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pixmap replacements
by Kees Cook 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

I finally got around to importing Andreas Nilsson's new icons (I tweaked them a little and added some more that I made), and fixing the code to load them. It's great! :) Andreas, can you re-examine the XML editor icons -- I sent some comments about them a while back. As far as David's whole-replacements, I've got a fall-back icon path preference thingy in the works, so hopefully we'll be able to give a list of files to go searching for icons through. :) Here's the list of pixmaps still needing to be replaced: add_xml_element_node.xpm \ add_xml_text_node.xpm \ delete_xml_attribute.xpm \ delete_xml_node.xpm \ duplicate_xml_node.xpm \ set.xpm \ writing_mode_lr.xpm \ writing_mode_tb.xpm -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Inkscape Project Status
by Bryce Harrington 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

Statistics Jan 1 Jan 15 ========== ===== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 598 570 (95.8%) (96.0%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 45 72 (99.8%) (99.6%) Total SF Page Views 2,213,324 2,283,160 Total SF Downloads 110,182 114,695 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 14,291 14,634 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 149 151 Lines of Code in src/: 321,883 323,251 Code lines 227,114 227,965 Comment line 56,048 56,308 Blank 45,398 45,664 Lines of Docs in doc/: 17,901 17,901 Lines of content in website: 9,234 9,328 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 21,030 20,931 Bugs open/total: 135/829 145/858 Features open/total: 340/514 353/530 Patches open/total: 5/145 6/148 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 9,450 9,625 Inkscape-devel membership: 132 131 Inkscape-announce membership: 147 155 Inkscape-user membership: 172 177 Num Translations: 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 43.7 42.0

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Entry submitted to the Free Software Directory
by Felix Rabe 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

Hi, I just found this page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html>. It lists - not Inkscape, no, BUT - Sodipodi. I reckon this comes from Inkscape not being listed in the Free Software Directory <http://directory.fsf.org/>. I've just submitted a request to add an entry for Inkscape. I listed Bryce Harrington <you_know_your_email@...643... ;o)> as the maintainer and developer. The keyword list brings me to the suggestion of not just mentioning "open source editor", but also "free software editor" in the HTML keywords. Just a suggestion... Greetings, Felix

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[Fwd: Announcing liboil-0.3.0 - Library of Optimized Inner Loops]
by Ted Gould 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hmm, does someone who knows more about the renderer think this would help out Inkscape? Seems better than the MMX flag. --Ted -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: David Schleef <ds@...641...> > To: gnome-multimedia@...45... > Subject: Announcing liboil-0.3.0 - Library of Optimized Inner Loops > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:06:35 -0800 > Announcing liboil-0.3.0 - Library of Optimized Inner Loops > > Liboil is a library of simple functions that are optimized for > various CPUs. These functions are generally loops implementing > simple algorithms, such as converting an array of N integers to > floating-point numbers or multiplying and summing an array of > N numbers. Such functions are candidates for significant > optimization using various techniques, especially by using extended > instructions provided by modern CPUs (Altivec, MMX, SSE, etc.). > > This release represents a significant milestone in the liboil > project. The sections of the ABI that are most interesting to > developers are now considered to be stable, and will be stable > throughout the 0.3.x and 0.4.x series. > > As of this release, I'm actively encouraging other open-source > projects to begin using liboil. I'm happy to do much of work > converting projects to use liboil, and especially, adding function > classes and implementations to liboil that may be needed. > > > Web Page: http://www.schleef.org/liboil/ > > Liboil's license is Two-clause BSD. > > > > dave...

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line-height
by David Christian Berg 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Since this came up in some thread, that there was a problem about knowing the line height in flowtext, I tried to dig up what ever I could find about it. If I understand correctly, the line-height in SVG is supposed to be defined via the line-height css attribute just like as in html. The property index at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/propidx.html links to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visudet.html#propdef-line-height . I might be getting something totally wrong (probably I am, because I'm not sure, how you could have missed this), but to me it seems, that this is actually, how the line-height is defined for svg as well. I'll do some more research on this, if needed. I'd really like to see flow-text in 0.41, you see. David

