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LGM
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hi everyone! Sorry I "disappeared" for a short time while I finished my school projects. I still read incoming list emails, but didn't get a chance to go onto IRC. I'm still planning on attending LGM. I intend to leave Ottawa early Friday morning to make it for the second or third talk of the day. I am staying at the residences (the cheap rooms advertised). I signed up on the LGM website, and said I'd be attending the dinner Friday night, though I don't know any of the details yet. I assume all will be revealed on arrival. Looking forward to meeting you all! Hopefully you can find me based on my photo here <http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~gbanaszk/> or here <http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~peerhelp/Gail2.png>. I probably won't be wearing glasses because I can see better with contacts. I should be able to find some of you since there are a few talks from Inkscape devs ;) Gail

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autogen.sh on 0_45 branch fails
by John Faith 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello, I checked out source from RELEASE_0_45_BRANCH, ran autogen.sh and saw this: ... I am testing that you have the required versions of autoconf, automake, glib-gettextize and intltoolize. This test is not foolproof and if anything goes wrong, there may be guidance in the file HACKING.txt checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... ./autogen.sh: line 37: ((: ((2 == 2)) && ((61 \>= 52)): missing `)' (error token is "\>= 52))") Too old (found version 2.61)! checking for automake >= 1.7 ... ./autogen.sh: line 37: ((: ((1 == 1)) && ((10 \>= 7)): missing `)' (error token is "\>= 7))") Too old (found version 1.10)! ... The test in check_version() where it fails is: if (("$MAJOR1" > "$MAJOR2"))||(((("$MAJOR1" == "$MAJOR2")) && (("$MINOR1" \>= "$MINOR2")))); then Does anyone know why this 'if' does not use '-gt' for numeric compares and square brackets for test, like on the trunk? Am I getting source from the right place? Thanks! , John

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0.45.2 ?
by jiho 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello everyone, Is a 0.45.2 release scheduled? Are there enough bugs fixed to start the process now? John Faith got Inkscape to compile on Mac OS X 10.3 and a new point release would allow to ship some official Inkscape packages via Sourceforge for this platform, which was left behind by 0.45.1. Otherwise two solutions are possible: - just add a notice on the webpage and redirect 10.3 people to the dev builds until 0.46 (not very nice but workable) - patch 0.45.1 source, compile it and upload it as 0.45.1 on Sourceforge. It won't be 0.45.1 exactly of course but most changes are small mistakes here and there and some new definitions in isinf.h, isnan.h,... so nothing major. What do you think? JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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SoC 3D box tool - invitation to participate :)
by Maximilian Albert 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hello everybody, during the preparation of my application for Summer of Code, I already experienced the great feedback from Inkscape's vivid community. Thanks to all who shared their thoughts! With the official start of SoC rapidly approaching, I would now like to invite everyone who is interested to collect their ideas on the project's Wiki page, which can be found at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/GSOC2007_3D_box_tool I only created a skeleton page. Please feel free to extend it as you wish. It is intended to be taken over by the community and to serve as a kind of 'market place' where people can share their ideas. Of course you are free to use the mailing list, too. But I considered it convenient to have a central location where all the information is collected. I do not make any promises as to which proposals are actually feasible and will be implemented. But I'm grateful for any suggestions, and any feedback is certainly very helpful to find out what you as users expect from such a tool and how it can be made to help you most in your everyday work. Regarding the latter point, I'd also be interested in what you will be using this tool for (if at all) so as to get an idea which features I should focus on as soon as I (hopefully) get beyond the minimal implementation. For this kind of info maybe the mailing list is an appropriate place, but you can of course als add this to the Wiki. Looking forward from hearing to you. Thanks, Max

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Announce: Scribus 1.3.3.9 Release
by Plinnell 06 May '07

06 May '07

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.3.9 This release is purely a further bug fix release to the recently released 1.3.3.8. This release adds more translation updates, some bugs were found and fixed, added some improvements to the SVG importer and improvements to PDF forms. With 1.3.3.7 we announced the availability of a new OpenSuse rpm download repository for all Suse versions 9.3+, including SLED 10. To download add: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/ to your yast/apt/smart source list for the corresponding Suse version. We have now added Fedora 5/6 rpms as well. Downloads: Source and some rpms: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235 Upstream Debian/Ubuntu repo: http://debian.scribus.net Ubuntu users are advised to see: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Getting_Scribus_on_Ubuntu/Kubuntu_up_and_… Fedora 5/6 RPMS: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_Extras_6/repodata/ http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/Fedora_Extras_5/repodata/ MacOSX: http://aqua.acribus.net (to come soon) The Scribus Team would also like to thank - Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting and Cardia AS for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release. About Scribus Scribus is a cross-platform open source page layout application with a focus on high quality commercial grade PDF and postscript export. Originally developed on Linux, Scribus now runs natively on MacOSX, OS/2, many forms of Unix and Windows 2000/XP. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, spot colors, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Scribus was the first page layout application on the planet to directly support PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard. Scribus did so by almost a year. The Scribus Team is made up of a diverse group of developers with significant experience in pre-press and newspaper publishing. Commercial support for Scribus is available for companies and institutions for implementation, training and migration.

