Bob Jamison-2 wrote:
I uploaded another bundle with the new Glib and Pango libs that Adrian mentioned. Hopefully this will show improved OpenType support. http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/devlibs-2.12-080313.7z bob (ishmal)
Thanks Bob for all your efforts on the Win32 libs,
I'm wondering if it might be possible for you to do a build of the GTK libs with the GTK patch for the win32 printing surface? (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488833)
In the bug report for "no printing from windows" (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/179988), the team have made a lot of progress (thanks to a number of people there!). We now have fairly functional printing, but with white blocks on the page.
There is a hack to fix the white blocks that involves partially bypassing GTK and directly using the cairo win32 printing surface calls. This seems to fix the white blocks, but it is a hack and not ideal. What it does show is that using the cairo win32 printing surface calls gives us a nice clean print.
Bob (or whoever is willing and able), it would be great if we could have a build of the GTK libs with this patch to try. Several people have indicated that they are unable for technical reasons (the build readme is very scary for mingw newbs like me). It would be really helpful if we could try this, especially given only a few days before the official announcement of 0.46.
If anyone is able to do a patched build and you are stuck for somewhere to put it, I suggest mediafire.com
Thanks in advance for any help. Rygle.