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Inkscape 0.42 effects dependencies in gentoo
by Bryce Harrington 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hiya Zephyr, One of the cool new things in 0.42 is that there is now a way for users to turn on the Effects menu. Effects are basically scripts that the user can invoke to do specialized actions to the drawing. Think Gimp's Script-Fu. However, there's a small packaging issue that I've noticed, that needs to be figured out. The scripts depend on some other language modules (Perl scripts need SVG.pm, python scripts need PyXML), and sometimes some other random bits and pieces (e.g. Sketch for file conversion). In general, if you just emerge inkscape, it doesn't pick up those deps, which is probably correct since they're not truly compile-time dependencies. However, on the other hand it's inconveient to have to manually figure out and emerge all the deps. Anyway, I'm wondering if there could be a way set up for the 0.42 package where users could have a way to choose between having just the compile-time deps installed, vs. having both them and the optional deps installed as well? Bryce

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Release Issues Report 5: 1 stopper, 3 important
by Kees Cook 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

If other folks can examine the W3C tests, that'll help too. SHOW STOPPERS - [pjrm] Possible W3C test regressions. Status: Peter needs to take a look and verify/fix. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1224751&group_… IMPORTANT - [scislac] The About screen is not updated. Status: Winner is MIA. Runners up have been contacted. - [ishmal, bulia] Win98 crash Status: nothing obvious found. A debug build has been made: http://inkscape.org/win32/inkscape-exe-iodebug.zip - [verbalshadow] untranslatable strings in Transformation & Swatches dialog Status: this is in progress, patches coming soon. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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rss and planet
by Alexandre Prokoudine 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi, Am I the only one who experiences brokeness of RSS feed from planet.inkscape.org? Liferea tells me about "HTTP 404: Resource Not Found" for http://planet.inkscape.org/planetrss20.xml Alexandre

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Release Issues Report 9: 0 stopper, 1 important
by Kees Cook 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

Ted will be starting up the pre3 build tonight. IMPORTANT - [ishmal, bulia] Win98 crash Status: nothing obvious found. A debug build has been made: http://inkscape.org/win32/inkscape-exe-iodebug.zip No new clues, even with build. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Release Issues Report 7: 1 stopper, 2 important
by Kees Cook 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

If other folks can examine the W3C tests, that'll help too. Especially if you know how styles work in Inkscape. :) SHOW STOPPERS - [pjrm] Possible W3C test regressions. Status: Peter needs to take a look and verify/fix. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1224751&group_… IMPORTANT - [scislac] The About screen is not updated. Status: Winner is MIA. Runners up have been contacted. - [ishmal, bulia] Win98 crash Status: nothing obvious found. A debug build has been made: http://inkscape.org/win32/inkscape-exe-iodebug.zip -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Translation Dialog icons broken (win32?)
by Taraben, Adib 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

>On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:06:04PM -0700, Jon Phillips wrote: >> > The scale Icons are displayed corectly. >> > I really can not see any reason for this in the code. >> >> I filed a bug on this... > >Where is this bug? I can't find it now for some reason. > >It looks like the Transform dialog doesn't even USE svg icons. It only >uses XPM. How is a regression like this even possible? > >-- >Kees Cook @outflux.net I added a note on this one 1217367 transform dialog problems http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1217367&group_id=9… Adib.

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Release Issues Report 4: 6 remaining
by Kees Cook 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

SHOW STOPPERS - [pjrm] Possible W3C test regressions. Status: Peter needs to take a look and verify/fix. - [theadib, ishmal] Bug 1230742 (etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc broken in windows build) Status: may be fixed with: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1241293&group_id=… Needs Linux cross-compile testing. Need location of Win32 libraries published! How do we compile for Win32? IMPORTANT - [scislac, bulia, kees] The About screen is not updated. Status: Winner is MIA. Need to contact runners-up. Who can do this? - [acspike, ishmal, joncruz] Release notes not complete. Please edit: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes - [ishmal] Win98 crash Status: if ishmal finds an easy fix, we need to take it, else we release with the bug - [?] untranslatable strings in Transformation & Swatches dialog Status: strings need to be found and localized. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Release Issues Report 5: 1 stopper, 4 important
by Kees Cook 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

