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gdkmm-2.4 -- where do I find this
by Justin Gedge 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

I'm trying to compile inkscape on an older OS [RHEL4]. missing gdkmm. don't know where to find this and google turns up references to gtkmm. Any ideas where to find this? -jmg

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Cairo pdf output flips text
by Bill Baxter 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Is it known that Save As... PDF via Cairo flips text upside down? This is on a Win32 snapshot from a day or two ago. Also why is PDF via Cairo output so slow to render in Acrobat? It renders so slow you'd think it was an ultra hi-res bitmap. But the size of the file, and zoomability, say otherwise. --bb

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2 silent data loss bugs when out of disk space -- milestone?
by Tom Davidson 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi all, I'm new to bug triaging, and I came across (and confirmed in today's SVN under Fedora Core 6) a couple silent data loss bugs in the tracker. Both are caused by full disk/partition situations: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167801 svg file truncated when target partition is full https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168510 svg files, preferences.xmlsaved as 0 bytes if /tmp is full Wasn't sure whether these should be milestoned, so thought I'd bring them to the list's attention... -Tom

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Does PDF Import actually work?
by Bryce Harrington 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi all, I am trying to test out the new PDF capabilities for Inkscape, as they're perhaps one of our most significant new features. Unfortunately, I'm not having luck getting PDF import working: I downloaded form W-4 from irs.gov and attempted File > Import, but got the following error on the console: /tmp/fw4.pdf:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found %PDF-1.6 ^ It looks like Inkscape's not detecting the file as a PDF, and trying to open it as an SVG. Anyone know what's going on? Bryce

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Some tool icon comments
by Bill Baxter 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

3 little design critiques for some aspiring icon designer to maybe consider: * I find the current 3D Box icon oddly jarring because uses a "looking-up-from-below" perspective. All the other tools can be interpreted as either being completely flat or as looking down on something (e.g. pencil, pen -- you're never looking up at your pen). It makes it feel to me like I'm jerking my neck up and down as I scan over the tools. I'm sure there's a comment in a Scott McCloud book somewhere about not jerking around the viewpoint like this. :-) * The gradient icon just read well for me. Being right next to the hierarchy thingy makes it look very much to me like it's some kind of connector gizmo. And having the gradient just be a simple white to green makes it look like it's just a button with cool shading, not a button *about* making cool shading. (The rectangle button has almost identical shading) I think a nonsquare background shape would help (rectangle maybe even) and a three band, or 2-band color->complement (eg orange->blue) gradient in the background would help make it clear that the gradient was the point. Oh and pixel align those handles (like in the pen icon) so they're not all blurry! * There seems to be a little inconsistency in the design of the shape icons. Rect and 3D Box have a little white inner border inside the black outline. Circle and stars do not. Also I think something more interesting could be done to tie their colors together. Different colors is good, but somehow the current cyan, purple, pink, yellow just don't look like a coherent colorscheme to me. They don't seem to form any sort of progression. Also the rectangle shape feels significantly bigger than the others. Perhaps making it a few pixels smaller and slightly more rectangular would be nice. I love the pencil / pen / calligraphy / bucket icons. Those have a very unified look and communicate their functions very well. --bb

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Truetype Collection fonts
by Donn 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

> Uses fc-cache to refresh your font cache after installation and verify > that ~/.font is managed. Thanks for the reply. I actually solved this last week and can't recall what I was doing wrong. It was something really dumb on my part. > Don't know if .ttc is managed by fontconfig Solved this one too; they seem to work just fine. I managed to get Fonty Python to find and display all the sub faces. \d -- I have a low-traffic blog for basic news: http://otherwiseingle.blogspot.com/

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Press news about Inkscape
by Helge Hielscher 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hello, Scribus has a page where it lists news reported about it: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Press_news_about_Scribus Is there something similar for inkscape? If not, would you think that it makes sense to create a wiki page "News about Inkscape"? Regards, Helge Hielscher

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help needed: convert a SPItem into its gdk_pixbuf
by Adib taraben 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hello all, in order to show blur as blur in PDF we need to convert the shape into its rendered pixbuf. We need to place a piece of code in src/extension/internal/cairo-renderer.cpp that does this conversion. And then to include as pure image data. I have checked the /helper/png-write.cpp and in src/selection-chemistry.cpp (sp_selection_create_bitmap_copy ()). So far I do not really understand which functions needed in order to get the pixbuf. I need someone that can do the job. Any help? Adib. ---

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Inkscape 0.46 About Screen Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hey all, The Inkscape team and community is proud to announce the About Screen contest for the upcoming release of Inkscape (0.46). The contest begins on December 22, 2007 and the deadline is January 6th, 2008. As with the past few contests we've had, it is being done on DeviantART ( http://www.deviantart.com/ ). You can find out more about it at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16001755/ Additionally, if you have a DeviantART account, please show the news some "love" so we can hopefully get the story promoted to the front page. http://news.deviantart.com/article/39226/ Good Luck! Have fun! Draw Freely. -Josh

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About Inkscape authors list
by Bill Baxter 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hey there folks, I contributed a patch that was accepted and has an entry in the release notes. Does that make me an author? If not, then no worries -- it was not a huge patch -- but it would fun to see my name in lights. :-) --bb

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