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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape demo import
by Bryce Harrington 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:44:32PM +0900, James Henstridge wrote: > [adding inkscape-devel back to the CC list] > > On 19/11/2007, James Henstridge <james@...1829...> wrote: > > On 15/11/2007, James Henstridge <james@...1829...> wrote: > > > On 15/11/2007, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > > > Hi James, > > > > > > > > Hope your flight home wasn't too insane (but I'm guessing it was!) > > > > I just wanted to check in with you on the Inkscape import, and see if > > > > there's anything more we could do to assist. > > > > > > I took a few days off after allhands, so only arrived back home this > > > morning. I'll try and get you a new demo import soon. The main tasks > > > are: > > > 1. figure out what happened to the rest of the bug reports > > > 2. modify the importer to match your status/importance/category usage. > > > > Hi Bryce, > > > > I've updated the demo import of the Inkscape bugs. The missing bugs > > were due to a faulty download of one SF.net bug report that I did not > > catch. > > > > I've updated the group, importance and status handling to match your > > requirements. Please tell me whether it looks okay now. > > > > https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/inkscape/ Hi James, I did some spot checks, and yes it now looks okay. The bug counts look like they now match up fine, and the bug states look like they've mapped well. > Assuming this import looks okay, what sort of time frame do you want > for the migration? We're now ready to go forward at your convenience. > There are a few timing constraints on our side that need to be taken > into account: > > 1. We are rolling out a new version of the Launchpad code base this > week, and I don't think there will be time to complete a migration > before that happens. So the earliest will be next week. Understood. > 2. The migration process depends on screen scraping SourceForge.net. > If you scrape SF.net too fast, they block your IP address. So it will > take a number of hours to get a fresh dump (I won't have to > re-download the attachments this time though). > If it is possible to disable filing of new bugs before the migration, > that would also be help reduce the chance of lost bug reports. Certainly. I've looked into this. It is possible to cause the bug tracker (and RFE's, patches) to be "hidden" so people can no longer submit to them. It does not appear to be possible to "lock" them but leave them visible. Because of this, I think the best approach would be for you to give me an indication of roughly when you'll be able to start the migration. I will then plan on hiding all of SourceForge's trackers for Inkscape and then email you a go-ahead. You can then run the screen scrapers and then bring up the new bug tracking at Launchpad. Meanwhile, we can let our users know of the downtime, and work on repointing our website bug tracker links to Launchpad. Hopefully then we'll be good to go! Thanks again! Bryce

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separate RSS feeds
by Alexandre Prokoudine 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi, Not sure this is the right list, but here goes: is it possible to have a separate RSS feeds for each available langauge? Currently news are available in cs, de, en, es, fr, it and ru. Alexandre

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windows tablet bug
by bulia byak 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Look at this diff: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ&curid=140&diff=16864&oldi… Does anyone have any idea for fixing this? Has anyone contacted GTK folks? I'm not in the game as I don't develop on Windows, and when I reboot into win2000 my tablet works just fine. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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win23 build broken: poppler link problem
by unknown＠example.com 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi all, I am trying to clean build 16528 but I get the following linker error: Make error line 373: LINK problem: build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2c8): undefined reference to `poppler_document_get_page' build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2d6): undefined reference to `poppler_page_render' build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x2ba8): undefined reference to `poppler_document_new_from_file' build\libinkscape.a(pdf-input.o):pdf-input.cpp:(.text+0x4f7b): undefined reference to `poppler_document_new_from_file' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I am using the latest devpackage from modevia.com: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/devlibs-2.12-071115.7z -Johan

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Broken Autopackage builds
by Nicu Buculei 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Since I upgraded my system to Fedora 8 a couple of weeks ago I am unable to use the Autopackage development builds anymore. It installs, claim the dependencies are satisfied but won't start due to missing libraries, here are a few examples: - it want libMagick++.so.9 (and I have libMagick++.so.10); - it want libMagick.so.9 (and I have libMagick.so.10); - it want libWand.so.9 (and I have libWand.so.10); - it want libtiff.so.4 (and I have libtiff.so.3) and maybe some more, I just gave up at libjasper-1.701.so which I don't have at all (I have only libjasper.so). Wasn't Autopackage supposed to have some kind of dependency checker? -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ my clipart collection: http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/

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Thanks for Inkscape!
by Donn 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

To all the devs out there, I just wanted to send a warm-hearted THANKS for Inkscape and all your work. I have been using it to design my house plans and without this wonderful free-of-chains tool, my options would have been dismal and slight. Your work is making a difference in the world; Inkscape is a marvel and I'm sure you never get thanked enough. Regards, Donn Ingle South Africa.

