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0.47pre4 Pre-release
by Ted Gould 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hello all, Another milestone release. Hopefully the last. Let's get this release out! I want to put a special thanks to MIT for the 5MB/s upload :) https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47pre4/ --Ted == MD5 Sums == c27b2c4f74a94c9cc6ae0f341d3b00ed inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2 a5076ffe4636eda5ab623d5ad8e85d48 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2.asc 5cce22cbe97780f47de1d385bd2bed3b inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz b927fc4caadac9c0269ec1cc5f84c176 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz.asc 9f9f4400fe0400b0021523eaa394d7fc inkscape-0.47pre4.zip 6192f8f7d653ed2168df1f222944a981 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip.asc == SHA1 Sums == 02210ee6eeda65517284c01a3f9d069443affbfe inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2 da4c5b963ee9b2636101157822b99d0dedc3db76 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2.asc 0340f33315a93b5ec001c62c2790726547e4dc2a inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz 456aa3c99686057648d70c7cb9eb9f246c9a3e02 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz.asc 5c00b71555059c2aa455e4e11e9404461c1f6c28 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip d5fc92e15271929576ea515cd86423aa27cf4c99 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip.asc

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packaging inkscape aqua
by Wolf Drechsel 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Hello friends, I happened to find the inscructions for building an Mac OS X .app package. So I tried to use the osx-app.sh script to build an incscape aqua app in order to share it, but ended up with a message as follows: Directory does not appear to contain the i386 and ppc python modules So I tried to run the script with the -py option, but cannot find out for which python components I do have to look. Nor do I know whether I do have enough python installed; a "sudo port installed" shows: py26-libxml2 @2.6.21_0 (active) python26 @2.6.2_4+darwin (active) I guess the python26 thing is it - but how will the script find the necessary components? Some hints would be appreciated (-; Greetings, Wolf ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Wolf Drechsel + Köhnstr. 54 + D - 90478 Nürnberg + Tel.: 0911 / 4 71 98 49 + drechsel@...2249... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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masks and clippaths
by Alexandre Prokoudine 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hi, When did anyone actually last use masks and clipping paths? We advertize that it's possible now to edit applied masks and clipping paths on canvas, but it really doesn't work at all. Alexandre

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View>Scripts doesn't work
by Nicolas Dufour 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hi, The View>Scripts dialog still doesn't open. I think we should disable this menu entry If we can't repair it before 0.47. More details in the bug report. [Bug #346721] "Segfault after opening JVM scripts dialog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/346721 Cheers, -- Nicolas

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Changes to .desktop file
by Ted Gould 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

I realize we're close to a release, and this would effect translations, but it'd be nice if we could get this fix in. Tell me if I'm crazy :) https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/406578 I imagine that if we don't fix it, Linux distros will have to distro patch it. Which would be a shame. --Ted

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Fix for Bug #423326 (Untranslated file types)
by Nicolas Dufour 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hi, I've attached a patch (tested on Vista and XP) to the following bug report. [Bug #423326] Untranslated file types https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/423326 It fixes some gettext calls in the win32 open/import dialog (i18n fix only). The strings are already translated (they are shared with the linux/mac dialog) and the fix doesn't require an inkscape.pot rebuild. :) It's a low priority bug, but since it affects the UI it would be nice to have it fixed in 0.47. Cheers, -- Nicolas

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POV-Ray export patch.
by Tavmjong Bah 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hi, I just filed a bug report for POV-Ray export which is broken in 0.47pre4. It appears to have been broken by a move to lib2geom where the path vector includes an extra closing segment even if the path is already closed (see 2geom/path.h). This resulted in extra lines being written out. In addition, there was a problem that existed in 0.46 where paths created by Text->Path may not have their last point exactly on top of the first point (differing sometimes by 0.0002 px). In this case, POV-Ray considers the path open and skips it. I've attached a patch to the bug report that fixes both problems. I know this is late in the 0.47 release process but as it stands, export to .pov format is useless (POV-Ray fails to process the .pov file due to the extra badly-formatted lines). The patch only effects pov-out.cpp which is used only by POV-Ray export so it shouldn't break anything. The bug URL is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/451588 Tav

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Adjust kerning from the text&font dialog?
by Michal Suchanek 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Hello, why is it impossible to adjust text kerning from the font&text dialog? It has the same text so you can put the cursor somewhere or select something without cluttering the drawing with flashing cursor or some other view obscuring stuff. Sadly, the alignment keys do not work in the dialog. There is a more general problem of drawing being obfuscated by selection. For example, if I select an object the dashed selection frame obscures the objects with which I want to align the currently selected object. Thanks Michal

