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autogen.sh fails because it can't find README
by Seth Brutzman 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

This could be on GNU/Linux only, but I went ahead and built again today, and autogen.sh stopped cold with the complaint that it couldn't find README. I noticed that CVS is packing README.txt now instead, so I simply renamed it to README and all was good. Still, where the heck did this come from? autogen needs README? And why is it getting packed as a *.txt now? (Sorry, windows users. I haven't saved with a *.txt extension for a while now.) Just thought I'd call attention to this for future reference. --seth

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any remaining showstoppers for 0.42.1?
by MenTaLguY 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

If not, I'm going to merge the translations/tutorials from HEAD and tag it. -mental

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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.16 Announcement :: http://www.openclipart.org
by Jon Phillips 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Aug 8, 2005 UTC - Release 0.16 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now available on-line for download as an individual package consisting of 4442 images submitted by over 443 artists from around the world. This releases squishes a major bug that replaced valid keywords in the clip art files with some strange HASH memory location text. Most of the clip art in the library and this release is now repaired. Bryce Harrington and Jon Phillips both presented at the 2005 Desktop Developers Conference in Ottawa. Harrington's presentation promoted Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) while Phillips' presentation introduced the Open Clip Art Library to the freedesktop community. Both presentations were well received and sparked several debates. Also added this month is a new clipart-announce mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart-announce). The Open Clip Art Library encourages everyone to sign up for this list in order to ONLY receive messages about Open Clip Art Library release announcements. This list is especially well-suited for packagers and others that might not want to receive all the developer discussions from the primary project mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart). As always, see what the librarians and artists are working on at http://planet.openclipart.org. Artist and librarians (developer) for the project who would like to be included in this blog should contact (http://openclipart.org/contact.php) the project admins in order to be added. For the month of August the project invites submissions of clip art themed for the coming fall season. The Open Clip Art Library. Drawing Together. Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.tar.bz2 http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.tar.gz http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.zip http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full-win32.exe The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.

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sp_selection_copy_impl fix
by Nicklas Lindgren 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi again, It appears that sp_selection_copy_impl does not respect the const-ness of its first parameter. I've made a patch for this. This fixes bug 1253235 (Moving multiple objects up/down a layer duplicates them). The patch can be found at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nili/inkscape/ . --Nicklas

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Build report #245
by Bryce Harrington 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

= Analysis Report for inkscape-20050806-0700 = Platform Unpack Config Build Install WRNS ERRS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ debian x86 0 0 0 0 6 0 == Errors == none == Warnings == interface.cpp:585: warning: `void sp_ui_menu_append(GtkMenu*, Inkscape::Verb**, display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: invalid access to non-static data member display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used display/sp-canvas.cpp:127: warning: invalid access to non-static data member ` display/sp-canvas.cpp:127: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp:226: warning: enumeration value `

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Color related tool
by Joshua A. Andler 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Here is an interesting tool I stumbled across called Color Schemer for dealing with color (obviously) that I think would be nifty for us to implement something similar within inkscape. Here are a couple screenshots in action: http://www.colorschemer.com/images/v3screenmain.png http://www.colorschemer.com/images/studioscreenharm.png http://www.colorschemer.com/images/studioscreenmixer.gif There is an online version too, which has the basic functionality and we can probably view source to get some ideas from. http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html My thought is that since we now have swatches, a "utility" like this would rock for knocking together good harmonious swatch sets with great ease. Just my .02 -Josh