I think we should cut pre3. If the W3C stuff turns out not to be a problem, we can move ahead. No sense waiting, IMHO. SHOW STOPPERS - [pjrm] Possible W3C test regressions. Status: Peter needs to take a look and verify/fix. IMPORTANT - [scislac] The About screen is not updated. Status: Winner is MIA. Runners up have been contacted. - [acspike, ishmal, joncruz] Release notes not complete. Status: Empty notes will be removed at release time. http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes - [ishmal] Win98 crash Status: if ishmal finds an easy fix, we need to take it, else we release with the bug - [kees] untranslatable strings in Transformation & Swatches dialog Status: strings need to be found and localized. Will release anyway if corrections aren't found. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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release issues
by bulia byak 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

- The About screen is not there yet. Has anyone contacted http://anarres.deviantart.com/ to get the SVG for #30 from him/her? - My patch for the freeze bug is not committed still. Release wardens, please take note. - Consequently, pre3 is not out yet. - Release notes for Ishmal and Joncruz still not filled out. - No one bothered to respond to my crash report on Win98. Does this mean we'll have to release with that bug? - No one submitted any screenshots for the site. - Reck Beton reports (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1224751&group_…) that we're having a number of regressions with regard to the W3C test suite, compared to earlier 0.42 builds. In particular, he says that styling tests no longer work. Peter, please look into this because that is an important feature touted in the release notes. - Mental has filed another fix-before-release bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1240029&group_id=… If JonCruz will not take care of that, patches are welcome. - I _think_ that issue lists such as this one should ideally be compiled by the current release wardens, not me... -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [santiagoroza@...400...: Inkscape / GTK+]
by Robert Staudinger 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:41 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Yes, I definitely agree. After all, we"re application developers first, > package distributors a distant second. We need to be looking for ways > to move that responsibility upstream, as we"ve been able to do with the > unix packages. We used to put great attention into crafting debian, > gentoo, rpm, etc. packages each release for each distro, but as time has > passed and as we"ve gotten into more and more distros, today we are able > to mostly leave that work to the experts and focusing on just putting > out a good core package. Being able to take that same approach with the > Windows package would sure simplify things; consider how much trouble > the Windows build has been this time through, and the extra work > required for testing and fixing it up. If another group were able to > take the responsibility for this, it would simplify our release process > and enable the Inkscape releasers to focus even more on the software, > rather than the packaging. The gladewin32 project provides dependency packages for the win32 version of gnumeric if i'm not mistaken. It is very well maintained too. Maybe there would be a way to work together? Best, Rob (not affiliated with any of the projects mentioned)

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Win32 build notes
by Kees Cook 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

Oh, I'm answering my own question. Here is where ishmal put the build notes: http://inkscape.org/win32/win32buildnotes.html I need someone to go through these steps and verify the build (I don't have cycles right now). -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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possible addition to topic in about> tutorials
by Jared Thompson Test Account 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

in the help > tutorials > tutorial-tips.svg under the heading of "Entering Unicode Values" and it gives the example of Ctrl+U 2 0 1 4, there should also be placed a website so people can look up the codes for commonly used characters, if there is a website that details that. http://www.unicode.org/ucd/ The reason why I say this, is for instance, in our company, we build ads, and it is necessary to do lists, and tm's etc a few more usefull codes: 00AE registered sign 2122 trade mark 2022 bullet etc..

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showstopper crash on win 98 & release plans
by bulia byak 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

