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Python update
by unknown＠example.com 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Hello everyone, I develop a set of extensions for Python. In my opinion, the extensions are easy to develop, great and powerful tool, widening the usability of Inkscape that help spread the Inkscape among users. Because of the need for GUI and websocket client, I've updated the version of Python in the Inkscape to 2.7 and added PyQt4 and ws4py libraries. All features has been tested on Windows. Now I would like to ask, whether there is a possibility to make this version a standard version included in the instalation of Inkscape? Eventually what steps are required to switch the Python version in the standard distribution of Inkscape? I can provide you the list of all steps, that have to be done to update the Python version for Windows and offer closer cooperation by making this change. I believe, this change would make the possibilities of the extensions even better, especially the possibility of having graphical user interface, which is easy to made. Best regards Lubomir =

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Inkscape circuit love ;)
by saar drimer 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hello Inkscape devs. In the past I've mentioned PCBmodE, an open source circuit design software I've written that uses Inkscape as its GUI (sort of). More here: https://bitbucket.org/boldport/pcbmode A few days ago I've released my first official product that includes a board I've made with PCBmodE (and Inkscape!) http://boldport.tictail.com/product/the-tiny-engineer-superhero-emergency-k… http://boldport.com/boards/emergency/index.html I'll be donating 50p to the Inkscape Fund for each unit from the first batch of 300 that sells. Inkscape has been an integral part of creating this product (PCB and print design), and I'd like to give back to you developers for the great work and effort you've been putting into this software! I'm writing this to you in the hope that you'd be interested in this story (and perhaps PCBmodE and product) but mainly to hear feedback. All the best, saar.

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Is the wiki down?
by John Cliff 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Hi all, Is the wiki down? dont seem to be able to connect to it. Cheers John

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viewBox and preserveAspectRatio
by Tavmjong Bah 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Hi, A heads-up... While mucking about the code I noticed that the same basic code to handle viewBox and preserveAspectRatio appeared in multiple files (8 times?) having originally been pasted directly or copied with some changes. Overtime the code was tweaked here and there. I have created a new base class to handle viewBox and preserveAspectRatio and modified sp-root, sp-symbol, sp-image, sp-pattern, and marker to use the new class, resulting in a reduction of over 400 lines of code (yeah!). In the process, I've fixed a number of issues with using percentage based x, y, width, and height values. Please let me know if you find any problems. Tav

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patches for the bughunt waiting for some testers
by insaner 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

very trivial patches to test: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1171109 comment #19 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1251951 comment #9 please test and provide feedback so I can check in the changes for the first one, and figure out what to do with the second one. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/patches-for-the-bughunt-waiting-for-some-t… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Mac OS X Mountain Lion x86_64 packaging of 0.48.4
by Valerio Aimale 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Hello, I am not an official packager, but I was eager to have an updated version of Inkscape for Mac OS X and I noticed that nobody is packaging the new version. I've packaged it for Mountain Lion and x86_64. It should be considered a beta packaging. I've packaged from version 0.48+devel r12005 You can download it at: https://rapidshare.com/files/3885726044/Inkscape_MountainLion_x86_64.dmg The Mac Os X packaging infrastructure in the source tree is a bit ancient. Things I've noticed: - configure.ac uses syntax that is not conforming anymore with autoconf/automake/authohear 1.13. Going forward that should be updated. - the scripts osx-build.sh os-app.sh needs update for the newest Xcode versions. they don't work out of the box. - the dylib base relocation infrastructure needed to be rewritten - the Platypus-derived ScriptExec executable might not be needed anymore - in this version, the app bundle executes the sh script directly. Features: - The version I packaged runs gtk-2.0+quartz. It does not need X11/Xquartz anymore to run. This is the direction GIMP has gone to as well. - It uses the same theme as GIMP. I think it's a good consistency decision, and it's the theme that looks best on Mtn Lion. If somebody want to try and report problems, I'd appreciate it Valerio

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Mentors for GSoC this year?
by Josh Andler 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Please reply if you're interested. Cheers, Josh

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When is text "outlined" ?
by mathog 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

In _renderItem in src/display/drawing-text.cpp there is a conditional section under if (_drawing.outline()) { that never seems to execute. Oddly, give its name, it appears that what it would do if it was ever activated, would be to draw the glyphs and then fill them. (Not stroke them). A breakpoint was placed in there and Inkscape was run for a while, making edits, rotating, scaling, stretching, changing the formatting, converting to paths, but nothing caused execution to enter that section. I give up - what is the action that makes a text "outline" active? Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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Python bindings
by pradeep.pyro 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

Hi, Which version of the lib2geom Python bindings is recommended for use: Boost-Python or Cython? I can build both versions on Windows, but I cannot use them. Here is the error that I receive when I import either of the modules: >>> import cy2geom Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "cy2geom.pyx", line 5, in init cy2geom (C:\Users\xxx\Desktop\lib2geom\build\src\2geom\cython-bindings\cy2geom.cxx:1094) ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. I followed the exact build and install procedure found in the README.win32 document. Appreciate any help on this, thanks. Best regards, - Pradeep -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Python-bindings-tp4969424.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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std::string with char*
by Tavmjong Bah 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Hi, It is good we are slowly moving to using std::string... but mixing it with char* can be tricky. In particular, I've seen several bugs recently when char* is a null pointer. You cannot initialize a std::string with a null pointer. You will get at run time: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' what(): basic_string::_S_construct null not valid I don't know what "best practice" is but this seems to work: std::string my_string = c_string ? c_string : ""; You can also not compare a std::string to a null pointer. Tav

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