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Re: [Inkscape-devel] pixelsnap
by Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, I'm Bryan, the original author of pixelsnap. I'd be keen to have PixelSnap included in the official Inkscape repository, and to do whatever's necessary for that purpose (I don't mind releasing it under GPL, either -- I just like the MIT license because it's short & sweet) Just a brief rant on why I think PixelSnap is a useful part of a digital artist's workflow, even if they know inkscape's tools: I'm a fairly technical user of Inkscape, but in spite of the great work done on snapping & grids recently (kudos to the people involved with that!), I've still found the "right" way to be a bit of a pain in the backside. The reasons Rob gives below are two good examples. Another big reason why the "right" way is often unworkable is the fact that odd-width strokes are offset by exactly 0.5 pixels. I understand the reasoning for this, but it means you have to have 2 pixel-sized grids, one pixel-aligned, and one mid-pixel-aligned. Also, you have to keep the grid on permanently while editing for the "right" way to work, unless you want to go back and edit all your vectors later on. I don't find it very easy working with grids all over my work. Sometimes I don't want stuff to snap either -- I only want vertical & horizontal lines to snap-to-pixel. I'd also rather set up meaningful grids for my artwork -- i.e. grids for layout purposes, not grids to overcome the shortcomings of my screen. Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > On 1/13/10, Rob Antonishen wrote: >> The biggest benefit is when working with existing images that were not >> necessarily drawn to pixel snap. >> >> Or after rescaling images and resnapping the elements to the nearest >> pixel. > > Exactly :) > -- Bryan Hoyt, *Web developer* — Brush Technology *Ph:* +64 3 942 7833 *Mobile:* +64 21 238 7955 *Web:* brush.co.nz

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pdf import crashing
by MilesTogoe 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

I've had both pdf and ps import crashing - when trying to open file, the pdf import dialog pops up but when I click the program crashes - no message, just completely exits. The same files open okay with GIMP. Anyone else confirm this bug ? running this on Fedora 12 w/ gnome.

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IMPORTANT: Windows compiler change
by Krzysztof Kosiński 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hello I have made a Windows build of Inkscape that does not exhibit this long standing critical bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/173116 However, it requires changing the compiler. To build Inkscape and all other C++ libraries, I used TDM-GCC (a patched build of MinGW) version 4.4.1 with SJLJ unwinding. We don't use exceptions in performance critical code, so bothering with Dwarf2 to get a minimal perf gain while substantially increasing code size doesn't seem worth it. (SJLJ gtkmm is 3x smaller than the Dwarf2 one!) http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/ Therefore, a note to all Windows devs: when you update to revision 9 or later of devlibs, required by revision 9041 of Inkscape trunk, also change your compiler to TDM-GCC version 4.4.1. You can just download the .exe at the top, it contains everything that's required. You will need to rebuild from scratch after this (btool clean). http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdm-gcc/files/TDM-MinGW%20Installer/1.908.0… Install it into C:\mingw, as usual, or set MINGW_PATH to the directory where you installed it before executing mingwenv.bat. Updated instructions for compiling on Windows: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows Regards, Krzysztof

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[PATCH] Grouping when setting mask
by Martin Sucha 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi all, I've implemented feature to automatically group objects when setting clip/mask and it now works for me. (Thanks Krzysztof Kosiński for help.) Could you please review attached patch and commit it if you consider it good enough? Thanks. Best regards, Martin Sucha

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Dwarf2 exception handling on Win32
by Bob Jamison 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi all, For those people who arrived to the party too recently to remember, it was always Mingw's intention to shift to Dwarf2 EH. It was just slow in coming. One of the reasons it took so long was that for a long time, Mingw's compiler was not considered to be a first-class target, but was only a set of patches maintained by Mingw.org itself. Now Mingw -is- a first-class GCC target, and their compiler patches do make it into GCC trunk somewhat faster. Now that DW2 is becoming the default on Win32, shifting back to old SJLJ would be going -against- progress. (And be bad timing, too :-) Anyway, DW2 is what I will be using from now on. bob

