Re: Dtt dongle

[Erez D]

not yet

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
>> I'm looking for a cheap dtt dongle supported by Linux.
>>
>>  Any luck?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geoff.
> -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379
> In 1969 the US could put a man on the moon, now teenagers just howl at it.
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4G phones in Israel

[Justin]

I own a Droid Bionic in the US.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Bionic

It is not GSM, only CDMA & LTE.

Does anyone know if it is possible to bring it over and use it with a
carrier here?



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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 04/16/2012 05:38 PM, Justin wrote:
> I own a Droid Bionic in the US.
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Bionic
>
> It is not GSM, only CDMA & LTE.
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to bring it over and use it with a
> carrier here?
Yes.

The answer to your unasked question (i.e. - whether it is, in fact,
possible) is no.

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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Evgeniy Ginzburg]

2012/4/16 Justin 

> I own a Droid Bionic in the US.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Bionic
>
> It is not GSM, only CDMA & LTE.
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to bring it over and use it with a
> carrier here?
>

AFAIK no.

There is no LTE provider here.
And 3G is UMTS based.

Regard, Evgeniy.


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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Dotan Cohen]

2012/4/16 Shachar Shemesh :
> On 04/16/2012 05:38 PM, Justin wrote:
>
> I own a Droid Bionic in the US.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Bionic
>
> It is not GSM, only CDMA & LTE.
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to bring it over and use it with a
> carrier here?
>
> Yes.
>
> The answer to your unasked question (i.e. - whether it is, in fact,
> possible) is no.
>
> Shachar
>

If the OP finds this statement confusing, Shachar was answering the
question "Does anyone know". Yes, somebody knows.

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looking for someone

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Hi,

A friend of mine is looking for someone to setup a monitoring system + all
the scripts to monitor.
The person should have:

   - A knowledge how to setup any good monitoring system (zabbix, zenoss,
   etc)
   - A good Python or Perl knowledge
   - Knowledge how to monitor various Amazon services (EC2, EBS, Mapreduce,
   Elastic Search, etc..)

The job need to be done ASAP.

If you're interested, please contact off the list haim@netrun (Haim)

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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[sara fink]

A friend of mine bought here last weekend samsung galaxy s3 4g lte
generation with android 4 and it works with orange. The phone was bought in
canada and one shop bought 3 pieces. The guy brought 5 phones. He sold it
via yad2.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Dotan Cohen  wrote:

> 2012/4/16 Shachar Shemesh :
> > On 04/16/2012 05:38 PM, Justin wrote:
> >
> > I own a Droid Bionic in the US.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Bionic
> >
> > It is not GSM, only CDMA & LTE.
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to bring it over and use it with a
> > carrier here?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > The answer to your unasked question (i.e. - whether it is, in fact,
> > possible) is no.
> >
> > Shachar
> >
>
> If the OP finds this statement confusing, Shachar was answering the
> question "Does anyone know". Yes, somebody knows.
>
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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 04/16/2012 07:55 PM, sara fink wrote:
> A friend of mine bought here last weekend samsung galaxy s3
Somewhat strange, as it's only going to be announced in two weeks.
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4216644,00.html
> 4g lte generation with android 4 and it works with orange.
Does it support 3g and 2g? If so, then it's irrelevant for the OP's
question.

Shachar
> The phone was bought in canada and one shop bought 3 pieces. The guy
> brought 5 phones. He sold it via yad2.
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Dotan Cohen  > wrote:
>
> 2012/4/16 Shachar Shemesh  >:
> > On 04/16/2012 05:38 PM, Justin wrote:
> >
> > I own a Droid Bionic in the US.
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Bionic
> >
> > It is not GSM, only CDMA & LTE.
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to bring it over and use it
> with a
> > carrier here?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > The answer to your unasked question (i.e. - whether it is, in fact,
> > possible) is no.
> >
> > Shachar
> >
>
> If the OP finds this statement confusing, Shachar was answering the
> question "Does anyone know". Yes, somebody knows.
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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[shimi]

2012/4/16 Shachar Shemesh 

>  On 04/16/2012 07:55 PM, sara fink wrote:
>
> A friend of mine bought here last weekend samsung galaxy s3
>
> Somewhat strange, as it's only going to be announced in two weeks.
> http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4216644,00.html
>
>  4g lte generation with android 4 and it works with orange.
>
> Does it support 3g and 2g? If so, then it's irrelevant for the OP's
> question.m 
>
>
Yes, SGS3 does 3G (HSDPA) and 2G (GSM). The Motorola seems to be wanting
CDMA like they always do :)

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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Nadav Har'El]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012, sara fink wrote about "Re: 4G phones in Israel":
> A friend of mine bought here last weekend samsung galaxy s3 4g lte

As far as I know, the Samsung Galaxy S3 hasn't been launched yet (the date
is May 5th). Even journalists have nothing more than rumors...

