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WEBFORM My homepage
by Howard 08 May '06

08 May '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Howard email: rhonda@...400... submitted the following: Thank you! http://ftatfvfi.com/qelo/fzxt.html | http://uzkiiaru.com/qxde/ibzz.html

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WEBFORM My homepage
by Cindy 08 May '06

08 May '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Cindy email: kevin@...36... submitted the following: Great work! <a href=\"http://ftatfvfi.com/qelo/fzxt.html\">My homepage</a> | <a href=\"http://txtmolsn.com/wqtc/hswi.html\">Please visit</a>

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WEBFORM My homepage
by Carl 08 May '06

08 May '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Carl email: mike@...1266... submitted the following: Well done! [url=http://ftatfvfi.com/qelo/fzxt.html]My homepage[/url] | [url=http://eyoevhrn.com/oqch/ohrx.html]Cool site[/url]

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NEW: translateable header/footer in tutorials
by bulia byak 06 May '06

06 May '06

- To make it easier for newbies to navigate in the SVG tutorials, marginal hints are added In the header and footer saying "Use Ctrl+down/up arrow to scroll" with the corresponding arrow. - The SVG files with the tutorial header and footer, including the scrolling hint, are now translateable (i.e. you can translate the word "tutorial" and the scrolling hints). Just add the SVG files _tutorial-header.XX.svg and _tutorial-footer.XX.svg and regenerate the tutorials - they will use these files. (If there are no such files for your language, the default English header/footer are used.) So far, French header/footer SVG files are added, translators are welcome to add more languages. [Scislac: this means that all SVG tutorials in all languages now need to be regenerated and reuploaded to Inkscape tree!] As a remainder, all the tutorials machinery is in the doc-docbook module in SVN. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Compile Problems (OS X 10.3)
by Brian 06 May '06

06 May '06

I am having a few issues compiling Inkscape. My intent is to implement Flash export functionality. I set up a custom Fink environment just for Inkscape. When I compile the version from the svn I get: gradient-drag.cpp: In member function `void GrDragger::updateTip()': gradient-drag.cpp:662: error: `ngettext' undeclared (first use this function) gradient-drag.cpp:662: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) I've tried this using both gettext-dev and gettext3-dev i gettext 0.10.40-24 Message localization support i gettext-bin 0.14.2-13 GNU Internationalization utilities i gettext-tools 0.14.2-13 GNU Internationalization utilities (Development Tools) i libgettext3-dev 0.14.2-13 GNU Internationalization utilities (Development Files) i libgettext3-shlibs 0.14.2-13 GNU Internationalization utils (shared libs) I've also installed a stand-alone installation of gettext 0.14.5 --- Inkscape .43 tarball: I figured i'd take a stab at the .43 release to see if by chance something got mucked up on the SVN server. Configure runs happily, when I try compiling I get this: object-edit.cpp: In function `void sp_spiral_outer_set(SPItem*, const NR::Point&, const NR::Point&, unsigned int)': object-edit.cpp:941: error: `isfinite' undeclared in namespace `std' Anyone have any ideas? The ngettext test passes just fine in the configure script. Thanks, Brian

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Google SoC: GTK+ 2.9.0 released
by unknown＠example.com 06 May '06

