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find match
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hi, So somebody posted this extension recently to the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FindMatch What do you think? Alexandre

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testsuite painting-marker-02-f.svg
by unknown＠example.com 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hi all, I am working on some testsuite fails, and am now stuck on painting-marker-02-f.svg. Apparently, the stroke thickness of the markers should be inherited from the path they are on. This does not work in Inkscape. How should this inheritence be done? (is there an example of how this is usually done in inkscape?) Thanks, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CMake status
by Alexander Neundorf 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hi all, by Aaron Spike-2 Dec 31, 2008; 01:12pm ... > If you have some CMake experience and would be willing to help us to > perfect the CMake based build system for Inkscape, your help and patches > would be much much appreciated. We would really benefit from someone > with experience showing us best practices and helping us to make it work. > > Of course, this invitation is open to everyone! > > Aaron Spike I'm the maintainer of the cmake based buildsystem for KDE4, which works on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OSX and Windows both with MSVC and mingw. While I don't have the time to actually help with your cmake stuff, I can answer questions and provide tips how to do things/where to look for stuff. Alex

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CMake status
by Alexander Neundorf 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

by J.B.C.Engelen Dec 31, 2008; 01:18am ... > The problem we had with cmake was that it puts obj files in some special dir > that is long, and then creates a commandline like: > g++ verylongpathlisting/blah.o possiblyevenlongerpathname/blah2.o ... > such that the cmdline is too long to work with windows/g++ > > Johan With which version of cmake ? I don't use Windows, but I know that some fixes for command lines which were too long went into cmake, so I think it probably works with CMake 2.6.2. Alex

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CMake status
by Alexander Neundorf 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

by the Adib Dec 30, 2008; 11:25am > > Hi, I would like to use a widely used build-system on Windows as well. > currently a build process lasts ages. I hope using some parallel build > feature. I want make -j4 > > Adib. nmake doesn't support this. But you can use a GNU make also with the MS cl compiler, e.g. the one from cygwin, mingw or unxutils. This is supported by CMake: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Generator_Specific_Information#Makefile_gen… Alex

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using inkscape -> plotters in windows...
by stuart 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Hi... First, how do you people do this? Window drivers are a nightmare! For instance, where do they start and where do applications end? People are talking about HPGL, SVG ... I just when round and round w/the Graphtec drivers for their C200-20 and C100-20 plotters. I am convinced they not only control the plotters but also translate depending on the application. That is, I have been told, that printing from Word using the graphics found in the Word's WordArt feature can actually cut on a Graphtec Craftrobo. How would this be possible unless the driver were also translating the output of the Word application. Guess I'm really asking, in windows, using inkscape, is the accepted "go-between" format between application and drivers PostScript? So, if anyone dares to write a windows driver, they can at least count on that much? Also, I understand that the "pipe the output feature" of inkscape was recently broken (during a revamping). Is that true? Has it been fixed? ...thanks

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"SVG files are not W3C valid"
by Alexandre Prokoudine 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Hi, Could somebody please give a shot to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313122 ? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CMake status
by Henning Meyer 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

I'm new to the list. But I'd like to see a cmake-build solution. It's more flexible and easier to maintain on multiple platforms. Also it would be easier for me to integrate additional libraries for testing-purposes ;-) > The problem we had with cmake was that it puts obj files in some special dir that is long, and then creates a commandline like: > g++ verylongpathlisting/blah.o possiblyevenlongerpathname/blah2.o ... > such that the cmdline is too long to work with windows/g++ > I don't know your MinGW environment, but this problem is known and seems to be solved here: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.make-execvp

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CMake status
by Krzysztof Kosiński 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

This was raised in another thread, but I think this issue is fairly important - what is the status of CMake? Having three parallel build systems (homebrew buildtool, autotools and CMake) is at least awkward. I understand that migrating to CMake would allow us to remove the Windows build system. On the other hand, figuring out how to compile Inkscape on Windows using MinGW and MSYS would do the same. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CMake-status-tp21209331p21209331.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Inkscape in the press: downloads of the year, the 30 best free programs
by the Adib 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

All, there is this link to the german c't computer magazine, titeld as above http://www.heise.de/software/download/special/downloads_des_jahres/50_1 Happy new year, Adib. ---

