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DBus Interface -- Compiling, Status and Usage Help?
by Mike Jarema 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Hi All, TL;DR I've put forth some solid effort on the following, but need help: - how do I properly compile Inkscape 0.91 with DBus enabled? - I'm getting errors calling basic methods using the DBus API, eg. save() and save_as(), are others seeing this? - is the DBus API maintained? __ Some background first: __ My goal here is to automate some repetitive tasks across tens of thousands of SVGs. My approach uses a combination of these methods/verbs: load, selection_ungroup, object_to_path, selection_combine (union and exclusion), select_move, save_as. This is my first attempt at compiling Inkscape and using the DBus API, so I suspect the problem probably lies on my end. I'd appreciate pointers to help correct my ways. __ What I've done: __ I'm running an Ubuntu 14.04 image within VirtualBox. Here's how I've compiled Inkscape. Also I show a simple DBus test case, via python, which fails on save() and save_as(). # __ Install dependencies and get machine setup __ $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install git bzr dbus build-essential autoconf automake autopoint intltool libtool libglib2.0-dev libpng12-dev libgc-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms1-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libxslt1-dev libboost-dev libpopt-dev libgsl0-dev libaspell-dev libpoppler-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libssl-dev graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat libwpg-dev libcdr-dev libvisio-dev libgnomevfs2-dev dbus-x11 libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev checkinstall xvfb curl $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get autoremove $ sudo shutdown -r now # __ Download and build Inkscape __ $ wget https://inkscape.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/resources/file/inkscape-0.91.t… # recently released 0.91 tarball $ tar -xvf inkscape-0.91.tar.gz $ cd inkscape-0.91/ $ ./configure --enable-dbusapi $ make $ sudo make install $ inkscape --version Inkscape 0.91 r13725 (Jan 29 2015) # __ DBus interface test case ( http://ryanlerch.org/inkscape-dbus-documentation/#idm262544986224) __ $ echo $HOME /home/osboxes $ python Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import dbus >>> bus = dbus.SessionBus() >>> inkapp = bus.get_object('org.inkscape', '/org/inkscape/application') >>> desk2 = inkapp.desktop_new(dbus_interface='org.inkscape.application') >>> inkdoc1 = bus.get_object('org.inkscape', desk2) >>> doc1 = dbus.Interface(inkdoc1, dbus_interface="org.inkscape.document") >>> doc1.rectangle (0,0,100,100) dbus.String(u'rect18') >>> doc1.save_as("/home/osboxes/save-as-test.svg") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.ErrorError: Method invoked for save_as returned FALSE but did not set error >>> doc1.save() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.ErrorError: Method invoked for save returned FALSE but did not set error # Note -- the net effect of the above in Inkscape is 2 open desktops: "New document 1" which is blank and unmodified, and "*New document 2" which correctly shows a 100x100 (blue) rectangle but is unsaved and for which I do not see any saved SVGs on my machine __ Help? __ Back to my initial Qs. Am I setting up prereqs and compiling Inkscape correctly to use the DBus API? Is the above test case reflective of a known issue on the DBus API or am I in the wrong? If it looks correct, I'm wondering if the DBus interface is still maintained, or incomplete, or subject to a regression? I'm hoping to sort this out for my purposes, but also think that this would generate a helpful "how-to" for anyone wishing to get DBus up and running on 0.91. Cheers and congrats on 0.91! -- Mike Jarema e: mike@...3206... w: mikejarema.com m: +1-905-399-4291

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Press Release and Comments
by Martin Owens 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Hey Developers, I noticed there was already an announcement for the tar ball on hacker news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965155 The comments are interesting and might point the way to a nice user focused press release for 0.91. At least a good place to start if we don't want to have too many technical details in the news article. Martin,

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debug output of SVG structure
by Torsten Mohr 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

Hello, i'd like to extend inkscape and for this i'd like to do some debug output of the internal structure. Can anybody tell me how to do this in the sources? Maybe there is an example? Best regards Torsten

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Automatic pixel art cleaning
by Krzysztof Kosiński 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

