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printing
by Kees Cook 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

So, since I am now printing from inkscape every week, the "print" dialog has started to bother me. I'd like to replace it with the gnomeprint dialog. I've started doing some digging to understand the print subsystem in inkscape, and started taking some random notes here: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingSubsystem Basically, libgnomeprint gives us an "Output" and "Delivery" system. We already have an internal PS "Output" system, and that's fine, since it seems that libgnomeprint is happy to co-exist with other output systems. The major change I want to make it to use libgnomeprintui to handle the dialog portion, which is very cool since it'll gather all the configuration information needed during the "Output" phase (page size, orientation, destination, etc). Then the Output runs, and finally, it gets delivered for us. I think this would let us throw out all the print dialog and print delivery code and just rely on libgnomeprint without having to implement all their moveto and stroke stuff. And from what I can tell, it will work under windows too, although I'd have to test it. :) Does anyone have modern build instructions for windows? The Wiki seems out of date. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Fixes to save as on win32
by Carl Hetherington 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

Hi, I just committed a patch to allow save as PS/EPS on Win32. I'd be grateful if any Windows-ers could test it. It looks like the fileTypes parameter to the FileOpenDialog and FileSaveDialog constructors is now not required. Perhaps it should be removed? Cheers Carl

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Introduction to the Inkscape 0.39 Pango Rearchitecting Effort
by Bryce Harrington 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

As most of you know, the principle focus for the 0.39 release is slated to be "Pangoification". While we expect that there's going to be a number of new features, bug fixes, code cleanups, etc. our project's top objective for this release is to replace libnrtype with Pango. This of course brings up the questions, "Huh? Pango? Libnrtype? Whazzalat?" The following document provides a broad overview to this effort, explaining what Libnrtype and Pango are and what we gain by replacing the former by the latter. It's hoped that this will serve as an easy orientation into this work for those of us who don't know a lot about fonts but may be interested in lending a hand. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Pangoification (If you spot any inaccuracies, don't be shy about clicking edit and fix it up!) Bryce

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perspective distortions
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

I wrote a plan for implementing perspective distortions in Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PerspectiveObject I think it shapes out well and should not be too difficult to implement. Still, I may have missed something. Please comment by editing the Wiki page. Use :, ::, etc at the beginning of line to indent your comments. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Translation comments
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

> > If you have no objections, could you please commit these fixes? > >I modified gradient-selector.cpp according to your proposal. Please >check the modifications, because this is the first time I touched the >Inkscape sources. No errors found :) Thanks. I just slightly reworded my own tooltips. I think we need to do the same Plain-English-ization of the Fill rule list. Suggestions? _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Feedback on 0.38 Release
by Bob Jamison 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Daniel Díaz wrote: >I'm sorry, don't get it... > >A4 == letter size? If so, what's the name for that 8.5"x11"-sized paper? >That's the on we refer to as letter ("carta" in Spanish.) > > Daniel, I mean that "letter" is defined by a lot of us as 8.5x11inches. It is that size in North America. But not for everybody. It is like cultural chauvanism. Like when Chris Rock was a kid, and pulled a "flesh" colored crayon from a Crayola box, and it was pink. ;-) Yes, it is not on the Preferences panel. It should be. Bob p.s.: I'm done with spamming the list now! I am now caught up with my mail list duties. Have been away for a few days.

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markers dropdowns
by John Cliff 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

Hi guys, Looking at the logs from the chatroom, it seems the marker selection dropdowns are crashing inkscape on you guys? I knew the previews didnt work (which is why i disabled them) but I didnt realise the menus themselves were killing the prog. Is it giving any messages? They work fine for me here on windows, so I'm not sure whats going on. (or how to go about fixing a problem on a platform i dont have access to.) some feedback would be appreciated. Cheers John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Grid-related patches
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

>One strange behavior still exists, and this just might be "by design". >In "Dialogs / Document Preferences / Grid" if I switch "Snap units" from >"px" to anything else (or back), the "Snap distance" stays the same. If >I change "Snap units" from anything not "px" to anything else not "px", >unit conversion is performed. Is this just a "feature" of the pixel >unit? Looks like bug to me. Whatever these px units are, they cannot be screen pixels, and therefore must have a constant coefficient for unit conversions. The only units without such a coefficient are "unit units", percent, em, and ex. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Feedback on 0.38 Release
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

>Is there any way to set Letter as the default paper size? I also want to >get rid of the 'pt' units -- It would certainly be better to recall >those settings instead of changing them on every session of Inkscape. We need to support arbitrary new document templates. It's been in our plans for some time. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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More 0.38 release pickups
by Bryce Harrington 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/news/article.php?story=20040412052124104 (no comments) http://www.hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5782 (Hungarian) (no comments) http://www.linux.org.ru/view-message.jsp?msgid=527971&scroll=section&back= (Russian) (lots of comments, no clue what they say) http://linuxclub.by/index.php?p=159 (Russian) (no comments) http://linuxfr.org/2004/04/14/15993.html "one true massacre of bugs" (French) (lots of comments) Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A//linuxfr.org/2004/0… Bryce

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