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From: Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else?
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:42:09
Message-Id: 20100313004150.GB19739@math.princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else? by Grant Edwards
1 On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:54:35PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > After attempting to use sk1 for a few minutes, I've given up on it.
3 > It crashes regularly. Exporting to a .eps file just plain doesn't work
4 > (it writes 'sk1' format data to the file).
5 >
6 > The user interface is full of breakage: if you export a drawing and
7 > then do a 'save', it overwrites the _exported_ file rather than saving
8 > in the original drawing file.
9 >
10 > It also spews a constant stream of errors and tracebacks when doing
11 > anything at all.
12 >
13
14 Now this is interesting, inkscape apparently depends on skencil for
15 postscript support? Somehow this doesn't bode well to me...
16
17 W
18 --
19 Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu
20 Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
21 et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton

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[gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else? Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>