Hello For one of the courses I am doing at the university, I want to create a pixel art cleaner which would complement the recent GSoC pixel art vectorizer. It is a well known problem that most pixel art images available on the Internet are not appropriate inputs for the vectorizer: they have multiplied pixels, additional grids, various artifacts, defacements with watermarks, etc. Here are a few examples: 1. Multiplied pixels only: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/supplementary/r… 2. Border, grid, JPEG artifacts: http://img.wonderhowto.com/img/56/01/63456484792752/0/make-pixel-art-minecr… 3. Grid, imperfect alignment: http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/258/6/b/link_pixel_art_grid_by_matbo… 4. Grid, imperfect alignment, defacement: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jOu8vhgnSFQ/U7sQV0HSRwI/AAAAAAAACEs/2lGHanqeF90/s… 5. Grid, nonuniform pixel colors: http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/227/6/4/link_pixel_art_by_malandrus-… 6. Scan of a hand-filled grid paper: http://th04.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2013/207/5/b/goku_pixel_art_by_hidema… 7. Photographs: http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/336/1/6/glumanda_pixel_art_by_beffra… http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7258/7434425816_9b810a3b6d_z.jpg I'm looking for a few ideas on how to design an algorithm that would automatically convert these images to a clean input to the pixel art vectorizer. Obviously any successful algorithm will exploit three basic facts about pixel art: 1. The pixels are laid out in a rectangular grid. 2. Color within a pixel is uniform. 3. The color palette is limited. My first guess is to use a GSL and find the parameters of the pixel grid by using a generic optimizer. The cost function could include the variance of color within a pixel, area of the pixels (larger pixels should be preferred), and a few other parameters. After identifying the parameters of the pixel grid, the colors of the pixels would be found by averaging and then clustering (to eliminate JPEG artifacts and defacements). Initially I considered using FFT methods, but this would never work for images such as 5, 6 or 7, and ideally I want to cover them as well. Another possibility is to use the Hough transform to find sharp lines in the image and then look for regularities in the lines. Does anyone have more ideas? Regards, Krzysztof

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Release Training Exercise
by Martin Owens 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

Hi Developers, I'm going to try and be as verbose as possible about the procedure to upload your own release to inkscape.org, I need you to perform this task if you package any of our release packages because a) it's good practice and b) packages will be signed with your gpg key and it'd be an odd world where I could do that for you. :-) Releasing on inkscape.org: 1. Make sure you have a user account on inkscape.org - Go to https://inkscape.org and look in the top right of the page and note your logged in status, use the links provided in the drop down to log in or register an account. 2. Make sure that your account has a big enough quota - Go to https://inkscape.org/user/ and hover over the "Upload Quota" bar, you will only see 10MB if you are a normal user at this time. If you do not see a 1GB quota then you need to contact a website admin (me) to put you into the releases group with the larger quota. 3. Make sure you have a public gpg key recorded. - Go to https://inkscape.org/user/edit/ and fill in the right boxes, the GPG Public Key box is expecting a pasted public key (not private key!) and hit submit when done. 4. Make a folder for your releases in your 'InkSpace'. - Go to https://inkscape.org/gallery/new/ and fill in the name of the folder you want to use. This folder is only for your own organisation and won't be seen by users. 5. Upload your released file - Go to https://inkscape.org/user/ and drag your file to the new gallery folder created above. The upload may take some time but you should be able to see a progress bar as it uploads. (if you don't have javascript enabled, you can click on the folder and then click add and follow the manual form) 6. Enter all the details - Go into your folder and click on the newly uploaded item. It should have a red border indicating it's not yet published (if you used the drag+drop method) - Going into the editor section you should be able to fill in the title for the released file. - Paste in the release notes into the description. - Select 'Releases' from the category drop down. - Attach the sig file from your detached. - Select 'GPLv2' from the Licenses drop down. - Check 'Mirror' checkbox (if you have this) - Check 'Visible' checkbox Submit this form. 7. Verify and copy link - If everything's gone well you should now see your released file with a green padlock indicating the gpg signature has been verified against your account public key. - Download the release by clicking on the down-arrow icon. Confirm it's the file you intended. - Copy this download link. 8. Link from the downloads page. - For this step you will need CMS editor access or pass this task onto a website editor and/or translator. - Edit the downloads pages for the right OS and update with the right version, release and other details as you would want it to be presented to users. Add the copied link into the right place. - Save /and/ then hit the blue publish button. Congratulations, you've uploaded, released and published your release file. Let the website administrator (me) know if you have any difficulty with this process. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Another Kaleidoscope video
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

Hi to all. A new video for LPE Rotate Copies whith the Kaleidoscope feature. Now focused in a simple path and live editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQpvfgT4mE Regards, Jabier.