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Key In: Shortcut references from Macromedia Fireworks
by Alan Horkan 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Before my trial version of Macromedia Fireworks expired I exported HTML pages for the various keybinding sets it supported (with the unfortunately exception of Photoshop) and then today I hastily munged them together into one great big table for comparison purposes. (Kevin Wixon seems to have access to Illustrator so I'd appreciate any comments he might have.) The link is temporary and I may move it or the information contained within to somewhere else more suitable so if the information is of interest please save a copy. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/shortcuts/keys.html Essentially I think it could be quite useful to identify the basic keybindings the various applications have in common. I should warn that I think I see at least one error in the list and as these were all generated from Fireworks what it claims are the Illustrator keybindings may not be entirely accurate (I dont recally Illustrator having a menu item for "Insert Hotspot" for example). I'm amused to see differences even between Fireworks and Freehand. It might also be worth noting some of the items they do not give keybindings to so when we next try to find a suitable keybinding we will have some idea of which items are not really important enough to need keybindings. Here are some other menu references I have mentioned before but lost track of. will try and find time to put in the wiki this time but if anyone is willing to help (and even remind me occasionally to try and do it) I'd appreciate it. I think my notes are a little too messy to directly cut and paste into the Wiki. Top level menus only of various applications: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/menus.txt Adobe Illustrator 7.0 for Mac OS menus (keybindings not included): http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/illustrator-menus.txt Freehand MX keybindings: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/freehand/FreeHandMX_keybindings.t… All this keybinding lark has gotten me side tracked from coming up with a proposal on the menu reorganistion, sorry about that. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Inkscape menu reorganistation, Illustrator related analysis.
by Alan Horkan 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Top level menus in Inkscape: File, Edit, View, Layer, Object, Path, Text, Effects, Help. Top level menus in Adobe Illustrator 10: File, Edit, Object, Type, Select, Filter, Effect, View, Window, Help. Text seems like nearly a better choice than Type (Illustrator came out of Adobes type business and Photoshop came later). Might want to consider changing Effects to Effect which fits in better with the usual naming conventions of top level menus. I should have noticed it before, I will file a request for this minor tweak. The effects menu is already full of functionality and I would be tempted to put in submenus soon and provide struture for plugin developers to work to but I might be getting ahead of myself here. (If I recally correctly the Filter menu is essentially the Photoshop filters embedded for use inside Illustrator.) Inkscape doesn't currently have Select menu. Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, the GNU Image Manipulation program, Fireworks all have it. (There are probably some intersting counter examples of applications that dont have it but I'll leave that to someone else). I think in the long term a Select menu is a good idea but initially it may look a little odd with only 4 or 5 items so maybe I should rush to change it just yet. The windows menu... There was a mailing list post earlier in the week which I read (with some difficulty). The message: Subject: Scribus+Inkscape UI discussion http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/10967 The article on the scribus user interface: http://www.le-radar.com/?articles/scribusUI I mention it because the author thought it might be good to have a standard "Windows" menu. I've asked the GIMP developers to change their consider changing their Dialogs menu to a Windows menu (there is a little more to it than mere relabelling but not a whole lot). Getting rid of the dialogs menu forced a big User Interface shake up, reintroducing a very similar Windows menu to Inkscape might be counterproductive in the short term. Those were the relatively easy things I've been pondering. The Object and Path menus are a little more difficult. I think they should probably be merged, Paths are essentially Objects. Some functionality such as "Inset" would be great if they worked on all objects, not just paths which is not a superficial change. Based on the Inset tool in Freehand a popup dialog with more flexible options might be appropriate. Some items will need to be moved submenus (probably the various Arrange and Transform options first) to allow this but it is more complicated than that. So that is what I'm thinking so far and I realise some of it might not be immediately practical but with a bit more time I think out a bit more coherent of a plan. Hopefully developers can identify some parts of inkscape they think may need to be expanded or consilidated so there is room for the interface to grow without becoming overwhelming. Too much caffeine, better go home and go for run if I'm ever going to get to sleep. (Which means I wont be responding to this message until tommorow.) Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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My Menus.xml
by Joshua Blocher 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

These are my personnel adjustments to the menus. The main philosophy behind the adjustments is if menu item already has "face time" in the UI then its ok to bury the Item in a clearly labeled submenu. Not all of the adjusts fall in to this category. Some just felt right. Others didn't seem to really belong in the menu they were in. All menus are now under 15 items, except the Effects menu which I renamed to Scripts Joshua Blocher verbalshadow

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CVS branches
by Arpad Biro 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi, Besides HEAD, is there any other CVS branch that we should commit (translations) to before 0.42.1? I only committed new translations to HEAD as usual -- but not sure if 0.42.1 will be based on that branch... Arpad Biro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New binary portability problem identified
by unknown＠example.com 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Mike, Thanks for that information. More that a few users have noticed this problem so I'm copying the list with this reply. Aaron mike@...869... wrote: > Ignore that for now, the warning is harmless and won't affect how Inkscape > operates. > > I agree it's a bit disconcerting for end users, as it looks like an error > even though it's really just a warning. If you run Inkscape from the menus > of course you won't see it. > > Probably we should develop a tool to fix binaries that trigger this. As an > alternative, replace the libpng on your system with the same copy from a > non-Debian system (or put it somewhere in the library path that'll take > precedence). > > thanks -mike > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Aaron and Sarah Spike spike@...749... > Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:17:12 -0500 > To: mike@...869... > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] New binary portability problem identified > > > Some users also have problems with libpng: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1246201&group_i > d=93438 > Should I make that static? > > Aaron Spike > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > >

