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removed files from trunk/share/extensions still present after svn update/make/make install
by ~suv 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

When updating Inkscape to the most recent SVN revision I use: | svn update | make | make install and then build the application bundle for macosx. When files are removed from trunk/share, like recently some extensions (in rev. 22049), those files still exist in 'Build/share/inkscape/extensions' and are not removed when I do 'make' and 'make install' after 'svn update'. Do I have to manually clean the Build/share directories when updating from SVN, or is there a make target that specifically does this instead of the overall 'make clean'? The issue has come up before with packages for win32 which included long gone extension files. On a side note - the build date (shown in the about screen) also doesn't update with every make/install/package cycle - though the revision number is always correct. tia, ~suv

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STL Containers related question...
by Arcadie M. Cracan 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hello all, I have an issue with STL std::map. Here's a quick description. I have a member in SPConnectorContext structure that is a map: std::map<SPKnot* , ConnectionPoint> connpthandles; Having the following code in a function produces a sigfault: cc->connpthandles[knot] = it->second; where cc is a pointer to SPConnectorContext. I have also defined a local variable std::map<SPKnot*, ConnectionPoint> cph_clone; and the following instruction executes all right cph_clone[knot] = it->second; It seems that somehow the connpthandles map gets scrambled or improperly initialized. I don't know why this is so. Any help is welcome. Regards, Arcadie

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GSoC 2009 - Nearing the end
by Joshua A. Andler 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hey Mentors, As you are probably aware the "soft" pencil's down date for the students was yesterday. The more firm date being next Monday, the 17th. They will technically have up until the 24th to get the finishing touches on things as far as grading is concerned. Please talk to your respective students to ensure that you can provide the best mentoring possible for the time they have left and to see what the community can do, if anything, to help them succeed. CCing the devel-list so people know that we're near the end. Cheers, Josh P.S. To the list members... the projects will get merged in when we get 0.47 out the door... so if you're itching for the new features, look at this as a booster shot to help make 0.47 happen that much sooner. ;)

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Inkscape Wiki: please restore Release notes/0.46
by ~suv 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Some mishap seems to have wiped out the release notes for Inkscape 0.46. Does anyone have access to a backup and knows how to restore it? Having the release notes available is helpful to answer questions on <https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape> and for bug triage as well. tia, ~suv

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Build still broken...
by Tavmjong Bah 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Still no joy in Mudville. After seeing failures in a variety of different ways with each new check-in, the build is stuck on box3d.cpp: box3d.cpp: In function ‘Inkscape::XML::Node* box3d_write(SPObject*, Inkscape::XML::DocumentTree*, Inkscape::XML::Node*, guint)’: box3d.cpp:281: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ ./xml/xml-forward.h:23: error: forward declaration of ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ box3d.cpp: In function ‘Geom::Matrix box3d_set_transform(SPItem*, const Geom::Matrix&)’: box3d.cpp:342: error: cannot convert ‘Inkscape::XML::Document*’ to ‘Document*’ for argument ‘1’ to ‘Persp3D* persp3d_create_xml_element(Document*, Persp3D*)’ box3d.cpp: In function ‘SPGroup* box3d_convert_to_group(SPBox3D*)’: box3d.cpp:1382: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ ./xml/xml-forward.h:23: error: forward declaration of ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ box3d.cpp:1395: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ ./xml/xml-forward.h:23: error: forward declaration of ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ box3d.cpp:1421: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ ./xml/xml-forward.h:23: error: forward declaration of ‘struct Inkscape::XML::Document’ Tav

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Measure Path extension and transform attribute
by Nicolas Dufour 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi, I'm trying to fix bug #308183 (Measure Path text shifted when used with a copied object, https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/308183), related to measure.py extension: "Some objects (stars, spirals, circles, but NOT rectangles and freehands) have a transform attribute (translate) when copied. When using Visualize Path>Measure Path, the text gets this attribute, which is thus applied twice (one on the object and one on the text). That's the reason why the text appears shifted on the canvas." Does someone know why this transform attribute is copied from the original shape to the generated text? Removing it in measure.py resolves the bug and doesn't seem to break something else (the text is linked to the object with xlink:href). But it's in the code from the beginning... Thanks! -- Nicolas

