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ImageMagick on win32
by Bob Jamison 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Hi all, I uploaded another lib bundle. This one has the ImageMagick library. It is statically built to avoid the (IMHO) nasty DLL collection you would otherwise need to bundle with Inkscape. People can tweak build.xml to get it to build now, I guess. http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/gtk210-070814.7z bob

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"Inkscape Drawing Program Brings Joy to Many"
by Bryce Harrington 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

Inkscape is a free vector drawing program that brings joy and robust drawing tools to millions of people who could never afford Adobe Illustrator. You can use Inkscape for fun or for thousands of different practical purposes including designing your own business card, CD cover, advertising layout, and countless other tasks. http://blogs.pcworld.com/communityvoices/archives/2007/08/inkscape_drawin.h…

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Fwd: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit
by Bryce Harrington 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Some GSoC info for mentors not on the GSoC list... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LH (Leslie Hawthorn) <lhospo@...400...> Date: Jul 31, 2007 7:05 PM Subject: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit To: Google Summer of Code Announce <google-summer-of-code-announce@...820...> ***If you are not a mentor or organization administrator, you can stop reading now.*** Hello everyone, Those organizations who were with us last year may remember that we hosted a mentor summit at Google Mountain View following the conclusion for the program. We got a tremendous amount of positive feedback about the summit, and we're pleased to let you know that we'll be doing it again! Further details will be sent to the mentors list, so please stay tuned there for further information. http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list Cheers, LH

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INKSCAPE being sold on eBay
by Bryce Harrington 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

I don't know if this is legal or what, but am passing the word along if anyone would wish to follow up on it (I have no plans to). Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Keith Almond <ss-kalm@...58...> ----- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:41:35 -0700 From: Keith Almond <ss-kalm@...58...> To: bryce@...58... Subject: INKSCAPE Message body follows: There are people selling Inkscape and other SOURCEFORGE items on ebay. Is this legal. Not that I want to do it, more that I would like to see it stopped. Check out: http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll? from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=inkscape&category0=em I would be interested to know if he/she should be doing this. Keith Almond -- This message has been sent to you, a registered SourceForge.net user, by another site user, through the SourceForge.net site. This message has been delivered to your SourceForge.net mail alias. You may reply to this message using the "Reply" feature of your email client, or using the messaging facility of SourceForge.net at: https://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=1674196 ----- End forwarded message -----

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NEW: blur export fixed
by bulia byak 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

I fixed several often-reported bugs of 0.45: * Exporting blurred objects to bitmap is now much faster. This was particularly slow in 0.45; some files could take hours to export. Now this is fixed, in part by the faster algorithm (contributed by Jasper soon after the 0.45 release) and in part by today's bugfix in the export code. Now even the quite complex files with large blurs export at high resolution in at most a few minutes. * The disappearing of blurred objects in exported bitmaps which happened for large objects in 0.45 is fixed. * The same fix got rid of the rendering artefacts that sometimes appeared on blurred objects during scrolling. While the fix is simple, it's in a sensitive area, so please test rendering and exporting your files with blur and report any problems to me at once! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Window title not consistent
by Olaf Telshörner 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

When you open a document, the window title shows the filename exclusively, e.g. 'foo.svg' When you save a document, the window title shows the full path of the file, e.g. '/bar/foo.svg' I find this behaviour rather confusing and would suggest a more consistent window title. --------------------------------- Jetzt Mails schnell in einem Vorschaufenster überfliegen. Dies und viel mehr bietet das neue Yahoo! Mail.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] rev 15630 linking error
by joel＠...1709... 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Hey thanks for sorting that out bulia. About the enable preview text box: I'm not sure that I'm the best person to sort that out right now. You see right now I'm not really focussing on the GTK file dialogs. For Windows users I'm replacing them with Win32 native equivalents. My explorer thumbnail extension is making steady progress as well. I was really worred that the lack of ATL/WTL in MingW would be a big stumbling block. It turned out to be no problem in the end. The two problems I'm having are the slowness of compiling in Windows compared to Linux, as well as the problem of still (as far as I know) not being able to compile with btool in Vista - I have to work through VNC on a broken screened XP laptop lying under my desk! Other than these two problems all is well. Joel ---------------------------------------- From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> Sent: 10 August 2007 01:25 To: joel@...1709... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] rev 15630 linking error Joel, thanks for updating the relnotes, but I edited your addition: mentioned it's on windows, started by explaining the user-visible result (windows no longer sink) instead of the technical details about parent windows etc. I also added a note on "Enable preview" which is also a new feature. By the way, is it possible to move that checkbox closer to the preview itself? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape performance
by Joshua A. Andler 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Hey all, So, with the last couple files I've worked on (my last hitting 23.5megs... note that I abuse clones ;)), Inkscape's performance seems to have tanked. Is this due to the nature of a "bloated" (not really bloated, but I used the term because it's human readable) format or a parsing issue or something else? I'm just curious if there's anything that could possibly be done to improve the performance. I know that I had files this complex in AI, and it could hang when the files got huge and I copied/pasted objects around. But it's even painful with stuff like pulling up the fill & stroke dialog for the first time in a session with one of these complex docs. It will take like 3-5 mins to unfreeze and show the dialog. Just figured I would ask. -Josh

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Compile error in line-geometry.cpp with struct assignment for gcc 3.3
by John Faith 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Hello, When I try to build svn 15634 using gcc 3.3 (OS X 10.3), I get a compile error: line-geometry.cpp: In member function `virtual NR::Maybe<NR::Point> Box3D::Line::intersect(const Box3D::Line&)': line-geometry.cpp:57: error: parse error before `;' token I was able to build 0.45.1 in this same environment, so this error is relatively new. The error seems to be caused when something is set to NR::Nothing. This example causes the same error: namespace NR { struct Nothing {}; }; void function() { void* junk = NR::Nothing; //<---- parse error } I played with this a bit, and found that the problem is not related to the namespace nor to the fact that the struct has no members. Does this sound familiar to anyone, or can anyone recommend a way (search terms) to find out more about this? Thanks!, John

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Python scripting question
by Kent Tenney 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Howdy, Can a Python extension script provide the following; - browse for and select a file - the text in the file becomes a text object in my drawing Thanks, Kent

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