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What is proper transform/scaling behavior?
by Eric Jonas 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Thanks again for Inkscape, it really rocks. Does anyone know what the proper behavior is for scaling objects via transform attributes? Is the stroke supposed to be scaled or not? I figured there would be just one answer, but the svg-rendering programs are all over the map here: http://web.mit.edu/jonas/www/anisotropy/ I ran into this when looking at the PS & PDF output of both Inkscape and Batik; at first it appeared to be caused by people assuming SVG's transformation matrices worked the same way as ps, but then I can't quite figure out what the hell the Adobe SVG viewer is doing... So I'm curious to know what the Right behavior is, or if this is an ambiguous region in the standard... Thanks again, inkscape is amazing... ...Eric

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win32 installer snapshot available
by Adib Taraben 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hello all, I published my current version of the win32 installer on the sourceforge pages. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… Also I published some screenshots how it looks like on my webspace http://www.geocities.com/theAdib/ Look at the installer 0.43 (1) ... (4) I would like to get some feedback on the modularisation/options before commiting this code to the CVS. In this snapshot I packaged only English, german, french, spain, japanese. The installer is available in english and german. To see what functionality has been added pls have a look at http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Win32_Installer Bryce, I dont know how to create a new 'product' but 'Snapshot' was already there. So I used this. Thx, Adib. ---

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RSS feed broken after the new news publishing system
by Nicu Buculei 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

It looks like the RSS feed (http://inkscape.org/inkscape.rss) is broken again after the new (translation aware) news publishing system was introduced (http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WebsiteEditing) -- nicu

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problem with dialogs
by Arpad Biro 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hi, There's a dialog-related problem with current CVS. To reproduce it: 1. "File/Input Devices" -- for me it says "No extended input device", and I get two buttons: "Save" and "Close" -- 2. press the "Close" button (the one in the dialog - not the one provided by the window manager) 3. "File/Inkscape Prefs" 4. close the prefs dialog --the "Input" dialog shows up again-- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Status bar help texts visibility
by Lucas Vieites 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hi, last June there was a thread in this list regarding the visibility of the status bar texts. Sometimes the text string is too long to be seen completely, especially on smaller screens. Has there been any more discussion on this issue? Should I file an RFE. I also made a mockup of a possible solution to this problem; a kind of "frame" that can be toggled visible/invisible when necessary by clicking a button or using a keyboard shortcut. (see: http://www.asixinformatica.com/archivos/inkscape_tooltip_mockup.png) Greetings, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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Re: Message from Inkscape submission form
by Bryce Harrington 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

We like the flags, Joe, but I'll forward your comments along. Bryce On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:32:38PM +0200, Joe Desbonnet wrote: > name: Joe Desbonnet > email: joe@...1008... > > > > submitted the following: > > Flags are generally considered a bad choice of symbol to represent a language, because as you know flags represent countries, but languages often (mostly!) don\'t respect political boundaries. > > > However there is one thing worse than a flag: that\'s two or three flags mixed into one. For example you have a mixture of the Union Jack and US flag for English. I don\'t mind the Union Jack representing English, because they invented the language, but when you mix in the US flag it says \"we are politically correct, so we went to a lot of effort not to offend by adding in all the countries that speak this language\". But that creates more offence when you leave a country out. Hint: many more countries outside of US/UK speak English as a first language. > > > > > Joe. > > >

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[nicu@...398...: Message from Inkscape submission form]
by Bryce Harrington 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

----- Forwarded message from Nicu <nicu@...398...> ----- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:56:06 +0200 From: Nicu <nicu@...398...> To: bryce@...260... Reply-To: nicu@...398... Subject: Message from Inkscape submission form name: Nicu email: nicu@...398... submitted the following: I think it would be better for messages posted using this form (http://www.stiefelweb.de/_other/inkscape/submit2webmaster.php) to be sent to the entire devel mailing list, as *a lot* of other people have write access and work on the website. Also, one would know when (and what) someone else has replied. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Inkscape Website Re-design Contest - Submissions
by Joshua A. Andler 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Developers, Well, there were a total of 3 entries for the website re-design contest. They are as follows: http://ciberirmandade.org/gatonegro/var/inkweb/ http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/ http://www.deviantart.com/view/22467478/ I figured we could forgo a community vote given the already limited number of selections. Please review each of these and only concentrate on the visual (and usability) aspects at the moment. We can have whomever the winner is (if we decide to use one of the new designs) put more time into it after the fact. My guess is we should vote on a first choice since the selection is so limited. -Josh

