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PRE-ANNOUNCE : LGM 2 MONTREAL MAY 4-5-6
by Bryce Harrington 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

FYI... The 2006 LGM was quite good. ----- Forwarded message from Louis Desjardins <louis_desjardins@...747...> ----- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:55:38 -0400 From: Louis Desjardins <louis_desjardins@...747...> To: create@...626... Subject: [CREATE] PRE-ANNOUNCE : LGM 2 MONTREAL MAY 4-5-6 Bonjour ?? tous! G'day everybody! It is my pleasure to announce that next LGM will take place in Montreal on MAY 4-5-6. The event will be hosted by ??cole Polytechnique http://www.polymtl.ca/ from which we get *strong* support. Although we have made sure this week-end is OK for most of you, I urge one last time the participating teams to show up very very quickly on the CREATE list *if* there is a major issue with those dates as to prevent them to be present. Otherwise, we will consider these dates as fine and will be pleased to welcome you all in Montreal on the first week-end of MAY 2007 ! :) We needed to secure tightly a few things (no preferred order). 1. Availability from our host, ??cole Polytechnique. 2. Room availability from the student residences of the Uni to offer low-cost "hostel" for a good bunch of people. PLEASE NOTE that I would appreciate to know how many people would be interested in that service. The residences (all individual rooms) are located on the campus and we will be able to negociate a good price when we'll have a fair idea of the number of people who will sleep there. 3. Availability from the Soci??t?? des Arts Technologiques (SAT) for an event still to be finalized and sponsored on the Friday night that would gather all participants for supper (and beer, of course), with enough room and to allow lively discussions together! :) Here are the links to SAT for those interested! [FR] http://www.sat.qc.ca/sommaire-sat.php3?id_rubrique=67 [EN] http://www.sat.qc.ca/sommaire-sat.php3?id_rubrique=68 4. Find a week-end that would allow most of the participants to be there. 5. Making sure airplane fares would still be as low as possible, before summertime. I think we all have that with MAY 4-5-6 Please stay tuned. More info will be posted on the wiki at http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks to all for helping make LGM Montreal 2007 a great event! Louis _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@...626... http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] bug 1538282
by MenTaLguY 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 10:40 +1000, Erik Halbert wrote: > have you had any more thoughts on this bug? Not really; I was wondering whether it might be a bug in Xvnc. It is interesting that Windows also seems to be affected, though -- that suggests SPSelectContext really is doing something very unkosher with the selection cursor. Just to be absolutely sure we're dealing with the same bug, could you try setting a breakpoint on sp_select_context_update_cursor in gdb, and then stepping through it to see if it crashes there? Bob or other Windows folks should be able to help you out with that if needed. -mental

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Problem with INKSCAPE_DATADIR set to "${datarootdir}"
by Michael Wybrow 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

Hi all, Inkscape SVN started recently crashing on startup since it can't find any of its share files. This is because of some defines in the generated config.h: #define INKSCAPE_DATADIR "${datarootdir}" #define PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR "${datarootdir}/locale" Does that look wrong? I believe these should have been expanded to the value of datarootdir. Interestingly the library path is correct: #define INKSCAPE_LIBDIR "/Users/mjwybrow/ws-svn/install/lib" I don't believe I've changed automake or autoconf versions since it last worked for me. This has just appeared after updating from SVN -- I hadn't done an SVN update for a few weeks. Any ideas? Cheer, Michael

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Cross compile error
by Michael Moore 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

