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Problem with our stream writing
by Jon A. Cruz 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

I was tracking down bug #340451 and it turns out to be more pervasive than I thought: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/340451 The problem is that things are casting 16-bit Unicode values to bytes by chopping all but the last 8 bits. I'm going to be working on fixing this, but it is such a fundamental issue that I'm surprised we're not seeing more issues. Also I'll need to test a few more things and make sure I don't break more than I fix. In the Java world they address this by having a very explicit difference between characters and bytes. Bytes are 'byte' and handled by "OutputStream"s whereas characters are 'character' and are handled by "Writer"s. So I'll just get some tests fixed and then clean up with proper transformations. If anyone can take a look for things that might be a problem, related bugs, things I should test, etc. that would help. Thanks.

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[FWD: [Inkscape-docs] Inkscape File formats]
by unknown＠example.com 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] Inkscape File formats
by Alexandre Prokoudine 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:42 AM, John & Melonie Curwood wrote: > results. some file types I could load or save in my Ubuntu Linux > version of Inkscape but not in the Windows version. Yes, e.g. EMF is not supported on Linux. > 1) is there a plug-in that is needed for the .dia file type? You need Dia installed. http://live.gnome.org/Dia > 2) why are some formats only able to be saved or opened in the linux > version of Inkscape? Because the rely either on applications or API available on just one platform only. > Are there certain components or plug-ins that are installed with the > linux version that aren't with the windows version. Yes. The version 0.46, for instance, isn't shipped with UniConvertor which is used for opening CDR (v0.47 will). > I can send through a list of the file types in particular if that helps. Please do :-) Alexandre

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Google's Summer of Code 2009
by Joshua A. Andler 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hey all! Our application for this year's GSoC has been submitted. Last years info page has been rolled over to this year with a few minor updates. If people would like to take a look and perhaps edit the page as they see fit that would be excellent. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2009 As soon as there is any further info or news I will keep the list up to date. Cheers, Josh

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Batch conversion from raster to verctor (PNG/JPG to PDF/SVG)
by Chris Cinelli 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi everybody, I am trying to improve the quality of printing of some low-resolution raster pics. I tried autotrace that has the ideal interface for me (i.e. "autotrace infile.jpg --output-file outfile.pdf"). However the quality is really low (especially on photos) because it generates random triangles and leave white spaces. I am very satisfied with Inkscape's quality using the item in the menu: "Path - Trace Bitmap." (multiple scans - Colors after adjusting some options). I wonder if I can convert the pictures that I have (they are in JPG but I can convert them to PNG) in PDF (or SVG) through some command line options or a batch script (that I don't have idea if it exists and how it works). The process should run on a OpenSolaris box that has not any X client configured. Is this feasible or I need to mess up with Inkscape's source code? Best, Chris

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Kernel Unit Length in Lighting Effects
by Ivan Louette 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hello Working on filters for one moment now I was asking myself if there are any progresses (or projects) about implementing Kernel Unit Length in Lighting Effects. Following this Niko Kiirala tutorial http://fedev.blogspot.com/2008/07/filter-effects-lighting-effects.html "Kernel Unit Length is not yet used in Inkscape. It is used to make the result resolution-independent. Now that it isn't used, with high zooms you can see odd plateaus forming." If that's not so important in daily web graphics, from an illustrator point of view that's a problem not only for zooming but also for scaling up some effects or using wide blurs as basic composites for lighting. Thanks for any info and thanks for so much fun with filter effects ! ivan

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Inkscape gave a Job for a brazilian gui
by Aurélio A. Heckert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Leon, a friend of mine, send a e-mail to the brazilian Inkscape user list to say about his new job. http://listas.softwarelivre.org/pipermail/inkscape-brasil/2009-March/004762… He was selected to be software interface designer and the new boos was glad to discover in the interview about the preference of Leon by the Inkecape. Leon made the selection test with Inkscape too, while other ones was using Adobe's software. Good news for Inkscape in Brasilian art market! :-) -- 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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where is the plugin developer's guide...
by stuart 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi... No promises, but I'm mildly interested in getting inkscape to cut directly to small craft Graphtec plotters on any platform that inkscape is supported on w/o installing additional interpreters like Python or PERL. I know this has been talked about before, but I don't think there are any technical discussions to be found here as to how to do it. Looking at the inkscape wiki, all I see are plugins that translate between formats. I'm not terribly interested in saving yet another format on my HDD and would prefer just to print to the plotter. However, I'm not sure this is even possible plugin or not. I assume this is the best inkscape plugin tutorial: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial ...but, as I suspected, this lends it's self to modifying existing Scalable Vector Graphics files. That is, inkscape understands the format it receives back. What happens if the format is foreign to inkscape? Will inkscape still be able to send it to the plotter (i.e. print it)? Let me know if I'm missing the boat, but, as far as I can tell, what is necessary is to place a " filter / plugin " between inkscape and the plotter. And, apparently, inkscape has no provisions for that. ...thanks