Maybe you mean the Galaxy S2? Or Droid Charge, a.k.a Galaxy S Aviator?



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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[sara fink]

It isn't brought to israel officially yet. Someone bought in canada and
sold it here. He brought 5 pieces. 3 were bought by a shop. 1 my friend
bought. She definitely told me it's 4th generation. android version 4 too.
cpu 1.5ghz chipset qualcomm. gingerbread version.  And it's LTE. She bought
it this saturday.

She told me she put the sim of orange and it works. She connected with the
wifi to the internet. She was told that it works with orange and cellcom
only. Her only problem is that  it doesn't have hebrew keyboard and looks
for a free hebrew keyboard.  I will ask exactly the complete model. In any
case, I will play with it next week.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

>  On 04/16/2012 07:55 PM, sara fink wrote:
>
> A friend of mine bought here last weekend samsung galaxy s3
>
> Somewhat strange, as it's only going to be announced in two weeks.
> http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4216644,00.html
>
>  4g lte generation with android 4 and it works with orange.
>
> Does it support 3g and 2g? If so, then it's irrelevant for the OP's
> question.
>
> Shachar
>
>  The phone was bought in canada and one shop bought 3 pieces. The guy
> brought 5 phones. He sold it via yad2.
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Dotan Cohen  wrote:
>
>> 2012/4/16 Shachar Shemesh :
>> > On 04/16/2012 05:38 PM, Justin wrote:
>> >
>> > I own a Droid Bionic in the US.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Bionic
>> >
>> > It is not GSM, only CDMA & LTE.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know if it is possible to bring it over and use it with a
>> > carrier here?
>> >
>> > Yes.
>> >
>> > The answer to your unasked question (i.e. - whether it is, in fact,
>> > possible) is no.
>> >
>> > Shachar
>> >
>>
>>  If the OP finds this statement confusing, Shachar was answering the
>> question "Does anyone know". Yes, somebody knows.
>>
>> --
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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 15:51, sara fink  wrote:
> It isn't brought to israel officially yet. Someone bought in canada and sold
> it here. He brought 5 pieces. 3 were bought by a shop. 1 my friend bought.
> She definitely told me it's 4th generation. android version 4 too. cpu
> 1.5ghz chipset qualcomm. gingerbread version.  And it's LTE. She bought it
> this saturday.
>
> She told me she put the sim of orange and it works. She connected with the
> wifi to the internet. She was told that it works with orange and cellcom
> only. Her only problem is that  it doesn't have hebrew keyboard and looks
> for a free hebrew keyboard.  I will ask exactly the complete model. In any
> case, I will play with it next week.
>

Let me know if she finds that keyboard. I am in the US for one month,
and I have an Android phone. I would love a Hebrew keyboard, as all my
contacts and calendar are in Hebrew (Gmail sync yay) and I can SMS to
Israel.

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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Evgeniy Ginzburg]

For multilanguage input I use hacker's keyboard with hebrew completion
dictionary.
Works fine.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard
On Apr 16, 2012 11:21 PM, "Dotan Cohen"  wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 15:51, sara fink  wrote:
> > It isn't brought to israel officially yet. Someone bought in canada and
> sold
> > it here. He brought 5 pieces. 3 were bought by a shop. 1 my friend
> bought.
> > She definitely told me it's 4th generation. android version 4 too. cpu
> > 1.5ghz chipset qualcomm. gingerbread version.  And it's LTE. She bought
> it
> > this saturday.
> >
> > She told me she put the sim of orange and it works. She connected with
> the
> > wifi to the internet. She was told that it works with orange and cellcom
> > only. Her only problem is that  it doesn't have hebrew keyboard and looks
> > for a free hebrew keyboard.  I will ask exactly the complete model. In
> any
> > case, I will play with it next week.
> >
>
> Let me know if she finds that keyboard. I am in the US for one month,
> and I have an Android phone. I would love a Hebrew keyboard, as all my
> contacts and calendar are in Hebrew (Gmail sync yay) and I can SMS to
> Israel.
>
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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[sara fink]

