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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Inkscape 0.38 Status
by bulia byak 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

> 2/18 2/28 3/ 8 3/18 3/28 4/1 Goal > ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- >1. Bugs 841633-896992 52 33 28 17 14 12 9 >2. Open/Total Bug Ratio 33% 24% 25% 16% 13% 10% 10% > >Whoo-hoo! I propose that we now focus on the following 4 critical bugs, with the goal of fixing at least 2 before the release. 3 of them are for Windows. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=925687&group_id=9… If it can be easily fixed without switching to Pango, it would be great to have it fixed. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=925033&group_id=9… Jon Cruz fixed the same thing on linux, so maybe he can have a look. Or anyone else... https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=915374&group_id=9… There's a patch for this one. Bryce, you were going to look into it? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=857311&group_id=9… This one is almost fixed. Adib, are you working on patches for the rest of the files? _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail 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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Arrow heads work in progress
by Carl Hetherington 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Hi, I've just uploaded my arrow heads patch, which is incomplete, to the sf.net tracker. At the moment it behaves like this: 1. Add an arrow head to a line. Nothing happens. 2. Add another arrow head to the same line. The first arrow head appears. My limits for trying to follow C++-in-C have been reached for today ;-) Any insights would be welcome. Cheers Carl

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] test, test, test
by bulia byak 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

>When I turn the spin-box next to the combobox that selects the line-style >usually the startpoint (offset) of the dash pattern moves around the >stroke. But in this case the visual pattern start-point remains at the >original position and the dash becomes longer and longer. This is also now fixed in CVS. _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32 save as problem
by bulia byak 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

>The save as function is still not automatically adding svg extensions and >the open function is still not seeing the non svg files generated. Fixed now, please test. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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roadmap
by Jonathan Phillips 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Please check out our dev. roadmap: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap Everything is not in the proper place, but gives us some bite-sized amounts of work to conquer. I think the amount of items for a release is around 10-15 at the current pace, but several have way more. Please move items/tasks/subtasks around on the site so that we can have a nice distributed amount of work...thx Jon -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...247... http://www.jonphillips.info

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Calligraphy Pen
by bulia byak 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

>You could implement the width as another bezier 'stroke' in 'thickness >space' - that way there would be continuous change in the width of the >stroke, and it could be magnified and rerendered without loss. I will work >on this and present a formula for a broad edge calligraphy pen, since the >relationship between thickness and other factors is so simple. After I >get a look at the code you guys are using now, I can figure something out >for that, too. A sequence of beziers in "thickness space" will indeed give you smooth thickness function and may require less data to store (i.e. you can use less samples). Still, I think what is _stored_ for a stroke should be just an array of widths, which can then be rendered either as a polygon (for quick renders), or as an automatic beziergon where all the points are smooth points on a path of beziers (for quality renders). Using such an array will allow us to represent both "geometric" (elliptical, triangular etc) stroke shapes as well as totally random strokes, e.g. with thickness information coming from a tablet pen pressure. The tricky part is the algorithm: given a midline path (a sequence of lines and beziers) and the thickness array, produce a closed path representing the final stroke. This algorithm should deal satisfactorily with sharp turns and any other oddities in the input data. Once we have it, adding a new object type to Inkscape and some UI for it is more or less trivial. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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roadmap 0.39
by Jonathan Phillips 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Also, I think we should look at in this next release cycle the big picture of upcoming releases, evaluate other similar apps and think about what is necessary in our app (which is picking up serious steam). I will try and spend an afternoon evaluating and moving ideas from the feature proposals and scratchpad to RFEs... Thoughts? Jon -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...247... http://www.jonphillips.info

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Inkview future
by Charles Goodwin 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Somebody has written a fairly complete PPT parser, it's in Gnumeric CVS in subdirs of gnumeric/src/cut-n-paste/goffice. Are there any further plans or active work happening on Inkview? -- - Charlie Charles Goodwin <charlie@...208...> Online @ http://www.charlietech.com

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Re: How to handle translation updates
by Arpad Biro 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hi, > Are you familiar with CVS? So far I have used only the most basic operations: checkout, update, commit. > Since you're a frequent contributor, you certainly > deserve access, if you're comfortable using (or learning) it, In that case, I will learn what's needed. > especially if you'd like to help merge in changes from other > translators, or if you are interested in getting into development in > other areas. I can help with those translations (after learning a few more things, of course). Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/

