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by unknown＠example.com 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

I see that a Leopard dmg package for Inkscape 0.46 is posted, but not a Tiger (OSX 10.4.11) version, and the Leopard package doesn't run on Tiger. I won't be upgrading my Macbook to Leopard for a while, if at all, and would like to upgrade to the latest Inskcape. Is anyone planning to make a Tiger dmg?. If not, and the build system is fairly-well automated, I could try to build a Tiger universal package on my macbook, I have xcode etc installed. Any advice on this? duncan

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Speed up the build?
by Maximilian Albert 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hi all, I'm not sure if I already asked this some time ago (if so, please bear with me). Compiling and linking always takes a considerable amount of time and I regularly run into the need to test the effect of several small changes in quick succession. Is there a way to speed up compiling in any way, for example by deactivating certain things which have nothing to do with the code I'm interested in? Any options for ./configure (I already use --without-inkjar), any compile switches, #ifdefs I'm not aware of, anything? Thanks, Max P.S.: I do use ccache but I still hope that the building (in particular, the linking) time can be reduced by other means, too.

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[inkscape-devel] Candidate Proposal for GSoC 2008 Application
by Marco 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

I am going to submit the following proposal for GSoC, so if you have some suggestion or some critique, this is the time to tell me your opinions. I'd like thanking Nathan Hurst for his help in getting a more insight into lib2geom codebase and for the support that he provided in making my proposal more complete. After speaking with Maximilian Albert we concluded that our proposal can advance in parallel without having overlaps, moreover I'm glad to provide any further clarification. Please tell me about english language mistakes, too ! Best Regards, Marco Cecchetti =======================PROPOSAL START============================ Name: Marco Cecchetti Project: lib2geom development Abstract Lib2geom will become the core geometric library of Inkscape and it is already an open source project on its own. My project aims to expand the library and give evidence of its skills through the implementation of ad hoc "toys": little interactive applications showing off the power of lib2geom. Goals (1) Provide direct support for basic geometric shapes, so making easier the development of educational and technical geometric tools. (2) Implementation of a new curve type that fulfils the traits of a SVG Elliptical Arc and of an "Elliptic Toy" for testing and playing with this curve type. (3) Deploy a "toy" showing off a deformation effect based on the thin plate spline method. Note: the achievability of this task is subject to the time left after having fulfilled goal 1 and 2 and to the ability of building a stable and computationally feasible algorithm implementation of the thin plate spline method. Details (1) In order to simplify the implementation of technical drawing tools or the development of a geometric educational version of inkscape, I think that it is useful to have direct support in lib2geom for simple geometric objects such as (infinite) line, ray, angle, triangle, regular poligon, circle, ellipse, arcs and the availability of geometric construction methods for such objects: parallel line, perpendicular line, angle bisector, circle by 3 points, circle by 2 points and tangent to a line, circle by a point and tangent to 2 lines, conic by 5 points. This should be considered a minimal set of implementable features. (2) I'll provide the SVGEllipticalArc class with a complete implementation of all methods inherited by the abstract Curve class such as bounds computation, evaluation for a given parameter value, conversion to and from a s-power basis path, make up of a reversed arc, extraction of a sub-arc, derivative, and arc transformations. Finally there will be the ability to modify the characterizing parameters: initial and final point, rays length, x-axis inclination angle, large-arc and sweep flags. The Elliptic-Toy will provide the ability of interactively placing the initial and the final arc points, moreover moving the centre of the ellipse, upon which the arc lays, will cause the modification of the length of the ellipse rays and a further point will be used to increase and decrease the inclination of the x-axis. Finally the Elliptic-Toy will offer the possibility to set and unset the large-arc and sweep flags directly. (3) The thin plate spline (TPS) is the 2D generalization of cubic spline. TSP is a valid tool for making up a continuos warping deformation effect. Its drawback is that it is computationally expensive both to make up the interpolating function and to evaluate such a function on the set of all the input paths. Achieving an implementation computationally affordable requires to utilize ad-hoc algorithms. So there will be the need for: - a phase of analisys based on the study of some articles [1],[2] - one or more pilot-implementations to analize the stability and the computational costs of the designed algorithm - deployment of a toy which allows to play with the developed algorithm in a similar way to the already implemented 2dsb2d toy. About me I am a student in mathematics (University of Pisa, Italy) I am always been keen on computer graphics and I am interested in computational geometry. My main programming language is C++, but in the past I also programmed in pascal, fortran 90, assembler, java, javascript, actionscript, bash script. Moreover I am knowgeable about several Boost libraries, XML APIs and the Scalar Vector Graphics Markup Language. Contributions to open source projects I'm developing an extension of Boost.Function [3] in order to implement a model of function concept supporting multi-signature and so overloading. [4] I contributed in the development of a proof of concept svg import filter for Open Office. This import filter has been developed mainly by Fridrich Strba at Novell, my contribute consists in having added svg text element support to the import filter. [5] After getting in contact with the inkscape community I have browsed a lot of 2geom source codebase and started developing a proof of concept implementation of an SVG Elliptical Arc class and a related toy. [6] [1] http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~sjb/pami_tps.pdf [2] http://www.rbfsrus.com/pdfs/moment_siam/moment_siam.pdf [3] http://www.boost.org/doc/html/function.html [4] source code: https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/overload/trunk documentation: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfxvjncs_1x6456m [5] source code: http://tinyurl.com/2es9cu [6] source code: http://tinyurl.com/3bznlj =======================PROPOSAL END============================== -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tiger packages
by unknown＠example.com 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