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bzr checkouts large and slow + failing to build for ~the last month: cube.obj
by Bernard Gray 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Hi All, I've been trying to migrate my package building process (for debian sid) for about the last month (on and off ;-) ) but I've encountered one fatal issue, and one pita issue. The fatal one: ... make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share/extensions/Barcode' Making all in Poly3DObjects make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share/extensions/Poly3DObjects' make[5]: *** No rule to make target `cube.obj', needed by `all-am'. Stop. make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share/extensions/Poly3DObjects' make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share/extensions' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle/share' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/inkscape-0.47+svn20100202.cle' make: *** [build] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 ... I've got this for the last month - I'm building inside a clean pbuilder chroot, the process has been consistent for the last year or more, spitting out weekly builds. The pita issue - I've followed the instructions for checking out the latest bzr branch (head?) using the command: bzr checkout lp:inkscape - this takes _ages_. It begins with a decent dl rate of ~300KBps, but then drops to ~4KBps for the next 4 hours! Please help :( Bernie (cleary)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.47 X11 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
by ~suv 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

On 17/1/10 12:47, Michael Wybrow wrote: > On 11/01/2010, at 11:42 PM, JiHO wrote: >>> On 7/12/09 20:51, Wolf Drechsel wrote: >>>> my attempt in building a 0.47 X11 on Tiger can be visited. >>>> It is PPC only - are there people around who need Tiger-Intel? >> I'd say, post it like that. I don't and won't ever have a Tiger >> machine to test it. The release will be the large scale test I am >> afraid. I agree it should be posted, as a reward for Wolf's tremendous >> efforts. > > I tested Wolf's build on Friday and it worked fine other than the > status bar issue which also occurs on all versions of Inkscape I > tested (though it does go blank moving over the page sliders on 10.4 > but not the other later versions). > > I forgot to write a response on Friday, but you may have noticed that > I compressed it as a DMG and uploaded in to Sourceforge. > > Thanks for all your work on this Wolf, and also ~suv. Much > appreciated. Could the newly uploaded Tiger PPC build please be added to the download page on inkscape.org? ------------ Stable release 0.47 intended for production use is available: * Mac OS X o OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard – Universal .dmg o OS X 10.5, Leopard – Universal .dmg (Please first upgrade X11.app to at least XQuartz v2.1.4.) + o OS X 10.4, Tiger - PPC .dmg [1] (requires Apple's X11 v1.1.3) [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47/Inkscape-0.47-… ------------ ~suv

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How to create group object
by Martin Sucha 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hi all, it may seem to be a stupid question, but I can't find answer anywhere... How can I get SPItem from Inkscape::XML::Node? (or create group object and get xml node from that - I need both) I'm hacking on automatically grouping objects when setting clip/mask (as mentioned in another thread) and I need to create new group, so mask can be applied to the group instead of selected objects. Currently, I know how to create the svg:g XML element, move other objects into it and where to pass reference to the group to do what I want, but it needs to be a reference to SPItem and not Inkcape::XML::Node. Is there any documentation for object tree and xml tree and how do they interact? Thanks. Best regards, Martin Sucha

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Path rendering buggy?
by Jasper van de Gronde 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

I looked into bug #514649 and it looks like Inkscape has some problems rendering the complicated paths in the problem image. Could someone with a bit more knowledge of the path rendering internals have a look at it?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape & Dbus
by Krzysztof Kosiński 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

W dniu 1 lutego 2010 20:28 użytkownik Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology <bryan@...2310...> napisał: > Thanks, Ted, for the update on the DBus stuff. > > Yes, Krzysztof, it would be nice if DBus extensions could work in a similar > manner on Windows. Does DBus actually work on Windows at all? I'd imagine > that even if it did, it would be nice to have a lightweight Windows > alternative for live extensions, so that the Windows people wouldn't be left > out, or required to download (and compile?) extra dependencies. > > Doesn't affect me directly, since I almost never use Windows, but it's nice > to have things work everywhere. > > That said, I plan to factor the PixelSnap code in such a way that it will > work both with & without DBus in exactly the same way as far as possible. > > - Bry There is a winDBus port here. It appears to be maintained. http://sourceforge.net/projects/windbus/files/ D-Bus isn't too large (a few megabytes when unpacked). I'll try to get it working once I'm done with midterm exams (next week). Regards, Krzysztof

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