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Inkscape 0.46-final plans (March 10th)
by Bryce Harrington 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

ScislaC and I are quite pleased with how -pre3 has shaped up, and are making the last call for 0.46.0 bug fixes, translations, etc. We will tag 0.46.0 at UTC 04:00 Mar 11 2008. I've incorporated all patches sent to me or nominated for 0.46.x. If you have something I've missed, please get it to me this weekend. There are 7 milestoned bugs left: 3 are translations, 3 are windows-specific, and 1 has a patch that just needs a quick test. The translation patches I trust will be squared away in the coming days. Bug 189432 has a fix committed to trunk for upside down text with PDF, that just needs checked and I can commit the patch. For any remaining translation work, please arrange to get it incorporated in the release branch by March 10th. For the 3 windows bugs, progress has been slow on these. The consensus from the lengthy "0.46 release debate" thread is to tag 0.46.0 for Linux so we can get the release into Ubuntu and Fedora (which have a drop-dead date of March 13th for getting new Inkscape incorporated), but hold off on PR two weeks to give the extra time for Windows developers, because we would prefer to have full platform support for maximum PR effectiveness. If the Windows bugs are not sufficiently resolved by March 24th, we'll proceed with 0.46.0 being a non-Windows release, and hope they can be addressed in time for 0.46.1. Bryce

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LGM 3 Presentation call — Heya!!!
by Louis Desjardins 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Heya! Time to get yourself on the wiki for your presentations at LGM 3... it's coming! May 8-9-10-11 yes! 4 days! in Wroclaw, Poland, just 5-hour train ride from Berlin. http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Conference Please, don't be shy! Louis p.s. let us know you'll be there too. The Create List is our preferred one for talking most LGM stuff. Or get on IRC at freenode #lgm — Cheers!!!

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Fwd: Re: Extensions on win32]
by Aaron Spike 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Ted Gould wrote: > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Ted Gould <ted@...11...> > To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> > Cc: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions on win32 > Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:00:16 -0800 > > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 20:01 -0400, bulia byak wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:59 AM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote: >>> Now there should be a somewhat cleaner/better fix, however these two effects are broken again. The effects run successfully, but the parameters are not passed correctly. >> In rev 17608, function plotter works but dimensions and add nodes do >> not. Ted, can you please look into whether this might be caused by >> your recent fixes? > > With "Add Nodes" I get: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "/home/ted/Development/inkscape.work/install/share/inkscape/extensions/addnodes.py", line 91, in <module> > e.affect() > File > "/home/ted/Development/inkscape.work/install/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py", line 154, in affect > self.effect() > File > "/home/ted/Development/inkscape.work/install/share/inkscape/extensions/addnodes.py", line 81, in effect > splits = math.ceil(length/self.options.max) > ZeroDivisionError: float division The inx file would seem to indicate that a value of 0 for max is unallowed. Are these constraints no longer enforced? When you run add nodes do are you passing 0 for the parameter? <param name="max" type="float" min="0.1" max="10000.0" _gui-text="Maximum segment length (px)">10.0</param> > and with Dimensions I get: > > /home/ted/Development/inkscape.work/install/share/inkscape/extensions/dimension.py:60: TagNameWarning: Tag names must not contain ':', lxml 2.0 will enforce well-formed tag names as required by the XML specification. > marker.set('inkscape:stockid', name) > > Aaron, do you have any ideas on what these could be caused by? This is a real error in the script: marker.set('inkscape:stockid', name) should be: marker.set(inkex.addNS('stockid','inkscape'), name) Aaron

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lpe-blueprint
by jf barraud 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Hi all, I just added an lpe-blueprint<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Lpe-blueprint>on launchpad. The goal is to gather ideas/props about lpe futur generations. The first part is about stacking lpe's from the UI viewpoint. Individual effects specifications are also collected, including propositions of new effects... (notice that things are not supposed to be developped in a short term; in particular, handling full svg data as parameter or output might require a lot of work!...) Remarks, comments, additions are wellcome! jfb.

