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Dynamically changing SVGView
by De Winne, Joris 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hello, First of all, congratulations with the 0.42 release. I'll install it today or tomorow. I'm working on Inkscape to create an SVGViewer. Now I've seen in Inkscape that when I add in the user interface a rectangle, this rectangle is automatically added into the xml representation and also rendered. I would like to do the same, but with more complex structures. To give an example: I'm listening on a socket and on that socket I can receive structures in the form: <svg> <rect .... /> <rect .... /> <rect .... /> <rect .... /> .... </svg> Those structures I want to add to my SPDocument and render them automatically without recreating a new SPDocument. Does somebody know where I can find the code that is adding the rectangle in the Inkscape User Interface to the xml file and automatically renders the rectangle? Any help is always welcome. 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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justify text
by Jon Phillips 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Bulia and Cyreve, What will it take to get justified alignment working? Man, I wish I knew what you guys are working on...you guys are like submarines with your ideas...Maybe you could both outline your plans and what you are working on and that way others might also help out. But whatever, you guys have a style of working down that works, so I don't want to break that. ;) Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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OSX not starting?
by bulia byak 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Many OSX people on Slashdot complain that Inkscape does not start for them, just hangs and shows nothing. Does anyone have an idea what's going on? Here's the bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1245978&group_id=9… -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: Missing library in inkscape-00.42 linux 686 rpm
by Gene Heskett 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 18:49, Kees Cook wrote: >On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:16:49PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Message sent > >Cool. I'm uploading a repackaing of the "static" rpm that you can > try out. It's up there now. Ok, but it doesn't seem to have gained much if any weight. >From http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 Shows the i686 static as 11131981 in size. Here its about a meg bigger, so we'll find out. Did you put the executable someplace new? I'm still getting the same error. inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: inkscape: undefined symbol: g_option_error_quark even when I exec /usr/bin/inkscape. Humm, lemme run ldconfig JIC. No, that doesn't help. Should I try the i386 version? This is an XP-2800 Athlon. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.

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Inkscape about screen
by Den=?iso-8859-1?Q?=EDs_Fern=E1ndez_Cabrera?= 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hello, I'm sorry I could not answer before today -- I was working in a summercamp in the middle of the woods, and didn't have any connection to the Net in the past 15 days. I didn't thought the next Inkscape version would be released b efore I came back. The SVG source file, in case you still want it -- or if you still can include it in the program -- is here: http://gatonegro.ceibes.org/arquivo/varios/inksplash1.svg.gz It is useable under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution - Sharealike license, though we can discuss other terms if necessary. Denís. ########################################### # Denís Fernández Cabrera # # Correo, Jabber: denis@...927... # # Güeb: gatonegro.ceibes.org # ########################################### [ Por favor, acusa recibo. ] [ Please confirm reception. ] Kees Cook disse: > Hello! > > I'm not sure if other Inkscape folks have contacted you, but I'm one of > the release wardens for 0.42, and you've won the About Screen contest. > We'd like to get a copy of your original .SVG file so we can include it > in the release. Thanks! > > http://www.deviantart.com/view/19683871/ > > Feel free to send it either to me or to > inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > Thanks again and congratulations! :) > > -- > Kees Cook @outflux.net >

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Inkscape in the Press
by Taraben, Adib 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hi all, after the german c't guy got the information about the release he put a nice articel on their news ticker. http://www.heise.de http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/62184 Adib. ---

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[santiagoroza@...400...: Inkscape / GTK+]
by Bryce Harrington 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Thanks Santiago, a few people have commentd on the windows Gtk+ lib bundling before, but I'll pass your comments along to the developers. They've been investigating alternative packaging approaches, so you may be more satisfied with it in the future. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Santiago Roza <santiagoroza@...400...> ----- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:26:51 -0300 From: Santiago Roza <santiagoroza@...400...> To: bryce@...1... Reply-To: Santiago Roza <santiagoroza@...400...> Subject: Inkscape / GTK+ Hello, my name is Santiago Roza, and I'm a freelance writer for USERS magazine (a tech mag in Argentina and Mexico), specialized in Free software. First of all, I'd like to congratulate you for your work: it's great to have a Free [and top quality] vector drawing program, and it's because of extraordinary people like you that F/OSS keeps evolving. That said, I'd like to make a tiny little suggestion for the Win32 builds: I've seen you guys are bundling the GTK+ libraries with the installer, and while I have to admit that may ease things to some extent, I don't think it's the best (and most thoughtful) choice, considering there are many other Win32 apps which also depend on GTK+ (GIMP, X-Chat, Gaim, Abiword, Dia, and maybe more in the near future). Well I guess that's all for now. Greetings, and thanks in advance. -- Santiago Roza santiagoroza@...400... http://santiagoroza.blogspot.com/ PD: I'm sorry I'm contacting you personally, but I couldn't find a generic Inkscape email adress. ----- End forwarded message -----

