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using inkscape -> plotters in windows...
by stuart 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Hi... First, how do you people do this? Window drivers are a nightmare! For instance, where do they start and where do applications end? People are talking about HPGL, SVG ... I just when round and round w/the Graphtec drivers for their C200-20 and C100-20 plotters. I am convinced they not only control the plotters but also translate depending on the application. That is, I have been told, that printing from Word using the graphics found in the Word's WordArt feature can actually cut on a Graphtec Craftrobo. How would this be possible unless the driver were also translating the output of the Word application. Guess I'm really asking, in windows, using inkscape, is the accepted "go-between" format between application and drivers PostScript? So, if anyone dares to write a windows driver, they can at least count on that much? Also, I understand that the "pipe the output feature" of inkscape was recently broken (during a revamping). Is that true? Has it been fixed? ...thanks

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"SVG files are not W3C valid"
by Alexandre Prokoudine 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Hi, Could somebody please give a shot to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313122 ? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CMake status
by Henning Meyer 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

I'm new to the list. But I'd like to see a cmake-build solution. It's more flexible and easier to maintain on multiple platforms. Also it would be easier for me to integrate additional libraries for testing-purposes ;-) > The problem we had with cmake was that it puts obj files in some special dir that is long, and then creates a commandline like: > g++ verylongpathlisting/blah.o possiblyevenlongerpathname/blah2.o ... > such that the cmdline is too long to work with windows/g++ > I don't know your MinGW environment, but this problem is known and seems to be solved here: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.make-execvp

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CMake status
by Krzysztof Kosiński 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

This was raised in another thread, but I think this issue is fairly important - what is the status of CMake? Having three parallel build systems (homebrew buildtool, autotools and CMake) is at least awkward. I understand that migrating to CMake would allow us to remove the Windows build system. On the other hand, figuring out how to compile Inkscape on Windows using MinGW and MSYS would do the same. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CMake-status-tp21209331p21209331.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Inkscape in the press: downloads of the year, the 30 best free programs
by the Adib 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

All, there is this link to the german c't computer magazine, titeld as above http://www.heise.de/software/download/special/downloads_des_jahres/50_1 Happy new year, Adib. ---

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2Geom Progress
by Joshua L. Blocher 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

I'm going to take a random stab in the air and say we are about 70-75% complete with the Conversion to 2Geom. Things that still need done: - NRRect/NR::Rect need converting to Geom::Rect or Geom::OptRect - Filter needs to be moved out of the NR namespace maybe namespace Inkscape{ namespace Filter{ }} - sp-gradient.cpp & sp-pattern.cpp have deeper than normal libnr connection functionality will have to be moved out of NR or replaced - Include 2geom files instead of libnr files, simple replace and see if it compiles - Integer versions of Rect , Coord , etc Please see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CheatSheetForConvertingto2geom for a general guide for converting. If you have problems or questions please feel free to ask on here or in the channels on Jabber or IRC. Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow

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does not load/create preferences in linux
by the Adib 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Hello all, I am trying to extend the preferences by an /i18n/language entry in order to switch the user-interface language by inkscape preference settings. But using the svn devel it does not load /save the user default preferences in the /home/user/.inkscape directory .!? When I delete the .inkscape directory I expect that inkscape recreate the whole structure from scratch. But this is not the case. The version 0.46 does so. Any thoughts ? Adib. ---

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How can I get a text bounding box in a python script?
by Bernd D. 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hello, I try to write a python script that help drawing diagrams (i.e. syntax diagrams). A node in this typ of diagram, is a rectangle with rounded edges and a centered text caption in it. In the script, I need the bounding box of the text, for the calculation of the correct node rectangle size, to hold the whole text in it. But how can I get the bounding box? Is there somebody that can point me to a solution? Best regards, Bernd

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SVG Fonts and PDF import
by Krzysztof Kosiński 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

I understand that there's now some support for SVG Fonts thanks to Felipe Sanches' GSoC project. I would be great if the people responsible for the PDF import plugin added support for PDFs with embedded fonts (i.e. different than those installed in the system). This way I could open LaTeX documents in Inkscape without text breakage. Also of use would be an export option that embeds all fonts in the SVG (with a checkbox specifying whether to embed entire fonts or the subsets used in the document), so that fancy text could remain editable in portable documents. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SVG-Fonts-and-PDF-import-tp21209580p21209580.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Crash in console mode resulting from rev. 20388
by Jasper van de Gronde 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Inkscape suddenly crashes for me when using the command line export functionality (in some cases at least). It seems to crash in SPDesktop::doc2dt, probably due to a null-pointer dereference. This function is called from sp_item_i2d_affine now, since rev. 20388. And this was also one of the few revisions since I last updated, so it could very well have to do with this revision. My guess is that there simply isn't any instance of SPDesktop when Inkscape is used as a command line executable. So possibly the error isn't in sp_item_i2d_affine as such, but rather in the fact that it is being called at all. If anyone with a bit more understanding of this area of the code could have a look that would be great.

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NEW: Converting text to path produces a group
by bulia byak 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Converting a text or flowed text to path (Ctrl+Shift+C) now produces a group of paths, one path for each glyph of text, instead of a single monolithic path as before. Apart from easier manipulation, an additional advantage is that if your text contained styled spans (i.e. fragments with different color, opacity, or other properties), these styles will be preserved by the corresponding glyph paths after converting to paths. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Grid snapping do not work anymore
by Yann Papouin 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

Hi, In rev 20168, grid snapping was working correctly, because when I was drawing a new polygon, new points where added at lines intersections of a axonometric or a rectangular grid. But it is not working anymore in rev 20383 (maybe corrupted in previous revisions) the snapping only occured on grid lines, not points. Maybe an option should be added in the "Snap to grid" section of the Snap tab with two checkboxes: - Snap to grid lines - Snap to grid points And when the two are checked the snapping power of grid points should be increase.

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Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
by Josh Andler 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Hey Everyone, As 2008 comes to a close I wanted to wish a happy holiday season to all and to wish everyone a very happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous new year! A big "THANK YOU!" goes out to to all contributors... whether developers, translators, testers, users, or even just advocates or constructive critics, Inkscape would not be where it is today without everything that you all have given. Thanks again and I can't wait to see what 2009 has in store for us all! Cheers! Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Linux Build broken?
by Henning Meyer 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

My fault - I used graphics-magick-compat-dev instead of image-magick-dev. It works now. Another question: What about cmake? It does not seem to work. Is there no support for cmake as of now? Henning Cory K. schrieb: > Henning Meyer wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to experiment with the tracing, but unfortunatly I cannot >> even build inkscape from SVN/Trunk. >> >> This is the error I get: >> >> extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp &&\ >> mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po >> extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp: In member function »virtual void >> Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::Level::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)«: >> extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp:23: Fehler: »class Magick::Image« >> hat kein Element namens »level« >> make[2]: *** [extension/internal/bitmap/level.o] Fehler 1 >> make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis >> '/home/hmeyer/devel/inkscape/trunk/inkscape/src' >> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 >> make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/hmeyer/devel/inkscape/trunk/inkscape' >> make: *** [all] Fehler 2 >> >> For more details look at: >> http://drop.io/5y9sjps/media >> >> The same happens with SVN/Release_0_46_0. >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> Thanks for your help, >> >> Henning >> > > Odd. As of *right now* trunk pulls and builds fine for me. Maybe pull a > fresh copy? > > -Cory K. >

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Component transfer W3C SVG test suite reference wrong as well?
by Jasper van de Gronde 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

I had a good look at the filters-comptrans-01-b test, and it appears that the W3C's reference image is wrong for this test as well (earlier I found the same for their Gaussian blur reference image). I have no idea what the problem is and whether or not the reference is indeed wrong or that it is some weird color space issue or something, but for the moment I'm assuming that Inkscape's output is right. I again filed an issue in the W3C issue tracker.

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[Slightly OT] might be of interest...
by john cliff 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/22/AR200812220… Not sure I've seen any other coverage quite this mainstream... thought it might be of interest to some of you. Cheers John

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Linux Build broken?
by Henning Meyer 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hello, I'm trying to experiment with the tracing, but unfortunatly I cannot even build inkscape from SVN/Trunk. This is the error I get: extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp: In member function »virtual void Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::Level::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)«: extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp:23: Fehler: »class Magick::Image« hat kein Element namens »level« make[2]: *** [extension/internal/bitmap/level.o] Fehler 1 make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/hmeyer/devel/inkscape/trunk/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/hmeyer/devel/inkscape/trunk/inkscape' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 For more details look at: http://drop.io/5y9sjps/media The same happens with SVN/Release_0_46_0. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help, Henning

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"Shape" suggestion: draw simple path when there's nothing on the clipboard
by Valerie 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Right now, when you have Shape: Clipboard enabled, but nothing on the Clipboard, then you literally draw a blank. It can be very confusing upon start-up, especially since the warning message isn't in a very visible position. Users are bound to get confused if they're unfamiliar with the Shape feature, I thought there was something wrong with my development build at fist. Here's a rather simple solution: when there's nothing on the Clipboard, then have a default where the resulting path is a normal path with no shape applied. Problem solved. The warning message (Nothing on the Clipboard) can still be displayed.

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rendering performance regression
by Thomas Holder 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

I see a significant regression in rendering speed for some days now. I have build backups from Nov 07 and Dec 08, when I open the same file, the newer build needs approximately 4 times more time to display the file, zoom, scroll etc. than the older build. This makes editing of large files almost impossible. Operations like selecting or moving items on canvas likewise behave very slow. What could be the reason for this? Any ideas? Thomas

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Gradients disappearing
by Jasper van de Gronde 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Running the rendering tests again this week I encountered a regression in the rendering of filters-comptran-01-b (from W3C SVG test suite). This test contains four rectangles with the same gradient, one without any filter and three with three different component transfer filters. Last week the four rectangles in the filters-comptran-01 test were still rendered with the wrong colours, but they were rendered. This week two of them are not rendered anymore... As far as I can tell the component transfer code wasn't touched during that time though, so I have absolutely no idea why this suddenly happens. Now the question is, should a bug be reported? And if so, what is this the actual bug? As far as I can tell feComponentTransfer isn't supposed to work anyway, so filing a bug seems a bit pointless at this point. However, as it doesn't appear to be related to a change to the component transfer filter it might actually be an unrelated bug in disguise. So, any ideas on what could be causing this?

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Picking a shape when Alpha=0%
by Yann Papouin 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi, I have a question about picking. Actually it's not possible to pick a shape when it's alpha value is 0. It is a design choice, a bug or implementation limitation? Have a good day!

