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[inkscape-devel] Cannot compile with newest version of poppler
by Preben Soeberg 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hi devs, I recently ugraded poppler on Linux from version 24.5 to 26.0, and can no longer compile inkscape. See attached file for details. I do strongly believe the problem comes from changes in poppler, as I can no longer compile older revisions, that I have compiled before. I have also upgraded gcc to version 4.9.0, but don't find it likely to be the cause this problem. Regards Preben

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Use of mailto: in Inkscape web page.
by john Culleton 14 May '14

14 May '14

Inkscape has a facility for addressing urls. Does this extend to the mailto: feature? Has anyone used it successfully? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Slow boot term window
by Jelle Mulder 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hi guys, Maybe this helps in solving the slow start mystery. I had the slow start on win7 until I rebooted the machine. This morning Inkscape booted quite a bit faster, but the load screen had quite a bit of these warnings. Those however seem to be bogus as MS Serif is being loaded and usable. Not sure what the 10 is about though? Fontsize? Or did that accidentally get added to the string? In the latter case it wouldn't be surprising that Inkscape gets a wee confused. For those that are wandering what the slow boot time is about, I would like to ask if they have large font sets on those win7, win8 and Mac. Large font sets have been a long standing issue for slow boot times and maybe it is related to that. This morning my Inkscape boot was faster than ever before though, regardless of the list of warnings. (Inkscape.exe:6112): Pango_Warning ** couldn't load font "MS Sans Serif 10", falling back to "Sans 10", expect ugly output. etc. Interesting as most win and mac do not have "Sans". Oh, and another rather silly bug I found was at filling in the Dublin Core metadata. After typing in the first letter of the Title, the input loses focus it seems and nothing happens anymore (or it doesn't display) reselecting the field will allow you to finish the word. Doesn't seem like a biggie to me, but it IS annoying and highly visible to all and every user that would use the form. i.e. anyone who produces content professionally. I would use the bugtracker if I was able to, but I have not been able to connect to it since I live in China. This may be an issue for Chinese people that would like to help with Inkscape dev as well. If tools are unreachable... Continue to test. Cheers, Jelle

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inkscape-0.91pre0 source tarball
by Bryce Harrington 14 May '14

14 May '14

Download it at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.91pre0/ Tagged in trunk as: INKSCAPE_0_91_PRE0 The dist directions[1] are outdated, so I'm not confident the package is perfect, but that's why we do pre-releases right? Anyway, if anyone knows a step I missed, please raise it with me so pre1 will be better. I'll try to put some time in this cycle to get these directions up to date, and hopefully streamline the process a bit. I'm hoping to do several pre-releases in support of this. It would be helpful if packagers could generate binary platform packages from this tarball. If you spot packaging problems (like version numbers that didn't get updated, or missing files needed for builds), please raise these problems with me ASAP. Bryce 1: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Creating_Inkscape_distributions

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Powerstroke in 0.91pre0 r13343
by Tom Lechner 14 May '14

14 May '14

I've been testing out the powerstroke LPE, very important for vector art making! Not sure what is the proper place to post this. Should I file bug reports? Are they features, not bugs? Issues: 1. Create a single closed path. Apply powerstroke. The powerstroked path shoots out extreme points. These extremities go away when you move the powerstroke node away from initial vertex, and return when node appears to go back to initial vertex 2. seems to break on combined paths, apparently you may only use powerstroke on single paths? Make one path, make a hole (combining with an enclosed path). Choose powerstroke, and the inner hole path stays, but the outer path vanishes, though its nodes remain. Wishlist for powerstroke: 1. combine with offset off a base line 2. have angle nodes, not just width nodes. This would allow easier integration with the calligraphy tool 3. Miter caps for when curvature circles don't intersect are pretty ugly. Perhaps there could be an alternate extension, like blending curvature from one side of the path with the other side (of the same segment), or arbitrarily making a kind of steeple, not strictly adhering to curvature, sticking off the miter, so corners always end up being pointy, instead of chopped off. -Tom ----- tomlechner.com

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.48.5
by Partha Bagchi 13 May '14

