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PDF printing with Cairo
by Miklós Erdélyi 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, I attached the patch which can be used to try out PDF printing with Cairo. It's still in the early stages of development, with rudimentary text support, image support, and gradient support. In order to use native non-alpha gradients in PDF a patch for Cairo has to be applied (otherwise the result will be just fallback images when using gradients) which can be found there: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-June/007300.html [note that this patch introduces a bug: fallback images will be mistransformed]. First the patch.bin has to be applied to the inkscape source tree, then the pdf-cairo.* files have to be copied to src/extension/internal. Then do the usual build process starting with invoking autogen. Please feel free to test this and report any of your findings on this list. Best regards, miklos

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Vector Math Poster Contest
by Ralf Stephan 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hello, folks might want to know that Ed Pegg (of mathpuzzle) is holding a Vector Math Poster Contest: http://www.mathpuzzle.com/VectorMathPoster.htm ralf

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WEBFORM URGENT - Trojan in inkscape executable?
by Dirk Rensink 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Dirk Rensink email: dirk.rensink@...1391... submitted the following: Hello together, I downloaded the Inkscape 0.44 Windows executable last week and installed it without any problems. Today I switched on my computer and after some minutes I got a warning message from my antivirus software (Norton Antivirus 2006) that it found the trojan Trojan.Zlob in the 0.44-exe and that it was deleted. After checking the Norotn virus database I found none of the registry entries and none of the files the trojan creates. Now I cannot even download the exe any more since Norton insists in finding this trojan. Although I suspect that this is a false alarm: Could you please check the Windows executables? Are there any other users which report the same infection with other antivirus software? I will now initiate a complete system scan and will let you know the results. Thanks for your response. Best regards, Dirk Rensink

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OS X dev builds again
by jiho 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi all, Thank you very much for 0.44 which is brilliant. Now that I am back from no-internet-land I restarted the process of producing dev builds of Inkscape for OS X. A new build is there: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape_20060629.dmg I changed the background image color to match the green color of the new website (which is great too... even if I think that blue fitted better to Inkscape that green ;-) ) and thought about how to represent the installation procedure in an international manner (see thread http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15481499 ). In the end I stayed with my initial approach (i.e. a link to / Applications on which Inkscape Icon can be dragged) because: - the only text present is "internationalized" by the system itself - I read somewhere that even if OS X app bundles can be executed from anywhere on the disk, they are registered and really integrated into the system only if they are in /Applications (there is a startup job which looks into /Applications and registers new ones). Therefore, / Applications is really the place where to put them - it eases very much the installation procedure (= 1 drag and drop) The next problem of the user is to find out where is Inkscape once he dragged it onto the "Applications" link which I don't think is much of a problem because: - there is a link to /Applications with the same icon that in the .dmg on the left of every Finder window by default - it is a common procedure to put applications in /Applications :-) - starting from OS X Tiger a spotlight search will show Inkscape and, actually, all people I have seen using Tiger never navigate to Applications again but use Spotlight as a launcher - this is something that is likely to be even "more true" in the long run with spotlight taking more and more importance in the way the Finder operates (in 10.5 Leopard, the navigation in the Finder is going to be largely based on spotlight searches) I hope this is OK with everybody. As the .info.txt file mentions, this build is without Inkboard support because loudmouth is still not in Fink. Michael can you upload your Fink package somewhere so that I (and maybe other OS X compilers) can use it? Do you think it can go in the wiki page? Thank you in advance. 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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[noreply@...34...: SourceForge.net Support: Over-quota notice for project: inkscape]
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

