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Summer of Code: DXF support, and my horrible pessism.
by Alan Horkan 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

I'd like to know more about the Summer of Code project to add DXF support to Inkscape. I've read the Proposals page on the wiki http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOC_Accepted_Proposals What I am really interested to know is about reuse of code. The project description doesn't make any suggestion about reusing existing code and it looks like as if the Author is going to write something from scratch (possibly including other dxf code he has written previously). 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 liberal licesing than others). I would very much like to see this code 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). I think the only way the project can succeed beyond the Summer of Code is if it produces code that can be used by more than just inkscape. We've all seen people gradually lose interest and watched bitrot set in. And will the inkscape developers be encouraging him to LGPL this code rather than merely GPL it? Sincerely Alan Horkan P.S. Sorry to be so pessimistic about it all.

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Translation to Brazilian Portuguese
by Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Hello dear inkscapers, I would like to translate this wonderful programa to Brazilian Portuguese. Is there anyone already doing it? Best regards. Frederico ------------------ Linux User #228171 Debian-BR User #434 <http://teia.bio.br> "Liberdade, essa palavra que o sonho humano alimenta, que não há ninguém que explique e ninguém que não entenda." (Cecília Meireles) _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador agora! http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/

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data argument in XML node listeners
by David Yip 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Is the void* data argument in XML node listeners available to pass extra data to listener callback routines, or does it have another function that would prevent that purpose? (For example, passing a pointer to an instance of a class that is unique on a per-document basis.) I've been reading the listener and DOM tree implementation and it seems that this is correct, but I just wanted to make sure. -- David

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Updated Mingw cross-compiler
by Bob Jamison 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Hi, all, I uploaded a newer version of the cross-compiler. It is gcc3.4.4, built for i686-pc-mingw32, and with --enable-sjlj-exceptions. These options are intended to match the version of gcc that is provided in the Mingw 4.1.0 distribution. It is built to run at /usr/local/xmingw, like the previous cross-compiler. I uploaded a copy here : http://inkscape.org/win32 It is this file: http://inkscape.org/win32/xmingw-3.4.4.tar.bz2 Bob (ishmal)

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Gtk::TreeViewColumn hack
by Bob Jamison 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

After checking the web, I found a simple hack on the Gtkmm bug tracker that will treat the symptom of Gtk::TreeViewColumn not being imported properly (and also later causing the Memory dialog to crash.) I am going to upload another copy of the libs with the tweak, but if anyone already has the new libs, it would be much simpler just to edit: gtk26/include/gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm/treeviewcolumn.h. Line 88 should read: class __declspec(dllimport) TreeViewColumn : public Gtk::Object That's 2 '_' Delete src\ui\dialog\memory.o and build again. Should work fine now. If this works for everyone, then I guess we can close the bug for now. Bob (ishmal)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] python extension scripts on win32?
by unknown＠example.com 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Jasper van de Gronde wrote: > On win32 you can connect STDERR to a pipe if you're using CreateProcess > (which at least the code in src/extension/implementation/script.cpp > currently does). The relevant member of the STARTUPINFO struct is > hStdError, as far as I know it can be set to the same handle as hStdOut > (which has the disadvantage of possibly making it harder to separate > error messages from normal output) as well as a different handle (which > would make getting results from the program harder). The second option (different handle) sounds to me like what should happen. Why do you say that makes it harder to get results from the program? Aaron Spike

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Re: Search help on some InkScape code
by MenTaLguY 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:33 +0200, Stevens LION wrote: > I also have some problems with glib. I get your sources from cvs, but > I don’t arrive to compile them (on windows). How can you include a > glib.h from a dll? Do you have someone who compiles the code for > windows? If yes, please can you give me his mail too? We have several people who compile the code for windows. I'll direct the question to our mailing list, so they can all see it. (It's often better to ask questions on the list, actually.) > Thanks in advance for your help, and congratulations for InkScape, it > is really an impressive software. Thank you very much. -mental

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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.15 Announcement
by Jon Phillips 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

July 8, 2005 UTC — Release 0.15 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now on-line for download as an individual package consisting of 4336 images submitted by over 430 artists from around the world. The amount of high quality clip art has increased much with the inclusion of Nicu Buculei's Playing Cards collection and Gerald Ganson's package submission. During the month of June, thanks to Google's Summer of Code, a student developer, Greg Steffensen, has received funding to construct a graphical client for the Open Clip Art Library. This client will be able to be used inside Inkscape and other applications on the free desktop. Also, this work is dependent upon the new document management system (DMS) and is planned to use its SOAP-based webservice API to communicate with the Open Clip Art Library. In other news, developers Bryce Harrington and Jon Phillips are scheduled to present at Desktop Developers' Conference 2005 in Ottawa, Canada July 18-19. Harrington is presenting "Inkscape - An Open Source Vector Drawing Application" and Phillips is promoting "Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library," which will also be shown at SVG Open 2005 in Enschede, Netherlands. For the month of July, the focus of the project will continue to be collecting summer themed clip art. However, in the background DMS will be further connected and tested with openclipart.org's internals. The project encourages any interested person(s) to submit clip art and/or to lend a hand to make the Open Clip Art Library a more extensive resource of contributed clip art. The Open Clip Art Library. Drawing Together. Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.15/openclipart-0.15.tar.bz2 http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.15/openclipart-0.15.tar.gz http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.15/openclipart-0.15.zip http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/openclipart-0.15-win32.exe The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.

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(no subject)
by De Winne, Joris 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

Hello, Is there a way in Inkscape to crop images? It may be in pure svg xml, because I'm only using the Inkscape viewer. the problem is when I put nested <svg> tags arround the <image> tag, the cropping is never executed. Example: <svg width=... height=... viewBox=....> ... some tags to draw like rectangles, .... <svg width="100" height="100" viewBox="0 0 100 100"> <image xlink:href="image_to_show.jpg" x="0" y="0" width="200" height="200"/> </svg> </svg> In this example I would expect only 1/4 of the image to be shown, but the image is always shown in total. Anyone an idea how to do this? Joris - - - - - - - DISCLAIMER - - - - - - - - Unless indicated otherwise, the information contained in this message is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and/or attachments is strictly prohibited. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Furthermore, the company does not warrant a proper and complete transmission of this information, nor does it accept liability for any delays. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the message. Thank you.

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Inkscape-0.41+0.42pre1-1.win32.exe crash
by lode leroy 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

I just installed Inkscape-0.41+0.42pre1-1.win32.exe on my XP-SP1 machine. Help->About Memory makes the application crash.

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