On 2007-January-04 , at 21:46 , Bryce Harrington wrote:
Were you able to get these issues sorted out?
As a reminder for everyone the issue to sort out was to replace skconvert by pstoedit in input extensions in order to remove the (large) dependency on skencil. This depended on the availability of the plot-svg backend in pstoedit, which is provided by an additional package (plotutils).
I cannot solve the problem on my own. This requires to: (1) get people with several different distros testing if plotutils is included as a dependency of pstoedit. as far: - OS X: Fink and DarwinPort are OK - FC-5 and 6 are OK - Debian stable (sarge) is not OK or (2) modify the input extension to issue a warning when plot-svg is not present. NB: this would also help the latex equation extension which only requires pstoedit but uses pstoedit with plot-svg or (3) explicitly include plotutils and pstoedit as inkscape dependencies.
IMHO (3) is both the best and simplest solution because pstoedit and plotutils are both quite small and very useful to people working with vector illustrations.
I did a quick check of the extensions and it appears the only use of skconvert is for the sk input extension.
do you mean the only extension *other* than the ps_input one? in my svn tree, updated right now, the ps extension still uses the sk input extension (so in the end it uses skencil). from what I gather: SK -sk_input (skencil)-> SVG PS -ps_input (pstoedit)-> SK -sk_input (skencil)-> SVG EPS -eps_input(ghostscript)-> PS -ps_input (pstoedit)-> SK -sk_input (skencil)-> SVG There does not seem to be a PDF input extension anymore.
I've made a patch for ps and eps input: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1629798&group_id=93438&atid=604308 from the description: This patch provides basic functionality but probably needs enhancements: - pstoedit ouputs a message with its version number to standard error and I cannot get rid of it. therefore opening a file in inkscape via the input extension always opens an error window even when there is no error. (example of this message: "pstoedit: version 3.40 / DLL interface 108 (build Jul 18 2006 - release build) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2005 Wolfgang Glunz") - pstoedit conversion introduces a scale factor which makes Inkscape misbehave (zoom is broken, any newly drawn item is huge...). see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/XML_Repair for details. this is sorted by copy/pasting the svg in a new inkscape document. it would be nice to do it directly withing the extension.
maybe sk_input could use pstoedit also. pstoedit can read sk files but the few I have tested here fail. It seems pstoedit uses sk->ps-
svg in this case.
cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/