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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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custom palettes and swatches
by Nicu Buculei 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I found I can define my own palette, either in ~/.inkscape/palettes/ or system wide in /usr/share/inkscape/palettes/ and it will be loaded in the swatches dialog. So I made a Gnome HIG palette (attached), which can be used when creating icons. If you think it is useful enough, you can add it to the other default palettes. -- nicu GIMP Palette Name: Gnome HIG # 234 232 227 Basic 3D Hilight (#EAE8E3) 186 181 171 Basic 3D Medium (#BAB5AB) 128 125 116 Basic 3D Dark (#807D74) 86 82 72 3D Shadow (#565248) 197 210 200 Green Hilight (#C5D2C8) 131 166 127 Green Medium (#83A67F) 93 117 85 Green Dark (#5D7555) 68 86 50 Green Shadow (#445632) 224 182 175 Red Hilight (#E0B6AF) 193 102 90 Red Medium (#C1665A) 136 70 49 Red Dark (#884631) 102 56 34 Red Shadow (#663822) 173 167 200 Purple Hilight (#ADA7C8) 136 127 163 Purple Medium (#887FA3) 98 91 129 Purple Dark (#625B81) 73 64 102 Purple Shadow (#494066) 157 184 210 Blue Hilight (#9DB8D2) 117 144 174 Blue Medium (#7590AE) 75 105 131 Blue Dark (#4B6983) 49 78 108 Blue Shadow (#314E6C) 239 224 205 Face Skin Hilight (#EFE0CD) 224 195 158 Face Skin Medium (#E0C39E) 179 145 105 Face Skin Dark (#B39169) 130 102 71 Face Skin Shadow (#826647) 223 66 30 Accent Red (#DF421E) 153 0 0 Accent Red Dark (#990000) 238 214 128 Accent Yellow (#EED680) 209 148 12 Accent Yellow Dark (#D1940C) 70 160 70 Accent Green (#46A046) 38 199 38 Accent Green Dark (#267726) 255 255 255 White (#FFFFFF) 0 0 0 Black (#000000)

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How to input non-ASCII characters in Inkscape
by Peter Moulder 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

I see variants on this question from time to time, like How does one get special characters, like left and right quotes, in Inkscape's text? How do I type Greek/Russian/Chinese/Tamil/... in Inkscape? Here's the answer as best as I know. I hope people can fill in the gaps, and perhaps work on making this easier to do from Inkscape. If you only rarely need to type the odd ‘déjà vu’ or degree sign, then the simplest way is with a gui character selection program like gucharmap (Accessories>Character Map in the Gnome menu, or Text>Unicode character map in the Debian menu system). gucharmap wishlist item (which I haven't yet reported): It might be nice if gucharmap made it a bit easier to find commonly-sought characters (introducing hierarchy into the long list of categories, or adding one or more pseudo-blocks of commonly-sought characters that might span more than one of the named blocks). (In its favour, gucharmap does have a search function that can search in character names & descriptions.) Also, it might be nice if gucharmap were to to show any Multi-key combinations defined for the character (see below). If you type non-ASCII characters a little more often, then you might instead use Compose/Multi-key key sequences. The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose lists available key sequences. Many of these sequences start with <Multi_key>. Some keyboards have a Compose key labelled as such. Some X sessions are configured to use the right `Alt' key as Compose/Multi. In my case, I use a ~/.xmodmap file that makes my print-screen key act as a compose/multi key: the ~/.xmodmap file contains a line keycode 0x6F = Multi_key Sys_Req and I do xmodmap "$HOME"/.xmodmap in my ~/.xsession file. However, note that some of the key sequences of interest (e.g. Multi_key o o for degree sign, or Multi_key < " for open curly double quote and similarly the corresponding > and ' versions for closing or single quotes) are available only when using the X input method rather than gtk's default input method -- see below. For typing extended blocks of non-Roman script, you'll want to use an input method. The only way I know of to switch between input methods in a running inkscape session is to open the Text dialog box (Ctrl-Shift-T or in the Text menu) and go to its Text tab and right-click in the text entry area: gtk should give you its standard text-entry context menu including an Input Methods submenu. One can change gtk's default input method (usable in Inkscape's standard in-document text entry) with the GTK_IM_MODULE environment variable, e.g. export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim (X input method) or export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim (Chinese, if you have the scim package and its gtk input method on your system). It would be nice if Inkscape offered an Input Methods submenu in its context menu for text entry. Abiword has code to do this in abi/src/af/xap/unix/xap_UnixFrameImpl.cpp:XAP_UnixFrameImpl::_runModalContextMenu, but I haven't looked into that. Should Inkscape do anything else to make it easier to enter non-ASCII characters? Perhaps have an item in the Text menu to launch gucharmap? Should something like this message go into a short tutorial available in the Help menu? pjrm. -- bbyak: swatches, rich text, gradient on canvas... JonCruz: The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything... JonCruz: Inkscape 0.42!!!!!!!

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PDF Import /Export plugin.
by Muthiah Annamalai 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Greetings to Inkscape community. This is Muthiah Annamalai, from India, Chennai, Tamilnadu. Im planning to take up creation of a PDF Import/Export plugin for Inkscape, as a part of Google Summer of Code contest. Im reading Inkscape code, and hope to contribute to the code base. Im maintainer/lead for Octave-gtk project, at http://octave-gtk.sf.net. Previously Ive submitted some patches to Glade & EOG. Thanks Muthu. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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