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Crash bug in Spiral code
by Bob Jamison 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi all. User 'tom' on Jabber showed us this crashing bug: 1) Hold down <left mouse button> on a new spiral 2) Hit <spacebar> ...crash. It looks like sp_spiral_write() is being called on the same object twice while trying to duplicate the spiral, and the second time is on a bad object. I added some code at line 144 to check for NULLs, and it avoids the crash. The symptom is fixed, but the root cause needs to be fixed, in that the <space> being hit while the <LMB> is down is not being processed correctly. Should the mouse be disabled? Or should there be some code to make sure the call is done only once? Sounds like maybe Bulia would know how to handle this one. Thanks. Bob

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Pango testing - help needed!
by bulia byak 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

As you know, we recently switched our text system to a new library called Pango. Now that some of the worst bugs and regressions are fixed (definitely not all), and we need your help in testing it thoroughly. 1. Here are the confirmed Pango niceties so far (i.e. what is tested and works): - Text is much smoother. No more ugly autohinting gaps between letters in small sizes. Letters move smoothly when you change letterspacing by Alt+< and Alt+>. - Auto kerning pairs (from the font) now work. For example "AV" will now be kerned together automatically in most decent fonts. - On Windows, non-ASCII text works (tested with Cyrillic). Localized font face names (such as "italic" translated into a local language for Windows fonts such as Arial) are no longer a problem. 2. Here is what SHOULD work now but is not yet tested because we don't speak these languages. This is where we need your help: - Right-To-Left text (Hebrew, Arabic) and BIDI (bidirectional mixed text) seems to work but I'm not sure. - Contextual letterforms that depend on the position in a word and script-specific ligatures (Devanagari) should work. - Chinese and Japanese need testing, especially for how good vertical text works (it is enabled by a button in the Text and Font dialog). 3. And finally the things that don't work (yet): - Symbol fonts seem to have problems, at least the symbol.ttf from Windows. Any help or insights is appreciated. - Fuzzy font matching that worked in 0.38 is not reenabled yet. (No warnings on font substitutions, etc.) Only Italic and Bold faces within a family work so far. This is being worked on. So, grab the latest CVS and play with text as much as you can. We're interested to hear any reports, positive as well as negative. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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UI translation status
by Arpad Biro 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi, It seems we have only a few weeks left until the next release, so here's the current status of the Inkscape UI translations: am.po 12 % az.po 7 % be.po 26 % ca.po 82 % cs.po 27 % da.po 14 % de.po 27 % el.po 5 % es_MX.po 59 % es.po 99 % et.po 0 % fr.po 51 % ga.po 1 % gl.po 11 % hu.po 100 % it.po 12 % ja.po 43 % mk.po 0 % nl.po 25 % no.po 24 % pl.po 23 % pt_BR.po 1 % pt.po 29 % ru.po 56 % sk.po 29 % sl.po 82 % sr@...311... 28 % sr.po 89 % sv.po 29 % tr.po 25 % uk.po 16 % zh_CN.po 16 % Average 33 % Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Spanish translation
by Lucas Vieites 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

After a long time without updates, here's the spanish translation, updated to yesterdays cvs. -- Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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joining development
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi again Inkscape development team, As I really appreciate the tool you're developping, I'd really like to contribute, as soon as my home internet connection is up again. So I guess I'll try to submit tons of bug reports and at least the same amount of RFE (subliminal message : as I'm sometime hobbying with mapmaking, I'm really waiting for the layer features....), but I feel that something is missing in your website/wiki : a clear contribution wishlist. Your web site clearly mentions you welcome new code, patchs, bug reports, RFE, translations, articles (etc); you also exhibit a clear roadmap, but in fact there's something missing for people like me (that would really appreciate to help, but are poor coders/graphists...) : some contribution guidelines. Some clearly stated multifunctional (ie not only technical) needs, for example on a dedicated wiki page... I'd really like to face a list of small/modest but valuable tasks for the improvement of the software, on which current team can't focus due to lack of time. Regards, Matiphas PS I had thought of something like this (can be presented as an array ?): List of needs : * Docs (in text/html/svg/openoffice formats): - user manual in English, plus translations : (French, German, Spanish, Russion, Slovak, Italian...) - FAQ in English, plus translations : (French, German, Spanish, Russion, Slovak, Italian...) - tutorials - update of internationalization of the following languages.... * Tests - System/Subsystem requirement document - Test plan / test items plus traceability matrix linked to the specifications - Tests (results) on the following architectures (Linux, BSD, Win, MacOS, Solaris...) etc etc

