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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Grid visibility and snap enabling
by Diederik en Rezi 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

> Indeed, that's the other option. We can enable/disable snapping either > using the nodes/bbox option, or using the grids/guides/objects option. > The latter is more common, especially wanting to see the grid but not > snapping to it. But shouldn't we then provide the same toggles for > guides and objects, for consistency's sake? > Adding to my previous mail: When using the grids/guides/objects option to toggle snapping, we will need an additional checkbox for each of those in the document properties dialog. (when requiring that all snapping options should be accessible in that dialog). This is not needed when using the nodes/bbox option, as we have checkboxes for these already. summarizing our options: 1) nodes/bbox option: - no additional checkboxes needed 2) grids/guides/objects option: - closest to "grid visible but not snapping", which is the most requested feature, > Diederik > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Graphs
by Bryce Harrington 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

Hi all, I asked Brian Murray if he'd include Inkscape in his bug plots, and he has. Total number of New bugs for the past week: http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/project-graphs/inkscape/plots/inkscape-week… Here's the number of untriaged bugs for the past day: http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/project-graphs/inkscape/plots/inkscape-1day… I like using the above type of chart when I'm doing triaging, so you can see the effects of your labors. There's a certain joy in pushing the next hour's dot on the graph down, that helps when the triaging work starts getting monotonous. ;-) There's all manner of variations in status and time duration, too, although most are boring at the moment: http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/project-graphs/inkscape/plots/ If the rendering style looks familiar, you're right! Brian uses gnuplot's svg output feature, then post-renders them to png using Inkscape. :-) Bryce

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Thanks for Pattern along Path
by David Christian Berg 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hey everybody, I'm not really aware right now who created this awesome possibility. I haven't really used it for any productive work so far, but I just love it. Maybe not the interface completely, but hey, the live effect itself is so fantastic! It's great for doing brush effects but by far more flexible, than what I've seen in Illustrator so far... Thanks! David

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Inkscape + Boehm GC 7.0
by Jean-Olivier Irisson 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hi all, Is boehm-gc version 7.0 known to be broken or anything? Does someone uses it successfully on another platform? Compiling Inkscape against v 7.0 on OS X cause it to hang forever on startup. I can "sample the process" and get this if that tells something to anyone: Analysis of sampling pid 16860 every 10.000000 milliseconds Call graph: 300 Thread_0f07 300 0x26cd 300 0x27a6 300 0x30a4 300 0x511bad 300 GC_init 300 GC_init_inner 300 GC_try_to_collect_inner 300 GC_stopped_mark 300 GC_stop_world 300 GC_release_mark_lock 300 __spin_lock 300 __spin_lock 300 Thread_1003 300 _pthread_body 300 GC_mark_thread 300 GC_help_marker 300 GC_acquire_mark_lock 300 GC_generic_lock 300 pthread_mutex_lock 300 new_sem_from_pool 300 semaphore_create 300 mach_msg_trap 300 mach_msg_trap Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5): Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5): __spin_lock 300 mach_msg_trap 300 Sample analysis of process 16860 written to file /dev/stdout Sampling process 16860 each 10 msecs 300 times All the GC_*** tells me that boehmgc has something to do with it ;) Inkscape does not crash, nor displays messages in the console. It just hangs and never get to the point of showing the GUI. Starting it inside gdb does not help in getting more info, not without knowing where to set a break point at least. Thanks in advance for your enlightening answers. Jean-Olivier Irisson --- UMR 5244 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, 52 av Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France +336 21 05 19 90 http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/

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Inkscape in Khmer
by Khoem Sokhem 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hello List, I have finished translating Inkscape into Khmer (the official language of Cambodia). I have installed Inkcape 0.45.1 on my XP system, after finished installing, I got the inkscape in English. But I have to make a configuration in order to make in Khmer language. the steps to do is: right click on my computer in desktop--> properties--> advanced --> Environment variable --> click New under User variable for .... then fill variable name= LANG and variable value= km_KM then click OK, after I got Inkscape in Khmer. But in the title bar it shows ??????????? insteat of Khmer character. Can inkscape after installing swith to any language as we want? I mean that user can switch language to their own language. Best Regards, Sokhem

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Request Features Link on webpage...
by Ryan Lerch 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

someone mentioned this on IRC, but the request features link on the main page still points to sourceforge... cheers, ryanlerch

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Sourceforge trackers still accessible
by jiho 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi again everyone, and Bryce in particular, It seems that, even though there's no tracker tab anymore at sourceforge, the tracker is still accessible when using the address directly. For example: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306 It would be nice if there was an error message, or better: a link to Launchpad, in place of the tracker to avoid people going there from links on other websites. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Unexplicable bug
by jiho 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi all, This simple file: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/badges_crash.svg repeatedly crashes Inkscape devel on my machine when I open it. And it have no idea why. Inkscape first crashed when editing this file (but the content I was editing at that time is not present in this file since it was lost). The document recovery did not work and this version is the last saved version which should not have been touched by Inkscape since I did not saved my changes. I am suspecting something with the grid which has been flaky for a few revisions (grid space changing on its own, grid appearing when reopening docs in which it was not defined etc.). I hope the file will be enough to diagnose the problem. If this can be reproduced I'll post a bug report in the brand new Launchpad bug tracker. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Fedora Package Maintainer
by Ted Gould 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hello, Denis Leroy e-mail me off list and mentioned that he's no longer interested in maintaining the Fedora package of Inkscape. If there is any other Fedora packagers that are willing to pick it up, that'd be great. I'm not sure of other Fedora lists that this should be posted to, but if people could forward it to those that would be great. Thanks, Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Unexplicable bug
by Diederik en Rezi 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Op Do, 29 november, 2007 10:17, schreef J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...: > Heh, I might have solved this last night :) Yeah, you did! > btw, don't use tabs in source! I'm not using tabs anymore, but I did before. I've got Eclipse configured to not use tabs, so if there are any tabs in my code then these must be old ones. > You are using Windows right? Nope, I'm using Fedora most of the time... Diederik

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Another crash bug
by jiho 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi all, Seems like Inkscape is not really stable at the moment, lots of flakiness in the last few weeks. Here is another reproducible bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/172784 I thought it was related to the snapping Diederick mentioned but it also occurs with no grid and no snapping whatsoever. Going back a few revisions for now. Thanks in advance for your expertise on this. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Grid bug
by jiho 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi, There's a very annoying bug with grid settings that has been introduced a few revisions back already and I've just found the time to report it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/172778 I can't remember who was working on the grid stuff so I could not assign it. If somebody could. In addition to what's reported in the bug, I noticed that sometimes grid settings would change on their own, when editing something in the document. But I could not reproduce this so I did not include it in the bug report. If someone noticed the same behavior repeatedly, please add your comment to this bug. Thanks in advance. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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compiling inkscape on old disto
by Rémy Sironneau 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hello everyone, First thanks for your great work on inkscape ..... it's huge software ... i like it. Second my troubles ;) I use inkscape on ubuntu gutsy without any problem, but i would like to convert svg did by inkscape on ubuntu on an old centos 4.5 with inkscape 0.45 (RedHat ent 4). I looking for a solution since a month for installing ink 0.45 on centos4.5 without any result. You think is it possible ? compiling static ? backport ? Really thank you for your help Rémy

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Limiting bug-assignee list to Inkscape members?
by Bryce Harrington 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:40:31AM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > On 29/11/2007, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > We've run into an odd issue when assigning bugs. The bug assignee > > search popup searches through all registered launchpad users, where we'd > > prefer if it somehow only listed people relevant to inkscape (see > > below). Is there any way to do this? > > We don't currently have a means to do that. Could you file a bug > report about it? (https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+filebug). > > James. Sure thing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/172702 Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad: closing bugs?
by bulia byak 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Probably a stupid question, but how do I close bugs? I changed the status to fix-committed but the bug is still among "open". Where is the close button? I'm also badly missing SF's list of potential bug assignees - now when I want to assign a bug to some developer, I have to remember his nick, or use "search" which is almost useless because it searches throughout all projects (I tried to find Diederik, and even though his name is not very common, I got two pages of Diederiks - and none of them was ours :) Can we limit this search to Inkscape developers only? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Limiting bug-assignee list to Inkscape members?
by Bryce Harrington 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi James, We've run into an odd issue when assigning bugs. The bug assignee search popup searches through all registered launchpad users, where we'd prefer if it somehow only listed people relevant to inkscape (see below). Is there any way to do this? Bryce ----- Forwarded message from bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> ----- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:50:51 -0400 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...>, "inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net List" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad: closing bugs? Probably a stupid question, but how do I close bugs? I changed the status to fix-committed but the bug is still among "open". Where is the close button? I'm also badly missing SF's list of potential bug assignees - now when I want to assign a bug to some developer, I have to remember his nick, or use "search" which is almost useless because it searches throughout all projects (I tried to find Diederik, and even though his name is not very common, I got two pages of Diederiks - and none of them was ours :) Can we limit this search to Inkscape developers only? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org ----- End forwarded message -----

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Launchpad team policy
by Ted Gould 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Well, I got a lot more people wanting to be part of the various teams I set up on Launchpad than I expected. While, I don't think there is that much to hide in Launchpad I get the feeling that we should have some sort of policy on the two groups -- that way no one is making a decision arbitrarily. I'm going to throw out a couple ideas, you guys rip them up: Inkscape Bugs I'm willing to let anyone who's interested into this group. I think with many eyes all bugs are shallow. Now, that being said I'd like to at least know who the person is and that they're not just there to be a troll. So, I'm thinking a post to the -devel mailing list? Would that be too much traffic? Inkscape Admin I think that about the only thing that people in this group can do is change the description/links on the website and add people into the the bugs group. Oh, and define milestones. So again, I'm not as worried about giving away the keys to castle, but I think this should be more limited as these would be the folks implementing the policies in this discussion. I'm kinda thinking we grab the admins for SF: Mental, Bryce, Bulia and JonCruz and just leave it at that. If they need help they can ask for it. (Note: this would mean I'd remove myself from the group which I'm more than happy to do) --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad migration complete (was Re: Inkscape demo import)
by Bryce Harrington 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 04:21:21PM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > On 27/11/2007, James Henstridge <james@...1829...> wrote: > > For any developers with existing Launchpad accounts, it is likely that > > a duplicate person has been created for you. To fix this, go to the > > following URL and enter your $USER@...58... email > > address: > > > > https://edge.launchpad.net/people/+requestmerge > > This URL should have been: > > https://launchpad.net/people/+requestmerge > > The edge URL will work, but unless you're a member of the Launchpad > beta testers team you probably aren't logged in there. > > James. Thanks again for all your work on this, James. We're already poking and prodding with it, and looking forward to being able to pound our bugs into submission. :-) Bryce

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Page of bug triaging projects
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi all, Looking at the 1913 bugs in launchpad, it seems pretty overwhelming... But it can be attacked with smaller scoped projects. I've created a list here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/BugTriageProjects Each of these tasks should be manageable by one person over the course of a week or so, maybe less. None of them require any particular technical skill. They're all pretty important to do to get our bug tracker organized. By the way, Launchpad also has a handy email interface, and a lot of bulk work can be done by writing scripts that invoke changes through email. This is handy for bulk tagging bugs, updating status, or requesting re-testing bugs for example. Details here: https://help.launchpad.net/BugTrackerEmailInterface Bryce

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Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Triaging
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Triaging is the initial bug review process, that anyone with a bit of patience can help with. A good technique for triaging is to use the advanced search page (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs?advanced=1). Search for 'New'+'Undecided' bugs, and/or some search term you care about (say, "layers dialog"). Looking at a specific bug, look over to the far right for a downward pointed arrow. Clicking this expands the bug settings panel. The Status and Importance fields are the main ones to deal with. The goal of triaging is to get the bug out of 'New'. Review the bug and see if it has enough information to troubleshoot; if not, move it to state 'Incomplete'. If it does have enough, set it to 'Confirmed'. If the bug is really a feature request, set Status to Confirmed, and Importance to Wishlist. If the bug is out of date or otherwise invalid, mark it Invalid. Bryce

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Launchpad Tips & Tricks: Tags
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

On the left side of https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ you'll see an unobtrusive grey bar labeled 'Tags'. Click on it and you'll see a list of Inkscape-specific tags. Click on a tab and it brings up the corresponding list of bugs. Tags are a flexible mechanism for organizing bugs, sort of like with SF where we could put a bug in a category, except in LP a bug can be assigned any number of tags. Also, in SF only admins could add new categories; with LP, bug triagers can define new tags too. Click on one of the tagged bugs. You'll see the tags listed right after the Bug description. On the top left, click on 'Edit description/tags'. Under the fields for updating the summary and description is the Tags box. This is a simple space-delimited list of tags. Defining a new tag is as trivial as writing a new term into this box. It's a good idea to try to use existing tags where possible; too many tags may become unmanageable. Here's some different ideas that tags could be used for: * Identifying the platforms the bug occurs on (e.g. 'osx', 'windows-vista', 'ubuntu-linux') * Hook into more elaborate workflows (e.g. 'needs-testing', 'needs-performance-measurement', 'add-to-release-notes') * Marking bugs that are all dependent on a particular feature (e.g. 'needs-animation', 'needs-multipage') * Marking bugs that need processing by automated scripts (e.g. 'needs-all-retrace', 'render-svg-attachments') Bryce

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Launchpad Groups
by Ted Gould 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hello, With the bugs now I Launchpad I made two "teams" -- groups really. They are: inkscape.admin http://launchpad.net/~inkscape.admin inkscape.bugs http://launchpad.net/~inkscape.bugs Basically the first one can edit the Inkscape project and the second is set up for the bug tracker. I don't believe that you need to be in inkscape.bugs to work with bugs, but I do believe it'll give you more ability to work with bugs. Anyway, if you think you should be in those groups apply to them and I'll add you. --Ted PS - If you're in inkscape.admin that automatically puts you in inkscape.bugs

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Status report
by Maximilian Albert 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi all, just to keep you informed, and because some people are probably waiting for status updates from me (I hope this is not the reason why Bryce hasn't announced Chill yet) - I'm now almost finished with the transition of the 3D box tool from the old to the new internal representation. I'm planning to merge the changes into trunk sometime this week and continue working there. I'm also going to write up a description of what these changes comprise (and why they were necessary/what they will be useful for), what's still missing and what is on my TODO list for further work on the tool. Well, going to sleep now so as to be fresh for work tomorrow (although it's probably already too late for that). :) Max

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad migration complete (was Re: Inkscape demo import)
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:57:34PM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > The import was performed with a fresh screen scrape of the SF.net > tracker, so it should be fairly complete. It would be good to hide > the SF.net tracker now to prevent people from filing new bugs in the > wrong place. This has been done. We're in the middle of transitioning the website to a new VM, but we'll get the links and such updated after that. Bryce

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DOM for scripting?
by Terry Hancock 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi all, About a year ago, I posted regarding a Python graphical scripting tool I was working on. I got sort of hung in the middle, because I started with Skencil, then started looking at Inkscape. Inkscape was simpler in one respect because the SVG representation is easier to manipulate, but it's harder to integrate the plugin because I couldn't (easily) *use* Inkscape from the script. For example, it would be nice to be able to select and skew an object using Inkscape's selection and transformation tool rather than having to compute and apply the transformation at the point level within my program, but that would require a way to call that tool from the Python script. In Skencil, by contrast, this is relatively simple to do, because the Skencil API is completely accessible to scripts and plugins. The downside is that Skencil uses an internal Python object model for the drawing which is not easily serializable. Thus, for example, it is very awkward to keep a library of drawing components available for my program to manipulate. When I brought this up on inkscape-user, I was told that a DOM API would (at sometime) be made available which would solve this problem (although now that I think about it, "document" doesn't really fit, though "object model" does -- this may've been a miscommunication?) I have recently seen "DOM" mentioned in the inkscape-devel archives, but that seems to be a different concept -- the idea of a DOM to describe the SVG file being manipulated, not the Inkscape application doing the manipulation. I didn't have a pressing enough need for the tool I was writing to plow through this obstacle, so I wound up setting it aside, thinking that it might prove easier later anyway. So I'd just like to ask if functionality like this already exists in Inkscape, is on an existing roadmap, or if this is something I ought to place as a feature request? Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock (hancock@...1838...) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com

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Inkscape Contract Programming
by Michael Yinger 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

First, I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum for this kind of question. I've been getting up to speed on Inkscape and Scribus. I'd like to get up to speed much faster and would be happy to pay someone to help me do that. If you are interested please email me at myinger@...1835... -- Mike Yinger

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Inkscape crash under FreeBSD
by Zlog Vladimir 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

# Inkscape is crashing when I want to change the color for the background of the first page. ################ HOW TO REPRODUCE ################ - run inkscape - go to File -> Document Properties - at first tab(Page) in General go to choose a new color for the background; - at Background Color Window in Wheel tab write/paste a value for RGBA textfield. - then try to change the alpha opacity and you will get the following message: "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now." ################ Uname -a ################ FreeBSD dexter.lab.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Nov 14 21:06:54 EET 2007 root@...1836...:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEXTER i386 ################ gdb message ################ ... ... ... symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 0x29b01100 (LWP 100048)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... #######-----> Important message Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread 0x29b01100 (LWP 100048)] 0x2978cb17 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7 I will attach two snapshot's of the screen and if you will need i will attach at your request inkscape.core because these one has 55mb. Thank you. Regards Zlog Vladimir

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Broken linux build
by Denis Leroy 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

/src> svn diff selection-chemistry.cpp Index: selection-chemistry.cpp =================================================================== --- selection-chemistry.cpp (revision 16550) +++ selection-chemistry.cpp (working copy) @@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ #include "selection-chemistry.h" -//# +#ifdef WIN32 #include <windows.h> -//# +#endif +

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XICC support
by Jon A. Cruz 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

I finished getting base XICC support in. It works for me with two monitors, including changing dynamically as profiles are attached or removed or as windows are moved across displays. Give things a run through and see how it goes.

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Width control in Bend Path LPE
by unknown＠example.com 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, Before I leave on a trip for a couple of days, I decided to add width control to bend path. See the picture showing bits of two screenshots. One editing the bend path as usual, and one editing the width of the path. Already works quite nicely! This is sort of a test to see how the UI should be for "1D" path parameters (path parameters for which e.g. only the y value matters, like functions: y = f(t) ) For those not convinced of 2geom power: I did this within half an hour....... (so probably many bugs here!) Happy bending! Johan

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PixbufError
by unknown＠example.com 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, Who, on Linux, can reproduce this bug? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1679218&group_i d=93438&atid=604306 And who can't :-) 1. touch test.jpg 2. open inkscape and browse to test.jpg in the open file dialog. Either you should see: ** Message: Gdk::PixbufError in SVGPreview::showImage which is good. Or you see something different, which is what I am seeing and is not good. Trying to track down this weird strange bug, Johan

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Debugging Inkscape on windows
by unknown＠example.com 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I have just written an account of how I fixed a bug: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/DebuggingTips#Example_of_how_to_ fix_a_bug I hope you can get some tips from that page that help tackle bugs faster. Moreover, if you have any, add your tips aswell! Cheers, Johan

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compatibility with azerty keyboard
by Tomas Fiers 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, The keyboard shortcut for rotating an object are '[' and ']'. I'm using an azerty-keyboard (I live in Belgium) but somehow 'alt+[ or ]' doesn't work. I've been searching to change the key bindings for this, but I didn't find any reference to it. I hope someone over here knows a solution. Greets, Tomas P.S. This is a resend, I sent my previous without a subject.

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Weird issue saving in PDF
by Jaime Martínez-Figueroa 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi I'm using both Inkscape 0.45.1.1 and a snap from this monday in Win32 (but with older snaps was the same). There is a huge difference when saving in PDF files, other users reported an issue with the size of the files but the biggest difference is the quality, with 0.45.1.1 the PDF file is vectorial (~18kb) and with the snap it's a bitmap (~315kb)! BTW, the source SVG was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:YamahaMotorCo.svg Please note that I tried replacing the new libcairo2.dll with the older file and the result was the same. Best regards -- Jaime F. Martínez Figueroa Electronics and Computer Science in the way [P!]Wack in the net, visit http://alumnos.elo.utfsm.cl/~jmartinez/ meatPixel at http://meatpixel.net

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(no subject)
by Tomas Fiers 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi all, The keyboard shortcut for rotating an object are '[' and ']'. I'm using an azerty-keyboard (I live in Belgium) but somehow 'alt+[ or ]' doesn't work. I've been searching to change the key bindings for this, but i didn't find any reference to it. I hope someone over here knows a solution. Greets, Tomas

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] bold some words issue in OSX
by jiho 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