06 May '06

I forwarded the message just to show I'm not crazy :) The GTK+ folks have the goal of GTK+ 2.10 supporting cross platform printing, like gnome-print++. I would love to see someone write a GTK+ 2.10 print plugin for Inkscape. --Ted ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 13:11:30 -0400 From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@...43...> Reply-To: gnome-hackers@...45... To: gnome-announce-list@...45..., gtk-devel-list@...45..., gtk-app-devel-list@...45..., gtk-list@...45... Subject: GTK+ 2.9.0 released GTK+ 2.9.0 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.9/ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/2.9/ gtk+-2.9.0.tar.gz md5sum: c11a4127073b34f0b78c1a7f7a86aaa0 gtk+-2.9.0.tar.bz2 md5sum: a248f792e196d7a916626f5e0eff4e20 This is the first development release leading up to GTK+ 2.10. Notes: * This is unstable development release. There are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production. * Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of GTK+ 2.8. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall GTK+ 2.8. * GTK+ 2.10 will be source compatible with the GTK+ 2.8 series; the new API additions in GTK+ 2.9.0 are not yet finalized, so there are likely incompatibilies between this release and the final 2.10 release. * The ABI version has been bumped from 2.4.0 to 2.10.0, since the filechooser backend interface has been changed. Third-party filechooser backends need to be ported to the new interface. Other third-party modules (input methods, image loaders, etc) just need to be reinstalled in the proper location for GTK+ to find them. * Remaining issues for GTK+ 2.10 can be found with following bugzilla query: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gtk% 2b&target_milestone=2.10+API+Freeze&target_milestone=2.10 +Freeze&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org. What is GTK+ ============ GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites. GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides an effective method of rapid application development. GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties. Where to get more information about GTK+ ======================================== Information about GTK+ including links to documentation can be found at: http://www.gtk.org/ An installation guide for GTK+ 2.x is found at: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.4/gtk/gtk-building.html Common questions: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.4/gtk/gtk-question-index.html http://www.gtk.org/faq/ Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.8.x to 2.9.0 ============================================ * GtkStatusIcon, a cross-platform "tray icon" API * GtkAssistant, a widget for creating multi-step wizards * GtkLinkButton, a widget that displays a clickable hyperlink * GtkRecentChooser, widgets to display and select recently used files * GtkPrintOperation, cross-platform printing support * A framework for rich text copy and paste and DND * GtkCellRendererAccel, a cell renderer for key combinations * GtkCellRendererSpin, a cell renderer which edits numeric values using a spin button * GtkAction works with named icons in addition to stock icons * GtkNotebook supports DND, allowing to reorder tabs, move tabs between notebooks and drop tabs on the desktop to open a new window * GtkTreeView: - Enhanced customizability (e.g. grouping) with the show-expanders and level-indentation properties - Allow to embed the search popup - Better search popup positioning * GtkFileChooser: - Communication with backends is now asynchronous to avoid blocking on filesystem operations. Due to the required interface changes, the GTK+ ABI version has been bumped to 2.10.0. Third-party filesystem backends have to be ported to the new interface, other modules, such as theme engines, input method modules or pixbuf loaders have to be rebuilt so that they are installed in the right place for GTK+ to find them. - The location entry (popped up by C-L) has been integrated in the main dialog. * Reworked hex Unicode input now requires Ctrl-Shift-U * Animations can now be globally controlled by settings * The gtk-touchscreen-mode setting controls a number of changes that make GTK+ work better on touchscreens * Password entries can optionally show the last entered character for a short while, controlled by the password-hint-timeout setting * GTK+ can now consult an additional fallback icon theme before falling back to hicolor * Improved themability: - GTK+ supports symbolic colors, which can be set system-wide using a setting, and can be modified and used in rc files and theme engines - GTK+ sets window type hints on override-redirect windows to