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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Release
by bulia byak 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Ted, first, there's a compilation errror in db.cpp: db.cpp:230: error: redefinition of `GSList* Inkscape::Extension::DB::get_output_list()' db.cpp:217: error: `GSList* Inkscape::Extension::DB::get_output_list()' previously defined here db.cpp:230: error: no `GSList* Inkscape::Extension::DB::get_output_list()' member function declared in class `Inkscape::Extension::DB' make[4]: *** [db.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/d/ink/inkscape/src/extension' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/d/ink/inkscape/src/extension' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/d/ink/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/d/ink/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 Now on bugs: > > >857316 - win32: non-english locales: font style matching broken > > >852976 - win32: mouse becoming unresponsive > >So we need a couple of replacements for these then. I noticed there are >a couple of Mac OS X bugs that were put in the repository - has anyone >had a chance to look at those? Besides there are some that are unconfirmed: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=911292&group_id=9… Unconfirmed, against 0.37, and seems to be a GTK issue anyway https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=908565&group_id=9… No reproducible steps, against 0.37; the crash itself is 99% fixed by the new rasterizer, although maybe not the underlying cause (hard to tell) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=915445&group_id=9… Not reproducible, the original report used a broken font. Works for me. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=922904&group_id=9… Works with the latest build on my Windows 98. If anyonce could test some of these bugs to resolve them one way or the other that would be helpful. _________________________________________________________________ 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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RPM's now in fedora.us
by Peter Linnell 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Hi all, Just a note to let you know, Inkscape 0.37 RPMS have been approved by Fedora QA and is now in the fedora.us repsitory under stable - aka Fedora Extra's. The current Fedora rpms on the sourceforge page are the same packages, just built by me. This will be more important with the release of Fedora Core2, as it will be already configured to download and install Inkscape and other packages in stable. Now, that there is a good spec file, updating to 0.38 should be trivial. Peter

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Release
by bulia byak 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

>Currently in SF I see that we have 33 bugs out of 252 filed, so we need >to fix eight of them. Ironically, we have 8 high level bugs - so I >think that fixing those should be our target for the release. Agreed, although I'm not sure we can fix all remaining high-level bugs soon. I think we'll have to leave a couple of them standing for the release (fixing the corresponding number of minor ones instead). >915374 - Command Line Printing doesnt work There's a Sodipodi patch in our tracker. Someone who has a printer and can test it should take on this one. >914611 - inkview crash on startup I haven't looked but this one should be easy. >866103 - non-well-formed preferences.xml causes data loss Bryce was going to look into that one. What needs to be done is simply to back up the prefs file before saving, so it should not be difficult. >857316 - win32: non-english locales: font style matching broken That's difficult and may not be worthwhile to fix before we switch the font system to Pango anyway. >857311 - win32: correct output SVG of numerics is locale-dependent I'm working on that. Should be ready for the release. >852976 - win32: mouse becoming unresponsive This one is difficult. I found no easy way to fix it. The problem is that as soon as grabbed item goes beyond the screen edge, it stops receiving mouse events (although it's still grabbed). The top-level window receives the events instead, but it's difficult to dispatch those events in the window code because for this it must know exactly what type of object is grabbed (object, knot, guideline) and what handler to call. Annoyingly, Sodipodi does not have this problem on Windows for some reason. We really must brainstorm this one. _________________________________________________________________ Check out MSN PC Safety & Security to help ensure your PC is protected and safe. http://specials.msn.com/msn/security.asp

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] tutorial news
by Cédric GEMY 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Thanks, I'll compare this to my translation and take in charge to pass it into french. SOON AVAILABLE. Cédric

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RE: Gradient Colour Bug?
by bulia byak 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

>When I change the gradient colours in any one object, every object gradient >changes to the new colours. It happens for linear and radial gradients. This is as designed. When you assign the same gradient to more than one object, they share the gradient (but not position/direction). If you want a new object to use an independent copy of the gradient, press the Add button on the fill/stroke dialog. _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Release
by Ted Gould 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 03:10, Lucas Vieites Fariña wrote: > I suppose a 'feature freeze' means I can still update the gui > translation, doesn't it? Yes, ofcourse! Most projects do a 'string freeze' where they don't change translatable strings to help translators. Now that we have more people starting to translate Inkscape should we start doing that? > How much time is there between a 'feature freeze' and the final > release date? Well, usually I would say a week or so. Because this release has bug targets - it is going to be until the bugs are fixed - so it is a touch special. --Ted