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How to add <marker> objects to <def>
by Carl Hetherington 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hi, I'm having a hack at the code for arrow heads, but I've got myself properly confused. It seems that we have the SPItem class hierarchy (which contains SPMarker) and the repr tree, and that these are kept in sync with each other. So in which tree should I create my new marker object? AFAICS my alternatives are: 1. Do a sp_repr_new ("marker"), add it to the defs repr, set up the attributes using sp_repr_set_attr () etc. etc. 2. Create a SPMarker, and set up its struct with the required bits. So which should it be? And how to I propagate my changes from one tree to the other? I've just tried the first approach above and it works fine, except that the arrow heads only appear when you re-load the file. I think this is because a SPMarker is never created / initialised. Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated. Carl

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] The french translation
by bulia byak 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

>Hi, I send you the french translation. Thanks, committed _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls 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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How to handle translation updates
by Arpad Biro 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hi, What would be the best way to handle translation updates? I'm asking because I don't want to bug you with an updated translation each day until release, and also don't want to take up SourceForge storage space with those "daily" translations. Maybe we should create a patch and then replace the attached translation file whenever that file changes. This would mean you would only have to commit only one "patch" for a language - just before the next Inkscape release. Any thoughts? Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] How to add <marker> objects to <def>
by bulia byak 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

> > you can find the new SPMarker with > > > > mark = (SPMarker *) sp_document_lookup_id (doc, > > sp_repr_attr (repr, "id")); > > > > where repr is the newly created repr. > >Note that the URIReference class was introduced to automate this process >somewhat, as well as provide notification when a marker with that name >is added or removed. Can you point to an example of its use in the code? _________________________________________________________________ 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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Roadmapping for 0.39-0.50
by Bryce Harrington 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hi all, This weekend we're going to try to flesh out the roadmap for the next dozen releases or so. Not to cast anything in stone but simply to identify what we'll need to implement when, and to outline priorities. In the old roadmap we had identified 0.39 for implementing Extensions, however that presupposed we'd be further along in terms of identifying an internal API to hook them to, and having some conceptual/design documentation. Instead, we're thinking of pushing that forward, and let the focus of 0.39 be the incorporation of the AST and ECMA work, that has been going on in two branches. As well, we'll finally pull in GtkMM and start work on converting code to use that, including a layers dialog. We also need to determine the internal API for hooking extensions, etc. to, since that's a major dependency for Extensions. So in general 0.39 would be a much more development focused release, and we'll encourage deep work on internals that we've discouraged previously due to stability concerns. We will advertise 0.39 as more of an experimental release and encourage users needing a high level of stability to stick with 0.38. How does this approach sound? Bryce P.S. If you're interested in giving feedback to the roadmap including longer term goals, join us on Jabber as we continue revising it. We'll update the high level roadmap on the main website as we go this weekend, and flesh out the detailed roadmap in wiki later on.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] RE: win32 Startup message
by bulia byak 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

>build 040406 >The line 59 startup message is still being generated in win32 2000. Opening >an svg file causes it to occur. I think we fixed this one. _________________________________________________________________ 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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win crashes
by bulia byak 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Fred, simarilius@...36... managed to get debug info for his win32 crashes. Here it is: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Annoying_Crash First is the backtrace of today's build with bpath_liv on, crashed when drawing freehand. Then bpath_liv was turned off, which cured freehand, but node tool still crashed (see second backtrace down the page). Please contact him directly for more info, or join the inkscape jabber (we are there now). _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] test, test, test
by Adib Taraben 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

When I change stroke-style to a dotted line and the change stroke-offset. The stroke becomes crazy. This happens on nightly Win32 snapshots. Can someone confirm this behavour? Adib. bulia byak wrote: > The last big patch (thanks Adib!) is in, and we're in deep freeze > intending to release in the coming days. Please everyone try to do as > much testing, tweaking, abusing Inkscape as possible. There may still be > crashes lurking in the woods - catch them and display proudly. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht… > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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The french translation
by Frederic Rodrigo 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Hi, I send you the french translation. Fred.

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wonderful icons
by Kees Cook 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

I really like the new button and menu icons. They're very nice to look at, and they're very functionally clear. Just thought I'd mention that while I'm trying to crash the current CVS. :) -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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test, test, test
by bulia byak 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

The last big patch (thanks Adib!) is in, and we're in deep freeze intending to release in the coming days. Please everyone try to do as much testing, tweaking, abusing Inkscape as possible. There may still be crashes lurking in the woods - catch them and display proudly. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail 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] win32 save as problem
by bulia byak 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

>Win32 2000. autobuild 1 April. > >The save as command is not adding SVG extension to files. This has happened >in the past and was quickly fixed. Today it's the first day ever that Inkscape can auto add extensions at all, so I'm not sure about how this could happen in the past. There's now a checkbox for this in the Save/Save as dialog - is it on? _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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RE: win32 Startup message
by bulia byak 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

