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vector printing win32
by Solor Vox 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Hello, I've been trying to solve a 2+ year issue with inkscape and my printing device (laser cutter) not accepting paths as vectors. All I can seem to get out of inkscape is rastered images. Yes, exporting to PDF works, but it's not a fix and not a great solution either. As such, I've been digging in the code to inkscape versions 0.46 to 0.48.2 on a win32 platform. Why was a call to cairo PS level 3 commented out on line 101? And can you tell me if the call to renderItem() is sending bitmap or vector data to the surface? Where in the code chain might the vector paths be rastered? Cheers, sV

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Old configure options
by Josh Andler 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Hey All, Is there a reason we still have the --with-perl and --with-python configure options? Apparently they still don't work on OSX with current trunk and didn't work in some linux distros as of a report from forever ago (circa 0.44pre0). suv's understanding was that they were only used for our internal script dialog which was disabled prior to 0.47. Cheers, Josh

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Rationale for typography canvas defaults?
by Matt Gushee 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Hi, all-- First of all, if this is not the right list for this question, please direct me to a better one. Anyway, I am interested in using Inkscape (together with FontForge) for font design, and thus I am trying out the more-or-less latest development version from Bazaar, with the typography extensions. And I'd like to thank the folks developing these extensions; I know good typography tools are not easy. I am curious, though, about why the default and maximum em sizes are what they are: 1000 and 2000, respectively. I've been Googling hard for info on the "right way" to design glyphs for Freetype or Opentype fonts. I'm sure noone will be surprised to hear that it's hard to find definitive info, but so far I have found: * There doesn't seem to be any universal agreement on the best design size, BUT * An 1000-unit em square is seen as an old-school measurement, associated with Type 1 ("Postscript") fonts, and * Apple uses a 2048-unit em square, and of course Apple is right about everything (just kidding!), and * A size that is a power of 2 is thought to make scaling more efficient and/or accurate, leading many designers to favor 2048 or 1024 units. At any rate, to the extent there is consensus, people seem to prefer 1024 or 2048 these days. So I'd like to know why 1000 is the default, and if there is a technical reason for setting a maximum size of 2000. Meanwhile, I'm going to go with 2048, and will tweak the code in my installation to allow that size, and see how it works. I'll report back if I notice anything interesting. -- Matt Gushee

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GTK+ 2.20 support status
by Alex Valavanis 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

Hi All, I wondered what people's thoughts are on our support for GTK+ 2.20... A quick check reveals that we now have 100 conditional code blocks to support the obsolete symbols provided by GTK+ 2.20, so it adds a bit of a burden on developers and it makes the code horrible to read in places. Most stable/LTS releases of major linux distros provide newer versions of GTK+/gtkmm than 2.20. The exception is Debian Stable, but that's a pretty special case (i.e., ancient versions of everything!) If we were to drop our support for gtk+ 2.20, the main casualty would be Ubuntu Lucid. However, (a) there are two newer stable versions of Ubuntu and a newer LTS release available, (b) we have already bumped our Cairo dependency to a version that is not in Lucid, and (c) I guess that trunk will inevitably reach the point where we leave some older distro versions behind. So... the question is whether we continue supporting a big chunk of conditional code or whether we drop support for gtk+ 2.20. Any thoughts? AV

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symbolic icons
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Hi, FYI, Tango Art Libre set is getting symbolic version: http://gnome-stereotype.tumblr.com/post/26134120044/next-stop-art-libre Last thing I heard is that GIMP is likely to be using symbolic icons, and this looks like a beginning. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Text in SVGs exported from Sibelius
by Daniel Spreadbury 01 Jul '12

01 Jul '12

Dear Inkscape developers, Sibelius is a Qt-based application that uses Qt's built-in SVG support to export SVG graphics. These SVGs open fine in various web browsers (e.g. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer), but the text does not appear correctly in Inkscape. Please see the attached example. Does this problem lie on Inkscape's side, or on Qt's side? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Spreadbury Senior Product Manager | Sibelius R & D Avid Unit 20-23 City North Fonthill Road London N4 3HF United Kingdom daniel.spreadbury@...2877... t +44 (0)20 7561 7915 | m +44 (0)7990 558997 | f +44 (0)20 7561 7888 Sibelius is Avid. Learn more at www.avid.com <http://www.avid.com/> Avid Technology Europe Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered No.: 2670844. Registered Office: Pinewood Studios, Pinewood Road, Iver Heath, Bucks SL0 0NH, England

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Inkscape 0.48.3.1
by Ted Gould 30 Jun '12

30 Jun '12

Hey, So if you're on these mailing list, you know the deal :-) There are a couple build fixes in this update. Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48.3.1/ Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.48.x/0.48.3.1 MD5 Sums f0fcc02088cc643634806064e7ab4ec3 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2 3e956cd9cf6cf0a22b64a821f5a4084d inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2.asc ccf8ccd9e66199badb8c35ea3851a888 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz aded57e1a851a5f3d763fd892c085fe1 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz.asc b1bbe021af4eab8a4c6bb2e4833c6eaf inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip d9f81d36f1e5a9679911dbc12d53d2b9 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip.asc SHA1 Sums 23344555a1b5cc7909ad01d926cfaddb67bfbde9 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2 780bf43ce5148df35420926702b05afadfade239 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.bz2.asc 9a09a97d184e09c2ee7f9956bfe073b7313e919e inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz c8b963d43f56fb7bf42e9474b1b0de7d91be3433 inkscape-0.48.3.1.tar.gz.asc b6de562e8c11442afb3d67a59d4d6f82f0c6edd6 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip a17c423b151110d2dab6fd770beb20aaf134caa4 inkscape-0.48.3.1.zip.asc --Ted

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Polar Arrangement - Review
by Denis 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

Hello all, I've recently finished implementing my feature, that is, arrange objects in a circular shape. Here you can find the proposal I wrote before implementing: http://issuu.com/ddeclara/docs/inkscape_radial_arrangement My source code is available on launchpad at: https://code.launchpad.net/~declara91/+junk/inkscape-denis And for all ubuntu users out there, there is a ppa called: ppa:declara91/inkscape Where I have compiled packages of my branch. The package name is: inkscape-denis I would be great if someone could check my branch out! (And maybe one day, it could be pulled in trunk :D) Thank you in advance, Denis

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How to return an error from an extension
by Gerrit Karius 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hi everybody, After calling an Inkscape extension which generates output on stderr, a little info box pops up that says: "Inkscape has received additional data from the script executed. The script did not return an error, but this may indicate the results will not be as expected." That's all fine, but how do you actually return an error code from a script? I tried "sys.exit(1)", but that didn't work. Is there an example script shipped with Inkscape that returns an error? Many thanks for an answer, Gerrit

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Inkscape sends print jobs with zero page size
by Daniel J Blueman 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

Hi Inkscape devs, In the current Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release, when printing without print preview, Inkscape submits print jobs with zero sized media, causing print failure [1]. I have just subscribed the "Inkscape Bug Team"; is there anything else that needs doing to get the bug report into suitable shape? Many thanks! Daniel [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/+bug/975972 -- Daniel J Blueman

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