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Starting the Inkscape 0.42 release process
by Bryce Harrington 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

We had tentatively selected today as the starting date for the Inkscape 0.42 release process. I sense people have been looking forward to this day, and are ready to see a new Inkscape release. :-) It's been quite a while since our last release, and so many of our newer developers don't have first hand experience with our release processes. Here's a brief run down of what we usually do: First, we enter a wrap up phase called the "Frost", where developers are encouraged to bring any features they've been working on to a suitable state for formal release, stop adding any new features, and to start focusing on bug fixing. Generally this phase only lasts for a week or two. Next, we enter a bug fixing phase called the "Feature Freeze". We identify some bug fixing goals, using a scoring system that folks have found to give a fun challenge. A list of "must fix bugs" is also generated, that the developers want to see fixed before a release is allowed; we usually don't get every one of these bugs fixed, but we certainly try to leave as few open as possible. I will be posting daily reports on our bug status as we go. Translations, documentation, release notes, and so forth also need to be updated and finalized. This phase can go on for several weeks, depending on how bad the bugs are. Once all of the must fix bugs are fixed and all the objectives have been met, we enter the "Hard Freeze" phase. Two "Freeze Wardens" are named and all development is done as patches submitted to the freeze wardens for review and integration. This phase is intended to be quite short - a matter of days. This is intended to give us a final QA focus. Finally, we tag and branch the codebase, create the packages, and proceed with the release. :-) For Inkscape 0.42, I estimate that going through this process will take on the order of one to two months. It is driven largely by how quickly the bugs can be fixed, so please plan on contributing some time to this effort this month, and hopefully we can make swift progress towards our goal. Bryce

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./configure fails with error: no gc
by Asif Lodhi 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi, I have just joined this list because I get the following error whenver I ./configure InkScape (inkscape-0.41.tar.gz version) : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- checking gc.h usability... no checking gc.h presence... no checking for gc.h... no checking gc/gc.h usability... no checking gc/gc.h presence... no checking for gc/gc.h... no configure: error: libgc (the Boehm Conservative Collector) 6.4+, is needed to compile inkscape -- http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I did downloaded gc from ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/gc/gc.tar.Z then, upon carefully reading the ./configure error message's requirement (gc 6.4+), downloaded gc 6.5 again from http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc6.5.tar.gz and configure/make/make installed it under my home directory with appropriate prefixes (and bindir, libdir, etc. options). I then tried to ./configure/make/make installed InkScape similarly (under my home directory), giving it all the usual options (libdir, includedir, etc) but ./configure still fails. I want to build from source to install it in a directory under my home directory and don't want to install InkScape from any RPMs. 2ND Question: I have used InkScape a bit before (albeit on Windows) and found that InkScape's freehand pencil tool, and even the calligraphic pen (pencil?) tool, is not as good as that of the SodiPodi. SodiPodi's pencil tool has very smooth flow and momentum and a free-hand pencil artist (who is somewhat good with the mouse as well) can easily make strokes comfortably and smoothly. Can similary flow momentum be incorporated into InkScape as well? I read somewhere that InkScape originated from SodiPodi. Why didn't the smooth flow get incorporated as well? I am not saying that InkScape's pencil/Calligraphic tool doesn't work at all - just not as smoothly as SodiPodi's pencil does. Those who are freehand pencil artist can readily understand my problem. I would highly appreciate if you give me a quick solution to the GC problem. Why InkScape's configure can't find gc? It is looking for GC in the source "gc" directory as it can be seen from the messages pasted above. How can I make InkScape's configure look for gc in the directory where I installed it (under my home directory, that is)? -- Thanks and regards Asif Lodhi

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Command line usage under MS-Windows
by Franz Haeuslschmid 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Dear Inkscape users, I'm using the Win32 build snapshot contained in Inkscape0505310200.zip. I works very well (especially the export to PS, with gradients!), however now, that I try to automate the conversion using the command line, I get the following error in a command window: $ inkscape --without-gui -f figure.svg ** (process:3552): WARNING **: Could not open units file '.\share\ui\units.txt': No such file or directory ** (inkscape.exe:3552): WARNING **: Specified document figure.svg cannot be opened (is it valid SVG file?) (inkscape.exe:3552): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmain.c: line 1231 (gtk_main_quit): assertion `main_loops != NULL' failed Using the GUI is OK -- so, is parsing the command line supported at all for MS-Windows? Franz.

