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Announcing librsvg 2.11 aka 'Actual codename censored'
by Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

The librsvg team is happy to announce librsvg 2.11 librsvg is a SVG rendering library maintained by Dom Lachowicz and Caleb Moore and used among other places in the GNOME desktop. This release of librsvg is the result of 6 months of development. Caleb Moore spent a lot of time reorganizing the code to enable adding DOM support to librsvg. This code reorganisation had a lot of other positive side effects too, like improved stability and consistency, and last but not least improved rendering speed. There is also a great host of rendering fixes by Caleb to things like gradient positioning, patterns, namespaces, inheritance, marker rendering and text rendering. Also in this release is better clip paths handling and handling of out of order references and other file references. Dom Lachowicz have worked on full support for conditionals and made vfs support work better in addition to merging patches and bugfixing. In addition to this we have a host of smaller changes including: 1. rsvg cannot handle a relative path (309234) - Josselin Mouette 2. librsvg tries to open files twice (309220) - Josselin Mouette 3. rsvg behavior keeps aspec ratio when only width or height (309233) Josselin Mouette 4. C89 compiler fix (308472) - Behdad Esfahbod 5. Various bugfixes - 303086, 302905, 170164, 304045, 171281, 273989, 308810, 309885 - Caleb Moore and Dom Lachowicz 6. crasher bug fix (169051) - Ed Catmur 7. Windows port - Tor Lillquist 8. leak fixes (306494) - Ryan Lortie A big thanks goes to the contributors to this release. More information on the librsvg homepage: http://librsvg.sf.net You can download librsvg from: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/librsvg/2.11/

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0.42.2 Announcement
by Ted Gould 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Now that there are binaries for 0.42.2 do we want to make a more genearl announcement of it? Should we hide 0.42 in Sourceforge? --Ted

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Clip Art Browser
by Jon Phillips 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Hello Greg, I have tested your browser outside of inkscape. 1.) The first time the app loads, there should be all image loaded, or some kind of random image, or some kind of text that says search for what you need...basically, users need help. 2.) When dragging in clip art, could it land in Inkscape where it is dropped? Is this an Inkscape or a Clip Art Browser issue? 3.) Where are the titles for all the clip art? 4.) Could the right pane collapse, or be collapsed at the beginning? 5.) Is there a way to add a light preferences menu, or a button to this. I wonder if it is wise to put a menu or some kind of icon bar in this app. I'm leaning towards icon menu rather than a menu because it will be used inside apps for the most part. 6.) When doing a search, the app goes non-responsive for long periods of time which is bad IMO. 7.) Could you add some kind of link to the image or to the open clip art library that says "get more clip art" 8.) When running the Clip Art Browser, Inkscape is blocked and appears frozen so then it is not possible to do drag and drop...not good! This should be fixed. The Clip Art Browser should be spawned, the pid recorded, etc, so that Inkscape controls that process, but so that Inkscape can continue... 9.) The name of the program, Clip Art Browser needs to be made consistent throughout the code 10.) You need to make the clip art indexer take an argument as to where the clipart folder is, and then it needs to also take an argument for where to install the index.dat it generates...if this arg. is not passed in, then generate that file in the same dir. as where the script is run. 11.) There should be some kind of information in the GUI as to how many images are at the apps disposal. 12.) Some kind of browse by category would be nice. 13.) Some kind of browse alphabetically would be nice too... :) I've attached a Makefile which should go into the main directory for your app. Now ppl. can do make install and uninstall. Also, now it will be quite easy to do more testing, as users have a way to get this in and out of their extensions dir easily. Should Greg's program be a new project on the main Inkscape page, or should it be moved into the extensions directory? Now that I have made a makefile I'm in favor of making it its own project. Also, it is usable by other apps, so it can be standalone. Jon PS: Ted, it would be great to allow for folders inside the extensions dir to help organize new messes created by extensions with lots of folders. :) -- 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)

