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List of changes 0.45 - 0.46
by Thomas Zastrow 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Hi there, I'm looking for a compilation, where all the changes between Inkscape 0.45 and 0.46 are listed? Thanks! Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de ----------------------------

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Re: [Inkscape-user] OT Tablet for use with Inkscape?-Thanks
by Guillermo Espertino 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

My wife is using a Genius Pensketch 12x9 tablet with inkscape and gimp. It's far more affordable than a wacom with similar specifications (resolution, pressure levels, etc). It only lacks the tilt function and the eraser in the pen, but if you're looking for a large tablet for a fraction of the price of a Wacom, imo this is a great choice. It works under linux (not out of the box, but there is a step-by-step tutorial in Ubuntu Forums). You can see what she's doing with that tablet in www.flickr.com/photos/superdd Oh, and btw, someone asked about Cintiq support under linux. Jimmac just bought one and got it to work under linux without problems (there's an installing guide in his blog). Those things are great, but wow, they aren't cheap. :-)

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clean up SVG
by Alexander Roalter 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

every time I create an object and move it around, the XML code in the SVG file has somethink like: <path style="opacity:1.0000000;fill:#f9f010;fill-opacity:1.0000000;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1.0000000;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4.0000000;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:6.9999999;stroke-opacity:1.0000000" id="path2113" d="M 307.26816,268.95933 L 329.04654,320.12941 L 384.25033,313.40500 L 350.82492,357.85068 L 384.25032,402.29635 L 329.04654,395.57194 L 307.26816,446.74203 L 285.48978,395.57194 L 230.28599,402.29635 L 263.71140,357.85068 L 230.28599,313.40500 L 285.48977,320.12942 L 307.26816,268.95933 z " transform="translate(-4.768158,-0.350677)" /> how is it possible to appy the translation once and for all to the coordinates given in d="...", instead of having them calculated by every SVG viewer again? when creating an object near the final position, every time I use the align function I get such a transform="..." in the file, instead of changing the points directly. -- cheers, Alex

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publishr 0.5 - publish to Flickr/Picasa from Inkscape
by Jayesh Salvi 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Hi list, I have released next version of publishr plugin, that allows one to save their images to web services like Flickr and Picasa right from Inkscape. Download it from here <http://code.google.com/p/altcanvas/downloads/list>. More info on wiki <http://code.google.com/p/altcanvas/wiki/InkscapePublishr>. Changelog for 0.5 here<http://code.google.com/p/altcanvas/wiki/PublishrChangelog> . This version should work on Windows Inkscape as well (unlike previous versions), however I don't know the extensions directory on Windows so couldn't test it myself, but I heard others successfully using it on Windows. Please give it a shot. Any comments and suggestions are welcome! Cheers! Jayesh

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Can of Soup Tutorial
by Nikki Bennetts 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

New to Inkscape. Going through tutorials. Stuck on Step 2c of Can of Soup tutorial. Nodes are not at the horizontal or vertical axis and so I can't split the ellipse across the horizontal plane. Nodes are offset at 1, 4, 7 and 10 o'clock. Is there a step missing? Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address. www.yahoo7.com.au/y7mail

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translator screens about, proposal change structure and font.
by ValessioBrito 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Hi all, first, proposal change font family comercial 'Draw Freely' for font family Free/GPL/PD. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/192399 Actual: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/paratype/pushkin/ change for: http://www.dafont.com/excellentia-in-exce.font?nb_ppp=50&l[]=10&l[]=1&text=…. use Ctrl+L to simplify nodes/dots. --- second, proposal in ./share/screens/about.svg and others... to create a deep model of and only importing the translation. see: ./about.pt_BR.svg ( 12k ) translator ./about.en.svg ( 12k ) translator ./about.de.svg ( 12k ) translator ... ./background.svg ( 155k ) bg model and not: about.pt_BR.svg ( 180k ) about.de.svg ( 180k ) about.es.svg ( 180k ) ... my English is horrible. I wait that somebody understands the importance of the proposals. -- .ValessioBrito - http://valessiobrito.info

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Can of Soup Tutorial
by Cedric Sagne 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Apart from the slight problem in your post, I guess you could be talking about the Can of soup tutorial on Tavmjong's Bah userguide... if so, he's the fellow who can give you the best answer. Cedric