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Re: Using Inkscape
by Gavin Band 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Thank you - the new minimum zoom works very well. gav.

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Inkboard screenshot and demos
by David Yip 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hi all, Here's some Inkboard demo materials: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yipdw/inkboard/inkboard-screenshot-1.png (1280x1024, 187 kB) http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yipdw/inkboard/inkboard-demo-2.mp4 (H.264 (using x264), 1136x864, ~187sec, 2.1 MB) http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yipdw/inkboard/inkboard-demo-2.avi (H.263 (using XviD), 1136x864, ~187sec, 11 MB) The videos have the same content; however, the video in the MP4 container is substantially smaller (and looks better, IMHO). I'd like to hear if it's playable by other people. (I know a Media Player Classic/recent version of ffdshow setup can handle it, but I'd like to hear reports from users of more "standard" players, i.e. QuickTime Player.) -- David

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Fwd: [ 1245838 ] Win32: Problem building Inkscape 0.42
by Adib Taraben 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

FYI. I do not have the mailinglist address on my debian section :-( so I guessed wrong. --- Adib Taraben <theadib@...36...> wrote: > Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:33:31 -0700 (PDT) > From: Adib Taraben <theadib@...36...> > Subject: [ 1245838 ] Win32: Problem building > Inkscape 0.42 > To: inkscape-devel@...34... > > FYI, > --- > Hello release warden, > > attached there is a patch against the latest cvs. > > This should solve the issues building a win32 exe > from > the source.tgz published on sf. > > I only made the necessary changes for building the > .exe and did not added needed stuff for the win32 > installer. > > I would like to bring the nsis installer stuff for > the > first .rc Or during the string freeze. When is this > estimated ? (still almost no feedback for this) > > Thx, > > theAdib. > --- > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com> ? inkscape-0.42+devel.zip > ? makewin32.diff > ? src/test-all.cpp > ? src/dom/makefile > ? src/svg/test-svg-main.cpp > ? src/svg/test-svg.cpp > Index: Makefile.am > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/Makefile.am,v > retrieving revision 1.36 > diff -u -4 -r1.36 Makefile.am > --- Makefile.am 15 Sep 2005 13:21:06 -0000 1.36 > +++ Makefile.am 26 Sep 2005 20:58:45 -0000 > @@ -38,15 +38,14 @@ > inkscape.spec \ > Info.plist.in \ > Info.plist \ > inkscape.nsi \ > - Makefile.mingw \ > - Makefile.mingw.common \ > + config.h.mingw Makefile.mingw > Makefile.mingw.common mingwenv.bat \ > README README.ca.txt README.de.txt README.fr.txt > README.it.txt \ > HACKING.txt HACKING.de.txt HACKING.fr.txt > HACKING.it.txt \ > TRANSLATORS \ > inkscape.png \ > - inkscape.ico inkscape16.ico inkscape32.ico > inkscape64.ico \ > + inkscape.ico inkscape16.ico inkscape32-16.ico > inkscape32.ico inkscape64.ico \ > cxxtest/cxxtestgen.pl \ > cxxtest/cxxtestgen.py \ > cxxtest/cxxtest/Descriptions.cpp \ > cxxtest/cxxtest/Descriptions.h \ > @@ -93,9 +92,12 @@ > debian/inkscape.menu \ > debian/inkscape.xpm \ > debian/mime \ > debian/rules \ > - packaging/autopackage/default.apspec.in > + packaging/autopackage/default.apspec.in \ > + po/Makefile.mingw \ > + src/Makefile.mingw src/inkscape_version.h.mingw > src/inkscape.rc src/makedef.pl \ > + src/helper/sp-marshal.h.mingw > src/helper/sp-marshal.cpp.mingw > > # Note: it isn't clear that debian/* belongs in the > tar file: > # tarfile users should be able to use the official > Debian packages. > # They were added to EXTRA_DIST in v1.5, in > response to a message on > Index: Makefile.mingw > =================================================================== > RCS file: > /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/Makefile.mingw,v > retrieving revision 1.46 > diff -u -4 -r1.46 Makefile.mingw > --- Makefile.mingw 19 Aug 2005 17:16:28 -0000 1.46 > +++ Makefile.mingw 26 Sep 2005 20:58:46 -0000 > @@ -126,9 +126,9 @@ > $(MAKE) -C po -f Makefile.mingw clean > > minimal: > $(MAKE) -C src -f Makefile.mingw > - $(RM) inkscape$(S)inkscape.exe > + -$(RM) inkscape$(S)inkscape.exe > $(CP) src$(S)inkscape.exe inkscape > @echo "##################### D O N E > ####################" > > > Index: src/Makefile.mingw > =================================================================== > RCS file: > /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/src/Makefile.mingw,v > retrieving revision 1.28 > diff -u -4 -r1.28 Makefile.mingw > --- src/Makefile.mingw 10 Jun 2005 22:14:31 -0000 > 1.28 > +++ src/Makefile.mingw 26 Sep 2005 20:58:46 -0000 > @@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ > ################################### > # O U T P U T S > ################################### > > -outputs: inkscape.exe > +outputs: inkscape.exe inkview.exe > > > RES=inkres.o > > @@ -56,11 +56,16 @@ > #inkscape.exe: inkscape.dll main.o winmain.o $(RES) > > # $(CXX) -o inkscape.exe main.o winmain.o $(RES) > inkscape.la $(LIBS) > # strip inkscape.exe > > -inkview.exe: inkscape.dll inkview.o $(RES) > - $(CXX) -o inkview.exe inkview.o $(RES) > libinkscapedll.a $(LIBS) > - strip inkview.exe > +inkview.exe: libinkscape.a inkview.o $(RES) > + $(CXX) -o inkview.exe inkview.o $(RES) > libinkscape.a $(LIBS) > +# strip inkview.exe > + > +# DLL version. we need to make this work > +# inkview.exe: inkscape.dll inkview.o $(RES) > +# $(CXX) -o inkview.exe inkview.o $(RES) > libinkscapedll.a $(LIBS) > +# strip inkview.exe > > inkres.o: inkscape.rc > $(WINDRES) inkscape.rc $(RES) > > @@ -72,9 +77,9 @@ > inkscape.def: libinkscape.a > perl makedef.pl > > libinkscape.a: $(OBJ) > - $(RM) libinkscape.a > + -$(RM) libinkscape.a > ar crv libinkscape.a $(OBJ) > $(RANLIB) libinkscape.a > > inkscape.la: inkscape.dll > @@ -106,13 +111,13 @@ > ################################### > > clean: > $(foreach a, $(OBJ), $(shell $(RM) $(subst /,$(S), > $(a)))) > - $(RM) main.o winmain.o inkview.o > - $(RM) *.a > - $(RM) *.la > - $(RM) inkscape.def > - $(RM) *.dll > - $(RM) extension$(S)plugin$(S)*.o > - $(RM) extension$(S)plugin$(S)*.dll > + -$(RM) main.o winmain.o inkview.o > + -$(RM) *.a > + -$(RM) *.la > + -$(RM) inkscape.def > + -$(RM) *.dll > + -$(RM) extension$(S)plugin$(S)*.o > + -$(RM) extension$(S)plugin$(S)*.dll > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ? inkscape-0.42+devel.zip ? makewin32.diff ? src/test-all.cpp ? src/dom/makefile ? src/svg/test-svg-main.cpp ? src/svg/test-svg.cpp Index: Makefile.am =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/Makefile.am,v retrieving revision 1.36 diff -u -4 -r1.36 Makefile.am --- Makefile.am 15 Sep 2005 13:21:06 -0000 1.36 +++ Makefile.am 26 Sep 2005 20:58:45 -0000 @@ -38,15 +38,14 @@ inkscape.spec \ Info.plist.in \ Info.plist \ inkscape.nsi \ - Makefile.mingw \ - Makefile.mingw.common \ + config.h.mingw Makefile.mingw Makefile.mingw.common mingwenv.bat \ README README.ca.txt README.de.txt README.fr.txt README.it.txt \ HACKING.txt HACKING.de.txt HACKING.fr.txt HACKING.it.txt \ TRANSLATORS \ inkscape.png \ - inkscape.ico inkscape16.ico inkscape32.ico inkscape64.ico \ + inkscape.ico inkscape16.ico inkscape32-16.ico inkscape32.ico inkscape64.ico \ cxxtest/cxxtestgen.pl \ cxxtest/cxxtestgen.py \ cxxtest/cxxtest/Descriptions.cpp \ cxxtest/cxxtest/Descriptions.h \ @@ -93,9 +92,12 @@ debian/inkscape.menu \ debian/inkscape.xpm \ debian/mime \ debian/rules \ - packaging/autopackage/default.apspec.in + packaging/autopackage/default.apspec.in \ + po/Makefile.mingw \ + src/Makefile.mingw src/inkscape_version.h.mingw src/inkscape.rc src/makedef.pl \ + src/helper/sp-marshal.h.mingw src/helper/sp-marshal.cpp.mingw # Note: it isn't clear that debian/* belongs in the tar file: # tarfile users should be able to use the official Debian packages. # They were added to EXTRA_DIST in v1.5, in response to a message on Index: Makefile.mingw =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/Makefile.mingw,v retrieving revision 1.46 diff -u -4 -r1.46 Makefile.mingw --- Makefile.mingw 19 Aug 2005 17:16:28 -0000 1.46 +++ Makefile.mingw 26 Sep 2005 20:58:46 -0000 @@ -126,9 +126,9 @@ $(MAKE) -C po -f Makefile.mingw clean minimal: $(MAKE) -C src -f Makefile.mingw - $(RM) inkscape$(S)inkscape.exe + -$(RM) inkscape$(S)inkscape.exe $(CP) src$(S)inkscape.exe inkscape @echo "##################### D O N E ####################" Index: src/Makefile.mingw =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/src/Makefile.mingw,v retrieving revision 1.28 diff -u -4 -r1.28 Makefile.mingw --- src/Makefile.mingw 10 Jun 2005 22:14:31 -0000 1.28 +++ src/Makefile.mingw 26 Sep 2005 20:58:46 -0000 @@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ ################################### # O U T P U T S ################################### -outputs: inkscape.exe +outputs: inkscape.exe inkview.exe RES=inkres.o @@ -56,11 +56,16 @@ #inkscape.exe: inkscape.dll main.o winmain.o $(RES) # $(CXX) -o inkscape.exe main.o winmain.o $(RES) inkscape.la $(LIBS) # strip inkscape.exe -inkview.exe: inkscape.dll inkview.o $(RES) - $(CXX) -o inkview.exe inkview.o $(RES) libinkscapedll.a $(LIBS) - strip inkview.exe +inkview.exe: libinkscape.a inkview.o $(RES) + $(CXX) -o inkview.exe inkview.o $(RES) libinkscape.a $(LIBS) +# strip inkview.exe + +# DLL version. we need to make this work +# inkview.exe: inkscape.dll inkview.o $(RES) +# $(CXX) -o inkview.exe inkview.o $(RES) libinkscapedll.a $(LIBS) +# strip inkview.exe inkres.o: inkscape.rc $(WINDRES) inkscape.rc $(RES) @@ -72,9 +77,9 @@ inkscape.def: libinkscape.a perl makedef.pl libinkscape.a: $(OBJ) - $(RM) libinkscape.a + -$(RM) libinkscape.a ar crv libinkscape.a $(OBJ) $(RANLIB) libinkscape.a inkscape.la: inkscape.dll @@ -106,13 +111,13 @@ ################################### clean: $(foreach a, $(OBJ), $(shell $(RM) $(subst /,$(S), $(a)))) - $(RM) main.o winmain.o inkview.o - $(RM) *.a - $(RM) *.la - $(RM) inkscape.def - $(RM) *.dll - $(RM) extension$(S)plugin$(S)*.o - $(RM) extension$(S)plugin$(S)*.dll + -$(RM) main.o winmain.o inkview.o + -$(RM) *.a + -$(RM) *.la + -$(RM) inkscape.def + -$(RM) *.dll + -$(RM) extension$(S)plugin$(S)*.o + -$(RM) extension$(S)plugin$(S)*.dll

