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Inkscape build test system + current results
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

A couple weeks ago, Kees and I set up an automated test harness for Inkscape. It's been running smoothly and collecting test results. Currently, the harness simply retrieves the nightly snapshots and builds them, logging compilation or installation problems. Anyway, I notice it's found a few warnings: ### BUILD ### Making all in src display/canvas-arena.cpp: In function `void sp_canvas_arena_class_init(SPCanvasArenaClass*)': display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: invalid access to non-static data member `SPCanvasArenaClass::arena_event' of NULL object display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used incorrectly) display/sp-canvas.cpp: In function `void sp_canvas_item_class_init(SPCanvasItemClass*)': display/sp-canvas.cpp:112: warning: invalid access to non-static data member `SPCanvasItemClass::event' of NULL object display/sp-canvas.cpp:112: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used incorrectly) libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp: In function `const char* Inkscape::Text::weight_to_text(PangoWeight)': libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp:226: warning: enumeration value `PANGO_WEIGHT_SEMIBOLD' not handled in switch livarot/float-line.cpp: In member function `void FloatLigne::Affiche()': livarot/float-line.cpp:518: warning: long unsigned int format, size_t arg (arg 2) livarot/float-line.cpp:524: warning: long unsigned int format, size_t arg (arg 2) Making all in po am.po: parsing error for `<defs>': #: ../src/main.cpp:326 msgid "Remove unused definitions from the <defs> section(s) of the document" msgstr "" (repeated for each language) WARNING: Bad markup found in translations. Please consider fixing the above problems. BUILD STATUS: 0 ======================================================================== pkgpath=/testing/packages/inkscape/inkscape-20050703-1400.tar.bz2 id=86 ======================================================================== Bryce

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New Inkscape Tutorial Article
by Jon Phillips 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/56/Inkscape_Vector_Graphics.pdf I also added a link on the wiki: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ArticlesAndPresentations It is in Issue 56: July 2005 of Linux Magazine. It is a nice little article covering how to draw with Inkscape. The PDF above has the whole article! I also noted in my daily scan of the linux magazines that the PR we send out for OCAL and Inkscape makes it into most of the magazines now, if only a little blurb...soooo....great! 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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Blogs for Inkscape contributers (mainly SoC)
by Jonathan Leighton 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hi everyone, I am going to be setting up WordPress blogs for those who would like one, in response to the request for them for SoC people. Any Inkscape contributer is eligible for a blog, and you are very much encouraged to write one : ). I am going to set them up on the default "Kubrick" template, but if you want to customise yours you are free to do so. I will help people out with admin issues... but if such issues are created by you writing a template, adding plugins, etc. I won't be able to help (sorry, but I don't have time). Details I need are: 1) Name 2) E-mail address 3) A 'title' for your blog When it is set up I will email you details so that you can log into your account and begin blogging. You will be the administrator and responsible for doing any configuration that you need/want (don't worry there's nothing hard). However, as I say, I am willing to help with problems so long as said problems are not the result of plugins or themes you've added. Jon -- Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/

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Blogs for Inkscape contributers (mainly SoC)
by Greg Steffensen 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Greg Steffensen <greg.steffensen@...400...> Date: Jul 9, 2005 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Blogs for Inkscape contributers (mainly SoC) To: Jonathan Leighton <turnip@...583...> No prob, I never intended to cause quite this much discussion :). I've already setup mine at http://summerofclipart.blogspot.com Greg On 7/9/05, Jonathan Leighton <turnip@...583...> wrote: > > Jon Phillips wrote: > > >I don't think we should offer blogs at all. I think this is the > >participants responsibility. Also, I think that we shouldn't offer and > >then cut off as that is kinda not good for these people to feel like > >they should continue working on Inkscape. > > > >I can invite anyone who wants a blog on tribe.net <http://tribe.net/> . > That is free and > >really good quality. Also, it will be around forever. I used that blog > >on that site as well. I think we need to nip in the bud adding more > >maintenance tasks and also want to encourage people to stick around. I > >would be willing to help any participant of Inkscape SoC to set up a > >blog off-site. > > > I'd agree if we had not already offered the blogs. To be honest it won't > be a great difficulty because SF has an SVN client installed so I can > just do a straight checkout of the release tag and set it up. > > Michael and Greg (the two who wanted blogs), what do you think about > this? What are your opinions? Would you be happy setting up an off-site > blog instead? > > Jon > > -- > Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip > http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/ > >

