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Summer of Code
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi all! I was chatting with Bulia Byak (I believe - please correct me if I'm wrong) on your IRC channel yesterday about Google's Summer of Code. I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone and say that Inkscape is definitely a project I'm really excited about having the chance to work on. More on that in a bit. In the near future, I hope to write the list again with some ideas on possible projects for SoC. So, a bit about me. My name is Gail and I'm a student at Carleton University. This is my last semester of computer science, after which I will be pursuing a masters of computer science in September. My area of interest is computer vision / graphics / computational geometry. This originally stemmed from the fact that, growing up, I have been really into graphic design in a hobby kind of way. My favorite software has been CorelDRAW, and I even got to work at Corel for some of my co-op terms. I worked on the text engine for DRAW X3, so I imagine it will be a good idea to propose projects outside that area to avoid that nasty IP issue ;) The software is quite large, so there are many areas that I never even touched upon. And so you can see why Inkscape is an exciting project for me. I haven't used it much in the past, but was able to recently pick it up quickly thanks to my experience with vector graphics. It looks like the software has an awesome base already, and lots of potential for new and innovative tools. I like your culture of enforcing high usability that was implied during my IRC chat. To me this is a very important aspect that is often given too little weight. That's it for now... If anyone wants to know more about me, please feel free to ask, and if anyone has any big requests for projects this year, I don't mind working with that! And like I said, I intend to play around some more with the program and come up with some new ideas as well. Until then, Gail

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Error during building the Inkscape 0.45.
by Federico 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

This is the feature of the system that has compiled Inkscape 0.45 for OS X: OS X version: 10.4.8 Fink: Package manager version: 0.24.23 Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync powerpc 10.4 tree GCC versions: gcc-4.0 g++-4.0 Configure options: --enable-osxapp --disable-static --enable-shared Stripped: trueand I suppose that you must use gcc 4.0 or 4.3! For more info: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape_20061213-info.txt http://inkscape.modevia.com/ Federico ----- Original Message ----- From: "Areozol" <areozol@...1663...> To: "inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:33 PM Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Error during building the Inkscape 0.45. > > 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? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join. php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel Naviga e telefona senza limiti con Tiscali Scopri le promozioni Tiscali adsl: navighi e telefoni senza canone Telecom http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/

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Animation mocksups
by Andy Fitzsimon 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi. Looking for contributions to mockups for animiation scripting and xml editor support. http://andy.brisgeek.com/archives/39 I've hacked up what i can for now. It's probably better to reply here than on comments Thanks Andy >From MAILER-DAEMON Tue Mar 06 01:04:41 2007 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:03:58 +0100 From: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@...123...> To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20070306090358.GA4605@...1413...> References: <b6c2c33c0703052353r75e927e7ua559967b5db78f43@...401...> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <b6c2c33c0703052353r75e927e7ua559967b5db78f43@...401...> Priority: normal X-Mailer: Mutt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Report problems to http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Animation mocksups X-BeenThere: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list Reply-To: t_w_@...123... List-Id: <inkscape-devel.lists.sourceforge.net> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel>, <mailto:inkscape-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=inkscape-devel> List-Post: <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> List-Help: <mailto:inkscape-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel>, <mailto:inkscape-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:04:41 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:53:18PM +1000, Andy Fitzsimon wrote: > Hi. > > Looking for contributions to mockups for animiation scripting and xml > editor support. > http://andy.brisgeek.com/archives/39 > > I've hacked up what i can for now. It's probably better to reply > here than on comments Shouldn't there be a specification, list of features first? What should be possible with the animation system? I would like to see: - Tracks per object. Layers could be handled as track-folders, then. - The tracks would control an object's 'lifespan' with regions, where a region is basically just a rectangle across time. Outside of regions, the object would not 'exist'. This saves one from tricks like moving objects out of viewport or toggling there visibility in some obscure way. - Keying of shap, stroke, fill, opacity, blur ... - Control over transitions between keys (stepped, linear, progressive ...) Extra: - animation curves (called IPO curves in Blender). Bezier curves (splines would do, too) to control single parameters over time, for example the amout of red in a fill. And just now I remeber it's all SVG and I have no clue what can be put in there in a sensible way. -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Creature Illustrations: http://www.printfection.com/thorwil

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fwd: [Inkscape-user] unable to export bitmaps
by Jasper van de Gronde 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

bulia byak wrote: > Thanks, indeed this is a bug. There's a limitation of the size of > buffer that Inkscape can allocate, about 5000 by 5000 pixels. However > this should not prevent your 7000 by 8000 file from exporting, because > the export is done piecewise. So the problem is that the piecewise > export fails when there's a blurred object, and looks like it tries to > allocate the entire 7000 by 8000 buffer for the blurred ellipse. > Instead it must only allocate the current strip plus approx the 2.5 > times stdDeviation of the blur (that's the difference at which the > blur fringe is virtually invisible). Jasper, can you please look into > that, as you last changed that code? It would be nice to reduce the > memory requirements of export with blur - without introducing > artefacts, of course :) I will definitely take a look, but it could take a while, as I'm currently quite busy. If someone else wants to take a look, my guess is that it's "simply" a matter of getting the boundingboxes right. Basically what I did earlier was adjust the visible area (or something like that, I'd have to check) of the export area to the entire image. Usually this doesn't mean that the entire image is drawn for each stripe, but especially if you have objects spanning the entire image this probably could (I couldn't figure out exactly how this all worked, when I tried actually modifying the clipping code I got some results I didn't expect). What it should do instead is just extend the current stripe by the amount needed by any blurs in the current stripe. One theory I had about why modifying the clipping code didn't work (for me) and why the current set up does work was that perhaps some calculations where creating bboxes with negative coordinates and that possibly something didn't like that much, since I suddenly got off set images and so on, but it's mostly guesswork. BTW, if someone gets this fixed there is a good chance it would also fix bug 1643892.