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Re: [Inkscape-user] No Inkscape window in MacOS 10.5.2
by Oscar Moreno 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Dear Jeremy, I do not know why Inkscape builds a font cache. The user JiHO in the Inkscape-users list is the one who recommended to wait for Inkscape to build the font cache. Thanks for the message. Regards, Oscar On Feb 15, 2008, at 22:58, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > (I'm not on inkspape-users, so please cross-reply to x11-users as > well) > > Why does inkscape build a font cache? Why can't it just rely on the > existing fontconfig cache? Or is it using yet another font > mechanism that is going to give me nightmares? > > On Feb 15, 2008, at 15:46, Oscar Moreno wrote: > >> I had to wait for Inkscape to build the font cache. It took a >> while. Now it works. >> Thanks, Oscar >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Oscar Moreno <oscar.moreno@...483...> >>> Date: February 15, 2008 18:44:08 EST >>> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >>> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] No Inkscape window in MacOS 10.5.2 >>> >>> Dear Community, >>> >>> Patience did it!!. It works. Thanks a lot for the tip. >>> >>> Oscar >>> On Feb 15, 2008, at 16:32, jiho wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 2008-February-15 , at 21:12 , Oscar Moreno wrote: >>>>> I have installed Inkscape-0.45.1-2-UNIVERSAL into Mac OS 10.5.2 >>>>> with >>>>> Xquartz 2.1.3. I can NOT get the menu bar or the window. I only >>>>> get >>>>> the part of the menu bar that reads "inkscape." Has anyone seen >>>>> this >>>>> behavior? Can someone give me direction on how to troubleshoot my >>>>> installation? >>>>> PowerMac G5 with 1.5 Gb of memory. >>>> >>>> >>>> The first time Inkscape starts it takes quite a while to build the >>>> font cache. Maybe you just have to be patient. Otherwise there's >>>> a PPC >>>> build available in the development versions: >>>> http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape-16774-PPC.dmg >>>> Tell us if one of the two solutions work. If the development >>>> version >>>> works, it means that the next version (due soon) will. >>>> >>>> JiHO >>>> --- >>>> http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >>>> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >>>> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Inkscape-user mailing list >>>> Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> X11-users mailing list (X11-users@...2454...) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/jeremyhu%40freedesktop.org >> >> This email sent to jeremyhu@...91... >

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No Inkscape window in MacOS 10.5.2
by Oscar Moreno 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

I have installed Inkscape-0.45.1-2-UNIVERSAL into Mac OS 10.5.2 with Xquartz 2.1.3. I can NOT get the menu bar or the window. I only get the part of the menu bar that reads "inkscape." Has anyone seen this behavior? Can someone give me direction on how to troubleshoot my installation? PowerMac G5 with 1.5 Gb of memory. TIA Oscar

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Save As EPS Brings up Printer Interface
by Mark Lucas 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Hi, I've been poking around the site and can't find anything regarding the following oddity. When I moved to Fedora 8 and installed inkscape, I found that whenever I try to save as an eps file, the printer window would come up. This does not happen under windows and has not happened to me before under FC4. Has anyone else found this issue? I'm presuming I'm missing a package somewhere or there is a misconfiguration. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Mark Lucas -- Mark Lucas email: lucasm@...2451... 252D Clippinger Lab phone: (740)597-2984 Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: (740)593-0433 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701

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inkscape gallery [48 hours later...]
by davide|inkscapegallery 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

