source: xsoft/other/inkscape.xml@ cdce31f

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
  <!ENTITY inkscape-download-http "https://media.inkscape.org/dl/resources/file/inkscape-&inkscape-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-md5sum        "6f6bcbd0237ecd064460315465467b04">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-size          "30 MB">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-buildsize     "526 MB (add 8 MB for tests)">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-time          "4.9 SBU (add 0.2 SBU for tests, both with parallelism=4)">
]>

<sect1 id="inkscape" xreflabel="Inkscape-&inkscape-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="inkscape.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Inkscape-&inkscape-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="inkscape">
    <primary sortas="a-Inkscape">Inkscape</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Inkscape</title>

    <para>
      <application>Inkscape</application> is a what you see is what you get
      Scalable Vector Graphics editor. It is useful for creating, viewing and
      changing SVG images.
    </para>

    &lfs80_checked;
    &gcc7_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&inkscape-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&inkscape-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &inkscape-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &inkscape-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &inkscape-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &inkscape-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch: <ulink url="&patch-root;/inkscape-&inkscape-version;-use_versioned_ImageMagick6-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Inkscape Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="boost"/>,
      <xref linkend="gc"/>,
      <xref linkend="gsl"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtkmm2"/>
      (or <xref linkend="gtkmm3"/> and
      <ulink url="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gdl/">gnome docking library</ulink>
      for the experimental gtk+-3 build),
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
      <xref linkend="popt"/> and
      <xref linkend="wget"/> (to download the test dependencies)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="imagemagick6"/>,
      <xref linkend="lcms2"/> or
      <xref linkend="lcms"/>,
      <xref linkend="potrace"/> (for the bucket-fill tool),
      <xref linkend="lxml"/> and
      <xref linkend="scour"/> (both at runtime, for Save As Optimized SVG).
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="aspell"/>,
      <xref linkend="dbus"/> (to run inkscape from scripts),
      <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
      <xref linkend="poppler"/>,

      <!-- these document foundation links work from firefox's address bar, or
      from google (pages telling you how to get it from git), but when I link
      them here I get "There is currently no text in this page...". Ken or
      developer: wiki.documentfoundation.org pages don't like trailing / -->
      <!--<ulink url="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries/libcdr">libcdr</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries/libvisio">libvisio</ulink>,-->
      <ulink url="https://github.com/LibreOffice/libcdr">libcdr</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://github.com/LibreOffice/libvisio">libvisio</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://libwpg.sourceforge.net/">libwpg</ulink> (or
      <ulink url="http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/">libwpd</ulink>) and
      <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/NumPy/files/">NumPy</ulink>
      (at runtime for some extensions)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Runtime Dependencies
    (for some of the Inkscape extensions)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/~tjmather/XML-XQL-0.68/lib/XML/XQL.pm">XML::XQL</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/inkscape"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Inkscape</title>

    <para>Ensure that the libraries from <xref linkend="imagemagick6"/> can be used:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../inkscape-&inkscape-version;-use_versioned_ImageMagick6-1.patch</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Fix a build issue with <application>GCC-7.1</application>:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's| abs(| std::fabs(|g' src/ui/tools/flood-tool.cpp</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you wish to run the testsuite, download the required versions of
      <application>googletest</application> and
      <application>googlemock</application> by running:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>bash download-gtest.sh</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>Inkscape</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>
mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd build    &amp;&amp;

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      ..                          &amp;&amp;

make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
    </para>
    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install                      &amp;&amp;
rm -v /usr/lib/inkscape/lib*_LIB.a</userinput></screen>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/update-icons-and-desktop.xml"/>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release</parameter>: This switch is used to
      build the release library without any debug `assert` in the code.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>rm -v /usr/lib/inkscape/lib*_LIB.a</parameter>: The conversion
      of the package to use <command>cmake</command> has led to these libraries
      getting installed, but they are not usable (there are no header files to
      let a program know what they contain). So remove them.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-DWITH_DBUS=ON</option>: use this if you wish to use
      <command>inkscape</command> in interactive scripts which manipulate
      images.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          inkscape and inkview
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libinkscape_base.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/lib/inkscape and /usr/share/inkscape
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="inkscape-prog">
        <term><command>inkscape</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editing program.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="inkscape inkscape-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-inkscape">inkscape</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="inkview">
        <term><command>inkview</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a simple program for displaying SVG files.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="inkscape inkview">
            <primary sortas="b-inkview">inkview</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libinkscape_base">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libinkscape_base.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides the routines used by inkscape and inkview.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="inkscape libinkscape_base">
            <primary sortas="c-libinkscape_base">libinkscape_base.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>