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Dev-Builds on modevia.com
by unknown＠example.com 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

About the svn-head builds posted on inkscape.modevia.com: are these done automatically or is building manually initiated? (just out of curiosity) More seriously: the quoted time of the build is that PST, CET or...? :) (it can be important when people want to test after bugfixes) As for debugging: the website says to run "gdb --symbols=inkscape.dbg inkscape", however this does not work for me. I use "gdb" and then in gdb I must enter: "file inkscape.exe inkscape.dbg" (note that the order in which the filenames are typed is essential). Then one must enter "run" to run the prog, etc. (I think it is most clear to explicitly write to enter "run" on the website). And... while I am busy: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32_inkscape_org/win32buildnotes.html needs to be updated for the current buildtool. This helps new developers tremendously. Thanks for your efforts! Johan

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Work toward scripting
by Bob Jamison 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Several people have asked me to let them know if there is anything they can do to help out toward DOM scripting. I came across something today that would be of excellent help. It is quite possible that ActionScript might turn out to be a much better fit than Spidermonkey as our JS engine, since it is C++ and we would be able to use C++ inheritance rather than Spidermonkey's C bindings, which are hard to understand, convoluted, and incredibly verbose. We would need to test this out first, however, to make sure that it is feasible and worth the effort. What we would need is a MinGW build of ActionScript. The free Mozilla version of this is called Tamarin, and is available at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ The code can be checked out via cvs: cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@...1680...:/cvsroot co mozilla/js/tamarin The problems I found are mostly these: 1. there are a lot of _asm{} chunks distributed through the code, and when they include a chunk with #ifdef WIN32, they assume that you are using MSVC. What they really need is to split their #ifdefs for win32 to _MSC_VER and __MINGW32__. MinGW needs to use the same asm code as the linux-ia32 pieces. 2. setjmp in mingw is defined as a macro, so when they wrap that in a macro later, there is a problem 3. GrowableBuffer has some Intel asm in one place, but -no- gcc asm version. Someone needs to write the 10 lines gcc-style. There are others. If the hacks are clean, we could help out the Mozilla guys by sending them a patch. They could use this for Linux, too. So if people are really serious about helping out with scripting, this is a good place to start. Thanks. bob

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FYI: svn snapshot tarball names
by Kees Cook 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi, Just a quick note: I've changed the naming convention for the svn snapshot tarballs[1]. Instead of date/time, they're now named after the most recent svn revision they contain. (Though someone will need to make a commit before this is visible...) [1] http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/?C=M;O=D -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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0.45.1?
by bulia byak 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

I think it's time to start working on 0.45.1 - there are lots of patches in the queue. However the most frequently reported problem is still not fixed: it does not work on OSX 10.3.9. Is there anyone on Mac who could look into this and report if this is fixable at all? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] PostScript fonts print as Courier when Inkscape exports to EPS
by Adib Taraben 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

Niall, I am not the Latex expert. I am using Ubuntu and/or Sarge do. Could you provide me some small document inserting the eps and the command how to start Latex I will investigate in this. btw. You probably know PostScript does not support Unicode thats why Inkscape creates own "Subfonts" for each font before using in the document. This is the reason for the "-ISOLatin1" in the font name. The second PostScript issue is that it does not handle font names containing spaces. There have to be brackets around. There will be no easy patch in the next future and you will be save if you convert fonts to strokes before. I will have an eye on that. HTH, Adib. Niall Mansfield schrieb: > Adib, > > Thanks for your message. > > > which Version of the Helvetica font do you use on your PC? > > I have found several versions from Adobe, Apple or some which stated > > "Converted from ... by ALLTYPE". Also there are .ttf and .otf > > Good question. > > I assumed that I was using PostScript fonts, but that may not be > true -- your question forced me to look, and try and understand > these things (which I don't pretend to do on Windows). > > However: > > * all the fonts displayed in the Inkscape dialogs are TrueType. > > * but not all TrueType fonts are visible in Inkscape. > (e.g. WingDings and WebDings) but about 95% of the TT fonts > are visisble. The TT fonts are all .ttf extension. > When I look at a sample of Helvetica Condensed, it says > the foundry is Agfa Monotype Corporation. > > * no PostScript fonts are visible in Inkscape > (even tho' they are visible in MS-Word, and other programs, > and can be selected, displayed on screen, > and printed ,without any problem). All our > printers are PostScript. > > Only other point that might be relevant (but I doubt it) > is that I am copying all the .EPS files from the XP box > to a Linux m/c where I am using them within LaTeX. > > Regards, > Niall >

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PostScript printing problem
by James Richard Tyrer 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

The short story is that this would print correctly except as a bitmap: http://home.earthlink.net/~tyrerj/files/OG/ogp_open_window_logo_0.svgz This appears to be an inherent problem with PostScript, but I'm not certain about this. If so, it would be necessary to first transform the SVG file into one that could be converted to PostScript vector format. I also tried the blur filter and had the same problem, it won't convert to PostScript vector format. -- JRT

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