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

06 Dec '04

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

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

06 Dec '04

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

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

06 Dec '04

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

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

05 Dec '04

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

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

05 Dec '04

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

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

04 Dec '04

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

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

03 Dec '04

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

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

02 Dec '04

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

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please read webdevnews article before publication today
by Peter Moulder 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

An article about inksape 0.40 is to appear on http://webdevnews.com/ at 16:00 in Central US time (which I think means 22:00 UTC). Can pleple please check it and communicate any corrections etc. to SteamedPenguin, who will drop by on IRC some time before then? It isn't yet available to be read as I type this, but should appear at http://webdevnews.com/2004/12/02/open-source-svg-editor-inkscape-reaches-04… before being linked to from the front page. (Incidentally, it's possible that I wrongly guessed what sp meant by "tomorrow", in which case publication would be about 35hrs from this e-mail instead of about 11 hrs.) pjrm.

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Re: C-based garbage collection for Inkscape
by Bryce Harrington 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Thanks Keith, passing along to the crew... Bryce On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Keith Packard wrote: > > I've been using a garbage collector in C for about twenty years which is > different from the Boehm system. > > advantages: > > 1) Completely portable -- no machine dependent code at all > 2) Integrates with malloc/free using code > 3) Precise pointer knowledge - the set of referenced objects is known, > not discovered. > > disadvantages: > > 1) Requires stylized function call/return macros both where the > allocator is used as well as in at least one place above all > allocation calls in the call graph. > > It's part of the nickle language implementation (http://nickle.org) and > has been used in several other projects to good effect. > > -keith > > >

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