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0.42.1 and Ubuntu Feature Freeze
by Corey Burger 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hey All, As some of you already know, I am trying to get 0.42 in the next version of Ubuntu, due in October. Inkscape is a supported program, and thus there are strict dates for uploading, one of which we have already passed. Now, the Feature Freeze is rapidly approaching (Aug 11). and I hear of crashers in 0.42. I already know that several of you already use and promote Ubuntu. It would truly suck if 0.42.1 missed Breezy. Corey

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Vers 0.42 in Debian Unstable ?
by John Taber 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I'm aware of the gcc issues but I thought it was mentioned that .42 was available in Debian unstable but I dont' see it there (latest 0.41-5). Any word? If it's not going to be there for a while, what is the best alternative, autopackage ?

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0.42.1 patch
by Ralf Stephan 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

mental, could you please include this patch in 0.42.1? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604308&aid=1250841&group_… ralf

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AW: [Inkscape-devel] 0.42.1 status
by Taraben, Adib 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Bulia, I tested just yesterday with Win98 +latest libs and German umlauts in the filename. So I can confirm the non ASCII-filename-crash - the dialog shows the file-name with some cryptic characters (this might be UTF8 for the special character) - opening this chrashes Inkscape - I have not found the place where I can put the filename in a inputline - the very latest gdb 6.3 needs an other lib which only exists under WinNT+above. Adib -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: inkscape-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net im Auftrag von bulia byak Gesendet: Fr 8/5/2005 08:39 An: MenTaLguY; Bob Jamison; Jon A. Cruz Cc: Inkscape ML Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.42.1 status Update on the open dialog crash: fixed by upgrading to newest libs (thanks Ishmal). However I run into another problem: Cyrillic filenames crash on open in Win98. I traced this down to fp = std::fopen(filename, how.c_str()); in io/sys.cpp, line 169. This fails, so fp == NULL. However, Inkscape::IO::file_test on the same filename works, using g_file_test. So I thought that if I replace std::fopen with g_fopen in the above, it may work. Unfortunately this fails at linking: libinkscape.a(sys.o):sys.cpp:(.text+0x2a7d): undefined reference to `g_fopen(char const*, char const*)' Ishmal: is this function missing in your libs? Can you add it? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Implementaion of Division Command
by Kevin Wixson 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

What's the reasoning behind Inkscape's implementation of Division as opposed to having two overlapping shapes resulting in three pieces, including the exclusion area of the top (stacking order) shape in addition to the exclusion area of the bottom object and intersection? I illustrated the question at http://www.angelfire.com/mi/kevincharles/inkscape/division.html Thanks, -Kevin

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Congratulations on 0.42!
by mike＠...869... 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi guys, I just wanted to congratulate the entire Inkscape team on the 0.42 release. I tried the final version and it works really well - in fact I've been using it at work to do some of the graphics for a commercial product we're working on. You guys have one of the best managed and most approachable open source projects around, and you should be proud of that. I'd also like to thank you all for bearing with us as maintainership of the Inkscape autopackage transitioned away from me to Aaron. It's a young technology but judging by the number of people using the Inkscape package, it seems to be working OK. You can see how many people are installing an autopackage for the first time by looking at the runtime download statistics. Notice how much higher todays figure is already than yesterdays (which was the first full day of counting) - and it's only 10:30am! That's the impact of your release: http://autopackage.org/stats.php I'm at work at the moment (so can only play with the Windows build) and have no net access where I'm currently staying, but I'll see if I can take home the autopackage on my mp3 player and test it on my laptop. Finally, I just realised that mail2web.com was breaking threading on the list ... sorry about that. If anybody knows a better IMAP->webmail gateway please let me know. Again, congratulations! I can't wait to see what goodies the next version has in it. thanks -mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Put your menu where your mouth is
by Ted Gould 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Okay, So, for a little project I made all the menus configurable by a file in your home directory ~/.inkscape/menus.xml. They use the verb ids, and you can pretty much move things around how ever you'd like. There are still some rough edges, but it should be stable enough to have people start passing around files of how they'd like the menus for discussion. Then people can try them out. Okay, I'm going to bed. --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New binary portability problem identified
by mike＠...869... 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

