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Hard freeze
by Bryce Harrington 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Let's plan on entering the Hard Freeze today, at GMT 2000 (about 6.5 hrs from right now). The release wardens for this release will be Kees (drb) and Peter (pjrm). Their job is to do final QA of the codebase, review all of the last minute changes to ensure that nothing has been broken, and to review/apply any patches that people wish to add prior to the release. At this time, please refrain from directly checking in code to the codebase, but instead post to the patch tracker. If you have any outstanding bug fixes, translations, or tutorial updates, please submit them ASAP. Kees and Peter will review and apply the patches they deem necessary for the release. When they are satisfied with the state of the codebase, they'll announce it is ready for release, and apply the official 0.42 tagging. This normally takes a few days. After it has been tagged, we will allow a day or two for packagers to create and test packages, and then announce! :-) Bryce

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Re: Inkscape will be published on c't magazine's CD-ROM
by Bryce Harrington 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:29:34AM +0200, Peter K?nig wrote: > Dear Bryce, > > Thank you for giving permission to publish inkscape on the CD-ROM of c't > magazine! Since our deadline for mastering is August 2nd, I wonder if it > will be possible to get the upcoming version 0.42 release for our CD - > that would be great. Yes, definitely. > Can you tell me about the intended date of publication for inkscape's > version 0.42? We don't set precise dates ("it's done when it's done"), however I estimate that we're within within about a week of release. I'm hoping we will be able to release it by the 18th. Bryce

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bug at bezier-utils.cpp
by João Rafael Nicola 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Hi, I am using inkscape-0.41 at an Athlon64 machine. The program was crashing whenever I used some tool which uses bezier curves (caligraphic tool, free hand tool (i think), etc.). The programa failed on a assertion, requiring the last member of a double array to be 1.0, like in: g_assert("bla".., u[len-1] == 1.0) This kind of comparision (equals) on double is unreliable, since rounding errors may introduce subtle differences between two values which we would expect to be equal. The correct way to verify this should be like: g_assert("blas",u[len-1]>=0.999 && [len-1]<=1.001). Where the constants are chosen accordingly. The code that creates this array is in the function chord_length_parameterize This is a snipped of chord_length_parameterize: gdouble tot_len = u[len - 1]; g_return_if_fail( tot_len != 0 ); if (finite(tot_len)) { for (unsigned i = 1; i < len; ++i) { u[i] /= tot_len; } } else { /* We could do better, but this probably never happens anyway. */ for (unsigned i = 1; i < len; ++i) { u[i] = i / (gdouble) ( len - 1 ); } } In both cases, u[len-1] should be very near 1.0, but not necessarily equals 1.0. I added the line u[len-1] = 1.0; after the loop. And the problem stopped. However, the true bug lies in the comparision (u[len-1]==1.0) By the way. Thanks for developing this excellent program. I am now deploying it at an workplace in place of Corel Draw. Yours, João Rafael Moraes Nicola

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Blinking rectangle
by De Winne, Joris 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Hello, Is there a way to change the fill color from a rectangle without reloading the whole document. Normally this is done by using animated svg. In Batik it's possible to do it using the Update Runnable Queue. An example: I've a rectangle extension tag taking the normal rectangle tag parameters, but also two clors. Now every second I want to switch between the colors resulting in a blinking effect. Is there a way this can be achieved using Inkscape. Note: I'm not using the Inkscape editor, but I'm direct using the Inkscape programming code. So a possible way is to use a thread changing something on an object every second and throwing an event. The problem is I've no idea what object to change and what event to throw. Any suggestions, ideas or help is always welcome. Joris

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patches for cs.po and inkscape.nsi
by Josef Vybiral 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Hi, I've just submitted updates of czech .po and update of inkscape.nsi including czech strings too. URLs: cs.po: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1238010&group_id=9… inkscape.nsi: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1238014&group_id=9… cornelius

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configure help
by unknown＠example.com 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