For devel list: the discussion was about the bug which prevents some fonts to display their bold variants on OS X. On 2007-November-22 , at 18:48 , iuri kothe wrote: > Could this (bold/font issue) be addressed as a Bug for Pango (or > Inkscape)? > Or has it already been addressed? The bug is already filled for Inkscape. Don't know about Pango but since it is quite old I hope it went back to them. Gail worked a lot with Pango stuff for the summer of code. Gail do you know if they are aware of this issue and what is needed to solve it? Inkscape bug tracker will be moved to Launchpad soon. Once it's done, Launchpad will allow us to link our bugs to those of other projects, including Pango probably. Such issues will therefore be much easier to forward upstream if it's not already done. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win23 build broken: poppler link problem
by unknown＠example.com 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Thanks Miklos, this worked. I have changed build.xml to *not* define HAVE_POPPLER_CAIRO in config.h. Cheers, Johan > -----Original Message----- > From: Miklós Erdélyi [mailto:erdelyim@...400...] > Sent: dinsdag 20 november 2007 18:47 > To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] win23 build broken: poppler link problem > > Check config.h whether HAVE_POPPLER_CAIRO is enabled. If it > is, you need to link against libpoppler-glib (I don't know > how it could be achieved under winxp, under linux it's a > LD_FLAG -lpoppler-glib). So if you don't have poppler-glib, > or cannot link to it, undef HAVE_POPPLER_CAIRO in config.h. > Then you won't have preview in the PDF import dialog box > (only embedded thumbnails), but you'll able to build inkscape. > Hope this helped a bit. > Best regards, > miklos > > On Nov 20, 2007 6:18 PM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote: > > I tried with SVN's build.xml (only change I had was > -mconsole I think, > > so just to be sure) and it still does not work :-( > > > > -johan > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: inkscape-devel-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > [mailto:inkscape-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On > Behalf Of > > > Bob Jamison > > > Sent: dinsdag 20 november 2007 6:29 > > > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] win23 build broken: poppler link > > > problem > > > > > > Your problem is possibly the build.xml file. It changed > recently, > > > so maybe if you have a locally edited copy of it, and it hasn't > > > merged with the tree yet, some includes or libs can be > missing from > > > the compile or link. > > > > > > > > > bob > > > > > > > > > Diederik van Lierop wrote: > > > > First time ever that I tried to compile on XP, to solve a > > > windows-only > > > > bug, but I just ran into the same error... > > > > > > > > Diederik > > > > > > > > J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi all, > > > >> > > > >> I am trying to clean build 16528 but I get the following > > > linker error: > > > >> > > > >> Make error line 373: LINK problem: > > > >> build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2c8): > > > >> undefined reference to `poppler_document_get_page' > > > >> build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2d6): > > > >> undefined reference to `poppler_page_render' > > > >> build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2ba8): > > > >> undefined reference to `poppler_document_new_from_file' > > > >> build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x4f7b): > > > >> undefined reference to `poppler_document_new_from_file' > > > >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > >> > > > >> I am using the latest devpackage from modevia.com: > > > >> http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/devlibs-2.12-071115.7z > > > >> > > > >> -Johan > > > >> > > > >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - > > > >> ---- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all > > > >> challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > > >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > > --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all > > > challenges. > > > > Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----------- > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. > > > Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all > challenges. > > Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape demo import
by Bryce Harrington 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:42:29AM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > > > Assuming this import looks okay, what sort of time frame do you want > > > for the migration? > > > > We're now ready to go forward at your convenience. > > Okay. How does Tuesday morning my time sound? I am in UTC+9, so I > guess you'd still be Monday afternoon for you then. The rollout should > be over long before then, and I can check to see if there are any > problems that'd prevent the migration on Monday. Sure, that sounds great. > > Because of this, I think the best approach would be for you to give me > > an indication of roughly when you'll be able to start the migration. I > > will then plan on hiding all of SourceForge's trackers for Inkscape and > > then email you a go-ahead. You can then run the screen scrapers and > > then bring up the new bug tracking at Launchpad. > > > > Meanwhile, we can let our users know of the downtime, and work on > > repointing our website bug tracker links to Launchpad. Hopefully then > > we'll be good to go! > > Okay. Hopefully hiding the tracker doesn't prevent screen scraping it. Hrm... I bet it would prevent the screen scraping. Okay, looking at it again, I could go through and delete each account from being able to post to the tracker, including anonymous people. This is a bit more cumbersome but would leave the tracker visible for screen scraping. I'll plan on doing this then. Bryce

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Blur spinner digits
by Guillaume Pothier 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi, I've just checked out the SVN trunk to play with the new "huge bitmap export" feature, which is really cool! So, I have a rather large page (70x150cm) which I'm exporting at 100dpi. There is an image in my drawing, which is relatively low resolution compared to what I am exporting, so I want to blur it a bit so that it doesn't appear so pixellized in the output. The issue is that the blur control in the Fill & stroke dialog doesn't let me enter very low blur values. Or to be more precise, I can enter a small value like 0.03, the drawing is repainted with the exact level of blurring I want, but then when I do anything else the blur value goes back to 0. This is because the precision of the blur's spin is set to 1 digit (filter-effect-chooser.cpp:28). I changed it to 2 digits, and it now lets me enter a low blur value. Is it a good idea? Should I submit a patch? g

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] NEW: Live Path Effects
by unknown＠example.com 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

I just renamed the Path along Path LPE to Bend Path. I also changed this name in the Inkscape SVG representation. This means that your old files that used this effect no longer work. Reapplying the effect will not work as it will reinitialize some things. What you should do is go to the effect in the XML editor (in the defs section) and reset the effect attribute from 'path_along_path' to 'bend_path'. Sorry for the inconvenience :/ (note that the LPE still change a bit because of bug fixes. e.g. recently translation of things was changed, so your paths would be in the wrong place) - Johan > -----Original Message----- > From: bulia byak [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] > Sent: woensdag 21 november 2007 22:38 > To: Inkscape User Community; Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] NEW: Live Path Effects > > On Nov 21, 2007 5:25 PM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote: > > About the naming: perhaps I can at least settle on renaming 'path > > along path' to 'bend'. (the two names are so similar at the moment > > that even I misread things often...) > > Me too :) > > And please rename "stitch subcurves" - we don't have > subcurves in Inkscape, we have subpaths. > > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. Draw Freely. > http://www.inkscape.org >

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lib2geom status
by Ted Gould 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hey, Now that we're including a large part of lib2geom for LPE anyway; what else can we use it for? I'm unsure of the status of the whole library. One feature that I hear alot about when talking to people is the inset/outset function in Inkscape being "less than perfect." I think this was on the TODO for lib2geom, is it done? Thanks, Ted

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Names of LPEs
by unknown＠example.com 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi all, Because people are starting to use LPE and perhaps make tutorials? ;) I'd like to settle on the names for these two effects: They are now called: Path along path and Pattern along path in SVN. I think I'll keep one named Pattern along path (in svg now it is called "skeletal"); this one mimics the extension. The original path is some curved path. And it has a path *parameter* that is taken as a pattern and bent along the original path. The other one, I am thinking about "Bend path". The original path is the fish. And it has a path parameter that defines the curvature / the path along which to bend the fish, i.e. the now called 'bend path' parameter. Picking a sensible name is important for inkscape's svg. The UI text can be changed, the SVG text not. (because it would break people's files) Thanks a lot for your input, Johan

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libwpg error in compile
by Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Anyone know why I get this error during compile? Make[2]: *** No rule to make target `extension/internal/libwpg/Makefile_insert', needed by `Makefile.in'. Stop. pygmee mentioned on irc today he was getting the same thing. I know libwpg was separated out a few weeks ago - how do I get around this? JF

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape demo import
by Bryce Harrington 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:44:32PM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > [adding inkscape-devel back to the CC list] > > On 19/11/2007, James Henstridge <james@...1829...> wrote: > > On 15/11/2007, James Henstridge <james@...1829...> wrote: > > > On 15/11/2007, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > > > Hi James, > > > > > > > > Hope your flight home wasn't too insane (but I'm guessing it was!) > > > > I just wanted to check in with you on the Inkscape import, and see if > > > > there's anything more we could do to assist. > > > > > > I took a few days off after allhands, so only arrived back home this > > > morning. I'll try and get you a new demo import soon. The main tasks > > > are: > > > 1. figure out what happened to the rest of the bug reports > > > 2. modify the importer to match your status/importance/category usage. > > > > Hi Bryce, > > > > I've updated the demo import of the Inkscape bugs. The missing bugs > > were due to a faulty download of one SF.net bug report that I did not > > catch. > > > > I've updated the group, importance and status handling to match your > > requirements. Please tell me whether it looks okay now. > > > > https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/inkscape/ Hi James, I did some spot checks, and yes it now looks okay. The bug counts look like they now match up fine, and the bug states look like they've mapped well. > Assuming this import looks okay, what sort of time frame do you want > for the migration? We're now ready to go forward at your convenience. > There are a few timing constraints on our side that need to be taken > into account: > > 1. We are rolling out a new version of the Launchpad code base this > week, and I don't think there will be time to complete a migration > before that happens. So the earliest will be next week. Understood. > 2. The migration process depends on screen scraping SourceForge.net. > If you scrape SF.net too fast, they block your IP address. So it will > take a number of hours to get a fresh dump (I won't have to > re-download the attachments this time though). > If it is possible to disable filing of new bugs before the migration, > that would also be help reduce the chance of lost bug reports. Certainly. I've looked into this. It is possible to cause the bug tracker (and RFE's, patches) to be "hidden" so people can no longer submit to them. It does not appear to be possible to "lock" them but leave them visible. Because of this, I think the best approach would be for you to give me an indication of roughly when you'll be able to start the migration. I will then plan on hiding all of SourceForge's trackers for Inkscape and then email you a go-ahead. You can then run the screen scrapers and then bring up the new bug tracking at Launchpad. Meanwhile, we can let our users know of the downtime, and work on repointing our website bug tracker links to Launchpad. Hopefully then we'll be good to go! Thanks again! Bryce

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separate RSS feeds
by Alexandre Prokoudine 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi, Not sure this is the right list, but here goes: is it possible to have a separate RSS feeds for each available langauge? Currently news are available in cs, de, en, es, fr, it and ru. Alexandre

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windows tablet bug
by bulia byak 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Look at this diff: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ&curid=140&diff=16864&oldi… Does anyone have any idea for fixing this? Has anyone contacted GTK folks? I'm not in the game as I don't develop on Windows, and when I reboot into win2000 my tablet works just fine. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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win23 build broken: poppler link problem
by unknown＠example.com 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi all, I am trying to clean build 16528 but I get the following linker error: Make error line 373: LINK problem: build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2c8): undefined reference to `poppler_document_get_page' build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2d6): undefined reference to `poppler_page_render' build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2ba8): undefined reference to `poppler_document_new_from_file' build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x4f7b): undefined reference to `poppler_document_new_from_file' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I am using the latest devpackage from modevia.com: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/devlibs-2.12-071115.7z -Johan

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Broken Autopackage builds
by Nicu Buculei 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Since I upgraded my system to Fedora 8 a couple of weeks ago I am unable to use the Autopackage development builds anymore. It installs, claim the dependencies are satisfied but won't start due to missing libraries, here are a few examples: - it want libMagick++.so.9 (and I have libMagick++.so.10); - it want libMagick.so.9 (and I have libMagick.so.10); - it want libWand.so.9 (and I have libWand.so.10); - it want libtiff.so.4 (and I have libtiff.so.3) and maybe some more, I just gave up at libjasper-1.701.so which I don't have at all (I have only libjasper.so). Wasn't Autopackage supposed to have some kind of dependency checker? -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ my clipart collection: http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/

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Thanks for Inkscape!
by Donn 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

To all the devs out there, I just wanted to send a warm-hearted THANKS for Inkscape and all your work. I have been using it to design my house plans and without this wonderful free-of-chains tool, my options would have been dismal and slight. Your work is making a difference in the world; Inkscape is a marvel and I'm sure you never get thanked enough. Regards, Donn Ingle South Africa.