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Sudden surge of regressions/changes in (filter) rendering
by Jasper van de Gronde 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

I just ran the rendering tests again, and compared to last week there were suddenly 16(!) new results. I've had a quick look at some of them and they all seem to be regressions related to filter rendering (affecting quite a lot of different filters). Could anyone who has touched the general filtering code in the last week please recheck their work? (I'm currently swamped with work, so I have no time to go after this myself.)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Changing the gtk2 theme for a self-built OSX nightly
by jiho 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi, Sorry I did not answer earlier. On 2008-December-01 , at 23:05 , André Berg wrote: > I compiled and uploaded numpy and lxml for Python 2.6 (i386) so that > you guys can include them into the PythonModules.dmg on Modevia. > Here's the link where you can download if you like: > > http://www.sendspace.com/file/plht64 Thanks, that will be useful. I will update the .dmg on Modevia ASAP (which might not be before a while though). > I also gave the build-system (mostly osx-app.sh) a few fair runs > trying out the site-packages dir inside the Inkscape.app bundle. > The inclusion of Arch and Python Version within site-packages made > it somehwat difficult to get it working out-of-the-box with that > build script. > I have three Python distributions installed: > > 1. Leopard Default > 2. MacPorts 2.5.x, 2.4, 2.6. (2.5.x being the active one with > MacPorts) > 3. MacPython 2.6 (being the overall systems active python. symlinks > from /usr/local/bin point to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ > Versions/Current/bin > > My PATH (~/.bash_profile) looks like this: > > export PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/ > bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/ > sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:${PATH}" > > So you can see MacPython comes first, then MacPorts, then /usr/ > local, Leopard Default and finally remnants of a Fink installation. > > The problem I had was that in the Inkscape shell script that > ultimately resides within Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin a path > is exported that has almost the same entries but in another order. > > Which led to the strange effect that even though I modified osx- > app.sh to copy my numpy and lxml dirs automatically from /Library/ > Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.6/site- > packages into Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/python/site-packages/ > i386/2.6 the modules where never found when the program was started > by double-clicking its dock icon. They were however found when I > started Inkscape by double-clicking the Inkscape shell script > mentioned earlier. > It took me quite a while to find out what was happening: > > Somehow the ScriptExec loader makes it so that Inkscape is started > within a virgin /bin/sh with no PATH whatsoever set. The Inkscape > shell script takes this into account by exporting its own PATH with > a hardcoded order which for my system had the wrong order of > importance. That's why I had this behaviour. The question now is, > how can we make sure that when the user specifies a directory to use > as the source for the Python modules, that we also start Inkscape > with the proper shell environment that has the correct order of its > PATH as set by the user for the Python install he/she selected to > use as Python module root. > In my opinion it is reasonable to assume that if the user has a > custom PATH variable set in his/her default shell that he/she should > know better than hardcoding/guessing what order the PATH components > need to be in. However, unfortunately I failed modifiying the > scripts involved in getting Inkscape to start up, so that the PATH > in use by the user's default shell is set as the PATH to use for > starting Inkscape. I completely agree: we should read the PATH of the user and use that. However, as you, I was not able to find a solution. First, on Mac OS X, the "PATH" used by double clickable, bundled applications is the one defined in ~/.macosx/environment.plist. See the comment in packaging/macosx/resources/bin/inkscape: # Brutally add many things to the PATH. If the directories do not exist, they won't be used anyway. # People should really use ~/.macosx/environment.plist to set environment variables as explained by Apple: # http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html The usual PATH variable, declared in the shell of the user, is used only on the command line. This is why we do this: # but since no one does, we correct this by making the 'classic' PATH additions here: # /usr/local/bin which, though standard, doesn't seem to be in the PATH # newer python as recommended by MacPython http://www.python.org/download/mac/ # Fink # MacPorts (former DarwinPorts) Instead of proceeding this way however, we could (should?) read the PATH variable set in the shell of the user and use that. The problems are: - we could probe for the existence of .bashrc, .cshrc or similar files depending on the $SHELL variable of the user and use what's in that. but the modifications could also be in .profile or .bash_profile or... So we need a clean solution to get the environment a regular shell script would get, and I don't know how to do that - Inkscape would behave differently from other graphical, bundled applications. - and another reason that I forgot... There is, IMHO, a fundamental design flaw in the system, which makes scripts and regular applications use different PATHs (the things set in ~/.macosx/environment.plist, for applications are not available to shell scripts, and the PATH set in .bashrc for bash scripts for example, is not available for applciations). The only way to circumvent it is to set the same thing in ~/.macosx/environment.plist and in ~/.bash_profile (which is what I do), but I don't think Inkscape can do that for you. If you can find a way to concilate all these sources of PATH variables and detect/sort that in the launcher script, it would be very much welcome and will be included. > If it interests you I can include my modified osx-app.sh script. I > also made a osx-keymap.sh script for setting the not so well- > known .xmodmap hack until the Alt-Key behaviour is sourted out for > X11. I'll include both with this e-mail. I'm not sure what the modifications of osx-app.sh are intended for? Thanks for the other one. We need to decide whether it is better to include that (which would affect all X11 applications) or to sort it out for Inkscape only by using keys.xml in the appropriate way. > I also updated the wiki, but you may want to see it over, as there > maybe some things in my edits that may go against the philosophy of > the build teams involved. I can't check now but I'm sure it's fine. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Inkscape spray tool
by Pierre-Antoine MARC 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Bug 179085] Re: new feature for 0.47 Multiple Pages Support
by the Adib 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

we need to focus on this feature to get this done. I think this is an important feature for all technical based drawings. There is a blueprint on this: http://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/mutiple-pages-support and there is a reference page in the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MultiplePages those pages are recently created. HTH, Adib. --- On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:25 PM, mahfiaz <mahfiaz@...400...> wrote: > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 170369 *** > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/170369 > > ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 170369 > Multiple Pages Support - SVG 1.2 Compliance > > -- > new feature for 0.47 Multiple Pages Support > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179085 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Inkscape > Bug Team, which is subscribed to Inkscape. >

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CharTypes.h et al
by Michal Svoboda 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Hello, for the second day I'm trying to compile inkscape and growing more and more desperate. Compilation fails with: In file included from extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.cpp:19: extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.h:32:23: error: CharTypes.h: No such file or directory In file included from extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.cpp:20: extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.h:29:24: error: goo/gtypes.h: No such file or directory extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.h:30:20: error: Object.h: No such file or directory (and ~3 more pages of induced errors). I've tried to google and stuff, but to no avail. What do I need to have installed to get those header files? (I've seen that they come with xpdf, but that's not quite it - and they don't get installed to /usr/include anyway.) So either some horrible hack is required on my part or these include files come with something very basic that is auto-assumed, and nobody bothers to check for it in ./configure. Can someone shed some light into this? Thanks, Michal

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intltool
by Diederik van Lierop 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Hey people, Just a quick note: to run ./autogen.sh succesfully with latest revision, I had to update intltool to v0.40.5. This was the error I got before updating: Running intltoolize --copy --force --automake ... cp: cannot create regular file `po/Makefile.in.in': No such file or directory intltoolize: cannot copy '/usr/share/intltool/Makefile.in.in' to 'po/Makefile.in.in' Please fix the error conditions and try again. Fedora 9 is still only at v0.37.1, so I had to manually copy some files from the Fedora 10 preview release. Diederik

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New snapping features
by Diederik van Lierop 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi all, In the latest revisions you will notice that Inkscape now has a snapping tab in the preferences dialog. It contains some non-document specific settings, such as for example the snap indicator toggle. There are some new parameters too though: 1) You can now specify the snapping delay (as promised a few weeks ago) 2) I've added a slider which controls which type of snapping Inkscape will prefer. When multiple snap solutions are found, then Inkscape can either prefer the closest transformation (when the weight-slider is set to 0; this is the old mode), or prefer the node that was initially the closest to the pointer (when the slider is set to 1). The way Inkscape calculates the preferred snap has been improved too, which should lead to more predictable snapping 3) There's a toggle to force Inkscape to only try snapping the (source) node that is closest to the mouse pointer, à la Coreldraw. When this mode is enabled a snap indicator will shortly be shown at that node. This will give you maximum control of the snapping which is useful for more complex drawings with many nodes. Have a try and let me know what you think of it.... Diederik

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Create Plug-In for Flow-Chart drawing
by Mirko Marschew 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

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compilation problem
by M 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Hi all, I am having the following problem during compilation of version 20346 (the lastest as of now): extension/internal/cairo-ps-out.cpp: In member function 'virtual void Inkscape::Extension::Internal::CairoPsOutput::save(Inkscape::Extension::Output*, SPDocument*, const gchar*)': extension/internal/cairo-ps-out.cpp:137: error: 'CAIRO_PS_LEVEL_2' was not declared in this scope extension/internal/cairo-ps-out.cpp:141: error: 'CAIRO_PS_LEVEL_3' was not declared in this scope extension/internal/cairo-ps-out.cpp: In member function 'virtual void Inkscape::Extension::Internal::CairoEpsOutput::save(Inkscape::Extension::Output*, SPDocument*, const gchar*)': extension/internal/cairo-ps-out.cpp:201: error: 'CAIRO_PS_LEVEL_2' was not declared in this scope extension/internal/cairo-ps-out.cpp:205: error: 'CAIRO_PS_LEVEL_3' was not declared in this scope make[2]: *** [extension/internal/cairo-ps-out.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rmagno/Downloads/inkscape-20346/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rmagno/Downloads/inkscape-20346' make: *** [all] Error 2 best, Ramiro.