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the colour inx parameter
by Aurélio A. Heckert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

There are documented about the colour parameter type: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extensions#Parameters But that is not working: <param name="test-cor" type="colour" _gui-text="Colour"></param> That may be written by an other way? -- 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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graphtec
by Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi, FUI: https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/35004 Apparently, CraftROBO vendor is interested in cooperation. Alexandre

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a daily Make Check Public Log
by Aurélio A. Heckert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

This log will be updated every day: http://inkscapeBrasil.org/LastMakeCheck A script on my cron do this (with other little tests): svn update ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix="$bin_dir" \ --with-perl --with-python \ --enable-inkboard \ --with-gnome-vfs make make install make check > update-the-web-page I may notify the community when a error appear after the start of a TDD politic. (or that can be done by the inkscape project server) 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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Windows nightly builds are still broken...
by Diederik van Lierop 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

The windows nightly builds are still broken... Can anyone look into this please? Diederik

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GSoC 2009
by Aaron Spike 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

The time has arrived to apply for GSoC 2009. Since I haven't heard otherwise I'm assuming I will be the admin? I will be completing an organization app soon. Bryce, since you've held this role previously please verbally confirm that you are passing the torch. :-) Aaron Spike

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plot graph from csv
by florian 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi, there is some few days a man on the French irc ask how to plot graph from data file with Inkscape and I can't answer. So I have quickly made this plug-in. I don't find a good place for share it, so I send it here,( I hope it's the good place for that). have a nice day. Florian

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release notes reminder
by bulia byak 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Thanks to "speare" (sorry don't know your real name) for the fixes - please do not forget to update the Release Notes for any notable changes you commit: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes047 -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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snapping hints
by Alexandre Prokoudine 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi, Snapping hints are awesome. However, there is one thing that worries me a lot about them: they are constructed with English syntax in mind. I foresee lots of complains from translators, including myself :) Take 'cusp node to cusp node' for example. It's fine for English, but in Russian these two 'cusp node' instances will be in different cases and thus have different case endings --- both 'cusp' and 'node'. Is there something we can do about that? Alexandre

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recent change to packaging/macosx broke
by Ed Halley 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

In a recent commit, the file packaging/macosx/Resources/bin/inkscape was modified to support LaTeX files in the runtime path. This change broke the Inkscape.app invocation, due to a missing quotation mark. Review the delta with the link below. http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/packagin… Also, the new comment above the broken line is not indented in the same way that the other comments are indented. -- [ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist?
by Zulli, Louis P 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Well, there's probably a better way to do this, but adding the line export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin just before exec "$CWD/bin/inkscape" "$@" in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script did the trick. Now I can start Inkscape.app by clicking its icon, without "losing" Render-->LaTeX. Note: I have pstoedit in /usr/local/bin, with latex and dvips in /usr/texbin. Without the added line, the value of PATH is only /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin, rather than the value of PATH in my login shell. Thanks again for the help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis P Zulli" <zullil@...2149...> To: "inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 1:16:55 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist? Thanks, JiHO. Apparently, if I start Inkscape by clicking on the Inkscape.app icon, then my PATH variable is not read. However, if I start Inkscape by typing /Applications/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape in Terminal, I do have Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX (and it seems to work correctly). Now I need to figure out why my first method failed. Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: "jiho" <jo.irisson@...400...> To: "Louis P Zulli" <zullil@...2149...> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 9:01:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist? On 2009-March-05 , at 13:28 , Zulli, Louis P wrote: > I just installed the latest snapshot of Inkscape-20809-10.5-i386.dmg > on my MacBook. There does not seem to be an option for including > LaTeX formulas. With the stable version of Inkscape, I use the > textext extension. However, I thought the ability to render LaTeX > had now been built into Inkscape. > > Am I missing something, or is this feature not available yet? Thanks. I have built this snapshot. I initially saw the same here = no Latex extension. Nothing has changed in the .inx file itself so my best guess is that something changed in the loading of extensions. However, now, after running different versions of Inkscape including the release one, I see the option in the devel version. No idea what happened. One thing I did and you may try, is to open Inkscape.app (right click, show package content). Navigate to Contents/Resources/extensions and open eqtexsvg.inx and remove the lines: <dependency type="executable" location="path">latex</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">dvips</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">pstoedit</dependency> it may be that Inkscape does not find these executables when it checks them before loading the extension, even though they are on your system (but in exotic places such as /usr/texbin or /opt/local/bin). Removing the lines removes the check. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist?
by Zulli, Louis P 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Thanks, JiHO. Apparently, if I start Inkscape by clicking on the Inkscape.app icon, then my PATH variable is not read. However, if I start Inkscape by typing /Applications/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape in Terminal, I do have Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX (and it seems to work correctly). Now I need to figure out why my first method failed. Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: "jiho" <jo.irisson@...400...> To: "Louis P Zulli" <zullil@...2149...> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 9:01:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist? On 2009-March-05 , at 13:28 , Zulli, Louis P wrote: > I just installed the latest snapshot of Inkscape-20809-10.5-i386.dmg > on my MacBook. There does not seem to be an option for including > LaTeX formulas. With the stable version of Inkscape, I use the > textext extension. However, I thought the ability to render LaTeX > had now been built into Inkscape. > > Am I missing something, or is this feature not available yet? Thanks. I have built this snapshot. I initially saw the same here = no Latex extension. Nothing has changed in the .inx file itself so my best guess is that something changed in the loading of extensions. However, now, after running different versions of Inkscape including the release one, I see the option in the devel version. No idea what happened. One thing I did and you may try, is to open Inkscape.app (right click, show package content). Navigate to Contents/Resources/extensions and open eqtexsvg.inx and remove the lines: <dependency type="executable" location="path">latex</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">dvips</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">pstoedit</dependency> it may be that Inkscape does not find these executables when it checks them before loading the extension, even though they are on your system (but in exotic places such as /usr/texbin or /opt/local/bin). Removing the lines removes the check. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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pledgie
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hi, I'm not really best guy when it comes to PHPO and stuff, so could somebody please put the banner from http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926 to our main page to help collecting more money to finance Libre Graphics Meeting? Alexandre

