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Problem with the Latex Formula module
by Jean-Luc Menut 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

Hello, I have a problem when I try to use the latex formula module: nothing appears, I have this message in my terminal : ** (.proxy.inkscape:7980): CRITICAL **: Last <defs> removed I'm using the latest inkscape autopackage (05 nov), pstoedit 3.44 and ubuntu (edgy) Any idea ? thanks, Jean-Luc

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[Fwd: [Scale-announce] SCALE Call For Papers closes Monday!]
by Ted Gould 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

So, I think we're going to have a booth at SCALE this year. Josh has volunteered to take a leadership role in that -- so I'm going to play SCALE cheerleader. Which means, SUBMIT ABSTRACTS! :) It's February, and unlikely that the weather is better where you are than it is going to be in LA. Southwest flies to LAX so it means you can probably get a cheap flight. You can walk to the hotel from LAX[1]. The conference is on the weekend. I think it would be very cool to have a set of Inkscape presentations. Forward this to your GIMP/Blender/Scribus friends, perhaps we can get a Linux Graphics track :) SCALE is a cool conference, small and laid back. Still a volunteer run thing, so the registration fee isn't crazy. But, every year the speakers have gotten better, and the overall quality has gone up. I don't expect this year to be different. --Ted [1] - Not that I would recommend this. The traffic around LAX is awful, so unless you're invincible to cars, take the hotel shuttle. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: scale-announce@...1566... Reply-To: nobody@...1566... To: SCALE-announce <scale-announce@...1566...> Subject: [Scale-announce] SCALE Call For Papers closes Monday! Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:18:31 -0800 If you're considering making a presentation at the 5th annual So Cal Linux Expo, be advised that the window to submit your CFP closes Monday, November 20th. Get your proposal in now! In the same vein, SCALE is sponsoring a one-day Open Source Health Care Summit on Friday, February 9th, just prior to the Expo. If you use Open Source software in the health care arena, here's your chance to talk about it. The CFP for the Summit closes December 29th. For more information, or for the details on the CFP, see http://socallinuxexpo.com/healthcare07/index.php. _______________________________________________ Scale-announce mailing list Scale-announce@...1566... http://mail.socallinuxexpo.com/mailman/listinfo/scale-announce

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Test please ignore
by Ted Gould 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

I've been having trouble sending to Sourceforge. Hopefully this message will get through. --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Secondary toolbar size?
by Jon A. Cruz 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

On Nov 22, 2006, at 6:08 AM, David Christian Berg wrote: >> Mmmmmh, I can't find the Print Large theme you talking about. I have >> only have: David_icons.svg, icons.svg and legacy_icons.svg >> Where is "the size resquested" you are talking about? In the .svg >> file? > > Talking about the GTK Theme here, not the icon theme used by > Inkscape. I > didn't check but I guess you'll find the Large Print theme at > art.gnome.org Yes, the GTK+ theme. It's generally shipped with most RedHat derived distros at the least.

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Fit selection to page
by Nika Vidal 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hi all, I've been reading yout list for some time but this is my first message to this list. I think it could be useful a "fit selection to page" button, specially when you get/made an artwork and you want to fit it into some specific format (a3, a4...), for example working for a printing work. I saw something like this to anybody was working with Macromedia Freehand. This is only an idea, I don know if it's already implemented at devel version. Excuse my poor English. Regards, Nika.

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"All roads lead to bitmap" icon blog entry
by unknown＠example.com 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hi, I just came across a blog entry discussing vector vs. bitmap for icons. http://islayer.com/blog/?p=87 It also mentions a limitation with Illustrator, but that's a side one. Anyway, just wanted to point this out as something we might look at. I know I'll follow up on the icon aspects, as it falls in line with things I've discussed with various icon authors in addition to the librsvg team, ksvg peoples, etc.

