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Trace dialog tweaks
by Bob Jamison 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

Hi all, I really like the redesign of the Trace dialog, and I loved it when I first saw it. But later, I see two things that need to be adjusted before the release. 1. The SIOX button needs to be on the same view as the preview, since it alters how the selection is made. Normally, we want only an image and nothing else. With the SIOX checkbox pressed, we want the image, and also any curves which are above it in Z-order. 2. Much more important: The "Credits" frame is missing. We need to put it back. I (we) promised Peter Selinger that as long as we used Potrace, he would have obvious attribution for his stuff. He is a treasured benefactor of Inkscape, and we need to make sure that users know whence the technology comes. I am an active opponent of software patents, but if anyone really deserved a patent, it would be Mr. Selinger. Potrace is cutting technology, yet instead of trying to profit from it, he altruistically allows people like us to use it. Behaviour such as this needs to be encouraged. For example, the difference between Potrace 1.6 and 1.7 is a set of optimizations that he did explicitly for us. Cool guy! And all we need is a (3cm x 2cm) box with the name and URL on it. bob

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Gaussian blur fix
by Jasper van de Gronde 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

I found bug 1576258 in the tracker and made a patch for Gaussian blur that fixes it (attached it to the bug). Since no one was assigned to the bug I thought I'd send a message to the mailing list so someone can review/commit the fix. BTW, the IIR gaussian blur patch I posted earlier also solves this problem, as it doesn't use subsampling anymore, but this patch is much less invasive.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] bbox calculation
by bulia byak 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

On 12/9/06, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote: > "The bounding box is computed *exclusive* of any values for clipping, > masking, *filter effects*, opacity and *stroke-width*." > > See: > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/coords.html#ObjectBoundingBox > > I filed this as bug 1612108 (with a test case which shows the problem). Thanks, that's a good point - it concerns SVG compliance and therefore must be fixed regardless of what we decide for other visual and UI aspects of bboxes. Unfortunately this means that at the moment, we display gradients, patterns, clippaths and masks slightly wrong when they have objectBoundingBox units and apply to an object with stroke, and their display will change when we fix this. But the good news is that Inkscape does not create objectBoundingBox itself (except filter areas I think), so such files can only come from elsewhere. If a gradient has objectBoundingBox units, it is converted to absolute units as soon as you edit the gradient or the object that uses it. So, this fix is likely to have a relatively low impact. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Time to unpause 0.45 release?
by Bryce Harrington 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:25:35PM -0800, Jon Phillips wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 12:57 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > A few weeks back we decided to put the release on pause to give time for > > additional work on the PDF extension. Could someone outline the status > > of this work, and if it is still necessary for this to be blocking the > > release? > > > > If not, would anyone have an issue if we resumed the release process at > > this point? I find myself with some unexpected extra freetime this > > month that I could devote to assisting with the release. > > > > Bryce > > Funny...I had the near same email ready to send...lets haul on the > release. Activity seems to have lowered...I think now rather than wait > any more... Okay, well one of the really big items is getting the about screen contest underway. What steps are necessary to get this going? Any chance we can get this ready to start accepting submissions by this weekend? Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] bbox calculation
by bulia byak 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

On 12/8/06, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote: > I think some things (e.g. selection outlines) should probably always use the visual bbox. But the line between "technical" and "artistic" can be very fine. Even if we ignore technical users, there are artistic users (including myself) who sometimes require geometric bounds -- tiling is one of the most common cases, but there are others as well. > > We need to have a better solution in those situations, because there, the lack of geometric bounds isn't just annoying, it's debilitating. I just wish I knew what that solution was. :/ I can change it back, but I don't want to get back all the problems we had with no-stroke bboxes, and I don't really want to introduce a user option which will be hard to explain to the user and a maintenance burden. On the other hand, we now have an even worse option in Options > Tools > Selector > Default scale origin, which is highly obscure and rather buggy. It seems to me that if we add a "bounding box includes stroke" option we'll be able to get rid of that "default scale origin" which is a good thing in itself. It would be still better to find a compromise which would work for everyone and therefore not require an option. Suggestions are welcome. Please also consider that we now have blur, and in at least some cases, it makes perfect sense to include the blur margin in the bbox too. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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wiimote+inkscape (YouTube)
by MenTaLguY 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

Inkscape featured (briefly) as a demo application for this guy's project to develop Linux drivers for the Wiimote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp1_pZ-AteA&eurl= -mental

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Runtime checks for SSL
by Aaron Spike 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

One of the problems I've been running up against with the autopackage is ensuring that the users have SSL installed. SSL is required for securing jabber login and whiteboard traffic. The autopackages I am currently generating have SSL linked to inkscape statically. This is a huge security nightmare IMHO and I do not plan to do this for the release packages because I do not plan on undertaking the responsibility of ensuring that we update the packages for any and every SSL vulnerability. I would like to user relaytool to make a runtime check for the presence of libssl and conditionally disable features. I would appreciate assistance with this. http://autopackage.org/apbuild-relaytool.php Aaron Spike

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Boolean operations on lines, bug or feature?
by Jasper van de Gronde 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

When I use the difference or intersection operation on an open path (and a rectangle) the path suddenly gets new edges and is closed, see attachment (which also shows my intention). Is this intentional or should I file a bug?

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Kompiling Inkscape
by Loi 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi, Today I made a svn checkout of inkscape and tried to compile it. But it doesn't want: ./autogen.sh ============================================================================= When you report a trouble about building SVN version of inkscape, Please report following information about distro and tools version, too. --1. distribution------------------------------------------------------------ Debian GNU/Linux release 4.0 --2. tools------------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/bin/m4: /usr/bin/autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60a /usr/bin/autoheader: autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.60a /usr/bin/automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.10 automake-1.7: not found automake-1.8: not found automake-1.9: not found /usr/bin/aclocal: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.10 aclocal-1.7: not found aclocal-1.8: not found aclocal-1.9: not found /usr/bin/intltoolize: intltoolize (GNU intltool) 0.35.0 /usr/bin/gettextize: /usr/bin/gettextize (GNU gettext-tools) 0.15 --3. environment variables--------------------------------------------------- PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games LANG=de_CH LANGUAGE=de_CH:de_DE:de:en_GB:en ============================================================================= 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 ... yes (version 2.60) checking for automake >= 1.7 ... yes (version 1.10) checking for glib-gettextize >= 2.0.0 ... yes (version 2.12.4) checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... yes (version 0.35.0) Running aclocal ... configure.ac:44: error: AC_PROG_CC cannot be called after AM_PROG_CC_C_O /usr/share/aclocal-1.10/ccstdc.m4:25: AM_PROG_CC_STDC is expanded from... configure.ac:44: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 Please fix the error conditions and try again. I use: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60a automake (GNU automake) 1.10 All builddeps given in debian/control are installed.

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Buildtool : 'console' option
by Johan Engelen 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Thanks alot for making the buildtool! It's pretty nice. However, now I manually changed build.xml:255 into "-lgc -mconsole -lws2_32 -lintl -lm -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32" to create a console version so I can see errors and other messages. Could build.xml be changed such that adding 'console' as commandline option would build a console version of Inkscape? ("buildtool dist console" for example). Or do I have to make a copy-paste of targets link and dist and rename them linkconsole and distconsole such that "buildtool distconsole" would do what I want? Thanks, Johan

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