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Parsing a command line to argc/argv
by Krzysztof Kosiński 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

I'm getting back to work on the GIO transition. The first thing that must change in order to move to GIO is the parameter parsing (to open files it's best to use Gio::File::create_for_commandline_arg, and for this filenames in filename encoding are needed). However, this will interfere with the shell mode. I don't think this is an useful feature - an embedded scripting language would be a lot better - but probably there's someone who relies on it, so it should be preserved until there's a replacement. I would like to reuse the option parser from the main application, but then I have to parse the command line into argc and argv myself, because that's what g_option_context_parse accepts. Does anyone know whether there's an "officially blessed" way of parsing a command line into argc and argv? Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Parsing-a-command-line-to-argc-argv-tp20874473p208744… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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"make check" doesn't run unit tests
by Krzysztof Kosiński 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

This wiki page: http://www.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TestingInkscape says that "make check" runs the unit tests written in the CxxTest framework on Unix systems, but in fact it doesn't. The only tests which are actually run are the ones using the old homegrown utest framework residing in src/utest. I'm no expert on Inkscape's build process so I'm not sure how to fix this. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22make-check%22-doesn%27t-run-unit-tests-tp20876856p… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Bug in SVN with certain HID devices
by Omar Chanouha 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hello Everyone, I did an SVN yesterday and after compiling I got this error: ERROR:preferences.cpp:488:Inkscape::XML::Node* Inkscape::Preferences::_getNode(const Glib::ustring&, bool): assertion failed: (pref_key.find('.') == Glib::ustring::npos) After further investigation, I realized that the pref_key my program was crashing on was that of my keyboard/mouse: Liteon Microsoft Wireless Reciever 700 v2*.*0 When I removed the assert from the code the program started properly. I believe the assert is checking to make sure that the first instance of a period is coming at the end of the pref_key, or that one does not exist? Either way, why are you checking for this? Why does it matter? Regards, Omar

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Script to export image
by Alessandro Antonello 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

I have to thank all of you guys. You helped me a lot. Mr. Bulia Byak, Jamie Kimberley, John Bintz and others. You are all right. The Inkscape is a great software but not for what I was trying to do. The ideas that Kimberley and Bintz gave to me was perfect. ImageMagick was the right answer to my problem. I did this: - I exported the entire SVG to a single PNG file. That gave me a file with a bit more than 19MB. - I converted the PNG in a MPC file with ImageMagick, after a long and very careful reading of its documentation. This gave me a file almost 4GB long. - Then I made a batch script, much more simpler than the other one, to export all the 29,232 parts that I needed. Amaizing, it took less than 4 hours to export all parts. I loved ImageMagick and all its powerful. I already known it, but never occurs to me that it could do the job. Thank you again, guys. Alessandro Antonello

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Script to export images
by Alessandro Antonello 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hi, All. I already wrote this question in the inkscape-user list but no one came to me with a good solution. My problem is that I have a SVG image too big. In fact is more than one. They are five SVG files with size of 20880 pixels width by 37800 pixels height. I have to export PNG files of slices that must have 180 pixels width by 150 pixels height. I know that I could do this creating an array of squares in a separate layer and, using the batch export, export every peace. The problem is that I need that every PNG file export must have an specific name. They must have the theis X and Y positon from where they come from in the original image. For example, if one PNG came from a peace at 0:0:180:150 it must be named "0x0.png". The peace that came from 180:150:360:300 must be named "180x150.png". I already made a batch file (I am using Windows XP with Inkscape 0.46) but it is too slow. I left it running almost 16 hours strait and it didn't finished the first file yet. There is someone that can help me with that? Is really important. Thanks a lot. Alessandro Antonello _________________________________________________________________ Instale a Barra de Ferramentas com Desktop Search e ganhe EMOTICONS para o Messenger! É GRÁTIS! http://www.msn.com.br/emoticonpack

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Bug in W3C test suite?
by Jasper van de Gronde 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Currently Inkscape renders the W3C Gaussian blur test (filters-gauss-01-b.svg) visibly different from the reference PNG provided by the W3C. However, from what I can tell it might not be Inkscape's problem... (Or is it?) This spreadsheet: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/filters-gauss-01-b.ods shows some graphs of data extracted from the reference PNG and Inkscape's output, as well as some artificially created data. The top and bottom graphs correspond to lines extracted at y=220 and y=320, and they show that Inkscape's output matches pretty well to the reference PNG. I've only included the green channel of the reference PNG, but the other channels match as well. The interesting bit is the green channel in the middle graph (corresponding to y=270). Legend: - the continuous green line is Inkscape's output - the dashed green line is the W3C reference PNG - the orange line is the result from alpha compositing the green channels from y=220 and y=320 (corresponding to only red and only yellow). - the brown line is the result of blurring a 45 pixels wide strectch of "red" roughly corresponding to the visible part of the red rectangle (only the green channel, so all 255 except for the "red" part, which is 0) As can be seen Inkscape's output matches almost perfectly with the artificially generated data, and it apparently doesn't matter much whether the filter is applied to each rectangle separately or to the combined image in this case (which is NOT the general case). I've applied for a bugzilla account at the W3C to file a bug, but in the mean time, did I make some mistake in analyzing this or is this really a bug in the W3C test? Also, what on earth could cause such a weird mismatch? And in an interesting twist, Batik gives more or less the same result as the W3C reference PNG. I've had a short look at their blur code, but without spending hours (if not days) to delve deep into their code I really can't tell what causes the difference in behaviour. BTW, the strange fluctuations in the left part of the bottom graph are due to text appearing the reference PNG (which has been removed from Inkscape's tests to make it easier to compare images automatically).

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handling of bugfixes for particular cases
by Thomas Holder 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi, I just fixed bug #190424 and #168777. These are about incorrect font size when creating text in a document, that has a viewBox attribute. My patch does not fix the lack of viewBox handling in general, but only for text tool. Actually Inkscape needs a proper generic implementation of viewBox handling I think, but this is probably a larger piece of work. I'd like to know how our policy is for such cases. Go for the easy fix now, and revert it once the proper general fix is done? Or postpone the whole issue until it is properly fixed? Thomas

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Create Plug-In for Flow-Chart drawing
by Mirko Marschew 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

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mingwm10.dll
by bulia byak 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

As of rev 20252, Inkscape on Windows won't start claiming it needs mingwm10.dll. I found it in MinGW and copied it to the build dir, then it worked fine. Just a heads-up for those who work on Windows build, you may need to include this file in your lists. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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uniconv-ext.py : providing compatibility for uniconversor name variations
by Aurélio A. Heckert 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi, Sometimes a question about CDR importing back to the inkscape-brasil maling-list and the problem is the uniconversor name variation. To support this variation i put a test on uniconv-ext.py . I don't know if i did by the better way, but the result is really better for the user now. :-) Somebody may please test it on Windows and OSX? (i have comited to SVG, update+make to test) import sys from run_command import run from subprocess import Popen, PIPE cmd = 'none' try: p = Popen('uniconv', shell=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE).wait() if p!=127 : cmd = 'uniconv' p = Popen('uniconvertor', shell=True, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE).wait() if p!=127 : cmd = 'uniconvertor' except ImportError: from popen2 import Popen3 p = Popen3('uniconv', True).wait() if p!=32512 : cmd = 'uniconv' p = Popen3('uniconvertor', True).wait() if p!=32512 : cmd = 'uniconvertor' if cmd == 'none' : sys.stderr.write('You need to install the UniConvertor software.\n'+\ 'For Linux: install the packge python-uniconvertor.\n'+\ 'For Windows: download it from\n'+\ 'http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor\n') else : run((cmd+' "%s" "%%s"') % sys.argv[1].replace("%","%%"), "UniConvertor") 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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Inkscape does not render Khmer script correctly
by Khoem Sokhem 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Hello List members, I have a problem with Inkscape in Ms Windows. but in Linux (openSUSE 11.0) it renders Khmer script correctly. For more detail about this please take a look at my previous bug at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168926. and please see the screen shot of wrong rendering in Ms Windows at: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10578823/Inkscape_on_Windows.png P.S. I have the same problem with Inkscape and Gimp in Ms Windows. and I think that Inkscape and Gimp use the same rendering engine, this is jus my idea :). Does any one have problem the same to me? I hope hear from you soon. Best wish, Khoem Sokhem

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Recent Documents List
by Josh Andler 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

I have to say that I like the Recent Documents from Inkscape being listed in my Gnome recent documents list. However, what I didn't expect was that when I cleared Gnome's recent documents that it would also clear the list within Inkscape. Is there any potential way for us to work around this or does this come with getting the integration? Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Create Plug-In for Flow-Chart drawing
by Mirko Marschew 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

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Create Plug-In for Flow-Chart drawing
by Mirko Marschew 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Create Plug-In for Flow-Chart drawing
by Mirko Marschew 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

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Changing the gtk2 theme for a self-built OSX nightly
by AndreBerg 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, I followed the advice from http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX and compiled the latest revision for OS X (downloaded yesterday). As far as I can tell it's working well. It's just that my self-built version uses a somewhat strange gtk theme where only the sliders are looking Aqua-like. The latest available prepackaged nightly build for OSX uses a theme that is much nicer and I would like to change the theme for my self-built version to look like the prepackaged build. Is there some way to do that? Here is a screenshot of the prepackaged built (both run with latest XQuartz): http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7527/inkscapeprepackagednighfm6.png Pre-Packaged Nightly and here is one of my self-built version: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7348/inkscapeselfbuilthq4.png Self-Built Nightly They look similar but the theme of my self-built version lacks the finesse of the other theme and looks kinda clumsy... I suspect it's a build setting somewhere I couldn't find. So if anyone knows something, please speak up... Thanks for listening. André -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Changing-the-gtk2-theme-for-a-self-built-OSX-nightly-… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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make check?
by Aurélio A. Heckert 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi all, I want to code with TDD, but before i need to use that. I try the "make check" and that uses CxxTest, but the result is far from what i was waiting... See the end please (before that was only compiling outputs): g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/python2.5 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -DRELAYTOOL_CRYPTO='static const int libcrypto_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libcrypto_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DRELAYTOOL_SSL='static const int libssl_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libssl_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DHAVE_SSL -I/usr/include/libwpg-0.1 -I/usr/include/libwpd-0.8 -I/usr/include/poppler -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -D_REENTRANT -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I../cxxtest -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp -MT libnr/test-nr.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o libnr/test-nr.o libnr/test-nr.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po In file included from libnr/test-nr.cpp:366: ././libnr/nr-point-fns-test.h:22: warning: floating constant exceeds range of 'double' In file included from libnr/test-nr.cpp:428: ././libnr/in-svg-plane-test.h:18: warning: floating constant exceeds range of 'double' In file included from libnr/test-nr.cpp:13: ././libnr/nr-compose-test.h:33: error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class make[2]: ** [libnr/test-nr.o] Erro 1 make[2]: Saindo do diretório `/opt/inkscape-svn/src' make[1]: ** [check-am] Erro 2 make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/opt/inkscape-svn/src' make: ** [check-recursive] Erro 1 There is no testing dots with Fails and Errors marks. There is only a compilation error trowing. :-( What is wrong? The unity testing infrastructure is really working? 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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Automated transparency removal for EPS export
by Marco Steinacher 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Dear Inkscape Developers, I use Inkscape regularly to edit figures for scientific publications. Because I like to use transparency effects but many journals only accept EPS files for publication, I ran into the well-known "transparency and PostScript export" problem. First I used to remove the transparency by hand as described in the "Tips and Tricks" tutorial [1]. This has been a hard job and sometimes it is virtually impossible. To facilitate this task I have automated this workaround (removing transparency by adding shapes covering the overlapping areas with the corresponding mixed color). So far I am quite happy with that solution, although it obviously does not work for gradients etc., and I would like to include it in the official Inkscape version. In this regard I have a few questions to you: 1) Are there any general objections to add this code to Inkscape? 2) Where would you place this function in the UI? (For my personal use I have added the item "Remove Transparency" to the Path menu, which probably is not appropriate.) Related to this question is the question how to deal with the limited ability of this approach in order to not confuse or annoy users (e.g. when they use it with gradients). 3) Where would you ideally add the code for this feature? Currently I have added four functions sp_remove_transparency*() to splivarot.cpp. I chose this file because of the relation to sp_selected_path_intersect(). Also, I have copied some code from sp_selected_path_boolop() to get the intersection shapes and I suggest to put the common code in a more generic boolean operation function in order to avoid duplicate code. I'm looking forward to receive your comments and thoughts. Thanks, Marco [1] http://www.inkscape.org/doc/tips/tutorial-tips.html

