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Funcitionality requirement
by Néstor Díaz Valencia 27 Jun '04

27 Jun '04

Hi everybody. I've been using Inkscape lately with LIVES, a linear video studio for linux. LIVES uses frames to create animation (of course) I wonder if a new functionality can be added to Inkscape to export bitmaps sequencially, I mean with this: a checkbox for increment the name of the exported file. We write a filename to export like "livingroom000.png" and then every time I press the export button it will increase the last number at the end: livingroom001.png livingroom002.png livingroom003.png . . . . It will help also with the gap plugin for The Gimp. After that we can easily import a folder to LIVES. I hope this won't suppose a big delay in other more important stuff needed by Inkscape nowadays. Yours: Néstor Díaz

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Nightly windows builds?
by Bryce Harrington 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

I'm updating the downloads.php page in preparation for the testing effort. What is the proper link(s) that we should be pointing to for the Windows builds now? Bryce

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Win32 freeze-at-border bug seems to be fixed
by Carl Hetherington 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

Hi, I just committed a couple of changes to sp-canvas.cpp that I copied from Sodipodi. They seem to fix the win32 freeze-at-border bug, so please could windows users test the CVS build and see how they get on. The changes are #ifdef'ed only to happen on Win32 (for the moment), so hopefully there should be no Linux side-effects. Carl

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Patch to fix printing problem with shape markers
by Eric Jonas 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

The existing ps-output code does not correctly print shape makers, neglecting to apply the transformation. This really sucks if you've been using these markers a lot, as I've been doing in drawing a bunch of FSMs. For an example of code with this problem, see: web.mit.edu/jonas/www/input.FSM.svg The marker definition: <marker style="overflow:visible;" id="TriangleOutM" refX="0.0" refY="0.0" orient="auto" inkscape:stockid="TriangleOutM"> <path transform="scale(0.4)" style="fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1.0pt;marker-start :none;" d="M 5.77,0.0 L -2.88,5.0 L -2.88,-5.0 L 5.77,0.0 z " id="path3347" sodipodi:nodetypes="cccc" /> </marker> has the "transform" attribute in its path, and in the current codebase it appears to be ignored. Thus in PS and EPS output, the markers are quite often the wrong size. The error appears to be in sp-shape.cpp, in sp_shape_print. The following patch fixes the problem, and I'd love to submit it via the SF.net patch interface, but their confirmation-mail-script to register an account is ultra-slow today :) Really, we just additionally apply the transformation from the marker_path, a rather simple bug. ...Eric The patch follows: Index: sp-shape.cpp =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/src/sp-shape.cpp,v retrieving revision 1.38 diff -c -r1.38 sp-shape.cpp *** sp-shape.cpp 22 Jun 2004 17:35:19 -0000 1.38 --- sp-shape.cpp 26 Jun 2004 16:48:21 -0000 *************** *** 568,573 **** --- 568,574 ---- } nr_matrix_multiply (&tr, &marker->c2p, &tr); + nr_matrix_multiply (&tr, &marker_path->transform, &tr); NRMatrix old_tr = marker_path->transform; marker_path->transform = tr;

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scaling & snapping
by bulia byak 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

Carl, 1. When you are finished with snapping refactoring, don't forget to update the Release Notes. From my viewpoint, what matters is using of Shift for no-snap mode and it working the same in all tools including node edit. 2. The new scaling origin mode you did does not quite work. The "outermost point" mode works, but the "bounding box" mode does not. Turn on box selection cue, zoom in and draw a small rect with thick stroke. Now when I drag the right handle, the left edge of the rect also moves a bit in the same direction. It must stay unmoved in that mode. 3. Better names for the options are: - Opposite bounding box edge - Farthest opposite node [not point] 4. Additionally the bbox option does not sit well with the "scale stroke" option. When I don't want to scale stroke, i.e. use a compensation after scaling, that compensation moves the bbox of the object even farther away from the original position, making the bug in 2. above worse. This mode must check the value of the "scale stroke" option and take it into account.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Pango testing - help needed!
by MenTaLguY 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 14:24, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > Inkscape not only rendered improperly, it also crashed. > > I used the raghu font for testing because I'm not sure whether Pango > knows about Gargi yet. > > http://www.yudit.org/download/fonts/raghu.ttf > > There are two attachments. The PNG image is what the letters _should_ > look like. The TXT file is the UTF8 for the letters. > > Therefore, it should be easy for you to reproduce the crash even if > you don't know devanagari. Thank you! This is just what we need for testing. I've filed this as bug #980136 in the bug tracker. -mental

