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wiimote+inkscape (YouTube)
by MenTaLguY 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Inkscape featured (briefly) as a demo application for this guy's project to develop Linux drivers for the Wiimote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp1_pZ-AteA&eurl= -mental

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Runtime checks for SSL
by Aaron Spike 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

One of the problems I've been running up against with the autopackage is ensuring that the users have SSL installed. SSL is required for securing jabber login and whiteboard traffic. The autopackages I am currently generating have SSL linked to inkscape statically. This is a huge security nightmare IMHO and I do not plan to do this for the release packages because I do not plan on undertaking the responsibility of ensuring that we update the packages for any and every SSL vulnerability. I would like to user relaytool to make a runtime check for the presence of libssl and conditionally disable features. I would appreciate assistance with this. http://autopackage.org/apbuild-relaytool.php Aaron Spike

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Boolean operations on lines, bug or feature?
by Jasper van de Gronde 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

When I use the difference or intersection operation on an open path (and a rectangle) the path suddenly gets new edges and is closed, see attachment (which also shows my intention). Is this intentional or should I file a bug?

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Kompiling Inkscape
by Loi 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi, Today I made a svn checkout of inkscape and tried to compile it. But it doesn't want: ./autogen.sh ============================================================================= When you report a trouble about building SVN version of inkscape, Please report following information about distro and tools version, too. --1. distribution------------------------------------------------------------ Debian GNU/Linux release 4.0 --2. tools------------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/bin/m4: /usr/bin/autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60a /usr/bin/autoheader: autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.60a /usr/bin/automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.10 automake-1.7: not found automake-1.8: not found automake-1.9: not found /usr/bin/aclocal: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.10 aclocal-1.7: not found aclocal-1.8: not found aclocal-1.9: not found /usr/bin/intltoolize: intltoolize (GNU intltool) 0.35.0 /usr/bin/gettextize: /usr/bin/gettextize (GNU gettext-tools) 0.15 --3. environment variables--------------------------------------------------- PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games LANG=de_CH LANGUAGE=de_CH:de_DE:de:en_GB:en ============================================================================= I am testing that you have the required versions of autoconf, automake, glib-gettextize and intltoolize. This test is not foolproof and if anything goes wrong, there may be guidance in the file HACKING.txt checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... yes (version 2.60) checking for automake >= 1.7 ... yes (version 1.10) checking for glib-gettextize >= 2.0.0 ... yes (version 2.12.4) checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... yes (version 0.35.0) Running aclocal ... configure.ac:44: error: AC_PROG_CC cannot be called after AM_PROG_CC_C_O /usr/share/aclocal-1.10/ccstdc.m4:25: AM_PROG_CC_STDC is expanded from... configure.ac:44: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 Please fix the error conditions and try again. I use: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60a automake (GNU automake) 1.10 All builddeps given in debian/control are installed.

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Buildtool : 'console' option
by Johan Engelen 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Thanks alot for making the buildtool! It's pretty nice. However, now I manually changed build.xml:255 into "-lgc -mconsole -lws2_32 -lintl -lm -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32" to create a console version so I can see errors and other messages. Could build.xml be changed such that adding 'console' as commandline option would build a console version of Inkscape? ("buildtool dist console" for example). Or do I have to make a copy-paste of targets link and dist and rename them linkconsole and distconsole such that "buildtool distconsole" would do what I want? Thanks, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problem with the Latex Formula module
by Stéphane Gimenez 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Sorry, my first message was meant to be addresed to the list. > >Could you try with the latest svn version of the extension script and > >give us feedback? > > > >http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/share/ex… > > > It is better, I have now a window message :) : > > dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened. […] Yes, it's better! Now I guess you got this message because the formula input you gave to the extension was either not valid LateX, or it became invalid because of a shell expansion which occured when the script was called by the extensions manager (this is a bug). Can you try with a simple "$ \cos(x) $" LaTeX input? To know how your imput will be expanded you can use the following shell command: $ echo -E "$$\cos(x)$$" 8012\cos(x)8012 For example '$$' is expanded to the pid of the processus. As a workarround, try not to use '$' or '$$' but '\(' and '\[' instead to enter math mode. Stéphane. PS: I'll also try to improve error reports when the given input is not valid LaTeX.