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object manager
by Alexandre Prokoudine 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Hi, I remember some other approach by Bulia except this one: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ObjectManager Is it the most recent mockup to start with? Anything changed since then? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: pdf2svg, xmlns bug
by MenTaLguY 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 20:43, bulia byak wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:24:16 +1100, Trent Buck <fubarbaz@...405...> wrote: > > I noticed Inkscape refuses to read their example SVGs; it appears > > Inkscape *needs* the xmlns attribute in the <svg> tag. Without an xmlns > > attribute, Inkscape brings up an error dialog ("Failed to load the > > requested file foo.svg"), but prints nothing to stdout or stderr. > Mental, this seems to be a rather urgent problem. I'm not likely to be > working on it in the near future, so if you can fix it, please do. I think the quick and dirty fix I just commited should do the trick. Everyone please test. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: pdf2svg, xmlns bug
by MenTaLguY 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 20:43, bulia byak wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:24:16 +1100, Trent Buck <fubarbaz@...405...> wrote: > > I noticed Inkscape refuses to read their example SVGs; it appears > > Inkscape *needs* the xmlns attribute in the <svg> tag. Without an xmlns > > attribute, Inkscape brings up an error dialog ("Failed to load the > > requested file foo.svg"), but prints nothing to stdout or stderr. > > Mental, this seems to be a rather urgent problem. I'm not likely to be > working on it in the near future, so if you can fix it, please do. I can try, but with present work demands I can't promise quick progress. I would like to see it fixed before the release; a high-priority bug ought to be filed if one has not been already. -mental

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changing font size within text
by David Christian Berg 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Hey guys, just wondering, if there's a way to change the font size within a <text> element. Basically I guess I need a <tspan> but they create new lines, which I don't want. Thanx in advance! David

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Animation
by Ashwin Bharambe 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Hi all, Quick question: does Inkscape support animation? If not, is the support planned? Thanks, Ashwin

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Re: SVG presentation tool (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Ashwin, Cairo also has a SVG presentation type tool. Here's some info on it. Bryce ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:39:09 -0700 From: Keith Packard <keithp@...579...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1...> Cc: keithp@...579... Subject: Re: SVG presentation tool Around 18 o'clock on Aug 3, Bryce Harrington wrote: > What tool did you use to give your presentation at OLS? Was it > Cairo-based? Yes, the tool was 'xsvg'; our simple svg viewer application which can be found in cairo CVS. It's far from a complete presentation tool, but it suffices for our needs. We use an xslt transformation to convert a simple slide xml format into svg. All of that is in cairo-artwork module. It's quite broken and has to be hacked extensively to restyle it for a new talk. -keith

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[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Proposal for bug fixing for 0.41]
by Felix Rabe 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

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nightly builds issue
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Hi, I have a problem compiling Inkscape from nightly builds in GNU/Linux: after ./configure: --- Configuration: Source code location: . Destination path prefix: /usr/local Compiler: g++ CPPFLAGS: CXXFLAGS: -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 LDFLAGS: Use Xft font database: yes Use gnome-print: no Use openoffice files: yes Use MMX optimizations: yes Use relocation support: no --- I do: --- [avp@...33... inkscape-0.40cvs]$ make make: *** No rule to make target `configure.in', needed by `Makefile.in'. Stop. --- I have: [avp@...33... scribus-1.3.0cvs]$ rpm -qa | grep auto | sort autoconf_2.5-2.59-alt3 autoconf-common-0.2-alt1 automake_1.6-1.6.3-alt6 automake_1.7-1.7.9-alt1 automake_1.8-1.8.5-alt1 automake-common-0.2-alt1 I don't have that problem with usual CVS snapshot I get with cvs up -Pd, but I don't have a possibility to grab CVS myself very often. What could be reason for that error message? Alexandre

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Some more icons to fill the gaps
by Andreas Nilsson 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

As promised, here are scalable replacements for cap_butt.xpm, cap_round.xpm and cap_square.xpm http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/cap_butt.svg http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/cap_round.svg http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/cap_square.svg - Andreas