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unlocalizable entries 2
by Arpad Biro 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hi, Some more unlocalizable strings from current CVS: Ruler tooltips: "Pixels", "Millimeters", "Points", "Centimeters", "Meters", "Inches" Swatches dialog: "small", "medium", "large", "huge", "List", "Grid" File type descriptions when saving document ("Compressed Inkscape SVG", ...) Arpad Biro ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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ANN: SVG_RenderTest 0.1 (was Re: [Clipart] Anyone try librsvg2 on the clipart)
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:11:21PM +0100, Stephen Silver wrote: > Jon Phillips wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 15:02 +0100, Stephen Silver wrote: > > > We should try to make the SVG files as portable as possible. > > Did you file a bug on our bug tracker. > I'm compiling a list of problematic SVG files in release 0.15. > So far I've found 49. Okay... I think it's time to take our SVG QA up a notch. ;-) SVG_RenderTest is a new test program for doing regression testing of SVG rendering. You can download it from the Inkscape File downloads page, or directly from here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=157… `runtest` is a bash script that takes *.svg files in the current directory and attempts to render them into png's using Inkscape, librsvg, cairo, and batik. It reports PASS or FAIL for each. )See the README for the full list of programs that this test expects to be installed.) It also performs a visual 'diff' of the rendered images using the Motiontrack software. This calculates a score showing how relatively different the images are, and also generates a PNG that visually displays the brightness difference of the files. Here is an example of the results this test generates: 1.inkscape PASS : 0 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.librsvg PASS : 0 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.cairo PASS : 0 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.batik PASS : 0 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.cairo-mdiff FAIL : 2 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.inkscape-mdiff FAIL : 8 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.librsvg-mdiff FAIL : 2 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 2.inkscape PASS : 0 daggers 2.librsvg PASS : 0 daggers 2.cairo PASS : 0 daggers 2.batik PASS : 0 daggers 2.cairo-mdiff FAIL : 7 daggers 2.inkscape-mdiff FAIL : 8 daggers 2.librsvg-mdiff FAIL : 7 daggers 3.inkscape PASS : 0 sword_hanger 3.librsvg PASS : 0 sword_hanger 3.cairo PASS : 0 sword_hanger 3.batik PASS : 0 sword_hanger 3.cairo-mdiff FAIL : 1 sword_hanger 3.inkscape-mdiff FAIL : 8 sword_hanger 3.librsvg-mdiff FAIL : 1 sword_hanger The numbers in the third column are either the exit code or, in the case of mdiff, a score that shows the relative difference between batik's output and the output from the given program. The higher the score, the worse the difference. You can see examples of the visual diffs here: http://www.inkscape.org/svg_rendertest_example/ The motivations for this test are to help: 1. Regression testing of known bad SVG's (i.e. for Inkscape QA) 2. Compliance testing of Inkscape against the W3C test suite 3. SVG compatibility testing between different SVG rendering engines 4. Testing of the Open Clip Art Library images (ob OCAL thread) This first release works well enough on my machine, but certainly leaves plenty of room for improvement. ;-) Please send me patches if you have ideas for improvements or spot bugs. Enjoy, Bryce

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unlocalizable entries
by Arpad Biro 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hi, It seems that in the current CVS version, a lot of strings in the Transformation dialog are unlocalizable (all of them except the 5 tab titles and the button text). Arpad Biro ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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Nightly build service
by Mike Hearn 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