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Text to Path
by Craig Bradney 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Hi, With the chance of being told to RTFM (whats an M anyway?, I still havent read the Scribus ones!).. Where is the/Is there a Convert Text to Path option in Inkscape? (0.42.2) Why? Because importing text in an SVG into Scribus is ugly, due to a) limitations with our text frame sizes, b) PostScript vs SVG text definitions (IIRC). TIA Craig Scribus Team

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] update of roadmap
by Daniel Stiefelmaier 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

>Animation is a pretty Large goal. > > agreed :) >Full SVG Tiny support is a smaller goal, and looking back at implementing >the SVG specifications seems like a good way to refocus Inkscape on its >core goals. > > also agreed. maybe import filters could also be a goal. personally i'd love to see CorelDraw import. But i guess there are other more common formats, and cdr files seem to be hard to reverse engineer. On the other side, CorelDraw has quite a similar user interface, so new users may come from there ;) Well, and if animation will be a goal, then flash import/export couldn't be wrong ;) greets, Caliga

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0.43 Status
by Bryce Harrington 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Hi all, Okay, it sounds like from the earlier discussions that there is a rough concensus to do 0.43 as 100 points worth of RFE's followed by 100 points of bug fixes, then a hard freeze, and so on through the release. I'm going to start counting from Sept 1st for the RFE's, and will begin counting bugs as soon as we hit 100. Should be fun. :-) I'm curious to see how swiftly we can reach the hard freeze point. I'm betting on Sept 15th. RFE ID Pts Summary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ None yet! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total: 0 / 100 Bryce

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keys.xml
by Tobias Jakobs 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Hi, I used the Inkscape keys.xml to make a Gimp keys and mouse reference[1]. Perhaps you are interested in this shortcuts that are used in the GTK file dialogs. MfG Tobias <group> <title>Within a File Dialog</title> <keys><key><shift/>L</key> <action>Open Location</action></keys> <keys><key><alt/> <up/></key> <action>Up-Folder</action></keys> <keys><key><alt/> <down/></key> <action>Down-Folder</action></keys> <keys><key><alt/><misc f="Home"/></key> <action>Home-Folder</action></keys> <keys><key><misc f="Esc"/></key> <action>Close Dialog</action></keys> </group> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316423

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Bugs making it hard to translate tutorials
by Daniel Stiefelmaier 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

>>oh, btw... we could scale in one direction with crtl-alt+numpad... RFE >>for that? :) >>hm... and shift to scale in two directions? >> >> sorry, i thought it was obvious, but as i think of it again... well, objects could be scaled in one direction by the eight numpad keys surrounding 5. So ctrl+alt+7 would scale to the upper left, ctrl+alt+8 would be the representation for dragging the handle on the top. But now that i think about it, shift should then be used to scale down. ctrl+alt+shift+9 would be the same then dragging the upper right handle towards the lower left. Maybe the Num-Lock key could be used to switch between pixel-accurate scaling and normal scaling. Alternatively: Scaling is always pixel-accurate, Num-Lock is used to switch between up- and downscaling, and shift is used to scale in two directions. ctrl+alt+shift+6 or ctrl+alt+shift+4 would scale the object horizontally, keeping its original center. greets, caliga