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Found a bug in Inkscape 0.46
by Steven Devijver 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hey, Attached file demonstrates a bug in Inkscape 0.46. The bug is related to stitch sub-paths and the behavior is Inkscape crashes. The instructions on how to simulate the bug are in the file. Basically I combined a four-node square path with a two-node line path and stitched them together. When the left-hand node in the line path is deleted Inkscape gives a message that it has crashed and when I press ok it closes. Deleting the right-hand node works fine. I've discovered Inkscape yesterday and I've been playing with it. I absolutely love it and I can't wait to get my hands on the 0.47 release. I'm not into graphical design and I don't consider myself talented in drawing or any art form for that matter. Yet with Inkscape and the fabulous screencasts and documentation I rock! I've also added two of my creations to the flickr group. Thanks for all the hard work and I'm glad I can help out. Steven

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] cut/crop marks extensions
by Guillermo Espertino 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

El mié, 26-11-2008 a las 10:10 +0000, inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net escribió: > I'm not convinced by the V shape. It really looks too exotic to me. > But what about a multi-colored circle (your left drawing) and a cross > below it (svg attached)? > > -- > Nicolas Hi! Thaks for your work in this useful extension. I'd like to know if you considered applying the marks to a selection (using the bbox rectangle as limit) as an option. Applying the marks to the artwork area is fine, but in certain situations you need to use the paper area as a container for several originals (for instance, placing front and rear of a brochure in a same document). Of course there's an easy workaround, and it only takes to create a document sized as one of the originals and reuse the crop marks in the other, but crop marks to selection would be very useful anyway. I've just read a previous comment, and the author of the "cut marks" extension offers you to join forces and work together. Your extension looks more polished than the other, but it already has the feature I mention (using the selection's bbox as area for the crop marks). It would be nice to add that to your extension. Another interesting feature would be using guides as placeholders for fold or die-punch marks. About the registration marks discussion, I also find the V shapes too exotic. Generally I only see superposed circles with crosses in C, M, Y and K channels. However, I don't see anything wrong with using both. The circles with crosses on the corners, and the V shapes on the middle. What do you think?

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bzr usage
by jf barraud 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi all, Trying to use bzr and launchpad, I bumped into a bunch of newbies questions... (I'm not sure any of them makes sens!) Should I do bzr branch lp:inkscape like indicated on our inkscape launchpad web page? if yes, how are sourceforge svn rep and lp:inkscape related? lp:inkscape does not look like being uptodate. How do I commit to svn? (more over, this seems to break buildtool under windows, because of svninfo... but this is another story) Should I use bzr-svn to checkout the sourceforge svn repository? hm. It's extremely slow. Can I still register my branches in launchpad then? Am I missing a straight way to use my local svn tree to work with bzr?... Anyway, some basic guide lines for newbies and ignorant people like me would be very helpfull ;-) Thanks. jfb.

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Re : cut/crop marks extensions
by Nicolas Dufour 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi, > Recently a Perl extension called "Cut marks" was added to SVN. I must > admit I didn't have very good feelings about this, because Windows > users who are majority of our user base or at least very close to it > will have an extra step of installing ActivePerl to be able to use it. > IMO, having several programming languages supported is fine as long as > extensions work everywhere out of box. We already have functionality > available on one platform and not available on the other and it > probably wouldn't be wise pushing this even further. > > And now here comes a similar extension written in Python: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/301776 I'm not sure both extensions do exactly the same things. But it may be possible to merge the codes in one extension. I'll try to have a discussion with Aurelio (cut marks' writer) in order to find a solution. Before that, your suggestions are welcome! -- Nicolas

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A near to generic CMYK profile
by Aurélio A. Heckert 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi all, I and Nicolas will join our work about printing marks, but the printing marks need to be printed with pure CMYK color components. And specially the register mark must be printed with all 4 colors to test the alignment of the separated printing. So, the Inkscape already suport ICC profiles and soon it will export PS and PDF with color profiles. The printing marks will be ready for this, but to work we need a ICC file to link in the SVG. Someone could propose a near to generic CMYK ICC profile? I only find ICC files about specific printers, and is writen in some places that "is no generic CMYK profiles"(???). I don't have knowledge to select the more generic inside the printes profiles. 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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git-svn trouble / lost revisions?
by Maximilian Albert 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi, I recently tried to update my git-svn repository for Inkscape via "git-svn rebase" as usual. It downloaded the latest commits but when it seemed to be almost finished (at rev. 20147, to be exact), it threw the following error: ==> Found possible branch point: https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk => https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk, 20227 Initializing parent: git-svn@...2085... W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175007): HTTP Path Not Found: REPORT request failed on '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/bc/4302/inkscape/trunk': '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/bc/4302/inkscape/trunk' path not found W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history. This may take a while on large repositories <== Then it started to download _all_ revisions beginning from rev. #1 (dated Oct 2003)!! It looks like git-svn got confused by some branching or so. Has somebody else who uses git-svn experienced this? Another strange thing: I downloaded a fresh checkout using svn only (not git-svn), and the revision numbers in the log jump from #19921 directly to #20226, although clearly there were other commits in between. The log entry for #20226 says something about merging a branch. Could it be that accidentally some revisions got lost in the process and that this is also what confuses git-svn? How can it be fixed? Thanks, Max