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[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-user] Pango testing - help needed!]
by MenTaLguY 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

-----Forwarded Message----- From: Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin@...237...> To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Pango testing - help needed! Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:54:59 +0530 On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:21:17PM +0000, bulia byak wrote: > 2. Here is what SHOULD work now but is not yet tested because we don't > speak these languages. This is where we need your help: I tried the autopackage binary because I didn't want to spend the time to build from CVS. Inkscape not only rendered improperly, it also crashed. I used the raghu font for testing because I'm not sure whether Pango knows about Gargi yet. http://www.yudit.org/download/fonts/raghu.ttf There are two attachments. The PNG image is what the letters _should_ look like. The TXT file is the UTF8 for the letters. Therefore, it should be easy for you to reproduce the crash even if you don't know devanagari.

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Re: [Clipart] Is anyone working on categorizing the existing images?
by Bryce Harrington 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

Kees, take a look at this 'wordnet' resource... Bryce On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Mike Linksvayer wrote: > Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > > The point is: Images aren't placed in hierarchical categories, > > they have keywords assigned to them. The hierarchy is a separate > > thing. > > Good idea. > > Wordnet <http://xmlns.com/2001/08/wordnet/> may be useful here. > > Example: http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/Flag > > If a keyword is known by Wordnet, a hierarchy is provided. > >

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] 0.39 Release?
by bulia byak 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

>By the way, Alan has produced a collection of stock gradients, that >we're going to try to package as part of openclipart (as opposed to >bulking up the Inkscape tarball.) These will get installed to a >directory somewhere in the /usr/share/. Is it possible to inform >Inkscape of the location and identity of these gradients? Yes but not in a short term. The plan is: - switch marker menus to a new table-like widget that is updated on the fly and more responsive - add the same widget and the ability to use stock items to patterns, gradients, symbols etc. >I spent some time testing it and playing with it. It works very well >when compared with the usual RPM issues of finding/downloading various >dependencies. I think it will help us a lot, especially given the new >dependencies we've introduced recently, since it takes care of that for >the user fairly seemlessly. Good, then could you please publish a short version of my plea for help with Pango testing on the site, adding a link to the daily autopackage. >An issue is that we can publish a beta release for testing, get lots of >testing input, but meanwhile developers will be adding bug fixes or even >new code to the release branch. Ideally, betatesters would update >frequently and re-test, but realistically I think we'll get at most one >or two cycles of testing out of people. Branching out a separate beta branch before the release is something we'll definitely need to do for 1.0, but for 0.39 it's perhaps more trouble than it's worth. It only makes sense for really long testing periods. But what I think we can and should do is to allow several days of testing of a final release candidate with TOTAL freeze on CVS, and requiring a certain nunder of people to OK it before it is released. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: Use of "SORBS"...
by Kees Cook 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Luckily, it looks like my postmaster email reached the one dude I know at SF, and it looks like they'll change their sorbs lists! :) ----- Forwarded message from ----- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:01:30 -0700 To: Kees Cook <kees@...62...> Cc: postmaster@...34... From: Ari Gordon-Schlosberg Subject: Re: Use of "SORBS"... [Kees Cook <kees@...62...>] > Hello! I see you've started using SORBS, but I'd like to warn that > their "spamtrap" RBL is poorly maintained, and will cause legit > sourceforge users some serious grief. I would recommend using only > their "dialup" RBL, which is not redundant with other zombie-scanning > RBLs. Thanks, Kees, We're re-evaluating that decision at the moment and I think we're just going to use a few of their specific lists. Good to hear from you. -- Ari Gordon-Schlosberg, OSDN NetOps http://sourceforge.net/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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SIGBUS
by Carl Hetherington 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi, I find I have to remove the signal(SIGBUS, inkscape_segv_handler) from inkscape.cpp in order to compile on Windows. My MinGW doesn't seem to know anything about SIGBUS. Does it work for anyone else? Thanks Carl