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DDC '05 Inkscape presentation
by Bryce Harrington 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I've posted the presentation I gave at the Desktop Developer's Conference in Ottawa last week here: http://www.bryceharrington.com/Present_desktopcon/ Looks like Firefox can display most of it directly, but a few slides are missing some of the elements, so I've also uploaded it as a tarball. To view it, open the tarball, cd into Present_desktopcon/ and then run $ inkview *.svg Also, there is a Slideshow/ directory with some examples of art that folks have done with Inkscape. Bryce

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Re: Re: configure error libgc x86_64
by Hendrik-Jan Heins 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Incorporating the patch was not as smooth as I hoped. The main reason for this was the fact that there's no "autogen.sh" in the inkscape tarball. SO I took that from CVS. However, the patch seems to work. Compiling went ok. I'll send the RPM to the file list in a couple of minutes. Thanks Kees! Hendrik-Jan Thanks for the log. Looks like a "fix" for linking libgc on BSD broke x86_64. :( Try the attached patch for configure.ac (and re-run autogen.sh). Hopefully that will make it work again. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="conf.diff" --- configure.ac 2005-07-24 14:17:54.000000000 -0700 +++ /scratch/src/inkscape/inkscape/configure.ac 2005-07-27 07:07:37.291474392 -0700 @@ -76,6 +76,20 @@ AC_MSG_ERROR([libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape]) fi +dnl Handle possible dlopen requirement for libgc +AC_CHECK_LIB([dld], [shl_load], [lt_cv_dlopen="shl_load" lt_cv_dlopen_libs="-dld"], [AC_CHECK_FUNC([dlopen], + [lt_cv_dlopen="dlopen"], + [AC_CHECK_LIB([dl], [dlopen], + [lt_cv_dlopen="dlopen" lt_cv_dlopen_libs="-ldl"], + [AC_CHECK_LIB([svld], [dlopen], + [lt_cv_dlopen="dlopen" lt_cv_dlopen_libs="-lsvld"], + [AC_CHECK_LIB([dld], [dld_link], + [lt_cv_dlopen="dld_link" lt_cv_dlopen_libs="-dld"]) + ]) + ]) + ]) + ]) + AC_CHECK_HEADERS([gc.h gc/gc.h], [ # To test for the different required libs, I have to @@ -114,9 +128,11 @@ #else # include <gc.h> #endif + #include <stdio.h> extern unsigned GC_version; int main(void){ unsigned min = ((6 << 16) | (4 << 8) | 0); + printf("%d.%d.%d ",GC_version >> 16, (GC_version >> 8) & 0xFF, GC_version & 0xFF); if (GC_version>=min) return 0; return 1; }]])], -- Publieke GnuPG sleutel beschikbaar op de volgende keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu Public GnuPG key available at keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu

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static rpm requires libgc
by bulia byak 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Kees, I just ran ldd on the static 586 binary for 0.41 and 0.42. One difference is that 0.42 requires libgc: libgc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgc.so.1 (0x40661000) while 0.41 did not. Why is that? Can we please fix that? I suspect it's one of the reasons for why so many people have problems with running it now. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape 0.42 release
by Bryce Harrington 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

This weekend the Inkscape 0.42 release was branched and tagged, and packages posted. Congrats to everyone that participated in this release! With CVS now tagged and branched, this means we are past the hard freeze. The codebase is now open for commits. Regarding CVS access: If you need access, the rule is that you must have two patches accepted. I know a *lot* of people had patches accepted, so there's probably a fair number of you who qualify. If this describes you, please email your SourceForge ID to me or another admin. (Note that you can continue using the patch tracker if you prefer, the CVS access is given for your convenience.) Our final step to complete the release is to get word out about the release. Rejon is creating and distributing release announcements, but I would also like to strongly encourage others to send out word. Please help us get word out about Inkscape 0.42. Tell people about the nifty new features it has; show off examples of the cool things you're able to do with it; write articles about it in some of the online news sites; find new mailing lists or websites to send our announcement; demo it at LUG's or other OSS gatherings; help friends or family members install it. Looking further forward, I think there is a general concensus that we want to get 0.43 out more quickly than 0.42. This is mainly to give the SoC students a chance to participate in an open source project's full release cycle. We're hoping that 0.43 can be done on the order of a month or two. Bryce