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Multithreaded blur using OpenMP
by Jasper van de Gronde 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Using GCC's support of OpenMP (now also in MingW!) I had a stab at making the outer loop of blurring parallel (the loops are typical DSP loops and shouldn't even throw an exception, so it should be perfectly safe). On my dual-core system blurring (a large image) is approximately twice as fast, so it seems to scale really well. As I don't have access to a Linux system at the moment I haven't modified the Makefiles to add support, but it shouldn't be too difficult (see the changes to build.xml). Also, I've made it write a log to be able to analyze the performance, but it uses Win32 specific functions for timing. So, if anyone would like to have a go at making it work on Linux and/or testing it that would be great :) The number of threads defaults to whatever omp_get_num_procs() returns, but on my system this doesn't work... So to use it, set the number of threads in the preferences, using: <group id="threading" numthreads="1" /> in the "options" group (so it's /options/threading/numthreads). Obviously this is not the most efficient way to do this, as new threads are created for each blur. But so far the overhead doesn't appear to be too bad, compared with the actual blurring operation. And using OpenMP the impact on the code is minimal, I only had to put two #pragma's before the blur loops, allocate the temporary data it needs for all threads and add some preference for the number of threads. So if this works out it might provide a relatively easy way to start making use of all these dual- and quad-core machines people have lying around doing almost nothing these days :) Patch attached, if wanted I can also provide a binary for Windows. This version writes a log file (blurlog.txt) that lists how long each blur takes. Note that inkscape also needs mingwm10.dll to run with this patch. As it isn't included with devlibs at the moment you'll have to copy it to Inkscape's directory manually (it's in the MingW bin directory). Index: build.xml =================================================================== --- build.xml (revision 20219) +++ build.xml (working copy) @@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ -Wall -Wformat -Werror=format-security -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -O2 -mms-bitfields + -fopenmp </flags> <defines> -DVERSION=\"${version}\" @@ -476,6 +477,7 @@ objcopycommand="${archutil}objcopy"> <flags> -mwindows + -mthreads </flags> <fileset dir="${build}"> <include name="inkres.o"/> @@ -501,6 +503,7 @@ -lpng -ljpeg.dll -ltiff.dll -lpopt ${devlibs}/lib/zdll.lib -lgc -lws2_32 -lintl -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lm + -lgomp -lpthreadGC2 </libs> </link> </target> @@ -530,6 +533,7 @@ objcopycommand="${archutil}objcopy"> <flags> -mwindows + -mthreads </flags> <fileset dir="${build}"> <include name="inkviewres.o"/> @@ -553,6 +557,7 @@ -lpng -ljpeg.dll -ltiff.dll -lpopt ${devlibs}/lib/zdll.lib -lgc -lws2_32 -lintl -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lm + -lgomp -lpthreadGC2 </libs> </link> </target> @@ -572,6 +577,7 @@ stripcommand="${archutil}strip" objcopycommand="${archutil}objcopy"> <flags> + -mthreads </flags> <fileset dir="${build}"> <include name="obj/test-main.o"/> @@ -602,6 +608,7 @@ -lpng -ljpeg.dll -ltiff.dll -lpopt ${devlibs}/lib/zdll.lib -lgc -lws2_32 -lintl -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lm + -lgomp -lpthreadGC2 </libs> </link> </target> @@ -667,6 +674,7 @@ <copy todir="${dist}" file="${devlibs}/bin/libpopt-0.dll"/> <copy todir="${dist}" file="${devlibs}/bin/liblcms-1.dll"/> <copy todir="${dist}" file="${devlibs}/bin/intl.dll"/> + <copy todir="${dist}" file="${devlibs}/bin/pthreadGC2.dll"/> <copy file="${devlibs}/bin/intl.dll" tofile="${dist}/libintl-2.dll"/>  Index: src/display/nr-filter-gaussian.cpp =================================================================== --- src/display/nr-filter-gaussian.cpp (revision 20219) +++ src/display/nr-filter-gaussian.cpp (working copy) @@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ #include <algorithm> #include <cmath> #include <complex> +#include <cstdlib> #include <glib.h> -#include <cstdlib> #include <limits> +#include <omp.h> +#include <windows.h> // For performance logging #include "2geom/isnan.h" @@ -268,9 +270,11 @@ filter2D_IIR(PT *const dest, int const dstr1, int const dstr2, PT const *const src, int const sstr1, int const sstr2, int const n1, int const n2, IIRValue const b[N+1], double const M[N*N], - IIRValue *const tmpdata) + IIRValue *const tmpdata[], int const num_threads) { +#pragma omp parallel for num_threads(num_threads) for ( int c2 = 0 ; c2 < n2 ; c2++ ) { + unsigned int tid = omp_get_thread_num(); // corresponding line in the source and output buffer PT const * srcimg = src + c2*sstr2; PT * dstimg = dest + c2*dstr2 + n1*dstr1; @@ -288,7 +292,7 @@ for(unsigned int i=1; i<N+1; i++) { for(unsigned int c=0; c<PC; c++) u[0][c] += u[i][c]*b[i]; } - copy_n(u[0], PC, tmpdata+c1*PC); + copy_n(u[0], PC, tmpdata[tid]+c1*PC); } // Backward pass IIRValue v[N+1][PC]; @@ -303,7 +307,7 @@ int c1=n1-1; while(c1-->0) { for(unsigned int i=N; i>0; i--) copy_n(v[i-1], PC, v[i]); - copy_n(tmpdata+c1*PC, PC, v[0]); + copy_n(tmpdata[tid]+c1*PC, PC, v[0]); for(unsigned int c=0; c<PC; c++) v[0][c] *= b[0]; for(unsigned int i=1; i<N+1; i++) { for(unsigned int c=0; c<PC; c++) v[0][c] += v[i][c]*b[i]; @@ -326,11 +330,12 @@ static void filter2D_FIR(PT *const dst, int const dstr1, int const dstr2, PT const *const src, int const sstr1, int const sstr2, - int const n1, int const n2, FIRValue const *const kernel, int const scr_len) + int const n1, int const n2, FIRValue const *const kernel, int const scr_len, int const num_threads) { // Past pixels seen (to enable in-place operation) PT history[scr_len+1][PC]; +#pragma omp parallel for num_threads(num_threads) private(history) for ( int c2 = 0 ; c2 < n2 ; c2++ ) { // corresponding line in the source buffer @@ -539,13 +544,14 @@ } // Some common constants + Inkscape::Preferences *prefs = Inkscape::Preferences::get(); int const width_org = in->area.x1-in->area.x0, height_org = in->area.y1-in->area.y0; double const deviation_x_org = _deviation_x * NR::expansionX(trans); double const deviation_y_org = _deviation_y * NR::expansionY(trans); int const PC = NR_PIXBLOCK_BPP(in); + int const NTHREADS = std::max(1,std::min(8,prefs->getInt("/options/threading/numthreads",omp_get_num_procs()))); // Subsampling constants - Inkscape::Preferences *prefs = Inkscape::Preferences::get(); int const quality = prefs->getInt("/options/blurquality/value"); int const x_step_l2 = _effect_subsample_step_log2(deviation_x_org, quality); int const y_step_l2 = _effect_subsample_step_log2(deviation_y_org, quality); @@ -567,6 +573,11 @@ bool const use_IIR_x = deviation_x > 3; bool const use_IIR_y = deviation_y > 3; + // Temporary performance logging + LARGE_INTEGER startTime, endTime, timeFrequency; + QueryPerformanceFrequency(&timeFrequency); + QueryPerformanceCounter(&startTime); + // new buffer for the subsampled output NRPixBlock *out = new NRPixBlock; nr_pixblock_setup_fast(out, in->mode, in->area.x0/x_step, in->area.y0/y_step, @@ -577,13 +588,19 @@ } // Temporary storage for IIR filter // NOTE: This can be eliminated, but it reduces the precision a bit - IIRValue * tmpdata = 0; + IIRValue * tmpdata[NTHREADS]; + std::fill_n(tmpdata, NTHREADS, (IIRValue*)0); if ( use_IIR_x || use_IIR_y ) { - tmpdata = new IIRValue[std::max(width,height)*PC]; - if (tmpdata == NULL) { - nr_pixblock_release(out); - delete out; - return 0; + for(int i=0; i<NTHREADS; i++) { + tmpdata[i] = new IIRValue[std::max(width,height)*PC]; + if (tmpdata[i] == NULL) { + nr_pixblock_release(out); + while(i-->0) { + delete[] tmpdata[i]; + } + delete out; + return 0; + } } } NRPixBlock *ssin = in; @@ -629,16 +646,16 @@ // Filter (x) switch(in->mode) { case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_A8: ///< Grayscale - filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,1,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 1, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 1, ssin->rs, width, height, b, M, tmpdata); + filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,1,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 1, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 1, ssin->rs, width, height, b, M, tmpdata, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8: ///< 8 bit RGB - filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,3,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 3, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 3, ssin->rs, width, height, b, M, tmpdata); + filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,3,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 3, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 3, ssin->rs, width, height, b, M, tmpdata, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8A8N: ///< Normal 8 bit RGBA - filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,4,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 4, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 4, ssin->rs, width, height, b, M, tmpdata); + filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,4,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 4, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 4, ssin->rs, width, height, b, M, tmpdata, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8A8P: ///< Premultiplied 8 bit RGBA - filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,4,true >(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 4, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 4, ssin->rs, width, height, b, M, tmpdata); + filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,4,true >(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 4, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 4, ssin->rs, width, height, b, M, tmpdata, NTHREADS); break; default: assert(false); @@ -651,16 +668,16 @@ // Filter (x) switch(in->mode) { case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_A8: ///< Grayscale - filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,1>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 1, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 1, ssin->rs, width, height, kernel, scr_len_x); + filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,1>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 1, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 1, ssin->rs, width, height, kernel, scr_len_x, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8: ///< 8 bit RGB - filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,3>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 3, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 3, ssin->rs, width, height, kernel, scr_len_x); + filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,3>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 3, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 3, ssin->rs, width, height, kernel, scr_len_x, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8A8N: ///< Normal 8 bit RGBA - filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,4>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 4, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 4, ssin->rs, width, height, kernel, scr_len_x); + filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,4>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 4, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 4, ssin->rs, width, height, kernel, scr_len_x, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8A8P: ///< Premultiplied 8 bit RGBA - filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,4>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 4, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 4, ssin->rs, width, height, kernel, scr_len_x); + filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,4>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), 4, out->rs, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(ssin), 4, ssin->rs, width, height, kernel, scr_len_x, NTHREADS); break; default: assert(false); @@ -688,16 +705,16 @@ // Filter (y) switch(in->mode) { case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_A8: ///< Grayscale - filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,1,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 1, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 1, height, width, b, M, tmpdata); + filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,1,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 1, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 1, height, width, b, M, tmpdata, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8: ///< 8 bit RGB - filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,3,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 3, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 3, height, width, b, M, tmpdata); + filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,3,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 3, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 3, height, width, b, M, tmpdata, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8A8N: ///< Normal 8 bit RGBA - filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,4,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, height, width, b, M, tmpdata); + filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,4,false>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, height, width, b, M, tmpdata, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8A8P: ///< Premultiplied 8 bit RGBA - filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,4,true >(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, height, width, b, M, tmpdata); + filter2D_IIR<unsigned char,4,true >(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, height, width, b, M, tmpdata, NTHREADS); break; default: assert(false); @@ -710,24 +727,32 @@ // Filter (y) switch(in->mode) { case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_A8: ///< Grayscale - filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,1>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 1, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 1, height, width, kernel, scr_len_y); + filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,1>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 1, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 1, height, width, kernel, scr_len_y, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8: ///< 8 bit RGB - filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,3>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 3, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 3, height, width, kernel, scr_len_y); + filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,3>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 3, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 3, height, width, kernel, scr_len_y, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8A8N: ///< Normal 8 bit RGBA - filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,4>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, height, width, kernel, scr_len_y); + filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,4>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, height, width, kernel, scr_len_y, NTHREADS); break; case NR_PIXBLOCK_MODE_R8G8B8A8P: ///< Premultiplied 8 bit RGBA - filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,4>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, height, width, kernel, scr_len_y); + filter2D_FIR<unsigned char,4>(NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, NR_PIXBLOCK_PX(out), out->rs, 4, height, width, kernel, scr_len_y, NTHREADS); break; default: assert(false); }; } - delete[] tmpdata; // deleting a nullptr has no effect, so this is save + for(int i=0; i<NTHREADS; i++) { + delete[] tmpdata[i]; // deleting a nullptr has no effect, so this is safe + } + // Temporary performance logging + QueryPerformanceCounter(&endTime); + FILE* logfile = fopen("blurlog.txt", "at"); + fprintf(logfile, "image size: %dx%d, threads: %d, time: %.3gs\n", width, height, NTHREADS, static_cast<double>(endTime.QuadPart-startTime.QuadPart)/timeFrequency.QuadPart); + fclose(logfile); + if ( !resampling ) { // No upsampling needed out->empty = FALSE;

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] build error
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

2008/11/25 Ted Gould <ted@...11...>: >> $ ls -al filters/.deps/.dirstamp >> ls: cannot access filters/.deps/.dirstamp: No such file or directory > > Hmm, that's odd. But the file is really only there to mark when the > directory was last read. It would seem that: > > touch filters/.deps/.dirstamp > > Would fix the problem, but I have no idea why it happened. $ touch src/filters/.deps/.dirstamp touch: cannot touch `src/filters/.deps/.dirstamp': Permission denied $ ls -lh src/filters/.deps/ total 80K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Nov 25 16:36 blend.Po etc. All files have root access permission. I'm quite puzzled. These are really two different machines with two different checkouts, and the last successful build was surely after November 8, just like the one for the laptop at home. Alexandre

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build error
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi, I'm seing this error on two different systems: rm -f extension/script/libscript.a ar cru extension/script/libscript.a extension/script/InkscapeScript.o ranlib extension/script/libscript.a /bin/sh: filters/.deps/.dirstamp: Access denied Anyone? :-) Alexandre

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cut/crop marks extensions
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi, Recently a Perl extension called "Cut marks" was added to SVN. I must admit I didn't have very good feelings about this, because Windows users who are majority of our user base or at least very close to it will have an extra step of installing ActivePerl to be able to use it. IMO, having several programming languages supported is fine as long as extensions work everywhere out of box. We already have functionality available on one platform and not available on the other and it probably wouldn't be wise pushing this even further. And now here comes a similar extension written in Python: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/301776 So what do we do? Alexandre

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lpe-hatches
by jf barraud 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi all, I've just added a new lpe to fill a shape with rough hatches. It's still at an experimental state. As usual, I'm in trouble with the parameters. They are purely technical atm, i.e. they are the onesI used in the code to control the shape of the hatches. But what is technical-oriented is generally not user friendly (in particular, I was not able to supply tips for some of them). Please try it, and suggest user firendly parameters (from which the technical ones would be deduced). Ah, and yes, bending needs improvement, and growth has no effect atm... Anyway, I hope you'll like it ;-) jf.