> The complaint is: > > Error: Package 'Standard C++ library' was found but was of the wrong > version and the correct version could not be located. > > [IV 3 for @gnu.org/libstdc++] > > > Perhaps if I had let it run as root it might have worked. > > autopackage is way cool but it isn't yet working in FC4 in my home > directory as far as I can tell. It's trying to work.... > Mike, any idea what this is about? See this page: http://autopackage.org/help.html The solution is to run "yum install compat-libstdc++-33" as root. Fedora dropping libstdc++.so.5 so quickly and with such blatant disregard for binary compatibility caught us off-guard. A solution for this problem will appear in the next stable release of autopackage (1.0.6), which will come out either: a) At the weekend, if I get time to do it or b) When Hongli gets out of lazy-mode :) Basically the "fix" involves us simply registering an autopackage repository containing the libstdc++.so.X libraries so that if they're missing it can depsolve them onto the system automatically. Thanks for bearing with us while we deal with the mess Red Hat and other distros have made (this change breaks the official Mozilla installer, most games, RealPlayer ... virtually everything). thanks -mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Possible bug in 0.42
by Lucas Vieites 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi, I did a fresh install of the 0.42 autopackage from http://www.inkscape.modevia.com/ap/inkscape-0.42.x86.package on my Mandriva 2005 LE. I found the following strange behaviour: - I create a new drawing with a circle. - Duplicate the circle and resize it (the width of the stroke resizes also) - Now if I select the second circle and try to set the stroke width to 1 pt by clicking on the up and down arrows of the width field in the Fill and stroke dialog it only increases the width both clicking the up or down arrow. The increment is also not one by one, but it is a geometric increment: 4,1 -> 6,5 -> 10,4 -> 16,6 -> 20, etc I hope you can reproduce this. -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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Request for win32 loudmouth dll
by David Yip 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Oops, forgot this: We need a Win32 Loudmouth DLL for Windows testing. Instructions can be found here: http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Loudmouth_on_Windows Any volunteers? -- David

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Another update of the win32 libs
by Bob Jamison 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

The fine people over at Gtk.org have posted bugfix releases gtk+-2.6.9 and glib-2.6.6. Always interested in bugfixes, I I repackaged the development libs with them here: http://inkscape.org/win32/gtk26-050803.7z Bob

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What about aborting rendering if it takes too much time?
by Marc Weber 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

There are some cases when it takes really long to render the screen area (e.g a wire frame with many lines and viewing the whole page).. Is there any way to abort inkscape? It would be nice to switch to another "quality" of rendering if updating of the screen takes longer than x seconds. Because in some cases you don't know when inkscape will finish and undoing/deleting one step might last a time beeing equally long the only way to get rid of such a situation would be killing inkscape.. It should be no problem to switch back if you like.. What do you think?

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PDF Import?
by Jeff Carr 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I'm new to inkscape; I just ran across it this week. (apt-get it after reading the vector graphic's story). It's really impressive! I spent some time trying to import a PDF. This is a long standing PTA problem that usually has me importing it into the gimp as a tiff. I tried digging farther with my renewed energy and found only dead ends for PDF -> SVG converters. There are some, but they are all proprietary. There is even some site that lets you put your pdf into it and they will mail you a SVG (didn't work for my pdf anyway.) I eventually tried pstoedit: pstoedit -f plot.svg myfile.pdf myfile.svg inkscape myfile.svg Which got close, but lost all the text. What is the current state of PDF or postscript import? Are there some other tricks/tools anyone might recommend? Thanks, Jeff

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Inkscape percentage units
by De Winne, Joris 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hello, Is it possible to pass percentage units for x, y, width and height attributes in the xml svg file. Example of what I would like to do: <svg x="10" y="10" width="250" height="250"> <rect width="100%" height="100%" /> </svg> This would mean that we get a rectangle with width=250 and height=250. the problem is it looks like the inkscape viewer can't work with %. Any solution? Joris - - - - - - - DISCLAIMER- - - - - - - - Unless indicated otherwise, the information contained in this message is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and/or attachments is strictly prohibited. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Furthermore, the company does not warrant a proper and complete transmission of this information, nor does it accept liability for any delays. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the message. Thank you.

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