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[cjohnson@...1...: [Fwd: [rc_spm] Adobe replacement???]]
by Bryce Harrington 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Microsoft's apparently trying to create a graphics program... ----- Forwarded message from Carl Johnson <cjohnson@...1...> ----- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:44:05 -0700 From: Carl Johnson <cjohnson@...1...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1...> Reply-To: cjohnson@...1... Subject: [Fwd: [rc_spm] Adobe replacement???] http://news.com.com/Microsoft+offers+beta+of+Adobe+rival/2100-1012-5740444.… John ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Compiling on Win32
by unknown＠example.com 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

aaron@...749... wrote: > Josh gave me a suggestion on jabber. '"perl mkfiles.pl" and then "perl > mkdep.pl"' If that dosen't work I'll ask again. Even after that I get the perl error. extension/script/InkscapePerl.cpp:16:20: EXTERN.h: No such file or directory extension/script/InkscapePerl.cpp:17:18: perl.h: No such file or directory extension/script/InkscapePerl.cpp:18:18: XSUB.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [extension/script/InkscapePerl.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/inkscape/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 What takes the place of autogen.sh and configure on windows? Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Compiling on Win32
by unknown＠example.com 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

aaron@...749... wrote: > Josh gave me a suggestion on jabber. '"perl mkfiles.pl" and then "perl > mkdep.pl"' If that dosen't work I'll ask again. Did that and it still complained about three files missing: helper/sp-marshal.h helper/sp-marshal.cpp inkscape_version.h So I copied the corresponding *.mingw versions into place. Perhaps the instructions for creating a tarball need on this page <http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CreatingDists> need to preceed compiling on windows? Aaron Spike

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Gentoo Inkscape
by Bryce Harrington 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

A ticket's was opened recently to try to get a more recent version Inkscape marked stable in Gentoo, and over the past couple of days some progresshas been made: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=inkscape amd64, ppc64, and sparc are at 0.40 or 0.41. No word yet on x86; it's still at 0.37... Bryce

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Compiling on Win32
by unknown＠example.com 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Bob, Last night I tried to compile Inkscape following the directions you have provided here: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/inkscape/ It seemed that I needed to change the location of the GTK folder in mingwenv.bat as well as Makefile.mingw.common. If I'm not doing something wrong you may want to add that to the directions. And when I compile I get the following build error: extension/script/InkscapePerl.cpp:16:20: EXTERN.h: No such file or directory extension/script/InkscapePerl.cpp:17:18: perl.h: No such file or directory extension/script/InkscapePerl.cpp:18:18: XSUB.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [extension/script/InkscapePerl.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/inkscape/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 Mental suggested that I disable the embedded interpreters. But I never ran configure to enable them in the first place. And I don't know how to turn them off. Any suggestions? Thanks, Aaron Spike

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side-by-side install
by Aaron and Sarah Spike 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Before I learned how to compile CVS, my major concern was "How can I keep the stable version and CVS installed at the same time on linux." This was, of course, no trouble because the stable version was installed to /usr/bin/ and the CVS version was installed to /usr/local/bin/. The reason I had worried was the autopackage nightly builds. When I installed an autopackage it installed in the place of the stable version. Having both versions has been a good experience. It is a safety net. If a old feature breaks in CVS it is likely I can still use that feature in the stable version. Best of all I can do this without having to revert to an earlier version by uninstalling and reinstalling. As long as I was pestering Mike Hearn with my naive questions about building the autopackage, I decided to ask him if there was a way the packaging system could handle the issue and give users the ability to keep side-by-side installs. Mike suggested that the best solution might be to build a different executable for CVS i.e. inkscape-cvs instead of inkscape. This sounds reasonable to me. For instance, the sylpheed mail client has a sister project that builds the experimental sylpheed-claws version. The usability of CVS is definately one of Inkscape's strengths. I think the smaller the barrier between new users and CVS the better. Comments? Aaron Spike

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Memory usage during linking
by Bryce Harrington 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I'm not sure if this was just the machine I was testing on, but the memory usage during linking appears to be fairly intensive. The system was low on swap space, and compilation actually triggered the OOM killer. I had the machine pretty loaded with other stuff so it wasn't a total surprise, but I'm curious if others are having this problem? Is it a new problem? Also, are there things we could be doing to reduce the memory load during the final link? Bryce

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Trace and Script dialogs
by Bryce Harrington 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Bob, I have a few questions on a couple dialogs... I notice that "verbs.h" is included in the headers. I see this is for the 'verb_num' argument that's been added to the Dialog constructor. I looked in Dialog::Dialog() but it doesn't appear to get used in that function for anything. It would be nice if we didn't include verbs.h in the dialog headers, because verbs.h changes often and would force the dialogs to be recompiled excessively. What is the verb_num argument for? Regarding naming, Jizzbug and I felt that the new dialogs should not have 'dialog' in their title, as it's redundant since they're in the Inkscape::UI::Dialog namespace already. Would it be possible to rename TraceDialog to Trace, and ScriptDialog to Script? In TraceDialog, I notice you have a TraceDialogImpl class; it turns out that due to DialogManager, the dialogs are encapsulated well enough that we really don't need to use the Impl trick. Anyway, nice to see all the new dialogs in gtkmm. :-) Bryce

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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.14 Announcement - www.openclipart.org
by Jon Phillips 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

*PLEASE FORWARD AND POST LIBERALLY* June 10, 2005 UTC — Release 0.14 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now available for download on-line as an individual package consisting of 3415 images submitted by over 200 artists from around the globe. The project has progressed much this month on the future core of the Open Clip Art Library, the Document Management System (DMS) and more infrastructure has been implemented for the website due to user-demand. In addition to the aggregration of developer blogs at Planet OpenClipArt (http://planet.openclipart.org/), the project is now using the freedesktop.org provided bugzilla bug tracker (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?product=openclipart.org) to focalize feature requests and bug reports related to clip art, dms, the website, and other concerns. And, in response to people having difficulty contacting developers, there is now a contact form on the main project page. With regards to the Open Clip Art Library's growing release size, there is now an SVG-only package. And, for all those Windows users out there, the project is now providing a Windows installer that supports 40 languages and allows users to install and uninstall versions of the library package safely and securely. Now is the time to contribute artwork to the library and help develop the infrastructure which allows for easy clip art distribution. All summer the project is looking for summer themed artwork. What a great time to get out of the heat and lend a hand to the ongoing development for the project. Or, go outside and get some inspiration for making some artwork for submission. Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.14/openclipart-0.14.tar.bz2 http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.14/openclipart-0.14.tar.gz http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/0.14/openclipart-0.14.zip http://www.openclipart.org/downloads/openclipart-0.14-win32.exe The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used freely for any use. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.

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New gtkmm align-and-distribute dialog
by Bryce Harrington 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Aubanel sent in a patch to upgrade the align-and-distribute dialog to the new dialog system, and to add align/distribute of nodes when in node edit mode. Bryce

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