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LCMS2 support in
by Jon Cruz 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi, I got in the rough fix for enabling LCMS2. I confirmed that things just aren't working right on OS X, but that on Ubuntu 11.10 they operate well. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/885324 I should be able to get a backport to 0.48.3 done tomorrow, but if anyone else wants to get it in sooner, feel free.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Future development
by Valerie 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

On the OSX debate... a few years ago I would not have cared about OSX native versions at all, but it's true that Apple products have been getting more popularin recent years. But, can't there be a dedicated OS X team as opposed to forcing the core team to dedicate itself to it? Apple products aren't exactly cheap, and how many systems does one have to force all developers to use? Maybe Inkscape could send an announcement on the website asking for an OS X team, something in the lines of "As some of you know, Inkscape currently lacks a native OS X build. However, as Apple products have become more popular, more people are also asking for a native version of Inkscape. However, not all the developers use OS X, so if you are a developer familiar with OS X, we welcome you to join the Inkscape team to help produce native OS X builds." I'm willing to bet that if people are actually aware that Inkscape is looking for sure a team, you'll get a few responses offering to help. I admit, I already use Windows and Linux, and I'm not personally interested in OS X. I'm much more interested in features such as Pablo Trabajos' transformation anchors blueprint, layer masks (especially since unlike raster programs, you can't just lock visible pixels), and maybe a few more layer composite modes like overlay. Powerstroke of course, but that's happily in the works. :) (on the other hand... how many people want to use Inkscape on touchscreen devices? I'm not familiar with this area, so forgive me if there are actually a lot of them)

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Future development
by Josh Andler 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hey All, So I think we need to discuss a few things related to development. 1) Regarding the irc dev meeting it appears that two weeks from today on 02/25 at 0800 UTC is the time that worked the best for the most people. Everyone, please put that on your calendar. 2) We're close to cutting 0.48.3, given the state of 0.49, we will also pursue 0.48.4. 3) We need to think seriously about GTK3 at some point. We may want to create a GTK3 branch sooner rather than later to begin that work. It would be good to get other people's thoughts on this. Do we want to take on A) 3 active development branches and B) 2 active refactoring branches. I will note that I don't believe there is a full set of GTK3 libs available for win32 yet and have no idea about the status on OSX. Cheers, Josh P.S. Tavmjong, I cc-ed you explicitly because you didn't put the time we ended up with as available. Any chance it can be made to work?

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Inkscape 0.48.3?
by Alex Valavanis 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hi All, Any thoughts about when we're going to release Inkscape 0.48.3? Coming at this from an Ubuntu maintenance perspective, the next LTS release (12.04 - "Precise Pangolin") will hit feature freeze on Feb 16, so it would be great to update the binary-package in the Ubuntu-main repository before that date. Large numbers of Ubuntu desktop users could potentially end up sticking with it for a couple of years, so I think it makes sense to squash as many bugs as possible! Does anyone else agree with releasing 0.48.3 in the very near future? Is there any reason to hold back? If we're going to do this, we'd need to release a source tarball by ~9 Feb. We've already committed a fair number of bug fixes in 0.48.3[1], so it would probably already be useful to users in its current form. However, perhaps a two-week bug-squashing session would be nice before we go ahead. Best wishes, AV [1] https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+milestone/0.48.3

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inkscape at graphicall
by Alexandre Prokoudine 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hello gang, Given that we are now parted from modevia, how about unloading builds to graphicall which mostly hosts Blender builds? It already has an Inkscape section that looks rather lonely. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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How to fix Aligning stroked and strokeless items & bounding box issues?
by Эльдар Файзуллин 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

Here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/473608 It came from 0.47

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Inkscape and XML whitespace handling
by Andi McClure 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

I am trying to create a patch to Inkscape and it isn't working very well, I was hoping I could ask for some help. I have been using Inkscape for creating resources for a video game I'm writing. As part of this I often attach custom attributes to XML nodes in the "XML Editor" window. When I do this, Inkscape gives me a nice big multiline editor window to enter my attribute text. Sometimes, I find myself needing to enter many lines of text or code into one of my custom attributes; when I do this, Inkscape handles newlines in a way that strikes me as incorrect and makes it very hard for me to get work done. Inkscape will allow me to enter, set and save multi-line attributes; however then later when I try to open the file, all the newlines will be erased, replaced with spaces. Although I understand newlines are rarely relevant in normal SVG, it seems very wrong to me that Inkscape allows me to enter content, save a file, and then reopen the file and it has been silently altered. I have been trying to fix this behavior on my own. What I found is that if you put a newline into an attribute and then save, Inkscape will actually write the newline raw into the file, like-- <example:example attribute="one two three four" /> When the file is opened the next time, Inkscape silently turns all newlines into spaces. The convert-newline-to-space behavior is apparently not only correct, but required for a conformant XML parser: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#AVNormalize So my conclusion is that if Inkscape is doing something wrong here (which I think it is), the mistake is that it should not be writing newlines raw into the file, rather it should be saving the appropriate XML entity (
 or 
). I have a local branch (patch attached) where I have attempted to implement this change. I can't get it to work. I found four separate places in the source code where strings are escaped into XML entities for storage; I added a '\n' -> 
 rule to each, and taught xmlreader.cpp to convert 
 back into '\n'. The reader change seems to have worked (I can manually write a &#xA into a file, and when loaded in Inkscape it becomes a newline) however, when I write a newline into an attribute and then set and save, Inkscape is still writing raw newlines instead of my escaped attribute. While making this change, I noticed two things that seem problematic: - XML entity escaping is done in at least four separate places in the code! - The XML reader in dom/xmlreader.cpp appears to only recognize a small number of hand-entered entities. At the moment there is no provision for loading any kind of &# style entity, which if I'm not missing something means Inkscape could choke on valid SVG XML produced by a different program. Should either of these two things be fixed? And would anyone know why my attempts to add '\n' to the escaper are having no effect? When you enter text into the attribute-value box in the XML editor, what path does it take in being entity-escaped (i.e. " becomes " and so on)? One more question-- other than this one problem the XML editor in Inkscape is quite nice, are there any examples of standalone programs for Mac or Linux that allow you to edit general XML in this manner? Thanks. - mcc http://runhello.com/

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keyboard uneable with inkscape
by Rosa Alonso Garcia 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Only I can to work with mouse. version inkscape 0.46.0 Keyboard uneable. MACOS Tiger. thanks. Rosa M. Alonso Garcia Il.lustradora gràfica http://rosailustradora.com http://rosailustradora.blogspot.com

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libcroco
by Alex Valavanis 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi All, Just wondering what the status of our libcroco fork is at the moment. Upstream development has restarted, and version 0.64 was released yesterday. It appears that Abhishek Sharma pushed some of our changes upstream, but then reverted them. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks, Alex

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inkscape on a G5
by Drechsel Wolf 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi everyboy, yesterday I succeeded it repairin an imac G5 1,8GHz. On this brand new machine I'm making an entierly new inkscape experience. Did some professional work - wow, it rocks. Compared to my slightly outdated G4 - what a difference… Therefore - what is said too seldomly: THANKS FOR MAKING INKSCAPE !! - I love it! BTW.: Can someone give me a quick hint: How can I find out on which (probabely locked) layer an object resides? - Couldnt google an anser for that. Greetings, Wolf

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