From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NqFQf-0004Im-4t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:42:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 102B3E096A; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB001E096A for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqFQM-00087j-UK for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:41:51 -0500 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o2D0fo4m019936 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:41:50 -0500 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o2D0foeJ019933 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:41:50 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:41:50 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else? Message-ID: <20100313004150.GB19739@math.princeton.edu> References: <20100312110849.2ee911f4@dartworks.biz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: aa0f245d-57ed-4796-aaca-706543697e12 X-Archives-Hash: 01315184d08e05855771ed3c4c52400b On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:54:35PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > After attempting to use sk1 for a few minutes, I've given up on it. > It crashes regularly. Exporting to a .eps file just plain doesn't work > (it writes 'sk1' format data to the file). > > The user interface is full of breakage: if you export a drawing and > then do a 'save', it overwrites the _exported_ file rather than saving > in the original drawing file. > > It also spews a constant stream of errors and tracebacks when doing > anything at all. > Now this is interesting, inkscape apparently depends on skencil for postscript support? Somehow this doesn't bode well to me... W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton