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Warning in /extension/patheffect.cpp
by Ben Fowler 05 May '06

05 May '06

Around line 50: 42 Inkscape::XML::Node * defs; 43 44 for (int i = 0; patheffects[i] != NULL && i < 128; i++) { 45 gchar * patheffect = patheffects[i]; 46 47 // This is weird, they should all be references... but anyway 48 if (patheffect[0] != '#') continue; 49 50 Inkscape::XML::Node * prefs = sp_repr_lookup_child(defs, "id", &(patheffect[1])); 51 if (prefs == NULL) { 52 53 continue; 54 } I get a warning about use of uninitialised variable 'defs', and I guess I didn't have my shredded wheat today, because I can't seem to work out whether this warning counts for anything. Should defs be initialised to NULL? Ben

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Last call for feedback on my SoC proposal
by Justin Wikinator 05 May '06

05 May '06

Dear respected Inkscape developers: I am extremely interested in gaining a position with the Summer of Code with Inkscape, and I am doing everything in my power to be successful in doing so. With this in mind, I hope you will take a look at my proposal for improving the Python effects libraries and give me some feedback before I submit the link to it to Google on May 8th. My proposal resides here on the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ImprovingPythonEffectsAPI. If you like what you see, I'd appreciate help in convincing Google that this is a worthwhile endeavor. Sincerely, Justin

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SoC and automatic kerning
by juraj sukop 05 May '06

05 May '06

Dear Inkscapers, I greatly welcomed that Summer of Code is going to happen this year again, since I would like to participate this time. I would like to develop a tool for automatic kerning -- this should adjust the position of the letters in a text to correct the spacing irregularities, to ease the reading flow and to improve readability. This is also called optical kerning. To me, this is very helpful feature and I can imagine it could be of use for other open source software as well. Unfortunately, this is not listed on your Project Ideas page. What do you think? Would such a thing make sense for Inkscape and in the same time applicable for Summer of Code? Thanks a lot for any feedback and good night! Juraj Sukop

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by Okpu Akuchi 05 May '06

05 May '06

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LaTeX formula effect
by Tavmjong Bah 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, I've done some experimenting to see if I couldn't get the LaTeX formula effect to work on Linux. I have a version that works with skconvert. While a development version of skencil is available for Windows, it is not clear that skconvert is. Perhaps we need two different versions of the effect depending on platform. I've attached the eqtexsvg.py file that uses skconvert. I also looked at a few other alternatives: 1. pstoedit with ImageMagick According to the docs, conversion to SVG without the shareware plug-in is possible if pstoedit is compiled with ImageMagick-c++. I tried this. An ImageMagick window pops up and the program hangs without drawing anything. Closing the window gives an error: "Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `fill-rule'". 2. Going directly from dvi to SVG via dvisvg http://dvisvg.sourceforge.net/ dvisvg does produce an Inkscape readable SVG file (after eliminating an illegal character) but there are a couple of problems. It uses SVG fonts which it creates but does not embedded them in the resulting SVG file. Some of the glyphs are of the wrong style and use of Greek symbols produces illegal characters (pi => ^Y). It also has tspan nodes inside of tspan nodes which seems a bit strange. Too buggy to use. Tav

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Inkscape more Mac friendly (was Re: [Inkscape-devel] [SoC] Native OSX GUI ?)
by Ben Fowler 05 May '06

05 May '06

On 05/05/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: > On May 4, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Ben Fowler wrote: > >[ snip ] > > Personally, I've always felt that the proper way for Inkscape to be more mac > friendly would be to get GTK+ native on OS X,... If that is a majority view, then we can indeed go down those lines, and (triple negative coming up), I will have to withdraw my comment about the OP's not being off-target. Ben

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color profiles on win32
by Bob Jamison 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, all, I heard that although littleCMS is linking with Inkscape on win32, the problem with absolute vs. relative paths was giving it trouble. I think that it's fixed now, using w3c URI's to resolve paths. Here is the color profile test. http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20030813/htmlframe/full-color-prof-01-f… Notice that the brighter color squares in the PNG are what should be displayed in the SVG because a color profile has been applied to the href'd image. Here is a dump of Inkscape/w32 with the same test: http://inkscape.org/win32/icctest.png yaay! I uploaded the test files again, as I forgot the .icm file the first time: http://inkscape.org/win32/w3c-color-prof-test.zip I just committed the fix. Can someone test this on Linux to make sure that I didn't break it? Thanks. Bob

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New Preferences dialog is sweet.
by Alan Horkan 05 May '06

05 May '06

New Preferences dialog is sweet. It has been a while since I tried out Inkscape and I've filed a few requests already today but I'm thoroughly impressed by the new Preferences dialog (notwithstanding my old complaints about having the Inkscape branding directly in the lable and it taking up a valuable shortcut). The layout is clean, the bits which change dynamically are clearly delinated and predicatable and the lables are clear and understandable. This style of dialog has the advantage of room to expand but that requires developers have the discipline to consolidate and rework things so less preferences are needed and the list doesn't get too big. In the broad sense there is really very little wrong with it and I was only able to find a few very minor issues. The first is the use of abbreviations. Abbreviations should be avoided. Misc should be the full word Miscellaneous but ideally someone can figure out a suitable category for these options. The Scrolling section uses the lables pixels and the Steps section uses the lable abbreviation px. Mouse is a nice simple lable but unfortunately there is a good chance users will be using other pointer types such as a pen and tablet device. Much as I hate to reference the user interface of the GNU Image Manipulation Program uses the more generic and techincally correctly category "Input Devices". Maybe the technically incorrect lable is the best option and I should leave well enough alone for this one. Somewhat confusingly the Scrolling category includes options for the mouse wheel scrolling but it also looks like a difficult one to decide. Tools, Shapes, Rectangle (and others) includes a colour widget with abbreviated labels "F" and "S" rather than Fill and Stroke. I wonder if a standard gtk colour widget could be used but there is probably a benefit to using the inkscape colour widgets consistently. Let me know if you think any of the issues I have raised require reports. Overall the Preferences dialog is an excellent piece of work, congratulations. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Updating the po files in svn
by Lucas Vieites 04 May '06

04 May '06

Hi, I see that the decision to start thinking about a 0.44 release is taking shape and in order to save us translators a big hurry in the final days it would be nice to have all the waiting patches related to translation in svn. I am speaking for myself, but I think other translators will agree. My last patch is from 23/04/2006 (#1475120) and from the last svn update I see that there's quite a few changes. I'm afraid that if I do a local intltool-update I could screw up some things (I know 'cause it has happened before ;-) So, pretty please, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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I was wrong to have mentioned SoC at all (was Re: [Inkscape-devel] [SoC] Native OSX GUI ?)
by Ben Fowler 04 May '06

04 May '06

On 04/05/06, Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...> wrote: > On 04/05/06, Timothée Anglade <timothee.anglade@...1261...> wrote: > > [ big snip ] > > ... Now, I have no insight into how the SoC projects are > assessed, but if one scale is to weight against ideas which ought to > have their implementation under the aegis or auspices of some other > organisation then you might find that adding a Cocoa port to Inkscape > is affected by that. Certainly I would wonder why Google should > be involved if nobody has stepped up to make a start. You ought to ignore that. I had no real idea what I was talking about. See http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/writing/soc2005.html which gives good info about what is expected from applicants, and our page http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SOC_Selection_Criteria . Sorry, Ben

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