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Pango testing - help needed!
by bulia byak 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

As you know, we recently switched our text system to a new library called Pango. Now that some of the worst bugs and regressions are fixed (definitely not all), and we need your help in testing it thoroughly. 1. Here are the confirmed Pango niceties so far (i.e. what is tested and works): - Text is much smoother. No more ugly autohinting gaps between letters in small sizes. Letters move smoothly when you change letterspacing by Alt+< and Alt+>. - Auto kerning pairs (from the font) now work. For example "AV" will now be kerned together automatically in most decent fonts. - On Windows, non-ASCII text works (tested with Cyrillic). Localized font face names (such as "italic" translated into a local language for Windows fonts such as Arial) are no longer a problem. 2. Here is what SHOULD work now but is not yet tested because we don't speak these languages. This is where we need your help: - Right-To-Left text (Hebrew, Arabic) and BIDI (bidirectional mixed text) seems to work but I'm not sure. - Contextual letterforms that depend on the position in a word and script-specific ligatures (Devanagari) should work. - Chinese and Japanese need testing, especially for how good vertical text works (it is enabled by a button in the Text and Font dialog). 3. And finally the things that don't work (yet): - Symbol fonts seem to have problems, at least the symbol.ttf from Windows. Any help or insights is appreciated. - Fuzzy font matching that worked in 0.38 is not reenabled yet. (No warnings on font substitutions, etc.) Only Italic and Bold faces within a family work so far. This is being worked on. So, grab the latest CVS and play with text as much as you can. We're interested to hear any reports, positive as well as negative. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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compile error: strcasestr undeclared
by Albert 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi everyone When compiling inkscape 0.38.1 in macosx I get this error: nr-type-directory.cpp: In function `bool ink_strstr(const char*, const char*)': nr-type-directory.cpp:302: `strcasestr' undeclared (first use this function) nr-type-directory.cpp:302: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) I'm lost here. If anyone has got through a similar error, please provide hints on how to go through. Thank you. Albert

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Opacity
by ttyS0 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Why default fill-opacity value is 0.75? In W3C SVG Specification default value is 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#OpacityFillOpacityProperty --------------------------------------------------- http://spalah.souceforge.net

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Exporting question
by Daniel Klein 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

I am not a visual person. I am not a designer, not a drawer, not a painter, not a photographer. I'm a man of words, really, if I need to be creative, it's words. Having said that, can I sue you for the time I've lost playing with Inkscape? No? Goddamnit. It's wonderful. Intuitive. The 'everything should be keyboard accessible' philosophy rocks. It has everything. Yesterday I tried, to amuse myself, making a mockup panelling for a comic that I'm working on with a visual artist (you guessed it - I mostly do the words :P).. it's incredible how painful proper layout with CSS can be. As these things go, 'to amuse myself' turned into a holy crusade and I would not rest until I could churn out professional layout mockups by the dozen. So I got Inkscape. The next 2 hours were spent rotating and resizing stars and occasionally saying 'wow'. I shake my angry fist at you all. Now I don't ONLY write here to stroke all of your egos. I have a little problem. Actually I feel ashamed to ask, because I'm sure newbies have stumbled over this a hundred times, but I could find nothing in either the archives nor the Wiki, so I'll ask here and add it to the archives: When exporting my wonderful drawing, I get a certain problem: First couple of attempts, all was black in the png. Now, after making a somewhat more complex .svg, PART of it shows up in the export. Please refer to http://ubermutant.de/~bringa/page1.svg (16k). In this mockup, only the mocked magazine cover on the right hand side shows up in an export. (I needn't mention that you shouldn't look at the content.. this is a mock-up only :P). If anyone could clear this up for me, that'd be great. One could also have some sort of Usage-related FAQ in the Wiki, and this would be a good first item to start with, I think. Daniel

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some ideas...
by Florent 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi all, I think that it could be a good idea to have a "pot of painting" tool. (I would say a tool to create a new object compared to the layouts which surrounds it) I think that the booleans operation should be able to apply on a group of object. And a really thanks to the Inkscape's team to make possible this great SVG editor (and sorry about my wrong english :-) ) A sensitive-all option About the "Gradient Editor", sometime, when I modifie a parameter, it's directly apply to my gradation, and sometime not... Florent http://www.florentgabriel.ouvaton.org/GalerieSVG/Galerie.html