Hi, I'm in the process of moving my stuff to a new server and the nightly build service has been down for a while. I only have network access sporadically right now, and so I can't really maintain the nightly builds. Aaron Spike has taken over building the release autopackages: Aaron, would you be willing to do the nightly builds too? I can give you an account on my new server if you can do the work, I just don't have time anymore to fix it when the build breaks. Alternatively, as autopackages can be built by anybody, if somebody else wants to take up the reigns please do let me know. thanks -mike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Summer of Code: DXF support, and my horrible
by Matt Squires 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 21:00:26 +0400 > From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> > To: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Summer of Code: DXF support, > and my horrible pessism. > > On 7/8/05, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > Dia already has a library for importing DXF (and there are probably other > > open source programs with their own custom DXF support and some with more > > *cough* dxflib *cough* > > http://www.ribbonsoft.com/dxflib.html That looks somewhat familiar. It is licensed under the GPL. > > liberal licensing than others). So if he chooses to write something new from scratch there is absolutely no point in making it any less than LGPL. I expect the mentors are making sure to keep people on the right track. > > generalised and turned into a library that could be shared by Inkscape and > > other applications to share the maintainance burden (or failing that make > > the new code for Inkscape so that it can be reused by other applications). > > Sure, iirc support for WMF was promised by the same guy. *cough* libwmf *cough* That would be pretty sweet alright. Even if plans change I'm sure there is no shortage of file formats Inkscape would like to support and I'm more optimistic now he will be able to produce something great. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ --__--__-- Here is where I am on the dxf importing so far. A few weeks ago I checked the dxf libraries that are already out there (dime, Qcad (dxflib), blender were specifically mentioned in the proposal) and found all are GPL'd. After a discussion with Jon about licensing I became more aware of the possibility of releasing under several licenses. So I decided to write a dxf importing code using STL containers to hold the various levels of data. I hope that it will be something others can reuse. I plan to release it at least under the LGPL maybe some other licenses. At lease LGPL. As far a Dia. I thought about it few days ago but didn't bother to look because I was mostly done with the main parts of dxf reader. After today's posts I looked more closely and it is also GPL'd. Gnuplot will export to dxf so I will check that out in the near future. BTW what is libwmf? Matt

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effects menu
by bulia byak 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

Is there any specific reason we have the Effects menu off by default? >From what I heard extensions now work even on Windows, so why not enable them for the release? If they don't work without Python installed, do we now have a nice dialog that shows up when you try to run an extension (NOT on running Inkscape :) and says you need to install the interpreter? With such a dialog or something similar, I would vote for enabling the Effects menu. And in any case, I would like to remove the big "EXPERIMENTAL" in the preferences label. It conveys no information, just scares users away. Thoughts? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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lingering documents
by MenTaLguY 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

Well, so far I've not been able to find an actual memory leak with documents, but I have discovered that SPDocuments ARE actually managed by the garbage collector. Apparently I converted SPDocument over and then forgot about it. So, the upshot is that the old document will linger for some time until the next garbage collection pass. That wouldn't be an issue, except some stuff currently ties extra cleanup (like tearing down namedviews) too tightly to freeing memory, when it should really be done earlier. In the short term, the thing to do IS in fact to force a garbage collection when the document is closed. Apologies to the people I've gotten in arguments with over this... you all were right. The only trick is that the forced collection pass can't happen too early -- e.g. if there are still references to the old SPDocument in local variables somewhere in the call chain, or from other garbage-collected objects, that will prevent it from being collected. -mental

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Text and Font dialog crashes Inkscape
by Jean-Francois Lemaire 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Hello, I've just submitted a bug with this. Since Inkscape is so close to a new release, I thought it might be better to also post it here. This is with current CVS as of 09/07/2005 under SuSE Linux - enter some text (F8) - select the text (F1) - select the "Text and Font dialog" (Shift Control T) Inkscape crashes. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1235382&group_id=9… Jef

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python extension scripts on win32?
by lode leroy 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Can anyone confirm if these work, or at least, are expected to work? I have created a path, and selected some of these effects, but I see no result. Is there a way to get some feedback? (like --verbose from the command line?) BTW, I'm trying out Inkscape-0.41+0.42pre1-1.win32.exe on WinXP-SP1 -- lode

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Summer of Code: DXF support, and my horrible pessism.
by Alan Horkan 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

