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Re: [Inkscape-devel] inkscape aqua PPC alpha for testing
by Stuart Edwards 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

> >> Wolf >> ok -- you shamed me into it - at least giving it a try. > > Oh - I'm so sorry… (-; - and happy you jumped onboard. > I should go into recruitment… > >> Didn't have a macports installed so that was a pain -- ~120 dependencies and 3 Gb later we're almost ready to start the real business. >> Quick question - gtk2 installed +quartz+no_x11 without a murmur using macports - does this mean that the necessary patch is preinstalled now or should I uninstall it and use the procedure you wrote up in the wiki? > > Are you talking about this patch: > > http://trac.macp orts.org/ticket/22451 yes, that's the one > > This one should be applied, as otherwise you are likely to build gtk2 and inkscape, but inky will crash during launch. ok I'll fix that > > Did gtk2 install automatically during these installations: > >> sudo port install autoconf automake >> sudo port install librsvg libwpd libwpg libcroco >> sudo port install libxslt boost boehmgc gtkmm lcms intltool popt >> sudo port install cairo +quartz+no_x11 cairomm pango +quartz+no_x11 poppler +quartz gtk2-clearlooks > > gtk2 came in as a dependency of poppler > In that case I should swap order, as gtk2 needs an awful lot of time. Probably a good idea. Now for the critical bit ~ actually working on Inkscape Best - Stu

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Lib2geom-devel] Geom::Path and boost::ptr_vector
by Jasper van de Gronde 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: > ... > BTW I want to make 2 additional changes: > > 1. When the ends of normal path data coincide, no closing segment is added. To clarify: you're talking about a path which is NOT closed? Then it sounds logical (although I wonder why Inkscape would add a closing segment). If you're talking about having a closed path and then not adding the closing segment, please reconsider. Inkscape used to do this in the past and it caused some very nasty bugs (having to do with round-tripping for one), apart from simply being incorrect (at least in SVG).

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LPE Extrude: need some input!
by unknown＠example.com 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Hi all, I just 'finished' LPE extrude. I'd like you to test it, see if it bugs for some paths. And, I'd like your input. What should be added and what should be improved? You have to build Inkscape with "#define LPE_ENABLE_TEST_EFFECTS", otherwise the LPE won't show in the LPE dialog. (uncommenting line 9 in src/live_effects/effect.cpp will do the trick) Thanks, Johan

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File preview size limit
by Nicolas Dufour 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Hi all, Heisenbug suggests, in bug #499310 (preview cutoff at 1.3 MB too small for images, https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/499310), that we set a higher file preview size limit. The current value is 1.3Mo, and the suggested one is 10Mo. Is this value acceptable? Regards. -- Nicolas

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Necessary Inkscape Wiki article?
by unknown＠example.com 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Jaw_crusher

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Necessary Inkscape Wiki article?
by unknown＠example.com 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Gunfight_took_place_near_Pakistan's_army_headquarters Who is the Inkscape Wiki Administrator that can remove pages from the Wiki completely?

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Quicktorials
by Robert Martinez 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Is there anybody interested in implementig quicktorials into Inkscape? The integrating video tutorial project (http://quicktorials.org) is beginning to be usable and ready for some real implementations. There is a "Help" section on the page, but I would be happy to discuss any arising questions. Cheers, Robert

