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

26 Mar '10

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

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KML import status
by Will Holcomb 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

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

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

25 Mar '10

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

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

24 Mar '10

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

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bzr question
by Wolf Drechsel 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

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

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

24 Mar '10

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

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Hello everybody & GSoC Open Asset Import Library
by Alexander Gessler 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hello inkscape-devel! basing on the suggested ideas of last year (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_Of_Code), I'd really love to tackle one of the suggestions, actually the 3d file import stuff. Open Asset Import Library (http://sf.net/projects/assimp) is a sort of generic importer library for 3d models, it supports two douzens of file formats from various 3d apps, frameworks, games, such as 3ds, obj, Collada, x, md5, ... Project exists since 2008, is hacked on by a team of 5-6 people. I'm currently the main committer, always trying to keep things together. Basing on the '3D Polyhedron' extension, the idea would be to integrate Assimp as model importer to get access to a wide range of formats. After importing, display a sort of real-time preview (in a separate window with OpenGL, maybe?) so the user can choose his preferred view point, lighting, whatever. When he's done, the model would be projected onto the drawing plane, converted to inkscape polygons and grouped together. Fancy stuff such as flat-shading and other things would be quite easy to accomplish. Also, Assimps development will surely continue, so format support might be improved in future (Diederik van Lierop pointed out that CAD file formats are mostly missing, also there's no support for Blenders native format yet). A few words to myself: I'm currently 18. Attending the german equivalent of highschool in year 12 of 13. A bit computer-addicted (just a little bit, you know :-) Worked with a few software technologies, in terms of programming languages mostly C, Python, C++. Also, I do like anything related to computer graphics. No development experience with Inkscape' source code yet (biggest achievement so far: it compiles), but I like the app and use it regularly and would like to contribute in future. GSoC seems a great opportunity. Please tell what you think. Regards Alexander Gessler

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Saving preferences
by Martin Sucha 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hello all, I today closed a group of 6 Inkscape 0.47 windows and ended up with a corrupted preferences file. Is it possible that multiple Inkscape instances were writing to the same file at the same time? Has anyone encountered this before? Thanks. Regards, Martin Sucha

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Intel Aqua packaging
by Stuart Edwards 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

On Mar 22, 2010, at 2:20 PM, ~suv wrote: > On 22/3/10 18:38, Wolf Drechsel wrote: >>> Sorry, I was under the impression that you are using Mac OS X 10.5 >>> Leopard, not Snow Leopard. >>> >>> Yes, the lack of MacOSX10.4u.sdk is obviously significant for the >>> available xcodeproject of the application launcher. Please be aware >>> that the release version 0.47 was not built on Snow Leopard, nor >>> are the current development snapshots built on Snow Leopard. I.e. >>> you are trying to do something new that seems to require part of >>> the packaging modules to be modified and updated to run on OS X >>> 10.6 Snow Leopard. >>> >>> I recommend to file a bug report, detailing the SL related errors >>> you see when trying to package the application. Please include all >>> relevant information about your OS and Xcode version. >>> >>> The GTK+/Quartz (so-called "Aqua") version will also require >>> changes to both the build scripts and the launcher scripts - but >>> this should be handled in a separate bug report, similar to the one >>> Wolf filed for removing the code launching X11 on Tiger [1]. >>> >>>>> Do you have an up-to-date and complete Xcode installation? >>>> AFIK -- 3.2.1 >>> >>> Did you check if MacOSX10.4u.sdk is available as optional install >>> for Xcode 3.2.x? >> >> that's what I found in another context: >> >>> You missed simply to install 10.4u-sdk when installing xcode. It is >>> not default, just additional install for crosscompiling. >> >> (was here: >> http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15697&sid=4e4a4b850057802bd0d0… >> ) >> >> And be sure to use gcc-4.0 - they say more recent compilers wont >> work. > > hmm, I didn't really look into this (yet) but I certainly would start > the search at Apple's developer site ;) > > from the apple xcode documentation: >> Developer Tools Essentials (always installed). Contains the main >> applications, command-line tools, and other resources that make up >> the Xcode development environment. This group includes the Xcode >> application, Interface Builder, Instruments, Dashcode, Quartz >> Composer, GCC 4.0.1, and the Mac OS X v10.4 (Universal) and Mac OS X >> v10.5 SDKs, as well as sample source code. > <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/Xcode…> > > Stu - I don't understand why you don't have it with your Xcode > installation. Hopefully Michael or JiHO will take a look at the > ScriptExec xcodeproject if it needs to be updated for Snow Leopard. My > knowledge about working with Xcode projects is close to zero and I do > not have Snow Leopard installed. > > ~suv > > p.s. can we try to keep the discussion in one place? (I'd prefer to keep > it on inkscape-devel and not fork into several private threads). ok, we're back on the devel list now - sdk10.4 was an optional install that I didn't think I'd need. Now I have it. Probably a(nother) dumb question - but how (and when) do I switch to gcc 4.0 ? If I use the current script with sdk 10.4, will the result be useable on 10.6? I'll work on a bug report once I get to the end of this effort and can tell better what were true bugs and what was just my ignorance ; ) thx Stu

