On 2007-September-17 , at 00:50 , jiho wrote:
On 2007-September-16 , at 21:56 , Alberto Simões wrote:
On 9/16/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
On 9/16/07, Alberto Simões <hashashin@...155...> wrote:
Hmms... devel version of inkscape loads PDF files? That's nice. I just need to wait for a Mac OS release :)
you can get a snapshot here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx- snap
Unfortunately I have a PPC and that snapshot has about... 4 months :(
[...] For PDF import there's an extra step though. This functionality requires poppler, a library external to Inkscape, and specifically, it requires a version of poppler newer than the one in MacPorts. Therefore, this newer version must be compiled by hand and added to Inkscape search path. It is probably not that hard, but once again, there's simply not enough time in the day and I haven't done it yet. So even the Intel builds don't have the new PDF import currently.
This is not true anymore, the latest Intel build has it. The necessary steps to get PDF import were: - to change the portfile to get 0.6 instead of 0.5.4, sudo port edit poppler and change: version 0.6 and checksums md5 96883867572aa1e55e979ec75369c562 - to install this one: sudo port deactivate poppler sudo port install poppler - to copy CaidoOutputDev.h from poppler's source to /opt/local/ include/poppler (this is a problem with poppler which has been discussed in other threads already) Now Inkscape opens plenty of PDFs just fine, and this comprises PDFs produces by Quartz (i.e. by any mac application). This is a really great, and particularly on OS X, since PDF is so central on this system.
The only noticeable deficiency so far is that, very often, fonts appear to be lost. But most of the time, they are properly written in the SVG but are not displayed due to the Inkscape/Pango deficiencies in the font support area, particularly when it comes to Mac fonts. I really hope Gail's work will help on this! Anyway, thanks for the PDF import, it's great and I'll patiently wait for the font issues to get solved.
Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/