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Hard Freeze for 0.91
by Bryce Harrington 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

4. Feature Freeze √ Stable Branch is forked from Mainline √ Regular development resumes on Mainline. √ Avoid major refactorings on Mainline. √ Only bug fixes committed to Stable Branch. √ Bug fixes are cherrypicked from Mainline. √ Inkscape must pass 'make distcheck' String Freeze √ No further string changes allowed on Stable Branch. √ Finalize tutorials to be shipped with release √ Finalize other docs included in the release √ Finalize about screen √ Finalize Release Notes except Known Issues √ Translators work on translations. √ Recruit Release Wardens for Hard Freeze 5. Hard freeze. √ Only Release Wardens can commit to Stable Branch Cherrypick bug fixes from Mainline to Stable Complete any late work under advisement of Wardens Focus on release-critical bug fixing. Finalize all extensions Finalize codebase translations Finalize Known Issues section of Release Notes Finalize packaging scripts Post additional inkscape-0.91-pre*.tar.gz releases Inkscape has completed Feature Freeze and String Freeze, and is now moving to Hard Freeze. Translators, thanks for your efforts. If there are any late translations please coordinate with Jazzynico, and submit them to him for committing. We're down to the wire though so don't delay! Developers, at this point only Josh and I should be committing to the tree. We'll accept patches if they're either a) obviously safe and a useful fix, or b) more complex but fix a particularly severe bug. In either case, please make sure the fix is already applied to the 0.92 branch, and then send Josh and I a backported patch ready to be landed on 0.91. Josh will follow up with our evaluation of blocker bugs. Things actually look to be in fairly good shape. If anyone has a bug they want to raise as a blocker, now's the time to do it! Since we're in a new stage of the release, I'll cut one last pre-release tarball. Bryce P.S. We're also going to need to do some marketing work to publicise the release, and I'm thinking we should establish a formal marketing team. I'll try to organize something soon; if you're interested in joining early, or have ideas to consider in the meantime, please shoot me an email.

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New feature for Copy Rotale LPE Kaleidoscope.
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

Hi to all. I Just finish a new effect in the middle of rotate copies LPE. Is called Kaleidoscope. Here is the branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/copy-rotate-lpe-improveme… And, as usual, a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfMixSKy3Eo Best, J.

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Help/advice needed with crash on bitmap paste/import (embed) on OS X >= 10.9
by su_v 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

Current 0.91.x and trunk packages for OS X are affected by a rather critical issue on OS X 10.9 Mavericks and 10.10 Yosemite: * Pasting a bitmap image from the clipboard, or importing it via 'File > Import' with default import options (embed, resolution from file) crashes the application. [1] * Oddly, it seems that if the build has debug messages (to stdout) in the source code related to retrieving the image resolution from file, the crash no longer happens.[2] * First observed by testers of experimental osxmenu builds back in Nov 2013 (osxmenu is always quite up-to-date with trunk at any time). The debug messages had been committed in the osxmenu branch and I haven't seen new feedback about the same type of crashes with osxmenu builds. [3] * One tester of 0.91 pre-release and trunk snapshot builds reported OTOH that this type of crashes stopped after rebooting and switching to a different user (same system otherwise) - see comment 10 in bug 1398521 ([1]). * The crashes never reproduced for me on OS X 10.7.5 (build system for current available packages). How to proceed? This crash occurs in a very basic feature, and can get easily disruptive for Inkscape users on current OS X. Should we ship the upcoming stable release package with the debug messages applied as part of packaging (maintaining the diff in 'packaging/macosx')? Regards, V [1] Related bug reports: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1398521 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1410793 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413478 [2] Diff applied to custom test builds (reportedly don't crash): https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1410793/comments/7 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/magg5vw5j3y1y3u/AADgl_FtaO2ZLKAVOOgO2EsMa/Inksca… [3] Backtrace of debug build by an early tester of osxmenu (at the time on Mavericks) - Nov 22, 2013: https://gist.github.com/su-v/cd4ef1cc1c4832f07989 I noticed 'val=NaN' on this line: https://gist.github.com/su-v/cd4ef1cc1c4832f07989#file-crash-mavericks-impo…

