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Re: [Clipart] Announcing Inkscape 0.40 Release (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:48:44 -0500 From: Carl Worth <cworth@...573...> To: Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab@...581...> Cc: clipart@...330... Subject: Re: [Clipart] Announcing Inkscape 0.40 Release On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:01:37 -0500, "Jonadab the Unsightly One" wrote: > I'll want, but this underscores the single largest problem IMO in > open-source today: excessive use of dynamic linking makes upgrades > painful beyond the bounds of all reason. The problem of a single application upgrade requiring many libraries to also be upgraded has been solved in any number distributions with good package managers. If you're not yet using one, I would recommend you try one out. > The take-home message is this: Static linking is GOOD, and the world > needs more of it. No. Static linking leads to bug propagation. This is especially bad when there are security bugs in well-used libraries, (for example the zlib bug from some time ago). Widespread use of static linking makes it much harder to get security fixes out since it requires updating many applications. With dynamic linking, only the affected library need be updated. -Carl _______________________________________________ clipart mailing list clipart@...330... http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart

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Inkscape slides in spanish
by Lucas Vieites 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi, A few months ago there was a presentation of Inkscape at the University of A Coruña. Now the slides used at that presentation have been made available. The slides are made in inkscape in order to provide a useable space on the right to do some demos as you speak. Find them at: http://www.gauss-fic.udc.es/Members/moebius/tutoriales/inkscape/inkscape-sl… And «kudos to the author»: Adrián Perez de Castro If an english translation is needed I'll be glad to provide one. Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape Release 0.40 Now Available
by bulia byak 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

> > As soon as it's up, I'll post an announcement on deviantart (as a > > majority of users on their site are Win32 based)... I just uploaded the exe installer made by Sim. Please download and test: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

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Wiki again
by Arpad Biro 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

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Announcing Inkscape 0.40 Release
by Bryce Harrington 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

= Inkscape 0.40 = 'Draw Freely' http://www.inkscape.org/ The Inkscape community is proud to announce the release 0.40 of Inkscape, "A Cross-platform Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Drawing Tool." This release includes three majorly requested new capabilities: Layers, Text-on-Path, and Bitmap tracing. In addition, there are many minor features, a number of usability enhancements, three new tutorials, and hundreds of bug fixes. This is by far the most feature-packed release the project has had. This is all due to the strong developers that have contributed countless hours on Inkscape 0.40. Following our last release four months ago, we have focused intensively on development, adding several new dependencies such as the Boehm garbage collector and the stable Gtk 2.4 libraries. Because of this, user's may encounter more trouble getting Inkscape installed on some platforms than in previous releases. To help those who run into this issue, we're also providing 'Static Binary' packages that include these new libraries inside the package, and thus, the static releases are very large. Download your packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the Release Notes for 0.40: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes040 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/

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XMLifying of tutorials
by bulia byak 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

As you know, currently tutorials are written directly in SVG. This, among other things, prevents proper automated i18n - if a section changes, a translator will have to manually figure out what changed, manually find the matching text in his translation, and manually change it. Also, producing the tutorials in formats other than SVG is also pretty much manual work. In other words, it looks nice but is a nightmare to maintain. Our attempts to change that ran into difficulties: a script or stylesheet which might generate an SVG tutorial would have to combine text (from some source file, e.g. Docbook) with illustrations (from separate SVG files). To do so, it would need to know the dimensions of the pieces of texts and the illustrations, because everything in SVG is absolutely-positioned. And that was the problem. Now I got an idea: Why not use Inkscape itself for this? Here's how it might work: 1 Add a couple new command line switches to Inkscape that would force it to load the document, find the object with the specified id, and report on the command line the width or height of that object's bbox, then quit. 2 Write an XSLT stylesheet that, for each piece of text, would write a temporary SVG file with it (in flowtext, same as the finished tutorials would use), run Inkscape with these command line switches to figure out its dimensions, and then use these numbers to position it in the final SVG files it produces. Same thing is done with illustrations, except that no temporary files are needed - they are stored separately (and referenced from the master XML source) anyway. If this sounds like a mess, it's not. I've done XSLT running external processes before. It works, and it is even portable (though portability may depend on the processor you use). It will be rather slow but in our case it does not matter much, I guess. So, unless someone invents something still better, I can do 1 above (it will be useful for other things, too), and someone will need to do 2 (with my help if needed). Perhaps 2 can also be done in another language, but I vote for XSLT - it's a very nice and powerful language for XML processing, definitely worth learning.