13 May '14

Sorry for the delay. I put together a 7z archive of what I hope would be all that's needed to try and build Inkscape on a Window's 7 or greater 64-bit machine. You can download it here: http://www.partha.com/temp/Inkscape.7z Use 7z to unzip and please the included couple of "readmes". Please let me know if you have any issues or if I can help you set it all up. Thanks, Partha On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...>wrote: > Hi, > sure, a 7z archive would be great too! > > Thanks, > Johan > > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Partha Bagchi" <partha1b@...400...> > To: "Johan Engelen" <jbc.engelen@...2592...> > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.48.5 > Date: Wed, Apr 30, 2014 02:29 > > > Hi Johan, > > I got really frustrated since I don't know how the system works. > > Maybe I can provide a 7z/xz archive and people can download it? What do > you think? > > I was really interested in getting the 64-bit build to the community as I > did before, but I am stuck. :( > > Thanks, > Partha > > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592... > > wrote: > >> Hi Partha, >> Did you get around to uploading your environment? >> >> Cheers, >> Johan >> >> >> >> On 13-4-2014 1:17, Partha Bagchi wrote: >> >> My launchpad id is partha1b. >> >> Thanks, >> Partha >> >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...1857...00...>wrote: >> >>> 2014-04-13 0:40 GMT+02:00 Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...>: >>> > That sounds great. I just hope that I can figure out how to use Ip. >>> Anyway, >>> > I will be happy to upload my environment. >>> >>> OK, in that case tell me your Launchpad account name. >>> >>> There are some instruction on the wiki on how to use Bazaar, but if >>> you have problems feel free to ask. >>> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_Bazaar >>> >>> Regards, Krzysztof >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Put Bad Developers to Shame >> Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration >> Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment >> Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud.http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing listInkscape-devel@...1901...://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> >> >> >

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New SVG compliance testing software
by Tomasz Boczkowski 13 May '14

13 May '14

Hi! Test case result images have been rated. In trunk at revision 13371 there are: 220 passes 126 fails 12 crashes In experimental branch revision 13356 there are: 221 passes 125 fails 12 crashes New pass is text-deco-01-b.svg Many thanks for Josh for help with rating unclear cases. Regards, Tomasz

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Cache has performance issues
by Paul Kallnbach 13 May '14

13 May '14

Hi list A couple of weeks ago I posted a message regarding Inkscapes caching behaviour and also filed a bug report on launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1267208). It turned out program response is far quicker with caching disabled in the source code. I'd happily provide a sample file or whatever is needed to visualize the described effect if requested. I think Inkscapes user experience could be noticeably improved by some simple modifications (e.g. an option to turn off caching via GUI) but in my opinion the caching systems needs quite a bit of refactoring. Unfortunately I lack the necessary insight and experience on the program to come up with a proper solution myself. I would be willing to give it a shot though if someone could point me to a good resource on how caching is designed and implemented (and would be willing to review my changes). With the new release coming closer I really hope somebody shows some interest in this. It does make a difference. Thanks. Paul

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Oops,.. inkscape_r13349-201405111208
by Jelle Mulder 13 May '14

13 May '14

Hi Guys, When running Inkscape.exe on inkscape_r13349-201405111208 I just downloaded from the nightlies to give it a go and check the new LPE's I got nothing but a blinking cursor in a dosbox. That can't be the intention. However, I was wondering if I'd need anything special for this build I happen not to have. FYI running a win7 32 bit and this is a first for me. By the way I loved that new chamfer video and since I haven't been doing any testing for a while I'd love to get a go with the new toys. Many exiting changes that I am really looking forward to get to test. I am interested in doing a splash screen for the new release, but will need to know what the new stuff is, testing didn't get that far ;-) Keep up the good work! Cheers, Jelle

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Starting the 0.91 Bug Hunt
by Bryce Harrington 13 May '14

13 May '14

For the Frost, one of our main activities is going to be the Bug Hunt. The purpose of the Bug Hunt is to improve our release's quality by tending to some of the many bugs people have reported in the past. Our first bug hunt focused on regressions found in 0.91. We still care a lot about regressions, of course, but this bug hunt is open season on ALL bugs ever reported. But reports about problems in the website, documentation, translation, packaging, admin, and codebase are all eligible targets, since every one of those areas is vital to achieving a high quality release. Only Wishlist bugs are omitted. The tally is taken of all bugs closed since the week Frost started (i.e. May 5th). 3, 6, 9, or 12 points are given for low, medium, high, and critical bug priorities respectively. +1 point will be given per year of age since the bug was filed, to encourage us to tend to older bug reports that have languished in the tracker. Points will be doubled for all regression-tagged bug reports, even if they were regressions in previous releases. A Bug of the Week will be announced each week, as we did in the last bug hunt. However, to switch things up a bit, I'm going to have the person who closed the highest total score of bugs in a given week be the person that selects the Bug of the Week for the subsequent week. Bryce

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