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Re: Clip Art Browser
by Ted Gould 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:49 -0400, Greg Steffensen wrote: > This sounds like a good idea, and requires minimal changes to the > code. But I'm theoretically working on this for Inkscape, as far as > Google is concerned. Would a stronger separation from Inkscape be > tolerable? I'm not your mentor, nor am I one of the people spearheading SoC, so my opinion doesn't really matter :) But, IMHO, I think it would be okay. The goal was the functionality, whether it is implemented as an Inkscape extension or not is a detail. --Ted

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[Fwd: [cairo] cairo 1.0 and future plans]
by Bob Jamison 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

I don't see anyone on the list mentioning this already, but there is some good news today:

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vacuum defs not working properly
by David Christian Berg 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hey guys, there still are problems sometimes with vacuum defs and I finally managed to reproduce it! I've two files, gnome-fs-network.svg and and gnome-fs-client.svg attached. When you import the gnome-fs-client.svg into the gnome-fs-network.svg (I use drag and drop for this) delete it again and vacuum defs, no defs will be deleted. Save the file and close it. When you open it again and do "vacuum defs" it'll clean up quite a few definitions definitions. I thought there was a bug filed about this already, but can't find it right now. Does anybody have any clue, or should I go ahead filing a new one? David

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Website re-design contest on deviantART!
by Joshua A. Andler 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hey all! The inkscape deviantART community is holding a contest for a makeover to the Inkscape website (http://www.inkscape.org). All of the details (which I will post below as well) can can be found at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/6322909/ ---begin dA announcement--- Hey there fellow Inkscapers! Many of us have seen Inkscape evolve from back in the days of Sodi Podi into the powerful program that we currently know it as. Unfortunately the website has not quite followed along at the same pace. ;) Which brings us to the next official inkscapers contest, a makeover for the website! Basics: *The goal is to show off what inkscape can do when put to use in the area of Web Design. *You will need to make a new Header, Footer, and CSS to replace the existing ones. *Upload a preview image & 7z/zip/tar file of your submission to your gallery or scraps on deviantART and post a link below. Rules: *All submissions must be standards compliant (XHTML 1.0 Transitional & CSS) and render the same across all browsers (within reason of course). *Any images that you create for it need to be done 100% in Inkscape. We will require any original SVG files to use in case something needs to be tweaked down the road, and also to allow us to potentially serve up SVGs for the browsers that support it. *It must be a very clean and professional design. *It must include the Inkscape logo in the site header. *Any submissions using copyrighted materials (unless appropriately licensed for our use) or offensive/inappropriate content will automatically be disqualified. *Have fun! Deadline: *September 15, 2005 Prize: *Having your design be our new look and feel for the website... and of course credit for your work. Judging: *Preliminary judging will be done by the Inkscape community on deviantART, when we have an official “Top 3”, the judging will then be turned over to the inkscape developers for final judging. Please note that when it is turned over to the developers for voting, once they have chosen the winner, they may have requests for modifications. Relevant links: *Inkscape Website – http://www.inkscape.org/ (where you can go and grab the current source) *Inkscape downloads page – http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 Submissions: *Please upload a preview image & 7z/zip/tar package of your submission to your gallery or scraps on deviantART and post a link below. Good luck to all who enter! ---end dA announcement--- -Josh (aka ScislaC on dA) PS: For those unaware of what deviantART (dA) is, dA is the largest community art site on the net. To find out more go to http://www.deviantart.com/