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inkscape is getting good but heavy and slow
by solaris manzur 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

hello folks, inkscape is getting slower more and more, the same in windows, please be carefull with this, i do not want to have another windows vista case, please play attention to my word, i just want free software to be the best around the world thanks for listening

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Adobe Illustrator Export
by Tavmjong Bah 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi, Unless anybody objects, I am going to remove AI export support from Inkscape. At the moment it doesn't work in SVN. I have a fix but: 1. The quality of the export is poor. 2. It only supports up to Adobe Illustrator 8.0 (released in 1998). 3. Versions of Illustrator from 10.0 (2001) support direct import of SVG. Tav

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EPSI Export
by Tavmjong Bah 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi, Would anybody object to removing EPSI support? It does not work in SVN. It probably would not be hard to fix. 0.46 uses the program ps2epsi to do the conversion. However, with programs like OpenOffice directly using the vector PostScript code, I am not sure how useful it is to have the bitmap preview. One can always use ps2epsi by hand. Tav

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Proposal l18n screens about.svg
by Valessio Brito 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

I suggest create 'about.template.svg' and 'about.$l18n.svg' is a include of template artwork and others elements don't necessary translator. See: <image sodipodi:absref="about.svg" xlink:href="about.svg" style="display:inline" id="aboutsvgfile" x="0" y="0" /> And suggest add in pofiles the string "Draw freely", and run the script: for ii in *.po ; do sed s/"XXXXXX"/"$(grep "verbs.cpp:2517" $ii -A 3 | tail -2 | head -1 | cut -d"\"" -f2)"/ about.svg > about.$(echo $ii | cut -d"." -f1).svg ; done to create all about.*.svg files, small size, only input translator... 63 files this proposal = 640k 63 copy files or modifi... 10.080k (10Mb) See my SVN proposal: wget http://valessiobrito.info/projetos/inkscape/scheme-screens/abou*.svg -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Plugin proposal: Simple UML class diagrams using UMLet syntax
by Damien Cassou 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hi, first I would like to thank you for your work on Inkscape. That tool is quite powerful and impressive. The only thing I miss is a simple way to create class diagrams but I know it's not particularly the job of Inkscape to provide that. UMLet (www.umlet.com) is a very simple UML diagram editor which allows you to describe your classes and draws the shapes automatically. The description looks like this: MyClass -- id: int /name: String/ -- f(int, String): char I would like the same feature within Inkscape which is much more powerful. What I have in mind is a plugin which: 1- adds a new kind of shape 2- have a text area to enter the class description 3- do *not* allow the shape to be edited through handles but only through the text area What do you think? How can I start working on this? -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." James Iry

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Proposal to move translations into Launchpad
by Pajarico 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hi, I've been testing Launchpad's web interface for translations and want to propose a migration to it. The available tools are: - Original text. - Translated text. There is a shortcut to copy the original text to start translating. - A checkbox is in place so another person reviews it later. - Info like comments, variables and return characters are shown clearly. - You can browse thru the strings and translate one by one. - It gives automatic statistics for every language. - It is integrated in theres of Launchpad. I like this tool because I won't need to have anything installed and can work in any computer provided it has a net connection. One thing I don't know is how well changes made on svn will be handled. I hope there will be no conflicts between edits done on the web and on svn. Someone has tried this? Regards.

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Updated bug hunt tally 456/500. Final push!
by Tavmjong Bah 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

The current bug hunt tally is now 456/500. Newly fixed bugs: 6 284680 theAdib on output, the option 'convert text to paths' does not work... 9 407115 theAdib Cannot open file after saving on full USB stick (CONFIRM) 6 292232 theAdib Browse button from Export show a GTK Dialog on Win32 6 387946 JazzyNico UniConvertor called with wrong filename 6 179866 T. Holder Reverse path does not reverse the nodetypes order 3 386292 M. Albert file-save-dialog doesn't update shown filename on... Only 44 points to go! This is the time for a final push! Let me know if you think I missed any bugs that should have been credited. Remember, they must be marked Fixed Released or Fixed Committed. Tracked at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Info_for_0.47 Tav

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Good recent inkscape rev to check out?
by Dan Kegel 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hey folks, I'd like to build inkscape from near the top of tree, does anyone have an svn revision number (or branch name) for pre1? As somebody else noted, the tip is currently a bit broken. I have a nice batch file that automates the downloading of dev tools etc. and the checkout of source code and the build; I'm using it to benchmark windows vs. wine for compilation speed. (And as a stress test for wine.) Also, does anyone ever build inkscape for windows with visual C++ express? Thanks, Dan

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Problems with tutorials
by Arpad Biro 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi, It seems that several tutorial files are not listed in share/tutorials/Makefile.am. "make install" doesn't install them. The files (in the tutorials/ directory) missing from Makefile.am are: edge3d.svg potrace-ca.png potrace-es.png potrace-pt_BR.png potrace-sl.png potrace-vi.png potrace-zh_CN.png potrace-zh_TW.png tutorial-advanced.eu.svg tutorial-advanced.pl.svg tutorial-advanced.sk.svg tutorial-advanced.zh_TW.svg tutorial-basic.eo.svg tutorial-basic.eu.svg tutorial-basic.pl.svg tutorial-basic.zh_TW.svg tutorial-calligraphy.eu.svg tutorial-calligraphy.pl.svg tutorial-calligraphy.sk.svg tutorial-calligraphy.zh_TW.svg tutorial-elements.eu.svg tutorial-elements.pl.svg tutorial-elements.zh_TW.svg tutorial-interpolate.de.svg tutorial-interpolate.pl.svg tutorial-interpolate.sl.svg tutorial-interpolate.svg tutorial-interpolate.vi.svg tutorial-shapes.eu.svg tutorial-shapes.pl.svg tutorial-shapes.sk.svg tutorial-shapes.zh_TW.svg tutorial-tips.eu.svg tutorial-tips.pl.svg tutorial-tips.vi.svg tutorial-tips.zh_TW.svg tutorial-tracing.eu.svg tutorial-tracing.pl.svg tutorial-tracing.zh_TW.svg Do we have to put these into that makefile (supposing that we want to have them in the release), or were they left out intentionally? Also, the English "tutorial-tracing.svg" file refers to "potrace-en.png", but there's no such file, only "potrace.png". Does this mean we should rename that file to "potrace-en.png"? Arpad Biro

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Build broken on Linux?
by Tavmjong Bah 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Anybody else having trouble building Inkscape on Linux? I get the error: Makefile:1099: *** missing separator. Stop. Tav

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Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu Karmic?
by Aurélio A. Heckert 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hi all, There is no Karmic package repository: http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape-nightly/ppa/ubuntu/dists/ Is difficult to generate for Karmic too? Thanks, Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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problems with text dialog - pre2
by MilesTogoe 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

vers .47 pre 2: I found some continuing problems with the text editing dialog. Font types and sizes are not recognized after selecting the text object (this seems to be the same problem that existing in .46 (but worked fine before that). If someone is working on this, I'll be happy to work with you to resolve and test this.

