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About Screen Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

After tallying up the votes from the community, it appears that the top 3 (by number of total votes) are as follows: #30 - http://www.deviantart.com/view/19683871/ #8 - http://www.deviantart.com/view/19286311/ #27 - http://www.deviantart.com/view/19654093/ All submissions can be found at http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/5828886/ It's now time for the devs to cast votes (a few devs voted in the contest, and I removed theirs from the count. Yes, including my own) This should be pretty straight forward, and if we can get the vote done by tomorrow that we be awesome. I know that whomever wins will need to update it with a couple new names from the Authors file. And when voting, if there are any critiques or suggestions for your choice, please voice them. -Josh

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Error when building on win32
by Joshua A. Andler 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Since Arpad had done the round of updates to the .po files a few days ago, I get the following error when building on win32. make[1]: Entering directory `C:/cvs/inkscape/inkscape/po' c:\gtk26\bin\msgfmt -o am.mo am.po make[1]: *** [am.mo] Error -1073741515 And then it gives a windows error dialog with an OK button that says msgfmt.exe couldn't find intl.dll. It was building perfectly fine up until that commit and he said he just did the updates like normal. I'm not sure what was changed, but compiling errors out since he updated those files. It may affect more than the "am" files because it dies on that one, which is the first for it to process. Anyone have any thoughts? Should I file a formal bug? Thanks! -Josh

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Unclosed in Slovenian po file
by Kaushik Sridharan 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

The Slovenian po file gives an unclosed error. Note the word "besedilo" below. I fixed it on my box, but I'd rather a Slovenian speaker submit a patch. Thanks, -K - - - - #: ../src/text-chemistry.cpp:249 msgid "" "Select a text and one or more paths or shapes to flow text " "into frame." msgstr "Da položite besedilo na pot izberite besedilo in eno ali več poti ali oblik."

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Build test results
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

= Analysis Report for inkscape = Platform Unpack Config Build Install WRNS ERRS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ debian x86 0 0 0 0 5 0 Test Status Score Info ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sut-1 ?? == Errors == none == Warnings == display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: invalid access to non-static data member display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used display/sp-canvas.cpp:112: warning: invalid access to non-static data member ` display/sp-canvas.cpp:112: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp:226: warning: enumeration value `

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New w3c proposal for xml:id
by Bob Jamison 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

W3C has a candidate proposal for specifying the rules for the id="" attribute. http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-xml-id-20050712/ Note how it says that W3C "licenses" the attribute "xml:id" for this purpose. Apparently, the purpose of this document is to more cleanly separate xml:id from other types of attribute. This will likely add the ID type to the DOM spec, as attributes are Nodes, too. This probably won't affect how we use the id attribute, but it is an interesting read, and might help with decisions on how we use it. Bob

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Req: reduced precision
by lode leroy 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Hi, I would like to have an option in "simplify" that puts the control points on pixel boundaries, in order to reduce the precision of the numbers in the svg file. Now every floating point number has 5 digits, whereas 0 or 1 digit would probably not make a visually significant change. -- lode

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Tracker access
by Michael Wybrow 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Hi, Could someone please set my SF id (mjwybrow) to be able to manage Tracker items? I've just noticed for example a OS X package feature request that I would like to comment on and close now we code to support it in CVS. In any case I'll need access once the connector code is added to the codebase after the release and the bug reports start coming in. :-) Thanks, Michael