I'm trying to cross compile Inkscape 0.44. I just re-tested this with a freshly un-tarred download to make sure I hadn't broken something while looking at the code. The error including the last compiler call is (line breaks added for easier reading): i686-pc-mingw32-g++ -g -O3 -Wall -mms-bitfields -DVERSION=\"0.44\" -DXP_WIN -D_INTL_REDIRECT_INLINE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../.. -I../cxxtest -DGLIBMM_DLL -I/target/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/target/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/target/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/target/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/target/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/target/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/target/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/target/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/target/include/cairo -I/target/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/target/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/target/include/gtk-2.0 -I/target/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/target/include/atk-1.0 -I/target/include/pango-1.0 -I/target/include/glib-2.0 -I/target/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/target/include -Wno-comment -I/target/perl/lib/CORE -I/target/python/include-I/target/include/loudmouth-1.0 -I/target/include/libxml2 -I/target/include/freetype2 -Ialgorithms -Iapplication -Idebug -Idialogs -Idisplay -Idom -Idom/io -Idom -Idom/odf -Idom -Idom/svg -Idom -Idom/util -Idom -Iextension -Iextension/implementation -Iextension -Iextension/internal -Iextension -Iextension/script -Iextension -Igraphlayout -Ihelper -Iinkjar -Iio -Ilibavoid -Ilibcroco -Ilibnr -Ilibnrtype -Ilivarot -Ipixmaps -Iremoveoverlap -Iremoveoverlap/pairingheap -Iremoveoverlap -Isvg -Itrace -Itrace/potrace -Itrace -Itraits -Iui -Iui/dialog -Iui -Iui/view -Iui/widget -Iutil -Iwidgets -Ixml/ -c -o debug/sysv-heap.o debug/sysv-heap.cpp debug/sysv-heap.cpp: In member function 'virtual Inkscape::Debug::Heap::Stats Inkscape::Debug::SysVHeap::stats() const': debug/sysv-heap.cpp:37: error: variable 'Inkscape::Debug::mallinfo info' has initializer but incomplete type debug/sysv-heap.cpp:37: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct Inkscape::Debug::mallinfo' debug/sysv-heap.cpp:37: error: forward declaration of 'struct Inkscape::Debug::mallinfo' make[1]: *** [debug/sysv-heap.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/stuporglue/Desktop/inkscape-0.44/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 The options I used for ./configure were: ./configure --host=mingw32 --disable-mmx --without-gnome-vfs --without-xft --disable-lcms --without-inkjar followed by a "make -f Makefile.mingw". Is there a problem in debug/sysv-heap.cpp, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, -- Michael Moore

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Problem compiling with inkboard (win32)
by Hugo Rodrigues 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Hi, I'm having a linking problem when compiling the latest repository revisions, unless I do it without inkboard support (commenting out line CFLAGS += -DWITH_INKBOARD on Makefile.mingw.common ). I think it happens with all revisions since there was a major change to the src/jabber_whiteboard contents last week. It's probably something with my configuration, since noone else seems affected. Can anyone tell me what could be causing this? The following is the error I get, I hope it's enough information, if it isn't let me know. Thanks, Hugo i686-pc-mingw32-g++ --export-dynamic -o inkscape.exe main.o winmain.o inkres.o l ibinkscape.a -Lc:/gtk28/lib -lgtkmm-2.4 -lgdkmm-2.4 -lglibmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6-lp angomm-1.4 -lsigc-2.0 -lgtk-win32-2.0 -lgdk-win32-2.0 - latk-1.0-lgdk_pixbuf- 2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangowin32-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0-lgm odule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lcairo -Lc:/gtk28/perl/lib/CORE -lperl58 -Lc :/gtk28/python/libs -lpython24 c:/gtk28/bin/libxml2.dll c:/gtk28/lib/iconv.lib - lfreetype.dll -lfontconfig.dll -llcms.dll -lloudmouth-1.dll -lssl -lcrypto -lpng -lpopt c:/gtk28/lib/zdll.lib -lgc -mwindows -lws2_32 -lintl -lm libinkscape.a(inkboard-document.o): In function `ZN8Inkscape10Whiteboard16Inkboa rdDocument13_initBindingsEv':D:/inkscape4/src/./jabber_whiteboard/inkboard-sessi on.h:47: undefined reference to `vtable for Inkscape::Whiteboard::InkboardSessio n' :D:/inkscape4/src/./jabber_whiteboard/inkboard- session.h:47: undefined reference to `vtable for Inkscape::Whiteboard::InkboardSession' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [inkscape.exe] Error 1