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inkscape aqua - tried again
by Wolf Drechsel 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hello friends, I tried again to build an inkscape aqua… I uninstalled all X11-related components first, than reinstalled the quartz/aqua variants, finally did a selfupdate above all. I ended up with an inkscape build which launches, shows a window for a fraction of a second, and than crashes. Here are the terminal messages: > ** (inkscape:630): CRITICAL **: Inkscape::XML::Document* > sp_repr_read_file(const gchar*, const gchar*): assertion > `Inkscape::IO::file_test( filename, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS )' failed > > ** (inkscape:630): WARNING **: Unable to read keys file Contents/ > Resources/keys/default.xml > Unable to find: org.inkscape.help.manual > Unable to find: org.inkscape.help.keys > Unable to find: org.inkscape.help.askaquestion > Unable to find: org.inkscape.help.commandline > Unable to find: org.inkscape.help.faq > Unable to find: org.inkscape.help.relnotes > Unable to find: org.inkscape.help.reportabug > Unable to find: org.inkscape.help.svgspec > > (inkscape:630): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > `object->ref_count > 0' failed > > (inkscape:630): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion > `object->ref_count > 0' failed As far as I remember, similar messages occured when launching my working version last year, so probabely we dont have to care too much on that. These are a few lines from crash reporter: > Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) > Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000 > > Thread 0 Crashed: > 0 <<00000000>> 0x00000000 0 + 0 > 1 libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x02347c44 gdk_window_destroy + 36 > 2 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x021100b8 gtk_widget_real_unrealize > + 168 > 3 inkscape 0x00140af0 sp_canvas_unrealize > (_GtkWidget*) + 320 > 4 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0251a014 g_closure_invoke + 436 > 5 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0252cfcc signal_emit_unlocked_R + > 3452 > 6 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0252e30c g_signal_emit_valist + 2012 > 7 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0252e580 g_signal_emit + 48 > 8 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0210c5e0 gtk_widget_unrealize + 256 > 9 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0206fa3c gtk_table_forall + 76 > 10 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x02110090 gtk_widget_real_unrealize > + 128 > 11 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0251a014 g_closure_invoke + 436 > 12 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0252cfcc signal_emit_unlocked_R + > 3452 > 13 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0252e30c g_signal_emit_valist + 2012 > 14 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0252e580 g_signal_emit + 48 > 15 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0210c5e0 gtk_widget_unrealize + 256 > 16 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0200935c gtk_paned_forall + 124 > 17 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x02110090 gtk_widget_real_unrealize > + 128 > 18 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0251a014 g_closure_invoke + 436 > 19 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0252cfcc signal_emit_unlocked_R + > 3452 > 20 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0252e30c g_signal_emit_valist + 2012 > 21 libgobject-2.0.0.dylib 0x0252e580 g_signal_emit + 48 > 22 libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib 0x0210c5e0 gtk_widget_unrealize + 256 I can find some google hits on "gdk_window_destroy" - but its far ahead my knowledge to draw any wisdom from it. I'd be grateful for some hints where to start research - inkscape, macports, gtk2 ?? - Who is the person (list, forum) to ask first - any hints would be appreciated. Yours Wolf

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Broken URL
by unknown＠example.com 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

In http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ApplicationIcons [http://www.out-of-order.ca/inkscape-icon-tutorial/ A Beginner's tutorial on making icons in Inkscape] appears to be broken. I will be making it disappear from the displayed Wiki page, unless someone can tell me where it went.

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node handles
by MilesTogoe 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

I keep running into the situation where instead of 2 handles I only have one - I suspect the missing handle is actually centered on the node itself but there doesn't seem to be any way to get at it. As I cursor around I get all the handles, not just the 'selected node". so is there a way to: a) just get the handles for the selected node ? b) way to highlight the handle points so even if it's on a node, a user can click on it ? or is the 2nd handle sometimes not there ? I think this is somewhat a user question, but also a design/development question.

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Xavier Araque has invited you to Dropbox
by Dropbox 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

We're excited to let you know that Xavier Araque has invited you to Dropbox! Xavier Araque has been using Dropbox to sync and share files online and across computers, and thought you might want it too. Visit http://www.dropbox.com/link/20.9Icy44ZmSu/NjkzNTQ3NDk3 to get started. - The Dropbox Team ____________________________________________________ To stop receiving invites from Dropbox, please go to http://www.dropbox.com/bl/37affd43b15a/inkscape-devel%40lists.sourceforge.n…

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Inkscape_coverage Wiki article broken URLs
by unknown＠example.com 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

On http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage the following links respond with indicate messages: Sorry, 'URL' does not exist or is not available. [http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/214206 newsforge article] Oops! This link appears to be broken. http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/1638201&from=rss Redirects to site home page: [http://linuxgraphic.org/section2d/articles/miroir_Inkscape/index.html A nice tutorial focused on Inkscape, in French.] http://www.gnuzilla.info/download/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=GN… Parked: [http://www.other-space.com/inkscape/ Inkscape Tutorials] I'll be commenting out the reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage unless someone can tell me who to contact to fix the site.

