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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions under Windows (was: eps import?)
by Peter Fischer 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Hello Ulf, Thank you for your reply. I solved my problem temporarily by hand (using pstoedit). Now I asked me about the other way: svg to ps/eps/ps? Export in Inkscape works but transparency is lost and svg2pdf is rastering the image. Could you (or anyone from the list) tell me a tool which can convert directly svg to one of the postscript formats (without rastering, maintaining the vector information), ideally under windows or linux? I need it for LaTeX. Best regards, Peter. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Ulf Erikson [mailto:ulferikson@...400...] Gesendet: Freitag, 11. August 2006 14:50 An: Peter Fischer Cc: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Extensions under Windows (was: eps import?) Peter Fischer wrote: > under Windows XP. The extension-errors.log says for "EPS Input" that "gs" > is not found. There is usually no "gs" to be find in the path under Windows, you have "gswin32.exe". Try change share/extensions/eps_input.inx to reflect this. It looks like you will need "pstoedit" and "skconvert" too, and there is even a shell script used (try change "sk2svg.sh" into "sh sk2svg.sh"?). Many of the other external input/output extensions seem to be equally flawed. It doesn't look like installing the extra software and put it in the path is enough to enable extensions under Windows. What is the best way to fix this? Always use double .inx files? (Like the old pdf_output_on_win32.inx which also uses a .bat instead of the .sh). Or maybe use perl or python instead of shell scripts? What about the different dependencies? (gs vs. gswin32.exe)

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get rid of ChangeLog?
by MenTaLguY 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Would anyone object if I got rid of the ChangeLog? It's not getting updated enough, it's redundant with respect to the svn log and the release notes, and it's being a royal pain when trying to merge stuff from trunk. -mental

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compiling svn on slack, ja.po problems
by pbhj 13 Aug '06

13 Aug '06

Hey all, just subscribed so as to post this issue. I've updated gettext and cairo and now can get alot further with my make, but not all the way. The tail of the make log gives this : [...] Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' file=./`echo ja | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file ja.po ja.po:15: nplurals = 1... ja.po:899: ...but some messages have 2 plural forms /usr/bin/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error make[2]: *** [ja.gmo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 I can actually get through the make && make install commands by deleting some of the .po and .gmo files, eg ja.po and I think it was some of the chinese ones. >From what little I know the ja.po are language specific. I've checked the configure help and there doesn't appear to be a locale setting? So it seems errors in a language file (that I don't want or need) are preventing compilation. To get it to compile I did this ... If I delete the ja.po and ja.gmo (and the ./po/zh_* files ) and alter the Makefile accordingly I can conclude the make. But then I can't install as something somewhere wants to install the stuff that I've excised. Doing a search I realised it's ja.gmo and zh_*.gmo lines in the ./Makefile and ./po/Makefile . I run this : make clean && ./configure --enable-lcms --with-perl --prefix=/home/pandfi/inkscape-svn && make and get : Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `ja.gmo', needed by `all-yes'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape' make: *** [all] Error 2 and then when I "make install" I get : Making install in po make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `ja.gmo', needed by `all-yes'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/svn/inkscape/po' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 So I altered the two Makefiles mentioned above and it worked OK. Now running "gdb ~/inkscape-svn/bin/inkscape" and typing "run", then "bt" (backtrace) I get : (gdb) bt #0 0xb719cd7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #1 0xb7195ab1 in std::ios_base::_M_init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #2 0xb7193d94 in std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #3 0x0852b98a in global constructors keyed to _ZN8Inkscape5Debug6Logger8_enabledE () at /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/3.4.6/../../../../include/c++/3.4.6/fstream:632 #4 0x0852bda5 in __do_global_ctors_aux () #5 0x08181b85 in _init () #6 0x0852bcab in __libc_csu_init () #7 0xb7014dbf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #8 0x08189dd1 in _start () at ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:119 HTH somebody somewhere ... I'm going to try upgrading libstdc++ and fstream now and see if that takes me anywhere. Any other thoughts???