I'd like to know more about the Summer of Code project to add DXF support to Inkscape. I've read the Proposals page on the wiki http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOC_Accepted_Proposals What I am really interested to know is about reuse of code. The project description doesn't make any suggestion about reusing existing code and it looks like as if the Author is going to write something from scratch (possibly including other dxf code he has written previously). Dia already has a library for importing DXF (and there are probably other open source programs with their own custom DXF support and some with more liberal licesing than others). I would very much like to see this code generalised and turned into a library that could be shared by Inkscape and other applications to share the maintainance burden (or failing that make the new code for Inkscape so that it can be reused by other applications). I think the only way the project can succeed beyond the Summer of Code is if it produces code that can be used by more than just inkscape. We've all seen people gradually lose interest and watched bitrot set in. And will the inkscape developers be encouraging him to LGPL this code rather than merely GPL it? Sincerely Alan Horkan P.S. Sorry to be so pessimistic about it all.

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Translation to Brazilian Portuguese
by Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Hello dear inkscapers, I would like to translate this wonderful programa to Brazilian Portuguese. Is there anyone already doing it? Best regards. Frederico ------------------ Linux User #228171 Debian-BR User #434 <http://teia.bio.br> "Liberdade, essa palavra que o sonho humano alimenta, que não há ninguém que explique e ninguém que não entenda." (Cecília Meireles) _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador agora! http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/

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data argument in XML node listeners
by David Yip 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Is the void* data argument in XML node listeners available to pass extra data to listener callback routines, or does it have another function that would prevent that purpose? (For example, passing a pointer to an instance of a class that is unique on a per-document basis.) I've been reading the listener and DOM tree implementation and it seems that this is correct, but I just wanted to make sure. -- David

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Updated Mingw cross-compiler
by Bob Jamison 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Hi, all, I uploaded a newer version of the cross-compiler. It is gcc3.4.4, built for i686-pc-mingw32, and with --enable-sjlj-exceptions. These options are intended to match the version of gcc that is provided in the Mingw 4.1.0 distribution. It is built to run at /usr/local/xmingw, like the previous cross-compiler. I uploaded a copy here : http://inkscape.org/win32 It is this file: http://inkscape.org/win32/xmingw-3.4.4.tar.bz2 Bob (ishmal)

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Gtk::TreeViewColumn hack
by Bob Jamison 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

After checking the web, I found a simple hack on the Gtkmm bug tracker that will treat the symptom of Gtk::TreeViewColumn not being imported properly (and also later causing the Memory dialog to crash.) I am going to upload another copy of the libs with the tweak, but if anyone already has the new libs, it would be much simpler just to edit: gtk26/include/gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm/treeviewcolumn.h. Line 88 should read: class __declspec(dllimport) TreeViewColumn : public Gtk::Object That's 2 '_' Delete src\ui\dialog\memory.o and build again. Should work fine now. If this works for everyone, then I guess we can close the bug for now. Bob (ishmal)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] python extension scripts on win32?
by unknown＠example.com 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Jasper van de Gronde wrote: > On win32 you can connect STDERR to a pipe if you're using CreateProcess > (which at least the code in src/extension/implementation/script.cpp > currently does). The relevant member of the STARTUPINFO struct is > hStdError, as far as I know it can be set to the same handle as hStdOut > (which has the disadvantage of possibly making it harder to separate > error messages from normal output) as well as a different handle (which > would make getting results from the program harder). The second option (different handle) sounds to me like what should happen. Why do you say that makes it harder to get results from the program? Aaron Spike

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Re: Search help on some InkScape code
by MenTaLguY 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:33 +0200, Stevens LION wrote: > I also have some problems with glib. I get your sources from cvs, but > I don’t arrive to compile them (on windows). How can you include a > glib.h from a dll? Do you have someone who compiles the code for > windows? If yes, please can you give me his mail too? We have several people who compile the code for windows. I'll direct the question to our mailing list, so they can all see it. (It's often better to ask questions on the list, actually.) > Thanks in advance for your help, and congratulations for InkScape, it > is really an impressive software. Thank you very much. -mental

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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.15 Announcement
by Jon Phillips 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

