displays as <16) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1047321/toolbox-bar.xcf NB: I am linking to xcf images because they make it easy to compare the different sizes in different layers - the snapping toolbar has size "SMALL_TOOLBAR" but behaves the same way regarding large sizes http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1047321/toolbars.xcf - the custom size "DECORATION" affects: . the color picker: 48 makes it bigger. the rest does not change . the triangle at the end of the color picker strip: changes correctly with all sizes, so it would seem that is working correctly then. But since the color picker itself does not scale to the same height, it usually appears too big or too small compared to it. Ideally, it should always have the same height as the color picker (hence be affected by the choice of size in the picker itself, which is not the case currently) . the lock and eye icon of the layer drop down, the zoom icon at the top right corner of the canvas, and probably other places, which display the same issue as the icons above http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1047321/custom-decoration.xcf So there is a common pattern (hence a common fix?). Overall, it seems that stock icons (i.e not Inkscape provided ones) scale, but Inkscape icons do not scale. I understand this since Inkscape icons used to be designed and rendered in a different way. However: - I thought that recent changes to the icon handling would make Inkscape icons behave as the rest (this was tested with rev 21339 and I haven't seen any icon related changes in the svn log since, and with no custom configuration in .config/Inkscape) - even if they do not behave as the rest, they should at least display at their maximum size when the GTK size it set higher that it (32 and 48). Thanks in advance for any information on all this. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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svg fonts dialog
by Alexandre Prokoudine 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi again, I know you'll get tired of me soon :) Do we know exactly which combination of Cairo and Inkscape makes SVG Fonts dialog working? If we do, should we mention that in Release Notes and INSTALL? If we keep SVG Fonts for 0.47, could we please have a little more verbose UI? At least mentioning which way exactly of entering Unicode value of a glyph, and a spinbox for precise setting of kerning. Alexandre

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Snaps of icon issues
by Jon A. Cruz 25 May '09

25 May '09

Since not everyone was seeing problems with the external icon loading, I grabbed a few screenshots to add to the wiki to illustrate them. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Icons#Issues I do have a handle on fixing those, but if others see different issues please feel free to add at least a text description of the problem. Thanks.

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about screen contest: woah!
by unknown＠example.com 24 May '09

24 May '09

Woah!!! I just had a look at the about screen contest (http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/24582792) and.... WOAAAAAHHHH... It is absolutely amazing what people have made. There are many many many drawings that I like. Great work all of you who submitted something!! (It's cool that quite a few people tried to visualize "refactoring" too.) Cheers, Johan

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Compiling Inkscape 0.46...No Imagemagick found
by heathenx 24 May '09

24 May '09

I posted to the Inkscape User list yesterday regarding missing raster effects from the effects menu (If it appears like I've cross-posted I apologize) but I'm not sure the User list was the appropriate place afterall. Doing some investigative work I figured I would uninstall Inkscape 0.46 on my Ubuntu 9.04 box and compile it from scratch. I noticed that when I run the ./configure it will not find Imagemagick even though I have it installed along with the development package for it. Perhaps this is what is preventing the raster effects from being displayed in the effects menu. Some of you that are running Ubuntu 9.04...have you noticed any of these issues? I'm not exactly sure what I need to do detect Imagemagick. I have not compiled the stable version of Inkscape before. I get that straight from the repos along with all of the other Inkscape dependencies. As a side note I have compiled a recent snapshot of 0.46+devel and the raster effects do display but none of them are working. I would appreciate any help. I'll keep plugging away in the meantime. :) heathenx Here is the output of ./configure: heathenx@...2195...:~/inkscape-0.46$ ./configure checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to create a pax tar archive... gnutar checking for style of include used by make... 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Miter Dynamic Offset
by Krzysztof Kosiński 24 May '09

24 May '09

I'm frequently using the dynamic offset to add a thick contour around the drawing. Problem is, it looks awful when the drawing has sharp edges. Would it be hard to create other types of dynamic offset, e.g. miter dynamic offset (which would look like the outer edge of a miter stroke)? Of course this is an idea for the future, because right now we need to concentrate on bugfixing :) Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Miter-Dynamic-Offset-tp23689655p23689655.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Summer of Code has officially started!
by Joshua A. Andler 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hey all, Today is the day that the students should begin their coding according to the official timeline. Given this, I just wanted to wish good luck to this year's students and mentors for SoC 2009! Mentors, since there was no decision made about this, you need to decide how the student's work will be committed (given that we are working towards a release). Whatever the mentors (and their students) decide on this issue will be fine, the only rule for now is DO NOT COMMIT SOC WORK TO TRUNK until it opens for regular development again. :) Cheers, Josh

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GSoC Inkscape API project
by Jon A. Cruz 23 May '09

23 May '09

Hi Soren, At this past LGM I had a chance to discuss several of the GSoC projects with helpful people, including Chris Lilley (of the SVG Working Group). I'd explained my thoughts that what we added should be focused on exposing DOM, first for the SVG itself, then additionally for the UI, since among other things that presents a potential plugin/extension author with a single unified interface/ approach to have to worry about. Exposing things via XPath functions, and DOM events stays in that same paradigm. It also allows us to have a simple way to expose things eventually though JavaScript (but also others). Focusing on DOM, DOM Events and XPath would give a simple paradigm that is familiar to designers, especially since they are taught DOM and JavaScript DOM manipulation in college nowadays. Anyway, once I had expressed that in my opinion that would be a good route to focus on I mentioned that you said you would be considering that among other approaches. Chris then responded basically with "Consider? Why would they do anything else?" We had a bit of a follow- up, but the general result was a consensus that building our API around DOM will give Inkscape the best long-term benefits. I just wanted to be sure to get that mentioned before you jump full- speed into GSoC now, since it is time. Again, good luck, Jon.

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SF's Community Choice Awards
by Alexandre Prokoudine 22 May '09

22 May '09

Hi, Do we nominate Inkscape to SF's Community Choice Awards? Alexandre

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auto swatches
by Alexandre Prokoudine 22 May '09

22 May '09

Hi, Since 0.47 is really close now, it would be great to have decision if the new auto swatches palette can make it. Jon, this is primarily for you :) Currently there are at least two bugs (1) no auto update for swatch, 2) "Auto" is not marked for translation) and the whole feature doesn't work quite as expected. For instance, anticipated flat fills are created as linear gradient elements (the old dialog we were supposed to get rid of is used for that too). Is there any work definitely planned to iron this out before we hit hard freeze? Alexandre

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giomm again
by bulia byak 20 May '09

20 May '09

Someone has added giomm to configure.ac again. This fails on Ubuntu 6.06. It was added before but then removed. Without it, Inkscape compiles just fine on 6.06. Can we please remove it again? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Python modules in Inkscape for Windows
by Aurélio A. Heckert 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi all, How the py molules are added/updated in the windows installer pack? I search by that in the website but there are no information about. (or i did the wrong search...) If is useful, i have listed the used modules with that line: egrep --no-filename '^\s*(from\s+[^\s]+\s+)?import' *.py |\ sed -r 's/^\s*from\s+([^ ]+).*/\1/; s/^\s*import\s+//; s/,\s*/\n/g' |\ sort | uniq in .../inkscape-svn/share/extensions Thanks, 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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Erik Dahlström - SVG Working Group
by Felipe Sanches 18 May '09

