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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Serious regression!
by Diederik van Lierop 26 May '08

26 May '08

Op Ma, 26 mei, 2008 12:55, schreef Alvin Penner: > Is this https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/234742 ? That could indeed be related! Although in my setup the paths completely disappear. Diederik

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Serious regression!
by Diederik van Lierop 26 May '08

26 May '08

Hi all, In current SVN I cannot do anything useful with paths! For example, when I draw a simple line then I notice things like this in the XML editor d = m 140,6.21105e+184 308.6,0 Similar things happen when trying to translate a node or a line. Things worked perfectly until maybe a few days ago. I just tested a previous build of may 15th, but that one works just fine. Is anyone else seeing this? Does this ring a bell for someone? BTW, I tested this at work on a XP machine. Diederik

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Calligraphy Tool
by Fela Winkelmolen 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hi! I'm currently implementing a calligraphy tool, much like the one present in Inkscape, for Karbon as a Google Summer of Code project. I've heard rumors that there is a plan to rewrite the calligraphy tool of Inkscape, but I couldn't find anything in the ml archives about it. If I understood it correctly the main reason is to make it possible to edit the path in an easier way--actually making it possible to edit the path drawn instead of the final shape created by the tool. I've heard the idea seem to be to use pattern on path, but that doesn't seem to me to be very easy to get right, particularly becase in this case the "pattern" depends on the path. I would like to hear more about this, is there any concrete idea about how it would be implemented, or is it only a vague idea? Also, if you have any other kind of advice, please share! =) Thanks, - fela

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memory usage
by Florian Lohoff 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hi, i am thinking of digging a bit into inkscape code concerning the memory usage. As some might know inkscape is used for rendering tiles for OpenStreetmap (Osmarender) or better InformationFreeway. I have seen inkscape regularly consuming up to 12GB (yes - twelve GIGABYTE) of memory to render a tile. Less complex tiles get away with 300-1200MByte of memory which also is a huge amount of memory. This memory issues reduces the number of machines capable of hosting the "tilesat home" client quite drastically (64bit Linux with 16GByte of ram). I have seen that there way a Memory track for the Google SOC 2006 to reduce the inkscapes memory - What has been the outcome to this? My first imagination is that probably the garbage collector does not kick in because of using inkscape in batch mode or somethin. I ran inscape with GC_LEAK set and found the GC running so its not an issue of not reclaimed memory. Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@...1978... +49-171-2280134 Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither - Benjamin Franklin

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<title> and <desc>
by Stephen Silver 25 May '08

25 May '08

I'm currently working on making the title and description fields in the Object Properties dialog work (bug 171024). SPObject already had some dummy member functions to get and set titles and descriptions, so I've turned these into working functions. But I see that there are also dummy non-member functions that are supposed to do the same thing. I could easily implement these using the member functions, but it seems like pointless clutter to have both member functions and non-member functions doing the same thing, so I'm tempted just to delete them (they are not used anywhere, except in the macros SP_OBJECT_DESCRIPTION and SP_OBJECT_TITLE, which are themselves unused). Is there any reason to keep the non-member functions? -- Stephen Silver

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Bezier crash in SVN
by Josh Andler 24 May '08

24 May '08

On two different linux boxes, if I compile from current svn, any use of the pen/bezier tool crashes inkscape. Unfortunately, it seems like there may be stack corruption as the backtraces don't look very useful. Both boxes in question are running Ubuntu 8.04. Would someone else on linux confirm if they're having this problem? (yes, I have two separate boxes exhibiting it, but they're the same distro). Thanks, Josh

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combo in extensions
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi, I'm looking at several recently added extensions (especially "3D models", but also "Perfect Bound Book") and wondering if we can use comboboxes instead of radiobuttons. That would shrink dialogs vertically a lot. Alexandre

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making inkscape xembeddable
by unknown＠example.com 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hello, I tried to make inkscape xembeddable with the following in main.cpp: int socket_id=atoi("67108897");//xargv[1]); Gtk::Plug w(socket_id); printf("plug id:%d socket_id:%d\n",w.get_id(),socket_id); main_instance.run(w); that is, I just tried to pass a Gtk::Plug initialized with a gtk_socket in another process to main_instance.run(). This doesnt work. Any hints as to why? The context is that I'm working on a patch to allow applications to be xembeddable in an emacs window. This works with other apps than my patched inkscape. The goal in this case is to provide an alternate command based gui for inkscape using emacs. -- Joakim Verona

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Modevia SSH host keys
by Aaron Spike 23 May '08

23 May '08

Modevia will be regenerating their SSH host keys sometime tonight. I was actually informed of this a few days ago and I kept forgetting to forward it to the list. Sorry for any inconveniences. I'll respond with the correct key fingerprints as soon as someone tells me. Aaron Spike

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font problems in windows vista.
by Manuel L.P. 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi hello dear people of Inkscape, I subscribe to this list becasue I want to report a bug in Inkscape 0.46, there is a problem changing a font when you tiped something in the program, I use Inkscape in Windows Vista. I downloaded Inkscape 0.45.1 and it works perfectly. I really enjoy using Inkscape and I would like to help inkscape developer´s to fix bugs problem s found in the following versions. Manuel L.P.

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