I sent her few links for free software keyboard but I don't know yet if she
used it. There was another on the market for 10 nis. Indeed
AnySoftKeyboard and a script that gilad ben yossef wrote.

http://www.androidwiki.de/howto-hebrew-support-on-any-rom.html

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Dotan Cohen  wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 15:51, sara fink  wrote:
> > It isn't brought to israel officially yet. Someone bought in canada and
> sold
> > it here. He brought 5 pieces. 3 were bought by a shop. 1 my friend
> bought.
> > She definitely told me it's 4th generation. android version 4 too. cpu
> > 1.5ghz chipset qualcomm. gingerbread version.  And it's LTE. She bought
> it
> > this saturday.
> >
> > She told me she put the sim of orange and it works. She connected with
> the
> > wifi to the internet. She was told that it works with orange and cellcom
> > only. Her only problem is that  it doesn't have hebrew keyboard and looks
> > for a free hebrew keyboard.  I will ask exactly the complete model. In
> any
> > case, I will play with it next week.
> >
>
> Let me know if she finds that keyboard. I am in the US for one month,
> and I have an Android phone. I would love a Hebrew keyboard, as all my
> contacts and calendar are in Hebrew (Gmail sync yay) and I can SMS to
> Israel.
>
> --
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>
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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Nadav Har'El]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: 4G phones in Israel":
> Let me know if she finds that keyboard. I am in the US for one month,
> and I have an Android phone. I would love a Hebrew keyboard, as all my
> contacts and calendar are in Hebrew (Gmail sync yay) and I can SMS to
> Israel.

I don't know about ICS (Android 4), but for Gingerbread (Android 2.3),
Android comes out-of-the-box with a fine multilingual keyboard which
includes Hebrew.

Unfortunately, some devices (including as my Samsung Galaxy Player...)
overide this good keypad with a crappy one of their own, which does NOT
support Hebrew.  For this, you can find for free on the Google
Market^H^H^H^H^H^HPlay the app "Gingerbread Keyboard" - basically someone
took the original Gingerbread (Android 2.3) source code, extracted the
multilingual keyboard (with its good Hebrew support), and compiled it as
a separate app, which anyone can install. I'm using it, and it works well.

And it's free (as in open source) software :-)

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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[sara fink]

Does it requires rooting before? She doesn't know linux.

Hers is android 4. Upgraded already.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: 4G phones in Israel":
> > Let me know if she finds that keyboard. I am in the US for one month,
> > and I have an Android phone. I would love a Hebrew keyboard, as all my
> > contacts and calendar are in Hebrew (Gmail sync yay) and I can SMS to
> > Israel.
>
> I don't know about ICS (Android 4), but for Gingerbread (Android 2.3),
> Android comes out-of-the-box with a fine multilingual keyboard which
> includes Hebrew.
>
> Unfortunately, some devices (including as my Samsung Galaxy Player...)
> overide this good keypad with a crappy one of their own, which does NOT
> support Hebrew.  For this, you can find for free on the Google
> Market^H^H^H^H^H^HPlay the app "Gingerbread Keyboard" - basically someone
> took the original Gingerbread (Android 2.3) source code, extracted the
> multilingual keyboard (with its good Hebrew support), and compiled it as
> a separate app, which anyone can install. I'm using it, and it works well.
>
> And it's free (as in open source) software :-)
>
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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Doron Shikmoni]

Try "Perfect keyboard" from the market. Has free version and premium.

Doron


On 17/04/2012 01:08, sara fink wrote:

Does it requires rooting before? She doesn't know linux.

Hers is android 4. Upgraded already.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Nadav Har'El 
mailto:n...@math.technion.ac.il>> wrote:


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: 4G phones in
Israel":
> Let me know if she finds that keyboard. I am in the US for one
month,
> and I have an Android phone. I would love a Hebrew keyboard, as
all my
> contacts and calendar are in Hebrew (Gmail sync yay) and I can
SMS to
> Israel.

I don't know about ICS (Android 4), but for Gingerbread (Android 2.3),
Android comes out-of-the-box with a fine multilingual keyboard which
includes Hebrew.