18 May '09

I've got the pleasure to meet Charles McCathieNevile from Opera last week here in Brazil. Later he sent me an email introducing me to Erik Dahlström, current co-chair of the SVG Working Group, which also works at Opera Software. I'd like to ask you guys, what kind of interaction is desired so that we can have a nice and productive collaboration? Felipe Sanches a.k.a JucaBlues ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@...2183...> Date: 2009/5/18 Subject: Introductions... To: Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches@...400...>, Erik Dahlström <ed@...2196......> Hi guys, you hould talk to each other. I am not sure whether Felipe speaks Swedish, or Erik Portuguese, but I know you both speak english :) Felipe is a programmer with Inkscape, living in Brazil. Erik is a programmer at Opera, chair of the W3C SVG group, and lives in Sweden. So that gives some context. Felipe and I talked about a couple of things like Inkscape being able to save as Widget, and things that might be upcoming. I am particularly interested in somebody figuring out how to make inkscape do nice animation - apart from anything else that would help provide Mozilla with motivation for implementing animation faster - and it is a nice thing to use when people have to read the code. Erik may have a different opinion since he has to make it work efficiently... :) cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

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phrasing
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, When a user saves to Plain SVG and tries to close a document, what he sees is: "The file \"%s\" was saved with a format (%s) that may cause data loss!" "\n" "Do you want to save this file as an Inkscape SVG?" and the choice of buttons is: "Dont' save", "Cancel" and "Save as SVG" Are you as puzzled as I am? :) What would be the difference between "Don't save" and "Cancel"? To which SVG will the image be saved upon clicking "Save as SVG"? Alexandre

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scientific work
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, Do we have people who wrote scientific papers based on their work on libre graphics tools? Especially our past GSoC students? Alexandre

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how to handle unknown LPEs for shapes
by unknown＠example.com 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi all, Currently, when an unknown LPE is applied to a path, inkscape ignores the whole LPE stack on that path and simply draws the 'd' attribute. (so the path is not resetted or anything. the path will look like intended and like it is shown in all other SVG readers). My problem now is: what to do for other shapes? (stars, circles, etc.). I guess the best thing to do is have a popup upon loading the file that asks the user whether he wants to convert that shape to a simple path, such that it will look like intended. I don't know whether this (convert e.g. a star to a path), while loading the file, will make inkscape unstable... Any help is appreciated, Johan

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Question for developers
by Oleg Koptev 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hello all! My name is Oleg, I'm work in Open Clipart Library team (openclipart.org) I want to ask question about OCAL clipart import feature. At this moment as I know it's work only in the Linux version of Inkscape. It is very cool feature for sure, but have many bugs - for example it grabs mostly PNG and not SVG files (it's because the existing version of OCAL based on old version of ccHost) and we lack function of automatic thumbnails. So people forced to upload PNG's first for enabling the preview. Ok. It is doesn't really matter if no one work with it. If yes (what is highly preferable by many people :) ) - please feel free to contact me since OCAL plan to upgrade fully base system with many new features, including auto PNG generation. So I think there will be much less work to adjust existing Inkscape's extension. Wish you all the best, let Inkscape rocks further! Cheerz, Oleg -- C уважением, Коптев Олег With respect, Oleg Koptev Jabber ID - koptevoleg@...189...

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(no subject)
by Oleg Koptev 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hello all! My name is Oleg, I'm work in Open Clipart Library team (openclipart.org) I want to ask question about OCAL clipart import feature. At this moment as I know it's work only in the Linux version of Inkscape. It is very cool feature for sure, but have many bugs - for example it grabs mostly PNG and not SVG files (it's because the existing version of OCAL based on old version of ccHost) and we lack function of automatic thumbnails. So people forced to upload PNG's first for enabling the preview. Ok. It is doesn't really matter if no one work with it. If yes (what is highly preferable by many people :) ) - please feel free to contact me since OCAL plan to upgrade fully base system with many new features, including auto PNG generation. So I think there will be much less work to adjust existing Inkscape's extension. Wish you all the best, let Inkscape rocks further! Cheerz, Oleg -- C уважением, Коптев Олег With respect, Oleg Koptev Jabber ID - koptevoleg@...189...

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Java bindings - bug 346721
by unknown＠example.com 17 May '09

17 May '09

Hi Jon, I think I fixed bug 346721 in svn rev. 21366. But I am not 100% sure if my fix is correct. Could you please take a look? http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/b ind/javabind.cpp?r1=21366&r2=21365&pathrev=21366 Ciao, Johan

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Launchpad question
by unknown＠example.com 16 May '09

16 May '09

Hi all, Trying to search for a bug I can fix, I'm having a bit of a hard time. Does anybody know how to sort the bugreports in Launchpad by latest changes? Thanks a bunch, Johan

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Dashed Path in Inkscape
by Alvin Penner 15 May '09

15 May '09

I've made an extension to produce a dashed path in Inkscape. It will use the Dashed pattern in the stroke style and will explicitly cut the path to correspond to the dash pattern. This is a response to the discussion at : http://www.nabble.com/Dashed-path-in-inkscape-td22696787.html The extension is posted at : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/374574 It is a slight modification of the file addnodes.py. Any feedback would be welcome. Any objections if I were to commit this in a few days? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dashed-Path-in-Inkscape-tp23530829p23530829.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] The bias property for feConvolveMatrix
by Jasper van de Gronde 14 May '09

14 May '09

Erik Dahlstrom wrote: > Sure thing, see attachment (screencapture). I'd still recommend > installing Opera 10 for future comparisons, > http://my.opera.com/desktopteam for the latest releases. Couldn't get > the Adobe plugin to cooperate unfortunately, maybe I need a reboot. Thanks! Seems like it also does not support the bias property though... >> (Note that I changed the file a bit to make it easier to spot >> differences in implementation.) > > Right. It would be nice if we could see a rendered result from Inkscape > too. Sure, I've attached an image. Note that Inkscape has some issues with the edges, but that's a different problem. I've also included an image showing how Batik renders the file if I remove the bias attributes, hence my guess that Opera does not support the bias attribute.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] The bias property for feConvolveMatrix
by Jasper van de Gronde 13 May '09

13 May '09

Erik Dahlstrom wrote: > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:09:01 +0200, Jasper van de Gronde > <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote: > >> The SVG standard defines a "bias" property for feConvolveMatrix to >> offset the result of the filter. It specifies that this value should >> simply be added to the result for each channel. Implicitly the standard >> defines that these are premultiplied color values, however, this seems >> to make little sense, as the bias has very little meaning without taking >> the alpha channel into account. > > Wouldn't the 'preserveAlpha' attribute[1] be sufficient to control this? No, imagine that the image already has alpha=0.5, then adding a bias of 0.5 suddenly does not correspond to a transparent gray zero response, but rather a transparent white zero response. > ... > There should be some precedent, e.g: > > - Opera 9.x > - Firefox 3.1 > - ASV3 Unfortunately I don't have any of those installed, so if someone could help me test that would be great. I have attached a file that tests numerous cases using bias (and transparency), if someone could try it on his/her favourite renderer that would be great.