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NEW: Trace Bitmap dialog redesign and new parameters
by bulia byak 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

* This dialog now provides access to three more tracing parameters: o Suppress speckles: If set, spots or speckles larger than the given size are suppressed in the trace. o Smooth corners: This parameter controls how much smoothing is applied to corners in the traced path. o Optimize paths: If set, trace paths are optimized by joining adjacent Bezier segments with the given tolerance. * The dialog is redesigned to use three tabs: Mode, Parameters, and Preview. The controls are reorganized to be easier to find. Most labels and tooltips are rewritten for clarity. * The trace preview image is made twice larger. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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opacity and blur: 0.15 or 15%?
by bulia byak 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

Here's a usability question that I'd like to get some feedback on. Myself, I'm undecided. How to display and input values of opacity and blur? 1. As percent, 0 to 100, or 0.0 to 100.0. Pro: easier to pronounce; more common in "real life"; spinbutton can be shorter by one character (dot). Contra: requires a "%" label after the spinbutton; if the label is not there (as e.g. in the statusbar there's little room for it), it may be more difficult to guess, when you see e.g. "15", that the maximum is 100; requires a change from the Inkscape status quo. 2. As numbers from 0.0 to 1.0 (with two or three significant digits). Pro: no need for a % label; easier to guess what the maximum is (though still not entirely obvious, unless you have a slider too); no need to change the status quo. Contra: slightly more "geeky", more cumbersome to type and pronounce, requires slightly wider spinbutton. Opinions? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: file name entry field finally fixed
by bulia byak 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

* We removed the "hacked" filename entry field that we had added to the Open and Save dialogs because starting from version 2.10, GTK+ has finally restored this field in their standard file dialog (better late than never!). The standard field at the top of the dialog supports type-ahead find and performs the default dialog action (open or save) by pressing Enter, which means you can now do a quick Ctrl+O, Ctrl+V, Enter sequence to open the file whose path is in your clipboard (this closes a long-standing usability bug). Those who use older versions of GTK are advised either to upgrade to 2.10 or use Ctrl+L to open a pop-up filename box. (Our Windows builds are shipped with GTK+ 2.10.) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extension Documentation
by Aaron Spike 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Ted Gould wrote: > Yeah! Go Aaron! Well so far I haven't created much new text on the wiki, just moved it around. So let's give a round of applause to the folks that have added some docs recently. Thanks guys. > I actually have looked for that file on more than one occasion. Really, > if someone out there has a mailing list archive... I'd like to update > it with all the new fun things that have been added. Right under my nose the whole time! Sf.net's new interface makes it way easier for me to find things. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11420660 I pasted it to the wiki. This was from a time before extensions had parameters and the autogui. Wow, things have come a long way since 2005-04-07. Aaron Spike

