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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Assign hot keys to specific actions?
by bulia byak 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

On 11/7/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > > Bryce, the file to edit for remapping keys is called > > share/keys/default.xml. > > Can you put a note about this into the Tips and Tricks tutorial or the > Keys document? OK, I will add a note. As for the .rc file, would anyone object if I just delete it? It doesn't look like it's being used. > Well, units.xml was something Jon Cruz started after I implemented the > units stuff using the units.txt file. The units.txt file is pretty easy > to edit and has worked adequately, but I can see why some people might > want it in xml. Unfortunately, the units.xml stuff never actually > worked, and it wasn't clear what the plan was for making it work, so > it's just been there disabled all this time. JonCruz, will you object to removing units.xml? > Then would it be possible to have a shortcut key that does vertical and > horizontal center alignment? What needs to be done is creating a _verb_ that does this. After that, adding it to menu or assigning a key to it will be trivial. There are many things that Inkscape can do in principle, but not through a verb, and these things should be verbified. By the way, verbification is pretty simple thing to do, so it's a good work for novice coders. Just review verbs.h and verbs.cpp, they're pretty self-explanatory. For example just recently, I verbified the select next/select prev actions, bound to Tab/Shift+Tab, and as a result these keys now work in all tools and not only Selector/Node as before. > Oh, there is also a bug in text centering - write some text, then change > it from left-aligned to center-aligned. The text then moves from its > current position to half its width to the left. This bug has been there > since Sodipodi days... It's not really a "bug". Inkscape just needs to recalculate the anchor point based on the bounding box of the text, in addition to changing alignment. More like a missing feature (worth a RFE). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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GTK+ Quartz Backend on Mac OS X
by Derek Hinchliffe 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi all, Recently I've been playing with compiling Inkscape against the experimental native quartz (Mac OS X) backend for GTK+ [1] and I've had some reasonable success so far. After following the GTK+ build instructions on the Imendio project page, I then compiled all the pre-reqs for Inkscape into a custom prefix (/opt/gtk), and then compiled Inkscape using: CFLAGS="-flat_namespace -undefined suppress" ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk The result is a binary that I can run (using inkscape -g) and doesn't require X11 at all. A screenshot is available.[2] It loads fine, and I can open and edit files. The problems so far: 1. Various visual glitches (eg. some icons in GTK dialogs displaying an ugly yellow, scroll bar glitches, menus not being entirely responsive), 2. Some random crashes when dealing with complex SVGs, 3. Very slow refresh of canvas, which gets painted in gray first, then you can visibly see it paint the canvas on from top to bottom. This happens regularly when interacting or scrolling. Problem 3 is by far the most noticable, and if it wasn't for that (and the odd crash) it would be quite usable! Having no experience with developing Inkscape (and very little with GTK+), can someone give me a clue as to which package I need to focus on to troubleshoot #3? Does Inkscape use Cairo to paint the canvas? Or is it pure GDK? Or cairo via GTK+? You can see I know very little here ;) Anyway the progress so far is impressive, and I don't think it will be too much longer before it would be realistic to start integrating GTK+ further into the OS (eg. using native OSX menu bar, a quartz widget gtk-theme-engine, etc). Cheers Derek [1] http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/ [2] http://www.hinchy.org/inkscape/inkscape-gtk-quartz.png

