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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Create Plug-In for Flow-Chart drawing
by Mirko Marschew 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

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Changing the gtk2 theme for a self-built OSX nightly
by AndreBerg 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, I followed the advice from http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX and compiled the latest revision for OS X (downloaded yesterday). As far as I can tell it's working well. It's just that my self-built version uses a somewhat strange gtk theme where only the sliders are looking Aqua-like. The latest available prepackaged nightly build for OSX uses a theme that is much nicer and I would like to change the theme for my self-built version to look like the prepackaged build. Is there some way to do that? Here is a screenshot of the prepackaged built (both run with latest XQuartz): http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7527/inkscapeprepackagednighfm6.png Pre-Packaged Nightly and here is one of my self-built version: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7348/inkscapeselfbuilthq4.png Self-Built Nightly They look similar but the theme of my self-built version lacks the finesse of the other theme and looks kinda clumsy... I suspect it's a build setting somewhere I couldn't find. So if anyone knows something, please speak up... Thanks for listening. André -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Changing-the-gtk2-theme-for-a-self-built-OSX-nightly-… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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make check?
by Aurélio A. Heckert 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi all, I want to code with TDD, but before i need to use that. I try the "make check" and that uses CxxTest, but the result is far from what i was waiting... See the end please (before that was only compiling outputs): g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/python2.5 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -DRELAYTOOL_CRYPTO='static const int libcrypto_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libcrypto_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DRELAYTOOL_SSL='static const int libssl_is_present = 1; static int __attribute__((unused)) libssl_symbol_is_present(char *m) { return 1; }' -DHAVE_SSL -I/usr/include/libwpg-0.1 -I/usr/include/libwpd-0.8 -I/usr/include/poppler -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -D_REENTRANT -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I../cxxtest -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp -MT libnr/test-nr.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o libnr/test-nr.o libnr/test-nr.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po In file included from libnr/test-nr.cpp:366: ././libnr/nr-point-fns-test.h:22: warning: floating constant exceeds range of 'double' In file included from libnr/test-nr.cpp:428: ././libnr/in-svg-plane-test.h:18: warning: floating constant exceeds range of 'double' In file included from libnr/test-nr.cpp:13: ././libnr/nr-compose-test.h:33: error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class make[2]: ** [libnr/test-nr.o] Erro 1 make[2]: Saindo do diretório `/opt/inkscape-svn/src' make[1]: ** [check-am] Erro 2 make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/opt/inkscape-svn/src' make: ** [check-recursive] Erro 1 There is no testing dots with Fails and Errors marks. There is only a compilation error trowing. :-( What is wrong? The unity testing infrastructure is really working? Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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Automated transparency removal for EPS export
by Marco Steinacher 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Dear Inkscape Developers, I use Inkscape regularly to edit figures for scientific publications. Because I like to use transparency effects but many journals only accept EPS files for publication, I ran into the well-known "transparency and PostScript export" problem. First I used to remove the transparency by hand as described in the "Tips and Tricks" tutorial [1]. This has been a hard job and sometimes it is virtually impossible. To facilitate this task I have automated this workaround (removing transparency by adding shapes covering the overlapping areas with the corresponding mixed color). So far I am quite happy with that solution, although it obviously does not work for gradients etc., and I would like to include it in the official Inkscape version. In this regard I have a few questions to you: 1) Are there any general objections to add this code to Inkscape? 2) Where would you place this function in the UI? (For my personal use I have added the item "Remove Transparency" to the Path menu, which probably is not appropriate.) Related to this question is the question how to deal with the limited ability of this approach in order to not confuse or annoy users (e.g. when they use it with gradients). 3) Where would you ideally add the code for this feature? Currently I have added four functions sp_remove_transparency*() to splivarot.cpp. I chose this file because of the relation to sp_selected_path_intersect(). Also, I have copied some code from sp_selected_path_boolop() to get the intersection shapes and I suggest to put the common code in a more generic boolean operation function in order to avoid duplicate code. I'm looking forward to receive your comments and thoughts. Thanks, Marco [1] http://www.inkscape.org/doc/tips/tutorial-tips.html

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Found a bug in Inkscape 0.46
by Steven Devijver 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hey, Attached file demonstrates a bug in Inkscape 0.46. The bug is related to stitch sub-paths and the behavior is Inkscape crashes. The instructions on how to simulate the bug are in the file. Basically I combined a four-node square path with a two-node line path and stitched them together. When the left-hand node in the line path is deleted Inkscape gives a message that it has crashed and when I press ok it closes. Deleting the right-hand node works fine. I've discovered Inkscape yesterday and I've been playing with it. I absolutely love it and I can't wait to get my hands on the 0.47 release. I'm not into graphical design and I don't consider myself talented in drawing or any art form for that matter. Yet with Inkscape and the fabulous screencasts and documentation I rock! I've also added two of my creations to the flickr group. Thanks for all the hard work and I'm glad I can help out. Steven

