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

2010-03-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-03-13, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:54:35PM +, 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

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

2010-03-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 02:59:34PM +, 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

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

2010-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-03-12, Keith Dart ke...@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

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

2010-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-03-12, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010-03-12, Keith Dart ke...@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

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

2010-03-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:17:48PM +, 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

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

2010-03-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:54:35PM +, 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