- Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

[Bug 73619] Inkscape crashes with GLib problem when trying to print (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 01:53:44 +0000 From: bugzilla-daemon@...599... To: bryce@...260... Subject: [Bug 73619] Inkscape crashes with GLib problem when trying to print http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73619 ------- Additional Comments From xanderhsia@...210... 2004-12-09 17:53 PST ------- OK. I following the instructions on running gdb and got a backtrace. Note that I do not have USE="debug" flag turned on. If this report doesn't have the right info , I can recompile and rerun gdb. Bear with me, this is first time I have run gdb, so I'm not really sure what I am looking for. ender@...600... ~/home $ gdb inkscape GNU gdb 6.2.1 Copyright 2004 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-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/inkscape (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1220237632 (LWP 31494)] (inkscape:31494): GLib-CRITICAL **: file gthreadpool.c: line 284 (g_thread_pool_new): assertion `g_thread_supported ()' failed GLib-ERROR **: The thread system is not yet initialized. aborting... Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread -1220237632 (LWP 31494)] 0xffffe410 in ?? () ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

2 1

Inkscape-Deps (Problem in Gentoo)
by Carsten Niehaus 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Hi As some of you might know Inkscape is outdated in Gentoo. Version 0.37 is marked as stable, 0.38, 0.39 and 0.40 are marked unstable (~ARCH) [1]. The reasons are that Inkscape is "known" to crash an startup for some people (see e.g. [2]). I am using 0.39 since it it released with the ebuild Gentoo provides as "unstable" and had _no_ problems at all. For Inkscape 0.40 there is the problems of new deps, esp. libboehm and gtmmm. See [3] for it. Furthermore there have been a lot reports about GLIB-crashes I never could reproduce. See [4] for a glib-crash in 0.40. I hope that some of you could add comments to these 4 bugreports to help the gentoo-ebuild-writer. Gentoo is probably the only distro without a uptodate Inkscape and that is a shame. If you don't want to do it yourself write me a mail and I will add the comments. Thanks in advance, Carsten [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=inkscape [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73743 [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71017 [4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73619 -- The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once. -- Jane Bryant Quinn

5 8

Inkscape 0.40 - error importing AI files
by unknown＠example.com 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

When I am importing .AI files this error message appears: ** (inkscape:9542): CRITICAL **: file document.cpp: line 511 (void sp_document_set_uri(SPDocument*, const gchar*)): assertion `document != NULL' failed Pleas help, how can I solve it? I have thousand .AI files which I could open in 0.39. Is downgrade only one solution? (OS: Gentoo unstable, same expirience with self compiled inkscape 0.40cvs and 0.40 stable in Slackware current) Thanks Martin Grohman

2 1

libXSLT dependency
by Bob Jamison 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

I have been asking around if anyone would mind adding libxslt as a dependency for this cycle. So far, I have had no complaints. This would allow not only us but also the average user to write input and output filters. Bryce mentioned that the requirement should not be bleeding edge. So I found this pkg-config file, libxslt.pc, on RH7.3, which seems good enough, so requiring libxslt >=1.0 should be sufficient. Could someone add this dep to configure.ac, if it is OK with everyone? ========= SNIP ============== prefix=/usr exec_prefix=${prefix} libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib includedir=${prefix}/include Name: libxslt Version: 1.0.15 Description: XSLT library version 2. Requires: Libs: -L${libdir} -lxslt -L/usr/lib -lxml2 -lz -lm -lm Cflags: -I${includedir}

3 5

Firefox 1.0 Linux on Gentoo has SVG plugin installed by default!!!!!!!!
by Jon Phillips 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Hello all, I just opened an svg file by accident in Firefox 1.0 just to find that it displayed properly in my browser!!! Upon closer inspection I thought that I had setup svg to display in inkview, but no, I looked in the MozillaFirefox plugin folder and found these: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5632 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1368 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8536 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.so Thus, could you all check to see if the Mozilla SVG is provided with your Firefox 1.0 install? I am ecstatic with joy if this is installed by default on all Firefox 1.0 browsers, because that means we now have penetration into the world with SVG. I have just ruled out that I built my Gentoo install of Firefox with SVG, as it is not an option. Thus, the gentoo ebuild builds the SVG plugin by default. Hmmm...if you all could report if you have the SVG plugin on your install, it would be great to know to promote via our website. In the end, we have to consider that our app's usefulness will scale dramatically if SVG is adopted by more user's. As of now we are using more as a meta-format not much unlike Illustrator using AI as a default format for creating illustrations. With viewing of SVG files on the web, so much more will be possible. Jon -- Jon Phillips (NEW) USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

