source: xsoft/other/inkscape.xml@ f8a84b4

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
  <!-- inkscape.org appears to point to launchpad, sf is out of date -->
  <!ENTITY inkscape-download-http "https://launchpad.net/inkscape/0.91.x/0.91/+download/inkscape-&inkscape-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-md5sum        "278dfa4514adcde23546370ec2c84581">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-size          "25 MB">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-buildsize     "1.9 GB">
  <!ENTITY inkscape-time          "16 SBU">
]>

<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>

    &lfs7a_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>
          Optional patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/inkscape-&inkscape-version;-testfiles-1.patch"/>
          for full test coverage.
        </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"/> and
      <xref linkend="popt"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="lcms2"/> or
      <xref linkend="lcms"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="aspell"/>,
      <xref linkend="dbus"/>,
      <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
      <xref linkend="imagemagick"/>,
      <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>,
      <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/NumPy/files/">NumPy</ulink>
      (for the testsuite and at runtime for some extensions) and
      <ulink url="http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/">python-lxml</ulink>
      (for the testsuite, and at runtime for some of the 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>If <application>Xorg</application> is installed in a prefix other
    than <filename class='directory'>/usr</filename>, the build will fail. Fix
    this by issuing the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput>export LIBRARY_PATH=$XORG_PREFIX/lib</userinput></screen>
-->

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

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

sed -e 's/ScopedPtr&lt;char&gt;/make_unique_ptr_gfree/' \
    -i src/ui/clipboard.cpp  &amp;&amp;

CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -std=c++11" ./configure --prefix=/usr &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</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>
      <command>sed  ... </command>: This <command>sed</command> fixes a 
      build problem identified upstream.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -std=c++11" ./configure...</command>: Inkscape
      has not yet been ported to the 2011 ISO C++ standard, one of its
      dependencies is compiled with this standard.
      <command>-std=c++11</command> has
      to be used as an option to <command>g++</command>. We pass it into
      <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar> together with the default options.
    </para>

  </sect2>

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          inkscape and inkview
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /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>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>