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Fwd: [cairo-announce] cairo snapshot 1.11.2 now available
by Alexandre Prokoudine 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

FYI. Meshes are officially in Cairo now. Scribus 1.5.0svn actually had internal copy of that branch for meshes support. Not anymore probably :) Alexandre ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Wilson Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:59:00 +0000 Subject: [cairo-announce] cairo snapshot 1.11.2 now available To: cairo-announce@...278... Cc: gnome-announce-list@...45..., ftp-release@...626... A new cairo snapshot 1.11.2 is now available from: http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.11.2.tar.gz which can be verified with: http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.11.2.tar.gz.sha1 40b9e1066fcd33c2aeecd800764b1aa5a0ac7bde cairo-1.11.2.tar.gz http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.11.2.tar.gz.sha1.asc (signed by Chris Wilson) Additionally, a git clone of the source tree: git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo will include a signed 1.11.2 tag which points to a commit named: ac9ee388faf3c8c5df502f6cc7b039f043154954 which can be verified with: git verify-tag 1.11.2 and can be checked out with a command such as: git checkout -b build 1.11.2 Snapshot 1.11.2 (2011-01-23) =========================== In this first snapshot along the way to cairo-1.12.0, we are very excited to announce the introduction of Bezier surface gradients, known as type 6/7 gradients in PS/PDF parlance. This is the culmination of much work by the dynamic duo: Adrian Johnson and Andrea Canciani. Thanks guys! Also, I want to warmly welcome Uli Schlachter who recently joined the Cairo community on a mission. That mission is to make cairo-xcb a supported backend for 1.12. And for this snapshot he has made great strides in fixing all the bugs I had left behind. Thanks Uli! And we have also seen a new contributor, Alexandros Frantzis, who has begun bringing up cairo-gl for GLESv2 devices. Thanks Alex! And lastly, I must also thank Adrian and Andrea for the vast numbers of bugs that they have tackled between them, fixing all those little corner cases that lie hidden until too late. -Chris

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[Repost] Broken PDF files + crashes involving patterns
by Mahendra Tallur 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hi to the team ! I just realized the 2 emails I sent to the inkscape-user ML were more appropriate on the devel ML (I first thought the devel ML was only for developers). I could just wait & see what happens, but it seems 0.48.1 is just around the corner, and I would feel guilty if some important bugs I stumbled upon were not reported in time ! Please allow me to copy/paste their content below : *[First mail : issues with patterns involving crashes]* Hi everyone ! First : thanks for the amazing work done by the Inkscape developers ! I'm a new casual Inkscape user:) I'm using it at the moment to carry on the work done by someone who owned inDesign. Thus, I used an .svg file that was exported from this piece of software. The export went fine overall, except some fonts issues (for instance, I could only select the first line in text frames) and colours were generally not good. I fixed almost anything by rewriting the text and changing colours but I encountered a few issues and problems in general with patterns. Indeed : in the document, there are a few polygons which are filled with a pattern which consists in many spirals. For some reasons the colours went wrong during the export but I couldn't change directly the colours used in the patterns. (more generally, I didn't know how to apply the same colours to many objects at the same time) So I converted the pattern back to an object, changed to colours, converted it to a pattern, and applied it to the object. So it did the trick. However I had many issues in the process : 1) Inkscape completely filled my memory twice and the kernel had to kill the task. This happened when using several times in a row the functions to convert patterns to objects or the contrary. All of a sudden, the hard drive began to spin non-stop (I have no swap but 4 GB of ram) and I could barely move my mouse cursor. It also happened when I was using the "node" tool to change the position / rotate etc. the pattern when applied to an object. 2) I managed to crash inkscape when undo-ing some operations that were involving a pattern<-> object conversion Also, I was wondering if there was a simpler way to handle patterns ? (edit them afterwards / change their colours / remove them from the list ?) 3) to make the operation easier, I decided to change some colours directly in the pattern definition in the XML file. It seemed to worked : the drawing was displayed properly in Inkscape or when exporting to .png. But when exporting to .pdf, the modified patterns were invisible or trashed when zooming in. Oops ! Can you guys please tell me if I should file some bugreports ? Maybe those bugs are known and fixed in the upcoming 0.48.1 ? (I'm also the one who filed the bugreport involving a font that was not displayed properly in Acrobat Reader under Windows, but was OK in Linux / OSX....) PS : I may upload the .svg file somewhere, if some of you are curious ! Best regards& thanks again to the team ! Mahen *[Second mail : Broken PDF files produced] * Hi again ! I would like to add some more data to my previous mail. I'm using Inkscape 0.48. I assumed the faulty PDF file I obtained was due to my modifying the XML file directly. But it's actually not the case as it also happens with another document I didn't modify this way. Please let me show you some sample files : 1)http://mahen.free.fr/inkscape/Plaquette%20-%20Int%c3%a9rieur.svg as you can see, there is in the bottom right corner a polygon which is filled with a pattern which contains many spirals 2)http://mahen.free.fr/inkscape/Plaquette%20-%20Int%c3%a9rieur.pdf here is the resulting PDF On my computer : - the PDF takes about 5 to 10 seconds before being displayed !! (core2duo 3 GHz, 4 GB RAM). While the PDF file produced by inDesign (from which I exported this svg before modofying it under Inkscape) was displayed instantly (but, the inkscape produced .pdf was almost 10 times heavier, it seems a couple of parts were converted to bitmaps, I wonder why). - the bottom-right pattern is invisible (under evince / Ubuntu 10.10) when looking from far away. When zooming in, you can make out the polygon shape but it's filled with some kind of random pattern - if I scroll in the document, from the PDF reader, it even makes it *crash* and slows down my system a lot ! (of course, there was no display problem under Inkscape itself) It seems using some exported .svg files definitely don't please Inkscape a lot. Or this kind of patterns at least... PS : I provided some font files used by the document in http://mahen.free.fr/inkscape/ Thanks ever so much for reading this ! Mahen

