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word and letter spacing
by Aewyn 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

Hi, I promised, that will help you to solve the firing printing issues, but I have very much work now. I will, I think it is very important, but now is more improtant question: word and letter spacing (tracing) I think this is base. Without it there is no vector drawing suite. Anyone works on it? Is any technical issue, that balk it? If the answers are no, please help me providing any existing info about it. I would like cut this problem shortly. I can code just a little bit, but I will do anything to complete this. Sorry for harrassing you, but I start to work with inkscape, and it -unfortunately- is not an appropriate tool yet. I'd like to help you, I think there is no too many issues to be a very powerful tool. letter and word spacing are such issues. Thanks, Aewyn

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X11R6.8.0 Release Official Announcement (plain text) (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Leon Shiman <leon@...531...> To: xorg@...330... Subject: X11R6.8.0 Release Official Announcement (plain text) [the PDF version isn't readable on all readers it seems. here's plaintext] X.Org Foundation Announces X11R6.8 Release of the X Window System _________________________________________________________________ The X.Org Foundation Release Officially Introduces State of the Art Technologies to the X Window System Brookline MA, September 9, 2004 - The X.Org Foundation today announced the second release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in January of this year. The new X.Org release, called X Window System Version 11, Release 6.8 (X11R6.8) builds on the work of X.org X11R6.7 released in April. X11R6.8 combines the latest developments from many people and companies working with the X Window System and an open X.Org Foundation Release Team. The X Window System X11R6.8 release can be found at ftp://www.x.org/pub and at mirror-sites worldwide. About this Release: In response to user and application developer demand, X.Org's X11R6.8 brings forward widely anticipated fundamental facilities through this release. They include the first official X Window System Release support for: - Translucent windows - Window animation, window decorations like shadows - Support for accessibility applications - Support for 3D immersive user environments like Looking Glass(1) and Croquet(2) - Support for large scale display walls using DMX(3) These new facilities, some of which are still considered experimental, and so not enabled by default, have been under development for several years. Once completed and deployed, they will enable X Window System desktop projects, such as Gnome and KDE, to greatly extend their visual user interface vocabulary while still ensuring uncompromised support for existing applications, even surpassing current state of the art in competing window systems. These facilities will enable easy implementation of thumbnailing, screen magnifiers for accessibility, translucent windows, menus, drop shadows, and even integration of conventional applications into 3D immersive environments. They are the result of open collaboration within the freedesktop.org community, desktop projects, and the X Window System user and developer communities. For some illustrations visit http://www.freedesktop.org/XOrg/X11R68ScreenShots. Features also included in this release are updates and fixes to: FreeType2, Xprint, Xaw ( new PrintShell class), Mesa, DRI, driver rotation support, Render ( New Trapezoid Extension ), many driver updates, and a broad range of fixes and enhancements. About participation and membership in X.Org Membership in the X.Org foundation is free and open to all participants. Active participants in the further development of the X Window System are invited to visit: http://www.x.org/XOrg_Foundation_Membership.html to complete a membership application. Participation in the Foundation's Sponsor Group is also available to those who wish to financially support the activities of the X.Org Foundation. Current Sponsors include Hewlett Packard, IBM, ICS, Sun Microsystems, Shiman Associates, and WRQ. About the X.Org Foundation X.Org Foundation L.L.C. is a Delaware company organized to operate as a scientific charity under IRS code 501(c)(3), chartered to develop and execute effective strategies that provide worldwide stewardship of the X Window System technology and standards. The group is currently managed by its Board of Directors that includes: Stuart Anderson (Free Standards Group), Egbert Eich (Novell), Jim Gettys (HP), Stuart Kreitman (SUN Microsystems), Kevin Martin (Red Hat), Jim McQuillan (Linux Terminal Server Project), Keith Packard (HP), and Leon Shiman (Shiman Associates). The website for the X.Org Foundation can be found at http://www.x.org/. About The X Window System The X Window System provides the only common networked windowing environment bridging the heterogeneous platforms in today's computing. The X Window System is one of the most successful open-source, collaborative technologies developed to date and is the standard graphical window system for the Linux® and UNIX® operating systems. The inherent independence of the X Window System from the operating system, the network and the hardware, as well as its successful interoperability, have made it widely available and deployed with more than 30 million users worldwide. All major hardware vendors support the X Window System and many third parties provide technologies for integrating X Window System applications into the networked computer or personal computer environments including Microsoft