On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Trevis Martin wrote:
First, try saving as postscript. If it fails with the /Path/name/of/file error, then it is an error in Inkscape's postscript exporter; send a bug report through the 'Report Bugs' page on the inkscape.org website.
Okay, It saved fine as a .ps file, so I guess its the pstoedit issue. I checked the packages I've installed and I don't seem to show Pstoedit. I'm installing that to see if it helps. If not then I'll report the bug.
Aha! Yes, possibly once you install pstoedit, everything will suddenly work.
We do need to have some better explanation to users regarding the need to install the various optional dependencies like pstoedit to get all of the functionality from Inkscape. Hopefully one day...
Thanks for your kind assistance! I'm an art teacher and have a wide acquaintance of other artists and graphic designers. You can be sure I'll be telling them about inkscape!
Very cool, welcome aboard! There's starting to grow a really good little community of artists here; so far it's been focused on usage type questions however I suspect in 2005 the community will be sharing style tips and tricks more often.
Also, check out the tutorials in Inkscape; these have largely been written by artists in close collaboration with developers, and I think that's helped make them much more focused and useful than software help documentation usually is. ;-) In fact one of the tutorials is not really about Inkscape at all, but more about general art principles. It would be great to see more such tutorials, because they're great for helping non-artists like me learn some of the basics. So if you ever have some ideas, definitely indulge them! ;-)
Bryce