4 8

RE: [Inkscape-devel] SVG Linking
by NAGY Endre 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Jon Thanks for responding and apologies for the delay in getting back My initial enquiry concerning linking related to a requirement to be able to edit attributes in the users namespace. See Feature Request No 1070754 and the mail in Inkscape-Devel on the subject "what do you _really_ want". I assumed that "SVG linking" might be able to help because Ch 17 of the SVG spec mentioned that I could use an URI specified by an Xlink to access a program. In retrospect I think I was grasping at a rather short straw. I can only guess at how I thought I was going to open an application in a browser to edit attribute values and then get those values back into the SVG content. As Peter Moulder points out in in his responses to my feature request, what I really need is a user friendly version of the XML editor that I can constrain to a specific set of attributes. My best hope here appears to be to make use of the plugin architecture. Peter suggested that I speak to Ted about this. I need this feature in Inkscape proper rather than a viewer because its all part of my editing process. If you think I'm still confused please feel free to respond Regards Endre -----Original Message----- From: Jon Phillips [mailto:jon@...235...] Sent: Wednesday, 1 December 2004 5:32 AM To: bulia byak Cc: NAGY Endre; inkscape Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] SVG Linking On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 19:25 -0500, bulia byak wrote: > > When invoking the example in InternetExplorer, the affect of clicking on the > > ellipse is to bring up W3's web page. > > I have not found a way of achieving this in inkscape. > > What, Inkscape did not show you the web page?! :) > > Seriously, it would be nice to run a browser by clicking a link. In > theory. In practice, Inkscape is not so much of a "user agent" as it > is an SVG creating application. In particular, following link on click > will badly get in the way of editing. Clicking something in Inkscape > has lots of editing functions. So, while we can create links, I think > we can be excused for not following them. > > This of course applies to inkscape proper. For inkview, following > links by calling a browser is a must. I think we already have an RFE > on that; search in the tracker and add your comments. Yes, I have been working on this behind the scenes. There are a few RFE's about linking. We (inkscape developers) have discussed having a preview mode like in Macromedia Flash whereby any animations/scripting/linking can be tested. Yes, Inkview should be a runtime/player of SVG content. And, yes, linking should work the way you are describing. My understanding of the spec though would allow you to in Inkview click on a link and if it is local and an SVG, then it is opened in Inkview. If it is a URL, to the SVG file, then that is viewed as well. If the file is not SVG, then it would be dealt with as described in the spec. Ideally, html would be opened in one's default browser, and other media would be shuttled to where it needs to go. I'm trying to get this feature into the next release. I think inkview is a good app in its own right as a simple viewer. I'm trying to decide if I should make these features into an inkbrowse app that is similar to inkview, but for browsing the web and local svg files. What this looks like needs to be debated. Initially I would like a UI like a web browser but for SVG content only. Do you all agree with me that this should be a separate application or should it be rolled into inkview? I could make it so that Inkview accepts URLs and could have a browsing interface and a simple menu system that can be hidden. It would be good to allow Inkscape to open SVG files that are qualified URLs (and I remember that Inkscape used to be able to do this), and then enable this functionality in inkview to add web-based svg files to a presentation, and eventually, this will allow for SVG-based animations in inkview as a presentation. Thoughts? > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > -- Jon Phillips (NEW) USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu) IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The RTA is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the RTA. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient.

1 0

visible, printable and wxSVG
by Edouard TISSERANT 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

WxSVG (wxsvg.sf.net) is a young GPL project that as still never released files, since it as not reach beta stage. First commit should occur in January 2005. WxSVG let you "draw" GUI with Inkscape. Have a look to screenshots at http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=124832 It consist of a thin layer of python classes that derive from wxPython controls classes. It use SVG elements to layout controls such as buttons or panels and map them with some pieces of bitmap cut-out from one or two (on & off) bitmaps exported from Inkscape. SVG elements that are used to layout controls are <rect> and <g>. We were used to use the non-printable feature of Inkscape to let us draw layout rect's over the visible GUI design, and the export the GUI image without control rect's. We have upgraded to yesterday's CVS snapshot. No more non-printable feature... And invisible elements are exported in bitmaps. So we cannot work anymore in the same way... The only way I found is to set global transparency for the "Control" group to 0.0 when exporting bitmap, ant to 1.0 when working on. Non-printable object was a very nice feature. WxSVG is really need it. Is there any other solution ? Except guide-lines is there anything that Inkscape can show but not export ? Edouard.