i'm here to inform you about the inkscape gallery's two days in the "official world"... I didnt' receive feedback about my previous mail, but i didn't ask for this, i was only giving news indeed. Now i would like the inkscape user's list to come back talking about inkscape gallery (i will label it just IG starting from now...). I learned so much in the few days in this list and i think the improvements we provided are mostly related to the speeches we had here and i would like to thank you again, even if i cannot do this for each user personally, this is my way to tell how precious was your help. But this is done, we're online now and we have to debate about the present and the future of IG... I would like to see many of you posting drawings, cause we're registering many visitors from all the world and we are really happy about this, but we have still a few (i'm giving a special thank to those ones...)users and drawings on the website. I mean, i know i have to be patient...nothing happens just in one day, but i'd like to involve many of you in this moment, because we have to start thinking about the future of IG and we'd like this list, and anyone interested in, to have a leading role in the development. As you may know we are a small company and i love to say that this is just one of the opensource project we are planning... but obviously, we can't do this without help, and mainly this is not a closed project, this is a work done in the inkscape and opensource software growing purpose. And more, this is done to give the best place to share knowledge, drawing skills, tricks, projects for everyone who uses inkscape. IG is just at the beginning , i keep working adding features, (see this: http://inkscapegallery.net/en/node/142 for the comment notification feature) and fixing some stuffs, trying to enhance IG knowledge and google visibility. We could imagine many improvements, now we have two test environments, and someone already made something. Patrick wrote the code for the licenses validation that is another important improvement in IG and i like to thank him in this list, 'cause he's young but really skilled and he deserves our congratulations. We bought the .com, .it and .org inkscapegallery domains too, and they will work in one or maybe two days. So, i will like you to be the leader in the inkscapegallery growing process and in its future development. My work will be the organization, maybe the supervision (i'm still trying to figure out why didn't i seriously study english...) but you will be the one in charge...if you'd like to. Thanks, Da. http://inkscapegallery.net

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Tiling objects
by Claus Cyrny 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Hi, I've just been able to successfully tile a circle along a path, but the circles are partially deformed <http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/images/circle_along_path.png>, and I would like to know how I can avoid this. TIA, Claus -- Web design,graphics, photography: http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ (English|German) Articles: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewByAuthor.asp?authorID=2153 (English) MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/claus_01 (English)

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Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by jiho 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

On 2008-February-05 , at 16:27 , Gail Carmichael wrote: > Hey JiHO (I am not on the user's list): yes, this is why I figured I would include you personally in the email. > Can you send me the file in question? I am very curious to know if > this is Mac only or Windows and Linux too. Did you try it out > yourself? Nick, can you do that please? Ideally you should send: - the original files where the fonts used to display fine (apparently you made a backup if I understand you correctly) - the files that show the problem - the font(s) used in those files. The fonts live in /Library/Fonts or /System/Library/Fonts or /Users/yourname/Library/Fonts Even zipped, all this together may be big. If you have facilities to upload it somewhere and send the link it would be nice, otherwise... well make several zip files ;). Please send the attachment to Gail and me only (no attachments to the list) but keep posting follow ups to the list (as I did on this one), so that people know something is happening and the final fix can be found later. > jiho wrote: >> On 2008-February-05 , at 08:02 , churro wrote: >>> I am using OS 10.4.11, Inkscape .45. I started working on a file >>> and used a >>> specific font. Then I discovered that my effects are not working, >>> so I had >>> to download a newer build of Inkscape from >>> http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/ along with the python >>> packages. I >>> reinstalled Inkscape and got the effects working, but when I >>> opened my old >>> file, the fonts have changed to something generic, and I cant get >>> them to go >>> back to what they were! I rolled back to the older version on >>> Inkscape, but >>> that did not fix the problem. >> >> Could you perform these little tests, with the document that has >> the generic font and on both version of Inkscape: >> - select the faulty text, open the xml editor and check what the >> font attributes are (name, weight etc.) >> - check wether you see the font in the text and font palette (even >> if it's not used in the document)? >> - if you see it, what happens when you select the text and apply >> this font? >> >>> All my previous work with that font got >>> messed up (I still have the original files in hopes of getting >>> this to >>> work.) Does anyone know how to get my fonts to work again? >> >> Font got reworked between those two versions and the library that >> deals with fonts was also updated, but all that should have >> improved compatibility, not the contrary. Gail, could you look at >> that please? >> >>> 2nd part of >>> the question: And if I get new fonts, how do I add them to >>> Inkscape running >>> on OSX? >> >> All depends on the format of the font. If you get a ttf font in a >> regular format (ttf extension) Inkscape should be able to see it. >> Inkscape has issues with fonts in the dfont format and with >> Microsoft Font Suitcases (no visible extension). If you install the >> font on your Mac the regular way (double click and click install), >> Inkscape should have acces to it. To force the refresh of the font >> library on startup, delete a file via a command in Terminal: >> rm ~/.inkscape/.fccache-new >> Inkscape will rebuild the font cache on next startup. > JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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external CSS
by Alexander Roalter 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

I've done some digging, and I saw external CSS support was already planned for two consecutives 'google summer of code', though it is still not possible using them in inkscape, be it classes or even getting them to display properly. I've attached three files, one being the original file with the style attributes inline, it shows quite well in inkscape, the other two being a css file and a svg file with references to this css file. When I open the latter, only a black shield is displayed, as no style information is loaded. Additionally to getting inkscape to at least display the SVG correctly, I'm still pondering on how to implement the creation of the file in inkscape, there should be some possibility to apply a certain style (defined in a css file) to a path, so I wouldn't have to change the SVG file later to apply all styles. At the moment, it would suffice to get Inkscape to display the files correctly, as I still do some tidy-up with the resulting SVG files, so I can also replace the style commands with the correct class definitions... -- cheers, Alex

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Interested in helping on os x
by carl olsen 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

I'm very interested in contributing to the project. I have intermediate programing experience, but need someone to mentor me. I pick this stuff up pretty fast so I just need to get in touch with someone who knows about developing on os x and can tell me what to work on.

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Broken dependency of 0.46-pre1 ubuntu package
by khiraly 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Hi! Bryce: your ubuntu build has somewhat broken dependency. In gutsy, the libpango1.0-0 version is 1.18.2-0ubuntu1, and your package requires >= 1.18.3. Can you fix this, either provide the compiled libpango1.0-0 package, or point people to the right direction. Thank you in advance, Khiraly

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inkscape gallery release on monday 11 February
by davide|inkscapegallery 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello, i'm here to announce the release of inkscape gallery on day 11 of February. This is a pre-release, i will inform only the inkscape's communities about that and then, maybe day 28 (it's the nois3lab birthday..) we'll go trying to involve a bigger amount of interested or just curious users and some web magazines, large community websites etc...etc... We'd like you to share this good new everywhere you want, we also need you to spread the inkscape gallery knowledge to let it grows fast. I'm really grateful for the contributions i've received here in the inkscape's user list, i know that many of the last improvements i made were coming from suggestion and even critiques you gave to me. So i hope you will be happy and "proud" as i am, we share a beautiful attitude that is our option for opensource and free software i also hope to share with you the wish to make inkscape gallery great. Go to spread your vector graphics in inkscape gallery! Davide http://test.inkscapegallery.net http://www.inkscapegallery.net

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[ inkscape gallery ] "resume" -for all users-
by davide|inkscapegallery 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello again, i'm sorry i couldn't keep you updated about the inkscape gallery developement but the days i spent here on the list were really useful and i had a work a lot to do what these speeches suggested me to do. I would like to keep track of what happened in the days when we talked about inkscape gallery in various threads in this list that maybe caused troubles to the user who didn't want to read thousands of mail. So: when i came here for the first time inkscape gallery was a project for an inkscape made drawings gallery on the web in an advanced state but still not completely grown. There were a narrowed layout, a bunch of features but it needed content organization and a couple of improvements in both layout stuffs and features. Many of you gave impressions, suggestions even critiques and this was exactly what i needed to come back working to make inkscape gallery better. So what i did in these days? 1)When i left the list i announced the svg upload and the user picture features were added. But then i realized that we needed to work on the content organization, to decrease the scrolling need, to make lighter pages to not overload the cms and the webserver and to decrease the amount of javascripts that were going to slowdown all the site navigation. If you go now to see inkscape gallery you will see: 2)a splash page, bilingual with two main access links, giving you two ways to start using inkscape gallery; 3)"quickstart" and "enter the website". 4)You find a sort of "user guide" with many useful information (i hope...) in pdf linked in a RTFM! button. 5)You don't see the button menu in the splash page but you may show it just by clicking on the + icon in the main menu area. This feature is being used in most of the site sections, to avoid long page scrolling where we thought that the buttons menu was not necessary. 6)We have new blocks called "pop" in some sections. They are showing the most viewed images in the last days. 7)We have a list of avatars (not yet, really...but the tool is there), and we'd like to launch the website with an avatar contest too. You may add your pictures (inkscape made!) to attend to this contest. You may vote on images to make us easy to choose which to include. (we will use all of them in the first stage!). 8)If you see the artists section you have a shortened version of the user profile page. This is meant to hide empty fields and to keep the section meaningful. Please use the "who am i" description field when you create account, cause i think it's nice to have an short user description. I'm not saying that is perfect now, i have a long list of fixes and improvements still pending, i will put this online in the forum. This is the time when we'll look around for someone who'll help us in maintaining and improving the website. We are good in webdesign and we know drupal quite well, but we aren't php developers, and this is what will give us the chance to significantly improve inkscape gallery in the future. So, hope to see all of you in inkscape gallery 'cause the development is over for now, we're in production and we'll go online on monday 11 February. hope to be ready... Da. http://test.inkscapegallery.net http://www.inkscapegallery.net