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[Fwd: [Inkscape-tracker] [ inkscape-Patches-1591723 ] patch to access potrace parameters within inkscape]
by Jon Phillips 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Heya, all, this is why it is so good to keep our trackers nice and flowing...check the comments below...and I would like to say a big thanks to Alan and Bulia for spending so much time on cleaning up our trackers... Keeping the patches flowing is so helpful to bring in developers... Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: SourceForge.net <noreply@...34...> > To: noreply@...34... > Subject: [Inkscape-tracker] [ inkscape-Patches-1591723 ] patch to > access potrace parameters within inkscape > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:40:07 -0800 > > Patches item #1591723, was opened at 2006-11-07 01:00 > Message generated for change (Comment added) made by sgimenez > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1591723&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: Other > Group: None > Status: Open > Resolution: None > Priority: 8 > Private: No > Submitted By: Stéphane Gimenez (sgimenez) > Assigned to: Jon Phillips (kidproto) > Summary: patch to access potrace parameters within inkscape > > Initial Comment: > hi, > > I wanted to specify my own parameters when using > potrace within inkscape, so i did this patch. > > I guess it could be useful to everybody. > > note: this patch contains new translatable strings: > labels and tips. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >Comment By: Stéphane Gimenez (sgimenez) > Date: 2006-11-11 00:40 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=727197 > > Ok, > * I've added authoring info. > * I put self-explained parameter titles, and parameters labels. > * and I killed unrelated cosmetic diff-hunks from the patch. > > Also, I plan to > * provide a rewritten rgb quantization algorithm, cause i > found the current one a bit slow and not enough accurate. > * apply the "turn to monochrome" pass before the > quantization pass in TRACE_QUANT_MONO mode, for improved > results. > * find a way not to apply the quantization pass twice (for > the preview and the result) when OK is pressed. > But after that, I'd like to help with cleaning up the dialog > and do the "advanced" thing :) > > And Thank you for such an enthusiastic feed-back ;) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Jon Phillips (kidproto) > Date: 2006-11-09 19:59 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=914868 > > Cool, this patch looks awesome! A couple of things...could > you add your copyright and real name/email to each file that > you touched please. Also, please add your name to the > AUTHORS file and include this in your patch. > > Also, please add tooltips for the text labels for the 3 items. > > After you do this, I will commit the patch...cool! It works > great! > > Also, I would like to encourage you to submit more > patches...also, we would love to expose more features for > potrace and include other tracers...would you like to help > with this? > > We usually take 2 patches and then add a developer, you in > this case, to have full SVN access to our project... > > Cool? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Jon Phillips (kidproto) > Date: 2006-11-09 19:43 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=914868 > > Applied and am testing this one out...looks cool...we can > promote the advanced idea after the commit, but more > interested in getting it in... > > I like the variable names "TurdSize" hahahaha > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comment By: Alan Horkan (horkana) > Date: 2006-11-08 16:10 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=402612 > > while it will be good to make these things possible adding > many more controls in the user interface complicates things > for ordinary users > > any chance the advanced options could be hidden behind a > disclosure triangle? > > (there are quite a few more things which could be done to > clean up the dialog but for the purposes of this patch I > dont want to overcomplicate matters) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can respond by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1591723&group_… > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-tracker mailing list > Inkscape-tracker(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tracker -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Extension Documentation
by Aaron Spike 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

People have been noticing the sad state of Extension System documentation frequently. I think we should change this. I've started reorganizing things on the wiki. I've taken an old mail from Ted and pasted it at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionArchitecture Never seen a clearer description! http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ScriptingHOWTO describes in general terms what is needed to write a script/program in any language that communicates with inkscape as a Script extension. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingAnINX will be home to a description of the INX format. Ted or anybody else do you have the INX DTD that I had worked up way back when? I can't seem to find it. The last step will be to create a page describing the helper modules for extension writers who choose to use python. :-) It is just a start, but I hope we can clear things up and reduce the barriers for contribution. Comments? Aaron Spike

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Help Wanted: Autopackager
by Aaron Spike 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

I took over maintaining the Inkscape Autopackages both to relieve Mike Hearn, who was not an Inkscape developer, and to increase my knowledge in how applications are compiled and packaged on linux. Since then my free time has diminished and my interests have shifted. So I'm looking for an interested group or individual to assume this responsibility. Some knowledge of compiling applications on linux or a strong desire to learn recommended. :-) Anyone? Aaron Spike

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NEW: color effects extensions
by bulia byak 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Contributed by Jos Hirth, with some changes by me: * Color effects: a new group of extensions in the Color submenu of the Effects menu allows you to adjust all colors of a selection at once. These commands affect both fill and stroke colors, including gradients (but not bitmaps). The commands include Brighter and Darker (adjust brightness by up or down by 10%), Desaturate, Grayscale, Negative, commands for removing or swapping the Red, Green, Blue channels, as well as a Custom command where you can set your own formulas for modifying the color channels. These extensions are a temporary solution; in a future version, similar functionality will be added to Inkscape core. Adjusting gradient colors may be buggy because a gradient is sometimes shared by more than one object. Also, undoing color changes on gradients exposes a bug where an object seems to "disappear"; this is however only a display issue (probably caused by the order in which gradients and their users are restored on undo) not causing any loss of information. Finally, on large documents and large selections with gradients, Python's XPath code may get quite slow. Despite these shortcomings, I decided to commit this, because it's genuinely useful functionality which was so far missing in Inkscape. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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SSE2 optimized compositing functions
by Jasper van de Gronde 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Some time ago I wrote versions of a (small) number of compositing functions (from libnr/nr-compose.cpp) using SSE2 (with intrinsics), but I'm not sure how I should integrate them with Inkscape code (separate file? compile settings? ...?). Also, if there is anyone who has some experience with SSE2 I wouldn't mind if they took a look (I don't have very much experience with writing SSE2 and it's quite possible that I'm not achieving optimal performance). BTW, I have code for: nr_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_N_A8 nr_R8G8B8A8_P_EMPTY_R8G8B8A8_N_A8 nr_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_P And it could probably be adapted to variants of those functions. The SSE2 versions are approximately 2 times as fast as the normal versions (on my machine, a P4).