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inkscape-0.91pre4 source tarball
by Bryce Harrington 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

Download it at: https://inkscape.org/en/download/ Tagged on the release branch as: INKSCAPE_0_91_PRE4 This likely is the last pre-release before our official release. There are a few more remaining changes that Josh and I are aware of, but nothing to cause undue delay. Hopefully the release will be finalized within the coming week. Please make sure any bugs you find are properly recorded in the bug tracker[1]. If you find particularly serious issues, please also make sure the issue (and any work-arounds) are detailed in our Release Notes[2], and hopefully we can tackle them in future point releases. Packagers, if you haven't already I recommend using this release as an opportunity to try out the new package upload system on the main website. Make sure to set your uploads as Mirrored, so we can start utilizing the new mirroring service. Please see Martin's tutorial posted on Dec 31st, and contact him directly if you need permissions or help uploading. One of the major remaining tasks we have is to write up release announcements. The drafts are being developed here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=AnnouncePlanning091 It needs formal and informal announcements written. To see what we need to make it look like, see: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=AnnouncePlanning046 In particular we'll need to identify a few volunteers to send the notices out. I can take care of a portion of the notifications but there's quite more to do than I'll have time for, and so would appreciate any help. Bryce 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ 2: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91#Known_issues

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-0.91pre3 Windows builds
by the Adib 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Johan, if you confirm that the win64 binary 0.91pre4 on sourceforge is fine. (take the ...win64.7z) Then please upload the provided cairo files to the devlibs64 on launchpad. Best regards, Adib. -- On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> wrote: > I did not build the devlibs. > > -Johan > > > On 20-1-2015 20:53, the Adib wrote: > > Johan, > > if you build the devlibs and you use the same compiler version as > described I will be happy to recompile using your libs. I am afraid in > mixing libs created using different gcc versions. > > Also could you pls doublecheck if there is any other library where dll > and lib/include mismatch. > > Regards, > > Adib > > Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2015 schrieb Johan Engelen : > >> Sorry for the problems. >> >> -Johan >> >> >> >> On 20-1-2015 20:17, the Adib wrote: >> >> I published the windows binaries on sourceforge. The win64 ones contains >> the cairo lirary provided by Partha. >> >> Within the next few days I can only check my mails rarely. >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> >> Adib. >> >> Am Montag, 19. Januar 2015 schrieb the Adib : >> >>> I just replaced the dll on my computer with the given dlls: >>> - pdf reports cairo 1.14.1 >>> - there is no crash for printing >>> >>> >>> So far this looks promising :-) >>> >>> I do not know how abi compatible gcc4.9 and gcc4.8 are, Partha do you >>> have any chance to recompile using gcc4.9 sjlj (as mentioned here >>> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_64-bit >>> ) >>> >>> Many thanks. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Adib. >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I have rebuilt cairo from git (cloned today). If someone can help me >>>> put the files in devlibs, it would be much appreciated. >>>> >>>> http://www.partha.com/temp/cairo-git.7z >>>> >>>> Built with gcc 4.8.1 sjlj 64bit. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Partha >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:07 PM, su_v <suv-sf@...58...> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Independent of how the devlibs64 arrived at the current inconsistent >>>> > state - I'd like to remind again that inkscape (trunk, 0.91.x) with >>>> > unpatched cairo 1.14.0 is quite unstable (random crashes with data >>>> > loss). So before the missing files get committed to >>>> inkscape-devlibs64, >>>> > now, I'd recommend to thoroughly test a local inkscape build with >>>> cairo >>>> > 1.14.0, and patch cairo if needed. For further details, see e.g. this >>>> > earlier message: >>>> > http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/32980381/ >>>> > >>>> > Additional notes: >>>> > AFAIU the cairo bug is not a platform-related crash limited to OS X >>>> > (some linux distros already include the same patch from cairo git >>>> master >>>> > with stable cairo 1.14 packages, others may have bug reports pending >>>> > with the same patch proposed): >>>> > >>>> > - Related cairo bug reports (same backtrace after crash): >>>> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85151 >>>> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85591 >>>> > >>>> > - Debian: >>>> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766479 >>>> > >>>> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/c/cairo/cairo_1.14.0… >>>> > - Fedora: >>>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1152451#c3 >>>> > - Arch Linux: >>>> > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42596 >>>> > >>>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=package… >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Regards, V >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On 2015-01-18 20:03 (+0100), Partha Bagchi wrote: >>>> >> If your runtime is bundled with 1.12.16 and you built against 1.14.0 >>>> >> then how did it function? It should have crashed I think. >>>> >> >>>> >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 1:21 PM, the Adib <theadib@...400...