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off-topic, but maybe related: ghostricpt got broken after installing inkscape-20040610
by Peter Linnell 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

> Message: 13 > From: Artemio <theman@...283...> > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:00:46 +0300 > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] off-topic, but maybe related: ghostricpt got broken after installing inkscape-20040610 > > Hello everybody! > > This may be off-topic, but maybe not. I didn't do anything to my system except > for installing inkscape-20040610 yesterday. > > I have been using my system (Mandrake Linux 10.0) for three months: viewing > PS/PDF files, creating PS/PDF files - all with ESP Ghostcript 7.07 (that one > with CUPS). But yesterday, suddenly, GS became broken. > > So, everytime I try to view a PS or PDF file with KGhostView, Ghostview or any > other viewer, and everytime I try to print to PS or PDF, I get an error > message box from these applications, they show a gs command line and an error > message: "Unrecoverable error: syntaxerror in token Operand stack: > --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Zmachine sRB --nostringval--" > > I don't have any GS_* variables defined except fot GS_LIB=/home/artemio.fonts > > The weird thing is that when I say "gs" in the command line, I instantly get > this: > > ESP Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-11-19) > Copyright 2003 artofcode LLC and Easy Software Products, all rights reserved. > This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. > Unrecoverable error: syntaxerror in token > Operand stack: > --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Zmachine sRB --nostringval-- > > On my system, /usr/bin/gs is symlinked to /usr/bin/gs-common, and gs-common is > an ELF executable, not a shell wrapper that adds some extra options. > > > Please excuse me if this is off-topic here, but I just don't know what to > do... > > > Artemio. --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Zmachine sRB --nostringval-- <<--- GS is complaining it can't find that font 1) something you are trying to print has that font embedded in the postscript stream or 2) your GS fontmaps are messed up. 3) your fontconfig cache is stale Possible fixes: 1) as root fc-cache -fv - this refreshes the fontconfig cache 2) remove any and all freefont* rpms - Some of the ones shipped by Mandrake have some really busted fonts which have caused issues for Scribus. 3. Reinstall all the Ghostscript packages so the default fontmaps are restored. Drop into #scribus if you need more help. Cheers, Peter

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] valgrind complaint with the new text stuff
by bulia byak 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

>Perhaps this is because pango_font_description_set_size () is not being >called on the PangoFontDescription which is created at line 340? I need not to. That descr is passed further to Face(descr) which sets size in line 280. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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valgrind complaint with the new text stuff
by Carl Hetherington 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Hi, valgrind observes some problems, examples of which are: ==27369== Invalid read of size 2 ==27369== at 0x40AA72EF: pango_font_description_equal (in /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.200.1) ==27369== by 0x818C9F8: font_factory::Face(_PangoFontDescription*, bool) (libnrtype/FontFactory.h:37) ==27369== by 0x818CCB3: font_factory::Face(char const*, NRTypePosDef) (libnrtype/FontFactory.cpp:388) ==27369== by 0x80BD1ED: sp_string_calculate_dimensions(SPString*) (sp-text.cpp:831) ==27369== Address 0x45CE4F14 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd ==27369== ==27369== Invalid read of size 2 ==27369== at 0x40AA72EF: pango_font_description_equal (in /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.200.1) ==27369== by 0x818D443: __gnu_cxx::hashtable<std::pair<_PangoFontDescription* const, font_instance*>, _PangoFontDescription*, font_descr$==27369== by 0x818CAF8: font_factory::Face(_PangoFontDescription*, bool) (/usr/include/c++/3.2.2/bits/stl_pair.h:84) ==27369== by 0x818CCB3: font_factory::Face(char const*, NRTypePosDef) (libnrtype/FontFactory.cpp:388) ==27369== Address 0x45CE4F14 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd ==27369== ==27369== Invalid read of size 2 ==27369== at 0x40AA72EF: pango_font_description_equal (in /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0.200.1) ==27369== by 0x818C9F8: font_factory::Face(_PangoFontDescription*, bool) (libnrtype/FontFactory.h:37) ==27369== by 0x818CCB3: font_factory::Face(char const*, NRTypePosDef) (libnrtype/FontFactory.cpp:388) ==27369== by 0x80BDA9A: sp_string_set_shape(SPString*, SPLayoutData*, NR::Point&, int*) (sp-text.cpp:968) ==27369== Address 0x45CE4F14 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd In case that's any use to anybody ... Cheers Carl

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de.po update for inkscape upcoming
by Colin Marquardt 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Hi, in order to avoid duplicated work... this is to announce that I will submit an update to the de.po that is in CVS in a few days - I have posted it on the gnome-de mailing list for review now. I did not have the time to translate everything, but it's an update nevertheless. I haven't checked (had a very poor connection, barely enough to the get the po file), but maybe it would be worth to msgmerge the po files from Sodipodi with the ones from Inkscape from time to time? Cheers, Colin

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Fred / someone please check a commit
by Carl Hetherington 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