----- Forwarded message from noreply@...34... ----- Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:26:39 -0700 From: noreply@...34... To: mental@...58..., buliabyak@...58..., bryce@...58..., joncruz@...58... Subject: SourceForge.net Support: Over-quota notice for project: inkscape Greetings, This is an automated quota-overage notice. Do not respond to this email, instead follow the instructions below if you have questions or concerns regarding this mailing. You are receiving this message as your SourceForge.net project, inkscape, is currently over its quota in its project group directory located on the SourceForge.net shell server. Your project has a 100000 k soft quota and your project is currently using 574748 k of disk. This new quota system allows us to track quotas granted to projects. Follow the instructions below to request a quota increase for your project to stop future mailings like this one from being sent to your project. The following command can be run at any time on the project shell server to check your project's disk usage: du -skx /home/groups/i/in/inkscape/ Please take action to reduce your project's disk usage as soon as reasonably possible, but no later than 2006-07-10. For your quick reference, you may access your user home directory using any SSH client: Host: shell.sourceforge.net Home Directory: /home/groups/i/in/inkscape/ Should you have problems accessing your user account, please refer to the site document "Coping with User Account Problems": https://www.sf.net/docs/C02 For further details on the usage and access of the project shell server, refer to the site document "Project Shell, Web and Database Services": https://www.sf.net/docs/E07 If you wish to request an increased quota for your project, or have further questions or concerns regarding this matter, submit a Support Request to the Alexandria project on SourceForge.net. However, please review your project's current disk usage, and prune out unneeded data now, before requesting the increased quota. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 Thank you, SourceForge.net Support ----- End forwarded message -----

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Inkscape performance
by jEsuSdA 8) 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hello! I've been trying inkscape 0.44 some days in my work. My job is web designer and (sometimes) graphical designer. One thing i've observed during my work with inkscape is that the performace is lower than 0.43. When inkscape is open during more than 1 hour (aprox.) the drawing of vectors (and dialogs too) is too slow, sometimes dialogs appears without controls too. Then a restart is needed. I've installed inkscape from the .package in sourceforge homepage, and i use debian. ¿ Has anybody noticed this issue or is only a personal configuration problem ? ¿ There is something i can do to avoid this problem (installa some library, delete some files, compile from the source, ...) ? Thanks! jEsuSdA 8)

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Trojan in Win32 binary?
by Laurens Blankers 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Symantec Anti-virus is detecting Trojan.Zlob in Inkscape-0.44-1.win32.exe and also in uninst.exe once Inkscape is installed. I guess it has to do with a current update of the virus definitions because when I originally downloaded and installed Inkscape no virus was detected, however redownloading the binary immediately triggers the on-access scanner. I hope this is a false positive, but I would appreciate this if you would investigate this. And may I suggest pulling the binary from Sourceforge in the meantime to prevent possible inflections? Laurens

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INKSCAPE_LIBS
by Aaron Spike 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

So I was fighting with the Xfixes dependency in the Autopackage. Do the INKSCAPE_LIBS or LIKSCAPE_CFLAGS variables work like ./configure --help says they do? Even though I set and export them different values continue to end un in the Makefile. Aaron Spike

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Inkscape #2 Project on SourceForge
by Spyros Blanas 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

In the latest SourceForge.net site-wide email, Inkscape is rated as the second top project for the last two-month period. Also, it's number one for some days now in activity, in the current statistics page. Due to the 0.44 release, it has surpassed many other famous projects. Congratulations to all! - Spyros Blanas

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Need fink unstable ? (was Re: Versions of gtk/gtkmm used by distros?)
by Ben Fowler 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

On 01/07/06, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote: > On 01 Jul 2006, at 14:15 , Ben Fowler wrote: > > On 26/06/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote: > >>> For Inkscape we're considering changing our required gtk/gtkmm > >>> requirements from 2.4 to something newer (e.g. 2.8). > > > > Mac OS X - fink has 2.4.9 in stable; anything more recent than 2.6.10 > > will cause disruption, I fear. > > That is true and to compile Inkscape on OS X you need Fink unstable > anyway ... J-o, I have, for a long time, been wondering about the correctness of the "A full unstable fink installation" which occurs on our CompilingMacOsX page. I was under the impression that a full unstable installation of fink would be 'dogfood' and only be needed be fink devs. Certainly, I have fink stable and have merely added the necessary packages from unstable as I needed them. I am certainly not going to suggest changing the wiki on a whim, but if there is some definite reason why my approach was inferior, I would most seriously consider changing it. Ben

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