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Yet another GSOC 2010 Aspirant
by Abhishek Sharma 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hello all, I am a student aspiring for GSOC 2010. To begin with, I would like to mention that I had used inkscape previously for creating games, amongst which one was ECG simulation. As far as developing for inkscape is concerned i would honestly admit i have no experience. I have a good knowledge in GUI development in JAVA and QT. With my skill set(mentioned in my resume), I am not sure as to what task could be assigned to myself. Although I would like to mention that in my previous works and projects I was always unaware of the technology used, yet I was always able to complete them successfully because being a Software Engineer it is my belief that everything is achievable if the problem definition is clear. With this I would request the mentors to kindly go through my resume(please do not just reject my approach to you just because I am new to inkscape development). Waiting for your response. Attached with this you shall find the resume. Thanking You. Yours sincerely, -- Abhishek Sharma B-Tech Information Technology Indian Institute of Information Technology(Amethi Campus)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Intel Aqua packaging
by Stuart Edwards 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

On Mar 22, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Wolf Drechsel wrote: >> Sorry, I was under the impression that you are using Mac OS X 10.5 >> Leopard, not Snow Leopard. >> >> Yes, the lack of MacOSX10.4u.sdk is obviously significant for the >> available xcodeproject of the application launcher. Please be aware that >> the release version 0.47 was not built on Snow Leopard, nor are the >> current development snapshots built on Snow Leopard. I.e. you are trying >> to do something new that seems to require part of the packaging modules >> to be modified and updated to run on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. >> >> I recommend to file a bug report, detailing the SL related errors you >> see when trying to package the application. Please include all relevant >> information about your OS and Xcode version. >> >> The GTK+/Quartz (so-called "Aqua") version will also require changes to >> both the build scripts and the launcher scripts - but this should be >> handled in a separate bug report, similar to the one Wolf filed for >> removing the code launching X11 on Tiger [1]. >> >>>> Do you have an up-to-date and complete Xcode installation? >>> AFIK -- 3.2.1 >> >> Did you check if MacOSX10.4u.sdk is available as optional install for >> Xcode 3.2.x? > > Hi, > > that's what I found in another context: > >> You missed simply to install 10.4u-sdk when installing xcode. >> It is not default, just additional install for crosscompiling. you're right - didn't expect to need it -- > > (was here: > http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15697&sid=4e4a4b850057802bd0d0… ) > > And be sure to use gcc-4.0 - they say more recent compilers wont work. Not sure how to do that .......... see my other Q to ~suv > > Greetings, > > Wolf Stu

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Looking for bug to fix and GSoC
by Valentin JANIAUT 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hello everybody, I am a young student in a French University (4th year). I am actually following a master degree about Image Processing. I am strongly interest to join Inkscape developer community through Google Summer Of Code. Indeed, my studying field is close to some technologies used by Inkscape, and I'd like to improve my skills. I am also a happy Inkscape (basic) end-user since 2 years now. But before, I would like to check that I am able to be a good developer for you. So I compiled the code last night, and I am checking for some easy tasks to do. This will be a good way for me to understand a little bit how the code is working. I saw the Janitor tasks on the wiki[1] and naturally the bug list from launchpad[2]. Do you have any recommendations for me ? I actually found two interesting bug I will have a look for. This is actually not bug but features requests. First of all : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171099 . Users are asking for an option to display printer boundaries. This is something I regularly missed with Inkscape when I want to print some document. Sometimes I have some bad result, because the print area is too small for my printer. And secondly, https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171117 . Users are asking for an "Ungroup All". Sometimes when I import some Open Clip Art files, I would like to ungroup all before I start to work. So I think it can be useful. I also thought about another features. I did not see it on Inkscape wiki or Bug tracker but, I probably missed it. I would like to have some easy way to upload a svg file to the Open Clip Art library. Because I am using this wonderful resources regularly, and I like to share my creation easily on this website. I also started to think about a project for GSoC, I saw a mail about Cairo rendering. I would be quite interest in this idea, since I am working with Cairo for one of my project in my university. Feel you free to give me any suggestions about these ideas. Best Regards, [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkscapeJanitors [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs Valentin JANIAUT UTBM Student : http://www.utbm.fr/ LinkedIN : http://www.linkedin.com/in/valentinjaniaut Homepage : http://www.valeuf.org/

