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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PDF import extension
by bulia byak 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

OK, I figured this out. By default poppler does not install all the headers. To force 0.59 to install its headers over the old ones, configure it thus: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-xpdf-headers On 7/12/07, Miklós Erdélyi <erdelyim@...400...> wrote: > On 7/12/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > > It does not compile for me. I first tried with poppler 0.51 from > > dapper, then installed 0.59 from source, but this didn't help: > > > > extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.cpp: In member function 'void > > PdfParser::parse(Object*, GBool)': > > extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.cpp:372: error: no matching > > function for call to 'Parser::Parser(XRef*&, Lexer*, int)' > > /usr/include/poppler/Parser.h:26: note: candidates are: > > Parser::Parser(XRef*, Lexer*) > > /usr/include/poppler/Parser.h:22: note: > > Parser::Parser(const Parser&) > > > > Any ideas? > You have the includes of the older version set by pkg-config (eg. > /usr/include). Check that Inkscape really uses the include files from > 0.59 (which might reside in /usr/local/include). I also use the 0.59 > src tarball and the constructor of the class Parser takes 3 arguments. > > miklos > -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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3d buttons with Inkscape
by Florian Köberle 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

The filter inkscape developers have done nice work. With the current SVN version it is possible to make a shape looking like a button (see attachments). I noticed several things by testing it: - Adding a feOffset let Inkscape crash - There is no GUI, for setting the attribute in2 of feComposite to SourceGraphic if you don't count the XML editor. - The Grahpic looks similar but not equal on Firefox 3.0a6. The Graphic produced by Inkscape graphic is darker. The question is: Is it a bug in Firefox or Inkscape? Opera 9.20 display the Grahpic without the filter effect.

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blend modes rendering regression
by Alexandre Prokoudine 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hi, Am I the only one to experience rendering regression when using screen blend mode in one object over gaussian blur in another? http://prokoudine.info/shots/inkscape/046-blend-screen-regression.png Alexandre

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headz up :)
by Alexandre Prokoudine 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hi, Just for your information: as of today amount of Inkscape developers (as of registered at SourceForge) has reached 100 ;-) Alexandre

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cancelling an extension won't work
by Alexandre Prokoudine 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hi, When you call a dialog of the last used extension, change or don't change settings and click "Cancel", extension still runs and produces output. Reproducible at least with Spirograph, Gear, L-Systems, Graph Plotter. By the way, do we want to bind some keyboard shortcut to "Previous Effect Settings..."? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PDF import extension
by unknown＠example.com 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

> -----Original Message----- > From: Miklós Erdélyi [mailto:erdelyim@...400...] > On 7/13/07, J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... > <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote: > > John Cliff wrote: > > > > > > Whats stopping it working on win? is there anything you need help > > > test or what ever? > > Bump. :-) > This bump is the fact that compiling the latest poppler for > win isn't straightforward because the win version hasn't been > maintained for a while. (I meant "bump" as in "bump up this post in case it was forgotten" :) ). How much work do you think it'll be to make poppler buildable on windows? Bulia's mail about the import success make me very curious! Cheers, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PDF import extension
by Miklós Erdélyi 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

On 7/12/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > For text however, as I said before, it would be nice to have both > options and to be able to choose when importing. Sometimes it is more > important to have text as text; sometimes it is more important to have > it look right. Realistically, Inkscape won't have support for embedded > SVG fonts any time soon, and this means these two goals will remain > mutually exclusive until then. So, can you implement such an option? Yes. So the input dialog appearing when opening a PDF document should have the options for selecting whether you want text as path or as text (with embedded fonts/without them) and the possibility to select the page you want to import (with preview). This dialog will be present as soon as it will make sense :) (ie., when we'll have these options actually implemented) miklos

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GSoC Mentor Surveys due by Monday July 16
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hi all, Just a reminder that student evaluations are due by this Monday July 16. If you haven't submitted them yet, please plan on doing so this weekend. It takes about 5-10 min. http://code.google.com/soc/2007/mentor_home.html More Info: http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/midterm-s… Bryce

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unset stroke, clone and stroke width
by jiho 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hello all, I remarked a behavior that I find counter intuitive when dealing with clones. It also seems to me like it is just a bug in Inkscape's UI and that the underlying SVG rendering is correct. When cloning an object, the properties of the clones (color, opacity etc.) can be edited only if they are "unset" in the original object. Therefore, I expect that when I unset stroke on the original object I should be able to edit all aspects of the stroke of its clone(s). While this is true for color, this is not true for stroke width, line cap style, opacity and all other properties. However if I manually edit the original objects properties and remove its stroke width, line cap, opacity etc. attributes, it is possible to change them in the clone and Inkscape displays it fine (apart from markers that are not retained). I have done a file in which the behavior is showed for all attributes I could think of: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/test_unset_stroke.svg So I think that when unsetting stroke, all stroke attributes should be removed, not only color. Would this be conceivable? PS: in addition, while unsetting fill makes it appear black, unsetting stroke makes it disappear. Is it intended? JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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PDF import extension
by Miklós Erdélyi 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