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AGG backend?
by Chris 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Has anyone looked into using AGG (http://www.antigrain.com) as the low level back-end? AGG itself seems very low-level in some places, which might cause problems but it seems very functional. I searched this list and found another reference that said it might be good for being able to add the SVG filter support. Personally, I would love to finally have that functionality. I made a real quick look at the code and it looked nice and seems flexible. In my limited testing I found that it was extremely fast. It doesn't have much in the way of SVG support though. There is an example SVG viewer but barely has any functionality. I suppose Inkscape would just keep its current SVG stuff anyway. I was just wondering if anyone had looked into it and if they found any serious issues. I assume Inkscape switched from librsvg to livarot for some good reason and I'm just wondering if AGG was a consideration. -- // Chris

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svgs versions of join_miter, join_bevel and join_round
by Andreas Nilsson 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Did some more svgs to fill the missing holes. http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/join_miter.svg http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/join_bevel.svg http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/join_round.svg Coming up are the caps. Probably tomorrow. - Andreas

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First try at multiple tracing
by Bob Jamison 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hi, all, Today I finally got an initial (very rough) ability to scan an image multiple times, and produce multiple paths. The trace option I added today does: 1) Quantizes a bitmap into a reduced number of colors or shades of gray 2) Separates out each color, and traces it (much like taking four-color art to your local print shop). 3) Scans each one, applies the color to it. 4) Assembles them as a <g>roup. It seems to do fairly well with simple images, but complex ones have a "Potrace problem". What I mean is that since Potrace traced an estimate around each region, the reassembled curves do not exactly tile together again. You might need a background shade or something to keep the white background from peeking through. But give it a try. It should be a bit of fun. If anyone can think of a good general algorithm for stitching together two adjacent curves, give it a try. There will be more stuff later, of course. The 'differing levels of brightness' thing will be added soon. Bob

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problems linking on win32
by Adib Taraben 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello, I got problems linking on win32: ... ranlib libinkscape.a mingw32-g++ --export-dynamic -o inkscape.exe main.o winmain.o inkres.o libinksca pe.a -Lc:/gtk/lib -lgtkmm-2.4 -lgdkmm-2.4 -lglibmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6 -lpangomm-1.4 -lsigc-2.0 -lgtk-win32-2.0 -lgdk-win32-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpan goft2-1.0 -lpangowin32-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -Lc:/gtk/perl/lib/CORE -lperl58 -Lc:/gtk/python/libs -lpython24 -lxm l2 c:/gtk/lib/iconv.lib -lfreetype6.dll -lfontconfig-1.dll -lpng -lpopt c:/gtk/l ib/zdll.lib -lgc -mwindows -lws2_32 -lintl libinkscape.a(prefdialog.o)(.text+0x14e):prefdialog.cpp: undefined reference to `Gtk::Socket::Socket()' libinkscape.a(prefdialog.o)(.text+0x1b8):prefdialog.cpp: undefined reference to `Gtk::Socket::add_id(unsigned int)' libinkscape.a(prefdialog.o)(.text+0x50b):prefdialog.cpp: undefined reference to `Gtk::Socket::Socket()' libinkscape.a(prefdialog.o)(.text+0x575):prefdialog.cpp: undefined reference to `Gtk::Socket::add_id(unsigned int)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status mingw32-make[1]: *** [inkscape.exe] Error 1 mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `E:/projekte/inkscape/src' mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2 any ideas ? Is there a more recent gtk32 needed ? Thanks Adib.

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New rotate icon
by Andreas Nilsson 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

I saw there were currently no svg icon for rotate. Here ya go: http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/rotate.svg - Andreas

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[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Suggestion for the preferences dialog]
by Felix Rabe 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

This is actually a rather "old" email, sorry.