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Re: Supershapes for dia?
by Alan Horkan 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, W. Borgert wrote: > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:27:41 +0000 > From: W. Borgert <debacle@...153...> > Reply-To: dia-list@...45... > To: dia-list@...45... > Subject: Supershapes for dia? > > This would make a nice addition to dia: http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/curves/supershape/ > (with C code exmample). Any takers? "The supershape equation is an extension of the both the equation of the sphere and ellipse" Very cool. Curved stars and polygons, a weird droplet shape. Ooh pretty! It is like Spirograph* all over again. I think for a complicated sphere/ellipse like this to be really practical it would require something like handles to allow interactive adjustment a feature that Dia doesn't have. I think it would be difficult to make this into a simple to use feature and I'm not even sure the markup would be all that easy generate either (a complex SVG path I'd guess) I'm not sure this is ideal for Dia. In my humble opinion, the ideal would be if other applications would provide the drawing tools Dia needs and Dia would focus on fast production of technical diagrams from premade shapes. A more generic way to plot equations as paths in Dia might be approrpriate to Dia. I have forwarded a copy of this mail to the Inkscape developers who I hope might be interested to implement an advanced Ellipse tool like this. Despite my reservations on how best to implement this it it would certainly be great if someone was interested enough to implement it. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ * Obligatory Simpsons quote: "Dr. S: Wait: did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it." PS Please dont crosspost in reply to this message. I have deliberately set the Reply-To to go to me. The Dia list will overwrite this and set the Reply-To as the Dia list and the Inkscape list will leave it alone, so please respond only to the relevant list.

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tutorial news
by bulia byak 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

* The Inkscape tutorial is split into two parts, Basic and Advanced, and significantly expanded (new sections on offsets, simplification, compound paths, text tool, and more). Most new material is at the end of the Advanced part. Check it out. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail 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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freehand continuity
by bulia byak 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Fred, Huge thanks for your bugfixes today. Having fixed the spoonshapes, maybe you can also look at the continuity problem? It's not exactly a bug, but each segment of a freehand line is approximated without taking into account previous segments, and as a result, all nodes on the path are cusp, to various degrees. It would be much nicer if the approximator would take into account a wider context to create smooth nodes most of the time (and only creating cusps when there are really sharp turns). Do you think this is possible/easy with the current code? _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Gradient Meshes
by bulia byak 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

>Now, the question is: Is this useful? Do you think it's just a >half-assed gradient mesh or is it something that extends the artistic >tools available in Inkscape? My IMHO is that while this is nice and cool, it would not be very useful in my design work. I think that the important thing is to get the essentials right, and then users can build their own complex things from these essentialas. With regard to gradients, here's what is still glaringly missing: - elliptic gradients (that can be rotated, with both axes adjustable) - non-linear gradient functions (currently all gradients are linear, which often looks too crude and artificial) - on-canvas editing of gradients When these things are done, I will be almost happy. It will be relatively easy then to emulate most meshes, fields, etc. by overlaying semitransparent elliptic gradients. What would satisfy 100% of my gradient needs is stroke patterns, i.e. the ability to paint a stroke with repeated copies of objects. I would then take a circle with circular transparency gradient and repeat it along a path, to receive a blurred stroke that can be given any shape and combined with other blurred strokes for any gradient-mesh-like effects. Besides stroke patterns, this also requires fixing this bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=859579&group_id=93… Still another alternative is a support of SVG filters, most importanly gaussian blur. If you can take arbitrary shapes and blur them into transparency, then again, it'll cover most uses of gradient meshes, and will potentially be more convenient. This is just an IMHO. Others may love to have the gradient meshes in Inkscape and will find unique uses for them, but I'm speaking from my design experience. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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