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Selecting Clipped Objects
by Alex Leone 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi everyone, I spent a lot of time this weekend trying to wrap my head around how an object gets selected to no avail. My goal is to fix this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/365458 Currently selection of clipped objects is horribly broken - see http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31755891/clip-selection-bug.ogv Anyway, can someone explain: 1. What handles click events on the canvas 2. Where is the logic that decides what gets selected >From what I can tell, display/sp-canvas.cpp:1505 sp_canvas_button (GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventButton *event) handles click events. Within this function I don't see any calls to anything that resembles "is this point within this object". Help! Thanks! - Alex

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Text dialog
by Diederik van Lierop 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Yay, I just noticed this: "Fundraising goal: $1300 – Raised to date: $1,415" on http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/inkscape/ Will this finally bring us user friendly sub- & superscript capabilities? Diederik

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Newsforge?
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage#Online_Articles_a… contains * [http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/214206 newsforge article] When I follow that link, it appears my ISP redirects the newsforge domain to a Yahoo search with the message, "Sorry, 'www.newsforge.com' does not exist or is not available." Can anyone else reach the newsforge server?

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SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking
by Felipe Sanches 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

let's unblock it! SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/1620238/SourceForge-Removes-Blanket-…> on Monday February 08, @12:12PM Posted by ScuttleMonkey <http://slashdot.org/%7EScuttleMonkey/> on Monday February 08, @12:12PM from the power-to-the-people dept. government <http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=government> Recently there was much gnashing of teeth as SourceForge (who shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) started programmatically blocking users in certain countries<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/25/1854241/SourceForge-Clarifies-Denial…>to comply with US export restrictions. Thankfully they didn't let it end there and have found a way to put the power back in the hands of the users<http://ow.ly/14U1k>. *"Beginning now, every project admin can click on Develop -> Project Admin -> Project Settings to find a new section called Export Control. By default, we've ticked the more restrictive setting. If you conclude that your project is *not* subject to export regulations, or any other related prohibitions, you may now tick the other check mark and click Update. After that, all users will be able to download your project files as they did before last month's change."*

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Broken Links in Wiki Gallery list
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

On http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries the following links are broken with the noted result: I'll be commenting out each reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries unless someone can tell me who to contact to fix the site. 404 - File or directory not found. Simondebelem http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Simondebelem http://www.wrzs.igk.pl/simondebelem/simondebelem.htm Piotr Kosmala http://www.insert.waw.net.pl/vector/firecat_large.jpg Henrich Fichna http://haef.szm.sk/ This webpage is not available. Slightly Weirdly http://slightly.weirdly.net/illustrations_vector.php Inkscape animations http://www.revis.co.uk/site/?q=taxonomy/term/7 Haypo http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Haypo http://www.haypocalc.com/perso/image/vache_qui_rit.ico.png Tribal tattoo drawn in Inkscape http://dump.c7.se/tribal.png freewaydesign http://www.freewaydesign.com/ Topological images http://aumat.unipv.it/~arecchi/miatesi.pdf Oops! This link appears to be broken. Cal Russell-Thompson http://clik.to/cal Andy's Blog http://blog.die-scheiss-kiste.de/wordpress/ Jon Campbell http://www.joncampbell.ca/inkscape/gallery.php Larry's Main Entrance http://www.protemporeevents.com/larrys/ jhuss's artwork http://jhuss.com/category/arte/ OrganicaDTM Studio's gallery http://blog.organicadtm.com/wp-gallery2.php Parked Jiije artworks by jiije http://www.jeromehouix.info/ picturi,reproduceri,portrete http://www.pictura4.1gb.at/ portrete la comanda in creion http://www.pictura4.1gb.at/portrete_in_creion_pe_hartie.html Cedric Gemy http://www.ndparking.com/le-radar.com Fred's SVG Wallpapers http://f-r-e-d.org/ Brain Cud http://www.braincud.com/ CejasBravas TV serie webpage http://cejasbravas.com/

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Inkscape Brasil Galeria inaccessible?
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/InkscapeBrasil/.Galeria responds: This webpage is not available. in Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 unknown (36714) In fact, http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/ responds the same. I'll be commenting out the reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries unless someone can tell me who to contact to resurrect the site.

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http://www.ufowebfactory.net/ seems to be having a problem
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

http://www.ufowebfactory.net/download/free-svg_en.htm responds: CakePHP Rapid Development Missing controller You are seeing this error because controller DownloadController could not be found. Notice: If you want to customize this error message, create app/views/errors/missing_controller.thtml. Fatal: Create the class below in file : app/controllers/download_controller.php <?php class DownloadController extends AppController { var $name = 'Download'; } ?> I'll be commenting out the reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries unless someone can tell me who to contact to fix the site.