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Number in circle effect
by Mihaela 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

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verbs and the undo stack
by Felipe Sanches 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

I am not so sure about the mechanics of the undo stack and the meaning of verbs. I have coded an improvement to the user interface for embedding color profiles in a document and I have used the sp_document_done call. The patch is attached. Could anybody review it? It adds a "remove" context menu option in the "Embedded color profiles" box that appears in the "Color Management" tab in "document settings" dialog. Undoing and redoing works ok, but I am not sure aobut the verbs. I expected it to call the update() method onde the user press CTRL+Z or SHIFT+CTRL+Z so that my widgets would be properly updated. Juca

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[PATCH] JavaFX exporting
by Silveira Neto 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Changelog: * Public attributes instead of private functions, so can externally use them. * Sanatize also '#' character. * Removed a compilation warning on sanatize(). Todo: * There's some wrong strings for i18n. * The attribute 'name' from the class JavaFXOutput. * Strange black stroke to be fixed. * Gradients are not been correctly applied.

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Craft Robo can cut directly from inkscape?
by stuart 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi... Been talking to Lucille across the pond and understand that people are cutting directly from inkscape to Craft Robo paper cutters using (I believe) the Craft Robo 5.1 software package. As I have not heard anything about this here (support for non standard Graphtec cutter protocols) I assume the Craft Robo 5.1 software package uses a Craft Robo USB driver that identifies and interprets the Post Script output (nuts, should have ask Lucille how inkscape was setup) of inkscape. Anyhow, if true, this would be great for Craft Robo users. However, I doubt that Wishblades (North American versions of Craft Robo) cutters will benefit. The old blue and new pink Wishblades identify them selves differently and have not (in the past) worked with the Craft Robo software. Doesn't seam fair as the old blue Wishblades are no longer supported by Xyron going forward into Windows Vista from what I understand. Yeah, I'm going to buy more stuff from Xyron, NOT! You can still cut from inkscape to a Wishblade but you will need to in Linux, have Python and Glade installed and use that Python script we've talked about here on this list (I'll have to look up the URL if people are interested). So, are there still people interested in porting that Python script to windows? I've tried, but haven't been able to figure out how to create a USB driver under Windows. From all that I have read, Windows is a real mess when it comes to creating USB drivers (i.e. you can find companies that will do it but they charge $1000s, ouch...)

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Marker direction regression
by Jasper van de Gronde 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Running the rendering tests this week I encountered a regression in how markers are oriented. If anyone touched this code lately, perhaps it's good to go back and have a look. The relevant bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/299414 Overview of rendering tests: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] restrict Inkscape open/save dialog boxes
by Bob Jamison 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Stan, Likely the best way would be to not try to modify Inkscape (might take a lot of work and time), but rather to run Inkscape in a chrooted "jail" directory, so that only the directory you want presented to the user is the one that exists, as far as the running Inkscape is concerned. http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Jtd7y_HjVJAJ:www.linux-mag.com/id/1230… This is similar to how FTP servers export a given directory, but prevent access to an entire server. Sorry about the url. Couldn't get TinyURL working on it correctly. bob (ishmal) -----Original Message----- >From: Stan <stan@...2079...> >Sent: Nov 17, 2008 10:19 AM >To: Inkscape Devel <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >Subject: [Inkscape-devel] restrict Inkscape open/save dialog boxes > >Sorry my previous question about kiosk mode was misleading. We already >have a kiosk mode (the window manager is configured to only allow the >browser). I was asking what would be the best way to limit users to one >directory in the Inkscape dialog boxes. We don't want them to be able >to browse the file system. > >Thanks, > >Stan > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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restrict Inkscape open/save dialog boxes
by Stan 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Sorry my previous question about kiosk mode was misleading. We already have a kiosk mode (the window manager is configured to only allow the browser). I was asking what would be the best way to limit users to one directory in the Inkscape dialog boxes. We don't want them to be able to browse the file system. Thanks, Stan

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restrict directory access in kiosk mode?
by Stan 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

What is the best way to restrict opening/saving files to one directory in kiosk mode on a Linux console? I can edit and recompile if necessary. Thanks, Stan

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Difficulties in backtracing a crash on XP
by Diederik van Lierop 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Hi, Bug 292077 is giving me quite some difficulties in pin-pointing it. It crashes Inkscape, but I can only reproduce it on Windows (not on Linux), and only when I'm _not_ running gdb. To make things worse it even requires quite some patience to reproduce it. How does one find the cause of such a bug? I've tried attaching gdb after the crash (is that possible at all?), and sprinkled around lot's of std::couts, but I didn't get any closer. I could use some pointers here :-( Apparently it only crashes when snapping is enabled, but it looks like it's not the snapping code itself that's crashing. The bug report is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/292077 It's been around at least since v0.46, according to this report. Thanks, Diederik PS: If you want to have a try at reproducing it yourself, then please use revision 20049 or older. Newer revisions snap less often and are therefore more difficult to break.

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Parallel build on Windows
by Diederik van Lierop 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to do a parallel build using mingw32 and btool on Windows? I've tried adding -j4 to build.xml, but that parameter is not being accepted. I'm bisecting, but this could be so much faster on my quadcore... Diederik

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by Emilio Roberto Brizuela 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

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Inkscape cannot open *.svgz (compressed Inkscape) through File -> Open (command-line works ok though)
by Michael Park 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Hi there, I noticed that Inkscape bails w/ an error message 'Failed to load the requested file <filename>.svgz' when trying to open a compressed Inkscape file through the GUI. However, it can still load the same file just fine if I pass it to inkscape through the command-line: $ # this works ok $ inkscape myfile.svgz ...when it errors out, I get the following error message on the command line: Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found � ^ To reproduce: 1 - create a new file 2 - add a shape (I just did a simple red square) 3 - save as 'Compressed Inkscape SVG (*.svgz)' 4 - close and re-open inkscape GUI 5 - in the GUI, File -> Open <your saved file> // this will result in the error 6 - open same file through command-line // this will open ok I don't know how long this behavior has been around, I only started using compressed SVG's recently, but I see the behavior as far back as rev 20150.. I also keep rev 19967 handy (there seems to have been a performance regression since this build, when zooming in/out.. the canvas seems to refresh slower... but that's another matter altogether), and it suffers the same problem BOTH through the GUI and command-line. I'll try bisecting down to the neighbor revs that fixed the command-line opening problem when I get some time later on tomorrow. --Mike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Adjusting DPIs for a document (S?bastien)
by Guillermo Espertino 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Sebastien: You can work with inkscape's default units (px) and export your artwork at 90dpi from the png exporter and you'll get 1:1 conversion of vector pixels to raster pixels. The same applies to the image imports, inkscape will take the real pixels and place them on the work area using 90 dpi. Of course the feature that you're proposing is interesting and would be very helpful in several situations. This has been already discussed and if I remember correcly, there is a similar suggestion in the wishlist. Could you please check in the bug tracker if it has been already reported? If not, you can create a detailed feature request. Gez.

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Darme de baja de la lista
by Emilio Roberto Brizuela 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

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Grid snapping slowing down operations
by Sébastien 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hello, I'm using Inkscape grids extensively and some operations like resizing a rectangle or drawing a line using the pen tool push my CPU to 100% for 10 to 30s. The grid setup I use it the following: - Pixels - Origin: x=0.0, y=-15.0 - Spacing: x=2.0, y=2.0 - Step: 10 lines And then snapping is turned on for nodes and snaps to paths, nodes and guides with a distance of 1. I've been experiencing these slowdowns on two Ubuntu machines, and the problem still shows with the latest realase (8.10). I'm running Inkscape 0.46, built Oct 24 2008. -- Sébastien

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Adjusting DPIs for a document
by Sébastien 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hello, I'm doing UI design using Inkscape and it is important for me to be able to adjust the DPI on a per-document basis. In practice, I want to be able to adjust the number of pixels per inch (or cm) so that I can make UI wireframes bigger or smaller without losing the pixel-precision. -- Sébastien

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Parallel build on Windows
by Diederik van Lierop 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hi Jasper, Probably you intended to send this message to the dev-list too? Thanks for your info on gcc vs. make. Probably Bob will comment on this. Anyway, Eclipse already has the automatic build option you described. When I first tested it two years ago it didn't run very smoothly for large projects such as Inkscape, but things might have improved (at least my CPU has), so maybe I should try it again. Diederik > -----Original Message----- > From: Jasper van de Gronde [mailto:th.v.d.gronde@...528...] > Sent: 2008 nov 13 9:18 > To: mail@...1689... > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Parallel build on Windows > > Diederik van Lierop wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone tell me how to do a parallel build using mingw32 and btool on > > Windows? I've tried adding -j4 to build.xml, but that parameter is not > > being accepted. > > I think this is actually a parameter of make, not gcc. That means that > buildtool should be modified to allow for running multiple processes > simultaneously. Not impossible, but definitely tricky (ideally you'd > have to handle the GCC output gracefully for example). > > > I'm bisecting, but this could be so much faster on my quadcore... > > I know what you mean :) I'm currently in a similar situation with > Matlab, it's so frustrating to have it only run one test at a time... > (Especially since the full set of tests takes more than a week to complete.) > > On a related note, I've often wondered whether there isn't some build > system that tries to keep your build up-to-date while you're editing. So > something that sits in the background, keeping an eye on all the source > files, and once something is saved it tries to compile it (and/or > anything that depends on it). > > Obviously compiling would not actually be faster, but it might reduce > the time you have to wait, especially if you're making large changes > (editing multiple files), as you can just continue to do all sorts of > other things while the build is being kept as up-to-date as possible > behind your back.

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[PATCH] Fixing strings when exporting to JavaFX files
by Silveira Neto 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Some exported codes couldn't compile in JavaFX due to spaces and minus signs on id labels. The sanatize function creates a new string with them replaced by underscores, solving the problem. Diff agains revision 20175.