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LinuxFund Text Tool project for Inkscape - up for grabs (it pays)
by Joshua A. Andler 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Hey All, Unfortunately the person who was going to work on our Text Tool project via LinuxFund is either not willing or able to follow through with it. So, that means that there is ~$1,300 up for grabs if you're interested. The gist of the work is to add UI elements for existing functionality (letter kerning, spacing, rotation, etc) and to fix a couple text tool related bugs. The LinuxFund page for this is: http://linuxfund.org/projects/inkscape/ If you are interested in this, serious, and have time available, please email me and I will get you in contact with the person from LinuxFund. Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [PATCH] Grouping when setting mask
by Joshua A. Andler 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 16:48 +0100, ~suv wrote: > On 4/2/10 20:59, Joshua A. Andler wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 19:10 +0100, Martin Sucha wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've implemented feature to automatically group objects when setting clip/mask > >> and it now works for me. (Thanks Krzysztof Kosiński for help.) > >> > >> Could you please review attached patch and commit it if you consider it good > >> enough? > > > > Reviewed and tested, looks good by me (and is something I will use). > > Committed in bzr rev 9050. Thank you! > > Is it possible that this patch introduced a big performance loss when > grouping a larger selection of objects? I just stumbled upon this when > clipping ~1800 small objects (created with the spray tool) with a > rectangle using the new feature to group the selection automatically > before applying the clippath to the group: to my surprise this took very > long (~45 seconds) whereas grouping the same selection happens almost > instantaneously in Inkscape 0.47 (~2 seconds). This appears to be accurate... would you mind filing a bug report and assigning to Martin Sucha? Unfortunately, there is no way we can release with this big of a performance hit for such a common task. So if it doesn't get fixed before Feature Freeze I will have to revert it. Cheers, Josh

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My contribution to the Inkscape community
by Diederik van Lierop 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Hey people, For about a year now, a colleague of mine and I have been negotiating with our current employer about the conditions for starting a spin-off company. As of yesterday it finally looks like it's really going to happen; basically all we need now is to have the contracts typed out and signed. I'm very excited about this, but consequently I won't have as much time to spend on improving Inkscape as I used to. I'm not too excited about that part :-(. This is also why I cannot commit to being a GSoC mentor this year. However, I won't quit completely and will still be around. Besides, chances still are that we won't be able to raise enough capital to get our start-up company really flying, in which case I might pick up my Inkscape work again before the end of the year. We'll see. Regards, Diederik

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inkscape.pot
by Alexandre Prokoudine 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

As of rev9207: RN po/inkscape.pot => po/inkscape.pot.OTHER Why? Alexandre

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We are in GSoC 2010!
by Joshua A. Andler 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

Hi all, I just wanted to let people know that I received notice that we have been accepted in GSoC again this year! If people would be willing to look over the wiki page and help update and clean up the suggestions, that would be excellent. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_Of_Code Since we've now been accepted, do we have any other mentors besides JonCruz and bulia byak? I need to know this to know how many slots to request and also so we don't mislead potential students on how tight the competition will be. Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape 0.47 OSX Official - Python filters don't work (again)
by André Berg 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hi, I just downloaded the official Inkscape 0.47 release for Leopard/Snow Leopard and while Inkscape itself is running absolutely fast and awesome as soon as I touch anything that runs inkex.py the age old info message about the fantasting lxml2 library wrapper comes up again. Looking into the .app bundle I was surprised to find lxml2 and numpy installations for all (!) major python version going from 2.6 back to 2.3 this time. Hmmmm... so what could be the problem? As we all know resetting my PATH won't (and didn't) work because the bootstrap system just builds its own PATH so what gives? Well, it turns out that this mess is caused by the default Apple X11 running in 64 bit mode and thus all the python stuff included with Inkscape 0.47 is of the wrong architecture. (at least it says that when you remove the try: blocks in inkex.py and let it spit out the real tracebacks). So I guess we need to include python stuff with 64 bit support with the official OSX release. (I tried building a 64 bit Python 2.6.4 myself but sheesh it's hard...) Anyway just thought I'd report this (apologies if it's known already). It's not a deal breaker - Inkscape still rocks. André PS: I am on OSX 10.6.2 and I have MacPorts installed but X11 is the default one. And I can see it's shown as 64-bit app when it runs in Activity Manager.