Windows®, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS® X. Further, thousands of software developers provide X Window System applications, and with the continued growth of Linux and the emergence of Mac OS X, the number of users is growing rapidly. Community Response: "This release of the X.org server incorporates a number of extensions that were developed in consultation with experts in the field," said Bill Haneman, Sun Microsystems, GNOME Foundation board member and member of the FSG Accessibility Workgroup. "This new release removes a number of significant accessibility roadblocks and facilitates considerably improved support for onscreen magnifiers, screen readers, and other assistive technologies." "As one of the original founding members of the X Window System project, HP is pleased to be supporting the X.Org Foundation as a continued sponsor. With the second X.org Foundation release of the X Window System, we once again demonstrate the power of the open source development model to deliver true innovation and value to our customers," said Martin Fink, vice president of Linux, HP. "Open source takes a giant leap into the future with the new X Window System release and Croquet working together," said Alan Kay, Senior HP Fellow, HP Labs. "If anyone doubts the quality of 'Open Source' they only need look to this new release of X," said Peter Winston, President of leading UI development company Integrated Computer Systems (www.ICS.com) and member of X.org. With tens of millions of Linux and UNIX developers around the world relying on the X Window System, X.org has created a new version which users can depend upon and that addresses the new needs of a changing market. The additions of translucent windows and support for large scale display walls will be especially well received by our core customer base of developers building homeland defense applications." "LTSP relies heavily on the X Window System and we are inspired by the continuing development and community involvement that has gone into the latest X.org release." -- Jim McQuillan, LTSP project leader. "Novell welcomes the rapid progress of the X.Org Foundation. We are pleased to support the new release of X.Org in the next SUSE LINUX product offering, which will enable technology enthusiasts to benefit from the latest enhancements in Linux windowing technology, and we will continue to actively contribute to the project." -- Chris Schlaeger, VP R&D SUSE LINUX at Novell "Red Hat is proud to contribute to development of the X Window System technology and standards through continued involvement in and support of X.org's efforts. Red Hat plans to include the X11R6.8 release in the the open source Fedora Core project and upcoming releases of Red Hat Desktop." -- Havoc Pennington, desktop technical architect and engineering manager. "X11R6.8 contains essential features which provide the underlying foundation for the Project Looking Glass 3D window system, such as the Composite and Damage extensions. These timely and well implemented features have significantly accelerated our development effort." -- Deron Johnson, Sun Microsystems, Project Looking Glass. "As the former X.org chair, and current chair of the X.org Sponsor's Group, I'm very pleased to see the X.org Foundation produce the 6.8 release of X11, which includes contributions from many different groups, with different interests and goals, but with a common interest in and focus on advancing the X technology. I believe that as long as that common focus continues, this Foundation and their releases will be of great value to the broad community of X technology users." -- Steve Swales, Senior Manager, Platform Globalization Engineering; X.Org Sponsor Board Chairperson, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "R6.8 rocks! Now Qt/X11 can natively support almost everything developers have come to expect from our Windows and Mac OS X versions", says Matthias Ettrich, Director of Software Development at Trolltech, a cross-platform GUI tool vendor, "Kudos to the X.org team." Notes to editors: (1) Project Looking Glass: http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/ and https://lg3d.dev.java.net (2) Croquet Project: http://www.opencroquet.org/ (3) Distributed Multihead X Project: http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ (4) The Mesa 3D Graphics Library: http://www.mesa3d.org (5) Direct Rendering Infrastructure: http://dri.sourceforge.net/ (6) The Freetype Project: http://www.freetype.org (7) The Xprint Project: http://xprint.mozdev.org/ UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac OS is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other company names are trademarks of the registered owners. --------------- For questions, please contact: Leon Shiman, for The XOrg Foundation, at: Shiman Associates Inc (00)1.617.277.0087 leon@...532... _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@...330... http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

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src/render
by MenTaLguY 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

In case you were wondering about src/render -- this is the start of a really simple renderer I'm writing as a side project. No timetable, really; I just need to get it out of my system. Simplicity is the main goal -- it's probably not going to be fast or pretty, but it should work and may provide scaffolding for our future cairo support infrastructure. Right now there are a lot of livarot-isms in the rendering side of things: I think having a second renderer kicking around would help make things more general. Heck, if pluggable renderers come out of this, that would be pretty cool too. -mental

