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
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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
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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