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Online vectorizing application
by jiho 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hello everyone, I just found out about this app developed at Stanford: http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ which offers high quality bitmap vectorization/tracing through and online interface. There is a comparison of its output with Adobe and Corel's ones. The good part is that Inkscape's trace (well Potrace one actually) is already _way_ better than those two ;) However, VectorMagic takes it even a step higher. Their output is really nice. For comparison purposes I created a file with their test images, Inkscape's trace and VectorMagic trace: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/VectorMagicTests.svgz Bear in mind that their second image is hand tweaked in the middle of the tracing process and that mine are probably not the best Inkscape/ Potrace can do. I tried to tweak Potrace's parameters the best I could but I am no expert. Be that as it may, their output is still superior, particularly on the first image. Since it is developed in a university lab I wonder how they would license it. Maybe getting them a bit exited about Inkscape would incline them toward putting their code under a license liberal enough for Inkscape to use it. I did not contact them but I think it would be a good thing if someone more officially involved in Inkscape contacted them and discussed a possible collaboration, or at least pointed them to the traces Inkscape/Potrace can produce. I would love to see a fifth column on their comparison page with Inkscape kicking Adobe and Corel's a.... ;) Anyway, even currently their tracing service can be very useful to Inkscape users (they export SVG!). JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Inkscape under KDE - focus question
by Donn 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi, I know KDE can do all kinds of funky tricks with windows and focus etc. I was wondering if anyone out there has a way to do this: Make the floating dialogues (like align) release the focus (perhaps when the mouse is away) so that the main canvas keeps it. I am quite worn down by all the click one has to do to get the focus (keyboard) back onto the canvas between uses of dialogues -- one has to click the title bar so selections are not lost and then carry on. So, it's click, select, click the dialogue, work, click title bar, continue, repeat. I could set focus to follow mouse, but that affects *all* other apps and it's not cool. Just wondering. /d -- If there is anyone in the audience who believes in telekinesis, please raise my hand! -- James Randi

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Inkscape architecture - another idea
by Donn 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi all, I have been back on my house plans for a day and one thing just occurred to me: I am having trouble setting a scale. It sounds simple enough: pick a unit, call it X mm's and carry on. But, the plans have been to a draughtsman and back, into the scanner and onto a bottom layer. So I am tracing (drawing over) those drawings and his scale is 1:100 which after the scan and the resize to fit A4 is anyone's guess :) So, my idea is this: Have a tool that one can snap from one point to another -- say along a line of known world length (call it 6000mm) and have it set the the grid size accordingly. I'm not gifted numerically, so giving particulars is unlikely to happen soon, but I'd say that if the grid could mark-off 1 "meter" and 0.5 "meter" lines according to the 6000 "mm" ( which is some random pixel count after all the resizing/scanning ) such that they visually match that same line - it would be very helpful. So, after using the tool, I'd be able to draw a line next to the original (which is marked at 6000mm) and my line would be (say) 600px. I'd also have a grid across the whole drawing set accordingly. (Oh, while I'm on it - a way to click a point on a corner of the drawing to say : start the grid here!) I guess it would have to fiddle with the overall matrix of the drawing, but here I lose all credibility :) Sorry if this is garbled, I'm still waking up and in a rush to meet the builder and ... I gotta go! Now - go forth and write code because *I* said so :D :P /d

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Cloning clones
by unknown＠example.com 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi all, Right now the cloning ctrl+D explanation text says: "Create a clone (a copy linked to the original) of selected object" This was confusing for me, since I read it as: Create a clone. A copy linked to the original of the selected object. I'd like to add a feature that does what I initially tought ctrl+D did: create a clone of the original of an object. This way I can clone around without making enormous clone chains. (often i have the original somewhere off-canvas, and it is much easier to clone a clone) shortcut = Ctrl+Alt+D Does this make sense? What would be the explaining text? "Create a clone of the original of selected object" Thanks, Johan

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Icon sizes in Inkscape UI
by Michael Grosberg 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, I'm trying to create icons for Inkscape's Tango icon set. I noticed that while the icons in the current default set are designed as 16x16 pixel icons, they are rendered as 13X13 icons. I tried first to recreate the import and export icons. They look fine on the toolbar, but in the menu they don't look well at all. Strangely, the other icons look somewhat better. It almost looks as if the two icons I created are being rescaled using a "nearest neighbor" algorithm instead of interpolation. I checked and double checked - they are exactly on the grid and in the same size as the rest of the icons. So, I'd like to know, first, as long as this size is used, what should I do to make the icons look OK? Secondly, why was the 13X13 pixels size used in the first place? As far as I know Inkscape is the only app using this size. I also noticed odd icon sizes both in the SVG file (such as 27X27 icons) and on Ubuntu, some icons that should be small such as the four "affect" buttons at the end of the select and transform toolbar are excessively large. One more question I'd like to open for debate is, are too many icons used in the menus? Usually, only "important" features get icons, to make them more easily recognizable in a long menu. Giving everything an icon misses the point because easy recognition is no longer possible. We can still have all the icons in the icons.svg file, but I think the number of actually used icons in the menu should be lower.

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new button
by bulia byak 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Jon, what is that new button you added to the main UI? For me it's just disabled so I have no idea what it does. Judging by the code, it has something to do with "adjusting the display". Do you think this adjusting has to happen so often as to deserve a button right where you added it? I think any adjustments are best kept in preferences. In any case, the place you chose for the button is most unfortunate. I always hide the scrollbars to free some extra room for the canvas, and now this just results in two empty strips of unused space to the left and upwards from your button. In other words, your single button takes as much space as the two scrollbars! Please reconsider this. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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2Geom assertions => exceptions
by unknown＠example.com 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Hi all, I've made a nice system to replace the 2geom assertions I think (this is what makes LPE crash in at least one case). Please have a look of what I coded into the 2geom dir of Inkscape now [1]. My next step is to change asserts into assert_invariants, such that an exception is thrown instead of a terminate(). I'd also like to splice the exception stuff from utils.h into a separate file. Planning on moving this to lib2geom svn head very soon; just give a shout when it's not any good! Cheers, Johan [1]: http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/2 geom/utils.h?revision=16507&view=markup

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today's compile error
by bulia byak 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

main.cpp: In function 'void sp_do_export_png(SPDocument*)': main.cpp:981: error: 'errno' was not declared in this scope main.cpp:981: error: 'ERANGE' was not declared in this scope -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Improved performance of the object snapper
by bulia byak 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

On Nov 16, 2007 12:04 PM, Diederik van Lierop <mail@...1689...> wrote: > bulia byak wrote: > > IMHO the key thing here is not just snapping to extensions of bbox, > > but _visualizing_ what it is that you snap to. In AI, it flashes the > > snap line when it snaps. We need to add infrastructure that would > > enable such displays when snapping, then smart guides will be easy. > > > > Absolutely! It's also needed for the post-snap visualization that was > discussed a few months ago, in which something lights up for a second at > the point that has snapped. What would be a good starting point in the > code to find out how such a thing would be drawn to the canvas? Do you > already have passive elements like that, not allowing user interaction > and disappearing after some time? Of course. We have a number of classes that draw various helper things on the canvas. These classes handle proper canvas redraw (so you don't have to worry about that) and usually have methods for setting coordinates, colors, showing/hiding etc. Note that unlike regular objects, these helper thingies can use inverse color so they are visible on any background. But these classes do not do any user interaction; that is performed by upstream classes that uses these display classes. They also have no provisions for automatically disappearing after a time, that you will need to add in your own code. Here they are: display/sp-ctrlline - draws a straight line, used by node tool bezier handles and by gradient tool for gradient lines display/sodipodi-ctrrect - draws an upright rectangle, used for rubberband selection display/sodipodi-ctrl - draws a number of various small fixed-size shapes, such as diamond, circle etc; used for knots and nodes display/sp-ctrlquadr - draws an arbitrary quadrilateral, used for text selection display/canvas-bpath - draws an arbitrary path with antialiasing, used for the red helper path in Node tool and for Pen tool, as well as for Tweak tool's circle (note: this one is slightly buggy, it leaves behind some dirt on the canvas; I want to switch it to using cairo but it's not yet possible due to incompatibility of buffer formats). You can search the codebase for a lot of examples of using these things. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Improved performance of the object snapper
by unknown＠example.com 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

About the disappearing after some time: desktop->messageStack()->flash( Inkscape::WARNING_MESSAGE, "blah" ); That puts a message on the statusbar for a couple of seconds. -Johan > -----Original Message----- > From: inkscape-user-bounces(a)lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On > Behalf Of Diederik van Lierop > Sent: vrijdag 16 november 2007 18:05 > To: Inkscape User Community > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Improved > performance of the object snapper > > bulia byak wrote: > > IMHO the key thing here is not just snapping to extensions of bbox, > > but _visualizing_ what it is that you snap to. In AI, it > flashes the > > snap line when it snaps. We need to add infrastructure that would > > enable such displays when snapping, then smart guides will be easy. > > > > Absolutely! It's also needed for the post-snap visualization > that was discussed a few months ago, in which something > lights up for a second at the point that has snapped. What > would be a good starting point in the code to find out how > such a thing would be drawn to the canvas? Do you already > have passive elements like that, not allowing user > interaction and disappearing after some time? > > Diederik > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all > challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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SVN error
by Michael Yinger 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hi All, I'm trying to build an inkscape project by importing the inkscape SVN repository. Everything goes along fine until I get to xml-tree.cpp and I get an error. I've tried it with various SVN clients in Win XP and Linux (Fedora). I've been able to do this about a week ago. Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any help you can give. ... Added: C:\Documents and Settings\myinger\workspace\src\dialogs\item- properties.h Added: C:\Documents and Settings\myinger\workspace\src\dialogs\xml-tree.cpp Error: REPORT request failed on '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/vcc/default' Error: REPORT of '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read chunk delimiter: Secure connection truncated (https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net) Thanks. -- Mike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] perfect bound cover
by John Bintz 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 2:44 PM, John Bintz <jcoswell@...1414...> wrote: >> That's because I didn't actually test to see if <_option> elements >> worked, I just assumed it would. :( I just put that fix into the >> extensions code and now it's working. Try it now. >> > > For some reason options do not show up as translated :-/ Unfortunately, I'm not seeing how you would make the translated option elements show up correctly, even after getting the <_option> tags working. :/ Aaron, Ted: do you have any insights? Thanks, John