help compositing managers apply proper bling - Paths in rc files can now refer to all subclasses of a class - GtkRange steppers will appear insensitive when the slider is at the end; applications which need to handle this case (e.g. to extend the range) can opt out of this. - GtkRange::activate-slider style property allows themes to draw sliders differently while they are being dragged - GtkNotebook::tab-overlap and GtkNotebook::curvature style properties allow more flexible notebook theming - The spacing of buttons around children can be themed with the GtkButton::inner-border style property. Apps can override this per-widget using the corresponding inner-border property - GtkMenu has aquired a horizontal-padding style property - There are style properties for the color of hyperlinks, GtkWidget::link-color and GtkWidget::visited-link-color - GtkTreeview row hinting now takes the selection into account - Scrolling menus can be forced to always display both arrows, using the GtkMenu::double-arrows style property - Separators can be themed using the wide-separators, separator-width and separator-height style properties - GtkTreeView allows more flexible theming with the row-ending-details property - The pixbuf theme engines supports customized drawing of expanders and resize grips * GDK changes: - OS X backend - DirectFB backend - Closing displays works - gdk_screen_is_composited to check for running compositing manager - Support for Super, Hyper and Meta modifiers * gdk-pixbuf changes: - Supports saving tiff - Supports loading 16-bit pnm - Doesn't load entire gif animation to get first frame A list of all the bugs fixed in this release can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=58389,59718,73240,74620,78545,… Thanks to all the people who contributed in some way to this release: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Akkana Peck, Alexander Larsson, Alexander Nedotuskov, Alex Graveley, Anders Carlsson, Andrei Yurkevich, Andrew Conkling, Andrew S. Dixon, Arjan van de Ven, Arnaud Charlet, Bastien Nocera, Behdad Esfahbod, Benedikt Meurer, Benjamin Berg, Benjamin Otte, Benoît Carpentier, Bodo-Merle Sandor, Bogdan Nicula, Brad Taylor, Calum Benson, Carlos Garnacho Parro, Carl Worth, Chris Lahey, Chris Lord, Christian Kirbach, Christian Lohmaier, Christian Neumair, Christian Persch, Christian Stimming, Christophe Belle, Claudio Saavedra, Clytie Siddall, Colin Walters, Cory Dodt, Coverity, Crispin Flowerday, Damien Carbery, Damon Chaplin, Daniel Drake, Daniel Kasak, Dan Winship, Dave Andreoli, David Baron, David Trowbridge, Davyd Madeley, Denis Auroux, Dennis Cranston, Diego González, Dom Lachowicz, Donald Straney, Duncan Coutts, Ed Catmur, Elie De Brauwer, Emmanuele Bassi, Emmanuel Rodriguez, Eric Cazeaux, Evert Verhellen, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Frederic Croszat, Guilherme de S. Pastore, Guillaume Cottenceau, Gustavo Carneiro, Hamed Malek, Hans Breuer, Havoc Pennington, Hylke van der Schaaf, Ian McDonald, Itai Bar-Haim, Jaap A. Haitsma, James Su, Jean-Yves Lefort, Jens Granseuer, Jeremy Cook, Jody Goldberg, Joe Marcus Clarke, Joe Wreschnig, Johan Dahlin, John Cupitt, John Ehresman, John Finlay, John Palmieri, John Spray, Jonathan Blandford, Jorn Baayen, JP Rosevaar, Jürg Billeter, Kalle Vahlmann, Kathy Fernandez, Kazuki Iwamoto, Kean Johnston, Kjartan Maraas, Kristian Rietveld, Larry Ewing, Leena Gunda, Lillian Angel, Li Yuan, Lorenzo Gil Sanchez, Maciej Katafiasz, Magnus Bergmann, Markku Vire, Mark McLoughlin, Marko Anastasov, Mark Wielaard, Mart Raudsepp, Martyn Russell, Mathias Hasselmann, Matthijs Douze, Maxim Udushlivy, Michael Emmel, Michael Natterer, Milosz Derezynski, Morten Welinder, Murray Cumming, Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Nicolas Setton, Niklas Knutsson, Olexiy Avramchenko, Owen Taylor, Paolo Borelli, Paolo Maggi, Peter Breitenlohner, Peter Harvey, Peter Lund, Peter Zelezny, Philip Langdale, Raphael Slinckx, Ray Strode, Richard Hult, Robert Ögren, Rodney Dawes, Ross Burton, Ryan Lovett, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Sebastien Bacher, Søren Sandmann, Stanislav Brabec, Stefan Kost, Stephane Chauveau, Steve Chaplin, Steve Frécinaux, Sven Herzberg, Sven Neumann, Thomas Broyer, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Thomas Klausner, Thomas Leonard, Tim Evans, Tim Janik, Todd Berman, Tommi Komulainen, Torbjörn Andersson, Tor Lillqvist, Tor Lillqvist, Torsten Schoenfeld, Tze'ela Hebron, Vincent Untz, Wolfgang Thaller, Wouter Bolsterlee, Yang Hong, Yevgen Muntyan, Yong Wang Matthias Clasen May 5, 2006 _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list gnome-announce-list@...45... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list