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g_markup_printf_escaped
by Carl Hetherington 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi, I'm afraid this function (used in the new RDF stuff) doesn't seem to be included in the glib that we are using for the Win32 builds. Is there an alternative? Thanks Carl

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gradient not updating for the drawing
by Artemio 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hello! I am using snapshot 20040622. If I go to the gradient editor, and edit the gradient colours, they do not apply to the drawing. Sometimes, the changes suddenly are applied, but it the moments when I switch from HSV to RGB, or at some random moment at all. But more usually I have to switch to whole fill and back to gradient fill to apply the gradient to a drawing. Artemio.

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Pattern manipulation
by John Cliff 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi guys, Have commited the stuff I was working on to give control knots for manipulating pattern fills. Knots are currently provided for translation, rotation and scaling. Theres a circular node at the pattern 0,0 with 2 diamonds, one to the right, and on below (in the pattern co-ord system). To move the pattern, drag the circle, to rotate, drag the diamond to the right, to scale the one below. I'm putting thought into how best to do skew and non uniform scale, however need to discuss that with people, both from UI and maths point of views, so dont intend trying to get those done for 0.39. Cheers John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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test for sorbs
by herve couvelard 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Xcuse me for that. hervé

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Pattern Fill idea
by Bryce Harrington 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

The pattern fill capability is *great*! I have one suggestion, but have no idea if this is easy or hard... As an option it would be extremely useful to be able to specify "whole object fills only" that would only print the tiled object if it can be done in a non-clipped fashion. For example.... http://www.bryceharrington.com/army_ants.png See in the polygon on the lower right, that only whole shapes are shown. Objects that would be partial fills are excluded. Bryce

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a few recent items
by bulia byak 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

* The rotation/skew axis crosshair in selector remains where you put it for as long as you have the object(s) selected; to reset it to the center, deselect and reselect. Also the crosshair is only displayed in rotate mode, not in scale mode - this makes it easier to drag small objects. * You can reverse the direction of selected path(s) either via Path > Reverse or by pressing 'r' in node tool (useful for markers and combining paths). * In the Fill and Stroke dialog, Stroke Width can use the % unit for relative stroke width changes. When several objects are selected, using the percent unit changes the stroke width of each one relative to its previous value (unlike absolute units which assign an average width to all objects). _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Testing NLS on win32
by Bob Jamison 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

After some coercion, I added ENABLE_NLS to the makefiles and main.cpp. After a couple of hours we got the build to link properly, then we got the 'dist' to build the LC_MESSAGE dirs properly. What I mean is, I -think- everything is proper. We need people to check this out in whatever their favorite Locale may be; DE, Ethiopian, Klingon, whatever. Let us know how it is working. Bob

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] UI translation status
by Arpad Biro 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, > Could you tell me how you generate these translation stats? I think > they'd be worthwhile to include in the Inkscape status reports They are generated by a Bash script. Sending it attached. Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Win32 freeze bug: windows users please test a patch
by Carl Hetherington 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, The following hack seems (for me) to improve matters wrt the win32 freeze-at-border bug. It triggers a few problems elsewhere (failed assertions etc.) but I think they're fixable. Could Win32 people try it and see how they get on? Thanks Carl Index: src/display/sp-canvas.cpp =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/src/display/sp-canvas.cpp,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.8 sp-canvas.cpp --- src/display/sp-canvas.cpp 29 Apr 2004 04:59:16 -0000 1.8 +++ src/display/sp-canvas.cpp 24 Jun 2004 12:28:16 -0000 @@ -1540,6 +1540,9 @@ sp_canvas_crossing (GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventCrossing *event) { SPCanvas *canvas = SP_CANVAS (widget); + if (canvas->grabbed_item) { + sp_canvas_item_ungrab(canvas->grabbed_item, GDK_CURRENT_TIME); + } if (event->window != SP_CANVAS_WINDOW (canvas)) return FALSE;

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who is involved in Inkscape.org site maintenance?
by Artemio 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello, Inkscapers! I wanted to ask you, who except Bryce is involved in changing things on the Inkscape.org site? It's that I plan uploading some new pages that I'm about to complete, and wanted to be sure I won't intereset with other's changes. I always update the page to the most recent one from CVS, then modify and commit, but during the modification time someone can change it too ;-) I hope you know what I mean. Artemio.

