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New Win32 Build
by Joshua A. Andler 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Thanks to Bob Jamison there is a new win32 build as of today. I just thought anyone doing testing on windows boxes might want to know. http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/Inkscape0410261 427.zip -Josh

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Unit fun
by Jon A. Cruz 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

I was doing some low-level hacking on image support and DPI, and found an interesting thing Images I created in The GIMP and set to 72 DPI there came out to have a stored value of 2835 pixels per meter. On the other hand, a png that had been created in Inkscape a while back had a stored value of 2834 pixels per meter. One saved today had no chunk for DPI, at least not before the image data.

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text node ids
by bulia byak 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

I noticed that sometimes, <text> nodes in a document are assigned different ids on load without obvious reason - there's no id clash in the source document. I found out that this is caused by text repr nodes (i.e. text strings, not <text> elements) being assigned their own id= too, even though this id is not seen or editable anywhere and is not saved with the document. And the problem is that these text node ids also start with "text" followed by a number, and therefore can clash with <text> ids forcing them to re-id. I fixed this by making these text nodes use ids starting with "string" instead of "text". The change is in line 76 of repr.cpp. I hope this does not break anything; comments are welcome.

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Snapping behavior
by Eric Jonas 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Hello! I'm still having a tough time with Inkscape's snapping behavior. I'm trying to use it for technical illustration, and thus I find myself moving very large chunks of my drawings around throughout the design process, and need things to line up perfectly. This is made more difficult by snapping confusion with the following points: 1. Text snapping appears to snap to all edges of a particular text block. Would there be any interest to changing this to snapping to the anchor point in the text, where you initially click the "text" cursor (the i-beam)? This would make it much easier to have the baseline for text line up -- i.e. at the moment (using the current CVS) text with letters that drop below the baseline (words like "happy") snap to the lowest point in the word (the bottom of the 'p' instead of the bottom of the 'h'). 2. Grouped objects can snap to any of the internal nodes when "snap points to grid" is enabled. But not when "snap to bounding box" is selected. What I really want (and what I think most users expect, and would most clearly emulate Illustrator's behavior -- but I could be wrong) is a "snap to the points in a group which form a convex hull around the object". Point #2 is important to me because I create lots of little EE symbols that are groups of off-grid objects, but inside of an on-grid object (think a register symbol, or anything with internal text that's smaller than the grid size). I know snapping may be a religious issue with some, and I know that someone else was working really hard on getting the snapping behavior "just right". I'm going to punt the rest of my real work for today and see if I can implement these changes in the current CVS -- what do people think, are these desired behaviors? If so, would a patch be well-received? Thanks for making such an amazing piece of software, ...Eric

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Update French translation
by Frederic Rodrigo 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hi, I have updated the French translation. Fred.

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Spanish --> English translation needed
by Arpad Biro 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hi, We have this priority 9 bug regarding SUSE packages: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=995453&group_id=93… Googling for the error message, a Spanish page turned up that may be of some help to us. See the bug comments (link above) for details. Now since I don't speak Spanish, can I ask someone who does to translate the (short) letter on that page? The Spanish page in question is https://listas.linux.org.ar/pipermail/lugar-gral/2004-May/021837.html TIA, Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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10/26 Bug Stats
by Bryce Harrington 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Bug ID Pts Title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1048151 6 Union destroy objects in some cases 984096 9 Assertion failures with calligraphy tool 1045067 3 --without-gui crashes if home dir not writable 1038932 6 Export silently fails when file cannot be created 984854 9 crashes with non-existent gradient in gradient editor 1000350 9 --print option can attempt to open dialogs and segfault 1041757 (dup) undefined symbol: gdk_threads_lock 993294 9 RDF improperly exported with plain SVG 1024915 9 glib-2.5.2: crashes on clicking fill and stroke dialog ======================================================================== Total: 60 Goal: 150pts (40% towards goal)

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Text Options
by Cédric GEMY 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Working on the Text tool part of the user manual, i've just wondered why this tool has to be set in a separate though it doesn't have any options. Would it not be more useable to put this options in the Option Bar ? Cedric

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Call for bug check
by unknown＠example.com 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Can anyone on Windows check the following bugs for me? 925033 win32: non-ascii filenames still don't work 934062 win32: international characters in home path 1052307 Saving fails because of UTF-8 Error In generall, the steps to check these are 1) run a version of Inkscape that is belived to have the bug 2) try to reproduce the bug 3) report if it was reproduceable or not 4) once the bug is being reproduced, update to a version of Inkscape that should have it fixed 5) try to reproduce the bug the same way as worked for step 2 6) report if it is still reproduceable. With that in mind, I mainly need to get people to verify the bug via steps 1 through 3. Getting them checked on Windows 95/98/ME and also on Windows NT/2K/XP is helpful, as they are very different bases. Thanks, Jon

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Bug Stats for Inkscape 0.40 Release
by Bryce Harrington 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Objective: Achieve 150 total points worth of fixed bugs. Gain 3/6/9 points for low/med/high bugs. (Invalidated bugs don't count towards total.) Bug ID Pts Title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1024915 9 glib-2.5.2: crashes on clicking fill and stroke dialog ======================================================================== Total: 9 Goal: 150pts (6% done towards goal)

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