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pdf_input.inx
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hi, Looking at roadmap I realised that with current extensions infrastructure there should be just one simple step to have pdf2svg import - to write an inx file and to put pdf2svg files in right places. I thiunk I have succeded with the first part, but failed with the other. When I try to import a PDF file, Inkscape tells me: Can't locate Math/Matrix.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Parser.pm line 20. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Parser.pm line 20. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/inkscape/extensions/pdf2svg line 20. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/inkscape/extensions/pdf2svg line 20. Being a non-programmer I understand now that maybe I tried to do too much :) If anyone is keen to look into this, inx files is attached. I might be back to this task when I learn my Perl math (if ever) :) http://www.solidcode.net/pdf2svg/ is the home page of the script. Alexandre

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Inkscape 0.43 Tasks
by Bryce Harrington 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Tasks for 0.43 Hard Freeze Phase -------------------------------- Here are the things we've identified as needing to be done prior to the Hard Freeze. Let me know of the status on these items as we go forward, and I'll keep the list updated and try to repost it daily. Let me know either if you've completed the task, or are working on it and plan to ensure it's completed for the release. 1. Ensure libraries do not crash on win98 [rswt] 1289800 - SuSE 10.0.RC1: Crash on Align http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1289800&group_id=9… 2. Integrate Ted's patches for menu.xml 3. Enable python on windows 4. Create Static RPMS 5. Create screenshots for each of the new features a. pressure-calligraphic [Popolon] b. connector tool - (DONE) Create screenshots [Alexandre] http://lrn.ru/~avp/images/connector1.png http://lrn.ru/~avp/images/connector2.png - Add them to the website c. whiteboard - (DONE) Create screenshots [yipdw] http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yipdw/inkboard/inkboard-screenshot-1.png http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yipdw/inkboard/inkboard-demo-2.mp4 http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yipdw/inkboard/inkboard-demo-2.avi - Add them to the website 6. (DONE) Integrate mental's memory leak patch. [bryce] - On mailing list see 'theoretical memory leak' post 7. Update calligraphy tutorial to cover the new pressure sensitivity stuff. 8. [ 1245838 ] Win32: Problem building Inkscape 0.4 9. Integrate Spanish po translation file https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1303320&group_id=…

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Inkscape 0.42.2-0 static RPM package
by Jean-Francois Lemaire 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hello, Better late than never, they say. Anyway, I've set up a static build environment today and tested it on the previous Inkscape release. The resulting static RPM installs and works fine on my RPM-based distro (SuSE LInux 9.3). It would be great if it could be tested on other systems, though. Well, I suppose that means I'm volunteering for the creation of static RPMs from now on :-) Now, should I upload inkscape-0.42.2-0.static.i686.rpm to SourceForge right away or should I just don't bother and wait for the 0.43 release? The i386 package is currently building. -- Jean-François Lemaire

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] pdf_input.inx
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

On 9/23/05, Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing@...400...> wrote: > # from Alexandre Prokoudine > # on Friday 23 September 2005 11:29 am: > > > Inkscape tells me: > > > >Can't locate Math/Matrix.pm in @INC > > You're just missing a perl module "Math::Matrix". Grab it from CPAN or > with your distro's installer. Well, this is the revenge for not reading README :) On the other hand, pdf2svg requires much more Perl modules that it is stated. I'm still grabbing all of them from CPAN. > > Compilation failed in require at > > /usr/local/share/inkscape/extensions/pdf2svg line 20. > > Does pdf2svg have an installer? (e.g. Module::Build, Makefile.PL, etc.) No, no installer Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] cdr2svg (was: update of roadmap)
by Richard Hughes 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

>>What I have is a piece of Python which dumps each object in the tree >>as hex, and a few notes about what some of the fields mean. >> > I'd like to take a look at it. > maybe, it should be contributed to the uber-converter. > well, i was frustrated really soon when i looked into cdr files some > weeks ago... > couldn't belive that empty files are always stored in different ways... > what version did you use? i have CorelDraw 8 available and... err... 3 :) I think you may have overestimated how complete this thing is. Anyway since I've realised it's only 2.5K, the entire list can now see what a mess it is. All my work was done with version 12 files, but since the UI of CorelDraw hasn't changed fundamentally since version 9 at least (and in fact I can name some bugs that have been around since then too) I'd be surprised if the file format has changed. The large differences you're seeing are almost certainly due to the compression (zlib) which will have the effect of magnifying even a one byte change (eg a creation timestamp). Richard.