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r9059/60: pencil tool sometimes fails when node snapping to grid is active
by ~suv 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

One of the changes in recent revisions 9059 or 9060 makes the pencil tool act strangely with default snapping settings (global node snapping enabled) while a grid is visible and set as active snapping target: it seems as if some key press or release events don't get processed immediately. To reproduce: draw freehand curves with different mouse speed and timing of left-mouse-button-clicks. Sometimes neither the path outline while dragging nor the finished line when releasing the left mouse button are visible, yet the starting point is picked up for and added to a later drawn curve. It does not happen with no grid visible nor when global snapping is disabled. This is reproducible with my usual preference settings as well as with a default (new) preferences.xml file. I haven't seen it in earlier revisions <= 9058, but can reproduce it with Inkscape 0.47+devel r9060 and r9061 on OS X 10.5.8 ~suv

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performance 047 vs. 046 Mac OS X 10.4
by Wolf Drechsel 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hello friends, after having built 0.47 for Mac OS X 10.4, I got the feeling that it is quite a bit slower than 0.46 was. Now I tried to verify that suspicion (all done on a G4, 1350MHz, 960MB RAM): Launching inkscape + X11: 047: 27s 046: 17s Opening a very tiny SVG file (3350B), inkscape already open: 047: 4s 046: 2s Opening a more complex SVG file, inkscape already open: 047: 5s 046: 4s Importing a pdf file with lots of text, than selecting all and ungrouping all the contents (time is just for the ungrouping): 047: 16s 046: 8s Probabely this is just an issue of my home brew thing - but maybe this is an issue which is more easily noticeable on such a slow machine like mine. So I'd be grateful if people on other platforms would cross-check that. In the case it is a general issue it may be well worth to put some effort in fixing it in 048. Greetings, Wolf

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Exchange position of two objects
by Nicolas Dufour 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, Roland Meub has posted a patch to implement this nice feature (see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171944). It compiles and works correctly on Ubuntu 9.10, and the only glitch I've found is related to 3Dbox (unexpected translations). Could a C++ expert review this code and commit? Regards, -- Nicolas

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file format
by mahesh kumar 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

hi, can anyone help me on how the file format for inkscape was made? on which basis, and how to build it and all... pls, give me some suggestions on its basics. i want to build a new file format of a pagination application. It will be very helpful if you suggest me... thank you.... regards, -- mahesh kumar

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Node tool committed to trunk
by Krzysztof Kosiński 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

The new node tool is now in the trunk - please test and report any bugs. I made a few last minute improvements inspired by the discussion. New features are listed in the release notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.48#Node_Tool I also made a new icon for the spray tool. It's much better than the old one, but there's still something not quite right with it. Regards, Krzysztof

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] pixelsnap
by Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, I'm Bryan, the original author of pixelsnap. I'd be keen to have PixelSnap included in the official Inkscape repository, and to do whatever's necessary for that purpose (I don't mind releasing it under GPL, either -- I just like the MIT license because it's short & sweet) Just a brief rant on why I think PixelSnap is a useful part of a digital artist's workflow, even if they know inkscape's tools: I'm a fairly technical user of Inkscape, but in spite of the great work done on snapping & grids recently (kudos to the people involved with that!), I've still found the "right" way to be a bit of a pain in the backside. The reasons Rob gives below are two good examples. Another big reason why the "right" way is often unworkable is the fact that odd-width strokes are offset by exactly 0.5 pixels. I understand the reasoning for this, but it means you have to have 2 pixel-sized grids, one pixel-aligned, and one mid-pixel-aligned. Also, you have to keep the grid on permanently while editing for the "right" way to work, unless you want to go back and edit all your vectors later on. I don't find it very easy working with grids all over my work. Sometimes I don't want stuff to snap either -- I only want vertical & horizontal lines to snap-to-pixel. I'd also rather set up meaningful grids for my artwork -- i.e. grids for layout purposes, not grids to overcome the shortcomings of my screen. Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > On 1/13/10, Rob Antonishen wrote: >> The biggest benefit is when working with existing images that were not >> necessarily drawn to pixel snap. >> >> Or after rescaling images and resnapping the elements to the nearest >> pixel. > > Exactly :) > -- Bryan Hoyt, *Web developer* — Brush Technology *Ph:* +64 3 942 7833 *Mobile:* +64 21 238 7955 *Web:* brush.co.nz

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