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2Geom Progress
by Joshua L. Blocher 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

I'm going to take a random stab in the air and say we are about 70-75% complete with the Conversion to 2Geom. Things that still need done: - NRRect/NR::Rect need converting to Geom::Rect or Geom::OptRect - Filter needs to be moved out of the NR namespace maybe namespace Inkscape{ namespace Filter{ }} - sp-gradient.cpp & sp-pattern.cpp have deeper than normal libnr connection functionality will have to be moved out of NR or replaced - Include 2geom files instead of libnr files, simple replace and see if it compiles - Integer versions of Rect , Coord , etc Please see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CheatSheetForConvertingto2geom for a general guide for converting. If you have problems or questions please feel free to ask on here or in the channels on Jabber or IRC. Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow

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does not load/create preferences in linux
by the Adib 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Hello all, I am trying to extend the preferences by an /i18n/language entry in order to switch the user-interface language by inkscape preference settings. But using the svn devel it does not load /save the user default preferences in the /home/user/.inkscape directory .!? When I delete the .inkscape directory I expect that inkscape recreate the whole structure from scratch. But this is not the case. The version 0.46 does so. Any thoughts ? Adib. ---

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How can I get a text bounding box in a python script?
by Bernd D. 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hello, I try to write a python script that help drawing diagrams (i.e. syntax diagrams). A node in this typ of diagram, is a rectangle with rounded edges and a centered text caption in it. In the script, I need the bounding box of the text, for the calculation of the correct node rectangle size, to hold the whole text in it. But how can I get the bounding box? Is there somebody that can point me to a solution? Best regards, Bernd

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SVG Fonts and PDF import
by Krzysztof Kosiński 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

I understand that there's now some support for SVG Fonts thanks to Felipe Sanches' GSoC project. I would be great if the people responsible for the PDF import plugin added support for PDFs with embedded fonts (i.e. different than those installed in the system). This way I could open LaTeX documents in Inkscape without text breakage. Also of use would be an export option that embeds all fonts in the SVG (with a checkbox specifying whether to embed entire fonts or the subsets used in the document), so that fancy text could remain editable in portable documents. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SVG-Fonts-and-PDF-import-tp21209580p21209580.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Crash in console mode resulting from rev. 20388
by Jasper van de Gronde 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Inkscape suddenly crashes for me when using the command line export functionality (in some cases at least). It seems to crash in SPDesktop::doc2dt, probably due to a null-pointer dereference. This function is called from sp_item_i2d_affine now, since rev. 20388. And this was also one of the few revisions since I last updated, so it could very well have to do with this revision. My guess is that there simply isn't any instance of SPDesktop when Inkscape is used as a command line executable. So possibly the error isn't in sp_item_i2d_affine as such, but rather in the fact that it is being called at all. If anyone with a bit more understanding of this area of the code could have a look that would be great.

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NEW: Converting text to path produces a group
by bulia byak 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Converting a text or flowed text to path (Ctrl+Shift+C) now produces a group of paths, one path for each glyph of text, instead of a single monolithic path as before. Apart from easier manipulation, an additional advantage is that if your text contained styled spans (i.e. fragments with different color, opacity, or other properties), these styles will be preserved by the corresponding glyph paths after converting to paths. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Grid snapping do not work anymore
by Yann Papouin 27 Dec '08

27 Dec '08

Hi, In rev 20168, grid snapping was working correctly, because when I was drawing a new polygon, new points where added at lines intersections of a axonometric or a rectangular grid. But it is not working anymore in rev 20383 (maybe corrupted in previous revisions) the snapping only occured on grid lines, not points. Maybe an option should be added in the "Snap to grid" section of the Snap tab with two checkboxes: - Snap to grid lines - Snap to grid points And when the two are checked the snapping power of grid points should be increase.