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] cut/crop marks extensions
by Guillermo Espertino 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

El mié, 26-11-2008 a las 10:10 +0000, inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net escribió: > I'm not convinced by the V shape. It really looks too exotic to me. > But what about a multi-colored circle (your left drawing) and a cross > below it (svg attached)? > > -- > Nicolas Hi! Thaks for your work in this useful extension. I'd like to know if you considered applying the marks to a selection (using the bbox rectangle as limit) as an option. Applying the marks to the artwork area is fine, but in certain situations you need to use the paper area as a container for several originals (for instance, placing front and rear of a brochure in a same document). Of course there's an easy workaround, and it only takes to create a document sized as one of the originals and reuse the crop marks in the other, but crop marks to selection would be very useful anyway. I've just read a previous comment, and the author of the "cut marks" extension offers you to join forces and work together. Your extension looks more polished than the other, but it already has the feature I mention (using the selection's bbox as area for the crop marks). It would be nice to add that to your extension. Another interesting feature would be using guides as placeholders for fold or die-punch marks. About the registration marks discussion, I also find the V shapes too exotic. Generally I only see superposed circles with crosses in C, M, Y and K channels. However, I don't see anything wrong with using both. The circles with crosses on the corners, and the V shapes on the middle. What do you think?

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bzr usage
by jf barraud 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi all, Trying to use bzr and launchpad, I bumped into a bunch of newbies questions... (I'm not sure any of them makes sens!) Should I do bzr branch lp:inkscape like indicated on our inkscape launchpad web page? if yes, how are sourceforge svn rep and lp:inkscape related? lp:inkscape does not look like being uptodate. How do I commit to svn? (more over, this seems to break buildtool under windows, because of svninfo... but this is another story) Should I use bzr-svn to checkout the sourceforge svn repository? hm. It's extremely slow. Can I still register my branches in launchpad then? Am I missing a straight way to use my local svn tree to work with bzr?... Anyway, some basic guide lines for newbies and ignorant people like me would be very helpfull ;-) Thanks. jfb.

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Re : cut/crop marks extensions
by Nicolas Dufour 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi, > Recently a Perl extension called "Cut marks" was added to SVN. I must > admit I didn't have very good feelings about this, because Windows > users who are majority of our user base or at least very close to it > will have an extra step of installing ActivePerl to be able to use it. > IMO, having several programming languages supported is fine as long as > extensions work everywhere out of box. We already have functionality > available on one platform and not available on the other and it > probably wouldn't be wise pushing this even further. > > And now here comes a similar extension written in Python: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/301776 I'm not sure both extensions do exactly the same things. But it may be possible to merge the codes in one extension. I'll try to have a discussion with Aurelio (cut marks' writer) in order to find a solution. Before that, your suggestions are welcome! -- Nicolas

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A near to generic CMYK profile
by Aurélio A. Heckert 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi all, I and Nicolas will join our work about printing marks, but the printing marks need to be printed with pure CMYK color components. And specially the register mark must be printed with all 4 colors to test the alignment of the separated printing. So, the Inkscape already suport ICC profiles and soon it will export PS and PDF with color profiles. The printing marks will be ready for this, but to work we need a ICC file to link in the SVG. Someone could propose a near to generic CMYK ICC profile? I only find ICC files about specific printers, and is writen in some places that "is no generic CMYK profiles"(???). I don't have knowledge to select the more generic inside the printes profiles. Thanks, Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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git-svn trouble / lost revisions?
by Maximilian Albert 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi, I recently tried to update my git-svn repository for Inkscape via "git-svn rebase" as usual. It downloaded the latest commits but when it seemed to be almost finished (at rev. 20147, to be exact), it threw the following error: ==> Found possible branch point: https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk => https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk, 20227 Initializing parent: git-svn@...2085... W: Ignoring error from SVN, path probably does not exist: (175007): HTTP Path Not Found: REPORT request failed on '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/bc/4302/inkscape/trunk': '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/bc/4302/inkscape/trunk' path not found W: Do not be alarmed at the above message git-svn is just searching aggressively for old history. This may take a while on large repositories <== Then it started to download _all_ revisions beginning from rev. #1 (dated Oct 2003)!! It looks like git-svn got confused by some branching or so. Has somebody else who uses git-svn experienced this? Another strange thing: I downloaded a fresh checkout using svn only (not git-svn), and the revision numbers in the log jump from #19921 directly to #20226, although clearly there were other commits in between. The log entry for #20226 says something about merging a branch. Could it be that accidentally some revisions got lost in the process and that this is also what confuses git-svn? How can it be fixed? Thanks, Max

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