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ARGH!
by Joshua A. Andler 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Hey All, Of course my HDD is finally failing (I did know it was coming) and will not have access to my computer for a few days until the replacement arrives. I will do what I can via my phone in the meantime, but committing patches will be something I obviously can't do as I won't be able to test first. Will be back up and running as soon as I can be. Cheers, Josh

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nsis builds
by Alexandre Prokoudine 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hi, Synfig (2D vector animation, Gtkmm as well) team has just released 0.62.00 with basic SVG 1.0 import. However they have problems building Windows version, e.g. localization support is disabled for some reason. Could anybody please help them with NSIS and the rest of the environment? The contact would be pxegeek at gmail. Thanks in advance, Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.47pre4 Pre-release
by Guillermo Espertino 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

There is a very annoying regression introduced in 0.47 development cycle, which was reported in bug #365458. It would be great to see it fixed before 0.47 final release.

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Python dependencies for extensions on all platforms need common min versions
by ~suv 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

While the topic raised in the versioning scheme thread mentions a general API version possibly separated from the program version, bug #448285 "lxml version bundled with Inkscape is old" <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/448285> brings up an issue that could be discussed and solved for 0.47 (especially as 0.47pre4 has just been branched). Could there be a central document on Inkscape.org available for all future extension developers (and package maintainers) that defines the python version and necessary python modules for the current release and lists the minimal versions every Inkscape installation needs to provide for the extension-system out-of-the-box? Or could this be handled entirely by the configure and packaging scripts, which then create an updated 'README.python' document included in the 'share/extensions'? ~suv

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Inkscape 0.47 on the horizon (Call for help)
by Joshua A. Andler 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Hey All, I think we closed out the last of the blocker bugs today! So, will people please help ensure that the release notes are up to date? I'm headed there in just a minute to document my latest changes. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47 Regarding PR, I am going to continue with what was started here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AnnouncePlanning047 If you are an inkscape user who wants to contribute, even if you can't program, this is the perfect way to give back to the community. Please help us flesh this out and refine it. Packagers, please package up Pre3 if you have not already done so as a practice run... and honestly, I think it would be safe to plan a release for next week (between Monday the 5th and Friday the 9th), provided packages are available and no new issues arise. Any objections to this proposed plan? Any thoughts on if releasing on a specific day of the week will get more notice? Cheers, Josh

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Wiki French index
by Nicolas Dufour 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi, I'm currently translating the wiki index (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape) in French. But I don't know how to link it to the other languages indexes (there's no edit link) and to make it the default index when French language is chosen. I've modified /inkscape_web/trunk/includes/localized-fr.inc but it doesn't seem to work. The new French index is http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape-fr. Could someone help? Thanks! -- Nicolas

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JavaFX interest
by Jon A. Cruz 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi, Is there still much interest out there in having Inkscape support JavaFX? I fixed some core issues to get things to at least compile/read, etc. However there are still some bugs on specific features not working when exported files are brought into JavaFX-land. It would help things greatly if some users could poke about briefly and enter some Launchpad bugs against Inkscape for individual JavaFX issues. Thanks.

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Issues with SVG precision number writing
by Jon A. Cruz 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

In fixing bug #399604 I discovered that our writing of numbers with specified precision has a few bugs in it. Given that we've come close to a release without people explicitly noticing I think we are OK for the moment. However we really should look into that and see what we can do as far as fixing proper support for edge cases. If people can take a look at that, it would be quite helpful. There is an appropriate unit test source file in our tree: svg/svg-length-test.h The function that has issues is unsigned int sp_svg_number_write_de( gchar *buf, int bufLen, double val, unsigned int tprec, int min_exp ); Note that it did not used to have that bufLen parameter, and that even at the moment it is unused. I'll be adding a few test cases in there, but if others can also contribute we can stabilize things much quicker. Thanks

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daily updates testsuite
by unknown＠example.com 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi Niko, It is awesome that you are doing daily testsuite updates on your website [1]! Thanks a lot! Anybody care to write a newsitem about this on our website? I have two requests: 1. Are you using perceptualdiff? There are many 'new' entries in the list. This means that the resulting file is different from the reference when compared byte per byte. But I'd rather see the result of a visual comparison, using perceptualdiff [2]. perceptualdiff "runtests.py --compare-png=perceptualdiff" 2. I'd like to see the svn revision number below the date; so that we know exactly with which Inkscape version the test was done. Again, I'm very happy to see the results updated every day! Ciao, Johan [1] http://auriga.mine.nu/inkscape/ [2] http://pdiff.sourceforge.net/