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Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
by Josh Andler 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Hey Everyone, As 2008 comes to a close I wanted to wish a happy holiday season to all and to wish everyone a very happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous new year! A big "THANK YOU!" goes out to to all contributors... whether developers, translators, testers, users, or even just advocates or constructive critics, Inkscape would not be where it is today without everything that you all have given. Thanks again and I can't wait to see what 2009 has in store for us all! Cheers! Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Linux Build broken?
by Henning Meyer 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

My fault - I used graphics-magick-compat-dev instead of image-magick-dev. It works now. Another question: What about cmake? It does not seem to work. Is there no support for cmake as of now? Henning Cory K. schrieb: > Henning Meyer wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to experiment with the tracing, but unfortunatly I cannot >> even build inkscape from SVN/Trunk. >> >> This is the error I get: >> >> extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp &&\ >> mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po >> extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp: In member function »virtual void >> Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::Level::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)«: >> extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp:23: Fehler: »class Magick::Image« >> hat kein Element namens »level« >> make[2]: *** [extension/internal/bitmap/level.o] Fehler 1 >> make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis >> '/home/hmeyer/devel/inkscape/trunk/inkscape/src' >> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 >> make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/hmeyer/devel/inkscape/trunk/inkscape' >> make: *** [all] Fehler 2 >> >> For more details look at: >> http://drop.io/5y9sjps/media >> >> The same happens with SVN/Release_0_46_0. >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> Thanks for your help, >> >> Henning >> > > Odd. As of *right now* trunk pulls and builds fine for me. Maybe pull a > fresh copy? > > -Cory K. >

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Component transfer W3C SVG test suite reference wrong as well?
by Jasper van de Gronde 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

I had a good look at the filters-comptrans-01-b test, and it appears that the W3C's reference image is wrong for this test as well (earlier I found the same for their Gaussian blur reference image). I have no idea what the problem is and whether or not the reference is indeed wrong or that it is some weird color space issue or something, but for the moment I'm assuming that Inkscape's output is right. I again filed an issue in the W3C issue tracker.

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[Slightly OT] might be of interest...
by john cliff 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/22/AR200812220… Not sure I've seen any other coverage quite this mainstream... thought it might be of interest to some of you. Cheers John

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Linux Build broken?
by Henning Meyer 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hello, I'm trying to experiment with the tracing, but unfortunatly I cannot even build inkscape from SVN/Trunk. This is the error I get: extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp: In member function »virtual void Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::Level::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)«: extension/internal/bitmap/level.cpp:23: Fehler: »class Magick::Image« hat kein Element namens »level« make[2]: *** [extension/internal/bitmap/level.o] Fehler 1 make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/hmeyer/devel/inkscape/trunk/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/hmeyer/devel/inkscape/trunk/inkscape' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 For more details look at: http://drop.io/5y9sjps/media The same happens with SVN/Release_0_46_0. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help, Henning

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"Shape" suggestion: draw simple path when there's nothing on the clipboard
by Valerie 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Right now, when you have Shape: Clipboard enabled, but nothing on the Clipboard, then you literally draw a blank. It can be very confusing upon start-up, especially since the warning message isn't in a very visible position. Users are bound to get confused if they're unfamiliar with the Shape feature, I thought there was something wrong with my development build at fist. Here's a rather simple solution: when there's nothing on the Clipboard, then have a default where the resulting path is a normal path with no shape applied. Problem solved. The warning message (Nothing on the Clipboard) can still be displayed.

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rendering performance regression
by Thomas Holder 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

I see a significant regression in rendering speed for some days now. I have build backups from Nov 07 and Dec 08, when I open the same file, the newer build needs approximately 4 times more time to display the file, zoom, scroll etc. than the older build. This makes editing of large files almost impossible. Operations like selecting or moving items on canvas likewise behave very slow. What could be the reason for this? Any ideas? Thomas

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Gradients disappearing
by Jasper van de Gronde 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Running the rendering tests again this week I encountered a regression in the rendering of filters-comptran-01-b (from W3C SVG test suite). This test contains four rectangles with the same gradient, one without any filter and three with three different component transfer filters. Last week the four rectangles in the filters-comptran-01 test were still rendered with the wrong colours, but they were rendered. This week two of them are not rendered anymore... As far as I can tell the component transfer code wasn't touched during that time though, so I have absolutely no idea why this suddenly happens. Now the question is, should a bug be reported? And if so, what is this the actual bug? As far as I can tell feComponentTransfer isn't supposed to work anyway, so filing a bug seems a bit pointless at this point. However, as it doesn't appear to be related to a change to the component transfer filter it might actually be an unrelated bug in disguise. So, any ideas on what could be causing this?

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