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NEW: Paraxial mode in pen tool
by Maximilian Albert 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Hi, apart from the recent "zigzag" mode there is now a "paraxial" mode in pen tool. In this mode, the user can only create straight line segments that are parallel to one of the coordinate axes. Normally, each line segment is drawn perpendicular to the previous one. The direction of the line segment being drawn can be toggled with Shift. When clicking on the start anchor, the path is closed with an L-shaped segment (the direction of which can also be flipped with Shift). Let me know if you have any issues with it. [1] Max [1] Known bugs: When creating the initial segment with Shift, the second segment is parallel to the first one instead of perpendicular to it (although all subsequent ones get drawn correctly). Moreover, when closing a path the final segment is sometimes drawn slightly slanted.

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W3C SVG test suite available as rendering tests in SVN
by Jasper van de Gronde 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

A large part of the W3C test suite, stripped of all its text elements is now available as rendering tests in SVN. It does not include anything that relies solely on text, animation or scripting (at least I've tried to make sure it doesn't). Compared to the latest test suite compliance results on the Wiki there either have been quite a few regressions or I've been more strict. In any case, there are plenty of failure cases (63 out of 151). See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TestingInkscape for information on running the tests.

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cutter control discussion
by Patrick 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

I have not seen any posts on this topic for a week or so. I would like to help but I am terribly slow to get things done. I am just wondering if we could hammer out what needs to be done so I can add it to my "to-do list" volume 3 I could buy a cutter in July or August and I should be able to finish reverse engineering the command protocol sometime in the fall. I know there are different formats used to send information to the cutters, would it be good to work on a more robust DXF export option too? I don't know the first thing out GSD, does does someone want to work on this ? I am unfamiliar with Inkscape internals, if I provided the commands could someone integrate this into Inkscape? Or do we even want to do this? Is there a better way? Thanks-Patrick

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NEW: auto relinking clones on duplicate
by bulia byak 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

If you turn on the "When duplicating original+clones: Relink duplicated clones" option on Clones tab of Inkscape Preferences (default is off), duplicating a selection containing both a clone and its original (possibly in groups) will relink the duplicated clone to the duplicated original instead of the old original. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] cutter control discussion
by Alvin Penner 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

this is a request for feedback from anyone who uses a vinyl cutter and uses ROBO Master software. I just submitted a proposal for a ROBO Master output format : https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/255157 and would welcome any feedback as to whether this helps or *not* as the case may be.... APP -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/cutter-control-discussion-tp17809314p18842137.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Kerning pairs not working on Windows
by Kyungjoon Lee 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi, https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/219864 Kerning pairs don't work on Windows; could someone have a look, and tell me if this is a dupe, please? Thanks. Cheers, Kyungjoon Lee

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./configure of inkscape-0.46 and boost package
by Michael Franzl 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

./configure of inkscape-0.46 stops with: > checking boost/concept_check.hpp usability... no > checking boost/concept_check.hpp presence... no > checking for boost/concept_check.hpp... no > configure: error: You need the boost package (e.g. libboost-dev) But boost_1_35_0 is compiled and installed with --prefix=/usr/local. The requested header is located in /usr/local/include/boost-1_35/boost/ Copying the headers over to other locations (/usr/include) didn't help. Any hints appreciated!

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Memory leaks?
by Henrik Bohre 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi all, 0.46 on Hardy and XP: * Opening and closing a document over and over seem to increase the memory usage. * Exporting an SVG document to PNG increases the memory usage for each export. I made a quick attempt to test opening a SPDocument and then destroying it immediately. First of all I don't know how to properly destroy a document created with sp_document_new. I checked the Inkview code where they use delete, but seem to get a number of asserts from the gc-code. Are these known issues or am I missing something here? Best regards, /Henrik

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Positioning of curves (and only curves!) differs from reference
by Jasper van de Gronde 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

While looking the W3C test suite I found that in Inkscape rendered versions of the files all curves seem to be (very) slightly offset compared to the reference image. And strangely enough this does not seem to hold for straight lines... The first few color tests (with all the circles) show this behaviour for example, and especially color-prop-01-b is interesting as it shows both curves and lines. Can anyone confirm this? Any ideas on why this is so? And who is right?

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Patches need reviewing
by Jeff Schiller 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

As part of my activities on the W3C SVG Interest Group, I'm working on accessibility. As a simple starting point, I decided to focus on getting <title> and <desc> editable in Inkscape. It seems that sas already had submitted a patch to turn this feature on in the devel version of Inkscape. I've tried to fix a couple bugs with this implementation. One of them required a (for me) rather large patch that I think needs reviewing: Bug 249445 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/249445 I also submitted a quickie tonight on Bug 254850 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/254850 if anyone can commit that. Finally, I opened Bug 254857 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/254857 for which I need some UI guru to take a look at. I think it should be possible (and easy and intuitive!) for the user to add a <title> element to the root <svg> in Inkscape (as per SVG spec), but I'm not sure the best way to do this in the UI (perhaps replace File > Document Metadata > Title?). I'd almost want to suggest that this be a mandatory step before saving, but I don't know how user-friendly that would be. Thanks, Jeff

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