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01 Jun '05

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export to EPS with text kept undivided to letters (for LaTeX's psfrag package)
by David Soukal 29 May '05

29 May '05

Hello, I have a rather specific problem that I was unable to solve so far. I'm using Inkscape to draw figures that are later included in LaTeX documents. Since I often need to include math in my figures, I'm using LaTeX package called PSFrag. What this package does is it parses a given EPS file a replaces specified strings by a LaTeX rendered text. This way I can combine the power of Inkscape and LaTeX together to get beautiful and easily drawn figures with the possibility of placing complex math formulas in the figure. Now my problem. PSFrag works by searching a given EPS file for occurences of a given string. For example the command \psfrag{t1}{$\sin^2(x)$} will replace the occurence of the "tag" t1 by the LaTeX rendered formula sin^2(x). The problem is, that during the conversion to EPS, Inkscape will break any text I write into letters. For example, the text "t1", meant to be replaced by PSFrag, will get translated to (t) show grestore gsave [1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -1.0000000 384.78790 540.19971] concat /Courier findfont 12.000000 scalefont setfont 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 setrgbcolor newpath 0.0000000 0.0000000 moveto (1) show grestore gsave [1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -1.0000000 581.42859 538.95166] concat instead of simple (t1) show. This causes PSFrag to miss the replacement tag "t1" since it is broken into two "show" commands. I realize that this is probably done because of kerning. So, I tried to manually switch off kerning (for this text/and altogether) but I wasn't able to do it--I didn't find any command to do it, nor did I find it in the XML editor. I also tried to disable kerning by selecting a monospaced font but it didn't help either. An obvious solution is to use single letter but this is rather inconvenient. Is there anything else I might do? Thank you! David

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export to EPS with text kept undivided to letters (for LaTeX's psfrag package)
by David Soukal 29 May '05

29 May '05

Hello, I have a rather specific problem that I was unable to solve so far. I'm using Inkscape to draw figures that are later included in LaTeX documents. Since I often need to include math in my figures, I'm using LaTeX package called PSFrag. What this package does is it parses a given EPS file a replaces specified strings by a LaTeX rendered text. This way I can combine the power of Inkscape and LaTeX together to get beautiful and easily drawn figures with the possibility of placing complex math formulas in the figure. Now my problem. PSFrag works by searching a given EPS file for occurences of a given string. For example the command \psfrag{t1}{$\sin^2(x)$} will replace the occurence of the "tag" t1 by the LaTeX rendered formula sin^2(x). The problem is, that during the conversion to EPS, Inkscape will break any text I write into letters. For example, the text "t1", meant to be replaced by PSFrag, will get translated to (t) show grestore gsave [1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -1.0000000 384.78790 540.19971] concat /Courier findfont 12.000000 scalefont setfont 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 setrgbcolor newpath 0.0000000 0.0000000 moveto (1) show grestore gsave [1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -1.0000000 581.42859 538.95166] concat instead of simple (t1) show. This causes PSFrag to miss the replacement tag "t1" since it is broken into two "show" commands. I realize that this is probably done because of kerning. So, I tried to manually switch off kerning (for this text/and altogether) but I wasn't able to do it--I didn't find any command to do it, nor did I find it in the XML editor. I also tried to disable kerning by selecting a monospaced font but it didn't help either. An obvious solution is to use single letter but this is rather inconvenient. Is there anything else I might do? Thank you! David

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Please confirm your request to join gimpwin-users
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29 May '05

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Trace Bitmap - question
by Hago Ziegler 29 May '05

29 May '05

Hi, I try to vectorise the outlines of a simple map, using "Trace Bitmap". The bitmap has 2 colors - white background and a 1px black line for the outlines. When I use "Trace Bitmap", I get a path on both sides of the black line - but I want just one in the middle of the black line. See: http://www.hagoschaos.de/h/freunde/karteG.html Is there a way? Hago

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Trace Bitmap - question
by Hago Ziegler 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi, I try to vectorise the outlines of a simple map, using "Trace Bitmap". The bitmap has 2 colors - white background and a 1px black line for the outlines. When I use "Trace Bitmap", I get a path on both sides of the black line - but I want just one in the middle of the black line. See: http://www.hagoschaos.de/h/freunde/karteG.html Is there a way? Hago

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