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Inkscape Portable
by Joshua A. Andler 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hey All, Chris Morgan has submitted a patch for packaging a portable version of inkscape. There is one thing which is additionally distributed with these builds that I feel I should ask the group about. There is a help.html file for the portable version which has a button for donating to support portableapps.com. Attached is an image of the page. Optionally we could otherwise just link to it being hosted on portableapps.com, but it does seem like people would probably be more comfortable if it were officially supplied by the project. Opinions? Cheers, Josh

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"Draw freely" font
by Johan Forsberg 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hello, I'd really like to provide translated versions of the 0.47 about screen and I have decided that I'd like to use the nice handwriting style font used in previous screens instead of the one I used originally (this was In fact my original plan). Does anyone know what the font is called and where to get it? I'm assuming it's free to use for this purpose... /Johan (a.k.a "sko")

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missing release notes, help needed
by bulia byak 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

For most missing/cryptic/inadequate descriptions I was able to get them into shape myself, but for these two sections I just don't have enough information: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47#Document_Propert… http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47#Object_Propertie… Please fill these out in detail, using full sentences, describing all aspects and controls and behavior, in a way everyone can understand. This _is_ important. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape Website
by Chris Morgan 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hey guys, I decided to post this as a new topic rather than taking the InkscapeForum.org one further off-topic. I've pretty much finished my theme for the website, and it's available for viewing at http://inkscape.chrismorgan.info/. I'll be setting up content as I get to it (i.e. soon). Other theme submissions are welcome, email them to me and I can set them up there. Josh Andler said he would talk to Ian about getting me Drupal access on inkscape.org - I don't know who Ian is or anything about that, but it could help with testing :-). I'm happy to work with it on my server though, it can be transferred without much trouble. Unless I hear about a inkscape.org-hosted Drupal site very soon I'll just continue working on my copy. My work is mainly based on this<http://duckgoesoink.deviantart.com/art/Inkscape-Website-entry-front-81779014> submission<http://duckgoesoink.deviantart.com/art/Inkscape-Website-entry-main-81779682>by duckgoesoink. Is she/are you subscribed to this list, or does anyone know how to get in contact with her? I'd like to put a credit link in the footer. -- Chris Morgan <chris.morganiser@...400...> I don't need a quote in my signature. It's hard enough surviving as it is without having to find a meaningful quote. Will you forgive me? Or don't you read this bit?

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how to solve flow text issue?
by the Adib 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Bulia, what is your opinion how this issue should be solved? I would be willing to code and test according to a plan. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/167335 theAdib. ---

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InkscapeForum.com for offer to Inkscape.org
by microUgly 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

If you don't know, I run www.inkscapeforum.com--a relatively successful phpBB forum for Inkscape users. I created the forum because I knew there was demand and at the time I knew I could devote a lot of time to make it successful. But I was never fond of the idea that a single person would have ownership of the data accumulated from the community. I wanted to offer ownership of the forum to Inkscape.org. Ideally this only needs to go as far as knowing that if I were hit by a bus, someone could step in and take over. I don't know how things are ran on the inkscape.org site, but I would be offering the entire setup to be hosted by inkscape.org (if possible). I would happily continue to moderate, and administer the board if appropriate access were given. And I would redirect inkscapeforum.com to the new domain, or change it's name servers. Anyway, discussion open. Would Inkscape.org be interested in adopting the forum? The forum won't be shutdown regardless of the answer. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/InkscapeForum.com-for-offer-to-Inkscape.org-tp2467341… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Save As option?
by bulia byak 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

I missed the discussion of this new option but, honestly, I don't understand it from the tooltip and the Release Notes (which I edited some, but still). What is "current working directory"? For an average Windows user this does not make much sense I guess. They just click icons. Can you explain it in more functional terms? The tooltip explains what happens for previously saved or not saved documents. But both these are for this checkbox on, right? What if it is off? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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URGENT FOR ALL DEVS
by Joshua A. Andler 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Aurium (and EVERYONE else), People who do not have explicit permission to commit right now need to please respect the rules during release and NOT make commits until the announcement has been made that trunk has opened up again for general development. Aurium, I am going to back out your recent change (not the Authors one) as we are beyond Feature freeze & in String freeze. Cheers, Josh

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