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don't let Inkscape crash - prefer g_try_new over g_new
by the Adib 13 May '09

13 May '09

According to the glib manual for g_try_new: http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Memory-Allocation.html#g-… "Attempts to allocate n_structs elements of type struct_type, and returns NULL on failure. Contrast with g_new(), which aborts the program on failure. The returned pointer is cast to a pointer to the given type. If n_structs is 0 it returns NULL. ... Since 2.8" Can we assume that everyone uses glib 2.8? I already commited patch svn rev 21327 that uses g_try_new ... Adib. ---

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Tool pointer pixmaps
by Guillermo Espertino 13 May '09

13 May '09

I've uploaded some improved (imho) pixmaps for the tool pointers in this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/325145 --- The changes are: - Tweaked the appearance of 3dbox and eraser - added crosshairs to connector and bucket fill - new icon for bucket fill - Unified the appearance of pen and pencil tools - Unified the size and position of the color dropper icon The icons had different sizes and positions relative to the crosshairs, so I tried to unify that. Now the modified icons fit in a 26x26 square at the upper left of the total area (32x32) so there is space in the bottom left for potential modified versions (for instance adding a + sign for addition, like the gradient tool has). Some icons (bucket fill, color dropper and connector) have a slightly different hotspots now, so they'll have to be adjusted. There are others that can be adjusted, but with these changes at least the set is more homogenous in size and style. The pen icon for the bezier tool is in my opinion confusing, since the pen icon in the UI is assigned to the calligraphic tool. Nobody seems to matter, though. ---- The only change needed is to check and correct the tool hostpot in some of them, but I guess that would be a trivial change (that I don't know how to perform :-) What do you think?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 36, Issue 7
by solaris manzur 13 May '09

13 May '09

i love tango icons styles, please, they should be by default in 0.47 if u need any help, please ask

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Kinematic Templates
by Jon A. Cruz 12 May '09

12 May '09

Nice lightning talk by Michael Terry in regards to kinematic templates. Definitely check out the video and/or PDF "Kinematic Templates: End-User Tools for Content-Relative Cursor Manipulations." http://hci.uwaterloo.ca/ Bulia??? :-)

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Tango Icons Ready
by Krzysztof Kosiński 11 May '09

11 May '09

I have completed converting the Tango icon set made by Jesusda to discrete icons. The only missing icons are in the geometry tool (which doesn't seem to work anyway), but I'll add them shortly. Should I make it the default for Linux? This would be accomplished by installing the contents of a subdirectory named "tango" to $PREFIX/share/inkscape/icons/hicolor. Windows users would still see the "hicolor" directory, but could rename the tango directory to hicolor and see the Tango icons. Linux users could use the old icons by putting them in ~/.icons/OldInkscape and modifying the index.theme file to inherit from their theme of choice (Human, gnome, etc.). I'm preparing a README with detailed instructions. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tango-Icons-Ready-tp23234723p23234723.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Incorrect handling of <text> without <tspan>
by Jimmy 10 May '09

10 May '09

I have been working on a patch for bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167904 sp_te_insert_line I basically created a working patch (excluding end of string line breaks and probably spacing issues). The patch checks if the text in contained in a text box is a child of <svg:text> instead of <svg:tspan> . If this is true a <tspan> is inserted as a child of the <text> and the string is transfered to become a child of the <tspan> . this This works but it fails for strange reasons. If the text box is selected and the cursor is moved over with the keyboard and a line break is inserted, inkscape crashes. I traced this back to a problem occurring with the Glib::ustring::iterator s being used. In the instances that the patch fails the iterator's values don't match up to their expected value. The problem also occurs after a line break, an undo, and a repeat of the line break. I'm fairly new to the code base so I may be doing things out of order or failing to call a necessary function. I'm not exactly sure why this is occurring after these actions are performed. What can I do to solve this issue. I have posted the code in question to the bug report. I have a feeling this problem is occurring from the layout obtained from the SPItem and the actions that occur afterwards. Thanks

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message overwrites rotation value
by Jeremy C. Reed 09 May '09

09 May '09

I had a box that appear to be skewed. So I tried to grab and I saw numbers flashing on bottom window bar, but it kept getting overwritten with "Rectangle in layer Layer 1. Click selection to toggle scale/rotation handles." Maybe that message should go somewhere else? Or the rotation percentage should be displayed somewhere else? What is my workaround for now? Where can I see the number or where can I manually type it in? I am on inkscape-21256 (from yesterday's snapshot).

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Shared tagging
by Jon A. Cruz 09 May '09

09 May '09

Guys, Can you take a quick look at this and give any feedback there? Thanks. http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/ResourceTagging

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32 build broken test-stubs.cpp
by Bob Jamison 08 May '09

08 May '09

Jasper, hi, Well, I think (and this happens a lot) that this is the old symptom where the files which are compiled for win32 and those in the unix Automake files are not always in sync. So a person building on Linux or OSX might never see the problem. bob On 5/8/2009 3:26 AM, Jasper van de Gronde wrote: > > This makes me wonder if we can't set up some machine to regularly do > these tests (and the rendering tests as well while we're at it). > Running all the tests once a day (the unit tests take about a minute, > excluding build time) would already be an enormous improvement. Mozilla does this, with the results being automatically updated on their web site. Would be a good idea. bob

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32 build broken test-stubs.cpp
by Jasper van de Gronde 08 May '09

08 May '09

Jasper van de Gronde wrote: > Bob Jamison wrote: >> That was a good find, Adib! :) >> >> Yes, adding test-stubs.cpp to the 'excludes' list does fix the >> build. >> >> >> But someone needs to look at test-stubs.cpp and get it back into >> sync with the current fields in Preferences. Or take it out, I guess. > > Perhaps the person who actually broke the tests? I know it can be a > pain, but people (and frankly that includes me) really should run these > tests more often. At the moment the tests even CRASH for me... Correction, after a build clean it doesn't crash anymore. Currently 14 out of 160 tests fail on my system. > This makes me wonder if we can't set up some machine to regularly do > these tests (and the rendering tests as well while we're at it). Running > all the tests once a day (the unit tests take about a minute, excluding > build time) would already be an enormous improvement. > > If we want it a little fancier it could try and pinpoint the exact > revisions which caused the problem and possibly even notify the > developers mailing list (and/or the individual developers involved). >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Deactivate knotholder?
by Josh Andler 06 May '09

06 May '09

I seem to recall that Max had added it a while back relating to the Geometry Tool. On May 6, 2009 5:38 AM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Steren [mailto: steren.giannini@...400...] > Sent: Thursday, Ap... Sorry for the delayed reply. I do not know where this checkbox came from; hopefully we can find it in the svn logs. -Johan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@...2193...