I see in Jabber someone suggested doing the release on Monday. I think it's not realistic for these reasons: 1. The pre2 still has no windows exe. What's up with it? This is CRITICALLY important because after pre1, Bob switched to the new libraries, which are very different (e.g. include gtk-wimp). So we currently have NO prerelease for the users to test these libs (apart from daily builds). It's a pretty drastic upgrade and I insist that we need AT LEAST TWO full prereleases, each with sufficient time allowance, to minimally test it. 2. To illustrate the above point, I just found a crash bug on Windows 98 (Russian) with the latest daily build, Inkscape0507151800.zip. Namely, when I use the Open dialog to go to a directory with a Russian name, opening any file from there crashes it. What's worse, it remebers that initial directory in the prefs, and when I do File>Open next time, it crashes immediately. The program becomes simply unusable until you delete your prefs file. I then tested the same on a WIn2k (Russian) system, there it works fine. However I don't think we can release it with such a bug even if it only affects Win 98 non-English versions. Here's what I get in an error box when it crashes: Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0) aborting... Then I get another box with: Runtime Error! Program: C:\INK-LATEST\INKSCAPE.EXE abnormal program termination Then I get yet another box with two messages: Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0) aborting... Pango-WARNING (recursed) **: Couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 7" falling back to "Sans 7" aborting... And then again the "Runtime error" box (so 4 boxes in total before it finally dies). I then tried to get a backtrace but I could not, because when run from gdb (included with the build), it crashes right on startup: C:\ink-latest>gdb.exe inkscape.exe GNU gdb 5.2.1 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32"... (gdb) run Starting program: C:\ink-latest/inkscape.exe Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x01c89fb1 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x01c89fb1 in ?? () #1 0x00000187 in ?? () #2 0xc95e2824 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0x54890187 (gdb) All this worked fine in the builds with previous libraries (without gtk-wimp). 3. And last not least, the "freeze on quit with Transform dialog" but seems to be harder than it seemed at first. Looks like there's not much progress there. And looks like if it's fixed, the fix will involve some pretty deep and dangerous changes, so it will need to be tested for quite some time. 4. Smaller issues: nsis patch not committed yet (waiting for a Windows-savvy tester?), and the new About is not in CVS yet. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Wanted: Windows user to review inkscape.nsi patches
by Peter Moulder 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Release wardens are supposed to act as reviewer for the patches posted to the tracker, but I don't have access to a Windows machine, nor any other reason to learn NSIS. Can we have someone to act as release warden for inkscape.nsi ? Documentation for NSIS files is at http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/ so you don't really need to have any previous NSIS experience to be a better reviewer than I. (I haven't yet asked Kees as to whether he has access to a Windows machine or any familiarity with NSIS.) pjrm.

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Release Issues Report 3: 6 remaining
by Kees Cook 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

- [scislac] The About screen is not updated. Status: Winner is MIA. Waiting until after pre3, then moving to 2nd place. - [ishmal, joncruz] Release notes for Ishmal and Joncruz still not filled out. - [ishmal] Win98 crash Status: if ishmal finds an easy fix, we need to take it, else we release with the bug - [pjrm] Possible W3C test regressions. Status: Peter needs to take a look and verify/fix. - [theadib, ishmal] Bug 1230742 (etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc broken in windows build) Status: may be fixed with: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1241293&group_id=… Needs Linux cross-compile testing. - [?] untranslatable strings in Transformation & Swatches dialog Status: strings need to be found and localized. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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unlocalizable stuff
by Arpad Biro 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Hi, Taking a look at today's CVS it seems the Transformation and the Swatches dialog still has unlocalizable strings. Arpad Biro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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status (questions from desktopcon)
by Jon Phillips 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Hello guys, Bryce and I both presented yesterday which went quite well. We hung out with Carl Worth, Keith Packard and others after our talks and discussed Cairo, etc. More on that later... Anyhow, people here at ddc are asking about the status of the Inkscape release? Where is the release at? Also, is there anyone Bryce and I should talk to about libraries, etc? We can do some mediating... (www.desktopcon.org) Man, it is great to get recognition for Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library. It seems our projects are fairly well known now :) Jon -- Jon Phillips USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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Timing for last pre-release?
by Ted Gould 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Hey guys, So, it looks like Bulia has fixed the transform bug, and the nsi installer has been checked in... when should the last planned prerelease be? (assuming that it is 'bug free' of course :) ) --Ted

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Updated de.po for 0.42
by Colin Marquardt 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Hi, I uploaded a finished de.po for 0.42 to the patch tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1240546&group_id=… Cheers, Colin

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-devel] SVG in OpenDocument]
by unknown＠example.com 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Quoting Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@...240...>: > If you refer to the use of the SVG Namespace, the latest > specification uses > urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatible:1.0 for > SVG elements and attributes (and similar ones for SMIL, XSL-FO, > etc.) Excellent news! Sounds like the SVG WG got them straightened out after all. -mental

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Build report - 20050713-0000
by Bryce Harrington 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

= Analysis Report for inkscape = Platform Unpack Config Build Install WRNS ERRS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ debian x86 0 0 0 0 5 0 Test Status Score Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sut-1 ?? == Errors == none == Warnings == 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:112: warning: invalid access to non-static data member ` display/sp-canvas.cpp:112: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp:226: warning: enumeration value ` == Environment Summary ==