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off-topic but related: SORBS, oh sweet SORBS...
by Artemio 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hello, everybody! I am writing this message using a newly-subscribed address. As sourceforge started using SORBS, I could not send any message to Inkscape lists anymore. The machine my artemio.net site is hosted at got into their super-smart database, but this is a clear mistake - read below if you are interested. So now I have to use my other mail located on a US server. The story. I have two web sites hosted at the h2.prohosting.com.ua server (IP = 217.16.18.181). This IP is listed in the SORBS database, and they give the list of abusing hosts: gotov.ru, kak-po-tv.ru, ckz.ru, asiapress.ru, ukt.ru, rakushki.ru, mebgamma.ru, autonomer.ru, corleone.ru, polikomplast.ru, koncert.ru, xprint.ru However, NONE of these hosts are hosted at the server my site and my mail are located at. Here are the IPs these domain names point to: PING gotov.ru = 217.16.16.121 PING kak-po-tv.ru = 217.16.16.116 PING ckz.ru = 217.16.16.109 PING asiapress.ru = unknown host PING ukt.ru = 217.16.16.124 PING rakushki.ru = 217.16.16.134 PING mebgamma.ru = 217.16.16.130 PING autonomer.ru = 217.16.16.115 PING corleone.ru = 217.16.16.110 PING polikomplast.ru = 217.16.16.133 PING koncert.ru = 217.16.28.166 PING xprint.ru = 217.16.25.105 They seem to have all 217.16.*.* addresses as abusing hosts. It's very nice but I don't have those $50 to pay to SORBS to have my address removed. I like anti-spam campaigns but not when they work against me, at the time when I myself try to fight spam. Artemio.

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modified wiki
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi Inkscape development team, while having a look at your wiki, I've noticed some strange things on it : advertisement for a casino (links and stupid text). -> I've removed them from the impacted pages (see recent changes). There's just a page to remove (I've emptied it) : "Casino" Hope I did not do anything wrong. Regards, and thanks for your excellent software, Matiphas

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PS output problem with line markers
by Eric Jonas 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hello! I've found a bug with the EPS output and line markers... it appears that the markers defined in the <defs> section for line ending (like TriangleOutM) are actually all the same size marker but with different 'transform="scale=(foo)"' attributes in their path. However, the code that converts this into eps evidently ignores the transform. This can be seen from the two files below: http://web.mit.edu/jonas/www/drawing.svg http://web.mit.edu/jonas/www/drawing2.svg Both convert to the same postscript : ) I've tried stepping through the code a bit, but after a few hours I'm giving up and seeing if anyone might point me in the right direction... Any ideas on how to fix this? I'm using yesterday's 0.39 cvs sources... Thanks! ...Eric

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rounded stars fun
by bulia byak 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Today I was in a mood to do something funny... * A wild variety of central-symmetric curvilinear shapes, including softly rounded stars and polygons, can be created using the new Roundedness control on the options panel for the Star tool. The value is a ratio of the length of Bezier control handle to the length of the corresponding polygon side. Values of 0.2 to 0.3 give normal smooth rounded corners. Most other values (negatives are permitted too) deliver tons of sheer excitement. Enjoy! P.S. Following which I'm going to be absent for a few days, as I have an urgent paid job to do. If you need me for something, please try to not forget what you need me for until I'm back :)

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Backtraces and Win32 signals
by Bob Jamison 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Whilst pondering the debugging situation with our development builds, I was wondering if we can provide backtrace information in our builds in case of abnormal termination. Sk1p on IRC/Jabber pointed this out to me in the GLibC docs: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Backtraces.html#Backtraces ...it even has a code example. I noticed that MinGW does support signals to some extent, so I removed the '#ifndef WIN32' switch from that part of inkscape.cpp. Likely inkscape_segv_handler() is now enabled on Win32. Maybe we could add a backtrace to inkscape_segv_handler(), with a note asking the gentle user to send this to us? Maybe save it to a file? Just an idea. Bob

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