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stroke-dasharray
by Aurèle Duda 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hello, I want to add some dasharray in the select area of the style dialog. I can't find where in the source code are defined all the predefined dasharrays. Can someone point me this ? Thanks, Aurèle -- Aurèle Duda Origami / Pliages de papier contact@...1693... http://aurele-origami.com/

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Error during building the Inkscape 0.45.
by Areozol 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi there, I am trying to build the Inkscape 0.45 for Pather (Mac OS X 10.3.9), but during the building, the following error has occured: object-edit.cpp: In function `void sp_spiral_outer_set(SPItem*, const NR::Point&, const NR::Point&, unsigned int)': object-edit.cpp:921: error: `isfinite' undeclared in namespace `std' make[2]: *** [object-edit.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 What to do now? I am using gcc 3.3, but I can install the gcc 4.3 by Darwin Ports. Would it resolve my problem?

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OpenICC in SoC
by Jon A. Cruz 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

OpenICC has also been selected for Google's Summer of Code. There's a blog entry on it at http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/software/iccsoc.html And their main page on it at http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIccForGoogleSoC2007 I point this out in case there are some students out there who aren't as interested in SVG and Inkscape directly, but who are interested in various color issues. We should be interested in OpenICC as the work there is good for graphics apps and professionals, and Inkscape will gain more integration of it over time.

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Font size: Pixels vs. Points
by Jed Frechette 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

I've written a simplistic Python script [1] that will change all of the font-size units in an SVG file from pixels to points. The script doesn't actually do a conversion it simply replaces the unit suffix of px with pt. If you create some text in Inkscape with size 10 and save it; font-size:10px Run the script on the file; font-size:10pt Open and edit the file in Inkscape; font-size:12.5px This is a workaround for the bug that the UI never shows the units (pixels) associated with font size numbers and it is difficult to specify sizes in units other than pixels [2]. This is the quickest hack I could put together when I realized that the text in all of the figures for my thesis was the wrong size, therefore it hasn't been tested much, so if anybody uses it you should take appropriate precautions (e.g. backup your data). Clearly this is an ugly hack, but if there is no interest in fixing the underlying issue, or it's to painful, I could put together something similar as an effect. It seems like a better solution would be to, at a minimum show, what unit font size is in. When setting the default font size in the toolbar specifying a unit results in the correct conversion, so maybe a more general fix wouldn't be to hard. Unfortunately, trying to specify a unit when changing the size of existing text or doing anything with a unit in the text dialog doesn't work. In any case, I would be interested in getting some input from others. Best, [1] http://www.unm.edu/~jdfrech/svg_font-size_px2pt.py [2] See bugs 161347, 1619753, and 1657337 P.S. Sorry about the cross-posting but this seems like a somewhat nonobvious issue that has tripped up at least a few other people before me. -- Jed Frechette http://jdfrechette.alturl.com 3203 Dead, 23,417 Wounded

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Google Summer of Code - Student applications now being accepted!
by Joshua A. Andler 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

If you are a student that is eligible to qualify as an applicant for the Google Summer of Code, and have an interest in getting paid to contribute to Inkscape, well, this is for you. We do ask that if you are not really committed to seeing a project through to completion that you please not waste anyone's time (including your own). The link for applicants is: http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-… (wow, that's a long url) Just so all applicants are aware, we do have an additional condition (above Google's) for all applicants. The condition is that two patches are contributed via our patch tracker prior to acceptance (doesn't need to be anything major). The patches can be bug fixes, filling feature requests, or even scratching some itch of your own for Inkscape. Please know that this condition is standard for our project for all new contributors to get SVN commit access, we've just extended it to the applicants this year as well. Good luck everyone and we look forward to hearing from you! -Josh

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Next release translations update
by Lucas Vieites 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hi, I see that a new release is coming near but I haven't seen changes in my es.po file. Could someone please do their gettext-fu magic and merge the new strings? Thanks, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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New transform idea: Quick XForm
by Mazin 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I've been working an a drawing that involves a lot of little objects that have to be placed in the right spots, and I've found that it's cumbersome using the regular transform tools. I have a new idea (please tell me if it's been done before) for a tool that will make this much easier. Basic synopsis: a tool that transforms an object based on a single mouse drag, combining moving, rotating, and scaling into one. This makes transforming an object much quicker and more natural. It's even more useful when creating multiple randomish clones but with finer control. Please, see the full explanation at http://files.aztekera.com/images/Quick%20XForm.svg Inkscape recommended. Tell me what you think, Mazin (This has also been posted to Inkscape's tracker on SF.net)

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Crash
by Federico 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hello, remembered of me! I'm a student graduating in Computer science Engineering and I'm leading a thesis on the Vectorial Diagrams Animated in Inkscape. I had successful to insert of inkscape a "parallel" Thread to the main program, that it reads of the regarding data the characteristics of an object and then assigns them to the object by means of the endured function sp_repr_set_attr(nodes[i],style.c_str(),attrib.c_str()); nodes[i] -> it is a carrier of gunlayers "Node" (std::vector<Inkscape::XML::Node *> nodes;) style & attrib -> are strings. But after this call, the program crasha and it is closed without some message. By means of the debuggher they are successful to understand that there is an error of Segmentation Fault: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- [Switching to thread 3236.0x6a8] GC_clear_stack_inner (arg=0x47429a0 "", limit=2284336) at misc.c:293 293 misc.c: No such file or directory. in misc.c Current language: auto; currently c You can help me to resolve this problem being given to me some council to follow? Thanks Federico

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0.45.1 splash screen
by Aaron Spike 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

0.45.1 is approaching at an alarming rate! (no, really, it is.) I'd like to collect opinions on the following patch in our tracker. It is more than simply recasting the 0.45 about in blue. There are quite a few differences. If you have an opportunity please make a side by side comparison, and report your opinions. The ultimate question is, of course, shall we replace the about screen with this version for 0.45.1. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1671402&group_id=9… Aaron Spike

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Need some input on bug #1540195 (snapping problem)
by Diederik en Rezi 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

While looking into bug #1540195 I ran into some dilemma. This bug occurs when a bounding box is squeezed in between two vertical guides and makes it hard to pull the box out of its squeeze. For more details have a look at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1540195&group_id=9… The original post includes a nice sample file. This is what's going on: 1) Both the 4 points AND the boundingbox (also 4 points) are snapping, as requested in File -> Document Properties. 2) The origin is set to be at the boundingbox edge, as requested in File -> Inkscape preferences -> Tools -> Selector This will not work in the situation described by bwalle. When snapping the boundingbox, the origin must be at the boundingbox. When snapping the nodes, the origin must be at the farthest opposite node. This is what's going wrong: when dragging the edge at the right, both the bounding box and two additional points will be trying to snap to the left guide, even when dragging the right edge far to the right. The left side of the boundingbox is not being transformed, as it's exactly at the origin. The two additional points though are slightly off the origin, and will be transforming almost invisibly. These are causing the troubles. It's difficult to describe exactly what's going on, the best thing to do is to just try it. This is what we could do: 1) calculate the origin ourselves, instead of obeying the preferences. Should this option even be removed from the preferences? Why is this option available to the user at all? 2) filter the snap points in the snapmanager, to only snap the points or boundingbox edges that are being moved. Points close to the origin could simply be discarded. 3) When dragging the boundingbox, we could feed the snapmanager only the points at the edge being dragged. But this doesn't handle the snapping of a complex object consisting of many points 4) ? Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers? Regards, Diederik van Lierop

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