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Secondary toolbar size?
by Andreas Nilsson 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Dear Inkscape developers. Myself and some other folks are currently working on some icons for Inkscape [1], but have ran into some issues. Apparently my build (13378 ...the latest one I got to work) wants to use 16x16 images for the icons in both the topmost (although the ones it gets from the desktop theme is 24x24) and the secondary toolbar. The tools toolbar however still use 24x24 images (and that is the correct behavior I suspect). However, other peoples toolbars use the 24x24 size (and so did mine until recently), this leads to the problem that I don't know what size to aim at. If I use 24x24 images for the toolbar, they get blurry on my system, and if I use 16x16 it gets blurry on others. What is the correct size used by these toolbars, and is there some way I can have icons in several sizes? The several sizes issue is even more troublesome, as the icons from the tools toolbar gets all blurry in the undo history dialog among other places [2]. 1.http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/inkscape-icons.tar.gz 2. http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/inkscape-iconsizes.png - Andreas

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New C++ find dialog
by Johan Engelen 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

Hello all, (this is about the current SVN-trunk version) I've been busy implementing the find dialog as a c++ dialog (ui\dialog\find.cpp). I hope it inspires others to spend some off-time on implementing the other old (non gtkmm) dialogs! It's pretty lame work though. Maybe good work for new people to get started? But very very unexciting I guess. But refactoring is a noble cause! (Mail me if you need help) If you have time to test the find dialog for bugs, please go to src/verbs.cpp:1618 and remove the comment //. I know the UI is not what it should be. When I tried adding the HSeparator as in the old find dialog, Inkscape would crash so I gave up on the issue at the moment. Thanks, Johan

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markers in arena shapes?
by Bryce Harrington 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Mental or Bulia, I've got a question... In looking at where marker stuff is hooked in I notice a lot of stuff in nr-arena-shape.cpp, which appears to be special casing marker elements as shape children. I'm attempting to add some documentation, but it's a little confusing to me. Could either of you explain what the design intent is for this? In particular, I'm wondering why markers have this special case; it feels like an odd fit in nr-arena-shape since everything else is so generalized, and I'm wondering if there could be a way to generalize the markers so no special case is needed for them? Bryce

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g2png
by bulia byak 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Hi Cedric, you have committed the "g2png" extension. It has many problems. 1. It wasn't added to Makefile.am and so ignored during installation. 2. We don't use capital letters in filenames so G2Pngs.py had to be renamed to g2pngs.py. 3. The python file had some French Unicode symbols on which my Python interpreter choked. Please translate the comments to English. 4. It was added to a "Recursive actions" submenu which makes little sense from the user viewpoint. I changed that to "Export". 5. It has a wrong copyright statement. You are not Aaron Spike, are you? :) 6. The URI should also be changed - don't use org.ekips, use org.inkscape or your own domain. 7. Most importantly, this extension just goes and exports ALL groups in the document, recursively. This does not seem to make sense to me. In most documents, it results in an awful lot of pngs, most of which are not needed. To be useful, instead, it should just export _all selected objects_ (not just groups!) without any recursion. Correspondingly, rename it to "Export selected objects" or something like that. 8. It ignores the filename and resolution hints stored for objects, always exporting them at the default resolution with the filename from the id. This is not acceptable. See the man page for how to use export hints. I have fixed problems 1 to 4 in SVN, but the rest are for you to fix. I'd suggest that you should have submitted this as a patch to our patch tracker, or at least have it discussed on the list, before committing to SVN. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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PDF Output Atlas
by Aaron Spike 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