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new Buildtool stuff for win32
by Bob Jamison 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi all, I've been working on a project to replace all of our old aging Makefile.mingw and the Makedep stuff for win32 builds. From the years when I worked in Java, I learned to love the Ant build tool and how it automates many tasks, and replaces a lot of shelling out for trivial tasks (copy, mkdir, delete, etc). So I made this Buildtool thing vaguely similar to Ant. It is of course infinitely less powerful than that mature project. But the basic theory of operation is the same. And if there is ever any new feature or function we need, we can easily code it into the tool. So, instead of requiring Perl, we have a single .cpp file and a build descriptor file, "build.xml," which currently is the only file it needs for a complete Inkscape build. To run the thing, merely do: g++ buildtool.cpp -o build.exe There are no dependencies. Then compile with "build" or clean up with "build clean" I see no reason that an alternative build.xml could not be made for running on Unix, also. bob

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openraster
by Alexandre Prokoudine 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi, This is a quick reminder for Inkscape developers that OpenRaster project has been evolving [1] thanks to Cyrille Berger of Krita team and Øyvind Kolås of GEGL/GIMP teams for quite a while now. The project was mentioned in this list early in March this year. I've just checked again and it turned out that it wasn't really much discussed. Here is a short overview. OpenRaster aims to become an OpenDocument format (ODR) for multilayered raster graphics with clipping paths, masks, layer effects etc.. It is going to become a standard for exchanging of project data between users of different applications. Repesentatives of several opensource projects have expressed their interest in supporting this file format by providing either exporting or importing (or both) filters for it, when this standard is approved by respective OASIS TC as such (or even earlier). Krita/SVN and GEGL/CVS HEAD already have initial supporting code. There is a draft document from June 2006 available [2] to read. In case of Inkscape this task might be quite simple, since it can already write OpenDocument Draw documents, and exporting an Inkscape SVG document to ODR, when ODR is ready, would be a matter of exporting each layer to a respective PNG file and combining them into ODR layers, with clipping paths or masks where applicable (some effects like Gaussian blur could be exported to an effect layer, too, possibly by means of XSLT), then saving it to a ZIP archive (sure, I oversimplify this description :)). If any of Inkscape developers is interested in supporting this file format in the future (especially since it is going to have basic vector graphics capabilities) -- at least exporting to it, the team would appreciate your input. Most discussions are held in CREATE mailing list [3]. [1] http://pippin.gimp.org/OpenRaster [2] http://create.freedesktop.org/specs/OpenRaster-draft.pdf [3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create Alexandre

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cli options
by Alexandre Prokoudine 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi, Just for my curiousity, does the -G option (start with gtkmm UI) still make sense? Alexandre

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delay inkscape 0.45 about screen contest ending ?
by Popolon 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

The contest was theorically closed today, but don't know were the result are and the The ccHost contest admin tools link is dead (or not born yet) : http://openclipart.org/wiki/Contests#Contest_1_-_Inkscape_0.45_About_Screen Has anyone received submissions ? Could this contest be extended another month to take benefits of new functions ?