> wrote: >>>> >>> ok, I see. The package -3 I made with the latest devlibs64 >>>> available. >>>> >>> >>>> >>> pls check >>>> >>> >>>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape-devlibs64/trunk/changes/… >>>> >>> >>>> >>> This revision #14 stated to update the cairo to version 1.14. But >>>> it only >>>> >>> updates the development files. >>>> >>> >>>> >>> The file bin/libcairo-2.dll remains untouched. >>>> >>> >>>> >>> So we link against cairo 1.14 but the runtime is bundled 1.12.16. >>>> >>> Remaining is to update the dlls in the bin directory. >>>> >>> >>>> >>> Cheers, Adib. >>>> >>> -- >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:17 PM, su_v <...> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> @AdiB: the two most recent 0.91pre3-x64 msi installers (64bit) >>>> available >>>> >>>> for download still use cairo 1.12.16 (i.e. a cairo version which is >>>> >>>> affected by the cairo bug when printing documents with text on >>>> Windows). >>>> >>>> Do you use up-to-date inkscape-devlibs64? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Installers tested today on Windows 7: >>>> >>>> 1) inkscape-0.91pre3-x64-2.msi (from 2015-01-04) >>>> >>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.91pre3/ >>>> >>>> 2) inkscape-0.91pre3-x64-3.msi (from 2015-01-06) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByQpCQ-C8wR2b09fYkRTSVk5bWM&usp=sha… >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Steps to determine the cairo version used by installed Inkscape: >>>> >>>> 1) open a new document in currently installed Inkscape 0.91pre3 >>>> >>>> 2) save a copy as PS file >>>> >>>> 3) open PS file in a plain-text editor and look in the comments >>>> section >>>> >>>> at the top of the document for the comment starting with >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> %%Creator: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> This comment shows which cairo version was used by Inkscape for PS >>>> >>>> export (i.e. on Windows and OS X, which version of cairo is >>>> bundled with >>>> >>>> the Inkscape package). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Header from PS file created with inkscape-0.91pre3-x64-3.msi: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 >>>> >>>> %%Creator: cairo 1.12.16 (http://cairographics.org) >>>> >>>> %%CreationDate: Sun Jan 18 17:48:47 2015 >>>> >>>> %%Pages: 1 >>>> >>>> %%DocumentData: Clean7Bit >>>> >>>> %%LanguageLevel: 2 >>>> >>>> %%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () () >>>> >>>> %%BoundingBox: 79 438 504 471 >>>> >>>> %%EndComments >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, V >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2015-01-18 14:36 (+0100), the Adib wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Johan, >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Obviously there is a showblocker in the devlibs64: Inkscape >>>> crashes >>>> >>>>> while printing text. >>>> >>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-devlibs64/+bug/1366250 >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Is there a patched cairo source/lib available? >>>> >>>>> Maybe it is also related if lib and exe use compiler having >>>> different >>>> >>>>> exception handling sjlj vs. seh. >>>> >>>>> Are we sure we have the same exception handling on libs and exe? >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> According to the wiki doc we use sjlj compiler: >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_64-bit >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Adib. >>>> >>>>> -- >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:15 PM, su_v <...> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> On 2015-01-17 23:02 (+0100), Partha Bagchi wrote: >>>> >>>>> > Well, I provided the latest builds of all of gtk+ and >>>> friends when >>>> >>>>> I >>>> >>>>> > updated Cairo to 1.4.0. It's possible only the devlibs from >>>> May >>>> >>>>> that I >>>> >>>>> > provided are in devlibs. If you use pkg-config, you should >>>> be able >>>> >>>>> to >>>> >>>>> > tell which versions of glib/gtk/cairo/poppler etc are used >>>> in >>>> >>>>> devlibs. >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Using pkg-config likely won't work - AFAICT the update from >>>> cairo >>>> >>>>> 1.12.16 to 1.14.0 in revision 14 of the devlibs64 did not >>>> include >>>> >>>>> the >>>> >>>>> cairo*.pc files: >>>> >>>>> >>>> > >>>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. >> GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. >> Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. >> Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant.http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing listInkscape-devel@...1901...://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> >> >> >

