Using libpotrace - any easy examples ?
Among the changes for 0.92, I saw that libpotrace was no longer shipped, and therefore an external library was needed. Therefore, for those of us who build without that external library (I'm from BLFS - Beyond Linux From Scratch) we are apparently losing functionality compared to 0.91. But proving it to my colleagues is a different matter.
My searches suggested that the Paintbucket tool would no-longer work, and that that could be confirmed by drawing a box with a foreground colour to fill it. But that continued to work, so I have been unable to prove that error on our part. Meanwhile, we had other fish to fry (/me wonders if that is the right phrase for a vegetarian to use, but whatever ...).
Now that I'm back to looking at upcoming things, asking a question here looks like a nice diversion from upcoming changes in other packages (particularly firefox and its reputed requirement for rust), even if I end up showing my ignorance.
So: is there a *simple* series of actions which even an artistic numpty like me can do, which will work on 0.91, but which on 0.92 *without* libpotrace will fail ?
Thanks.
ĸen
Hi Ken,
Two things will be missing... "Path->Trace Bitmap..." won't appear in the menu, and you won't see the paintbucket tool in the side toolbar.
AV
On 3 March 2017 at 06:52, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...3141...> wrote:
Among the changes for 0.92, I saw that libpotrace was no longer shipped, and therefore an external library was needed. Therefore, for those of us who build without that external library (I'm from BLFS - Beyond Linux From Scratch) we are apparently losing functionality compared to 0.91. But proving it to my colleagues is a different matter.
My searches suggested that the Paintbucket tool would no-longer work, and that that could be confirmed by drawing a box with a foreground colour to fill it. But that continued to work, so I have been unable to prove that error on our part. Meanwhile, we had other fish to fry (/me wonders if that is the right phrase for a vegetarian to use, but whatever ...).
Now that I'm back to looking at upcoming things, asking a question here looks like a nice diversion from upcoming changes in other packages (particularly firefox and its reputed requirement for rust), even if I end up showing my ignorance.
So: is there a *simple* series of actions which even an artistic numpty like me can do, which will work on 0.91, but which on 0.92 *without* libpotrace will fail ?
Thanks.
ĸen
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On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 09:47:16AM +0000, Alex Valavanis wrote:
Hi Ken,
Two things will be missing... "Path->Trace Bitmap..." won't appear in the menu, and you won't see the paintbucket tool in the side toolbar.
AV
On 3 March 2017 at 06:52, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...3141...> wrote:
Among the changes for 0.92, I saw that libpotrace was no longer shipped, and therefore an external library was needed. Therefore, for those of us who build without that external library (I'm from BLFS - Beyond Linux From Scratch) we are apparently losing functionality compared to 0.91. But proving it to my colleagues is a different matter.
My searches suggested that the Paintbucket tool would no-longer work, and that that could be confirmed by drawing a box with a foreground colour to fill it. But that continued to work, so I have been unable to prove that error on our part.
Hi Alex - thanks.
I can now see that the bucket is indeed missing (and the Path option, which I had not been aware of). What was confusing me is that I opened a new drawing in normal view, drew a couple of overlapping squares, and they were immediately filled with the foreground colour and I had assumed that was what the bucket fill did.
Clearly, I need to refer to the online guide(s) a bit more. ;-)
ĸen
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