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Blogs for Inkscape contributers (mainly SoC)
by Greg Steffensen 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Greg Steffensen <greg.steffensen@...400...> Date: Jul 9, 2005 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Blogs for Inkscape contributers (mainly SoC) To: Jonathan Leighton <turnip@...583...> No prob, I never intended to cause quite this much discussion :). I've already setup mine at http://summerofclipart.blogspot.com Greg On 7/9/05, Jonathan Leighton <turnip@...583...> wrote: > > Jon Phillips wrote: > > >I don't think we should offer blogs at all. I think this is the > >participants responsibility. Also, I think that we shouldn't offer and > >then cut off as that is kinda not good for these people to feel like > >they should continue working on Inkscape. > > > >I can invite anyone who wants a blog on tribe.net <http://tribe.net/> . > That is free and > >really good quality. Also, it will be around forever. I used that blog > >on that site as well. I think we need to nip in the bud adding more > >maintenance tasks and also want to encourage people to stick around. I > >would be willing to help any participant of Inkscape SoC to set up a > >blog off-site. > > > I'd agree if we had not already offered the blogs. To be honest it won't > be a great difficulty because SF has an SVN client installed so I can > just do a straight checkout of the release tag and set it up. > > Michael and Greg (the two who wanted blogs), what do you think about > this? What are your opinions? Would you be happy setting up an off-site > blog instead? > > Jon > > -- > Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip > http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/ > >

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unlocalizable entries 2
by Arpad Biro 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hi, Some more unlocalizable strings from current CVS: Ruler tooltips: "Pixels", "Millimeters", "Points", "Centimeters", "Meters", "Inches" Swatches dialog: "small", "medium", "large", "huge", "List", "Grid" File type descriptions when saving document ("Compressed Inkscape SVG", ...) Arpad Biro ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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ANN: SVG_RenderTest 0.1 (was Re: [Clipart] Anyone try librsvg2 on the clipart)
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:11:21PM +0100, Stephen Silver wrote: > Jon Phillips wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 15:02 +0100, Stephen Silver wrote: > > > We should try to make the SVG files as portable as possible. > > Did you file a bug on our bug tracker. > I'm compiling a list of problematic SVG files in release 0.15. > So far I've found 49. Okay... I think it's time to take our SVG QA up a notch. ;-) SVG_RenderTest is a new test program for doing regression testing of SVG rendering. You can download it from the Inkscape File downloads page, or directly from here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=157… `runtest` is a bash script that takes *.svg files in the current directory and attempts to render them into png's using Inkscape, librsvg, cairo, and batik. It reports PASS or FAIL for each. )See the README for the full list of programs that this test expects to be installed.) It also performs a visual 'diff' of the rendered images using the Motiontrack software. This calculates a score showing how relatively different the images are, and also generates a PNG that visually displays the brightness difference of the files. Here is an example of the results this test generates: 1.inkscape PASS : 0 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.librsvg PASS : 0 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.cairo PASS : 0 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.batik PASS : 0 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.cairo-mdiff FAIL : 2 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.inkscape-mdiff FAIL : 8 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 1.librsvg-mdiff FAIL : 2 b_w_tiger_susan_park_01 2.inkscape PASS : 0 daggers 2.librsvg PASS : 0 daggers 2.cairo PASS : 0 daggers 2.batik PASS : 0 daggers 2.cairo-mdiff FAIL : 7 daggers 2.inkscape-mdiff FAIL : 8 daggers 2.librsvg-mdiff FAIL : 7 daggers 3.inkscape PASS : 0 sword_hanger 3.librsvg PASS : 0 sword_hanger 3.cairo PASS : 0 sword_hanger 3.batik PASS : 0 sword_hanger 3.cairo-mdiff FAIL : 1 sword_hanger 3.inkscape-mdiff FAIL : 8 sword_hanger 3.librsvg-mdiff FAIL : 1 sword_hanger The numbers in the third column are either the exit code or, in the case of mdiff, a score that shows the relative difference between batik's output and the output from the given program. The higher the score, the worse the difference. You can see examples of the visual diffs here: http://www.inkscape.org/svg_rendertest_example/ The motivations for this test are to help: 1. Regression testing of known bad SVG's (i.e. for Inkscape QA) 2. Compliance testing of Inkscape against the W3C test suite 3. SVG compatibility testing between different SVG rendering engines 4. Testing of the Open Clip Art Library images (ob OCAL thread) This first release works well enough on my machine, but certainly leaves plenty of room for improvement. ;-) Please send me patches if you have ideas for improvements or spot bugs. Enjoy, Bryce