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Inkscape book on Floss Manuals
by Joshua Facemyer 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

A little PR for the Inkscape Docs team: We recently got our Inkscape Manual (the fruit of our Book Sprint) put on Lulu (http://www.lulu.com/content/4617381). You've probably seen the article by the Russian on the inkscape.org which has a link - if not, check it out! The published book, while being a reasonably finished work of good quality, is not comprehensive. We would like it to be more so. Here are some things that will help us to continue with this work: 1. Sales of the current version (somewhat limited 1st EDITION!!!!) on Lulu will help us afford a future Booksprint. 2. Contributions to the manual on our Floss Manuals workspace are greatly needed. Of course, as this needs some coordination, it's best to start on the inkscape-docs list (signup at lists.sourceforge.net) to find out where to begin. 3. Magical powers to generate whatever good thing we want without much effort. If you can help with any of these things, that would be GREAT! In particular, getting word out and posting the link to the Lulu store would be of great benefit. JF

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compiler errors on windows
by pete mcquain 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hello, I'm trying to get my build environment up and running under Vista and am running into a compiler error: src/display/nr-svgfonts.h:37: error: 'cairo_text_cluster_flags_t' has not been declared I'm using the command-line tools and I'm building against the most recent source from SVN. I got the most recent devlibs zip and mingw from http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/. Does the devlibs archive have the correct cairo includes? Thanks! pete mcquain

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Smooth transitions in Bézier paths
by Diederik van Lierop 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hi, I hope you don't mind if I increase the traffic on inkscape-devel even more ;-) At some point an idea popped up to only snap to nodes at discontinuities in paths, and not to nodes at smooth transitions from one Bézier segment to another. This is more intuitive (less "Hey, what it is Inkscape snapping to now?") and might increase performance. Problem is that in the object-snapper I only have access to SPCurve, which is a wrapper for "old-style" NArtBpath. It's easy to find out whether a point is inbetween two Bézier segments, but how do I find out if a transition is smooth? I guess that should be done by comparing the control points, or is there an easier way? With the transition to lib2geom, will the NArtBpath be deprecated in favor of the Path class? (that would make this rather exercise useless in the long run). Any pointers would be appreciated here, Diederik

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Rendering test results now with totals
by Jasper van de Gronde 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

The rendering test results page now shows totals for each displayed run (in addition to color coding the results and linking bug related tests to their launchpad bugs): http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html This makes it a little easier to see the results at a glance. (Currently still 64 out of 164 tests fail...)

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Doxygen conventions
by Krzysztof Kosiński 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Somebody undid my changes to the files in src/bind/, so I'd like to discuss the doxygen convention used for files here. I already said about this in another thread but it wasn't too visible. I think the proper template for a source file goes like this: /** @file * @brief Brief description of what this file contains */ /* Authors: * Some Author <author@...2068...> * * Copyright (C) 2008 Authors * Released under GNU GPL, read the file 'COPYING' for more information */ #ifndef INCLUDE_GUARD #define INCLUDE_GUARD // ... code ... #endif /* Local Variables: mode:c++ c-file-style:"stroustrup" c-file-offsets:((innamespace . 0)(inline-open . 0)(case-label . +)) indent-tabs-mode:nil fill-column:99 End: */ // vim: filetype=cpp:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=8:softtabstop=4:encoding=utf-8:textwidth=99 : Important points: 1. @file on the first line - it has to be present to document a file, and no point in moving it to the second line since it's boilerplate. When @file isn't present, usually the Inkscape namespace is documented instead of the file. 2. Copyright information not included in the doxygen comment - it's not very useful there 3. Include guard after file description and copyright information - this is the current convention; it makes the placement consistent between headers and .cpp files 4. Completely nothing after vim modeline - otherwise it doesn't work, at least in gedit It seems the main issue of contention was 2, but I don't know what are the arguments for leaving the copyright info in the documentation. I don't think there are any copyright issues with the doxygen comments because the documentation is meant for internal use and not widely useful outside of the Inkscape developer community. Even if that's the case we could put a (C) notice on the main page so that other pages are not cluttered with duplicated information. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Doxygen-conventions-tp20389927p20389927.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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A lot random crashes in recent SVN version
by Vladimir Savic 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Note: Subject of this mail is not a complaint. I just wanted to bring this to focus. Here's the backtrace of one that looks like snapping related. I can repeat these crashes, but it happens mostly while dragging objects around and panning using middle mouse button. BTW, Looks like one needs to press middle mouse button absolutely still for some time in order to pan around. Also doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, that's the workaround. At least here. Regards, Vlada inkscape: /usr/include/boost/optional/optional.hpp:578: typename boost::optional_detail::optional_base<T>::reference_type boost::optional<T>::get() [with T = NR::Rect]: Assertion `this->is_initialized()' failed. Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread 0x7f641eee6700 (LWP 28144)] 0x00007f64172865c5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f64172865c5 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f6417287bb3 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007f641727f1e9 in __assert_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x00000000005a250e in Inkscape::ObjectSnapper::_collectPaths (this=0x1b26ec8, t=<value optimized out>, first_point=<value optimized out>) at /usr/include/boost/optional/optional.hpp:578 #4 0x00000000005a255d in Inkscape::ObjectSnapper::_snapPaths (this=0x6df0, sc=@0x7fff26f38de0, t=@0x6df0, p=@0xffffffffffffffff, first_point=@0x10171dc0, unselected_nodes=0x7f64175a89d0, selected_path=0x0) at object-snapper.cpp:400 #5 0x00000000005a2dd3 in Inkscape::ObjectSnapper::freeSnap (this=0x1b26ec8, sc=@0x7fff26f38de0, t=@0x7fff26f38ddc, p=@0x8f2fbf0, first_point=@0x7fff26f38dd8, bbox_to_snap=@0x7fff26f39100, it=0x10e7ca30, unselected_nodes=0x0) at object-snapper.cpp:587 #6 0x00000000005994b7 in SnapManager::freeSnap (this=0x1b26ea8, point_type=2, p=@0x8f2fbf0, first_point=true, bbox_to_snap=@0x7fff26f39100) at snap.cpp:163 #7 0x000000000059a355 in SnapManager::_snapTransformed (this=0x1b26ea8, type=2, points=@0x10e7ca90, pointer=@0x10e7cd68, constrained=false, constraint=@0x7fff26f39320, transformation_type=SnapManager::TRANSLATION, transformation=@0x7fff26f396c0, origin=@0x7fff26f39350, dim=Geom::X, uniform=false) at snap.cpp:449 #8 0x000000000059ad95 in SnapManager::freeSnapTranslation (this=0x6df0, point_type=6, p=@0xffffffffffffffff, pointer=@0x10171dc0, tr=<value optimized out>) at snap.cpp:601 #9 0x0000000000595545 in Inkscape::SelTrans::moveTo (this=0x10e7ca10, xy=<value optimized out>, state=<value optimized out>) at seltrans.cpp:1406 #10 0x000000000058d519 in sp_select_context_root_handler (event_context=0x1846b9c0, event=0x10241f40) at select-context.cpp:537 #11 0x000000000053e4a2 in sp_event_context_root_handler (event_context=0x6df0, event=0x6df0) at event-context.cpp:892 #12 0x00000000007b53d4 in sp_marshal_INT__POINTER_POINTER (closure=0x20c9c00, return_value=0x7fff26f39de0, n_param_values=<value optimized out>, param_values=0x7fff26f39be0, invocation_hint=<value optimized out>, marshal_data=0x525e20) at helper/sp-marshal.cpp:475 #13 0x00007f641c87e20d in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #14 0x00007f641c89208c in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #15 0x00007f641c893392 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #16 0x00007f641d797ff5 in gtk_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #17 0x0000000000775c3c in sp_canvas_arena_send_event (arena=0x2071480, event=0x10241f40) at display/canvas-arena.cpp:335 #18 0x0000000000775ca6 in sp_canvas_arena_event (item=<value optimized out>, event=0x10241f40) at display/canvas-arena.cpp:322 #19 0x00000000007b56a0 in sp_marshal_BOOLEAN__POINTER (closure=0x1006970, return_value=0x7fff26f3a470, n_param_values=<value optimized out>, param_values=0x7fff26f3a270, invocation_hint=<value optimized out>, marshal_data=0x775c60) at helper/sp-marshal.cpp:352 #20 0x00007f641c87e20d in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #21 0x00007f641c891d6d in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #22 0x00007f641c893392 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #23 0x00007f641d797ff5 in gtk_signal_emit () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #24 0x000000000078f950 in emit_event (canvas=<value optimized out>, event=<value optimized out>) at display/sp-canvas.cpp:1344 #25 0x0000000000791755 in sp_canvas_snap_watchdog_callback (data=<value optimized out>) at display/sp-canvas.cpp:1678 #26 0x00007f641b1a40ab in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #27 0x00007f641b1a393a in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #28 0x00007f641b1a7040 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #29 0x00007f641b1a750d in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #30 0x00007f641d72e977 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #31 0x00000000004527c9 in sp_main_gui (argc=1, argv=0x7fff26f3aa48) at main.cpp:855 #32 0x0000000000452c8e in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff26f3aa48) at main.cpp:665 (gdb)

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LPE on groups with shapes
by unknown＠example.com 09 Nov '08

09 Nov '08

Hi all, Did group LPE ever work on shapes in a group? I.e. I have a group with stars in it, then apply bendpath on the group. The SVG is correct, but Inkscape displays the stars unbent. It's because of this here: static void sp_star_update (SPObject *object, SPCtx *ctx, guint flags) { if (flags & (SP_OBJECT_MODIFIED_FLAG | SP_OBJECT_STYLE_MODIFIED_FLAG | SP_OBJECT_VIEWPORT_MODIFIED_FLAG)) { sp_shape_set_shape ((SPShape *) object); } if (((SPObjectClass *) parent_class)->update) ((SPObjectClass *) parent_class)->update (object, ctx, flags); } during an 'update', sp_shape_set_shape is called again, which resets the shape's curve of the group-lpe calculation... (if i comment that line out, group lpe works fine...) Can someone help me on this one? What's the solution? Cheers, Johan

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2geom update: new Rect and OptRect
by unknown＠example.com 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

Hi all, I just updated 2geom in our trunk. It contains the 'new' Rect and OptRect (and Interval and OptInterval). Geom::Rect can no longer be empty. It *always* contains a rectangle. Geom::OptRect contains a rect or nothing (which means an empty rect). The same holds for Geom::Interval and Geom::OptInterval. For example, boundingbox functions return an OptRect. You have to check whether it is empty or not, before you use the values in the Rect. If you didn't and turns out the bbox is empty, Inkscape will crash :-) Note that Rect's no longer have the method 'isEmpty'. Rect's do have the 'hasZeroArea' method. If this is true, the Rect contains a single point, like a (0,0)-(0,0) rectangle. It's not empty, it contains one point (0,0). (OptRect and OptInterval have the same usage as boost::optional<Rect>) I made Inkscape compile with this update, and tried to fix cases where there was not an explicit empty check. I may have introduced/uncovered bugs, sorry for that. Let us know about what you've found. Cheers, Johan

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[Fwd: [CREATE] Suggested dates for LGM 2009 Montreal]
by Jon Phillips 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

