Arthur Bueno wrote:
Thanks for your efforts Aaron. If something is really wrong I better wait untill hopefully a working win-installer arrives. I' don't have enough insight to be troubleshooting myself.
I think you missed the important part of my reply. I've already done the troubleshooting for you.
But I find that if I call with "c:\" INCLUDING DOUBLE QUOTES, I am able to successfully export pngs to c:.
With quotes and double backslashes you might be able to work around the issue for now. But please file a bug in the tracker and copy in the relevant information from this thread.
Place double quotes around the text you enter into the directory field in the groups to pngs dialog. Also where ever you would normally type a single backslash "" type two instead "\". This should work around the problem until a fix works its way to a release.
Of course if you don't file a bug for the problem it may get overlooked. Please file a bug in Inkscape's bug tracker on SourceForge. It helps A LOT when users file bugs for problems they experience and it will make it easier for us to notify you when a fix happens.
You also seem to be holding on to the idea that this problem is somehow related to the fact that you downloaded a zip archive rather than an installer. This is completely unrelated. The installer exe available on sf.net will have the same problem.
Aaron Spike