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bezier tool settings
by Albert 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi all Is there any way to adjust Bezier curve helper points so that they remain aligned, i.e. they remain on a straigth line that runs over the central point? In this way, curves don't make sharp turns unless helper points are over the central point. If this is not implemented, I could help with it if someone could point me to the file. I have already done this in a java plugin for ImageJ. Albert

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Sizing :)
by Milen Dzhumerov 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello people :) I have made a logo of a project and now want to use it. But I want it to be 90x90 px and the borders to be a square. The logo now is very big and the size of the document is very big. Is there a way to automatically reduce the size to 90x90 or something near this and to place the object in the center vertically and horizontally.

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compiling Inkscape in MACOSX : success!
by Albert 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

This is my story on compiling and running Inkscape in macosx 10.2.8 with XDarwin and a gnome installation. Thank you to Colin in this mailing list for sharing his experience on similar compiling problems in Solaris. Albert ============= OS: macosx 10.2.8 Need a gnome installation. May get that through fink. Install xml-parser-pm560 in finkcommander (the xml perl parser) Set a few environmental variables: setenv CPATH "/sw/include" setenv LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/X11R6/lib:/sw/lib" setenv LIBS "-L/sw/lib -lintl " Error: No package 'sigc++-1.2' found ---------> Install libsigc++-shlibs in finkcommander Same error: installed libsigc is version 1.0.4 ---------> Installing libsigc 1.2.5 from source, from sourceforge. Same error. setenv PKG_CONFIG_PATH "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" (where the sigc++-1.2.pc file is) ok output: ======= Configuration: Source code location: . Compiler: g++ CPPFLAGS: CXXFLAGS: -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 LDFLAGS: Use POPT argument parser: yes Use Xft font database: yes Use gnome-print: no Use openoffice files: yes Use MMX optimizations: no make ==== Fails at: nr-type-directory.cpp: In function `bool ink_strstr(const char*, const char*)': nr-type-directory.cpp:302: `strcasestr' undeclared (first use this function) nr-type-directory.cpp:302: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) Colin from inkscape-users mailing list suggested commenting out the #ifndef WIN32 ... #else .. #endif, so that a strcasestr function is provided by the nr-type-directry.cpp file itself. WORKS Now fails at: In file included from /usr/include/dirent.h:64, from init.cpp:15: /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:73: 'u_int32_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:74: 'u_int16_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:75: 'u_int8_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. /usr/include/sys/dirent.h:76: 'u_int8_t' is used as a type, but is not defined as a type. On the web I've found dirent.h needs the declarations from types.h rigth before it, or won't compile. Let's try. In file ./src/extension/init.cpp ... #include <types.h> -----> FAILS #include "/usr/include/ppc/types.h" ----> WORKS Developers could introduce a #ifdef darwin #include "/usr/include/ppc/types.h" #endif COMPILED ! Now, ./inkscape in src folder works, but prints many critical problems. It all has to do with hard-wired links to /usr/local/share/... folders, non-existant when not installed. make install WORKS without printing errors. Good.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] rounded stars fun
by Bryce Harrington 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Whoa, that's extremely cool bulia... http://www.bryceharrington.com/round_stars.png Bryce On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, bulia byak wrote: > Today I was in a mood to do something funny... > > * A wild variety of central-symmetric curvilinear shapes, including > softly rounded stars and polygons, can be created using the new > Roundedness control on the options panel for the Star tool. > > The value is a ratio of the length of Bezier control handle to the > length of the corresponding polygon side. Values of 0.2 to 0.3 give > normal smooth rounded corners. Most other values (negatives are > permitted too) deliver tons of sheer excitement. > > Enjoy! > > P.S. Following which I'm going to be absent for a few days, as I have > an urgent paid job to do. If you need me for something, please try to > not forget what you need me for until I'm back :) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. > Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - > digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, > unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > >

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Menu font size
by Maur 22 Jun '04

22 Jun '04

I was wondering how I can could the menu fonts in Inkspace; it displays display significantly larger than other GTK applications. I found that by modifying the gtkrc files in \Inkscape\etc\gtk-2.0\, I could get the size I wanted by replacing this line: # gtk-font-name="tahoma 12" with this one: gtk-font-name="verdana 6.5"

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