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Deactivate knotholder?
by bulia byak 06 May '09

06 May '09

What is the purpose of this checkbox in LPE parameters? Does it work at all? I tried it with Knot, but checking it does not remove the knot on the intersection. I propose to remove it because it does not seem to serve a useful function, and because it uses the absolutely technical term "knotholder" which users have no idea about. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32 build broken test-stubs.cpp
by Bob Jamison 05 May '09

05 May '09

That was a good find, Adib! :) Yes, adding test-stubs.cpp to the 'excludes' list does fix the build. But someone needs to look at test-stubs.cpp and get it back into sync with the current fields in Preferences. Or take it out, I guess. bob (ishmal) -----Original Message----- >From: the Adib <theadib@...1439...> >Sent: May 5, 2009 4:08 AM >To: Inkscape <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >Subject: [Inkscape-devel] win32 build broken test-stubs.cpp > >Hello, > >the win32 build is broken and I don't know why. >The file that blocks the build is test-stubs.cpp. AS this probably >belongs to testing code I commented this out of build.xml. pls see the >patch below. > >HTH, Adib. >--- > >D:\projekte\inkscape\inkscape_trunk>svn diff >Index: build.xml >=================================================================== >--- build.xml (revision 21287) >+++ build.xml (working copy) >@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ > <exclude name="bonobo/.*"/> > <exclude name="deptool.cpp"/> >  >+ <exclude name="test-stubs.cpp"/> >  > <exclude name="display/test-display.cpp"/> > <exclude name="display/testnr.cpp"/> >@@ -419,6 +420,7 @@ >  > <exclude name="test-main.o"/> > <exclude name="test-src.o"/> >+ <exclude name="test-stubs.o"/> > <exclude name="display/test-display.o"/> > <exclude name="helper/test-helper.o"/> > <exclude name="libnr/nr-compose-reference.o"/> >@@ -577,6 +579,7 @@ > <fileset dir="${build}"> > <include name="obj/test-main.o"/> > <include name="obj/test-src.o"/> >+ <include name="obj/test-stubs.o"/> > <include name="obj/display/test-display.o"/> > <include name="obj/helper/test-helper.o"/> > <include name="obj/libnr/nr-compose-reference.o"/> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your >production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to >Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 >Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image >processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Error in color management
by Preben Soeberg 05 May '09

05 May '09

There are serious rendering errors in the color management caused by using ARGB encoding used instead of RGBA. Reported with patch in https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/372171. Using the patch makes tho soft proofing match Photoshop's soft proofing.

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win32 build broken test-stubs.cpp
by the Adib 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hello, the win32 build is broken and I don't know why. The file that blocks the build is test-stubs.cpp. AS this probably belongs to testing code I commented this out of build.xml. pls see the patch below. HTH, Adib. --- D:\projekte\inkscape\inkscape_trunk>svn diff Index: build.xml =================================================================== --- build.xml (revision 21287) +++ build.xml (working copy) @@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ <exclude name="bonobo/.*"/> <exclude name="deptool.cpp"/>  + <exclude name="test-stubs.cpp"/>  <exclude name="display/test-display.cpp"/> <exclude name="display/testnr.cpp"/> @@ -419,6 +420,7 @@  <exclude name="test-main.o"/> <exclude name="test-src.o"/> + <exclude name="test-stubs.o"/> <exclude name="display/test-display.o"/> <exclude name="helper/test-helper.o"/> <exclude name="libnr/nr-compose-reference.o"/> @@ -577,6 +579,7 @@ <fileset dir="${build}"> <include name="obj/test-main.o"/> <include name="obj/test-src.o"/> + <include name="obj/test-stubs.o"/> <include name="obj/display/test-display.o"/> <include name="obj/helper/test-helper.o"/> <include name="obj/libnr/nr-compose-reference.o"/>

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Inkscape 0.47 About Screen Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hey all, The Inkscape team and community is proud to announce the About Screen contest for the upcoming release of Inkscape (0.47). The contest begins... well, right now! The deadline is May 25th, 2009. As with the past contests we've had, it is being done via DeviantART ( http://www.deviantart.com/ ). You can find out more about it at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/24582792/ Additionally, if you have a DeviantART account, please show the news some "love" (via the digg style button), so we can hopefully get the story promoted to the front page. http://news.deviantart.com/article/79268/ Good Luck! Have fun! Draw Freely. -Josh

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PLEASE ACTUALLY CHECK BEFORE YOU LEAP!!!
by Jon A. Cruz 05 May '09

05 May '09

Krzysztof, PLEASE ACTUALLY READ AND TEST CODE BEFORE JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS!!! In regards to bug #367752, I DID ADDRESS THAT "CRITICAL" POINT IN THE CODE, AND COMMENTED ON IT!!! IT *WAS* TESTED!!! Please do *NOT* flip someone else's bugs away from fixed unless you ACTUALLY OBSERVE IT IS BROKEN!!!! Please review the comments attached to the bug. CAREFULLY REVIEW SVN REVISION #21281 Again.. PLEASE ACTUALLY COME AND TALK WITH THE OTHER DEVELOPERS. DON"T JUST GUESS BLIND!

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Bug Hunt for 0.47
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, As with other things, why fix what isn't broken? This release' bug hunt is a combination of the last two bug hunts in terms of functionality and scoring. Again, this is liberally recycling bryce's announcements. ;) Traditionally, we specify a point target for us to reach, and award us points based on the severity of the bug: 3, 6, 9, or 12 points for low, medium, high, and critical. This releases goal is again 500 points. We only give points for true bug fixes - not bugs simply closed due to being dupes, invalid, works-for-me, or whatnot. As with the last release, we won't count fixes to the website, translations, docs, and so on, we'll award points only for true code-level bug fixes. While our Frost goal is to close 500 points worth of *any* bug, when we get to Freeze our goal will be to have 0 Critical bugs, so efforts put into closing Crits will be doubly good! As with 0.45's bug hunt, we do want to encourage work on old bugs. So, points will be doubled for any bugs fixed that have been open for a year or more. Bug Hunt Goal: 500 points Current: 0 points Low: 3 - 6 pts Med: 6 - 12 pts High: 9 - 18 pts Critical: 12 - 24 pts We especially need testers (and bug fixers) for Windows and OSX. We have a tendency to have a number of platform specific bugs, so all the help we can get would be appreciated. If you are a Windows or OSX user, you too can be a big help, simply by browsing the bug tracker and see if you can reproduce the bug, and then add a comment on the bug one way or the other. No technical experience required. :-) I will be posting scoring as we have in the past. Note that the "current" score above is actually incorrect as a few bugs have been fixed since the Frost began. The first scoreboard will be posted by mid-week and will include all fixes since Frost began. Cheers, Josh

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Easy community task - Social PR
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, With the About Screen Contest for 0.47 underway, one of the easiest things we all can do to help is to spread the word via social networking means. Whether it be blogging, tweeting (or RTs), posting on forums, you name it... the more of us that talk about, the more attention it will get. This contest PR effort could prove to be a good test of some of the needed PR mechanisms to make the announcement of 0.47 (when it is released) as loud, far reaching, and relevant as possible. So, again... the announcement which needs to be shown love (digg style button, yes it requires registration like digg) is here: http://news.deviantart.com/article/79268/ The more people that show the article love, the more people it will end up attracting the attention of on DA (which is important since it is the largest online art community/potential userbase). Want to help get us new users? This alone is one of the most effective methods. Note, even if you're not interested in signing up at DA to show love, you should still spread the word. :) Cheers, Josh P.S. Yes, I will put out a similar call to action when we're looking to do the PR push for the 0.47 release. Consider this our test run. :)