(trying to build a Tiger osx package) I followed the instructions in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX and also installed gtk-clearlooks I used ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared --prefix=/path/to/build/product --enable-osxap --enable-inkboard. I produced an Inkscape.app but it does not run. Loading it manually from an xterm gives macbook:~/inkscape-0.46/packaging/macosx/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS duncan$ ./I nkscape 2008-03-29 10:52:34.418 defaults[9262] The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleAquaColorVariant) does not exist 2008-03-29 10:52:34.435 defaults[9263] The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleHighlightColor) d oes not exist Then it hangs. Its not clear how to diagnose what the problem is. Also, the Wiki is written assuming one is using svn. I am using the official 0.46 release tarball, and have no idea whether what I would get by using svn is that or some slightly different version. I would like to produce an EXACT copy of whatever the "official" release for LEOPARD is (exactly the same options, library dependencies, etc) except built on TIGER. Is it possible to get the precise build instructions that were used for the Leopard Inskcape.app so I can run them on tiger. (I dont want to make decisions about whether to use e.g. --enable-inkboard )? One issue I saw when building the .app was cp: /opt/local/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/*.so: No such file or directory I'd try to produce a Tiger universal Inkscape-0.46 dmg for general distribution if the OS X packager no longer has a Tiger/Intel installation to work with, but I need an authoritative recipe for doing it using the official release tarball. I assume using MacPorts is the the way to get the various gtk libraries, so I installed it and the recommended packages, but want to make sure I also produce a dependency-free Inkscape.app that doesnt relay on any external libraries except those that come with Tiger and Tiger/X11 (I will remove Macports as soon as the compilation is successful, as I use Fink). duncan -------------- Original message from Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1798...>: -------------- > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:24:38PM -0400, Jamie Kimberley wrote: > > I was building on tiger until a few weeks ago (just got a new macbook). > > I'll see if I can compile and package the 0.46 code tonight. > > > > If you want to try it yourself the instructions on the wiki using > > macports are pretty easy to follow. One note not mentioned on the wiki is > > that you'll need to install the gtk2-clearlooks package before building > > inkscape from source. > > Could you please add this extra note to the wiki. (It's important > everyone keep the build directions up to date and as complete as > possible, since incorrect build directions can be a show stopper for new > devs.) > > Thanks, > Bryce > > > simply issue on the command line > > sudo port install gtk2-clearlooks > > or add it to the list of other ports that need to be installed. >

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Official Inkscape 0.46 OSX package for Tiger (10.4) users
by Michael Wybrow 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello OSX Tiger users, I have posted an Inkscape 0.46 package for Tiger (10.4.x) users: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/Inkscape-0.46-2.TIGER.UNIVERSAL.d… This package was built complete from a PPC 10.4.11 machine, and since I do not have access to an Intel Mac running 10.4.11 it has not been tested on Intel hardware. If you have an Intel 10.4.11 machine, could you please let me know if the package works for you? Apologies for the initial lack of Inkscape 0.46 package for Tiger users. Producing packages for older OS releases is always more difficult when the Inkscape Mac developers are no longer using that OS for their normal builds, and building Universal packages, even more so! (Our CompilingMacOsX wiki page is currently out of date, but will be shortly updated to reflect the steps used to build these official packages.) Cheers, Michael

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no native windows dialog on pre4-2
by Mihaela 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Open and import dialogs are "old" style on pre4-2 on winXP. Is that expected?

