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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 17:04:43
Message-Id: 20100313170008.GA27862@math.princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Does skencil work for anybody else? by Grant Edwards
1 On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 02:59:34PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > > Now this is interesting, inkscape apparently depends on skencil for
3 > > postscript support?
4 >
5 > Looks that way, though I'm not sure exactly what it uses skencil for.
6 > I would have sworn I had inkscape installed without skencil and could
7 > still export to EPS.
8
9 I looked into it. It is for importing PS and EPS files. And according
10 to the documentation on their website, inkscape 0.47 changed to using
11 Ghostscript for the importing. A bug has already been filed against
12 the ebuild.
13
14 Cheers,
15
16 W
17 --
18 Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu
19 Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
20 et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton