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Inkscape HelpWanted page
by Bryce Harrington 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi guys, I've started a new wiki page 'HelpWanted', to list tasks where help is needed. This is similar to but different from the InkscapeJanitors page in that HelpWanted is focused on non-coding work needed. In particular, I've listed a bunch of Wiki update tasks that I think should be done. Please take a look and see if there's areas you can put in a few spare cycles. Also, don't be shy about adding other non-coding tasks needed that you know of! http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HelpWanted Bryce

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English tutorials converted
by bulia byak 01 May '05

01 May '05

May 1st, 2005 — Thanks to the active help from the community, all English tutorials that we had in SVG are now converted to DocBook! From within Inkscape, they are still available as fully editable SVG which you can play with, but having the DocBook source makes it easy to produce any other formats or renditions automatically. In particular, all converted tutorials are now availble in HTML, linked from our Documentation page. What's next? We have several of the tutorials translated into several languages. Now we need to convert these to DocBook as well. Here is a page http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TranslationInformation with details on how to translate tutorials or convert existing translations. We already have the Basic in Spanish and several French ones are being worked on; the rest are up for grabs. Pick a tutorial and make it available in your native language! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Project Stats May 1, 2005
by Bryce Harrington 01 May '05

01 May '05

Statistics Feb 15 Mar 15 Apr 15 May 1 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: * * * * * * * * Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: * * * * * * * * Total SF Page Views * * * * Total SF Downloads * * * * Total Freshmeat URL Hits 16,448 17,186 17,930 18,321 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 169 173 177 177 Lines of Code in src/: 333,139 342,852 340,515 342,061 Code lines 234,651 241,177 238,522 239,571 Comment line 58,239 60,354 60,382 60,652 Blank 46,859 47,978 48,152 48,393 Lines of Docs in doc/: 26,848 26,848 26,848 26,848 Lines of content in website: 9,776 10,067 35,937 36,590 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 24,925 25,900 26,363 26,981 Bugs open/total: 155/972 182/1047 194/1126 209/1173 Features open/total: 370/579 397/ 619 429/ 671 437/ 699 Patches open/total: 5/167 7/ 173 5/ 186 8/ 204 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 10,312 10,868 11,368 11,656 Inkscape-devel membership: 151 158 166 170 Inkscape-announce membership: 169 177 189 193 Inkscape-user membership: 193 220 234 235 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.8 45.0 47.5 45.3 * - Statistics unavailable

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simple pattern fill won't print, but it shows up in Inkscape
by charles 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hello all, I'm getting the hang of Inkscape after using it for a few months. All is going well, but I'm hung up on a problem with pattern fills. Here's the situation: I'm running Inkscape .41 on a Debian Linux system (unstable). I have a document with a simple cross-hatch pattern fill. (I actually borrowed it from this helpful tutorial: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/patterns.shtml) The pattern fill shows up properly in Inkscape, but it's not visible when I print. I don't think it's a problem with my printer driver, as I've printed both to the actual printer (Lexmark E210) as well as the generic CUPS-PDF printer, which generates a PDF file. In both cases, the shapes in which the fill should appear are simply white. I've attached the file--it's only a few KB. If anyone is able to help, I'd much appreciate it. Thanks kindly, Charles. n.b.: please do cc me on replies.

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CVS Build fail
by Owen 01 May '05

01 May '05

I am not able to build the cvs. Installed gtkmm-2.6 (plus other latests) but it writes itself into the libraries as gtkmm-2.4 Anyway I get this somewhere through the make and wonder if anyone can tell me where I should be looking TIA Owen ------------------------------------------------------ Hundreds of 'undefined reference to `Atk::Implementor::' snipped, finally /usr/include/glibmm-2.4/glibmm/ustring.h:971: undefined reference to `Atk::Implementor::ref_accessibile_vfunc()' /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so: undefined reference to `Glib::wrap(_GdkPixbufAnimation*, bool)' /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so: undefined reference to `Glib::wrap(_GdkWindowObject*, bool)' Heaps of undefined references snipped /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so: undefined reference to `Pango::TabArray::TabArray(_PangoTabArray*, bool)' /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so: undefined reference to `Glib::wrap(_GdkImage*, bool)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hdc8/downloads/inkscape/src'

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Gradient fills in EPS
by George Reilly 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

bulia writes: > On 4/28/05, George V. Reilly <george@...634...> wrote: > > When I bring up Fill & Stroke with the latest binary, I see a blank > > canvas in the Fill > Linear Gradient dialog. Just Edit, Add, and Repeat > > buttons. No checkerboard, no handles. Ditto when I look at Fill > > > Linear Gradient for other objects. Or Radial Gradient. > > It's all replaced by Gradient tool, see > http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes Ah! I wish I had known about the release notes before. You really ought to link to them from /win32-snap and /download.php I converted the transparent stop to an opaque white stop. The gradient now shows up in Photoshop CS and GSview 4.6/GS 8.14. However, as you noted yesterday, the repeating nature of the gradient is lost, so I just get purple and a lot of white instead of purple, white, purple. The text still fails to show up in Word 2003 and Publisher 2003. Obviously a bug in Office's EPS import. Perhaps it doesn't handle PostScript Level 3. This is annoying, since I need to use the logo in Word and Publisher documents. [Later] I had the bright idea of finding an external tool to convert EPS to WMF (Windows Metafile). ImageMagick can read WMFs, but can't write them. PsToEdit converted the EPS to WMF. A more-or-less correct preview of the WMF shows up in the File Open dialog launched by Word's Insert > Picture > From File, but the entire picture renders as a blank white rectangle. Aaargh! [Later Still] I played further with pstoedit after I discovered the EMF format (Windows Enhanced Metafiles). "pstoedit -f wemfc" kind of works. It generates an image that Publisher can display. Plus, it scales up when you zoom in, unlike imported EPS. However, the gradient is gone, leaving me with a black outlines around white text. Worse still, the colors in the drawing are inverted. Royal blue has become pale green; lavender -> pale blue; pink -> mid blue. Other tools show the EMF exactly the same way, so this is some funkiness of pstoedit. /George