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Special Bug Hunt Spree this weekend (May 9-10)!
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, As mentioned in the proposed release schedule, this weekend, May 9-10 we will have a special effort to squash as many bugs as possible in a 48 hour period. If you can make time to participate it would be greatly appreciated by all. Even if you aren't a programmer, you can help to confirm that bugs are indeed fixed by others. Dates: May 9-10 Place: #inkscape on Freenode (or Jabber for the cool kids ;)) Goal: Fix at least a quarter of our goal of 500pts (125pts in 2 days). Reward: Being part of making 0.47 our best and most stable release ever. Be there or be square! Cheers, Josh

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Inkscapers traveling to LGM
by Jon A. Cruz 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi, Do we have any Inkscape people traveling to LGM other than myself? For travel reimbursement they would like us to get them a list of people ASAP so they can address things, and want a single contact person to list things for them.

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0.47 App Icon Proposal
by Jakub Steiner 04 May '09

04 May '09

I'd like to propose to ship v0.47 with a refreshed application icon. The proposed icon [1] includes special versions for low resolutions guaranteeing a sharp rendition and recognizability. Scaling down or rendering a high detail SVG into a small canvas ends up blurry and unreadable [2]. The icon feels close to being native on all the major platforms. The added high detail icon will make the Mac OS X builds feel less alien on that platform too. cheers [1] http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/24178/inkscape-app-icon-proposal.zip [2] http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_v… -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...400...> http://jimmac.musichall.cz

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DeviantART & Wacom Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hey All, One of the last major contests held on DA was won by an Inkscape user. There is something to be said for both people's creativity and their tools of choice. :) So, if you'd like a chance to win a brand new Wacom Intuos4, money, some proprietary software that you can throw in the waste bin ;), and all that fun stuff, check out: http://news.deviantart.com/article/76573/ And yes... my recommendation is to use Inkscape. Cheers, Josh

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Time for Frost
by Josh Andler 03 May '09

03 May '09

Hey all, Please don't forget that the frost phase is beginning today according to the proposed schedule. Any issues with this need to be raised immediately. Otherwise, excpect the bug hunt and about screen announecements tomorrow. :-) Cheers, Josh

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Snapshots not updating
by Render 02 May '09

02 May '09

I noticed that the snapshots located http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=99112 indicate that the windows dev version is 21259, but when you open up the development version it indicates rev 21210 from Apr24. Just thought I would let you know

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save as convert text to path loses content
by Jeremy C. Reed 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Using inkscape 21256 from yesterday's snapshot. Doing a save as to save as PDF and selecting convert text to path makes me lose my content. Only part is rendered in the resulting PDF. I see this in multiple SVG projects. If I don't check that, the resulting file appears to be a bitmap. Now I realize that in that case the fonts where I added an outline using object Stroke are the ones that don't look good. The others look fine and pdffonts show me those are embedded. (That success is only without using convert text to path.) I found: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/295138 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/284680 Inkscape has warnings: (inkscape:19722): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to find default local directory monitor type (inkscape:19722): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_grab_default: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_CAN_DEFAULT (widget)' failed ** (inkscape:19722): WARNING **: Ignoring font without family that will crash Pango Maybe they are related. It would be nice if above WARNING would say what font has the "without family" problem. Any ideas for this? As a workaround I may reopen in old 0.46 and save as PDF there. (I am using later development code due to can't change fill color in 0.46 version.)

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Tr : Re : rendering quality for filter etc.
by Ivan Louette 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

I tried the three filters versions on Batik and they render and export correctly. ivan ----- Message transféré ---- De : Ivan Louette <ivan_louette@...48...> À : the Adib <theadib@...1439...>; inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel@...838...ourceforge.net> Envoyé le : Mercredi, 29 Avril 2009, 19h14mn 56s Objet : [Inkscape-devel] Re : rendering quality for filter etc. Perhaps linked to the problem I have with my latest filter which is intended to draw dark or black edges on pictures. It renders well in Inkscape, Opera and Firefox, but export to png is bad and never gives correctly the dark lines. I join you a file with three filters samples to apply to the embedded pictures. ivan ________________________________ De : the Adib <theadib@...1439...> À : inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Envoyé le : Mercredi, 29 Avril 2009, 1h53mn 25s Objet : [Inkscape-devel] rendering quality for filter etc. There is this issue 322116 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322116 "PDF export does not use the highest quality for rasterized filters" The reason for this issue is that each nr_arena_item checks the preferences for the filter quality even for off screen rendering. This is wrong behaviour. During png export there is a sequence like this save, set ... rendering ... restore. This changes for a short moment the preferences. This is also not good style. (remember a background task renderin to png - in future) I developed a patch that is attached to the issue in launchpad. Attached patch puts render quality properties to nr_arena. You can do now "nr_arena_set_renderoffscreen(arena)" for an offscreen arena in order to get highest accuracy. please review! Adib. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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rendering quality for filter etc.
by the Adib 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

There is this issue 322116 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322116 "PDF export does not use the highest quality for rasterized filters" The reason for this issue is that each nr_arena_item checks the preferences for the filter quality even for off screen rendering. This is wrong behaviour. During png export there is a sequence like this save, set ... rendering ... restore. This changes for a short moment the preferences. This is also not good style. (remember a background task renderin to png - in future) I developed a patch that is attached to the issue in launchpad. Attached patch puts render quality properties to nr_arena. You can do now "nr_arena_set_renderoffscreen(arena)" for an offscreen arena in order to get highest accuracy. please review! Adib.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] geometry constructions tool/lpe (plus three questions)
by Maximilian Albert 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi all, > Do we have a decision whether we ship 0.47 with GC tools enabled? I'd vote for leaving them out. Although it may look like the geometriy tool is just a step from being finished and perhaps it's already of use for some people, some important things still need to be added before it is truly usable. These involve coding on a fundamental level as well as some careful design decisions, and it is likely that this will entail (considerable?) changes in some of the GC LPEs, too. IMHO it would be advisable to not make these in a rush while releasing 0.47. In this context, I'd once again like to sincerely apologize that my work is still unfinished. Unfortunately, due to sad personal circumstances related to my family it is likely that I won't be able to participate in Inkscape development anytime soon (I can't predict yet how long that may be, I'm afraid), and this post is just a rare occasion since by coincidence I caught a glimpse of Alexandre's question. I will join you again as soon as I can manage, promise! Perhaps I'll be able to do an occasional bug fix during the release process (although frankly speaking I doubt it). While I'm at it, here is one question and two random comments that occurred to me recently: 1) I seem to recall that there is an online tutorial on scientific poster creation with Inkscape. Does someone happen to have a link at hand? 2) The default value of the "Smoothing factor" in the pencil tool is 4, but this often produces paths with a huge number of nodes. Wouldn't something like 25 or 30 make more sense? BTW, does the number of nodes depend on how quickly the line is drawn? 3) After a fresh installation all lines drawn with the pen/pencil tools have no stroke but are filled, which is very unnatural for freehand lines. On the other hand, the defaults in preferences-skeleton.h are set the other way round. Are these settings discarded, and why? Best regards and good luck for the release of an awesome 0.47! Max