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Pixel font in Inkscape 45.1
by Roune Linus 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, I'm attempting to user a TrueType pixel font called SuperText which can be found at: http://www.dafont.com/supertext.font …but Inkscape is unable to display it and resorts to changing the font to BitStream Vera Sans instead. Now I've managed to get other pixel font to display nice and crispy like Pixel Arial 11( http:// www.dafont.com/pixel-arial-11.font ) and others some of which I've needed to convert with FontForge to truetype font. So the question is why does SuperText not render even though it's truetype? Thanks, Linus

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modify context menu
by PilarPP 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

I would like to know if it's possible to modify the options of the context menu when there is an element selected. I would like to add a new custom option. I would like to know the way to do it. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/modify-context-menu-tp14434682p14434682.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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How do I import svg vector graphics from Inkscape into Flash ?
by Arni Ingason 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi Can anyone help me with this? How do I import svg vector graphics from Inkscape into Flash Regards Arni

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Maximize problem on a laptop screen (too many tools' icon)
by khiraly 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi! My laptop has a 1280x800 screen, and a regular gnome environment (regular Ubuntu 7.10 installation). I have two panel, one at the top of my screen and the other at bottom (tasklist). The problem is, that inkscape has a file menu, a global toolbar, and a tool's toolbar, and the tools' icon(the vertical one at the left). Overall, the inkscape windows is heigher as available screen (so screen_height - (top_panel+bottom+panel)). So when i want to maximize inkscape, it does not do anything. It could be wider (horizontally), but pressing the maximize button cause losing the left and right windows border (about 3-4px), and nothing else. I think that 1280x800 is fairly common resolution amongst the 15,4" laptops. Is it a known problem? Or better it is dependent of the window manager? (i will try on xp too, in the next days). The inkscape 0.45 does not suffer this, because, there was fewer tool (no 3D tool for example). If I undock the icon bar (at the left), it maximizes correctly. Tried searching on launchpad, but didnt find a bugreport about this problem, but Im remembering discussing this problem in the past (having inkscape problems on small resolution). Do somebody remember such a discussion, or bugreport? Best regards, Khiraly

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fonts disappear in OSX
by churro 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

I am using OS 10.4.11, Inkscape .45. I started working on a file and used a specific font. Then I discovered that my effects are not working, so I had to download a newer build of Inkscape from http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/ along with the python packages. I reinstalled Inkscape and got the effects working, but when I opened my old file, the fonts have changed to something generic, and I cant get them to go back to what they were! I rolled back to the older version on Inkscape, but that did not fix the problem. All my previous work with that font got messed up (I still have the original files in hopes of getting this to work.) Does anyone know how to get my fonts to work again? 2nd part of the question: And if I get new fonts, how do I add them to Inkscape running on OSX? Thanks for your help -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/fonts-disappear-in-OSX-tp15281559p15281559.html Sent from the Inkscape - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by Nick Steklov 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