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Mouse Location
by Gail Carmichael 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi all! I'm playing with a little accelerometer and I want to see how well I can get it to work in Inkscape so that it would replace the mouse. I was wondering if anyone could tell me where exactly the mouse location is read? I am literally going to plug code to read this accelerometer there instead. Clearly, this is not work that will be usable in Inkscape! Just for fun :) Thanks, Gail

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Improved performance of the object snapper
by Alexandre Prokoudine 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

On Nov 15, 2007 10:35 PM, Diederik van Lierop wrote: > Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > I wonder if within current snapping framework the so called Smart > > Guides are possible. That is -- snapping without touching. > > This is new to me, but it looks like it simply aligns > vertically/horizontally to the boundingbox of objects at any distance, > am I correct? Yes, both BB and rotation center. > Such a thing is not supported by the current snapping > framework, but it shouldn't be too difficult to implement. Sounds like a dream :) > If implemented, it will need a key binding though to easily turn this > on/off because otherwise it will get annoying. Definitely! :) Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Improved performance of the object snapper
by bulia byak 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

On 9/5/07, Diederik van Lierop <mail@...1689...> wrote: > The last few days I've spent on improving the performance of the object > snapper. It used to take ages (e.g about 6 seconds on my machine) to > move a simple rectangle over a large text box, but I've managed to > reduce this significantly (i.e. < 1 sec.!). This was with both snapping > to paths and snapping to nodes turned on. For this I had to refactor the > object snapper code significantly, so I might have introduced new bugs > or regressions. Please be aware of this and report any suspicious > behavior, so we can have both fast and robust snapping in v0.46! Thanks, great news! Please add a note about that in the "speed and interactivity" section of the release notes as well. > Please note that the performance has only increased when using the > selector tool for transforming a number of points, e.g. when dragging a > selection. Using the node tool to drag a single node will not benefit > from this. I just tried to test this: opened new document, drew a spiral and a small rect, then opened doc prefs and turned on "snapping of: bbox corners" and "snapping to objects: snap to paths". But when I drag the rect it does not snap to the spiral. What am I doing wrong? > Before, for _every_ point in the selection being transformed (using the > selector tool), Inkscape would search for snapping candidates, build a > list of nodes and paths, and finally call convertWithBackData(). Only > then would it snap this single point and start all over again for the > next point in the selection. Now we only do this collecting and > converting stuff once, store the results, and then snap all points in > the selection (using the stored data). Not having to call > convertWithBackData really helps a lot! I think that in many common > cases this improves the performance dramatically. Yes, this is approximately how I imagined that. The convertWithBackData, as all livarot functions, is very slow. Hopefully we'll be able to use 2geom for that task one day. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Compiling on Linux
by Docsonic 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

my apologies for cross-posting but I wasn't getting any response in Inkscape-User so I thought I might have posted to the wrong list. I tried to install the latest autopackage of Inkscape but it seems my glibc is too old (Requires GLIBC_2.4 - I have GLIBC_2.3.6 ... is it possible to release a GLIBC_2.3.6 autopackage?) and the package suggested I install from sources. When I try to compile the source, i get an error - ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h:247: error: expected class-name before '{' token ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h: In constructor 'Inkscape::UI::Dialog::FileListViewText::FileListViewText(guint, Inkscape::UI::Dialog::SVGPreview&, Gtk::Label&, Gtk::Button&)': ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h:250: error: class 'Inkscape::UI::Dialog::FileListViewText' does not have any field named 'ListViewText' I use Debian Etch (stable) so it seems compiling myself is my best option but I have tried with about 5 different source packages and the result is always the same (the package which created this error was 16060 but it is still there in 16148). Thanks, Tony -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Compiling-on-Linux-tf4534516.html#a12940589 Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Failing compile with 2geom/path.h
by Mason Thomas 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hi, I have recently been unable to compile Inkscape on Linux because of a compile failure in nodepath.cpp. It exhibits the same failure, even when I checkout an older version that used to compile for me! Here is the beginning of the message I get (it goes on much longer), could someone please help? Thanks, -Mason In file included from live_effects/effect.h:16, from live_effects/lpeobject.h:13, from nodepath.cpp:50: ./2geom/path.h:72: warning: `virtual Geom::Curve* Geom::Curve::reverse() const' was hidden ./2geom/path.h:313: warning: by `Geom::Curve* Geom::SVGEllipticalArc::reverse(double, double) const' ./2geom/path.h: In member function `Geom::BaseIterator<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<Geom::Curve**, std::vector<Geom::Curve*, std::allocator<Geom::Curve*> > > > Geom::Path::begin()': ./2geom/path.h:376: error: `Geom::BaseIterator<IteratorImpl>::BaseIterator(const IteratorImpl&) [with IteratorImpl = __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<Geom::Curve**, std::vector<Geom::Curve*, std::allocator<Geom::Curve*> > >]' is private ./2geom/path.h:472: error: within this context ./2geom/path.h: In member function `Geom::BaseIterator<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<Geom::Curve**, std::vector<Geom::Curve*, std::allocator<Geom::Curve*> > > > Geom::Path::end()': ./2geom/path.h:376: error: `Geom::BaseIterator<IteratorImpl>::BaseIterator(const IteratorImpl&) [with IteratorImpl = __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<Geom::Curve**, std::vector<Geom::Curve*, std::allocator<Geom::Curve*> > >]' is private ./2geom/path.h:473: error: within this context

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Using multi-path objects with the "Pattern along path" or "path along path" effects
by Tony Vigil 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Currently, only a single path can be placed along the path in a single instance of the effect. Will either effect ever be able to place an object (with multiple paths) along a path? Perhaps even turned into a stroke style??? The reason I ask is that it would be very nice to be able to create brushes (objects with multiple paths) that could be placed along a path. Here is an example of what I am talking about... http://soundnvision.homestead.com/files/brush_along_path.png The steps required to make the various shades of my example brush follow a single path is very time consuming. After I trace the bitmap, I need to include a bounding rectangle with each object that makes up the different shades of the brush so that each element is placed relative to all other elements along the same path. Then, each element is placed along the path separately. You can't edit the original path and have ALL of the elements respond accordingly. Therefore, you must start the process all over again if you don't have the original path placed exactly as as you need based on your brush shape. Best case scenario... this effect becomes a stroke style that can be applied to any object (i.e. rectangles, ellipses, text, spirals, etc.), not just path objects. The only other place I've ever seen this type of tool is in Microsoft Expression. Inkscape's path effect comes close, but doesn't quite hit the mark. - Tony

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student project : distortion envelope tool
by Steren Giannini 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hello, It is now official for the administration of our school, we are starting working on the "distortion envelope tool" at the end of december. Our official "tutor" from the dev team is Johan Engelen. The school is only interested in observing how we manage to organize our project alone and if we meet the requirements. I'll be the project leader, we are 6 in the team and we will be working for 5 months. (from 4 to 8 hours a week) We are before all inkscape users and we are very exited to build something for it. The goals are : - create the distortion tool engine for paths (using lib2geom, and path effects) - create the tool's UI - extend path effects to groups for the distortion tool and others (path along path for example) Of course : - SVG compliant - The original object is saved. If the project goes well, the goals could be extended. We'll see with Johan. (nb : Yesterday, I was thinking about path effect on clones, path effect on texts...) Bye, Steren

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Automatically set Z-order
by bulia byak 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

On Nov 13, 2007 2:21 AM, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:43 -0400, bulia byak wrote: > > I dunno about Gimp, but Inkscape extensions are pretty easy. This one > > however is a bit cumbersome because Inkscape does not pass to the > > extensions the bboxes of the selected objects. (I proposed to add this > > to the extensions API; Ted, is there any reason why you don't want to > > do this?) > There is no reason that it hasn't been done other than time. I guess > that, and deciding a format for it, but I think we've discussed that too > (I'd have to go through my mail). This should be a pretty easy task for > someone who wants to do it. There is already a loop going through all > of the selected items, you'd just need to find the bounding boxes and > add that to the parameter list. Will it require any changes in the existing extensions? I think it should be done before 0.46 then, because it will make a lot of different extensions easier, and the API changes should be done as early as possible. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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dirty on load
by bulia byak 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

This is one of the most annoying and visible recent bugs - right after clean start, the empty document is dirtied and it asks if I want to save it upon quitting. The undo stack is empty however. Can anyone please look into it? I think it's pretty recent. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Check out my Favorites on StumbleUpon
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12 Nov '07

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tweak tool screenshots
by bulia byak 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.46-tweak-path.png http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.46-tweak-color.png enjoy -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape profiling: Inkscape::FontLister::FontLister question
by John Bintz 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi, all. I'm experimenting with profiling Inkscape in Valgrind looking for potential slow spots in the code, and had a question for those with more knowledge of the font loading code. One of the first places in the initialization code where I think there could be a speedup is in Inkscape::FontLister::FontLister. This method calls font_factory::Styles once for each font family that is returned by font_factory::Families. In my test run of opening and closing Inkscape with 142 font families returned by font_factory::Families, running Inkscape::FontLister::FontLister took just over 20% of the total runtime. If there were some way to cache this font information between runs of Inkscape and only update it if the fonts on the system have changed, or if there was a way to push back the loading of fonts to later in the program execution -- say the first time someone viewed the Text toolbar or something similar -- I think it might speed up startup time in Inkscape. Anyone willing to help me take a look into this to see if this will work? Thanks, John

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Fix for Font Name Case bug #1818885
by Thomas Worthington 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

I've put a diff that fixes this bug at http://www.tww.cx/downloads/fontcase.diff I'd love to say that there must be an easier way but instead I'd like to say that the person that defined the C++ string class without case-changing functions should themselves be strung up! The method used needs to be checked by someone who actually knows C++ to see if it will handle non-ASCII font names. I don't have any such fonts to test it with and I'm not sure enough about how C++'s toupper function works on unicode to even guess whether it will work or not. The diff file also adds some comments to toolbox.cpp. Thanks to Gail for pointing me in the direction of that file, BTW, it would have taken me even longer to come up with a fix without her quick reply to my query. Finally, the diff file has some changes to a pair of makefiles which are a mystery to me; I never touched them, Gov'nor! Thomas

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adding templates
by Alexandre Prokoudine 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi, How do we decide if we add new templates? http://understandinglimited.com/2007/10/29/inscape2fontforge/ sounds like a perfect candidate to me :) Also, do we have any policy regarding new extensions - which ones we can bundle with the package and which ones we can't? Alexandre

