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Inkscape .44 won't run under Xandros
by Christopher B. Wright 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

I just tried to run Inkscape using the newly released Xandros 4.0, and I get this message: inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libcairo.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory What the heck is libcairo.so.2, and how do I get my hands on it? Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@...537...)

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LaTeX formula rendering. Which pstoedit?
by Andrew Burrow 28 Jun '06

28 Jun '06

Thanks for the great release. I am particularly excited about Effects > Render > LaTeX formula However, it silently fails for me with the autopackage release on Ubuntu (Dapper Drake). The DVI file and PS files are correctly compiled in '/tmp'. They preview in evince, but are never inserted. If I try to import the resultant PS file, inkscape reports the following error. Failed to load the requested file /tmp/inkscape-latex.tmp.ps I presume there is a small inconsistency between the versions of pstoedit. I see the following version string. pstoedit: version 3.42 / DLL interface 108 (build Jan 19 2006 - release build) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2005 Wolfgang Glunz What further steps can I take to track this down? Thanks again, Andrew

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Articles about Inkscape 0.44
by Colin Marquardt 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi, I added two links about German news articles about the 0.44 release to <http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ArticlesAndPresentations#Release_of…> Please extend. Cheers, Colin

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no radial gradients!
by j michaelson 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

noooo! i've just done a fresh subversion build of inkscape and radial gradients no longer work. i can choose radial gradients and change the colours, but it just colours the whole path in only one of the colours. i'm off to submit a bug report. john m.

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Statically-linked linux version of 0.44?
by Bryan K. Wright 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Hi folks, Is there any chance of getting a statically-linked, rpm-packaged version of inkscape 0.44? I'm missing the appropriate versions of libcairo, libglitz and libpangocairo. Thanks in advance, Bryan -- ======================================================================== Bryan Wright |"If you take cranberries and stew them like Physics Department | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes University of Virginia | than rhubarb does." -- Groucho Charlottesville, VA 22901| (434) 924-7218 | bryan@...1948... ========================================================================

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Changing from portrait to landscape and back
by wayne 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

I'm using 0.44 and whenever I change from landscape to portrait, my image on the page shrinks in size relative to the page. I have to keep scaling the image up. When I change from portrait to landscape, the image enlarges and I have to scale it down to fit within the page. Is there a switch somewhere that controls this behavior? Thanks, Wayne Mandriva 2006

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Forum - pictures upload
by momo 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi! Just wanted to ask about the inkscape forum: when will there be a possibility to upload pictures to phpbb directly? Thanks Molumen

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Inkscape Announces 0.44 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org
by Jon Phillips 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Inkscape Announces 0.44 Release :: http://www.inkscape.org The Inkscape community today officially released the latest version of its vector graphic drawing software. Inkscape 0.44 adds many new features, is faster and more usable, better supports SVG, is translated into more languages (17 on last count), and adds a lot of polish and refinement. Major new features include Layers dialog, support for clipping and masking, improved PDF export with transparency, configurable keyboard shortcuts, innovative "node sculpting" capability in Node tool, and the Outline mode. Significant gains are achieved in performance, especially in screen rendering and Node tool. Noticeable user interface changes include docked color swatches, interactive style indicator in the statusbar, a redesigned preferences dialog, a text toolbar, and new icons. Our SVG compliance has also taken a step forward, with the added support for the <switch> tag and ICC color profiles for images. This release also includes hundreds of smaller features, usability enhancements and bug fixes. For several releases, a collection of extension effects was shipped with Inkscape, but the Effects menu to access them was turned off by default. With this release, it has become mature enough, with effects working out of the box on all platforms, so this menu is enabled. The Inkscape developer community would like to thank Google for their sponsorship of five students to work, during the summer of 2006, on several Inkscape development efforts: SVG Filters, Inkboard protocol, PDF export with Cairo, and memory optimization. Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.44: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes Community submitted screenshots: http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ About Inkscape Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web Consortium's ([[W3C]]) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, PS, PDF and various vector formats. Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully [[W3C]] compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.

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New translations we need?
by Bryce Harrington 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

The translation team has made some amazing progress for 0.44! Many translations are now at >98%, which is great. So next is to ask what other translations would be worth increasing in level? I looked at the GNOME translation statistics to use as a guide. Here are the languages that GNOME has at 50% or greater: bg, ca, cs, de, en_CA, en_GB, es, fi, fr, nb, ne, nl, pl, pt, pt_BR, ru, sk, sr, sv, uk, vi, zh_CN, and zh_TW Of these, we have some at >80% already. The ones in Inkscape that are not at 80% are: bg, en_CA, en_GB, fi, nb, ne, nl, pl, pt, pr_BR, ru, sk, sr, sv, uk, vi Since pl, pt_BR, ru, sr, and uk are between 60-80%, they seem like they should not be hard to boost to at least 80%! en_CA and en_GB ought to be fairly easy too. If anyone knows a speaker of one of these languages that might be willing to volunteer to do Inkscape translation work for 0.45, please consider talking to them about this. It would be quite a victory if we could get these languages covered! Bryce

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Building 0.44 on Debian (Was: Re: 0.44 Release tarball)
by Michael Moore 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

On 6/23/06, Terry Hancock <hancock@...1624...> wrote: > Michael Moore wrote: > > > I got it to build on Ubuntu 6.06 following the instructions at > > > http://inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu It took FOREVER > > > to compile, well, 20-30 minutes. Far longer than the other > > > non-trivial code that I've compiled, such as Vim. Is this normal? > > > > Did use the instructions with "apt-get build-dep inkscape" ? > > As I posted earlier, this might work with Ubuntu, but it does not > work with Debian proper. At this time you get: I didn't touch the Debian compiling wiki page, but looks like someone else had the same idea. It did work for Ubuntu though. > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Build-dependencies for inkscape could not be satisfied. By Debian proper do you mean Sarge or Etch? Are all updates applied? I might be able to look into this. > I suspect this is due to a package conflict in one of your deps, though > I haven't figured out how to get apt to tell me exactly what the problem > is. Yeah, that sounds right. Which repositories do you have enabled? I'm not sure if Debian has the same terminology, but I have my Ubuntu looking in main, Universe and Multiverse. If the Debian box is just looking in main and Inkscape requires something in Universe (or equivalent) that may be why. Thanks, -- Michael Moore ------------------------------- www.stuporglue.org -- Donate your used computer to a student that needs it. www.ubuntu-utah.org -- In Utah? Interested in Ubuntu? Come join us.

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