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Adding clippaths to the Ps/Pdf exporters
by Ulf Erikson 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hi, I am in need some advice and suggestions from an extensions expert.. I would like to improve the pdf exporter by handle clippaths (and maybe later masks), but I am having a hard time figuring out how I best can go about to add such features. ( There is no code for this in the postscript exporter that I can copy :-) Should it be possible to continue using a "print" extension or do I need to start use an "output" extension for this? I understand that an output extension is handed the full document tree at once. A print extension on the other hand is given a single path at a time together with the needed style, transformation matrix, bounding box, and so on. But I don't see if and how a print extension can get information about the needed clipping path. If there is no information about the clippath available for print extensions would it be okay to add this (by changing the interface)? Is it then better with a new set_clippath method or an extra clippath parameter for the fill and stroke methods? Ulf

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features proposition
by Bertrand Haut 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hello, I've just discover inkscape (trying to escape from xfig), It's great but I still have two suggestions : - the possibility to adapt only some of the properties in the Fill and Stroke window. I've two curves : solid and dashed. I select the two curves, adapt the width, press enter. The two curves have now the same width (Good) but the dashed is now solid (Bad). It would be great if only the properties that have been modified by the user where adapted. - The most important thing for a graphic editor is the facility to insert the result in LaTeX (ok, it's a personal opinion). It is already possible to save as "LaTeX with PSTricks macros" but with this option it is not possible to include LaTex code (such as $\frac{a}{b}$) as text in Inkscape and have it interpreted by LaTeX. The idea is to seperate the figure in two : on one side all the text objects and on the other side everything else. The rest is exported in an eps file. The text objects are inserted in a .tex file which includes the eps. Something like : \begin{picture}(0,0)% \includegraphics{the_eps_file_with_everything_except_texts.eps}% \end{picture}% \begingroup \setlength{\unitlength}{0.02bp}% \begin{picture}(47600,21050)(0,0)% \put(11700,7000){\makebox(0,0)[c]{\strut{}The_first_text_object}}% \put(13200,9700){\makebox(0,0)[c]{\strut{}The_first_text_object}}% (...) \end{picture}% \endgroup \endinput With this, the user has only to include a .tex file to have the graphics and all the text objects interpreted by LaTeX. I assume this should not be too complicated. The export in eps is already done. It remains to access the position and the text of all text objects to write the .tex file. Maybe I can work on this second suggestion. The question is where should this be done ? Inside inkscape or in a external program which work on any .svg file and use Inkscape to make the export in eps ? -- Bertrand Haut ICQ 48978874

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Extensions under Windows (was: eps import?)
by Ulf Erikson 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Peter Fischer wrote: > under Windows XP. The extension-errors.log says for "EPS Input" that "gs" > is not found. There is usually no "gs" to be find in the path under Windows, you have "gswin32.exe". Try change share/extensions/eps_input.inx to reflect this. It looks like you will need "pstoedit" and "skconvert" too, and there is even a shell script used (try change "sk2svg.sh" into "sh sk2svg.sh"?). Many of the other external input/output extensions seem to be equally flawed. It doesn't look like installing the extra software and put it in the path is enough to enable extensions under Windows. What is the best way to fix this? Always use double .inx files? (Like the old pdf_output_on_win32.inx which also uses a .bat instead of the .sh). Or maybe use perl or python instead of shell scripts? What about the different dependencies? (gs vs. gswin32.exe)

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WEBFORM would like to translate news to French
by v1nce 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: v1nce email: vincent.pennec@...400... submitted the following: Hi, the title says all. there were french translations of the news in the past, but I didn\'t see anything new for some few weeks (months?). So if the current translator agree and if you think I can help, I \'m your man See U V1nce

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eps import?
by Peter Fischer 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

Dear inkscape developers, I excessively searched the forums for my question but found no complete answer. So I hope you don't mind me asking you directly. The problem is importing eps into inkscape under Windows XP. The extension-errors.log says for "EPS Input" that "gs" is not found. Since I already have gs installed, I additionally put it into PATH but that didn't help. Could you tell me what to do to get the extension (and the others, too) work? Is it sufficient to install the applications and put them into PATH or does inkscape need libraries (dlls under windows)? If yes, where to get them without recompiling? Or do I have to recompile inkscape for extending it? You would greatly help me if you could explain me how the extension mechanism works so that I can install the necessary extensions. Thank you in advance if you took the care for reading this and Best regards, Peter.

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0.44.1 status
by MenTaLguY 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Okay, last night I merged pretty much everything I wanted to get in for this release. Does anyone else have stuff they want to slot in for 0.44.1? Now's your last chance. Once the last of that stuff is in, we'll notify the translators mailing list so they can get any translation issues sorted. Meanwhile, we test, validate some of the packaging changes which were comitted, and once they're finished we can tag and release. Do you think we should do any 0.44.1 prereleases to get wider testing? -mental

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