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Export SVG to EMF using command line
by Diego Nuñez 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

Hi! I have tested the export from svg to emf (in windows) using the GUI and I noticed a checkbox for exporting the texts as paths. This checkbox is by default checked, so as I didn't want that configuration I have unchecked it and the export worked like a charm. When I tried the same from command line by typing inkscape svgBasicChart.svg --export-emf=svgBasicChart.emf the export performed had the texts exported as paths, but I didn't find any option to avoid that from command line as I found in the GUI. Is this option available in any way for command line? Thanks in advance Diego Nuñez

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how to write Inkscape extensions - guide needed
by Brynn 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Hi Friends, I think I asked this before, but it was mixed up with another subject. And there seems to be a bit of a lull in the action, on the dev mailing list. So I thought it would be a good time to try again, when this is the only subject. In forums, probably 3 to 5 times in a year, people post a message asking either how to write an extension for Inkscape, or about some technical aspect of writing an extension. Or another version is - how to get an extension they wrote to be packed with Inkscape. Unfortunately, most of us don't have a clue about any of it, and there is no place to refer them. Now I'm working on fleshing out the Contribute page of the website, and it would be really nice to be able to provide a link to some kind of guide, or instructions, or article on the subject. It doesn't necessarily need to be a newbie's guide; so it wouldn't be teaching someone like me to write an extension. It would be addressed towards people who already have the needed skills and experience. So if anyone is interested, it would really be a great benefit to the Inkscape community, to have some information, in any kind of format, on how to write an Inkscape extension. It could be placed on the Inkscape wiki, or maybe even in your InkSpace (the gallery on the website) in Tutorials category. Thanks in advance, and thanks for listening. If anyone is interested, just let me know where to find it, when finished, and a link will be included on the Contribute page. :-) Thanks again, brynn

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UnitTest Fix under Windows
by Mark Harmer 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Hi, So I'm not sure the process for submitting patches that aren't tied to a bug report, the Wiki ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_Bazaar#Working_with_pa…) didn't seem to mention where patches should be sent so I figured this might be the best place. Let me know if there's a better place to send these. I've attached a minor fix that corrects a unittest failure under Windows due to path separator differences.

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Separate the Goddamn Sliders from the number input please!
by Jelle Mulder 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Dear all, I don't know what made the new slider UI come through, but it absolutely sucks. Why in gods earth does the text input reside beneath the slider drag? Every time I want to set a blur I have to really be afraid to drag the friggin slider to 90+% and then wait and pray for Inkscape to recover from this mishap. The same for transparency. Can the sliders and the number input please be separated into their own objects rather than this highly frustrating BS object? Especially with blur it is not immediately obvious whether you have actually clicked the right object (text input) and then click again to try and select the number input while Inkscape goes haywire calculating 90+% blurs for every friggin click you make. Don't know how this behaves on 1024x768, but this is absolutely unworkable on highres screens. The disfunctionality of this solution is not worth the few pixels gained for the slider control. Cheers, keep up the good work ;-) Jelle

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[lance@...2167...: [Hosting] Fwd: IPv6 Offering]
by Bryce Harrington 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

FYI ----- Forwarded message from Lance Albertson <lance@...2167...> ----- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:55:44 -0800 From: Lance Albertson <lance@...2167...> To: hosting@...2167... Subject: [Hosting] Fwd: IPv6 Offering Well, we're even one more step closer... Apparently NERO is now ready to officially start supporting IPv6 [1]. I've already submitted the form and will let you all know what our next steps are and when. Hurray! \o/ [1] http://www.nero.net/ipv6/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steve Menken <smenken@...3198...> Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:31 PM Subject: IPv6 Offering To: subscribers@...3198... All, NERO is excited to now provide IPv6 addressing to all NERO partners. Please check out our website (http://www.nero.net) to review our IPv6 offering. If you have questions about the service, you can contact the NERO NOC and we would be happy to assist. We will also offer a webinar in the near future on IPv6 that we hope will help you to plan and deploy IPv6 across your networks. Once we have a date established for the webinar we will send out an announcement. -- Steve Menken Co-Interim Director, Network for Education and Research in Oregon -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab _______________________________________________ Hosting mailing list Hosting@...2167... http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/hosting ----- End forwarded message -----

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Article on Inkscape 0.91 -- deadline
by "Christoph Schäfer" 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

