auto-texts: slide title

Thanks Hannes Hochreiner, that solved my question.

Hi Hannes, thanks a lot for answering my questions, and of course for providing such a great inkscape extension :-).

Haldor,

I'm pretty sure Inkscape DOES allow for two layers to have the same name.

I'm using Inkscape 0.47 and have done numerous presentations that have layers with the same name. It seems to work fine for me.

Also, using layer names for slide titles is not very good idea, since when layer names is "localized" slide transitions stop woring.
This happened on 1.4.0, haven't tested on 1.5.2 though

Hi Artiom,

could you provide an example file, because I could not reproduce the problem you described. I have tried using German "special" characters (such as ä and ß) could not find a problem in version 1.5.2.

If you could send me the file you are having trouble with, I could have a look at it and try to figure out, what the problem is.

Cheers,
Hannes

Hi Hannes,

Thank you for quick reply.
Ok, here is the link to the file:
http://www.onlinedisk.ru/file/498597/
I didn't user Russian letters, for layer name I used `"such as ä and ß"` phrase :)
If I try to add slide transition effect, entering this slide's name in the dialog, I get this message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/jessyInk_transitions.py", line 74, in <module>
    effect.affect()
  File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py", line 207, in affect
    self.effect()
  File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/jessyInk_transitions.py", line 53, in effect
    nodes = self.document.xpath("//*[@inkscape:groupmode='layer' and @inkscape:label='" + self.options.layerName + "']", namespaces=inkex.NSS)
  File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 1833, in lxml.etree._ElementTree.xpath (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:41739)
  File "xpath.pxi", line 327, in lxml.etree.XPathDocumentEvaluator.__call__ (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:103493)
  File "apihelpers.pxi", line 1242, in lxml.etree._utf8 (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:19848)
ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes

Hi Artiom:

Thanks a lot for the example file and the error message. I was digging at the wrong end :-) I thought the problem was in playing the presentation in the browser. This seems to be an encoding (escaping) problem, as you said. I'll have a look at it.

Cheers,
Hannes

Hi Artiom:

I think I found the problem and fixed it. I pushed a new version to launchpad. Could you test the fix by getting the newest version from "trunk" using "bzr branch lp:jessyink" and manually copying the extension files to the correct location on your system?

Cheers,
Hannes

Hi Hannes!

Thank you very much, everything works now!
I successfully applied some transition effects to several layers with cyrillic characters in names.

P.S. Special thanks for this great extension. I have been loving and using Inkscape/Sodipodi for about 7 years, and now can continue using it for presentations. This is the right thing, I swear! :)

Hi Artiom:

Glad to hear that things work for you now. I'll release the bug fix with the next version of JessyInk, so that all users can benefit from it.

Hope you continue to enjoy using Inkscape/JessyInk!

Cheers,
Hannes