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NEW : LPE for groups
by Steren Giannini 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello, We are proud to announce our first contribution to inkscape : Live Path Effects for groups. You can already test it from svn trunk. In a word, you can now add a LPE to a group of paths. For most LPE, the effect is applied recursively (try sketch, curve stitching or gears) but for Bend Path the result is more powerful : the distortion applies on the whole group. You can edit original path of the group by double-clicking on the group (as usual). A path with a LPE can be part of a group with a LPE, this is a sort of of "LPE stacking". You can make groups of groups, it will work (There is one known bug when using bend path, we will fix it very soon). You can apply definitively the effect with "Convert Object to path" We will soon make that when ungrouping, the effect is copied to each item in the group I will update the ReleaseNotes as soon as possible. We are currently working on LPE stacking (a simple UI is done, the engine is in a good way) and on an envelope deformation effect (it uses LPE PointParams for control points). Bye Steren for the "PI:Inkscape" team of Ecole Centrale de Lyon.

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GSoC test suite proposal
by Jasper van de Gronde 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

I just created a Wiki page with my proposal for the GSoC [1]. I have attempted to incorporate most of the comments I received so far, with emphasis on getting the unit tests in shape. I would appreciate any further comments. For one thing, I named the page ...-blueprint, but I haven't created an actual blueprint yet, mostly because the page is worded more like a proposal than a blueprint (and I'm not yet that familiar with the blueprint feature). Would it still be desirable to have a blueprint for this proposal? [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TestSuite-blueprint BTW, I omitted all non-technical information (like my previous experience) from this Wiki page, it obviously will be part of the proposal I will submit.

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Win32 pre4-2 (minor error fixed)
by rygle 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hi, For Windows users, the Win32 0.46pre4 has been updated to pre4-2 due to a missing file error. My apologies. You'll find pre4-2 on the Sourceforge server here; http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… This version is already quite stable, but please it for any further bugs and report to https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ If there are no other major problems, we will move to a stable release early next week. Note, there are some known issues that won't be fixed for 0.46.0, as per the readme; * (LP: #180890) Blend modes do not work correctly over transparent backgrounds. A workaround is to place an opaque rectangle underneath the bottom-most layer. * (LP # 202704) Blur and other filters are very slow when applied to an object with transform= attribute with rotation or skew. To avoid this slowdown, either do not rotate/skew objects you use with filters, or apply filters only to paths (but not shapes to text) because paths, by default, get no transform= attribute when you rotate or skew them. * Windows printing has two known issues. In both cases the workaround is to print to bitmap (Print -> Rendering -> Bitmap). - (LP # 205732) Blurred objects are misaligned when printing. - (LP # 208217) Masked objects disappear when printing. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Win32-pre4-2-%28minor-error-fixed%29-tp16370629p16370… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Don't forget to Vote!
by Aaron Spike 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Voting is open for Inkscape committee member until Friday, April 4th. Voting is Cool! Vote now! (Voting is open to everyone listed in AUTHORS.) The nominees are: Peter Moulder Bulia Byak Johan Engelen Merry Voting! Aaron Spike

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Tiger (not leopard) osx Inscape 0.46 package?
by unknown＠example.com 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

(sorry, forgot to put subject line in post) > > I see that a Leopard dmg package for Inkscape 0.46 is posted, but not a Tiger > (OSX 10.4.11) version, and the Leopard package doesn't run on Tiger. > > I won't be upgrading my Macbook to Leopard for a while, if at all, and would > like to upgrade to > the latest Inskcape. > > Is anyone planning to make a Tiger dmg?. > > If not, and the build system is fairly-well automated, I could try to build a > Tiger universal package on my macbook, I have xcode etc installed. > > > Any advice on this? > > duncan >

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NEW: LPE PathParams can link to existing paths
by unknown＠example.com 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

Hi all, Like suggested in another post, I have added functionality to the LPE PathParam. Now, it can also link to another shape/text on canvas. Especially the text is nice. For example: 1. Type text (not flowtext) 2. draw curved path 3. apply lpe-Pattern along path to curved path 4. select text and copy it 5. select curved path and press link to path button in the LPE dialog for the pattern source parameter 6. see what happens. edit the text and see what happens :) Please report bugs to me directly (not in launchpad, because I won't see it). I know deleting of the path to which is linked is bugged; it has not been implemented yet. Yours truly, Johan

