Perfect bound cover extension on Windows.

When I installed Inkscape 48.4 on two different kinds of Linux and tried to use the: extensions-->render-->perfect-bound book cover template I got a message that I had to install an additional piece of software to use that function. This is no big deal to experienced linux users but might be for Windows users. So for the 0.48.4 version of Inkscape.exe, does this situation also exist with respect to the perfect-bound book cover feature?
I have a Windows 7 partition up but haven't been able to convince it to talk to my router yet. And the handy-dandy router install disk is for an earlier version of Windows. (Sound familiar?) I can't just download the inkscape.exe via linux and move it over to the Windows partition. (Tried that trick too. Wouldn't execute.) So I can't test it myself.
If anyone has tried the combination of recent inkscape, installed on Windows, and the perfect-bound cover feature I would appreciate hearing from them.

I'm running Windows 7 (32 bit) and Inkscape 0.48.4. I tried the extension "perfect-bound cover" and it appears to be working normally. - What was the error message you encountered? - is there a bug report associated with this?
Alvin Penner
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On Wed, 1 May 2013 14:31:15 -0700 (PDT) alvinpenner <penner@...1856...> wrote:
I'm running Windows 7 (32 bit) and Inkscape 0.48.4. I tried the extension "perfect-bound cover" and it appears to be working normally.
- What was the error message you encountered?
- is there a bug report associated with this?
Alvin Penner
The message was that I should download a particular file (I forget which one) to activate that function. Apparently the creators of Inkscape knew about this deficiency and put that message in the code. But if you didn't get the message then I can go forward with my book on using Inkscape for book covers. So thanks for your report.
AFAIK there is not a bug report on this.
John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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