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Re: [Inkscape-user] News item about 0.42.1
by Adib Taraben 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

bulia byak schrieb: > On 7/29/05, Adib Taraben <taraben.a@...50...> wrote: > >>Bryce, I have solved: >>1247068 WIN32: unable to start when installed over 0.41 > > > Excellent - please make sure the fix gets into 0.42.1 (contact Mental if needed) > Mental, /inkscape/packaging/win32/inkscape.nsi Version 1.9 solves the issue. It clears all dll's, the etc, lib and local path. To remove anything from previous libs. But keeps share , ... Need someone to really doublecheck. I tested on WinXP German. HTH, Adib.

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working directory for extensions
by Lee Braiden 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Is there any reason why Inkscape remains CD'd to the startup directory when calling extensions, or would it be possible to set the working directory to the one a file is being saved in? Otherwise, I need some other way to figure out were to save additional files besides the extension's main output file. -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com

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News item about 0.42.1
by Bryce Harrington 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

I've posted a news item about the pending 0.42.1 release, to help warn people who might be running into trouble, and let them know that the best thing to do if they're having trouble is to sit tight until the fixed package is posted. If someone creates a wiki page for 0.42 installation workarounds, let me knwo. I can add a link to it from this news item. Bryce

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ACTION REQUIRED: binary files
by MenTaLguY 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: update your working copy with "cvs update -A" IF YOU ARE WORKING ON A BRANCH: use "cvs update -A -r BRANCH" instead. Here's what's going on: It's been reported that bitmap image files in e.g. the tutorials are broken on the Win32 builds. The reason appears to be that images and binary files were often not checked in with -kb as they ought to have been. So folks checking those files out on Windows got corrupt versions. I've fixed now fixed this for existing files via cvs admin. I'm going to try to make it automatic for common file extensions from now on, but I'm sure I'll miss some. In the future, please specify -kb when you "cvs add" a binary file. Thank you. -mental

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Compiling under Win32 - isFinite() problem
by Omar Cornut 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hello, I'm trying to integrate bezier-utils.cpp into our own GPL software, and integrated necessary headers (from src/ and src/libnr/ especially). So in essence I'm not compiling Inkscape itself, but it's obvious that I would get the same problem if I tried to because the bug has no dependance. Using the 'isFinite' macro doesn't work. Source used: inkscape-0.42.tar.gz System: Win32 (Windows XP) Compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 7.1.3088 Compiler Log: Compiling... bezier-utils.cpp bezier-utils.cpp(598) : error C2039: 'isfinite' : is not a member of 'std' bezier-utils.cpp(598) : error C3861: 'isfinite': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup [...] The lines with error uses macro 'isFinite' Macro 'isFinite' is defined in 'isnan.h' #if defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__isfinite) # define isFinite(_a) (__isfinite(_a)) /* MacOSX/Darwin definition */ #elif defined(isfinite) # define isFinite(_a) (isfinite(_a)) #else # define isFinite(_a) (std::isfinite(_a)) #endif The last one gets used under my build environment. Looking at mailing list archives, this seems to be a recurring problem, or at least it has been mentionned several times already. At suggested in 'isnan.h', this works: # define isFinite(_a) (!isNaN((_a) - (_a))) Full block, patched: #if defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__isfinite) # define isFinite(_a) (__isfinite(_a)) /* MacOSX/Darwin definition */ #elif defined(isfinite) # define isFinite(_a) (isfinite(_a)) #elif defined (WIN32) # define isFinite(_a) (!isNaN((_a) - (_a))) #else # define isFinite(_a) (std::isfinite(_a)) #endif Not sure if it is the best solution. A specialized isfinite() could possibly be faster but I can't find an implementation on my system. I'm wondering how the official Win32 EXE are getting compiled and if different distributions of MS Visual C++ librairies have some effect on this (probably), so don't take the above patch as taken. In any case, source code from Inkscape 0.42 doesn't work here so it should be worth discussing/fixing it. Thank you all, Inkscape is excellent piece of software. Omar Cornut