Hi Inkscapers, As some of you may remember, I have a deadline to meet for my article on 0.91 in the prestigious Swiss PUBLISHER magazine, namely 12 January. I can write most of the article based on 0.91pre3 and the draft of the release notes. There are, however, a few questions left that I hope to receive answers from those in the know. 1) PUBLISHER 1/2015 will be printed by the end of January. Any chance to have 0.91 final out in the wild by then? 2) How "native" will the OS X release be this time? (This is very important to the readers of the magazine, since most of them are using Macs.) 3) 64-Bit versions: Please forgive my ignorance here, but the RN draft mentions 64-Bit support for Windows. Is there any other platform left for which 64-Bit versions are still unavailable? For those who are awaiting my essay on Inkscape for print/as a real AI alternative in print workflows (cough), my contacts in the industry are awaiting the 0.91 release, and their feedback will be based on the latter, not on 0.48. Happy New Year and good luck with the release! Christoph

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General state of OSX native?
by Norbert Nemec 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Hi everybody, I am currently trying to get inkscape running with gtk3/OSX-native. After quite a bit of struggling, I got everything compiled and executable. When I run inkscape, however, I get tons of assertions, the window looks terrible, is just barely responsive and completely unusable. The info on the web is not very conclusive, so I wonder: * is inkscape OSX/native generally still in such a bad state or did I maybe not build it correctly? * is anyone working on this actively? * what is the state of inkscape/gtk3 in general? * What are the areas that require work to improve the situation? Perhaps, I could help out? Generally, I used to use inkscape quite heavily several years ago on Linux and absolutely loved it. Today, I am forced to use OSX for work and would sometimes love to have inkscape available for some quick drawing task. The usability of the inkscape/gtk2/XQuark on OSX, however, has always put me off using inkscape altogether (booting Linux for every occasional quick drawing is just not an option). I would really love to see this situation improve. Greetings, Norbert

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] General state of OSX native?
by Hiram Jerónimo Pérez 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

I’m glad to see it works good, there are some glitches, like missing icons for new/open and weird shadows in menus, but my first try of the gtk3-build was fine, I’ll test some stuff and let you know — Hiram J. Pérez On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...> wrote: > Sure. Here is the URL. > http://www.partha.com/temp/Inkscape-gtk3-osx.app.zip > Unzip wherever you like and run it from there. You are also optionally > put it in your Application folder. > Please let me know how it works out for you. > Thanks for testing. > Partha > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Hiram Jerónimo Pérez > <hiram.001@...400...> wrote: >> Hi, do you have any build? >> I’d be glad to try it >> >> — >> Hiram J. Pérez >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...> wrote: >>> >>> I compiled osxmenu (~suv's branch) using gtk3 and it looks good to me. >>> >>> It was a little tricky since configure is not set to automatically do >>> this and gtk-mac-integration had to recompiled for gtk3. >>> >>> If you wish to try it, let me know. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Partha >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Norbert Nemec >>> <Norbert.Nemec.list@...173...> wrote: >>> > Thanks! I just tried the gtk2/Quartz build from your profile and it >>> > really feels and looks much better than anything I have seen before on >>> > OSX. >>> > >>> > The most recent gtk2/x11 build seems somewhat improved as well, but it >>> > still does not provide the smooth experience that I remember from Linux. >>> > >>> > I really hope that the native-OSX (including osxmenu) will soon be >>> > stabilized sufficiently to have it considered for the official builds. >>> > >>> > Greetings, >>> > Norbert >>> > >>> > >>> > Am 29/12/14 1:20 , schrieb su_v: >>> >> On 2014-12-29 01:16 (+0100), su_v wrote: >>> >>> Too bad - you seem to dismiss any other option than GTK+/Quartz 3 for >>> >>> OS >>> >>> X. If this isn't quite true, you might want to give newer >>> >>> GTK2/X11-based >>> >>> app bundles a test, or even one with GTK2/Quartz. Links to downloads >>> >>> (OS >>> >>> X 10.7 or later) can be found on the download page at inkscape.org >>> >>> (0.91pre3, 0.91+devel)[2], and on my launchpad profile page [1] >>> >>> (including the experimental 'osxmenu' branch). >>> >>> >>> >>> We also started an attempt to track osx packaging status in the wiki >>> >>> [3]. >>> >> (…) >>> >>> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~suv-lp >>> >> Sorry, wrong link, use this one instead: >>> >> [1] https://launchpad.net/~suv-lp >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>> [2] http://inkscape.org/en/download/ >>> >>> [3] >>> >>> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Notes_on_Packaging_for_OS_X >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, >>> > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is >>> > your >>> > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought >>> > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take >>> > a >>> > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Inkscape-devel mailing list >>> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >>> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, >>> sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is >>> your >>> hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought >>> leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a >>> look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Inkscape-devel mailing list >>> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> >>