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions under Windows (was: eps import?)
by Peter Fischer 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hello Ulf, Thank you for your reply. I solved my problem temporarily by hand (using pstoedit). Now I asked me about the other way: svg to ps/eps/ps? Export in Inkscape works but transparency is lost and svg2pdf is rastering the image. Could you (or anyone from the list) tell me a tool which can convert directly svg to one of the postscript formats (without rastering, maintaining the vector information), ideally under windows or linux? I need it for LaTeX. Best regards, Peter. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Ulf Erikson [mailto:ulferikson@...400...] Gesendet: Freitag, 11. August 2006 14:50 An: Peter Fischer Cc: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Extensions under Windows (was: eps import?) Peter Fischer wrote: > under Windows XP. The extension-errors.log says for "EPS Input" that "gs" > is not found. There is usually no "gs" to be find in the path under Windows, you have "gswin32.exe". Try change share/extensions/eps_input.inx to reflect this. It looks like you will need "pstoedit" and "skconvert" too, and there is even a shell script used (try change "sk2svg.sh" into "sh sk2svg.sh"?). Many of the other external input/output extensions seem to be equally flawed. It doesn't look like installing the extra software and put it in the path is enough to enable extensions under Windows. What is the best way to fix this? Always use double .inx files? (Like the old pdf_output_on_win32.inx which also uses a .bat instead of the .sh). Or maybe use perl or python instead of shell scripts? What about the different dependencies? (gs vs. gswin32.exe)

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get rid of ChangeLog?
by MenTaLguY 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Would anyone object if I got rid of the ChangeLog? It's not getting updated enough, it's redundant with respect to the svn log and the release notes, and it's being a royal pain when trying to merge stuff from trunk. -mental

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compiling svn on slack, ja.po problems
by pbhj 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Hey all, just subscribed so as to post this issue. I've updated gettext and cairo and now can get alot further with my make, but not all the way. The tail of the make log gives this : [...] Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' file=./`echo ja | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file ja.po ja.po:15: nplurals = 1... ja.po:899: ...but some messages have 2 plural forms /usr/bin/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error make[2]: *** [ja.gmo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 I can actually get through the make && make install commands by deleting some of the .po and .gmo files, eg ja.po and I think it was some of the chinese ones. >From what little I know the ja.po are language specific. I've checked the configure help and there doesn't appear to be a locale setting? So it seems errors in a language file (that I don't want or need) are preventing compilation. To get it to compile I did this ... If I delete the ja.po and ja.gmo (and the ./po/zh_* files ) and alter the Makefile accordingly I can conclude the make. But then I can't install as something somewhere wants to install the stuff that I've excised. Doing a search I realised it's ja.gmo and zh_*.gmo lines in the ./Makefile and ./po/Makefile . I run this : make clean && ./configure --enable-lcms --with-perl --prefix=/home/pandfi/inkscape-svn && make and get : Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `ja.gmo', needed by `all-yes'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 and then when I "make install" I get : Making install in po make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `ja.gmo', needed by `all-yes'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 So I altered the two Makefiles mentioned above and it worked OK. Now running "gdb ~/inkscape-svn/bin/inkscape" and typing "run", then "bt" (backtrace) I get : (gdb) bt #0 0xb719cd7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #1 0xb7195ab1 in std::ios_base::_M_init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #2 0xb7193d94 in std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #3 0x0852b98a in global constructors keyed to _ZN8Inkscape5Debug6Logger8_enabledE () at /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/3.4.6/../../../../include/c++/3.4.6/fstream:632 #4 0x0852bda5 in __do_global_ctors_aux () #5 0x08181b85 in _init () #6 0x0852bcab in __libc_csu_init () #7 0xb7014dbf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #8 0x08189dd1 in _start () at ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:119 HTH somebody somewhere ... I'm going to try upgrading libstdc++ and fstream now and see if that takes me anywhere. Any other thoughts???