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spray tool in next release ?
by Cédric Gémy 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

lo i'm guessing if it would be possible to plan an integration of the spray tool, soon. It usable now, and last fixes will be done in the next 2 weeks, which is inkscape planning too. If you want to try and give your opinion : http://svn.eclair.ec-lyon.fr/svn/pi2010_inkscape pygmee

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Spray tool almost complete
by Pierre-Antoine MARC 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi there, Spray tool is almost complete and you can download it on svn.eclair.ec-lyon.fr/svn/pi2010_inkscape. We had some difficulties to merge it with the official trunk recently, so it is not up to date (it's a version from 2 weeks ago). If someone knows how to fix this... The single path mode may only work if you convert the object to a path... Otherwise, everything works fine. Give it a try and tell us what you think! Pierre-Antoine

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geometry constructions tool/lpe
by Alexandre Prokoudine 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi, Do we have a decision whether we ship 0.47 with GC tools enabled? On related matter, do we know which LPEs will be shipped in 0.47? Alexandre

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Tablet stopped work in Dev builds
by microUgly 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

I just downloaded the Oct 24 Windows build and found that my tablet isn't working properly with it. I can move the cursor with tablet pen, but when I press on the tablet nothing draws. I tried toggling the "Use pressure" button. My tablet still works fine in 0.46 and was working in an earlier build I was using last night (I don't think it was more than a week or two old). Let me know if you require a bug logged for this. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tablet-stopped-work-in-Dev-builds-tp20171213p20171213… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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NEW extension to import external
by Cédric GEMY 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

I've posted today a new extension that allows to import SVG file as svg:image and not as incorporated objects. http://www.creationlibre.org/wp-content/downloads/LinkFile.tar.gz Description is available on main webpage : http://www.creationlibre.org cheers pygmee

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Blur and opacity slow
by Gero Mudersbach 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Jasper van de Gronde wrote: > I just drew a rectangle and a circle, applied two different blurs and > did some zooming. Only when zooming in considerably did Inkscape become > somewhat slow for my tastes. So obviously at least one of the following > is the case: > - I use a faster machine (Core 2 Duo at 1.33Ghz) > - My standards for judging Inkscape's speed are different > - I use Inkscape for considerably less complex drawings (obviously the > example above was overly simple, but I have also done some more complex > things with blur without having much of a problem with Inkscape's speed) Ok, I will prepare a testcase and attach it to a bugreport. It's true that the machines I am using are not very fast (for portability and environmental reasons :) ). The machine I used while this issue hit me last was an Intel Pentium M processor, 1.70GHz with 1 GB of ram (so, only one core). I also noticed Inkscape becomes slow when using some type 1 fonts, but that's another issue for which I'll prepare a testcase, too. Best Gero

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Fwd: [CREATE] LGM 2009 — Budget and Accommodation — URGENT REQUEST
by Jon Phillips 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Sorry for forward. I need updated numbers from all three projects, namely: 1.) NAME OF PERSON ATTENDING 2.) ESTIMATED COST FOR TRAVEL Then, at the event we will sort out more details about reimbursement. If you want reimbursement, please get me this in the next 24 hours. Inkscapers, is there someone handling this? Dave/OFLB, you put this together before right? Jon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins@...400...> Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:25 PM Subject: [CREATE] LGM 2009 — Budget and Accommodation — URGENT REQUEST To: Create ML <create@...626...> To all LGM teams, including LGM people who maybe not member of a team "officially" but who do contribute to LGM's projects, putting oil in the bearings and who qualify for a reimbursement of their travel expanses by the LGM org. Action 1) Please forward asap (now) the estimated cost for travelling to Montreal for each member of your team who is going to attend. This can be done through a google.doc one contact person from each team can then share with me. Hurry up, please. :-) Action 2) Please try to evaluate with a reasonable degree of accuracy how many rooms you're going to need at the student residence. This is also urgent. Reasons for asking: 1) We need to establish the budget with more accuracy than a wild guess. The efforts of quite a few people will then be needed to pump the money in... So we better know the real needs quick. 2) This year, the authorities at the uni residence are ready to give us the same price as 2 years ago, for the same services, which is great, I think. But they ask for a security deposit based on the number of rooms we're going to actually take. I can cope with the deposit but I cannot cope with a loss. So, the closer we are to the reality, the better. For the record, in 2007 I reserved 50 rooms and we ended up renting 47, which was great. If we can be as close to the estimates this year as we were in 2007, we won't lose the deposit. But if we reserve 50 and we rent 30 rooms in the end, we're in for a few hundred bucks of loss which I don't want to spend so stupidly. They are not asking for the moon but their rules have been tightened and it's a reality we have to accept. So please, act now! Cheers! Louis -- Louis Desjardins Organisateur principal / Main organiser Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 - Montréal www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009 +1 514 934 1353 HAE / EDT GMT -5 _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@...626... http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86 132-6817-8381 (china) Sent from Beijing, 11, China

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fork of gdl in inkscape
by Aurélio A. Heckert 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

We can't correct this to the 0.47, but is important to know about and try a better way to the next version: http://blogs.gnome.org/johannes/2009/04/25/please-dont-fork-and-esspecially… -- 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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Blur and opacity slow
by Gero Mudersbach 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Dear Inkscape developers, first of all I wish to thank you for your great work, Inkscape is extremely useful! One thing I noticed is that using blur and sometimes opacity makes Inkscape behave slow. It's not only when moving / scaling objects that have blur or opacity values applied but also the whole document editing seems to be slower then. It would be great if these features could be optimized in one of the next versions. Please let me know if I should file a bug report on this request. Best Gero Mudersbach

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Out of Memory Crash
by Craig Leat 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Craig Leat wrote: > I'm new here, just compiled r21187 on Ubuntu. I'm getting an "Out of > Memory!" error when importing an A2 pdf with a large bitmap. I hope to > check it's not something funny with my build before reporting a bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/367779

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Tango Icons Ready
by jf barraud 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi, I only know the "wrong" way to enable experimental lpes: uncomment the line #define LPE_ENABLE_TEST_EFFECTS in src/live_effects/effect.cpp. The right way is via some switch in some config file but I'm not sure. Under windows, I think it's a matter of changing one line in build.xml... *BUT* These effects are in fact experiemental: only use them for testing/debugging/commenting. An experimental lpe will almost surely undergo deep modifications before it becomes non experimental. Either the very definition of its parameters or the way it is rendered might be affected, and in both cases all art work based on it will be lost! So use carfully. (and of course, if you enabled experimental lpes in the "wrong" way, don't forget not to commit this change to svn!) Some lpes are in good shape however. What is needed to enable them is a good collection of tests cases... So if your favorite lpe is still hidden, consider supplying a test file for it. jfb.

