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Inkscape crashing on "open file" on Mac OS X
by Marcus Silva 23 May '05

23 May '05

When I am running Inkscape in GNOME on my Mac (installed through fink), I cannot open any files unless I specify files from the command line from the --file option. If I try to use the "open file" dialog, inkscape freezes, eventually a dialog box opens up saying that Inkscape encountered an error, but that is also frozen, and if I am lucky another dialog opens up giving me the option to force quit (i guess this is a GNOME dialog box). Using the "kill" command works otherwise without a problem. 1 - Start Inkscape in GNOME running on fink 2 - Click "File Open" Icon OR 1 - Start Inkscape in GNOME running on fink 2 - Go to "File" menu, and click "Open" The odd thing is that this only happens when I run Inkscape from GNOME (within Xnest, or when running X11 in full screen mode). If I run Inkscape with quartz-wm, no GNOME, things work fine (except, of course, that drop down menus appear behind the windows). Has anyone encountered this before? Marcus

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LaTeX Export
by Michael Forbes 23 May '05

23 May '05

I have attached my initial draft of a LaTeX export internal extension I wrote. It currently uses PSTricks so is very similar to the PostScript extension. It currently does not implement gradients, transparency, text, images and has some problems with unit conversion and seems to be rotated awkwardly. Can anyone pitch in with some of these problems? -Michael Forbes ------------------------------------------------------------ Student System Operator binx.mbhs.edu BEN Manager http://ben.mbhs.edu BNC Internet Division http://bnc.mbhs.edu MBHS Webmaster http://www.mbhs.edu BlazerNet President http://blazernet.mbhs.edu Computer Team Co-President http://computerteam.mbhs.edu MBLUG President http://mblug.mbhs.edu ------------------------------------------------------------

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Updated inkscape.nsi
by Bob Jamison 23 May '05

23 May '05

I committed the Czech and French strings that Cornelius and Matiphas provided. (Thanks! ;-) Someone might want to check it out in NSIS, if they have time. (I am Unix-only while at the office). Bob

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w32 cvs-version extensions not working, need advise
by Adib Taraben 23 May '05

23 May '05

Hello, I tried current CVS versions from: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/inkscape/builds/ or compiled by my own. But I can not run any extensions. During the startup it says that extensions will be disabled. I use WinXP German and have ActivePerl and Python in my path. PATH=c:\mingw\bin;c:\gtk\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Borland\CBUILD~1\Bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Borlan d\CBUILD~1\Projects\Bpl;C:\Programme\Borland\Delphi7\Bin;C:\Programme\Borland\De lphi7\Projects\Bpl\;c:\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOW S\System32\Wbem;C:\Programme\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Programme\WinCvs 1.3\CVSNT;C:\Programme\doxygen\bin;C:\Programme\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN;C:\Programme\Support Tools\;C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\GTK\2.0\bin;C:\programme\subversion\bin Any advise how I can track this down appreciated. Thx, Adib.

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Draft news article
by Jonathan Leighton 20 May '05

20 May '05

I just noticed this draft: http://inkscape.org/wp/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=215. It is, in fact, just a copy of the article recently linked on inkscape-user <http://www.glitchnyc.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/technology/opensource/furboa_t…> by Ted. Personally I'm in favour of linking the original in the news, but I think reproducing the entire thing would be overkill. Any thoughts? Jon -- Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/

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Win32, next release GTK with Wimp Theme
by Adib Taraben 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hello, is it possible for the next release to have the Wimp theme in the Win32 packe as the standard-theme ? Thx, Adib. --

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MALLINFO?
by Mike Hearn 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hi, I can't build CVS anymore, autogen says: Running aclocal-1.7 ... Running autoheader ... autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_FORDBLKS autoheader-2.59: Use AC_DEFINE([HAVE_MALLINFO_FORDBLKS], [], [Description]) autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_FSMBLKS autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_HBLKHD autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_UORDBLKS autoheader-2.59: warning: missing template: HAVE_MALLINFO_USMBLKS Please fix the error conditions and try again. Does anybody know what I'm missing? thanks -mike

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Printer dialog interface
by Jeremy C. Reed 18 May '05

18 May '05

Please CC me on replies. This is a request. I didn't see anything about in the change log or in the the the RoadMap. Please consider having a friendlier printer dialog. My wife and young children do not know command line Unix. Using a pipe or greater than is not intuitive for them :) Please consider using a printer dialog widget that allows to choose: - print to PostScript file (and a dialog to choose filename.ps) - print to printer (and maybe use parsed printers names found from printcap) - how many copies to print, etc. Please carbon copy me on replies. Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

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GIMP 2.3
by bulia byak 16 May '05

16 May '05

At http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS, one thing jumped on me: - added an option to make the dock windows transient to the active image display I haven't tried it yet, but from the description, this is exactly what Inkscape does for its dialogs. FINALLY. For me, this was by far the worst usability problem with GIMP (and with Sodipodi/Inkscape, until I invented the transientize hack). About a year ago I spent quite some time trying to persuade them that this hack, while being a hack, is still better than no solution at all. Looks like they have finally agreed :) This is big news, even if this option is off by default. At least now we can be telling people that GIMP is not really that much worse than Inkscape, if you know the right option to enable :) It's also good that now that we both implement this behavior, we can exchange the code and fixes, and maybe join our forces to make it less hack-ish and more standard. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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info on extensions
by David Christian Berg 16 May '05

16 May '05

Hey guys, My brother (and also myself) would like to have perspective skewing... Now since I don't know the first thing about programming, he'll do the job, and would like to use extensions for this. Now we don't really get them working (I don't see the extension entry in the menu bar in the first place), I'd like to have some input on how they work, or how to get them running. David

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