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[Fwd: Re: siggraph?]
by Jon Phillips 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

Anyone in the LA area for SIGGRAPH. Here is a form for free exhibits + passes. I'm going to go on MONDAY AUG 9. If anyone is there, then we could do a BOFA on INKSCAPE, or just meetup for some rip-off expensive lunch or supper in rip-off-cost land. Jon > >https://reg.jspargo.com/siggraph04/invitations/general/default.asp > >Guest Password: 1208 > > -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org

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First experiences with 0.39pre4
by Wolfram Quester 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

Hi alltogether! Yesterday I prepared an inkscape package for debian unstable from 0.39pre4. Now, always when I start inkscape I get the message "Couldn't find helper" in my terminal window. Using strace doesn't tell me anything: 3911 access("/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/roundhole", F_OK) = 0 3911 access("/usr/bin/perl", F_OK) = 0 3911 access("/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/ill2svg.pl", F_OK) = 0 3911 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 1), ...}) = 0 3911 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x30274000 3911 write(1, "Couldn\'t find helper\n", 21) = 21 Is this message just supposed to appear after the last extension is initialized or did I something wrong? Additionally yesterday I had to play with bézier curves. It seems that I forgot to close one of these or inkscape could not properly determine which area is enclosed by the curve. The whole canvas turned black and inkscape became inresponsive. To me, it looked like it was filling infinity and it was to busy with that to react to any keystroke or whatever. I had to kill it at least. The output in the terminal was wolfi@...453...:~/simu $ inkscape Couldn't find helper failed to load unicode charmap ** (inkscape:2508): CRITICAL **: file display/curve.cpp: line 578 (void sp_curve_closepath_current(SPCurve*)): assertion `curve->end - curve->substart > 2' failed Private normalization of gradient linearGradient7951 requested Changing object g7308 fill to gradient linearGradient7952 requested ** (inkscape:2508): CRITICAL **: file color.cpp: line 95 (void sp_color_set_rgb_float(SPColor*, float, float, float)): assertion `b >= 0.0' failed ** (inkscape:2508): CRITICAL **: file color.cpp: line 95 (void sp_color_set_rgb_float(SPColor*, float, float, float)): assertion `b >= 0.0' failed ** (inkscape:2508): CRITICAL **: file color.cpp: line 95 (void sp_color_set_rgb_float(SPColor*, float, float, float)): assertion `b >= 0.0' failed I could not reproduce this with simple curves I drew today, so this is merely an information for you. Perhaps it helps. With best regards, Wolfi

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Snapping
by Bryce Harrington 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

What is the difference between 'Snap to Grid' and 'Snap Points to Grid'? Bryce

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Re: OSX packaging?
by Kees Cook 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

I asked a friend of mine about OSX packaging... I think we have a patch for a dmg, but I don't know what it means. :) ----- Forwarded message ----- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:58:41 -0500 Subject: Re: OSX packaging? On Jul 15, 2004, at 08:10, Kees Cook wrote: >Hey, I want to try and get inkscape (inkscape.org) packaged for OSX. I >assume this is only possible via "fink", but I don't know where to >begin. How do I make an OSX package? :) There are two ways, really (maybe three): http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/AppleSWDesign/Fi… 1) True Mac OS X way: drag and drop the .app from a .dmg file to your Application folder (or whereever else you want it) 2) More complicated OS X Way: Installer.app package. see Package Maker.app 3) UNIX way: fink. basically just a debian apt package. http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/index.php If you want to target OS X users I would say 1 is the way to go. Otherwise 3. What are your dependencies? ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Using imagemagick or graphicmagick as importer
by Tuukka Pasanen 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Hi, I've been playing around about idea to provide support for Image/Graphicsmagick in inkscape. So we could import 88 Vector- and Imageformats used (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/formats.html or http://www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html) but i been wondering should it been done like ill2svg or something deep cutting in inkscape code? Problem is that SVG output of programs isn't so good it should be. So what do you think? is this just a stupid idea? Tuukka ps. ImageMagick provides C++ bindings.. i think graphicmagick does also;)

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Request for Adobe Illustrator files
by Tuukka Pasanen 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Hi, Sorry about cross-posting.. but if anyone got AI files laying around (And have screenshot but it not must) that he/she could send me it/them to test ill2svg.pl. One could do it by Email (straight to me) or send URL to file (if file is bigger than 2M). I promise to use them only for testing ill2svg.pl script.. you can also create such documents if you have Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator. Thanks, Tuukka

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0.39 Release
by Bryce Harrington 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Bulia has announced and finalized the 0.39 release, and Ted has established the release branch. What this means: * Packagers, please download the tarball and begin making packages * We will put out an announcement within a few days, once we've got some key packages up there. * We are in Release Phase. You can commit to CVS HEAD openly, but try to limit work to bug fixing for a couple days, just in case. * Users, please download and try out the packages as soon as they're ready. Let the packagers know of successful / unsuccessful installs. Congrats everyone! Bryce

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no wimp please
by bulia byak 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

0.39 is up on SF. Whoever will be doing the windows package, please do not include gtk-wimp. The reason is that it gives me a lot of warnings about missing MS Sans Serif fonts. All these warnings flood the console window which therefore always jumps to the top and makes the program almost unusable. This is on windows 98. Normal builds without gtk-wimp work OK. I mentioned this on jabber but just want to reiterate. It's a nice thing but needs more testing before we can use it.

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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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