[gentoo-user] Does skencil work for anybody else?

[gentoo-user] Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Grant Edwards]

I just emerged skencil, but it doesn't run:

   shared memory images supported
   Could not load font '-misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' for ruler. using defaults.
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/bin/skencil", line 34, in <module>
       Sketch.main.main()
     File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/Base/main.py", line 148, in main
       run_script = options.run_script)
     File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/skapp.py", line 183, in __init__
       self.build_window()
     File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/skapp.py", line 223, in build_window
       self.run_script)
     File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/mainwindow.py", line 97, in __init__
       self.build_window()
     File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/mainwindow.py", line 592, in build_window
       hrule = ruler.Ruler(root, orient = ruler.HORIZONTAL)
     File "/usr/lib/skencil-0.6.17/Sketch/UI/ruler.py", line 68, in __init__
       font = self.tkwin.LoadQueryFont('fixed')
   AttributeError: Ruler instance has no attribute 'tkwin'

   
AFAICT, this is an upstream bug that has been around for almost two
years.

Does skencil work for anybody else?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Keith Dart]

=== On Fri, 03/12, Grant Edwards wrote: ===
> Does skencil work for anybody else?

===

You should probably be using inkscape instead. I'm not sure skencil is
maintained. 

BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil.

-- Keith Dart

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[gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-03-12, Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
>=== On Fri, 03/12, Grant Edwards wrote: ===
>> Does skencil work for anybody else?

> You should probably be using inkscape instead.

I was afraid of that.  Inkscape is a bloated monster that's going to
pull in another dozen or two packages.  I guess if that's the only
choice...

> I'm not sure skencil is maintained.

Apparently not.  There's a fork named "sk1" that's still somewhat
active, but it's got its own problem.  Most notably, there's no
batch-mode export.  There's a program called "uniconvertor" that
supposedly uses the sk1 engine to convert between various vector
graphics files, but it can't even read an sk1 file.

> BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil.

Apparently skencil is not compatible with tk 8.5.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-03-12, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-03-12, Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
>>=== On Fri, 03/12, Grant Edwards wrote: ===
>>> Does skencil work for anybody else?
>
>> You should probably be using inkscape instead.
>
> I was afraid of that.  Inkscape is a bloated monster that's going to
> pull in another dozen or two packages.  I guess if that's the only
> choice...
>
>> I'm not sure skencil is maintained.
>
> Apparently not.  There's a fork named "sk1" that's still somewhat
> active, but it's got its own problem.

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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Willie Wong]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:17:48PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > BTW, I have the exact same problem with skencil.
> 
> Apparently skencil is not compatible with tk 8.5.

-sigh- now I am unmerging skencil. I used to use it years ago. But now
I am getting the same problem you described. 

W
-- 
Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Willie Wong]

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

[gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-03-13, Willie Wong <wwong@Math.Princeton.EDU> wrote:
> 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?

Looks that way, though I'm not sure exactly what it uses skencil for.
I would have sworn I had inkscape installed without skencil and could
still export to EPS.

> Somehow this doesn't bode well to me...

Nope.

-- 
Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?

[Willie Wong]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 02:59:34PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > Now this is interesting, inkscape apparently depends on skencil for
> > postscript support?
> 
> Looks that way, though I'm not sure exactly what it uses skencil for.
> I would have sworn I had inkscape installed without skencil and could
> still export to EPS.

I looked into it. It is for importing PS and EPS files. And according
to the documentation on their website, inkscape 0.47 changed to using
Ghostscript for the importing. A bug has already been filed against
the ebuild. 

Cheers, 

W
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Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton