On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 13:17 -0500, mental@...32... wrote:
Quoting George Farris <farrisg@...30...>:
This is pretty weak in Inkscape. They really need to use libgnomeprint and then you could just print to pdf or ps.
I don't understand why they don't do this, maybe someone on the list has an answer.
IIRC Inkscape can be built to use gnomeprint, though it is optional.
It can use GNOME Print, but unfortunately the GNOME Print driver doesn't use any of the GNOME Print GUI code -- so you can't select which output to use. Also, the printer abstraction, well, is lacking. So basically the only output that can be used is Postscript.
Kees looked into this to try to get PDF output working, but was unsuccessful.
You can set up a PDF output using ps2pdf. I've attached the inkmod file and a small script for that. It should work for 0.40+ (it'll be in CVS also).
--Ted