On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:00:05AM +0100, khiraly wrote:

On v, 2008-01-06 at 08:26 -0800, Benjamin Huot wrote:

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Sorry about the previous html version - somehow I had the wrong setting so when I copied and from the web page, it added html. This version should be fixed.

I tried the Inkscape SVN snapshot - Ubuntu .deb's on Ubuntu 7.10, but I don't see an entry for importing or opening PDFs in the open or import menu. I see that on a recent Mac OS X PPC version though which is older.

Hi!

I have just installed Bryce's ubuntu package for 7.10. There isn't either any pdf import/open possibility.

My cairo version is: libcairo2 1.4.10-1ubuntu4

When I have tried last time inkscape (development build on XP back in december) there was a file type (cairo pdf) in the open dialog.

What is missing?

I don't know. This has not worked for me either - I've asked several times on inkscape-devel what's needed to turn it on, but so far no luck. If anyone else can figure out why it isn't on, let me know asap.

Bryce: Can you provide a inkscape-dbg package too? There is no debugging support and backtrace is not as usable as it could be.

Well, I'll give it a shot for the alpha.

(Is it documented somewhere how to do this debian package? So creating inkscape, inkscape-dev, inkscape-dbg packages.

-dev is only needed for libraries. I don't know of documentation for creating -dbg, but can cargo-cult something from xorg I think.

I have done several debian packages in the past, but didnt care about the details (so creating different packages(-dev, -dbg), having a pgp key, a correct name or email address. Never had any success with pure python programs (any advise?). And dont know how to build it correctly. My commands are usualy these: mv ../<packagename>.tar.gz ../<packagename>.orig.tar.gz dh_make -f ../<packagename>.tar.gz rm -f debian/*EX dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

I copy the debian/ tree from the prior Inkscape release, fix it up, then use debuilder to generate the .dsc file, and pbuilder to create the .debs.

ps: I see this on the command line (tried several pdfs, the same thing.): lama@...2432...:~/Desktop/tmp/deb$ inkscape Initting inputs Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::Input Input::open

Those are just debugging messages from when I was troubleshooting why PDF import didn't work. I couldn't figure it out but it looks like a dependency of some sort is missing.

/home/lama/Munkaasztal/tmp/diveintopython-5.4/diveintopython.pdf:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found %PDF-1.2 ^

Here it's just trying to open the PDF as an SVG since it doesn't know better.

If no one knows a way to make PDF import work, I guess I could disable it from the list of supported formats, since otherwise we'll just get a lot of bug reports about it.

Bryce