I also installed Blender on my mac recently... I am still trying to remember everything I did since the last time it worked. I'm going to convert my fonts when I get home tonight, but in the meanwhile I would be more than happy to do anything I can to help figure out why the fonts worked in the past and not any more. I have more files with that font, which I have not touched for at least a month. Also would it be helpful if I did a clear reinstall of Inkscape to last year's build? Is there anything else on my system besides the Inkscape.app which needs to be removed for a clean uninstall? The reason I ask is because every time I dragged and dropped Inkscape.app into the trashbin and then installed another Inkscape dmg, it seemed to remember my previous settings, such as "Open recent" would show all the recent docs I worked on. On Feb 5, 2008 2:44 PM, Gail Carmichael <gail.banaszkiewicz@...155...> wrote: > jiho wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with this suitcase thing you > >> mentioned. Normally I would be able to look it up and learn about it > >> etc, but unfortunately I have a heavy course-load for the semester > >> and probably don't have the necessary time to devote to it. I am > >> cc'ing the devel list in case anyone else has the knowledge to have a > >> look. Still, we should try to determine for sure if it could be an > >> issue with my code, and I can (hopefully) fix that if it is. > > > > Well something changed recently apparently. I hope that with the help > > of Nick you'll be able to reduce the time frame of occurrence of the > bug. > > Ok, here's my theory: Part of the design of my work was to not show any > fonts in the UI that pango could not recognize, so if that's the case, > that's why it's not showing up at all now. This is because everything > goes through pango at some point so you ended up being able to select > fonts that weren't usable. What's really interesting is that Nick was > previously able to use these fonts even if they don't work with pango > (assuming that is truly the case). Maybe there was a roundabout path > available before that has been cut off now. Not sure if restoring that > path is really desirable, as we seem to have decided to restrict > ourselves to supporting what CSS and pango support (at least for now). > Anyone have any opinions on this? > > Gail >

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Re: [Inkscape-user] fonts disappear in OSX
by jiho 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

On 2008-February-05 , at 21:40 , Gail Carmichael wrote: > jiho wrote: >> On 2008-February-05 , at 19:12 , churro wrote: >>>> - select the faulty text, open the xml editor and check what the >>>> font >>>> attributes are (name, weight etc.) >>> these are the attributes: I'm using Culrz MT >>> font-size:98.06591034px;font-style:normal;font- >>> weight:normal;fill:#ff8080;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width: >>> 1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity: >>> 1;font-family:Curlz >>> MT >> >> This is a (Microsoft I think) Font Suitcase format, which indeed >> causes issues. The strange thing is that it worked in an earlier >> version of Inkscape. I am guessing that the difference actually >> comes from the font itself. When did you start this piece of work? >> Did you upgrade your system or MS Office in between? > > I've never even heard of these suitcase things (I assume you figured > out the format from the file itself and not the above properties). > Hopefully this means that the code I did has not adversely affected > the situation. I wrote it so that it looks for my new information > first, then falls back onto the old tried tested and true way. OK, I did a little research and there's no wonder you never heard of it: it is a mac specific thing. To get a brief overview of font management on OS X (which I've always thought to be very well designed) you can skim over this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25251 http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2024.html The Font Suitcase thing is a format dating back from OS 9 (the original Macintosh system, before it was unixified). This is a weird format, in which the whole font is stored in the resource fork and nothing is stored in the data fork. As a result the file appears to be 0 bytes: $ ll Curlz\ MT -rwxrwxr-x@ 1 root admin 0 Apr 7 2004 Curlz MT nor do they have a file extension. The font information however is just regular true type. OS X (i.e. the unixified version) does not ship with these fonts now (I'm not even sure it ever shipped with some) but supports them for backward- compatibility's sake. The only app I know that ships with such fonts is.... you guessed it: MICROSOFT Office. Well you can't ask them to be good players on a platform which is competing with them, for sure. I don't expect support to appear in Pango anytime soon since the format is deprecated. Anyway, it seems perfectly safe to convert those to regular TTF, no information is lost: it just moves it from the resource fork to the data fork. It just means each user has to do it. PS: I would be curious to know which format Office 2008 uses for its font on OS X. Does someone have info on this? PPS: you may see some work on font suitcases in Pango, but this is not (AFAIK) related to this particular format. It is probably related to the new font suitcase format introduced with OS X, which has the dfont extension and is kind of the contrary: everything is in the data fork and the resource fork is empty of font information. This makes working with this format easier. But it is at the same time quite new so support is not yet perfect. These font cause the typeface bugs on Inkscape/OS X, in which some font faces are available in the menu (bold, semi bold etc) but selecting them does not do anything. >> [...] >> >> Please send this the needed info to Gail too, she's the font expert. > > > Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with this suitcase thing you > mentioned. Normally I would be able to look it up and learn about > it etc, but unfortunately I have a heavy course-load for the > semester and probably don't have the necessary time to devote to > it. I am cc'ing the devel list in case anyone else has the > knowledge to have a look. Still, we should try to determine for > sure if it could be an issue with my code, and I can (hopefully) fix > that if it is. Well something changed recently apparently. I hope that with the help of Nick you'll be able to reduce the time frame of occurrence of the bug. Hope that helps. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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