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Spiral bug
by Gazal, Geraud (GE Healthcare) 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi, playing with the 29nov04 build on win2k, I got a very bad bug with spiral Here is the way to reproduce it : Start inkscape Draw a spiral, then set its divergence to 0.00 Select the spiral, and switch to node or spiral tool Try to modify the spiral with the mouse (inner or outer handle) -> crash with an error pop up : **Error**: file sp-spiral.cpp line 446 (NR::sp_spiral_get_xy(const SPSpiral*, gdouble)): assertion failed: (t>=0.0) aborting... I don't think it has been reported yet. By the way, I'm wondering about the toolbar: being in node tool, when selecting a shape (spiral, ellipse, rectangle, star), it displays node commands, that are not applicable to shapes. would it be possible to have it switch to the appropriate toolbar ? (example : selecting a rectangle -> rectangle tools, then selecting a path -> node tools, ...) Shall I submit a RFE for this ? Regards, Matiphas

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End of freeze - back to regular development
by Bryce Harrington 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

With 0.40 tagged and branched, it's safe to go back into the water. Regular development can resume now. Thanks to everyone who worked at putting out this release, it is going smoothly, and we don't expect any issues. Presently the focus is on packaging, distributing, and PR. Going forward, the plan is to take a good long break for the month of December. If you're worn out from Inkscape development, please disappear and rejoin us when your batteries are recharged! If you're itching to do some coding, scratch away. I'm going to be working on the Gtkmmification stuff, and would welcome anyone wishing to join in on this; the code is in the experimental CVS module currently, and it'll be integrated into the main codebase in the coming weeks. (Note: Since we added several dependencies in the 0.40 release, it would probably be wise to hold off a bit on adding new ones until we see how these do. If you need to add a new dependency, please get a concensus with the other developers before doing so.) Bryce

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Static builds (again)
by Kees Cook 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Okay. We can take two approaches to the static linux compile: 1- requiring gtk 2.4 already be installed 2- requiring pango 1.0 already be installed Pango does not appear to allow itself to operate as a statically compiled library. As a result, it's use of glib creates dynamic lib deps. I'm going to try to solve that, but it will still require pango dynamic libs. I was shooting for only requiring pango, but this is getting harder and harder. My test-case is a redhat 9 box, and it really doesn't like me: /tmp/inkscape.strip: relocation error: /tmp/inkscape.strip: undefined symbol: g_type_class_add_private So, I'm going to continue working on pango, but I think we can make an operational "static" build that requires gtk 2.4, since that's the bulk of the static lib work I've been trying to make work. Getting gtkmm hasn't been very hard. libgc has some tricks up it's sleeve, but I think I solved those. I'm building an RPM now that basically requires gtk 2.4, but is actually my latest attempt at approach #2. I need someone with an RPM-based distro with gtk 2.4 to test it. All I have is gtk 2.0 on rh9. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Inkscape Release 0.40 Now Available
by Bryce Harrington 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

The official 0.40 tarball is now posted, and is available for download here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 The Release Notes describing the changes are available here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes At this time we are requesting all packagers to create and post packages for the release. Formal announcements for the release will be delayed until Monday evening in order to give a little time for packages to be created and tested. We are also encouraging everyone to assist with the PR push to get word out about this release. If you're interested in writing an article on a topic related to Inkscape, this would be an excellent time to do so. Bryce

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