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zoom buttons in the status bar invisible on OS X
by jiho 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

hi all, recent changes (I believe those made to the swatches panel) induced a change in appearance of the status bar. OSX windows decorations hide the zoom buttons. it was corrected before but the buttons are hidden again in today's svn. thank you in advance for us poor OS X users who do not have control over the window decorations style :-) in addition I had the impression that the panels were under the status bar and not above in some fairly recent svn builds. personally I preferred that but I can just be inventing this... (the drag and drop from the panels is great BTW) 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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Re: OpenDocument. Was: Photoshop PSD 6 format Spec / Gimp XCF format Spec
by Thomas Zander 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

On Friday 03 March 2006 22:31, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > I wonder why OASIS picked to only use compressed XML as a medium: > -it will also not work well for video data, BTW. > -OpenOffice.org Base already failed to deliver robust solution because > 100% of the data has to be processed on loading/saving (unless it's > stored on the server). This has nothing to do with the chosen file format and everything to do with the implementation. Zip is block based and you can do partial (un)compression. XML need not be parsed 100% for it to be usable. There are applications that can read some items from a huge XML without parsing all, or even most of it. I know this for a fact, I wrote a few. In short; these worries should not effect the standardization efforts. -- Thomas Zander

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Problems building Inkscape on MacOSX
by Andrius Ramanauskas 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Hi, I tried to build Inkscape on Mac OS X 10.4, did everything as described on wiki, it seems as everything succeed, but I get an error "You cannot open the application Inkscape.app because it may be damaged or incomplete" while running .app file. Maybe anyone has run into similar problems and knows a quick solution? Thanks, Andrius

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WEBFORM Inkscape and LaTeX presentations
by Leland McInnes 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Leland McInnes email: leland.mcinnes@...456... submitted the following: I have created a simple system to allow users to create presentation style templates in Inkscape which can then be converted into, and used as, style templates for presentations in LaTeX. This provides a simple to use system for creating great looking, customised, PDF presentations. You can find the software at http://jedidiah.stuff.gen.nz/lpd.html.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problems building Inkscape on MacOSX
by Ben Fowler 06 Mar '06

06 Mar '06

On 3/6/06, Andrius Ramanauskas <knutux@...400...> wrote: > I have already found out that /MacOS/Inkscape file is missing in > Inkscape.app, and copying this file from installed Inkscape.app (0.43) > helps. The file you want should be on the path src/inkscape . (See previous). Whilst your approach eliminates one source of errors, I can't conceive how a successful build could fail to produce an executable. (You are using the same compiler as you used for Fink? If not your project will not link - this is noted on the wiki page. You can find details in previous posts to this list and/or the bug tracker). If the script is not copying the file, then there has to be something wrong with it, or the instructions for its use. I don't deny that there is still some little room for improvement, and any comments you have will I am sure be taken most seriously. > So I can now successfully contribute to the project. But had no time > yet to investigate the cause of this problem with missing file. O.K. I have to admit that most the time I run the unpackaged executable, and have the support files installed with 'make install', like any other Unix. However, it is rather fine to have a double-clickable bundle that starts X and launches Inkscpae! Ben > On 3/6/06, Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...> wrote: > On 3/4/06, Andrius Ramanauskas <knutux@...400...> wrote: > > > > I tried to build Inkscape on Mac OS X 10.4, did everything as > > described on wiki, it seems as everything succeed, but I get an error > > "You cannot open the application Inkscape.app because it may be > > damaged or incomplete" while running .app file. > > Maybe anyone has run into similar problems and knows a quick solution? > > This may not be very helpful ... > > I compile Inkscape most days, and the process WFM, but I don't normally > build the .app and .dmg. However, the last time I did (which may have > been on Panther), it worked as > per the documentation. So I haven't any insight into 'similar problems' > and don't know a 'quick solution'. > > The error message means that the .app bundle was not made in its > entirety, and I would suspect the package creation script, > packaging/osx-app.sh or the documentation, but as I said above, > don't take this too literally, as the process did work when I tried it. > (If you are able to identify what is going wrong, I am sure that someone > would be keen to fix the script or the docs). > > If you are raring to run Inkscape, and believe that you have a perfectly > formed executable, then you can start X by hand and (provided that you > have installed the share files and so forth - which you won't have done if > had configured with > > --enable-osxapp > > ), you can start Inkscape by hand with a command line like: > > /Volumes/Ben//PROG/SF/INKSCAPE/inkscape-J/Jaguar/src/inkscape > > and it will work. > > Otherwise someone will have to upload (or create on sourceforge) a > deliverable. The Inkscape.app is 93 MByte, and the .dmg (which is > compressed is 22 MByte).

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Finances
by Bryce Harrington 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Hiya all, Just FYI, We've received a surprising number of donations lately - surprising in the sense that we don't really solicit donations. I guess people just love Inkscape *that much*. :-) Anyway, for the record here's a breakdown of what's been received recently: Mar. 3, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $18.06 USD Feb. 27, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $3.59 USD Feb. 18, 2006 Transfer Bank Account $2,000.00 USD # Google SOC Feb. 13, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $8.48 USD Feb. 13, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $18.26 USD Feb. 8, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $3.59 USD Jan. 2, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $18.06 USD Jan. 2, 2006 Payment Inkscape Project $8.38 USD Balance: #2,474.99 USD Bryce

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Inkscape mentioned on the GNOME 2.14 Release Notes
by Lucas Vieites 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Hi, you can see that Inkscape is going to be mentioned on the GNOME 2.14 Release Notes here: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/C/ -- ¡No olvide visitar nuestra tienda On-line! <http://www.asixinformatica.com/tienda> =================================================== Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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win32: separating debug symbols
by Bob Jamison 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi, all, For a while now, there has been a struggle between those of us who want testers to send us full Gdb backtraces, and people who need smaller files to download over their connections. I have been working on a compromise between the two: 1. Separating out the debug symbols into a file named inkscape.dbg, and then stripping inkscape.exe . This takes longer to link, but it preserves all of the debug symbols. 2. For each .exe that we place on a download page, we also provide a compressed copy of its corresponding .dbg file. Now testers do not need to download those many MB of symbols every time, but when a bug happens, they can download the .dbg, do a backtrace, and send the info to us. Now the difference between the 'stripped' and 'unstripped' versions of the builds need only refer to the accompanying DLLs, not the Inkscape executable itself. I committed the makefiles already, and I'm uploading Inkscape0603021243.zip and Inkscape0603021243-dbg.zip. Hope this can help alleviate some of the confusion. I'll post some info on how to use gdb with the .dbg file. Bob (ishmal)

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Save as XCF with layers
by Aaron Spike 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I know this has been mentioned before. Some people think it would be handy to save an SVG file from Inkscape as an XCF maintaining layers. I was going to have together a quick output extension in python and an accompanying script-fu for the gimp to make this happen, but I don't think we have the appropriate export options. It would be really fun to have a single command to export all the layers at once to something like filename-0001-layername.png, but I don't know how widely applicable that would be. According to the man page, --export-id forces the object's bbox for --export-area. I think this makes what I want to do impossible. I would suggest we make canvas size ALWAYS default and add an --export-bbox option. This would mean more typing for the people who already use this functionality, but it would IMHO make more sense overall. Aaron Spike

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OpenType fonts
by James Kilfiger 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

What is the current level of support for OpenType fonts with postscript-like outlines? It seems to be not at all; my font works well in Scribus (1.32, Win32) and other windows applications, but isn't available in Inkscape (recent svn build). Generally what handles fonts now? freetype, Windows, pango or or or own code? James

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