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Calculating flowRegion dimensions using font-size in pixels.
by Redefined Horizons 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

I'm currently working on some Java code that will export Inkscape ready SVG from an open source mapping application. One of the things I need to do is export map labels. I've been taking a look at how Inkscape represents text labels in its SVG flavor. I'm looking for advice on how to calculate the dimensions of the rectangle element used as the flow region. If I know the height of the font for the text labels in pixels, is there a formula that I can use to calculate the width and height I need for the flow region? Is this calculation dependent on the type of font? (I'm not really worried about getting the flow region a little too big. I'm more worried about getting it too small, and then not being able to see the label in Inkscape.) Thanks for any suggestions. Landon

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LZMA tarballs
by Krzysztof Kosiński 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hello LZMA tarballs are smaller and decompress faster than bzip2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/539671 They are supported since automake 1.10.1, released in January 2008. We currently require 1.10, which was released 3 months earlier. The automake dep change would only affect developers, since users of tarballs can use the provided configure script. Is it OK to bump up the dependency to 1.10.1 and enable LZMA tarballs? Regards, Krzysztof

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Looks like SVG *is* set for IE9
by Jon Cruz 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

News articles out today note something that might help boost Inkscape... if we can leverage it. :-) Microsoft IE9 Platform Pops with Speed, Standards http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361407,00.asp = = = ... New support for SVG-scalable vector graphics Sure, you can offer a PDF download for complex content like floor plans and org charts, but why not make these decipherable right inside the Web page? SVG allows just that. SVG is a W3C standard for animated, interactive graphics based on paths rather than bitmaps. No matter how much you zoom in on an SVG image, edges remain razor sharp—unlike bitmapped image formats like JPEG, which show degradation as you enlarge them. This holds true for text, too; that's key for the org-chart example mentioned above. In fact, John Hrvatin, senior program manager lead for Internet Explorer, told journalists that IE9 is the first browser that natively supports SVG inline with HTML—previously XHTML was required. SVG is the descendant of VML, which came out of the Visio drawing tool. Other browsers use SVG for the popular map sites, while until version 9, IE has uses VML. "SVG is a huge standard," said Visio veteran and now Internet Explorer partner program manager Ted Johnson. "We're not doing all of it in the first release, but we're doing a tremendous amount of it. When we ship, we're going to be covering all the way through what we consider 'static SVG.' Filter effects, animation, and fonts won't be included. A lot of these are still in flux. What's exciting about SVG is that you can easily see the markup in view source alongside its graphical result in the browser." = = = And some "straight from the horse's mouth" at HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/16/html5-hardware-accelerated-firs…

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Inkscape 0.48 Chill (the winter is heavy everywhere!)
by Joshua A. Andler 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hey all, This is where 0.48 as a "release" begins! This email will be a little redundant for developers, but will let users know what the current plan is. The next stage (Frost) kicks into gear at the beginning of March in case you were wondering. For right now: *New feature development will focus on wrapping up. *We will identify "make check" issues (we need to make sure things are "friendly" for packaging). *We will run an About Screen contest on DeviantART (which I will announce within the next 24 hours and post all info to both lists). *Ensure that the Release Notes are at First Draft stage. This is primarily a developer task, however, if you are a user and follow development closely and have something to contribute in this area which we may have overlooked, such as fixed bugs, changes in functionality, etc. please contribute. *Update tutorials and other docs (we could use volunteers). Not joking, if you are an Inkscape user and have the misconception that the only way you can contribute is by code, you are missing out on one of the most important things for our users... documentation. If you have time to spare and some tips for others that you're willing to share, please let us know. --- boring developer junk --- I do want to request from developers... most "big" new stuff be committed by March 1st if possible (or shortly thereafter). JonCruz: The swatch previews for "auto" swatches are starting to worry me given that they have not been working for quite a while now (since 0.47 dev cycle). The same goes for the method of editing color (gradient editor rather than F&S dialog). If you will not have time to address these before Freeze, please expect that I will request the feature is disabled again for this release at that time... I will also request that in 0.49 that you not re-enable it until you are looking to actively work on it. Krzysztof: The new Node Tool is fantastic. I know you're actively working on it, but I do just want to make sure that you will be able to set aside a few hours here and there for bugfixing as there are still a number of bugs and features missing from previous releases. Arcadie/Michael: The Connector Tool really is not consistent with the behavior of other tools. If it is not likely to be sorted out by Freeze, I will request that at least the tool controls button for "add connection point" be disabled, as it is not user friendly at this point. Please know that I am not targeting people or criticizing their work. This is a schedule issue and our date of release was horribly far behind schedule for the past couple releases. We will just be sticking to release schedules much more strictly than we have previously, and if features aren't "bug-free"/complete enough to release on time... there's always next release! :) Besides, we're going to be in the trenches w/ 0.49 for a bit by what has been discussed so far. Cheers, Josh