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linuxformat
by Jon Phillips 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I've been contacted by Linux Format (UK) for an interview about Inkscape for their upcoming issue. Cool! PR pays off! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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recent commits
by Ralf Stephan 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Sorry for touching so much header files again but that's the last time for the next weeks, promise! I thought better this way than in a steady trickle. ralf

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Inkscape 0.42 release
by Bryce Harrington 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Simarilius pointed out that we're getting a surge of interest in our release. Just within the past day, there's been over 28,000 downloads of 0.42 packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=93438&ugn=inkscape… For comparison, we saw 168,750 total downloads of 0.41, including about 35,000 in the first month of the release. I have a feeling we'll be exceeding that a bit this time. ;-) Good work everyone, and congrats to Rejon for getting the release news out all over the internet, and to Bulia for getting an announcement posted to Slashdot today. The Inkscape Marketing Machine in action! :-) It's really impressive to see how well the teamwork has worked for this release; I don't think I could count the number of people who made critical contributions to the process, from debugging to documenting to translation to packaging to marketing. Bryce

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Re: configure error libgc x86_64
by Hendrik-Jan Heins 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Attached is the output of the config.log file. Hendrik-Jan -- Publieke GnuPG sleutel beschikbaar op de volgende keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu Public GnuPG key available at keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu

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./ TIME!!!
by Jon Phillips 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

http://slashdot.org/articles/05/07/27/0149246.shtml?tid=152&tid=1 Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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configure error libgc x86_64
by Hendrik-Jan Heins 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I'm trying to build inkscape on Mandriva Linux 2005LE x86_64. Unfortunately, the build fails on the check for gc/libgc. Here's the output: checking gc.h usability... no checking gc.h presence... no checking for gc.h... no checking gc/gc.h usability... yes checking gc/gc.h presence... yes checking for gc/gc.h... yes checking for GC_init in -lgc... no checking for GC_malloc in -lgc... no checking for GC_realloc in -lgc... no checking for GC_free in -lgc... no configure: error: libgc (the Boehm Conservative Collector) 6.4+, is needed to compile inkscape -- http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc However, gc is installed (version 6.5), and inkscape 0.41 did compile on exactly the same config. On Mandriva Linux 2005LE i586 inkscape 0.42 did configure without problems, using the same gc and configure settings. Does anyone know what's going on here? Hendrik-Jan -- Publieke GnuPG sleutel beschikbaar op de volgende keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu Public GnuPG key available at keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu

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Inkscape Announces 0.42 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org
by Jon Phillips 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

July 26, 2005 — The Inkscape community today announced the release of Inkscape 0.42, a cross-platform Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing tool. Inkscape 0.42 is the most feature-filled release to date, with an exceptional number of major and minor new features, usability improvements, and bug fixes. While some of the new features simply fill long-standing functionality gaps, others are truly revolutionary. Inkscape 0.42 is one step closer to full SVG compliance. This release adds: * Flowed Text: Text objects that automatically re-flow to any shape (and not just a rectangle). * Text Selection: One can now select part of a text and apply any style to the selection, just like in a word processing application. * Gradient Tool: A completely redesigned and much easier to use on-canvas gradient interface with handles displayed directly in the drawing. * Effects: These are now usable from within Inkscape on all platforms. This version ships with a collection of effects including path interpolation, randomization, and various fractal algorithms. * Color Swatches: This standard facility of most graphics software is now a part of Inkscape. * Colored Clones: Clones may now be painted differently from their original. * Tile Tracing: The Tile Clones dialog can trace an existing image with tiling, producing a multitude of exciting effects. * Grid Arrange, Baseline Align, Unclumping: There are new, powerful ways to arrange objects. * Better PS/EPS Export: PostScript level 3 gradient support, better text handling, and a command line option for batch export are in this release. * Command Line SVG Analysis: Inkscape may now be used from the command line to query coordinates and dimensions of objects in an SVG file. * Better SVG/CSS Compliance: Notably, internal CSS stylesheets are now supported (read-only). * Mac OS X Support: In addition to Linux and Windows, Inkscape 0.42 is now available as a fully self-contained dmg package for Mac OS X. There are also dozens of smaller features and usability enhancements (especially in the Fill & Stroke dialog, Node tool, and drawing tools). In this version the development community closed 404 bugs, some quite serious, and 165 feature requests. Overall, the Inkscape developers are very excited about this release and heartily recommend upgrading. Thanks to Google's Summer of Code, there are four new student developers adding new functionality to Inkscape this summer. Michael Wybrow is adding connectors for automatic diagramming. David Yip is picking up the development of Inkboard (http://inkboard.sf.net/) to integrate networked collaborative editing of documents to Inkscape. Matthew Squires is adding DXF Import and Export. Greg Steffensen is working with the Open Clip Art Library to make a common graphical interface from the Library to Inkscape. Thanks to the $20,000 worth of funding for these developments from Google, the Inkscape developers are aiming to accelerate the development cycle for the next few releases in order to promote these projects. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.42: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes042 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, PostScript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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SVGSlice extension progress (none so far)
by Lee Braiden 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Jon Philips wrote: > Hello, I'm curious to your progress on SVGSlice and making it into an > extension? Could you send an email to the Inkscape mailing list please > about this...thanks! Jon, I'm sorry to report that I've been too busy to work on this lately. It definitely won't be ready to coincide with the next Inkscape release, if that's what you're wondering :( I *do* want to get it done, though, and my time has freed up recently. So, I'll try to get started on it soon, and hopefully have it all working before 0.44 is released. If anyone can point me to the latest docs for writing Inkscape extensions, that would help some. -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com