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Problem with verbs
by Jon A. Cruz 06 May '06

06 May '06

Before I did some other changes that would require adding a new verb, I setup a unit test on verbs explicitly. In doing so, I discovered that Verb::getbyid() fails if the id has any dots in it. To see the problem, just update and do a 'make check'. You should then see the warning come up for that (I made it a warning for the moment, instead of a failure). So, does anyone have ideas about this and how to fix it?

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[SoC] Native OSX GUI ?
by Timothée Anglade 06 May '06

06 May '06

Hey there, As a (future) candidate for the Google Summer of Code, and a fan and user of Inkscape, I strolled through the ideas page on the website, but I didn't find any mention of a native GUI for OSX. As far as I can tell, it's not even on the roadmap, which leads me to think that the developing community might not see that a critical or even important. I, for one, would really like to see that happen. First as a user, because launching X11 on a low-end Mac is just extremely painful and the interface is not always rendered correctly (which kind of negates the possibility of really using Inkscape on OSX sometimes). Secondly, I do think that it could be useful in that there is currently no other free (as in beer) vector editor of quality on OSX, which stays the platform of choice for many 'creatives'. Finally, as far as I can tell, it looks highly feasible on a technical and temporal standpoint. My only fear (and my main question here), is that I may face an OOo-type situation where the GUI and the engine are so bonded together that using another GUI involves going deep into the general code. It does not seem that this is the case as Inkscape is built on libraries and previous projects, but you never know. So, I was wondering if that type of project seemed 1) interesting to you (ie : may be a good subject for a SoC participation) and 2) seemed feasible to you as everyday/everyweek/everymonth contributers to the code. Many thanks in advance for your input ! Sincerely, Tim Anglade

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New Website
by Dale Harvey 06 May '06

06 May '06

Cornelius and I have been working on the design that won the redesign inkscape.org contest on deviantart over the last few days. Its not at completion yet, but enough work has been done to probably show everyone for opinions, bug reports. http://inkscape.modevia.com/daj-design/ is it so far known bugs I havent had time to fix, * the footer occasionally overlays content in firefox * the hover on the navigation shows up as white (image not preloaded) * screenshot is floated and not cleared before news * sourceforge link blinks on hover * main image drops below navigation when width of the browser window is to small in ie * Translation links are not in native language The fixes for these are pretty trivial, ill be going over them this weekend as well as other bugs I find. Dale

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SoC Proposal, Inkboard Protocol Spec / Lib Conversion
by Dale Harvey 06 May '06

06 May '06

Hey All Ive been talking with a few developers about my proposal for a SoC proposal, and decided to submit it, The subject describes the main topic, my proposal is at http://debrowse.com/inkscape.txt Any Suggestions / Discussions would be welcome. Thanks Dale

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Google SoC
by Ted Gould 06 May '06

06 May '06

Hey all, If your a mentor you really should go to: http://code.google.com/soc/inkscape/open.html and comment on the proposals that are there. Also, there aren't that many proposals for Inkscape submitted... I was hoping for more. I realize it isn't the weekend yet (we are talking about college students :) but remember the earlier you get it in, mentors can provide feedback about the proposal. Remember the Google people have to decide to fund it also, so we want to make the proposals good. --Ted