4 6

[Fwd: Re: Cross-compiling GlibMM statically to Win32 with MinGW]
by Bob Jamison 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

See how cool it can be when Open Source projects help each other? ^^ Bob

1 0

E nderuara Kompani!
by unknown＠example.com 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

E nderuara Kompani! ITS Germany e cila operon prej vitesh ne fushen e telekomunikacionit dhe internetit, tashme deshiron te zgjeroje aktivitetin e saj edhe ne teritorin e Kosoves . Stafi yne i perbere nga inxhiniere, teknike, designer, analiste tregu, etj. Kane pergatitur www.kosova-informacion.de Ne kete portal mund te nxirren njoftime per shitblerje, qeradhenie e qeramarrje te pasurive te patundshme, automjeteve, pajisjeve, apo te sherbimeve te ndryshme si telekomunikacioni, hoteleri-turizmi, apo udhetimet, etj. Cdo njoftim mund te shoqerohet me 1-6 fotografi te objektit. Cmimi per njoftim varion ne varesi te kategorise se objektit, kohezgjatjes online te njoftimit dhe numrit te fotografive (cmim i cili do te vendoset bashke me ju). ITS Germany eshte duke kerkuar Perfaqesuesin / Distributorin e saj per Kosove i cili do te marre Eskluzivitetin e plote te www.kosova-informacion.de per te gjithe territorin e Kosoves. Marrja e Eskluzivitetit nenkupton fillimin dhe zhvillimin e gjithe aktivitetit komercial te ketij portali vetem nga nje Perfaqesues / Distributor pra vetem nga ju. Nderkohe ITS Germany merr persiper mirembajtjen dhe suportin teknik te portalit, si dhe mbeshtetjen e saj nepermjet konsulences se nevojshme ne cdo moment. Per cdo informacion apo interes tuajin, ju lutem te na kontaktoni nepermjet postes sone elektronike , ne ju mirepresim. Na lejoni tju urojme mireseardhjen ne kompanine tone, kompania me e madhe e telekomunikacionit dhe internetit ne Gjermani! Me respekt, A. Berzani Directorin Development office@...595...

1 0

E nderuara Kompani!
by unknown＠example.com 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

E nderuara Kompani! ITS Germany e cila operon prej vitesh ne fushen e telekomunikacionit dhe internetit, tashme deshiron te zgjeroje aktivitetin e saj edhe ne teritorin e Kosoves . Stafi yne i perbere nga inxhiniere, teknike, designer, analiste tregu, etj. Kane pergatitur www.kosova-informacion.de Ne kete portal mund te nxirren njoftime per shitblerje, qeradhenie e qeramarrje te pasurive te patundshme, automjeteve, pajisjeve, apo te sherbimeve te ndryshme si telekomunikacioni, hoteleri-turizmi, apo udhetimet, etj. Cdo njoftim mund te shoqerohet me 1-6 fotografi te objektit. Cmimi per njoftim varion ne varesi te kategorise se objektit, kohezgjatjes online te njoftimit dhe numrit te fotografive (cmim i cili do te vendoset bashke me ju). ITS Germany eshte duke kerkuar Perfaqesuesin / Distributorin e saj per Kosove i cili do te marre Eskluzivitetin e plote te www.kosova-informacion.de per te gjithe territorin e Kosoves. Marrja e Eskluzivitetit nenkupton fillimin dhe zhvillimin e gjithe aktivitetit komercial te ketij portali vetem nga nje Perfaqesues / Distributor pra vetem nga ju. Nderkohe ITS Germany merr persiper mirembajtjen dhe suportin teknik te portalit, si dhe mbeshtetjen e saj nepermjet konsulences se nevojshme ne cdo moment. Per cdo informacion apo interes tuajin, ju lutem te na kontaktoni nepermjet postes sone elektronike , ne ju mirepresim. Na lejoni tju urojme mireseardhjen ne kompanine tone, kompania me e madhe e telekomunikacionit dhe internetit ne Gjermani! Me respekt, A. Berzani Directorin Development office@...595...

