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glibmm dependency should be updated
by Markus Peloquin 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

I just went through a lot of trouble installing dependencies for inkscape in RHEL5 only to find this error nigh instantaneously in the build: color-profile.cpp: In static member function static void Inkscape::ColorProfile::set(SPObject*, unsigned int, const gchar*): color-profile.cpp:299: error: g_uri_escape_string was not declared in this scope color-profile.cpp:308: error: g_uri_unescape_string was not declared in this scope The g_uri_* functions came in glib-2.16, not 2.4 like configure.ac looks for. I'll just go back to using RHEL5 and hating life...

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Inkscape wiki news
by Kris De Gussem 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hi all I thought it was good moment to give an update from the wiki spam fighting front. I performed a thorough check on the nature and type of the recent vandalism. It is actually quite possible that there is only a single vandal. Because there is no captcha system active, anybody with even very basic programming skills is able to make a simple bot in a few hours that allows automated account creation, uploading fake images and adding spam links. Luckily, all vandalism appears to come from a few specific but broad ranges of open proxies. The reason is that if a vandal is using the IP address he gets from his internet server provider, he gets quickly blocked. Even if he is lucky to have a very dynamic IP address, he generally runs out of available IP addresses quite soon. Therefore, if he is able to, a vandal can (and will) use badly configured open proxies to have a bigger impact. Anyhow, I first checked for the individual vandal IP addresses, which I blocked. After a while, I was able to detect a line in the vandalism and IPs used, so I was able to block a few relatively small /24 IP ranges. With information from wikipedia about known and dangerous or abused open proxy ranges, I finally blocked 5 quite wide IP ranges. As far as I can see, no genuine wiki edit is done from these ranges nor any genuine account created. Since the blocks, no vandal activity was seen. Hopefully this keeps on being the case. Kind regards Kris

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powerstroke
by Alexandre Prokoudine 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Hi, I was wondering how powerstroke LPE was doing and whether we should enable it, and just have come across a document on somewhat similar thing called Advanced Outlines in Synfig Studio. I think some people in this list will enjoy reading it :) http://bit.ly/qwZ4lD BTW, should we perhaps enable some of the LPEs in nightly PPA? Some testing wouldn't hurt? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Foot unit
by Johan Engelen 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi all, I just found this in the code: gchar const *sp_svg_length_get_css_units(SVGLength::Unit unit) { switch (unit) { ... case SVGLength::MM: return "mm"; case SVGLength::FOOT: return ""; // Does not have a "foot" unit string in the SVG spec ... That seems weird. Are we sure this is correct, instead of returning "ft" for the foot unit? Thanks, Johan

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About gtk3 migration....
by Alcides Viamontes Esquivel 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi guys, I found this thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27264203 about migration of inkscape to gtk3. Has anybody worked on this? I've using Inkscape for a long time, but I have zero experience with it's inner workings (beyond coding basic extensions in python ;-) ), so, my question is, how complicated would it be? Regards!

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GPGPU
by Ken O'Brien 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Hi, What is the current state of gpgpu acceleration in Inkscape? and where can I find the docs for this functionality? Regards, Ken

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inkscape wiki admin
by Ian Caldwell 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

anyone with the wiki inkscape admin credentials please send them to me as soon as possible. Thanks, Ian

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Dead dl links
by John Cliff 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Hi guys, can someone who knows how edit the downloads page to remove the modevia link for the windows nightlies? Cheers John

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Mesh Gradients in Inkscape
by Tavmjong Bah 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Hi, I have just checked in to my private Coons Patch Mesh Gradient branch, code that allows the ability to create and edit mesh gradients. Warning: This code is a real Hack. It is known to segfault and eat kittens for lunch. It will need lots of reworking by real experts before one can hope to see it in Inkscape trunk (as well as dealing with the issue that meshes are not part of the SVG 1.2 standard... they have been accepted as part of SVG 2.0 but that standard is along way from being appearing even in a draft form). What you can do with the code: 1. Create a simple one patch square mesh the size of an objects bounding box. (Select the third button on the Gradient Tool-Tool Bar and the double click the object.) 2. Drag corner nodes (diamonds). 3. Change color of corner nodes. 4. Drag handles (circles). There is no indication of what handle belongs with which corner node or path so it can be confusing. 5. Divide a row or column of patches into two rows or columns. (Double click on the lines connecting corner nodes. Double clicking elsewhere may lead to a crash.) At the moment, the row or column is split down the middle. 6. Save the mesh. The mesh is saved in the proposed SVG standard format (highly likely to change). 7. Read in saved meshes. Some of what is missing: 1. Ability to undo node moves/color changes. 2. Ability to merge two rows or columns into one or delete edge rows or columns. 3. Ability to change paths between straight lines and Bezier curves. Handles are shown even for straight lines. 4. Display of Bezier curves (they are shown as straight lines). 5. Stability (I did tell you it will segfault, didn't I?). 6. Sane coding. 7. Properly handling of gradient copying. 8. Auto-creation of conical gradients or other non-square gradient types. 9. Output to PS/PDF/PNG(?) 10. Update to current trunk. You can check out the code at: https://code.launchpad.net/~tavmjong-free/inkscape/mesh Tav

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Stash-OSX
by Martin Owens 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Quick Update on the stash front, $kouiskas on dA has published a BSD Licensed OSX Uploader. http://kouiskas.deviantart.com/art/OS-X-Sta-sh-195250264 If anyone is interested in making the Inkscape (and/or gimp) da.stash uploader plugins work in OSX, then reusing this code will probably be the right was to go. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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