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GSoC test suite project
by Jasper van de Gronde 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

I'm interested in improving Inkscape's test framework for the GSoC. I've read the GSoC related documentation. I've also read all the information on testing on the Wiki that I could find and had a look at some of the current unit tests in SVN. Unfortunately I don't have a Linux system set up at the moment, so I can't actually execute 'make check'. So far I've come up with the following draft plan: 1. Make sure the existing tests work on Win32 (and MacOS X). 2. Set up system to rerun tests periodically/when needed. 3. *Possibly* also try generating some historical data (where possible). 4. Implement new tests for (at least): - nr-compose (I already did this locally, at least partially) - livarot (parts of) - sp_svg_... (transform_read/write, read/write_path, etc.) 5. Integrate (existing) SVG conformance tests so that they are also rerun. I will attempt to partially automate this (as far as I understand the current tests are evaluated manually) by storing result images and only asking for human judgement when an image changes. I'm also thinking of a few more advanced ways of automating some of these tests. 6. Add performance information by timing tests (as well as rendering of images, for the SVG conformance tests for example). In short my intention is to create a system which (continuously) keeps track of the status of unit tests as well as SVG conformance and performance of Inkscape. Test results will be accessable online. I also plan to use gcov to keep track of test coverage and if interesting (read: if the tests take long) reduce the number of tests that have to be rerun each time. I'm currently checking whether I can get gcov to work to my satisfaction with Inkscape. If deemed interesting I might also add information from gprof to give a better idea of what parts of the code are interesting to optimize (and keep track of performance over time on a fine-grained level). I already regularly use gprof with Inkscape myself. Is this more or less what was originally intended? In any case, I would appreciate any suggestions and/or information you might have.

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Missing test files?
by Jasper van de Gronde 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

I have been looking at the existing unit tests in the Inkscape codebase, and interestingly enough I've found a few references to test files in the exclude list of build.xml that don't actually exist. In part this is because they refer to automatically generated files from CxxTest unit tests, and some others are probably explained by tests that were converted from Utest to CxxTest. But I have also found a few which I can't explain: - extension/script/bindtest.cpp - extension/script/cpptest.cpp - livarot/Path-test.cpp - trace/potrace/potest.cpp - widgets/test-widgets.cpp - removeoverlap/test.cpp - removeoverlap/remove_rectangle_overlap-test.cpp If anyone knows what happened to these files, and especially if anyone has these files (or of course other test files) still lying around, I'd love to hear about it (and if you do have one, how usable is it). BTW, there are also two nr-compose related test files which are not in the codebase, but I'm afraid that's due to me :) (I still have them lying around and will probably convert them to CxxTest and make sure they end up in the repository.)

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Win32 Crash on help menu (Spawn) Problem
by rygle 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

Has anyone had a look at the Win32 spawn problem lately? (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/204779) Or has anyone managed to compile 0.46 branch with the patch suggested by Adib in 187920 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/187290/comments/34)? Using the March 3 libs has no spawn problem, but means we drop some extra pango/type support. Is that a satisfactory resolution? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Win32-Crash-on-help-menu-%28Spawn%29-Problem-tp162966… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Committee Votes: Public or Private?
by Aaron Spike 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

Because we have three extremely qualified candidates with whom many of us have become friends, there is now a request that we allow voting in private so that no feelings get stepped upon. Give me your opinions. Should we allow private votes? Aaron Spike

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Vote for Committee Memeber!
by Aaron Spike 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Now opening voting for Inkscape Committee Member. Please vote! Votes will be accepted from anyone listed in AUTHORS. If you feel more comfortable voting with private ballot, please send your votes directly to aaron@...1928... Voting will be open for one week, closing on Friday, April 4th. Nominees are: Peter Moulder Bulia Byak Johan Engelen Happy Voting! -- Aaron Spike

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Opening Inkscape Committee Nominations
by Aaron Spike 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

