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BarryK

InkscapeLite has been in most pups for years, and I still have it in Quirky.

Why? It is so small, the last version of Inkscape written in C, before they rewrote it in C++.
Very handy for knocking up vector diagrams, or constructing composite bitmap images (it will import png images). Can also export to png.

Handy little app, but has some issues. One of those was the cursor in the horizontal ruler not erasing as it moved. Finally it is fixed, thanks to SFR:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=897736#897736

But there is another bug. The vertical ruler is hidden. I noticed this recently, don't know when it appeared. Obviously some change in GTK2 has caused it.
This snapshot shows the bug: see attached.

SFR was working with 0.36.2, which seems to be older source. I have 0.36.3, and his patch did not work, so I had to create a new one.

If anyone with a smattering of C coding ability would like to have a go at fixing this, please do!

Here is the source:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/sources/t2/april/inkscapelite-0.36.3.tar.bz2

I have the patches and configure info from T2. File inkscapelite.conf is easy to read.
On a 64-bit build, this is the full configure line:

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2642

Interesting. Thanks for posting. I have a version of the original 0.36 sources which I massaged a bit. I find the old version-controlled sources for the few days when the 'big switch' was made to C++. There was some useful stuff that went in just after the 0.36 release, but before the re-write started.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 16 Apr 2016, 21:15 Post subject:

I can't recall the exact history of how my 0.36.3 source came about.
I think it might have some of my own modifications in it.

amigo,
Yes, it would be great if you can take a look at it.

SFR sent me a PM, he found the patch on the Internet, I think he actually got the fix for the horizontal ruler from the full inkscape project.
I know that they had that bug for a very long time.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 16 Apr 2016, 21:44 Post subject:

Ah ha! The hidden vertical ruler was fixed in Inkscape 0.47:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/354274

...so where is the patch?

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1683

BarryK · Posted: Sun 17 Apr 2016, 04:19 Post subject:

Got it!

I hunted around on the Inkscape Bazaar repository, couldn't find the fix, so I thought, why not ask one of the developers?

So I did. I asked Diederik, and he responded straight away, with this URL:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/7543

I managed to adapt the changes to src/widgets/ruler.c, and the patch is enclosed. And a snapshot for proof.

The numbers on the vertical ruler look a bit off, but good enough for now.

I have added this patch to T2.

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1683

Thanks for the patch, works fine.

Btw, an observation regarding the 'Text' tool on FD - selecting 'Text and Font' menu option also causes a segfault, but on a rare occasion it somehow works and after closing the dialog, Text tool also gets immune to segfault.
N.B.: building with CFLAGS='-g -O0' makes the 'Text and Font' option segfault-resistant every time.
___________

Here's (attached) unified patch for FD64-710, if anyone would like to build InkLite there.
Two issues, though:
1. Segfaults on attempt to use 'Text' tool.
2. Lacks numbers on both rules.

Greetings!

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3186 Location: The Blue Marble

@SFR - interested. Can you send me 710 pkgbuild tarball? (with all the other patches too?).

PS: the fact that you need -O0, perhaps you can instead use '-fno-strict-aliasing'.

Thank you.

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1683

@James:
I don't have a pkgbuild, the above is complete patch for this sources:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/sources/t2/april/inkscapelite-0.36.3.tar.bz2

Hmm, I'm checking right now and it doesn't really seem to matter what CFLAGS are there - 'Text and Font' crashes in ~1 on 5 cases.
The mentioned observation comes from my previous struggles with InkLite, yet in FD64-700. I didn't fully check that on 710, until now. Embarassed

EDIT: I just checked and for some reason the patch posted in my previous post fails, probably due to some issues with whitespaces.
I packed it into .tar.gz (attached in my previous post).

EDIT2: this package (for April64, yet without the patches for rulers) does not segfault in FD.

Greetings!

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3186 Location: The Blue Marble

Thanks SFR. I'll to build it and see how it goes.

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 1826 Location: London, England

Did a test build in Dpup Wheezy.
Wasn't sure if I was supposed to apply the glib.h patch so tried without.
I applied the 2 ruler patches.
Then ran ./configure with options
Then ran the sed command from the .conf file to fix the "--export-dynamic" gcc error.
Then ran make and it completed and seems to run OK.
Thanks for this.

BarryK · Posted: Mon 18 Apr 2016, 17:56 Post subject:

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1683

gjuhasz · Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 371

The ruler is OK but the problems with svg file reproduction remained.

For example, Inklite fails to display some simple icons in /usr/share/pixmaps/puppy folder. See the screenshot attached for clock_interval.svg. Moreover, it displays a blank picture for others, e.g., for sound_eq.svg. The icons look well in ROX and also in in Viewnior.
It is strange that Inklite can correctly transform (e.g., rotate) them despite of the bad visualization.

Any idea? Thanks in advance.

Have fun!

Regards,

gjuhasz.

peebee · Posted: Thu 21 Apr 2016, 13:14 Post subject:

Patched source now at:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/sources/i/inkscapelite-0.36.3_patched-glib-rulers.tar.xz

Change request for an amended slacko pet-build has been sent.
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/petbuilds/pulls