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Scribus cmdline import/export (patch)
by Bryce Harrington 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hi Peter and Craig, A while back we discussed an idea of packaging the scribus pdf/ps import/export code for use with Inkscape, since Inkscape's pdf/ps (esp. EPS import) support is so poor. However it occurs to me that another solution would be to simply give scribus some commandline options for doing import/export. E.g. scribus -i filename.eps -e filename.svg Inkscape would then be able to make use of scribus' import/export capabilities via its extension mechanism. Since for all practical intents and purposes, people would need to use scribus for getting eps/pdf converted to svg for use in inkscape already anyway, I don't think this imposes much additional dependency hassle for them. I looked into the scribus code a bit to see how this could be implemented. I wasn't sure how to call the import/export plugins, but I sketched out the code for handling the -i/-e commandline options as a start... See the attached patch. I put TODO's where the code to invoke the import/export plugins would go. I think that if it supported command line options for your input/output operators, scribus would become more widely useful, especially for commercial users (look at http://www.pdftron.com/store.html). Bryce --- main.cpp.orig 2005-09-24 22:48:40.000000000 -0700 +++ main.cpp 2005-09-24 22:17:48.000000000 -0700 @@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ #define ARG_NOSPLASH "--no-splash" #define ARG_NOGUI "--no-gui" #define ARG_DISPLAY "--display" +#define ARG_IMPORT "--import" +#define ARG_EXPORT "--export" #define ARG_VERSION_SHORT "-v" #define ARG_HELP_SHORT "-h" @@ -60,12 +62,16 @@ #define ARG_NOSPLASH_SHORT "-s" #define ARG_NOGUI_SHORT "-g" #define ARG_DISPLAY_SHORT "-d" +#define ARG_IMPORT_SHORT "-i" +#define ARG_EXPORT_SHORT "-e" QString lang = ""; bool showSplash = true; bool useGui = true; QString file; +QString import_filename = ""; +QString export_filename = ""; void showUsage(); void showAvailLangs(); @@ -102,6 +108,20 @@ lang = argv[i]; } else if (arg == ARG_NOSPLASH || arg == ARG_NOSPLASH_SHORT) { showSplash = false; + } else if ((arg == ARG_IMPORT || arg == ARG_IMPORT_SHORT) && (++i < argc)) { + import_filename = QFile::decodeName(argv[i]); + if (!QFileInfo(import_filename).exists()) { + std::cout << std::endl; + if (import_filename.left(1) == "-" || import_filename.left(2) == "--") { + std::cout << "Invalid argument: " << import_filename << std::endl; + } else { + std::cout << "File " << import_filename << "does not exist, aborting." << std::endl; + } + showUsage(); + return 0; + } + } else if ((arg == ARG_EXPORT || arg == ARG_EXPORT_SHORT) && (++i < argc)) { + export_filename = QFile::decodeName(argv[i]); } else if (arg == ARG_NOGUI || arg == ARG_NOGUI_SHORT) { useGui = false; } else if ((arg == ARG_DISPLAY || arg==ARG_DISPLAY_SHORT) && ++i < argc) { @@ -123,7 +143,8 @@ } if (useGui) - return mainGui(argc, argv); + return mainGui(argc, argv); + } /*! @@ -145,6 +166,8 @@ std::cout << "-la, --langs-available Lists the currently installed interface languages" << std::endl; std::cout << "-h, --help Print help (this message) and exit" << std::endl; std::cout << "-v, --version Output version information and exit" << std::endl; + std::cout << "-i, --import <file> Import given filename" << std::endl; + std::cout << "-e, --export <file> Export given filename" << std::endl; /* std::cout << "-file|-- name Open file 'name'" << std::endl; std::cout << "name Open file 'name', the file name must not begin with '-'" << std::endl; @@ -214,10 +237,24 @@ scribus->show(); scribus->ShowSubs(); - if (file != "") - scribus->LadeDoc(file); + if (file != "") { + scribus->LadeDoc(file); + } else if (import_filename != "") { + // TODO: Import the file... + } scribus->setFocus(); - return app.exec(); + + if (export_filename != "") { + QFile f(export_filename); + if (f.exists()) { + std::cout << "Cannot overwrite existing file " << export_filename << std::endl; + return -1; + } + // TODO: Export the file... + return 0; + } else { + return app.exec(); + } } /*!