Hi, I just committed the following patch: Index: src/libnrtype/TextWrapper.cpp =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/src/libnrtype/TextWrapper.cpp,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- src/libnrtype/TextWrapper.cpp 14 Jun 2004 14:44:04 -0000 1.2 +++ src/libnrtype/TextWrapper.cpp 14 Jun 2004 23:05:45 -0000 1.3 @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ int last_w_st=-1; int last_s_st=-1; int last_p_st=0; - for (int i=0;i<=nAttr;i++) { + for (int i=0;i<nAttr;i++) { text_boundary nbs; text_boundary nbe; nbs.uni_pos=i; Could people just check that they agree with it? Thanks Carl

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Re: Inkscape-devel digest, Vol 1 #444 - 14 msgs
by Peter Linnell 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

> 8. Installing Inkscape on a Win machine (David Christian Berg) > Message: 8 > From: David Christian Berg <david.berg@...240...> > Reply-To: david@...139... > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Organization: SIP Solutions > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:37:17 +0200 > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Installing Inkscape on a Win machine > > Hi guys, > > since I'm working with Linux, I'll never have to personally, but > inkscape has become my favorite graphics tool, and I need to share files > with win users. Now since svg isn't supported that much, I thought, the > easiest solution might be to just have the win users install inkscape... > how hard is this? I mean including installing gtk. I hope this is real > simple and you can point me at some howto. The current packaging works great IMO: a. download b. unzip > > Also I wonder if there'll be work done on the ps export soon. Though I > really am looking forward to pangoisation being finished, I really need > a proper export of transparency for ps, to make pdfs for sharing, > instead of pngs, since pngs are huge, for A3 or A4 posters since I need > at least 300 dpi. > > Any chances, I will see something like that soon? > > > David >PS: The Scribus import filter isn't good enough for my posters... so >using Scribus for export is ruled out. Have you updated to Scribus 1.1.7, which has a bunch of new gradient support ? The other variable is the version of Ghostscript installed. Using a 8.1x version has better results overall. Text handling on SVG import is the next issue to tackle, but IMO most text work can be done in Scribus more effectively - not a knock on Inkscape, it is just that SVG and PS/PDF text models are a bit different and easier to translate into reliable PDF via Scribus. I wrote a howto for installing parallel GS's, so you do not need to remove the existing patched GS which most distros supply: http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/gsadv.html I hate to sound like a broken record, but exporting transparency in PS is not a trivial task. In pre-press, I would think it is safer and really much better to use PDF 1.4 for handling transparency downstream with printers etc. PDF 1.4 spec supports this capably. Moreover, even if Inkscape were to do this (export transparency) in PS, few printers or print setups on typical Linux distros can fully support advanced PS3 printing. I know - I've tested with Suse 9.x and Fedora with a Fiery PS3/PDF1.4 RIP. It took some tweaking to get this working properly. I basically rebuilt all the CUPS rpms to enable PS3, which is turned off by default. Otherwise, Inkscape would need to add a flattener to the exported PS - again not trivial. Peter

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ill2svg.pl change
by Bryce Harrington 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

ill2svg.pl now auto-detects the file format (Unix, Mac, or DOS) and performs line ending conversion appropriately. This makes the -l cmdline option unnecessary, and thus it has been removed. Let me know if this causes any compatibility issues. Bryce

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Report on Bugs
by bulia byak 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

>Bug 852976 is reported a LOT, there's probably 3-4 other bug reports >that describe basically the same problem, that I left at lower priority. >We've looked at it before and it seems to be a Gtk-on-Windows issue so >there might not be much we can do about it. It would be nice if someone >could figure out if there's a work-around of some sort for Windows that >would stop the crashing, even if it required disabling a feature on >Windows (e.g. autoscrolling). Autoscrolling is irrelevant. GTK just drops events when mouse is outside a window. I've spent a lot of time on this and I honestly don't know what to do. Someone with fresh energy must attack it. The most annoying thing is that Sodi does not suffer this malaise (reportedly). _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Report on Bugs
by Bryce Harrington 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

I've gone through all the bug reports in the tracker on SF to update priorities. There were eight bugs that looked like critical bugs: 964635 CRASH (Win32) on insert special character in text w/ALT+Num 953771 Click on zoom spin control crashes inkscape 955020 assert when quitting with dialog and duplicated window 950610 SEGV with gradients 937347 symbol fonts not supported? 934209 Marker-related assertion failure. 852976 win32: mouse freeze when dragging outside canvas 925033 win32: non-ascii filenames still don't work For this release since it is development-focused I don't think we need to close all the critical bugs, but it'd be nice to close a few. Bug 852976 is reported a LOT, there's probably 3-4 other bug reports that describe basically the same problem, that I left at lower priority. We've looked at it before and it seems to be a Gtk-on-Windows issue so there might not be much we can do about it. It would be nice if someone could figure out if there's a work-around of some sort for Windows that would stop the crashing, even if it required disabling a feature on Windows (e.g. autoscrolling). Since the Pango patch was applied today, it would be wise for everyone to get a new development copy at this time and test the heck out of it, and report all recreatable crash bugs you can find, so we can address them prior to the upcoming release. Bryce

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mucking with repr
by Kees Cook 14 Jun '04

14 Jun '04

So, I want to understand what I have to do to make the xml parser sane when it comes to reading RDF's. Currently it adds id='s and removes "xmlns"s. Where should I start looking for examples on how to search/change/update elements in the XML tree? -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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