On 17 oct. 05, at 21:13, mental@...3... wrote:
Quoting Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...>:
In the present case, if a scale factor exceeds 1 million, we are going to guess that on a developer's machine there is something wrong the code, but on a user's machine that he or she is simply working with large objects.
An interesting question is: how much does it matter to make such distinctions correctly? After all, many of us switch between the "user" and "developer" role frequently, on the same builds...
I really think that intelligent choice of these artificial/human defined (which are synonyms for me in this case) limits would be useful. I have obviously no data to support it but I think that setting this artificial limits will help more people that it harms, especially if they are not definitive (ie: you can always refuse to correct). The statistical approach Ben took (two times the standard deviation of the diagonal of the bbox) might not always work but might help in most cases. In addition they would reconcile the two categories listed above: users will mostly use the software without seeing the limits, developers (or advances users) will know about them and know how to react when people report warning they do not understand. If someone has the two caps (as mental suggested) he will be doubly happy ;-)
As Ben suggested, I commented some RFE of bulia byak about a XML checker, I added it to the roadmap (for 0.44 maybe it is too early even for basic feature. I just did not know) and I started a wiki page about it: http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XML_Repair I provided links to the already well known files and tried to summarize the discussion here. If I forgot something please add it. When time comes I will further investigate the field of scientific plotting softwares which produce in general strange eps files from what I have seen, and provide some other examples. As ben also suggested this might be more suited for the testers list now. I someone could forward this email for the moment, I will subscribe afterwards.
Thank you all for suggestions and listening... and for making such a great software (if only it could be native and quick on OS X. but all this Xara thing sounds terribly exiting and promising ;-) )
JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/