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Creating fonts
by ryrych＠...400... 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

hello :) Guys, can you tell me how to create font with Inkscape? I use SVN version but can't see any menus/option for them. Maybe SVGFonts hasn't implemented yet? I've created my first font (rather vector objects yet) and I'd like to covert it to SVGFont and finally to truetype. How to deal with it? cheers, Wojtek

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Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist?
by Zulli, Louis P 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

I just installed the latest snapshot of Inkscape-20809-10.5-i386.dmg on my MacBook. There does not seem to be an option for including LaTeX formulas. With the stable version of Inkscape, I use the textext extension. However, I thought the ability to render LaTeX had now been built into Inkscape. Am I missing something, or is this feature not available yet? Thanks.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] gdk_pointer_ungrab() not working in middle-mouse-drag
by Ed Halley 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

<message ignored, maybe due to attached patch> For some reason, I've been having a lot of mouse hangups in Node and Pen (Bezier) tools in the SVN. I found it easier to reproduce in some drawings than in others, but I was able to reproduce it even on a blank canvas. Mid-drag, the canvas stops being dragged around, but now all mouse buttons are ignored forever, and the mouse cursor remains in Inkscape's shapes even outside Inkscape's window. Some people say they figured out work- arounds that released the mouse buttons, but none worked for me. (I'm on MacOS X using X11.app.) I found https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/291795 and it seemed similar, so I started trying to determine how the panning feature worked. I appended my one-line patch to that bug report. In essence, some versions of Gdk seem to be unreliable at maintaining the button state while middle-mouse dragging. There is a check for this in the src/event_state.cpp to account for this, and it aborts the drag for safety reasons. But it calls gdk_pointer_ungrab() with a specific time that *should* match the time it was grabbed. In most cases, this appears to work, but not always. http://ftp.moblin.org/moblin/releases/test/alpha1/doc/gdk/gdk-General.html#… I found that giving the generic GDK_CURRENT_TIME is more reliable in actually releasing the mouse, than trying to remember what time was given to the gdk_pointer_grab(). Since this is a safety-oriented release, I think that ensuring the mouse is ungrabbed is more important than the bookkeeping of time values. Any comments? Any reason not to commit the patch? -- [ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

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static compilation
by Bruno Contreras Moreira 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Dear all, I am having lots of trouble to get the dependencies of inkscape sorted in a server, and was thinking of compiling it static in my machine and the just move the binary. Has anybody ever compiled a static binary of inkscape? I haven't seen any such options in the configure script, any help in this direction is welcome, Bruno -- Bruno Contreras Moreira Estación Experimental de Aula Dei /CSIC Av.Montañana 1.005, 50059 Zaragoza (España). Tel:(+34) 976716089 Fax:(+34) 976716145 bcontreras@...2147... http://www.eead.csic.es/compbio

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infinite loop by referencing
by unknown＠example.com 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi all, I just added an infinite loop testcase to our testsuite. The essential SVG part looks like this: <g> <rect id="rect1" style="fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1" width="491.42856" height="357.14285" x="137.14285" y="169.50504" filter="url(#filter1)" /> </g> <defs> <filter id="filter1"> <feImage xlink:href="#rect1" /> </filter> </defs> Note how rect1 refers to filter1 that refers to rect1... I don't know how Inkscape should handle this. Already a warning is reported: ** (inkscape.exe:2592): WARNING **: More than 32 iteration while updating document 'D:\gsoc-testsuite\tester\.\testcases\basic\infinite-loop-01.svg' But no further action is taken, so this warning is spammed until the program runs out of memory and aborts execution. Any ideas how to solve this? cheers, Johan

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