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The death of PyXML
by Aaron Spike 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

PyXML died a neglectful death a ways back now. I failed to notice. And I was too much in denial to listen to the many many kind individuals who tried to tell me. We've been relying on PyXML for the python extensions. Now we need to replace it. I'm sure anyone who has ever worked with extensions will be happier when it is gone. The major requirements I can think of are: - Unicode support - Excellent namespace handling - Excellent XPath support (more than just basic support, many XPath features are too useful to be without) - documentation for new extension devs - in distribution or easy to obtain anything else? If I was left to my own devices and I had to do something right now, I would start with LXML. (Not a big vote of confidence that the front page of the website is offline http://codespeak.net/lxml/ check the google cache :-)) LXML uses the ElementTree api as much as possible, this API is coming standard with python 2.5 so I expect people will be getting familiar with it. It is a wrapper around libxml2 so it has a lot of power behind the scenes (adds things like xpath and xslt support). I'm not sure how things sit with the easy to obtain issue, but there are binaries available for win32. Not sure about OSX. And everyone on linux compiles everything anyway. :-) Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] change the Inkscape Application
by Maulik Gordhandas 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hi, I am going through the source code of Inkscape and making a list of files which need to change. I would be happy to start the rebranding effort. I am not very familiar with hard-core programming. Though i will try my level best.. Maulik

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Reduce compilation times?
by Maximilian Albert 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Hi everyone, I find myself recompiling a lot recently. ;) Maybe this is a stupid question, but are there any secret make targets or switches to the configure script that can be used to only compile a 'minimal working part' of Inkscape that still allows me to test my new code? It would be awesome if I could save at least some of the time I currently spend waiting for the compilations to finish. Or are there other ways to speed the whole process up (other than bying a faster computer :))? Thanks a lot, Max P.S.: I read about someone using distcc but at home I don't have another machine around and I haven't yet tried to get it working with one of the computers at university (I'm not sure how to do that anyway).

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] selection problem
by momo 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Hi, I can confirm that behaviour, but I really don't have a clue on how to reproduce it, as I didn't manage to find a stable way to make that happen. While all the functionalities of Inkscape are still functional (I can save, open files, change document properties, switch between instruments etc...), it looks like the drawing area is blocked so I cannot select, draw, etc... Saving the file, closing Inkscape and reopening the file always resolved the problem. I still see that behaviour in the latest SVN versions, so if I find a way to reproduce it I'll file a bug report. Molumen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georg P. Israel" <info@...1744...> To: <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:14 AM Subject: [Inkscape-user] selection problem > Dear All, > > it seems that I have from time to time the problem that I can't select > my drawing objects anymore! > Just for your information, I am using Inkscape Version 0.45.1 on M$ > Windows XP. > I can double click on them, but nothing gets selected. > The only way to select them is by opening the XML tree viewer and > selecting the item there. > > Does anybody know how to overcome this issue?? > > Best regards > > Georg P. Israel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > I'm protected by SpamBrave http://www.spambrave.com/

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change the Inkscape Application
by Support Required 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hi! I wanted to change the Inkscape Application to some thing else. But I am not able to find which files do i need to change. The Application name : New Document 1 Inkscape the inkscape should change to someother name! it is like i want to change the brand name!! is it possible? if it is please let me know how! thanks

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Image attachments
by Stathis Sideris 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hello everyone, I just wanted to know what the policy is for attaching images to emails to this list. Are we allowed to attach images under a certain size, or not at all? I have a suggestion for a GUI enhancement and I have prepared a mock-up to explain it and hopefully get some useful feedback from here. Thanks, Stathis

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Selection trouble with geometric bounding box on zero width objects
by jiho 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hello everybody, I encounter some problems when using the geometric bounding box option and trying to select perfectly vertical or horizontal paths. The issue seems generic enough but I find it surprising that nobody else experienced this problem since the geometric bounding box option appeared quite some time ago now. Some details are available in a bug report: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1728776&group_id=93438&atid=604306 Am I the only one seeing this? Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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pLAySVG and extensions
by Justin Barca 31 May '07