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Adding clippaths to the Ps/Pdf exporters
by Ulf Erikson 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hi, I am in need some advice and suggestions from an extensions expert.. I would like to improve the pdf exporter by handle clippaths (and maybe later masks), but I am having a hard time figuring out how I best can go about to add such features. ( There is no code for this in the postscript exporter that I can copy :-) Should it be possible to continue using a "print" extension or do I need to start use an "output" extension for this? I understand that an output extension is handed the full document tree at once. A print extension on the other hand is given a single path at a time together with the needed style, transformation matrix, bounding box, and so on. But I don't see if and how a print extension can get information about the needed clipping path. If there is no information about the clippath available for print extensions would it be okay to add this (by changing the interface)? Is it then better with a new set_clippath method or an extra clippath parameter for the fill and stroke methods? Ulf

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features proposition
by Bertrand Haut 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hello, I've just discover inkscape (trying to escape from xfig), It's great but I still have two suggestions : - the possibility to adapt only some of the properties in the Fill and Stroke window. I've two curves : solid and dashed. I select the two curves, adapt the width, press enter. The two curves have now the same width (Good) but the dashed is now solid (Bad). It would be great if only the properties that have been modified by the user where adapted. - The most important thing for a graphic editor is the facility to insert the result in LaTeX (ok, it's a personal opinion). It is already possible to save as "LaTeX with PSTricks macros" but with this option it is not possible to include LaTex code (such as $\frac{a}{b}$) as text in Inkscape and have it interpreted by LaTeX. The idea is to seperate the figure in two : on one side all the text objects and on the other side everything else. The rest is exported in an eps file. The text objects are inserted in a .tex file which includes the eps. Something like : \begin{picture}(0,0)% \includegraphics{the_eps_file_with_everything_except_texts.eps}% \end{picture}% \begingroup \setlength{\unitlength}{0.02bp}% \begin{picture}(47600,21050)(0,0)% \put(11700,7000){\makebox(0,0)[c]{\strut{}The_first_text_object}}% \put(13200,9700){\makebox(0,0)[c]{\strut{}The_first_text_object}}% (...) \end{picture}% \endgroup \endinput With this, the user has only to include a .tex file to have the graphics and all the text objects interpreted by LaTeX. I assume this should not be too complicated. The export in eps is already done. It remains to access the position and the text of all text objects to write the .tex file. Maybe I can work on this second suggestion. The question is where should this be done ? Inside inkscape or in a external program which work on any .svg file and use Inkscape to make the export in eps ? -- Bertrand Haut ICQ 48978874

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Extensions under Windows (was: eps import?)
by Ulf Erikson 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Peter Fischer wrote: > under Windows XP. The extension-errors.log says for "EPS Input" that "gs" > is not found. There is usually no "gs" to be find in the path under Windows, you have "gswin32.exe". Try change share/extensions/eps_input.inx to reflect this. It looks like you will need "pstoedit" and "skconvert" too, and there is even a shell script used (try change "sk2svg.sh" into "sh sk2svg.sh"?). Many of the other external input/output extensions seem to be equally flawed. It doesn't look like installing the extra software and put it in the path is enough to enable extensions under Windows. What is the best way to fix this? Always use double .inx files? (Like the old pdf_output_on_win32.inx which also uses a .bat instead of the .sh). Or maybe use perl or python instead of shell scripts? What about the different dependencies? (gs vs. gswin32.exe)

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WEBFORM would like to translate news to French
by v1nce 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: v1nce email: vincent.pennec@...400... submitted the following: Hi, the title says all. there were french translations of the news in the past, but I didn\'t see anything new for some few weeks (months?). So if the current translator agree and if you think I can help, I \'m your man See U V1nce