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unlocalizable entries
by Arpad Biro 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hi, It seems that in the current CVS version, a lot of strings in the Transformation dialog are unlocalizable (all of them except the 5 tab titles and the button text). Arpad Biro ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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Nightly build service
by Mike Hearn 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

Hi, I'm in the process of moving my stuff to a new server and the nightly build service has been down for a while. I only have network access sporadically right now, and so I can't really maintain the nightly builds. Aaron Spike has taken over building the release autopackages: Aaron, would you be willing to do the nightly builds too? I can give you an account on my new server if you can do the work, I just don't have time anymore to fix it when the build breaks. Alternatively, as autopackages can be built by anybody, if somebody else wants to take up the reigns please do let me know. thanks -mike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Summer of Code: DXF support, and my horrible
by Matt Squires 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 21:00:26 +0400 > From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> > To: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Summer of Code: DXF support, > and my horrible pessism. > > On 7/8/05, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > Dia already has a library for importing DXF (and there are probably other > > open source programs with their own custom DXF support and some with more > > *cough* dxflib *cough* > > http://www.ribbonsoft.com/dxflib.html That looks somewhat familiar. It is licensed under the GPL. > > liberal licensing than others). So if he chooses to write something new from scratch there is absolutely no point in making it any less than LGPL. I expect the mentors are making sure to keep people on the right track. > > generalised and turned into a library that could be shared by Inkscape and > > other applications to share the maintainance burden (or failing that make > > the new code for Inkscape so that it can be reused by other applications). > > Sure, iirc support for WMF was promised by the same guy. *cough* libwmf *cough* That would be pretty sweet alright. Even if plans change I'm sure there is no shortage of file formats Inkscape would like to support and I'm more optimistic now he will be able to produce something great. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ --__--__-- Here is where I am on the dxf importing so far. A few weeks ago I checked the dxf libraries that are already out there (dime, Qcad (dxflib), blender were specifically mentioned in the proposal) and found all are GPL'd. After a discussion with Jon about licensing I became more aware of the possibility of releasing under several licenses. So I decided to write a dxf importing code using STL containers to hold the various levels of data. I hope that it will be something others can reuse. I plan to release it at least under the LGPL maybe some other licenses. At lease LGPL. As far a Dia. I thought about it few days ago but didn't bother to look because I was mostly done with the main parts of dxf reader. After today's posts I looked more closely and it is also GPL'd. Gnuplot will export to dxf so I will check that out in the near future. BTW what is libwmf? Matt

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effects menu
by bulia byak 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

Is there any specific reason we have the Effects menu off by default? >From what I heard extensions now work even on Windows, so why not enable them for the release? If they don't work without Python installed, do we now have a nice dialog that shows up when you try to run an extension (NOT on running Inkscape :) and says you need to install the interpreter? With such a dialog or something similar, I would vote for enabling the Effects menu. And in any case, I would like to remove the big "EXPERIMENTAL" in the preferences label. It conveys no information, just scares users away. Thoughts? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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lingering documents
by MenTaLguY 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

Well, so far I've not been able to find an actual memory leak with documents, but I have discovered that SPDocuments ARE actually managed by the garbage collector. Apparently I converted SPDocument over and then forgot about it. So, the upshot is that the old document will linger for some time until the next garbage collection pass. That wouldn't be an issue, except some stuff currently ties extra cleanup (like tearing down namedviews) too tightly to freeing memory, when it should really be done earlier. In the short term, the thing to do IS in fact to force a garbage collection when the document is closed. Apologies to the people I've gotten in arguments with over this... you all were right. The only trick is that the forced collection pass can't happen too early -- e.g. if there are still references to the old SPDocument in local variables somewhere in the call chain, or from other garbage-collected objects, that will prevent it from being collected. -mental

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Text and Font dialog crashes Inkscape
by Jean-Francois Lemaire 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Hello, I've just submitted a bug with this. Since Inkscape is so close to a new release, I thought it might be better to also post it here. This is with current CVS as of 09/07/2005 under SuSE Linux - enter some text (F8) - select the text (F1) - select the "Text and Font dialog" (Shift Control T) Inkscape crashes. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1235382&group_id=9… Jef

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python extension scripts on win32?
by lode leroy 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Can anyone confirm if these work, or at least, are expected to work? I have created a path, and selected some of these effects, but I see no result. Is there a way to get some feedback? (like --verbose from the command line?) BTW, I'm trying out Inkscape-0.41+0.42pre1-1.win32.exe on WinXP-SP1 -- lode

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