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Online vectorizing application
by jiho 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hello everyone, I just found out about this app developed at Stanford: http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ which offers high quality bitmap vectorization/tracing through and online interface. There is a comparison of its output with Adobe and Corel's ones. The good part is that Inkscape's trace (well Potrace one actually) is already _way_ better than those two ;) However, VectorMagic takes it even a step higher. Their output is really nice. For comparison purposes I created a file with their test images, Inkscape's trace and VectorMagic trace: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/VectorMagicTests.svgz Bear in mind that their second image is hand tweaked in the middle of the tracing process and that mine are probably not the best Inkscape/ Potrace can do. I tried to tweak Potrace's parameters the best I could but I am no expert. Be that as it may, their output is still superior, particularly on the first image. Since it is developed in a university lab I wonder how they would license it. Maybe getting them a bit exited about Inkscape would incline them toward putting their code under a license liberal enough for Inkscape to use it. I did not contact them but I think it would be a good thing if someone more officially involved in Inkscape contacted them and discussed a possible collaboration, or at least pointed them to the traces Inkscape/Potrace can produce. I would love to see a fifth column on their comparison page with Inkscape kicking Adobe and Corel's a.... ;) Anyway, even currently their tracing service can be very useful to Inkscape users (they export SVG!). JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Inkscape under KDE - focus question
by Donn 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi, I know KDE can do all kinds of funky tricks with windows and focus etc. I was wondering if anyone out there has a way to do this: Make the floating dialogues (like align) release the focus (perhaps when the mouse is away) so that the main canvas keeps it. I am quite worn down by all the click one has to do to get the focus (keyboard) back onto the canvas between uses of dialogues -- one has to click the title bar so selections are not lost and then carry on. So, it's click, select, click the dialogue, work, click title bar, continue, repeat. I could set focus to follow mouse, but that affects *all* other apps and it's not cool. Just wondering. /d -- If there is anyone in the audience who believes in telekinesis, please raise my hand! -- James Randi

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Inkscape architecture - another idea
by Donn 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi all, I have been back on my house plans for a day and one thing just occurred to me: I am having trouble setting a scale. It sounds simple enough: pick a unit, call it X mm's and carry on. But, the plans have been to a draughtsman and back, into the scanner and onto a bottom layer. So I am tracing (drawing over) those drawings and his scale is 1:100 which after the scan and the resize to fit A4 is anyone's guess :) So, my idea is this: Have a tool that one can snap from one point to another -- say along a line of known world length (call it 6000mm) and have it set the the grid size accordingly. I'm not gifted numerically, so giving particulars is unlikely to happen soon, but I'd say that if the grid could mark-off 1 "meter" and 0.5 "meter" lines according to the 6000 "mm" ( which is some random pixel count after all the resizing/scanning ) such that they visually match that same line - it would be very helpful. So, after using the tool, I'd be able to draw a line next to the original (which is marked at 6000mm) and my line would be (say) 600px. I'd also have a grid across the whole drawing set accordingly. (Oh, while I'm on it - a way to click a point on a corner of the drawing to say : start the grid here!) I guess it would have to fiddle with the overall matrix of the drawing, but here I lose all credibility :) Sorry if this is garbled, I'm still waking up and in a rush to meet the builder and ... I gotta go! Now - go forth and write code because *I* said so :D :P /d

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Cloning clones
by unknown＠example.com 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi all, Right now the cloning ctrl+D explanation text says: "Create a clone (a copy linked to the original) of selected object" This was confusing for me, since I read it as: Create a clone. A copy linked to the original of the selected object. I'd like to add a feature that does what I initially tought ctrl+D did: create a clone of the original of an object. This way I can clone around without making enormous clone chains. (often i have the original somewhere off-canvas, and it is much easier to clone a clone) shortcut = Ctrl+Alt+D Does this make sense? What would be the explaining text? "Create a clone of the original of selected object" Thanks, Johan

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