Hullo John and others,
I can confirm that "save as" in Win 2000 is awesomely stuffed. Saving as svg and opening is beautiful. As for ai, Hah! Tries to save initially as an svg file, then on second attempt as an ai file. These could be opened because they did not appear as saved files. eps, much the same, except that an "eps" file is generated and saved but cannot be opened.
With import I was a lot more successful. I pulled in .jpg, ,svg, .png, .gif and .bmp successfully.
I am using Win2000 and 0407140200.
vellum
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cliff" <simarilius@...36...> To: "inkscape" inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:29 AM Subject: [Inkscape-devel] export issues on windows - Bug 990349
Hi folks, Bulia got me looking into ai import yesterday, and led me to realise that the import/export stuff seems pretty broke here on win. the import/open dialogs dont show anything but svg and bitmap formats, and the save as lists 3 formats which dont seem to work (svgz, ai, and epsi) The real problem is the latter as they still appear in the file type selector, and give all the right indications of having worked, but dont actually create any files. So you can think you've saved something when you havent. Saving to one of them then closing the doc causes my inkscape to crash. If anyone out there can confirm this on a windows box, I'd appreciate it. If we can confirm this isn't my box then I think we need to do something about it before cutting 0.39. Easiest is to simply add some lines to makefile.mingw to delete the extensions which are broke on windows so they dont get installed when you do make dist. This would eliminate the appearing to work while not really, and the crash bug.
Cheers
John