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Event processing issue
by Diederik van Lierop 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hi all, Someone surely must see an easy fix for this annoying bug I ran into the other day. ~suv reported that scrolling the canvas using the scroll wheel is prohibited when the pointer is hovering above the snap indicator (see the last paragraph of this comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/522335/comments/8). This becomes very reproducible and annoying when using a dense grid, together the pre-snap indicator, in for example the rectangle context. Through debugging I learned that the scroll events reach sp_canvas_scroll() (just as they should), and from which they should be dispatched via emit_event() (in sp-canvas.cpp). But this only works if the canvas->current_item has been set, but in this situation the current-item is null. Now my question is: what should the current-item be set to in this case, and how do I control this? Thanks, Diederik PS: This is a stack trace of how things should work, in this case there was no grid and therefore no snap-indicator was drawn: Thread [1] (Suspended: Breakpoint hit.) 31 sp_canvas_scroll_to() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/display/sp-canvas.cpp:2179 0x00000000006161fa 30 SPDesktop::scroll_world() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/desktop.cpp:1110 0x0000000000a744f6 29 sp_event_context_private_root_handler() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/event-context.cpp:707 0x000000000046279f 28 sp_rect_context_root_handler() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/rect-context.cpp:448 0x0000000000af5f6d 27 sp_event_context_virtual_root_handler() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/event-context.cpp:941 0x0000000000463222 26 sp_event_context_root_handler() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/event-context.cpp:937 0x00000000004631ed 25 sp_desktop_root_handler() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/desktop-events.cpp:67 0x0000000000a7a682 24 sp_marshal_BOOLEAN__POINTER() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/helper/sp-marshal.cpp:352 0x00000000006cf763 23 g_closure_invoke() 0x0000003e9180ba8e 22 <symbol is not available> 0x0000003e91820ec3 21 g_signal_emit_valist() 0x0000003e918220ec 20 gtk_signal_emit() 0x00000031668e3bd2 19 emit_event() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/display/sp-canvas.cpp:1348 0x0000000000613f57 18 sp_canvas_scroll() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/display/sp-canvas.cpp:1581 0x0000000000614928 17 <symbol is not available> 0x0000003166753a33 16 g_closure_invoke() 0x0000003e9180ba8e 15 <symbol is not available> 0x0000003e91820b8d 14 g_signal_emit_valist() 0x0000003e918220ec 13 g_signal_emit() 0x0000003e918227a3 12 <symbol is not available> 0x000000316687620f 11 gtk_propagate_event() 0x000000316674a794 10 gtk_main_do_event() 0x000000316674b8d3 9 snooper() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/main.cpp:896 0x000000000044d569 8 <symbol is not available> 0x0000003166e5fe9c 7 g_main_context_dispatch() 0x0000003e9143920e 6 <symbol is not available> 0x0000003e9143cbf8 5 g_main_loop_run() 0x0000003e9143d045 4 gtk_main() 0x000000316674be07 3 sp_main_gui() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/main.cpp:962 0x000000000044db86 2 Inkscape::NSApplication::Application::run() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/application/application.cpp:114 0x00000000005acada 1 main() /home/diedenrezi/InkscapeBZR/inkscape/src/main.cpp:698 0x000000000044cf9e

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Hello!
by Dmitry 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

M> Unfortunately it's not a simple answer, and I haven't had a lot of time M> yet since getting back from London. The most useful place for MT is in M> software rendering. There are not many other places in the codebase M> which would really benefit from it. M> -mental Hello MenTaLguY! I would like to know why multi-threading haven't been realized in Inkscape for so long time, many users wrote that they would like to have full power of theit multi-core processors. I'm starting doing this work and I want to know what are the difficulties, is it real to complete in 2.5 months working 8 hours per day? And tell me please as more as you can about this problem in Inkscape. -- Best regards, Dmitry mailto:Dmitry.Jurasov@...400...

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Rendering test server unstable
by Niko Kiirala 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Automated rendering tests for Inkscape have been run for a couple months now. The results are visible at http://auriga.mine.nu/inkscape/ (opening that page can take a while, as it is javascript-heavy) Unfortunately, the server I've used for running the tests and for hosting that website has become unstable, shutting down with no warning or visible reason. It is likely that the tests won't be run every day and the result page may be unavailable every now and then. -- Niko Kiirala niko@...1267...

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