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valgrind problems with livarot
by Carl Hetherington 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Hi, As I think has been discussed, valgrind has a few complaints about livarot. Most of these are fixed with the following patch: Index: src/livarot/ShapeRaster.cpp =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/src/livarot/ShapeRaster.cpp,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.7 ShapeRaster.cpp --- src/livarot/ShapeRaster.cpp 1 Apr 2004 00:16:12 -0000 1.7 +++ src/livarot/ShapeRaster.cpp 19 Apr 2004 00:22:24 -0000 @@ -1754,6 +1754,7 @@ } swrData[no].calcX=swrData[no].curX+(to-step-swrData[no].curY)*swrData[no].dxdy; swrData[no].guess=-1; + swrData[no].misc = NULL; } void Shape::DestroyEdge(int /*no*/,float /*to*/,float /*step*/) { Would anyone with valgrind like to verify this? More importantly, could a livarot expert (fred?) take a look and see if this patch is sensible? The problems seem to stem from swrData[...].misc being uninitialised, but it could be that this value should be set somewhere else. In that case, my patch would probably just cover up a bug rather than fixing it. Cheers Carl

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keyboard shortcuts
by Artemio 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

Hello all! Currently, if one switches to Russian or Ukrainian keyboard layout, keyboard shortcuts stop working. So when you type Russian text in Inkscape and then want to edit font/fill/etc. properties, you have to switch back to English, press Shift-Ctrl+T(F) and then switch back to previous layout and so on. I'm using a en_GB:en locale - is this a problem? Anyway, whether this is the reason or not, I think keyboard shortcuts should work with any layout and with any inkscape locale. I can help you with mapping proper keys on the keyboard for Russian and Ukrainian layouts, just let me know. Artemio. -- http://artemio.net/exp ::: Artemio's hot sound tweaks [local time 21:35:26 (GMT +3) 18 April 2004] [system uptime 3 hr 11 min]

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Embedding raster images
by Jonathan Phillips 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

This sounds like a great idea. You should file a new feature request here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604309 Jon On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 05:53, Artemio wrote: > On Sunday 18 April 2004 14:07, Aewyn Vienna wrote: > > Is there any way to embed pictures (png, others) into svg files? > > Now -as I know- it makes only a link in svg files, so it is hard job to > > manage all files for one svg. > AFAIK, SVG standard itself allows embedding images and fonts inside. It's all > about encoding the file data (with base64 as I remember) and placing it > inside the SVG file, and then referring to this data instead of a file, so I > think someday our great Inkscape guys will make this possbile ;-) > > > Artemio. -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org

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recursive balls (per the conference room topic)
by MenTaLguY 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

Thinking about it, we need to either lose the recursive balls, or make them larger. At the moment, because they are so small, unless you zoom in they look like a display glitch. On the other hand, if they were made larger, it would be necessary to make some tweaks to account for e.g. interreflection and caustics. So it's probably best to do without. The single sphere just looks really darn cool anyway. No sense in overkilling it. ^_- -mental

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stock items API proposal
by MenTaLguY 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

During discussion with John today, we came up with this proposal for a general way of dealing with stock library items: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?StockLibraryInterface Look good to everyone? -mental

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Translation comments
by bulia byak 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

> > Fill: winding / alternating > > > > (winding is nonzero, alternating is evenodd) > > > > Googling for "alternating fill" and "winding fill" shows these are > > frequently used terms to describe these two fill methods. > >Hmm, I like this terminology. Good for me, too. Now, Arpad, we also need a tooltip for this thing. _________________________________________________________________ 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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April 15th Inkscape Status
by Bryce Harrington 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

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printing
by Kees Cook 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

So, since I am now printing from inkscape every week, the "print" dialog has started to bother me. I'd like to replace it with the gnomeprint dialog. I've started doing some digging to understand the print subsystem in inkscape, and started taking some random notes here: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingSubsystem Basically, libgnomeprint gives us an "Output" and "Delivery" system. We already have an internal PS "Output" system, and that's fine, since it seems that libgnomeprint is happy to co-exist with other output systems. The major change I want to make it to use libgnomeprintui to handle the dialog portion, which is very cool since it'll gather all the configuration information needed during the "Output" phase (page size, orientation, destination, etc). Then the Output runs, and finally, it gets delivered for us. I think this would let us throw out all the print dialog and print delivery code and just rely on libgnomeprint without having to implement all their moveto and stroke stuff. And from what I can tell, it will work under windows too, although I'd have to test it. :) Does anyone have modern build instructions for windows? The Wiki seems out of date. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Fixes to save as on win32
by Carl Hetherington 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

Hi, I just committed a patch to allow save as PS/EPS on Win32. I'd be grateful if any Windows-ers could test it. It looks like the fileTypes parameter to the FileOpenDialog and FileSaveDialog constructors is now not required. Perhaps it should be removed? Cheers Carl

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Introduction to the Inkscape 0.39 Pango Rearchitecting Effort
by Bryce Harrington 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

