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Google+ page
by Alexandre Prokoudine 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

Hi, We now have a Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/b/108911244660285152681/ Currently we do not have plans to use it other than an additional communication channel. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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PPA progress
by Alex Valavanis 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi All, I'm back from my trip. I've made a couple of changes to the PPAs and things will hopefully be back to normal pretty soon. I have a couple of queries too... Note that Launchpad seems to be having some headaches with recipe builds at the minute. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/884516 == Changes == * Dropped unneeded version specifier for libwp* dependencies in lp:~inkscape.dev/inkscape/debian-packaging * Enabled builds of the inkscape-trunk-daily recipe for Ubuntu Precise and Maverick. * Bumped epoch of package version naming scheme to allow natty builds after the earlier incorrectly-named version == Queries == * At the moment, the "stable" recipe is actually building the head of the lp:inkscape/0.48.x branch. Do we actually want to do this, or should we build inkscape 0.48.2? * Is there much point having a daily build of the stable package? Surely we only need to rebuild it when a new stable version is released? * Have we decided which Ubuntu versions we support? I think it's safe to drop Ubuntu Hardy now - Canonical no longer support it for desktop installations. I'll have to do some tweaking with the packaging code to build for Lucid, but it shouldn't be too difficult. * Thinking about it, do we really need two separate PPAs? As far as I understand it, we can get multiple recipes to build in a single PPA. We can just create separate source packages ("inkscape-stable" and "inkscape-trunk") and use them to build similarly-named binaries in the same PPA. Should be easier for users that way. We can specify the binary packages as conflicting, to prevent any dependency hell. * I don't know much about libwpd/libwpg. Do we actually need both dev packages available at build time? Cheers, AV

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I seek a representation
by Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Hello, I am from Sri Lanka and relatively new to the project, I use inkscape a lot and really felt love with it. I am finding a Sri Lankan, is there any Sri Lankan working with this project in any capacity, please ping. I need you to contact soon, please contact me off list with your contact phone number, thanks -- Regards, *Buddhika Chandradeepa Kurera*

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Compilation error
by Yann Papouin 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Actually I can't compile on Windows: src/2geom/hvlinesegment.h:1: error: stray '\357' in program src/2geom/hvlinesegment.h:1: error: stray '\273' in program src/2geom/hvlinesegment.h:1: error: stray '\277' in program I had to encode hvlinesegment.h from UTF8 to ANSI to fix this

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SVG Open 2011
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hi, Jasper and I were able to represent Inkscape at SVG Open 2011 in Boston thanks to financial aid from the conference organizers. I gave two talks, one on Inkscape's currents status and another on the state of Mesh gradients in the SVG working group. Jasper gave a talk on separating gradients from geometry. Papers/slides for the talks can be found at the SVG Open website (www.svgopen.org/2011). We also were able to attend an SVG working group meeting after the conference where we discussed mostly mesh gradients and connectors. There were many interesting talks despite attendance being a bit lower than last year (maybe due to the very high cost of hotel rooms in Boston?). A few notes from the conference: 1. Microsoft is finished with their SVG 1.1 implementation. They will not support SVG Fonts nor SMILE animation. SVG Fonts will also not be supported by Firefox (old news). There is a move to get SVG fonts packaged inside OpenType. This would satisfy the need to support complex writing systems like Hindi. There is broad interest in this solution as it would allow, for example, multi-color fonts. SVG 2.0 will also likely include an API to get glyph outlines so the shapes can be manipulated. Microsoft is interested in animation but wants to see SVG and CSS unite on a common animation framework. Currently CSS3 Animations lack the power of SVG SMILE (which is only a subset of the complete SMILE standard). Unfortunately, JavaScript cannot always be used due to security restrictions. 2. JavaScript has gotten wickedly fast. This was demonstrated multiple times, most dramatically by the D3 JavaScript data visualization library. The examples shown in the D3 talk were very impressive. See: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ Tav

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Fwd: Inkscape Wiki page User testimonials has been changed by Simarilius
by unknown＠example.com 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

My first reaction to this edit is that someone is afraid of some well stated reasons why Inkscape come up short for a particular individual. The posting has been on the wiki for over five years. Have the import/export capabilities of Inkscape been improved since then? That is, is it possible "Grant" cold now use Inkscape for his/her purpose? I wish we could get "Grant" to provide some contact information on http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/User:Grant and encourage him/her to try again if the capabilities have been improved. Are you there, Grant? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: MediaWiki Mail - acspike@...34... Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:35 PM Subject: Inkscape Wiki page User testimonials has been changed The Inkscape Wiki page User testimonials has been changed on 31 October 2011, see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/User_testimonials for the current revision. See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_testimonials&diff=0&oldi… for all changes since your last visit.

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Wiki log in failure
by unknown＠example.com 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

My username is being changed from "NeoPhyte_Rep" to "NeoPhyte Rep" as I log into the wiki (the underscore becomes a blank). Hence, I can't log in. Has there been some change that would cause this to happen?

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(no subject)
by Leo Jackson 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Josh, Alex, I revert changes, turning those PPAs back on. I will do what Alex said. I will also fix my mistakes. And change them back to the way they were. With the changes Alex said. Regards, Leo Jackson

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The Maverik and Lucid builds
by Leo Jackson 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

To All, For the Maverik and Lucid builds I will have to look into the backports for changes will take a bit to set up. I will have them shortly just want them to build the first shot. Regards, Leo Jackson

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libpng14/15 config detection and/or compile support
by Jeff Kowalczyk 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

If there is any way to support compilation of inkscape trunk on a system with libpng15 installed? On Gentoo Linux ~amd64, I have libpng 1.2, 1.4 and 1.5 installed in independent slots. Config detects and tries to compile with 1.5, even though that API is not yet compatible with inkscape, it seems. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/721029 I've usually been able to run inkscape trunk, my sincere thanks to all involved for keeping the build at such a consistently high level over several years. Thanks, Jeff

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