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eps import?
by Peter Fischer 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Dear inkscape developers, I excessively searched the forums for my question but found no complete answer. So I hope you don't mind me asking you directly. The problem is importing eps into inkscape under Windows XP. The extension-errors.log says for "EPS Input" that "gs" is not found. Since I already have gs installed, I additionally put it into PATH but that didn't help. Could you tell me what to do to get the extension (and the others, too) work? Is it sufficient to install the applications and put them into PATH or does inkscape need libraries (dlls under windows)? If yes, where to get them without recompiling? Or do I have to recompile inkscape for extending it? You would greatly help me if you could explain me how the extension mechanism works so that I can install the necessary extensions. Thank you in advance if you took the care for reading this and Best regards, Peter.

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0.44.1 status
by MenTaLguY 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Okay, last night I merged pretty much everything I wanted to get in for this release. Does anyone else have stuff they want to slot in for 0.44.1? Now's your last chance. Once the last of that stuff is in, we'll notify the translators mailing list so they can get any translation issues sorted. Meanwhile, we test, validate some of the packaging changes which were comitted, and once they're finished we can tag and release. Do you think we should do any 0.44.1 prereleases to get wider testing? -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!
by Donn 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Thanks for the info. I have moved to kubuntu 6.06 and someone has kindly made a .deb file so I am in 0.44 heaven now. The thing I get from this thread is that Linux distros move so quickly, they are having their libraries and other wobbly bits coded so rapidly that it's impossible to keep pace with them all, let alone just one of them. This is due to the obviously limited resources and voluntary nature of those (like you guys) writing OSS applications to run on Linux. In an ironic way this speed of improvement of Linux is a strength for Windows. I demonstrate this by means of Inkscape 0.44 and how one can with relatively no trouble develop for Windows and release any old time and users like me can pick up the binary and run it. No mess. No fuss. That's the contrast for me I suppose. I'll stick with Linux thanks :) That means sticking with these weird version situations. I wonder if the situation will ever reach a balance, where the vital libs don't move so quickly because they are finished, done, complete and so Linux won't change so massively internally and will approach a kind of binary stability like win has now? Perhaps I've got the wrong idea completely! Anyway, thanks for your time. D.

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09 Aug '06

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] release notes (again)
by radar.map35＠...8... 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi all > Hi, > > Just another reminder to all committers: please don't forget to update > release notes for all notable changes (whether it's new UI, new > features, or just notable code changes). In particular we need entries > for: > > - new PS/PDF fixes and capabilities by Ulf > > - the rendering quality/speed patch by Jasper > > - all work done so far on filters by Niko and Hugo > > I may have forgotten or missed something. > > Thanks! > > Yes please, Good release notes are good basis for the documentation team and help writing fast and precise infos for users. Cedric (pygmee)

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Support for Win95 (was: Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!)
by Ulf Erikson 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote: > The Windows case is not that perfect. Inkscape had to drop support for > Windows 95/98/ME because one of the dependencies (gtk+) was not working > anymore on those operating systems (and nobody bothered enough to fix > the regression at the gtk level). Isn't the Gtk requirement of 0.44 the same as for 0.43? I thought it was a concious decision to drop Win95 in favour of stability and bug fixes only available in later versions of Gtk.. You should be able to use both Gtk 2.4 and 2.6 (matching the requirements for Inkscape 0.44 and 0.45?) on Windows 95/98/ME, but the current Windows installer comes with Gtk 2.8(?). Has anyone tried to build a Win95 version of Inkscape by linking against a lesser version of Gtk?