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20 minutes to edit this
by Jon Phillips 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PressRelease042 Okay, I've put it together...please edit and I will then make the personalized (informal) version from this and then start seeding this release. I'm serious...just edit the page directly and/or post some things here...I'd like to start sending out around 12:30 PM my time PST. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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release notes should be htmlized?
by Ralf Stephan 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

In case noone noticed: The link on the SF Files page with text 0.42 points to a flat text file filling the full page without structure. ralf

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0.42 announcements?
by Kees Cook 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Okay, I think all the packages are on SF now. Who's going to add the News item on the main inkscape site? (Or rather, what else is left to do?) -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: confusion on the mandriva bug
by mike＠...869... 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

But you compiled Inkscape itself with apbuild, right? That should be good enough when using static libraries. At any rate, the dependencies look OK. I'd suggest people test this new package and let's see if we do any better. Original Message: ----------------- From: aaron@...749... Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:20:30 -0500 To: mike@...869..., inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: confusion on the mandriva bug mike@...869... wrote: > Base system stuff, available nearly anywhere. The wild card is libC of > course but that's what apbuild is for. If you compiled things statically > using apbuild it should be fine. Maybe I do have a problem then. The only libs I compiled were libgc, libglibmm and libgtkmm. Of those only libgc was compiled with apbuild. Aaron Spike -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: confusion on the mandriva bug
by mike＠...869... 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

> Well I'm pretty sure it wasn't a typo. I partly followed Kees' > instructions and here is the result. OK, let's have a look NEEDED libpthread.so.0 NEEDED libm.so.6 NEEDED libgcc_s.so.1 NEEDED libc.so.6 NEEDED libz.so.1 Base system stuff, available nearly anywhere. The wild card is libC of course but that's what apbuild is for. If you compiled things statically using apbuild it should be fine. NEEDED libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 NEEDED libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 NEEDED libatk-1.0.so.0 NEEDED libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 NEEDED libgthread-2.0.so.0 NEEDED libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 NEEDED libpango-1.0.so.0 NEEDED libgobject-2.0.so.0 NEEDED libgmodule-2.0.so.0 NEEDED libglib-2.0.so.0 No *mm libraries there, so it looks like it worked! I'm surprised pangoft2 and ATK are there though. Very few programs use those libraries, if they're in the DT_NEEDED list it sometimes indicates the dep stripper isn't working (or it wasn't compiled with apbuild). You can probably ignore this though. NEEDED libxml2.so.2 NEEDED libpng12.so.0 NEEDED libX11.so.6 NEEDED libfontconfig.so.1 NEEDED libfreetype.so.6 NEEDED libstdc++.so.5 These all look OK to me. > Does that look good? I see that Kees' instructions have even more > compiled in staticly. Yes, Kees statically links nearly everything, but for the autopackage we take a less aggressive approach. For instance it's reasonable to assume GTK+ is present (though it may not be new enough!). Likewise, libstdc++.so.5 is usually either present or easily gettable - and we're likely to start 'fixing' distros that don't ship with it in future. thanks -mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: confusion on the mandriva bug
by unknown＠example.com 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Bob Jamison wrote: > Heh. You might want to check your computer's clock. > The email is dated 01/02/1970. ;-) This is completely off topic. I sent that email yesterday so I would expect it to have been 2005-07-25. But I've been playing with date conversion (unix timestamps to human dates) in MSAccess so that I can work more efficiently with data from our weather station and it seems to be changing the date on my computer. Hmmm. Screwy. Thanks for noticing, Aaron Spike

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