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0.47 splash contest?
by Alexandre Prokoudine 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi, It seems that there is a general agreement that we are moving to .47 release phase. Should we start thinking about a splash contest then? With winning image going to 0.47 and 2nd place -- to .48/SVN like the last time? Alexandre

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Problem noticed with preferences
by Jon A. Cruz 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

In working on some code debugging, I noticed that the preferences were not loaded as the program was first using them. Among other immediate issues this had blocked some debug toggle code from ever being invoked. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/367752 As the program starts, preferences are just set to the defaults but not loaded. Then part-way through startup they *do* get loaded. So among other things bits of code might be initialized one way and used another. It would be very helpful if anyone who is looking into a bug might check to see if this is complicating the issue they are working on. If so, then there might be a few cascaded bugs we can reproduce now and then close as soon as the prefs initialization is fixed.

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Change in marker rendering
by Jasper van de Gronde 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

For some reason the marker test in SVN is now rendered differently. It seems to be neither a regression nor an improvement (where it is different from the previous rendering both renderings are in error), but given that we're working towards a release I thought I'd mention it in case it was changed accidentally. Both the test file and the references are in SVN (specifically, it's the basic/markers.svg test): https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/gsoc-testsuite The current rendering test results: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html (The result is still listed as new. I've updated the references, but not rerun the tests.)

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Compile error on XP
by Preben Soeberg 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Got this compiling svn 21229 on XP: Make error line 291: problem compiling: src/ui/widget/dock-item.cpp: In constructor 'Inkscape::UI::Widget::DockItem::DockItem(Inkscape::UI::Widget::Dock&, const Glib::ustring&, const Glib::u string&, const Glib::ustring&, Inkscape::UI::Widget::DockItem::State)': src/ui/widget/dock-item.cpp:47: error: no matching function for call to 'Gtk::IconTheme::load_icon(const Glib::ustring&, int&)' c:/devlibs/include/gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm/icontheme.h:336: note: candidates are: Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Pixbuf> Gtk::IconTheme::load_icon(const Glib::ustring&, int, Gtk::IconLookupFlags) const

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Showcase call
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Hi, Our Showcase section at inkscape.org [1] is aging. I did update it quite a bit today, but surely we can do better than that :) So this is an official call to submit the best of your work, used in commercial work at preference. Please forward this to the users list. [1] http://inkscape.org/showcase/index.php?lang=en&css=css/base.css Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tooltips in 0.47
by John & Melonie Curwood 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Thanks for your Advice Diederik and Alexandre, with regards, to the tools tips, I think once you are proficient with using Inkscape, you won't notice the contents of the tools tips as you know what each Icon stands for. When you are a novice and are just learning Inkscape, (Which I was not so long ago you are constantly reading the tooltips to make sure you are using the right tool and at the same time noticing the keyboard shortcut, and after a few times using a particular tool, you start to remember the shortcut and then start using it, which helps you to become more proficient with Inkscape. Cheers, John

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SVG Filter Effects and Raster filters
by Ivan Louette 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Is there any plan to make Raster filters non destructive ? Or perhaps a more long term proposal for SVG people : adding "Raster filter" (or matrix filter) as a primitive in SVG Filters. ivan

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Inkscape recommended by wacom.ru
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hey, I was just pointed to http://wacom.ru/art_list.html (official local Wacom web-site) which lists Inkscape among recommended applications (along with GIMP) and says: "A very efficient vector illustration package. A symbiosis of Corel DRAW and Adobe® Illustrator. Excellent support for pen pressure sensitivity, is rare in the vector world of illustrations, which makes Inkscape a powerful tool for those who does serious calligraphy work.". Alexandre

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more 0.47 planning :)
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi, It seems to me that what we are missing is a screenshots call :) Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Nightly/Testing Builds
by Aaron Spike 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Elwin Estle wrote: > How involved is the Linux process? I am familiar with basic > ./configure, make, make install...but that's about it (I am guessing > this is a bit more complex process?) I think one time I might have > done something from an SVN tree...can't remember what it was or if > the process even worked. I have an AMD Athlon machine running > Slackware 12.2, also a Mac Mini with Leopard. While we have traditionally favored autopackage because it allowed the work put into making a single package to serve users of many different linux distros, I don't think it is a bad idea to make distro specific packages at this point. Slackware has always been a distro on which using the autopackage and even just building inkscape have been difficult for people. I'm not sure why as I've never used slackware. Anything you can do to better the situation for slackware users will be much appreciated. What other distros should we look for packagers for? I believe Ubuntu is already covered by the PPA someone set up. Does fedora have any sort of continuous building system we could make use of? Do other people think contacting the normal distro packagers for platform specific help is appropriate? Making autopackages is no harder than a typical configure, make process. There are different commands to call, that's all. Now setting up the dependencies and the build configuration is a slightly different story. Autopackaging is complicated by the fact that a single package can serve both the old and current c++ ABI and now even both x86 and x86_64 architectures. Building autopackages requires a willingness to learn about linking and check that libraries are linked properly so as to cause as little trouble as possible. There are also a few places in the codebase where we could use relaytool to make libraries optional at runtime. I think we will require a little bit of help from the autopackage project if we are going to get this service up and running again. Aaron Spike

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Nightly/Testing Builds
by Joshua A. Andler 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hey All, We seem to be in a bad place with our nightly builds. It would be excellent if we could have a few volunteers step up to produce nightlies (or at least builds from every few days). Anyone who can (or would like to) produce builds for Windows, Linux, and OSX would be making a great contribution to keeping us on track to release 0.47 in the near future. If you are interested, please speak up and we will do what we can to get you producing builds ASAP. For the record, this is how bad the situation is: Win32 - April 18th OSX - March 3rd Linux - nothing from this year (Autopackages are over a year old) So again, if lending some CPU cycles and a little time is all you can do, it is still a LOT for the community. Cheers, Josh

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Mitigating color-interpolation-filters problems
by Jasper van de Gronde 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

According to the SVG spec filters can be rendered in either the sRGB or the linearRGB color space, the same goes for gradients and alpha compositing). The latter is controlled by the color-interpolation attribute, the former by the color-interpolation-filters attribute. Inkscape does not handle either of these. Unfortunately the default for color-interpolation is sRGB, while the default for color-interpolation-filters is linearRGB... This means that Inkscape's rendering of pretty much any filter is incorrect (how severe this is depends on the filter). And perhaps more importantly, it differs from how other renderers behave. I don't think it's a good idea at this time to truely "solve" this problem. But perhaps we could make sure that new filters created by Inkscape automatically have their color-interpolation-filters attribute set to sRGB? (I have no idea how to do that, so any help is appreciated.) For reference, I created the following bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/365073

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Call for volunteers (non-programming stuff!)
by Joshua A. Andler 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hey All, Volunteers needed! Do you want to contribute to Inkscape but don't program? We can still use your help! We need volunteers for the following tasks: Testing SVN/Nightly Build (windows and osx especially) Reviewing and triaging Bug Reports Updating Tutorials & Documentation Reviewing Release Notes for accuracy/completion Writing PR/Announcements for our upcoming release Those are needs we always really have, but, we can always use an extra hand in the lead-up to release. Right now, if we could have a lot of attention put on our bug tracker for confirming bugs, figuring out what has been fixed, tagging things, and just getting it in better shape for the bug hunt, it will make a world of difference to the people trying to fix things. If anyone is interested in participating, please feel free to reply, hop on irc/jabber to discuss, or just jump right to it. :) If you need any information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Cheers, Josh