Hi all, please see below about possible dates for LGM 2009. Please do reply to this thread if concerns or high-fives on and/or join the Create mailing list where we are hammering this all out. http://create.freedesktop.org Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins@...400...> > To: Create ML <create@...626...> > Subject: [CREATE] Suggested dates for LGM 2009 Montreal > Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:23:39 -0500 > > Hi all, > > Here are the best possible dates for LGM 2009. > > May 6-7-8-9, 2009. > > LGM would start on Wednesday morning and end on Saturday, end of the > day! (maybe with a party?!?!) > > Before we make that the official dates, anyone with serious concerns > about those dates, please speak up asap! > > Side note : we "could" move that from 7-10 including Sunday instead of > Wednesday. But why not take Sunday to visit... or relax... of have a > beer on a terrasse!!! :-) Or a poutine! ;-) > > Anyway, you let me know! > > Cheers!!! > > Louis > > -- > Louis Desjardins > Organiser > Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 - Montréal > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > CREATE@...626... > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA + Guangzhou + Beijing GLOBAL +1.415.830.3884 CHINA +86.1.360.282.8624 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org IM/skype: kidproto Jabber: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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locking objects on canvas
by ryrych＠...400... 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

hello! I create many objects on canvas without using of layers. Sometimes it is impossible to get any object. Inkscape has option allows us to lock object but this is very uncomfortable. Also that doesn't enable us to unlock particular object. Have you ever thought about adding new feature - locking/unlocking object on canvas like in Corel Draw? This is very cool stuff. It doesn't exclude functionality of layers but adds possibility of creating simple things in simple way. Think about icons. Many icons are created on one layer. But managing such objects in further future is terrible. I propose to add new entry to context menu. Clicking on it will show a small padlock on object (like in Corel). I hope that isn't hard to coding but makes sense in my opinion. I also hope I made myself clear. :) cheers, Wojtek Ryrych

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build break
by Bob Jamison 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hi all, Just wanted to let people know that the build needs a couple of files tweaked for it to succeed: src/ui/dialog/input.cpp src/ui/dialog/tiledialog.cpp It's minor for both. They just need the lines added: #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include "config.h" #endif I would have done it myself, but when I svn upped to see if it had been fixed yet by somebody else, I got a fresh copy of verbs.h instead. (Which means: compile everything!) So maybe someone else can do it? Thanks! bob

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.dxf input routine
by Alvin Penner 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

This is a request for feedback, I've submitted a proposal for a .dxf input routine at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/293940 and thought I'd ask for feedback while deciding what to do with it. It is a limited scope input routine, supporting AutoCAD Release 13, designed as a counterpart to the existing Desktop Cutting Plotter output. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/.dxf-input-routine-tp20336088p20336088.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Launchpad and "Fix Committed"
by Krzysztof Kosiński 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

The current practice is to mark bugs "fix released" in Launchpad when committing to SVN. The rationale for this (given by bulia in another thread) is that this way the "open bugs" count is more useful for the developers. I think this is an abuse of Launchpad bug tracking. IMO the rationale isn't sufficient. It creates confusion for users which re-report bugs that have been fixed in SVN, because "fix released" bugs do not show up in search results. There must be a better way of tracking how many bugs have been fixed. Currently I know about advanced search (just search for all bugs with statuses New, Triaged, Confirmed, Incomplete, In Progress) and milestones which can isolate the most important bugs. Another option is to talk to the Launchpad team to include an "Unfixed" count on the bugs page which would exclude "fix committed" bugs. This will be better than abusing the system and confusing the users in the name of seeing some number. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Launchpad-and-%22Fix-Committed%22-tp20176935p20176935… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Snapping should only occur at the end of a movement
by Guillermo Espertino 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

I really prefer the previous behavior of the snapping. Now it seems to work fine, but you don't get a visual feedback of the snapping until you release the mouse button. I think that it's questionable from the usability point of view. Snapping result should be visible before you release the mouse click, because the user wants to know if the snapping was successful before that, not after. In the previous versions, the shape was atracted to the snapping point when the pointer entered in the snapping threshold, so you could easily see the end result before releasing the mouse button. Now you can't and it feels like you have no control in the process. For instance, if you need to enlarge or shrink a rectangle beyond a guide and you have the snapping on, it is possible that you get the shape snapped to the guide even if you don't want to, and you'll realize that only after you released the mouse button (thinking that the shape wouldn't snap). Besides that, there are still isues when enlarging or shrinking shapes. Some snapping settings will make almost impossible to scale a shape without being atracted to a snapping point (making it go back to the original size or disappearing). I really don't know about the snapping code (in fact, I don't know anything about code) but it "feels" like there should be a "zone" around the mouse pointer to perform the snapping (and the snapping nodes should be aligned to that zone depending on the axis of the transformation to avoid random snapping) and the snapping should be visible before releasing the mouse button. At the end of the movement, right, but not after the mouse button release. IMO, the current behavior shows some improvements but also some regressions. Just my 2 cents. Gez.

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Rendering test results on-line
by Jasper van de Gronde 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

If you go to: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html you will now see an up-to-date list of test results for Inkscape's rendering tests. It now contains one column, each time I run the tests a column will be added (to the left). It's still pretty bare-bones, but I hope I (or someone else) will find some time to improve it in the near future. I plan to run the tests regularly for at least the next two months or so. I have to run the tests more or less manually though (I created a batch file to automate most steps, but I still have to run the batch file manually, on my notebook...), so I'm interested in any suggestions people might have for hosting (more) fully automated tests. You don't see any test for your favorite rendering bug? No problem, if the bug is already in the bug tracker with the required test files (read on), just mail me and I'll add it. If not, create an SVG demonstrating the problem (small and simple please) and one or more of the following: - A PNG of the wrong output. - A PNG of the right output (preferably exact). - An SVG that should look exactly the same, but is rendered correctly by Inkscape. Then attach the files to the corresponding bug in the bug tracker (or create a new bug and attach the files if it isn't the tracker yet) and mail me (or anyone else who has SVN access). Of course, if you have SVN access you can add tests yourself. The bugtracker: http://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape For more information about Inkscape's (rendering) tests: http://www.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TestingInkscape The test suite in SVN: https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/gsoc-testsuite The directory 'tester' contains the actual rendering tests, the directory ResultViewer contains my clumsy attempt at a GWT project.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Snapping should only occur at the end of a movement
by Inkscaper Inkscaper 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

I have to agree with Guillermo. While reading the discussion here I was very excieted about new imporvements, but after trying it I missed old behaviour where snapping occured _while_ dragging an object, not after releasing mouse button. It feels somehow more natural to see guidelines working in real time, and in most cases works faster (no waiting for delay or clicking object again because it was not snapped or snapped to wrong guideline). An option to set snapping delay to zero would be very useful for some users... and especially for me :)

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[ndeschildre@...1792...: Ubuntu Brainstorm 8.10 report]
by Bryce Harrington 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

----- Forwarded message from Nicolas Deschildre <ndeschildre@...1792...> ----- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:09:07 +0100 From: Nicolas Deschildre <ndeschildre@...1792...> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@...2067... Subject: Ubuntu Brainstorm 8.10 report Hello there! I wrote a small document about Ubuntu Brainstorm trying to summarize what's going on there (with a few stats), what you can expect from it, a summary of the most wanted features from its users, and its impact. I wrote this hoping to give to contributors and developers (not limited to Ubuntu) some clues of the most asked features out there, and what worries our users the most. You can grab it here: http://www.ndeschildre.net/downloads/UbuntuBrainstorm810Report.html Cheers, Nicolas -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@...2067... Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss ----- End forwarded message -----

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friend declaration problem
by unknown＠example.com 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Hi all, I added a proper constructor for nodepath that does nothing at the moment. It should be private, people should use sp_nodepath_new to create new nodepaths. However, this does not work: namespace Inkscape { namespace NodePath { class Path { private: Path() {}; friend Path * sp_nodepath_new (SPDesktop *, SPObject *, bool, const char *, SPItem *); ... }; } } Inkscape::NodePath::Path * sp_nodepath_new (SPDesktop * desktop, SPObject *object, bool show_handles, const char * repr_key = NULL, SPItem *item = NULL); This gives a compiler error when newing Path in sp_nodepath_new. Can someone else try and see if it works on Linux for example? thanks a bunch, Johan

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0.46.1
by Alexandre Prokoudine 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Hi, Speaking about releases, are we still up to releasing 0.46.1? Alexandre

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Error with inkscape and libpng
by Vladimir 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Good day. I use the following software: inkscape-svn cairo-git poppler-git libpng-1.2.32 cairomm-git freetype2-cvs gtkmm-2.14.1 glibmm-2.18.0 on Slamd64-current. When I try to compile inkscape compilation is aborted on the following: <CONSOLE_LOG> make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `$HOME/tmp/src/inkscape-svn' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `$HOME/tmp/src/inkscape-svn/src' depbase=`echo sp-image.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\ g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -pthread -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/giomm-2.4 -I/usr/lib64/giomm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I../cxxtest -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -MT sp-image.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o sp-image.o sp-image.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po In file included from /usr/include/libpng12/png.h:459, from sp-image.cpp:50: /usr/include/libpng12/pngconf.h:326: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before '.' token /usr/include/libpng12/pngconf.h:327: error: '__dont__' does not name a type make[2]: *** [sp-image.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `$HOME/tmp/src/inkscape-svn/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `$HOME/tmp/src/inkscape-svn' make: *** [all] Error 2 </CONSOLE_LOG> I check the 'pngconf.h' file and found that line-327 tries to avoid repeated inclusion of setjmp.h but this file is included in buildtool.cpp My last successfull build of Inkscape was done 23 Aug 2008 (Help->About Inkscape). I think that from that time something was changed in build chain and, of course, in source. May be I miss some dependencies? I be glad for any advice on problem. P.S. Sorry, if my English is poor. --- WBW, Vladimir Lomov

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Win32 and the recent file list changes...
by john cliff 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Just wondering if theres anyone out there who can confirm if the changes to the recent file list are working for them?I dont seem to have any files showing up in my list, it just always shows the no items found. Anyone else seeing this? or anyone have it working on windows? I'm on Vista Home just for reference. Cheers Sim

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Recent File list on windows
by john cliff 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Hi Krzysztof, The changes you made to the Recent Files menu seems to have broken it on windows, Any ideas on why? Cheers John

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2geom SVN warning
by Krzysztof Kosiński 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

There is a file called "!PLEASE DON'T MAKE CHANGES IN THESE FILES.README" in the 2geom directory. It says that 2geom code should be changed in 2geom SVN instead of in the Inkscape SVN, because changes will be destroyed otherwise. Is this warning still intact? Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/2geom-SVN-warning-tp20198054p20198054.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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