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Mailing Lists are Discussion
by Aaron Spike 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

I'd like to fold the Mailing Lists menu item on the website into the Discussion section. Comments? Aaron Spike

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mediawiki 1.8.2
by Aaron Spike 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

I finally upgraded the wiki to version 1.8.2. Please let me know if there are any problems. Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Trace Bitmap dialog redesign and new parameters
by Derek Hinchliffe 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

On 11/14/06, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > * This dialog now provides access to three more tracing parameters: <snip> > * The dialog is redesigned to use three tabs: Mode, Parameters, > and Preview. The controls are reorganized to be easier to find. Most > labels and tooltips are rewritten for clarity. Nice, it seems much improved. One thing though - would it be better to have the preview not in it's own tab but to double the width (or height) of the window and have the preview separate to the two tabs? Otherwise the steps are Adjust->Change tab->Update->Change tab->Adjust etc instead of Adjust->Update->Adjust... Cheers Derek

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 6, Issue 15
by Jaime Sanchez 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

I would maintain consistency with the transparency range of values: from 0.00 to 1.00 with 2 digits precision. Bulia Byak wrote: > Here's a usability question that I'd like to get some feedback on. > Myself, I'm undecided. > > How to display and input values of opacity and blur? > > 1. As percent, 0 to 100, or 0.0 to 100.0. > > Pro: easier to pronounce; more common in "real life"; spinbutton can > be shorter by one character (dot). > > Contra: requires a "%" label after the spinbutton; if the label is > not there (as e.g. in the statusbar there's little room for it), it > may be more difficult to guess, when you see e.g. "15", that the > maximum is 100; requires a change from the Inkscape status quo. > > 2. As numbers from 0.0 to 1.0 (with two or three significant digits). > > Pro: no need for a % label; easier to guess what the maximum is > (though still not entirely obvious, unless you have a slider too); no > need to change the status quo. > > Contra: slightly more "geeky", more cumbersome to type and > pronounce, requires slightly wider spinbutton. > > Opinions? > > > -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org > ------------------------------ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >

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Autopackage install: undefined symbol: g_option_error_quark
by Jochem Liem 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Dear developers, After an install with autopackage (the latest inkscape200611051452.package), having system maintainance install a new ssl library, and adding some directories to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I still haven't managed to start inkscape. Trying to start inkscape gives: undefined symbol: g_option_error_quark. Google indicates that other people have (had) the same issue, but I could not find a solution. Any help would be appreciated. Best regards, Jochem /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/.proxy.inkscape: /opt/arch/openssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0 .9.8: no version information available (required by /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/. proxy.inkscape) /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/.proxy.inkscape: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version i nformation available (required by /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/.proxy.inkscape) /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/.proxy.inkscape: /opt/arch/openssl/lib/libssl.so.0.9. 8: no version information available (required by /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/.pro xy.inkscape) /scratch/LinuxPrograms/bin/.proxy.inkscape: symbol lookup error: /scratch/LinuxP rograms/bin/.proxy.inkscape: undefined symbol: g_option_error_quark -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jochem Liem =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Work: Home: Human Computer Studies Laboratory Zuiderkerkstraat 3 Informatics Institute 1501 NE, Zaandam Faculty of Science The Netherlands University of Amsterdam Kruislaan 419, Matrix I, Room 2.25 1098 VA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.science.uva.nl/~jliem/ Phone: +31 (0)20 8884 666 (work) Phone: +31 (0)75 6122 972 (home) Fax: +31 (0)20 525 6896 (work) Mobile: +31 (0)6 4321 9992 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Another attempt at openssl on win2k
by Bob Jamison 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Although I gave up on win2k after all of the headache and heartache of trying to get a win2k-compatible build of openssl, I thought I would try again. Here is a copy I built with VC++ 8 Express and the Win Server 2003 Platform SDK: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/openssl-0.9.8d-msvc.7z and here is an Inkscape build with it and the -DHAVE_SSL flag: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0611100642.7z Could someone please try it on win2k and see if it works? Actually, to see of this version of OpenSSL works on your machine, just running the openssl.exe main app would be a good test. bob

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