1 0

Updating gtk.zip for this release
by Bob Jamison 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Now that we are at the beginning of a cycle again, it is time again to start updating the gtk24.zip file with new stuff. I made a first try at a new bundle here: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape , ...at the bottom of the page. It is very large, but only because we will need to discover from development and usage what is needed from the Perl and Python libraries. It will of course get smaller with time. And I changed the name, since it is not just Gtk stuff anymore. Bob

1 0

Inkscape 0.40 - error importing AI files
by Martin Grohman 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

When I am importing .AI files this error message appears: ** (inkscape:9542): CRITICAL **: file document.cpp: line 511 (void sp_document_set_uri(SPDocument*, const gchar*)): assertion `document != NULL' failed Pleas help, how can I solve it? I have thousand .AI files which I could open in 0.39. Is downgrade only one solution? (OS: Gentoo unstable, same expirience with self compiled inkscape 0.40cvs and 0.40 stable in Slackware current) Thanks Martin Grohman

1 0

Suggestion: Dim-able layers.
by Jakob Ilves 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Hello! I had a very brief test of inkscape 0.40 and of course had a shot at using the layers feature and I liked it, especially that one could easily temporarely hide layers. One feature I would really appreciate is an additional option for a layer, in addition to locking and hiding: dimming (or whatever to call it). That is, one can set a layer to have a opacity lower than 1 to make it semi-transparent by using some convenient GUI widget. I know, one can do that today by entering the XML-editor (we all love it, don't we?) and once there, select the group the layer consists of and add "opacity: 0.5" (or whatever) to the group's style property. So it's already available but you know, a GUI isn't bad either. Thanks for a great tool! It is getting better and better! Best regards /IlvJa PS. I know, "Dim-able layers" might sound a bit corny but I could not make up any other term. (not a native English speaker, living in Sweden).

2 1

NEW: Tile clones
by bulia byak 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Before getting deep into the boring stuff planned for 0.41, I decided to do some eye candy... http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles1.png http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles2.png * The new powerful "Tile clones" dialog implements all 17 plane symmetry groups, allowing you to easily create all sorts of symmetric patterns, Escher-like tesselations, ornaments, etc. Since the pattern is made out of clones, you can freely edit the original tile and the entire pattern is updated live. This feature puts Inkscape into competition with software such as the free Arabeske or commercial SymmetryWorks. ** Apart from selecting the symmetry (and uniquely to Inkscape), you can also set the shift, scale, rotation, and opacity of the clones in the pattern, per row and/or per column. Any of these parameters can also be randomized to any degree. This produces "object fields" that can be arbitrarily distorted, skewed, slanted, "faded out," or "magnetized" like iron particles in a magnetic field. ** To create a clone pattern, simply select something, set the number of rows and columns, and click Create. You can then change some parameters in the dialog and click Create again; this will remove any existing tiled clones of the selected object and recreate the pattern anew. Or, you can just remove the old pattern by clicking Remove. To protect a pattern from deletion by this dialog, group it or move it to another layer. ** Initially, a pattern is created based on the bounding box of the selected object. For symmetries that involve rotation to an angle other than 180 degrees, the rotation point is usually in the middle of the right-hand side of the bbox. After the pattern is created, resizing the original tile does not move the clones away, so you can make the tiles overlap. Also, when the pattern is created, the current bbox of the original tile is remembered; later, if the "Use saved tile bbox" checkbox is on, the same bbox will be used when you click Create again, which means you can vary the pattern parameters without losing the overlapping of the tiles. ** It's best to use a group as the original object for tiling, because you can then enter this group (right-click, "Enter group") and draw inside it. Any changes or new objects added to the group will show in the pattern immediately.

5 7

pivot in scale mode
by PTT 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

I noticed from 0.39 on the pivotpoint (the cross that on which an object rotates, i think it's called pivot) is hidden in scale mode, so only visible in rotate mode. I find it quite usefull in scale mode too, (ie. while overlaying images you move the point to a place you want to keep, then scale so the whole image is as you wish). What is the reason it hides? And can it perhaps be turned into an option? PTT

4 4

inkscape memory leaks
by MenTaLguY 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

