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Linux Format Magazine has an article on Inkscape
by Alan Horkan 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Linux Format Magazine has an article on Inkscape http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ It has a strange lead in, I think they must have a regular section for the Gimp or something because of the way it is presented in relation to the Gimp. I only very quickly skim read the article (I'm not currently gainfully employed and have only pennies to my name) but it seemed favourable overall. I noted in particular that he found the user interface to be friendly. He mentions the Boolean operators and quotes one of the developers as having said that in the last while 'inkscape has improved 100%' (or suchlike). The article was written by Michael J. Hammel who appears to also be the author of "Essential Gimp for Web Professionals" and owner of the site http://graphics-muse.com/ and this page http://freshmeat.net/~mjhammel/ (his connections to the Gimp would explain the odd context of the Inkscape article). Perhaps someone might contact him and encourage him to write more about Inkscape. (Recommend some topics and I might try my hand at writing an article about Inkscape if I had a place to start). Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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OSX Compiling howto
by Kees Cook 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

If you need to run "./autogen.sh": fink install automake1.8 autoconf2.5 Otherwise: fink install \ intltool \ glib2 glib2-dev glib2-shlibs \ gtk+2 gtk+2-shlibs gtk+2-dev \ libpng3 libpng3-shlibs \ libtool14 libtool14-shlibs \ libpng-shlibs \ libsigc++12 libsigc++12-shlibs \ popt popt-shlibs export CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include export LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib # Run ./autogen.sh here if things break below... ./configure --prefix=/sw echo "#define ENABLE_NLS" >> config.h make make install -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Adobe SVG Viewer 1.0 problems
by Alan Horkan 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

I had a problem getting _any_ of the SVG files from OpenClipart.org to display and thought I had stumbled on to a huge problem. Much later I realised that problem only effects Adobe SVG Viewer version 1.0 and updating to Adobe SVG Viewer version 3 made the problem seem to go away. After a lot of trial and error I was able to get the documents to display by removing the non-essential parameters from the opening <svg> tag Sample from OpenClipart.org Balloon_01.svg: <svg id="svg548" sodipodi:version="0.32" width="400pt" height="400pt" sodipodi:docbase="/home/nicu/svg_gal/happy/" sodipodi:docname="/home/nicu/svg_gal/happy/baloon1_01.svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> After even more trial and error I was able to narrow it down to just this line, the removal of which allows the file to display correctly: xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" it can also be fixed by changing it to xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" Which looks to me more likely to be strictly valid and correct and I hope is the actual fix. Could someone please tell me if it is correct so because having gone to all the trouble of figuring out exactly what the problem was I'd like to finally submit a patch of my own to Inkscape (and then get back to poking holes in the Standard SVG). Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Italian translation
by unknown＠example.com 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Hi! I'm a "new" user of inkscape and I saw that the italian translation is not complete, there many words/expressions that aren't translated. I would to translate... But, what have I to do?? Is the first time that I work on a project and I'm not a programmer :-)) Let me know, Sergej Ps: greetings from italy Pps: forgive my english! __________________________________________________________________ Tiscali ADSL Senza Canone, paga solo quello che consumi! Non perdere la promozione valida fino al 19 luglio. Per te gratis il modem in comodato e l'attivazione. In piu' navighi a soli 1,5 euro l'ora per i primi tre mesi. Cosa aspetti? Attivala subito! http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/prodotti/640Kbps/

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export issues on windows - Bug 990349
by John Cliff 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Hi folks, Bulia got me looking into ai import yesterday, and led me to realise that the import/export stuff seems pretty broke here on win. the import/open dialogs dont show anything but svg and bitmap formats, and the save as lists 3 formats which dont seem to work (svgz, ai, and epsi) The real problem is the latter as they still appear in the file type selector, and give all the right indications of having worked, but dont actually create any files. So you can think you've saved something when you havent. Saving to one of them then closing the doc causes my inkscape to crash. If anyone out there can confirm this on a windows box, I'd appreciate it. If we can confirm this isn't my box then I think we need to do something about it before cutting 0.39. Easiest is to simply add some lines to makefile.mingw to delete the extensions which are broke on windows so they dont get installed when you do make dist. This would eliminate the appearing to work while not really, and the crash bug. Cheers John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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inset path destroys clones.
by Christophe Combelles 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Hello, I don't know whether it is a bug : - create an object (say, a square) - clone it with Alt-D - move the clone to see both objects - select the first original object - apply an "inset" or "outset" on it --> the clone disappears. with 0.39 pre4 on debian sid regards Christophe Combelles PS : please note I'm not subscribed to the list.

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critical assert
by Arpad Biro 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

Hi, This gives critical assert with current CVS (and earlier versions also): 1. draw 2 objects 2. drag one of them over the other, but do not release the mouse button 3. press Esc Arpad Biro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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problems compiling in macosx
by Albert 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Hi inkscapers Inkscape 0.38 compiled in MacOSX after djusting several details as I reported to the inkscape-users list some time ago. Now for 0.39: I have gone already over the gtkmm issue by doing what was suggested by Peter Moulder, that is change 'ink_gtkmm_pkg=gtkmm-2.0' to 'ink_gtkmm_pkg=' But just to find another issue: checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape I know my system has libpng 1.2.5 installed. Note that 0.38 compiled without complaining about this. I've noted the failing test in configure.in has not changed since version 0.38, so I'm pretty lost here. Here the last terminal output lines from ./configure before failing: ... checking GNU compiler version... 3.1 checking locale.h usability... yes checking locale.h presence... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes checking libintl.h usability... no checking libintl.h presence... no checking for libintl.h... no checking for pkg-config... /sw/bin/pkg-config checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape Any help would be appreciated. Albert

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Today's autobuild
by Bob Jamison 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Good morning, all! Since we are frozen, it is impossible to sync the makedep files and adjust paths for compilation, so autobuild will likely not run until the cut. So I did created a manual autobuild (oxymoron intended) this morning. It is on the site. After talking yesterday about syncing with the Makefile.am files, and running a script to generate a .def for making a .dll, I am thinking about requiring Perl for Win32 builds, both on Linux cross-compiling, and on native Windows. Windows users can download ActivePerl. I use it; it is very nice. I hate to add a dependency, but I think it is necessary. What we will likely do is: 1) In src/Makefile.mingw, add a dependency to all of the Makefile.am's in the /src dir. If any of them are touched, implying that files might have been added or deleted, then run mkfiles.pl and mkdep.pl. 2) After libinkscape.a is created, run mkdef.pl, which generates inkscape.def. This .def allows exporting the global symbols in our code without adding those nasty __declspec(dllimport) tags all through the .cpp files. 3) Create inkscape.dll 4) Create inkscape.exe and inkview.exe, both of which will use the dll. This will allow these two and other client apps of the dll to be packaged in the .zip without noticeably increasing download size. This will also eventually aid in providing that "inkscape widget" that other projects seem to want. After the cut, I will update mkfiles.pl with a "new improved" version that allows excluding directories, in addition to files. Just some thoughts. Later! Bob (ishmal) Bob

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Metadata tab localization
by Arpad Biro 14 Jul '04

14 Jul '04

Hi, The captions and tooltips on the Metadata tab (in document prefs) seem to still not be localizable (except for 2 of them: "License" and "Proprietary"). Gettext does extract all the strings, but the translations aren't used on the UI. Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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