As many of you know Inkscape is a member organization of the Software Freedom Conservancy. (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/) As Specified in Section 6 or our charter we maintain a committee of seven project members. Section 6 reads as follows: "6. Representation of the Project in the Conservancy. The Developers, each a signatory hereto, shall represent the Project in its official communication with the Conservancy. There shall be seven Developers (together, the "Committee"), elected by the community members of the Project listed in the Project's AUTHORS file (the "Community Members"). Each Developer shall continue to serve until he or she resigns from the position. The Developers may be removed from the position at any time by a majority vote of the Community Members. Upon the resignation or removal of a Developer, the Community Members shall elect a replacement Developer to serve on the Committee. The Committee will elect a single individual to communicate with the Conservancy (the "Representative") and shall notify the Conservancy promptly following the election of a new Representative. The Representative will have the authority to instruct the Conservancy on the Project's behalf on all matters. This section may be modified by a vote of at least 3/4 of the Community Members, with the consent of the Conservancy, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld." The committee consists of Josh Andler, Jon Cruz, Ted Gould, Bryce Harrington, Nathan Hurst, MenTaLguY and Aaron Spike. Bryce Harrington currently serves as the Representative. Nathan Hurst has recently resigned his position on the committee. Therefore we must elect a new committee member. I will be collecting nominations over the next few days (ending Friday March 28th unless there is great desire for an extension to the nomination period). Anyone listed in the AUTHORS file may make a nomination. Anyone listed in the AUTHORS file may be nominated. Nominees are free to refuse nomination. I will open the nominations by relaying Nathan's nomination: "I nominate Peter Moulder, as one of the most senior people, a clear thinker, an Aussie and as close to a lawyer as you can get in a programmer." Aaron Spike

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GSoC 2008: Inkscape tools for publishing using LaTeX
by Andrew Lewis 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hi all, I would be grateful for feedback on this GSoC project idea which I would like to do. It should be reasonably orthogonal to the Inkscape core so it shouldn't interfere with refactoring. I haven't contributed to Inkscape before, but I did a GSoC project last year for BBC R&D (on Dirac motion estimation/mode decision). Name: Andrew Lewis (1st year PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK) Abstract: Inkscape is an ideal tool for producing the types of diagrams present in academic papers, but various features could be added to make it ideal for tool-chains which use LaTeX [1] to typeset documents. Authors who want to use consistent fonts in diagrams and body-text (both font family and size) must currently put `position marker' text into their documents and then replace this when their document is compiled using a tool such as psfrag [2] to re-write an EPS file. This method has some short-comings with text alignment (baseline and right alignment) and is inconvenient at design-time as documents are no longer WYSIWYG. The tool to add LaTeX equations to Inkscape documents is not ideal for adding larger elements of text as it renders to a standard vector object, discarding information about baseline position, alightment, font-size and so on. It is also difficult for new users to understand what information will be preserved during the EPS conversion. To make this clearer I propose a pre-export check where users are informed, possibly with a preview, if the appearance of the diagram will change when it is included in a LaTeX document, and online documentation with a tutorial and FAQ about exporting for LaTeX. This project would make Inkscape easier to use when creating diagrams for eventual inclusion in LaTeX documents by keeping information about text alignment (for example, moving the text control point on aligment) and making font scaling clearer, which might require additions to the file format. As an extension, I would like to make a file output filter for generating .tex files which can produce posters with diagrams and standard body text which aims to produce output similar to what would have been made by hand. This project would make Inkscape an excellent alternative to tools such as xfig [3] when diagrams must look consistent with body text, make changes on exporting clearer to the user (including those not targeting academic papers but still using EPS) and produce better output for LaTeX users who make their diagrams in Inkscape. [1] LaTeX: http://www.latex-project.org/ [2] psfrag: http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/psfrag.ps [3] Xfig: http://www.xfig.org/userman/ Notes This project would first consist of a psfrag-like feature with LaTeX placeholders, where I would fix the problems with text alignment by inclusion of right-align/baseline information in the file format. (This might involve moving the control point on text which has been aligned.) I would then try to make this render nicely when Inkscape is able to find dependencies (the feature would be unavailable if LaTeX is not installed). The aim would be to get as close to WYSIWYG editing for this as possible without going as far as a TeXmacs style editor (so focussing on plain diagram labelling and simple equations to start with). There would be an export to EPS for inclusion in LaTeX document feature, which would do a pre-export check and notify the user of any features which would be removed (gradients, effects, opacity and so on). Time permitting I would like to work on supporting as many of these features as possible; this might include improving the PDF output filter (its output can be included in a LaTeX document compiled using pdflatex) to, for example, support gradients. I would also write documentation and a tutorial to explain how to produce diagrams for LaTeX output. One of the main difficulties here is integrating with LaTeX on different platforms. I would first make this work on (Ubuntu) Linux, other distributions and then Windows (possibly with MikteX). If time permits I would also like to make an output filter for Inkscape which can produce .tex files for posters including standard body text and diagrams. The aim would be to produce a file which is as close to a .tex file written by hand. This would likely overrun the length of the programme, but would be useful and make it possible for people who haven't used LaTeX before to produce high quality posters in Inkscape. Thank you for having a look at this! Andrew

