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just installed the svg for Xara in Ubuntu. When i export an svg it won't open or import into any other programme (Scribus, Inkscape) it won't even import back into Xara. For all intents and purposes it's not working at all. All I'm able to do is export a useless file. I am able to open an inkscape svg in Xara. That works ok
Anyone know why this is happening and what the cure is.
Thanks
Dai
I have had the same problem and have still to figure it out. I have gone through the dependancies list over and over.... There's got to be "something" I'm missing. I even just went through my synaptic (for pclinuxos) and did all the upgrades, etc.....
It is a pain in the tuccas though, isn't it??
I get friendly "diggs" from fellow Linux artists that I shouldnt use xara lx cuz anything done, which can't be exported in .svg is garbage..... (But I truly detest Inkscape) I cannot do 1/2 of what I can do with xara lx and I become quickly frustrated with it
I'd love to try and get a team together to get this figured out and fixed, once and for all for everybody!!!!
The svg work in the windows version just fine import & export so.... what's missing there, in the linux version??
If you're interested Dai... keep in touch and I will see if I can get someone to take some time and really look at it??
Paul where do you download the svg for XaraLX?
I've configured a dual boot on one of my Vista machines and have PCLinuxOS installed on the second drive. I prefer using multiple drives rather than partitions on a single drive.
I'm using the (potentially unstable) 0.7 rev 1785 installed using the autopackage download.
Another question. How do I tell PCLinuxOS to not intercept the Alt key? When I try to Alt+Left click to select the object underneath the OS thinks I want to move the active window. I've checked all the config files I can think of an cannot find where that is implimented.
Soquili, the Alt+Left-click doesnt work in any windowmanager that binds the same hotkey to some function....unfortunaly most do.
1785 is junk. Use 1783, I have run into no bugs with it as of yet. You have to "build" an .svg filter
Now, a friend of mine did this (his first rpm) but we can't seem to figure out why it does not work. I have retrieved all the required depnedancies through synaptic, but... something is still missing....
To build a new filter based on the XPFilter project will require creating a new copy of the source directory called something sensible for your filter, renaming (and editing) the configuration XML file and modifying some parts of the configure.in script and Makefile.am
As the example filter is still under development (various extensions will be added to it as time goes by) it is recommended that you try to alter as little of the build framework as possible to make merging in new versions as painless as possible.
For a hypothetical SVG filter that uses XarLib, the necessary changes would be as follows:
Copy the XPFilter-0.2 directory as SVGFilter.
Copy the xpxlfilter.xml file as svgfilter.xml and edit the contents appropriately. E.g.
<FilterConfig>
<Filter name="SVGFilter">
<DisplayName>SVG Filter</DisplayName>
<Extensions>svg</Extensions>
<CanImport>svgfilter -c -f %IN%</CanImport>
<DoImport>svgfilter -i -g -f %IN%</DoImport>
<PrepareExport>svgfilterui -f %OUT% -x %XML%</PrepareExport>
<DoExport>svgfilter -e -g -f %OUT% -x %XML%</DoExport>
</Filter>
</FilterConfig>
Edit configure.in
Edit Makefile.am
- Change the name of the project in the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE line from XPFilter to SVGFilter
The top of Makefile.am would then look something like this:
- Change the names of the programs being compiled in bin_PROGRAMS. One is set directly in bin_PROGRAMS as both filters use the same xpfilterui program for the PrepareExport stage. The other is added conditionally as it needs to be a different program for each filter. You can delete the conditional setting of bin_PROGRAMS and set your new filter program names directly in bin_PROGRAMS.
- Change the variables that start either xpfilterui_ or xpxlfilterui_ to be svgfilterui_ and svgfilter_ respectively. Delete those variables that start xpfilter_.
- Change the relevant part of the install-data-local rule to copy the correct xml file.
bin_PROGRAMS = svgfilter svgfilterui
svgfilter_SOURCES = xpfilter.cpp xarlibfilter.cpp
svgfilter_CPPFLAGS = $(XARLIB_CFLAGS)
svgfilter_LDADD = $(XARLIB_LIBS)
svgfilterui_SOURCES = xpfilterui.cpp
install-data-local:
mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/xaralx/filters/
$(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/svgfilter.xml $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/xaralx/filters
The implementaion would then be done by replacing the content of the functions in xarlibfilter.cpp and xpfilterui.cpp. If additional source files are required then they are simply added to the relevant _SOURCES line. The framework handles all the command line parsing, XarLib initialisation etc, leaving you to concentrate just on reading and writing Xar format records.
I also have the RPM which my friend DidouPH built but I will need to ask him first. It's not public yet so bare with me on that. I'm sure if I ask him he'll be fine with it.?? Let me check and hopefully Ill post it very soon:)
Thanks for the information Con. I found where the behavior for the Alt key can be changed in PCLOS shortly after posting the question.
I was on my way to edit my post when I saw your reply :o
Paul can you post an SVG file exported from Xara LX so I can disect it to see what may be causing other apps to not read it correctly?