31 May '07

As a Playful Geometer, I have been developing some python libraries for the manipulation of SVG, and I have developed some Inkscape extensions that depend on the project, and reside in the code base of it. The project resides on sourceforge here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/play-svg Some sample artwork developed using pLAySVG: http://playful-geometer.deviantart.com Currently the libraries self-install using python distutils, but the Inkscape extensions do not. My difficulty in acomplishing the latter: - for Linux, I must sudo to run the installer, so that when the Inkscape extensions are copied to the extensions directory, they are owned by root, and thus are not available to users running Inkscape (this may be remedied by doing a chown in the setup.py script) - for Windows and MacOSX, I do not know where to copy the extensions Could someone offer me some suggestions on how to make this work? Considering that Inkscape is leaning towards separate distribution of extensions, it is important that these issues be fleshed out. I started a wiki page as a HOWTO for package distribution of Inkscape extensions here http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionPackageHOWTO, however, it does not deal with the owership issues I mentioned, so it is inacurate in that sense. Originally, my intentions with pLAySVG was just to allow me to create images using code rather than point-and-click methods, but now I am interested in making pLAySVG more than a pet project, something that will be - an educational resource that will allow people (especially children) to learn about geometry, computer graphics, SVG/XML documents in a playful and creative way (similar to the way LOGO has been employed) - a toolkit for those who wish to do graphics scripting - most relevenatly, a toolkit for those who wish to develop Inkscape extensions Considering this, I am interested in expanding the functionality of pLAySVG to encorporate some the features already resident in Inkscape, including: - path operations (i.e. union, combine) - arc estimation as in the circle tool - star tool Could anyone offer any advice and/or assistance on this ? As well, I'd like to figure out how I could tap into the functionality of lib2geom and make it accessible for extensions developers and stand-alone graphics scripting. Lastly, I am interested in making my software used as an educational resource, and I welcome any input you have on achieving this goal. I have just submitted a proposal to OLPC to make this a part of XO laptop learning and have contacted Jon concerning his post on working with OPLC (although I'm probably not capable of porting). Your feedback would be greatly appreciated, -Justin

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Idear for a more precise flood fill.
by Florian Köberle 30 May '07

30 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is a way of getting a very precise flood fill: 1. Join a copy of all the object to one big object. 2. Create rect which is so huge like the whole document 3. Use path/difference to get a flood fill for all positions. 4. Put the different shapes of the result in thier own objects. 5. Find out which of the result object has been clicked by the flood fill operation and remove the other result objects. I don't have the time to work myself into the inkscape code, but maybe a inkscape developer like the idear and implement it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGXDGS59ca4mzhfxMRAgo3AJ96XfsHUkhqUhdth3fZxbcmANueVQCfZtiW Edg1mmKXAkGWI54iKY1xR5A= =9Sa9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Segfault on opening the about screen
by unknown＠example.com 30 May '07

30 May '07

Hello all, Somewhere from rev. 15034 to 15078 , the about screen broke. Running gdb and trying to open the about screen, Inkscape crashes; gdb and gives the backtrace below. Thanks for fixing it! - Johan Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- 0x00a88787 in std::_Rb_tree_decrement (__x=0x4b0ddd0) at ../../../../libstdc++-v3/src/tree.cc:94 94 ../../../../libstdc++-v3/src/tree.cc: No such file or directory. in ../../../../libstdc++-v3/src/tree.cc Current language: auto; currently c++ (gdb) bt #0 0x00a88787 in std::_Rb_tree_decrement (__x=0x4b0ddd0) at ../../../../libstdc++-v3/src/tree.cc:94 #1 0x00a6f294 in std::_Rb_tree<char*, std::pair<char* const, int>, std::_Select 1st<std::pair<char* const, int> >, ltstr, std::allocator<std::pair<char* const, int> > >::insert_unique () at c:/dev/gcc/gcc-4.1.2/objdir/i686-pc-mingw32/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/loc ale_classes.h:375 #2 0x0047f770 in sp_filter_set_image_name () #3 0x0065f656 in sp_filter_primitive_set () #4 0x0048b47a in sp_gaussianBlur_set () #5 0x00421f53 in sp_object_set () #6 0x00422092 in sp_object_read_attr () #7 0x0065f4eb in sp_filter_primitive_build () #8 0x0048b2a9 in sp_gaussianBlur_build () #9 0x004224a0 in sp_object_invoke_build () #10 0x00423dfd in sp_object_build () #11 0x0047f34a in sp_filter_build () #12 0x004224a0 in sp_object_invoke_build () #13 0x00423dfd in sp_object_build () #14 0x004224a0 in sp_object_invoke_build () #15 0x00423dfd in sp_object_build () #16 0x0042fb0f in sp_root_build () #17 0x004224a0 in sp_object_invoke_build ()

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