On 7/12/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote: > I see poppler >=0.5.5 is required. Is there a important reason why > 0.5.4 won't be enough? Unfortunately the newest version and 0.5.4 aren't compatible on the API level, eg. they have the Parser class with different constructors defined. That's why we need the newest one and cannot support older versions. > As for the cairo-based import, is there something special to do to > get it? I have cairo 1.4.6 and it works perfectly for the PDF export > (I mean, as well as on other systems) but I don't have any PDF import > in the Open/Import dialogs. The cairo-based import also needs libpoppler and in addition to that the libpoppler-glib and the cairo-svg packages. miklos

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Exporting svg into png.
by Tomasz Kobiela 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Hi. Maybe it isn't bug or it is allready solved but I have problem when exporting svg into png. When I export my logo or any artwork with blur effect it cut it. For example i made circle with blured border (or stroke) and I export it to png but after export i see cuted blur to non blured stroke. I need to make four aditional shapes arrange them so my circle is in the center, export them and then cut my circle in gimp. I would like to see in next release a support for exporting blured shapes without cuting them.

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Fwd: PDF import extension
by bulia byak 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

On 7/12/07, Miklós Erdélyi <erdelyim@...400...> wrote: > Sorry for that :) mental said that I should enable by default the > native PDF import. The one which worked for you and which reproduced > text by glyphs is the cairo-svg-surface based one (actually it was a > quick hack to get it working in Inkscape). Now the other one which now > spews out the debug info is the not-yet-finished native one which will > import text and gradients properly (soon...now it's only good for > importing shapes). Well, then, unless someone complaints, I think I'll make the cairo-based one the default _for now_. When your native one with gradient support matures, we'll switch it back. For text however, as I said before, it would be nice to have both options and to be able to choose when importing. Sometimes it is more important to have text as text; sometimes it is more important to have it look right. Realistically, Inkscape won't have support for embedded SVG fonts any time soon, and this means these two goals will remain mutually exclusive until then. So, can you implement such an option? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Changes in building
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Just wondering if there have been any recent changes in the way Inkscape is built, particularly in Windows. For some odd reason, Eclipse CDT suddenly thinks that Inkscape.exe is not a recognized executable when it comes to debugging. It was fine for many weeks before this one. Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks! Gail

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PDF import extension
by MenTaLguY 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Since everyone else seems to be having success with the PDF import, and since poppler is a C++ library, it seems possible that the heap corruption is the result of a C++ ABI mismatch between the build of poppler you have installed and the version of g++ you are compiling Inkscape with. Could you try installing a recompiled poppler and see if that makes a difference? -mental

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[Fwd: [ inkscape-Bugs-1752331 ] Live effects causing problems on Windows]
by Ted Gould 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

I thought we fixed the thing on win32 where the command prompt pops up. Did I regress that with my changes? --Ted -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: SourceForge.net <noreply@...34...> To: noreply@...34... Subject: [ inkscape-Bugs-1752331 ] Live effects causing problems on Windows Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:30:06 -0700 Bugs item #1752331, was opened at 2007-07-12 04:23 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by buliabyak You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1752331&group_… Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Extensions Group: Win32 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) >Assigned to: Ted Gould (gouldtj) Summary: Live effects causing problems on Windows Initial Comment: I was testing one of the latest windows development builds (Inkscape 0.46dev+devel, built Jul 11 2007) and I noticed something pretty odd with the new live effects. Basically, it works by calling the effect repeatedly as you make changes. However on windows this involves opening a dos window for python to run each time, which happens 4 to 20 times a minuet, which is darn annoying... oh, and the other problem it has, is when changing a value by using a spinbox, it seems to lose control and it will keep registring the same event so the value will change to the min/max value of the spinbox depending on which arrow you press. These two bugs combined lead to a lovely loop of open an effect, say jitter nodes dos window opens change value of spinbox by using arrow loop * 100(0)? incress spinbox value by 1 open dos window to rup python interpreter, stealing focus and on top close python window, retuning focus to UI incress spinbox value by 1 open dos window to rup python interpreter, stealing focus and on top close python window, retuning focus to UI end loop... Update Inkscape UI tomh (hicks . kingtom (at the google mail place) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1752331&group_…

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preview checkbox, again
by bulia byak 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Ted, Yesterday for the first time I tried live-update effect on a large slow document (about 1Mb with lots of blur etc). It was a torture. I could not even adjust the number of paragraphs because it froze on every change for a long time. You made the effects themselves asynchronous - that is nice. But in situations like this, the actual effect run takes only a small fraction of the total time; a lot more time is spent by Inkscape itself on saving and then reloading the large file. And since Inkscape itself is not asynchronous at all, this freezes everything including the effect dialog. Sorry for pounding on it, but I think I've proven enough by now that the checkbox must be there and off by default :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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W3C SVG tests and Inkscape
by Tavmjong Bah 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi, For fun, I ran Inkscape in batch mode over the W3C SVG test files. You can see the results at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/W3C_SVG/htmlInkscapeHarness/full-index.html Tav -- Tavmjong Bah A Guide to Inkscape http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/