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Can I Distribute ?
by Tadwick 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hello Folks, I am confused by the GPL and issues like derivative software. I would like to distribute a bit of code to the public that produces an SVG image but I want to be able to rasterize the image for users unwilling or unable to read it with Firefox, IE/ASV or another agent. My thought was to include an unaltered Inkscape binary and use it's command-line to translate the SVG to PNG. Can I do this and credit the Inkscape development community, meet the terms of the GPL and keep my unrelated code private? Thanks, Tad

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Clipart] SVG_Tools
by Jon Phillips 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 11:26 +0200, Elliott Bignell wrote: > Hi, Jon, > > I'd like, if possible, to just pass the SVG file path or text content of the > SVG file to a function or class that can then render the picture into a DC. > Ideally, I'd also be able to take an enhanced metafile handle and pass it > off to an object to write an SVG file with some specified metadata. The > object is to be able to both import SVG files directly into my application > to use as Clip Art and, ideally, have my app export both users' > hand-sketched illustrations and the Mind Maps themselves as SVG files. Then > I could link up dynamically to the project and both provide my users with > Clip Art and potentially direct artistic effort into the project. I could > also use SVG internally for storing metafile data and perhaps raise the > profile of the format a little. > > Best wishes... > Elliott Elliot, I'm passing this over to the Inkscape-devel list. There has been previous discussions about this on that list and their development guidance is better than this lost more than likely (no offense OCAL ;). Jon > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Hi Elliot. What are you trying to do? There are a lot of options out > > there already, so context will inform my recommendations. > > > > Jon > > > > _______________________________________________ > clipart mailing list > clipart@...626... > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart > -- 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... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!
by Donn 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello all, Thanks for the patience on the FC3 threads. Ya'll convinced me to shifty over to a new distro and I went to Kubuntu 6.06 yesterday. Have had some hell with merging home folders, but nothing too deadly. Imagine my horror to find that the latest inkscape in the apt repos is 0.43-something! The same one I had on FC3 :Mad spinny eye smiley here: So, I understood that ubuntu was kinda the dev distro (Windows aside) of choice, surely there must be debs of 0.44 by now? How do debs normally get to ubuntu repos? Is it a committee kinda thing, with a central scrutinizer or can you quickly update a package if you make a new deb? So, what's the best way for me to get ink 0.44 (official release vers) up and running on *ubuntu 6.06 ? Cos i'm really tired of Windows edging Linux out on it's own software! Best, Donn.

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0.44.1pre1 release
by MenTaLguY 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

I think it's time we did a prerelease of 0.44.1; this will give us an opportunity to shake out any new issues, and give the translators an opportunity to get their work in before 0.44.1 final. I've updated the release notes on the wiki and bumped the version numbers in the 0.44 branch, but we still need to do the rest of the dist process and tag it all. Someone also needs to document on CreatingDists the process of getting the release notes into the NEWS file as well. Volunteers? -mental

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release notes, again
by bulia byak 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

Hi, Just another reminder to all committers: please don't forget to update release notes for all notable changes (whether it's new UI, new features, or just notable code changes). In particular we need entries for: - new PS/PDF fixes and capabilities by Ulf - the rendering quality/speed patch by Jasper - all work done so far on filters by Niko and Hugo I may have forgotten or missed something. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: interruptible display for better interactivity
by John Bintz 05 Aug '06

05 Aug '06

> The other thought is to have some type of progress bar for processes > that take long in the bottom of the status bar, with a cancel button to > the right of this progress indicator so one could also click to stop a > process. I have a very badly written patch that does something similar for long Simplify operations. All it does is write to the status bar with how many paths have been simplified, but it's not done very properly at the moment. > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:08 -0300, bulia byak wrote: > > > > I fixed a couple bugs that were exposed by this change, but there may > > be more. In particular I suspect there might be a crash when you quit > > Inkscape while it's redrawing. I got this crash a couple times but > > it's very hard to nail it down. If you can cause it reproducibly > > please let me know. Other than that, it's working perfectly for me in > > the last few days. Since the speed update, I've been able to work a lot faster at node editing than before (yay!), and I've found a few spots in the node/path handling code where NULL pointers are being dereferenced. I just committed a small change that increases the number of checks in those areas and fails with g_return_if_fail() if the pointers are NULL. Take care, John

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