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Gradient fills in EPS, fonts rendering as Arial
by George V. Reilly 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

[This bounced twice yesterday. Third time's the charm.] I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, so I suspect the latter.) Some fonts simply don't work in Inkscape. For example, "Modern No. 20" is rendered as Arial. It's a TrueType font and otherwise unexceptionable. I'm running on Windows XP SP2. -- Never let lack of preparation hinder the implementation of a change. (Get Witty Auto-Generated Signatures from http://SmartBee.org) George V. Reilly george@...634... http://george.reilly.org/ Read my blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/george_v_reilly/

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problem with the text tool and the font size after importing a svg document
by gijs 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi, I have a weird problem, which might be a bug actually, but I am not sure. Maybe anybody can help me. The problem: When I load document curves.svg (which you can download from my pc, sorry, but it kind of the only example I have). do a wget to get it: wget http://volition.wustl.edu/curves.svg Then, load it and try to draw some text anywhere. If you use the text tool and type, the letters will be larger than anything on the canvas. As you can see, no matter where you try to type text, the letters will be absurdly big. So I have to scale down these supersize letters into something around .03 pt. That is the size of the letters that I managed to create (the "200 ms") for example. The document curves.svg was made with pstoedit to transform a postscript file into svg. That transformation worked fine! How come that the font size of letters becomes so unusual after I import the file curves.svg? How can I solve this? Is this a bug, or an error in the loaded file curves.svg. Thank you very much. Gijs

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Inkscape and Inkview for presentations
by Richard Kowalczyk 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

I have been thinking about using Inkscape and Inkview as a replacement for powerpoint (one of the few reasons to reboot to Windows). I decided to give it a try recently, and it is great in some respects, and lacking in others. I thought I would describe my process, and some of the issues I am running into, and see if anyone has any suggestions. The process: (1) I create one, or multiple template slides (in Inkscape), that have placeholders for the title, substitle, and content (although this could easily be generalized). (2) I create a text file (called the outline file) which describes the slides, including titles, content, and the template file to use for each slide. (3) I have a python script which uses the template files and the outline file to create svg files for each slide. (3a) The title and subtitle are easy - they are just inserted into the proper placeholder in the template svg. (3b) The content, which includes equations, is more complicated. It is run through LaTex, and converted to svg, then inserted into the template svg. The conversion process is LaTex -> dvips -> pstoedit -> skconvert, which provides an svg file that I can process to get the text part, and insert into the template svg. (4) I can edit each slide svg file in Inkscape to make any changes necessary. (5) View slides with Inkview. My questions: (a) Is there a better way to do this? I could do everything in LaTex, but I then I lose the ability to tweak the result, such as moving pictures around, or changing font sizes, etc., like I have in powerpoint, or Inkscape. (b) Is anyone else using Inkscape for presentations? Interested in using it? (c) Step 3b is pretty poor right now - I am still working on it, but the conversion process basically creates a seperate text element for every letter. I can do some processing to improve on this, but it is very inelegant. Anyone have a better idea? (d) Also in step 3b, I am losing some greek letters (but not all) in the conversion from LaTex to svg. I have not tracked the cause of this down yet.

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make fails on cvs-install
by unknown＠example.com 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

I'm trying to install inkscape from CVS on my debian (sarge) machine. I installed all the necessary packages so that the configure-script doesn't complain anymore. But running make always fails. After a while it makes my computer hang for some minutes and ends with the following lines: mkdir .libs g++ -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -o inkscape --export-dynamic main.o -Wl,--export-dynamic libinkpre.a application/libinkapp.a dialogs/libspdialogs.a trace/libtrace.a svg/libspsvg.a widgets/libspwidgets.a display/libspdisplay.a helper/libspchelp.a libnrtype/libnrtype.a libnr/libnr.a livarot/libvarot.a ui/libui.a ui/dialog/libuidialog.a ui/widget/libuiwidget.a extension/libextension.a extension/implementation/libimplementation.a extension/internal/libinternal.a extension/script/libscript.a xml/libspxml.a util/libinkutil.a io/libio.a inkjar/libinkjar.a libinkpost.a /usr/lib/libxslt.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so -lpthread /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libatkmm-1.6.so /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libpangomm-1.4.so /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so -lm /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so -lpng /usr/lib/libpopt.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libXft.so /usr/lib/libXrender.so -lX11 -lfontconfig /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/libfreetype.so -lz /usr/lib/libgc.so collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] make[2]: *** [inkscape] Fehler 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wen/inkscape-cvs/inkscape/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wen/inkscape-cvs/inkscape' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 Any suggestions? Fehler means Error. Thanks, Wen -- +++ Sparen beginnt mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

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