Hi, I was directed to recent traffic on the freebsd lists... I suspect the memory leaks you're experiencing aren't freebsd-specific, nor are they necessarily the result of bugs in libgc proper -- one of the recurring issues we've been having has been large leaks due to the way we bridged the refcounted and garbage-collected portions of the codebase. In a nutshell, some garbage-collected objects also have refcounts that can be used to pin them so they can be referenced by non-gc-aware objects. Since these objects are still traced by the collector, and are generally organized in the form of trees with parent pointers, a single leaked refcount will pin the entire tree of objects. [ It was one of those designs that seemed like a good idea at the time... ] In a profound irony, pretty much all of the leaks of gc-managed memory we've discovered so far have been due to refcount leaks in conventional code. :/ I thought we had found and fixed them all, but they can be pernicious and hard to nail down; I am noticing that we are still a little leaky on other platforms as well. There may be issues with libgc on freebsd as well, but I would look at refcount leaks if you've not already done so. Anyway, it sounds like you've been spending a good deal of time with debugging this; would you like to further compare notes in case we're duplicating effort? -mental

2 1

Difficulty with sizing imported EPS files...
by Daniel 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

[Please cc: me on replies] Hi, I'm using Inkscape 0.40 packaged for Debian unstable. If it's an issue, I'm also using the AFPL-licensed version of ghostscript, version 8.14. I have noticed the following issue, since I started using Inkscape, with version 0.39. Whenever I place EPS files into a new Inkscape document, they appear to be smaller (in pixel size or actual size, based upon bounding box) than they should be. For example, if I create both an EPS file and an SVG file produced by the command line version of potrace (which I was using with inkscape before it was included in the program as of version 0.40), using the exact same options and the exact same input file, they will import into Inkscape (both 0.39 and 0.40) with different sizes. The svg imported file will accurately reproduce the size of the EPS that I see when I use that EPS with other members of my tool chain (scribus, epstopdf, xpdf, acroread, etc.). Any ideas? Do you need anything else to quantify this? It appears very reproducible to me. Furthermore, when I export EPS from Inkscape (both 0.39 and 0.40), they appear (at least according to the 'file' utility, to be regular postscript, rather than encapsulated postscript). Any ideas? Thanks again for a truly magnificent product. How it has wonderfully surpassed my expectations. Take care, Daniel PS I've given it to 6-8 of my less Linux-aware friends for use on their Windows boxen in the past few weeks. They are grateful.

1 0

Fwd: [Inkscape-devel] Graphics-by banner
by Ana Saiz García 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi again I'm sorry to bother you again, but I've realised that I hadn't convert the text to curves, in order to avoid problems with the fonts. Now I've corrected this problem, so maybe you can put the new svg in your page (the png hasn't changed). The link is: http://david.f.v.free.fr/ana/imagenes/gfx_by_inkscape.svg Sorry for the inconveniences and thank you again Ana -- "El más baldío de todos los días es aquél en que no hemos reído" (de Chamfort) http://www.cosasdedos.net http://ana.cosasdedos.net

2 1

Re: [Inkscape-user] RPM build errors
by Bryce Harrington 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Jonathan Leighton [Turnip] wrote: > Okay. I took them all out, and tried to run inkscape, but nothing > happened. As in zero, zilch, nada. The cursor just sat there on the line > beneath the "inkscape" command. So I quit that, and put all the > extensions back in. I then took them out one by one, and when I took out > the one called "gimpgrad.inx", it again wouldn't do anything when I ran > the "inkscape" command. So I believe we have a culprit, although I'm not > entirely sure what I should do now. Hmm interesting, that wouldn't have been the one I'd have guessed. So to recap, you're getting a failure during Extension initialization where it complains about an improperly freed pointer, presumably a string, that appears related to the gimpgrad.inx extension. Ted can you help give some guidance on this? > Just out of interest, do you think this problem is specific to me, or > would it happen to anyone using the RPM I built? Because if it would > happen to anyone then I guess it's more serious. Aha, this is why you shanghai a couple friends into testing it. ;-) Go ahead and see if you can find someone to test it, and see if they get the same problem. That'll be good to know. Let's move this over to the inkscape-devel@ list, it's gotten a bit too nuts and bolts for the user list. Bryce

3 3

OT: Path to NURB
by Aaron Spike 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

First off congratulations and thank you for the 0.40 release. I'm telling everyone how much I love Inkscape. I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice or insight. I'm writing a little PHP script to convert a subset of SVG PathData (only M, C, L and z directives) drawn with Inkscape into DXF SPLINEs (NURBs) for use in QCad. I can do it successfully following the practical instructions at the bottom of this article about NURBs <http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_25/schneider.html>. To do this I write a separate SPLINE for each segment of a Path. I would prefer to write a single SPLINE for each continuous portion of a Path, but I can't get it right. So far I have just been guessing and guessing wrong. Any direction would be appreciated. Aaron Spike