Yup... gimme a few though., I have two children not playing very nice at the moment:mad:
As far as I know, there was no SVG export filter available in the Open Source project. There was a first step of a import filter which supports only some simple SVG shapes, but nothing more. After this, the development stopped under Linux.
Remi
Hi Remi,
There have been a few independent developers working on import and export filters for XaraLX.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but AFAIK Alex and Luke were the developers of the SVG filter and their last change (with the import filter) was in June 2007.
Remi
Yes very interested same as you, I prefer XaraLX to Inkscape. I was thinking of taking some of the exercises in the workbooks and making them into screencasts for the community. Just my way of promoting XaraLX to stir up interest in this brilliant programme. I'll have to ask the editor of PClos mag if he would reproduce some of the tutes to promote Xara to the community (so long as Xara have no objections). With greater interest should come greater suport from the developers.Quote:
If you're interested Dai... keep in touch and I will see if I can get someone to take some time and really look at it??
Dai.. if you're part of the PCLOS community, why dont you come over to "My-PCLOS" and see me on the beautification team so I can draft you:D
I'm trying to get all my items related to this together to get to anyone here interested. I am not very "techie" by any means. Everything I had was on a different machine than this one and I have not touched any of it in a while. We were working on it but other things of higher priority overcame our plight:(
I will, over the next couple of days, do my best to get everything together to put forward here.
I already sent an "empty file" to someone so....:rolleyes: I'll get it eventually:D Stay-tuned
no problem be happy to come over to the myplcos team
Dai - I replied, in general, to this same question in another post
to which you replied... although I dont know how to fix your
Ubuntu problem, SVG seems to be working fine in the "*******"
live-CD, which included XaraLX as a standard program option.
I cant get the thing installed to a hard drive or usb, but it does
work fine as live-CD. Hope this is some consolation. EDIT: well...
hopefully, by now, you have seen at least one of my corrected posts...
Im sorry, but, having checked this again when I returned home, it
simply wasnt that distribution with which I had my success...
not even SVG that I was so pleased to have found working, but,
instead, xara's eps (another scalable format).
Stu, I had not even realized that. I tried TeenPup for a couple days, but had mostly allowed my son to do the testing with it, and I had not thought about checking out the xaralx as I assumed it would be just the same as the usual
I'm gonna have to check that out now, thanks for mentioning it.:)
ah well... unfortunately, I must correct myself on this... I splashed this newsQuote:
Originally Posted by geminiguy
all over the board this morning, but, when I went home to reconfirm what I
had gotten so excited over, it was an error... there isnt any svg support at all in the "teenpup"... I was confusing another file type which -does- export
nicely, but this is in the standard download version (EPS).
sorry to you Dai... my comment was well intended, but, after checking thisQuote:
Originally Posted by stuseven
again at home, it seems I had mistaken SVG export capability for eps, which
the standard download version of xaralx has had for some time... oh brother...
hopefully this "great news about SVG" wont get too far before people see the
correction !
never mind back to the drawing board. lets hope the people at Xara will take pity on us and fix the svg issue. In the mean lets crack on with this idea for a XaraLX site. Con said he's going to check out Drupal the weekend and we'll take from there.
That's ok Stu.... I wouldn't worry bout it... it's not as serious as announcing Elvis is still alive:D
The svg issue needs to be addresed and we all need to get together and contact the right people on this.
But we need to let the powers that be here, steer us in the right direction. Let's do this right and proper..... and follow the correct channels, ok?;)
Why don't you start with the developers documentation? What you need is a SVG import/export filter. Start to read and learn something about the XAR file documentation (330 pages). After that, start to read and learn something about the SVG format description (700 pages). The next step would be to read the details about the Xara LX Filter Mechanism. After that you could download the current Xara LX source code and study the current SVG filter. All you have to do is, to finish this piece of code.
btw: Please don't answer with excuses like "Unfortunately I'm not a developer" or something like that. If you need the SVG import/export filter, then try to complete the current one by yourself...
Remi
Remi,
I had downloaded the svg filters a while back. I have read a bit. And, I have messed up my install a couple times trying out various theories:D
I do what I can, hopefully, one of these days... I'll do something right (by accident) and something will jive, just right....
I have followed the "make file" info, etc. It's tough to understand but eventually things begin to make sense....
SO, I will just continue to read-up, and experiment... but I do plan on contacting them.... I'd like them to know how appreciated their work is... I think many (myself included) have gone on long enough whining about what does not work..... I am more than willing to crash / bork, etc. a million more installs to get it right;)
And, thanks for the link, I knew I saw it somewhere in my travels:) And, a touch of advice for anyone else who wants this as badly as me (and I know there are many) DOn't be afraid to do as Remi suggests... "get into it and do it" not just complain. This is not meant to offend..... but rather, to motivate:D
PS, I will post items I have soon as I had to back up and reinstall just earlier today.... there is some useful info, if it's ok to post here??
No problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by geminiguy
Perhaps the best way to contact the developers is the "dev" mailing list: http://www.xaraxtreme.org/community/
Regards,
Remi
thank you:)