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Inkscape runs on Max OS 10.3
by jiho 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello everybody, Thanks to the repeated efforts of John Faith, the latest version of Inkscape now seems to run on OS X 10.3 aka. Panther. Many Panther users reported some bugs and were disappointed that the new 0.45 release left them behind. These cruel days are hopefully over! A build is available in Inkscape's development builds repository: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/?C=M;O=D [pick Inkscape-20070504-10.3.dmg] This build is made from a recent SVN snapshot so it has more features (and potentially more bugs also ;) ) than the 0.45 release. The application is also larger than usual (>100Mb) because it is not stripped from debugging symbols. Currently John is still struggling to complete a compile from a fresh start. Once this is sorted out and once this first build gets some testing, we'll provide a more official build (maybe a 0.45.2 if this is ever planned to happen). Thank you for your patience and thanks again to John who made this happen. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Live trace?
by jiho 04 May '07

04 May '07

[Note brought to inkscape-devel from Inkscape-user] On 2007-May-04 , at 10:05 , Michael Grosberg wrote: > John R. Culleton <john@...360...> writes: >> Is there a function in Inkscape equivalent to the "live trace" in the >> latest version of Illustrator? > > No, there isn't. The is a tracing function in Inkscape in Path > Trace bitmap. The differences are that in Inkscape: - you get a small bitmap preview of the trace result before doing the actual trace. From my point of view this allows to work on small machines while redoing the complete tracing each time you change a parameter (i.e as in Illustrator) is probably very resource hungry. The bitmap preview is not autoupdated so that's not exactly "Live" but the update is just a click of a button away. - the preview is in the Tracing window rather than on canvas. - there are not tracing presets as in Illustrator but I guess these should not be too hard to make - the color mapping (map the trace colors to a palette) does not exist (and the functionality is pretty cool actually see http:// www.creativecow.net/articles/mcmahon_frank/livetrace/livetrace.htm ) So there are less bells and whistles but the main functionality is there. From a developer point of view: - what about auto-updating the preview when the parameters are changed? IMHO that would slow down things too much but maybe an auto- update checkbox would be nice for people on bigger machines than mine. - how hard would it be to put the low resolution bitmap preview of the trace on canvas rather than in the trace dialog? This would be a nice feature and would probably ease things very much when it comes to docking the trace dialog. - the color mapping feature is really nice and probably handy in some situations (e.g. I am doing a flyer with a defined color palette and I want to integrate a traced bitmap). I don't see any color mapping options in potrace so I guess this would require some substantial changes to potrace. Alternatively an extension which would map all colors in selected objects to their closer match in the selected swatches set would probably be very nice in many situations and not just on a traced object (I am thinking of cliparts imported from OCAL for example). Cheers, JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Seamless pattern ui suggestion
by Néstor Díaz 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi everyone: A few months ago there was a discussion about UI improvements to help designing seamless patterns. The following link has a couple of screenshots of an application made for textile patterns: http://www.arahne.si/paint.html It would nice to have a View mode for patterns. More descriptions: The designer prepares a canvas, for example 24x24. Inside we draw something. We change to Pattern view mode The canvas changes to a pattern view where we can tweak a couple of parametres for displacement. Whenever we draw outside the canvas the view reflects changes for seamless design. Hope this helps and somebody else would be interested in such feature :) -- Néstor Díaz www.barriolinux.net Conocimiento libre

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untidy new menu
by Alex Mac 02 May '07

02 May '07

For some reason the templates listed in the new menu are not in alphabetical order on my system (inkscape 0.45 / ubuntu feisty) also they are given rather obscure names with underscores. If they were listed alphabetically and given more human sounding names "Default page (in points)" rather than "default_pt" that would be great, although I think copying the gimps new dialog box would be a much better way of doing this (they have pretty icons in their menu too :) ). Alex

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Cairo 1.4.6
by Bob Jamison 02 May '07

02 May '07

I noticed on osnews.com that Cairo has a 1.4.6 release out (congrats, guys!). So I made a build here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/cairo-1.4.6-mingw.7z It works great with Inkscape, so I added it to the library bundle: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/gtk210-070501.7z Cairo is the only difference, so if you have the latest bundle already, you might want to only grab Cairo. The new autobuilds will be built with this version of Cairo: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32 bob

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