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Openfontlibrary] Fwd: Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation
by Jon Phillips 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 11:37 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi All, > > Thought this might be of interest to this list :-) Yes, I apologize for cross-list posting, but this is pretty huge news for Inkscape and others... > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alex Hudson <home@...1553...> > Date: 07-Nov-2006 09:33 > Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with > Mozilla Foundation > To: discussion@...1554... > Cc: fsfe-uk@...570... > > > > I'm not sure if people will have seen this with all the other noise > about Novell etc.: > > http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-11-07.html > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html > > The scripting engine of Flash (which, from what I've been told, is very > much like Javascript anyway) has been donated to Mozilla, and will be > part of their future JS implementation (I gather). > > In other Adobe news, people may have seen that they're building on other > free software like WebKit: > > http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo > > (RIA's == "Rich Internet Applications", FYI) > > .. and Microsoft's XML Paper Specification seems to have scared them > into doing: > > http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars > > While Adobe haven't been terribly free software friendly in many ways in > the past, it does seem like now is an opportune time to talk to them: > they may be becoming more receptive to the needs of the free software > community. > > Cheers, > > Alex. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fsfe-uk mailing list > Fsfe-uk@...570... > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk > > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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Command Line version of Inkscape for Windows
by Hugo Ferreira 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, Could someone provide me with an URL (or just send the executable) of a the latest version of inkscape for windows compiled for console use (as seen here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#I.27m_on_Windows.2C_and_command…). The problem is that I'm invoking inkscape from a PHP script with exec() to convert an .svg to .jpg on-the-fly, but since inkscape doesn't hold the console until the conversion is done, most of the times I try to read the file before it has been created. Thanks in advance, Hugo Ferreira P.S.: If anyone know other way of using Inkscape to render .svg to .jpg without calling it from the console, then I would very much appreciate the help! -- GPG Fingerprint: B0D7 1249 447D F5BB 22C5 5B9B 078C 2615 504B 7B85

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Feature request: Update imported graphic
by Vladimir Savic 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Most of the time I have both Inkscape and GIMP opened. Vector gfx is being done with Inkscape and then imported into GIMP, and opposite direction. I use Inkscape to finalize illustrations - typography, frames etc. Even if everything is set up (almost) perfectly there are unfortunately always a few pixels to tweak. Then I must switch to GIMP, retouch bitmap, reimport that illustration and do the resizing again (As noted in previous posts, Inkscape doesn't know exact printing size of imported graphics.). Another situation where I needed similar workaround was after reorganization of files. I run into the problem of having to correct all the links to graphics and then reloading the whole document to see the changes. It would be very handy having option to update selected pixmap graphic from file. Please don't be resent for throwing my working problems notes directly at this list. Afterall, these are all real life expiriences. :) Cheers, Vlada

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ANN: Crucible 1.7 released
by Bryce Harrington 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hi all, Crucible is the automated test harness we've used for testing Inkscape. It's also in use for a number of projects including Cairo, GEGL, Linux NFSv4, and Linux CPU Hotplug to do automated building and testing. Much has changed in this release; most notably is the new installation system, making it possible to get Crucible up and running in a matter of minutes. Kees and I have also installed it on the quad PPC machine he received for Inkscape testing. Some work is still needed to hook things up but I hope to get that finished within a week or two. The code is available here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/crucible/crucible-1.7.tar.gz Crucible provides a powerful, flexible backend for building automated testing systems. It allows for conducting tests on multiple machines (via NFS), including patching, rebuilding, and booting new kernels, libraries, and services. Configuration and customization can be done through simple config files and bash scripts. It is suitable for performing tests of GUI applications, services, libraries, and kernel patches. Changes: A new installation system is in place, which should make it straightforward to getting a basic crucible install up and running quickly. Lots of documentation has been added. There is a new post-installation test 'make installcheck'. Directory locations have been abstracted. Internals have been abstracted and generalized, giving more flexibility for customization/extension. Several new subcommands added to 'sut' script for managing system images, adding new machines, etc. A new queue_plan script is added for doing easier one-off testruns. Kernel building is more robust and generalized. Bryce

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06 Nov '06

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NEW: more outline mode goodies
by bulia byak 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

* The window title displays "(outline)" next to the file name when that editing window is in Outline mode. * The bug whereby stroked shapes didn't change stroke width when swithing to Outline mode or back is fixed. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Crash after closing Image Properties dialog
by Vladimir Savic 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Reproduce procedure: Import an image and from RMB drop-down menu pick "Image Properties" item. Close the dialog that appeared and click on the image again. Then Inkscape crashes (at least here). Regards, Vlada

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patches in the tracker
by Jon Phillips 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

Hi all, could you all take a look at what is in the inkscape patch tracker so we can get some flow through there. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=93438&atid=604308 I closed out my assigned patches which took about 15 minutes. Hopefully a few more people could do this as well. It really helps churn up activity and get more developers attracted to the project. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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