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backups
by bulia byak 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

To fix this: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=866103&group_id=9… I want to back up the old prefs file before writing the new one. Adding an option to backup SVG files when saving would be great, too. There's a library here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ that has this functionality and claims to be portable. So what do we do? - include gnulib as a dependency - lift just backupfile.c and copy-file.c from it and include in our codebase - find some other lib - write the backup function ourselves Any comments? _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/features&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] do we need meters?
by bulia byak 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

OK, for now I simply added a check if the units are meters, and if so, coverted them to cm where the value is written to repr. So now it will size the canvas to 3100 by 1700 meters, even though it will not show you all of it. But that's another issue. So I'm closing this bug. Incidentally, just to prevent duplicating effort, is anyone working on any bugs at the moment? The release is near and we must concentrate on bugs for now. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Re: new offset commands
by bulia byak 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

Actually, the reason for bug 877019 is simple: it's difference is size! The sploth-bad object is just small, and on this scale, the offset algorithm is erratic. When applied to a larger object, it works much better. Can you please have a look at what's wrong with this? > > - It appears that all offsets now use the imprecise > > algorithm (you once > > mentioned that there were two algorithms, one > > precise but slow and the othe > > imprecise but fast). I think we should use the > > precise algorithm for all > > kinds of offsets, dynamic or not. > >the "imprecise" algo is now the more precise one; the >problem whith the old "precise" is that sometimes it >doesn't produce the mathematically correct offset, but >is faster. this can happen when offseting the 'D' >letter with a big radius, for example: a hole appears >in the offset. since speed is an issue, the fast one >is back in place. > > >also the livarot stuff now uses NR::Point (and some >NR::matrix); it may contain some bugs since the >conversion touched a big portion of the code. you can >report any strange behavior in boolean operations and >offset to me. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] do we need meters?
by bulia byak 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

>>lists only cm, mm, in, pt, pc. So the question is: why do we have meters >>in the units drop-down lists at all? Isn't it safer to remove them? >> >>Any insights? > >I've used inkscape for doing house plans. Having meters was quite useful >for that. We may end up having a global scale factor for doing map work >(which is something that bryce was interested in). Of course it's useful, but what about SVG conformance? Even if we convert meters to e.g. inches on save, how will Inkscape know that they should be translated back to meters when loaded? Looks like we need inkscape: attributes in <svg> for scale factor and preferred length units. That will require changes in a lot of places I think. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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undo crash
by bulia byak 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

Mental, could you please review my change to xml/repr-action.cpp in line 230, instead of if (strcmp(action->act.chgattr.oldval, iter->act.chgattr.newval)) break; I added extra checks if (action->act.chgattr.oldval && iter->act.chgattr.newval && strcmp(action->act.chgattr.oldval, iter->act.chgattr.newval)) break; Without this, it was crashing when you draw a rect and press and hold [ to rotate it, after several rotations. This crash appeared after I changed document_undo to maybe_undo with a key, so there's probably some deeper problem with your coalescing code that was not caught until now (because almost nobody used maybe_undo until now). So if you can discover what's really going wrong and fix it instead that would be great. By the way I fixed the nasty "fly away" bug on rotation reported by Robert Crosbie and myself. Although I don't quite understand how that fix works :) See changelog. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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do we need meters?
by bulia byak 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

With this kind of silence in this list, I wonder if we really need a separate users list... Anyway, when researching https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=851007&group_id=9… I found that the SVG units reader simply does not understand meters as a unit. And this seems to be correct according to the spec. Here: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/coords.html#Units it says that SVG uses "absolute unit identifiers from CSS", and CSS grammar: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/grammar.html#q1 lists only cm, mm, in, pt, pc. So the question is: why do we have meters in the units drop-down lists at all? Isn't it safer to remove them? Any insights? _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Proposal: "inkscape-user@" mailing list
by bulia byak 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

>If this sounds good, I'll set it up, and we can push membership in it >as part of the 0.37 announce. Good idea I think. Please don't forget to mention it in the release notes. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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HELP SYSTEM: scrollkeeper + yelp
by Jonathan Phillips 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

In regards to implementing a cross-platform help system, we can use docbook in conjunction with scrollkeeper/yelp on Linux and OS X, and then convert to Microsoft HTML Help from docbook for win32 based systems. Check out the docbook formats: http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/formats More about docbook: http://docbook.sourceforge.net/ Any other findings? Jon -- Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...>

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] RE: keyboard shortcuts + man page
by bulia byak 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

>For Windows, you need to consider converting the files >to Windows help files. That is all, as the OS has its >own viewer. Which is why I wonder if we'd be better off with HTML files. There's a browser on any system, and no conversions are necessary. Actually some Windows programs use HTML too, instead of Windows help. The only issue is determining the default browser. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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RE: keyboard shortcuts + man page
by bulia byak 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

>From: Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...> >I have not done much looking into adding the keyboard shortcuts and man >page to the help menu for the next release. I really want to do this >task, but could you use any help pointing me how to do this. > >I wonder what the best way to accomplish this task would be? I guess we >could add a link to the keyboard shortcuts page to the webpage where the >shortcut keys are located, or we could set up a file where the keyboard >keys are located in the source and you could edit that file so that on >CVS build, all keys are updated accordingly. I think Inkscape should ship with its own copy of help files in HTML, corresponding to the release. I think I will move the shortcuts from Wiki to XML and set up generating HTML in makefile. So, you can assume that the distribution includes an HTML file; your task is to run browser on it. As to the best way to run browser, I'm not sure. I doubt there is a cross-platform reliable way to detect the default browser and run it, but I may be wrong - anyone? If we cannot access default browser, perhaps we should store a browser executable path in preferences. But that's ugly. >Another idea is to start to use YELP from GNOME world. Never seen it. Anyone has an opinion on Yelp? >Another thing, did you realize that Inkscape can open files from URLs. I >opened a few svg examples from croczilla.com/svg/ from the commandline. Sounds like this could be added to Tips-and-tricks page. >I think we should add an open file from url menu item. Why not, try to do it - it should not be difficult. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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