I think it is generally agreed that PDF output is the last outstanding blocker on the release process. Anyone who can spare a few cycles to help perfect PDF output will be much appreciated. It would be nice if the wise could supply some commentary on the state of PDF output to taper off the learning curve for newcomers to the field (like myself). As I sit here staring blankly at the files in src/extension/internal, I could really use an atlas that explains which files are important to pdf output, which particular effort they are part of, how they relate to each other, and where my effort should be focused. http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/src/exte… Thanks, Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: RadioButtons for extensions (.INX)
by Johan Engelen 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:41:16 +0000 (GMT) > From: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> > > > Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:23:31 +0100 > > From: Johan Engelen <goejendaagh@...1571...> > > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: RadioButtons for extensions (.INX) > > > > I've added radiobuttons to the parameter types for > extensions :) They are > > called: 'optiongroup'; English is not my native tongue > which makes it often > > difficult to come up with a label..., please rename if desired. > > A developer example is available as a placeholder until a > real extension > > uses it. > > Have you seperated the option group concept from the > imlementation as a radio list? I've thought about that (since the last discussion about enums), and it is the reason that the syntax is exactly equal to enums. I think it is safe to answer 'Yes'. (I will rename <item> to <option>) > For example you might want to take the same options and > reformat them as > drop down list rather than a radio list depending on how much > space you > have available or how important that option really is. Yes that is possible (for example: if the number of choices is more than 3, display dropdown, otherwise radiobuttons. However I must say that at this moment I prefer to give full control to the extension developer.

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Closing bugs/requests/etc
by Johan Engelen 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

I think I am not able to close bugreports and the like? Or if so, please tell me how to! Thanks, Johan

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Inkscape / win32 with gtk2.10
by Bob Jamison 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Hi, all. Starting with Bulia's need for me to make an Inkscape build with Tor's patch for transient dialogs on win32, there was a need for me to change the build to use gtk2.10. Since I was going to change the build, I thought it would be good to modernize it, thus the Buildtool. Whew. Well, I got the Buildtool working yesterday, and I just now got a gtk2.10 build working. Tor's patch tomorrow? This copy was made with gtk2.10: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0611161701.7z This is not just a dll drop-in replacement, but a complete build with new libraries. It seems to work ok here, but people might want to give it a try to see if it works for them. bob

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Compile error with FreeType >= 2.2.0 (caused by ps export t
by bulia byak 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

On 11/25/06, Cyril Dangerville <cyrildangerville@...19...> wrote: > Hi! > I uploaded a new version that does not rely on freetype internal headers. I > patched my svn copy (revision 13361) and compiled successfully with Freetype > 2.2.1. But I need some help on one issue. Please read my last comment on the > tracker for details: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1219308&group_id=9… I am far from an expert on Freetype, but from the name of the function, it does indeed seem that it's X11-only. If so, I have no idea how to get font type in a portable way. Can you perhaps get the font file name and figure out from its extension? Just an idea. Any help from anyone familiar with this will be much appreciated! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: grow/shrink selection in node tool
by bulia byak 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

* You can grow or shrink node selection by hovering the mouse pointer over a node and using mousewheel (up = grow, down = shrink) or the keys PageUp (grow) and PageDown (shrink). Growing adds the closest unselected node to the selection; shrinking deselects the farthest selected node. There are two modes that differ by how the closest/farthest nodes are chosen: o Spatial selection (Mousewheel, PageUp/PageDown): distances to nodes are measured directly, regardless of which subpath a node belongs to. o Linear selection (Ctrl+Mousewheel, Ctrl+PageUp/Ctrl+PageDown): node distances are measured along the path, and only the nodes belonging to the same subpath as the hovered node are considered (i.e. other subpaths are never selected). This technique is convenient for quickly selecting an area in a complex path starting from a center - for example, for node sculpting. Let me know if you think linear mode will be more often used than spatial - I can swap the shortcuts so that the more common mode can be used without Ctrl. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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stupid question
by tj 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

I am a new user to inkscape and I have a stupid question. How do you close windows like the document and inkscape preferences windows? I see no close, cancel, etc buttons? tj

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NEW: RadioButtons for extensions (.INX)
by Johan Engelen 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