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Win32 NSIS installer
by Chris Morgan 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi all, Today I decided to take a look at the NSIS installer for Win32, and decided to optimise it. It currently uses a macro and function for reading options from the command line. Since then, FileFunc.nsh has had added to it the GetParameters and GetOptions macros, which make the code inside the installer obsolete. I was amused to see that the option-reading code was made by (a different) Chris Morgan in 2004! For your assurance that I hopefully know what I'm doing, I have had lots of NSIS experience, mainly at PortableApps.com, where our launchers and installer are in NSIS. NSIS is an area I can help in, unlike the one I wanted to do more, https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/398603, which I'd like to fix but can't really. I also optimised readability and similar through the use of LogicLib's logical code structures. I cleaned up the language sections significantly, using a single macro rather than a section for each, containing a macro. In all of them, polng was equal to lng, with the exception of Japanese which had, incorrectly, jp rather than ja for lng. lng was only used for "..\..\inkscape\*.${lng}.txt" anyway - a mask which matches no files for any language. I'd propose that that line be vanquished as it's not used (historical?). In the meantime, I simplified it into one argument for the two. More on languages later. While doing this I found about half a dozen minor bugs, all of which I've fixed. Starting at line 1382 (old), that set of things had the conditions the wrong way around, so it would only print the detail if it was *empty*, rather than if it was something... utterly insignificant, but a bug :D More importantly, all the code around that section was inefficient, I rearranged it to make it more efficient. Also the deleting HKCU\.svg[z] thing was looking for the wrong thing, fixed that. The biggest bug I found was that single-user installations didn't work (at least judging by the code). The shell var context had been formerly set to "all", and the all users section set it to "all" and had a bit of code which wouldn't ever get executed. I got around this the easiest way, which was just to create an unshown section before it to SetShellVarContext current. All in all, I took it down from 1559 lines (47,874 bytes) to 930 lines (34,534 bytes) (60% of the lines, 72% of the filesize), shrunk the installer output by about 25KB (0.07% :P), fixed some bugs and made it more readable in the process. Now for some discussion on what I reckon having looked at it. Languages: I can optimise those still further, just thought I'd send round what I'd got so far. In particular, I want to change it so that no languages are installed by default; this would speed up installation on Windows exponentially - due to the LZMA solid compression used, each language takes an inordinate time to install. I think I can fix that up too, but I'll need to experiment on it a bit. Moving the files first should help in the technique... I'll try it out and report back. However, back on the main topic, I want to change it so English is not shown on the list (it's really pretty meaningless, it's an empty section... and the SectionGroup is "Translations" of the interface, English is pretty much a given), and so that the only language which is installed is that which the installer is running in. I can do that easily enough. Possibly also the MUI LANGDLL should be displayed to let the user choose the initial language. Presets: we've got the SectionIn 1 2 3 bits all over the place, but aren't using the presets at all (any more I guess from commented out code). I think they should be added back, that way you can have all languages in full, the suggested one in optimal and none in minimal. Also I think that quick launch and desktop icons should be on by default. Start menu: currently this is forced on, in a set location, which isn't very nice. We should use the MUI STARTMENU stuff. I also think that a lot of the DetailPrint bits should be cleaned up to either be removed or so they can be more useful. The welcome and finish pages should get their own images, I'll make a proposal for it. Also the header image should get the new logo; likewise I can do that. Right, I think that's enough for now, though I've probably forgotten something I was going to say, and missed a bug or two I fixed. -- 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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Updated bug hunt tally: 378/500 Bug hunting stalled!!
by Tavmjong Bah 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

The current bug hunt tally is now 378/500. Newly fixed bugs: 6 168387 van Lierop Display mode toggle doesn't update radio... 3 396580 JazzyNico non-ASCII characters not displayed... The average number of points per day has dropped to 1 in the past week!! Bug hunting seems to have stalled. Let me know if you think I missed any bugs that should have been credited. Remember, they must be marked Fixed Released or Fixed Committed. Tracked at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Info_for_0.47 Tav