>I am still getting the "GdkPixbuf - Critical" line 59. message frequently >when I open files. The file seems to have a bitmap in it. Does it happen for files with bitmaps only, or for any other files, or during Inkscape startup? _________________________________________________________________ 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] test, test, test
by bulia byak 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

> - inkscape doesn't remember the print command after shutdown, and reverts >to >default "lp" after startup (bug #925221) >https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=925221&group_id=9… > > - it still opens any file in a new instance (bug #928517) >https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=928517&group_id=9… These are valid feature requests... but right now we are only interested in crashes or serious malfunctions. Work on new features will resume after the release is out. _________________________________________________________________ Limited-time offer: Fast, reliable MSN 9 Dial-up Internet access FREE for 2 months! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup&pgmarket=en-us&ST=1/go/onm00200361ave…

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content
by bulia byak 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Jon, your share/examples/presentation takes 2Mb, and most of that is not even SVG. We discussed and decided that it does not really belong in the program distribution; this type of content is more for the web site. The examples directory is for demonstrating SVG/Inkscape techniques and uses. So I propose that we remove the presentation/ dir, and in the examples/ dir, leave one default-slide.svg as an example of a presentation slide in SVG. Instead, I just added a new gradient.svg that demoes the multi-stop and excentric gradients, and tiger.svgz which is sort of classic vector image, showing Inkscape speed and rendering quality (and also svgz support). Also, I added two new tricks to the Tips and Tricks tutorial and edited the rest to bring them up to date. Since we're releasing any day now, Jon, please complete your Elements and Austhetics tutorials, or if you cannot complete the second one on time, please remove it for now and re-add after the release. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Inkscape Project Stats - April 4, 2004
by Bryce Harrington 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Project Status Sunday, April 4, 2004 We've achieved the goal set forth for the 0.38 release. The ratio of open-to-closed bug reports has been reduced from 33% to our goal of 10%, representing over 160 bugs closed during the 0.38 development cycle. Of the total of 285 bugs registered against Inkscape since the project's inception, fewer than 30 remain. We're ready at this point to make the release, but want to do some final QA, doublecheck that the contributed translation work is incorporated, and see about getting a couple critical Windows bugs patched. Looking forward, we've greatly revised our roadmap, stretching it out as far as the 0.51 release. Note that our roadmap is a reflection of what developers anticipate needing/wanting to work on, rather than a cast-in-stone set of orders, and is expected to change as we learn more and as new developers with new interests get involved. For this next release, we'd previously identified Extensions as the focus, however we're not as far along in terms of design as we need to be, so instead have pushed that back a couple releases, and will be focusing on adopting first Pango in 0.39, then GtkMM in 0.40. The Pango adoption is expected to solve a wide number of rather deep bugs and fundamental limitations in the text system, while the GtkMM change has been long anticipated for helping us get the GUI code in better, more maintainable order. Statistics Nov 15 Dec 15 Jan 15 Feb 15 Mar 15 Apr 1 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 2452 1928 1599 * 1348 (68.5%) (82.4%) (86.1%) (88.6%) * (90.4%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 27 321 70 90 73 (99.6%) (99.8%) (97.5%) (99.5%) * (99.6%) Total SF Page Views * 86,000 126,500 200,000 * 306,000 Total SF Downloads * 3640 5,735 10,000 * 15,500 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 2237 2,958 3,437 4,670 5,054 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 28 33 35 50 54 Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 132,134 166,914 167,386 177,286 185,126 Code lines 100,549 133,150 131,540 138,457 144,628 Comment line 11,591 12,468 12,995 15,584 16,137 Blank 20,559 21,929 23,513 24,061 25,266 Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 2,225 3,000 4,500 4,434 4,875 Lines of content in website: 1,173 2,090 2,885 4,300 5,087 5,168 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 7,385 11,284 13,114 14,840 14,819 Minutes since last ChangeLog mod: 360 1260 6 2 0 7 Bugs open/total: 9/15 67/111 74/160 53/178 43/244 30/286 Features open/total: 18/18 40/45 104/120 120/137 151/184 165/202 Patches open/total: 1/ 6 6/25 4/32 2/ 35 6/ 45 8/ 56 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 * * 2796 3070 3,391 Inkscape-devel membership: 49 64 64 63 75 77 Inkscape-announce membership: 9 16 22 26 35 39 Inkscape-user membership: 0 21 38 50 * - Statistics unavailable

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