I've added radiobuttons to the parameter types for extensions :) They are called: 'optiongroup'; English is not my native tongue which makes it often difficult to come up with a label..., please rename if desired. A developer example is available as a placeholder until a real extension uses it. Regards, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Two function plotters?
by bulia byak 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

On 11/24/06, Johan Engelen <johane@...1482...> wrote: > The "function plotter" is meant to be a more general plotter than "wavy". > "wavy" let's you specify the x-range in multiples of pi, which is very > convenient for plotting periodic functions. "function plotter" does not let > you do this which can be annoying. I'd like to keep them separate, but we > can also merge them by adding for example a checkbox to "function plotter" > to multiply the x-range by 2pi. Yes, I think such a checkbox would be a good idea. Can you please do it, and then we can retire the Wavy. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Two function plotters?
by Johan Engelen 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:46:32 -0400 > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> > > I notice that we have two extensions to do function plotting: > old "wavy" and new "function plotter". Johan, since you added the > latter, please clean this up by removing one of them (make sure no > functionality is lost!). (Since I graduated two days ago, I'm back working on Inkscape again!) The "function plotter" is meant to be a more general plotter than "wavy". "wavy" let's you specify the x-range in multiples of pi, which is very convenient for plotting periodic functions. "function plotter" does not let you do this which can be annoying. I'd like to keep them separate, but we can also merge them by adding for example a checkbox to "function plotter" to multiply the x-range by 2pi. Another option is to use the read-out possibility of the notebook parameter: "wavy" could be added as a tab and the extension can determine which tab was selected when processing... (definately not clear to users and this has not my preference)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] g2png
by bulia byak 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

On 11/24/06, cedric GEMY <radar.map35@...8...> wrote: > my purpose was exactly to export groups, only. See the release Notes if > you want o know why. I don't see how your code fits that explanation, in particular the icons example. There may be much more groups in an icons file (examine our own icons.svg for example), not only the top-level groups corresponding to icons. Icons may contain some inner groups, which will get exported too. On the other hand, some simple icons may be represented by a single shape, not a group. And finally, I may want to export not ALL icons in the file but only some of them (more than one but not all). Your code can't do this either. > i don't understand what your proposal have > different from the export to bitmap dialog (option "selection" checked) It is different in that it exports each selected object SEPARATELY, creating as many PNG files as you have objects selected. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Compile error with FreeType >= 2.2.0 (caused by ps export type 1 patch)
by Gustav Broberg 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

I'm having problems compiling since revision 13379 which applied the (rather old) patch 1219308 [1] for embedding Type 1 fonts into exported PostScript files. The reason for the problems is that the patch relies on internal FreeType headers which are no longer exposed as of version 2.2.0, see [2] for details. Unless the patch can be rewritten any time soon, I think it needs to be rolled back -- FreeType 2.2.* is pretty common, Ubuntu 6.10 uses 2.2.1 for instance. A bug is filed here... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1600900&group_id=9… Thanks! 1.http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1219308&group_id… 2.http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/freetype-2.2.0.html -- Gustav Broberg

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win32 build tool
by Adib Taraben 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

Hello Bob Jamison, I think your build tool is much faster than make ... there is a problem with the l10n: Build should create for all po/*.mo files a directory in inkscape/local/ with the name of the file (without extension) and copy the file to that location. Is that possible ? Thx, Adib.

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Two function plotters?
by bulia byak 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

I notice that we have two extensions to do function plotting: old "wavy" and new "function plotter". Johan, since you added the latter, please clean this up by removing one of them (make sure no functionality is lost!). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Help Wanted: Testing Autopackages
by Aaron Spike 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

The quality of the Autopackage builds could be greatly increased with more consistent testing. There is a need for volunteers running various distros (Slackware, Suse, Mandrake, Fedora, Debian) and various versions of these distros to work with the autopackager to ensure compatibility throughout the release cycle. This work involves regular downloading and installing of inkscape autopackages (about 10MB), submitting detailed bug reports to the autopackager and testing fixes as they are prepared. Snapshot builds for testing live at: http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/?C=M;O=D Thanks, Aaron Spike

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