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Re : Various publications about Inkscape.
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Hi all, here is the sum up of the article I've read in Linux+ (French edition, Number 2, September/October 2004) Title : Inkscape, où vas-tu ? (Inkscape, where are you going ?) Author : unknown Sum-up : The article presents Inkscape as a drawing application, forked from Sodipodi (due to divergent goals and opinions about development-process) aiming at offering a free & SVG compliant software. The author points out that : Inkscape is undergoing a Gtkmm'ification' and that its development process is very open, allowing fast and efficient integration of new features (interface, booleans, autopackage) and in line with developers and users (even beginners) needs. He also notes that a clear Roadmap is identified. Open clipart is mentionned as a fast evoluting sister project. Apart from a few small mistakes (example Gtkmm'ification' is not finished) it provides a very positive feedback about the application If some of you can have an access to / afford buying another edition (English, German, Spanish, Polish...) it might be intersting to compare the different versions/translations I can scan and mail the French article to anyone asking for it. Regards, Matiphas PS : I've added a link about the linuxgraphix tutorial in the wiki. I can add this small review if you want.

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livarot changes
by Carl Hetherington 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Hi all, I'm doing some cleanup work on livarot ATM. I am testing as I go, as much as possible, but of course I might miss something. If anyone has any weird renderer / livarot problems, let me know and I'll look into them and revert my patches if necessary. Thanks Carl

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word and letter spacing
by Aewyn 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Hi, I promised, that will help you to solve the firing printing issues, but I have very much work now. I will, I think it is very important, but now is more improtant question: word and letter spacing (tracing) I think this is base. Without it there is no vector drawing suite. Anyone works on it? Is any technical issue, that balk it? If the answers are no, please help me providing any existing info about it. I would like cut this problem shortly. I can code just a little bit, but I will do anything to complete this. Sorry for harrassing you, but I start to work with inkscape, and it -unfortunately- is not an appropriate tool yet. I'd like to help you, I think there is no too many issues to be a very powerful tool. letter and word spacing are such issues. Thanks, Aewyn

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resend: Freetype2/win32 conversion
by Bob Jamison 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

(I had trouble sending this; sorry if it is a duplicate.) Since I am out for the weekend, I thought I would send some notes to the list about Freetype. Well, it looks as though we are on our own, and must convert to Freetype on Win32, whether we like it or not. So I made a few changes: Added more stuff to gtk24.zip (AGAIN! sorry) to include a freshly-built freetype6.dll, the fontconfig lib, and xmlparse.dll (required by fontconfig). Added WITH_XFT to config.h.mingw, but it is commented out. Freetype will not actually be used unless you uncomment this. I added '-lfontconfig' to the LIBS entry in Makefile.mingw.common. Note: the '-lfontconfig' should be changed to '-lfontconfig-1.0.dll' . This is an error that the original builder of freetype6.dll made, that apparently I duplicated perfectly :) . This is likely the reason that the original dll references "fontconfig", and not "fontconfig.dll" or "libfontconfig-1.0.dll" Both of these are because fontconfig's build erroneously put '-lfontconfig' in its pkg-config file, even though the build is dynamic only. Look in /target/lib for the correct spelling of the .dll.a file. (This is also quite likely the reason for the crasher.) Since the freetype6.dll I made has debug info, the crash reported the location to be at base/ftobjs.c, line 789 in the Freetype source. So to debug, someone might want to try putting breakpoints in FontInstance.cpp, and stepping until the crash happens. A font face * passes a NULL check, but fails a pointer->field reference. Sounds like an uninitialized value. Anyway, these are just some notes that I hope might help someone working on this stuff. Bob

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fontconfig on win32
by MenTaLguY 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

Apparently I was wrong; fontconfig has been ported to win32 now.

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crashes abated?
by MenTaLguY 10 Sep '04

10 Sep '04

It looks like the crashes have all been fixed on my end; how's it look for the rest of you guys? -mental

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weird livarot crash
by MenTaLguY 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

I've been working on some of the groundwork for the layers dialog; doing a routine test build, I discovered that Inkscape had started crashing. Backtrace points to livarot, which I haven't touched at all... The only part of my new code that is actually currently used is the addition of three sigc++ signals to SPReprDoc; so far as I can tell that should not cause Shape::~Shape() to crash.. Can you all review this patch (attached) and see if I'm missing something obvious? I'm at my wits' end here... -mental

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