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New Developer Comments
by Mark Harmer 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Hello Inkscape Devs, I recently found an issue that I wanted to fix (not particularly related to this thread but it's: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/307833). As a first time dev/user of the website/wiki/build system, I wanted to point out some issues I ran into while building Inkscape that may not be obvious to those that constantly use it. I do want to point out that overall, I think building was relatively easy. I attempted to build under Windows 8.1 x64: 1. Bazaar seems to take awhile to download the sources, it was around 30 minutes for the 'bzr checkout lp:inkscape' command, this may be a misunderstanding of the wiki instructions and bzr though. Another 10-15 minutes was required for the devlibs64. 2. I initially tried to build a 32-bit target, however I think the compiler stated in the Wiki (GCC 4.6.1) may have been outdated for the project since there are new warnings that were turned on that I had to turn off in the build.xml for the compiler to stop complaining. 3. When building 32-bit I eventually was able to compile and link, however when copying the binaries the libgomp-1.dll appeared to be missing and the build failed - possibly due to the old compiler toolchain used from the Wiki instructions? For reference I was using: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows#Setti… 4. I noticed that the btool with the "-j" parallel job configuration didn't seem to spawn more than 1 compiler process. Only after looking at the source did I realized that I needed to build it with "-fopenmp". The "-fopenmp" option was the alternative build step for btool in the Wiki instructions, I think it should be instead the first option (and possibly move the other two alternatives into another section), wiki for reference: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows#Build… 5. I gave up on 32-bit target and tried the 64-bit build. This worked after I realized that the config.h was not being regenerated after I had previously built it for a 32-bit target, after deleting this file the build succeeded. To be more specific I think I was getting some invalid functions being called due to POPPLER_NEW_ERRORAPI not being defined correctly. A separate folder for all generated build files would make this more intuitive to me, but I understand it would likely be a bit of work. 6. I didn't seem to easily find where the output was being generated, initially I thought the inkscape.exe in the build folder was the final one, and of course attempting to run it causes dll dependency failures. Only after poking around did I realize the 'inkscape' subfolder was the final output folder. 7. I'm confused by the unittests, I think I've run across 2-3 different frameworks: a. A standalone test executable w/o a real framework located at: inkscape/src/io/streamtest.cpp b. Some CxxTest's located at: inkscape/src/svg/test-svg.cpp c. What I think are tests using GTest, I haven't found these in the source I pulled down, but the Jenkins job I think is using them (I found this after some mailing list searches): http://ec2-54-69-235-61.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/job/Inkscape_t… (This seems to question whether I have the correct sources or not since I can't find these test names anywhere) ***8. Linking is slow, on the order of minutes, so it makes development turn-around time on changes very long. This is actually a really big turnoff for developing. I think this hits inkscape.exe and inkview.exe. The linking is with the default link arguments, I did change compilation from -O2 to -O0 and added -g for debugging. This also ties back to #5, where if a separate build folder existed I could have one for debug builds and one for release/optimized and not have to clobber them each time. Maybe there's an Ant/btool property I'm missing? I'm not sure if 'ld' has incremental linking support, and if it would even help, similar to what Visual C++ has. Nice to haves: 9. I've heard some mention of cmake support ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CMake), but I don't know the status. In general if Visual Studio was supported under Windows it would make it much easier for debugging in the IDE. The recent community edition might make this option more attractive under Windows. 10. Bazaar seems to be used in relatively few projects, I know this would be a huge undertaking to switch and may not be worth the effort, but it might be a barrier for new contributors. It's something I think is minor, but it is yet another 'thing' I need to read up on/learn. Thanks. -- Mark

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inkscape-0.91pre3 source tarball
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Download it at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.91pre3/ Tagged in trunk as: INKSCAPE_0_91_PRE3 To facilitate organization of mirrors, I've uploaded a MIRRORS file. If you will be providing a mirror of 0.91pre3 and 0.91.0, please email me off list. Bryce

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