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Non-programming tasks
by Joshua A. Andler 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hey all, It seems like a good time to discuss non-programming related items given the icon conversation. I figure we can get some thoughts out on the list and work from there. Basically, let's try and free the people who program from the tasks that the rest of us can do. ;) It's common for people to say "well if I could program I'd...", well, if you can't, but want more programming done on inkscape... here's your chance! The website: Realistically, we should probably have 2 or 3 volunteers that will agree to submit at least 1 news item per month. Bryce shouldn't be the only one. ;) It seems like it should be a fairly minimal commitment. I'm willing to fill one of those spots myself. I'll throw together something before the end of the week that talks about the persistent undo history that the MIT students are working on, and link to their page. Bryce, are you even still interested? On top of that, do you have the time? Either way, it is not difficult to find a couple news worthy items per month. Any other takers? Tutorials: Ryan Lerch and myself started to do some tutorial work for this development cycle a while back. I haven't contributed to this for a couple months as it seemed like there were still a number of changes going on at that point (plus a very busy schedule on my end). Luckily, it appears things are slowing down now on both fronts, so it seems like an opportune time to pick this back up. It's good for us to have more tutorials that focus on using features of inkscape (such as the in-progress clipping/masking/patterns tutorial), rather than tutorials for doing a particular task (easter egg). Do we have any volunteers to help us with tutorial writing/updating? Current discussion and drafts can be found at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TutorialUpdates-0.46 Also, as for tutorial localization and to attempt simplifying our files and the process for translators, I know there was discussion in the past about po2xml. Can anyone enlighten me on if this has change has been done? I've not updated my checkout of the tutorials in quite a while. If not, is this a huge task? Will there be any changes in formatting or the process for tutorial writers? Screenshots: Okay, do we think that artsy screenshots are in order yet? I have one that utilizes a number of filters, but a key piece of filter rendering is not correct (it's using turbulence). I also have an in-progress one that I'm using some filters on, but more importantly going to town with live path effects. Curve stitching is turning out to be my favorite feature in this dev cycle. :) The About screen: I just want to follow up on this. I know we're most likely not ready to go for it yet (as there are a number of filter bugs remaining). But I am just wondering if we think we're getting closer. Also, did Jon Phillips want to host this via ocal or create? Or are we going deviantART again? Just want to coordinate. Bugs & Feature Requests: Another area that generally needs attention is our bug and rfe trackers. It is always a big help if people can go through bug reports & feature requests and try to close duplicates, reproduce bugs, ask for more information where necessary, etc. Unfortunately, people submit items without searching the trackers first, so duplicates are quite common. Also, it's common that people will file a report and the issue is resolved in a development cycle, but they never come back to say that the issue has been fixed for them. Another common issue is anonymous bug reports. These get reported and never followed up on by the original poster as there is no way for us to contact them (these are fairly common to get fixed, but we don't get confirmation from those people). Anyone interested in helping with these that doesn't have access, please let us know. Thank you all for your time. -Josh P.S. Unrelated, is the 3d box tool not going to be activated for the next release?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape demo import
by Bryce Harrington 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:31:11PM -0500, James Henstridge wrote: > On 08/11/2007, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > Bugs appear reported in future > > ------------------------------ > > On this bug (and possibly others), the dates associated with > > buliabyak-users are in the future (2011, 2012). > > > > E.g. https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/157587 > > This is a case of garbage in, garbage out. Take a look at the > submission date of the source bug: > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1218610&group_id=9… Aha, ok our bad. I wonder how this happened. In any case, now that we know it's not caused by the import this issue can be ignored. > > Category mapped to milestones > > ----------------------------- > > For Inkscape, we used the SF Category to tag bugs by type. These appear > > to have been mapped to milestones by the converter, however. Instead, > > can you have the Categories just mapped into LP tags? > > The categories are being mapped to tags. It is the groups that are > being mapped to milestones (this is how Python was using bug groups). > I can certainly update the import to map groups to tags as well > though. That'd be great. Yes, since SF left both these things rather freeform it's not a surprise that different projects used them in different ways. Mapping both cats and groups to tags would be best for Inkscape. > > Missing Attachments > > ------------------- > > In a number of cases the bug attachments didn't come through correctly. > > Here is one example: > > > > SF.net > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1816893&group_id=9… > > Launchpad > > https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/159964 > > This is a display bug with Launchpad where it does not list > attachments associated with the first comment in the main content. > The attachment is visible in the attachments portlet on the left > though. You can also see it when viewing just the initial comment: > > https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/159964/comments/0 > > I am pretty sure we have a bug open for this, but don't have it handy. Aha, there it is. That would be a good bug to see fixed, but for now we'll just make a note to look in the portlet for attachments. (I hadn't ever noticed that before.) > > Fix Committed State > > ------------------- > > It appears that the 'Pending' state in SF was mapped to 'Fix Committed' > > in launchpad. We never really understood what 'Pending' meant, but > > what we used it for in Inkscape is more like the "Incomplete" state, so > > it should be mapped to that. > > Fair enough. If you have a preferred mapping from SF.net statuses and > resolutions to Launchpad statuses, I can tweak the import to match. Sure, here is how I'd map it, although this is only after a few minutes' thought, so there could be better mappings... Open Closed Deleted Pending None New Fix Released Invalid Incomplete Accepted Confirmed Fix Released Invalid Incomplete Fixed Fix Committed Fix Released Invalid Fix Committed Duplicate Invalid Invalid Invalid Invalid Invalid Invalid Invalid Invalid Invalid Out of Date Invalid Invalid Invalid Invalid Rejected Invalid Invalid Invalid Invalid Won't Fix Invalid Invalid Invalid Invalid Later In Progress Invalid Invalid In Progress Postponed In Progress Invalid Invalid In Progress Remind In Progress Invalid Invalid In Progress Works For Me In Progress Invalid Invalid In Progress > > Inconsistant Bug Stats > > ---------------------- > > The bug numbers in Launchpad show: > > > > Open 1144 > > Critical 43 > > New 809 > > Unassigned 826 > > All bugs ever reported 5536 > > > > while on sf we have: > > > > # Bugs : (801 open / 3,727 total) > > # Patches : (27 open / 828 total) > > # Feature Requests : (1,022 open / 2,183 total) > > > > We're curious how the numbers are arrived at, and what causes the stats > > discrepancies? > > > > (I'm guessing it's just due to terminology differences between SF and LP > > status, but am uncertain how they get mapped through.) > > So the break down I see in the database is: > > NEW: 809 > INVALID: 1993 > CONFIRMED: 312 > INPROGRESS: 5 > FIXCOMMITTED: 18 > FIXRELEASED: 2399 > UNKNOWN: 16 > Total: 5552 > > The counts shown on the Launchpad page omit duplicate bugs which would > account for a small part of the discrepency. The 16 unknowns are > pre-existing bug tasks that have bug watches pointing at SF.net. > > I think the numbers here should be a bit higher, so it does look like > some of the bugs got left out of the dump. I'll investigate and get > back to you on this. Cool, thanks. > > Map priority 5 bugs to New/Undecided status > > ------------------------------------------- > > By default, SourceForge sets the priority of newly reported bugs to 5. > > We found this irritating since it interferes with triaging the > > priorities of bugs. So as a hack-around we decided that priority 5 > > actually means "unprioritized". > > > > Can you set the script to map priority-5 bugs to be New/Undecided? > > We currently map "Open" bugs with no assignee and not in Accepted > state to NEW. So I guess mapping priority 5 to an unset importance > would solve this, right? Yes, that would do it. Thanks again! Bryce

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Methods hiding others
by Jon A. Cruz 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Aside from other warnings, I've spotted some of these. Given that they are around the path effects, there might be something to them. ./live_effects/effect.h:99: warning: 'virtual NArtBpath* Inkscape::LivePathEffect::Effect::doEffect(NArtBpath*)' was hidden ./live_effects/lpe-slant.h:27: warning: by 'virtual void Inkscape::LivePathEffect::LPESlant::doEffect(SPCurve*)' ./live_effects/effect.h:101: warning: 'virtual std::vector<Geom::Path, std::allocator<Geom::Path> > Inkscape::LivePathEffect::Effect::doEffect(std::vector<Geom::Path, std::allocator<Geom::Path> >&)\ ' was hidden ./live_effects/lpe-slant.h:27: warning: by 'virtual void Inkscape::LivePathEffect::LPESlant::doEffect(SPCurve*)' ./live_effects/effect.h:103: warning: 'virtual Geom::Piecewise<Geom::D2<Geom::SBasis> > Inkscape::LivePathEffect::Effect::doEffect (Geom::Piecewise<Geom::D2<Geom::SBasis> >&)' was hidden ./live_effects/lpe-slant.h:27: warning: by 'virtual void Inkscape::LivePathEffect::LPESlant::doEffect(SPCurve*)'

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape demo import
by Bryce Harrington 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:59:05PM -0500, James Henstridge wrote: > Hi Bryce, > > I've completed the demo import of Inkscape bug reports. You can view > the results here: > > https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/inkscape/ Hi James, We've had some time to review the demo site and poke around a bit. In general it looks really good, however some people spotted a few things that look incorrect. Thanks, Bryce Bugs appear reported in future ------------------------------ On this bug (and possibly others), the dates associated with buliabyak-users are in the future (2011, 2012). E.g. https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/157587 Category mapped to milestones ----------------------------- For Inkscape, we used the SF Category to tag bugs by type. These appear to have been mapped to milestones by the converter, however. Instead, can you have the Categories just mapped into LP tags? Missing Attachments ------------------- In a number of cases the bug attachments didn't come through correctly. Here is one example: SF.net http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1816893&group_id=9… Launchpad https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/159964 Fix Committed State ------------------- It appears that the 'Pending' state in SF was mapped to 'Fix Committed' in launchpad. We never really understood what 'Pending' meant, but what we used it for in Inkscape is more like the "Incomplete" state, so it should be mapped to that. Inconsistant Bug Stats ---------------------- The bug numbers in Launchpad show: Open 1144 Critical 43 New 809 Unassigned 826 All bugs ever reported 5536 while on sf we have: # Bugs : (801 open / 3,727 total) # Patches : (27 open / 828 total) # Feature Requests : (1,022 open / 2,183 total) We're curious how the numbers are arrived at, and what causes the stats discrepancies? (I'm guessing it's just due to terminology differences between SF and LP status, but am uncertain how they get mapped through.) Map priority 5 bugs to New/Undecided status ------------------------------------------- By default, SourceForge sets the priority of newly reported bugs to 5. We found this irritating since it interferes with triaging the priorities of bugs. So as a hack-around we decided that priority 5 actually means "unprioritized". Can you set the script to map priority-5 bugs to be New/Undecided?