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Inkscape-0.91pre3 Windows builds
by Josh Andler 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hey All, In an unlikely turn of events, we have an OSX package available and none for Windows yet. Anyone interested in taking this on? Cheers, Josh

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Wiki front page link outdated - can't edit
by Maren Hachmann 18 Jan '15

18 Jan '15

Hi Wiki-Admins, we got a bug report in inkscape-web about an outdated link on the Wiki front page, but neither Martin nor I have editing permissions for that page. Could someone update the page for us or give Martin / me editing permission? Page: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape The link which needs to be replaced is in the middle column titled 'User Documentation': http://inkscape.org/doc/ , the replacement is https://inkscape.org/en/learn/tutorials/ . Thank you, Maren

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doxygen document "other directories" is dead link.
by michinari.nukazawa 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

Hello. I build doxygen local file documents from a Inkscape source repository. $doxygen Doxfile Inkscape "other directories" in this document top, is dead link. I want to read those. (document top: ${inkscape local repository}/doxygen/html/index.html ) (other directories: ${inkscape local repository}/doxygen/html/dirs.html ) What should I do to read it? Thanks!

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Tighten up command line options
by Sebastian Zartner 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

The command line parameter list of Inkscape is quite long - 44 parameters to be precise. It splits similar functionality into multiple parameters while it doesn't offer all possible options. On the other side it offers some functions, which may be unnecessary or just too complex. So I suggest to restructure the command line functionality to separate the actual commands from their parameters. A good example for how that works is the git command line tool <http://www.git-scm.com/downloads>. So the commands would be open convert query version help The syntax for 'open' would be open <file path> The syntax for 'convert' would be convert -in=<input file name> -out=<output file name> [-out-type=<outupt file type>] [-edit=<edit function>] [-area=drawing|page|<object id>|<x0>:<y0>:<x1>:<y1>] [-id-only] [-width=<width>] [-height=<height>] [-dpi=<dpi>] [-vacuum-defs] [-background=<color>] [-text-to-path] [-margin] [-ignore-filters] [-version=<file type version>] covering all --export-* parameters and the -vacuum-defs parameter and where the different --export-<file type> parameters are combined in the optional -out-type parameter. -edit replaces --verb by allowing to apply different transformations and filters. (Are there other use cases for --verb than that?) If -out-type is not defined, the type will be inferred from the extension of the file name given in -out. Syntax for 'query' would be query x|y|width|height|all -in=<input file name> [-id=<object id>] covering all --query-* parameters. 'version' and 'help' wouldn't have any parameters and do what --version and --help currently do. --with-gui, --without-gui, --select, --export-use-hints (rather confusing than helping) and --verb-list (needs a different implementation, probably via 'help') and --usage (should be shown in the output of 'help') are removed as they are not needed anymore. --print, --export-area-snap, --export-latex and --shell are not listed, because I'm not sure about their usage. Usage examples: inkscape version inkscape open "/path/to/file" inkscape help inkscape query width -in="/path/to/input file" -id=path1234 inkscape convert -in="/path/to/input file" -out="/path/to/output file" -edit=grayscale,move(1.0 1.0) -vacuum-defs Sebastian

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Team cleanup for inkscape-web
by Martin Owens 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Hey Devels, I'm going to do a bit of cleaning on inkscape-web's admin team, anyone who joined before 2013, I'll set to expire in 6 months with the aim of clearing out people who aren't interested in a renewal. Hopefully some people will renew. https://launchpad.net/~inkscape-webadmin/+members Any issues anyone can see with this plan? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Website
by Hinerangi Courtenay 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hello Inkscape developers, I've been away from this list for a while - I designed the current Inkscape website a few years back, and it's been online for a few months now thanks to your hard work! I tried a couple of times to get the local web development environment up and running on my computer, but unfortunately life kept getting in the way. Back when I first did the designs, responsive web design was still relatively new - but now with a few more years experience I'd love to help make the website work responsively in my spare time. Would giving it a fresh lick of paint as well--to bring it in with current trends--be welcome? Something more along the lines of this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m2f988q3jqn2vbr/mockup-hp-2014-26-12_v0.1.png?dl=0 (it's a draft so it's missing important stuff like search, languages, etc, only has Arial fonts, and doesn't show what happens at different screen sizes)... Happy holidays,Hinerangi Courtenay