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Inkscape 0.43 Hard Freeze
by Bryce Harrington 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

With the completion of the bug party today, it is time to move into the hard freeze for Inkscape 0.43, under the watch of our release wardens pjrm and joncruz. Today's testing unfortunately did not cover all of the new features, but we did manage to bang on the connector code really hard, and scared up a number of bugs in it (no showstoppers, but a couple crashes and a lot of odd behaviors.) We attempted to get the inkboard feature working, but did not succeed in establishing a working connection, so there's at least one bug there... We closed about 10 bugs today, mostly invalid/dupe/outdated, but there were a few fixes. pjrm and joncruz will be the release wardens for this release. All changes to the codebase must go through them. Do not commit to CVS; instead post your changes as patches to the tracker with your rationale for why to include them before or after the 0.43 release. Peter and Jon will decide when the codebase is ready for release. This may include requiring specific bugs be fixed, or tasks to be done. When they feel it is ready, the codebase will be tagged and branched, and we will enter the release phase. I will continue to track tasks for the 0.43 release, but it will be up to them whether to wait until all those tasks are complete or to decide we are ready to release with some tasks still unfinished. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] pdf_input.inx
by Bryce Harrington 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Okay, I made a couple changes to the Makefile.PL and moved the .pm's into the lib dir and the script into the scripts/ dir, where they should go. Also I fixed up the authors list (good of you to include all of them!) This package installs ok on my machine. I had installed all my prerequisites like this: # cpan -i Math::Matrix # cpan -i Text::PDF::File # cpan -i PDF::API2 Then I could run pdf2svg. Again though, my results with it were not very good. Probably these issues could be fixed, however it would require knowledge of Perl to do so. I think it may be better to focus on using Scribus for PDF import instead though. What do you think? Bryce On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 07:47:39AM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Here it is > > Alexandre > > On 9/25/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 06:44:06AM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > > On 9/24/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:58:23AM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > > > > On 9/24/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I can't find any Text::PDF::Util module at CPAN > > > > > > > > > > > > There is a Text::PDF::Utils in this package: > > > > > > > > > > I have it in /usr/share/perl/5.8/Text/PDF/, but Perl complains about > > > > > Text::PDF::Util, not Text::PDF::Utils. > > > > > > > > Sounds like a typo in the script perhaps...? Grep for Utils and correct > > > > it to Util and see if that fixes it. > > > > > > Still no fun > > > > > > avp@...998...:~/soft/build/graphics/pdf2svg$ perl -e "use PDF::API2" > > > Can't locate PDF/API2/Basic/PDF/Util.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > > > /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7 > > > /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 > > > /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl/5.8/PDF/API2.pm line > > > 51. > > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl/5.8/PDF/API2.pm line 51. > > > Compilation failed in require at -e line 1. > > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. > > > > Email me the Makefile.PL, I'll take a look at it and try to fix it. > > > > Bryce > >

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svg2swf
by Bryce Harrington 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Has anyone tried this for producing swf files from svg? http://robla.net/1996/svg2swf/ Looks pretty old, but if it works it might be interesting as a plugin. Bryce

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