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Save as.../Export etc.
by Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hi, Bryce told me that some dialogs need redesigning and "Export to bitmap" is one of them. After some serious thinking I came to conclusion that redesigning "Export to bitmap" is not enough. The issue is actually with Save as.../Export dialogs themselves. IMO, there are some inconviniences that need to be fixed. Let's look at these functions through the user case glass. Designer A has done a nice sketch. Though he likes it, he wants to make another version. He saves it under some other name and keeps working on the new file. Designer B has done several sketches. Now he wants to send them to his customer in some easy to view file format. He needs to save copy of each original file in a different file format in the same directory, where originals are. Now let's look closer. In the first case he wants to go to "File - Save as..." and specify name of the new file in the same directory, without changing file extension. The only reason to "save as" into, e.g. AI is when he was told that the new version has to be done in AI from ground up -- and only if his $VECTOR_GRAPHICS_EDITOR supports direct editing of AI files. I wonder how smooth Inkscape is at editing AI/EPS/EPSI/POV/PS instead of native SVG :) In the second case he wants to go to "File - Export as..." and: 1) specify name of the new file; 2) specify its extension; 3) specify export parameters. I don't even doubt that Inkscape will have export parameters dialog for EPS and PostScript (and TIFF as soon as someone writes it). Users are not supposed to see "Export to EPS", "Export to TIFF" etc. menu items in "File", don't you agree? ;) The GIMP model I'm talking about is quite nice, but its has a PITA drawback -- The GIMP doesn't remeber the last directory it went to. If you find a way to work around it, we will need the following: 1. Add "Export as..." menu item to "Files". 2. Add "Export to" dialog in a GIMP style with - a file name entry box; - a combobox to switch between directories from gtk bookmarks; - a hidable large "Specify directory" file panel; - a hidable "Choose export format" panel. 3. Move current "Export to bitmap" dialog to a new dialog "PNG export settings" which will appear, if a user chooses PNG as export format. Adding export settings to other file formats will be easier then. Guys at Novell have good points in their DesignWiki (http://primates.ximian.com/~glesage/wiki/doku.php?id=gimp:png_export). I really like their idea, so I suggest: 4. Add "Fast export" (or "Save for Web") menu item to save a PNG to the same directory, where the sketch is, or to a "fast export" directory specified in Inkscape's preferences. It will make decision on saving region from the selection context: - export the whole page, if nothing is selected; - export current selection, whatever is selected. Honestly, I don't remember myself ever saving a "special" region -- only current selection or the whole page. If I want something to be absent in exported bitmap, I either don't select or move it away out of the page. But my use case may be different from yours. I can imagine a situation when a designer needs to export "slices" from his design. I really hope that this proposal makes some sense to you :) Alexandre

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inkscape rpm second patch (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Could someone apply this patch if still needed? Bryce ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:43:58 -0500 From: D. Scott Barninger <barninger@...639...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> Subject: inkscape rpm second patch Bryce, Here is a second patch against the 1.14 CVS spec file. It adds build choices for both SuSE 9.2 and Fedora Core 3. Regards, Scott

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problems
by David Christian Berg 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

I had a cvs version of Inkscape running, and it would not have working flowtext... so that is problem number one. Number two is, that after downgrading to the Debian package my guides were at the wrong spot due to the change of units. Both really annoying... Also I've noticed that quite often I just can't grab objects, to move them, but have to use the keyboard first, and then, after moving them a little, I can move them with the mouse. I've no idea, how to reproduce this, but it bothers me a lot, so maybe someone else has experienced this? Another point, I noticed, when creating the icons, is that the scaling mechanism works kinda weird with objects with strokes... when you try to set a specific size, it will not work via snapping to guides nor via the tooloptions bar. Just try on very small scales... because that is where you'll notice. That's it for now... I'll be writing another mail soon, I guess. After some feedback I'm also in for doing the needed bug reports. David

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autopackages now statically linked
by Mike Hearn 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Hi guys, I'm now statically linking the GTKmm stack as well as Boehm GC into the Inkscape nightly autopackages, and will do so for the next release. So we should have no more problems with them blowing up on people with mixed/broken distro setups. I also added dep checks for libxml2 and libxslt. thanks -mike

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Broken string trimming
by Jon A. Cruz 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

I just saw this in the jabber logs (01:20:33) *bryce:* to delete the first N chars off the start of a string s, is it ok to do s += N? The answer, for most of our stuff, is a big resounding "NO!" Remember, when multibyte encodings come into play, doing something like that is liable to break things mid-sequence and corrupt data. Or to get the wrong count and trim fewer characters that you'd expect. In most places our code is using the 'standard' GTK+ encoding of UTF-8. That's multibyte, with from 1 to 6 bytes per character. Of course, if you're at the point where raw data is entering the app via some means other than UI widgets, the bytes will be in whatever the local encoding is. So just remember, characters no longer match bytes one-for-one. Sometimes they'll happen to align, but other times not.

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