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Inkscape 0.44 Status
by Bryce Harrington 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi All, Here is the current status list. 7 of the 24 items are done or on hold. In order to make feature freeze by May 15th, we should try to increase this number... Jon, Mental, and Bob, you each have 3 or more items open - could you identify which ones are the priorities, and specify one or two that could be left for the next release? Bryce Current Feature Work ICC Preview =========== Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes CMYK support ============ Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes ArtLibre named icon and cursor loading ====================================== Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes Palette editing and per-file color sets ======================================= Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes Tablet Bugs =========== MentalGuy is working on this. Says for the release he wants to get these resolved. Something drops tablet motion events on the floor while the button is held down. This occurs for some tools, but not with others. The bugs are quite annoying but weird. They don't affect all tablet users. 4/29 - Still underway Brush size adjustment on zoom toggle for calligraphic pen - DONE ========================================================= MentalGuy is working on this and plans to have it to a finished point for the release. 5/1 - Mental reports this has been completed Layer dialog ============ This is an important feature for the release, and on MentalGuy's todo list. However, work has been stuck getting Inkscape::LayerManager to compile due to a subtle detail with sigc::mem_fun(), and it's uncertain if there is sufficient time to unstick it and finish the feature prior to the release. Additional people's help may be needed here. [Beyond the memory issue, are there other aspects to the layer dialog that others could help with, such as UI work or coding helper features or whatever? --bh] * Update Release Notes 4/29 - Still under way Fit Canvas to Selection - DONE ======================= This is a feature ACSpike has been working on, and plans to complete for the release. The patch is here: http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/inx/current.diff ODG Format Support ================== Ishmal is working on this currently. Help is needed from someone who knows inkscape gradients, such as mental or bulia. He needs to know how to read gradient info from an SPGradient object. DOM Support =========== Ishmal has been working on this. The newest code is all imported and builds. [Is there anything else needing to be done prior to release?] SIOX Support ============ Ishmal has this over half done. The code is all imported and building, and the selection mechanism is now done. Getting Inkscape and SIOX intercommunication working, but this can be built as a filter to potrace, which simplifies things. The transformation issues reported previously have been sorted out, using a "confidence matrix". Extensions ========== Ted is focusing on cleaning up extension parameters and felt he'd have this wrapped up by the end of the month. The plan is to have longer text (tool tips) available, and a few more widgets. More spacing in the autogui will be added to make it look nicer. * Ted reports there is an unverified bug in the ordering of the effects in the menu, to be investigated. The Extension Editor is further off, and not being planned for this release. 5/1 - Ted reports the feature is not yet working, but feels it shouldn't be a problem to get it fixed in the next couple weeks. Snapping ======== Ralf is coming up to speed on this issue. Hopefully Carl can also shed light on things. On 4/26 Carl said he hopes to have a look at it over the coming week. * Need to fix the freeze when dragging multiple selected objects: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1429049&group_id=9… * Update Release Notes Rendering Performance Speedup - DONE ============================= Andrius has a very interesting rendering speedup patch. The feature is complete and accepted for the release. There is one known issue to address with scrolling, but Andrius feels this can be fixed. 4/30 - Andrius reports this is now done, and no other issues are known. Screenshots =========== Scislac has taken this task on, and plans to have it done for the release. Two screenshots are done currently, and one more is in the works. There will be a call for more screenshots on the Deviant Art site. Tutorials ========= Calligraphy is mostly done, and a few of the other updates to the other tutorials have been drafted but that stuff definitely needs more work. Should be possible to have them done by the end of April. Man page should be current. Bulia will update keys.xml shortly. Note: The sooner these can be finalized, the sooner translators can get going on them. 5/1 - ScislaC says a lot of progress was made over the weekend, but has run into some errors regenerating the svgs & html Calligraphic interface tweak - DONE ============================ Bulia is working on this change requested by MentalGuy, and feels they are minor and should have no trouble completing for the release. Windows font handling bugfixes - DONE ============================== Richard (cyreve) has completed these bug fixes and updated the release notes. * Update ReleaseNotes Python Extensions on Windows ============================ !!! No owner has been identified for this task !!! Bulia reports that extensions that rely on PyXML still do not work on Windows. Due to the number of python extensions, this would be a major missing feature for Windows users. Text/Fonts UI ============= deadchip (aka Milosz Derezynski <internalerror at gmail dot com>) has written a font lister Gtkmm class, to enable re-use of the font list. He is planning to write a font picker dialog, and rewrite the current font picker to use the font _listing_ class. This enables using normal Gtk components (ListStore, etc.) for accessing the font info. He plans to have this work done by May 1st, or May 15th at the latest. Windows "dialogs on top" Patch for GTK ====================================== !!! No owner has been identified for this task !!! This is not exactly an Inkscape-specific problem, since the code changes wouldn't be to Inkscape, but it would be nice to have it finally fixed. This 0.44 release effort may be a good vehicle to tie it to, but we won't hold up the release if it doesn't get done. Scislac had contacted the author previously. * Send a reminder email to the author to find status on this Undo/Redo Dialog - HOLD ================ Gustav Broberg (broberg at kth dot se) is planning to try to get the changes Mental suggested prior to the Feature Freeze. We have a patch for this. Also needed is undo annotations. 4/30 - Gustav reports that due to more changes required than expected, this feature will be postponed until the next release. New File Chooser in Export - DONE ========================== We have a patch for this, but there were some thoughts of embedding it in the export dialog directly. In the spirit of "patch first, discuss later", the best approach may be to stick in the current patch for 0.44, see what folks think, and do the embedding later. Test Harness ============ Bryce is working on getting 'make test' working in the test harness. He plans to have this working by the feature freeze date. Additional Release Tasks ======================== The following tasks will need to be done for the release, but are not required to be done prior to the Feature Freeze: * Identify the list of must-fix bugs. To keep the freeze phase from dragging out, we will need to be very choosy in what we allow to be must-fix bugs. * Set up a ReleaseChecklist wiki page or similar to keep track of The List. * Designate 2 release maintainers. * Keep and update the above list and encourage people to achieve completion of the items. * Notify translators to complete translation work * Wiki updates + Update Roadmap + Review/Update FAQ + Update InkscapeFeatures * PR / marketing efforts + Plan efforts + Draft press release + Finalize press release + Send out press release [rejon] + DeviantArt PR [ScislaC] * Packaging