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bzr howto change to specific revno
by the Adib 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Hello all, I am hunting a bug where inkscape 0.91_pre3 win64 crashes before printing. I can reproduce the error, it does not happen on win32 and might be related to the devtools. So I want to rollback the devtools on my machine to a specific version: (there was a significant change on rev14) > bzr checkout lp:inkscape-devlibs64 \devlibs64 > bzr revno ->tells me rev 16 then I do > bzr revert -r14 > bzr revno ->tells me rev 16 > bzr update > bzr revno ->tells me rev 16 So how can I reset the files on my computer to a specific version? Best regards, Adib. --

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build issues on windows?
by mathog 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

I have not built on windows in a while. After upgrading to rev 13846 btool trundles along and then blows up with a ton of errors. There were so many it scrolled off the end of the terminal buffer. Anyway, near the bottom these include: build\obj\widgets\ink-action.o:ink-action.cpp:(.text+0x83c): multiple definition of `ink_action_new' build\obj\ink-action.o:ink-action.cpp:(.text+0x83c): first defined here build\obj\widgets\ink-action.o:ink-action.cpp:(.text+0x8cc): multiple definition of `ink_toggle_action_get_type' build\obj\ink-action.o:ink-action.cpp:(.text+0x8cc): first defined here and build\obj\interface.o:interface.cpp:(.text+0x107f): undefined reference to `SPDocument::getDefaultUnit() const' build\obj\interface.o:interface.cpp:(.text+0x10b4): undefined reference to `SPDocument::getDefaultUnit() const' build\obj\interface.o:interface.cpp:(.text+0x11a1): undefined reference to `inkscape_active_desktop()' build\obj\interface.o:interface.cpp:(.text+0x11bc): undefined reference to `inkscape_active_desktop()' This is with devlibs 50. New version needed? If so, I really, really wish that btool would consult with build.xml to see if the minimum required version was present and emit a simple warning and stop. It's no fun playing 'why did it blow up this time'! How hard can this be? Worse comes to worse leave a file with the version number in the devlibs directory and have a corresponding "devlibs_version" in build.xml. Regards, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Export SVG to EMF using command line
by Diego Nuñez 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Thanks David! You are right, after closing the GUI, the command line reminded the last configuration set in the GUI. So, I can create now the emf files without exporting texts to paths using command line. I also agree with Sebastian, that an option for setting that directlly in the command line would be better and cleaner. Thanks for your help

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Add command line parameter for explaining other parameters
by Sebastian Zartner 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

There should be a command line parameter, which outputs detailed descriptions for each available parameter. For this purpose the --help parameter could be reused. E.g. calling inkscape --help --verb would list a verbose description of the --verb parameter. When the proposal for tightening up the command line parameters[1] is implemented, the call could look like this inkscape help query for getting a description of the 'query' command and like this inkscape help convert -edit for getting a description of the -edit parameter of the 'convert' command. Sebastian [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/33219331/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Suggestions to make the UI more flexible
by Sebastian Zartner 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

