Package: inkscape Version: 0.45-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch
I can't believe i'm asking this, because i really hate non-metric units. But sadly, there are some institutions here in the US which really prefer measurements to be in feet or yards. Inkscape would be more useful for creating diagrams for these institutions if "Measure Path" could provide a "ft" and "yd" option for the units. I'm attaching a patch which seems to do this nicely for me. When we finally get the knuckle-dragging USA switched fully into the metric system, you can revert this patch, and i will buy everyone drinks! Thanks once again for maintaining Inkscape in debian. It has become one of my favorite GUI apps to use, and it just keeps getting better. Regards, --dkg PS feel free to submit this upstream if you like, or tell me if you think i should do so. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages inkscape depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-3 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgc1c2 1:6.8-1 conservative garbage collector for ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libgconf2-4 2.16.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.12.0-1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.14.2-7 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-7 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.8.8-1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared ii liblcms1 1.15-1 Color management library ii liborbit2 1:2.14.3-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-6 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-5 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxslt1.1 1.1.19-1 XSLT processing library - runtime ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages inkscape recommends: ii imagemagick 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14 Image manipulation programs pn libwmf-bin <none> (no description available) pn perlmagick <none> (no description available) ii pstoedit 3.44-1 PostScript and PDF files to editab -- no debconf information
diff -ru measure.orig/measure.inx measure/measure.inx --- measure.orig/measure.inx 2007-04-05 13:13:57.000000000 -0400 +++ measure/measure.inx 2007-04-05 13:15:17.000000000 -0400 @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ <item>px</item> <item>pt</item> <item>in</item> + <item>ft</item> + <item>yd</item> <item>mm</item> <item>cm</item> <item>m</item> diff -ru measure.orig/measure.py measure/measure.py --- measure.orig/measure.py 2007-04-05 13:13:57.000000000 -0400 +++ measure/measure.py 2007-04-05 13:22:11.000000000 -0400 @@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ factor=0.0000002822219 # px->km elif self.options.unit=="in": factor=0.2822219/25.4 # px->in + elif self.options.unit=="ft": + factor=0.2822219/(25.4*12) # px->ft + elif self.options.unit=="yd": + factor=0.2822219/(25.4*36) # px->yd else : ''' Default unit is px''' factor=1