On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 02:04:51PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
I've posted to my ppa packages (for Ubuntu 12.04) of newer pixman and cairo with the downscaling fix, and a inkscape-trunk package built against these.
https://launchpad.net/~bryce/+archive/backports/+packages
[Installation for Ubuntu 12.04]
- sudo apt-add repository ppa:bryce/backports
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install inkscape-trunk # This will also pull in and install newer cairo and pixman
- /usr/bin/inkscape
[Uninstallation] 1. sudo apt-get install ppa-purge 2. sudo ppa-purge ppa:bryce/backports 3. sudo apt-get install --reinstall inkscape
This will remove the inkscape-trunk package and restore to the distro-provided versions of cairo and pixman.
Step #3 should be unnecessary but I notice the inkscape-trunk package installs to /usr/bin/inkscape, so probably clobbers the distro-provided inkscape. Not a big deal; reinstalling it should fix any of that.
Bryce