I feel like this is a stupid question but I'm stuck. Yesterday I nuked sid and installed ubuntu. I compiled libgc and installed it into /usr/local. I checked and the files are infact in /usr/local/lib. but configure is unable to find libgc. How can I tell configure where it is? I try running configure with "LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib ./configure" and I get a message like "C compiler cannot create executables". Aaron Spike

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0.42pre2 Posted
by Ted Gould 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Lots of new bug fixes, and twice as much fun! While not likely to be _the_ last pre-release, it is probably second to last with the next one signaling a hard freeze. If anyone has a bug nagging them, good time to bring it up! --Ted

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planet.inkscape.org
by Jon Phillips 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Ok, fd.o admin daniels has setup planet.inkscape.org for us which points to where planet inkscape is located on the fd.o server. Who can setup inkscape.org to point to this on freedesktop.org? I actually don't know how to do this...I'm admitting out of tiredness and lack of wanting to :) Actually, I would like to know how. Bryce or Nicu said that Mental knows how to do this on sf.net? Who can change this on sf.net so that we can start pointing to planet.inkscape.org? You all can go ahead and start forwarding your blog links over to nicu (nicu@...398...). Thats right, if you don't have a blog, get one and hand over that RSS feed. If you want a good free one, try tribe.net, or use livejournal.com. It is vital and you just won't be that cool without a blog :) Jon -- Jon Phillips USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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trimming trailing zeros in output
by Peter Moulder 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Appended is a patch to trim trailing zeros after the decimal point, so that `10.000000' becomes `10', and `1.500000' becomes `1.5'. (A couple of people have complained about our trailing zeros.) Given that we're so near to release, I didn't want to commit without discussing here first, i.e. whether to wait until after 0.42. This affects both SVG and eps/ps output, and possibly other formats. Are there any situations where e.g. `4' would have a different meaning from `4.0' or `4.0000000' ? E.g. in C `4.0 / 3' means something different from `4 / 3'; are there any similar cases in postscript or something ? Testing done so far: Inkscape compiles, and passes its test suite (make check). HEAD-inkscape --export-plain-svg=a0.svg share/examples/art-nouveau-P3.svg trim-inkscape --export-plain-svg=at.svg share/examples/art-nouveau-P3.svg diff -du a[0t].svg | less (manual checking for bad differences) # Compare eps output from the trimmed and HEAD versions of inkscape, # in an attempt to pick up differences in meaning of the two SVG # files. HEAD-inkscape --export-eps=a0-0.eps a0.svg HEAD-inkscape --export-eps=at-0.eps at.svg diff a[0t]-0.eps # produces no output trim-inkscape --export-eps=a0-t.eps a0.svg trim-inkscape --export-eps=at-t.eps at.svg diff a[0t]-t.eps # produces no output diff -du a0-[0t].eps | less (manual checking for bad differences; though I'm not very familiar with postscript) # Generalize the gives-same-eps test. for i in share/examples/*.{svg,svgz}; do HEAD-inkscape --export-plain-svg=$HOME/tmp/a0.svg $i if trim-inkscape --export-plain-svg=$HOME/tmp/at.svg $i; then :; else echo "$i to plain failed" fi for f in 0 t; do HEAD-inkscape --export-eps=$HOME/tmp/a$f-0.eps ~/tmp/a$f.svg done diff -u ~/tmp/a[0t]-0.eps|head|grep -q . && echo "$i has diffs" done At the time of writing, I haven't actually run inkscape in its gui mode: I've done the change remotely. Of course I'll do that too before committing. Another thing I'll do before committing (but haven't yet done) is to create a new unit test. What are people's comments about whether to include this in 0.42 or not? What further testing would be needed if it were to be in 0.42 ? pjrm.

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Autopackages
by unknown＠example.com 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

I will continue to upload autopackages to the following location as often as I make them. This should be daily but as life happens it may be slightly more or less often. http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/ My latest build will be available via this unchanging url suitable for linking on the web. http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/latest.php A pre2 package has been uploaded here. http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/inkscape-0.41+0.42pre2.x86.package I've seen some people asking about autopackages in recent days. Feel free to point the links on the download page to my packages. Aaron Spike

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