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Partial German translation
by Colin Marquardt 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, here is an (incomplete) de.po for an older Inkscape CVS snapshot from June 6th. The status is 652 translated messages, 154 fuzzy translations, 129 untranslated messages. If you look through the file, there are some strings marked up with "!!!" where (sometimes) the original string makes it hard to translate (plural forms etc.). When I get some time, I will file proper bugreports about them, unless someone wants to look at it before that :) Cheers, Colin

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Win32 drag-to-border freeze bug
by Carl Hetherington 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi, I had a play around with this bug today. I'll give some speculative thoughts in case they jog the brains of anyone else who has looked into it. I think it might be related to the fact that no LEAVE_NOTIFY (or whatever it is) is received when you move the pointer out of the window with a mouse button held down (ie in a drag). I think this might in turn be related to the fact that the masking of events is changed during drags. The particular bit I was playing with was dragging a rectangle to the edge of the window. This produces a "freeze" which I think is what people are seeing a lot (mouse pointer gets stuck on the `move' icon, no toolbar buttons or menus work). I then added the LEAVE_NOTIFY_MASK to the mask that is applied to events during a drag, and made the leave notification simulate a button release. This kind of fixed the problem, in that the freeze stops happening, but causes others. Anyway I'll take another look tomorrow and see if I can come up with a proper fix. If anyone has any thoughts I'd be interested. Cheers Carl

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Crash bug in Spiral code
by Bob Jamison 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi all. User 'tom' on Jabber showed us this crashing bug: 1) Hold down <left mouse button> on a new spiral 2) Hit <spacebar> ...crash. It looks like sp_spiral_write() is being called on the same object twice while trying to duplicate the spiral, and the second time is on a bad object. I added some code at line 144 to check for NULLs, and it avoids the crash. The symptom is fixed, but the root cause needs to be fixed, in that the <space> being hit while the <LMB> is down is not being processed correctly. Should the mouse be disabled? Or should there be some code to make sure the call is done only once? Sounds like maybe Bulia would know how to handle this one. Thanks. Bob

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Pango testing - help needed!
by bulia byak 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

As you know, we recently switched our text system to a new library called Pango. Now that some of the worst bugs and regressions are fixed (definitely not all), and we need your help in testing it thoroughly. 1. Here are the confirmed Pango niceties so far (i.e. what is tested and works): - Text is much smoother. No more ugly autohinting gaps between letters in small sizes. Letters move smoothly when you change letterspacing by Alt+< and Alt+>. - Auto kerning pairs (from the font) now work. For example "AV" will now be kerned together automatically in most decent fonts. - On Windows, non-ASCII text works (tested with Cyrillic). Localized font face names (such as "italic" translated into a local language for Windows fonts such as Arial) are no longer a problem. 2. Here is what SHOULD work now but is not yet tested because we don't speak these languages. This is where we need your help: - Right-To-Left text (Hebrew, Arabic) and BIDI (bidirectional mixed text) seems to work but I'm not sure. - Contextual letterforms that depend on the position in a word and script-specific ligatures (Devanagari) should work. - Chinese and Japanese need testing, especially for how good vertical text works (it is enabled by a button in the Text and Font dialog). 3. And finally the things that don't work (yet): - Symbol fonts seem to have problems, at least the symbol.ttf from Windows. Any help or insights is appreciated. - Fuzzy font matching that worked in 0.38 is not reenabled yet. (No warnings on font substitutions, etc.) Only Italic and Bold faces within a family work so far. This is being worked on. So, grab the latest CVS and play with text as much as you can. We're interested to hear any reports, positive as well as negative. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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