Unfortunately, some devices (including as my Samsung Galaxy Player...)
overide this good keypad with a crappy one of their own, which
does NOT
support Hebrew.  For this, you can find for free on the Google
Market^H^H^H^H^H^HPlay the app "Gingerbread Keyboard" - basically
someone
took the original Gingerbread (Android 2.3) source code, extracted the
multilingual keyboard (with its good Hebrew support), and compiled
it as
a separate app, which anyone can install. I'm using it, and it
works well.

And it's free (as in open source) software :-)

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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Nadav Har'El]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012, sara fink wrote about "Re: 4G phones in Israel":
> Does it requires rooting before? She doesn't know linux.

The "Gingerbread Keyboard" app doesn't require rooting - changing the
keyboard handler is an official Android feature, and doesn't require
messing with root, or god-forbid, "knowing Linux" :-)

> Hers is android 4. Upgraded already.

The specific app I mentioned worked on my Android 2.3.5. I have no
idea if it works with Android 4 - it might.

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Re: 4G phones in Israel

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 04/16/2012 10:51 PM, sara fink wrote:
> It isn't brought to israel officially yet. Someone bought in canada
> and sold it here.
According to the press, it wasn't *announced* yet. As such, it should
not be available at retail anywhere, not just in Israel.

Shachar

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Re: xfig+Hebrew

[Avraham Rosenberg]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:27:32AM +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> Good you solved the problem, but regarding inkscape I have to disagree.
> Inkscape is using pango as font layout engine, which is as good as any of
> the top font layout engines available (uniscribe, qt, OsX). It had problems
> in the past if you used old fonts without advanced opentype tables, but
> that too seems to be ok in later versions. But perhaps your problem was
> input? Could you describe what annoyed you in more detail?
> 
> Regadrs,
> Dov
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:46, Avraham Rosenberg wrote:
> ...
Hi Dov,
   Thank you for jumping in to help. I do not remember where I read, in the 
past, that
the way to input non-ASCII characters in inkscape is to type in their utf8
codes, maybe even prefixed by something. That is why I did not consider it
as a possible solution. After reading your mail, I tried to import into
inkscape my fig file -after deleting the English text- and to type in
Hebrew. It worked very nicely.
   Sadly, it is about the only thing I am able to do with my inkscape -
Inkscape 0.47 r22583 (Mar 12 2010)- because it seems to be buggy: not only
I get an interminbable set of warnings:
(inkscape:5786): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_set_alignment: assertion 
`GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed
but I was also unable to rotate a rectangle: no matter what the little
arrows implied, the effect of the attempt was resizing insteadof rotation.

   I understand that you do use inkscape successfully. Please let me know if
it was installed through apt-get (and in this case what version it is) or
built it from sources.

  I annex the output of the command  ldd `which inkscape`, in order to
compare the libraries, in case it turns out that we use the same version of
the program. Maybe the problem lies with one of the libraries.

linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb76fc000)
libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb738a000)
libatkmm-1.6.so.1 => /usr/lib/libatkmm-1.6.so.1 (0xb7345000)
libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb72fb000)
libgiomm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so.1 (0xb7259000)
libpangomm-1.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpangomm-1.4.so.1 (0xb722b000)
libglibmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb71d3000)
libcairomm-1.0.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcairomm-1.0.so.1 (0xb71b3000)
libxslt.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1 (0xb717b000)
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb7051000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb704b000)
libgtkspell.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtkspell.so.0 (0xb7045000)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb6c6f000)
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb6bd8000)
libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb6bbc000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6b96000)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb6b7d000)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb6b72000)
libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xb6ad5000)
libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb6a6)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb6a1c000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb69a5000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb6976000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb6937000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb6933000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb692e000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6925000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb685c000)
libpng12.so.0 => /lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb6837000)
libgsl.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgsl.so.0 (0xb6644000)
libgslcblas.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgslcblas.so.0 (0xb6612000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb65fe000)
libgomp.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1 (0xb65f1000)
libpopt.so.0 => /lib/libpopt.so.0 (0xb65e6000)
libaspell.so.15 => /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15 (0xb6547000)
libgnomevfs-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0 (0xb64eb000)
libgconf-2.so.4 => /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4 (0xb64b8000)
libwpg-0.1.so.1 => /usr/lib/libwpg-0.1.so.1 (0xb648f000)
libwpg-stream-0.1.so.1 => /usr/lib/libwpg-stream-0.1.so.1 (0xb647f000)
libwpd-0.8.so.8 => /usr/lib/libwpd-0.8.so.8 (0xb63f2000)
libMagick++.so.3 => /usr/lib/libMagick++.so.3 (0xb637b000)
libMagickCore.so.3 => /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.3 (0xb6135000)
libgc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgc.so.1 (0xb6102000)
liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0xb60ce000)
libpoppler.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 (0xb5f0a000)
libpoppler-glib.so.4 => /usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4 (0xb5edc000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb5de7000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb5dc1

