environment variable INKSCAPE_PORTABLE_PROFILE_DIR should be documented in man page
Bug #1247448 reported by
bcrowell
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Low
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jazzynico | ||
Inkscape-docs |
Fix Released
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Medium
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jazzynico |
Bug Description
As usual for a unix man page, Inkscape's has an ENVIRONMENT section that lists the environment variables it uses. The environment variable INKSCAPE_
Cf. https:/
I think this environment variable was originally added for a particular pupose (a "portable" version of Inkscape), but it's of interest to any user who is using Inkscape from the command line. For instance, if one uses inkscape to render SVG to PDF from a script, there is no other good way to control the rendering options.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: documentation |
tags: | added: man |
Changed in inkscape: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in inkscape-docs: | |
milestone: | none → 0.91 |
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We recently ran into this exact issue over on the Unix & Linux Stackoverflow site. It would've saved us a lot of time if this had been clearly documented. One of our senior users to the site finally brought this option to our attention. But only after he had actually offered a patch, giving us the option to override the location of the preferences.xml file, did he later find a thread about the portableapps maintainer wanting this option, did we discover that it even existed.
References /bugs.launchpad .net/inkscape/ +bug/382394 unix.stackexcha nge.com/ questions/ 98503/clean- way-to- temporarily- replace- a-config- file
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