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape for windows and extension dependencies
by Adib Taraben 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Ted Gould schrieb: > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 08:17 +0200, Adib Taraben wrote: > >>This problem is about the inkscape\share\extensions\eps_input.inx file. >> >>it looks for a "gs" in your path: >> <dependency type="executable">gs</dependency> >> >>In order to have this done you need to have ghostscript in your PATH. >>add "C:\program files\gs\gs8.51\bin" to PATH >>and rename gs into gswin32c.exe in the inx file > > > Oh, cool. So how do we want to handle this in the future? Have > two .inx files, one for windows and one for everyone else? Do the > windows packagers have any ideas? > > --Ted Does somebody knows how that works for Mac ? How are extension dependencies handled in other (multiplatform)applications (ai/gimp/firefox)? Maybe we add a special windows option "path to application" that contains the full path+application name for that like "C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.51\gswin32c.exe". Also thinkable is a menu like in firefox to edit settings for the different extensions. Any input is welcome, Adib. ---

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Inkscape in Top Ten on SourceForge
by Bryce Harrington 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hey all, I just noticed, for the first time ever we've gotten into the top ten list of most active projects on SourceForge. Inkscape is #6. :-) http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week Our percentile rank is 99.996. :-) Bryce

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Update of win32 libs
by Bob Jamison 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

While looking at the buglist, I noticed more than one mention of a missing symbol in pango.dll. This can happen if Gtk or Pangomm do not find a symbol they need. So I checked the site, and there is a new pango win32 bugfix build, and a Gtkmm bugfix release that includes, among other things, the TreeViewColumn export fix. So I assembled these two into the libs, which are here: http://inkscape.org/win32/gtk26-050729.7z If you are a win32 builder, let me know how they work. I -hope- that this takes care of the missing symbol problem. I know that there are 3 missing symbols from atk.dll, but we will likely not encounter those. Little problems like these are "upstream," and we can only report them. It would be wonderful if we could build the whole dependency tree with Mingw from source all the way up to Gtkmm and libxslt, so that we could help find these problems and lend assistance in fixing them. Maybe we can talk with the Gtk/Gtkmm guys and see about doing just that. Bob

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Anyone live near Enschede, Netherlands?
by Jon Phillips 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hello, I am not able to attend a svgopen.org in Enschede, yet have a paper, Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library and am scheduled to present this in Enschede as part of svgopen.org for 2005. Would anyone be willing to present the project on my behalf? I have the slides, paper, and talk all prepared, and it would just be a matter of schmoozing and talking with participants. If I can't find someone to do this, then I will have to remove the presentation and maybe paper from the conference...which I really don't want to do. Please contact me if you would like to attend and present Inkscape and the Open Clip Art Library at this conference. Thanks! 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)

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[matthew.squires@...854...: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Google Summer of Code updates needed]
by Bryce Harrington 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Thanks for the status update Mark, I hope we'll be able to see your dxf conversion code before too long. A few people have had questions regarding implementation approach that this will help address. Good luck, Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Matt Squires <matthew.squires@...854...> ----- > Hi all! > > One of the key, oft-proven principles of Open Source development is > "Release Early, Release Often". This is important because it makes it > easier for other people to help you. > > Michael, David, Greg, and Matthew, can each of you report in on where > you are in your work, how we can help you, and what you might be able to > add to CVS within the next week or so? > > (Also, if you have any questions about getting access to or using CVS, > please just ask and we'll get you set up.) > > Thanks, > Bryce > Hi, I was making good progress and then the group that funds my PhD research said they would take away funding unless we demonstrate some specific details. Needless to say my evenings are now spent in the lab instead of coding. I was importing most common elements common to dxf and svg, and was starting work on elements that were not common. The deadline is Aug 10th for the funding, so after then I hope to hit SOC hard after the 10th and finish it up. As far as exporting from SVG to DXF, there is some coding but as I understand the finer points of the two formats there is not much more than parsing the data and then saving to a file. I will try to make some time to release some code that can be tested for the import. However don't hold your breath... Matt ----- End forwarded message -----

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