As most of you know, the principle focus for the 0.39 release is slated to be "Pangoification". While we expect that there's going to be a number of new features, bug fixes, code cleanups, etc. our project's top objective for this release is to replace libnrtype with Pango. This of course brings up the questions, "Huh? Pango? Libnrtype? Whazzalat?" The following document provides a broad overview to this effort, explaining what Libnrtype and Pango are and what we gain by replacing the former by the latter. It's hoped that this will serve as an easy orientation into this work for those of us who don't know a lot about fonts but may be interested in lending a hand. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Pangoification (If you spot any inaccuracies, don't be shy about clicking edit and fix it up!) Bryce

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perspective distortions
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

I wrote a plan for implementing perspective distortions in Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PerspectiveObject I think it shapes out well and should not be too difficult to implement. Still, I may have missed something. Please comment by editing the Wiki page. Use :, ::, etc at the beginning of line to indent your comments. _________________________________________________________________ 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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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Translation comments
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

> > If you have no objections, could you please commit these fixes? > >I modified gradient-selector.cpp according to your proposal. Please >check the modifications, because this is the first time I touched the >Inkscape sources. No errors found :) Thanks. I just slightly reworded my own tooltips. I think we need to do the same Plain-English-ization of the Fill rule list. Suggestions? _________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Feedback on 0.38 Release
by Bob Jamison 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Daniel Díaz wrote: >I'm sorry, don't get it... > >A4 == letter size? If so, what's the name for that 8.5"x11"-sized paper? >That's the on we refer to as letter ("carta" in Spanish.) > > Daniel, I mean that "letter" is defined by a lot of us as 8.5x11inches. It is that size in North America. But not for everybody. It is like cultural chauvanism. Like when Chris Rock was a kid, and pulled a "flesh" colored crayon from a Crayola box, and it was pink. ;-) Yes, it is not on the Preferences panel. It should be. Bob p.s.: I'm done with spamming the list now! I am now caught up with my mail list duties. Have been away for a few days.

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markers dropdowns
by John Cliff 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Hi guys, Looking at the logs from the chatroom, it seems the marker selection dropdowns are crashing inkscape on you guys? I knew the previews didnt work (which is why i disabled them) but I didnt realise the menus themselves were killing the prog. Is it giving any messages? They work fine for me here on windows, so I'm not sure whats going on. (or how to go about fixing a problem on a platform i dont have access to.) some feedback would be appreciated. Cheers John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Grid-related patches
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

>One strange behavior still exists, and this just might be "by design". >In "Dialogs / Document Preferences / Grid" if I switch "Snap units" from >"px" to anything else (or back), the "Snap distance" stays the same. If >I change "Snap units" from anything not "px" to anything else not "px", >unit conversion is performed. Is this just a "feature" of the pixel >unit? Looks like bug to me. Whatever these px units are, they cannot be screen pixels, and therefore must have a constant coefficient for unit conversions. The only units without such a coefficient are "unit units", percent, em, and ex. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. 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: [Inkscape-devel] Feedback on 0.38 Release
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

>Is there any way to set Letter as the default paper size? I also want to >get rid of the 'pt' units -- It would certainly be better to recall >those settings instead of changing them on every session of Inkscape. We need to support arbitrary new document templates. It's been in our plans for some time. _________________________________________________________________ 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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More 0.38 release pickups
by Bryce Harrington 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/news/article.php?story=20040412052124104 (no comments) http://www.hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5782 (Hungarian) (no comments) http://www.linux.org.ru/view-message.jsp?msgid=527971&scroll=section&back= (Russian) (lots of comments, no clue what they say) http://linuxclub.by/index.php?p=159 (Russian) (no comments) http://linuxfr.org/2004/04/14/15993.html "one true massacre of bugs" (French) (lots of comments) Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A//linuxfr.org/2004/0… Bryce

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Linuxartist pickup
by Bryce Harrington 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