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Boost.Intrusive
by Krzysztof Kosiński 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hello all In my GSoC project I need to represent nodes in a linked list. The requirements are: 1. Obtaining an iterator from the value should be a constant time operation 2. Ownership semantics should be similar to boost::ptr_list - that is, objects are owned by only one container and deleted when erased, though there are special functions that allow transfer between containers and releasing an object from a container 3. The list must have a 'closed' flag that determines the behavior of 2 functions that retrieve an iterator to the next and previous node: If it's true, they wrap around, and if it's not they behave like regular ++ and -- on iterators. Initially I thought about std::list + std::tr1::unordered_map of pointer to node -> iterator, but this is absurd. Then I created my own NodeList class, which worked well enough, but I feel that implementing all the operations is reinventing the wheel. I could use Boost.Intrusive (specifically boost::intrusive::list) to satisfy 1 and 2 out of the box and 3 with a small amount of work. However, I can't find what version of Boost we currently depend on. Boost.Intrusive is a header only library that was released as part of Boost 1.35 in April 2008 (there are no runtime dependencies, so the only possible issue is whether developers run recent enough systems to have it available). It is available in Debian Lenny, as a backport for Etch, and in Ubuntu Hardy LTS. Is it OK to use it? Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński

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Updated bug hunt tally 420/500 Bug hunt moving again.
by Tavmjong Bah 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

The current bug hunt tally is now 420/500. Newly fixed bugs: 3 364224 cilic42 unnecessary tab on layers dialog 9 383244 Hochriener With JessyInk installed in an .svg file, doc prop dialog crash 3 404488 Papouin Axonometric grid spacing lower range is too big 6 386256 JazzyNico Inkscape-0.47pre0 does not build on win32 12 195101 van Lierop stuck in zoom context when typing 'z' while dragging with a tool 9 309856 theAdib crash when doing Python-driven export to a read-only file The average number of points per day has jumped to 10! Let me know if you think I missed any bugs that should have been credited. Remember, they must be marked Fixed Released or Fixed Committed. Tracked at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Info_for_0.47 Tav

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Extracting a saturation map with SVG filters ?
by Ivan Louette 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

I can't figure how I could extract a saturation map (as a greyscale image) with SVG filters. My idea is using it to replace any hue of an image with only one like it's done with cyan in the joined png created with Xara Xtreme Linux Edition. I am searching for a long time already but without success. Perhaps not possible. In Xara I only put a cyan rectangle above the image and apply the "Hue" transparency type. I was able to synthezize all Xara's color effects but this one. ivan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] File Export (Save-As) Tests for v0.47
by ~suv 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

On 31/7/09 22:18, Tavmjong Bah wrote: >>> .dfx: Generic AutoCAD export failed to load (see .ai). >> 1) missing helper_extension 'org.inkscape.output.ps' >> (related bug #407215 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/407215>) >> proposed fix: in dxf_output.inx >> s/org.inkscape.output.ps/org.inkscape.print.ps.cairo/ >> >> the 'AutoCAD DXF (*.dxf)'output extension is loaded and creates DXF >> output if pstoedit is installed, though I cannot get pstoedit to create >> DXF files that can be re-imported in Inkscape (on OS X 10.5.7, pstoedit >> 3.45). > > This seems to work but it calls up the PostScript output dialog which I > am not sure is the best. Qcad does read the output dxf OK. Tested on > Fedora 11 with today's svn. AFAIU pstoedit depends on the intermediary .ps format as inkscape output because it does the conversion ps->dxf. Latest version of pstoedit 3.45 is from September 2007. Maybe the helper_extension could to be changed like the one used for the 'print preview' which doesn't prompt for PDF output options either (or does 'print preview' use Postscript output?). Using 'org.inkscape.print.ps' instead of 'org.inkscape.print.ps.cairo' doesn't work although it's defined in src/extension/extension.h. Or there are other cross-platform converters available that can do it in one step: svg->dxf (besides Alvins enhanced dxf_outlines.py extension)? ~suv

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Interesting drawing add
by Ivan Louette 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

I asked me if this kind of tool existed for Linux. Should be a very interesting add for those who use Inkscape with a mouse ! ivan http://people.happycoders.org/kamih/wordpress/?page_id=46

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