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Launchpad Inkscape demo
by Bryce Harrington 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hi all, The Launchpad crew have run the import scripts and set up our info on the Launchpad demo site: https://demo.launchpad.net/inkscape I'll post some tips and tricks for getting good use out of Launchpad later on, but for now please just review the bugs and see if you spot any major issues with the import. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from James Henstridge <james@...1829...> ----- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 12:59:05 -0500 From: James Henstridge <james@...1829...> To: bryce@...1798... Subject: Inkscape demo import Hi Bryce, I've completed the demo import of Inkscape bug reports. You can view the results here: https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/inkscape/ As I mentioned previously, the demo server uses a whitelist to filter outgoing email traffic. I can add addresses on request. For developers who already have Launchpad accounts, it will be necessary to merge the $USER@...58... account with their existing one. This can be done at: https://demo.launchpad.net/people/+requestmerge I've added two of your bryce@...961... and bryce@...58... accounts to the whitelist so you can test this. Just enter the users.sourceforge.net email into the form and you should get an email to confirm the merge. Developers/users without a Launchpad account can register with their users.sourceforge.net account to claim their bugs. They can then add additional email addresses to the account as normal. James. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Bad markup found in translation. (SVN Build 16449)
by Frank Stützer 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hi, i want to build the svn version on OS X 10.5. But i get an error: make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. Making all in po file=`echo km | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /sw/bin/msgfmt -o $file km.po file=`echo sk | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /sw/bin/msgfmt -o $file sk.po LC_ALL=C ./intltool-merge -d -u -c ./po/.intltool-merge-cache ./po inkscape.desktop.in inkscape.desktop Found too-old cached translation database Generating and caching the translation database Merging translations into inkscape.desktop. km.po: parsing error for `<khoemsokhem@...1503...> Auk Piseth <piseth_dv@...1761....1503... > Eng Vannak <': #. TRANSLATORS: Put here your name (and other national contributors') #. one per line in the form of: name surname (email). Use \n for newline. #: ../src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp:336 msgid "translator-credits" msgstr "Khoem Sokhem <khoemsokhem@...1503...> Auk Piseth <piseth_dv@...1830...... > Eng Vannak <evannak@...1503...)" WARNING: Bad markup found in translations. Please consider fixing the above problems. thanks for help, Frank

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Fwd: Launchpad Inkscape demo
by bulia byak 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> Date: Nov 7, 2007 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Launchpad Inkscape demo To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> On 11/7/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Launchpad crew have run the import scripts and set up our info on > the Launchpad demo site: > > https://demo.launchpad.net/inkscape How the different bug categories got translated? it has: Open 1144 Critical 43 New 809 Unassigned 826 All bugs ever reported 5536 while on sf we have: # Bugs : (801 open / 3,727 total) # Patches : (27 open / 828 total) # Feature Requests : (1,022 open / 2,183 total) The numbers do not match somehow. Please clarify. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Exception catching?
by unknown＠example.com 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Have a look at the code below: (ui/dialog/filedialogimpl-gtkmm.cpp, lines 208 and onwards) Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Pixbuf> img(NULL); try { img = Gdk::Pixbuf::create_from_file(fileName); } catch (Glib::FileError e) { g_message("caught Glib::FileError in SVGPreview::showImage"); return; } catch (Gdk::PixbufError e) { g_message("Gdk::PixbufError in SVGPreview::showImage"); return; } This should catch the Gdk::PixbufError, right? Or add catch(...) for good measure. Both do *not* catch Gdk::PixbufError. What is happening? Please have a look at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1679218&group_i d=93438&atid=604306 Thanks for clearing this out, Johan

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Crash
by Diederik van Lierop 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Using the latest rev. 16441, I get a very reproducible crash immediately after dragging anything. Is this related to any of the current work? See the trace below obtained using Eclipse on Linux. Regards, Diederik New_configuration [C/C++ Local Application] gdb Debugger (11/7/07 9:36 PM) (Suspended) Thread [1] (Suspended: Signal 'SIGSEGV' received. Description: Segmentation fault.) 43 Inkscape::URIReference::getObject() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/uri-references.h:75 0x000000000046474f 42 SPPaintServerReference::getObject() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/sp-paint-server.h:68 0x0000000000464770 41 SPIPaint::isPaintserver() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/style.h:169 0x000000000046479d 40 sp_item_adjust_gradient() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/sp-item.cpp:1014 0x00000000004c2b5f 39 sp_item_adjust_paint_recursive() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/sp-item.cpp:1150 0x00000000004c49cb 38 sp_item_write_transform() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/sp-item.cpp:1214 0x00000000004c4fad 37 sp_selection_apply_affine() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/selection-chemistry.cpp:1571 0x0000000000476cf2 36 Inkscape::SelTrans::ungrab() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/seltrans.cpp:403 0x00000000005ed2fe 35 sp_select_context_root_handler() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/select-context.cpp:549 0x00000000005e5b5d 34 sp_event_context_root_handler() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/event-context.cpp:836 0x0000000000592655 33 sp_event_context_item_handler() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/event-context.cpp:854 0x00000000005926b9 32 _arena_handler() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/desktop.cpp:1381 0x000000000057ac2d 31 sp_marshal_INT__POINTER_POINTER() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/helper/sp-marshal.cpp:475 0x000000000084ce87 30 g_closure_invoke() 0x000000379a40af39 29 Gtk::Widget::hide_all() 0x000000379a41a838 28 g_signal_emit_valist() 0x000000379a41ba4d 27 gtk_signal_emit() 0x0000003339d8dc6c 26 sp_canvas_arena_send_event() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/display/canvas-arena.cpp:447 0x0000000000808a3a 25 sp_canvas_arena_event() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/display/canvas-arena.cpp:434 0x0000000000808ed5 24 sp_marshal_BOOLEAN__POINTER() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/helper/sp-marshal.cpp:352 0x000000000084d192 23 g_closure_invoke() 0x000000379a40af39 22 Gtk::Widget::hide_all() 0x000000379a41ae48 21 g_signal_emit_valist() 0x000000379a41ba4d 20 gtk_signal_emit() 0x0000003339d8dc6c 19 emit_event() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/display/sp-canvas.cpp:1303 0x0000000000825f1a 18 sp_canvas_button() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/display/sp-canvas.cpp:1507 0x00000000008281e0 17 Gtk::Widget::hide_all() 0x0000003339d32ded 16 g_closure_invoke() 0x000000379a40af39 15 Gtk::Widget::hide_all() 0x000000379a41ae48 14 g_signal_emit_valist() 0x000000379a41ba4d 13 g_signal_emit() 0x000000379a41be53 12 Gtk::Widget::hide_all() 0x0000003339e30ede 11 gtk_propagate_event() 0x0000003339d2c3dd 10 gtk_main_do_event() 0x0000003339d2d3f1 9 snooper() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/main.cpp:668 0x0000000000446cda 8 Gtk::Widget::hide_all() 0x000000333a646b6c 7 g_main_context_dispatch() 0x0000003799c2d224 6 Gtk::Widget::hide_all() 0x0000003799c3005d 5 g_main_loop_run() 0x0000003799c3036a 4 gtk_main() 0x0000003339d2d783 3 sp_main_gui() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/main.cpp:710 0x0000000000447725 2 Inkscape::NSApplication::Application::run() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/application/application.cpp:117 0x0000000000612fc6 1 main() /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/main.cpp:525 0x0000000000447f4b gdb (11/7/07 9:36 PM) /home/diedenrezi/eclipse_workspace/inkscape/src/inkscape (11/7/07 9:36 PM)

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Bug trackers
by Bryce Harrington 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

We've been wanting to switch from the extraordinarily painful SF bug tracker. Initially I thought we should host the service, but we don't have people with the expertise and time to do it, esp. given the DOS attack Inkscape suffered last week. Ted, Kees, and I are investigating Launchpad, and think it will give all-around improvement with no regressions. Mental and ACSpike also thought Launchpad sounded like a good option. Bulia and other heavy bug tracker users - can you give a thumbs up that this would be worth trying? Launchpad has the usual advanced bug tracking capabilities we've been badly missing, like proper bug duping, auto dupe detection, email interface, milestoning, tagging, SVN/CVS/etc.-integration, and so on. It also allows linking to upstream and downstream bug trackers, so we will be able to hook Inkscape bugs to corresponding Gtk, Cairo, etc. bugs (this is an extremely handy feature). We're here local with the Launchpad engineers, so it would be a good opportunity for us to have them run their import scripts and set up a public demo site for us. They'll also provide the exported data files, in case we would choose to go with something different. Bryce

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Linux svn 16434 build failing
by Thomas Worthington 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

I'm getting this error when running make: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `extension/internal/libwpg/Makefile_insert', needed by `Makefile.in'. Stop. Any ideas? TW

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] bug? 'embed all images' can't find png files in local directory
by Tom Davidson 06 Nov '07

06 Nov '07

This is fixed in the latest SVN (16429), so I marked the bug closed. My test file now fails for a related, but slightly different reason :). I opened a new bug for that (1826197) and posted a patch in the bug tracker... Both of these bugs were triggered by the use of relative paths in an SVG file without a backup sodipodi:absref tag to indicate where the linked image file can be found. I'm not sure if you all keep a suite of test files, but if so this one seems like it could be a useful addition... Thanks! Tom On 11/4/07, Tom Davidson <tjd@...1007...> wrote: > OK, I think I understand what's causing the bug. When I run > embedimage.py on the command-line against the original test file, it > works fine. But it doesn't work against the temporary file that > inkscape is writing to /tmp and handing off to the extension. > > Here is a diff of the two files: > > $ diff /tmp/ink_ext_GOTW0T ~/tmpsvg/embedtest_simple.svg > 19,20c19,20 > < sodipodi:docname="ink_ext_GOTW0T" > < sodipodi:docbase="/tmp" > --- > > sodipodi:docname="embedtest_simple.svg" > > sodipodi:docbase="/home/tjd/tmpsvg" > 51,52c51 > < <defs > < id="defs5" /> > --- > > <defs /> > > As you can see the 'docbase' directory is being changed to /tmp, but > the links out to images are still 'local'. Since the image files are > not also copied over to the /tmp directory, these links are not valid. > > So I guess the question is whether the links in my svg file are > buggy/underdefined (the svg is being generated by a matlab script > called plot2svg), and inkscape is letting me get away with this when > displaying the images, or whether this is a bug that needs fixing. > > I will post this additional info to the bug report and maybe > inkscape-devel as well... > > Cheers, Tom > > 11/4/07, Tom Davidson <tjd@...1007...> wrote: > > Hi Aaron, > > > > I have run into some odd behavior with the embedimages.py script. Inkscape can find and display the linked images, but when I call the 'embed all images' extension, I get an error that the files can't be found. I have filed a bug report (1824893) with a test case and the error messages on the tracker at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1824893&group_id=9… ). I will also poke around and see if I can't figure out how to debug it myself, but I'm not a Python person... > > Thanks very much for your work on Inkscape! > > -Tom > > >

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inkscape + ocal features into the release notes
by Jon Phillips 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Bruno, could you please add the features you made as part of GSoC, to the release notes for the upcoming release...we are going to need to do some testing too: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046 Cheers! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Please note: the contents of this email are not intended to be legal advice nor should they be relied upon as or represented to be legal advice. Jon Phillips does not represent any organization through this email address.