http://www.linuxartist.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=281

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Plan for Inkscape 0.39
by Bryce Harrington 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Inkscape 0.39 Development ------------------------- With 0.38.1 now out the door, focus can turn to the next coming release. This development cycle will be more like the 0.36 release, in that the objective is to implement a lot of cool new features. Any and all new features are most welcome, but the primary thing to get implemented is to convert our font system to Pango. For the 0.38 release we measured our progress by counting bugs closed. For this release we track progress by tasks getting marked completed. When the tasks are completed, 0.39 can be cut. So if you'd like to lend a hand to this release, please review the following task list for something you'd like to sign up for. Sign up for the task in Wik (or just let me know off-list): http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap Milestone 5 - Pango Architectural Change - Inkscape 0.39 ======================================================== * Adopt Pango for handling fonts * Redo text editing and text style handling * Develop GTKMM mockup/ideas for the Preferences dialog * Consider trimming ChangeLog (currently ~370 KB) * Create new cursor icons [rejon] * Finish moving tool options to 2ndary palette + move arc tool options to 2ndary palette (code in src/toolbox.cpp) [rejon] + Remove tool options dialogue and code from project [bulia] * Incorporate (or reject) all patches posted to patch tracker * Change the SEGV and SIGABRT handlers to reliably autosave and put up a crash dialog * Write an extensions/plugin enhancement proposal(s) and post to mailing list for review * Add Pango as an optional dependency for Inkscape & test on our various target platforms * Modify widgets/font-selector.cpp to use Pango font new/ref/deref function as a compile-time option * Modify dialogs/text-edit.cpp to use Pango font new/ref/deref function as a compile-time option * Modify display/nr-arena-glyphs to use Pango font functions as a compile-time option * Create replacements for sp-text.cpp and sp-chars.cpp that uses Pango instead of libnrtype as compile time option * Test removal of libnrtype from Inkscape's Makefile & see what it breaks * Make Pango a required dependency for Inkscape & remove compile-time option scaffolding * Straighten out global vs. user resource files (create /etc/inkscape/ with appropriate files) * Implement preliminary support for iso & hex grid [njh] * Fix svg:use support, create the Clone command [bb] * Implement "scale stroke" switch * Ensure when copying, that 'image/png' and/or 'image/svg' get on the system clipboard * Review & plan out replacement of sp-file.* + Implement backup functionalty for documents and preferences.xml, ideally with versioning like in Emacs * Replace calls to arikkei string/tokenizing routines in libnrtype/ with standard glib functions & remove libarikkei * Improve freehand curve smoothness [pjrm, paraprax] Inkscape Experimental * Implement tests of Inkscape against the W3C test suite (0.37 loads 95% correctly without animations) [bryce]

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opacity change?
by Kees Cook 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Did the default object opacity change? I swear elipses were a little see-through yesterday, but this morning's build they're not. Am I crazy? -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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gtkmm
by MenTaLguY 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Just a quick note that, in preparation for the XML and layers dialog work, I've added a ./configure test for gtkmm (2.0+). We've been talking about it long enough, and now that the bug fix release is finally out the door I think it should make life enormously easier for the next round of feature work. -mental

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Feedback on 0.38 Release
by Bryce Harrington 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

One of the artists at work dragged me into his cube with questions after downloading and installing Inkscape 0.38. In between his gushing over the features that were in there, he made some good observations about things that'd help usability: * Default font for text was too small when at the (default) full-size page view. * The context menu for text should include a link to the Text and Font dialog. * Changing font color should be easier to access via the context menu and/or the text and font properties dialog. * The zoom mouse cursor shows a '+' when zooming in. It should show a '-' when you're zooming out (shift-mouse click) * It would be handy to have a way to select objects "under" the object on top. E.g., a modifier to the left mouse click that would cause it to select the next object down in the stack for each click. * When you select 2+ objects and right click, having access to some of the 'Align' and/or 'Boolean' commands could be helpful. * When you're editing a multi-stop gradient and then close the dialog and do 'undo's, it appears to undo each individual edit to the gradient rather than just undoing the entire editing transaction. He also had a bunch of suggestions for features, most all of which are already captured in RFE's, but here's a couple that I think are new: * There should be a way to not only convert a text object into a node object, but also to convert the individual letters in the text object to separate text or node objects. * Pasting text from open office to inkscape or vice versa. * Paste style is very cool and works as expected. Some sort of 'paste size' might also be useful, if you want to force a range of shapes to have exactly the same dimensions. Let me know if these sound ok, and I'll add RFE's for them later this week. Bryce

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Translation comments
by bulia byak 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

> "gradientUnits" --> "coordinate base" I propose: Coordinates: user space / object And add a tooltip for those who know SVG: "Whether the gradient vector is defined in the coordinates of the user space (gradientUnits=\"userSpaceOnUse\") or relative to the object's bounding box (gradientUnits=\"objectBoundingBox\")" > "gradientSpread" --> "repetition mode" I propose: Repeat: none / direct / reflected Tooltip: "Whether to fill with flat color beyond the ends of the gradient vector (spreadMethod=\"pad\"), or repeat the gradient in the same direction (spreadMethod=\"repeat\"), or repeat the gradient in alternating directions (spreadMethod=\"reflect\")" If you have no objections, could you please commit these fixes? _________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] The messed up icon issue
by Kees Cook 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Lucas Vieites wrote: > Well, I'm sorry but it seems I'm out to confuse you. How can I gather > all the output from ./configure & make & make install? Just in case that > could be helpful. > I am running Suse 9.0 with Ximian Gnome and notthing really weird. Wow. Okay, then I sure hope we can figure this out, because that's a pretty common platform. :) Try this script: #!/bin/bash ( ./autogen.sh && \ ./configure && \ make distclean && \ ./configure && \ make && \ make install && \ which inkscape ) 2>&1 >/tmp/inkscape.out And then send the "inkscape.out" file to me (rather than to the whole list: it'll be a big file). Also, check the icon behavior after this build, just for fun. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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