April 2004 - Inkscape Users - Inkscape Mailman

0.38 Release Packages Available
by Bryce Harrington 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

Hi all, We now have the basic set of packages we want (rpm, deb, exe) available for download. Could you download and try out the installation on your system? http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 A problem was found in the 0.38.0 release (some last minute code additions introduced a bad bug), so we've cut a new release 0.38.1. We'd like to ask help from everyone to download and try out installing the packages this weekend, to see if they install correctly. If they don't, any investigation you can do into how to work around the issues will be greatly appreciated. We're hoping to put out the announcement by Monday morning, if things go well. Bryce

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PKG_CONFIG_PATH newbie question
by Timothy Jaeger 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

Hi, I made it through some rough installing but need to know how to edit the PKG_CONFIG_PATH to detect fontconfig and xft. A previous post says: >1) untar the inkscape-0.37 so that you have the [inkscape-0.37] folder. >2) change to that folder and issue PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig; export PKG_CONFIG_PATH >(assuming that your libsigc++-1.2.pc is in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig folder) >3) after that, issue ./configure and so on. I tried issuing the previous commands, but they weren't found by UNIX. Any suggestions? Am i doing this correctly? I'm running mac os x. -Tim timjaeger@...85...

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[Clipart] Clipart Packages! (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:43:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> To: clipart@...91... Subject: [Clipart] Clipart Packages! I've collected together a bunch of clipart from Sodipodi, Inkscape, and Nicu and posted them here: http://clipart.freedesktop.org/downloads/ Specifically, here's what's available: open_collection 0.0 -- Misc. contributions from various users flags 1.6 -- The Sodipodi world flags clipart package nicu 0.0 -- Nicu's collection of SVG clipart road_signs 0.0 -- John Cliff's English Road Signs SVG All of these are Public Domain. They don't have metadata yet. I'd like to think about putting out an official OpenClipart release in a couple days. Let me know if you know of more PD clipart, or want to contribute some of your own stuff. Enjoy! Bryce _______________________________________________ Clipart mailing list Clipart@...91... http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart

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Mac OS X install problems
by Timothy Jaeger 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to install Inkscape on mac os x.3 running fink, gnome, and Xtools for 2 days now (unsuccesfully) using both the 'top-down' (fink install -y inkscape) and 'bottom-up' (dl the .gz file and attempting to compile it that way) approach. The error I get from using fink is: fink install -y inkscape /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink install -y inkscape Password: Information about 1501 packages read in 2 seconds. Failed: no package found for specification '-y'! And when compiling from the source (doing a './configure' command) it stops at this error message: configure: error: You have to install pkg-config to compile inkscape. Not quite sure how to proceed, any comments/suggestions would be helpful, Tim timjaeger@...85...

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rest of the icons
by Jonathan Phillips 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Thanks to Kees and Bulia (and micelf) and others, we have almost put in place all current menu icons. We need however 3 more. After these are completed, then we can move on to replacing XPM icons in the interface. The following need to be created: File ==== * Open Recent Edit ==== * Paste in Place * Paste Style The menu items that do not need icons because they are getting replaced: Dialogs ======= * Item Properties * Tool Options -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org

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clipart at freedesktop.org
by Jonathan Phillips 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

Hello all, Well, the wiki for the new open clipart project has been activated. Please spend some time looking over the content, and adding your own. Instructions for getting account access for the wiki are at the URL below. Anyone interested in the project should head on over to the site and get added to the mailing list. http://freedesktop.org/Software/clipart or http://clipart.freedesktop.org/ This project is at an early stage, but the Open Office.org (OO.o) development community and various SVG editor camps are merging together (basically) to create this project. OO.o has 20-30 million users! If you are into this type of project and/or want to get in on the ground floor and help shape the future, then you should jump in now... Thanks, Jon -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org

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saving an objects moved center of rotation
by daniel reznick 09 Apr '04

09 Apr '04

first off, just found inkscape, its great! I can move an object's center of rotation, but it immediately switches back to the default. I'd like to set it permenantly. Is there any way? Thanks! daniel

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Pre-announce: Release 0.38
by Bryce Harrington 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

Hi guys, We've not formally announced it yet, but if you'd like an early look, the Inkscape 0.38 release is official. All we're waiting on before the formal announce is to create the RPM's, EXE's, etc. If you're comfortable installing from source, the official tarball is now available for download. If not, keep your eyes on the download page for newly minted packages, and help us test 'em out. Also, we're welcoming new screenshots for this release, so if you've got something cool to show off using some of the new features, post a screenshot and we'll get it up on the site! Bryce ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 00:09:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> To: inkscape-devel@...84... Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Release 0.38 Tonight the 0.38 release was made and CVS tagged. Congratulations everyone, this release embodies a great wealth of contributions from an impressive number of people, providing users with a significant advance over the previous release. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes038 The 0.38 tarball is available on the SourceForge download page. Packagers may now use this to generate packages. Either post the files on SourceForge, or simply announce them here and ask an admin to post them. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 As before, we are allocating a few days for packaging before we make the official announcements, so that when the announce goes out, we have sufficient breadth of packages for interested users. With tonight's release, the feature freeze is finished, and so developers are encouraged to merge branches, apply patches, and set forth on new development as desired. Enjoy! Bryce ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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bugs??
by Richards Mail 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Hi, Wanted to thank Bryce for turning me onto the Ishmal's index of updated functioning Inkscape progs. I have a few questions and maybe a bug report.. I tried to save the SVG's as either Inkscape or regular SVG's and regardless of which I click on all Mozilla does is load up endless browser windows with nothing to show. I think when I finally killed Mozilla I had about 50 instances of it and it was going to continue. Irfanview can't open them up either "unknown file format" is all it tells me. Draw12 opens it but it's flawed and RealDraw-Pro 3 opens it up but all color and fill effects and alpha is all gone. Just a bunch of gray squares! So is the save SVG not quite there yet or is there some thing that I'm not doing right?? Any way to Align objects, like center them?? Besides building in alpha are there plans to create transparency effects seperate from the color fills?? Many thanks!! Keep on cookin'!! Richard ;-)~ Peace and prayers http://www.ramwolffsworld.com/RAMWolffsWorld

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roadmap 0.39
by Jonathan Phillips 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Also, I think we should look at in this next release cycle the big picture of upcoming releases, evaluate other similar apps and think about what is necessary in our app (which is picking up serious steam). I will try and spend an afternoon evaluating and moving ideas from the feature proposals and scratchpad to RFEs... Thoughts? Jon -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...56... http://www.jonphillips.info

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