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Flash Export
by unknown＠example.com 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hello everyone. I've been playing with Inkscape for a while now, keep up the good work. I am interested in Flash export functionality for Inkscape. Are any developers working on this? I would be interested in helping out. Brian

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Warning in /extension/patheffect.cpp
by Ben Fowler 05 May '06

05 May '06

Around line 50: 42 Inkscape::XML::Node * defs; 43 44 for (int i = 0; patheffects[i] != NULL && i < 128; i++) { 45 gchar * patheffect = patheffects[i]; 46 47 // This is weird, they should all be references... but anyway 48 if (patheffect[0] != '#') continue; 49 50 Inkscape::XML::Node * prefs = sp_repr_lookup_child(defs, "id", &(patheffect[1])); 51 if (prefs == NULL) { 52 53 continue; 54 } I get a warning about use of uninitialised variable 'defs', and I guess I didn't have my shredded wheat today, because I can't seem to work out whether this warning counts for anything. Should defs be initialised to NULL? Ben

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Last call for feedback on my SoC proposal
by Justin Wikinator 05 May '06

05 May '06

Dear respected Inkscape developers: I am extremely interested in gaining a position with the Summer of Code with Inkscape, and I am doing everything in my power to be successful in doing so. With this in mind, I hope you will take a look at my proposal for improving the Python effects libraries and give me some feedback before I submit the link to it to Google on May 8th. My proposal resides here on the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ImprovingPythonEffectsAPI. If you like what you see, I'd appreciate help in convincing Google that this is a worthwhile endeavor. Sincerely, Justin

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SoC and automatic kerning
by juraj sukop 05 May '06

05 May '06

Dear Inkscapers, I greatly welcomed that Summer of Code is going to happen this year again, since I would like to participate this time. I would like to develop a tool for automatic kerning -- this should adjust the position of the letters in a text to correct the spacing irregularities, to ease the reading flow and to improve readability. This is also called optical kerning. To me, this is very helpful feature and I can imagine it could be of use for other open source software as well. Unfortunately, this is not listed on your Project Ideas page. What do you think? Would such a thing make sense for Inkscape and in the same time applicable for Summer of Code? Thanks a lot for any feedback and good night! Juraj Sukop

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URGENT.
by Okpu Akuchi 05 May '06

05 May '06

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LaTeX formula effect
by Tavmjong Bah 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, I've done some experimenting to see if I couldn't get the LaTeX formula effect to work on Linux. I have a version that works with skconvert. While a development version of skencil is available for Windows, it is not clear that skconvert is. Perhaps we need two different versions of the effect depending on platform. I've attached the eqtexsvg.py file that uses skconvert. I also looked at a few other alternatives: 1. pstoedit with ImageMagick According to the docs, conversion to SVG without the shareware plug-in is possible if pstoedit is compiled with ImageMagick-c++. I tried this. An ImageMagick window pops up and the program hangs without drawing anything. Closing the window gives an error: "Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `fill-rule'". 2. Going directly from dvi to SVG via dvisvg http://dvisvg.sourceforge.net/ dvisvg does produce an Inkscape readable SVG file (after eliminating an illegal character) but there are a couple of problems. It uses SVG fonts which it creates but does not embedded them in the resulting SVG file. Some of the glyphs are of the wrong style and use of Greek symbols produces illegal characters (pi => ^Y). It also has tspan nodes inside of tspan nodes which seems a bit strange. Too buggy to use. Tav

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Inkscape more Mac friendly (was Re: [Inkscape-devel] [SoC] Native OSX GUI ?)
by Ben Fowler 05 May '06

05 May '06

On 05/05/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: > On May 4, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Ben Fowler wrote: > >[ snip ] > > Personally, I've always felt that the proper way for Inkscape to be more mac > friendly would be to get GTK+ native on OS X,... If that is a majority view, then we can indeed go down those lines, and (triple negative coming up), I will have to withdraw my comment about the OP's not being off-target. Ben

