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gis data to svg; cdr
by Alexandre Prokoudine 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi, FYI, there are LGPL tools to convert ArcView Shapefiles, used as common GIS exchange file format, to SVG: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/utils/shp2svg/ And, btw, do we really want to forget cdr2svg.py script by Richard Hughes from September 2005? Alexandre

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Joining the Software Freedom Conservancy
by Bryce Harrington 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi all, Inkscape's been growing by leaps and bounds this last year, thanks to all the efforts of its community. Part of the growth process requires formalizing certain things - such as how we handle Inkscape's finances. Up to now, I've handled Inkscape's finances as part of my own. However, with the income we'll be getting from Google, and the increasing amount of donations we've been receiving, now is a good time to set Inkscape up with a more formal way to manage its money. The Inkscape admins have considered a number of options. The one we like best is to join the Software Freedom Conservancy (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/). For the past few months I've been working with the SFC, and just recently learned we've been accepted! Here's more info: http://inkscape.org/conservancy/ However, before this becomes official, there are three things I think we need to do: First is to give the community the opportunity to voice any questions or concerns before anything gets set. Second, we need to review the agreement that the SFC requires us to sign. Third, we need to select a set of official representatives who will sign the Agreement papers that cause Inkscape to become part of the SFC. As part of this, we need to decide how official (monetary) decisions will be made by Inkscape. This is required by the SFC mainly so there is a defined way for determining how funds will be spent. Do we require a full concensus of the Inkscape representatives? A simple majority? Or is the word of any one representatives enough? My own feeling is that a simple majority (3 out of 4 reps) is enough. We also will need to have a defined procedure for adding/removing representatives. Please review http://inkscape.org/conservancy/ and give some thought as to how we should organize Inkscape, and share your thoughts in this thread. Thanks, Bryce

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NEW: interruptible display for better interactivity
by bulia byak 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Just committed: * Interruptible display: Previously, Inkscape could not do anything until it finishes the current screen redraw. Now the redraw is made interruptible, so that Inkscape responds to mouse and keyboard input and can abort the current redraw and start over if you do some screen-changing operation. As a result, Inkscape now feels much snappier and more interactive. So, while redraw is not really any faster now, it _feels_ much faster, especially for things like zooming, scrolling, etc. Enjoy. I fixed a couple bugs that were exposed by this change, but there may be more. In particular I suspect there might be a crash when you quit Inkscape while it's redrawing. I got this crash a couple times but it's very hard to nail it down. If you can cause it reproducibly please let me know. Other than that, it's working perfectly for me in the last few days. Thanks to Mental who suggested this change :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape 0.44 in Ubuntu? (was Re: Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!)
by Ben Fowler 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

On 03/08/06, matiphas@...8... <matiphas@...8...> wrote: > Selon Donn <donn.ingle@...400...>: > > > > There is a good reason for this: 0.44 was released a few days after > > > ubuntu 6.06. > > Okay. :'( > > Any idea how long before it's in the ubuntu repo? I would prefer to keep > > apt-get in control of packages. > > You can maybe google for "ubuntu dapper backports" > -> it may give you a repo for dapper that contains inkscape0_44.deb See http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=823c4e8d2314cff9385e11b69c3872… Ben

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Aquify the OSX UI?
by Michael Moore 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hi there, I was wondering if it'd be possible to use a more Aqua-ish theme for the OSX version in the next release? I think that The Gimp includes a GTK theme which makes it blend in more with the OSX desktop. I believe that an aperance that blends in a bit more would make it more acceptable to OSX users. I made a screenshot with the Gimp and Inkscape side by side and made some notes on the things I think help the Gimp blend in more. http://www.stuporglue.org/downloads/screenshots/MacishGTK.jpg I can file a feature request if that'd be the right thing to do. Thanks, -- Michael Moore

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Binary compatibility issues
by Mike Hearn 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

As Donn has discovered Inkscape no longer installs on older versions of Fedora. I worked with him off list to find out why. There are two separate problems: * Use of __gnu_cxx::__pool (or something like that, going from memory). This is probably being used implicitly and is another case of the GNU people deciding to "helpfully" upgrade your dependencies for you. * Use of GOption API Together these cause the requirements of the binary to be higher than what the autopackage things they are. thanks -mike

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siggraph this week
by Jon Phillips 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hello all, I'm at siggraph this week supporting the Open Source Pavilion for Creative Commons while also doing heavy promotion of Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library and CREATE Project. Siggraph (www.siggraph.org) is the largest graphics conference in the world and Ton from Blender.org has done an excellent job pulling together the blender team, people from GIMP, and others for this...I think it will become a great yearly meeting point. Blender has about 15 people here, honestly demo'ing, chatting, etc (and this is just the night before the exhibition). I can get anyone free exhibition passes from tomorrow AUG 1 - 3 (9:30 - 6 PM those days). Here is a link for the free exhibition passes: http://akseezanimation.com/2006/06/free-siggraph-2006-passes.html If you want to help out with demo's, answering questions, etc, please come out! I will hook you up with t-shirts and more from CC, Gnome Foundation, etc so you can look official :) Come on out! 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... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [root@...1070...: [Inkscape-tester] inkscape build report]
by Miklós Erdélyi 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

I don't know what 'make check' does exactly but there's a great chance that it is run on a machine with a Cairo library older than 1.2 which didn't have the PDF backend enabled by default, thus it doesn't have the needed header file. Also, cairo-pdf.h is included with "" and not <> but I don't think changing this would solve the problem. In order to solve this Inkscape will have to depend on Cairo 1.2 right? Or the Cairo PDF exporter could be enabled via a configure parameter.

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check for cairo in configure
by jiho 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

hi all, building inkscape on os x fails today because : In file included from extension/internal/pdf-cairo.cpp:52: extension/internal/pdf-cairo.h:28:19: error: cairo.h: No such file or directory extension/internal/pdf-cairo.h:29:30: error: pango/pangocairo.h: No such file or directory extension/internal/pdf-cairo.cpp:59:23: error: cairo-pdf.h: No such file or directory [...] I don't have cairo on my system yet so this is not surprising but ./ configure lets me go into making without warning for anything. If not having cairo breaks the build there should be a configure check or a switch (--with[out]-cairo). PS: in addition the link to the patch to cairo mentionned in the last thread about pdf printing with cairo http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-July/007477.htm gives me a 404 not found error. JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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0.44.1?
by Bryce Harrington 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Are things ready for a 0.44.1 release? Bryce

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