First of all Happy New Year to everyone! Jelle, I renamed the subject in order to cover your points. Parts of your suggestions seem to be covered in this thread: http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/inkscape-devel/thread/CAL6-Be6E45… I'm not an Inkscape developer - and someone of the developers please correct me if I'm wrong - though I think it would be the best to split your suggestions into smaller parts and create an issue or a blueprint for each one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape AFAICS the suggested points are: - customizable UI - dynamically load and unload extensions - rearranging options in default UI (part of the findings of the thread above) Sebastian On 21 December 2014 at 06:46, Jelle Mulder <jelle.mulder2@...3139...> wrote: > Hello all, > > Let's start saying this. I really appreciate the idea to tackle the UI and > make it into something more coherent, but... > > If there's going to be a whole team of people on the job, how possible > would it be to create something like the Coreldraw UI that let's the user > move tools and UI objects around, hide and show them from view and > basically create the UI he would like. I felt this to be the greatest > strength of Coreldraw and it was one of the reasons why my production time > using Coreldraw was about 4 times faster than when using Illustrator. It > enabled the noobs to have a basic UI and for me to lard my text editing > widgets with all the functions I needed to do some decent Typography. > > For those not familiar with Coreldraw, download a trial version and use > the tools -> customisation to get the idea. It could be quite a hassle to > get everything set, but once you did, it made working a breeze. What would > make a real difference though would be to unlike Coreldraw that loaded the > whole shebang, load and offload functionality on demand. > > For Inkscape it would be a great way of organising the abundance of > extensions as well if such UI widgets would be linked to loading or not > loading of said extensions. Maybe by using an extension panel where you > can load or unload extensions. They are really nice and all, but in > general you will only use a few of those and it becomes a bit of a bloat > to load them all. > > Likewise if It would to my idea also open up more space to try new and > unstable functions if they'd be able to be loaded and unloaded > dynamically. That way Inkscape can be build as a stable core with API to > hang up new functionality and even allow for radical changes of UI objects > depending on what functionality is being used. Thinking of animation, web > design, print etc. > > Now I understand that that is all a bit far fetched at the current state > of Inkscape, but creating a flexible UI might lay a base for realising > such concepts. > > On the concept UI as I saw it, I would state that the importance of UI > objects like the node editor would call for a top location as it is now. > In the design phase of objects it is my most used tool and it might > actually have some of the tools that are now in the dynamic bar moved to > the toolbox (smooth node editing, cusped nodes etc.) to make access > quicker. With the last chosen option made prevalent. > > Likewise, there are some tools grouped together now that make me switch a > lot. For instance gradients and drop shadows are in the same group, > whereas I often use both in succession to make a nice effect on text > objects. Maybe a reconsideration as to how things are grouped is in order. > They seem more chronological than functional to me. > > Cheers, > > Jelle > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Export SVG to EMF using command line
by Diego Nuñez 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

Hi! I have tested the export from svg to emf (in windows) using the GUI and I noticed a checkbox for exporting the texts as paths. This checkbox is by default checked, so as I didn't want that configuration I have unchecked it and the export worked like a charm. When I tried the same from command line by typing inkscape svgBasicChart.svg --export-emf=svgBasicChart.emf the export performed had the texts exported as paths, but I didn't find any option to avoid that from command line as I found in the GUI. Is this option available in any way for command line? Thanks in advance Diego Nuñez

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how to write Inkscape extensions - guide needed
by Brynn 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Hi Friends, I think I asked this before, but it was mixed up with another subject. And there seems to be a bit of a lull in the action, on the dev mailing list. So I thought it would be a good time to try again, when this is the only subject. In forums, probably 3 to 5 times in a year, people post a message asking either how to write an extension for Inkscape, or about some technical aspect of writing an extension. Or another version is - how to get an extension they wrote to be packed with Inkscape. Unfortunately, most of us don't have a clue about any of it, and there is no place to refer them. Now I'm working on fleshing out the Contribute page of the website, and it would be really nice to be able to provide a link to some kind of guide, or instructions, or article on the subject. It doesn't necessarily need to be a newbie's guide; so it wouldn't be teaching someone like me to write an extension. It would be addressed towards people who already have the needed skills and experience. So if anyone is interested, it would really be a great benefit to the Inkscape community, to have some information, in any kind of format, on how to write an Inkscape extension. It could be placed on the Inkscape wiki, or maybe even in your InkSpace (the gallery on the website) in Tutorials category. Thanks in advance, and thanks for listening. If anyone is interested, just let me know where to find it, when finished, and a link will be included on the Contribute page. :-) Thanks again, brynn

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UnitTest Fix under Windows
by Mark Harmer 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Hi, So I'm not sure the process for submitting patches that aren't tied to a bug report, the Wiki ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_Bazaar#Working_with_pa…) didn't seem to mention where patches should be sent so I figured this might be the best place. Let me know if there's a better place to send these. I've attached a minor fix that corrects a unittest failure under Windows due to path separator differences.

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