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Inkscape stats for 7/15/05
by Bryce Harrington 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

Here's the latest stats. With the activity related to the release preparations, many of the numbers have changed significantly. Notably, the translation ratio has improved from 47 to over 53 percent, and the bug open/total ratio has improved from 17% down to 13%. Statistics May 15 Jun 15 Jul 15 ========== ====== ====== ====== Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: * 33 24 Total SF Page Views * 3,679,803 3,883,175 Total SF Downloads * 270,500 296,189 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 18,691 19,482 20,139 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 181 186 192 Lines of Code in src/: 373,651 375,836 377,392 Code lines 259,984 261,201 262,446 Comment line 67,053 67,657 67,807 Blank 53,244 53,632 53,795 Lines of Docs in doc/: 26,848 27,792 28,090 Lines of content in website: 39,865 42,610 43,136 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 27,052 27,712 29,755 Bugs open/total: 208/1196 199/1271 182/1351 Features open/total: 442/ 712 466/746 432/ 781 Patches open/total: 11/ 221 18/247 15/ 303 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 11,897 12,181 12,607 Inkscape-devel membership: 173 180 190 Inkscape-announce membership: 197 207 221 Inkscape-user membership: 242 257 255 Num Translations: 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.0 48.3 53.6 * - Statistics unavailable Bryce

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More about inkview
by Jose Hevia 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

Ummm, so ¿Where is inkview in Windows? Jose Hevia

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Inkscape 0.41 Mandriva 2005LE?
by bulia byak 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

Someone uploaded "Inkscape 0.41 Mandriva 2005LE" to our file tracker. What is it? Why 0.41 now? Even if it is needed, it should go into the 0.41 section. As it is, it replaces pre2 from the position of the default download, which is not good. Please fix ASAP. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Scribus Team Releases 1.3.0 - La Liberté
by PLinnell 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce a technology preview of the next generation of Scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing. The aim for this release is to bring improvements and enhancements for both professionals and beginning users alike. 1.3.0 improves Scribus' abilities in areas like performance, accessibility and workflow. With this release, we also commence support for Scribus running natively on Windows and Mac OS X. While it is very stable and usable, there are a number of under the hood changes which will continue through the 1.3.x series * Work is on-going to make Scribus more platform independent and alpha quality builds of Scribus are already working on Win32 and Mac OS X. A native Mac OS X build is available here: http://aqua.scribus.net * There is a new undo system, which includes an undo palette that has the undo history with details of each action. Undo also has object specific capabilities. The number of undo/redo steps can be set in the preferences. * Revised document and application preferences. Extensive attention has been placed on making preferences easier to use with document and application preferences distinctly separated. * Scribus now has "scratch space" which can be used to store objects partially or fully off the page. * Scribus can now generate Tables of Contents, based on user definable/selectable attributes. * Scribus now has its own built-in pre-flight verifier for printing or exporting to PDF. The pre-flighter is designed to look for issues which might cause problems when printing or exporting PDF. * More professional DTP features like adding ciceros for measurement units and support. Scribus now has true facing page support and page objects such as images can span them. * Scribus now has more extensive support for CMYK images, as well as clipping paths in TIFF files, CMYK-JPEG, as well as new support for native Photoshop ® PSD files. 16-bit RGB/CMYK TIFF and PSD support will follow soon. ICC color management of for these image formats is also upgraded. * New image effect features including tinting, greyscaling, blurring, colorizing and sharpening. * Scribus 1.3.0 now supports PDF 1.5 features including layers in PDF. * Scribus 1.3.0 uses an intermediary file format based on the Scribus 1.2.x format. The new format to finally replace this intermediary format is in design and development stages and its implementation will begin soon. For future development versions, we will be announcing competitions for icon sets and splashscreens. The Scribus Team would also like to thank Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting and n@...886... GmbH, Hamburg for gracefully sponsoring our Scribus Documentation site, our Bug Tracker and Anonymous CVS server. Also, a note of thanks to University of Salford - School of Media, Music and Performance for providing continued hosting of www.scribus.net and upgrading the server hardware. Getting Scribus 1.3.0 You can: Download from our Sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235 Download from: http://www.scribus.org.uk/ Get the MacOSX build from: http://aqua.scribus.net Screenshots: http://scribus.sourceforge.net/gallery/

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