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Async script extensions
by Ted Gould 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hey all, So I've finally got my work on switching the scripting extensions over to being a call with parameters instead of a parsed string on the command line. At the same time I've made them asynchronous, which has some nice side effects. Basically, this all involved reworking large portions of the scripting code -- which brings the possibility of breaking things. Two areas in specific that I'm worried about: -- win32. Some of the functions I've used had notes on what does and doesn't work on win32, but the documentation was sparse, and I'm concerned it was incomplete. -- internationalization. I know we've had problems in the past with this code and different locales of filesystem and UI. I believe I kept all that code in place -- but history means that those with the complex setups should be extra observant when noticing how their SVN builds run. So other than those concerns, enjoy everyone. I hope this will add a lot of usability to the scripts, especially some discoverability to the parameters. Have fun, Ted

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text case effects
by bulia byak 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

A group of new effects in the Text submenu performs various case conversions on selected text objects: converting to UPPERCASE, lowercase, Sentence case, Title Case, as well as flipping case (switching uppercase to lowercase and back) and rANdoMiZInG cAse. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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spirals
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi, A question in a design forum on drawing exact logariphmic spirals in One Well Known Application :-) triggered my interest to a way doing same thing in Inkscape. In fact Inkscape operates in other terms than all the geometric sources I read so far overnight. Divergence (or Linearity) sounds very much like Ratio, but 1,618 simply won't work for any amount Turns I've tried :) Apparently , if I divide Turns by 0,618 and input the result into Divergence, the resulted spiral will look pretty close to a Fibonacci spiral, but not exactly it. This brings me to a point we I don't quite understand what I'm doing :) Does Inkscape simply lack documentation to help people do the calculations? Can Inkscape make it easier for users by providing presets that would lock existing Spiral tool's options to some ratio so that one could pick, say, hyperbolic or archimedean or logarithmic spiral and draw as many turns as (s)he wishes? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] noob. Can someone help me build/run?
by Joshua A. Andler 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hey xl cheese, I'd recommend doing a clean checkout again from "https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk" instead (note the inkscape at the beginning). That will ensure you won't run into the issue a few of our devs recently have. Also, since you're on Ubuntu, I'd recommend pulling up a terminal and doing "sudo apt-get build-dep inkscape" which will pull down the dependencies for you. I will be honest that I can't offer anything good advice-wise in trying to get eclipse to work as I've never used it. Gail, do you want to chime in? However, if you want to know the standard way to build (again in a terminal), after the initial checkout or when I make clean I do this: "svn up && ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && sudo make install". Then I just typically do "svn up && make && sudo make install" after that. I also CCd the devel-list as well to get others input to perhaps help with Eclipse (and it's a good place to ask development related Qs in general)... Hopefully the above is at least a little helpful for you... Cheers, Josh xl cheese wrote: > I want to dust of my programming skills and thought I'd play with inkscape > in my spare time. > > Trying to use Eclipse on a Ubuntu 7.04 system. > > I did this command to copy the svn locally: (/home/wes/inkscape) > svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk > inkscape > > Now that I have the source code how do I make it run in Eclipse? > > So far I have created a new project called WesInkscape in the dir > /home/wes/inkscape/src I can't seem to build it or run it. > > The inkscape wiki page for eclipse doesn't help. > > Thanks. > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migrati… > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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smaller commands toolbar
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi, The "Make commands toolbar smaller" option from Preferences dialog seems to make the opposite effect: the toolbar is smaller when the option is disabled. Is this intentional? Am I the only one to see it? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Selector keybinding change
by Diederik van Lierop 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Molumen wrote: > A similar and IMO more intuitive functionality is implemented in Corel > Draw. > There you can select the nudge distance, how far will an object move > when you click on the cursors. That would be great! Maybe we could also have an additional checkbox to link the nudge distance to the grid-spacing. I'm an engineer and I _love_ grids ;-) Diederik

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Selector keybinding change
by bulia byak 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

* Draging the scale handles with Alt now scales selection by an integer factor, i.e. up to 2, 3, 4, etc. times the original size or down to 1/2. 1/3, 1/4, etc. of the original size (in any of the two dimensions independently). This replaces the old and rarely used "slow" scaling mode with Alt. Admittedly this use of Alt is not very consistent with others - I would prefer to use Ctrl for that but it's already used for preserving ratio. At least, this mode is much more useful than the Sodipodi-era, very counterintuitive old "slow" mode where a move of the mouse pointer resulted in 1/10 of the displacement. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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moves
by bulia byak 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

1. I moved the 3D box tool back under Rect on the toolbar - it's definitely one of the shape tools and most logically belongs with other shapes. 2. I moved the filter effects dialog to Object menu under Fill and Stroke, instead of the Effects menu. The two kinds of "effects" are confusing enough as they are, even without further confounding them by placing them into one menu. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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