Comment 19 for bug 179770

Is there some trick to running the script? Is it like
Effects->Render->Function Plotter where you have to draw and select a
rectangle first? To test, I've just been opening a brand new document, and
hitting the Latex effect, using the default formula that's in there:
   \(\displaystyle\frac{\pi^2}{6}=\lim_{n \to \infty}\sum_{k=1}^n
\frac{1}{k^2}\)

When I run it this way, I get the "'Latex Formula' working, please wait"
dialog, then the "Inkscape has received additional info from the script..."
dialog pops up with the annoying pstoedit copyright message ('pstoedit:
version 3.44 / DLL interface 108 (build Nov 23 2006 - release build - g++
4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2006 Wolfgang
Glunz'). When I dismiss that, I get the following error to the console:

** (inkscape:20974): CRITICAL **: void Inkscape::GC::Anchored::release()
const: assertion `_anchor' failed

... but it doesn't hang for me. Nothing is drawn to the canvas. If I run it
again, I don't get the **CRITICAL** warning again...

I have:
tetex-latex-3.0-36.fc6
tetex-dvips-3.0-36.fc6
tetex-fonts-3.0-36.fc6
tetex-3.0-36.fc6
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-13.1.1
ghostscript-8.15.4-1.fc6

And am running inkscape from today's SVN...

On Jan 25, 2008 12:40 PM, Aaron Spike <email address hidden> wrote:

> That is a bit disheartening. It has been working for me on Windows since
> I installed all the deps and added them to my path. But I've never seen
> it work on Linux. For me on Linux it hangs and gs uses 99% CPU.
>
> Aaron
>
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> Several effects broken with python error 'invalid tag name'
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179770
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