Package: libcairo2 Version: 1.8.10-6 Severity: important Tags: patch Hello, dear maintainers!
Me and many other people were happily using inkscape in Debian Lenny to produce vector graphics for later inclusion in LaTeX files. Inkscape produced .eps files that contained ASCII literals. Those literal strings were later replaced with beautiful LaTeX code by psfrag package. Since 0.47 inkscape switched to Cairo for eps export. Unfortunately Cairo package did not output latin characters in plain ASCII form - this obviously broke psfarg trick. Cairo developers have finally fixed this issue, by treating latin characters specially and outputing latin strings in verbatim form. There is also a patch available [2]. Integrating this patch into cairo in Debian will make all us LaTeX/Inkscape Debian users very happy. I hope you'll find time to look at this soon. Thank you very much. [1]. Inscape bug that desribes the problem in depth - https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/375323 [2]. Cairo patch that fixes the issue - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=f1ca978032e973c4dc5cfa385074dea675a6c76d -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libcairo2 depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libpixman-1-0 0.16.4-1 pixel-manipulation library for X a ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxcb-render-util0 0.3.6-1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-render0 1.6-1 X C Binding, render extension ii libxcb1 1.6-1 X C Binding ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime libcairo2 recommends no packages. libcairo2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