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Layermanager and germanmailinglist?
by Axel Richter 22 Jan '11

22 Jan '11

Hi inkscapedevs. I would be happy if the Layer Manger would be further developed. So that you create in a main layer can still flat. More specifically, if I want to put on an object shadows or highlights. Which are then all in the layer of the object. Another thing would be if it were still a German mailing list. Is it possible to care for something or just want to be? Thanks for help -- www.airwaveindehouse.com +3D+Vector+

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Debian bugs
by Alex Valavanis 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Dear All, The Inkscape package in Debian is used by several other major linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) and hence it represents bugs which potentially affect a very large number of Inkscape users in linux. Its bug tracker is available at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=inkscape Unfortunately, the Debian tracker is quite out of date, and many of the reports have not been forwarded to the Inkscape tracker on Launchpad. I think it's quite important for Inkscape QA, that the Debian tracker gets back in sync with the upstream project. I have been (slowly) working through the reports, but there's a pretty large backlog and some of the bugs were probably fixed years ago. Would any of the upstream triagers be interested in helping out with this task? If so, a possible option would be for me to forward all the Debian bugs which relate to the upstream part of the Inkscape package. We could then triage the bugs in Launchpad, and I will update the Debian reports accordingly. If anyone has any alternative/better suggestions for how to do this, then please let me know. Thanks, Alex

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Inkscape 0.48 trunk compiling under Windows
by PolinaYanovich 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Hi! I'm trying to compile Inkscape 0.48 trunk version under Windows following the instructions from http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Win32Port. I keep getting a few types of error messages: Make error line 291: problem compiling: src/eraser-context.cpp: In function 'void set_to_accumulated(SPEraserContext*)': src/eraser-context.cpp:752:55: error: 'r' was not declared in this scope The code at the problematic location looks like this: Inkscape::Rubberband::Rubberband* r; r = Inkscape::Rubberband::get(desktop); When I browse it under Eclipse, Eclipse hooks Rubberband up and shows the class definition promptly. However when I try to compile Inkscape from console, it throws an error described above. Make error line 291: problem compiling: In file included from src/extension/internal/bitmap/adaptiveThreshold.h:9:0, from src/extension/internal/bitmap/adaptiveThreshold.cpp:12: src/extension/internal/bitmap/imagemagick.h:14:22: fatal error: Magick++.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. Magick++.h exists in the devlibs directory. This one I get from both Eclipse and console. I have checked all environment variables and they seem to be ok. Any ideas what it might be? Thank you, Polina -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Inkscape-0.48-trunk-compiling-under-Windows-tp3067677… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Downloading inkscape source with revision history
by Ershad K 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Dear All, I'm Ershad K, an engineering student from India. I would like to how to download the source of inkscape from trunk, without revision history using bzr. As I'm using a slow internet, I couldn't download hundreds of megabytes. Thanks, Ershad K

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Use of Inkscape Icon
by Michael Grosberg 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

I was browsing through Samsung's app store for their Bada platform and saw an app that used the Inkscape logo: http://www.samsungapps.com/topApps/topAppsDetail.as?productId=G00000365294&… I'm assuming the guy didn't ask for permission and I bet he didn't follow the GPL license. I just thought to bring this to your attention.

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Regarding Jabber Whiteboard Feature
by Vasudev Kamath 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hi all, My name is Vasudev I'm a developer with C/C++/Python knowledge, my friend Hiran (CCed) told me about Whiteboard feature in inkscape also mentioned the feature is currently not included in new versions of inkscape. Me and my friend (CC'ed) would like to work on the Whiteboard feature. I contacted ScislaC on conference.gristle.org, he asked me to write to this mailing list. If some one can brief us on what needs to be done on whiteboard feature it would be really helpful Thanks and Regards -- Vasudev Kamath http://vasudevkamath.blogspot.com http://identi.ca/vasudev http://twitter.com/vasudevkamath

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Fwd: About Inkscape Whiteboard.
by Hiran Venugopalan 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hi, My name is Hiran, and I am using Inkscape for designing. I am using it for nearly 3+ years. I remember the old version having an option of Whiteboard. I haven't used it, as I don't had any collaborative works to do. But currently when I checked to use it, I found its removed from latest versions. When I asked in IRC, some one told me that "Pedro" module is removed since it needs from the scratch coding to work properly. I want to know more details. Is the old code available. Is any one working on the project, if someone, some students are ready to take this as an academic project, will there be anyone to mentor / help them. and so on. -- Hiran Venugopalan Usability / IxD Geek, Ubiqurio IRC : HFactor | Phone : 09496346709 | W : http://hiran.in

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Short Git tutorial
by Krzysztof Kosiński 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

Hello Does anyone know some short tutorial on Git that shows how to work with multiple branches that come from different repositories? I'm forced to work with it if I want to do anything with Cairo and Pixman. [rant] Coming from an SVN / Bazaar background I find Git impenetrable, and some design decisions are crazy. (For example, "silently commit successful merges" and "revision numbers are for wimps".) Regards, Krzysztof

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