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Stuck on Clone
by Martin Owens 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi all, Trying to create the most simple part of this animation extensions; the clone frame part. I'm stuck because the xml python lib we're using (at least as of 0.45) doesn't implement the w3c DOM, instead it's patch hodge podge of none standard methods with buggy getElementById, no insertAfter method and buggy cloneNode when deep is switched on. Error message: xml.dom.HierarchyRequestErr: Node manipulation results in invalid parent/child relationship. The basic idea was to create a clone of the currently selected layer, add it after the current one and change a property in each child element to link it back to the original element in the original layer. Then another script would come along and combine each of these layers into an animation; forcing elements that disappear or appear new to fade, elements that are linked to be combined into an animation for each frame and any other layers to be left alone (for background or foreground layers) this would support paths, object transformations and style/attribute changes over time. Other extensions that could then be written after these first two: Animation > Tween Frames - Creates a step between the current layer and the next layer for all linked elements Animation > Link Selected - Creates an animation link between the two selected elements kees said if the first two can be implemented then he's see about writing in the UI handler which makes the current layer visible only (with the next and previous semi transparent at your option) with a slide bar to select the layer/frame. I'll resume when I think I can begin sanely writing the code, otherwise I'll hand the svg off to perl and write the extensions using that (which wouldn't be ideal to be honest) Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PR Planning (was Re: Inkscape overcomes Xara in Google Trends)
by ryan lerch 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

On 11/5/07, Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> wrote: > > Totally, I wonder if we can do a push to get some screencasts and > tutorials of the new features prior as well...that would rock...ppl. > just want to see screenshots, right? > > What would be needed? > We have already started some preliminary work on some new tutorials, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TutorialUpdates-0.46 some of which cover some of the new features, this can easily be expanded ... cheers, ryanlerch

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PR Planning (was Re: Inkscape overcomes Xara in Google Trends)
by Bryce Harrington 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:50:03AM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote: > Is it worth fleshing out a PR plan for promotion of the upcoming release? It > will be a huge release (feature wise) and I reckon people will want to know > about all our cool new features... Yes, this sounds like a very good idea. Ryan, would you and Jon and prokoudine arrange to put some thought into this sometime within the next week or two, and post what you come up with to this list for review? Thanks, Bryce

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[ted@...11...: [Fwd: [Clipart] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Greenspun illustration project]]
by Bryce Harrington 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

----- Forwarded message from Ted Gould <ted@...11...> ----- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:35:26 -0800 From: Ted Gould <ted@...11...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> Subject: [Fwd: [Clipart] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Greenspun illustration project] -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher@...400...> To: clipart@...626... Subject: [Clipart] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Greenspun illustration project Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:32:15 +1100 Hi OpenClipArters, Forwarding along an announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation that it is facilitating a project to pay for the creation of illustrations. I (Brianna Laugher) am coordinating the project on the community side. I am thinking and hoping there may be a few cliparters who are interested in putting their SVG skills to work. The central wiki page for the project will be http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project . The project is still in the gathering-requests stage and I will send out an announcement when we expect to open requests up for people to fulfil. Please let me know if anything about it is not clear. thanks, Brianna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cary Bass <cbass@...1827...> Date: 3 Nov 2007 05:32 Subject: [Foundation-l] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Greenspan illustration project To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@...1828...>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l@...1828...> The Greenspan Illustration Project What is it? The Wikimedia Foundation has received a donation from Philip Greenspun for the purpose of creating and improving illustrations on Wikimedia. The Board has decided to accept his donation of $US20,000 for this special purpose. This is the first time the Foundation has been directly involved in funded content creation, although the German chapter's experience in winning a government grant to write articles on sustainable development has helped pave the way. The Foundation wants a "hands-off" minimal administration role with the bulk of the work of organizing the project and creating the content to be completed by members of our community. Since this is the first time we've done this, we're not sure how it will go. This is a bit experimental and we ask for your patience and enthusiasm to help make it a success. Brianna Laugher (<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pfctdayelise>) will be coordinating the project, with my help as the Foundation's Volunteer Coordinator. How will it run? Since Philip's kind donation is a lot of money and we're planning to pay around US$40 per illustration (with some lower and higher amounts, see details to follow), we want to progress the project in stages. Starting out with a small number of 50 requested illustrations, we'll look at our results and modify and improve it for successive stages. The project will flow along as follows: * Create list of requested illustrations. * Open illustration requests on issue tracking software * Users will self-assign requests, signaling his or her intent to create that illustration. * On creation and approval, the user is paid the amount as set in the original request. Things to note: * The list of requests will be approved by Brianna, in order that balance exists among "things any decent reference work needs"; "things the Wikimedia community requests"; and "things we nearly have, or have poor versions of". * Approval: a review group will be formed in order to provide assessment of submitted images. The main checks will be 1) editor's original work and acceptable license, 2) correct rendering on MediaWiki and 3) how well the image depicts the requested item. No image will be accepted that do not pass all three of these checks. * Other checks will be recommended (e.g. language-neutral version). * The payment system is not yet finalized. How you can help If you are interested in suggesting illustrations to be created, you don't have long to wait: soon there will be some pages on Meta where you can get involved. We will write to foundation-l when the pages are ready for your input. If you are interested in being part of the review group, please email Brianna as follows: brianna.laugher AT gmail DOT com The benefits This project can have two good outcomes. One, we get illustrations we wouldn't otherwise have, or wouldn't otherwise have had so quickly. Another benefit is that we can use this project as a way to encourage and launch new people into the "illustrator community". Creating high-quality SVGs is not a skill a lot of people have immediately, but may be developed fairly quickly. While many people might be vaguely interested in it but no more, a monetary incentive might be enough to push them to act, and learn, and create. Some of the image requests will be for smaller amounts (US$15) for relatively simpler illustrations???these will be specifically targeted to newcomers to encourage them to get involved. At the end of this project we might have $20,000 worth of illustrations, but the value of the content creating community will potentially be a lot higher. We expect a side benefit to this project will be the creation/finding and maintenance of good documentation for specific tasks using tools like Inkscape. More details See the project specifications at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/5/51/WMF_Greenspun_Illustr… -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass@...1827... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@...1828... Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ----- End forwarded message -----

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Text tool crash.
by unknown＠example.com 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

I just fixed a crash bug with the text tool: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1645874&gro up_id=93438 The problem is that an empty flowtext thing is put in XML, and it is deleted on deselection when nothing is inputted. This crashes the XML editor, and also duplication of the thing. I disabled the automatic deletion on deselection, and now it no longer crashes. For who starts working on the texttool: I think it is best *not* to add things to XML when nothing has been actually typed yet. Upon typing the first character, *then* put it in XML. This removes the need for the automatic deletion and fixes the problem without cluttering the XML with empty texts. Off to another crash bug... Johan

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tabs
by Diederik van Lierop 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi, After my commit of today, Johan Engelen pointed out that there were quite some tabstops being used in it instead of spaces. I started an automated find & replace, replacing all tabs with four spaces in just that commit. Worked like a charm. I also found tens of thousands of tabs when searching just *.h in /src. Now I wonder: should we do a massive search & replace on the full code base? I've tried and it compiles nicely. It also doesn't mess up the indenting, at least not in the places I've looked at. Is it worth it? Or will it give to much troubles in the end afterall? Diederik

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filter UI merge
by MenTaLguY 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

I've just merged the first code drop from Nick into SVN; I was hoping to avoid any regressions, but at this point I think it's more important to start merging now since Niko and Nick are starting to touch the same code and I want to avoid too much divergence. Things that work: - blend modes can now easily be selected for objects, just like blur - background accumulation buffer is enabled as-needed - the filter UI dialog has very very basic filter editing capabilities Regressions: - Niko's work in r15171 (non-destructive filter update) needs to be re-integrated with the new filter metawidget, which replaces the old blur slider - the blur slider in the filter metawidget needs to be made percentage like the slider it replaced Todo: - add filter metawidget to layers dialog too, for layers - fix flakiness for "Filter" "blend mode" - flesh out filters dialog, parameter editing/connections, etc. I think we'll need to work out who wants to work on what with the metawidget at this point, depending on what you guys are each most comfortable spending time doing, and on your respective current states of progress. -mental

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Translation plans for 0.46 release
by Bryce Harrington 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi all, Quick question regarding translations - who will be serving as the translation team lead for this release? We'll need a plan laid out for the translation work this time. (I.e., when to send out notices, statistics tools to run, places to recruit translators, and so on). We've got plenty of time at this point, so just want to kick things off early so the translation team has plenty of work for doing pre-requisite work they'll want. Bryce

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A developer seeks some work
by Andre Twupack 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi Inkscapers! My name is André Twupack and I have been using Inkscape for two years now. I have used it mainly as a utility to create/edit SVG-based circuit diagrams to test a Batik-based software I have developed. From my working background I'm a Java developer with in-depth knowledge about XML/SVG and I'm also having some experience in C/C++ although not on a professional level. During the last two years I have provided a few minor patches but now I would like to become more involved in the development of Inkscape. Therefore I'm posting here to find one of the members of the development team who needs some help or can assign me a task. As I'm especially interested in GUI design/development, I could perhaps help with the migration of Inkscape to gtkmm. Maybe one of the developers already working on this could contact me with some information about what still needs to be done and how I can help. I hope with my work I can help to make Inkscape even better as it already is. André

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InkScape On Leopard : Solution
by Cédric sonique 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hi, I'm a InkScape user on Mac OS X.5 (leopard). I found a solution to launch Inkscape under Leopard. You will found the "script" file which is in : Inkscape.app/Contents/Ressources/script. I change some lines : comment line 17 and 18 17 #open-x11 /tmp/getdisplay.sh || 18 #open -a XDarwin /tmp/getdisplay.sh || Leave line 19 : echo ":0"> /tmp/display.$UID Add this line : open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app Thank you for your works ! I hope this is will help someone ! Cédric - sonique _________________________________________________________________ Découvrez le blog Messenger Le Meilleur du Web : toutes les vidéos qui buzzent le plus sur Internet ! http://meilleurduweb.spaces.live.com/

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specular lighting
by Steren Giannini 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hello all, Since I had a close look to filter effect, I noticed something : When zooming, the specular lighting filter is very ugly (here a screenshot http://lesgeorges.org/subdomains/pannini/media/specular_lighting.png But that's not an inkscape issue, there is the same problem is Batik. Apparently (as far as I understood) this filter is raster-based and the FilterRes values are responsible for the quality. I just wanted to know what do you think of this. (here is the svg example : http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/filters/filters01.svg) Thanks for your response Steren <http://lesgeorges.org/subdomains/pannini/media/specular_lighting.png>

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patches
by john cliff 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hi Guys, There are 2 patches in the tracker currently from me which I'd quite like to get reviewed/checked in if possible. One adds selection to marker funcitonality, the other adds stock patterns to the fill/stroke dialog. If any of you can find the time to take a look I'd appreciate it, my SVN s bust and I'm so rusty anyways that I'd feel more comfortable with at least a second set of eyes having had a look over it. Cheers John

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