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 1NqSvx-00054o-VT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:07:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06A36E0BC2 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBB6E0768 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D181B406B for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.566 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.566 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.034, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MwWo4FRVD6l8 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8FC61B411D for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqSoz-0007xL-9S for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:00:09 +0100 Received: from 65-127-232-176.dia.static.qwest.net ([65.127.232.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:00:09 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 65-127-232-176.dia.static.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:00:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else? Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20100312110849.2ee911f4@dartworks.biz> <20100313004150.GB19739@math.princeton.edu> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65-127-232-176.dia.static.qwest.net User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 289aa6b6-b50e-4fdb-8690-b2d92df39544 X-Archives-Hash: db014f78233b0bed24543695486365e3 On 2010-03-13, Willie Wong 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