July 8, 2005 UTC — Release 0.15 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now on-line for download as an individual package consisting of 4336 images submitted by over 430 artists from around the world. The amount of high quality clip art has increased much with the inclusion of Nicu Buculei's Playing Cards collection and Gerald Ganson's package submission. During the month of June, thanks to Google's Summer of Code, a student developer, Greg Steffensen, has received funding to construct a graphical client for the Open Clip Art Library. This client will be able to be used inside Inkscape and other applications on the free desktop. Also, this work is dependent upon the new document management system (DMS) and is planned to use its SOAP-based webservice API to communicate with the Open Clip Art Library. In other news, developers Bryce Harrington and Jon Phillips are scheduled to present at Desktop Developers' Conference 2005 in Ottawa, Canada July 18-19. Harrington is presenting "Inkscape - An Open Source Vector Drawing Application" and Phillips is promoting "Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library," which will also be shown at SVG Open 2005 in Enschede, Netherlands. For the month of July, the focus of the project will continue to be collecting summer themed clip art. However, in the background DMS will be further connected and tested with openclipart.org's internals. The project encourages any interested person(s) to submit clip art and/or to lend a hand to make the Open Clip Art Library a more extensive resource of contributed clip art. The Open Clip Art Library. Drawing Together. Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.15/openclipart-0.15.tar.bz2 http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.15/openclipart-0.15.tar.gz http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.15/openclipart-0.15.zip http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/openclipart-0.15-win32.exe The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can 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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(no subject)
by De Winne, Joris 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

Hello, Is there a way in Inkscape to crop images? It may be in pure svg xml, because I'm only using the Inkscape viewer. the problem is when I put nested <svg> tags arround the <image> tag, the cropping is never executed. Example: <svg width=... height=... viewBox=....> ... some tags to draw like rectangles, .... <svg width="100" height="100" viewBox="0 0 100 100"> <image xlink:href="image_to_show.jpg" x="0" y="0" width="200" height="200"/> </svg> </svg> In this example I would expect only 1/4 of the image to be shown, but the image is always shown in total. Anyone an idea how to do this? 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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Inkscape-0.41+0.42pre1-1.win32.exe crash
by lode leroy 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

I just installed Inkscape-0.41+0.42pre1-1.win32.exe on my XP-SP1 machine. Help->About Memory makes the application crash.

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Inkscape 0.42 Release Preparations
by Bryce Harrington 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

Hi all, We're getting close to being ready to make the 0.42 release. Currently we are in Feature Freeze mode while we fix bugs. We've closed a lot of bugs over the past few weeks and are nearly ready to move into the next phase. Here is our process: 1. Start of release process - Finish up work on features. 2. Feature Freeze Mode - Shift focus from feature implementation to bug fixing <--- ** You are here ** 3. Hard Freeze - Two freeze wardens are named. All development must be done as patches submitted to the freeze wardens for review and integration. 4. Branch - The codebase is tagged and branched. Final release tarball is posted. The codebase is returned to regular open development. 5. Packaging - Three days are allowed for creating release dists (rpm's, deb's, exe's, and autopackages). 6. Release Announcement - A Release Announcement and a Press Release are written and circulated to relevant online news sites. Our Freshmeat record is updated. Judging from the speed of our development work, we may be entering into Hard Freeze mode as early as this weekend. At this time, in addition to resolving the remaining 'Must Fix' bugs, we need to wrap up work on the following: * Everyone who has added features, please describe your work on the ReleaseNotes page. * Arpad, can you let translators know we will be in Hard Freeze (including String Freeze) in about a week? * ScislaC, would you mind bringing AUTHORS up to date? Several people have submitted patches lately, and I want to make sure we have all the credits in time for the about screen. :-) * Jon & Kees, let me know if you two will be our Release Wardens this time through. * Bulia, please let us know if we have the right set of Must Fix bugs accounted for. * Ted, when you get a chance, can you put up another pre-release * Rejon, can you prepare a preliminary press release for us? It's been a while since we had a release, so this will be important news. :-) Thanks, and happy 4th to the usians. :-) Bryce

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Recent XML-RPC vulnerability
by Jonathan Leighton 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Just a FYI: I was going to delete xmlrpc.php from our WP install until I had time to upgrade it, but I realised that I had already replaced the contents with "This file is not used." previously anyway, so we are not vulnerable (so there's little point upgrading). -- Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/

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