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Fix for #168283 in 0.46?
by Joel Holdsworth 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

I've just committed a bug fix for bug #168283: "possible to create empty paths via text -> object to path". Should the change be merged into the 0.46 branch? If so, the release wardens simply need to apply the attached diff. Thanks Joel

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NEW: flasher when hovering over a path
by unknown＠example.com 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Quickly: When you hover over a path in nodetool, it highlights itself briefly like a helperpath. (this means it only works for things that have a helperpath: paths only for now... work in progress i guess) When you leave the object with the mouse, it hides instantly. I haven't add preferences yet, so you cannot turn it off now, sorry; it's probably pretty annoying if you don't want it. What preferences do people want? - on/off - flash time? - flash color? ( i don't know how to XOR it, so right now it is invisible for red stroked paths ) - show knots aswell? Thanks for your input, and thanks to Josh for the excellent idea :-) Johan

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Beyond CSS Fonts
by Gail Carmichael 06 Mar '08

06 Mar '08

Just wanted to let you know that I sent an email yesterday to the Pango mailing list, asking about the possibilities of expanding the fonts Pango can represent beyond what CSS can represent. Haven't heard back yet, and have no idea if they will tell me this is technically impossible or philosophically undesirable. However, if I get good news, this may mean I can help expand it and then support more fonts in Inkscape as a result. Will keep you updated. Gail

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0.46 fails building on MacPorts
by Guido 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

I am trying to build Inkscape 0.46pre2 after updating the portfile of the 0.45 version (<http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports/gnome/inksc…>) which works flawlessly, including the Python plugins. Since the first previews, the compilation has been failing reporting the following error: /opt/local/include/python2.5/Object.h:104: error: 'Py_ssize_t' does not name a type [...] extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.h:343: error: 'Object' has not been declared extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.cpp: In member function 'gchar* Inkscape::Extension::Internal::SvgBuilder::_createTilingPattern(GfxTilingPattern*, GfxState*, bool)': extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.cpp:659: error: no matching function for call to 'PdfParser::parse(Object*)' extension/internal/pdfinput/pdf-parser.h:162: note: candidates are: void PdfParser::parse(int*, GBool) make[2]: *** [extension/internal/pdfinput/svg-builder.o] Error 1 This happens also when cairo is built with the support for the PDF backend. Any suggestions? -Guido

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URIReference
by Gail Carmichael 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Does our URIReference (used for clones etc) support linking to items in separate files? Gail

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NEW: temporary on-canvas indicators
by unknown＠example.com 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hi Diederik and others, First of all, I am very sorry if I broke compile on Linux, please fix what needs to be fixed, I cannot check if it works! (makefile?) I have just committed a new feature: temporary canvasitems. Now, it is possible to create a canvasitem, and pass it to SPDesktop saying it should be displayed for a certain timelength. When that time has elapsed, the object is automatically deleted. To make a canvasitem temporary, do this: spdesktop->add_temporary_canvasitem(canvasitem, 2000); This will destroy the canvasitem automatically after 2000 milliseconds. One can also prematurely delete the canvasitem (handy for showing snapping). One should do this: Inkscape::Display::TemporaryItem * tempitem; tempitem = spdesktop->add_temporary_canvasitem(canvasitem, 2000); And then later on to remove the item: spdesktop->remove_temporary_canvasitem(tempitem); It is perfectly safe to call this function even after the 2 seconds have elapsed, because it checks whether the object has already been deleted or not. In order to demonstrate and test the code, I have enabled the test LPEs, and added a Point parameter to lpe-Stacktest that is briefly flashed on-canvas when you press the edit oncanvas button. Draw a freehand path, apply lpe-'doEffect stack test', then press the edit oncanvas button next to the 'test' parameter; it should show a cross at the location of the parameter oncanvas. I have tested a bit, it *seems* bug-free... :) Special request to Diederik: Can you use the code from /live_effects/parameter/point.cpp, method param_editOncanvas, to flash the location of a snap ? This was my main motivation for writing all this! I hope people find other interesting things that can be briefly shown on canvas; like an arrow pointing to the parent object of a clone? :-) Cheers, Johan

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