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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Some thoughts
by bulia byak 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

>Well, at first glance, the "Click, Shift+click, drag around objects to >select." message is not the warm welcome message I would expect. It >would be great to have a "Welcome to Inkscape!" status just as the >program starts if the new window contains a new document. Good idea. I'll do it. >I drew a rectangle and tried to move it to some given position with >fixed width and height. After setting X, one (well, I did) would >normally use Tab to switch to the Y field. It does switch, but focus >seems to be lost somewhere, for the next number zooms in or out. Yes, this is planned, as well as the shortcuts for quickly going to any of the secondary toolbar fields/spinbuttons. >Also, I truly don't know why, my mouse cursors seem to be broken. I'm >sorry I can't make a screenshot of this, but they look odd. The "icon" >looks almost fine, save it's all trashed and shifted and... well, it >doesn't look right. Perhaps it cannot find its mouse cursor bitmap? Did you do "make install"? Anyway, if you can find out anything specific about it, please file a bug report. _________________________________________________________________ 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] Win32 cross-compiled build
by bulia byak 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

>With Inkscape build 031231 the preferences file is picked up and the >preferences are used. >With Inkscape build 040106 the preferences file is not picked up. > >Swapping preference files does not alter things. I read this as a change in >Inkscape and nothing to do with the preferences file. > >Can someone help here? For example, Bob, what happened between these two >releases? I can confirm that on Linux it still works as it should. Mental, perhaps some of your fixes should be changed or reverted in the WIN32 branch? _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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Re: [Sodipodi-list] feature wanted: boolean operations
by Nathan Hurst 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

David Christian Berg wrote: >We'd best ask Michal himself on this question but still I'm deserately >hoping for a intersect, unite and substract tool, where you end up with >one object at the end. >Union become a problem when you would want to move the (with grouping or >combining non existing) nodes at the intersection of the object >outlines. Actually that was something that quite annoyed me when I >started out with sodipodi. One learns to work around that kinda problem >with the time, though. > > If you are desperate, inkscape has boolean operations available in CVS. njh

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postscript output: no included bitmaps
by John Griessen 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

When postscript output is made, it includes bitmaps in a reasonable-looking .ps file, but ggv does not like it... And trying imagemagick convert on th large .ps file gives: Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 583994 GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 convert: DPS library is not available (card-test.ps). inkscape puts out this during print... is a module missing? ========================== ** (inkscape:9094): CRITICAL **: file db.cpp: line 39 (void sp_module_db_register(SPModule*)): assertion `module->id != NULL' failed ** (inkscape:9094): CRITICAL **: file db.cpp: line 57 (void sp_module_db_unregister(SPModule*)): assertion `module->id != NULL' failed -- John Griessen Cibolo Design Austin Texas EE good at IR systems, power supplies, logic design, A2D D2A, digital amps, mechatronics, SiGe and CMOS layout, MEMS/mech/electronic/photonic modeling, charge pump PV/battery/fuel cell power converters, linux counter #249315

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Postscript output
by John Griessen 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

Hello, I've just used the CVS version of inkscape from this AM to print to postscript file using postscript elements and it works fine for the SVG elements, but not for the .png or .tif or .jpg bitmaps included in an inkscape document. Has this worked in the past? If not, should I write this up as a bug report, or as a feature request on the wiki? Even without adding inclusion of bitmaps, Inkscape plus Scribus is a like-the-pros-use set of layout tools, and with plugins planned will outstrip those easily. Thanks for free publishing your efforts. Who is working on writing docs? I can help there. JG -- John Griessen Cibolo Design Austin Texas EE good at IR systems, power supplies, logic design, A2D D2A, digital amps, mechatronics, SiGe and CMOS layout, MEMS/mech/electronic/photonic modeling, charge pump PV/battery/fuel cell power converters, linux counter #249315

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Minor changes to Win32 build
by Bob Jamison 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Hi all. I uploaded another build last night, which would basically be a snapshot of CVS at 0600GMT. It has two changes from the previous build: 1. It does not include the gtkmm, glibmm, atkmm, and pangomm files. Since we don't have a dependency on them for the time being, why download them? 2. I changed the build from a heirarchical set of makefiles, to a single makefile with makedep files. This greatly simplifies the build, and makes it cleaner/safer. However, any change like this can possibly change the behaviour of the product. So if anyone sees anything odd (or odder than normal ;-) please let me know. During this week, I will be working on debugging and cleaning up the GTK static build, which is complete, but needs tweaking. (Like where /etc and /locale and /lib are found). Hopefully by next Monday I can get the entire thing working, and also a nightly automated build from a cross-compiler. Bob

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Gtk 2.2
by MenTaLguY 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

Would anyone have any problems if we bumped the gtk configure-time requirement to >= 2.2.0? We're already having trouble with 2.2-specific stuff getting introduced, since (I think) that's what most of the developers have. We may as well make the dependency explicit if we use those features. -mental

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Re: monostd.h
by bulia byak 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

>Innocent, your honour! According to cvs log, I added it to Makefile.am >on 2003-12-21 (cvs comment `Add some header files to SOURCES, so that >`make distcheck' works.'), and monostd.h was deleted by mental on >2004-01-03 (cvs comment `portability fixes'). Ah, sorry, I didn't realize that the file was actually there for some time - I read the CVS log and thought that you just added a reference and not a file itself :) Thanks for the fix! _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/photos&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjo…

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"closing a segment now remains snapped"
by bulia byak 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

(i.e. ctrl now works properly to restrict line directions in the pen tool) This was personally annoying me - thanks a lot for the fix! Now we finally have a plain and easy answer to the FAQ "How to create a horizontal/vertical line" (this is not the only way to do that, but it's the most straightforward). _________________________________________________________________ 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] RE: Win32 Preferences
by bulia byak 06 Jan '04

06 Jan '04

>With the latest build (040103) Inkscape generates a preferences.xml. I can >modify it and Inkscape will NOT use the modifications on its next run. This >is terrible. It is worse than the previous two builds, since I now cannot >change preferences. Mental, I think you were the last to change that part, could you please have a look? _________________________________________________________________ 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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