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[Fwd: Re: SVG and OpenDocument.]
by Jon Phillips 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Also, check this forward from someone on the TC. Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Gary Edwards <gary.edwards@...882...> > To: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...878...> > Cc: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> > Subject: Re: SVG and OpenDocument. > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:50:07 -0700 > > Hi Daniel, > > I read through the post you mentioned. The best thing to do is submit > a proposal to repair and properly extend the SVG implementation. > Meaning, the best course of action is to not only point out the > problem, but also provide a proposal that can work as the solution. > The solution has to be application independent too. > > >From there it will be discussed briefly by the TC, and then sent to > both the OpenOffice.org and KOffice graphics groups for comment and > testing. Then it comes back to the TC for inclusion in the spec. > > Generally we don't paste anything into the specification until it can > be road tested by a real world implementation. It's one of the things > that makes the OpenDoc XML very unique as a standard. > > I couldn't help but notice that one of the differences between MS XML > and OpenDoc XML is that Microsoft wrote their specifications > specifically for their applications (legacy and current). OpenDoc XML > was written to be both application and platform independent. It was > written to meet the needs of information generated years ago, in > applications and platforms long dead. And it was written so that > information can traverse time in the OpenDoc XML container, to be > useful 200 years from now when there are applications, computational > platforms and informations systems the likes of which we have no idea > of. > > The fact that Microsoft makes such a big deal about the problems of > dealing with the 20 year mess of their own legacy formats screams > loudly that these are not the guys we want to trust with the problems > of moving mankind's knowledge from an unstructured format to one that > is digital, structured and Internet ready. > > ~ge~ > > Daniel Carrera wrote: > > > > > > Hi Gary, > > > > Thank you for the info. I'll ask the developers to write to the TC > > and post specific conversion issues as they find them. > > > > Cheers, > > Daniel. > > > > Gary Edwards wrote: > > > Hi Daniel, > > > > > > Let me take a look. When the OpenDoc XML TC initially embraced > > > SVG, there were problems. Paul Langille, one of the Corel > > > representatives to the TC, was the driving force behind putting > > > SVG in OpenDoc. Many of the issues he brought up involved the > > > basic problem that SVG was not ready for prime time, being unable > > > to do things like shadows on radial objects. What we agreed on > > > was to adopt SVG wherever we could, and implement new SVG elements > > > and attributes as they evolved. This strategy backfired though. > > > The W3C SVG Workgroup ended up accusing us of writing our own SVg > > > implementations, and using our own namespaces. Michael Brauer, > > > the OpenDoc XML Chairman, went to great lengths to appease their > > > concerns and assure them that we would do whatever it takes to > > > keep our specification in sync with their work. It doesn't > > > surprise me that there are problems. > > > > > > I'll read through the list and see what i can see. One suggestion > > > is that whenever someone finds a problem with the OpenDoc XML spec > > > implementation, they can and should post a comment directly to the > > > General Public List. This list is distributed directly to all > > > OpenDoc XML TC members, (both active and observer status) as well > > > as anyone else who has an interest in OpenDoc and has subscribed. > > > The list is at: > > > office-comment@...676... > > > > > > I can assure you that every post to this forum is discussed by the > > > OpenDoc XML TC. > > > > > > OBTW, have you taken a look at the most recent blog by Brian > > > Jones? > > > http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/default.aspx > > > > > > He's posted a sample of the MS XML v2 file format. I'm wondering > > > if anyone has tried an XSLT transformation to test conformance and > > > interoperability with OpenDoc XML? Conformance testing, and > > > coming up with some kind of compliance - interoperability rating > > > for import and export transformations remains an important issue > > > for the OpenDoc TC. Sadly it seems there wasn't much interest at > > > OOo Marketing in getting involved with this important issue. Oh > > > well. When the private sector moves in to fill this gap, as they > > > most assuredly will, there will likely be much weeping and > > > wailing. > > > ~ge~ > > > -- 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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Bug status for Inkscape 0.42 release
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

There's still a few more days before we officially kick off the bug fixing phase of the 0.42 release, however I'm going to start posting bug stats. For the 0.40 release we set a target of 150 points worth of bugs, but hit 360 points by the time we stopped counting. Pretty damn cool. :-) For this release, I'd like to up the challenge by setting our target to 300 points. We did it before without breaking much of a sweat, and we have over 200 bugs open currently, so I think this will challenge us to really beef up Inkscape's quality for this coming release. Once we've achieved the 300 point total, we'll doublecheck the list of critical bugs and identify ones that must be fixed. Hopefully we can close enough of these early that this will be a very short list. Bryce Bug ID Pts Title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ None yet! ======================================================================== Total: 0 Goal: 300pts

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FAQ - More questions needed
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

Recently we've been augmenting the FAQ with a few more questions: http://www.inkscape.org/faq.php Can you look and try to think of additional questions that should go there? (Bonus points if you also happen to know the answer!) Bryce

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