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] libgc on SUSE 9.2 profesional
by Shawn Vose 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Ah very nice. I shall try this tonight. I am looking forward to not using the windows version, which is still great but I would rather use my linux box. Many thanks for the quick reply. I wonder if this is something that could be added to the wiki? Regards, Shawn Vose -----Original Message----- From: inkblotter [mailto:inkbottle@...400...] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:16 AM To: Shawn Vose Cc: Inkscape Devel List Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] libgc on SUSE 9.2 profesional Well, I too ran into this in my bleeding edge inkscape environment on FC4, GNOME. The solution there ultimately is to do export CPATH=/usr/local/include in your build environment. You will probably need to add /usr/local/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well. That should get you through configure. Shawn Vose wrote: > I recently downloaded inkscape and I have to say it is very impressive. > I have been trying to get it to run on my linux box which is running > SUSE 9.2 professional and when I am running configure I get an error > telling me the garbage collector is not installed. So I went to the > referenced site and installed it into /usr/local/lib. Then re-ran > configure and got the same error. Is there a way to indicate to > configure where the libs exist using some sort of --with-<insert lib > name>? > > Any help any one can give me would be greatly appreciated. I would much > rather run inkscape on my linux box instead of my windows machine. > > Regards, > Shawn Vose > > > -----Original Message----- > From: inkscape-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:inkscape-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ralf > Stephan > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:24 AM > To: Inkscape Devel List > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Bugs in Stroke Dialog > > John Taber: > >>On Inkscape 0.4.2.0, I've run across a few bugs with strokes: >>1) With end markers, Left arrow is bigger than right arrow (assuming >>something like Arrow1Sstart, Arrow1Send) - seems to do this for >>large,medium,small arrows >>2) The entry box for dash spacing will not accept any values >>3) The combo popup for line end types gives different choices - >>sometimes large arrow is available, pick another marker, then large >>becomes available again. Plus there is often a large blank portion of > > >>the combo list. > > > Thanks for your observations. I've added a new report with this > info to the tracker. > > > Regards, > ralf > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & > QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * > http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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libgc on SUSE 9.2 profesional
by Shawn Vose 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

I recently downloaded inkscape and I have to say it is very impressive. I have been trying to get it to run on my linux box which is running SUSE 9.2 professional and when I am running configure I get an error telling me the garbage collector is not installed. So I went to the referenced site and installed it into /usr/local/lib. Then re-ran configure and got the same error. Is there a way to indicate to configure where the libs exist using some sort of --with-<insert lib name>? Any help any one can give me would be greatly appreciated. I would much rather run inkscape on my linux box instead of my windows machine. Regards, Shawn Vose -----Original Message----- From: inkscape-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ralf Stephan Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:24 AM To: Inkscape Devel List Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Bugs in Stroke Dialog John Taber: > On Inkscape 0.4.2.0, I've run across a few bugs with strokes: > 1) With end markers, Left arrow is bigger than right arrow (assuming > something like Arrow1Sstart, Arrow1Send) - seems to do this for > large,medium,small arrows > 2) The entry box for dash spacing will not accept any values > 3) The combo popup for line end types gives different choices - > sometimes large arrow is available, pick another marker, then large > becomes available again. Plus there is often a large blank portion of > the combo list. Thanks for your observations. I've added a new report with this info to the tracker. Regards, ralf ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Announcing Inkscape Testers community
by Bryce Harrington 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hi all, As discussed a few weeks ago, we'd like to form a new community focused on testing of Inkscape. If you are interested in helping Inkscape in ways other than coding, this may be the place for you. Thanks to rejon's fix to wiki, we now have a place to collect information related to testing of Inkscape: http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TestingInkscape An inkscape-tester mailing list is also available for you: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tester There are many ways to test inkscape. Already, many people have contributed greatly to inkscape by simply reporting issues they discover during ordinary use. The Inkscape Tester community will seek to push beyond this by doing more aggressive, focused testing. Our community's goals will include the following long term goals: * Show that Inkscape is fully SVG compliant with all SVG specifications. * Give developers confidence that if bugs are introduced to the codebase, they will be identified and reported to them swiftly. * Ensure Inkscape's files can be loaded into all other compliant SVG software, that Inkscape runs equally well on all platforms, and that Inkscape can be used easily with a range of other open source desktop applications. * Prove that Inkscape's usability is best in class. * Track Inkscape's performance and help motivate its improvement to become the fastest, lightest weight, and most efficient drawing application available. These are ambitious goals, but through testing we can help pave the way for them to be achieved. If these sound like goals you feel like helping to achieve, please join in building a new Inkscape Tester community. http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-tester Bryce

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