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color profiles on win32
by Bob Jamison 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, all, I heard that although littleCMS is linking with Inkscape on win32, the problem with absolute vs. relative paths was giving it trouble. I think that it's fixed now, using w3c URI's to resolve paths. Here is the color profile test. http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20030813/htmlframe/full-color-prof-01-f… Notice that the brighter color squares in the PNG are what should be displayed in the SVG because a color profile has been applied to the href'd image. Here is a dump of Inkscape/w32 with the same test: http://inkscape.org/win32/icctest.png yaay! I uploaded the test files again, as I forgot the .icm file the first time: http://inkscape.org/win32/w3c-color-prof-test.zip I just committed the fix. Can someone test this on Linux to make sure that I didn't break it? Thanks. Bob

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New Preferences dialog is sweet.
by Alan Horkan 05 May '06

05 May '06

New Preferences dialog is sweet. It has been a while since I tried out Inkscape and I've filed a few requests already today but I'm thoroughly impressed by the new Preferences dialog (notwithstanding my old complaints about having the Inkscape branding directly in the lable and it taking up a valuable shortcut). The layout is clean, the bits which change dynamically are clearly delinated and predicatable and the lables are clear and understandable. This style of dialog has the advantage of room to expand but that requires developers have the discipline to consolidate and rework things so less preferences are needed and the list doesn't get too big. In the broad sense there is really very little wrong with it and I was only able to find a few very minor issues. The first is the use of abbreviations. Abbreviations should be avoided. Misc should be the full word Miscellaneous but ideally someone can figure out a suitable category for these options. The Scrolling section uses the lables pixels and the Steps section uses the lable abbreviation px. Mouse is a nice simple lable but unfortunately there is a good chance users will be using other pointer types such as a pen and tablet device. Much as I hate to reference the user interface of the GNU Image Manipulation Program uses the more generic and techincally correctly category "Input Devices". Maybe the technically incorrect lable is the best option and I should leave well enough alone for this one. Somewhat confusingly the Scrolling category includes options for the mouse wheel scrolling but it also looks like a difficult one to decide. Tools, Shapes, Rectangle (and others) includes a colour widget with abbreviated labels "F" and "S" rather than Fill and Stroke. I wonder if a standard gtk colour widget could be used but there is probably a benefit to using the inkscape colour widgets consistently. Let me know if you think any of the issues I have raised require reports. Overall the Preferences dialog is an excellent piece of work, congratulations. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Updating the po files in svn
by Lucas Vieites 04 May '06

04 May '06

Hi, I see that the decision to start thinking about a 0.44 release is taking shape and in order to save us translators a big hurry in the final days it would be nice to have all the waiting patches related to translation in svn. I am speaking for myself, but I think other translators will agree. My last patch is from 23/04/2006 (#1475120) and from the last svn update I see that there's quite a few changes. I'm afraid that if I do a local intltool-update I could screw up some things (I know 'cause it has happened before ;-) So, pretty please, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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I was wrong to have mentioned SoC at all (was Re: [Inkscape-devel] [SoC] Native OSX GUI ?)
by Ben Fowler 04 May '06

04 May '06

On 04/05/06, Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...> wrote: > On 04/05/06, Timothée Anglade <timothee.anglade@...1261...> wrote: > > [ big snip ] > > ... Now, I have no insight into how the SoC projects are > assessed, but if one scale is to weight against ideas which ought to > have their implementation under the aegis or auspices of some other > organisation then you might find that adding a Cocoa port to Inkscape > is affected by that. Certainly I would wonder why Google should > be involved if nobody has stepped up to make a start. You ought to ignore that. I had no real idea what I was talking about. See http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/writing/soc2005.html which gives good info about what is expected from applicants, and our page http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SOC_Selection_Criteria . Sorry, Ben

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New win32 gtk2.8 bundle
by Bob Jamison 04 May '06

04 May '06

Hi, all. It has been about a month since we last updated the gtk2.8 win32 library bundle. The last refresh was for adding littlecms, if you recall. The changed libs are minor releases for cairo, glib, and gtk. I think the filechooser bugfix noted in the release notes, by itself, qualifies for an update. The bundle can be found here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/gtk28-060502.7z As a reality check, I did a clean build of Inkscape which appears to work fine: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0605021530.zip bob

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SVN is broken
by Joshua A. Andler 03 May '06

03 May '06

I verified the following with current svn builds both on Win32 & Linux. 1) Using the Rectangle, Pencil, Bezier, & Selector tools cause crashes 2) In Document Properties, if you change the units for canvas size, the conversion doesn't happen and it zeroes out the values. -Josh

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