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Google Summer of Code Application: PGF Export
by Caleb Reach 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hey, Here's my GSoC application, any comments/critiques are welcome! Cheers, Caleb ============= Application ============= Abstract ======== I would like to implement a PGF output extension for Inkscape. Currently, the TeX exporter in Inkscape utilizes the PSTricks macros, which are not portable and do not work with pdftex/pdflatex. PGF is a Portable Graphics Format for use with TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt and works with all major back-end drivers. There are several feature requests which will be solved by this project: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170802 : PS + LaTeX export https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171141 : Richer text layout features https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/172195 : Export LaTeX with PGF/TikZ macros https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/172022 : Combined PDF/LaTeX export Details ======= The implementation will be rather straightforward due to Inkscape's extension system. A new output extension (latex-pgf) will be developed which provides TeX output using the PGF macro package. PGF has two interface layers: the base system (PGF) and the front-end interface (TikZ). While exporting TikZ code might make subsequent editing easier, the base PGF layer is much more flexible and therefore will be used for this project. Qualifications --------------- While I haven't used GTK or worked with the Inkscape code base (aside from a simple bug fix for proof-of-competency: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168349/comments/10), I have extensive experience with C++ and have used other widget toolkits such as JUCE. I have contributed small patches to several open source projects including Django and Lazy C++. I am also very familiar with LaTeX, having used it to typeset many reports over the last several years, and I use the PGF/TikZ package whenever I need to typeset drawings and diagrams. I also work well alone, and require little hand-holding. I have completed numerous projects on my own and am currently working on a software metrics visualization application in C++ which I plan to open source. Features -------- The PGF exporter will have support for the following features: * Paths - Clipping * Fill styles - Solid - Gradient - Pattern * Stroke styles - Dashes, Dots, etc. Implementation Plan ------------------- The first order of business will be to get a very basic export working. This will include support for paths, and nothing more. After this, features will be added on incrementally until the full export extension is complete. After basic path support is working, text output will be added. An option will be provided to either escape text or pass it through as-is so that it will be processed by TeX, allowing for formulas and other TeX trickery. Strokes styles, fills, and gradients will be implemented next. These all have direct equivalents in PGF. Finally, more esoteric features such as pattern fills and clipping will be implemented. Although these are supported in PGF, they are far less likely to be used than the other output functionality and thus will be implemented last.

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Status - Inkscape 0.46.0-1 Windows Package
by Bryce Harrington 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