3 4

Making rpm for Suse 9.2
by Jogchum Reitsma 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

Hi, On my Suse 9.2 box, I downloaded inkscape-0.40-1.src.rpm from sourceforge, solved a few dependancies and issued rpmbuild --rebuild inkscape-0.40-1.src.rpm to create a rpm-binary (not as root, but as normal user). It compiles OK, but bails out with the following message lines: Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/inkscape-0.40-root error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.a /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.la /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.so.0.0.0 The mentioned files do exist in /var/tmp/inkscape-0.40-root, and the names are stated in a file /tmp/rpmN24154 Also there exists a file /tmp/rpmF24155 with the same creation date and time, but empty. Anyone an idea what might be happening? Thanks, Jogchum

3 6

concerning layer selection - OpenOffice method works very well (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:35:51 -0500 From: Phoenix <phoenixreads@...584...> To: bryce@...260... Subject: concerning layer selection - OpenOffice method works very well OpenOffice has a very effective system background graphics I have group 1 above background graphics. I have group 2 above group 1 if I double click on group 1 everything else grays out and now I have group 1 "ungrouped" and highlighted. I am now editing group 1 in context (that is behind group 2, above background). if I click the background, I return to the "edit document" stage. To move from group 1 editing to group 2 editing... I double click to get to the "edit document" stage, then double click to edit group 2. To make things more interesting the concept of layering applies so I can double click groups within groups and edit accordingly. Double-clicking outside the group moves one up in the order. Using version 0.37 for reference. As for Inkscape double-click item to change modes that should become double-click handlers. If I want to experiment, I have to move back and forth to object to change. Double-clicking handlers is more intuitive since that is what I want to change. I don't know enough about internals of Inkscape but a request that Inkscape develop into a vector drawing engine so programs like mind-mapping and Visio-like program are basically a GUI redesign and of course standardize on SVG. Excellent program, Phoenix

2 1

0.40 Build on Mac
by Gazal, Geraud (GE Healthcare) 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

Seen today on Linuxfr.org about Inkscape on apple MacOSX Hope it can help some of you (see translation below) Regards, Matiphas --- Bon, donc effectivement, inkscape 0.40 a des dependances assez contraignantes. Une mise a jour complete de tout ce qui est environnement de developpement de Apple (via l'ADC http://connect.apple.com/ est necessaire, et apres ca marche tout seul. Le bug de l'affichage des menus derriere les fenetres reste la. Dommage ----> Yes inkscape has some hard to solve dependancies. A complete update of development enverinment from apple (see ADC : http://connect.apple.com/ ) is required and then it works ok without any problem (Pity, the display bug (menus behind windows is still there)

2 1

Query: I/O cleanup, reorganization?
by Bob Jamison 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hi all, I am back from holidays today, and have been catching up on my email. I was wondering: would a good task for this cycle be a reorganization of our set of scattered, disparate I/O classes into a nice, clean heirarchy of its own, such as /src/io and the namespace Inkscape::IO? We have been talking about moving from filenames to URIs for months now, and changing slowly from FILE * to iostreams. Maybe now at the beginning of a release cycle would be a good time to bite the bullet. This would not be a roadmap thing, but a nice clean top-to-bottom refactoring that would finally take care of our recurring migraines with files and paths and localization. Consider it to be a big bugfix. If we could upgrade from char * ---to--->FILE * to a much cleaner URI ---to--->istream and URI ---to--->ostream ...with built-in support for localization, it would make things a LOT easier. I have been looking around the net a lot, and there already exists a wonderful 'gzstreams' lib for supporting .svgz without pipes. I experimented with it by recoding my copy of repr-io.cpp to use iostreams instead of FILE *, and it worked wonderfully. There is also a pair of iostream implementations I found, that provide printf() and scanf() style formatting, to alleviate the pain of conversion somewhat. This would be a lot like Java's "java.io.*" heirarchy, putting streams, files, URI/URL's and paths into one place. Any thoughts, opinions? This is just something I have been thinking about recently. Bob

5 15

Article: Introducing Inkscape 0.40
by Bryce Harrington 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

The article about Inkscape is now live on OS News: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9049 Also, we got picked up on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/113513/ And Footnotes: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2062 Bryce

3 2