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sketch lpe
by jf barraud 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hi all, I've unhidden the sketch lpe. I decided to remove the "construction line" feature in this effect (it used to place the tangent lines randomly along the input path). My feeling was that the placement should either be tuned by hand, or guessed from curvature extrema or something... Anyway, I felt it was not good enough as is, and would eventually be worth a separate effect (the issue with independant effect is that you need to apply 2 effects on the *same* source path, which is not possible atm --- but no doubt this will come sooner or later! ;-) Anyone having an opinion about this feature or it's eventual splitting in a separate effect? By the way, my dream is that we could import or mimic Blender's 'node' system into inkscape: the effect editor would be a window within which each effect would be a little box with input and output slots (+ input fields + an eventual small window to show the result of the effect), and you would be free to connect ones with others, defining not only a pipeline, but a full graph with parallel ways, etc... You generally end up with a nice plate of noodles, but it's very powerfull. Notice the same thing could be used for both lpe and filters effects. Cheers, jfb.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] add fake transpareny without real transparency
by Jasper van de Gronde 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Rob Antonishen wrote: > The example you provided was quite trivial :) > > Attached is your example with heavy strokes added. > > You can see that simple shape operations can't capture the individual objects. > > The shapes need to have their strokes converted to paths, and then a > bunch of messy operations have to be done. I tried by hand and > stopped after wasting 15 minutes. The process it do-able but I am not > sure what the algorithm is. Just convert everything to paths and do: 1. Take the bottom-most path that has not been processed yet and compute both differences and the intersection with all processed paths. 2. Determine the opaque fill for all three pieces. 3. Go to 1. Step 1 is "just" some bool ops (making sure no empty paths are created if you want to be fancy). Step 2 is trivial if everything uses solid colors. If gradients are involved it becomes a bit more complex, but either it's a simple matter of some algebra or it is not possible to express the result with a new gradient and you'd still have to fall back to a bitmap.

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Win32 snapshots on Modevia broken?
by worms invasion 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

Hello, For about 2 weeks now, the size of the Windows builds on Modevia is 38Mb, while the size was 44Mb before. I haven't tried to download/install them, because I think they are probably incomplete? Anyone has information about this? Thanks in advance.

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Out of Memory Crash
by Craig Leat 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hi I'm new here, just compiled r21187 on Ubuntu. I'm getting an "Out of Memory!" error when importing an A2 pdf with a large bitmap. I hope to check it's not something funny with my build before reporting a bug. The pdf file is 112Mb in size. Evince on Ubuntu opens the pdf well, but Abode Reader on Windows struggles. Inkscape shows a preview in the PDF Import Settings, but crashes while doing the actual import. A back trace is attached. I watched the free memory while the import was in progress and noted: With Inkscape running - 1195Mb free RAM PDF Import Settings with preview displayed - 1098Mb free RAM Import proceeds and free RAM drops to 48Mb before spilling to swop. 835Mb of swop is used before the app crashes. Total memory usage in RAM and swop before crashing = 1982Mb. Nearly 2Gb of memory is used to import a 112Mb PDF. Seems to me something is wrong. Any ideas if it's my build at fault? Thanks Craig Ps Imports of smaller PDFs (A4) work well. Back Trace: ** (inkscape:6476): WARNING **: GC Warning: Header allocation failed: Dropping block. ** (inkscape:6476): WARNING **: GC Warning: Out of Memory! Returning NIL! terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread -1241733408 (LWP 6476)] 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb63b2875 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb63b4201 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0xb65d66e0 in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #4 0xb65d3f65 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #5 0xb65d3fa2 in std::terminate () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 #6 0xb65d40ca in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 warning: (Internal error: pc 0x834b37d in read in psymtab, but not in symtab.) #7 0x0834b37e in MutableList (this=warning: (Internal error: pc 0x834b37d in read in psymtab, but not in symtab.) 0xbfc8ea64, value=@0xbfc8ea4c, next=warning: (Internal error: pc 0x834b37d in read in psymtab, but not in symtab.) @0xbfc8ea68) at ./gc-core.h:160 warning: (Internal error: pc 0x834b37d in read in psymtab, but not in symtab.) #8 0x0834af44 in Inkscape::XML::SimpleNode::setAttribute (this=0xa52fc180, name=0x91741d0 "font-weight", value=0xa52b7bd8 "normal") at xml/simple-node.cpp:335 #9 0x083486ce in Inkscape::XML::SimpleNode::mergeFrom (this=0xa52fc180, src=0xa52fc274, key=0x86f4884 "") at xml/simple-node.cpp:614 #10 0x0833f8e6 in sp_repr_css_merge (dst=0xa52fc1f0, src=0xa52fc274) at xml/repr-css.cpp:221 #11 0x0857a307 in Inkscape::Extension::Internal::SvgBuilder::addChar ( this=0xa4d71c8, state=0xb30a59f0, x=-20.234300000000001, y=105.75, dx=52.372999999999998, dy=0, originX=0, originY=0, code=1, nBytes=2, u=0xbfc8ec38, uLen=1) at extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.cpp:1375 #12 0x0857bb1e in PdfParser::doShowText (this=0xa27d800, s=0xb30a5760) at extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.cpp:2337 #13 0x0857e172 in PdfParser::go (this=0xa27d800, topLevel=1) at extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.cpp:409 #14 0x0857e5a5 in PdfParser::parse (this=0xa27d800, obj=0xbfc8ef0c, topLevel=1) at extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.cpp:381 #15 0x08212ea8 in Inkscape::Extension::Internal::PdfInput::open ( this=0x89c5680, uri=0xaadee3c "/home/craig/MyShares/ws4MyDocs/Projects Craig/DC22 500/Printing/A2 Test map.pdf") at extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-input.cpp:726 #16 0x081f5471 in Inkscape::Extension::Input::open (this=0x89c5818, uri=0xaadee3c "/home/craig/MyShares/ws4MyDocs/Projects Craig/DC22 500/Printing/A2 Test map.pdf") at extension/input.cpp:159 #17 0x081f48d7 in Inkscape::Extension::open (key=0x0, filename=0xaadee3c "/home/craig/MyShares/ws4MyDocs/Projects Craig/DC22 500/Printing/A2 Test map.pdf") at extension/system.cpp:94 #18 0x08096f61 in file_import (in_doc=0x8dfbf60, uri=@0xbfc8f0b4, key=0x0) at file.cpp:920 #19 0x08097839 in sp_file_import (parentWindow=@0x9b51f20) at file.cpp:1087 #20 0x0823791d in sp_action_perform (action=0x8e02dc8, data=0x0) at helper/action.cpp:181 #21 0xb745e864 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #22 0xb7451163 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #23 0xb746530f in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #24 0x098efc48 in ?? () #25 0x00000000 in ?? ()

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