I. Rygle, that round-up of Windows issues is quite handy! II. Patches included so far #179988 01_win32_printing.patch ?????? 02_win32_print_dialog_parent_window.patch (from Joel; no LP#) #183646 03_vista_turn_off_dashes.patch #168896 05_save_as_xaml.patch: III. Patches/bugs not included due to problems #165726 04_win32_remove_dialogs_on_top_preference.patch Fails to apply. See bug for details. #204779: ?? Not sure what to do here. A late comment refs to a patch in #187290 so maybe that patch needs inclusion? #187290: ?? I'm unclear if the patch here (comment #34) is ready, or needs additional testing/fixing. IV. New Windows patch packaging system I've added a debian-like patch setup for managing Windows patches. In other words, rather than apply patches directly, they are placed in inkscape/packaging/win32/patches/ and listed in the 'series' file in that directory. I've also written a simple script to apply the patches: cd /packaging/win32/ && ./apply_patches.sh This will need to be done by the Windows packagers when building 0.46.0 Windows packages (perhaps some scripts could be updated to include this step). Please someone update the Win32 docs to reflect this. This may seem weird compared with just committing the patches directly onto the stable branch, however this is standard operating procedure on Linux distros, and makes managing the patches and future updates easier. By keeping the patches only applied for Windows, it also completely avoids the risk of windows patches breaking linux code (these patches look safe, but you never know...) This also gives the windows packagers the flexibility to do 0.46.0-2, -3, etc. releases with more patches later on if they wish. So the basic rule is that we should have one common 0.46.0 tarball, and then each distro (including the Windows package as a distro), applies their packaging patches against it before building their packages. When we prepare for 0.46.1, we can look into incorporating some/all of the windows (and other distro) patches. V. Packaging and Release Announcements As mentioned before, March 24th is the day for sending out release announcements. This means we need to get all packages (including Windows) posted ASAP. Please let me know if anyone needs additional time for packaging, in case we need to delay the PR a bit. Bryce On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:30:29AM -0700, rygle wrote: > > A few minor improvements have been made to the Win32 printing patch, and it's > as ready as I think it will get for 0.46 release. Can someone please commit > it? > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/179988/comments/139 > > > Here's the latest information on printing under Win32; > > * Non-printing - FIXED > > * Default page size problems - FIXED > > * Print Scaling problems - FIXED > > * White or black boxes over printing - FIXED - GTK uses the wrong call in > Cairo (create_win32_surface, not the create_win32_printing_surface). There > is a patch in the GTK bug tracker to fix this, but in the meantime we have > bypassed that part of GTK. The code will revert to GTK automatically when > GTK itself fixes the problem. > > * All known crashes - FIXED > Adrian Johnson has patched the Cairo libs to fix a rare crash with radial > gradients. > - There are two patched libs here (needs both) - > http://annarchy.freedesktop.org/~ajohnson/cairo/ > - A patch has also been submitted to the Cairo git repository - > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=ae9635bf33cb989f5c525800b… > - If the cairo dlls for inkscape are built by patching 1.5.14 instead of > building from git head Adrian recommends also getting the PostScript bug fix > as well: > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=13e05bffd5cae5690fada24c7… > > > > Remaining problems with Windows printing are; > > * Some blurs are misaligned/mis-scaled - see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/205732 > The workaround is to print to bitmap (under rendering in the print dialogue) > > * When printing falls back to bitmap, the bitmap is not always an ideal > resolution. Again the workaround is to print to bitmap (Print -> Rendering > -> Bitmap). > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Win32-libs-tp16033417p16254450.html > Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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"Inkscape out of the box for Ubuntu Hardy" News Item
by Joel Holdsworth 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hi All, Would it be worth putting a news item on the website mentioning that 0.46 will be included by default in Ubuntu Hardy? - it's quite big news, and it makes me want to tell the world! What do you think? Joel

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Inkscape at LugRadio Live USA 2008
by Jon A. Cruz 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hi, Just spreading the word that Inkscape will be exhibiting at LugRadio Live USA 2008 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * http://www.lugradio.org/live/USA2008/ LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings San Francisco the unique atmosphere of LugRadio Live UK, an event that has developed a strong reputation for providing a range of topics about free software, Open Source, digital rights, technology and more, a compelling list of speakers, exhibitors and birds of a feather sessions, and wrapping it all in a unique, fun, loose, social and inclusive event, which is often described as combining the atmosphere of a rock concert and a computer conference. LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings this unique atmosphere to the USA, with around 30 speakers, over 20 exhibitors, an eclectic range of BOF sessions, and plenty of additional sessions such as our debate discussion panel, a showcase of five minute talks, tech demos, and of course a live recording of LugRadio in front of an audience. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Any and all are welcome to come by and visit, hang out, talk about whatever. It's also a very user-centric conference with registration only running $10. We also need any volunteers to come by and help man the booth. Even being able to commit a few hours would be a great help to the Inkscape project. Additionally we have a minor need for equipment for the booth... it's a small, informal show but we can still do with a few things like monitors or projectors (if anyone lives in the area that would be handy). If anyone can volunteer, please let me know so that I can get them a list of all our people to get signed up. Thanks, and hope to see people there!

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Public keys for Ubuntu?
by Diederik van Lierop 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

In our sourceforge forum an anonymous poster is asking: "Please provide public keys for the Ubuntu (Gutsy and Hardy) 0.46 testing distrubtion." Do we have these? If so, were? See http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1985330&forum_id=323059 BTW, I noticed a few weeks ago that the (likely highly ineffective) spamming of our "installation help" forum has stopped, so I've re-enabled the anonymous posting. Regards, Diederik

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ill2svg.pl
by Alexandre Prokoudine 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hi, We have at least one bug on old AI files importer, namely LP145145. In the past I already suggested moving to UC for importing old AI files. Do you think it's the right time to do it now? If yes, do we need a separate verb for this extension so that both PS-based and PDF-based AI importers would work? Alexandre

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