Re: xfig+Hebrew

[Dov Grobgeld]

Hi Avraham,

In Linux/X11/Gnome/KDE the input method is typically application
independent and there are various methods of inputting characters. If I
need to input a fancy character, e.g. U+2646 Neptune ♆, I typically run
gucharmap and search for the characters and then copy and paste them into
application. But for Hebrew you obviously just switch to the hebrew
keylayout and type away.

Regarding rotation, I have experienced various issues when importing
external formats into inkscape. Make sure that you can rotate a rectangle
that you create in inkscape (by clicking twice and then dragging the
semicircle arrows at the corners of the bounding box). If it doesn't work
the same with a rectangle from a fig file, then you should file a bug about
this. In my experience everything works much nicer if you do your whole
workflow within InkScape. The warning messages from inkscape you can safely
ignore.

Regards,
Dov

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:03, Avraham Rosenberg wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:27:32AM +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> > Good you solved the problem, but regarding inkscape I have to disagree.
> > Inkscape is using pango as font layout engine, which is as good as any of
> > the top font layout engines available (uniscribe, qt, OsX). It had
> problems
> > in the past if you used old fonts without advanced opentype tables, but
> > that too seems to be ok in later versions. But perhaps your problem was
> > input? Could you describe what annoyed you in more detail?
> >
> > Regadrs,
> > Dov
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:46, Avraham Rosenberg  >wrote:
> > ...
> Hi Dov,
>   Thank you for jumping in to help. I do not remember where I read, in the
> past, that
> the way to input non-ASCII characters in inkscape is to type in their utf8
> codes, maybe even prefixed by something. That is why I did not consider it
> as a possible solution. After reading your mail, I tried to import into
> inkscape my fig file -after deleting the English text- and to type in
> Hebrew. It worked very nicely.
>   Sadly, it is about the only thing I am able to do with my inkscape -
> Inkscape 0.47 r22583 (Mar 12 2010)- because it seems to be buggy: not only
> I get an interminbable set of warnings:
> (inkscape:5786): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_misc_set_alignment: assertion
> `GTK_IS_MISC (misc)' failed
> but I was also unable to rotate a rectangle: no matter what the little
> arrows implied, the effect of the attempt was resizing insteadof rotation.
>
>   I understand that you do use inkscape successfully. Please let me know if
> it was installed through apt-get (and in this case what version it is) or
> built it from sources.
>
>  I annex the output of the command  ldd `which inkscape`, in order to
> compare the libraries, in case it turns out that we use the same version of
> the program. Maybe the problem lies with one of the libraries.
>
>linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb76fc000)
>libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb738a000)
>libatkmm-1.6.so.1 => /usr/lib/libatkmm-1.6.so.1 (0xb7345000)
>libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb72fb000)
>libgiomm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so.1 (0xb7259000)
>libpangomm-1.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpangomm-1.4.so.1 (0xb722b000)
>libglibmm-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 (0xb71d3000)
>libcairomm-1.0.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcairomm-1.0.so.1 (0xb71b3000)
>libxslt.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxslt.so.1 (0xb717b000)
>libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb7051000)
>libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb704b000)
>libgtkspell.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtkspell.so.0 (0xb7045000)
>libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb6c6f000)
>libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb6bd8000)
>libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb6bbc000)
>libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6b96000)
>libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
> (0xb6b7d000)
>libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
> (0xb6b72000)
>libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xb6ad5000)
>libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb6a6)
>libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb6a1c000)
>libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb69a5000)
>libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb6976000)
>libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb6937000)
>libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb6933000)
>libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb692e000)
>librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6925000)
>libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb685c000)
>libpng12.so.0 => /lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb6837000)
>libgsl.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgsl.so.0 (0xb6644000)
>libgslcblas.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgslcblas.so.0 (0xb6612000)
>